Chapter Summaries

Asuka turned Sasuke’s attempt to follow him into a public exercise in enduring the stench of an alley, convincing villagers and a young ninja that it built willpower. Sasuke remained hidden, puzzled by Asuka’s behavior, then began to suspect that the ordeal was a test meant for him.

• Asuka noticed Sasuke hiding in the alley, but stayed outside and waited while Kushina went into a shop to shop after becoming angry.
• After enduring the foul smell for two hours, Asuka told passersby that tolerating it could train their willpower and explain how ninja overcame mission hardships.
• A young ninja, pressed by the villagers’ admiring stares, took deep breaths of the stench and claimed it was as refreshing as the seaside.
• Sasuke suffered behind the trash cans as the heat intensified the smell, and grew frustrated when Asuka brought chairs and villagers gathered to join the endurance exercise.
• Asuka spoke about enduring hardship and poverty, prompting Sasuke to wonder whether the strange ordeal was a test intended for him.

Uchiha Asuka spent five hours sitting outside a garbage-filled alley while Sasuke mistook his encouragement for a test of endurance. Later, Asuka met Uzuki Yugao at Yamanaka Flower Shop and used an old photograph to reveal a shared past she could not remember.

• Sasuke stayed hidden in the garbage pile for hours, believing Asuka’s remarks meant he was undergoing a willpower test.
• Kushina kicked Asuka away from the alley, then privately remarked that neither Sasuke nor the villagers seemed sensible.
• Asuka visited Yamanaka Flower Shop and bought every white flower to mourn people he said had died.
• Asuka recognized Uzuki Yugao, teased her about dating Hayate Gekko, and stopped her from drawing her sword.
• Asuka showed Yugao a photograph of himself with her, Iruka, and Hyuga Hanahana as children, leaving her stunned by a past she did not remember.
• Asuka introduced himself and described details of Yugao’s childhood, claiming he had been her instructor.

Uchiha Asuka claimed that he was Uzuki Yugao’s instructor from another world, and tried to prove their connection while Yugao remained suspicious of him. After Asuka revealed private childhood secrets only he should know, Yugao agreed to take him to the Memorial Stone and then register him.

• Asuka showed Yugao a photograph of them together and claimed he had been her instructor, but she called it a fake and drew her sword.
• Asuka disarmed Yugao and activated his natural Sharingan to prove he was an Uchiha, easing her suspicion about his identity.
• Asuka said he had traveled from Year 52 of Konoha and had warned Senju Nawaki before his death, but Yugao accused him of lying about his age.
• Ino offered to deliver the flowers, but Yugao took the scroll and told her to go home.
• Asuka revealed private details about Yugao’s childhood, and she agreed to take him to the Memorial Stone before registering him.

Uchiha Asuka explained to Uzuki Yugao how his world revived the First Hokage to resolve a dispute over Konoha's leadership. He revealed that he had entered her world to find a way home, then congratulated her on becoming a Jonin.

• Uzuki Yugao followed Uchiha Asuka toward the Memorial Stone while weighing whether to report him, and questioned him about the First Hokage becoming Hokage in his world.
• Asuka described how his world's Uchiha revived the First Hokage amid arguments over who should lead Konoha, leaving Yugao baffled by the clan's reasoning.
• Asuka explained that the First Hokage could hand administrative work to Tsunade, and that he later barred dead or revived people from becoming Hokage.
• Yugao asked why Asuka had revealed himself, and he said he had come to find a way home and wanted to visit and bless his student.
• Asuka rubbed Yugao's hair and congratulated her on becoming a Jonin.

Uzuki Yugao struggled over whether to report Asuka to Konoha after he gave her a Kusanagi Sword and revealed he came from another world. In the Naka Shrine’s underground chamber, Asuka told Sasuke about the clan members who had cared for him and explained that he had planned to defect and avenge them before the system appeared.

• Uzuki Yugao examined the Kusanagi Sword Asuka had given her and debated whether to report his presence to the village.
• In the Naka Shrine’s underground chamber, Asuka asked Sasuke why Cat Granny had sent him to find Asuka.
• Asuka told Sasuke that he had been an orphan without relatives but that several Uchiha had fed and cared for him.
• Sasuke asked whether Asuka had ever wanted revenge for the clan, and Asuka recalled his stalled growth and failed attempts to change events.
• Asuka explained that he had prepared to defect and slowly avenge his clansmen, but the system arrived on the day he was set to leave.

Asuka confronted Sasuke in the secret chamber and explained that the Uchiha massacre ultimately stemmed from the clan’s inability to produce a Hokage. Sasuke was left stunned by Asuka’s claim that Itachi killed the clan because he had failed to become Hokage.

