Chapter Summaries

Menma approved Hikari’s plan to extract the Uchiha and Hyuga, then urged Shisui to prepare to leave if Konoha attacked the clan. At Naka Shrine, Fugaku revealed his Mangekyō Sharingan to Itachi, showed him a disastrous future through genjutsu, and pleaded with him to help seize Konoha’s leaders in a supposedly bloodless coup.

• Hikari presented Menma with three squads and a plan to reach Konoha through the Land of Fire border exit, and Menma approved the preparations.
• Menma gave Shisui an invitation to witness the planned extermination, and Shisui vowed to lead clansmen to safety if Konoha moved against them.
• Itachi monitored the Uchiha clan meeting at Naka Shrine, then secretly entered its underground chamber to speak with Fugaku.
• Fugaku revealed that he had awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan and argued that Konoha’s persecution had left the clan with few options.
• Fugaku used genjutsu to show Itachi a future in which a Uchiha uprising unleashed the Nine-Tails and destroyed both the clan and Konoha.
• Fugaku asked Itachi to help capture the Hokage and other leaders in a coup he believed could restore the Uchiha’s standing without widespread bloodshed.

Itachi learned that Fugaku had not contacted Uchiha Hikari, then accepted the choice to protect Sasuke and Konoha by helping prevent the Uchiha rebellion. He recruited Obito for a clan massacre, while Menma and the Land of Stars mobilized to intervene as the operation began.

• Itachi confirmed Fugaku had never contacted Uchiha Hikari and reported the rebellion intelligence to Hiruzen Sarutobi and the advisers.
• Danzō told Itachi to choose between the Uchiha and Konoha, offering to spare Sasuke if Itachi eliminated the clan; after seeing Sasuke with his classmates, Itachi resolved to protect him and the village.
• Itachi met Obito in the ruins and asked him to help kill every member of the Konoha Uchiha Clan, and Obito agreed.
• Menma learned that Itachi and Obito had met and recognized that the massacre was beginning that night; he sent an urgent order to Uchiha Hikari, Uzumaki Karin, and Uchiha Shisui.
• Shisui arrived at the Land of Stars' teleportation room and discovered a powerful Hoshinin force assembled alongside Uchiha Hikari, Namikaze Minato, Uzumaki Kushina, Orochimaru, and two Reanimated Hokage.
• Uchiha Hikari led the assembled group through the portal toward Konoha, and Shisui followed them.

Menma began the plan to rescue Uchiha survivors and free selected Hyuga Branch House members as Konoha's extermination operation against the Uchiha started. The chapter ended with Izumi finding Itachi killing her neighbors and realizing the massacre was real.

• Uchiha Hikari and the Hoshinin entered the Hidden Leaf Village with Menma's Shadow Clones and took concealed positions near the Uchiha compound.
• Menma removed Neji's Caged Bird seal, then told Hizashi that Konoha's higher-ups would exterminate the Uchiha and gave him a device to free Branch House members.
• Hizashi used the device to temporarily suppress the Caged Bird seals of fifty-seven selected Hyuga Branch House members and organized their escape under the codename "Out of the Cage."
• Itachi entered the Uchiha compound with Obito, while Obito sent White Zetsu to collect Sharingan and prepared to attack the Uchiha elites at the Konoha Military Police Force headquarters.
• Izumi followed the smell of blood and found her neighbors dead, with Itachi pulling his blade from Aunt Naiko's neck.

Menma’s forces began their operation against Konoha as Itachi massacred the Uchiha, but Izumi resisted him and Fugaku revealed that the clan had been promised rescue. Shisui reappeared to confront Itachi while Menma, Uchiha Hikari, and their allies arrived, leaving the massacre poised for a wider confrontation.

