Chapter Summaries

Uchiha Yoru and Uchiha Itachi were ambushed while rushing to warn Uchiha Fugaku, and Yoru realized the attacks were part of a plot to isolate the Uchiha and potentially frame him. They reached the besieged clan elites, but found Fugaku gravely injured, missing an eye, and wielding an ominous Mangekyō Sharingan.

• Uchiha Yoru returned to Tanzaku City with Uchiha Itachi and learned that Uchiha Fugaku was on his way back from the front line.
• Yoru exposed an impostor posing as an inn servant who had tried to poison Itachi, then inferred that someone had leaked Itachi’s information to provoke conflict.
• Yoru and Itachi hurried northwest to warn Fugaku, but masked attackers ambushed them; Yoru summoned an eagle and ordered Itachi to explain the recent intelligence.
• Itachi realized that information about Fugaku’s movements might have leaked through his crow communications, while Yoru suspected a scheme to frame him and destabilize the clan.
• Yoru fired the Uchiha Clan’s Signal Flare and unleashed a massive Fire Style attack to rescue the surrounded Uchiha Clan Elite.
• Yoru reached the survivors and found Fugaku badly wounded, missing one eye, and bearing an eerie blackish-purple Mangekyō Sharingan.

Uchiha Fugaku was fatally poisoned in a Root ambush and named Uchiha Yoru the next Clan Head before dying. Yoru took responsibility for Itachi, Sasuke, Mikoto, and the clan, then ordered the survivors to return to Konoha as Itachi collapsed from grief and guilt.

• Uchiha Yoru fought off the masked attackers, identified their leader as Root, and discovered their plan had targeted Fugaku's Mangekyō Sharingan.
• Yoru removed Fugaku's poisoned Mangekyō and sealed it, but Fugaku's poison had already spread throughout his body.
• Fugaku nominated Yoru as the new Clan Head and entrusted him with Itachi, Mikoto, Sasuke, and the Uchiha Clan before dying.
• Itachi realized his teammates had leaked information that led to his father's death, then awakened signs of a Mangekyō and fainted.
• Yoru sealed Fugaku's body and ordered the Uchiha survivors to gather intelligence, alert Elder Setsuna, and return to Konoha quickly.

After Root’s failed ambush on Uchiha Fugaku, Danzo showed Hiruzen and the elders a Mangekyō Sharingan, prompting Konoha to tighten security around the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki. At Fugaku’s funeral, Uchiha Yoru was chosen as the new Clan Head, though some Uchiha remained unconvinced.

• Danzo reported that Root had lost most of its operatives while recovering a nearly exhausted Mangekyō Sharingan, and Hiruzen confronted him over ambushing the Uchiha Clan Head.
• Danzo argued that the Uchiha’s Mangekyō threatened another Nine-Tails incident, and Hiruzen ordered Anbu to kill any Uchiha who approached the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki.
• At Fugaku’s funeral, Elder Setsuna announced that Fugaku had entrusted the clan to Uchiha Yoru and recommended him as the next Clan Head.
• Some Uchiha questioned Yoru’s age, but Setsuna cited his battlefield command record, and clan members increasingly voiced support for him.
• Yoru accepted the position, paid respects to Mikoto and Fugaku’s memorial, and took the seat of honor as the Uchiha Clan Head while some members remained doubtful.

Uchiha Yoru used his Mangekyō Sharingan to establish his authority as clan head and issued decrees to consolidate the Uchiha Clan’s strength and secure an alliance with the Hyuga Branch Family. The Third Hokage and other clan heads arrived as Yoru’s standing within the clan became secure.

• Uchiha Yoru revealed his Mangekyō Sharingan, silencing opposition and earning the Uchiha Clan’s submission.
• Uchiha Yoru named Uchiha Itachi and Sasuke Uchiha his disciples and granted them the treatment of young clan heads.
• Uchiha Yoru relieved four guards of their Konoha Military Police Force positions and assigned them to Naka Shrine.
• Uchiha Yoru ordered Elder Setsuna to seek the recall of at least seventy percent of the Uchiha elite forces and announced that four Military Police Force divisions would recruit elite shinobi.
• Uchiha Yoru announced an alliance with the Hyuga Clan’s Branch Family, winning support from both the Militant Hawk Faction and the Dove Faction.
• An Uchiha shinobi reported that the Third Hokage and the heads of the various clans had arrived.

