Chapter Summaries

Uchiha Toko visited Aburame Shibi to discuss Aburame Ryoma’s role in Danzo’s crimes and warned that the clan could be blamed for Ryoma’s actions. He left Shibi facing the need to prove the Aburame Clan’s innocence to the village.

• Uchiha Toko decided to teach Sasuke properly, then went to the Aburame Clan Territory.
• Aburame Shibi summoned clan jonin and personally received Uchiha Toko, who said he had come in a personal capacity.
• Uchiha Toko told Aburame Shibi that the Military Police Force had uncovered evidence of Aburame Ryoma’s high rank and crimes in Root.
• Uchiha Toko showed Aburame Shibi a document listing Ryoma’s crimes, including helping assassinate fellow Konoha ninja and kidnapping children from bloodline-limit clans.
• Aburame Shibi asked what his clan should do, and Uchiha Toko said it needed to show the village its attitude.

Uchiha Douhuan persuaded Aburame Shibi to send clan members to the Military Police Force and revealed evidence of a criminal conspiracy implicating several clans. Shibi realized that joining the effort would serve as the Aburame Clan’s pledge of allegiance to the Uchiha.

• Uchiha Douhuan advised Aburame Shibi that the clan needed to visibly help expose Shimura Danzō’s criminal organization to dispel villagers’ suspicions.
• Aburame Shibi brought Torune forward as the clan’s representative, but Douhuan clarified that he wanted adult ninja and rejected the idea of recruiting a child.
• Douhuan reassured Shibi that he was not like Danzo and urged the Aburame Clan to send a jonin, Special Jonin, and chunin to the Military Police Force.
• Douhuan said he had prepared evidence that would give the Aburame recruits accomplishments and handed Shibi documents obtained from Yamamoto Taro.
• Shibi read the evidence, discovered it implicated the Utatane and Mitokado clans as well as Shimura Danzō’s organization, and understood that Douhuan wanted the Aburame Clan’s allegiance.

Aburame Shibi accepted Uchiha Toko’s offer and pledged the Aburame Clan’s support to the Uchiha. Meanwhile, Kakashi celebrated his retirement from the Anbu with former teammates, then left for the Hatake House carrying a meal for Naruto.

• Aburame Shibi confirmed that the Military Police Force would not recruit children who had not graduated from the Ninja Academy.
• Moved by Uchiha Toko’s promise and recalling the Aburame Clan’s history, Aburame Shibi pledged the clan’s support to the Uchiha.
• Uchiha Toko burned the evidence concerning Aburame Ryoma and told Aburame Shibi to await his orders before formally acting.
• Kakashi hosted sixty former Anbu shinobi at Yakiniku Q to thank them after retiring from the Anbu.
• Kakashi removed his mask and drank with his former teammates, then left without putting it back on and carried a packed meal for Naruto toward the Hatake House.

Uchiha Toko visited Ryūchi Cave to seek Sage Mode and was led by Tagorihime toward its trial. After he saw through her illusion, the White Snake Sage ordered Tagorihime to bring him directly to meet it.

• Uchiha Toko summoned a white snake and used its message to travel to Ryūchi Cave, where Orochimaru and Tagorihime greeted him.
• Tagorihime explained that Uchiha Toko had to pass a trial to meet the White Snake Sage, and Orochimaru departed because he had already failed the path once.
• Tagorihime guessed that Uchiha Toko had come to learn Sage Mode and said the trials tested whether he could adapt to Natural Energy.
• Tagorihime offered Uchiha Toko a meal, but he recognized the setting as an illusion and held Swift Lightning to her neck.
• The illusion vanished, revealing a gloomy cavern and Tagorihime's snake form as Sage Chakra stirred around her.
• The White Snake Sage ordered Tagorihime to bring Uchiha Toko directly to it, and she led him deeper into the cave.

Uchiha Toko reached the White Snake Sage and learned about the Uchiha and Senju clans’ ancestry before undergoing Ryūchi Cave’s Sage Trial. He survived the influx of Natural Energy and successfully mastered Sage Chakra.

• Tagorihime ended the Genjutsu, and she and the other Sage Princesses led Uchiha Toko deeper into Ryūchi Cave.
• Ichikishimahime asked about the petrified limbs lining the cave, and Uchiha Toko identified them as failed trial participants.
• The White Snake Sage told Uchiha Toko that the Uchiha descended from Indra and the Senju and Uzumaki descended from Asura.
• The White Snake Sage bit Uchiha Toko’s wrist and flooded his body with Natural Energy, causing his body to begin turning into a snake and petrifying.
• Uchiha Toko opened his Mangekyō Sharingan, stabilized the Sage Chakra, and reversed the transformation as he attained Sage Mode.

