Chapter Summaries

Uchiha Yu traveled to the Capital of the River, turned in his mission, and accepted a sailfish-hunting job while Miwa Masayo searched the desert for Sunagakure. After Miwa summoned him there, Uchiha Yu launched a prepared operation outside the village, triggering Sunagakure’s alarm with fireworks and apparent enemy casualties.

• Uchiha Yu and Miwa Masayo packed away the Dried Small Fish, said goodbye to Maoyu, and split up to travel toward the Capital of the River and Sunagakure.
• Uchiha Yu reached Konoha’s outpost in Jingchuan Town, verified his Jiusen Village mission, and comforted a retired ninja who asked about Captain Yuanshang.
• Uchiha Yu accepted a sailfish-hunting mission in the Capital of the River to get out to sea and prepare for his trip to Sunagakure.
• Miwa Masayo crossed the desert without knowing Sunagakure’s location, found the village by following its water sources, and used the Reverse Summoning Technique to bring Uchiha Yu to her.
• Uchiha Yu and Miwa Masayo traveled to the South Sea so Miwa could bathe and eat before returning to Cat Castle, while Uchiha Yu began digging toward Sunagakure.
• Uchiha Yu launched five bodies with sparks from holes outside Sunagakure, prompting the guards to sound an alarm as fireworks lit up the village.

Uchiha Yu was discovered underground by Rasa and faced Sunagakure’s pursuit by displaying overwhelming control of Natural Energy and effortlessly evading Pakura. He left the Sunagakure ninja terrified, while Rasa sent for the village’s strongest reinforcements.

• Rasa and Pakura pursued the fireworks’ source as Uchiha Yu fled underground and waited for Miwa Masayo’s Reverse Summoning Technique, but the expected summoning did not arrive.
• Rasa’s Gold Dust seeped into Uchiha Yu’s hiding place, revealing his location and forcing him to choose between escaping openly and intimidating his pursuers.
• Uchiha Yu liquefied the sand over a wide area, trapping Sunagakure ninja, then rose from the ground as Rasa and Pakura recognized the threat.
• Pakura attacked Uchiha Yu, but he used his Sharingan and divine abilities to evade her strikes with effortless precision.
• Pakura unleashed Scorch Release: Extremely Steam Murder, and Uchiha Yu dismantled the fireballs by separating their Wind Style and Fire Style chakra.
• Rasa ordered a ninja to summon the elders and request the strongest possible reinforcements, warning that Uchiha Yu’s strength exceeded his understanding.

Uchiha Yu defeated Pakura and unleashed a massive fiery sandstorm, drawing Sunagakure’s powerful reinforcements. After Ebizo identified Uchiha Yu as the killer of his son, Ebizo nearly attacked, but his sister stopped him and urged the ninja to surround their enemy together.

• Pakura launched a massive Scorch Release fireball, but Uchiha Yu dismantled it, cut off her ponytail, and threw her away instead of killing her.
• Uchiha Yu combined Sage Art fire and wind techniques into a towering sandstorm that swept across the Sunagakure ninja.
• Sunagakure’s reinforcements broke through the storm with powerful wind techniques and puppets, surrounding Uchiha Yu.
• The reinforcements mistook Uchiha Yu’s ability to disperse Pakura’s attack for the power of a terrifying old monster and considered Uchiha Madara as a comparison.
• Ebizo recognized a puppet bead belonging to his son, Umino Keisuke, and accused Uchiha Yu of killing him.
• Ebizo prepared to attack, but his sister stopped him and insisted they surround Uchiha Yu together.

Uchiha Yu escaped Sunagakure after inventing the Sage of Nature persona, and Sunagakure postponed its planned war while investigating him and choosing Rasa as Fourth Kazekage. Back in Konoha, Shimura Danzō identified the Sage of Nature as the attacker who had targeted Root and prepared to travel to Sunagakure, but his workload delayed his departure.

• Uchiha Yu vanished through Miwa Masayo’s Reverse Summoning Technique after threatening Ebizo, while Monzaemon recorded the strange power and Sunagakure’s elders decided to investigate the Sage of Nature and postpone the war for up to a month.
• Uchiha Yu learned that Miwa Masayo suffered from teleportation sickness, discussed how the Sage of Nature persona might mislead Danzo, and planned to finish fishing in the South Sea before returning to Konoha and stirring up the Uchiha clan.
• Sunagakure’s elders voted unanimously for Rasa to become the Fourth Kazekage, judging him more patient and steady than Pakura.
• Shimura Danzō told Konoha’s leaders that the Sage of Nature was the same person who had attacked Root, citing the matching Natural Energy and other traits.
• Shimura Danzō proposed traveling to Sunagakure for intelligence, and the leaders agreed, but his workload prevented him from leaving at once.