At Fugaku’s funeral, Uchiha Yoru confronted Hiruzen Sarutobi and Shimura Danzō over the assassination, presenting evidence and invoking the Uchiha Clan’s authority through the Konoha Military Police Force. He left the village leaders facing the Uchiha’s demand to expand the force and recall elites from the front lines.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi and the clan heads attended Fugaku’s funeral and realized the Uchiha had already chosen Uchiha Yoru as their new clan head.
• Uchiha Yoru demanded an explanation for Fugaku’s assassination, then confronted Shimura Danzō and asserted the Konoha Military Police Force’s authority to investigate.
• Uchiha Yoru brought in three captured ninja, including a Sarutobi Jōnin, and displayed preserved corpses bearing evidence of the attackers’ seals and methods.
• Uchiha Yoru linked the attackers to the group responsible for Shin'nosuke Sarutobi’s death, prompting Hiruzen Sarutobi to order the Sealing Team and Anbu to assist the investigation.
• As Hiruzen Sarutobi and the clan heads prepared to leave, Uchiha Yoru announced that the Military Police Force would recruit village elites and recall Uchiha from the front lines; scarlet Sharingan appeared before the departing leaders.

After revealing his Mangekyō Sharingan, Uchiha Yoru used its power to rally the Uchiha and pressure Shibi Aburame over the venomous insects found on Uchiha Fugaku’s corpse. He demanded that the Aburame Clan relocate to the Uchiha Compound, leaving Shibi to return home and weigh the ultimatum.

• Uchiha Yoru revealed his Mangekyō Sharingan to Hiruzen Sarutobi and the gathered clan heads, declaring his awakening after Fugaku’s assassination.
• Uchiha Yoru told Elder Setsuna that the Uchiha needed unity and stability, then privately showed Shibi Aburame Fugaku’s corpse and pointed out the nano-scale venomous insects on it.
• Shibi Aburame explained that the insects were associated with Aburame Shikuroo and Torune Aburame, while Uchiha Yoru and Elder Setsuna accused the Aburame Clan of responsibility for Fugaku’s death.
• Uchiha Yoru urged Shibi to move the Aburame Clan into the Uchiha Compound, framing the demand as self-preservation amid Konoha’s hostility toward the Uchiha.
• Uchiha Yoru ordered evidence from Fugaku’s corpse sent to the Hokage Office and told the clan to gather its Chūnin and above that night, forcing Shibi to leave and consult his clansmen.

The Aburame Clan decided to appease the Uchiha, while Hiruzen Sarutobi learned that Danzō had used Konoha’s Intelligence Department in the plot against Fugaku. After the Uchiha mobilized their forces to avenge their former clan head, the chapter left the village on the brink of conflict, with an Aburame envoy facing the clan’s armed readiness.

• Shibi Aburame persuaded his clan’s Jōnin to offer the Uchiha a generous settlement and a sincere apology.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi ordered Danzō to hand over the Aburame operative in Root and warned him not to provoke Uchiha Yoru.
• An Anbu report revealed that Danzō’s squad had leaked information about Fugaku using the Intelligence Department’s network, enraging Hiruzen.
• An Anbu member reported that the Uchiha had summoned their Chūnin and higher-ranked fighters, distributed supplies, and declared vengeance for Fugaku.
• Hiruzen placed Root under his command as the Uchiha imposed martial law, equipped their forces, and prepared for battle while an Aburame envoy watched in fear.

Uchiha Yoru used the Aburame Clan’s suspected involvement in an assassination attempt to put the Uchiha on wartime alert and openly challenge Konoha’s surveillance and pressure. The Aburame Clan chose to side with the Uchiha, while Hiruzen Sarutobi confronted Shimura Danzō over the weakness his actions had exposed.

• Uchiha Yoru returned the Aburame Clan’s apology gifts, ordered the Uchiha Compound into wartime alert, and sent the Aburame messenger away.
• Uchiha Yoru told Elder Setsuna to spread the claim that Uchiha Neta had betrayed the clan and tried to assassinate Uchiha Fugaku, then ordered the removal of Root and Anbu spies around the compound.
• Shibi Aburame decided to reveal the Nano-Poisonous Insects to the major clans and relocate the Aburame Clan to the Uchiha Compound.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi and the elders rebuked Shimura Danzō for using Uchiha Neta in an assassination plan and allowing the Uchiha to seize a pretext against Konoha.

