Chapter Summaries

At an Uchiha clan gathering, newly promoted jonin Uchiha Asuka proposed that Fugaku divorce and pursue Tsunade so the Uchiha could absorb the Senju and claim the Fifth Hokage. The suggestion sparked another furious argument, and Asuka left planning to defect after witnessing the Fourth Hokage’s wedding.

• Uchiha Ryoichi berated the elders and Fugaku over the clan’s repeated failures to secure the Hokage position.
• Uchiha Asuka reflected on his life in the clan, his lack of safe escape options, and his uneventful rise to jonin.
• Asuka proposed that Fugaku pursue Tsunade and unite the Uchiha with the remaining Senju.
• Uchiha Ryoichi and other elders argued over whether to accept Asuka’s proposal or keep pursuing the Hokage position by force.
• Asuka slipped out of the gathering and planned to pack his things, watch the Fourth Hokage’s wedding, and defect.

Uchiha Asuka prepared to defect before the Nine-Tailed Night, but the Counterattack System activated on the morning of Minato and Kushina’s wedding and gave him a beginner’s gift pack aimed at Ninja Academy students. He postponed his escape and headed to the village park to get a meal.

• Asuka reassured three children filming a wedding congratulatory video that the explosions at Naka Shrine came from the Uchiha Clan discussing something, then recorded a message for Minato and Kushina.
• After seeing Kushina carrying baby supplies, Asuka realized the Nine-Tailed Night was less than ten months away and began preparing to flee Konoha.
• On the morning of the wedding, Asuka gathered his weapons and prepared to abandon his Konoha headband and become a rogue ninja.
• The Counterattack System activated and identified Asuka as an eighteen-year-old Uchiha Clan jonin, then awarded him fried chicken and several Ninja Academy-related items.
• Asuka questioned the system about the unsuitable gift pack, postponed defecting, and went to the village park to mooch a meal.

At Minato Namikaze and Kushina’s wedding, Uchiha Asuka discovered that his system had the wrong timeline and family relationships, then assigned him a mission to defeat a toddler. He left the system refusing to change the mission and Asuka unable to make it uninstall.

• Asuka listened to Nara Shikaku connect the wedding and future children to the losses of the Kikyo Mountain Battle, then teased Uchiha Itachi about his family’s wedding gift.
• The system assigned Asuka a mandatory mission to defeat Uchiha Naoki and make him his supporter, though Asuka did not recognize the name.
• Asuka asked Uchiha Mado about Naoki and learned that the boy was Mado’s two-year-old grandson, prompting Asuka to move away from the elder.
• Asuka challenged the system’s claim that it was Konoha Year 57 and that Itachi was his older brother, insisting that it had confused him with someone else.
• Asuka demanded a new mission, proposed targeting Mado, and tried to uninstall the system, but it repeatedly told him to complete the novice mission.

At Minato and Kushina’s wedding banquet, Uchiha Asuka urged young Itachi to support Fugaku divorcing Mikoto and marrying Tsunade for the clan’s future. Itachi took Asuka’s argument to heart and proposed that his parents divorce and remarry to recover wedding-gift money, leaving Mikoto furious with Asuka.

• Asuka reflected that he would wait three years to see what surprise the system had in store and watched Minato and Kushina greet their wedding guests.
• Asuka told Itachi that Fugaku should divorce Mikoto and pursue Tsunade, then encouraged Itachi to consider the plan from the village’s perspective.
• Itachi weighed the potential benefits to the clan and village against his loyalty to his parents and wondered whether Fugaku had to make that sacrifice.
• Mikoto found Itachi packing leftover wedding food, and he explained that he was saving money for the clan.
• Itachi proposed that Fugaku and Mikoto divorce and remarry to recover wedding-gift money, then said they could donate some of it to orphans and widows.
• Mikoto learned that Asuka had influenced Itachi and angrily turned toward the Uchiha Clan Grounds.

Minato and Kushina discussed growing tensions within the Uchiha Clan and decided to assign Uchiha Asuka to teach temporarily. Asuka sent Senju Tsunade a letter from Uchiha Fugaku, enclosing 100,000 ryō to encourage a reply and pursue peace.

• Kushina told Minato that Uchiha Clan members were pressuring Fugaku over the Hokage position and had suggested he divorce Mikoto to pursue Tsunade.
• Kushina identified Uchiha Asuka as the ninja who proposed the divorce, and Minato recognized him as a war-scarred medical ninja who had lost all his companions.
• Minato promised Kushina he would assign Asuka a squad, then arranged for Asuka to temporarily teach Ninja Academy students.
• Asuka asked Big Orange to deliver Fugaku’s letter to Tsunade, proposing talks about the two clans, the village, and the shinobi world.
• Big Orange found a 100,000-ryō banknote in the envelope, and Asuka said he wanted to avoid danger by settling matters peacefully.

