Chapter Summaries

Uchiha Yoru used his Curse Mark and Mangekyō Sharingan to overwhelm Suikazan Fuguki, Kisame Hoshigaki, and the Mist Ninja with amplified attacks. The fight left him pinned as Fuguki launched a chakra-absorbing shark technique, but Yoru remained confident.

• Uchiha Yoru activated Curse Mark Stage One and used smoke, lightning, genjutsu, and his Mangekyō’s Sage’s Eye to kill two Mist Ninja and paralyze Kisame Hoshigaki and two others.
• Uchiha Yoru used a Shadow Clone to distract the Mist Ninja while his real body rode a flying eagle and unleashed Sage Art: Great Fire Annihilation from above.
• Suikazan Fuguki countered the flames with Great Waterfall Technique, while Kisame Hoshigaki escaped underground and several Mist Ninja were injured.
• Uchiha Yoru attacked through the steam with explosive-tagged shuriken and lightning-infused sword strikes, reducing the Mist Ninja’s fighting force further.
• After Uchiha Yoru’s Mangekyō power waned, Kisame Hoshigaki and another Mist Ninja pinned his sword and arm as Suikazan Fuguki launched Great Shark Bullet Technique, but Yoru smiled confidently.

Uchiha Yoru survived the Mist Ninja’s attack with a Great Snake Substitute Technique and outmaneuvered Suikazan Fuguki in a trap for Great Sword: Samehada. After Fuguki’s Explosive Tags badly injured him, Yoru revealed that he had secretly stolen the real Samehada, while Konoha reinforcements approached.

• Uchiha Yoru used a one-handed Earth Style technique, but Kisame Hoshigaki and Suikazan Fuguki’s Great Shark Bullet Technique tore through the walls and struck him.
• Suikazan Fuguki attacked the apparently maimed Uchiha Yoru, but Yoru emerged from underground after substituting a Mud Clone and pierced Fuguki’s shoulder with Lightning Style: Chidori Sharp Spear.
• Suikazan Fuguki tricked Uchiha Yoru into grabbing Great Sword: Samehada, whose barbs injured Yoru’s hand before an Explosive Tag forced him to retreat.
• Uchiha Yoru secretly replaced Samehada with a transformed snake and concealed the real sword inside another snake, then Fuguki’s Mist Ninja sensory ninja warned that Konoha reinforcements were coming.
• Suikazan Fuguki’s fake Samehada transformed into a snake covered with Explosive Tags, and he used Water Style: Water Prison Technique to contain the blast, badly injuring his arms.
• Uchiha Yoru revealed that he had used Hidden Shadow Snake Hands, Transformation Jutsu, and Sealing Jutsu to steal the real Samehada and deceive Fuguki.

Uchiha Yoru led Konoha’s defense against Suikazan Fuguki’s Mist Ninja, drove them back, and ordered preparations against further attacks. After learning the Mist Ninja had raided Konoha’s logistics bases and seized supplies, Yoru accepted full responsibility for the losses, earning the respect of his troops.

• Might Guy arrived as reinforcements, and Suikazan Fuguki ordered the Mist Ninja to retreat after Samehada went missing.
• Uchiha Yoru ordered Konoha’s forces to secure the camp, treat the wounded, and prepare for a possible counterattack.
• Yoru sent Might Guy to support Kakashi and had Kurenai record intelligence about Samehada’s summoning connection.
• Reports revealed that Mist Ninja had raided multiple bases, destroyed logistics warehouses, and seized Chakra Metal, Fine Iron, and supplies.
• Yoru ordered the camp to remain on alert, requested reinforcements, and declared that he would take full responsibility for the losses.
• Konoha’s ninjas protested Yoru’s decision and grew more admiring of him.

Hiruzen Sarutobi planned to reinforce Konoha's forces in the Land of Whirlpools to test whether the Mist Ninja would negotiate or limit the war, unaware that the Fourth Mizukage was being controlled. During the uneasy pause, both sides misread the other’s actions, while Uchiha Yoru and his allies falsified losses from the burned supply depots to cover their gains.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi and Konoha’s council discussed the Mist Ninja’s reinforcements and agreed to send 430 ninja to the Land of Whirlpools as a test of their resolve.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi planned to present the reinforcements as replacements for losses and withdraw them if the Mist Ninja accepted peace talks or kept the conflict limited.
• Suikazan Fuguki assumed Konoha was concealing its victory to avoid escalating the conflict, so he hid the loss of Great Sword: Samehada.
• Hatake Kakashi, Hizashi Hyuga, and Uchiha Shisui reported exaggerated supply losses to Uchiha Yoru after the depots burned.
• Uchiha Yoru told Hizashi Hyuga to use his share to stabilize the Hyuga Branch Family’s expenses.

