Chapter Summaries

Uchiha Kiyoshi awakened his Sharingan while fighting Ryo, gaining sharper perception and increased strength. With reinforcements approaching and Sarutobi Saku badly wounded, Kiyoshi prepared to finish the Amegakure Jonin quickly.

• Ryo sent a distress signal to nearby Amegakure squads, but Uchiha Kiyoshi struck him hard enough to injure him.
• Ryo kept his distance from Kiyoshi, while Nawaki held the advantage and Sarutobi Saku neared his limit against six Chunin.
• Kiyoshi released his suppression of the Sharingan and intensified his sense of danger to trigger its awakening.
• Kiyoshi awakened a Sharingan with one visible tomoe, improving his vision, physical condition, and Chakra.
• Ryo recognized Kiyoshi's Sharingan, and Kiyoshi prepared to kill him quickly and leave with Nawaki and Sarutobi Saku.

Uchiha Kiyoshi used his newly activated Sharingan to kill Ryo and help Nawaki defeat another Rain ninja, then treated Sarutobi Saku and led their retreat. When Rain ninja reinforcements caught up, Kiyoshi stayed behind and launched a fierce attack before vanishing with the Earth Movement Technique.

• Uchiha Kiyoshi used kunai to trick Ryo, appeared behind him, and killed him with a blow and a kunai strike to the neck.
• Uchiha Kiyoshi killed Sarutobi Saku's opponent, helped Nawaki defeat his own opponent, and treated Sarutobi Saku's serious wounds.
• Uchiha Kiyoshi and Nawaki supported Sarutobi Saku as they retreated toward the Land of Fire, but Kiyoshi sensed fifteen Rain ninja approaching and stayed behind to delay them.
• Uchiha Kiyoshi used Earth Spear to injure the Rain ninja formation, then charged in and killed or disabled several of them with earthen spears.
• As the Rain ninja began preparing to counter him, Uchiha Kiyoshi used the Earth Movement Technique and vanished.

Uchiha Kiyoshi escaped the Rain Shinobi and reunited with Nawaki and Sarutobi Saku, using a concealment Barrier to help them flee the Rain Country. After three days, Team 3 returned safely to Konoha, though Sarutobi Saku’s injuries slowed them down.

• Uchiha Kiyoshi tunneled away from the Rain Shinobi, hid his Chakra signature with a Barrier, and headed toward Nawaki’s group.
• The Rain Shinobi lost Uchiha Kiyoshi’s trail and ordered their forces to intensify the pursuit of his companions.
• Nawaki dragged the injured Sarutobi Saku onward while Rain Shinobi closed in behind them.
• Uchiha Kiyoshi ambushed seven Rain Shinobi pursuing Nawaki and Sarutobi Saku, killing them or leaving them badly injured.
• Uchiha Kiyoshi brought Nawaki and Sarutobi Saku inside his Barrier and led them toward the border.
• Team 3 escaped the Rain Country and returned to Konoha three days later, with Uchiha Kiyoshi treating Sarutobi Saku along the way.

Uchiha Kiyoshi and Nawaki reported their findings about Amegakure’s military buildup to the Third Hokage, who ordered further investigation and became wary of Kiyoshi after learning he had awakened the Sharingan and killed many shinobi. Kiyoshi left confused by the Hokage’s changed attitude and focused on what he had gained from the mission.

• Uchiha Kiyoshi and Nawaki delivered their mission report, describing Amegakure’s bases near Nanyun Town and their encounter with a squad of at least twenty shinobi, including a Special Jonin.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen suspected Amegakure was preparing for war and privately worried that Kiyoshi’s Sharingan had affected his mind after he killed nearly twenty enemies.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen classified the mission as A-rank and sent a cat-masked Anbu shinobi to verify the intelligence and investigate the battle.
• Uchiha Kiyoshi noticed the Third Hokage’s cooler attitude but could not understand the reason, so he set aside his concerns and considered the mission’s gains.

