Chapter Summaries

After Tiger Unit held Kubota Salient against Kirigakure, Uchiha Yu arranged care for the wounded and prepared the defenses while Orochimaru assessed the battlefield. Yu negotiated supplies and reinforcements with Orochimaru, and Tiger Unit’s mission was defined as holding until Konoha could counterattack or for thirty days.

• Uchiha Yu received medical personnel and supplies from Orochimaru, and the wounded Tiger Unit ninja were treated.
• Orochimaru inspected Kubota Village, questioned Tiger Unit about its battles, and recognized the value of Yu’s preparations against a Kirigakure flood attack.
• Orochimaru confronted Yu about the ambush that had killed fifteen enemies, and Yu’s killing intent made Orochimaru wary of his hidden strength.
• Uchiha Yu asked Orochimaru how long Tiger Unit had to hold Kubota Salient and requested young Uchiha reinforcements, supplies, and ten thousand Explosive Tags.
• Orochimaru offered to send qualifying Uchiha ninja, agreed to provide one thousand Explosive Tags and other supplies, and set the mission’s end conditions as a Konoha counterattack or thirty days of holding the position.

After the Tiger Unit destroyed Kaguya Haiye’s forces, Uchiha Yu safely awakened the Sharingan in the remaining Uchiha genin, greatly increasing the unit’s strength. Kirigakure planned a mass assault on Kubota Village to sway Kumogakure, while the Third Raikage decided to move against Kirigakure.

• Orochimaru withdrew with the fallen and wounded, and the Tiger Unit reorganized after its losses.
• Uchiha Yu removed the psychological barriers from the Uchiha genin, awakening their Sharingan without emotional breakdowns and advancing thirteen one-tomoe users to two tomoe.
• Ling, Hozuki Sakutsuki, and Kaguya Ren restored their shared control of Kirigakure’s forces and agreed to attack Kubota Village with successive waves and Water Style floods.
• The Third Raikage learned that the Konoha unit had defeated more than five hundred Kaguya Clan ninja and ordered Kumogakure to move to the Land of Hot Water against Kirigakure.

Uchiha Yu discovered relics in Kaguya Haiye’s ashes and prepared the soil with the remaining bone ash before Kirigakure’s third attack began. He ordered the Tiger Unit to exploit the attackers’ dense formation with massed Phoenix Sage Fire, and Kirigakure’s first wave fell into chaos and suffered heavy casualties.

• Dodai reflected that the Third Raikage was an exceptional leader and that Konoha had suffered under the Third Hokage’s poor command after Senju Tobirama died.
• Uchiha Yu identified the beads found in Kaguya Haiye’s ashes as relics, considered studying their power and the Shikotsumyaku, and buried much of the ash in soil.
• Kirigakure launched its third attack with more than a thousand ninja advancing in a dense formation, while Uchiha Yu decided that his growing fame no longer posed a political risk.
• Uchiha Yu used whistle signals to order the Tiger Unit to fire Phoenix Sage Fire at the approaching enemy and declared that he would handle the center himself.
• The Uchiha’s massed Phoenix Sage Fire overwhelmed Kirigakure’s attempts to counter it with Water Style, and the attackers’ disorder caused more flames to strike them and their casualties to mount.

The Tiger Unit’s disciplined Fire Style barrage devastated Kirigakure’s disorganized forces, while Uchiha Yu waited at a gap in the flames for the advancing attackers. He summoned Miwa Masayo, and together they unleashed a colossal blaze that swallowed the Kirigakure ninjas and left Orochimaru comparing Yu to Madara.

• The Tiger Unit’s coordinated Phoenix Sage Fire pinned down Kirigakure’s ninjas, while Orochimaru and the Third Raikage recognized that discipline and formation gave Konoha the advantage.
• The Third Raikage ordered Dodai and Kumogakure’s intelligence department to investigate the Tiger Unit, calling its fighting style a change that could reshape the ninja world.
• Kirigakure’s commanders sent more ninjas into the Hidden Mist, mistaking front-line screams for deception as the battlefield’s casualties mounted.
• Hundreds of Kirigakure ninjas found a route through the flames and advanced within 150 meters, so Uchiha Yu redirected the Tiger Unit’s fire and summoned Miwa Masayo.
• Miwa Masayo gathered natural energy as Uchiha Yu prepared a powerful Fire Style attack, and Orochimaru identified the energy and recorded her name.
• Uchiha Yu and Miwa Masayo unleashed a vast blaze that engulfed the charging Kirigakure ninjas, prompting Orochimaru to declare that Yu looked like the legendary Madara.

