Chapter Summaries

Kyosuke told Hyuga Tennin about the Moon Clan threat and secured the Hyuga leader’s agreement to join forces with the Uchiha in exchange for the Tenseigan. The Senju brothers arrived, and Hashirama stopped Tennin from striking Tobirama as Tobirama charged at Kyosuke.

• Kyosuke asked Tennin whether the Hyuga had agreed to ally with the Senju, and Tennin said they would not.
• Kyosuke explained the Moon Clan’s arrival and threat to destroy the Hyuga, and Tennin demanded the Tenseigan as his reward for victory.
• Tennin agreed to cooperate with the Uchiha, then considered pairing Kyosuke with Yayoi.
• Hashirama and Tobirama arrived, and Tobirama drew his sword and charged at Kyosuke, demanding vengeance for his uncle.
• Tennin moved to stop Tobirama, but Hashirama blocked Tennin’s palm strike and urged him to calm down.

Tobirama imagined defeating Kyosuke in a fierce battle, but Hashirama revealed that Kyosuke had trapped him in a genjutsu from the start. Kyosuke then delivered the promised gift to Hashirama by slapping him across the courtyard.

• Tobirama fought Kyosuke in an imagined battle, using shadow clones and modified water-release techniques against him.
• Tobirama believed he had defeated Kyosuke, but Hashirama woke him and explained that Kyosuke had caught him in a genjutsu as soon as he left the room.
• Tobirama realized he had lost and seethed over being fooled, while Hashirama tried to stop Kyosuke from continuing the fight.
• Hashirama asked Kyosuke to stop, but Kyosuke insisted he had to deliver Madara's promised gift.
• Kyosuke slapped Hashirama and sent him flying across the courtyard.

Kyosuke provoked Hashirama into a fight at the Hyuga Clan's training ground to test his strength. After overcoming Hashirama's Wood Release defenses with his Mangekyō, Kyosuke wounded him with his Kusanagi Sword.

• Hashirama offered his cheek to Kyosuke in remorse, while Kyosuke told Hashirama and Tobirama that Tennin had allied the Hyuga with the Uchiha.
• Kyosuke planned to take control of the Uchiha and Senju clans, then use the conflict to advance his own ambitions.
• At the Hyuga Clan's back mountain training ground, Hashirama attacked Kyosuke with Wood Release: Tree Binding Eternal Burial.
• Kyosuke summoned Xiti to charge through the forest, but Hashirama bound the giant snake with Wood Release and sent it back.
• Kyosuke entered Curse Mark Stage Two and attacked with Wailing Chidori, but Hashirama's Wood Release blocked the strike.
• Kyosuke activated his Mangekyō to clear the trees and slashed Hashirama's chest with his Kusanagi Sword.

Kyosuke fought Hashirama as Hashirama unleashed Birth of the Tree World, trapping him in a vast forest. When Hashirama’s trees struck Kyosuke, Kyosuke emerged inside a dark-gold Susanoo and prepared to continue the battle.

• Kyosuke escaped Hashirama’s Wood Locking Wall with Flying Thunder God after detonating explosive tags, while Tobirama considered how to copy the technique.
• Kyosuke attacked Hashirama with Flying Thunder God Kunai and Wailing Thunder, but Hashirama covered the battlefield with trees using Birth of the Tree World.
• Kyosuke struggled to evade the controlled forest, found his marked kunai trapped among the trees, and worried about exhausting his chakra.
• Hashirama attacked Kyosuke with massive trunks, then stopped the technique when he believed he had struck his friend’s real body.
• Kyosuke shattered the trunks from within and revealed a dark-gold Susanoo, challenging Hashirama to continue.

Kyosuke used his dark-gold Susanoo and Kusanagi Sword to break through Hashirama’s Wood Release and defeat him in their second clash. Afterward, the strain of Susanoo left Kyosuke kneeling, and he resolved to awaken his cousin Uchiha Kei’s Mangekyō so he could obtain the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan.

• Kyosuke manifested Susanoo’s arm and wielded an energy copy of his Kusanagi Sword to cut through the forest Hashirama had created.
• Kyosuke forced his way through Hashirama’s barriers and met him in a direct sword clash.
• After seventeen exchanges, Hashirama coughed blood, and Kyosuke used Susanoo to punch him away, ending their second fight.
• Kyosuke dismissed Susanoo and collapsed to his knees as the strain made his body tremble and his vision dim.
• Kyosuke thought about Susanoo’s higher forms and decided he would awaken Uchiha Kei’s Mangekyō and use his cousin’s eyes to advance his own evolution.