Uchiha Yoru welcomed the Aburame Clan into the Uchiha Compound and used the growing crisis to strengthen the clan’s alliances. Meanwhile, Hiruzen Sarutobi ordered the village to avoid further conflict and questioned whether Root had been involved in his son Shin'nosuke’s death, leaving a fracture of distrust among Konoha’s leaders.

• Shibi Aburame asked Uchiha Yoru to shelter the Aburame Clan, and Yoru agreed while assigning Uchiha Tekka to arrange their settlement and sending the Military Police to investigate Aburame territory.
• Uchiha Yoru told Elder Setsuna that strength allowed the Uchiha to stand as equals with Konoha’s leaders, while Setsuna reflected on the clan’s Mangekyo deterrent.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi and the Konoha F4 discussed the Aburame Clan’s move, the Uchiha, the border crisis, and the Daimyo’s growing control over Fire Temple’s warrior monks.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi ordered Asuma recalled, Root to lie low, and the village’s spies withdrawn from the Uchiha Clan while Konoha focused on stabilizing its troubles.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi asked whether Root had caused Shin'nosuke’s death, and Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura fell silent as he chose not to pursue the matter for the village’s sake.

Uchiha Yoru’s confrontation with Konoha’s leadership escalated after the Intelligence Department leak, as the Ino-Shika-Cho clans chose to protect their own interests and Inoichi Yamanaka died. Hiruzen Sarutobi and Yoru faced off at the Uchiha Compound, where Yoru invoked Konoha’s past scandals and Hiruzen agreed that the rules applied to everyone, leaving the Uchiha newly united but the village’s conflict unresolved.

• Shimura Danzō blamed the Intelligence Department for the leak and pressured the Ino-Shika-Cho clan heads to answer for it.
• Shikaku Nara concluded the Uchiha would not compromise, while Inoichi Yamanaka took responsibility and left; Hiruzen Sarutobi and the other leaders inferred that the three clans would not oppose them.
• Uchiha Yoru ordered stronger defenses and told the Uchiha not to let their dispute affect the village as the Aburame Clan and Hyuga Branch Family joined the guard.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi arrived at the Uchiha Compound with Ino-Shika-Cho shinobi, a covered stretcher, and Torune Aburame, announcing that Inoichi had committed seppuku.
• Yoru challenged Hiruzen over Konoha’s treatment of White Fang, Orochimaru, and Madara Uchiha; Hiruzen agreed that anyone who broke the rules had to admit and correct their mistake, steadying the Uchiha while leaving the confrontation exposed.

Uchiha Yoru confronted Hiruzen Sarutobi, defended the Uchiha Clan’s rights, and used the dispute over Inoichi Yamanaka’s family to secure the clan’s dignity. The next morning, the Konoha Military Police Force resumed operations and began expanding under Yoru’s leadership, while Hiruzen prepared for the village’s shifting political and military situation.

• Uchiha Yoru declared that the Konoha Military Police Force would protect the major clans while staying out of their internal affairs, then took Torune Aburame as his disciple and assigned him to a team with Uchiha Itachi.
• Uchiha Yoru acknowledged that Inoichi Yamanaka had died because of the Uchiha and offered to raise Inoichi’s daughter, forcing the new Yamanaka Clan Head to accept responsibility for protecting her.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi ordered the Konoha Military Police Force to resume normal operations, and Uchiha Yoru promised to make it stronger.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi issued orders to reinforce the borders, investigate the Fire Temple incident and large Rogue Ninja groups, and summon Kakashi back from the front lines.
• Uchiha Yoru reorganized the Konoha Military Police Force, appointing Kakashi, Hizashi Hyuga, Uchiha Shisui, and Shibi Aburame to leadership roles while creating an elite unit to protect the clan.

Uchiha Yoru rescued Pakura from a Mist Ninja ambush, gave her a Cursed Seal, and helped her escape the Land of Water. As turmoil spread through Konoha, Kirigakure, and Sunagakure, Hiruzen Sarutobi ordered Konoha to pursue ties with the rebel factions while trying to stabilize the Uchiha Clan.