Uchiha Yu and Miwa Masayo combined their fire techniques into a devastating senjutsu blaze that killed thousands of Kirigakure ninja. With Kirigakure’s remaining forces flooding Kubota Village to force the defenders out, Uchiha Yu decided the time had come to begin his counterattack.

• Uchiha Yu and Miwa Masayo fused their fire techniques into senjutsu chakra, engulfing the charging Kirigakure ninja in flames and killing more than four thousand of them.
• Orochimaru summoned Manda, recognized that Yu and his summon had fused senjutsu chakra outside their bodies, and decided to investigate Ryūchi Cave for a more trustworthy summon.
• The Third Raikage saw Orochimaru at the battlefield and abandoned his plan to ambush the Tiger Unit before departing with his advisors.
• Kaguya Ren, Hozuki Sakutsuki, and Ling decided to flood the high ground, with Ling persuading Ren to preserve his strength for a possible battle against Kumogakure.
• Kirigakure’s ninja launched repeated Water Style: Exploding Water Shock Wave attacks, flooding Kubota Village and forcing the Konoha defenders out of hiding.
• Uchiha Yu told the Tiger Unit to begin as Kirigakure’s ninja charged across the floodwater.

Uchiha Yu used foul expanding mud, battlefield maneuvers, and phosphorus-based Hellfire to disrupt Kirigakure’s forces while the Tiger Unit evaded the pursuing Yuki Clan. Ling and Kaguya Ren traced the rapidly draining flood to a huge crack beneath a deep pit, where the water disappeared into darkness.

• Kirigakure’s underwater attackers surfaced because Uchiha Yu had filled the water with foul expanding mud, while Ling led the Yuki Clan toward the Tiger Unit and Hozuki Sakutsuki went to watch Orochimaru.
• Uchiha Yu led the Tiger Unit through the swamp, then used a whistle-guided explosive volley to break out of Kubota Village and evade the Yuki Clan’s advance.
• Uchiha Yu and Miwa Masayo unleashed Hellfire, whose persistent flames and choking smoke burned or incapacitated Kirigakure ninja as the Tiger Unit hunted scattered enemies.
• Uchiha Yu told Uchiha Shigenobu that Hellfire came from a phosphorus mixture ignited with natural energy, while concealing how the weapon worked behind the Cat Sage explanation.
• Ling noticed the floodwater was flowing southwest and led Kaguya Ren to a deep pit, where the water poured into a massive crack and vanished.

Ling and the Yuki Clan ninja sealed the fissure with ice, but their iceberg triggered the collapse of Uchiha Yu’s hidden trap, forcing Kirigakure to abandon its plan to take Kubota Village and retreat. As Kaguya Ren attacked a Konoha unit during the withdrawal, Hozuki Sakutsuki warned that the Konoha Ninja Army was approaching.

• Kaguya Ren ordered the Kirigakure ninja to seal the fissure, and Ling led ten Ice Style ninja in building and hardening an iceberg over it.
• Ling discovered that the ice had pierced a thin layer of stone and warned everyone to retreat from the man-made trap.
• The pit’s stone floor collapsed into a vast sinkhole, killing several Kirigakure ninja and convincing Ling and Kaguya Ren that they could not take Kubota Village.
• Ling proposed abandoning their supplies and heading east toward the sea, while Kaguya Ren asked to kill the nearby Konoha ninja and Ling agreed to organize the retreat.
• Orochimaru watched the Tiger Unit’s coordinated attacks and studied its tactics while Hozuki Sakutsuki confronted him, then withdrew after receiving intelligence.
• Hozuki Sakutsuki rejoined Ling and Kaguya Ren, supported the retreat and Kaguya Ren’s attack, and warned that the Konoha Ninja Army might arrive soon.

Uchiha Yu waited as the Kirigakure ninja retreated, then sensed a powerful enemy approaching and decided to fight without holding back. He ambushed Kaguya Ren with an Earth Style: Earth Spear-hardened punch, leaving the blow about to land.

• Ling, Kaguya Ren, and Hozuki Sakutsuki organized the Kirigakure retreat, and the Hidden Mist Technique concealed the withdrawing troops.
• Uchiha Yu learned that the Kirigakure ninja were retreating but held position with the Tiger Unit because he could not locate their Kage-level fighters.
• Uchiha Yu sensed a powerful enemy targeting him, reasoned that the attacker was likely from the Kaguya Clan, and decided to fight rather than restrain himself for the Tiger Unit or his public image.
• Uchiha Yu handed command of the Tiger Unit to Uchiha Shigenobu and advanced with Miwa Masayo to meet the approaching enemy.
• Uchiha Yu hardened his upper body with Earth Style: Earth Spear and silently swung a blackened fist through the mist at Kaguya Ren, who spotted it too late to react.