• Uchiha Hikari’s squad cleared Root’s eastern barrier node with help from Gota and Yukimi, while Oyashiro En reported that the western node was also cleared.
• Menma received Uchiha Hikari’s report that the other squads were diverting Konoha forces, then signaled for the operation to begin.
• Itachi Uchiha encountered Izumi Uchiha amid the massacre, but her battle-honed skills let her withstand his attacks and resist his Mangekyō genjutsu.
• Fugaku Uchiha arrived and revealed that Uchiha Hikari and Asura had prophesied the clan’s destruction and promised to take the survivors away; Izumi then collapsed as Shisui appeared.
• Shisui condemned Itachi, while Menma, Uchiha Hikari, and their allies gathered nearby and Orochimaru showed the massacre to Senju Hashirama and Tobirama Senju.

Obito’s assault on the Uchiha Police Force was interrupted by Kisame Hoshigaki and Hoshigakure ninja, who rescued the surviving Uchiha and revealed Konoha’s extermination order. As the survivors rushed toward their compound and clashed with Shinnosuke Sarutobi’s forces, Hiruzen Sarutobi and Shimura Danzō mobilized Anbu and Root under the claim that the Uchiha had rebelled.

• Obito slaughtered Uchiha elites at the Police Force until Kisame Hoshigaki and Hoshigakure ninja arrived and forced him to flee with Black and White Zetsu.
• Kisame’s squad treated the surviving Uchiha and told Yashiro Uchiha and Inabi Uchiha that Itachi Uchiha was carrying out an extermination order while Root sealed the compound.
• Yashiro, Inabi, and the other survivors hurried toward the clan compound but encountered Shinnosuke Sarutobi and his Anbu and Root squad, and the two groups began fighting.
• Kisame ordered his Hoshinin to collect the corpses and seize the Police Force’s records and valuables.
• After an explosion shook the Uchiha compound, Hiruzen Sarutobi ordered Anbu and Root to suppress the supposed rebellion, and Kakashi Hatake grew uneasy as the forces set out.

As the Uchiha rebellion shook Konoha, Hizashi Hyuga led a Branch House revolt against the Main House, killing the elders and revealing that the rebels had removed their Caged Bird seals. Konoha forces arrived to contain the fighting, but Uzumaki Fuka intervened and announced she had come to receive the Hyuga Branch House on Lord Xiushang's command.

• After an explosion at the Hyuga compound, Hiashi found a dead Main House elder, and Hizashi suddenly struck and wounded him.
• Hyuga Tetsu, Hyuga Tokuma, Neji, and other Branch House rebels attacked the Main House elders, while their Caged Bird seals proved unable to affect them.
• Hizashi declared he was ending the Branch House's humiliation, and he and the rebels revealed their foreheads were free of the seals before fighting the Main House guards.
• Hyuga Natsu led more than fifty Branch House members out of the compound to meet Uzumaki Fuka's Hoshinin, who arranged their escort and returned to help Hizashi's group.
• Nara Shikaku and other Konoha jonin arrived and moved to contain the Hyuga civil war, but Uzumaki Fuka's Adamantine Sealing Chains knocked back the attackers.
• Uzumaki Fuka identified herself and said she had come on Lord Xiushang's command to receive the Hyuga Branch House.

Shisui confronted Itachi over the massacre and learned that Danzō had ambushed him and stolen his eye. As Konoha’s forces declared the Uchiha rebels and the compound erupted into battle, Shisui accepted his recovered eye from Asura and awakened Susanoo, fully breaking with Konoha.

• Shisui told Itachi that Danzō had ambushed him with Root, used Izanagi, and taken his right eye.
• Menma ordered Oyashiro En, Kimimaro, Haku, Gota, and Yukimi to search for surviving Uchiha and collect Sharingan.
• Yashiro, Inabi, and other survivors returned to the compound, where Hiruzen and Danzō arrived with Anbu and Root forces.
• Hiruzen declared the Uchiha traitors and ordered their suppression, triggering a battle between Konoha’s forces and the Uchiha survivors.
• Shisui fought Itachi, but Itachi gained the upper hand as their friendship and former loyalties broke apart.
• Asura returned Shisui’s left eye, and Shisui implanted it, awakened Mangekyō Sharingan, and summoned Susanoo.

As the Hoshinin helped Hizashi Hyuga and the Branch House rebels break through Konoha’s forces toward the Uchiha Compound, Yukimi unexpectedly awakened Wood Release while fighting Kakashi and Yamato. Hiruzen Sarutobi learned that the Caged Bird had failed and the Hyuga Branch House had rebelled, leaving Konoha facing multiple crises at once.