Uchiha Yu and Miwa Masayo caught a swordfish and returned it alive to the Capital of the River, where Masayo developed landsickness after leaving the boat. Meanwhile, Ebizo confirmed that Sunagakure’s war preparations had gone unnoticed by Konoha, while Chiyo grieved for her missing family and held on to the hope that Sasori was alive.

• Uchiha Yu pursued a swordfish through rough seas, stunned it with an oar once the waves calmed, and kept it alive by tying it beside the boat and forcing seawater through its gills with ninjutsu.
• Uchiha Yu found an eel impaled on the swordfish’s bill and cooked eel balls, which Miwa Masayo enjoyed while wishing for more extraordinary seafood.
• Uchiha Yu and Miwa Masayo reached the Capital of the River after a six-hour, ninjutsu-powered journey, completed the mission, and received a bonus for delivering a live swordfish.
• Miwa Masayo collapsed on the dock with landsickness, and Uchiha Yu explained that she had become accustomed to the boat’s rocking.
• Shimura Danzō left Sunagakure angry after Ebizo spent six hours insulting him, then vowed to crush the village once he became Hokage.
• Ebizo told Chiyo that Konoha had not detected Sunagakure’s preparations and reported the deaths and disappearance connected to Keisuke’s case; Chiyo admitted her grief but said she would keep going because she believed Sasori was alive.

Shimura Danzō and Orochimaru investigated the battlefield where Uchiha Yu had defeated a Sunagakure squad, then headed to check whether a nearby Ninja Cat Clan outpost was connected to the incident. Meanwhile, Uchiha Yu arranged for Uchiha Nobutada to lead a clan study group, and a Dried Small Fish restored much of the old man’s vitality; the chapter ended with Nobutada promising to back Yu’s ambitions.

• Shimura Danzō and Orochimaru confirmed that the valley-burning technique had used pure Natural Energy and learned of a suspicious Ninja Cat Clan outpost nearby.
• Uchiha Nobutada proposed a Ninjutsu and Tactics Study Group, beat the Uchiha elders into accepting his authority, and insisted Uchiha Yu should lead it.
• Uchiha Yu explained his plan to gain influence within the clan before challenging Uchiha Fugaku, and Uchiha Nobutada agreed to help.
• Uchiha Yu gave Uchiha Nobutada a Dried Small Fish, which caused a painful bodily purge but restored his strength and vitality.
• Uchiha Nobutada told Uchiha Yu that he would support his decisions and asked him to give Shisui a share of the Dried Small Fish.

Uchiha Yu planned to use the Uchiha clan as a force that could secure resources and protect his pursuit of immortality, while Uchiha Nobutada backed his bid to gain influence. The chapter left Yu considering how to preserve the Uchiha bloodline—even by leaving Konoha and joining Iwagakure—if the Third Hokage threatened the clan’s survival.

• Uchiha Yu decided that leading the clan would let him build a sustainable organization to gather heavenly treasures and support his cultivation.
• Uchiha Nobutada secured Fugaku’s approval for the Study Group, funding, young ninja support, and Yashiro’s involvement, as Yu had predicted.
• Uchiha Nobutada concluded that Yu should replace Fugaku, while recognizing that Yu himself could become a danger to the clan if he failed to control it.
• Uchiha Yu judged that he needed the Uchiha clan to survive so he could avoid persecution and cultivate in peace.
• Uchiha Yu considered splitting the clan or defecting from Konoha if necessary, and identified Iwagakure as the most suitable destination.

Uchiha Yu began training more than a hundred Uchiha genin at the Naka River Shrine training ground, using his Three-Tomoe Sharingan and suggestion to secure their obedience. He ended the first day after eight hours of formation and stance training, leaving the group divided between those who had mastered the stance and those who had collapsed from exhaustion.

• Uchiha Yu revealed his Three-Tomoe Sharingan to the genin and used its ocular force to plant Suggestion Seeds in their minds, including those of Uchiha Yashiro, Uchiha Taizo, and Uchiha Ryota.
• Uchiha Yashiro reported Yu's Sharingan to Uchiha Fugaku, who concluded that Uchiha Nobutada was backing Yu to prepare for Uchiha Shisui's future rise.
• Uchiha Yu appointed eight squad leaders, assigned the genin to squads, and ordered them into formation despite their complaints.
• Uchiha Yu made the genin stand at attention for hours, then demonstrated the Hunyuan Stance so some of them could learn stance training while the rest grew exhausted.
• Uchiha Yu ended the eight-hour session with a genjutsu-laced command, rousing the collapsed genin and awakening those immersed in stance training.

