Chapter Summaries

Itachi Uchiha slaughtered members of the Uchiha Clan while searching for children who had gone missing, then confronted Fugaku Uchiha, who challenged him over the clan’s fate. Elsewhere, Obito Uchiha attacked the Police Force, but Menma rescued Izumi Uchiha and confronted him, leaving Obito to claim he was Madara Uchiha.

• Itachi Uchiha killed several Uchiha families and found no sign of the missing children, suspecting Uchiha Inabi had taken them.
• Fugaku Uchiha confronted Itachi Uchiha, and they clashed over whether the Uchiha would stage a coup and be destroyed.
• Obito Uchiha killed the Uchiha elites inside the Police Force and trapped Izumi Uchiha with a chain.
• Menma appeared, rescued Izumi Uchiha, and dodged Obito Uchiha’s attacks with his intangibility.
• Obito Uchiha asked who Menma was, then claimed to be Madara Uchiha.

Menma fought Obito and badly injured him, but Obito escaped using his space-time ability. As Menma sent Izumi Uchiha toward the barrier with a Shadow Clone, Inabi confronted Sarutobi Shinnosuke, who tried to seize the forty-three Uchiha children.

• Menma taunted Obito, then fought him with chains and a black-purple sphere that exploded in the Kamui Dimension and blasted Obito in half at the waist.
• Menma tried to finish Obito with a Chakra Blade, but Obito became intangible, threatened to kill Menma next time, and fled after Menma revealed he knew about his left eye.
• Menma left Izumi Uchiha with a Shadow Clone and headed for the Uchiha Clan Grounds while the clone led her toward the barrier.
• At the Konoha Barrier, Inabi stopped with Yakushi Nonō, Kurama Unkai, and forty-three children when Sarutobi Shinnosuke and two ANBU appeared.
• Sarutobi Shinnosuke ordered his ANBU to seize the children, but Inabi kicked both of them back and declared they would have to step over his corpse.

Menma rescued Inabi Uchiha from Sarutobi Shinnosuke’s team and helped Yakushi Nonō and Kurama Unkai lead the children, including Izumi Uchiha, out through the sealing barrier. He launched signal flares to expose the operation, leaving Hiruzen Sarutobi to realize that something had gone terribly wrong.

• Sasuke trained late in the Death Forest while a figure watched him with Sharingan.
• Inabi Uchiha fought Sarutobi Shinnosuke and two ANBU, but Menma arrived and shielded him from their combined Fire Release attack.
• Menma killed the two ANBU and Sarutobi Shinnosuke with wind blades, then went to the sealing barrier.
• Menma opened a gap in the barrier and sent Yakushi Nonō and Kurama Unkai away with over forty children, including Izumi Uchiha.
• Menma launched multicolored signal flares to alert the village and expose the Uchiha operation.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi saw the flares, realized the plan had gone wrong, and blamed Danzo.

Distress signals from the Uchiha Clan Grounds exposed the turmoil surrounding the massacre, while Konoha's clans and leaders reacted to the Third Hokage's orders. Obito fled after his Kamui was countered and considered reclaiming Kakashi's eye, as Naruto suddenly sensed something wrong at Ichiraku Ramen.

• Kakashi and Guy saw distress signals over the Uchiha Clan Grounds, but an ANBU ordered them to gather at the Anbu Building instead of responding.
• Hyuga Hiashi ordered his clan to stay inside their grounds and worried that the Hyuga would become loyal servants of the Hokage.
• Nara Shikaku realized the Ino-Shika-Cho clans had been ordered to stand by, and lamented that the Third Hokage had made a terrible move.
• Danzo learned that signals were coming from near the Konoha Barrier and ordered Root to investigate, fearing the Masked Man had broken their agreement.
• Obito left Konoha after his Kamui was countered, instructed Zetsu to prepare for Itachi Uchiha, and considered taking back Kakashi's eye.
• Naruto finished his ramen at Ichiraku, then the Nine-Tails warned him that something was wrong.

