Chapter Summaries

Uchiha Toko asked Jiraiya to find Tsunade and persuade her to return to Konoha with a medical ninja training plan, while also sending him after Orochimaru. Hyuga Hiashi resolved the clan's crisis and arranged for Neji, Hinata, and Hanabi to return home, leaving Neji reluctant to leave the Uchiha household.

• Orochimaru told Uchiha Toko that attempts to combine Hashirama Cells, Sage Chakra, and Mangekyo Eye Power had killed all his test subjects, and Toko told him to remain in Ryūchi Cave until he could secure him a new identity.
• Uchiha Toko visited Jiraiya, who was still drinking in his room, and asked him to take a medical ninja training proposal to Tsunade and persuade her to return to the village.
• Jiraiya accepted the mission and agreed to pursue Orochimaru after Uchiha Toko told him Orochimaru had assassinated the Feudal Lord.
• Hyuga Hiashi told Uchiha Toko that he had settled the clan's affairs and found a way to remove the Caged Bird seal, then asked to bring Neji, Hinata, and Hanabi home.
• Uchiha Toko approved an apprenticeship ceremony, while Neji reflected that life with the Uchiha Clan had felt more welcoming than life in the Hyuga Clan.

Neji learned the truth behind his father’s death, had his Caged Bird removed, and became Uchiha Toko’s disciple. As Konoha grew into the Land of Fire’s capital, Tsunade returned to meet Uchiha Toko but said she did not intend to stay in the village.

• Hyuga Hiashi gave Neji his father Hizashi’s letter, explained that Uchiha Toko wanted him as a disciple, and removed Neji’s Caged Bird.
• Uchiha Toko formally accepted Neji as his disciple and told him to decide his future goals before beginning his true instruction.
• Yamato oversaw construction of a palace complex in Konoha as nobles and merchants moved into the new capital, raising prices and causing clashes with villagers.
• Uchiha Toko welcomed the nobles’ conflicts with troublesome civilians and planned to use tangible kunai to curb merchants and nobles who hoarded their profits.
• Tsunade arrived at the Hokage Building with Shizune and told Uchiha Toko she had returned to see him but did not plan to remain in the village.

Uchiha Toko tried to persuade Tsunade to return to Konoha as dean of its medical academy, then asked the Slug Sage about his ancestor Uchiha Asato. The Slug Sage gave Toko a sealed scroll left for his descendants and praised his resemblance to Asato, while Tsunade agreed to stay after Toko joined her for a drink.

• Toko explained that Konoha would fund his proposed medical-ninja training program and offered Tsunade the academy dean position, but she asked for more time to consider it.
• Toko asked Tsunade to summon the Slug Sage and sought guidance about Asato's use of Natural Energy to address Mangekyō Sharingan blindness.
• The Slug Sage said it could not explain how to resolve Toko's eye problem, but retrieved a scroll Asato had left for his Uchiha descendants.
• The Slug Sage described Asato as more gifted than Hashirama and Madara, and said Toko reminded it of Asato in his youth.
• Tsunade poured drinks for herself and Toko, promising to accept the dean position if he drank with her, and Toko raised a glass to thank her for saving his life.

Uchiha Toko opened an inheritance scroll from the Slug Sage and learned that his ancestor had discovered a dangerous human Sage Mode that could evolve the Mangekyō Sharingan. He recognized the sealed Sage Chakra’s energy ratio as the golden ratio and realized that synthesizing it would require delicate control.

• Tsunade agreed to become dean of Konoha Medical Academy and signed Uchiha Toko’s proposal after eating and drinking with him in the Hokage Office.
• Uchiha Toko returned home, entered Sage Mode, checked that Black Zetsu was not nearby, and opened the scroll from the Slug Sage.
• Uchiha Toko used Mangekyō eye power and Sage Chakra to unlock the scroll, which revealed his ancestor’s warning about Mangekyō blindness and the limits of Natural Energy’s healing.
• Uchiha Toko read that a human-body-compatible Sage Mode could evolve the Mangekyō, but that an imbalance during synthesis could be fatal and allow only one attempt.
• Uchiha Toko examined the ancestor’s sealed Sage Chakra and sensed that its energy ratios followed the golden ratio, making it difficult to synthesize precisely.

