Chapter Summaries

Saiki Yuu enjoyed the comforts of Konoha’s established hegemony, funded by tributes and worldwide resources. He finished the day soaking in hot springs piped from the Land of Lightning, while the other villages silently endured the labor and costs.

• Konoha’s dominance left the hidden villages and nations accepting its demands, including shifting domestic production toward famous wines.
• Yuu spent his days drinking rare wine, receiving massages, guiding Yugao’s training, and sometimes visiting Naruto and Sasuke.
• Elite shinobi relayed freshly hunted rare game from across the world to Konoha for Yuu’s nightly barbecues.
• Yuu had a main branch of the Land of Lightning’s finest hot springs diverted to his home using labor from Iwagakure, Sunagakure, and Kumogakure.
• The villages and nations provided workers under the stated principle of voluntary participation, but Iwagakure, Kumogakure, and Sunagakure privately resented the arrangement.

The Three Great Shinobi Villages feared Saiki Yuu’s power and accepted Konoha’s continued exploitation in exchange for survival and increased mission work. After Saiki Yuu announced the hot spring diversion, the villages mobilized their resources to complete it quickly and keep him pleased.

• The Three Great Shinobi Villages recalled how Saiki Yuu had spared them during the Third Shinobi World War, then harvested their resources after Konoha established its dominance.
• The villages recognized that they could neither resist Saiki Yuu nor wait for him to grow old, so they accepted their situation rather than risk being destroyed.
• Konoha’s reduced acceptance of outside missions allowed the other hidden villages to take on more work and remain economically viable.
• The Three Great Shinobi Villages submitted reports to the Daimyo's Mansion and mobilized laborers to speed up the hot spring diversion.
• The villages stopped taking outside missions and sent their elite ninja to divert the hot spring’s main branch toward Konoha.

Yuu enjoyed his private hot spring resort while Fugaku Uchiha worried that Yuu might change his mind about the great gift he had promised Itachi. The chapter left Fugaku seeking reassurance as Itachi confirmed that Yuu had made the promise.

• Yuu relaxed at his private hot spring resort with Kurenai, Tsunade, Rin, and the others.
• Fugaku Uchiha recalled how Itachi had sneaked into Hiruzen Sarutobi's home to see Sasuke and had been caught and beaten by Yuu.
• Fugaku worried that Itachi's offense could still bring trouble for the Uchiha Clan, despite Yuu's promise of a great gift.
• Fugaku asked Itachi whether Yuu had really promised him a great gift, and Itachi confirmed that he had.

Fugaku Uchiha learned that Lord Yuu had summoned Itachi Uchiha to his estate to receive a grand gift. Itachi entered the lavish grounds alone, uncertain what awaited him.

• An Anbu messenger told Fugaku Uchiha and Itachi Uchiha that Itachi was to visit Lord Yuu the next afternoon.
• An Anbu Squad Leader escorted Itachi Uchiha to the edge of Lord Yuu's private territory and told him to proceed alone.
• Itachi Uchiha recalled being caught by Lord Orochimaru and force-fed during his previous visit, but hoped this visit would be different.
• The estate gates opened for Itachi Uchiha, who entered and stared around, unsure where to go.

Itachi Uchiha arrived at Saiki Yuu’s estate and was escorted to Yuu’s training ground on Tsunade’s orders. The servant left him at the entrance, and Itachi prepared to go inside alone.

• Itachi Uchiha was greeted by one of Saiki Yuu’s servants, who told him to go to the training grounds.
• The servant led Itachi through the estate, while he kept his gaze lowered and avoided looking around.
• The servant showed Itachi the training ground and explained that no one else was allowed inside while Yuu, Uzuki Yugao, Tsunade, and the others trained.
• Itachi thanked the servant and approached the training ground alone.

Itachi Uchiha arrived at Yuu's training ground, where Uzuki Yugao wounded him with a sudden sword strike. He learned that Yuu had called him a source of amusement, while Yugao asked whether she should summon Tsunade to treat his shoulder.

• Itachi Uchiha opened the training-ground gate and was struck across the shoulder by Uzuki Yugao's sword pressure.
• Itachi Uchiha told Uzuki Yugao that Lord Yuu had sent him, and she realized he was the visitor Yuu had mentioned.
• Uzuki Yugao informed Yuu that Itachi Uchiha had arrived, and Yuu rose from his reclining chair.
• Itachi Uchiha realized Uzuki Yugao, not Yuu, had wounded him and heard that Yuu considered him a source of amusement.
• Uzuki Yugao admitted she had accidentally cut Itachi Uchiha and asked whether she should call Lord Tsunade.

Yuu examined Itachi Uchiha’s stabilized Three Tomoe Sharingan and prepared to give him a promised gift, despite having already cut his shoulder so badly that he was losing blood. Itachi feared Yuu was about to kill him, while Yuu insisted he come closer.