Kyosuke urged Hashirama to help defend the Land of Fire against the Moon Clan, and Hashirama promised to fight alongside the Uchiha even if his father refused to send troops. That night, Yayoi visited Kyosuke and updated him on her bloodline research, which he planned to advance with new guidance and the Cell Cloning Technique.

• After hearing Kyosuke's account of the danger in the Land of Rain, Hashirama promised to persuade Butsuma Senju to send troops and to join the defense himself if his father refused.
• Hashirama offered to fight alongside the Uchiha, and Kyosuke accepted his promise by saying he looked forward to fighting side by side.
• Yayoi Hyuga visited Kyosuke at the Hyuga Clan, explaining that Tennin had sent her and reporting on her experiments with cell cultivation and transplantation.
• Yayoi told Kyosuke she had repeatedly replaced Ōtsutsuki cells in her body but had not awakened the Tenseigan.
• Kyosuke planned to guide Yayoi's research and give her the Cell Cloning Technique.

The Land of Wind and the Moon Clan launched invasions against the Land of Fire, prompting the Uchiha and Hyuga to mobilize while Butsuma Senju refused to help. Hashirama and Tobirama secretly left to reinforce the Uchiha, while Kyosuke headed south to aid Rei Uchiha and suspected Black Zetsu was trying to awaken Madara and Izuna’s Mangekyō Sharingan.

• Hyuga Tennin led troops to reinforce Tajima Uchiha as the Moon Clan’s puppet army pushed back the Uchiha front, while other clans withheld aid.
• Butsuma Senju dismissed the invasion reports, but Hashirama and Tobirama secretly left the Senju territory to help the Uchiha.
• Kyosuke learned that forces from the Land of Wind were threatening Rei Uchiha’s Southern Border Army and chose to support Rei while Hyuga Tennin continued to the main battlefield.
• Kyosuke suspected Black Zetsu was behind both invasions and reasoned that the war might be intended to awaken Madara Uchiha and Izuna’s Mangekyō Sharingan through Tajima Uchiha’s death.

Kyosuke returned to the Uchiha army's camp and learned that Reto, the First Kazekage, had brought a formidable force into the Land of Fire. As Kyosuke set out to confront the enemy, Reto's forces advanced under a secret bargain with Black Zetsu, and Watanabe Kaoru approached an Uchiha squad.

• Kyosuke reunited with Rei Uchiha and learned that Reto, Shamon, Monzaemon, and Watanabe Kaoru were among the enemy forces.
• Kyosuke decided to scout the battlefield and try to kill one of the four powerful opponents, and he showed Rei that he had awakened the Mangekyō.
• Reto learned that Shamon was making progress on human puppets using methods supplied by Black Zetsu, who had hired them to keep Kyosuke away from the Uchiha main camp.
• Reto sent Shamon away and privately resolved to stay cautious about the hidden cost of Black Zetsu's offer.
• Watanabe Kaoru led her squad toward an Uchiha force, eager to kill more opponents with her Scorch Release.

Watanabe Kaoru and her Guard Squad ambushed a Uchiha patrol, killing its captain and most of the squad while taunting a former member of Kyosuke’s legion. As Kaoru prepared to finish the lone survivor, Kyosuke appeared and confronted her.

• The Uchiha patrol captain told his squad that Kyosuke had returned, and a former legion member admitted he felt guilty for leaving.
• Watanabe Kaoru seized the captain and used Scorch Release to kill him, then mocked the surviving Uchiha as her Guard Squad attacked the patrol.
• The former legion member charged Kaoru with Chidori after she insulted Kyosuke, but the heat burned his arm, forcing him to sever it.
• Seeing his squad dead, the wounded Uchiha tried to flee, but Kaoru’s taunts provoked him into launching another attack.
• Kaoru began using Scorch Release: Oversteam Kill, but Kyosuke’s lightning strike landed between them, and he demanded to know what she had said.

Kyosuke defended his injured clansman and defeated Watanabe Kaoru with Susanoo, killing her after she tried to flee. He gained 8,130 points and set his sights on redeeming the basic Sage Body.