Uchiha Toko perfected a human-compatible Sage Chakra and began preparing a medical academy at the Ninja Academy. Meanwhile, Konoha established the Three Purities Education Squad to retrain former riot troublemakers, and its instructors faced defiance from a former Kabuki District bodyguard.

• Uchiha Toko used Future Selection to find the only way to refine Sage Chakra successfully, and the new chakra began restoring his Mangekyō Sharingan as it approached the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan.
• Uchiha Toko and Tsunade visited the Ninja Academy, where he spoke to the students about the Will of Fire and announced plans for a medical academy.
• Tsunade selected thirty students from nearly seven hundred, including Sakura Haruno, and the Konoha Medical Academy began operating with funds confiscated from Abe Taiichi's faction.
• After Kakashi brought the last nobles from the Capital of Fire to Konoha, he organized a training schedule for former riot troublemakers, and Fujiwara Yoki led the Three Purities Education Squad through punishing drills.
• Sakurai Hideaki took charge of a special squad of ringleaders, but Yamamoto Ryota mocked him and offered to arrange girls for him.

Sakurai Hideaki and the Military Police Force put the Three Purities Education Squad through harsh discipline training, while Guy enthusiastically joined their daily runs. Later, Uchiha Toko and Kakashi celebrated the village’s changing fortunes and learned that Naruto and Sasuke had formed a mischievous alliance at the Ninja Academy.

• Sakurai Hideaki punished Yamamoto Ryota and the other troublemakers, then ordered them to crawl back to their dormitory and follow a strict training routine.
• Sanada Naoki drilled the Three Purities Education Squad in green uniforms, and Sakurai Hideaki told them he had been ordered to reform them for six months.
• Guy returned from inspecting the border forces and joined the squad’s run, shouting about youth as he ran alongside them.
• Inuzuka Gaku and Aburame Shibi told Uchiha Toko that their clans had taken over the Utatane and Mitokado clans’ assets and grown in influence.
• Kakashi changed the subject from marriage talk by praising the Three Purities Education Squad’s reputation, then explained that Naruto and Sasuke had formed the Seven Stars Alliance and kept skipping class to play pranks.

Uchiha Toko confronted court officials over Konoha’s soaring prices and imposed a seventy-percent tax on big merchants, exposing officials’ corruption to force their support. The court accepted the new tax law after Uchiha Toko ordered Murayama Takuu’s arrest.

• The Seven Stars Alliance dominated the Ninja Academy and regularly skipped class, while their parents approved of the boys’ friendship.
• Six months later, Uchiha Toko’s Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan had been born, and Konoha had rapidly developed into the Land of Fire’s new capital.
• Uchiha Toko raised complaints about rising prices at court, but Miura Kazuo and other officials dismissed them as normal market conditions.
• Uchiha Toko proposed a seventy-percent tax on big merchants, distinguishing them from ordinary shopkeepers and street vendors.
• Uchiha Toko exposed Murayama Takuu’s bribery and ordered the guards to seize him after Miura Kazuo confirmed that the law required execution.
• Miura Kazuo and the other officials endorsed Uchiha Toko’s tax law and agreed that the old commercial tax was outdated.

Uchiha Toko settled new tax policies and ordered ministers to bring Konoha’s prices back to normal, while Kakashi forced grain merchants to lower their prices. After learning that Princess Chinna backed the merchants, Toko sent Kakashi to confront her and agreed that Naruto could become his personal disciple.

• Uchiha Toko finalized tax reductions for merchants who built factories and warned ministers to restore normal prices within a month.
• Kakashi and the Military Police Force caught grain merchants who had shut their businesses, then used the Naka River and a ninjutsu demonstration to force them to agree to lower prices.
• Kakashi told Uchiha Toko that Princess Chinna was the most powerful noble backing the merchants, and Toko ordered him to confront her.
• Kakashi suggested that Naruto become Toko’s personal disciple, and Toko agreed.

After hearing that merchants planned to resist his seventy percent tax, Uchiha Toko ordered a crackdown on Yokokawa Yūhiro, the gathering’s organizer. Yokokawa’s businesses were crippled, and Uchiha Toko invited him to a dinner banquet.

