Chapter Summaries

Uchiha Yu took the Tiger Unit to hunt a giant octopus whose tentacles carried the Eight-Tails' chakra, intending to harvest two tentacles without killing it. After the exhausted Uchiha learned how unprepared they were to fight giant beasts, they resolved to train harder, then carried the tentacles home while Yu and Miwa Masayo enjoyed the meat.

• Uchiha Yu explained that the Uchiha had to cut off only two marked tentacles because the octopus regenerated them and its meat was delicious.
• Uchiha Kuanren and Uchiha Shigenobu led their squads in a coordinated attack, but the octopus's many brains made their tactical maneuvers ineffective.
• After ten hours of fighting, Uchiha Yu and Miwa Masayo cut off the two marked tentacles, and Yu told the exhausted Tiger Unit to train its stamina and learn ways to fight giant beasts.
• The thirty-four Uchiha accepted that their endurance and strength needed improvement, then recovered and carried the tentacles back with Yu.
• Uchiha Yu and Miwa Masayo ate raw sashimi, while Uchiha Shigenobu and Uchiha Kuanren collapsed from the potent meat and hallucinated.

Uchiha Yu became a full jōnin and learned that jōnin held formal power through the Jōnin Council. Orochimaru expanded Tiger Unit and assigned it a mission against Iwagakure’s Explosion Corps, while Yu began preparing for his cultivation breakthrough and a search for its next food-related opportunity.

• Uchiha Yu explained that the medicinally prepared octopus meat was safe for the weaker Uchiha to eat, then spent the following month training Tiger Unit and testing its combat tactics.
• Uchiha Yu inspected Tiger Unit’s neglected vegetable plots and admitted to Miwa Masayo that he had hoped to find disciples for his Immortal Path, while Miwa Masayo suggested his breakthrough might depend on finding another delicious food.
• Uchiha Hesi told Uchiha Yu that Orochimaru was coming to promote Tiger Unit, and Orochimaru made Yu a full jōnin and promoted twenty-two others to chūnin.
• Orochimaru explained the Jōnin Council’s authority, prompting Uchiha Yu to understand why Hiruzen Sarutobi had politically destroyed Hatake Sakumo’s reputation.
• Orochimaru authorized Tiger Unit to grow to between three hundred and three hundred sixty members and approved the assignment of Uchiha conscripts and recovering ninja, tasking Yu with preparing the unit to suppress Iwagakure’s Explosion Corps.
• Uchiha Yu burned Orochimaru’s Shed Skin Doppelgänger remains, and Orochimaru decided from afar to consider hypnotizing an Uchiha as a spy.

Uchiha Yu expanded the Tiger Unit, sidelined its struggling recruits, and trained them into a more capable force while a division successfully harvested a giant octopus’s tentacles in exchange for Dried Small Fish. At a feast, he praised Uchiha Takayuki’s rise from the logistics squadron, giving the other recruits hope to improve.

• Uchiha Yu placed the older, inexperienced Uchiha recruits in a logistics squadron and explained their difficult circumstances after Uchiha Tadamichi described their backgrounds.
• The Tiger Unit grew to fifteen divisions, but most of its new members lacked combat readiness, so Uchiha Yu focused on training them.
• Uchiha Takayuki’s Sixth Division used a combined Fire Style: Blue Flame Sword to cut off two of the giant octopus’s tentacles, then gave it a Dried Small Fish that healed its wounds and prompted a new tentacle to grow.
• The Sixth Division returned injured after encountering a storm, while the recruits gradually improved through training and the Tiger Unit continued its tentacle-for-fish arrangement with the octopus.
• At a feast, Uchiha Yu praised Uchiha Takayuki for training his way out of the logistics squadron, awakening the Sharingan, and becoming a division captain, inspiring the sidelined recruits.