• Uzumaki Fuka, Natsuhi, Oyashiro Chino, and the armored Hoshinin broke through the encirclement and led Hizashi Hyuga, Neji, and five Branch House rebels toward the Uchiha Compound.
• Nara Shikaku questioned Hyuga Hiashi about the failed Caged Bird, while the Hoshinin’s breakout continued and a giant Susanoo rose over the Uchiha battlefield.
• Kakashi’s squad encountered Kimimaro, Haku, and Yukimi, and Yukimi recognized Yamato as Tenzo before confronting him over Konoha’s slaughter of civilians.
• Yamato used Wood Release against the Uchiha, and Yukimi copied his hand seals to awaken Wood Release and kill three Anbu ninja.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi received an urgent report that Hizashi Hyuga and the Branch House had rebelled, the Caged Bird had failed, and the rebels were heading for the Uchiha Compound.

Obito and Zetsu watched the massacre plan collapse as Asura’s forces intervened, while Kisame’s squad raided the Root base and rescued Kabuto and Katasuke Tono. With Konoha’s clan leaders gathered at the battlefield, Menma publicly challenged Hiruzen Sarutobi to explain the plot to exterminate the Uchiha.

• Obito suspected that someone in Konoha’s upper ranks had revealed the massacre plan, then left with Zetsu as the Uchiha fought on.
• Kisame led Hoshinin forces into the Root base, seized its records and experimental materials, and rescued Yakushi Kabuto and the unconscious Katasuke Tono.
• Kisame’s squad fought through Konoha patrols and regrouped with the main force at the Uchiha compound, where Uchiha Shisui’s Susanoo battered Konoha’s forces.
• Uzumaki Fuka and Natsuhi brought the surviving Hyuga Branch House defectors, including Hizashi Hyuga and Neji, to Asura and Uchiha Hikari.
• Nara Shikaku, Hyuga Hiashi, and the other Konoha clan leaders arrived as Menma addressed the assembled forces and demanded that Hiruzen Sarutobi explain his and Shimura Danzō’s plan to exterminate the Uchiha.

Shisui Uchiha and Uchiha Hikari exposed Shimura Danzō’s stolen Sharingan and human experiments, while Menma challenged the Hidden Leaf’s treatment of the Uchiha. Hizashi Hyuga, Shisui, and Fugaku Uchiha then declared their clans’ withdrawal from the village, leaving the Hidden Leaf divided.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi and Shimura Danzō blamed Asura and the Uchiha for the crisis, but surviving Uchiha accused the village of persecution and the planned massacre.
• Shisui Uchiha confronted Hiruzen about Danzō’s ambush and demanded that Danzō reveal his bandaged eye and arm.
• Shisui accused Danzō of stealing Uchiha Sharingan, and Uchiha Hikari read aloud Root research files documenting forbidden experiments.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi read the scroll and realized Danzō’s crimes were exposed, while Menma urged the other clans to question whether they might be targeted next.
• Hizashi Hyuga declared that the Hyuga Branch House would leave the Hidden Leaf, and Shisui Uchiha also announced his withdrawal.
• After Shisui urged him to choose the clan’s future, Fugaku Uchiha declared that the Uchiha Clan would withdraw from the Hidden Leaf.

The Uchiha and Hyuga declared they were leaving Konoha, and Menma ordered the Hoshinin to escort their survivors while Konoha’s forces fought to stop them. The battle left Konoha facing three Uchiha Susanoo, as Fugaku, Hikari, and Shisui revealed their overwhelming power.

• Hashirama and Tobirama argued over Konoha’s treatment of the Uchiha, and Orochimaru revealed that Shisui was Kagami Uchiha’s grandson.
• Menma ordered Fuka, Hikari, Kisame, and the others to protect and escort the Uchiha and Hyuga survivors, while Hizashi sent Neji away to seek freedom.
• Hiruzen called on Konoha’s clan leaders and elite ninja to stop the departing clans, and the battle between Konoha and the Hoshinin intensified.
• Yashiro died after asking Fugaku to slash his Konoha forehead protector, and Inabi awakened his Mangekyō Sharingan in grief.
• Hikari unleashed a red Susanoo beside Shisui’s green one, and Fugaku summoned a blue Susanoo, leaving Konoha staring at three Uchiha giants.