• A Mist Ninja betrayed Pakura and led her into an ambush, leaving her wounded and trapped in a cave.
• Uchiha Yoru emerged from a Summoning Beast, treated Pakura, gave her a Cursed Seal, and set traps and a barrier to hide her.
• Pakura awakened with renewed strength, used the Cursed Seal to fight her way out of the valley, and escaped the Land of Water.
• News of Uchiha Yoru's Mangekyō Sharingan and unrest in Konoha spread, while Mei Terumi's Rebel Army grew in Kirigakure and Pakura rallied a faction against the Fourth Kazekage in Sunagakure.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi ordered Shikaku Nara to negotiate with Kirigakure and secretly contact Mei Terumi's Rebel Army, while Konoha investigated Pakura and sought to calm tensions with the Uchiha Clan.

Uchiha Yoru met with Kakashi and Shisui after their return from the front and discussed Fugaku’s death, Yoru’s growing influence, and the succession to the Hokage. He supported Jiraiya or Tsunade as Fifth Hokage, but warned that the Third might cling to power and prevent a successor from being chosen.

• Uchiha Yoru welcomed Kakashi and Shisui back and stopped Shisui from pursuing Fugaku’s death while Konoha faced turmoil.
• Yoru asked Kakashi to lead the ninja who had joined from Orochimaru’s former followers.
• Kakashi warned Yoru that his influence made him a target and that the Third’s upper echelon would oppose his bid for Fifth Hokage.
• Yoru agreed to support Jiraiya or Tsunade as Hokage and asked Kakashi to contact Jiraiya while he approached Tsunade.
• Yoru warned Kakashi and Shisui that personal interests might lead the Third to hold onto power and leave Konoha without a Fifth Hokage.

Uchiha Yoru set a deadline for Konoha’s leaders to begin choosing a Fifth Hokage and prepared to seize control if they refused, enlisting Kakashi and allies while seeking the White Fang’s prestige. Back at the Uchiha Compound, he encountered Itachi, Mikoto, and Sasuke, whose safety was tied to Yoru’s rule as clan head.

• Uchiha Yoru told Shisui and Kakashi he would give Konoha’s leadership half a year to consider selecting a Fifth Hokage, then use every means necessary if they remained unmoved.
• Uchiha Yoru asked Kakashi for the White Fang’s prestige, and Kakashi agreed to gamble everything if the village’s leaders proved beyond saving.
• Might Guy, Shiranui Genma, Namiashi Raidō, Tatami Iwashi, Hyūga Hizashi, Yūhi Kurenai, Yugao, and Mitaraishi Anko joined Yoru’s group and showed their resolve.
• Izumi Uchiha served Yoru at his residence, where he urged her to keep training before she followed him back to the Uchiha Compound.
• Uchiha Yoru met Uchiha Itachi and Mikoto Uchiha at home, while Izumi took Sasuke outside; Yoru recognized that protecting Mikoto and her children helped secure the clan’s stability.

Uzuki Yugao resigned from the Military Police Force because she could no longer bear the gossip, pressure, and secrecy surrounding her relationship with Uchiha Yoru. Yoru accepted her decision and gave her a flower shop, a sword, and money as a parting gift, while Yugao left uncertainly overwhelmed by his kindness.

• Uzuki Yugao told Uchiha Yoru she could no longer remain his secret lover and planned to leave the Military Police Force.
• Uchiha Yoru accepted Yugao’s resignation and arranged to gradually reduce her presence at work so she would attract less attention.
• Yugao told Yūhi Kurenai and Mitaraishi Anko that she had resigned, and Anko objected to her returning the gifts Yoru had given her.
• Uchiha Yoru took Yugao to a Flower Shop he had bought for her and told her she could come to him if she ever needed help.
• Uchiha Yoru left Yugao with a purple longsword and a bankbook, and she watched him depart in tears.

Uchiha Yoru trained Sasuke and reassured Mikoto that he would bear the blame if his dangerous plans failed, while Itachi grew fiercely devoted to him and Sasuke concluded that Yoru was his father. At a class reunion, Uzuki Yugao tried to bury her feelings for the person she had spent three years with, while Gekko Hayate decided to pursue her.

• Uchiha Yoru praised Sasuke's taijutsu and promised to teach him Shuriken Technique as a reward for placing first in the Ninja Academy entrance test.
• Mikoto told Uchiha Yoru she believed in him, and he said he would have the clan distance itself from him if his plans failed.
• Uchiha Itachi told Sasuke to regard Uchiha Yoru as someone greater than a father, and Sasuke took this as confirmation that Yoru was his biological father.
• Uzuki Yugao told her classmates she wanted a quiet life caring for children and reading at a Flower Shop, though she thought of the person she had spent three years with.
• Gekko Hayate decided to pursue Uzuki Yugao after hearing her describe the ordinary life she wanted.