Uchiha Yu fought Kaguya Ren to a stalemate before Miwa Masayo’s surprise attack drove the Kaguya ninja away. After the exhausted Tiger Unit returned to Kubota Village, Orochimaru asked Yu to help him face three Kage-level enemies.

• Uchiha Yu and Kaguya Ren traded blows, but Earth Style: Earth Spear and the Shikotsumyaku left neither able to damage the other.
• Uchiha Yu switched to Fire Style: Incineration Fist, while Kaguya Ren used layered bone armor to shield himself from the flames.
• Miwa Masayo ambushed Kaguya Ren and burned his spine with natural-energy flames, forcing him to pull it out and flee into the fog.
• Uchiha Yu led the exhausted Tiger Unit back to Kubota Village after the Kirigakure Ninja Army retreated.
• Orochimaru told Uchiha Yu that he had ordered a counterattack and asked for Yu’s help against three Kage-level ninjas.

Uchiha Yu accepted Orochimaru’s mission to pursue the Kirigakure after negotiating for an S-rank reward, while Konoha’s arrival exposed tensions between the Uchiha and Hyuga. The Kirigakure survivors escaped to sea only to discover their fleet had been destroyed by Kumogakure.

• Orochimaru offered Uchiha Yu an S-rank mission and an additional A-rank reward for helping eliminate a Kage-level ninja, and Uchiha Yu agreed to pursue the Kirigakure with Miwa Masayo.
• Uchiha Yu told Uchiha Shigenobu to keep Tiger Unit in place and ignore orders until he returned, as Konoha reinforcements arrived in Kubota Village and praised the Uchiha’s victory.
• Uchiha Hesi intimidated Hyuga Hideki’s squad after mocking the Hyuga main family, and Hideki resolved to prove himself by leading his squad toward the coast to intercept Kirigakure.
• Orochimaru halted the main Konoha pursuit at the coast and sent a small force onward while the rest of the Konoha ninja returned to restore order in the Land of Hot Water.
• Kaguya Ren’s Kirigakure survivors reached the open sea and learned that Kumogakure ninja had destroyed their fleet in an attack from the sea.

Kumogakure’s Third Raikage led an assault that destroyed Kirigakure’s fleet, then pursued its surviving ninja until Kirigakure’s coordinated water and acid attacks inflicted heavy losses. As the battle turned against Kumogakure, Blue B fully released the Eight-Tails and fired a Tailed Beast Ball into the battlefield.

• Blue B and the Eight-Tails obliterated Kirigakure’s warships while the Third Raikage, A, and Killer B attacked the fleet and seized supplies.
• Uchiha Yu and Orochimaru’s Konoha force followed the Kirigakure ninja with help from the Inuzuka Ninja Dogs and Aburame Kikaichū, then joined the battle alongside Kumogakure.
• A Terumi Clan jōnin combined Great Exploding Water Colliding Waves with Boil Release: Skilled Mist Technique, killing sixteen Kumogakure ninja and turning Kirigakure’s morale around.
• Kaguya Ren failed to hold back the Third Raikage, who regrouped Kumogakure’s forces as Kirigakure’s ninja pressed their attack.
• The Third Raikage ordered Blue B to unleash a huge explosion, and Blue B fully released the Eight-Tails and launched a Tailed Beast Ball into the Kumogakure ninja.

Uchiha Yu helped turn the Kirigakure assault into a rout with a massive Sage Art, then watched Orochimaru secretly poison and harvest a sample from Blue B. After Orochimaru left, Yu planted a seal on Blue B and escaped without a trace.

• Uchiha Yu joined Miwa Masayo in unleashing Sage Art: Outer: Majestic Destroyer Flame, which met the Eight-Tails’ Tailed Beast Ball and devastated the Kirigakure forces.
• Terumi called for a retreat, and Orochimaru and the Third Raikage ordered their ninja to pursue the Hozuki, Yuki, and Kaguya clans.
• Orochimaru intercepted Ling while the Third Raikage and the A-B Combo stopped Kaguya Ren and Hozuki Sakutsuki, leaving Blue B near the battlefield with Gyūki.
• Uchiha Yu noticed Orochimaru’s scheme and watched as Orochimaru used poison and a distraction involving the Nine-Tails’ chakra to approach Blue B, take flesh and blood, and inject medicine into his spine.
• After Orochimaru left, Uchiha Yu planted a seal on Blue B’s left shoulder, erased the traces of his chakra, and vanished.

