Chapter Summaries

Uzumaki Kushina, Uchiha Mikoto, and Uchiha Yoru defeated a Sunagakure ambush in the Land of Rain, then returned to report as the war intensified. At the rear camp, Tsunade, Orochimaru, and Jiraiya discussed forcing Amegakure’s main force into a decisive battle while remaining wary of Hanzo.

• Uzumaki Kushina, Uchiha Mikoto, and Uchiha Yoru ambushed the Sunagakure shinobi, killing Ota and another enemy before the survivors retreated.
• Uchiha Yoru stopped Kushina from pursuing the retreating Sunagakure shinobi, and the squad cleared the battlefield before returning to report.
• Uchiha Yoru’s squad exchanged intelligence with a reserve squad, which took over their reconnaissance mission so they could recover.
• Tsunade learned that thirteen enemy squads had infiltrated Konoha’s left flank and questioned how Sand Shinobi and Amegakure shinobi had reached the rear.
• Orochimaru explained that White Fang’s attack on the Sand Shinobi camp had prompted the retaliation, and he and Tsunade agreed to force Amegakure’s main force into battle.
• Jiraiya relayed White Fang’s thanks for Tsunade’s antidote, and Tsunade warned that Hanzo of the Salamander remained a mysterious threat.

Uchiha Yoru, Uzumaki Kushina, and Uchiha Mikoto received a mission to guard a mining town in the Land of Rain, where Tsunade suspected something was wrong. Kushina was promoted to Special Jonin, while Yoru began selecting Uchiha elites for the assignment.

• Tsunade warned Uchiha Yoru, Uzumaki Kushina, and Uchiha Mikoto about the dangers of the Land of Rain and ordered them to guard a town and recruit laborers for its metal mine.
• Tsunade promoted Kushina to Special Jonin and arranged for six squads, including Hyuga and Aburame shinobi, to reinforce the town.
• Yoru realized Tsunade's concern and the choice of clan members suggested the mine or mission might conceal a threat.
• Tsunade placed Yoru in command of more than fifty shinobi and told him to select an Uchiha squad while the Senju supplied another.
• Yoru asked Uchiha Fugaku for Uchiha elites, and Fugaku urged him to choose promising clan members so they could build their own following.

Uchiha Yoru chose Uchiha Yashiro, Uchiha Inabi, and Uchiha Tekka to join him, and Uchiha Fugaku agreed to support his choices. After praising Yoru’s book and his hopes for peace, Fugaku summoned the three Uchiha, who entered the tent to meet them.

• Uchiha Yoru selected Uchiha Yashiro, Uchiha Inabi, and Uchiha Tekka from the front-line roster, and Uchiha Fugaku approved his choices.
• Uchiha Fugaku told Uchiha Yoru that his book had changed how he viewed the Uchiha and their place in Konoha.
• Uchiha Yoru said he had written to help people understand the Uchiha, ninja, and the cruelty of war, and expressed hope for peace across the ninja world.
• Uchiha Yashiro reassured Uchiha Inabi and Uchiha Tekka that the clan would support their talents and hinted that Elder Setsuna had died.
• Uchiha Yashiro, Uchiha Inabi, and Uchiha Tekka entered the tent and greeted Uchiha Fugaku and Uchiha Yoru.

Uchiha Yoru prepared for a mining-area mission by building trust with his Uchiha subordinates and explaining the importance of cooperating with ninja from other clans. After assigning roles to Uchiha Inabi, Uchiha Tekka, and Uchiha Yashiro, he went to meet the rest of the team before their departure.

• Uchiha Yoru led Uchiha Yashiro, Uchiha Inabi, and Uchiha Tekka out of Uchiha Fugaku’s tent after they acknowledged him as captain.
• Uchiha Yoru explained that the mission involved protecting a mining area and strengthening trust with teammates from the Senju, Hyuga, Aburame Clan, and other groups.
• Uchiha Inabi and Uchiha Tekka agreed to protect the mining area and build relationships with their fellow clan members.
• Uchiha Yashiro accepted responsibility for handling relations with the other ninja and overseeing the mining task.
• Uchiha Yoru visited his remaining teammates, starting with members of prominent clans and then meeting talented commoners.

