Chapter Summaries

After Root’s crimes and the Third Hokage’s faction’s corruption were exposed, Uchiha Yoru became Konoha’s temporary Hokage and reorganized the village’s leadership. His appointments shared power among the Uchiha, Senju, and allied clans as Konoha began to stabilize under its new regime.

• Konoha patrols spread news of Root’s crimes and reassured civilians that the Senju and Uchiha had joined forces to protect the village.
• Uchiha Yoru presented Root’s records to the Jonin, and Minato Namikaze and Asuma Sarutobi helped confirm the Third Hokage’s faction’s wrongdoing.
• Tsunade Senju proposed that Uchiha Yoru temporarily serve as Hokage and that she become Hokage Advisor, and the assembled shinobi approved.
• Uchiha Yoru appointed leaders for Konoha’s departments, placing Tsunade Senju over medical affairs, Nawaki Senju and Uchiha Yashiro in ANBU, and Kushina Uzumaki and Uchiha Mikoto in other key roles.
• Uchiha Yoru assigned Minato Namikaze and Orochimaru to investigate Root’s crimes, completing the transfer of Konoha’s major departments to the new leadership.

Uchiha Yoru reorganized Konoha’s clan territories and created a Public Security Division that placed the former Third Hokage faction’s clans under village control. After securing broad support, he offered the Nara, Yamanaka, and Akimichi Clans places in Konoha’s departments, while Shikaku Nara recognized that Yoru’s consolidation of power had only begun.

• Uchiha Mikoto announced new clan districts, relocating the Aburame, Kurama, Hyuga Branch Family, and Hatake Clans and assigning the Sarutobi, Mitokado, Utatane, and Shimura Clans to the former Uchiha territory.
• A Shimura Clan elder blamed Danzo for the clan’s decline, while Asuma Sarutobi accepted the relocation and declared that his clan should atone for its past.
• Uchiha Yoru established the Konoha Public Security Division, appointed Minato Namikaze as its chief and Asuma Sarutobi as his deputy, and received unanimous approval from the meeting.
• Shikaku Nara, Choza Akimichi, and Inoichi Yamanaka met with Uchiha Yoru, who offered their clans roles in the Police Force and other departments.
• Shikaku Nara told Choza Akimichi that their clans would remain safe if they stayed loyal, though their former preferential treatment was gone, and he suspected Uchiha Yoru’s ambitions would grow further.

After the Uchiha and Senju seized control of Konoha, news of another Mangekyo and possible Wood Release spread across the Shinobi World. Konoha invited the other villages to witness the new Hokage's succession and the Senju-Uchiha marriage alliance, leaving rival leaders alarmed by Konoha's strength and unity.

• Konoha recalled the Sarutobi, Mitokado, Utatane, and Shimura shinobi from missions, while rumors blamed the Third Hokage's faction for manipulating the Nine-Tails attack.
• Ōnoki learned that another Uchiha had awakened Mangekyo and that Tsunade might have Wood Release, then ordered spies to drive a wedge between the Senju and Uchiha.
• Ōnoki received Konoha's invitation to the Hokage succession and Senju-Uchiha marriage alliance, which revealed the clans intended to intermarry without restricting surnames.
• Fourth Raikage A ordered Cloud Shinobi to attend the ceremony openly and gather intelligence, despite Kumogakure's weakened Intelligence Department.
• Rasa agreed with Ebizo and Chiyo that Sunagakure should send representatives to Konoha and reassess its relationship with the village.
• Reports of Konoha's Mangekyo users, possible Wood Release, and other powerful shinobi convinced the major villages that Konoha's strength far exceeded theirs.

Uchiha Yoru reshaped Konoha’s Ninja Academy curriculum and reorganized village forces as he took control as Hokage. After Minato Namikaze reported on Root, Yoru arranged to discuss the unusual chakra he had sensed within Naruto.

• Uchiha Yoru gave Tsunade new Ninja Academy materials that recorded Konoha’s history, its heroes, and Madara Uchiha, while openly documenting the Third Hokage’s crimes.
• Uchiha Yoru appointed himself and Tsunade as academy principals, assigned experienced shinobi as teachers, and planned for Kekkei Genkai shinobi to lead genin teams.
• Nawaki Senju reported that ANBU had been reorganized, and Uchiha Yoru reminded him that ANBU served the village rather than its leaders.
• Minato Namikaze reported Root’s investigation and the replacement of its Cursed Seals; Uchiha Yoru offered him senior posts, but Minato chose to remain an ordinary Jonin and accepted roles leading the Konoha Jonin and Security Police Division.
• Uchiha Yoru left Root under Orochimaru and told Minato Namikaze they would discuss Naruto’s unusual chakra that evening.