Ling froze Orochimaru and Manda but was captured after Orochimaru escaped, while Kaguya Ren died fighting the Third Raikage and Hozuki Sakutsuki and Hozuki Suigetsu fell to the A-B duo and the Third Raikage. With Kirigakure's three Kage-level fighters gone, their forces collapsed, and Uchiha Yu turned his attention to Kaguya Ren's corpse.

• Ling unleashed Grand Crimson Lotus Inferno, freezing Orochimaru and Manda, but Orochimaru escaped by releasing his summoning and captured Ling with Myriad Snake Array.
• Kaguya Ren used Dandelion Dance to trap the Third Raikage, but the Raikage escaped with Four-Finger Nukite and Kaguya Ren died from his injuries.
• A and Killer B struck Hozuki Sakutsuki with Double Lariat as he used Hydrification, while the Third Raikage beheaded Hozuki Suigetsu before he could attack them.
• The Third Raikage scolded and kicked A for letting his guard down, while Kirigakure's remaining resistance crumbled after its three Kage-level ninja were defeated.
• Uchiha Yu turned his attention to Kaguya Ren's corpse.

Uchiha Yu and Miwa Masayo helped Orochimaru secure Kaguya Ren’s corpse as Konoha and Kumogakure contested control of the Land of Hot Water. Konoha emerged with the territory, while Kirigakure’s devastating losses and the Third Mizukage’s sudden death left the village facing a succession crisis.

• Uchiha Yu chose not to pursue Kaguya Ren’s body at first, but Orochimaru and the Third Raikage argued over it and threatened to settle the dispute by force.
• Miwa Masayo used Flame Leap and the Reverse Summoning Technique to help Uchiha Yu seize Kaguya Ren’s corpse and escape the Kumogakure ninja.
• The Third Raikage withdrew his forces rather than risk losing his elite ninja, and Kirigakure’s army retreated after its defeat in the Land of Hot Water.
• Orochimaru spread Konoha’s forces across more than half of the Land of Hot Water, and news of the victory lifted morale in Konoha.
• The Third Mizukage died after Madara’s planted ocular power destroyed his consciousness, leaving no successor named.
• Kirigakure’s leaders rallied the village to avenge its losses, but first the clans and Genji began a fierce contest to choose the Fourth Mizukage.

Uchiha Yu investigated Kaguya Ren’s bone beads and learned that an evil god’s cult kept re-forming through newly empowered high priests. He claimed a transformed boy as a specimen and set out to investigate the cult’s underground lair, planning to send a more sinister monster ahead.

• Uchiha Yu found that chakra made one of Kaguya Ren’s bone beads sprout into a dandelion seedling, and he planned to give it to Orochimaru while studying the other beads.
• Miwa Masayo told Uchiha Yu that Tiger Unit had destroyed the evil god cult, but a new high priest had appeared and the cult kept returning.
• Uchiha Yu arrived at Tiger Unit’s interrogation tent and saw a boy transformed into a monster after becoming the cult’s high priest.
• Uchiha Yu told Uchiha Tadamichi to finish the mission without reporting the monster, then placed it in a coma and claimed it for study.
• Uchiha Yu and Miwa Masayo headed for the cult’s underground lair, and Uchiha Yu said he would send a more sinister monster to investigate the evil god.

Uchiha Yu investigated the cult’s altar, identified three possible gods from the Uchiha archives, and tested the weakened deity through the transformed high priest’s mental world. He unleashed Little C, whose presence drove the god into terror, and discovered that the deity was chaotic, sluggish, and vulnerable to madness.

• Uchiha Yu examined the altar, found that its blood and scent had vanished, and memorized its carvings while deciding not to contact the god there.
• Uchiha Yu compared the altar’s patterns with Uchiha records and narrowed the possible identities to Mountain Child, Mountain Hag, and Mikoshi.
• Uchiha Yu transformed the high priest into a monster, then entered his damaged mental world with Little C and observed the god’s vast but weakened consciousness.
• Uchiha Yu realized the god’s spiritual body was chaotic and slow, while his own spirit could absorb the remnants of the dying mental world.
• Uchiha Yu sent Little C into one of the god’s tentacles, and the god recoiled in terror as madness began leaking from the porous octopus.