Uchiha Toko mastered Sage Mode in Ryūchi Cave and selected two Sage Arts before returning to the village. Meanwhile, Naruto’s prank on Kakashi led him to discover Kakashi without his mask, and the next day the pair drew strange attention on the Commercial Street.

• Uchiha Toko used the White Snake Sage’s Natural Energy to achieve Sage Mode and received praise for his talent.
• The Three Sage Princesses brought Uchiha Toko to Ryūchi Cave’s Scripture Cave, where he chose a sensory Sage Art and the Yamata Style.
• Uchiha Toko left Ryūchi Cave using the Reverse Summoning Technique.
• Naruto tried to trap Kakashi with a basin of water, but saw that Kakashi was not wearing his mask and was struck on the forehead.
• Kakashi told Naruto they would go shopping the next day, and the two later noticed people on the Commercial Street moving away from them.

Kakashi witnessed the hatred Naruto faced when a dango stall owner drove him away and accused Kakashi of assault. Uchiha Saito’s patrol disproved the claim and took the stall owner away, while Kakashi thanked Saito and left with Naruto.

• A dango stall owner insulted Naruto and ordered him away, prompting Kakashi to reveal his killing intent.
• Naruto asked Kakashi to leave, but the stall owner cried out that Kakashi had attacked him and drew a crowd.
• Uchiha Saito arrived with the Military Police Force and questioned the stall owner’s accusation.
• The patrol found no witnesses to an assault, and Uchiha Saito ordered the illegally placed stall removed and escorted the owner away.
• Kakashi thanked Uchiha Saito, who told him to contact the Military Police Force if another incident occurred.

Uchiha Saito’s patrol helped Naruto after a dango-stall owner bullied him, and Kakashi comforted Naruto and told him the Military Police Force would protect him. In the Hokage Office, Sarutobi Hiruzen rejected the Two Advisors’ demand to restrict Kakashi’s access to Naruto, leaving their dispute unresolved.

• Uchiha Saito praised Sakurai Hideaki for reporting the incident and told his patrol to quietly look after Naruto if they saw him again.
• Kakashi reassured Naruto that the incident was not his fault and told him to seek help from the Military Police Force, then took him to eat ramen.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen heard an Anbu report about the incident on Commercial Street.
• Mitokado Homura and Utatane Koharu confronted Sarutobi Hiruzen about letting Kakashi approach Naruto, citing Kakashi’s Sharingan and the Jinchuriki’s importance.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen refused to restrict Kakashi or discuss turning Naruto into a weapon, and the Two Advisors left angrily.

The Two Advisors plotted to isolate Naruto and undermine Kakashi, while Uchiha Toko practiced Sage Mode and agreed to have the Military Police Force watch over Naruto. The chapter ended with Toko warning Kakashi that the village might soon become unsettled and observing that Kakashi had already prepared for it.

• Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura decided to use tactics like those used against White Fang to stop Kakashi and the Uchiha from influencing Naruto.
• Uchiha Toko practiced Sage Mode and sensed Sasuke training the Lightning Style technique he had taught him.
• Kakashi visited Toko late at night and was startled by the power of Toko’s Sage Mode.
• Kakashi asked Toko to have the Military Police Force look after Naruto, and Toko agreed to give the order the next day.
• Toko warned Kakashi that the village might not remain peaceful and noted that Kakashi seemed to have made preparations.

Uchiha Toko learned that civilian merchants tied to the Utatane and Mitokado families were spreading rumors against Kakashi, and decided to counter them through law. He assigned Uchiha Shisui to draft regulations, claiming the Military Police Force had authority to legislate within the village.

• Uchiha Toko ordered Military Police Force captains to show Naruto more consideration, and patrol officers began protecting him from hostile villagers.
• Villagers spread rumors that Kakashi was a dangerous former Anbu who had been driven out, and Might Guy defended him before Kakashi urged him to let it go.
• Uchiha Toko received an investigation report identifying civilian merchants in businesses owned by the Utatane and Mitokado families as the source of the rumors.
• Uchiha Toko showed Uchiha Shisui the report and argued that the village needed to stop the slander against Kakashi.
• Uchiha Toko said the Military Police Force had legislative authority granted by the Second Hokage and tasked Uchiha Shisui with drafting laws to curb the rumors.