Uchiha Yu found the direction for his cultivation after a night of enlightenment, then disciplined the Tiger Unit after its banquet left the beach unguarded. Meanwhile, Karatachi Yagura secured control of Kirigakure and launched an attack on Konoha, forcing Uchiha Yu to prepare the Tiger Unit for battle.

• Uchiha Yu praised Uchiha Tadamichi and inspired the Tiger Unit at a banquet before leaving with Miwa Masayo to discuss cultivation.
• Uchiha Yu systematized his training into three cultivation arts, then entered a night-long enlightenment that revealed the direction of his future path.
• Uchiha Yu found the Tiger Unit asleep after its banquet and ordered the exhausted ninjas back to training, patrol, and duty.
• Kaguya Yoshi pledged the Kaguya Clan's loyalty to Karatachi Yagura, who assigned them to attack Konoha ninjas and consolidated his rule over Kirigakure.
• Karatachi Yagura and Genji celebrated Kirigakure's recovery as the village launched a counteroffensive against Konoha across the sea.
• Uchiha Yu learned that Kirigakure had attacked in five sea zones and that six Konoha ninjas had died, then prepared the Tiger Unit to fight back.

Uchiha Yu organized the Tiger Unit to scout and counter Kirigakure’s attack, then sentenced Uchiha Goro to death for defying orders after his squad was ambushed by Kaguya ninja. Grieving the execution, Yu left alone to hunt down the Kaguya ninja and vent his anger.

• Uchiha Yu sent the First Squadron to scout the northern waters and ordered the Second Squadron to sweep for Kirigakure ninja while supporting its allies and retreating from overwhelming enemies.
• Kaguya Yoshi identified the northern force as the Uchiha Tiger Unit, sent Kaguya Sheng north in his place, and steered his own group away from the danger.
• Uchiha Shigenobu reported that his sub-unit had been ambushed by Kaguya ninja after Uchiha Goro and other squad leaders ignored his order to disperse and regroup.
• Uchiha Yu sentenced Uchiha Goro to death, demoted the three squad captains and sub-unit captain, and ordered Uchiha Shigenobu to carry out the execution discreetly.
• After leaving the assembly, Uchiha Yu struggled with grief and turmoil, then went alone toward the Kaguya ninja, unleashing his senjutsu powers as he sped across the sea.

Uchiha Yu arrived as a lightning-wreathed Thunder God and slaughtered Kaguya Sheng’s Kirigakure force, though his own lightning strike temporarily blinded and paralyzed him. After healing, he killed the remaining ninja and left Kaguya Sheng alive long enough to attempt a desperate counterattack, which failed against Yu’s lightning defense.

• Kaguya Sheng ordered his forces to search nearby islands for the escaped Konoha ninja, but a strange thundercloud approached them.
• Uchiha Yu rode the thundercloud to Kaguya Sheng’s group, appeared in a transformed Thunder God guise, and declared that he had come to kill them.
• Kaguya Sheng and the Kirigakure ninja attacked, but Yu’s lightning strike blinded and deafened the fighters and temporarily incapacitated Yu himself.
• Yu recovered first and used targeted lightning bolts to kill the Kirigakure ninja, leaving Kaguya Sheng as the sole survivor.
• Kaguya Sheng attacked Yu with Shikotsumyaku: Heaven-Slaying Dance, but Yu’s lightning dismantled the bone spear and shocked him.

Uchiha Yu discovered that the fourth heart form had stabilized his mental world, leaving him ready for a breakthrough, while Kirigakure and Konoha reconsidered their strategies around the Tiger Unit. The chapter ended with Karatachi Yagura ordering Kirigakure to investigate the strange man who defeated Kaguya Sheng and find a way to eliminate the Tiger Unit.

