Recaps

Mikoto returned from the hospital and trained with Uchiha Chen and Kushina as their team prepared to resume missions. Uchiha Chen discovered that Nawaki had secretly recommended Nonō to Tsunade for medical training.

• Mikoto returned home after recovering and met Uchiha Chen and Kushina at the Training Ground.
• Uchiha Chen began training Mikoto and demonstrated Chidori: Twin Pierce Light, advising her to practice using both hands.
• Uchiha Chen asked Kushina whether she had recommended Nonō to Tsunade, and Kushina admitted that she had.
• Uchiha Chen figured out that Nawaki had also recommended Nonō, and realized Kushina had promised not to reveal his involvement.

Uchiha Chen discussed Nonō’s lack of a medical-ninjutsu mentor with Kushina and decided to ask Orochimaru to take her as an assistant. He taught Kushina Wind Release: Drilling Air Bomb, then was startled by the arrival of Uchiha Fugaku.

• Kushina told Uchiha Chen that Nonō had graduated but lacked a teacher skilled in Medical Ninjutsu, and Chen offered to speak with Orochimaru.
• Uchiha Chen explained that Kushina could not yet use Rasengan and chose to teach her a new Wind Release technique instead.
• Uchiha Chen demonstrated his improved Drilling Air Bomb, which blasted a deep crater into the sandpit.
• Kushina asked to learn the technique, and Uchiha Chen taught her its hand seals and chakra circulation before she began practicing.
• Uchiha Fugaku approached Uchiha Chen, who was shocked to see him.

Uchiha Fugaku sought Uchiha Chen’s help after returning from a disastrous mission against Sunagakure with a blind eye and only six other survivors. As Fugaku faced his father Uchiha Yama’s stern counsel, Yama offered him his own eye and urged him to carry the clan’s hopes.

• Fugaku told Uchiha Chen that his eye was blind and asked him to arrange treatment with Tsunade, and Chen agreed despite warning that she might charge heavily.
• Fugaku invited Chen to dinner at the Uchiha home, then reported to Uchiha Yama that Chen had agreed to help.
• Uchiha Yama explained that Sunagakure had accused the Uchiha Clan of violating their treaty, making it dangerous to seek help or demand justice from the Third Hokage.
• When Fugaku complained about Shimura Danzo’s broken promise, Uchiha Yama slapped him and told him to rely only on what he could secure himself.
• Uchiha Yama offered to transplant his left eye into Fugaku if Tsunade repaired his nerves, and Fugaku vowed to awaken the Mangekyo Sharingan and restore the clan’s glory.

Uchiha Chen confronted the Third Hokage about Kushina entering the Chunin Exams and persuaded him to approve her participation. The Third Hokage then explained the village’s dispute with Sunagakure and urged Chen to understand his position, leaving Chen wary of the Hokage’s persuasive tactics.

• Uchiha Chen scolded Kushina for planning to enter the Chunin Exams without the Third Hokage’s approval, and Kushina blamed the Nine-Tails for encouraging her.
• Uchiha Chen visited the Third Hokage and argued that Kushina needed combat experience and should not be confined to the village.
• The Third Hokage recalled Mito and admitted he had failed to let Kushina live like an ordinary ninja, then agreed to let her take the Chunin Exams.
• Uchiha Chen told the Third Hokage that Uchiha Yama had asked him to consult Tsunade about treating his eyes.
• The Third Hokage showed Uchiha Chen the Sand Shinobi’s letter accusing Konoha’s escort force of an ambush and explained that Fugaku had attacked first, while the Elder Council and Danzo opposed covering it up.
• Uchiha Chen left the Hokage Building realizing the Third Hokage had tried to win his understanding, and reflected that Talk no Jutsu was real and powerful.

Uchiha Chen negotiated Tsunade’s price for restoring Uchiha Fugaku’s vision, then brought her demand for a Small Mine to Uchiha Yama. Yama was willing to trade for his son’s recovery but resisted handing over a strategic resource, leaving the negotiations unresolved.