Uchiha Yu used formation drills, stance training, Suggestion Seeds, and Sharingan Genjutsu to build the 129 genin’s obedience and spiritual power. After bringing them back to the training ground at night, he guided them into a synchronized state of stillness that began to develop their Uchiha eyes.

• Uchiha Fugaku dismissed a spy’s suggestion to stop Uchiha Yu’s formation training and ordered him to wait for complaints from the genin.
• Uchiha Yu accelerated the training with his Three-Tomoe Sharingan, and the genin quickly learned the stance and gained trust in him.
• By the third day, all 129 genin had mastered the stance and eagerly asked Uchiha Yu for harder training.
• Uchiha Yu made the genin run laps wearing heavy vests, supplied them with drinks and food, and then led them back to the training ground after their barbecue meal.
• Uchiha Yu used Genjutsu, Suggestion Seeds, and a resonant sound to guide the genin into synchronized breathing and Perfect Stillness and Emptiness, prompting their spiritual power and eyes to develop.

Uchiha Yu’s training method led six genin to awaken the Sharingan, while he stopped several more from awakening through dangerous negative emotions. Uchiha Nobutada later told Uchiha Yuichiro what had happened, leaving Yuichiro astonished by the Study Group’s breakthrough.

• Six genin awakened their Sharingan during training, and Uchiha Yu interrupted the process before several others could awaken through intense negative emotions.
• Seven spies confessed their assignments to Uchiha Yu and pledged loyalty to him; he told them to stay in the Study Group and wait for the clan leaders’ response.
• The higher-ups failed to notice the spies’ silence, while Uchiha Nobutada witnessed the awakenings and became confident in Uchiha Yu’s ability to strengthen the clan.
• Five days later, Uchiha Fugaku discovered that he could not remember his spy’s name or how to contact him, then became distracted by other matters.
• Uchiha Nobutada visited Uchiha Yuichiro and revealed that six genin had awakened the One-Tomoe Sharingan, prompting Yuichiro to react with disbelief.

Uchiha Nobutada persuaded Uchiha Yuichiro to support Uchiha Yu’s plan to become clan head within three years, while Hiruzen Sarutobi’s advisers began investigating the Uchiha Study Group. The chapter ended with Konoha’s leaders discussing a new effort to infiltrate Kumogakure.

• Uchiha Nobutada told Uchiha Yuichiro that Uchiha Yu wanted to become clan head within three years, and Yuichiro agreed to support him.
• Uchiha Yuichiro suggested bringing Uchiha Ryunosuke into the effort, and Nobutada planned to take him to dinner with Uchiha Yu that night.
• Uchiha Yuichiro and Uchiha Nobutada reflected on the clan’s history and compared Uchiha Yu to Senju Tobirama.
• Mitokado Homura reported that the Uchiha Clan had gathered 129 unawakened genin for the Ninjutsu and Tactics Study Group, which Uchiha Yu now led.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi assigned Mitokado Homura to investigate the Study Group while Shimura Danzō remained away investigating a mysterious person.
• Utatane Koharu reported that sixty trained children would enter the Land of Lightning as spy seeds and await Kumogakure’s ninja selection.

Uchiha Yu persuaded Uchiha Yuichiro and Uchiha Nobutada that the Uchiha clan faced an imminent threat as Konoha entered another war. He left them understanding that Hiruzen Sarutobi might target the Uchiha to compensate for wartime losses, explaining why he needed to become clan head quickly.

• Uchiha Yu caught Miwa Masayo picking the lock on the Dried Small Fish box, gave her half the fish, and prepared a sushi boat for guests.
• Uchiha Yuichiro and Uchiha Nobutada enjoyed the meal and drinks before Uchiha Yuichiro asked why Uchiha Yu needed to become clan head within three years.
• Uchiha Yu explained that years of political pressure had weakened the Uchiha clan and argued that the balance of power was nearing a dangerous turning point.
• Uchiha Nobutada and Uchiha Yuichiro criticized Hiruzen Sarutobi's wartime command, and Uchiha Yu predicted Konoha would win the coming war at great cost.
• Uchiha Yu warned that Hiruzen Sarutobi would resist surrendering power and might turn inward to seize the Uchiha clan's wealth and suppress the other clans.
• Uchiha Yuichiro and Uchiha Nobutada realized the Uchiha clan could be targeted, while Uchiha Shisui listened in shock outside the room.