• Uchiha Yu crippled Kaguya Sheng, killed the other Kaguya Clan and Kirigakure ninja, and returned to the Tiger Unit's island.
• Uchiha Yu found that the fourth heart form, the lightning-patterned Liver Toad, had formed and restored balance to his mental world, while Little C the Holey Octopus was chased around by the heart forms.
• Orochimaru ordered Konoha's forces to withdraw from the sea and northern Land of Hot Water, but told Nara Shikaku to keep the Tiger Unit in place if it could hold its position.
• Orochimaru worried that Karatachi Yagura might turn Kirigakure's campaign south toward the Land of Fire and hoped the Tiger Unit would disrupt his plans.
• Karatachi Yagura heard Kaguya Yoshi's report about the Tiger Unit and the strange man, and Jōnin Terumi suggested the events might have been separate incidents.
• Karatachi Yagura ordered the Yuki Clan to verify the strange man's identity and directed Kirigakure to gather intelligence and eliminate the Tiger Unit.

Karatachi Yagura assigned the Yuki Clan to intelligence and reconnaissance and ordered Jōnin Terumi to oversee testing a new Three-Tails sealing technique. Meanwhile, Uchiha Yu enjoyed a quiet stretch with Miwa Masayo until news of a Kirigakure attack brought him back to the Tiger Unit’s command room.

• Karatachi Yagura tasked Yuki with leading the Yuki Clan’s intelligence and reconnaissance mission, then told Genji and Jōnin Terumi to begin testing their completed tailed beast sealing technique.
• Miwa Masayo woke after three days of sleep and grew calmer and more aligned with Uchiha Yu’s cultivation path as they continued their daily practice together.
• Uchiha Yu used Earth Spirit natural energy to build a pond and pavilion, then discussed Ninja World warfare and Uchiha Takayuki’s memories of serving under Shimura Danzō.
• A Tiger Unit shinobi informed Uchiha Yu that Kirigakure shinobi were attacking, and Miwa Masayo declined to attend the command meeting until he had decided how to fight.
• Uchiha Yu entered the combat command room, where the Tiger Unit’s commanders and intelligence officers greeted him with renewed confidence.

Uchiha Yu ordered the Tiger Unit to prioritize survival and prepare to fight the approaching Yuki Clan, whose joint Blizzard technique had grown into an enormous, nearly uncontrollable storm. When the storm threatened the island, Yu chose to abandon the base and trade positions with the enemy.

• Uchiha Yu reviewed intelligence showing that a Kirigakure force of five hundred ninja was approaching and learned that the Yuki Clan had created a massive blizzard capable of freezing the sea.
• Uchiha Yu assigned the First Squadron to lead the attack, the Second Squadron to support it, and the Third Squadron to defend the island, while reminding everyone to retreat if necessary and protect their lives.
• Yuki and the Yuki Clan advanced atop an iceberg, unaware that their Blizzard technique had grown beyond their control and was becoming an independent storm.
• Uchiha Shigenobu led the First Squadron in retreat when the storm appeared, and Uchiha Yu praised the decision.
• Uchiha Yu ordered the Tiger Unit to return to its base, activate every trap, gather its forces, and trade bases with the enemy.

Uchiha Yu led the Tiger Unit around Yuki’s blizzard to threaten Kirigakure’s supplies, forcing Yuki and her ninja to abandon their defensive advantage and fight. As the battle began, Yu countered the Yuki Clan’s joint Ice Style with his own Senjutsu while the Tiger Unit charged into the Kirigakure ranks, leaving the enemy in a growing melee disadvantage.

• Uchiha Yu led the Tiger Unit past Yuki’s storm toward Kirigakure’s supply island, and Yuki recognized the threat to her forces’ logistics.
• Yuki ordered the Kirigakure ninja to leave the blizzard and attack the Tiger Unit, and they chose to fight rather than retreat.
• Uchiha Yu’s whistle redirected the Tiger Unit into an assault formation while Yuki’s clan members formed the Ice Style: Joint Technique: Blizzard.
• Uchiha Yu explained that the joint ninjutsu relied on Yuki as its chakra core, then used the Golden Flame Coiling Dragon Tornado to melt the ice spikes and clash with the blizzard.
• Uchiha Yu held back from using lightning as the Tiger Unit charged into the Kirigakure ranks, where its Sharingan-assisted fighters began overwhelming the disorganized defenders.