Uchiha Yoru extracted most of the hidden wills within Naruto and Sasuke’s Chakra, then took Naruto as his disciple and gave Minato the Rasengan scroll. Minato left reassured about his family and resolved to grow stronger against the mysterious enemy.

• Uchiha Yoru told Minato Namikaze, Nako Uzumaki, Tsunade, and Uchiha Itachi that Naruto and Sasuke carried hidden Chakra linked to an unknown enemy, not Danzo.
• Uchiha Yoru used Forbidden Jutsu: Oniichigo no Jutsu to absorb most of the Chakra wills from Naruto and Sasuke, while Uchiha Itachi awakened his Two Tomoe Sharingan out of concern for his brother.
• Uchiha Yoru assured Nako Uzumaki and Uchiha Itachi that the remaining Chakra would strengthen Naruto and Sasuke without harming them.
• Uchiha Yoru took Naruto as his disciple, urged Minato Namikaze to keep developing his abilities, and gave him a scroll containing the Rasengan.
• At home, Minato Namikaze and Nako Uzumaki recognized that the Rasengan scroll was also an opportunity for them to learn the technique, and Minato vowed to protect his family.

Uchiha Yoru and Tsunade reorganized Konoha’s clans and institutions as he prepared to become Fourth Hokage, while Yoru revealed ambitions far beyond the Shinobi World. The next day, the Shimura Clan welcomed its new compound, contrasting with the resentment of the Sarutobi, Mitokado, and Utatane clans.

• Tsunade reviewed the coming administrative changes with Uchiha Yoru, who explained how the four relocated clans and the divided Hyuga Clan would be handled.
• Uchiha Yoru assigned Shisui to train Itachi and planned for Kakashi to carry out missions rather than join ANBU or Root.
• After finishing paperwork, Uchiha Yoru told Tsunade that he aimed to conquer the Sea of Stars, and they spent the night together in the Hokage's Office.
• The next morning, Tsunade arrived late and weary while Uchiha Yoru energetically handled village affairs.
• The Shimura Clan moved into its new compound with excitement, while Sarutobi, Mitokado, and Utatane clan members complained about their diminished positions.
• Asuma Sarutobi watched the clans and wondered why the Shimura Clan had adapted while his own clansmen remained resentful.

Uchiha Yoru commended the Security Police Division and offered the repentant Shimura Clan a chance to relocate, while Tsunade ordered Mitokado Homura and Utatane Koharu imprisoned and Hiruzen Sarutobi confined to the Sarutobi Clan's ancestral hall. The chapter ended with Jiraiya escorting his former teacher to the shrine as Uchiha Elites stood guard outside.

• Kakashi reported that the Shimura Clan had cooperated with the Security Police Division, while resentment continued among the Sarutobi, Mitokado, and Utatane families.
• Uchiha Yoru praised Minato Namikaze and Asuma Sarutobi, then promised the Shimura Clan permission to relocate if they remained sincere for two years.
• Jiraiya and Tsunade confronted Hiruzen Sarutobi, Mitokado Homura, and Utatane Koharu over their crimes and their claims to have served Konoha.
• Tsunade denounced the three elders for taking credit for Konoha's founding and for excluding the Uchiha, then ordered Mitokado Homura and Utatane Koharu sent to prison with Danzo.
• Tsunade ordered Hiruzen Sarutobi confined to the Sarutobi Clan's ancestral hall under Security Police Division supervision, and Jiraiya escorted him there as Uchiha Elites watched the clan grounds.

Uchiha Yoru took control of Root’s research resources, obtained a shinobi’s splitting ability, and returned the Land of Whirlpools’ spiritual artifacts to Uzumaki Kushina. In the Hokage’s Office, Tsunade punished Konoha’s former leaders, while Yoru reclaimed village Summoning Beast contracts and publicly reinforced the Senju-Uchiha alliance.

• Uchiha Yoru showed Orochimaru Root’s research collection and instructed him not to use their own people as research material.
• Uchiha Yoru used Forbidden Jutsu: Oniichigo no Jutsu on a descendant of the Second Tsuchikage to obtain his splitting ability, then wondered why the seed he had planted in Rōran had not changed.
• Uchiha Yoru gave Uzumaki Kushina the Totsuka Blade and Yata Mirror, and then presented her with Danzo’s Baku Summoning Beast scroll.
• Tsunade reported that two former elders had been imprisoned and the Third Hokage had gone to the shrine, while she and Uchiha Yoru discussed whether their punishment would draw out a mysterious person.
• Uchiha Yoru accepted the Monkey Clan Summoning Beast scroll and publicly argued that it belonged to Konoha, while massaging Tsunade’s shoulders at the Hokage’s desk.