• Uchiha Toko learned from Uchiha Feidao that merchants had gathered to oppose the new tax law, after Gato left their meeting and reported their remarks.
• Uchiha Toko ordered Uchiha Inaho to seal Yokokawa Yūhiro’s businesses and investigate him over unpaid taxes.
• Uchiha Inaho confronted Yokokawa Yūhiro, who refused to pay and was taken to the Military Police Force on suspicion of plotting rebellion.
• After Yokokawa Yūhiro was released, the Military Police Force continued targeting his companies while Gato intercepted his business deals.
• Uchiha Toko invited Yokokawa Yūhiro to a dinner banquet after the Yokokawa Group suffered a week of setbacks.

Uchiha Toko forced resistant merchants to accept his tax and investment demands, then deceived Black Zetsu by pretending to embrace the Eye of the Moon Plan. He learned of Madara Uchiha’s influence over the Three-Tails’ Jinchuriki and left planning to use the scheme to throw his enemies into chaos while the Land of Fire developed.

• Yokokawa Yūhiro attended Uchiha Toko’s dinner and discovered that the Military Police Force had targeted merchants who resisted the seventy percent tax, while Gato’s allies profited from their losses.
• Uchiha Toko asserted his unlimited authority, pressured Yokokawa Yūhiro and the other resistant merchants to invest in the Land of Fire, and made them kneel and agree.
• Uchiha Toko went to Naka Shrine, revealed his Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan and Sage Mode to Black Zetsu, and pretended to accept the Infinite Tsukuyomi as a path to peace.
• Black Zetsu explained that Madara Uchiha had left an Eye Power seal in the Three-Tails and offered to teach Uchiha Toko how to control it through the Fourth Mizukage.
• Uchiha Toko planned to use the deception to plunge his enemies into chaos while the Land of Fire continued developing.

Uchiha Toko received White Zetsu and explained his plan to unite the Ninja World before visiting Kirigakure in disguise. There, he began inciting ordinary ninja against the bloodline clans at a tavern, while Mei Terumi and Black Zetsu watched.

• Black Zetsu gave Uchiha Toko control of five White Zetsu, and Uchiha Toko said he would unite the Ninja World and gather the Tailed Beasts.
• Uchiha Toko sent his Shadow Clone to Kirigakure with A Fei, and Black Zetsu followed them underground.
• Uchiha Toko examined Kirigakure's violence and questioned Black Zetsu about the Bloody Mist Village policy, then proposed stirring up conflict from the bottom up.
• Uchiha Toko entered a tavern frequented by ordinary ninja and recognized Mei Terumi serving behind the bar.
• Uchiha Toko denounced the bloodline clans for controlling ninjutsu and sending ordinary ninja to die, prompting the tavern crowd to agree that the clans were responsible.

Uchiha Toko incited commoner ninjas in Kirigakure to attack the Kaguya Clan, then used Karatachi Yagura to release the rioters and let the village’s tensions fester. Back home, Toko considered stirring conflict in the Land of Grass and asked Tsunade about surviving members of the Uzumaki Clan.

• Uchiha Toko roused tavern patrons to attack the bloodline clans, and a crowd followed his Shadow Clone to surround the Kaguya Clan’s territory.
• Uchiha Toko staged his clone’s death after it was struck by a Kaguya ninja, provoking a bloody battle between the commoner ninjas and the clan.
• Uchiha Toko controlled Karatachi Yagura to release the captured rioters and dismiss the Kaguya Clan’s demand for an explanation.
• Uchiha Toko explained his Four-Tier Tactics to Black Zetsu and decided to leave Kirigakure in chaos.
• Uchiha Toko studied the Ninja World map, considered intervening in the Land of Grass, and noted that the Land of Whirlpools would fall in two weeks.
• Uchiha Toko asked Tsunade whether she knew of surviving Uzumaki Clan members and said he wanted to make amends for Konoha’s past abandonment of the clan.

Uchiha Toko made Naruto the Uzumaki Clan’s representative and disciple, then revealed Naruto’s heritage and began teaching him sealing techniques. When Naruto’s chakra surged, Toko entered his Sealing Space, introduced him to the Nine-Tails, and ended by warning Kurama to remember the Sage of Six Paths’ words.

