Chapter Summaries

Umino Sasuke watched Mitokado Homura die after an Anbu silenced him, while Hiruzen Sarutobi redirected public anger and maneuvered Torifu Akimichi into the vacant Advisor Elder seat. Hiruzen awarded Sasuke the Hokage's Half-Sleeve, but Sasuke announced he planned to become Root's deputy minister, alarming him with the prospect of Danzo gaining a powerful ally.

• The Mitokado Clan's Great Elder publicly accused Mitokado Homura, and an Anbu stabbed Homura before he could expose Hiruzen Sarutobi.
• Uchiha Fire Nucleus attacked the Anbu, who died by poison; Hiruzen framed the deaths as an outburst of righteous anger and an accident.
• The Finance Minister proposed filling Homura's vacant Advisor Elder seat, and Hiruzen Sarutobi secured the position for Torifu Akimichi over Uchiha Fire Nucleus and the Hyūga Clan head.
• Umino Sasuke declined the Advisor Elder position, and Hiruzen awarded him and Hatake Sakumo the Hokage's Half-Sleeve.
• Umino Sasuke announced that he intended to join Root as Danzo's deputy minister, startling Hiruzen Sarutobi.

Hiruzen appointed Umino Sasuke Konoha’s Jonin Squad Leader to keep him from joining Danzo, then reassigned Orochimaru to the Land of Wind front. Sasuke used his new position to propose expanding puppet forces, forming an air force with Land of Waves support, and developing a village-wide ninja-beast breeding base, winning broad support while concealing how these plans expanded his influence.

• Hiruzen appointed Umino Sasuke Jonin Squad Leader, and Sasuke accepted while Hiruzen reassigned Orochimaru to command the Land of Wind front.
• Sasuke proposed disbanding the Puppet Unit’s formal structure and spreading its instructors and techniques through Konoha; the major clans agreed to send members for training.
• Sasuke called for Konoha to form an Air Force Unit and buy Flight Armor from the Land of Waves; the Finance Minister and Hiruzen supported the plan after Sasuke argued it would strengthen trade and their alliance.
• Sasuke proposed expanding the Ninja Beast Breeding Base and supplying it with the Inuzuka Clan’s Beast Spirit Secret Medicine, prompting enthusiastic support from the clans.

Umino Sasuke secured support for the Ninja Beast Breeding Base, then used his battlefield records and political backing to win approval for eighteen Special Jonin promotions. The chapter ended with Konoha’s ninja clamoring to join his command as his reputation as the Konoha Demigod and a generous patron spread through the village.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi agreed to fund the Ninja Beast Breeding Base gradually, and Umino Sasuke secured startup investment from the Ino-Shika-Cho clans and the Fish Bird Dog clans.
• The Nara representative recognized Umino Sasuke’s plans to strengthen the Inuzuka and Tejiku families, then backed the new departments to secure positions for the Nara Clan.
• Umino Sasuke nominated eighteen Special Jonin for promotion, and Utatane Koharu challenged their merit records as favoritism and fraud.
• Utatane Koharu exposed Umino Sasuke’s role in destroying the Hidden Sand main force, causing the crowd to hail him as the Konoha Demigod.
• Umino Sasuke defended sharing mission records as recognition of teamwork and a way to nurture comrades, winning support from the major ninja clans.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi approved all eighteen promotions, then ended the gathering as Konoha’s ninja began seeking assignments under Umino Sasuke.