• Sasuke remembered Cat Granny telling him that Asuka was another surviving Uchiha who wanted no part in seeking revenge.
• Asuka told Sasuke that the people who cared about him were dead, triggering Sasuke’s memories of the massacre and his family’s deaths.
• Asuka stood over the distraught Sasuke and said the Uchiha clan had been massacred because it could not become Hokage.
• Asuka traced the clan’s conflict and Itachi’s actions back to the Uchiha’s failure to produce a Hokage, then blamed Itachi for being unable to become one.
• Sasuke questioned Asuka’s reasoning and was left speechless at the idea that Itachi had massacred the clan over failing to become Hokage.

Cat Granny recalled how the Uchiha’s disappearance had ruined her clan’s trade and wondered how Sasuke’s meeting with Asuka was going. Beneath Naka Shrine, Asuka explained the Uchiha’s reputation as “Stars of Calamity,” leaving Sasuke unsure whether friendship and loss were truly the only way to evolve the Sharingan.

• Cat Granny and Little Black salvaged rebar from the abandoned Senju Clan Land to forge and sell weapons, while Cat Granny remembered the Uchiha who had once supported her business.
• Cat Granny recalled that her clan had failed to provide intelligence or answer the Uchiha’s summons during the Clan Massacre, then wondered how Sasuke’s conversation with Asuka was going.
• Sasuke asked Asuka how he had awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan, and Asuka began explaining the Uchiha’s history during the Warring States Period.
• Asuka told Sasuke that the Uchiha were known as “Stars of Calamity” because their Sharingan awakened through intense emotional pain, and clan Elders had encouraged young Uchiha to make friends whose deaths could trigger it.
• Asuka explained that other clans eventually avoided the Uchiha because associating with them cost too many lives, then fell silent when Sasuke asked whether loss was the only way to evolve the Sharingan.
• Asuka recalled that he awakened his Three-Tomoe Sharingan near the end of the Third Shinobi World War, but had lost every friend his own age.

Asuka explained to Sasuke that he came from a separate world nine years in the past, then gave him a camera containing footage of Sasuke’s mother. After Sasuke left with the recording, Kushina overheard Asuka insulting her transformation and struck him with a frying pan.

• Asuka suggested that Sasuke could awaken his Sharingan through a painful romance, and Sasuke dismissed the idea.
• Sasuke asked how Asuka survived the clan massacre, and Asuka explained that he came from a different world nine years in the past.
• Asuka summoned a camera and showed Sasuke footage of his pregnant mother cursing people at a clan meeting.
• Sasuke laughed and cried while watching the footage, thanked Asuka, and left with the camera.
• Asuka complained about a person who had transformed into a blond woman, and Kushina overheard him.
• Kushina hit Asuka with a frying pan and grumbled about his insults to her transformation.

Uchiha Asuka and Kushina settled into the hidden house beneath Naka Shrine and discussed how to reach Naruto without attracting Konoha’s attention. Kushina resolved to see her son soon, and Asuka said he had a way to contact him if they waited a day or two.

• Asuka woke in the underground house and reflected on the Uchiha elders’ decades-long effort to build the tunnel.
• Asuka found Kushina preparing breakfast and learned that the house’s clocks recorded the year the Great Elder had left: Year 53.
• Kushina discussed how the Uchiha and Uzumaki clans had disappeared while the Hyuga remained, then said she wanted to contact Naruto without the village discovering her.
• Kushina explained that she understood Naruto’s suffering as a Jinchuriki and that Minato had persuaded her to endure separation to protect the village and preserve the balance of the tailed beasts.
• Asuka told Kushina he could help her contact Naruto after a day or two, and she asked him to rescue her if Konoha discovered her.
• Kushina prepared her makeup to watch Naruto from afar, while Asuka complimented her and made her suspicious.

Uchiha Asuka agreed to train Sasuke and invoked Uchiha family customs to justify teaching him forbidden techniques. He revealed his Mangekyō Sharingan and promised to guide Sasuke, though his plan to obtain eyes for the techniques left Sasuke uneasy.

• Kushina left Asuka with the leftover food and went out, reminding him to buy lamb, radishes, and fruit.
• Asuka went to the neglected Naka Shrine, where Sasuke arrived and asked about the veiled woman who had shown him affection.
• Sasuke declared that he wanted strength to avenge the Uchiha Clan rather than to pass the Chunin Exams, and Asuka agreed to teach him.
• Asuka described clan instruction as a family benefit and opened a hidden compartment beneath the Uchiha crest to retrieve clan clothes.
• Asuka revealed his true appearance, announced that he would teach Sasuke Izanami and Izanagi, and said he would obtain eyes for them.

