Chapter Summaries

Kushina revealed to Naruto that his father was Fourth Hokage Namikaze Minato and that Minato and Kushina had sealed the Nine-Tails inside him to protect Konoha. Senyo instructed Kakashi to use Naruto's discovery to pressure Sarutobi Hiruzen, while Black Zetsu and Tobi discussed forcing Obito to advance the Akatsuki Organization's plan.

• Kushina told Naruto that Minato created the Rasengan for her and revealed that he was Naruto's father, prompting Naruto to feel anger toward Sarutobi Hiruzen.
• Kushina promised to take Naruto to see Minato after dinner, and Naruto ate while trying to contain his anger.
• Senyo told Kakashi to report that Naruto knew his parentage once Sasuke learned Chidori, so the news would pressure Sarutobi Hiruzen.
• Black Zetsu said Nagato remained under his control and criticized Obito for being too cautious to advance their plan.
• Tobi reported that their targets were being watched, and Black Zetsu concluded they had to act as the Akatsuki Organization.

Kushina brought Naruto into his Spiritual World to reveal that Minato was his father, but Naruto confronted Minato over his painful childhood and refused to forgive him. Kushina comforted Naruto afterward, and he decided he did not want to see Minato for now.

• Kushina took Naruto into his Spiritual World and released Minato's Chakra from the seal.
• Minato revealed himself as Naruto's father, and Naruto accused him of abandoning him to suffer under Sarutobi Hiruzen's care.
• Naruto punched Minato and told him he no longer needed him because Kushina was already there for him.
• Naruto vanished from the Spiritual World, and Kushina comforted Minato as he blamed himself for hurting their son.
• Kushina returned to Naruto, who apologized for rejecting Minato but said he did not want to see him for now.

Senyo taught Karin Fuinjutsu, unlocked Sage Art from Minato’s bond, and tested Sage Mode with a clone. He realized his clones could store Sage Chakra for later use and continued planning against Sarutobi Hiruzen.

• Senyo taught Karin how to speed up Fuinjutsu with Chakra, then sent her home to practice.
• Senyo unlocked Minato’s third bond reward and obtained Sage Art, though he found it slow to gather Sage Chakra.
• Senyo and his clone gathered Sage Chakra for an hour, activated Sage Mode, and tested their enhanced abilities in a fight.
• Senyo and his clone used Fire Release: Hōzuki Lantern, drawing nearby Uchiha clansmen before Senyo told them to disperse.
• Senyo realized his clones could store Sage Chakra as a supply, then checked the bond rewards for Kurama and Naruto while continuing his plan to pressure Sarutobi Hiruzen.

Jiraiya received intelligence about Master Zen Kong’s latest actions and traveled to Amegakure to negotiate with the Akatsuki Organization about the Nine-Tails. Meanwhile, Zetsu captured Iwagakure’s Ishizawa, and Jiraiya agreed to wait for Konan, who was away from the village.

• Jiraiya read a message from the Third Hokage about Master Zen Kong extracting Shukaku from Gaara and considered the danger posed by Uchiha Senyo’s possible rise to Hokage.
• Jiraiya sent a reply and traveled to the Land of Rain to discuss the Nine-Tails with the Akatsuki Organization.
• Ishizawa’s Iwagakure team defeated a Sunagakure scout, but Zetsu attacked them with Wood Release and captured Ishizawa.
• A dying Iwagakure ninja sent up a signal flare and wrote a code identifying the Akatsuki Organization and its Wood Release user.
• Jiraiya met Kakuzu in Amegakure and agreed to wait until Konan returned so they could discuss business.

Senyo and Konan learned that Obito and Zetsu were abducting Kekkei Genkai users to support Hiruko’s Chimera Technique, and they moved to protect the Uchiha and expose the rogue pair. After Konan rejected Jiraiya’s attempt to reconnect, she told him their bond as master and disciple was over.

• Senyo learned that Zetsu had captured an Iwagakure Steel Release user and that Obito had taken a Dark Release user, then explained Hiruko’s Chimera Technique to Konan.
• Senyo ordered Uchiha clan members with Three-Tomoe Sharingan to return to the clan grounds, while Konan agreed to help locate Obito and Zetsu.
• After Sunagakure, Iwagakure, and Kumogakure demanded answers in Amegakure, Konan told them the attackers had betrayed the Akatsuki Organization and offered information about them for sale.
• Konan met Jiraiya after the other villages left, but Kakuzu blocked him from approaching her.
• Konan reminded Jiraiya that he had tried to stop her after learning Danzo killed Nagato and Yahiko, and told him their bond as master and disciple was over.