• Uzuki Yugao asked Yuu what to do, and Yuu reassured her that the preparations were complete.
• Yuu ordered the bleeding Itachi Uchiha to activate his Three Tomoe Sharingan and checked that his Dojutsu had stabilized.
• Yuu picked up Shusui and told Itachi he had called him over to give him a great gift.
• Itachi stared in terror at Shusui and questioned whether Yuu was really giving him a gift.
• Yuu told Itachi to come closer and threatened to chop him if he hesitated.

Yuu told the badly bleeding Itachi Uchiha that he intended to make him awaken the Mangekyō Sharingan. Itachi was terrified by Yuu’s raised Black Blade Shusui but was left stunned when he learned the reason for the ordeal.

• Itachi Uchiha grew dizzy and feared Yuu was about to kill him with the Black Blade Shusui.
• Yuu asked whether Itachi knew about the Mangekyō Sharingan.
• Itachi recalled that his father, Fugaku Uchiha, had awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan and called it a curse rather than power.
• Itachi wondered whether Yuu meant to make him awaken the Mangekyō Sharingan.
• Yuu confirmed that he intended to make Itachi awaken it and called it a grand gift.

Saiki Yuu told Itachi Uchiha that the Mangekyō Sharingan was best awakened by witnessing a loved one or close friend's death. Itachi feared Yuu would kill his family to awaken it and begged him to stop, but Yuu reacted angrily to being refused.

• Saiki Yuu explained that the Mangekyō Sharingan usually awakened after its wielder witnessed the death of a loved one or close friend.
• Itachi Uchiha realized why Fugaku Uchiha had called the Mangekyō Sharingan a curse and turned pale with fear.
• Itachi Uchiha dropped to his knees and pleaded with Saiki Yuu, insisting that he did not want the Mangekyō Sharingan.
• Saiki Yuu frowned and said that no one had ever refused something he intended to give away.
• Itachi Uchiha kept begging and slammed his head against the ground, and Saiki Yuu snapped at him.

Yuu brutally beat Itachi Uchiha, who believed his family would be killed to make him awaken the Mangekyō Sharingan. Yuu revealed that he had only been giving Itachi a gift, and Itachi reached the brink of death after realizing the beating had been unnecessary.

• Yuu covered his hands in Armament Haki and beat Itachi Uchiha until he collapsed.
• Itachi felt his strength fading and smiled with relief, believing his parents and little brother were safe from witnessing his death.
• Yuu teased Itachi and explained that he had never intended to kill his family, but had been giving him a gift.
• Itachi realized Yuu had knowingly let him misunderstand and had beaten him without explaining, leaving him furious and despairing.
• As Itachi drifted toward unconsciousness, memories of his life flashed through his mind.

Itachi Uchiha believed he had died after enduring another beating from Yuu, but a dazzling white light restored him and he awoke in Yuu’s training ground. Unable to explain his return to life, he asked Yuu what had happened.

• Itachi Uchiha’s consciousness faded as he recalled the beatings Yuu had inflicted on him.
• A dazzling white light spread through Itachi Uchiha’s body and dispelled the darkness.
• Itachi Uchiha awoke in the training ground and recognized Yuu, Tsunade, and several others nearby.
• Itachi Uchiha found his wounds healed and his complexion restored, then asked Yuu how he had come back to life.
• Yuu called Itachi Uchiha an ignorant fool when he expressed his disbelief.

Yuu explained that he had repeatedly brought Itachi Uchiha to the brink of death to try to awaken his Mangekyō Sharingan, but Itachi’s Three Tomoe Sharingan showed no change. Yuu planned to keep tormenting him and possibly send him to spy on the Akatsuki Organization, while Itachi sensed more suffering ahead.

• Yuu reassured Itachi Uchiha that restoring him from death had been easy and told him to activate his Sharingan.
• Itachi activated his Three Tomoe Sharingan, and Yuu judged that the stimulation had not been enough.
• Yuu revealed that he intended to repeatedly push Itachi to the brink of death in hopes of awakening his Mangekyō Sharingan.
• Yuu considered making Itachi a spy in the Akatsuki Organization to draw its members toward him.
• Itachi grew uneasy and asked what Yuu meant by saying the stimulation was insufficient.

Yuu told Itachi Uchiha that intense mental stimulation could awaken the Mangekyō Sharingan, then revealed he had deduced the method himself rather than learned it from the Uchiha Stone Tablet. Itachi realized Yuu might keep exposing him to death until the method worked, and nearly fainted in terror.

• Yuu scolded Itachi Uchiha and explained that intense mental stimulation could awaken the Mangekyō Sharingan.
• Itachi Uchiha assumed Yuu's method came from a secret on the Uchiha Stone Tablet and asked how to experience death safely.
• Yuu told Itachi Uchiha that he had deduced the method himself.
• Itachi Uchiha realized Yuu might repeatedly bring him to the brink of death if the method failed, and nearly fainted.

