Chapter Summaries

Orochimaru infiltrated Root to search for Shimura Danzō’s hidden scrolls, but a trapped seal exposed him and forced him to escape with Manda. As Manda rampaged through Konoha, the Third Hokage and Uchiha Fugaku saw the destruction and recognized Orochimaru’s involvement.

• Orochimaru disguised himself as a Root ninja, passed the guards, and searched Shimura Danzō’s chambers for hidden collections.
• Orochimaru found a sealed cache of scrolls, then triggered a trapped mechanism containing Explosive Tags that alerted Root and Anbu guards.
• Orochimaru revealed his identity and summoned Manda, who demanded two hundred sacrifices before carrying him out through Root’s passageways.
• Manda burst out of the Root base and smashed through buildings and trees as it rampaged through Konoha.
• The Third Hokage and the meeting’s attendees went to the Hokage Building’s roof, where Uchiha Fugaku recognized the giant snake as Manda and suspected Orochimaru was controlling it.

Orochimaru returned to Konoha and claimed he had infiltrated Root to search through Shimura Danzō’s belongings, prompting the Third Hokage and the village’s elite to attack him. After Orochimaru’s purple giant snake was forced to retreat, he faced the surrounding shinobi and suggested that his restraint should make them suspicious.

• The Third Hokage and the meeting attendees rushed to confront Orochimaru atop his purple giant snake.
• Orochimaru said he had entered Root to retrieve items from Shimura Danzō’s collection and denied responsibility for Danzō’s disappearance.
• The Third Hokage and the assembled clan heads and Elite Jonin attacked the purple giant snake with ninjutsu.
• Akimichi Choza caught the snake’s swinging tail while Nara Shikaku restrained it with Shadow Tendril.
• Wounded by the attacks, the purple giant snake released the Summoning Jutsu and vanished, leaving Orochimaru surrounded.
• Orochimaru told the Third Hokage that it was strange he had not yet made a move.

Orochimaru’s Shadow Clone was exposed after he escaped Konoha, and the Third Hokage ordered Uchiha Fugaku’s Military Police Force to pursue him. Fugaku reluctantly agreed, while the confrontation revealed growing hostility between the Hokage and the Uchiha Clan.

• The Third Hokage and the ninjas realized Orochimaru had been a Shadow Clone, which dissolved as the real Orochimaru escaped Konoha.
• The Third Hokage blamed Uchiha Fugaku and ordered the Military Police Force to pursue Orochimaru, intending to weaken the Uchiha Clan.
• Uchiha Fugaku challenged the order, arguing that pursuit was outside the Military Police Force’s duties and that its members lacked tracking experience.
• The Third Hokage insisted on the order, and Uchiha Fugaku reluctantly agreed before leaving to decide how to carry it out.
• Utatane Koharu angrily rebuked Fugaku after he had left, while the clan heads and Elite Jonin reconsidered their views of the Third Hokage and Fugaku.

Uchiha Fugaku led the Military Police Force on a deliberately slow pursuit of Orochimaru, drawing the attention of ANBU sent by the Third Hokage to supervise them. After confronting the ANBU, Fugaku arranged to prevent them from following and guided his squad around a trapped clearing.

• Uchiha Fugaku gathered more than a dozen Military Police Force members and slowly followed Orochimaru's fresh footprints outside Konoha.
• The squad stopped to rest after an hour, and three Konoha ANBU revealed they had been ordered by the Third Hokage to supervise the pursuit.
• Uchiha Fugaku faced down the ANBU and then continued the mission with his squad.
• Fugaku created a Spore Clone, gave it a ninja tool pouch, and sent it away using the Mayfly Technique while Uchiha Asami watched.
• The squad spotted Explosive Tags hidden beneath an illusion-type barrier in a clearing and went around it, as Uchiha Asami realized why Fugaku had made the clone.

Uchiha Fugaku’s group let three Anbu Ninja blunder into an Explosive Tag trap, then continued their deliberately half-hearted pursuit of Orochimaru into the Land of Rivers. After rain erased the trail, Fugaku decided the mission had failed and led the Uchiha back, while a small snake watched them leave.

• Three Anbu Ninja pursued Uchiha Fugaku’s group into a grassland and triggered a chain of Explosive Tags, leaving them badly injured.
• Uchiha Asami and Uchiha Fugaku mocked the injured Anbu Ninja, who threatened to report them to the Third Hokage, before Fugaku led the Uchiha away.
• Two days later, Fugaku’s group entered the Land of Rivers, where he wondered whether Orochimaru had a secret base but admitted he had never intended to pursue him seriously.
• When heavy rain began, Fugaku ordered the Uchiha to shelter in an abandoned house and said the washed-away traces would let them declare the mission a failure.
• After the rain stopped, Fugaku led the Uchiha back the way they had come, and a small snake watched their departure.