Uchiha Yoru ordered Kakashi to eliminate the compromised Ueki while bringing trusted allies into the secret, then viewed the scandal as a chance to build his faction. Meanwhile, intelligence about Konoha’s reinforcements pushed Kumogakure, Iwagakure, and Sunagakure to plan an ambush, as Ume Sarutobi delayed the troops.

• Kakashi told Yoru that Ueki had leaked intelligence under pressure from Ume Sarutobi, and Yoru ordered Kakashi to make Ueki’s death appear to result from his injuries while protecting his family’s reputation.
• Yoru sent Shisui to bring Itachi and told Kakashi to include Might Guy, Genma Squad, and Kurenai Squad, intending to draw them into his inner circle.
• Fourth Raikage Ay received intelligence from a spy in Konoha’s upper ranks and ordered an elite Kumogakure force to intercept Konoha’s reinforcements.
• Ōnoki decided to coordinate with the Raikage and Kazekage, disguise his forces as Mist Ninja, and destroy the reinforcements to provoke conflict between Konoha and the Mist.
• Rasa ordered Baki to join the Iwagakure and Kumogakure operation, while Ume Sarutobi admitted she had delayed the reinforcements to cause Yoru trouble.

Karatachi Yagura secretly joined the other great villages in plotting to destroy Konoha’s reinforcements, while Captain Sarutobi deliberately slowed the march under Shin'nosuke Sarutobi’s orders. Uchiha Yoru urged Uchiha Shisui to remain calm and gather allies for the reforms they hoped to make.

• Karatachi Yagura ordered three hundred Mist Ninja to join forces with the Raikage, Tsuchikage, and Kazekage to ambush Konoha’s reinforcement force.
• Baki proposed abandoning the ambush in favor of dividing and surrounding Konoha’s troops, and the four villages agreed to disguise themselves as smaller nations’ ninja.
• The four villages prepared a surprise attack, while the Mist Ninja kept another hundred elites hidden near the coast as support.
• Captain Sarutobi revealed that the reinforcement mission was intended to intimidate the Mist Ninja, then blamed the slow march on a decision by Shin'nosuke Sarutobi.
• Uchiha Shisui complained to Uchiha Yoru about the delayed reinforcements and the casualties at the front, and Uchiha Yoru told him to build strength and unite allies before pursuing reform.

Kakashi and Shisui brought Itachi and several Konoha ninja to the front-line cell, where Ueki revealed how village officials had coerced him into leaking intelligence to the Mist Ninja. He left them confronting the possibility that the Third Hokage’s family had targeted Yoru to undermine his growing influence.

• Kakashi led the group into the mine’s cell, while Shisui told Itachi that enemies could come from within their own village.
• Kakashi gave Ueki a letter and photograph from his wife and child, and Ueki read about their child passing the Ninja Academy entrance examination.
• Anko confronted Ueki over his betrayal, and Ueki said people from the village had threatened his family.
• Kakashi confirmed that Ueki’s family had been threatened by people from the village, and Ueki said he had refused to compromise before being forced to follow orders.
• Ueki identified a Sarutobi Clan jonin, whom he said was the Third Hokage’s eldest son, and claimed that the former Anbu Captain had ordered him to leak information to the Mist Ninja and reveal Yoru’s location.

Uchiha Yoru comforted Ueki, then denounced Konoha’s leadership and called for a revolution to restore the village’s ideals. Most of those gathered pledged to follow him, though Might Guy first asked what would happen if he refused.

• Uchiha Yoru told Ueki he understood his choice, then declared that Ueki had died from his battle wounds and would be remembered as a village hero.
• Yoru condemned Konoha’s leaders for exploiting heroes and cited White Fang, Orochimaru, and Might Guy’s father as examples.
• Yoru called for a revolution and asked everyone to join him in rebuilding Konoha and restoring the Will of Fire.
• Uchiha Itachi, Hatake Kakashi, Genma Squad, Mitaraishi Anko, Yūhi Kurenai, Uzuki Yugao, Uchiha Shisui, Might Guy, and Hizashi Hyuga pledged their support by bumping fists with Yoru.
• Might Guy asked what Yoru would do if he withdrew, but Yoru urged him not to obstruct his love for Konoha and said he still believed in him.
• Yoru urged the group to train and grow stronger so they could change Konoha, while Ueki expressed hope that the village might one day be cleansed of darkness.