Uchiha Kiyoshi assessed his newly awakened Sharingan and planned to expand his fighting tactics while mastering its One Tomoe form. He went to the Uchiha Archives, where Uchiha Yu gave him access to the second floor to study Sharingan and genjutsu.

• Uchiha Kiyoshi concluded that his Substitution Body Flicker made him safer and that he needed multiple tactics after his recent success against an Amegakure ninja.
• Uchiha Kiyoshi trained with the Body Nourishment Technique and noticed that his physical improvements were continuing after awakening the Sharingan.
• Uchiha Kiyoshi inspected his One Tomoe Sharingan, recognized its pull toward further upgrades and violence, and decided to master it before advancing.
• Uchiha Kiyoshi visited the Archives to seek genjutsu materials and Sharingan usage notes.
• Uchiha Yu examined Uchiha Kiyoshi's Sharingan and gave him a token to access the second floor, directing him to the relevant materials.

Uchiha Kiyoshi borrowed a comprehensive Genjutsu manual and began studying how Genjutsu and the Sharingan worked. As he trained at home, Uchiha Kai learned that Kiyoshi had awakened the Sharingan, while Kiyoshi planned to pursue Yin Release and Genjutsu without relying solely on his eyes.

• Uchiha Kiyoshi chose and borrowed First Steps in Genjutsu, deciding it contained enough material to study for now.
• Uchiha Kiyoshi returned home to train while Sarutobi Saku recovered in the hospital and Team 3 paused its missions.
• Uchiha Yu sent Uchiha Kai a report that Uchiha Kiyoshi had awakened the Sharingan.
• Uchiha Kai wondered whether Kiyoshi's teammate had been injured and whether a crisis had triggered the awakening, then returned to his work.
• Uchiha Kiyoshi studied the manual and concluded that Genjutsu relied on Yin Release, so he planned to develop his understanding of it without depending on the Sharingan.

Uchiha Kiyoshi studied Yin Release and successfully activated the Spiritual Energy in his chakra, then turned his attention to his Sharingan. He planned to let his body adapt to Yin Release chakra so he could refine it naturally in the future.

• Uchiha Kiyoshi reviewed how Yin Release related to Genjutsu and reasoned that it could affect chakra flow and, at higher levels, reality itself.
• Uchiha Kiyoshi decided to study both ordinary Yin Release chakra and the Sharingan's Dojutsu Power to better understand each.
• Uchiha Kiyoshi focused on the Spiritual Energy in chakra and tried to activate its illusory traits by transmitting illusion-related intent.
• Uchiha Kiyoshi successfully produced chakra with an illusory, chilling quality and recognized that he had begun cultivating Yin Release.
• Uchiha Kiyoshi dismissed the idea of specializing in Genjutsu and planned to let his body adapt to Yin Release chakra before studying his Sharingan.

Uchiha Kiyoshi studied the perception and movement-reading abilities of his newly awakened Sharingan and decided to train himself to adjust to its vision. At the Uchiha Clan forest, Uchiha Fugaku challenged him to a fair fight, which they agreed to hold after Kiyoshi had a few days to adapt.

• Uchiha Kiyoshi activated his One Tomoe Sharingan and examined its enhanced vision and perception.
• Uchiha Kiyoshi recognized that he needed to practice matching what he saw through the Sharingan with his own reaction speed.
• Uchiha Kiyoshi met Uchiha Fugaku training in the forest, and Fugaku confirmed that he had awakened his own Sharingan.
• Uchiha Fugaku challenged Uchiha Kiyoshi to a fight, citing his mixed One Tomoe and Two Tomoe eyes as a counterbalance to Kiyoshi's extra year of experience.
• Uchiha Kiyoshi agreed to fight after a few days of adapting to his changing body, then practiced throwing kunai with his Sharingan active.

Uchiha Kiyoshi trained with his newly awakened Sharingan and refined his combat style, then defeated Uchiha Fugaku in a spar. Fugaku accepted Kiyoshi as a goal and began training harder, while Nawaki continued working toward mastering a B-rank Ninjutsu.