Uchiha Yu broke up Kirigakure’s combined attack, crippled the reform-minded Yuki with six punches, and ordered the Tiger Unit to retreat when she began a desperate Ice Style technique. He rescued the trapped young Uchiha, leaving the battlefield as the freezing threat continued to grow.

• Uchiha Yu ended the combined ninjutsu, sent the reserve and logistics squads into battle, and charged at the Yuki Clan’s leader.
• Yuki used Ice Swallow Soaring Sky to inflict severe wounds, then absorbed Uchiha Yu’s Flame Fists with her Crystal Ice Mirror until his flames melted it.
• Uchiha Yu rushed Yuki and struck her six times, crippling her, while Miwa Masayo killed three Yuki Clan ninja who approached him.
• Yuki encased herself in ice and began forming a massive Ice Crystal White Dragon, so Uchiha Yu ordered the Tiger Unit to retreat.
• Uchiha Shigenobu chose to rescue the younger Uchiha despite the retreat order, and Uchiha Yu charged through the Kirigakure ranks to hurl them to safety.

Uchiha Yu escaped Yuki’s ultimate Ice Style attack with the Flying Thunder God Technique, but Yuki died after freezing a vast area of the sea. He collected her remains and planned to revive her with Impure World Reincarnation, leaving with Miwa Masayo to meet the Tiger Unit.

• Uchiha Yu confirmed that all his subordinates had been accounted for and sent away Miwa Masayo before watching Yuki’s ice crystal dragon emerge from the sea.
• Yuki unleashed Ice Style: Frozen Polar Region after Uchiha Yu vanished, freezing the sea, sky, and surrounding air across a huge area.
• Uchiha Yu and Miwa Masayo found that Yuki had died and recognized that her technique had created an exceptionally powerful ice field.
• Uchiha Yu explained that Yuki had stored her extracted chakra in the ice dragon before pouring it into her final attack, and he and Miwa approached her remains cautiously.
• Uchiha Yu collected Yuki’s flesh and blood for a future Impure World Reincarnation and set out with Miwa to meet the Tiger Unit.

Uchiha Yu’s forces captured Kirigakure’s strategic island warehouse and began transporting its vast stores, while Kirigakure discovered the loss and prepared a counterattack led by Karatachi Yagura. Orochimaru mobilized Konoha reinforcements to support the Tiger Unit, leaving him to decide which of his many experienced ninja to take into the Land of Water.

• Uchiha Yu recovered Yuki’s flesh and blood, burned the body, and joined the Tiger Unit after it had seized the island and defeated its guards.
• Uchiha Yu and his allies inventoried the captured warehouses and estimated that the weapons alone were worth 1.315 billion ryō.
• Uchiha Yu recognized the island as a long-standing Kirigakure strategic base and hurried the Tiger Unit and Ninja Cats to move its supplies to Cat Castle.
• Karatachi Yagura learned that the warehouse had been lost and decided to lead a force against the Tiger Unit, bringing Onishi Kyohei, the newly created Three-Tails’ jinchūriki.
• Orochimaru prepared reinforcements for the Land of Water, hoping to exploit Kirigakure’s counterattack, but struggled to choose from his many jōnin and chūnin.

Orochimaru brought Konoha reinforcements to join Uchiha Yu, who planned to trap Kirigakure’s advancing force. As the battle began, Karatachi Yagura dispelled Tiger Unit’s whistle-based genjutsu and unleashed a massive tsunami toward them.