Uchiha Yoru spared Ueki and sent him into hiding, then named his circle of allies the Konoha Twelve Strong. After learning that nearly five hundred reinforcements had been wiped out, Yoru prepared the Land of Whirlpools bases for an imminent attack and rallied his forces to prioritize their survival.

• Uchiha Yoru told Ueki to hide and endure until Konoha could be reformed, and Ueki left hoping to reunite with his family someday.
• Uchiha Yoru proposed the name Konoha Twelve Strong, and the others accepted it as their group’s name.
• Uchiha Yoru received news that nearly five hundred Konoha reinforcements had been wiped out, and he ordered the camp to prepare for an attack.
• Hatake Kakashi reported that the camp had supplies for a month, and Uchiha Yoru ordered ninja to use their weapons freely and abandon the other bases if necessary.
• Uchiha Yoru promised to take responsibility for losing the mineral veins and urged his ninja to return alive, uniting them behind him.
• Uchiha Yoru ordered continuous surveillance, traps, and medical treatment as news of the destroyed reinforcement force spread across the front line.

Hiruzen Sarutobi and Konoha’s other leaders mistook a chaotic ambush for a coordinated alliance of the Four Great Ninja Villages and devised a plan to split them. They decided to offer Sunagakure part of its mission compensation in exchange for its withdrawal, while reinforcing the Land of Whirlpools without crossing the threshold for all-out war.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi presented intelligence that five hundred Konoha reinforcements had been ambushed by a force bearing signs of several villages, and the leaders feared the Four Great Ninja Villages had secretly united.
• Shimura Danzō criticized the defeated commander, while Hiruzen Sarutobi warned him to keep Root away from the major clans.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi proposed returning ten percent of Sunagakure’s high-level missions to persuade it to leave the alliance, and Mitokado Homura agreed to visit Sunagakure.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi reported that Konoha’s forces in the Land of Whirlpools were struggling and proposed sending six hundred reinforcements, but the others urged him to keep the front-line force below one thousand.
• Konoha’s leaders agreed to reinforce the borders with the Land of Water and the Land of Lightning, send Shin'nosuke Sarutobi to command at the Land of Water border, and order Jiraiya to guard against Stone Ninja.

Sunagakure weighed Konoha’s request and chose to pursue immediate benefits rather than join a campaign against Konoha. In the Land of Whirlpools, the Mist Ninja prepared to assault Konoha’s base, where Uchiha Yoru rallied the defenders and assigned Kakashi to coordinate the battle.

• Rasa, Ebizo, and Chiyo discussed Konoha’s offer and decided Sunagakure would seek mission work and other benefits instead of fighting Konoha.
• Obito ordered the Mist Ninja to attack Konoha’s base, and Fuguki agreed to lead the assault with the surviving reinforcements and Kisame Hoshigaki supporting him.
• Yoru ordered Konoha’s other bases to hold their positions and arranged for Kakashi and Genma Squad to coordinate the defense.
• Yoru refused to stay behind the lines, declared that the Uchiha would protect Konoha, and inspired the Konoha forces to rally around him.
• Anko encouraged Yoru and vowed to become Konoha’s strongest female ninja, while Kurenai and Yugao watched with strained smiles.

Uchiha Yoru led Konoha’s forces against the Mist Ninja, but Kisame Hoshigaki, Ao, and Suikazan Fuguki used tactics tailored to his abilities to trap and ambush him. The chapter ended with Yoru transforming into a giant snake after Fuguki’s apparent attack, while Fuguki was revealed to be a Water Clone.

• The Mist Ninja reshaped the battlefield with Water and Earth Release, and Uchiha Yoru summoned Manda to rupture their reservoirs.
• Uchiha Yoru fought Kisame Hoshigaki, Ao, and a masked Mist Ninja, but Kisame trapped him inside a massive water sphere.
• Uchiha Yoru tried Genjutsu and smoke bombs to escape, then swam toward the bottom of the water prison to use Earth Release.
• Kisame sent five sharks after Uchiha Yoru, but Yoru disrupted them with Lightning Release.
• Suikazan Fuguki emerged from underground and stabbed Uchiha Yoru, who transformed into a giant snake and bit him; Fuguki was revealed to be a Water Clone.