• Kyosuke used the Mystical Palm Technique to stop his injured clansman's bleeding, then shielded them both from Watanabe Kaoru's Scorch Release with Susanoo.
• Kyosuke countered Kaoru's attacks with Yasaka Magatama and a Kusanagi Susanoo Sword, severing her arm.
• Kaoru fled using the Body Flicker Technique, but Kyosuke pursued and pierced her through the chest with his sword.
• Kaoru begged for her life and offered information about Reto's battle plans, but Kyosuke killed her with Fireball Jutsu.
• Kyosuke received 8,130 points, bringing his total to 13,840, and planned to save the remaining points for Sage Body (basic).

After Watanabe Kaoru’s death, Kyosuke attacked Reto’s camp with Shadow Clones and Explosive Tags, then launched Lightning Release: Kirin at Reto. Reto countered with his Magnet Release: Electromagnetic Cannon and sensed Kyosuke’s position, leaving the attack about to strike him.

• Reto learned that Watanabe Kaoru had died and feared her death was the price of his pursuit of the Human Puppet technique.
• Kyosuke found the enemy camp and sent five Shadow Clones to plant Explosive Tags while he remained behind.
• Monzaemon chased Number Two, who detonated the tags and set off explosions across much of the camp.
• Reto sensed Kyosuke gathering lightning in the storm clouds and rose into the air to face him.
• Kyosuke summoned Lightning Release: Kirin, but Reto diverted most of its electricity and erased it with Magnet Release: Electromagnetic Cannon.
• Reto sensed Kyosuke’s location and fired an electrical pulse at him before he could use Flying Thunder God.

Uchiha Kyosuke fought Reto, the powerful Kazekage who had driven off his initial attack with an Electromagnetic Cannon. As their aerial battle escalated, Kyosuke struggled against Reto’s Magnet Release and prepared to transform Susanoo further.

• Reto sensed that Kyosuke had survived his Electromagnetic Cannon and rose into the air on Iron Sand Wings.
• Kyosuke revealed himself in Susanoo’s First Form, then activated his Cursed Seal and advanced to Susanoo’s Second Form.
• Kyosuke admitted to Reto that he had killed Watanabe Kaoru, and Reto attacked with Lightning Summoning and Magnet Release: Quicksand Current.
• Kyosuke used Reversal to clear a path through Reto’s sea of sand and attacked with Yasaka Magatama, forcing the fighters away from the battlefield below.
• Reto used repeated Electromagnetic Pulses to keep Kyosuke at bay, while Kyosuke realized he could not sustain the fight and began another Susanoo transformation.

Kyosuke forced his Susanoo into its third form and severely wounded Reto, helping drive the Land of Wind invaders out of the Land of Fire. As the wider war continued to worsen, Tajima decided to launch a Decapitation Plan, unaware that Sugito had been waiting to trap those who carried it out.

• Kyosuke used the Cursed Seal’s natural energy to form his third-stage Susanoo and withstood Reto’s Super Electromagnetic Cannon.
• Kyosuke struck Reto with Yasaka Magatama, badly injuring him, then escaped the battlefield inside Manda and returned to Ryūchi Cave.
• After Kyosuke reappeared on the battlefield, Reto and Shamon led the Land of Wind forces back across the border, and Reto vowed that the Land of Fire would one day bow to him.
• The Uchiha Southern Border Army’s victory spread across the fronts, but the enemy’s Puppet Technique continued turning Uchiha fighters against their comrades.
• Tajima decided to carry out a Decapitation Plan, while Sugito kept his forces back to lure the attackers into a trap.

Kyosuke used his newly acquired basic Sage Body to recover from his injuries and lure out Black Zetsu, but the White Zetsu Clone he caught self-destructed before he could question it. After leaving camp, he returned to find Hashirama and his brother ostracized by the Uchiha clan as Tajima began his Decapitation Plan.

• Kyosuke ambushed the White Zetsu Clone in his tent, but it exploded before he could use genjutsu to extract information.
• Kyosuke revealed that he had exchanged 20,000 points for the basic Sage Body, which boosted his chakra and healing and began restoring his Mangekyō's ocular power.
• Kyosuke planned to develop yin-yang release chakra and use black rods against Black Zetsu once he had settled matters at camp.
• After several days, Kyosuke said goodbye to Elder Rei Uchiha and set off for the main battlefield.
• Tajima began his Decapitation Plan without Hashirama and his brother, and Kyosuke returned to find the two Senju ostracized by the Uchiha clan.

Kyosuke returned to the Uchiha camp, punished a worker who mistreated Hashirama and Tobirama, and secretly left to carry out his plan against Tajima. Meanwhile, Madara and Izuna fled after their Decapitation Operation failed, with Madara fearing for his brother’s safety.