• Orochimaru judged ten-year-old Hatake Kakashi to be exhausted and unsuitable for his command, then left him behind with Uchiha Yu when he led the reinforcements south.
• Uchiha Yu told Orochimaru that Karatachi Yagura was leading fifteen hundred Kirigakure shinobi, and they agreed on a plan to encircle them while Tiger Unit held the front.
• Uchiha Yu carried Kakashi back to the island and ordered Uchiha Tadamichi to retreat with the children; Kakashi resisted until Yu warned him that he would otherwise hypnotize him out of the battle.
• Uchiha Yu led Tiger Unit’s two ready squadrons toward the Kirigakure force, whose morale faltered as the unit’s brass whistles spread a sound-wave genjutsu.
• Karatachi Yagura dispelled the genjutsu with his chakra, then cast Water Release: Great Exploding Water Colliding Waves and led the Kirigakure shinobi in creating a towering tsunami.

Uchiha Yu countered Kirigakure’s enormous tsunami with a massive Earth Style technique, then used the Tiger Unit’s Phoenix Sage Fire to pin down the Kirigakure forces. The chapter ended with jinchuriki Onishi Kyohei charging alone through the battlefield as Karatachi Yagura watched anxiously.

• Karatachi Yagura and more than three hundred Kirigakure ninjas combined their Water Style techniques into a colossal tsunami aimed at Uchiha Yu and the Tiger Unit.
• Uchiha Yu revealed his enormous chakra reserves and prepared the Phoenix Sage Fire Technique while Onishi Kyohei offered to face him as Kirigakure’s jinchuriki.
• Onishi Kyohei released the Three-Tails’ chakra, and Orochimaru sensed the threat while slowing the Konoha reinforcements’ advance.
• Uchiha Yu used Earth Style: Rock and Earth Excavation to sink a vast section of seabed, pulling the tsunami into the depression and stopping it from reaching the Uchiha.
• The Tiger Unit’s Phoenix Sage Fire forced the Kirigakure ninjas to defend themselves with Water Formation Walls, trapping their larger force in place.
• Onishi Kyohei charged through the flames toward the Konoha ninjas, while Karatachi Yagura anxiously watched from behind the defenses.

Kirigakure’s underwater assault met the Tiger Unit’s prepared tactics while Uchiha Yu defeated the unstable jinchūriki Onishi Kyohei and tried to seize the Three-Tails. A Mangekyō trap left by Uchiha Madara blinded Yu and let Karatachi Yagura strike him, but Yu survived and tore the coral from his own back.

• Hozuki Rōgetsu led Kirigakure ninja underwater to attack the Konoha forces while Kaguya Yoshi kept others on the surface to cover them.
• Uchiha Yu ordered the Tiger Unit to use its Number Three Clone Trap and Genjutsu Ambush tactic, then charged Onishi Kyohei.
• Uchiha Yu overpowered Onishi Kyohei and used genjutsu to control him before beginning to undo the Three-Tails’ seal.
• Uchiha Yu found Uchiha Madara’s transplanted Mangekyō genjutsu in the Three-Tails’ eyes, which overwhelmed his Sharingan and left him temporarily blind.
• Karatachi Yagura struck Uchiha Yu with a coral staff, but Yu escaped; Yagura then found Onishi Kyohei’s damaged seal and called for the Sealing Team.
• Uchiha Yu stood and tore the coral from his back, spilling blood into the sea as he confronted Karatachi Yagura.

Uchiha Yu recovered from Karatachi Yagura’s coral attack and called Orochimaru to the battlefield, where Konoha’s ambush devastated the Kirigakure forces. As Karatachi Yagura and Orochimaru’s summoned Manda threatened the fighting, the Tiger Unit prepared to face Manda in earnest.