Naruto learned from Menma’s letter that the Uchiha Clan Massacre had begun and put on a mask that made him Red Moon’s Takamimusubi. At the Uchiha Clan Grounds, Itachi killed Fugaku and Mikoto, while Menma attacked the Root ninja guarding the area.

• The Nine-Tails sensed powerful Chakra and Mangekyō Sharingan fluctuations near the Uchiha Clan Grounds, but masked ninja ordered Naruto to return home under the village lockdown.
• Naruto read Menma’s letter, learned that the Night of the Uchiha Clan Massacre had likely begun, and put on the mask that summoned Azure Dragon and Red Moon’s Takamimusubi.
• Fugaku defeated Itachi in their genjutsu clash, then met Itachi with Mikoto and asked him to spare Sasuke as Itachi killed them.
• Sasuke arrived at the house as Itachi stood over his parents’ bodies.
• Menma silently killed more than a dozen Root ninja outside the Uchiha Clan Grounds and confronted the survivors while holding Dog’s severed head.

Menma slaughtered the Root ninjas guarding the Uchiha Clan Grounds, then arrived as Itachi forced Sasuke to witness the massacre and awakened his Two-Tomoe Sharingan. Menma attacked Itachi and took Sasuke, leaving Itachi injured and demanding his brother back.

• Menma killed the Root ninjas with invisible wind blades and genjutsu, then sensed that the massacre at the Uchiha Clan Grounds was nearly over.
• Sasuke found his parents dead and confronted Itachi, who wounded him and used his Mangekyō Sharingan to show him the clan massacre through Tsukuyomi.
• Itachi told Sasuke to hate him and grow stronger, while Sasuke’s Sharingan developed a second tomoe.
• Menma appeared and attacked Itachi with wind blades; Itachi used Amaterasu to block them, but Menma dodged the flames and struck him with a powerful punch.
• Itachi survived through his Crow Shadow Clone Technique, but Menma took the dazed Sasuke and accused Itachi of hypocrisy and selfishness.

Menma injected Sasuke with Gene Fusion Fluid, then trapped Itachi in a horrifying Genjutsu before forcing him to reveal Susanoo. After Menma’s Four Finger Thrust cracked Susanoo’s defense, he prepared to end their warm-up with another attack.

• Menma injected Sasuke with Gene Fusion Fluid, and Itachi attacked him with Tsukuyomi in anger.
• Menma turned the Genjutsu against Itachi, subjecting him to a blood-soaked hell until Itachi escaped using Susanoo.
• Itachi activated Susanoo’s second form, and Menma struck it with Four Finger Thrust, cracking its defense and forcing it backward.
• Itachi planned to use Susanoo’s Yata Mirror and Amaterasu, while Menma landed and began spinning his Sharingan tomoe as he announced that the warm-up was over.

Menma fought Itachi Uchiha with a golden Susanoo until Might Guy joined the battle and cracked its armor. As Itachi and Guy pressed their attack, Menma began transforming his Susanoo into a crimson, four-armed Asura form.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi led Kakashi, Might Guy, and the ANBU toward the Uchiha Clan Grounds after hearing that the Uchiha had been attacked.
• Menma manifested a golden second-stage Susanoo and attacked Itachi, who blocked its blade with the Yata Mirror before forming his third-stage Susanoo.
• Might Guy opened seven of the Eight Gates, rushed into the fight, and shattered part of Menma's golden Susanoo with his Konoha Strong Whirlwind.
• Itachi joined Might Guy in attacking Menma, while the arriving ANBU watched the battle from a distance.
• Might Guy used Morning Peacock to drive Menma's Susanoo backward, and Menma formed an unfamiliar hand seal as scarlet Chakra enveloped the giant in a new Asura form.