Uchiha Toko revised a law against spreading rumors after showing Shisui the truth behind the White Fang Incident, then brought the harsher provisions to Sarutobi Hiruzen for review. Hiruzen questioned the punishments, while Toko defended them as necessary to protect the honor of village heroes.

• Shisui submitted a draft law prescribing fines and verbal reprimands, and Uchiha Toko told him the punishments were too light.
• Uchiha Toko showed Shisui a confidential file revealing the truth behind the White Fang Incident and explained that the law would protect heroes from slander.
• Uchiha Toko revised the law to include detention for serious rumor-spreading and up to six months in prison for those who started the rumors.
• Uchiha Toko had Uchiha Inaho prepare to post the new provisions throughout the village and took the legal text to Sarutobi Hiruzen for review.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen called the punishments too severe, and Uchiha Toko defended them by invoking the Will of Fire and the need to protect heroes' honor.

Uchiha Toko persuaded Sarutobi Hiruzen to enforce the new law against rumors targeting Kakashi Hatake, and the Military Police Force launched a sweeping arrest operation. Their investigation traced the rumors to areas with businesses owned by the Mitokado and Utatane families.

• Uchiha Toko invoked the Will of Fire to win Nara Shikaku's agreement, and Sarutobi Hiruzen approved enforcing the new law with restraint.
• The Military Police Force posted notices, but most villagers ignored the law and continued spreading rumors about Kakashi Hatake.
• Kakashi Hatake endured the villagers' hostility, while Naruto grew angry at the rumors and their treatment of Kakashi.
• Uchiha Toko rallied the Military Police Force to investigate the rumors, and Uchiha Fugaku joined the operation.
• The Military Police Force arrested more than two thousand villagers in one morning, then found that the leads pointed to areas with Mitokado and Utatane family businesses.

The Military Police Force arrested hundreds of people at businesses tied to the Utatane and Mitokado Clans over a rumor-spreading campaign, while Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura planned a public protest and appealed to Hiruzen. The arrests overwhelmed the force’s prison and interrogation staff, leaving Uchiha Toko’s team to review a mountain of records.

• Uchiha Inaho led the Commoner Ninja in sealing off businesses in both clans’ territories and arresting people named in witness testimony.
• A suspect identified Utatane Mei as the person who ordered the rumor-spreading, and Inaho beat him into submission before arresting him.
• Riemaru caught Mitokado Masayasu as he tried to escape, and Uchiha Toko had the detainees locked up for interrogation.
• Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura learned that the Military Police Force had arrested at least four hundred people and decided to organize a protest while appealing to Hiruzen.
• Uchiha Toko, Uchiha Fugaku, the veteran jonin, and the new division captains reviewed interrogation reports as the force struggled to process the detainees.

Villagers surrounded the Military Police Force and demanded the release of its prisoners, while Uchiha Toko tried to manage the escalating crisis. After Shisui’s attempt to negotiate failed, Toko ordered most of the force to assemble, preparing to take stronger measures.

• Uchiha Inaho reported that villagers had gathered outside the Military Police Force, and Uchiha Toko sent Saito’s squads to control the situation without using violence first.
• Shisui asked to negotiate with the villagers, and Uchiha Toko trusted him to handle the crowd while he returned to the office with Uchiha Fugaku.
• Uchiha Toko promised the force two months’ salary as a bonus and offered each Commoner Ninja a ninjutsu from the clan’s Ninjutsu Library.
• Shisui tried to calm the nearly two thousand villagers, but they threw rotten food at him until Uchiha Saito pulled him behind the cordon.
• Sakurai Hideaki reported Shisui’s failure to Uchiha Toko, who called the villagers rioters and ordered all nonessential interrogation staff to gather in the meeting room.

Uchiha Toko ordered the Military Police Force to impose a village-wide curfew and suppress the protest outside its headquarters, promising the force bonuses and ninjutsu scrolls. The force attacked the crowd, leaving protesters beaten and bloodied as others fled.

• Uchiha Toko blamed foreign forces for inciting the villagers and assigned divisions to impose a curfew, suppress the protest, or remain on standby.
• Uchiha Toko promised the Military Police Force two months' salary as a bonus and new ninjutsu scrolls, rallying the members to carry out his orders.
• Uchiha Tieyou led nearly a hundred Military Police Force members out of headquarters and ordered them to charge the crowd with Police Batons.
• Watanabe Masashi attacked the protesters, driven by gratitude to Toko and the Military Police Force for improving his family's life.
• The Military Police Force beat protesters at the front of the crowd, while fleeing villagers were knocked down and struck until many were bleeding.