Orochimaru revealed that he had let Uchiha Fugaku’s group follow him to test the Akatsuki Organization, but a rainstorm disrupted his plan. As Fugaku returned to his companions, two Akatsuki members ambushed him to claim the bounty on his head, and their attack left him facing an incoming Ice Release technique.

• Orochimaru left his cave and headed to meet the Akatsuki Organization after deciding to test its strength himself.
• Uchiha Fugaku spotted Orochimaru’s monitoring snake disappear and realized Orochimaru had known about their pursuit.
• Fugaku abandoned the investigation and headed back to reunite with Uchiha Asami and the others.
• Two Akatsuki members, a weathered middle-aged man and a scarred man, blocked Fugaku’s path to collect his thirty-million bounty.
• The weathered man attacked with Earth Release: Rock Fist Technique, and the scarred man followed with Ice Release: White Whale as Fugaku dodged the first blow.

Uchiha Fugaku revealed his overwhelming Ice Release power against two Elite Jonin, killing the weathered middle-aged man and severely wounding the scar-faced Yuki Clan defector. He then killed the defector with a barrage of ice cones, leaving no one alive to question how he possessed the clan’s Kekkei Genkai.

• Uchiha Fugaku overwhelmed the scar-faced man’s Ice Release with a massive White Whale, shattered his Ice Gate, and severely wounded him.
• The weathered middle-aged man attacked Fugaku, but Fugaku trapped him in an Ice Prison and killed him with ice thorns.
• The scar-faced man accused Fugaku of stealing the Yuki Clan’s Ice Release and attacked with ice spikes, but Fugaku blocked them with a stronger Ice Gate.
• Fugaku summoned a rain of ice cones that pierced the scar-faced man’s Ice Gate and body, killing him.

Uchiha Fugaku killed two Akatsuki members, destroyed the evidence, and hurried to reunite with Uchiha Asami and the others. At a meeting in the Land of Rivers, Orochimaru attacked Nagato's Deva Path clone to seize the Rinnegan, but Shinra Tensei shattered most of his body.

• Uchiha Fugaku sealed the scarred Akatsuki member's corpse, burned the weathered middle-aged man's remains, and erased the traces of the fight.
• A White Zetsu clone found the damaged rings marked "North" and "Three" and concluded that Uchiha Fugaku's strength had been underestimated.
• Uchiha Fugaku rushed to catch up with Uchiha Asami and the others so he could leave the Land of Rivers with them.
• Orochimaru met Nagato's Deva Path clone by a lake and attacked him, intent on taking the Rinnegan.
• Nagato's Deva Path clone repelled Orochimaru's snake attacks with Shinra Tensei, destroying the forest and shattering most of Orochimaru's body.

Orochimaru joined Nagato's Akatsuki Organization as Void, and Nagato set out to punish Uchiha Fugaku after learning he had killed two Akatsuki members. Fugaku hurried toward the Land of Fire with Uchiha Asami and the others, but sensed a faint chakra presence as danger approached.

• Orochimaru agreed to join Nagato's Akatsuki Organization and received the codename Void.
• White Zetsu reported that Uchiha Fugaku had killed the two members sent after him, leading Nagato to suspect Fugaku had Kage-level strength.
• Nagato ordered White Zetsu to take Orochimaru to the Root base and flew toward the Land of Fire to eliminate Fugaku.
• Fugaku reunited with Uchiha Asami and the others, warned them that Orochimaru had found them and that the Land of Rivers might hold more enemies, and ordered them to leave quickly.
• As Fugaku and his group traveled toward the Land of Fire, his sensory ability detected an extremely faint chakra presence.

Uchiha Fugaku captured and hypnotized a White Zetsu clone, learning that Pain was pursuing the Uchiha group. He used the clone to mislead Nagato while leading the clan toward the Land of Fire by a detour, and Nagato realized he had been tricked.

• Uchiha Fugaku uprooted a tree and captured the White Zetsu clone hiding inside it.
• Uchiha Fugaku hypnotized the clone and learned that Pain was coming after them.
• Uchiha Fugaku ordered the clone to send Nagato false information, then kill itself when it encountered Pain.
• Uchiha Fugaku led Uchiha Asami and the others toward the Land of Fire by a detour.
• Nagato's Deva Path avatar found the dead clone and realized it had been hypnotized.
• Zetsu reported that several other clones had lost contact, and Nagato flew away with a grim expression.

Uchiha Fugaku returned to Konoha with his team after their pursuit of Orochimaru failed, then defended their actions to the Third Hokage. He claimed Orochimaru might be connected to the red-cloud-robed organization and offered to show Sharingan-recorded footage.