Jiraiya met Konan and Master Zen Kong to discuss transferring the Nine-Tails to a new Jinchuriki. Konan demanded fifty billion from Konoha, leaving Jiraiya to face the price and the threat that Naruto would come under Uchiha influence.

• Konan rejected Jiraiya's attempt to justify his past actions and redirected their meeting to business.
• Jiraiya asked Master Zen Kong about extracting the Nine-Tails without harming Naruto, and Zen Kong said a strong-willed adult and a suitable confinement technique were needed.
• Master Zen Kong demonstrated his knowledge of the Four Symbols Seal and said it could suppress the Nine-Tails.
• Konan demanded fifty billion from Konoha for Master Zen Kong's help, and Jiraiya called the price impossible.
• Konan warned that Naruto's teacher was Uchiha Itachi and predicted Naruto would devote himself to the Uchiha, eventually driving Sarutobi Hiruzen from power.

Konan explained the Akatsuki Organization’s plan to profit from Konoha’s struggle over Naruto and tasked Kakuzu with negotiating a secret deal. Kakuzu agreed to approach Konoha’s higher-ups for at least ten billion while Konan prepared to wait for Sarutobi Hiruzen to make the next move.

• Jiraiya questioned Konan about Naruto’s past, but she rejected his request to trade the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki at the demanded price and left him to decide.
• Kakuzu asked Konan why she had demanded fifty billion, and she explained that agreeing too quickly could provoke Uchiha Senyo over Naruto.
• Konan told Kakuzu to approach Konoha’s higher-ups privately with Master Zen Kong and seek at least ten billion, promising them one billion if they closed the deal.
• Konan warned Kakuzu that the Uchiha Clan might hunt him and said the Akatsuki Organization would deny authorizing his actions.
• Konan revealed that Pain would later take the new Nine-Tails Jinchuriki from the Sarutobi Clan and give the child to the Uchiha Clan as compensation.
• Konan told Kakuzu to wait for Sarutobi Hiruzen to grow anxious as Naruto’s ties with the Uchiha Clan strengthened, and Kakuzu agreed to handle the negotiations.

Kurama Yakumo’s Ido fully matured, allowing her to become a ninja and sense unusually strong souls. Senyo began selecting Uchiha candidates for a secret, deadly mission offering the chance to awaken the Mangekyō Sharingan, and ordered everyone to submit a will within three days.

• Kurama Yakumo tested Ido’s new abilities and reported that she could travel three kilometers away and accurately sense Soul Strength.
• Yakumo told Senyo that someone in his home had abnormal Soul Strength, prompting his curiosity.
• Senyo gathered the Three-Tomoe Uchiha clan members and revealed that a dangerous secret mission offered the Mangekyō Sharingan as its reward.
• The clan members agreed to the selection despite the risk, and Senyo had Yakumo assess them while Kabuto Yakushi collected their blood.
• Senyo told the clan members to write and submit their wills within three days.

Obito and Zetsu were exposed and expelled from the Akatsuki, then found Hiruko’s Sharingan plans blocked by the Uchiha clan’s recall. Obito decided to give Hiruko a Sharingan so they could control him, while planning to confront Kakashi himself.

• Obito confronted Zetsu over exposing their identities, but Zetsu argued that the leak forced Obito to pursue Nagato and reclaim the Rinnegan.
• Tobi reported that all Uchiha clan members with Three-Tomoe Sharingan had returned to the clan, derailing Obito’s plan to provide Hiruko with targets.
• Obito and Zetsu visited Hiruko at Mount Sumeru, where Hiruko revealed he could use a Puppet Curse to control Kakashi and obtain his single Sharingan.
• Obito decided to give Hiruko a Sharingan so Zetsu could try to place a control seal in it.
• Obito refused to accompany Hiruko to find Kakashi and said he would go himself to take back his eye.

Senyo prepared to test the Uchiha clan's Soul Strength to estimate who could survive awakening the Mangekyō Sharingan. After Yakumo assessed the last person, Zhiyu, Senyo and Yakumo left home to continue the experiment.

• Senyo reviewed the safeguards he had arranged and explained that the Uchiha's attempts to awaken the Mangekyō Sharingan had historically caused a ninety-percent death rate.
• Senyo compared clan members' Soul Strength readings, finding that Uchiha Mayumi scored 1.9 while Uchiha Kiyohiko scored around 1.8, and noted that Shihu's vitality and Soul Strength had declined.
• Senyo brought Kurama Yakumo to his home to assess Zhiyu's Soul Strength and introduced her to Zhiyu and Ruri.
• Senyo told Zhiyu that the returned Uchiha elites were undergoing selection for a special mission and that he might stay at Orochimaru's place.
• Yakumo relieved Zhiyu's headache with her ability, then Senyo and Yakumo left the house to continue their testing.

