Chapter Summaries

Uchiha Yu overpowered Uchiha Fugaku and trapped Sarutobi Hiruzen’s retreating force inside a guarded circle. Fugaku and Jiraiya then coordinated a sealing technique that captured Yu’s apparent body, but Yu revealed it was only a Shadow Clone.

• Uchiha Fugaku weakened under the strain of his Susanoo, and Hiruzen Sarutobi decided to retreat to Konoha and use the Nine-Tails jinchuriki against Uchiha Yu.
• Uchiha Yu abandoned Fugaku, blocked Hiruzen’s retreat with a devastating Wind Style attack, and drew a circle guarded by Alarm Flower Trees, warning that anyone who crossed it would be pursued to the death.
• Uchiha Fugaku recovered enough to restore his armored Susanoo, grabbed Uchiha Yu’s golden Susanoo, and held him in place while Jiraiya deployed the Toad Gourd Prison barrier.
• Uchiha Yu found himself inside the gourd toad’s cramped barrier and realized Jiraiya had not captured his original body because the one he sealed was a Shadow Clone.

Jiraiya and Uchiha Fugaku captured a Shadow Clone of Uchiha Yu, but the real Yu revealed himself and prepared to kill Hiruzen Sarutobi. Tsunade and Orochimaru arrived with their forces, rejected Jiraiya’s attempt to defend their teacher, and Hiruzen advanced to face them and Yu.

• Jiraiya sealed a Shadow Clone of Uchiha Yu inside a toad, and he and Uchiha Fugaku praised each other while the Third Hokage watched.
• Uchiha Yu appeared atop his golden Susanoo, revealed he had escaped with the Shadow Clone Technique, and accused Fugaku of failing to see the Third Hokage and Mitokado Homura’s maneuvering.
• Uchiha Yu declared that replacing the Third Hokage with the Fourth would resolve their conflict, then attacked Jiraiya, Fugaku, and Gamabunta after condemning Hiruzen and Gamamaru.
• Tsunade and Orochimaru intervened with their summoned beasts, and both told Jiraiya they would not stop anyone from attacking Hiruzen.
• Tsunade cited grievances over her family and Dan, while Orochimaru recalled Nawaki’s death and revealed that his mission had succeeded and he had returned to pursue the Hokage promise.
• Uchiha Yu destroyed Hiruzen’s Shadow Clone, but Hiruzen advanced with Mitokado Homura and the remaining Anbu ninjas to confront Yu and the Sannin.

Uchiha Yu exposed Uchiha Setsuna’s crimes and his partnership with Shimura Danzō, then resurrected Danzō and forced him to confess his supposed contributions to Konoha. The revelations implicated Hiruzen Sarutobi, who refused to answer Yu’s questions about whether he had known of Danzō’s deeds.

• Uchiha Yu had the golden Susanoo bring the fleeing Uchiha Setsuna before Uchiha Fugaku as the Tiger Unit arrived and confronted the Snake Unit.
• Uchiha Yu used his Mangekyō Sharingan to hypnotize Uchiha Setsuna, who confessed to working with Shimura Danzō to eliminate rivals and commit crimes within the Uchiha Clan and Konoha.
• Uchiha Yu had the Susanoo crush Uchiha Setsuna, then used Impure World Reincarnation to summon Shimura Danzō and hypnotize him.
• At Uchiha Yu’s prompting, Shimura Danzō listed his actions against Kagami Uchiha, Hatake Sakumo, the Uzumaki Clan, and the Akatsuki, along with his Hashirama cell experiments.
• Uchiha Yu challenged Hiruzen Sarutobi about whether he had known of Danzō’s crimes, but Hiruzen and Mitokado Homura stayed silent until Homura claimed no one had the right to question the Hokage.

Uchiha Yu nearly killed Hiruzen Sarutobi, but Senju Hashirama and Senju Tobirama intervened, and Tobirama declared that he would kill his former disciple himself. Yu revived members of the Senju family and raised questions about Hiruzen's rule, leaving Hiruzen unable to answer Mito Uzumaki's accusations about the destruction of Uzushiogakure.