Menma overwhelmed Konoha’s defenders with his Crimson Susanoo, then summoned coffins using White Zetsu bodies and flesh after accusing Hiruzen Sarutobi and Itachi Uchiha of colluding. Hiruzen tried to interrupt the summoning with a Five Elements attack, but the chapter ended as a familiar voice asked whether this was the Leaf Village.

• Menma broke free of a Nara ninja’s shadow, killed an Akimichi ninja, and drove an Aburame ninja mad with the malice in his Chakra.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi summoned Enma and attacked Menma alongside Itachi Uchiha, while the ANBU launched a combined assault that failed to break the Crimson Susanoo.
• Menma unleashed Yama, cleave, killing more than a dozen ninja, but Might Guy struck the Susanoo and survived its counterattack.
• Might Guy refused to acknowledge Menma, and Menma accused Hiruzen Sarutobi and Itachi Uchiha of colluding before releasing White Zetsu bodies and flesh from a scroll.
• Menma began a summoning technique that raised dozens of coffins, and Hiruzen Sarutobi used his Five Elements: Great Barrage Technique to try to stop him.
• A streak of green light appeared through the dust, and a familiar voice asked whether this was the Leaf Village.

Menma survived Hiruzen Sarutobi’s ultimate attack and used Impure World Reincarnation to revive Shisui Uchiha and the slaughtered Uchiha Clan members. Shisui learned that Itachi had massacred the clan, and his faith in Itachi and the Third Hokage collapsed as Menma condemned Itachi’s actions.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi unleashed his Five Elements: Great Barrage Technique, but Menma and the coffins were protected by Susanoo.
• Shisui Uchiha emerged from a coffin and learned from Menma that two years had passed and the Uchiha Clan Grounds had been destroyed.
• Dozens of revived Uchiha Clan members emerged from coffins, and Tekka Uchiha charged at Itachi before Shisui stopped him and demanded an explanation.
• Itachi admitted that he had killed the Uchiha Clan, including children, elders, and his own relatives, to test his limits and gain power.
• Shisui broke down, blamed himself for trusting Itachi, and lost the convictions he had held; Menma then called Itachi a foolish hypocrite.

Menma and the Uchiha survivors fought Hiruzen Sarutobi and the Anbu while Shisui confronted Itachi over the massacre. Menma rose into the storm clouds and unleashed a massive lightning attack as the battle reached its climax.

• Shisui vowed to take responsibility for Itachi's crimes and promised to deal with him, then learned Menma had saved Uchiha children and called him the clan's benefactor.
• Shisui attacked Itachi with Susanoo while Tekka and Yashiro led the Uchiha against the Anbu, and Hiruzen countered with a Water Dragon that failed to kill the Edo Tensei Uchiha.
• Kakashi trapped the Uchiha with an Earth Flow Wall as Menma rose into the sky, but Shisui blocked Itachi's attempt to pursue him and pressed his attack.
• Shisui rejected Itachi's justification for sparing Sasuke and overpowered him as the Mangekyō's side effects blurred Itachi's vision.
• Hiruzen tried to strike Menma with his Adamantine Staff, but Menma summoned lightning through it and then unleashed Ten Thousand Thunders across the battlefield.

Menma defeated Hiruzen Sarutobi’s forces with a devastating lightning technique, while Shisui and the reanimated ninjas disappeared and Itachi left the ruined Leaf Village. Meanwhile, a masked intruder attacked the Hyuga Forbidden Ground, but Hiashi found the sealed Caged Bird scroll intact and wondered what the intruder had wanted.

• Menma’s lightning strike overwhelmed the ANBU defenses, and he impaled Hiruzen Sarutobi with a Stone Blade while taunting him about Sarutobi Shinnosuke’s death.
• Hiruzen swore revenge before fainting, and Shisui and the other reanimated ninjas vanished after Shisui defeated Itachi Uchiha.
• Itachi looked at the unconscious Sasuke and left the devastated Leaf Village.
• A White Masked Man attacked the Hyuga Forbidden Ground, wounded its guards, and revealed knowledge and skill that suggested he belonged to the Main House.
• Hyuga Hiashi arrived after the intruder had escaped and found the guards’ memories damaged, but the sealed chamber holding the Caged Bird scroll undisturbed.