During the Uchiha clan massacre, Itachi incapacitated Sasuke and Iruka while carrying out his plan to shape Sasuke’s future. Menma confronted him, revealed that the Uchiha stone tablet had been altered to manipulate the clan, and warned that Sasuke’s revenge might be a trap, leaving Itachi furious and shaken.

• An emergency evacuation sent Iruka and the students to the First Shelter as explosions erupted around the Uchiha compound; Iruka left to find Sasuke when he learned the boy was missing.
• Sasuke reached the Naka River, saw three Susanoo fighting near the compound, and met Itachi, who used Tsukuyomi to make him relive the massacre of his clan.
• Iruka confronted Itachi, who trapped him in a genjutsu of the Nine-Tails attack before turning back to Sasuke.
• Menma emerged from hiding and challenged Itachi’s reasons for the massacre, then revealed that the Uchiha stone tablet had been altered to steer the clan toward hatred and killing.
• Menma told Itachi that Shimura Danzō had ordered the massacre and warned that Sasuke’s planned revenge could lead to deeper despair; Itachi lost his composure and shouted for him to stop.

Menma, masked as Asura, overwhelmed Itachi with strange gravitational powers and a Mangekyō genjutsu that broke Tsukuyomi and left Itachi badly injured. Menma vanished after questioning Itachi’s beliefs, leaving Itachi beside the unconscious Sasuke with new doubts about the masked man’s identity and the truth behind his convictions.

• Itachi attacked Menma with fire and shuriken, but Menma repelled the attacks and returned them with Shinra Tensei.
• Menma used attraction and repulsion to evade Itachi’s fire, water, and close-range attacks, while a black sphere forced Itachi to retreat.
• Itachi cast Tsukuyomi, but Menma’s spiritual power shattered it and showed Itachi a bloodied battlefield, a dark-red Nine-Tails, and a mysterious boy.
• The backlash made Itachi bleed from his eyes, and he saw Menma standing beside the unconscious Sasuke.
• Itachi asked Menma about Uchiha Hikari and Uchiha Madara, while Menma questioned the truth behind Madara’s beliefs and Itachi’s choices.
• Menma disappeared into the forest, leaving Itachi shocked beside Sasuke.

As Konoha’s assault on the Uchiha retreat ended in heavy losses, Itachi returned home and killed Fugaku at his parents’ request, but masked figures intervened before he could kill Mikoto. Outside the village, Mikoto discovered that her rescuer was Kushina, whom she had believed dead.

• Itachi questioned his choices after Asura’s words, then carried the unconscious Sasuke back toward the Uchiha compound.
• Hikari, Shisui, and Fugaku used their Susanoo to protect the retreating Uchiha and Hoshinin, while Hikari’s flames devastated Konoha’s pursuing forces.
• Shisui killed Shinnosuke Sarutobi, and Hiruzen later watched his son die and learned that Shinnosuke’s wife had also been killed.
• Danzō learned that no Uchiha bodies remained and that the Military Police archives and Naka Shrine scrolls had been taken.
• Fugaku and Mikoto told Itachi they would stay behind, and Fugaku asked him to leave his eyes for Sasuke; Itachi killed Fugaku but was stopped from killing Mikoto when masked figures seized her.
• A masked rescuer took Mikoto beyond Konoha’s barrier, removed her mask, and revealed herself as Kushina.

After the Uchiha incident, Hiruzen dismissed Danzō from his posts but resisted calls for harsher punishment, while Itachi agreed to infiltrate Akatsuki. Danzō then sought control of Sasuke, and Aburame Tatsuma reported that Sasuke had awakened, leaving Danzō intent on using the boy’s choice to challenge Hiruzen.