Uchiha Yoru advanced a plan to use Konoha’s postwar recovery and Uzumaki Kushina’s campaign to restore the Land of Whirlpools to attract displaced ninja and Kekkei Genkai clans. The chapter ended with Yoru and Tsunade considering how the plan could build Konoha’s strength ahead of his goal of unifying the Shinobi World.

• Mabui brought a Kirigakure envoy to negotiate the return of the Seven Ninja Swordsmen, while Uzumaki Kushina and Uchiha Mikoto watched and prepared their offer.
• Uchiha Mikoto and Uzumaki Kushina bargained with the envoy for Kirigakure ninja, and he agreed to trade Kisame Hoshigaki and Mei Terumi along with the Kubikiribōchō and Kabutowari, while refusing to give up Zabuza Momochi.
• Uzumaki Kushina explained that restoring the Land of Whirlpools would help her find scattered Uzumaki Clan members, while Uchiha Mikoto planned to use the campaign to attract Kirigakure’s excluded Kekkei Genkai families.
• Uchiha Yoru told Tsunade that Konoha would use vacant postwar positions to bring in outsiders and absorb displaced clans, arguing that this would strengthen the village and reduce resistance to his ambitions.
• Tsunade discussed opportunities to attract ninja from Kirigakure, Sunagakure, and Kumogakure, while Uchiha Yoru said Konoha could not realistically absorb anyone from the Land of Lightning.

Rasa sent Temari to Konoha with Pakura as part of a plan to remove Pakura, while Konoha trapped Mei Terumi and Kisame Hoshigaki and Uchiha Yoru set another scheme in motion. The chapter ended with Pakura fleeing the Hokage Building with Temari after a Sand envoy staged an attack to frame her as a traitor.

• Rasa ordered four-year-old Temari to travel to Konoha with Pakura, intending to use the mission to deal with Pakura’s influence.
• Mei Terumi and Kisame Hoshigaki entered the Forest of Death for a rendezvous, where Uchiha Mikoto and Konoha ANBU trapped and captured them.
• Mei Terumi realized Kirigakure had betrayed them, and Mikoto explained that Konoha valued the pair’s potential and ordered them imprisoned.
• Pakura escorted Temari into Konoha, where a Sand envoy wounded himself and attacked Temari to make Pakura appear to be a traitor.
• Pakura escaped through the Hokage Building windows with Temari in her arms as Uchiha Yoru watched from his office.

Konoha used the capture of Pakura to reveal Wood Release and deter the Shinobi World, while Uchiha Yoru and Tsunade debated whether the Sarutobi Three Clans would be intimidated. In Konoha Prison, Mei Terumi, Kisame Hoshigaki, and Pakura were declared rogue ninja as their villages struck deals with Konoha.

• Pakura tried to flee with the Daughter of the Kazekage, but Senju Yamato, Uzumaki Kushina, and Konoha’s forces captured her and revealed Wood Release to the gathered envoys.
• Tsunade and Uchiha Yoru discussed using Wood Release and the Mangekyo to deter foreign villages and contain the Sarutobi, Mitokado, and Utatane clans, then wagered on whether the clans would be intimidated.
• News of Wood Release’s return spread through Konoha and the Shinobi World, overshadowing reports from Sunagakure and Kirigakure.
• Mei Terumi, Kisame Hoshigaki, and Pakura learned in prison that their villages had abandoned them and designated them rogue ninja.
• The Kirigakure envoy exchanged the Kubikiribōchō and Kabutowari for Mei Terumi and Kisame Hoshigaki, while the Sand Shinobi envoy let Sunagakure brand Pakura an S-Rank dangerous rogue ninja and agreed to a peace treaty with Konoha.

On the eve of his succession ceremony, Uchiha Yoru revealed that several major clans shared Sage of Six Paths ancestry and proposed using the restoration of the Land of Whirlpools to gather their scattered bloodlines and strengthen Konoha. The meeting ended with the clans embracing his plan, while Minato and Kakashi recognized that it would also bring Konoha a vast influx of outside strength.