Hiruzen Sarutobi sent the Uchiha to the Land of Rou battlefield under Shimura Danzō, hoping the two would undermine each other, while Uchiha Fire Nucleus reconsidered Umino Sasuke and sought an alliance with him. Uchiha Inabi delivered an invitation to the crowded Umino Clan Compound, where Umino Sasuke’s family was screening visitors for possible roles and recommendations.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi ordered Uchiha shinobi back to frontline duty and assigned Uchiha Fire Nucleus’s unit to support Shimura Danzō in the Land of Rou.
• Uchiha Fire Nucleus asked Uchiha Mikoto, Uchiha Inabi, and Uchiha Tekka about Umino Sasuke, and they praised his fair treatment of the Uchiha.
• Uchiha Fugaku accused Umino Sasuke of manipulating the clan, but Uchiha Fire Nucleus rebuked him and decided to approach Umino Sasuke.
• Uchiha Fire Nucleus sent Uchiha Inabi to invite Umino Sasuke to the Uchiha Clan Compound and discuss Konoha’s future.
• Uchiha Inabi found a long queue of shinobi and clan messengers seeking Umino Sasuke at the Umino Clan Compound, where Umino Tairou received the invitation in his brother’s absence.
• Uchiha Inabi saw Umino Ikaku and his wife screen visitors for potential retainers and candidates for new departments.

Umino Sasuke visited his parents at their fish shop, where he honored the Umino Clan’s humble roots and helped dispel the stigma surrounding Might Duy. He offered Duy the position of Guest Elder, with access to secret medicines that could support Kai’s taijutsu training.

• Umino Sasuke dismissed concerns about his parents selling fish and said the clan’s dignity came from strength, unity, and improving its members’ lives.
• At the fish shop, Umino Sasuke saw Umino Tetsu demonstrate the Fish-Slicing Sword Style and joined the family’s work by helping package fish.
• Might Duy and Kai arrived after completing handstand laps, and Umino Sasuke praised Duy as a powerful taijutsu master and Konoha Jonin in front of Kai and the customers.
• Umino Sasuke asked Might Duy to become a Guest Elder of the Umino Clan, and Duy initially refused because he felt unworthy of the position.
• Umino Sasuke explained that the post would give Duy and his direct bloodline access to the clan’s secret medicines, which could help Kai endure taijutsu training and develop his potential.

Might Duy accepted the Umino Clan’s Guest Elder position to secure Kai’s future, while Umino Sasuke took Umino Tetsu to meet Hatake Sakumo and study the Hatake Sword Style. Sasuke gifted young Kakashi a chakra-metal sword, and the chapter ended with Kakashi and Tetsu locked in an evenly matched spar.

• Umino Sasuke persuaded Might Duy to become a Guest Elder, and Duy pledged his life to protect the Umino Clan as long as it stood by him and Kai.
• Umino Tetsu asked Sasuke to teach him the Nine Sword Style, so Sasuke brought him to Hatake Sakumo to observe a true sword master.
• Sasuke met Hatake Sakumo and his young son Kakashi, then gave Kakashi a chakra-metal short sword named White Fang No. 2.
• Hatake Sakumo agreed to let Kakashi and Tetsu test their swords on the training ground.
• Kakashi and Tetsu fought with the Hatake Sword Style and Fish-Slicing Sword Style, and neither gained the upper hand.

Umino Tetsu lost a spar with Kakashi, then earned Hatake Sakumo’s praise and became his swordsmanship disciple. Umino Sasuke began teaching Kakashi advanced Transformation Jutsu and demonstrated Earth Release by burying him up to his neck.

• Umino Sasuke and Hatake Sakumo stopped Umino Tetsu and Kakashi from clashing with their finishing moves, and Umino Tetsu admitted he had underestimated Kakashi.
• Umino Sasuke encouraged Umino Tetsu to build strength through hard work, and Hatake Sakumo praised his resilience and swordsmanship potential.
• Hatake Sakumo offered to teach Umino Tetsu, who formally became his disciple and began practicing alongside Kakashi.
• Umino Sasuke showed Kakashi how his Shadow Clone Technique and Transformation Jutsu could fool even Kakashi’s sharp perception, then taught him about advanced Transformation Jutsu and its risks.
• Umino Sasuke demonstrated the Earth Release: Double Suicide Decapitation Technique and used it to pull Kakashi into the ground, leaving him stuck with only his head above the soil.