After taking command, Uchiha Yoru led twenty Konoha Shinobi to reinforce a garrison under attack in the Land of Rain. They arrived at a mine where rogue ninja and Sand Shinobi Jonin Rasa were waiting to ambush them.

• Uchiha Yoru told Uzumaki Kushina and Uchiha Mikoto that wielding power pleased him and made him feel less helpless.
• The next day, Uchiha Yoru led twenty Konoha Shinobi out of camp while Tsunade reflected on his open ambition.
• Uchiha Yoru ordered Hiashi and Hizashi to watch for traps and led the others toward the besieged mine.
• Rasa and a rogue ninja leader watched their forces attack the Konoha garrison and learned that Konoha reinforcements had arrived.
• Rasa smiled and said the attackers could bury the arriving Konoha Shinobi along with the garrison.

Uchiha Yoru led Konoha reinforcements into a battle against Rasa’s Sand Shinobi, using Katsuyu and a coordinated aerial attack to break their ambush. The Konoha forces seized the valley slopes and turned the fight in their favor, while Yoru pressed his attack on the wounded Rasa.

• Uchiha Yoru ordered Uchiha Yashiro to fire a signal flare, lifting the spirits of the Konoha Shinobi trapped in the valley.
• Rasa sent waves of golden sand down the slope, but Uchiha Yoru summoned Katsuyu to shield the Konoha forces and spray acidic saliva at the Sand Shinobi.
• Uchiha Yoru, Uzumaki Kushina, and Uchiha Mikoto attacked from a flying eagle, combining their jutsu to break through Rasa’s gold dust defense.
• Uchiha Yoru pierced Rasa’s shoulder with his Lightning Style-enhanced Kusanagi Sword, while Uchiha Mikoto bombarded the Sand Shinobi with Exploding Tags.
• The Konoha Shinobi climbed the valley slopes and attacked, destroying many traps and stripping the Sand Shinobi of their terrain advantage.

Uchiha Yoru used intelligence, Lightning Style, and wire traps to counter Rasa’s Gold Dust on the rain-soaked battlefield. He bound Rasa in midair and sent a Dragon Fire Technique racing along the wires as the Sand Shinobi watched in alarm.

• Uchiha Yoru pressured the wounded Rasa with close-range attacks and used his knowledge of Gold Dust and the rainy terrain to explain how Lightning Style could counter it.
• Konoha and Sunagakure shinobi clashed in a chaotic battle after a flying ninja beast disrupted the Sand Shinobi’s high-ground advantage.
• Rasa used a Gold Dust clone to trick Uchiha Yoru, then took to the air and attacked him with massive Gold Dust hands.
• Uchiha Yoru spread Lightning Style across the waterlogged ground, disrupting Rasa’s Gold Dust and forcing him to fight in unfavorable conditions.
• Uchiha Yoru bound Rasa in midair with steel wire attached to shuriken and sent a Dragon Fire Technique along the wires.

Uchiha Yoru defeated Rasa with a concealed Rasengan tactic, forcing the Sand forces to retreat. He then ordered Konoha to reinforce the mine and handle the rogue ninjas carefully, leaving the battle ongoing.

• Rasa used a sand clone to evade Yoru’s wire-guided shuriken, but Yoru followed with a disguised attack and struck him with a Rasengan.
• Rasa survived behind his Gold Dust Armor, ordered the Sand ninjas to retreat, and was carried away with a severe abdominal wound.
• Yoru stopped Konoha from pursuing the retreating Sand forces and sent most of his troops into the valley to support their comrades at the mine.
• The rogue ninja leader fled after seeing Rasa’s defeat, while the rogue ninjas trapped in the valley tried to escape.
• Yoru ordered his forces to wound rather than kill the rogue ninjas, support injured Konoha shinobi, and maintain reconnaissance.