• Tsunade explained her perspective to Uchiha Chen and demanded a Small Mine in exchange for performing Fugaku’s surgery, and Chen agreed to secure it for her seventy-thirty deal.
• Uchiha Chen returned to Uchiha Yama’s home, where Yama praised him and offered him a Ninjutsu reward before asking him to return to the Police Force as a Squad Leader.
• Uchiha Chen accepted the position in principle and said he would leave the matter of his Team One assignment to Uchiha Yama and Sarutobi Hiruzen.
• Uchiha Chen told Uchiha Yama and Fugaku that Tsunade required a Small Mine for the surgery and claimed she was the only one capable of performing it.
• Uchiha Yama considered the demand, recognized Tsunade’s ability, and remained reluctant to surrender a strategic resource to the Senju Clan.

After leaving the Uchiha clan head’s home, Uchiha Chen ran into his former classmate Uchiha Liang and his pregnant sister, Kyoko, while snow fell over Konoha. Their conversation revealed the losses their family had suffered and ended with Kyoko sharing the name her late husband had chosen for her unborn child: Obito.

• Uchiha Chen left Uchiha Yama’s home after speaking with Fugaku, who urged him to stand with the clan and join the Police Force.
• While walking through Konoha, Uchiha Chen recognized Uchiha Liang, who approached him after mistaking him for a pervert.
• Uchiha Liang asked Uchiha Chen not to mention the sand shinobi or the escort team in front of his sister, Kyoko, whose husband had died on the mission.
• Uchiha Chen met Kyoko and learned that she was six months pregnant and that her husband had died in the Daimyo's Capital.
• Kyoko said her unborn child would be named Kiko if a girl and Obito if a boy, startling Uchiha Chen.

Uchiha Chen considered whether to kill the unborn Obito, but decided that Madara could simply choose another successor and that killing someone in the village was foolish. After receiving Uchiha Yama’s Scroll of clan secrets, Chen found most techniques unusable and selected Fire Release: Hiding in Ash and Dust Technique.

• Uchiha Chen weighed killing Obito before birth against the chance that Madara would choose another successor, including Itachi or Chen himself.
• Uchiha Chen concluded that he would not act against Obito and returned home after parting ways with the others.
• Uchiha Chen found the Scroll Uchiha Yama had left at his door and took it inside.
• Uchiha Chen discovered that many of the Scroll’s secret techniques required lost Kekkei Genkai or training methods.
• Uchiha Chen chose Fire Release: Hiding in Ash and Dust Technique from the Scroll.

The Third Hokage assigned Uchiha Chen a mission in Beika Town to kill the fugitive Ryoma and investigate possible Kirigakure involvement in a planned coup. Chen accepted and prepared to go with Mikoto and Himeji while Minato and Nawaki continued their training.

• The Third Hokage pointed out that Team One had not taken a mission since the war ended and explained that the village was overloaded with work.
• The Third Hokage told Chen that Ryoma had appeared in Beika Town and was conspiring with the Former Daimyo's Son to launch a coup.
• The Third Hokage warned that Kirigakure might be exploiting the withdrawal of Konoha forces and ordered Chen to kill Ryoma and investigate any Mist Ninja connection.
• Chen asked whether Minato and Nawaki should join, but the Third Hokage said they were away training with Jiraiya and Tsunade.
• The Third Hokage said Mikoto and Himeji would accompany Chen, and Chen agreed to prepare for the mission.

Uchiha Chen, Mikoto, and Himeji encountered Kirigakure-affiliated Kaguya Clan ninjas while traveling toward Beika Town. Chen killed one enemy and fought Kaguya Hikaru, but his Chidori Stream failed to stop Hikaru’s bone attack, leaving Chen sent flying.