Umino Sasuke taught Kakashi the Double Suicide Decapitation Technique through a prank, then frightened him with a crude surprise attack that left him determined to guard his rear. Meanwhile, Hatake Sakumo taught Umino Tetsu the Hatake Sword Style, and Tetsu showed remarkable talent for swordsmanship.

• Umino Sasuke planted Kakashi underground with the Double Suicide Decapitation Technique, and Kakashi escaped by disrupting the Earth Release chakra.
• Kakashi learned the technique’s hand seals and began practicing it, while Umino Sasuke teased him about removing his mask.
• Umino Sasuke tricked Kakashi with the Thousand Years of Death, and Kakashi fled behind Hatake Sakumo in terror.
• Hatake Sakumo advised Kakashi to stay alert in battle, and the experience made Kakashi determined to protect his rear.
• Hatake Sakumo taught Umino Tetsu the basic Hatake Sword Style, and Tetsu quickly grasped the fundamentals.

Umino Sasuke gave Kakashi a Chidori scroll and Lightning Release training insights before visiting the Uchiha Clan with Umino Kosuzu to restore relations. Uchiha Fire Nucleus welcomed their overtures, but Uchiha Fugaku proposed a sparring match between the clans' young members, focusing attention on Kosuzu.

• Umino Sasuke reflected on the Umino Clan's lack of shinobi prodigies as Kakashi and Umino Tetsu finished their training with Hatake Sakumo.
• Umino Sasuke demonstrated Chidori for Kakashi, gave him a scroll containing the technique, and shared Lightning Release training insights with Hatake Sakumo.
• Umino Sasuke sent Kenjiro to deliver an invitation to Uchiha Fire Nucleus and visited the Uchiha Clan Compound the next morning with Umino Kosuzu.
• Umino Sasuke praised Madara Uchiha and acknowledged the Uchiha and Senju Clans as Konoha's foundation, winning Fire Nucleus's recognition and agreeing to restore the clans' friendship.
• Uchiha Fugaku proposed that the younger members of both clans spar, directing his attention toward Umino Kosuzu.

Umino Kosuzu fought Uchiha Yakumi in a spar arranged by Uchiha Fugaku, revealing her formidable Chakra-Enhanced Strength and several inherited Umino Clan techniques. She broke through Yakumi’s Fire Release and continued pressing her attack, leaving the match unresolved.

• Umino Sasuke warned Umino Kosuzu not to reveal her Ice Release, and she accepted Uchiha Fugaku’s challenge to spar with Uchiha Yakumi.
• Umino Kosuzu struck Yakumi with Chakra-Enhanced Strength through her Chakra Gold-Thread Gloves, sending him flying and shocking the watching Uchiha.
• Yakumi activated his Two-Tomoe Sharingan and dodged Kosuzu’s devastating Heavenly Foot Strike, which blasted a large crater into the training ground.
• Kosuzu used her Black Rope Secret Technique to deflect Yakumi’s kunai, bind him from underground, and destroy his Shadow Clone ambush.
• Yakumi escaped when his Great Fireball burned through the Black Rope, then attacked with Dragon Fire Technique, but Kosuzu’s Sticky Candy Armor protected her as she charged through the flames toward him.

Umino Sasuke and Umino Kosuzu visited the Uchiha compound, where Kosuzu sparred with Uchiha Yakumi before Sasuke praised the clan and asked to see Uchiha Shun. At Shun’s home, Sasuke’s prediction that young Shisui might awaken the Mangekyō Sharingan caused Shun’s wife Haruko to faint, and Kosuzu found her health severely weakened.