Uchiha Yoru took command of Konoha’s outpost in the Land of Rain, strengthening its defenses while sharing responsibilities among the clans. At the Sand Shinobi command post, Chiyo heard Rasa’s account of Yoru’s abilities and recognized him as a formidable all-rounder.

• Uchiha Yoru heard the outpost’s status report and ordered patrols, reconnaissance, and the recruitment of young refugees to work in the mines.
• Uchiha Yoru assigned Hyuga Hiashi to lead reconnaissance with six squads, kept Senju Ki in charge of the town, and gave Uchiha Yashiro and the Aburame Clan oversight of the mines.
• Tsunade read the battle report, praised Uchiha Yoru’s victory over Rasa, and wondered whether the Sand Shinobi harassment squad had advanced too far into Konoha’s territory.
• Rasa told Elder Chiyo that Konoha had used leaked intelligence about his ninjutsu and described Uchiha Yoru’s varied skills and connections.
• Elder Chiyo concluded that Uchiha Yoru was an all-rounder like herself.

Chiyo concluded that Danzo had leaked intelligence about Konoha’s divisions to manipulate the Sand, then chose to use the scheme to spread word of Tsunade, the Uchiha, and Uchiha Yoru’s strength. Yoru learned that Chiyo’s plan had made him famous and cursed her for turning his own intelligence leak against him.

• Chiyo told Rasa she believed Tsunade had arranged his battle with Yoru to make Konoha’s young genius famous.
• Chiyo showed Rasa intelligence about Konoha’s internal divisions, and they identified Root and Danzo as its likely source.
• Chiyo directed Rasa to circulate the intelligence and publicize the Uchiha’s strength, including Yoru’s victory over Rasa.
• The Sand Shinobi spread warnings to flee Sharingan users in one-on-one fights and promoted Yoru as a genius of the Shinobi World.
• Yoru realized Chiyo had used his leak to make him a target of attention and cursed her for the outcome.

In Konoha, Danzō was blamed for leaking intelligence and suspected Hiruzen of engineering the accusation. Meanwhile, Hanzo weighed alliances to end the war, and Yoru arranged roles for disabled ninja while quietly building support for his future ambitions.

• Hiruzen warned Danzō to keep Root’s actions external during the war, and Danzō realized Hiruzen might have leaked the intelligence to isolate the Senju and Uchiha.
• Hanzo rejected the Sand Shinobi’s proposal at first, then agreed to ally with them against Konoha while considering whether an alliance with Konoha could end the war sooner.
• Yoru learned that disabled Konoha ninja were often sent on covert missions as wandering or rogue ninja.
• Yoru ordered Yashiro to find suitable assignments for disabled ninja under his command, including patrol work for the Military Police Force.
• Yoru privately planned to use the disabled ninja’s future descendants as a long-term source of support for his political ambitions.

Uchiha Yoru oversaw the division of Chakra Metal and refined steel among the allied clans, balancing fixed shares with rewards for military contributions. The clans accepted the arrangement, strengthening their alliance through shared interests.

• Uchiha Yashiro circulated mining statistics showing that the mine had yielded twelve jin and eight liang of Chakra Metal in three months.
• Uchiha Yoru proposed giving the Senju thirty percent of the Chakra Metal and dividing the rest among the Uchiha, Hyuga Clan, and Aburame Clan, with a portion set aside to support war compensation.
• Uzumaki Kushina offered to reduce the Senju’s fixed share by five percent, and Uchiha Yoru set fixed shares for the clans while reserving the rest for contributions and military merits.
• Uchiha Yoru altered the refined-steel figures and invoked the First Hokage’s wartime rules giving the Major Clans the right to claim half of strategic materials.
• Uzumaki Kushina agreed that the refined steel should be divided according to military achievements, and the clans approved the arrangement.

Uzumaki Kushina gave Uchiha Yoru a scroll from Tsunade containing the Second Hokage's Body Flicker Technique and swordsmanship, which suited his plan to focus on speed during the war. Yoru studied the scroll and discovered the breadth of the Senju's accumulated techniques.