• Uchiha Yoru gathered senior members of the Uchiha, Senju, and Hyuga clans, along with other key ninja, and announced his upcoming wedding.
• Tsunade presented research showing that the Senju, Uchiha, Uzumaki, Hyuga, and Kirigakure's Kaguya Clan shared a common ancestor, while Yugito's lineage might connect to Kinkaku and Silver Horn.
• Tsunade revealed her Sharingan, and Uchiha Yoru demonstrated Wood Release to prove the bloodline research was genuine.
• The gathered clans discussed intermarriage and the prospect of combining their bloodlines, while Uchiha Yoru urged them to keep the discovery secret and unite to reshape the Shinobi World.
• Uchiha Yoru unveiled an S-rank plan to restore the Land of Whirlpools under Kushina's name and use it to recruit scattered Uzumaki descendants, wandering clans, and Kekkei Genkai ninja.
• Minato and Kakashi realized the plan could rapidly boost Konoha's power by drawing in shinobi from across the world.

Uchiha Yoru was inaugurated as Konoha’s Fourth Hokage and used the ceremony to rally the village and threaten the other nations. In Iwagakure, Onoki recognized that Konoha’s show of strength also served a calculated strategy to hasten its recovery and draw merchants back.

• Tsunade passed the Hokage hat to Uchiha Yoru, who was declared Konoha’s Fourth Hokage before the village and foreign envoys.
• Yoru delivered a speech condemning Konoha’s decline, vowed to lead it to victory, and warned that any nation attacking Konoha would face retaliation.
• A former Sarutobi looked toward Hokage Rock and bitterly lamented that Konoha had fallen into Uchiha hands.
• Onoki learned that Danzo had supplied false intelligence about Yoru’s Mangekyo blindness and rejected Kitsuchi’s proposal to divide the Senju and Uchiha.
• Onoki compared Yoru’s careful methods to Tobirama Senju and concluded that Konoha’s forceful ceremony was designed to deter rivals, attract merchants, and speed its recovery.

Uchiha Yoru married Tsunade Senju, Uchiha Mikoto, and Uzumaki Kushina in a lavish ceremony that displayed Konoha’s prosperity and political strength. The wedding ended up turning a profit as Kakashi pressured foreign envoys into providing increasingly extravagant gifts.

• Konoha hosted a grand wedding for Uchiha Yoru and the three women, drawing shinobi, envoys, and merchants from across the Shinobi World.
• Tsunade Senju and Uchiha Mikoto took turns entering the carriage, and Uzumaki Kushina joined Uchiha Yoru after declaring the castle their home.
• Hyuga Hiashi and Hizashi Hyuga discussed how they had secured control of the main and branch families and resolved to strengthen their clan.
• Nawaki Senju announced the wedding gifts, and envoys from the major villages responded with increasingly valuable offerings.
• Hatake Kakashi pretended to correct an inflated gift list, prompting the Rock Shinobi envoy to confirm that Iwagakure would send the promised gifts.

Konoha celebrated peace while its former ruling clans resented their loss of power, and Uchiha Yoru convened the village’s leaders to address the fading postwar prosperity. He and Uzumaki Kushina announced an S-rank mission to restore the Land of Whirlpools, using it to rebuild the Uzumaki Clan and attract shinobi, resources, and economic activity to Konoha.

• Konoha celebrated with fireworks as envoys and merchants admired its postwar prosperity, while Kakashi ignored Might Guy’s challenge to duel.
• Pakura and Mei Terumi reflected on their imprisonment, and the Sarutobi, Mitokado, and Utatane clan leaders complained about losing influence in Konoha.
• The foreign envoys prepared to leave Konoha to avoid contributing further to its temporary economic boom.
• Uchiha Yoru gathered Konoha’s Jonin and introduced an S-rank mission to restore the Land of Whirlpools with Uzumaki Kushina.
• Uzumaki Kushina announced that Konoha would gather scattered Uzumaki and welcome vetted wandering shinobi clans to help rebuild the Land of Whirlpools.
• Uchiha Yoru identified displaced White Shinobi and the Fuma Clan as potential recruits, while Konoha’s leaders recognized the mission could expand the village’s strength and economy.

Konoha’s S-rank Uzumaki Restoration Plan drew nobles, merchants, and shinobi from across the Shinobi World, rapidly reviving the village and expanding its influence. Jiraiya returned to find the plan already rebuilding Whirlpool Village and Konoha’s work delegated across busy departments, while Tsunade complained about her Hokage Advisor duties.

• Konoha announced the Uzumaki Restoration Plan, promising to settle the Uzumaki Clan permanently in Konoha and make them an affiliated military force.
• Noble houses, great clans, daimyo, and merchants returned to Konoha to seek ties and profit, filling the village with visitors and missions.
• Uchiha Yoru assigned Tsunade and others to receive important visitors while Konoha’s staff and shinobi handled the surge of work.
• Jiraiya returned with Minato Namikaze and learned that Konoha had deployed a thousand shinobi to restore the Land of Whirlpools and rebuilt Whirlpool Village with new clans joining it.
• Jiraiya saw Tsunade and Uchiha Mikoto processing Hokage documents, and Tsunade told him she regretted becoming a Hokage Advisor because the work was troublesome.