• Uchiha Kiyoshi tested his Sharingan's passive visual boost by throwing kunai at distant targets and killing a bird for dinner.
• Uchiha Kiyoshi practiced coordinating his movements with the Sharingan's slowed view and adapted to different degrees of slowdown.
• Nawaki enjoyed a break from missions, made progress on a B-rank Ninjutsu, and set a goal to master it that week.
• Uchiha Kiyoshi sparred with Uchiha Fugaku and suppressed him throughout the fight while remaining nearly uninjured.
• Uchiha Kai explained Uchiha Kiyoshi's advantages to Uchiha Fugaku, who made Kiyoshi his goal and adopted many of his combat techniques.

Rain Country’s invasion of the Land of Iron raised fears of a wider war, and Uchiha Kiyoshi urged his team to focus on training while the village assessed the situation. During practice, Nawaki demonstrated that he had mastered the Great Waterfall Technique, while Sarutobi Saku’s recovery had made him a stronger fighter.

• Sarutobi Saku told Uchiha Kiyoshi and Nawaki that Rain Country had defeated the Land of Iron after Mifune confronted Hanzo of the Salamander and received an antidote in exchange for his life being spared.
• Uchiha Kiyoshi reasoned that Rain Country wanted the Land of Iron’s resources and weapons industry, but explained that the defeated country could still supply other villages under an agreement.
• Uchiha Kiyoshi decided that Team 3 should avoid taking missions unless assigned and train hard as the prospect of war grew nearer.
• Uchiha Kiyoshi trained alone while Sarutobi Saku and Nawaki sparred, and Sarutobi Saku gradually gained the upper hand as his strength and combat skills returned.
• Nawaki broke away from Sarutobi Saku, used Water Arrow Jutsu and a Shadow Clone, then unleashed Great Waterfall Technique to attack and flood the surrounding ground.
• Uchiha Kiyoshi realized that Nawaki had finally mastered Great Waterfall Technique and could use it to change the terrain for his Water Release.

Nawaki and Sarutobi Saku fought to a draw, showing how much both had improved, while Uchiha Kiyoshi continued his own training under triple gravity. As war approached, Kiyoshi decided to develop a stronger Gravity Barrier so his Body Forging Technique could keep progressing.

• Nawaki surprised Sarutobi Saku by using the Great Waterfall Technique, but their battle ended in a draw.
• Sarutobi Saku and Uchiha Kiyoshi warned Nawaki that the technique took too long to use reliably in a real fight, and Nawaki accepted their criticism.
• Uchiha Kiyoshi trained with his perfected Body Forging Technique under triple gravity after his Sharingan had improved his physical abilities.
• Uchiha Kiyoshi used the Body Nourishment Technique to recover and considered whether it could help with Mangekyō Sharingan side effects, but he lacked the knowledge to experiment safely on the head.
• With war approaching, Uchiha Kiyoshi decided to study a stronger Gravity Barrier, considering a version that could provide ten times normal gravity.

Uchiha Kiyoshi worked on a new method to raise the Gravity Barrier’s force to ten times gravity. Meanwhile, Konoha’s leaders decided to send troops against Rain Country, and Danzo pressed Hiruzen to expand Root and recruit clan shinobi, including Uchiha.

• Uchiha Kiyoshi planned to strengthen gravity-related combinations using stacked enhancement combinations and protective barriers after ordinary stacking had reached only triple gravity.
• Danzo argued that Rain Country’s growing military power and invasion of the Land of Iron threatened Konoha and urged the village to prepare for war.
• The Third Hokage agreed with Danzo and ordered Konoha to march on Rain Country in three days, beginning with preliminary work at the front lines.
• After the other officials left, Danzo urged Hiruzen to expand Root and recruit shinobi from the clans.
• Hiruzen rejected Danzo’s proposal, defended the clans and refused to target the Uchiha Clan, then reminded Danzo that he was the Hokage.