• Uchiha Mikoto teased Uzumaki Kushina about embezzling funds, and Kushina revealed that Tsunade had uncovered questionable dealings by the Sarutobi Clan.
• Kushina reflected on her father's burdens and recognized that Uchiha Yoru also hid his exhaustion behind a carefree smile.
• Kushina handed Yoru a scroll from Tsunade detailing the Second Hokage's Body Flicker Technique and swordsmanship, then accidentally revealed that it was meant for Mikoto as well.
• Yoru read the scroll and studied its explanations of specialized Body Flicker techniques and more than a hundred swordsmanship analyses.
• Yoru concluded that the scroll showed how the Senju had built a vast foundation of ninjutsu, taijutsu, and genjutsu, which Tobirama Senju used to create forbidden techniques.

Uchiha Yoru trained his newly strengthened Three-Tomoe Sharingan and discussed his progress with Uchiha Mikoto and Uzumaki Kushina. The three shared their training methods and plans, with Yoru focused on speed and swordsmanship, Mikoto on genjutsu, and Kushina on overpowering techniques with her vast Chakra.

• Uchiha Yoru used his Three-Tomoe Sharingan and Lightning Style Body Activation to evade and cut down a dense barrage of kunai and senbon, confirming that his Pupil Power had grown far beyond that of an ordinary three-tomoe Sharingan.
• Uchiha Mikoto warned Yoru that his training was reckless, but he urged her to uncover her Sharingan's potential and revealed that his own eyes could now see farther.
• Uzumaki Kushina arrived and envied the speed at which the Sharingan learned, while Mikoto reminded her that her abundant Chakra let her practice far more than most shinobi.
• Uchiha Yoru explained that he combined Lightning Style Body Activation with the Body Flicker Technique and chose fast drawing-slash sword techniques suited to the Sharingan.
• Uchiha Mikoto planned to combine Sharingan genjutsu with the Body Flicker Technique, while Uzumaki Kushina said she would use the Second Hokage's Chakra instant-overdrive method despite its heavy Chakra cost.

Uchiha Yoru received a mission to sow disorder in the Land of Rain, but seeing war orphans outside the window, he insisted they should be given hope instead of trained as spies. He and Uchiha Mikoto agreed to help the children, while Yoru noticed a purple-haired girl and an orange-haired boy among them.

• Uchiha Yoru studied the Eight-Blade Style and finished training Lightning Release with Shadow Clones before Uchiha Mikoto and Uzumaki Kushina brought him a classified village mission.
• Uchiha Mikoto explained that the mission called for creating chaos in the Land of Rain and protecting the secret mineral veins, and Uchiha Yoru considered training people to leave behind as a future threat.
• Uchiha Yoru spotted war orphans outside the window and objected to recruiting them as spies, saying they should be given a chance to survive.
• Uchiha Mikoto agreed with Uchiha Yoru after seeing children searching for food and being beaten, while Uzumaki Kushina looked at him with new admiration.
• Uchiha Yoru recognized a wounded, purple-haired girl and an orange-haired boy among the orphans and realized he had found something of greater value.

Uchiha Yoru found Konan and Yahiko starving in a war-torn town and offered them food, shelter, and a chance to survive. After bringing them in, he realized the town was near the future battle between the Legendary Sannin and Hanzo and recognized that a second danger involved the Rinnegan and the scheming Uchiha ancestor.

• Yahiko’s attempt to steal bread with other orphans failed, and he spotted Konan searching a trash bin.
• Uchiha Yoru gave Konan bread and invited her to come with him, then offered the same invitation to Yahiko.
• Yoru brought Konan and Yahiko to a warm room, where he arranged food and health checks and promised them work if they lacked Chakra talent.
• Yoru deduced that the town was near the site of the future battle between the Legendary Sannin and Hanzo and realized the area was dangerous.
• Yoru identified another looming crisis connected to the Rinnegan and the Uchiha ancestor who had founded Konoha.

Uchiha Yoru decided to turn Madara Uchiha’s interest in him into an opportunity by promoting his vision of peace through strength. Madara Uchiha, however, rejected Yoru as a potential spokesperson because he considered him too greedy and difficult to break.