After an intruder stole confidential Hyuga records, Hiashi and Hizashi ordered an investigation amid growing suspicion between the Main House and Branch Family. Meanwhile, Jiraiya was summoned to Mount Myōboku by Sage Fukasaku on the Great Toad Sage’s orders, but learned nothing about the reason before reaching the hall.

• Hiashi discovered that the intruder had taken confidential records but left the Caged Bird scroll, ninjutsu, and secret techniques untouched.
• Hiashi and the Main House Elders questioned the Branch Family after investigators found traces of a technique resembling Rotation, while Hizashi ordered the clan grounds sealed.
• Hiashi and Hizashi agreed to investigate both family branches and told the clansmen to keep a lower profile as Leaf Village faced further danger.
• Sage Fukasaku used the Reverse Summoning Technique to bring Jiraiya to Mount Myōboku, explaining that the Great Toad Sage had summoned him.
• Jiraiya asked whether the summons concerned the Child of Prophecy, but Sage Fukasaku said he did not know and Jiraiya continued to the Great Toad Sage’s hall.

The Great Toad Sage revealed a dire prophecy involving two Children of Prophecy and a Child of Destruction, prompting Jiraiya to search for the one wearing a Leaf Village forehead protector. The chapter ended with the Great Toad Sage saying he had heard the Child of Destruction but had not seen him.

• The Great Toad Sage coughed up blood before telling Jiraiya that his vision showed war, death, and shinobi vanishing from the Shinobi World.
• The Great Toad Sage said he had seen two Children of Prophecy, including one with three heads standing across a chasm from the Child of Destruction.
• The Great Toad Sage described another Child of Prophecy standing at a cliff as an arm reached from an abyss to pull him down.
• The Great Toad Sage revealed that the endangered Child of Prophecy wore a Leaf Village forehead protector, and Jiraiya prepared to return to find him.
• Fukasaku stopped Jiraiya to ask about the Child of Destruction, and the Great Toad Sage said he had not seen him but had heard him.

Jiraiya learned that the Great Toad Sage had heard a threatening prophecy about the Child of Destruction and resolved to find both children. The chapter ended with Naruto rushing from class after learning Sasuke’s parents had died.

• The Great Toad Sage gave Jiraiya a distorted account of his prophecy, and Jiraiya resolved to find the Child of Destruction and the Child of Prophecy.
• After Jiraiya left, the Great Toad Sage ordered Fukasaku and Shima to prepare the Sage’s Seal and vowed to protect Jiraiya while he confronted the threat to the Three Great Sage Regions.
• Jiraiya returned to his inn and considered bringing Tsunade back to the Leaf Village as he searched for the two children.
• Naruto woke, missed Menma, and went to the Ninja School while his shadow clone headed to the Death Forest to train.
• Naruto comforted Ino at school, then learned from her that Sasuke’s parents had died and rushed out of the classroom.

Naruto visited the unconscious Sasuke at Konoha Hospital while Kakashi reflected on his connection to Naruto and considered his troubled past. On a ship bound for the Land of Snow, Menma stopped Shin Uchiha from attacking Izumi Uchiha and told her that the Uchiha Clan had been destroyed.

• Kakashi learned from Tenzō that Sasuke was mentally unstable and that Sasuke was the Uchiha Clan's only survivor.
• Naruto visited Sasuke and learned from Minato that Kakashi had once been Minato's student; Menma's injury to Hiruzen appeared to give Naruto an opportunity.
• Yakumo discussed her growing genjutsu skills and her dream of becoming a painter as Menma approached the Land of Snow and considered its unstable regime and rightful heir, Kazahana Koyuki.
• Shin Uchiha became obsessed with acquiring the Mangekyō Sharingan and tried to take Izumi's eyes, but Menma struck him down and warned him not to touch her.
• Izumi asked Menma what had happened to the Uchiha Clan, and he told her that the Leaf Village's Uchiha Clan had been destroyed.