After Konoha declared war on the Rain Country, Uchiha Kiyoshi considered how the conflict could help him advance from Special Jonin strength toward becoming a Jonin. He concluded that war might serve to cultivate high-level shinobi and wished he could stay somewhere safe.

• Uchiha Kiyoshi heard that Konoha had declared war and praised Third Hokage's decisive response.
• Konoha announced that it would punish the Rain Country for attacking the Land of Iron and violating the peace agreement.
• Konoha's shinobi prepared for war as training grounds and streets emptied and Ninja Tool Shops ran short of supplies.
• Uchiha Kiyoshi reviewed the gap between Special Jonin and Jonin, concluding that the latter required a transformation of spirit and will.
• Uchiha Kiyoshi saw the war as a chance to advance quickly, then worried that villages might start wars to cultivate stronger shinobi.

As war approached, Uchiha Kiyoshi used Team 3’s month in Konoha to strengthen himself and prepare his teammates for the battlefield. After Danzo’s attempt to seize him sparked a clan dispute and forced Danzo’s temporary confinement, Team 3 received orders to deploy.

• Uchiha Kiyoshi trained with Team 3 for a month, improving his sevenfold Gravity Barrier, learning Earth and Fire Release techniques, and devising tactics to help his teammates survive.
• Uchiha Kiyoshi refused Root’s recruitment, and Danzo sent two shinobi to take him by force the next day.
• Uchiha Kiyoshi escaped and complained to Uchiha Kai, who brought Danzo’s unauthorized seizure attempt before the Hokage with support from other clans.
• The Third Hokage confined Danzo to his residence and barred him from Root affairs for the time being, while Danzo compensated the Uchiha Clan with Wind Release techniques.
• Team 3 received orders to head to the battlefield, with their final training session scheduled for that day and their departure set for the next morning.

Team 3 arrived at Konoha’s front-line base, where Orochimaru explained that the fighting was still in a probing stage and a larger war depended on the stances of the Wind Country and the Land of Earth. Uchiha Kiyoshi urged Nawaki to take the dangers of war seriously, and the chapter ended with the team learning that open battle had not yet begun.

• Uchiha Kiyoshi noticed Nara Shikaku, Akimichi Choza, and Yamanaka Inoichi among the squads departing for the front.
• Team 3 traveled cautiously along its familiar route and reached Konoha’s base without encountering Rain Shinobi.
• Team 3 reported to the Personnel Department, where Orochimaru greeted his students and handled their arrival.
• Nawaki boasted that he would earn merit and become Hokage, so Uchiha Kiyoshi and Sarutobi Saku warned him about the cruelty and danger of war.
• Orochimaru told Uchiha Kiyoshi that both sides were probing each other and that a full war awaited the Wind Country and the Land of Earth to declare their positions.

After a month of exhausting rescue missions, Team 3 learned that the Land of Wind and the Land of Earth had entered the war against the Rain Country, while Sunagakure had stationed forces near Konoha's camp. Orochimaru assigned Team 3 an S-Rank mission to investigate Sunagakure's deployment, which could earn them promotion to Elite Chunin.

• Team 3 completed more than forty rescue missions in a month, improving their speed, endurance, and Chakra while Nawaki complained about the exhausting work.
• Sarutobi Saku told Uchiha Kiyoshi and Nawaki that the Land of Wind and the Land of Earth had declared war on the Rain Country, and that Sunagakure had stationed shinobi near Konoha's camp.
• Orochimaru explained that Sunagakure's nearby camp suggested a future threat to Konoha and brought Team 3 along on an investigation mission.
• Orochimaru revealed that the S-Rank mission could promote Team 3 to at least Elite Chunin, and Nawaki celebrated the chance to earn merit.

Orochimaru led Team 3 on a mission near the Sunagakure encampment, where they were discovered and forced to flee while he fought two Sand Village Jonin. The chapter ended with Orochimaru’s combined Ninjutsu heavily wounding both Jonin as Uchiha Kiyoshi and the others escaped.