Uchiha Asuka attended the clan meeting, where Fugaku assigned him to lead three new graduates before joining the Anbu and announced Itachi would study under the Fourth Hokage. Asuka’s marriage proposal for the Great Elder provoked an attack, which he stopped with his Fire Release: Scorching Sun, leaving the Great Elder furious.

• Asuka brought fried chicken to the Uchiha clan meeting and coaxed Mado and the other elders into eating it.
• An elder explained that the meeting’s seating separated the Uchiha factions and placed Asuka in the Divorce-Advocating Faction.
• Fugaku told Asuka to temporarily lead three new graduates and later enter the Anbu, then announced that Itachi would attend the Ninja Academy and become the Fourth Hokage’s disciple.
• Asuka proposed that the Great Elder marry the grandmother of his Hyuga friend, prompting the Great Elder to attack him with a barrage of kunai.
• Asuka melted the kunai with his Fire Release: Scorching Sun and recorded another victory over the Great Elder, who restrained himself from attacking again.

Asuka questioned Elder Ryoichi about a Uchiha coup, then became the instructor for Iruka, Yugao, and Hanahana. He made the newly graduated students pass a bizarre food challenge, leaving them sick and sending them to recover in the bathroom.

• Asuka asked Elder Ryoichi when the Uchiha would launch a coup, but Ryoichi denied knowing of any plans and urged him to think of his family.
• Asuka concluded that the clan had no current coup plans and wondered whether Fugaku might act alone as the clan's prospects worsened.
• At the Ninja Academy, Asuka collected Iruka, Yugao, and Hanahana as their jonin instructor and had them introduce themselves.
• Asuka made the students eat Family Buckets soaked in milk and covered with wasabi and fish oil as their test to qualify as genin.
• After the students finished and became genin, Asuka treated their stomach pain and warned each about the effects of the foods they had eaten.

Asuka visited his sick students and forced durian on Yugao before meeting Shisui, Itachi, and Mikoto. He warned Mikoto not to have more children for the Uchiha Clan’s sake, leaving her wondering whether he could foresee the future.

• Asuka brought fruit to Iruka, whose sore throat left him unable to speak, and advised him to rest.
• Asuka visited Yugao with a durian, made her eat it while treating her illness, and left after misunderstanding her reaction.
• Shisui told Asuka that the Clan Head was looking for him, and Asuka punched Itachi after Itachi drew a kunai at him.
• Asuka healed Itachi’s bump and told Mikoto that her sons were geniuses, then urged her not to have more children and offered to arrange sterilization.
• Mikoto wondered how Asuka knew she was carrying a son and suspected that he might have eyes capable of foreseeing the future.

Uchiha Asuka was reprimanded by the Great Elder over his student assessment, then was considered for Minato Namikaze’s Hokage Guard. At the Valley of the End, Asuka fought two Root ninja, spared them, and used a forced drinking-and-slapping game to learn about Root while teaching three Uchiha children.

• The Great Elder lectured Asuka about his teaching methods, then fell toward him when his legs went numb, and Asuka kicked him through Fugaku’s guest-room door.
• The Great Elder praised Asuka’s medical-ninja abilities and suggested him as a candidate for Minato Namikaze’s Hokage Guard.
• Asuka went to the Valley of the End to train three Uchiha children, kicked one off a cliff, and rescued all three after Root ninja attacked him.
• Asuka defeated the two Root ninja with Fire Release and Chakra Scalpel, treated their injuries, and refused to kill them because they were fellow villagers.
• Asuka made the Root ninja play rock paper scissors and slap each other while drinking, then explained to the children how he intended to gather intelligence on Root.

After completing a system mission by defeating Uchiha Naoki, Asuka received a tiny increase in Sharingan awakening progress and a Chidori Senbon scroll he could not use. He accepted a new mission to befriend Nara Shikamaru, who had not yet been born.

• Asuka sent the three children home with fried chicken and told them to keep quiet about what happened at the Valley of the End.
• Asuka invited the children to Naka Shrine the next night to hear his version of Uchiha Madara's Will of Fire, promising more fried chicken.
• Asuka claimed the completed mission reward and felt a slight increase in his Sharingan awakening progress.
• Asuka found a Chidori Senbon scroll, realized he lacked Lightning Release and did not know Chidori, then put it away.
• The system issued Asuka a mission to become friends with Nara Shikamaru, and Asuka accepted despite realizing Shikamaru was still in his mother's womb.