• Uchiha Fugaku and his team returned safely to Konoha after avoiding White Zetsu clones on their journey.
• Uchiha Fugaku sent Uchiha Asami and the others back to the clan before reporting to the Third Hokage.
• The Third Hokage accused Uchiha Fugaku of abandoning three injured Anbu Ninja, but Fugaku denied knowing about the trap and invoked Konoha's White Fang to defend prioritizing the mission.
• Uchiha Fugaku admitted the mission to capture Orochimaru had failed, then told the Third Hokage that red-cloud-robed ninja had attacked them in the Land of Rivers.
• Uchiha Fugaku suggested Orochimaru was connected to the organization and offered to use his Sharingan to show the recorded footage.

Uchiha Fugaku concealed his Ice Release from the Third Hokage, then absorbed a Yuki Clan ninja’s corpse to strengthen the ability. After watching Itachi and Sasuke train, he clashed with Itachi over the Uchiha Clan’s relationship with the Third Hokage, leaving Itachi convinced the Hokage could not be at fault.

• Uchiha Fugaku showed an Anbu Ninja an edited memory of Akatsuki members, and the Anbu reported it to the Third Hokage.
• Uchiha Fugaku returned to his clan compound and absorbed the scarred Yuki Clan man’s corpse, refining his Ice Release Kekkei Genkai.
• Uchiha Fugaku watched Uchiha Itachi easily block Sasuke’s attacks during their training.
• Uchiha Itachi asked Uchiha Fugaku whether the clan could coexist peacefully with the Third Hokage, and Fugaku blamed the Hokage for the conflict.
• Uchiha Itachi defended the Third Hokage, and Uchiha Fugaku left without answering.

Uchiha Fugaku visited the Uchiha Clan's hidden training base, tested Yuki Natsu's Ice Release skills, and learned that the adopted children had begun taking Underground Black Market bounties. The chapter ended with Uchiha Hoshi reporting that many bounties now targeted the Uchiha Clan.

• Uchiha Fugaku arrived at the secret base and watched Yuki Natsu demonstrate her Ice Release techniques in a sparring match.
• Uchiha Fugaku ended the test after confirming that Yuki Natsu had reached a strong Chunin level.
• Uchiha Hoshi asked when he would be relieved from his nearly year-long post, and Uchiha Fugaku said Uchiha Ara would replace him in a few days.
• Uchiha Hoshi reported that the strongest adopted children were approaching Special Jonin level and had begun taking simple Underground Black Market bounties.
• Uchiha Hoshi warned Uchiha Fugaku that many bounties now targeted the Uchiha Clan.

Uchiha Fugaku learned that several senior Uchiha Clan members had received large bounties, including a fifty-million bounty on him, and suspected the Shimura Clan or the Third Hokage. He sent Uchiha Yakumi to investigate the Shimura Clan’s recent financial transactions, leaving the source of the bounties unknown.

• Uchiha Hoshi told Uchiha Fugaku that several senior Uchiha Clan members had new bounties, with Fugaku’s reaching fifty million.
• Uchiha Fugaku and Uchiha Hoshi reasoned that the bounties came from a force hostile to the Uchiha Clan and considered the Shimura Clan and the Third Hokage likely suspects.
• Uchiha Fugaku considered the Akatsuki Organization as another possible enemy but kept that suspicion to himself.
• Uchiha Fugaku proposed checking whether the Shimura Clan had recently sold assets to determine whether it had funded the bounties.
• After returning to Konoha, Uchiha Fugaku summoned Uchiha Yakumi and ordered him to investigate the Shimura Clan’s major asset transactions.

Uchiha Fugaku decided to punish the Underground Black Market for issuing bounties against the Uchiha Clan and led a team to one of its hidden strongholds. The Third Hokage learned of the clan’s mobilization but did not discover its objective before Fugaku entered the stronghold.

• Uchiha Fugaku concluded that the Uchiha Clan would destroy several Underground Black Market strongholds because the bounties could not otherwise be canceled.
• The Third Hokage worried that Uchiha Itachi’s informant identity might have been exposed, then ordered Anbu Ninja to investigate the Uchiha Clan’s large-scale departure from the village.
• Uchiha Fugaku, Uchiha Vivi, and Uchiha Hiroshi traveled to a town near the Land of Earth and waited for the simultaneous noon assault on seven strongholds.
• Uchiha Fugaku’s team entered a gambling house that concealed an Underground Black Market stronghold and found the guarded passageway.
• Uchiha Fugaku used his Three-Tomoe Sharingan to make the guards step aside and led his team into the passageway.

Uchiha Fugaku and his companions attacked an Underground Black Market, where modified ninja wielded metal hands that fired fireballs. After Fugaku hypnotized them to ask who backed the organization, their prosthetic hands began heating up, forcing him to retreat with Uchiha Hiroshi and Uchiha Vivi.

