Chapter Summaries

Uchiha Toko explained to Shisui how the loss of his uncle shaped his Mangekyo Dojutsu and his resolve to change the world. After evidence linked the Utatane, Mitokado, and Shimura Clans to crimes against the village, Toko ordered arrests and went to the Hokage Building.

• Shisui thanked Uchiha Toko for stopping him from using Kotoamatsukami on Uchiha Fugaku and potentially endangering the Uchiha Clan.
• Uchiha Toko told Shisui how his uncle Uchiha Kaito's death led him to believe the world was real and to fight for those he cared about, awakening Mizuhanome and the Eighty Calamity Gods.
• Aburame Shibi reported that members of the Utatane and Mitokado Clans had incited the thugs and organized the unrest.
• Uchiha Toko ordered Aburame Shibi and the Sixth Division to arrest suspects in the Utatane, Mitokado, and Shimura Clan territories, with Shisui assisting and treating resistance as treason.
• Uchiha Toko prepared to go to the Hokage Building, while Uchiha Fugaku stayed behind to distribute bonuses and Ninjutsu to the Military Police Force.

Uchiha Toko and Kakashi confronted Sarutobi Hiruzen and the two advisors over the Military Police Force’s martial law and arrests. Toko revealed that his forces were arresting clan members implicated in spreading rumors, while Shisui’s Susanoo overwhelmed their resistance.

• Uchiha Toko and Kakashi entered the Hokage Office together, and Toko used Susanoo to bring over chairs before sitting down.
• Uchiha Toko explained that the Military Police Force had imposed martial law to suppress rioters, and Sarutobi Hiruzen accepted his account and ordered the two advisors to leave.
• Uchiha Toko revealed that he had sent people to arrest criminals from the clans of Utatane Koharu, Mitokado Homura, and Shimura Danzō.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen used the Crystal Ball to watch Uchiha Shisui lead the operation, where Susanoo defeated the clans’ attackers.
• Uchiha Toko told the two advisors that evidence linked them to spreading rumors about the village’s heroes.

Uchiha Toko and Kakashi pressured Sarutobi Hiruzen to investigate the Utatane and Mitokado Clans for spreading rumors about Kakashi, and Hiruzen ordered the Two Advisors detained. Hiruzen then asked Toko to let the matter rest, but Toko brought up evidence from Orochimaru’s base and warned that Shisui had seen a document about it.

• Uchiha Toko told Sarutobi Hiruzen that the Military Police Force had traced the rumors about Kakashi to the Utatane and Mitokado Clans and requested that the Two Advisors be questioned.
• Kakashi backed Toko’s demand for an explanation, arguing that the rumors could undermine the village ninja’s trust in the Will of Fire.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen ordered Anbu to take Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura to the Military Police Force for investigation, and they went without resisting.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen asked Kakashi and Toko to let the matter end and promised to clear up the rumors, while Toko agreed to treat the Two Advisors with consideration.
• Uchiha Toko asked about the findings from Orochimaru’s base, then claimed Shisui had accidentally seen a document and might start asking questions if the matter was delayed.

Sarutobi Hiruzen agreed with Uchiha Toko to begin a joint Anbu and Military Police Force investigation into the Three Clans' collusion with Orochimaru. Back at headquarters, Toko assigned Uchiha Shisui to oversee the investigation and warned him not to betray the clan again.

• Sarutobi Hiruzen recognized that concealing the matter would destroy Shisui's trust and agreed to launch a joint investigation with the Military Police Force and Anbu.
• Uchiha Toko and Kakashi left the Hokage Building, and Toko invited Kakashi's old friends to a banquet at the Uchiha Clan Territory.
• Uchiha Toko returned to the brightly lit Military Police Force headquarters and praised the officers working late while promising them late-night snacks.
• Uchiha Shisui reported that everyone on the arrest list had been captured, and Toko tasked him with leading the follow-up investigation alongside the Anbu.
• Uchiha Toko warned Shisui not to let the clan down again.

Kakashi brought Naruto to meet former members of the Fourth's Shadow Guard and told him they had served his father. Naruto learned that Kakashi had invented the story about his father's enemies, then ran ahead toward the Uchiha Clan Territory without learning his father's identity.

• Uchiha Toko treated the Military Police Force's overtime workers to ramen and sent them home to rest.
• Kakashi woke Naruto, picked up Yamato, and took them toward the Uchiha Clan Territory.
• Kakashi introduced Naruto to Shiranui Genma, Namiashi Raidō, and other former subordinates of the Fourth, who told Naruto they had known his father.
• Naruto asked who his father was, but Shiranui Genma teased him and Kakashi said the story about his father's enemies had been made up.
• Naruto pulled free and ran toward the Uchiha Clan Territory, and Kakashi assured Shiranui Genma that the Uchiha were allies.