Menma revealed to Izumi Uchiha that the Uchiha Clan had been destroyed and used his Sharingan to plunge her into an ordeal. In Konoha Hospital, Sasuke awakened his Two-Tomoe Sharingan and attacked Naruto, who subdued him and held him as he finally broke down crying.

• Izumi Uchiha rejected Menma's claim that the Uchiha Clan had been wiped out, then realized Konoha's high-ranking officials might have been behind the massacre.
• Menma used his Sharingan to make Izumi collapse, telling her to endure the trial and break through it.
• Sasuke woke in the hospital, pulled out his IV, and tried to leave, but Naruto stopped him and asked what had happened.
• Sasuke awakened his Two-Tomoe Sharingan, blamed Itachi Uchiha for killing their parents and clan, and attacked Naruto.
• Naruto overwhelmed Sasuke and beat him until he calmed down, then embraced him as Sasuke cried.
• Kakashi and the ANBU entered the ward, saw Sasuke crying in Naruto's arms, and quietly left them alone.

Naruto pushed Sasuke to question whether Leaf Village officials had enabled the Uchiha massacre, but insisted Itachi remained guilty, driving Sasuke to embrace vengeance and awaken a three-tomoe Sharingan. Elsewhere, Menma watched a woman’s strange dreamlike state begin, while Izumi awakened from her haze at her mother’s voice.

• Kakashi questioned Sasuke about Itachi’s motive for the massacre and described the unresolved clues surrounding the attackers and Leaf Village’s response.
• Naruto challenged Sasuke to consider why ANBU and Root had failed to protect the Uchiha, leading Sasuke to suspect the village’s leaders had played a role.
• Naruto insisted that hidden circumstances did not excuse Itachi’s killings, and Sasuke vowed to avenge the Uchiha before awakening a three-tomoe Sharingan.
• Menma noticed a black-haired woman aboard the cargo ship shifting between peaceful and troubled expressions as strange chakra and ocular power stirred within her.
• Izumi Uchiha stared at the crimson moon, then became clear-eyed when her mother called her inside for dinner.

Izumi Uchiha experienced a vivid vision of Itachi killing her mother, then awoke to find her mother alive and the dinner overturned. Unsure whether she had seen genjutsu or the future, she opened the door to check and found the night peaceful before deciding to go for a walk.

• Izumi Uchiha shared dinner with her mother and reflected on the violence and burdens of being a ninja.
• A vision showed Itachi Uchiha arriving at their home, incapacitating Izumi’s mother, and killing her under Tsukuyomi.
• Izumi awoke from the vision with her mother unharmed, but the meal scattered across the room.
• Izumi tried to dispel what she feared was a genjutsu, then recognized her mother’s familiar words from the vision.
• Izumi opened the front door and found nothing unusual outside, then told her mother she would take a walk.

Izumi Uchiha enjoyed an illusion of a peaceful life with her mother and Itachi, but rejected its fabricated future and stabbed Itachi. After breaking free, she discovered she was still trapped in the massacre, with Itachi killing her mother before her eyes.

• Izumi visited Fugaku Uchiha and learned her mission had been canceled and Itachi had left ANBU to join the Police Force.
• Days later, Izumi joined Itachi's Second Squad, and the two began patrolling the village together.
• At the Death Forest stream, Itachi seemed ready to confess his feelings, but Izumi described the happy future she had imagined and stabbed him in the chest.
• Izumi recognized the peaceful life as a false illusion, awakened her Three-Tomoe Sharingan, and broke free from it.
• Itachi revealed that Izumi was still witnessing reality and pulled his blade from her mother's heart, prompting Izumi to scream that she would kill him.