• Uchiha Chen led Mikoto and Himeji out of Konoha toward Beika Town and warned them to retreat if they met a man with black-rimmed glasses whose name contained Jiang.
• Himeji detected four enemies a kilometer away, and Uchiha Chen ordered the team to advance and confront them.
• Uchiha Chen used Chidori to kill one Kaguya Clan ninja and identified the white-haired Kaguya Hikaru as the enemy captain.
• Kaguya Hikaru fired bone bullets and attacked with a Bone Sword, while Uchiha Chen countered with shuriken and a Great Fireball Jutsu.
• Uchiha Chen and Kaguya Hikaru clashed with their weapons, then Hikaru’s Dance of the Willow pierced Chen’s Chidori Stream and sent him flying.

Uchiha Chen defeated Kaguya Hikaru and joined Himeji to watch Mikoto’s battle. Mikoto killed her Mist Ninja opponent, while Chen wondered whether her greater strength than Sasuke’s was due to talent or circumstance.

• Uchiha Chen used genjutsu to stop Kaguya Hikaru’s Dance of the Clematis and killed him with Lightning Cutter.
• Uchiha Chen stored Kaguya Hikaru’s corpse in a Scroll and went to Mikoto’s battlefield, where he found her only mildly injured and Himeji watching from a tree.
• Mikoto trapped her Mist Ninja opponent among steel wires and used Fire Release: Dragon Fire Technique to force him toward an apparent escape route.
• Mikoto pursued the Mist Ninja with Lightning Release and pierced his body as he tried to flee.
• Uchiha Chen praised Mikoto’s strength and wondered who was to blame for her seeming stronger at twelve than Sasuke had been during the Chunin Exams.

Uchiha Chen questioned why a Kirigakure squad led by a Kaguya Clan battle maniac had confronted Team One, and set up camp to test whether more enemies were nearby. He discussed the mission’s oddities with Himeji before sharing dinner with her and Mikoto.

• Uchiha Chen led Mikoto and Himeji away from the battlefield and set traps and Summoning Snakes around their camp.
• Uchiha Chen explained that he wanted the campfire and traces to draw out any nearby Kirigakure ninja, and that they would retreat if a large force appeared.
• Uchiha Chen asked Himeji about the Kaguya Clan ninja, and she said she did not know him but recalled Kaguya Clan members attending her clan festival five years earlier.
• Uchiha Chen joked that the Uchiha Clan's ancestral rule was to destroy the Senju Clan, then helped Mikoto prepare a campfire meal.
• Mikoto roasted Pidgeot, and Uchiha Chen, Mikoto, and Himeji sat down to eat.

Uchiha Chen discussed the moon and ancient myths with Mikoto and Himeji around the campfire, reflecting on how Madara had been misled by the Stone Tablet. After a peaceful night, the three resumed their journey and reached Beika Town by morning.

• Mikoto asked whether people lived on the moon, and Uchiha Chen told her that the Sage of Six Paths had created it according to ancient records.
• Uchiha Chen reflected that myths could preserve distorted history and considered Madara's pursuit of the Rinnegan, Ten-Tails, and Infinite Tsukuyomi misguided.
• Uchiha Chen asked whether they could create a moon, then joked to Himeji that her clan's eyes resembled the moon.
• Uchiha Chen sent Mikoto and Himeji to rest, then read a Scroll by the campfire through the night.
• Uchiha Chen woke Mikoto and Himeji after a peaceful night, and the three traveled on to Beika Town.

Uchiha Chen and his team entered Beika Town, where prisoners were rebelling, and learned that Ryoma had been missing for three days. After finding the Former Daimyo's Son at a shrine, they hypnotized him and decided to deliver him to the Tenshukaku before pursuing the Mist Ninja.

• Uchiha Chen, Mikoto, and Himeji found Beika Town strewn with corpses and weapons, and Himeji confirmed that no Chakra had been used nearby.
• A patrol of prisoners charged the Konoha team, and Mikoto and Himeji killed them while their leader tried to escape.
• Uchiha Chen blocked the leader's escape, defeated him, and used the Sharingan to learn that the prisoners had trapped the Guard Squad in the Tenshukaku and that the Former Daimyo's Son was at a shrine.
• Uchiha Chen learned that the Samurai had last seen Ryoma three days earlier, so the team went to the shrine to find the Former Daimyo's Son.
• The Former Daimyo's Son cowered before the team, and Uchiha Chen hypnotized him before Mikoto and Himeji tied him up and prepared to take him to the Tenshukaku.
• Uchiha Chen led the team away from the shrine, saying they would pursue the Mist Ninja.