• Uchiha Hiroshi opened a hidden passage beneath the casino and led Uchiha Fugaku and Uchiha Vivi into the Underground Black Market.
• Uchiha Vivi killed the receptionist, while she and Uchiha Hiroshi fought two ninja guarding the market and Uchiha Fugaku watched as the bounty hunters fled.
• The two ninja revealed metal prosthetic hands that rapidly fired fireballs, burning Uchiha Vivi and Uchiha Hiroshi and turning the fight against them.
• Uchiha Fugaku used his Three-Tomoe Sharingan to hypnotize the two ninja and asked what organization stood behind the Underground Black Market.
• When the ninja's prosthetic hands began glowing red-hot, Uchiha Fugaku grabbed Uchiha Hiroshi and Uchiha Vivi and retreated.

Uchiha Fugaku’s team discovered that the Underground Black Market’s operatives were modified and rigged to self-destruct, but the Uchiha Clan found no information about who controlled the network. Fugaku ended the investigation and turned toward retaliating against the force that had placed bounties on his clan, while Shimura Naoya feared the Uchiha would uncover the Shimura Clan’s role.

• Uchiha Fugaku and his companions survived the modified ninjas’ explosive arms, then searched the Underground Black Market and found only bounty money.
• The Uchiha teams returned to Konoha, reporting that other modified ninjas and sealed operatives had also self-destructed, leaving no useful information about the force behind the Underground Black Market.
• Uchiha Fugaku stopped the investigation and ordered the Uchiha Clan to retaliate against the force that issued the bounties.
• The Third Hokage learned that the Underground Black Market had placed bounties on the Uchiha Clan, including a fifty-million bounty on Uchiha Fugaku, and suspected the Shimura Clan.
• Shimura Atsushi warned Shimura Naoya that the Uchiha Clan had attacked the Underground Black Market, and Naoya insisted they could not trace the anonymous bounties back to the Shimura Clan.

Uchiha Fugaku infiltrated the Shimura Clan to investigate whether it had placed a bounty on the Uchiha Clan. After overhearing the clan’s troubles, he followed Shimura Atsushi home and hypnotized him, leaving the interrogation about to begin.

• Uchiha Yakumi reported that the Shimura Clan had made no large asset transactions, but Uchiha Fugaku remained suspicious after learning Shimura Naoya had recently left the village.
• Uchiha Fugaku decided to investigate personally and used the Mayfly Technique to infiltrate the Shimura Clan estate.
• Uchiha Fugaku overheard Shimura Naoya and Shimura Atsushi discussing how the Aburame Clan had ended its business cooperation with the Shimura Clan.
• Uchiha Fugaku followed Shimura Atsushi to his home and waited until he entered the bathroom.
• Uchiha Fugaku met Shimura Atsushi’s gaze with his patterned Sharingan, leaving Atsushi hypnotized.

Uchiha Fugaku discovered that the Shimura Clan had used Root funds to place a bounty on the Uchiha Clan. At a high-level meeting, he told the clan’s leaders, who remained unable to retaliate under surveillance, though Fugaku suggested they might be able to evade it.

• Uchiha Fugaku hypnotized Shimura Atsushi and learned that the Shimura Clan had issued the bounty using Root funds hidden within the clan by Advisor Danzo.
• Uchiha Fugaku spared Shimura Atsushi temporarily, then left using the Mayfly Technique; Shimura Atsushi later regained his senses without remembering the hypnosis.
• Uchiha Fugaku told the Uchiha Clan’s elders and Elite Jonin at Naka Shrine that the Shimura Clan had placed the bounty on them.
• Uchiha Setsuna, Uchiha Moru, Uchiha Sima, Uchiha Onko, and others voiced their anger and frustration over being unable to retaliate while the Third Hokage’s faction watched them.
• Uchiha Fugaku said the Uchiha Clan might be able to shake off the surveillance.

Uchiha Fugaku revealed that his unique Disguise Technique could let clones perfectly imitate people and evade Konoha's surveillance. He and four Uchiha left the village at night to attack Shimura Clan members on missions.

• Uchiha Fugaku demonstrated that his clones could copy Uchiha Onko's appearance, scent, and chakra fluctuations so perfectly that even Sharingan could not distinguish them.
• Uchiha Fugaku explained that his Dojutsu let him copy another person's Kekkei Genkai, though no one else could learn the Disguise Technique.
• Uchiha Fugaku chose Uchiha Ara, Uchiha Min, Uchiha Yakumi, and Uchiha Onko to join him in the counterattack against the Shimura Clan.
• Uchiha Fugaku used the Mayfly Technique to escape Konoha, while Spore Clones carried the other four out and returned to the village in their forms.
• Uchiha Fugaku and the four Uchiha split up and headed toward Shimura Clan members who were away on missions.