• Umino Kosuzu fought Uchiha Yakumi, who used Sharingan genjutsu and Fire Release to wear her down until Umino Sasuke stopped the spar.
• Umino Sasuke and Uchiha Fire Nucleus exchanged praise, and Sasuke asked to visit Uchiha Shun.
• Uchiha Fire Nucleus reprimanded Uchiha Fugaku, ordered him to become engaged to Mikoto, and assigned him to lead Uchiha forces to the Land of Waterfalls front.
• Umino Sasuke and Umino Kosuzu arrived at Uchiha Shun’s home and met his wife Haruko and their young son, Little Shisui.
• Umino Sasuke predicted that Little Shisui might awaken the Mangekyō Sharingan, and Haruko fainted after dropping a kettle.
• Umino Kosuzu examined Haruko and found that childbirth had damaged her vital foundation, while Uchiha Shun blamed himself for being away during the birth.

Umino Sasuke treated Haruko with Life Yang No. 1, deepening Uchiha Shun’s loyalty and prompting the Uchiha Clan to reward Shun’s family. He later trained Kosuzu, improved the Mecha Puppet’s defenses, and assessed the Land of Waves’ growing forces and new prospects.

• Umino Sasuke used Life Yang No. 1 and Yang Release to restore much of Haruko’s strength, then arranged daily treatments for Kosuzu to continue her recovery.
• Uchiha Shun recognized the medicine as the original Longevity Potion concentrate and became even more loyal to Umino Sasuke after he saved Haruko.
• Uchiha Fire Nucleus ordered elder-level provisions and valuable weapons and Fire Release scrolls sent to Uchiha Shun’s family, while Shun understood the reward came through Umino Sasuke’s friendship.
• Umino Sasuke reviewed Kosuzu’s fight with Uchiha Yakumi and advised her to improve her use of Black Rope, Wind Release, and the Divine Tree Meditation Technique.
• Umino Sasuke equipped the Mecha Puppet with a genjutsu-countermeasure device and left Shadow Clones to manage Land of Waves business before traveling to Angkor Fortress.
• Umino Sasuke assessed the Land of Waves’ shinobi force and learned that Kakuzu had recruited Fuma Mei, a promising spatial and tool-manipulation talent, and Koyo, a frail boy with the Red Eye Kekkei Genkai.

Umino Sasuke visited the Hyuga Clan Compound with Umino Tobirama, where Hyuga Sogen arranged a spar between Tobirama and Hyuga Tokuma to assess the Umino Clan’s younger generation. Their fight left Tokuma apparently turning Tobirama’s Black Rope against him, while a main-family Hyuga boy resentfully called him a branch-family slave.

• Umino Sasuke and Umino Tobirama visited the Hyuga Clan Compound, where Hyuga Sogen, Hyuga Hiashi, and Hizashi Hyuga welcomed them.
• Hyuga Sogen proposed a friendly spar, and Umino Tobirama agreed to face the branch-family prodigy Hyuga Tokuma.
• Hyuga Tokuma opened with Gentle Fist attacks, but Umino Tobirama evaded and used Water Candy Syrup to hinder his approach.
• Umino Tobirama unleashed his Black Rope Secret Technique and briefly restrained Tokuma, but Tokuma severed a rope with Gentle Fist: Severing Flow and escaped.
• Tokuma defended against Tobirama’s continuing rope attacks with Eight Trigrams Palms: Thirty-Two Palms, then grabbed a rope and sent Gentle Fist chakra through it toward Tobirama.
• Hizashi Hyuga and Hyuga Hiashi praised Tokuma’s counterattack as other Hyuga clansmen cheered, while a young main-family Hyuga member disparaged him as a branch-family slave.

Umino Tobirama and Hyuga Tokuma traded techniques in their match, with Tobirama revealing Sticky Candy Armor and the Sea Monk Clone to counter Tokuma’s Gentle Fist and replenish his chakra. Tokuma used the main family’s Revolving Heaven to withstand Tobirama’s combined attack, but Black Ropes caught his legs and right arm as the chapter ended.