Uchiha Chen prepared to ambush the Mist Ninja while worrying that Madara was manipulating events, then demonstrated advanced Chidori techniques to Mikoto. The chapter ended with Mikoto choosing to develop Chidori Stream so she could defend herself and stay alive in battle.

• Uchiha Chen decided to wait on the coast for the Mist Ninja expected to arrive in five days and prepared Mutual Exploding Tags in case he needed to escape.
• Mikoto and Himeji caught fish for dinner while Uchiha Chen rested, and Mikoto later practiced Chidori on the beach.
• Uchiha Chen demonstrated Chidori Stream and Lightning Cutter as two possible directions for Mikoto's training.
• Himeji and Big White found nothing unusual while scouting, so Uchiha Chen summoned snakes to expand their surveillance.
• Mikoto chose Chidori Stream because she wanted to protect herself and avoid becoming a burden in battle.

Uchiha Chen’s group intercepted three ships from the Land of Water, but a powerful Kirigakure ninja survived Chen’s explosive attack and quickly turned the fight against him. The chapter ended with Chen realizing he might be facing a Kage-level opponent.

• Himeji sensed three Jonin-level ninjas and eight ordinary crew members aboard the approaching ships.
• Uchiha Chen attacked the ships with Mutual Exploding Tags, sinking them and apparently eliminating most of the enemies.
• Himeji detected a survivor approaching with an unconscious child, and Chen prepared Mikoto and Himeji to conceal themselves.
• Chen launched a Chidori attack against the injured Kirigakure ninja, who recognized the technique and countered Chen’s genjutsu with a Water Clone.
• The Kirigakure ninja struck Chen with Water Gun Jutsu and followed up with more attacks, leaving Chen suspecting his opponent was Kage-level.

Uchiha Chen fought a powerful Mist Ninja in the Land of Fire forest, but the Third Mizukage trapped him in a water prison before others intervened. After Chen escaped, the Mizukage ended the fight and revealed his identity.

• Uchiha Chen fled the coast into the forest, but the Mist Ninja kept pace and pursued him.
• The Mist Ninja used the Hidden Mist Technique and Silent Killing Technique to attack Chen, who countered with Wind Release and evasion.
• The Mist Ninja trapped Chen in a Giant Water Prison while Mikoto and another ninja appeared with an unconscious child in their custody.
• Chen blasted his way out of the prison, and the Mist Ninja called off the fight and asked for the child back.
• Mikoto returned the child, and the Mist Ninja introduced himself as the Third Mizukage.

Uchiha Chen escorted the Third Mizukage to Konoha after discovering that his arrival had been mistaken for part of a conspiracy. The Mizukage revealed he had come seeking treatment for his young disciple Kaguya Jou’s Bloodline Disease, and Chen recommended Orochimaru as a specialist.

• Uchiha Chen received the Third Hokage’s order to bring the Third Mizukage to Konoha, where Anbu would meet them.
• As they traveled, the Third Mizukage asked about Chen’s Mutual Exploding Tag and learned that Chen had been investigating signs of Kirigakure ninja activity near Beika Town.
• The Third Mizukage explained that his unconscious disciple Kaguya Jou had awakened the Shikotsumyaku too young and developed Bloodline Disease.
• The Third Mizukage asked whether Tsunade was in Konoha, and Chen suggested that Orochimaru was better suited to treat difficult illnesses.
• Chen added that Jiraiya had once studied Medical Ninjutsu before turning to literature, leaving Mikoto and Himeji bewildered.

Uchiha Chen returned to Konoha after his mission and reported his encounter with the Third Mizukage to Sarutobi Hiruzen, who decided to keep him off missions for a while. Orochimaru visited Chen to discuss inherited abilities and the Kaguya Clan’s Bloodline Disease, which he said he could not cure.