Naruto got lost in the Uchiha Clan Territory and found himself welcomed by its residents before Sasuke led him to the clan banquet. There, Kakashi, Uchiha Toko, Fugaku, and Mikoto encouraged Naruto to visit and let Mikoto help care for him.

• Naruto wandered through the Uchiha Clan Territory and was surprised that its residents treated him kindly.
• Naruto ran into Sasuke, who invited him to follow along to the clan banquet.
• Mikoto met Naruto and recognized him as the son of her best friend, while Sasuke introduced him as his classmate.
• Kakashi told Naruto he could visit Fugaku, Mikoto, or Uchiha Toko when Kakashi was away on a mission.
• Fugaku and Kakashi encouraged Mikoto to openly help care for Naruto.

Uchiha Toko welcomed the Inuzuka and Aburame clans and offered each clan eighty million ryo to support the Military Police Force. After Kakashi questioned how the Uchiha could afford his lavish spending, Toko hinted that a mission to the Land of Waves would show him how to make money.

• Uchiha Toko greeted Inuzuka Gaku and Inuzuka Kotsu, praised Inuzuka Fū's work, and proposed paying the Inuzuka Clan eighty million ryo annually to breed Ninja Dogs for the Military Police Force.
• Inuzuka Gaku realized Toko was offering the clan far more than the dogs would cost, and accepted the funding.
• Uchiha Toko offered Aburame Shibi an initial eighty million ryo to develop the Aburame Clan's reconnaissance insects.
• Aburame Shibi entered the banquet hall stunned by Toko's promised investment, while Kakashi wondered how the Uchiha could afford such generosity.
• Uchiha Toko told Kakashi to watch for a mission to the Land of Waves if he wanted to learn how to make money.

Uchiha Toko hosted a lavish banquet to celebrate the allies who supported the Military Police Force during the lockdown incident, and Kakashi helped raise a toast to the Will of Fire. Afterward, Toko had Yamato build a special prison for the Two Advisors and invited Kakashi to work there.

• Guy arrived at the Uchiha Clan banquet in his green suit, and Kakashi greeted him.
• Uchiha Toko welcomed the guests and thanked them for attending, while the gathered allies toasted him and Kakashi.
• Toko praised the Military Police Force’s actions and linked their unity against the conspiracy to the Will of Fire, and Kakashi proposed a toast to it.
• After the banquet, Toko took Kakashi and Yamato to the Naka River and gave Yamato a blueprint for a special prison.
• Yamato used Wood Style to begin building the prison, which Toko intended for the Two Advisors.
• Toko asked Kakashi to work at the new prison, and Kakashi agreed as long as he could arrive late.

After visiting Kakashi at night, Sarutobi Hiruzen discussed his retirement from the Anbu and proposed that Kakashi become the Fifth Hokage. Kakashi rejected the idea, doubting his strength, while Sarutobi offered to fund the reforging of White Fang.

• Uchiha Toko paid Yamato for completing the Naka River Grand Hotel, and Kakashi encouraged him to accept the reward.
• Kakashi returned home and found Naruto eating instant noodles with Sarutobi Hiruzen, who had come to visit.
• Kakashi put Naruto to sleep with a Genjutsu so he and Sarutobi could talk in private.
• Sarutobi apologized for failing to intervene sooner in the incident that had caused Kakashi resentment.
• Sarutobi proposed recommending Kakashi to the Feudal Lord as the Fifth Hokage, but Kakashi refused, saying he lacked the strength for the position.
• Sarutobi suggested Kakashi resume the Hatake House's Sword Technique and offered village funds to reforge White Fang.

Kakashi declined Sarutobi Hiruzen’s push for him to become Fifth Hokage but accepted a scroll of the Multiple Shadow Clone Technique for Naruto and learned that Jiraiya would return to the village. As the investigation into the child kidnappings began, the Military Police Force arrested Jiraiya after catching him spying on a hot spring.

• Kakashi rejected Sarutobi Hiruzen’s proposal that he run for Fifth Hokage, accepted the Multiple Shadow Clone Technique scroll for Naruto, and agreed to join the Military Police Force.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen told Kakashi that Jiraiya would return to the village and eventually teach Naruto another technique.
• Three days after the village lockdown, Kakashi took up his post in the Military Police Force, and Uchiha Toko formed a Joint Investigation Team to investigate the child kidnappings.
• Uchiha Toko ordered the team to punish members of the Three Clans who were involved, seize assets where appropriate, and compensate the victims’ families.
• Military Police Force patrols caught Jiraiya spying on an open-air hot spring and brought him in, prompting Uchiha Toko to leave the investigation meeting.