• Hyuga Tokuma broke through Umino Tobirama’s defenses and struck him with Eight Trigrams Sixty-Four Palms, but Sticky Candy Armor absorbed most of the damage.
• Tobirama used Water Candy Origin and Black Ropes to keep Tokuma at a distance while Tokuma tried to exhaust him with evasive footwork and thrown weapons.
• Tobirama summoned the Sea Monk Clone, which replenished his chakra and helped him overwhelm Tokuma with a stronger Black Rope Performance.
• The Sea Monk blocked Tokuma’s Gentle Fist attacks, and it joined Tobirama in bombarding him with water spheres and Sticky Candy Bullets.
• Tokuma defended himself with Revolving Heaven, but hidden Black Ropes caught his ankles as the technique ended and began wrapping around his right arm.

Umino Sasuke helped Umino Tobirama win against Hyuga Tokuma, then developed a new taijutsu style by combining Baji Quan with Gentle Fist principles. On his way to visit the Kurama Clan, he encountered Kurama Shichigatsu, whose uncontrolled Ido trapped Kurama Kyoin and attacked him with illusions.

• Umino Tobirama defeated Hyuga Tokuma with the Black Rope, and Umino Sasuke persuaded Hyuga Sogen to send Tokuma to the front lines instead of punishing him for learning the main house's techniques.
• Umino Sasuke lectured Umino Tobirama about his weaknesses, assigned him extra taijutsu training, and began developing Water Candy Revolving Heaven.
• Umino Sasuke combined Baji Quan's close-range strikes with Gentle Fist's chakra principles and found that the resulting taijutsu suited the Umino Clan.
• Umino Sasuke detected a genjutsu on the way to the Kurama Clan, sent Umino Tetsu to train with the Hatake Clan, and followed the illusion to Kurama Shichigatsu.
• Kurama Shichigatsu attacked Umino Sasuke through paintings, but his Chakra Outer Elixir dispelled the false injuries; Kurama Kyoin arrived and tried to stop her sister.
• Kurama Shichigatsu's Ido took control, transformed the illusion into Ido Space, bound Kurama Kyoin, and attacked Umino Sasuke, whose ninjutsu and sword strikes failed to hit it.

Umino Sasuke used the Unsealing Kusanagi Sword to expose and weaken Ido, then helped Kurama Shichigatsu destroy the spirit born from her hatred. He saved Shichigatsu from dying, and she awakened grateful to him as he left to visit the Kurama Clan Head.

• Umino Sasuke summoned the Unsealing Kusanagi Sword, forced Ido out of Kurama Shichigatsu's consciousness, and used Yin-Yang Release and life energy to reveal and weaken it.
• Umino Sasuke urged Kurama Shichigatsu to face Ido, and Kurama Kyoin encouraged her as Ido revealed that Shichigatsu had caused the deaths of their parents and childhood companions.
• Kurama Shichigatsu took up the sword and destroyed Ido, then collapsed as the mental space vanished.
• Umino Sasuke treated the dying Kurama Shichigatsu with Life Yang No. 1 concentrate and Medical Ninjutsu until her breathing stabilized, and he gave Kurama Kyoin three more bottles for her recovery.
• Kurama Shichigatsu awakened, thanked Umino Sasuke, and called him her future brother-in-law; Umino Sasuke corrected her and then left to visit the Kurama Clan Head.

Umino Sasuke overcame the first dangerous hurdle of the Soul Transformation Technique and prepared for the Umino Clan founding ceremony. At the ceremony, his newly sharpened ability to sense malice revealed the hidden feelings of arriving clan representatives.

• Kurama Kyoin and Kurama Shichigatsu praised Umino Sasuke, and the Kurama Clan head asked him to heal Shichigatsu; Sasuke promised to help without seeking payment.
• Umino Sasuke visited Konoha's major clans, stabilized the Mitokado Clan's position, and devised safeguards for testing the Soul Transformation Technique.
• Sasuke separated his soul from his body, relied on a sealing barrier and Soul Guiding Incense, and was forcibly returned by his Flying Thunder God Mark before the Four Symbols Sealing collapsed.
• Sasuke stabilized his cultivation overnight, then arrived at the Umino Clan founding ceremony and discovered that his Soul Transformation Technique had sharpened his ability to sense goodwill and malice.
• Sasuke welcomed the clan delegations and sensed wary neutrality from the Hyūga brothers, appreciation from Uchiha Fire Nucleus, and intense malice from Uchiha Fugaku.