• Uchiha Chen reported the Third Mizukage encounter to Sarutobi Hiruzen, who praised him and ordered him to rest instead of taking more missions.
• Orochimaru visited Uchiha Chen and praised Kagami’s Genjutsu notes while discussing how bloodlines passed down talent.
• Orochimaru told Chen that Yamanaka Tada was searching the Kaguya Clan ninja’s memories and complained that Chen had damaged the corpse’s heart.
• Uchiha Chen asked whether the Kaguya kid’s Bloodline Disease could be cured, and Orochimaru explained that the intensified Shikotsumyaku overwhelmed the body and shortened its lifespan.
• Orochimaru admitted he had no solution for the Bloodline Disease and said the Kaguya kid was doomed to die.

Orochimaru kept the gravely ill Kaguya Hikaru in Konoha for treatment while the Third Mizukage returned to the Hidden Mist Village. Sarutobi Hiruzen and his advisers examined a report alleging a conspiracy in the Mist and learned that the Daimyo planned to reestablish the Twelve Guardian Ninja, leaving Hiruzen to prepare for the Chunin Exams and the village’s next moves.

• Orochimaru warned the Third Mizukage about the risks of treating Kaguya Hikaru, and the Mizukage entrusted the child to him before meeting with Sarutobi Hiruzen and leaving Konoha.
• Utatane Koharu shared Yamanaka Tada’s report with Sarutobi Hiruzen, Danzo, and Homura Mitokado, detailing an alleged conspiracy involving the Kaguya and Hozuki clans to provoke a war with Konoha.
• Danzo argued that the Third Mizukage might be using the conspiracy as an opportunity to seize power, while Sarutobi Hiruzen doubted the report and worried about the Mizukage’s intentions.
• Utatane Koharu said the Mist’s internal conflict was not Konoha’s concern, but Sarutobi Hiruzen revealed that the Daimyo planned to reestablish the Twelve Guardian Ninja because of the Beika Town incident.
• Homura Mitokado urged Sarutobi Hiruzen to place Konoha allies among the Guardian Ninja, and Danzo offered Root before Hiruzen said he had already chosen someone.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen ordered continued observation of the Hidden Mist Village, confirmed that the Chunin Exam invitations had been sent, and ended the meeting so he could spend time with his pregnant wife, Biwako.

After the Second Great Ninja War ended, Uchiha Chen and Jiraiya discussed how long peace might last and argued over naming Chen’s future son Naruto. At the Jonin Meeting, the Third Hokage announced an international Chunin Exam in Konoha, and the teams submitted their rosters, ending with Tsunade’s unusually powerful Team Two.

• Uchiha Chen told Jiraiya that tensions between Hidden Cloud and Hidden Stone meant peace might not last long.
• Jiraiya tried to persuade Uchiha Chen to name his future son Naruto, but Chen refused and suggested Jiraiya ask Minato instead.
• At the Jonin Meeting, the Third Hokage announced that all Five Great Nations would send ninja to Konoha’s Chunin Exams.
• Uchiha Chen submitted Team One’s roster: Senju Nawaki, Uchiha Mikoto, and Minato Namikaze.
• Tsunade submitted Team Two’s roster: Uzumaki Kushina, Yakushi Nonoyu, and Might Duy.

As Konoha prepared to host the Chunin Exams, Uchiha Chen patrolled the village and clashed with Rasa after the Sand shinobi provoked Minato, Nawaki, and Mikoto. After a tense encounter with Masha, Chen left Rasa in a street corner, then later spoke with Sakumo and gave Fugaku information about Masha’s lodging; elsewhere, Yotsuki Ai took Killer B to Ichiraku Ramen.

• Uchiha Chen and Himeji watched their assigned street as shinobi from other villages gathered in Konoha for the Chunin Exams.
• Rasa demanded an apology from Minato, Nawaki, and Mikoto, and Uchiha Chen knocked him out after Rasa attacked him with sand.
• Karura apologized to the Konoha shinobi, but Uchiha Chen told her he would take Rasa for questioning and later dumped him in a street corner after arguing with Masha.
• Uchiha Chen met Sakumo, who said Chiyo had fought him at lunchtime until Masha stopped the battle from destroying the street.
• Fugaku asked Uchiha Chen where Masha was staying, and Chen told him the likely location.
• Yotsuki Ai took Killer B to Ichiraku Ramen, where Killer B finished another bowl and performed a new rap.