• Uchiha Yu stomped at Hiruzen Sarutobi with his Susanoo, but Senju Hashirama stopped the blow with Wood Style and Senju Tobirama persuaded Yu to dismiss the Susanoo.
• Senju Tobirama said he would kill Hiruzen himself, then repeatedly beheaded Shimura Danzō and allowed Uchiha Yu to make Danzo suffer through painful deaths.
• Uchiha Yu used Impure World Reincarnation to revive Mito Uzumaki, Nawaki, and Dan Katō, and Tsunade embraced her returning family members.
• Uchiha Yu told Senju Tobirama that he planned to bring the Senju family into the Hall of Heroes and expected the Sage of Six Paths to oppose him for taking souls from the Pure Land.
• Mito Uzumaki questioned Hiruzen Sarutobi about the failed rescue of the Uzumaki clan and the deaths of the Senju rescue team, and Hiruzen could not answer her accusations.

Mito Uzumaki, Uchiha Yu, and Hatake Sakumo confronted Hiruzen Sarutobi over his actions, and Senju Tobirama killed him after Senju Hashirama agreed he should die. Konoha ended the Third Hokage’s era, named Orochimaru the Fourth Hokage, and left Uchiha Yu’s plan for a hopeful future in motion.

• Mito Uzumaki asked Hiruzen Sarutobi why she should spare him, while Uchiha Yu and Hatake Sakumo confronted him over his treatment of the Uchiha and Sakumo.
• Hatake Sakumo demanded to know why Hiruzen had targeted him, and Hiruzen admitted he feared Sakumo’s popularity as a potential Hokage.
• Senju Hashirama urged Senju Tobirama to decide, and Tobirama killed Hiruzen with a kunai taken from Tsunade.
• Senju Tobirama declared Root illegal and ordered its immediate dissolution, while the Snake Unit restrained Mitokado Homura.
• Uchiha Yu gave the Hokage’s hat to Orochimaru, who accepted the role of Fourth Hokage and agreed to take Uchiha Shisui as a disciple.
• Jiraiya questioned the Great Toad Sage’s prophecy, while Tsunade welcomed the prospect of returning to a stable Konoha with her family reunited.

Uchiha Yu reorganized the Uchiha clan and Military Police Force while Orochimaru took office as Fourth Hokage and negotiated changes to Konoha’s power structure with him. The chapter ended with Orochimaru asking Yu to end the war, and Yu questioning whether Orochimaru truly wanted the peace that would bring.

• Uchiha Yu overcame opposition from Uchiha Yuichiro, Uchiha Xiyi, and Uchiha Shiho, then imposed reforms that redistributed the clan’s resources and limited the clan head’s authority.
• Uchiha Yu announced a major restructuring of the Military Police Force, suspended Uchiha patrols, and replaced them with ordinary ninja and villagers handling public security and street management.
• After the new system restored the force’s functions and freed Uchiha ninja from routine duties, the villagers began to see the clan more favorably.
• Orochimaru met Uchiha Yu in secret and agreed to separate functions from the Military Police Force, remove restrictions against Uchiha, and send the Tiger Unit to the Land of Rivers.
• Orochimaru complained that being Hokage was difficult, then asked Uchiha Yu to use his strength to end the war; Yu asked whether Orochimaru really wanted that kind of peace.

Otsutsuki Hamura decided to descend into the human world as the Ninja World approached a dangerous historical upheaval and mysterious forces stole souls from Konoha. He chose a Kaguya Clan descendant as his vessel, whose body began transforming into half an Otsutsuki.

• Orochimaru asked Uchiha Yu whether Uchiha Shisui was ready to become his disciple, and Yu confirmed that Shisui had enrolled early and would be entrusted to the Fourth.
• Otsutsuki Hamura realized his bloodline anchor was weakening and decided to awaken through a descendant rather than keep sleeping in the Pure Land.
• Otsutsuki Hagoromo revealed that Senju Hashirama and several other souls connected to Konoha had disappeared, and he suspected a god was holding them in a divine realm.
• Hamura chose the Kaguya Clan as his vessel, avoiding the isolated Otsutsuki Clan on the moon and the dangerous Hyuga Clan in Konoha.
• An orphaned Kaguya clansman developed a high fever, awakened the full potential of his Shikotsumyaku, and rapidly transformed into half an Otsutsuki.

Uchiha Yu worried that his stolen souls could be reclaimed by the Pure Land and considered how to build influence without risking them. After teaching Uchiha Shisui how shared profits could win goodwill, he chose the Divine Court Conference as a source of chess pieces, then sensed he had forgotten a danger.