• Tsunade agreed to help Uchiha Toko honor the Uzumaki Clan and invite surviving Uzumaki refugees to Konoha under the village’s protection.
• Three days later, Naruto completed the disciple-taking ceremony at Toko’s home and immediately asked to learn a technique that could defeat Sasuke.
• Toko told Naruto that his mother was an Uzumaki princess, that he was now effectively the clan head, and that the Uzumaki were renowned for their Sealing Techniques.
• Naruto’s chakra erupted as Toko demonstrated a sealing formula, so Toko entered Naruto’s Sealing Space and protected him from the Nine-Tails’ attack.
• Toko told Naruto to greet the Nine-Tails as a friend, then addressed it as Kurama and warned it to remember the Sage of Six Paths’ words.

Uchiha Toko made a bargain with the Nine-Tails to stop it interfering with Naruto’s studies, then began reforming Konoha by building a memorial and publicly restoring the Uzumaki Clan’s history. The chapter left Konoha promising protection to Uzumaki survivors throughout the Ninja World.

• Uchiha Toko persuaded the Nine-Tails to restrain its Chakra by promising Naruto would be Konoha’s last Jinchuriki and that the tailed beasts would eventually have a place to live in peace.
• Uchiha Toko taught Naruto, Sasuke, and Neji Sealing Techniques, while Naruto struggled with the lessons and began visiting the Nine-Tails in the Sealing Space.
• Uchiha Toko announced and built the Konoha Hero Memorial to strengthen the village’s unity and begin changing its ninja system.
• At the memorial’s unveiling, Uchiha Toko introduced Naruto as the Clan Head of the Uzumaki Clan and spread the hidden history of the clan through Konoha.
• Uchiha Toko proclaimed that Konoha would protect surviving Uzumaki people and would pursue any force that harmed them.

After visiting Uzushio’s ruins, Uchiha Toko declared Naruto the Uzumaki Clan Head and vowed to protect Uzumaki descendants. When Konoha learned Kusagakure had imprisoned and abused Karin and her mother, Kakashi delivered an ultimatum, then killed Yoshioka Shinzō when Kusagakure denied the accusation.

• Uchiha Toko and Sarutobi Hiruzen visited Uzushio’s ruins with Naruto, offered flowers, and acknowledged Konoha’s responsibility for the clan’s destruction.
• Naruto said he wanted to rebuild Uzushio, and Uchiha Toko named him Clan Head of the Uzumaki Clan and promised to teach him sealing techniques.
• Nagato and Konan discussed Konoha’s actions, while Kusagakure’s leaders decided to hide Karin and her mother rather than release them.
• Uchiha Toko received intelligence about Kusagakure’s abuse of Karin and her mother, and Kakashi went to demand their release and punishment for those responsible.
• Yoshioka Shinzō denied holding Uzumaki descendants, so Kakashi gave Kusagakure thirty minutes to comply and killed him with his Mangekyo Sharingan when the village resisted.

Uchiha Toko rescued Uzumaki Xingli and Karin from Kusagakure and devastated the village after learning of their abuse. He made Kusagakure’s new leader promise compensation, then brought the injured mother and daughter toward Konoha for treatment.

• Uchiha Toko entered Kusagakure despite its leader’s attempts to stop him and found Uzumaki Xingli and Karin imprisoned.
• Uchiha Toko protected the mother and daughter with Susanoo and let them identify the Kusagakure ninja who had harmed them.
• Uchiha Toko killed Kusagakure’s leader and used Futsunomitama and heavenly lightning to kill or injure much of the village’s ninja.
• Uchiha Toko spared an unrecognized survivor, named him Kusagakure’s new leader, and demanded 1.5 billion ryo in compensation within two weeks.
• Uchiha Toko’s Medical Ninja found that Uzumaki Xingli’s life force was severely depleted and urged that she be taken to Tsunade.
• Uchiha Toko reassured Uzumaki Xingli that Konoha would protect her and Karin, and told her that her clansmen, including Kushina’s son, were in Konoha.