The first Chunin Exam began with Tsunade testing the candidates’ discipline and judgment through a difficult written test. Minato and Mikoto realized they were meant to answer without cheating, while Nawaki, Kushina, and Dai approached the test in their own ways.

• Rasa threatened Nawaki, Mikoto, and their teammates, then left when Mikoto pointed out Uchiha Chen was behind him.
• Uchiha Chen reminded his students not to cheat before they entered the exam, and he watched the test with White Fang.
• Tsunade disqualified candidates who looked at her and warned the remaining Genin to follow her orders.
• Minato recognized that the exam tested whether candidates would obey the rules and restrained himself from cheating; Mikoto reached the same conclusion.
• Kushina fell asleep over her test while Dai calmly faced questions he could not distinguish as easy or difficult.
• Nawaki complained aloud that the test questions were far too easy.

Tsunade and Orochimaru announced the first exam results, then Orochimaru explained the rules for a five-day team-based second exam. Uchiha Chen decided to watch and hinted he might interfere after spotting an interesting candidate, while Orochimaru prepared to collect more blood from the Kaguya boy for the Mist Ninja.

• Tsunade announced that only a hundred candidates had passed the first exam, and Orochimaru used Konoha Anbu to remove Genin who protested.
• Orochimaru led the remaining candidates to a Training Ground and explained that thirteen village teams would defend their camp flags and seize other teams’ flags for five days.
• A candidate from a small village questioned the unequal team sizes, but Orochimaru said they could withdraw or accept the exam’s challenges, and the candidates agreed to proceed.
• Uchiha Chen told Hatake Sakumo he had spotted an interesting candidate and planned to ask the Third Hokage for permission to interfere.
• Jiraiya told Orochimaru that preparations were complete, and Orochimaru said he was returning to the hospital to draw more blood from the Kaguya boy for the Mist Ninja.

Minato led a Konoha team toward the Kusagakure camp, where they found evidence that Iwa-nin had attacked and pursued surviving Genin. They rescued Uzumaki Kana from being abandoned to the pursuers, while Kushina’s Nine-Tails Chakra began leaking as she prepared to fight.

• Minato split Konoha’s Genin into teams to probe the Ame Shinobi and Kusagakure camps while Inoichi guarded their main camp.
• Minato’s team found the Kusagakure camp devastated by Earth Release and tracked Iwa-nin heading southeast after surviving Kusagakure Genin.
• Iwaki and another Kusagakure Genin forced Uzumaki Kana to stay behind with Explosive Tags as they fled the Iwa-nin.
• Kushina recognized Kana as a fellow Uzumaki, and Minato rescued her after a Kunai knocked the Explosive Tags from her hand.
• Kushina’s red Chakra spread as the Iwa-nin charged, while Uchiha Chen and Sakumo watched from a tree and discussed Chen’s interference.

Uchiha Chen convinced the Third Hokage to let Uzumaki Kana leave Grass Hidden Village and join Konoha, then brought her to the hospital for treatment. Tsunade claimed Kana as her disciple, while Chen and Orochimaru discussed Konoha’s eventual destruction and the effort to hide Kana’s defection.

• Uchiha Chen told the Third Hokage about Kana’s lineage and healing ability, and the Hokage assigned him to bring her away from the Training Ground.
• Kushina shared food and tea with Kana in her tent, and Kana said she would rather die than return to Grass Hidden Village.
• Chen took Kana to Konoha Hospital, where Tsunade comforted her and invited her to call her Sister.
• Chen told Orochimaru that the Iwa-nin who saw Kana were dead and that he had placed Genjutsu on a surviving Grass ninja.
• Tsunade stopped Orochimaru from recruiting Kana and declared that Kana would become her disciple.