• Uchiha Yu recalled how he had split his consciousness and nearly lost the Konoha souls to the Pure Land, and resolved not to use Impure World Reincarnation again until the Hall of Heroes was secure.
• Uchiha Yu cooked glowing squid for Miwa Masayo and explained to Uchiha Shisui how the profitable squid trade had earned the Uchiha clan goodwill by aligning others’ interests with its own.
• Uchiha Yu used genjutsu to show Uchiha Shisui how unearned money could feel humiliating while an extra reward after hard work inspired satisfaction and gratitude.
• Uchiha Yu decided the Divine Court Conference could provide excellent chess pieces for the Ninja World’s game.
• Uchiha Yu reflected on his opponents, then felt uneasy and began retracing his memories to identify what he had forgotten.

After realizing he had forgotten the Yuki Clan, Uchiha Yu flew to the Land of Wind and found them surrounded by Sunagakure ninja. He shielded the clan and began wiping out the attackers, while Ebizo rallied the surviving puppet masters to defend against the next wave.

• Uchiha Yu and Miwa Masayo realized they had both inexplicably forgotten the Yuki Clan, and Uchiha Yu rushed toward the Land of Wind.
• Yuki, whose Impure World body was collapsing, gathered the Yuki Clan children as more than two thousand Sunagakure ninja surrounded them.
• Uchiha Yu arrived and warned Ebizo to withdraw, but several Sunagakure ninja attacked him and the Yuki Clan.
• Uchiha Yu protected the clan with a crimson barrier and unleashed repeated waves of Sage Art: Fire Spirit: Meteor Shower, killing most of the Sunagakure force.
• Ebizo summoned puppets and raised a chakra shield as the remaining Sunagakure ninja prepared to defend against the next meteor wave.

Uchiha Yu rescued Yuki and the Yuki Clan children, then used Zhurong’s divine power to create a thriving Snow Village in the desert. He promised to conceal the village with a temporary barrier, giving the children several years to grow and protect themselves.

• Uchiha Yu restored Yuki’s strength and explained that he would preserve him in the Hall of Heroes because returning his soul to the Pure Land was too dangerous.
• Uchiha Yu destroyed the Sunagakure forces with an enormous fireball and a vast rain of fire meteors as Yuki led the children away.
• Yuki brought Uchiha Yu to a site near underground water veins and explained that the Yuki Clan planned to settle there under the name Snow Village.
• Uchiha Yu, through Zhurong and the Heart Monkey Mask, transformed the dunes into a white village with a reservoir, houses, crops, and fruit-bearing plants.
• Yuki and the children began harvesting and preparing tools, while Uchiha Yu promised to create a temporary barrier that would hide Snow Village for several years.

Uchiha Yu left Snow Village after completing its barrier and returning Yuki to the Hall of Heroes, while the children learned to pray to Zhurong. He later confirmed Miwa Masayo was progressing toward becoming a demon immortal, as Kaguya Hamura seized control of the Kaguya Clan through the power of his awakened bone technique.

• Uchiha Yu and Yuki completed Snow Village's barrier, and Uchiha Yu returned Yuki's soul to the Hall of Heroes after testing the Pure Land's hold on her.
• Uchiha Yu left Snow Village, and the children learned Zhurong's name and resolved to offer him crops at a festival.
• Uchiha Yu examined Miwa Masayo's records and predicted she would gain a human body and become a demon immortal within a year.
• Uchiha Yu told Miwa Masayo that the Slug Sage was the strongest of the Three Great Sage Regions and promised they would eventually surpass her.
• Kaguya Hamura killed Kaguya Yoshi in a formal challenge, declared himself clan head, and killed four clansmen who tried to oppose him.
• Hamura's Shikotsumyaku had nearly advanced into All-Killing Ash Bones, and he realized the clan's bone-based power could damage the brain and cause aggression.

Otsutsuki Hamura investigated Kirigakure’s Fourth Mizukage and sought an alliance with Genji, while Black Zetsu reported that his plans had become unstable. Madara Uchiha ordered Black Zetsu to seize Uchiha Obito and trigger a war with Konoha, as Sunagakure prepared a major offensive against Konoha in the Land of Rivers.

• Otsutsuki Hamura learned that the Fourth Mizukage had intensified Kirigakure’s anti-clan movement and decided to investigate him and seek an alliance with Genji.
• Black Zetsu discovered that Konoha’s altered barrier blocked his surveillance and reported that Nagato had recovered to Madara Uchiha.
• Madara Uchiha chose Uchiha Obito as his successor and ordered Black Zetsu to bring him in from the Land of Rivers and activate the Fourth Mizukage’s implanted suggestion to start a war with Konoha.
• Orochimaru kept Jiraiya under house arrest, while Namikaze Minato led Uchiha Obito and Rin on the front lines and killed thirty-two Sunagakure jonin in a month.
• Rasa, Chiyo, and Pakura agreed to launch a full-scale offensive against Konoha, and Rasa ordered the attack to begin the next day.