Uchiha Asuka took his three students to the mission office, where his reputation for accepting huge numbers of D-Rank missions shocked them and the staff. He left with more than ten mission scrolls loaded into his students’ arms, while nearby ninjas recalled that eight of the office’s eleven rules existed because of him.

• Uzuki Yugao and Hyuga Hanahana worried that Asuka would give them another exhausting day of missions, then misunderstood his boast about Konoha’s “ten in one day” as suggestive gossip.
• Iruka arrived late and explained that Asuka had completed 3,078 D-Rank missions and once set a record of ten in one day, prompting Hanahana and Yugao to apologize for their misunderstanding.
• Asuka joked about performing medical procedures on his students, then led Yugao, Hanahana, and Iruka to the mission office.
• Asuka asked the Hyuga clerk for the mission list and selected numerous pet-search, trash-picking, and investigation missions until Yugao begged him to stop.
• Asuka handed the pile of mission scrolls to his three students and left, as nearby ninjas learned that eight of the mission office’s eleven rules had been created because of him.

Asuka took his genin students on a D-Rank mission to find missing cats, but at Cat Granny’s place he arranged for replacement kittens to move into the empty homes instead. Uzuki Yugao accepted his reasoning as the team began the scheme.

• Asuka treated Iruka, Hyuga Hanahana, and Uzuki Yugao to ramen and told them to regard every meal as their last, then assigned Iruka and Hyuga Hanahana to gather information about households missing cats.
• Asuka took Uzuki Yugao outside Konoha to visit Cat Granny and obtain cats for the mission.
• Asuka recruited kittens to move into the homes of people whose cats had gone missing, instructing them to stay long-term and redirect the original cats to Cat Granny.
• Asuka explained his plan to Uzuki Yugao, who put on cat ears and discovered she could understand the cats.
• Uzuki Yugao decided that replacing the cats was a better solution than forcing the missing cats back home.

Danzo monitored Uchiha Asuka while worrying that the Sharingan in his right eye was failing. Meanwhile, Asuka turned a cat-catching mission into a deceptive lesson for his students, leaving them exasperated and Hyuga Hanahana embarrassed by his suspicion that she had secretly watched him with her Byakugan.

• Danzo learned which Uchiha had left the village, ordered Root to question two injured troublemakers, and told them to leave Uchiha Asuka alone for now.
• Asuka joked with Uzuki Yugao about his impossible ideal partner and spread gossip about Kakashi, the Third Hokage, and Jiraiya, provoking Yugao to throw cats at him.
• Asuka used Iruka's gathered information to have the kittens dyed and passed off as their owners' original cats, while Hyuga Hanahana watched for suspicious attention.
• Asuka explained that the deceptive cat mission trained observation, intelligence gathering, and teamwork, though Iruka and Hyuga Hanahana challenged his reasoning.
• Asuka suspected Hyuga Hanahana had used her Byakugan to watch him, and she blushed and denied doing so.

Uchiha Obito planned to attack Kushina during the weakening of her seal when she gave birth, while Uchiha Asuka began preparing for the coming danger. Asuka then used his Anbu credentials and money to persuade Ota to reveal information about the woman who had attacked him.

• Uchiha Obito recalled his life with the Uchiha, rejected the clan, and focused on using Kushina's childbirth as an opportunity to get the Nine-Tails.
• Uchiha Asuka passed Kushina and decided to estimate her due date and make preparations without informing Minato Namikaze or the Konoha Higher-Ups.
• Uchiha Asuka used a Body Flicker to enter Ota's home and showed him his Assassination Tactics Special Force identification.
• Uchiha Asuka told Ota he was investigating Root and offered money, then asked specifically for information about the female ninja who had attacked him.
• Ota revealed details about his companion, including her abilities, strength, clothing preferences, and menstrual dates.

Uchiha Asuka explained that his letters to Senju Tsunade were a public statement meant to build support for his radical plan to unite the Uchiha and Senju clans. He then sneaked into Nara Ryoko’s home at night to talk, leaving a passing Nara clan member startled by the two shadows in her room.

• Fei Fei told Asuka that Tsunade wanted him to write 500 letters and include money in each one.
• Asuka explained to Fei Fei that his letters were intended to establish a Divorce Faction and attract supporters for merging the Uchiha and Senju clans.
• Asuka traveled to the Nara Clan Grounds at night and entered Nara Ryoko’s home, where she threatened him with a kunai before recognizing him.
• Asuka told Ryoko he had come to chat, and she insisted she had nothing to discuss with him.
• A Nara Clan member passed Ryoko’s home, noticed two shadows inside, and wondered whether Ryoko had conjured an illusion of her dead husband.