Uchiha Toko and Kakashi hosted Jiraiya after he was arrested for peeping, and they asked why he had returned to the village. Jiraiya explained the prophecy that a Child of Prophecy would determine the Ninja World's future, but he had not yet said whether he had found the child.

• Uchiha Toko released Jiraiya from his handcuffs and moved him to a guarded room at the new prison by the Naka River.
• After the Joint Investigation Team meeting, Uchiha Toko brought Kakashi, food, and wine to visit Jiraiya.
• Jiraiya told Kakashi that he had returned because the Old Man had repeatedly urged him to come back to the village.
• Uchiha Toko asked Jiraiya about his years outside the village, and Jiraiya described the Great Toad Sage's prophecy of a child who would decide whether the Ninja World faced peace or destruction.
• Kakashi asked Jiraiya whether he had found the Child of Prophecy.

Jiraiya returned to the village but was detained for seven days by the Military Police Force after being caught peeping. Uchiha Itachi returned from inspecting clan businesses and, alarmed by villagers’ fear of the Uchiha crest, began investigating rumors about the Military Police Force.

• Uchiha Toko detained Jiraiya for seven days under village regulations, while Kakashi left with Toko and Jiraiya asked them to notify the Third of his return.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen learned of Jiraiya’s arrest and decided not to bail him out.
• Uchiha Itachi returned to the village after completing Fūgaku’s mission and noticed villagers feared the Uchiha clan crest on his clothes.
• Itachi used the Transformation Jutsu to question villagers discreetly after they refused to explain their behavior.
• A stall owner warned Itachi that the Military Police Force had beaten villagers while protecting a murderous maniac and had taken people away who had not returned.

Uchiha Itachi returned to the clan and mistook Uchiha Saito's harsh extra training of Fujiwara Yoki for cruelty, then learned Sasuke was studying under Uchiha Toko and hurried to intervene. At Uchiha Toko's home, Sasuke successfully improved his Lightning Ball, but Toko struggled to find another technique Sasuke could learn with his current Chakra reserves.

• Uchiha Itachi questioned villagers about the clan's actions, then saw Uchiha Saito train Fujiwara Yoki and assumed the clan had become beyond saving.
• After Uchiha Itachi left, Uchiha Saito praised Fujiwara Yoki's effort, ordered him to collect his stipend and buy medicinal bath ingredients, and assigned him more training.
• Uchiha Itachi learned from Mikoto that Sasuke was studying under Uchiha Toko and rushed out to confront the situation.
• Sasuke formed a stronger Lightning Ball, guided it into the sky, and received praise from Uchiha Toko.
• Sasuke asked what he would learn next, but Uchiha Toko realized Sasuke lacked the Chakra reserves for his available offensive ninjutsu.

Uchiha Toko gave Sasuke the first part of his Thunder-Stepping Body Flicker Technique and sent him home with Itachi, who grew concerned about what Sasuke had learned from his teacher. After hearing Sasuke praise the Military Police Force's punishment of villagers, Itachi suspected Toko's teachings had influenced him in troubling ways.

• Uchiha Toko gave Sasuke a scroll containing the introductory taijutsu for his Thunder-Stepping Body Flicker Technique and told him to keep practicing the Lightning Ball.
• Uchiha Itachi arrived to take Sasuke home, and Sasuke excitedly told him that Uchiha Toko had taught him ninjutsu and principles for living.
• Mikoto served dinner and mentioned that Fugaku was away on a major Military Police Force mission; Sasuke also said Mikoto's lunchbox had impressed Naruto.
• Sasuke explained Uchiha Toko's textbook to Itachi, whose concern grew as he heard its teachings.
• Itachi asked Sasuke about a recent village incident, and Sasuke said the Military Police Force had rightly punished the villagers.

Sasuke defended the Military Police Force’s punishment of villagers who spread rumors about Kakashi, using Uchiha Toko’s lessons to challenge Itachi’s ideas about the Will of Fire and a ninja’s duty to endure. Their disagreement remained unresolved, and Itachi went to visit Shisui.

• Sasuke told Itachi that the Military Police Force had been right to punish villagers who continued spreading rumors about Kakashi after being warned.
• Itachi argued that the clan should not use violence against civilians, but Sasuke defended punishment as necessary to uphold the law.
• Sasuke said protecting Kakashi and other village heroes upheld the Will of Fire, leaving Itachi unable to refute his reasoning.
• Sasuke asked whether Itachi could accept being slandered after sacrificing himself for the village, and Itachi admitted he could not answer.
• Itachi ended the conversation and left Sasuke’s room, then went to Shisui’s home and was welcomed inside.