Black Zetsu manipulated Sunagakure into attacking Konoha early, while Namikaze Minato received new squadmates and was assigned to destroy a key supply route. Sunagakure advanced deep into the Land of Fire, but Tiger Unit stopped its army at Surge Mountain.

• Black Zetsu used hidden pawns and genjutsu to push the Fourth Kazekage, Chiyo, and Pakura into launching Sunagakure’s attack within six hours.
• Hatake Kakashi joined Namikaze Minato’s squad, where his arrival intensified the tension between himself, Uchiha Obito, and Rin.
• After Sunagakure attacked, Minato was assigned to a special team with Uchiha Fugaku and Aburame Shibi to destroy South Gate Stone Bridge and cut the enemy’s supplies.
• Sunagakure drove Konoha’s forces back, and Root ninja suffered heavy losses as their retreat became disorganized.
• Orochimaru continued drawing Sunagakure deeper into the Land of Fire until Tiger Unit halted its seventeen-thousand-ninja army at Surge Mountain.

Uchiha Yu discovered that Uchiha Obito had been lured into the staged cave-in that would leave him near death, and flew to stop Black Zetsu and Uchiha Madara’s plan. He rescued the situation by unleashing overwhelming Fire Style, while Black Zetsu wondered whether he had chosen the wrong Uchiha.

• Uchiha Yu learned that Uchiha Obito and Hatake Squad had disappeared after being sent on a forged mission, and realized Uchiha Madara had begun his plan early.
• Uchiha Yu handed command of the Tiger Unit to Uchiha Shigenobu, urged Hesi to contact the Fourth Hokage about a counterattack, and left with Miwa Masayo to find Obito.
• Black Zetsu’s trap drove Hatake Squad into a cave at the border of the Land of Rivers and the Land of Fire, where a cave-in crushed Rin’s leg and half of Obito’s body.
• Uchiha Yu detected Black Zetsu hiding nearby, then approached with Miwa Masayo, who captured two White Zetsu as the others fled.
• Uchiha Yu unleashed Fire Style: Majestic Destroyer Flame, devastating the Sunagakure ninja and burning White Zetsu underground.
• Black Zetsu watched Uchiha Yu’s immense power and wondered whether he had chosen the wrong Uchiha.

Uchiha Yu killed the mortally wounded Uchiha Obito, arranged for Kakashi to take Obito’s ashes back to Konoha, and secretly followed Black Zetsu after he went to report Obito’s death. Meanwhile, Minato’s squad reached the South Gate Stone Bridge and began a battle that ended with Minato killing the Sunagakure jonin and shattering their command structure.

• Black Zetsu considered replacing Madara with Uchiha Yu, while Yu extinguished the fire and revealed the surviving White Zetsu and Kakashi’s team.
• Yu told Obito he would die, accepted Obito’s request to save his teammates, and killed him with a kunai after easing his pain.
• Yu burned Obito’s body into ashes, and Kakashi collected them in a metal box before leaving with Rin.
• Yu departed using a Wood Clone, then secretly followed Black Zetsu as he headed north toward Madara.
• After two days and three nights of infiltration, Minato’s squad reached the South Gate Stone Bridge; Fugaku deployed Susanoo while Shibi disrupted the enemy ranks.
• Minato charged into the disordered Sunagakure formation, killed its jonin, and collapsed its command structure.

Uchiha Yu joined Minato’s squad after they destroyed the Sunagakure force at the South Gate bridge, then learned that Obito had died. He located Uchiha Madara beneath the ground and prepared to blast open the earth to reach him.

• Fugaku used Susanoo to clear the South Gate bridge, while Shibi poisoned many fleeing Sunagakure ninjas and Minato killed the remaining forty-seven.
• Minato ordered the squad to hold the bridge and ambush whoever arrived, then revealed that their orders forbade retreat.
• Yu arrived and mocked Fugaku for blindly trusting the Hokage; Orochimaru soon joined them and praised the squad’s success.
• Yu told Minato that Obito had died, while Rin and Kakashi had returned to camp with Obito’s ashes; Minato grieved and thanked Yu for saving his students.
• Yu sensed Black Zetsu vanish underground and determined that Madara was hidden beneath him.
• Yu used Sage Arts to soften and drill through the rock, then prepared an explosive attack to break open the ground above Madara.