Senyo and Orochimaru staged a brutal betrayal to push Zhiyu into awakening her Mangekyō Sharingan. Zhiyu awakened a space-warping ability, but the ordeal left her gravely injured and unconscious.

• Yakumo reported that Zhiyu's Soul Strength had reached 1.9, surpassing Mayumi's, and Senyo discussed how to stimulate her with Orochimaru.
• Senyo and Orochimaru staged a scenario in which Senyo appeared to steal Ruri's eyes and kill her, but Zhiyu initially dismissed it as a dream.
• When the scene repeated, Zhiyu believed it was real and charged Senyo, who kicked her hard enough to break her breastbone and ribs.
• Zhiyu shielded Ruri from Senyo's Great Fireball Jutsu and awakened her Mangekyō Sharingan, vanishing with Ruri before stabbing Senyo's clone.
• Orochimaru and Senyo treated Zhiyu's severe injuries, and Orochimaru concluded that Soul Strength near 2 was enough to awaken the Mangekyō Sharingan.

Zhiyu woke in the Uchiha Hospital and learned that Senyo had staged Ruri’s apparent death to awaken her Mangekyō Sharingan. After learning about Zhiyu’s new abilities and confirming that Ruri was recovering, Senyo visited Orochimaru’s laboratory to begin fusing Ruri’s eye genes with his own.

• Zhiyu woke beside Ruri, whose legs had been reattached, and learned that her apparent death had been staged with a clone made by Orochimaru.
• Zhiyu confronted Senyo, who explained that the ordeal had awakened her Mangekyō Sharingan and that he would find another way to evolve it.
• Zhiyu described her ocular techniques, Boundless and First Isle, which let her enter a space where others could not see or touch her and bring along someone she had touched.
• Senyo told Zhiyu to help Ruri recover and reassured her that she and Ruri could remain family; Zhiyu returned to care for her.
• Orochimaru confirmed that Ruri’s cloned body was compatible and injected tissue from Ruri’s eyes into Senyo’s eyes to begin a genetic fusion experiment.

Jiraiya returned to Konoha and, after hearing the Third Hokage’s account of Naruto’s situation and concerns about the Uchiha, decided to stay and check on him. In Sunagakure, Rasa sealed Shukaku after another Jinchuriki test subject died, then suspended the search while the village repaired the damage.

• Jiraiya told the Third Hokage that Konan had demanded fifty billion to help replace Naruto as the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki.
• The Third Hokage persuaded Jiraiya that Naruto’s difficult upbringing had been necessary to protect him and warned that the Uchiha were influencing him.
• Jiraiya decided to remain in Konoha and visit Naruto, while the Third Hokage sent Sekishu to investigate the Akatsuki Organization and Kakuzu.
• Shukaku went berserk in Sunagakure, and Rasa defeated and sealed him using Gold Dust and the Sealing Team.
• Rasa learned that the latest Jinchuriki test subject had died after seven days and ordered the search suspended while Sunagakure repaired the damage.

At the training ground, Itachi and Senyo corrected Sasuke’s and Naruto’s fighting skills, while Senyo used genjutsu to make Naruto condemn the Third Hokage. Jiraiya confronted Senyo over what he was teaching Naruto, and Naruto looked at both Jiraiya and the Third Hokage with disgust and hatred.

• Itachi defeated Sasuke’s Chidori and warned him to strengthen his fundamentals and not rely on a technique he could use only twice.
• Senyo outmaneuvered Naruto’s shadow clones and Rasengan, then told him to practice taijutsu and improve his fundamentals.
• Senyo used genjutsu to prompt Naruto to thank him for revealing his father’s identity and the Third Hokage’s supposed misdeeds, and Naruto promised to kill Sarutobi Hiruzen.
• Jiraiya confronted Senyo for turning Naruto against the Third Hokage, but Senyo accused Sarutobi Hiruzen of neglecting Naruto and called him filthy.
• Jiraiya defended the Third Hokage as Naruto showed hatred toward him and Jiraiya, prompting Jiraiya to suspect that Senyo had brainwashed Naruto.

Senyo defended Naruto against Jiraiya’s demand that he forgive the Third Hokage, exposing Jiraiya’s neglect and misconduct until Naruto and Sasuke became disgusted with him. Senyo overwhelmed Jiraiya with his Chakra and warned that he would repay the Third Hokage for the Uchiha Clan’s suffering.