• Uchiha Yoru reasoned that Madara Uchiha might be watching him and decided to present himself as someone pursuing the ideals Madara once held.
• Uchiha Yoru planned to publish more issues of his red book and use Nagato, Konan, Yahiko, and Madara Uchiha to advance his ambitions.
• Madara Uchiha read Uchiha Yoru’s intelligence report and amused himself with the prospect of Hashirama Senju’s descendant falling for an Uchiha.
• White Zetsu suggested that Uchiha Yoru could become a spokesperson if he faced darkness, but Madara Uchiha balked at the schemes needed to target Yoru’s three romantic interests.
• Madara Uchiha decided Uchiha Yoru was unsuitable because he wanted love, power, clan reform, and the Hokage position, making him too greedy to manipulate easily.

Uchiha Yoru took Konan and Yahiko in as students, teaching them basic ninja knowledge after they extracted Chakra in three days. He encouraged Yahiko to explain his ideas about peace, recorded them, and left the children eager to learn while privately planning to guide their dreams toward his own will.

• Konan gave Uchiha Yoru a paper flower, and he decided she and Yahiko would study under him instead of working in the mines.
• Uchiha Yoru told Konan and Yahiko to cultivate Chakra within a month and take on patrol and security duties as they grew stronger.
• Uzumaki Kushina brought fish soup to Uchiha Yoru, and Uchiha Mikoto teased her about her growing affection for him.
• Uchiha Yoru shared a meal with Konan and Yahiko, who had extracted Chakra in only three days.
• Yahiko challenged the idea that mutual understanding could bring peace and declared that he wanted to change the Land of Rain and protect everyone.
• Uchiha Yoru recorded Yahiko's view that people might end war by sharing pain, praised the right to pursue untested ideas, and asked permission to publish it.

Konan and Yahiko found the starving Nagato and brought him to Uchiha Yoru, who accepted him into their group despite suspecting Madara Uchiha was watching. The three youngsters reunited as companions, while Uchiha Mikoto and Uzumaki Kushina arrived with grave new intelligence.

• White Zetsu monitored Nagato and prepared to test whether Uchiha Yoru coveted the Rinnegan, while Madara Uchiha read Yoru’s manuscript and became eager to influence his growth.
• Konan gave starving Nagato bread, and Nagato shared half of it with his dog, Little one.
• Yahiko joined Konan, and the two invited Nagato to shelter from the rain and offered to bring him to Lord Yoru.
• Uchiha Yoru’s subordinate reported that Nagato could cultivate Chakra, and Yoru approved his joining the others’ studies.
• Nagato recoiled at the Konoha forehead protectors, remembering the shinobi who had killed his parents, but Konan and Yahiko’s kindness moved him to stay.
• Uchiha Mikoto and Uzumaki Kushina approached Uchiha Yoru with grave new intelligence.

Uchiha Yoru warned Tsunade that Sand Shinobi and Rain ninja had secretly allied and that enemy squads had infiltrated Konoha’s war zone. As Tsunade organized a cleanup and gathered intelligence on Hanzo, Konoha’s leaders approved White Fang’s plan for a surprise attack on the Land of Wind.

• Uchiha Yoru told Mikoto and Kushina that enemy squads had infiltrated the war zone and requested more patrols, while concealing that he and Tsunade had coordinated the intelligence report.
• Tsunade discussed the Rain ninja’s evasiveness with Jiraiya and Orochimaru, then ordered an elite squad led by Uchiha Fugaku to clear spies and unstable elements from the war zone.
• Tsunade shared detailed intelligence on Hanzo with Jiraiya and Orochimaru and tasked Jiraiya with gathering information, especially about Hanzo’s poison.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi and Shimura Danzō rejected the idea of trusting Hanzo’s ceasefire offer and decided to act on White Fang’s intelligence instead.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi ordered Root, ANBU, and spies in Sunagakure to support White Fang’s risky surprise attack on the Land of Wind.