Madara learned that Uchiha Yu had killed Obito and that his Kirigakure plan had also collapsed, then suspected someone was deliberately thwarting him. Yu destroyed Madara’s underground hideout and confronted him in battle, and the chapter ended as Madara attacked after Yu provoked him about his age.

• Black Zetsu told Madara that Uchiha Yu had killed Obito, burned his body to ashes, and taken the remains away.
• Madara explained that Obito’s love for Rin made him a promising candidate to awaken the Mangekyō Sharingan, but admitted the plan could no longer proceed because Karatachi Yagura was dead and his genjutsu had been broken.
• Madara suspected Uchiha Yu was targeting him, then the underground hall collapsed beneath a series of explosions.
• Uchiha Yu emerged from the blast zone and challenged Madara, and the two fought to a close-range draw using their Mangekyō Sharingan and weapons.
• Uchiha Yu mocked Madara for being old and failing to act like the fearsome warrior of legend, and Madara attacked him in anger.

Uchiha Yu and Uchiha Madara fought fiercely, with Yu gaining the advantage despite Madara’s powerful Susanoo. Madara recognized Yu’s strength and began trying to recruit him by revealing his grim view of the Ninja World.

• Uchiha Yu’s Miwa Masayo killed the White Zetsu sent to ambush him while Yu overwhelmed Uchiha Madara with natural-energy blades.
• Uchiha Madara summoned a massive bluish-purple Susanoo, but Uchiha Yu damaged it and forced the battle into an aerial exchange of attacks.
• Uchiha Yu and Uchiha Madara’s Fire Style techniques clashed, creating a firestorm that burned the battlefield and many White Zetsu.
• Uchiha Madara realized he could no longer defeat Uchiha Yu and praised him as the finest Uchiha after himself.
• Uchiha Madara began telling Uchiha Yu that the Ninja World was built on lies and that its leaders and shinobi were sources of suffering.

Madara explained his plan to achieve peace through the Infinite Tsukuyomi, but Yu challenged its logic and revealed that the Sage of Six Paths’ stone tablet had been tampered with. Their battle escalated from Susanoo to Wood Style, and Madara realized Yu’s Wood Style had surpassed his own.

• Madara described the Ninja World as trapped in a cycle of suffering and proposed placing everyone under a dream genjutsu, but Yu argued that a world of sleeping people would be no different from a dead one.
• Yu revealed that he had read and destroyed the Uchiha clan’s stone tablet, then questioned why the Sage of Six Paths had never enacted the Eye of the Moon Plan; Madara rejected Yu’s claims and attacked him.
• Madara used Wood Style to trap Yu’s golden Susanoo in a giant tree, but Yu escaped with the Flying Thunder God Technique and vowed to fight at full strength.
• Madara reconnected himself to a black tube and wore White Zetsu as a living suit, replenishing his strength and greatly increasing his chakra before launching a Wood Dragon Technique at Yu.
• Yu revealed that he had awakened Wood Style through research and a Wood Style Crystal, then summoned his own wooden dragon and wooden humanoid to overpower Madara’s constructs.
• As Yu’s wooden humanoid battered Madara’s, Madara recognized that Yu’s Wood Style mastery exceeded his own and feared he was about to lose.

Madara used Black Zetsu and a barrage of Black Rods to immobilize Uchiha Yu, while Yu’s Wood Clone watched Namikaze Minato’s force prepare to face thousands of retreating Sunagakure ninja. Yu stepped forward alone and prepared a powerful Fire Style technique, leaving Uchiha Fugaku realizing that he had misjudged Yu’s plans.

• Madara summoned fifteen Wood Clones armed with Black Rods, but Uchiha Yu swiftly disabled them in close combat.
• Black Zetsu caught Yu by surprise and paralyzed him, allowing Madara to pierce Yu with Black Rods and declare victory.
• At the South Gate Stone Bridge, Namikaze Minato rallied twelve Konoha jonin as 4,561 Sunagakure ninja advanced toward them.
• Minato asked Yu to take command, but Yu left the battle’s leadership to him and promised to win by standing at the front.
• Uchiha Fugaku offered to defend against the first wave, but Yu revealed that he intended to attack and began forming seals for Fire Style: Majestic Destroyer Flame.