• Jiraiya urged Naruto to forgive the Third Hokage, but Senyo rebuked him for preaching kindness without understanding Naruto’s hardships.
• Jiraiya revealed that he had been Minato’s teacher, but Senyo challenged him for neglecting Naruto after Minato’s death.
• Senyo described Jiraiya’s years of peeping on women instead of helping Naruto, prompting Naruto and Sasuke to condemn him.
• Jiraiya accused Senyo of turning Naruto against him and the Third Hokage, while Senyo asserted his authority and superior strength.
• Senyo’s Chakra pressure forced Jiraiya to stagger back, and Jiraiya left after exchanging threats with Senyo.

Senyo revived Shisui using Karin’s vitality and prepared to revive Miroku as well. Shisui woke to learn that five years had passed and that Senyo had become the Uchiha Clan’s new Clan Head, while Miroku agreed to be revived despite concerns about Moryo regaining strength.

• Senyo and Orochimaru prepared Shisui’s preserved body for revival, and Karin volunteered to supply vitality again.
• Senyo used the Dragon Life Reincarnation Technique to restore Shisui’s heartbeat while Karin received Water of Life and suffered only mild discomfort.
• Shisui woke and recognized Senyo, who rebuked him for nearly causing the Uchiha Clan’s destruction through his self-righteousness.
• Fugaku and Yanhe began explaining the events of the past five years and Itachi’s mental condition to Shisui.
• Senyo told Miroku that she could be revived, and she agreed despite worrying that Moryo would quickly regain strength.

Senyo restored Miroku to her body, then berated the resurrected Shisui for his past choices and ordered him to beat up Itachi. Meanwhile, Moryo sensed that the Miko’s power had returned and chose to keep working with Kazuma while searching south toward Konoha.

• Senyo channeled his life force into Miroku, whose soul returned to her body, while Karin’s bite marks resisted his healing technique.
• Orochimaru estimated that Karin would grow another four years, and Senyo sent her to rest before taking her out the next day.
• Senyo scolded Shisui for fleeing Danzo and killing himself, then made him admit he would not act cowardly again.
• Senyo ordered Shisui to beat up Itachi and told Fugaku to keep Shisui’s resurrection secret.
• Yomi felt Moryo’s chakra surge, and Moryo concluded that the Miko’s power had been inherited and directed them to continue cooperating with the Uchiha while looking south toward Konoha.

Shisui returned to life and confronted Itachi over his past decision to destroy the Uchiha Clan, then asked him to explain what had happened while he was gone. Meanwhile, Kakashi trained to prepare for Obito, but Hiruko’s eye appeared and compelled him to leave at dawn as Senyo’s clone followed.

• Fugaku took Sasuke away and left Shisui alone with Itachi, whom Shisui recognized and repeatedly slapped for agreeing to wipe out the clan.
• Shisui told Itachi that Senyo had resurrected him, and Itachi welcomed him back before beginning to recount the clan’s history.
• Kakashi studied Hatake Sakumo’s swordsmanship notes and practiced the Spirit Gathering technique while resolving to capture Obito himself.
• At dawn, Hiruko’s eye appeared beside Kakashi’s bed and was reflected on his forehead, causing him to get dressed and leave under its influence.
• Senyo’s clone, watching Kakashi, recognized that Hiruko was making his move and followed him.

Kakashi broke free of Hiruko’s Puppet Curse and confronted Obito, recognizing him as the masked man. Their fight ended with Obito declaring that he would change the world, while Kakashi demanded answers for the deaths Obito had caused.

• Senyo followed Kakashi out of Konoha and saw Obito approach him in the forest.
• Kakashi regained consciousness, struck at Obito, and identified him despite his mask.
• Obito removed his mask, and Kakashi said Senyo had already revealed his identity.
• Kakashi fought Obito with his short blade and nearly struck his neck before Obito turned intangible.
• Obito explained that Rin had chosen to die to protect Konoha, but Kakashi accused him of causing the Nine-Tails’ rampage and killing Minato and Kushina.
• Obito said the ninja system and the world had driven him to despair, and declared that he would change the world.

Kakashi fought Obito, who used his Sharingan to immobilize him and gouged out and crushed Kakashi’s eye. Senyo intervened with black flames, but Obito escaped the flames, and Senyo mocked him for destroying the Sharingan.

• Kakashi rejected Obito’s claims and challenged him to answer for his crimes.
• Kakashi and Obito clashed, but Obito countered Kakashi’s attacks with his intangibility and tricks.
• Obito used the Sharingan to paralyze Kakashi and crushed Kakashi’s eye as Senyo’s black flames struck him.
• Obito escaped the flames by leaving behind a burning White Zetsu shell, and Senyo taunted him.