• Karatachi Yagura questioned Uchiha Yu about escaping his coral technique, and Yu used the delay to heal and recover his Sharingan.
• Uchiha Yu called for Orochimaru, who arrived on Manda and challenged Karatachi Yagura as Konoha’s forces attacked the Kirigakure ninja.
• Uchiha Yu’s Explosive Tag trap and the Tiger Unit’s charge inflicted heavy losses on the Kirigakure forces, while Manda rushed toward the battlefield to eat the dead.
• Karatachi Yagura used Water Mirror Technique to create copies of Orochimaru and Uchiha Yu, but Uchiha Yu’s Thunder Shout disrupted the copies and he knocked Yagura into the sea.
• Manda attacked the Tiger Unit after its members struck it with weak Fire Style techniques, and Uchiha Shigenobu blew a whistle to order the Uchiha to fight seriously.

Tiger Unit destroyed Manda and survived Karatachi Yagura’s counterattack, but Uchiha Yu lost two younger brothers and joined Orochimaru in planning to kill the Mizukage. As Karatachi Yagura faced them, the failing seal on Onishi Kyohei threatened to unleash the Three-Tails, and Onishi Kyohei urged the Mizukage to release it.

• Tiger Unit used its Blue Flame Swords to dismember Manda, then regrouped under Uchiha Shigenobu and charged back toward the battlefield.
• Karatachi Yagura unleashed nine water dragons; Tiger Unit broke most of them with coordinated Great Fireballs, then retreated after suffering two deaths and killing five pursuing Kirigakure ninja.
• Orochimaru praised Tiger Unit’s tactical system, while Karatachi Yagura recognized that he could not destroy the unit as long as Uchiha Yu remained in the fight.
• Uchiha Yu and Orochimaru agreed to try to kill Karatachi Yagura, with Uchiha Yu promising to hold him in place for forty minutes.
• Onishi Kyohei urged Karatachi Yagura to use the Three-Tails’ seal as leverage or release it to escape, and warned that the seal could not fully suppress the beast.
• The Three-Tails strained against Onishi Kyohei’s failing seal, leaving him wasted and near death as he asked Karatachi Yagura to release it.

Karatachi Yagura released Isobu to cover his escape, and Uchiha Yu stayed behind with Miwa Masayo to fight the Three-Tails for the natural energy in its right eye. After Miwa Masayo wounded Isobu and bought time, Uchiha Yu prepared to awaken the Uchiha clan’s ultimate power, injuring his Sharingan in the process.

• Karatachi Yagura freed Isobu from Onishi Kyohei and fled while Orochimaru pursued him.
• Uchiha Yu recognized pure water spirit natural energy in Isobu’s right eye as the key to his breakthrough and summoned Miwa Masayo.
• When Isobu refused to give up his eye, Uchiha Yu and Miwa Masayo fought him, with Miwa Masayo attacking the eye socket while dodging his strikes.
• Miwa Masayo stabbed a kunai into Isobu’s wound, then returned to Uchiha Yu exhausted after buying him time to prepare sage techniques.
• Uchiha Yu explained that he could reach the Uchiha clan’s ultimate power through the principles of divine power, then poured immense ocular strength into his Three-Tomoe Sharingan and began bleeding from his eyes.

Uchiha Yu fought Isobu while blind, using Susanoo and lightning to destroy the Three-Tails’ eye and retrieve the natural-energy-rich fibers hidden inside it. After escaping Isobu’s Tailed Beast Ball and swallowing the fibers, Yu began his final breakthrough on the seafloor, while Miwa Masayo fled to safety.

• Uchiha Yu manifested golden Susanoo and restrained Isobu, but the strain temporarily blinded him.
• Uchiha Yu used lightning to rupture Isobu’s right eye, then searched inside it for the source of the Water Spirit natural energy.
• Isobu flung Yu from its eye socket and detonated a Tailed Beast Ball toward the sea, while Miwa Masayo helped Yu locate the hidden fibers and escape with Flying Thunder God.
• Uchiha Yu swallowed the fibers, recognized that his final breakthrough was beginning, and sent Miwa Masayo away from the seafloor.
• Uchiha Yu’s mental link with Miwa Masayo broke as his breakthrough began, and he felt uneasy.