Shisui explained the village’s recent turmoil to Itachi and argued that Douhuan had been working to integrate the Uchiha clan, but Itachi accused Shisui of abandoning their dream and left. Alone at the Naka River cliff, Itachi reconsidered the clan-village conflict but reaffirmed his faith in the Will of Fire.

• Shisui told Itachi he now understood that Uchiha Toko had taken his eye to protect him, the clan, and the village.
• Shisui recounted the recent events in the village and defended Douhuan’s efforts, arguing that the Military Police Force had to remain impartial.
• Itachi accused Shisui of being brainwashed and forgetting their dream, then stormed out.
• Shisui returned to his study and decided to ask Douhuan whether Itachi could learn the village’s hidden truths.
• Itachi wandered to the Naka River cliff, reflected on the clan-village relationship, and reaffirmed that the Will of Fire could not be wrong.

Uchiha Itachi moved out of the Uchiha home and returned to Anbu duty, while Fugaku accepted that he could not change his son's decision. Itachi began monitoring a suspicious Lightning Country caravan as the investigation into the three clans' collusion with Orochimaru advanced.

• Itachi told Fugaku he was moving out, and Fugaku recalled that his visions showed the clan prospering without Itachi.
• Sasuke found Itachi's room empty the next morning, and Fugaku told him Itachi would be busy with Anbu work.
• Itachi reported to Sarutobi Hiruzen and declined the offer to return to the Military Police Force, saying he would rent a place in the village.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen assigned Itachi to monitor a suspicious merchant caravan from the Land of Lightning and help uncover spies in the village.
• Anbu interrogated captured members of the Shimura, Utatane, and Mitokado Clans, and the Military Police Force began seizing clan assets to compensate victims.

Uchiha Toko pursued the investigation into crimes committed by the Utatane, Mitokado, and Shimura clans, while Itachi disappeared after rejecting Toko’s warning. As the investigation neared completion, Toko went to deliver compensation to the Hyuga Clan and met Hyuga Hiashi.

• Shisui failed to find Itachi after searching through the night, and Toko decided not to pursue him.
• The investigation exposed victims from smaller bloodline clans, secured confessions from more than a dozen senior Utatane and Mitokado members, and greatly reduced the three clans’ assets.
• Toko thanked the investigation team and assigned them to distribute the final seized assets to victims’ families.
• Toko set aside property deeds for Hyuga Clan victims and went to deliver them to Hyuga Hiashi.
• Hiashi welcomed Toko into the Hyuga residence after learning the Military Police Force captain had come on official business.

Uchiha Toko delivered compensation to Hyuga Hiashi and secured the Hyuga Clan’s neutrality in the struggle between the village’s factions. On his way to Yakiniku Q, Kakashi confronted him over the victim list, but Toko defended the scheme and joked that Kakashi could not inherit a share.

• Uchiha Toko gave Hyuga Hiashi a list of Hyuga Branch Family members who had died during the Third Shinobi World War and deeds to confiscated properties as compensation.
• Hyuga Hiashi verified the list and recognized that the valuable properties were also a benefit offered in exchange for the Hyuga Clan staying out of the recent lockdown incident.
• Hyuga Hiashi thanked Uchiha Toko and the Third, making clear that the Hyuga Clan would remain neutral between the two factions.
• Uchiha Toko met Kakashi, who accused him of forging a victim list to take part of the compensation.
• Uchiha Toko argued that the listed victims had died or disappeared and that the criminals had confessed, then joked that Kakashi could not receive a share because the Hatake House passed down through one heir.

Uchiha Toko and Kakashi traveled to the Land of Waves on a mission, then secretly infiltrated Gato’s manor to confront the tycoon. The chapter ended with Kakashi opening Gato’s safe and finding the promised gold.

• Kakashi told Uchiha Toko about a mission to deal with rogue Kirigakure ninja near the Land of Waves, and Uchiha Toko agreed to join him.
• Uchiha Toko and Kakashi traveled with four Special Jonin to the Land of Waves, then used Shadow Clones to separate from the team.
• Uchiha Toko removed his Forehead Protector and led Kakashi to Gato’s manor, where they knocked out the guards.
• Uchiha Toko woke Gato while Kakashi used Genjutsu to put the woman beside him to sleep.
• Gato offered the pair the gold in his safe in exchange for sparing him, and Kakashi opened it using the password Gato gave them.