• Uchiha Kiyoshi remembered that Nawaki had once fallen into an Explosive Tag pit during a mission with Orochimaru, then reassured himself that Nawaki could recognize the trap.
• Team 3 encountered a Sand Village patrol, and reinforcements arrived after the patrol called for help.
• Orochimaru ordered Uchiha Kiyoshi, Nawaki, and Sarutobi Saku to escape while he held off two Sand Village Jonin.
• Uchiha Kiyoshi used several Earth Release techniques to help the three of them break through the pursuing Sand Village shinobi.
• Orochimaru combined Earth, Water, and Wind Release techniques, heavily injuring the two Jonin and leaving the others stunned by the blast.

Uchiha Kiyoshi tried to protect Nawaki and Sarutobi Saku as they fled, but Root and Sand Village forces ambushed them. He sent his friends ahead and prepared to face the attackers alone, while a new idea about absorbing natural energy surfaced.

• Uchiha Kiyoshi held back the Sand Village pursuers with explosive-tag kunai and Fire Phoenix, then caught up with Nawaki and Sarutobi Saku.
• Uchiha Kiyoshi sensed an attack ahead and warned Nawaki and Sarutobi Saku, who defended against four fire dragons as four masked Root ninja appeared.
• Sand Village reinforcements caught up, leaving Uchiha Kiyoshi surrounded by seven Sand Village ninja and four Root Special Jonin.
• Uchiha Kiyoshi ordered Nawaki and Sarutobi Saku to escape while he held off the strongest enemies with Great Dragon Fire.
• Uchiha Kiyoshi took a Soldier Pill and used his Body Nourishment Technique to replenish his Chakra as he prepared to fight the Root ninja.
• Uchiha Kiyoshi wondered whether he could separate energy from food and absorb natural energy directly, but postponed the idea as the battle loomed.

Uchiha Kiyoshi defeated the four Root ninja and rushed to find Nawaki and Sarutobi Saku, but arrived too late to save Sarutobi Saku. As a massive explosion engulfed Nawaki’s location, Uchiha Kiyoshi’s grief and fury awakened his three-tomoe Sharingan.

• Uchiha Kiyoshi used Earth Release and close combat to kill all four Root ninja while the Sand ninja were trapped behind his Earth-Style Wall.
• Uchiha Kiyoshi left to find Nawaki and Sarutobi Saku after realizing Root had set up further ambushes ahead.
• Nawaki and Sarutobi Saku split up to escape four pursuing Root ninja, and Uchiha Kiyoshi chose to follow Sarutobi Saku first.
• Uchiha Kiyoshi found Sarutobi Saku dead, stored his corpse in a scroll, and sensed Nawaki fighting nearby.
• Uchiha Kiyoshi rushed toward Nawaki but was caught in a massive explosion that made him believe his friends were dead.
• Uchiha Kiyoshi’s Sharingan evolved to three tomoe as he became consumed by the urge to kill.

After Nawaki died in an explosive-tag trap, Uchiha Kiyoshi awakened his Three-Tomoe Sharingan and slaughtered the Root shinobi and Kirigakure rogue ninja at the scene. He recognized Danzo’s involvement but, despite Orochimaru’s warning that killing an Anbu shinobi could be used against him, chose not to endure the injustice.

• Uchiha Kiyoshi awakened his Three-Tomoe Sharingan after the deaths of his teammates and killed the Root shinobi with Great Dragon Fire.
• Uchiha Kiyoshi killed the three Kirigakure rogue ninja using his Sharingan, Body Flicker, Genjutsu, and Earth Release.
• Uchiha Kiyoshi found Nawaki’s body destroyed by the explosion and suspected Danzo had orchestrated the attack to obtain his organs.
• Orochimaru offered Uchiha Kiyoshi condolences and warned him that Konoha could punish him for killing an Anbu shinobi.
• Uchiha Kiyoshi rejected the idea of enduring Danzo’s actions and declared that he would not follow a ninja creed.