Asuka misled Sasuke about the Uchiha clan’s past by presenting old footage of clan elders and jonin eating fried chicken as a secret tradition. The footage stirred Sasuke’s memories of Itachi’s betrayal, leaving him convinced that Itachi’s kindness had always been an act.

• Asuka told Sasuke that powerful ocular techniques would not help him until he reached jonin level, then offered to buy him breakfast.
• Asuka showed Sasuke camera footage of Uchiha elders and falsely described their ambitions and appetite for fried chicken as clan customs.
• Sasuke questioned why he had never seen his family eat fried chicken, and Asuka claimed it had been made by the deceased Great Elder as stamina for clan meetings.
• Sasuke remembered Itachi’s cold expression during the Clan Massacre and declared that Itachi had never truly liked him, while Asuka wondered why fried chicken had provoked his killing intent.

The Third Hokage used his Crystal Ball to spy on people around Konoha and observed the Sunagakure delegation and the upcoming competition. Meanwhile, Sasuke ate luosifen and reflected on the Uchiha clan’s strange proposals for its future, especially the suggestion that parents divorce.

• Sarutobi Hiruzen activated the Crystal Ball and watched scenes around Konoha, including Danzo at a hot spring and Naruto using a Transformation Technique on Ebisu.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen saw the Sunagakure group and recognized the Fourth Kazekage’s children among the cautious competitors.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen watched Konoha’s genin preparing for the competition and noticed Sasuke walking while eating strong-smelling noodles.
• Sasuke realized he enjoyed the luosifen but felt upset that he had never been served it at Uchiha clan meetings.
• Sasuke remembered radical proposals from another world’s Uchiha, including assassinating village leaders, reviving Uchiha Madara, and making their parents divorce.

Asuka encountered Uzuki Yugao after agreeing to teach Sasuke, and teased her about her swordsmanship while discussing his uncertain return to his original world. He promised to save Hayate Gekko and let Yugao follow him as he went to teach Sasuke.

• Asuka dismissed a man's idea that Sasuke's food smelled like romance and considered what to teach Sasuke.
• Asuka reflected on Konoha's lack of change and Sarutobi Hiruzen's decline as Hokage.
• Uzuki Yugao told Asuka that records linked a suspected time traveler in Rōran to the Fourth Hokage's defeat of that person.
• Asuka teased Yugao about her swordsmanship and repeatedly promised to cure Hayate Gekko's Bloodline Disease when she resisted calling him Teacher.
• Yugao said no other suspected time travelers appeared in the archives besides Anrokuzan, and Asuka wondered whether he would need to release the Dragon Vein to return home.
• Yugao decided to keep following Asuka, who planned to teach Sasuke and offer her swordsmanship pointers.

At the Valley of the End, Yu Yan questioned whether Hashirama and Madara had ever reconciled, and Asuka offered his own account of their friendship and final battle. Asuka then brought Yu Yan and Sasuke together for training, but admitted he had not decided what to teach them.

• Yu Yan admired the statues at the Valley of the End and asked whether Hashirama and Madara had ever formed the Seal of Reconciliation.
• Asuka said Hashirama and Madara had shared a dream of peace and suggested they might have reconciled at some point.
• Asuka claimed Madara had detected Hashirama’s Wood Release Clone and let himself be struck because he did not want their fight to continue.
• Sasuke arrived at the Valley of the End and worried that Asuka’s identity had been discovered when he saw Uzuki Yugao.
• Asuka told Yu Yan and Sasuke they would train with him, then admitted he had not figured out what lesson to teach.

Kushina watched Naruto and the other Konoha ninja at the ramen shop before secretly following Naruto to the forest. She met him there but withheld her identity, leaving Naruto wondering who she was.

• Kushina observed Naruto, Kakashi, Guy, and the others at the ramen shop and recognized Hinata's feelings for Naruto.
• Naruto asked Kakashi for more training, and Kakashi examined him before recommending new Ninjutsu for the Chunin Exams.
• Guy offered to teach Naruto the Eight Gates Release Formation, but Naruto declined after Kakashi described its grueling training and Guy's outfit.
• Kakashi gave Naruto a scroll of C-Rank Ninjutsu, and Naruto went to the forest to practice the Great Fireball Technique.
• Kushina approached Naruto and burst the Nine-Tails' red bubble with a slap, then gently soothed the swelling on Naruto's head.
• Naruto asked who Kushina was, but she only said she was a Konoha ninja.

Uchiha Asuka watched Naruto and Sakura, then teased Kushina about Naruto agreeing to help Sakura find Sasuke. Kushina worried that Sakura would treat Naruto like a dog, while Asuka's smug remarks drew her attention.