Uchiha Yu used his private conversations with young Uchiha Shisui to reshape the boy’s values and prepare him to resist the village’s influence. Meanwhile, Sunagakure’s delayed war preparations alarmed Ōnoki, who discovered that the Third Kazekage had disappeared and worried that Iwagakure’s deployed army was trapped in a vulnerable defensive position.

• Uchiha Yu and Miwa Masayo discussed Shisui’s future over a late-night meal, and Yu admitted he had deliberately exposed Shisui to his old scrolls.
• Uchiha Yu explained that he planned to guide Shisui’s values before the boy entered the Ninja Academy, and he promised to spend a month showing him around Konoha and discussing what they observed.
• Uchiha Yu intended to make Shisui question the Will of Fire and resist anyone who tried to control his ideals, while building a secret bond with him.
• September passed without a war, and Ōnoki activated his spies to uncover Sunagakure’s situation.
• Ōnoki learned that the Third Kazekage had disappeared and feared that Iwagakure’s eight thousand ninja, scattered in defensive positions, could not safely reorganize to attack.

After Sunagakure launched a surprise attack on the Land of Fire, Uchiha Yu taught the Study Group to prioritize survival and warned Uchiha Shisui that Konoha would likely face a war on four fronts. He began outlining three tiers of strategy for the war, starting with the ideal of a single shinobi powerful enough to deter every enemy.

• On October 2, Sunagakure used Konoha’s alleged murder of the Third Kazekage as a pretext to invade the Land of Fire, catching Konoha by surprise.
• Uchiha Yu taught the Study Group to retreat from superior foes and explained that shinobi were not punished for abandoning impossible missions, correcting their beliefs about Hatake Sakumo’s death.
• Uchiha Yuichiro sent his grandson Chino to learn with the Study Group while worrying that his son Uchiha Seto would not survive the coming war.
• Uchiha Shisui asked Uchiha Yu whether he would go to the battlefield, and Uchiha Yu warned that Iwagakure, Kumogakure, and Kirigakure would likely join the war against Konoha.
• Uchiha Yu told Uchiha Shisui that Konoha had three tiers of possible strategy and began with the ideal of a figure like the First Hokage deterring the entire Ninja World.

Uchiha Yu planted a lasting protective genjutsu in the Study Group and planned to use its structure and Uchiha Shisui to gain influence over the Uchiha clan. After receiving a draft order for the Land of Hot Water front, he prepared to leave Konoha, confident he could survive the war.

• Uchiha Yu explained to Uchiha Shisui why Konoha could not use the Second Hokage's strategy and predicted that the village would defend on every front.
• Uchiha Yu revealed that his apparent farewell to Shisui had been a genjutsu illusion and developed Genjutsu: Heart of Baize to protect the Study Group's 142 members.
• Uchiha Yu received a draft order assigning him to the Land of Hot Water front, where Konoha was fighting both Kumogakure and Kirigakure.
• Uchiha Yu planned for Uchiha Fugaku to take control of the Study Group while its structure and Shisui's influence preserved Yu's power within the clan.
• A month later, Uchiha Yu finished training the Study Group's leaders, spoke with Miwa Masayo, and set out for the Land of Hot Water.

Uchiha Yu treated his transfer to the Land of Hot Water front as a chance to relax, while Uchiha Fugaku and the elders feared losing the leader behind the Study Group’s Sharingan awakenings. Fugaku set out to challenge the transfer order, but Shimura Danzō learned of his excitement and ordered Root to investigate and intercept him.

• Uchiha Yu discussed safety and fortune with Miwa Masayo, then reassured her that the front-line mission posed little risk and could be a vacation.
• Uchiha Yuichiro revealed that thirty-one Study Group members had awakened their Sharingan, and Uchiha Fugaku inspected the genin and saw all thirty-one display their eyes.
• Uchiha Nobutada and Uchiha Yuichiro urged Fugaku to make the Third Hokage withdraw Uchiha Yu’s transfer order, and Fugaku agreed to meet the Hokage.
• Uchiha Ryunosuke joined Uchiha Yu’s faction and advised the elders to prepare a clan meeting in case Fugaku failed.
• Shimura Danzō noticed Fugaku’s excitement and ordered Root to investigate the Uchiha clan and have Yamanaka intercept Fugaku if he headed for the Hokage Building.

Hiruzen Sarutobi manipulated Uchiha Fugaku into sending Uchiha Yu to the front lines while encouraging Shimura Danzō to target Yu without directly ordering his death. At the emergency clan meeting, Fugaku hesitated outside until Uchiha Yuichiro called him in, leaving the Uchiha Jōnin shocked by their clan head’s weakness.