Uchiha Yu escaped the collapsing spiritual world with Little C and fragments of a god's rules, then returned to camp and learned that nearly all the young Uchiha sent to the Land of Rain had died. He and Miwa Masayo later discussed spiritual cultivation, while the Tiger Unit resolved to scrutinize dangerous missions and avoid taking Uchiha Obito.

• Little C infected the evil god with madness, triggering an explosion that shattered its rule frameworks and split it into battling lesser gods; Uchiha Yu fled the collapsing spiritual world with Little C and rule fragments.
• Uchiha Yu returned to camp, burned the rotting monster corpse with golden flames, and asked Uchiha Shigenobu and Uchiha Tadamichi to sift through the ashes.
• Uchiha Shigenobu, Uchiha Tadamichi, and Kazushi learned that Kazuki had survived but that the other twenty-one Uchiha sent to the Land of Rain had been killed.
• The Tiger Unit members suspected the mission may have been arranged to cause their deaths and agreed to scrutinize future assignments, seek Uchiha Yu's approval, and transfer Kazuki into their unit.
• Uchiha Yu recounted his adventure to Miwa Masayo, encouraged her stalled spiritual cultivation, and privately hoped that her eventual human form would be a catgirl.

Karatachi Yagura sought Genji’s backing to take power in Kirigakure and avenge his family, while Genji questioned whether he could restrain his bloodlust. When the three great clan heads learned none of their clans had killed Yagura’s parents, they prepared for civil war, unaware Black Zetsu had engineered the killings to pave the way for Uchiha Madara’s control.

• Karatachi Yagura performed dogeza before Genji and asked for the support needed to unite civilian and small-clan ninjas against the three great clans.
• Genji acknowledged that Kirigakure needed major bloodshed to redistribute resources, but warned Yagura not to kill indiscriminately or destroy the village’s Kekkei Genkai inheritance.
• Tu, Kaguya Yoshi, and Hozuki Genzuki swore their clans had not assassinated Yagura’s parents and realized an unknown culprit had provoked the crisis.
• The three clan heads returned to gather their forces, making Kirigakure’s civil war unavoidable.
• Black Zetsu revealed he had killed Yagura’s parents to create chaos and isolate Kirigakure, then left the village to advance Uchiha Madara’s plan.

Black Zetsu discovered that his White Zetsu warehouse beneath Kubota Village had been flooded by the battle between Konoha and Kirigakure, while Madara explained the cause. In Kirigakure, Karatachi Yagura pledged to take revenge without wiping out the clans, and Uchiha Yu chose a safe island garrison mission as the village’s civil war intensified.

• Black Zetsu traveled toward the Land of Rain in an exhausted White Zetsu and headed for a nearby warehouse to replace it.
• Karatachi Yagura promised Genji he would kill his political rivals and their families but preserve enough Kekkei Genkai lines, and Genji entrusted Kirigakure’s future to him.
• Karatachi Yagura asked for Tailed Beast sealing research, learned it had made no progress, and vowed to fund it after becoming Fourth Mizukage.
• Kirigakure’s civil war escalated into fighting day and night, forcing the village to withdraw temporarily from the Ninja World war.
• Black Zetsu found his White Zetsu warehouse flooded and asked Madara who had done it; Madara deduced that Kirigakure’s water attack had flooded the caves and Konoha’s ninja had dug the shaft to drain it.
• Uchiha Yu rejected infiltration and patrol assignments, accepted an island garrison mission with the Tiger Unit, and settled into training at sea.

Uchiha Yu kept the younger members of the Tiger Unit busy with intense training and vegetable gardening, then prepared to lead selected squads on a hunt for giant chakra creatures. After the team reached a dark stretch of sea at sunset, Yu sensed strange changes in his body as the ocean below them lit up with tiny purple points.

• Uchiha Yu made the younger Uchiha train, build defenses, and grow vegetables, then told Uchiha Tadamichi that gardening could help them experience ordinary life and hope.
• Miwa Masayo revealed that she had broken through and learned Fire-Controlled Air Manipulation, while Yu explained the bone-strengthening nutrients in his fried twists and planned to harvest octopus legs.
• Uchiha Yu and Miwa Masayo discussed training the younger Uchiha to gather resources sustainably, then playfully sparred in the vegetable garden without damaging the plants.
• Uchiha Yu drew two squads for a hunt, selecting Uchiha Kuanren's and Uchiha Shigenobu's squads, and led them northeast across the sea.
• At a black stretch of water, Uchiha Yu felt the Sharingan gazes of the younger Uchiha and ordered them to close their eyes; after darkness fell, the sea beneath them glimmered with tiny purple lights.