Uchiha Yoru escaped Kisame Hoshigaki’s water prison, broke the Mist Ninja’s plan, and overwhelmed their forces with fire, shuriken, and lightning-fast sword attacks. He wounded Mei Terumi and left her facing a sudden warning from behind as his apparent body turned into mud and water.

• Uchiha Yoru escaped Kisame Hoshigaki’s water prison by using a transformed snake clone to conceal his real body, then unleashed a massive fire technique across the forest.
• Kisame Hoshigaki’s water prison collapsed after his chakra ran low, and Ao pulled him away from Uchiha Yoru’s fire dragons.
• Uchiha Yoru struck Mei Terumi from above, then used a barrage of shuriken and his lightning blade to cut down and disable the Mist Ninja around him.
• Mei Terumi melted the giant snakes attacking her with Lava Style acid, but Uchiha Yoru pierced her abdomen through an earth wall.
• Uchiha Yoru challenged Mei Terumi over her failure to use wide-area ninjutsu, then a warning sounded behind him as his body turned into mud and water.

Uchiha Yoru drove back a Mist Ninja probing attack and warned Konoha that Kirigakure planned to exploit its dispersed forces and the Land of Whirlpools’ strategic value. The Fourth Mizukage, backed by the Raikage and Tsuchikage, prepared to intensify pressure on Konoha as the other villages maneuvered against it.

• Mei Terumi escaped Uchiha Yoru after Mist Ninja attacks forced him to use her as a shield, then watched him slaughter enemies as Kirigakure retreated under cover of Hidden Mist.
• Uchiha Yoru ordered Konoha to alert Hizashi Hyuga and Uchiha Shisui, predicting attacks on their positions and explaining that Kirigakure sought to weaken Konoha and seize the Land of Whirlpools.
• Uchiha Yoru warned Hatake Kakashi to use his eye sparingly, referring to the burden of his Mangekyo.
• Karatachi Yagura ordered another three-hundred-man legion sent to the Land of Whirlpools and asked the Raikage and Tsuchikage to restrain Konoha.
• Fourth Raikage Ay agreed to pressure Konoha, spread rumors, and stir up border conflicts, while Ōnoki hired Akatsuki and sent an envoy to court Sunagakure.

Konoha’s advisors negotiated with Sunagakure over border unrest, while Chiyo stalled their demands and learned that an Iwagakure envoy had arrived. The envoy offered help renegotiating Sunagakure’s treaty with Konoha, but revealed that Ōnoki wanted a share of Sunagakure’s high-level mission quota in return.

• Utatane Koharu accused Sunagakure of attacking Konoha’s border forces, but Chiyo denied responsibility and turned the discussion toward Konoha’s need for aid.
• Chiyo cited Sunagakure’s financial hardship and asked Konoha to send elite ninja, prompting a long argument between the village advisors.
• Baki informed Chiyo that an envoy from the Land of Earth had arrived, so she left the meeting and arranged for Konoha’s advisors to rest.
• The Iwagakure envoy praised Sunagakure and presented Rasa, Chiyo, and Ebizo with a private alliance treaty backed by Ōnoki and the Raikage.
• Chiyo said Sunagakure could not risk war with Konoha, and the envoy offered to help renegotiate the treaty in exchange for a portion of Sunagakure’s mission quota.

Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura negotiated with Grandma Chiyo and Ebizo, eventually agreeing that Sunagakure would receive an 11.5 percent share of Konoha’s mission quota in exchange for helping contain Iwagakure. On the Land of Whirlpools battlefield, Uchiha Yoru confronted Suikazan Fuguki and demanded a person in exchange for keeping his loss of Great Sword: Samehada secret.

• Utatane Koharu proposed reducing Konoha’s mission quota from Sunagakure by five percentage points, while Grandma Chiyo pressed for the wartime quota treaty to be abandoned.
• Utatane Koharu and Grandma Chiyo threatened to let the alliance deteriorate as they bargained, then settled on an 11.5 percent mission quota for Sunagakure.
• Konoha’s elite reinforcements arrived at the Land of Whirlpools battlefield, many of them remnants of Orochimaru’s former forces.
• Uchiha Yoru clashed with Suikazan Fuguki in the mist and reminded him that losing Great Sword: Samehada could ruin his standing in Kirigakure.
• Uchiha Yoru rejected Suikazan Fuguki’s offers of ninjutsu and secret techniques, then said he wanted a person.