Uchiha Yoru assigned Jiraiya to protect the expanding Whirlpool Village and visited Kisame Hoshigaki in Konoha's prison, offering him a place to belong and hints that Kirigakure's Blood Mist concealed a conspiracy. Kisame listened as Mei Terumi and Pakura sought the same secret, but Yoru left them waiting for answers.

• Uchiha Yoru dismissed demands from the white people and sent Jiraiya to oversee the Land of Whirlpools, where spies threatened Konoha's plans.
• Uchiha Yoru explained that Uzumaki Clan members had begun returning and that Konoha was building Whirlpool Village into a strategic stronghold.
• Mei Terumi and Pakura discussed Konoha's expansion and read a book about a peaceful world for Kekkei Genkai ninja while imprisoned.
• Uchiha Yoru visited Kisame Hoshigaki with Konan and offered him a place to belong, saying he could help change Kirigakure and the world.
• Uchiha Yoru hinted that a conspiracy might lie behind Kirigakure's Blood Mist, prompting Mei Terumi to demand the secret while he focused on Kisame.

Uchiha Yoru brought Kisame Hoshigaki, Pakura, and Mei Terumi into Konoha’s service and outlined how the Land of Whirlpools would attract persecuted clans as part of his plan to unify the Shinobi World. As the newcomers witnessed Konoha’s growing community, Yoru prepared to build trust while remaining alert to the wider threats surrounding the village.

• Kisame Hoshigaki pledged loyalty to Uchiha Yoru, joined the Land of Whirlpools, and received a mission to travel there with Jiraiya’s team, Uchiha Shisui, and Uchiha Itachi.
• Pakura asked about Temari, and Uchiha Yoru said she had become Kushina’s disciple; he then explained that the Land of Whirlpools would welcome persecuted Kekkei Genkai users and admitted that peace was his ambition.
• Uchiha Yoru told Tsunade to cultivate trust with Pakura and Mei Terumi, while describing plans to attract persecuted clans and win support among the Sand Shinobi and other villages.
• Kakashi recognized that Konoha and the Land of Whirlpools were absorbing displaced clans and families, while their children grew up alongside Konoha’s children.
• Mei Terumi learned that Kirigakure’s Yuki Clan had been stripped of its status and fled, while Pakura reunited with Temari and saw how firmly the girl had settled into Konoha.
• Uchiha Yoru ordered ANBU to explain surveillance to newcomers and promised its removal after they earned trust; he later warned Tsunade that dangers involving the Nine-Tails, Naruto, Sasuke, and the Dragon Vein remained.

Uchiha Yoru’s restoration of the Land of Whirlpools had helped Konoha absorb clans and families from across the Shinobi World, alarming Ōnoki and pushing the other villages toward cooperation. At Konoha’s academy, the children trained under Yoru’s watch, while Orochimaru reported a Dragon Vein fluctuation that suggested someone from another world was about to arrive.

• Ōnoki realized Konoha had used the Land of Whirlpools to integrate displaced clans and families, and he urged Kumogakure and Sunagakure to cooperate economically.
• Uchiha Yoru and Minato Namikaze watched the academy students train, where Minato Naruto and Sasuke Uchiha were joined by the domineering Hinata Hyuga.
• Hinata Hyuga intimidated the students, then offered to protect Sasuke Uchiha as his “little mom,” leaving Sasuke and Minato Naruto stunned.
• Orochimaru told Uchiha Yoru that the Dragon Vein at the Ruins of Loulan had detected an energy fluctuation and that time flowed differently between the two worlds.
• Uchiha Yoru concluded that someone from the other world was finally approaching.

Sasuke and the Snake Squad activated the Dragon Vein and arrived in another space-time, where they confronted Uchiha Yoru’s Kage Guards in Loulan. Samui’s use of Sasuke’s Chidori Stream convinced him the other world was real, and their fight continued.

• Sasuke destroyed the seal at Loulan, and the Dragon Vein transported him, Suigetsu, Karin, and Jugo to another space-time.
• Tsunade ordered the report about Loulan’s broken seal destroyed, then reflected on the other world and her living brother Nawaki.
• Sarah returned to Loulan with Uchiha Yoru’s group, and Yoru promised the country could be restored when peace came to the Shinobi World.
• Samui, Mabui, Yugito, and Konan confronted the Snake Squad in the Dragon Vein ruins and moved to capture them.
• Samui blocked Suigetsu’s attack and used Chidori Stream against Sasuke, who recognized that the Dragon Vein had brought them to another space-time.