The Military Police Force cracked down on rioters across Konoha under a village-wide lockdown, while Uchiha Saito rescued an injured officer and captured a private ninja of the Utatane Clan. The force continued pursuing the remaining troublemakers and raiding homes that sheltered them.

• Uchiha Inaho and the Military Police Force chased rioters through Konoha and ordered uninvolved villagers to stay indoors.
• Nagai Seiichi told two Special Jonin not to interfere with the Military Police Force and to report the crackdown to the Hokage.
• Sakurai Hideaki and Fujiwara Yoki fought rioters in an alley, where a private ninja of the Utatane Clan wounded Fujiwara with shuriken and attacked him with Fire Style: Flame Bullet.
• Uchiha Saito arrived in time to deflect the fireball, captured the Utatane Clan ninja, and ordered Sakurai Hideaki to pursue the fleeing group.
• The Military Police Force imposed a village-wide lockdown and stormed homes where residents had hidden rioters.

The Uchiha-led Military Police Force cracked down on villagers who sheltered thugs spreading rumors about Hatake Kakashi, while Uchiha Toko stayed at headquarters. Sarutobi Hiruzen sent Anbu to control the streets, but most of them allowed the crackdown to continue, leaving the village tense.

• Naruto saw the Military Police Force beating villagers and was taken home by his Anbu guards after Uchiha Taen stopped him from wandering during lockdown.
• Uchiha Toko remained at Military Police Force headquarters, where he drank tea with Uchiha Fugaku and Aburame Shibi instead of joining the operation.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen heard reports of the street chaos, learned that Uchiha Toko had not left headquarters, and sent Kinoe-ni to invite him to the Hokage Building.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen ordered Anbu to control the situation and called for the Ino-Shika-Cho clan heads and the Jonin Squad as reinforcements.
• Anbu confronted Military Police Force members, learned they were targeting thugs who had spread rumors about Hatake Kakashi, and mostly stood aside while warning them not to kill anyone.

Nara Shikaku kept the Ino-Shika-Cho from confronting the Military Police Force by accepting a standoff with the Inuzuka and Aburame Clans. Sarutobi Hiruzen saw that Uchiha Toko had built broad support while staying within the rules, and ordered the Jonin Squad to reinforce the Anbu.

• Inuzuka Gaku and Aburame Shibi blocked Nara Shikaku, Yamanaka Inoichi, and Akimichi Choza from leaving their Clan Territory, citing the village lockdown.
• Nara Shikaku decided the Ino-Shika-Cho should avoid fighting and wait out the crisis beside the Inuzuka and Aburame Clans.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen used the Telescope Technique and saw the Anbu idling in the streets and the standoff outside the Ino-Shika-Cho Clan Territory.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen ordered the last Anbu in the Hokage Office to mobilize the village's Jonin Squad to support the Anbu.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen recognized that Uchiha Toko had gathered substantial support without breaking the rules, but had shown restraint.

Kakashi arrived with Shiranui Genma and former allies of the Fourth Hokage to stop the Jonin Squad from confronting the Military Police Force. He sent the Jonin Squad home and headed to the Hokage Building to explain the incident to the Third Hokage.

• Shiranui Genma and nearly a hundred ninja blocked Sarutobi Koji and the Jonin Squad from leaving to suppress the Military Police Force.
• Shiranui Genma refused to let the Jonin Squad pass, and Namiashi Raidō prepared to fight them in defense of Kakashi.
• Kakashi and Might Guy arrived and halted the standoff, and Kakashi thanked the Fourth Hokage's former subordinates for supporting him.
• Kakashi told the Jonin Squad to end the matter and said he would explain it to the Third Hokage, prompting Sarutobi Koji and the others to leave.
• Kakashi asked Might Guy to guard the area and went to the Hokage Building.

Uchiha Toko’s trap exposed Shisui to evidence of corruption among Konoha’s leaders, driving him into an emotional crisis. Toko calmed him and admitted that the village’s stability had forced him to keep the evidence under wraps.

• As the Military Police Force captured the remaining thugs, Uchiha Toko stayed in Fugaku’s office and detained the Anbu sent to summon him.
• Shisui arrived at Toko’s office alone, found the documents Toko had deliberately left there, and read them.
• Toko returned to find Shisui overcome by the evidence, with bloody tears and surging Eye Power.
• When Shisui asked if the documents were false, Toko said they came from Orochimaru’s base, and Shisui broke down.
• Toko sealed Shisui’s Chakra and waited for him to calm down before offering him tea.
• Toko cursed Konoha’s corrupt leaders and told Shisui he had shelved the evidence to preserve the village’s stability.