Uchiha Yoru used Suikazan Fuguki’s secret dealings and desire to keep his position to secure Fuguki’s cooperation, including intelligence and access to promising Kirigakure children, while withholding Samehada. After Konoha’s reinforcements arrived and the armies withdrew, Yoru treated wounded ninja at the base and coordinated its defenses with Hatake Kakashi.

• Uchiha Yoru confronted Suikazan Fuguki with evidence that he had sold Mist Ninja intelligence and pressured him into cooperating rather than defecting or fighting to the death.
• Yoru demanded promising children and valuable Kekkei Genkai test subjects, while Fuguki asked for Samehada back and learned that Orochimaru was supposedly in the Land of Whirlpools.
• Fuguki agreed to provide intelligence on Kisame Hoshigaki and investigate the masked Kekkei Genkai ninja, while Yoru urged him to target Kekkei Genkai ninja on the front line.
• Signal flares announced Konoha’s reinforcements and the Mist Ninja’s retreat, temporarily ending the fighting in the Land of Whirlpools.
• Uchiha Yoru treated wounded ninja at Konoha’s base and instructed Hatake Kakashi to strengthen reconnaissance and organize the reinforcements.

As Konoha’s war with Kirigakure paused under a blizzard, Orochimaru warned Uchiha Yoru that Shin'nosuke Sarutobi and Tsunade were being sent to the front, likely to bolster Shin'nosuke’s standing and diminish Yoru’s influence. Yoru learned Tsunade could overcome her hemophobia by altering her vision, leaving him wary of how he would need to act around her.

• Fourth Raikage Ay, furious that Ōnoki and Sunagakure had gained benefits without him, ordered Kumogakure to stir up trouble along Konoha’s borders and spread rumors of a coming Mist Ninja war.
• Uchiha Yoru led Konoha’s front-line forces through months of evenly matched skirmishes, prioritizing ninja lives over supplies as a blizzard brought both sides a temporary pause.
• Orochimaru told Uchiha Yoru that Konoha was growing impatient with the stalled conflict and planned to send Shin'nosuke Sarutobi to the front to build prestige.
• Orochimaru revealed that Jiraiya had been sent near Iwagakure and that Tsunade had come to the front, while his own research had reached a critical stage.
• Orochimaru explained that Tsunade could counter her hemophobia by cutting the nerves that let her perceive red, and Uchiha Yoru realized he would need to restrain some of his methods around her.

Uchiha Yoru warned Yakushi Nonō and Kabuto Yakushi that Root might expose them, then offered Kabuto a chance to leave for Orochimaru. After Nonō revealed Danzo suspected Yoru had awakened the Mangekyo and had ordered her to investigate him, Yoru agreed to help protect the Orphanage while she reported her findings to Root.

• Uchiha Yoru told Yakushi Nonō and Kabuto Yakushi that Root might no longer be safe for them and offered them a path to Orochimaru.
• Yakushi Nonō urged Kabuto Yakushi to leave Root, and Kabuto accepted Yoru's plan to stage an ambush during a mission to the rear.
• Uchiha Yoru promised to help keep the Orphanage supplied while warning that making it too prosperous would attract danger.
• Yakushi Nonō revealed that Danzo had sent her to determine whether Yoru had awakened the Mangekyo and to analyze his body through Medical Ninjutsu.
• Yakushi Nonō collected Yoru's cells to send to Root, while Yoru suspected Danzo intended to develop a poison against him.

Uchiha Yoru pressured Suikazan Fuguki into cooperating on a major operation before Shin'nosuke Sarutobi replaced him as commander, while continuing to hold Fuguki’s Great Sword: Samehada as leverage. After the blizzard ended, Yoru wrote promotion recommendations for his subordinates, but Mitaraishi Anko and the others were startled by what they read on the scrolls.

• Uchiha Yoru and Suikazan Fuguki argued over plans to make Kisame Hoshigaki and Mei Terumi defect, with Fuguki demanding the return of Great Sword: Samehada.
• Uchiha Yoru told Fuguki that Shin'nosuke Sarutobi might replace him and proposed a major operation to secure spoils before then.
• Suikazan Fuguki described Kirigakure's opposition to the Land of Whirlpools front and speculated about the Fourth Mizukage's motives.
• After the blizzard ended, Uchiha Yoru prepared Letters of Recommendation for Yūhi Kurenai, Uzuki Yugao, Mitaraishi Anko, Might Guy, and others, seeking their promotions.
• Uchiha Yoru assigned Hatake Kakashi to collect Genin signatures for Chunin recommendations, then Mitaraishi Anko and the others saw the merit recommendation and became puzzled.