• Shimura Danzō told Hiruzen Sarutobi that Fugaku had not known Uchiha Yu’s importance before asking to change the draft order, and Hiruzen decided Yu should leave the village.
• Hiruzen persuaded Fugaku that the front lines would benefit Yu and the clan, and Fugaku left without asking for compensation.
• Hiruzen rebuked Danzō for failing to discover that Yu had awakened the Three-Tomoe Sharingan, prompting Danzō to promise tighter surveillance and secretly plan Yu’s assassination.
• Danzō convinced himself Yu was a grave threat and hurried to Root to arrange an ambush, while Hiruzen watched and privately treated Danzō’s actions as his own responsibility.
• Uchiha Yuichiro convened an emergency meeting, and Fugaku lingered outside until Yuichiro shouted for him to enter.
• Fugaku entered in silence, and the Uchiha Jōnin reassessed his authority as Yuichiro burned with anger over how the meeting had unfolded.

At the clan assembly, Uchiha Yu stopped Uchiha Yuichiro and his allies from removing Uchiha Fugaku, choosing instead to let Fugaku remain clan head while demanding forbidden techniques as compensation for Yu’s deployment. Afterward, Yu explained to Uchiha Shisui why the Third Hokage was unlikely to hand over the techniques and argued that several had been designed to counter the Uchiha.

• Uchiha Yuichiro confronted Uchiha Fugaku over Uchiha Yu’s transfer order, and Fugaku revealed that he had told the Third Hokage about Yu’s Three-Tomoe Sharingan and role in training thirty-one Sharingan users.
• Uchiha Yuichiro and Uchiha Nobutada confirmed the Study Group’s achievements, exciting the assembled Uchiha and drawing their attention to Uchiha Yu.
• Uchiha Yu used genjutsu to privately warn Uchiha Yuichiro, Uchiha Ryunosuke, and Uchiha Nobutada against trying to depose Fugaku, citing the risk that Fugaku had awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan and the lack of a suitable replacement.
• The clan assembly agreed to send Uchiha Yu to the battlefield, while Yuichiro demanded that Fugaku obtain five techniques as compensation; Fugaku accepted, and Uchiha Setsuna’s question helped sway the assembly.
• Uchiha Yu told Uchiha Shisui that Fugaku probably would not obtain the techniques and explained that the Third Hokage’s faction would not give forbidden techniques to political enemies, especially techniques developed to counter the Uchiha.

Uchiha Yu explained the origins of several forbidden techniques to Uchiha Shisui, then set out to recreate them himself, beginning with the Flying Thunder God Technique. In the Land of Hot Water, he discovered Root ninja approaching him in the frontline camp, apparently under Shimura Danzō’s orders.

• Uchiha Yu explained how Senju Tobirama developed techniques to counter the Uchiha and how the Impure World Reincarnation Jutsu supported the Mutually Multiplying Explosive Tags.
• Uchiha Yu praised Senju Hashirama and Senju Tobirama for overcoming the Senju-Uchiha feud, while Uchiha Kumaichiro and Uchiha Ryunosuke defended Hiruzen Sarutobi and blamed Shimura Danzō.
• Uchiha Yu traveled to the Land of Hot Water with Miwa Masayo after Uchiha Fugaku failed to obtain forbidden techniques from the Third Hokage and lost prestige within the clan.
• Uchiha Yu told Miwa Masayo he would recreate the Flying Thunder God Technique by studying sealing arts, and he hoped to use the Impure World Reincarnation Jutsu to enlist dead geniuses in his research.
• Uchiha Yu and Miwa Masayo sensed Root ninja approaching, and the arriving ninja’s stiff, identical smiles shocked them.

Uchiha Yu uncovered the damaged minds of two Root living weapons, found and bound a mental monster he named Little C, and turned the weapons to his side. After receiving a mission order, he evaded his Root pursuers and entered the valley, where the Root ambush began and its attackers were shocked when the living weapons attacked them instead.

• Uchiha Yu recognized the assignment of Ryota and Osamu as Shimura Danzō's crude attempt to spy on and kill him, then discovered that the two were mindless Root weapons.
• Uchiha Yu entered Ryota's collapsing mental world, found a stitched-together monster begging for help, named it Little C, and bound it with Suggestion Seeds and logic chains.
• Uchiha Yu reinforced Osamu's mind as well, taking control of both living weapons before leaving camp with them and Miwa Masayo.
• Uchiha Yu took a long anti-tracking detour to reach the valley early, while Root ninja followed him and prepared an ambush.
• Root ninja attacked Uchiha Yu in the valley, but Ryota and Osamu turned on their former allies, forcing the Root attackers to focus on the weapons.