At the Umino Clan’s founding ceremony, the Kurama Clan presented its core genjutsu inheritance and the Mitokado Clan pledged itself as a vassal, strengthening the new clan’s influence. Hiruzen Sarutobi and prominent leaders from the Land of Fire and the Land of Rivers arrived, while Shibuki ended the chapter by urgently asking Umino Sasuke to secure Konoha’s aid against Hidden Stone.

• The Kurama Clan head gifted Umino Sasuke the Sound-Sense Illusion Heart Secret Record, and Umino Kenjiro announced its full contents to the astonished guests.
• Mito Kadena led the Mitokado Clan in pledging allegiance to the Umino Clan, and Umino Sasuke welcomed them as allies and partners.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi arrived with Utatane Koharu and Sarutobi Shinnosuke, then waited with Umino Sasuke for other distinguished guests.
• Finance Minister Gen Komei arrived and presented Fire Crest Jade Discs, while the Daimyo of the Land of Rivers praised Umino Sasuke for rescuing him and driving Hidden Sand from his country.
• Shibuki arrived on behalf of Takigakure and pleaded with Umino Sasuke to petition Konoha for reinforcements after Hidden Stone breached Takigakure’s defensive lines.

Umino Sasuke’s clan establishment celebration drew powerful gifts and envoys from several nations, while tensions with Mizuki Yuki and Hidden Cloud’s suspicious delegation hinted at further conflict. The ceremony was interrupted when Jōmyū Clan remnants arrived to disrupt it as a squadron of strange flying machines approached.

• Takigakure leader Shibuki reported that Hidden Stone had pushed deep into the Land of Waterfalls, and Umino Sasuke promised to seek reinforcements for Konoha’s ally.
• President Gato pledged the Land of Waves Merchant Association’s commissions to the Umino Clan, and Sasuke accepted responsibility for protecting the country’s trade routes.
• Sunagakure envoy Shakuran Hōjō brought gold dust and asked Sasuke about his daughter Pakura, while Sasuke assured him she was safe in Konoha.
• Mizuki Yuki challenged Sasuke over their clans’ Ice Release, but Sasuke invoked their past friendship and persuaded her to withdraw.
• Gabino brought a gift from Hidden Cloud, and Sasuke sensed that the delegation concealed hostile plans involving Uzumaki Kushina and Konoha.
• Jōmyū Clan remnants arrived to spoil the celebration, and more than a dozen strange flying machines descended toward the gathering.

Umino Sasuke’s clan-founding ceremony showcased the Umino Clan’s strength, heritage, sacred beast, and secret techniques, culminating in Umino Kosuzu revealing the clan’s Ice Release bloodline. The celebration ended with Umino Sasuke announcing plans to open Umino Eatery branches, drawing eager support from leaders and merchants.

• Umino Yu arrived with armored Umino soldiers, revealed the Jōmyū Clan’s slain leaders, and killed the Jōmyū Leader and his guards before Umino Sasuke began the ancestor worship ceremony.
• Umino Sasuke offered the Deep Sea Giant Whale, the Giant Carpenter Queen Bee’s remains, and the Jōmyū Clan’s heads at the altar, then declared the clan’s origins and precepts alongside the Thunder God Sword and Samehada.
• Umino Ikaku and Umino Kozue summoned the enormous Sea Monk, and Umino Kosuzu and Umino Tobirama demonstrated their secret techniques in a staged battle.
• Umino Kosuzu defeated Umino Tobirama with Ice Release, shocking the gathered clan leaders and especially Mizuki Yuki, the Yuki Clan head.
• At the banquet, Umino Sasuke announced plans for Umino Eatery branches, and Gato, the Daimyo of the Land of Rivers, Shibuki, and Gen Komei offered support and investment.