Uchiha Asuka offered to cure Nara Ryoko’s ill son in exchange for intelligence about future missions involving the Uchiha Clan. After an eavesdropping Nara clanswoman misread their shadow techniques and spread suspicions, the chapter ended with Nara Yoshino wondering if Ryoko’s year of widowhood had ended.

• Ryoko confronted Asuka about how he learned personal details, and he revealed that Ota had betrayed her.
• Asuka promised he could cure Ryoko’s son and asked her to pass along intelligence about missions concerning the Uchiha Clan.
• Ryoko accepted the offer, while Asuka assured her she could refuse anything dangerous and would not be pressured through her son.
• A Nara clanswoman watched the shadows through Ryoko’s window, misunderstood what she saw, and told her sister about it the next morning.
• Ryoko emerged at noon looking rested and cheerful, prompting Nara Yoshino to wonder whether rumors about her widowhood were true.

Nara Yoshino vented to Yamanaka Kaoru about Nara Ryoko secretly seeing another man and planned to gather proof before deciding where Ryoko should live. After a frustrating night of war discussions, Asuka attended the Uchiha clan meeting, where the elders debated how to produce a candidate strong enough to become Hokage.

• Nara Yoshino told Yamanaka Kaoru that she had offered Nara Ryoko permission to remarry, but Ryoko had hidden her relationship with another man.
• Nara Yoshino planned to gather proof and arrange for Ryoko to receive her inheritance and a new home, or move in with the man if he was from the Nara Clan.
• Asuka returned from an inconclusive meeting about the Cloud Ninja and learned that the Uchiha clan meeting had been moved forward.
• Uchiha Fugaku told the clan that Danzo had rejected their request to participate in the war against the Cloud Ninja.
• Elder Ryoichi urged the clan to cultivate Uchiha Shisui as a future Hokage candidate, while Asuka proposed buying a disciple slot from Tsunade for a girl from the clan.

At a Uchiha clan meeting, Asuka argued that the clan should ally with the Senju to gain support for a Uchiha Hokage, while the meeting veered from war plans to Fugaku’s marriage. Uchiha Nine joined Asuka’s team, and Itachi later told Mikoto what happened, leaving her angrily chopping vegetables and cutting her finger.

• Itachi arrived at Naka Shrine with lunch for Fugaku and narrowly dodged a chair thrown through the courtyard.
• Asuka read a humorous account of Madara and Izuna’s disagreements, then urged the clan to ally with the Senju and asked Fugaku when he would divorce.
• Uchiha Nine left his brother Eight’s side and moved his seat to join Asuka’s team.
• The clan meeting returned to arguing about how the Uchiha could obtain the Hokage position instead of focusing on the war with the Cloud Ninja.
• Itachi recounted the meeting to Mikoto at home, and she cut her finger while chopping vegetables.

Uchiha Madara learned that the Uchiha Clan was doing reasonably well and reflected on his brother Izuna and the clan he had once led. Back in Konoha, Asuka returned home to find five clan leaders’ wives waiting for him, and Yoshino asked whether he was Konoha’s best detective.

• White Zetsu woke Uchiha Madara and showed him a report about a conversation involving Madara and Izuna that Madara did not remember.
• Madara asked how the Uchiha Clan was faring, heard that Minato Namikaze showed it little prejudice, and returned to resting while thinking of Izuna and the clan.
• Asuka complained that his three students had struggled to learn tree climbing and scolded the Orange Cat about its Transformation Technique practice.
• Asuka found five pregnant clan leaders’ wives in his courtyard, left briefly, then returned and insisted that the house was his.
• Mikoto explained that Yoshino had asked to meet Asuka, and Yoshino presented him with an envelope and asked if he was Konoha’s best detective.

Asuka considered refusing Nara Yoshino’s commission until Uchiha Mikoto provoked him into accepting it as a chance to build ties with other clans. After hearing the case details, Asuka realized that the man Ryoko’s cousin was seeking might be him, though he insisted he was not Ryoko’s lover.

• Asuka recalled how he had used his private-detective identity to investigate village gossip, including reporting Orochimaru’s nighttime experiments near a donkey farm.
• Nara Yoshino sought Asuka’s help investigating a man connected to Ryoko’s cousin, but Asuka hesitated to take the commission.
• Uchiha Mikoto urged Asuka to accept the case, arguing that it would support his plan to ally with other clans.
• Mikoto teased Asuka about his proposals and pressured him until he returned inside to accept the commission.
• After Yoshino and the others left, Asuka realized the man Ryoko’s cousin was seeking might be him, since he had spent that night in Ryoko’s room.