Yuu repeatedly cut down Itachi Uchiha with the Black Blade Shusui to force him to awaken the Mangekyō Sharingan. The chapter ended with Itachi screaming as Yuu continued the brutal ordeal in his private training ground.

• Tsunade, Uzuki Yugao, and the others realized Yuu had been using Itachi Uchiha as a test subject by making him experience death repeatedly.
• Itachi Uchiha asked Yuu how many times he would have to endure death, fearing the Black Blade Shusui.
• Yuu slashed Itachi Uchiha with the Black Blade, inflicting agony far worse than the rumors described.
• Itachi Uchiha tried to plead with Yuu, but Yuu struck him repeatedly with flashes of blade light.

Itachi Uchiha endured repeated, soul-piercing cuts from Lord Yuu's Black Blade Shusui, unable to pass out or die because of Yuu's mysterious power. As Yuu continued slashing him, Itachi desperately hoped that his Mangekyō Sharingan would awaken.

• Lord Yuu repeatedly cut Itachi Uchiha with the Black Blade Shusui, covering him in blood and making him scream in agony.
• Itachi realized that his ninja training against torture did not help because the blade's pain struck his soul and could not be dulled through adaptation.
• Lord Yuu's mysterious energy repeatedly restored Itachi, preventing him from dying or losing consciousness.
• Itachi understood why the Shinobi World feared Lord Yuu and why the Tailed Beasts obeyed him.
• Itachi desperately wished for his Mangekyō Sharingan to awaken as Lord Yuu continued slashing him.

After enduring Yuu’s repeated slashes, Itachi Uchiha awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan. He felt grateful to Yuu and believed the new eyes would help him protect his little brother.

• Itachi Uchiha woke after the barrage of blade light stopped and heard Yuu laughing.
• Yuu asked Itachi whether he had noticed the changes in himself.
• Itachi examined his eyes and discovered he had awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan.
• Itachi recognized the burden of using the new eyes but thought they would help him protect his little brother.
• Itachi felt deeply grateful to Yuu and interpreted the ordeal as care and encouragement.

Itachi Uchiha thanked Yuu for helping him awaken his Mangekyō Sharingan, then struggled to leave while still crippled by the pain. Yuu watched him crawl away, and someone questioned whether Yuu’s method could really awaken the Mangekyō Sharingan.

• Yuu told Itachi Uchiha to grow stronger and get used to his eyes, promising that he would have important work for him later.
• Itachi Uchiha respectfully agreed, convinced that Yuu’s brutal treatment showed care and expectations.
• Unable to control his body, Itachi Uchiha crawled toward the exit, leaving a trail of blood as Yuu watched with interest.
• Someone asked Yuu whether his method could truly awaken the Mangekyō Sharingan and how he had worked it out.

Yuu revealed that Itachi Uchiha awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan after being repeatedly brought to the brink of death, leaving Itachi horrified to learn he had been used as an experiment. At dawn, Fugaku Uchiha worried when Itachi still had not returned from Yuu’s residence.

• Tsunade was astonished that Itachi Uchiha had awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan through a method unknown in the Senju Clan’s records.
• Yuu said he had discovered the method through experimentation, and Itachi realized he had been Yuu’s lab rat.
• Yuu offered to help Itachi, who was still struggling to crawl out of the training ground.
• Fugaku Uchiha woke early and worried because Itachi had not returned from Yuu’s residence after nearly a day.

Fugaku Uchiha found Itachi Uchiha bloodied and unconscious-looking at the front gate and feared Lord Yuu had punished him. He discovered Itachi was merely asleep, woke him, and demanded an explanation while Itachi asked for help getting up.

• Fugaku Uchiha rushed to the gate after receiving no response and found Itachi Uchiha lying there, covered in blood.
• Fugaku Uchiha feared Itachi was dead, but felt his strong pulse and realized he was asleep.
• Fugaku Uchiha smacked Itachi on the back of the head, waking him in terror.
• Fugaku Uchiha demanded to know what had happened, and Itachi asked him to help him up.

Itachi Uchiha showed Fugaku Uchiha his newly awakened Mangekyō Sharingan, and Fugaku mistakenly concluded that Sasuke Uchiha had died. The chapter ended with Itachi urgently correcting him that Sasuke was alive.

• After Itachi Uchiha bathed and ate, Fugaku Uchiha demanded to know what had happened at Lord Yuu's residence.
• Itachi Uchiha revealed his Mangekyō Sharingan to Fugaku Uchiha.
• Fugaku Uchiha assumed Itachi had awakened the Mangekyō by witnessing Sasuke Uchiha's death and embraced him in grief.
• Itachi Uchiha, disgusted by Fugaku's tears and snot, shouted that Sasuke was fine.