After Kusagakure’s destruction, Nagato and Ōnoki assessed Uchiha Toko’s power and considered how to respond. Back in Konoha, Tsunade examined Uzumaki Xingli and arranged for her and Karin to live in the former Senju Clan Territory; the chapter ended as Uchiha Toko ordered an official condemnation from the Daimyo of the Land of Grass to be read aloud.

• Nagato heard that Uchiha Toko had devastated Kusagakure, and Konan reassured him that the Six Paths of Pain could face Toko’s giant Susanoo.
• Ōnoki learned that Toko had wielded a hundred-meter armored Susanoo and ordered his forces to contact Toko and test his temperament.
• Ōnoki learned that Deidara had destroyed the Ninja Academy restroom after Kurotsuchi encouraged him, then hurt his back as he sprang up in anger.
• Tsunade examined Uzumaki Xingli and said her depleted body would need gradual treatment and that she could no longer use her bloodline ability.
• Uchiha Toko and Tsunade arranged for Uzumaki Xingli and Karin to live in the former Senju Clan Territory, with Karin to attend the Ninja Academy.
• Uchiha Toko received a letter condemning his actions from the Daimyo of the Land of Grass and ordered the officials to read it aloud.

Uchiha Toko rejected the Land of Grass’s condemnation and ordered Gato to establish a ninja tool factory controlled by the Uchiha Clan. He gave Gato three months to prepare, warning that war and chaos were coming to the Ninja World.

• Uchiha Toko asked Miura Kazuo how the Land of Fire usually handled condemnations, then ordered a countering response demanding full compensation from the Land of Grass.
• Uchiha Toko returned to the Hokage Office and summoned Gato, who hurried over because his fortune and status depended on Uchiha Toko’s favor.
• Uchiha Toko told Gato to serve as the public face of a ninja tool factory controlled by the Uchiha Clan and connected to the Ninja Cat Clan.
• Gato questioned the factory’s prospects because the ninja tool market was saturated, and Uchiha Toko pointed out that demand surged during wartime.
• Uchiha Toko gave Gato three months to build a complete production line and warned that the Ninja World was about to descend into chaos.

Karin helped Naruto study Sealing Technique while Uchiha Toko received Iwagakure’s invitation to Konoha’s Joint Chunin Exams and began preparing the Military Police Force’s Genin. The chapter ended with Toko deciding Naruto should stop studying Sealing Technique and learn other ninjutsu instead.

• Karin joined Naruto’s class and helped him practice Two-Aspect Sealing, while Naruto and his friends protected her from classmates who mocked her hair.
• Uchiha Inaho delivered Ōnoki’s invitation for Konoha to participate in Iwagakure’s Joint Chunin Exams.
• Uchiha Toko asked Shisui to select talented Military Police Force Genin and train them in B-rank ninjutsu for the exams.
• Shisui explained that Konoha lacked Genin prodigies ready for the stricter Joint Chunin Exams, and Toko treated the event as a chance for them to gain experience.
• Uchiha Toko found Naruto still struggling with Sealing Technique and decided to teach him other ninjutsu instead.

Uchiha Toko prepared Naruto, Sasuke, and Neji for a trip to the Land of Earth to compete in the Joint Chunin Exams against the Third Tsuchikage’s young disciples. He began their special training, leaving Naruto running from a barrage of stones as he learned the foundations of wind-nature Nintaijutsu.

• Uchiha Toko told Naruto, Sasuke, and Neji that Iwagakure had invited Konoha to the Joint Chunin Exams and that he planned to take them to compete.
• Uchiha Toko challenged the three genin to defeat the Third Tsuchikage’s disciples, who were slightly older and highly talented.
• Uchiha Toko sent Sasuke to practice the Thunder-Stepping Body Flicker Technique and promised to teach him a simplified ninjutsu from Kakashi.
• Neji told Uchiha Toko he could strike thirty-two palms and was close to mastering Eight Trigrams Palm: Revolving Heaven, and Uchiha Toko urged him to master the Hyuga techniques before eventually forging a new path.
• Uchiha Toko began Naruto’s training by throwing stones at him, making him practice evading them with the footwork for wind-nature Nintaijutsu.