• Asuka recalled the Chunin Exams and worried about Naruto and Sasuke, then left his perch as Konoha's streets filled with villagers and visiting ninja.
• Naruto noticed the foreign ninja envying Konoha, then encountered Sakura, who was searching for Sasuke with a lunchbox after hearing he was eating sour, rotten food.
• Asuka and Kushina watched Naruto speak with Sakura, and Asuka criticized Naruto for pursuing her while Kushina defended his affection as courageous.
• Sakura hugged Naruto and asked him to find Sasuke, and Naruto agreed despite feeling disappointed that she had been looking for Sasuke.
• Kushina complained that Sakura might grow up to treat Naruto like a dog, and Asuka's teasing made her turn on him.

Asuka and Kushina discussed Naruto’s infatuation and whether Kushina could secretly move into his home. After Kushina challenged Asuka’s abilities, he vanished to find a way to make it happen, while she revealed her gentle approach had been a ploy to push him into action.

• Asuka interrupted a young couple’s date and told the boy to focus on getting strong so he could find more girlfriends later.
• Kushina questioned Asuka about enjoying Naruto’s misfortune, then pretended to sympathize with his supposed devotion to a girl.
• Kushina leaned close to Asuka and asked whether he could help her move into Naruto’s home without the village noticing.
• Kushina suggested that even Asuka and the Uchiha Clan were powerless against Konoha, prompting Asuka to insist he could handle the problem.
• Asuka disappeared, and Kushina dropped her act and mocked him for being easy to provoke.

Asuka woke Sasuke and explained how the Great Elder had kept his own Uchiha clan from fracturing, prompting Sasuke to question his memories of his family and clan. Sasuke asked Asuka to kill Itachi preemptively, and Asuka was left wondering whether Sasuke’s extreme thinking explained his future Rinnegan.

• Asuka considered how his declining eyesight and the villagers’ recognition mission might help him move Kushina into Naruto’s home.
• Asuka traveled through the ruined Uchiha grounds, burned paper offerings at Te-yaki’s house, and woke Sasuke at the Clan Head’s residence.
• Asuka teased Sasuke about keeping a camera of Mikoto, and Sasuke watched the recording of his mother speaking to Asuka.
• Sasuke questioned why the Uchiha in his memories differed from the clan shown in the camera, and Asuka credited the Great Elder with mediating disputes.
• Asuka told Sasuke that Mikoto had been hot-tempered and had attacked him, deepening Sasuke’s confusion about his parents.
• Sasuke asked Asuka to kill Itachi before the clan’s future crisis, and Asuka wondered whether Sasuke’s unusual thinking explained his Rinnegan.

Sasuke urged Asuka to change Uchiha Itachi’s fate by getting Sasuke’s parents divorced, believing that losing their indulgence might prevent the clan’s destruction. Asuka refused to let Sasuke pursue the idea, but Sasuke remained convinced it was better than losing his parents and clan.

• Asuka told Sasuke that Uchiha Ili’s plan to rely on the wisdom of predecessors meant reviving Hashirama Senju, who had helped the Uchiha avoid mistreatment after the Nine-Tailed Night.
• Asuka said he would guard against Uchiha Itachi when he returned to his world and prevent him from harming the clan.
• Sasuke asked Asuka whether he still planned to suggest that Sasuke’s parents get divorced, then recalled how they had calmly accepted their deaths without resisting Itachi.
• Sasuke argued that changing Itachi’s fate could prevent the clan’s future destruction, and said their parents’ divorce might stop them from spoiling Itachi.
• Asuka objected that Sasuke should not interfere with his parents’ marriage and fed him fried chicken instead.
• Sasuke privately resolved that changing the past by changing Itachi’s fate was better than losing his parents and clan.

Asuka taught Sasuke about the mindset behind Uchiha power by making him experience sudden wealth, ordering him to spend two million ryo in twelve hours. Later, Asuka learned the Chunin Exams were approaching and Kushina invited him to breakfast with Naruto under an awkward excuse.

• Asuka explained that sudden Uchiha power could distort a person's mindset and showed Sasuke his Mangekyo Sharingan.
• Asuka summoned two million ryo and told Sasuke to spend it all within twelve hours as cultivation of the heart.
• Years later, Sasuke understood the lesson after awakening the Mangekyō Sharingan and experiencing the rush of revenge and newfound strength.
• Asuka read a notice that Konoha's Chunin Exams would begin in two days and wondered whether Orochimaru had arrived.
• Kushina explained that she had told Naruto an admirer was pursuing her, then invited Asuka to join them for breakfast at the Ramen Shop.