• Kyosuke slapped the worker who had thrown food at Hashirama and Tobirama, then ordered Maya to send him to the front lines.
• Kyosuke brought Hashirama and Tobirama to his section of camp and got them drunk while planning to target Tajima.
• Kyosuke pretended to be drunk, left Secret Shinobi Number One in his place, and vanished with the tools prepared for him.
• Madara and Izuna fled pursuing human puppets after the Decapitation Operation failed and they were separated from their father.
• Madara vowed to protect Izuna despite his ominous premonition.

Ōtsutsuki Sugito vowed to destroy the Uchiha and Senju clans as he pursued the fleeing Tajima Uchiha. Kyosuke found Tajima and attacked him, while Madara escaped with Izuna and resolved to return for their father.

• Ōtsutsuki Sugito reflected on his plan, vowed vengeance for his son, and decided to kill Tajima while sparing Madara and Izuna for now.
• Tajima used a Shadow Clone to trick the Human Puppets pursuing him and escaped north through a hidden detour.
• White Zetsu discovered Kyosuke and, on Black Zetsu's instructions, guided him toward Tajima's location.
• Kyosuke killed two Moon Clan puppeteers and launched a Fireball Jutsu at Tajima as White Zetsu watched.
• Madara escaped with Izuna after a surge of power drove their pursuers back, then headed for the support troops before planning to search for Tajima.

Kyosuke revealed himself while fighting Tajima Uchiha, then pursued the weakened clan leader and trapped him with his third-stage Susanoo. Tajima answered by summoning two Shadow Clones and preparing his Uchiha Style: Man-Slaying Three-Day Moon.

• Kyosuke used Chidori Stream to block Tajima's flaming shuriken, exposing his identity.
• Tajima declared Kyosuke expelled from the Family, and the two attacked each other.
• Tajima cracked Kyosuke's Susanoo with Uchiha Style: Exploding Beast, but Kyosuke escaped using Flying Thunder God.
• Tajima tried to flee, but Kyosuke caught up and forced him to face the third-stage Susanoo.
• Tajima summoned two Shadow Clones and launched Uchiha Style: Man-Slaying Three-Day Moon.

Kyosuke survived Tajima Uchiha’s fatal attack by reversing time, then killed him and staged the scene to implicate the Moon Clan. He left with 32,000 points, bringing him closer to redeeming the Intermediate Sage Body.

• Tajima used Izanagi to undo his death and stabbed Kyosuke from behind, sacrificing his left eye.
• Kyosuke used his Mangekyō ability, Reversal, to rewind time and erase the fatal attack.
• Tajima, out of chakra and unable to escape, charged Kyosuke and was struck by Susanoo.
• Kyosuke killed Tajima with a fatal slash across his neck and received 32,000 points from the system.
• Kyosuke planted evidence blaming the Moon Clan, then left using the Body Flicker Technique.

After Tajima Uchiha’s failed Decapitation Operation and death, Madara returned to camp and faced Koji Uchiha’s challenge to his authority. As Madara mourned his father, his Mangekyō awakened, leaving the clan’s succession struggle poised to begin.

• Madara returned to camp and promised Koji Uchiha he would not abandon his father, then failed to find Tajima despite searching with Hyuga ninja.
• Koji Uchiha confronted Madara and Izuna, blaming Tajima’s absence on them and positioning himself to seize leadership.
• Madara and Izuna rushed to the camp entrance after hearing a commotion and found Tajima’s lifeless body.
• Koji Uchiha told the clansmen about the Decapitation Operation and began undermining Madara as the clan’s next leader.
• Madara sent Izuna away from Tajima’s body, then turned to reveal that his Mangekyō had awakened.

Madara Uchiha revealed his Mangekyō Sharingan, then challenged Koji Uchiha for the right to lead the clan. Their fight began with Madara matching Koji’s strength, leaving the gathered clansmen astonished.

• Madara Uchiha awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan, and Koji Uchiha warned him that it did not make him extraordinary.
• Madara challenged Koji to a duel, offering him the clan leadership if he won, while Koji promised his support if Madara prevailed.
• Madara and Koji went to the open ground behind the camp as the Uchiha clansmen gathered to watch.
• Tobirama stopped Hashirama from joining the crowd, warning that it could damage Madara’s chances of becoming clan leader.
• Madara fought Koji without his gunbai and matched the elder’s strength, surprising the spectators and Kyosuke attributing his power to his connection with Indra.