The chapter described how Uchiha Yoru’s reformed Konoha Military Police Force gained support through strict hierarchy, practical benefits, and an entertainment district for ninja. Gekko Hayate tried to pursue Uzuki Yugao, but his mother’s investigation left him stunned by the wealth behind Yugao’s weapon and jewelry.

• Uchiha Yoru’s Military Police Force established different standards for ninja and civilians, expanded recruitment, and opened an entertainment district that helped win village support.
• Gekko Hayate told Ebisu, Izumo Kamizuki, and Kotetsu Hagane that he wanted to pursue Uzuki Yugao, but Ebisu warned that her Chakra Metal sword and accessories suggested she was far beyond his means.
• Gekko Hayate asked his mother to investigate Yugao, and she told him Yugao was unsuitable for him.
• Hayate’s mother showed him records revealing that Yugao’s sword had cost 1.3 million ryo in labor and her jewelry was also extremely expensive, leaving Hayate staring blankly at the documents.

Uzuki Yugao confronted her past and accepted that she would not give up the strength and gifts she had gained, ending her hopes of a simple life with Gekko Hayate. She then learned that Ino Yamanaka blamed the clan leaders and the Third Hokage for her parents’ deaths, leaving Yugao to reflect on Konoha’s politics.

• Uzuki Yugao admitted to Gekko Hayate that she had accepted valuable gifts and training from a former partner and would not surrender them to erase her past.
• Gekko Hayate accepted that he and Yugao belonged to different worlds and left the Flower Shop decisively.
• Ino Yamanaka visited Yugao’s shop, and Yugao asked about her life and dreams while using a technique to relax her guard.
• Ino revealed that she wanted to become the strongest female Jōnin and confront the Ino-Shika-Cho clan leaders and the Third Hokage over her parents’ deaths.
• Uzuki Yugao concluded that political scheming had caused Ino’s parents’ deaths and condemned the coldness of Konoha’s leadership.

Kakashi concluded that Hiruzen Sarutobi would not allow a successor to challenge his hold on power, while Hiruzen and Konoha’s elders grew alarmed that the Uchiha might nominate a Fifth Hokage. The chapter ended with Hiruzen ordering Danzo to question the new Uchiha clan head about the Nine-Tails’ attack and the Fourth Hokage’s death.

• Kakashi reported the Konoha Military Police Force’s growth and the Uchiha Clan’s expanding influence to Hiruzen Sarutobi, then raised rumors about choosing a Fifth Hokage.
• Hiruzen dismissed the need for a successor, and Kakashi left convinced that Hiruzen treated his Will of Fire as a doctrine no one could question.
• Hiruzen summoned Utatane Koharu, Mitokado Homura, and Shimura Danzō, claiming intelligence indicated the Konoha Military Police Force planned to nominate a Fifth Hokage.
• The elders argued that choosing a new Hokage could destabilize the village and strengthen the Uchiha, while Danzō opposed any transfer of power.
• Hiruzen decided to preempt the Uchiha by sending Danzō to ask their new clan head about the investigation into the Fourth Hokage’s death during the Nine-Tails’ Rampage.

Uchiha Yoru and his allies discussed how to build their strength against Konoha’s leadership and recruit the Hyuga Main Family. Shisui then reported that his Kotoamatsukami was unlikely to work on the Third Hokage or Danzō, so Yoru directed him to target one of the two elderly advisors.

• Shisui angrily questioned Kakashi over the warning scroll Root had sent about renewed suspicion of the Uchiha’s role in the Nine-Tails’ Rampage, and Kakashi argued that their side was not strong enough to overthrow the leadership yet.
• Kakashi proposed winning over neutral clans, waiting for the Third Hokage and the Sarutobi Clan to lose support, and using Root’s interference in the Hyuga Clan as a way to approach the Hyuga Main Family.
• Hizashi agreed to visit the Main Family, and Yoru offered to take Neji as his disciple if Hiashi agreed.
• Yoru told Kakashi that power could suppress conflict and that he wanted to topple the current leadership with as little damage to the village as possible; Kakashi said he would grow stronger and might use his Sharingan against the Third.
• Shisui said Kotoamatsukami was unlikely to succeed against the Third or Shimura Danzō, but had an eighty percent chance against Utatane Koharu or Mitokado Homura, and Yoru told him to secretly seek an opportunity to influence one of them.