• Itachi reported that the masked Uchiha Madara had attacked Konoha and revealed Akatsuki, then volunteered to infiltrate the organization; Hiruzen agreed to declare him a rogue ninja.
• Nara Shikaku reported heavy casualties from the unrest, and Hiruzen apologized before appointing Aburame Tatsuma to take over Root and dismissing Danzō from his positions.
• Danzō defended himself by claiming Kagami Uchiha had entrusted him with his Sharingan, while Hiruzen blamed Itachi for the clan massacre and ordered the Uchiha assets confiscated.
• Danzō demanded that Sasuke be trained by Root, but Hiruzen refused and insisted he would raise the boy himself.
• Aburame Tatsuma told Danzō that Sasuke had awakened, and Danzō headed to Konoha Hospital, asking what Hiruzen would do if Sasuke chose him.

Itachi joined the Akatsuki as its new member, Vermilion Bird, and was assigned to a team with Momochi Zabuza. In the Land of Stars, Asura erased the Hyuga Branch House’s Caged Bird seals, while the surviving Uchiha mourned their losses and chose Shisui as clan head.

• Itachi met Deva Path Pain, learned the Akatsuki planned to collect the tailed beasts, and asked about Asura’s connection to the organization.
• Itachi destroyed Konoha’s symbol on his forehead protector, accepted the Vermilion Bird ring, met the Akatsuki members, and was paired with Momochi Zabuza.
• Asura used Dōjutsu: Rinyu to erase the Caged Bird seals from the Hyuga Branch House survivors, who pledged loyalty to him and received Land of Stars forehead protectors from Uzumaki Fuka.
• Izumi Uchiha reported on the burial of the massacre victims, and Inabi Uchiha said only 220 of the clan’s original 953 members remained.
• Uchiha Hikari proposed Shisui Uchiha as clan head, and Shisui accepted the responsibility of leading the survivors.
• Shisui explained that Hikari’s relationship with Asura made her leadership impractical, and Inabi and Izumi agreed to support him as the Uchiha rebuilt their lives.

After Danzo tried to recruit Sasuke Uchiha into Root by feeding his hatred with lies, Hiruzen Sarutobi placed him in the Anbu as a trainee under Kakashi Hatake. Sasuke grieved the loss of his home and found a brief moment of warmth with his classmates before beginning Anbu training under the codename Hawk, which required him to return to the Ninja Academy undercover.

• Kakashi spotted Danzo visiting Sasuke in the hospital and alerted Hiruzen, who interrupted Danzo's attempt to lure Sasuke into Root and offered him an Anbu trainee position instead.
• Hiruzen assigned Kakashi and Yamato to train Sasuke and guide him, and Sasuke accepted the chance to become stronger and take revenge.
• After his discharge, Sasuke saw that the Uchiha compound had been demolished and faced wary, hostile looks from villagers, then briefly reconnected with Naruto and their classmates.
• Kakashi and Yamato welcomed Sasuke to the Anbu base, where Kakashi gave him the codename Hawk and assigned him to infiltrate the Ninja Academy as an ordinary student while training after school.
• Sasuke accepted the mission despite his frustration at being sent back to school.

Sasuke returned to the Ninja Academy and secretly observed his classmates as part of an infiltration mission. Meanwhile, Hinata took control of the Hyuga clan and announced reforms that ended the distinction between the Main House and Branch House, leaving Menma to secretly neutralize the Caged Bird seal on her.

• Sasuke returned to class, recorded assessments of his classmates, and vowed to surpass Menma.
• Hinata told Menma she wanted to end the Hyuga clan’s Main House and Branch House system by placing the Caged Bird seal on the Main House too.
• Hinata confronted Hyuga Hiashi, and he agreed to hand her the clan leadership so she could address the clan’s crisis.
• At an emergency meeting, Hyuga Hiashi named Hyuga Hinata the thirty-third clan head, and Hinata declared the clan would no longer distinguish between Main House and Branch House.
• Hinata ordered the Caged Bird seal placed on all clan members over seven, while ending the practice for children under seven; Hiashi and the other Main House members accepted the seal.
• Menma secretly used Dojutsu: Rinyu to sever the seal’s connection to Hinata’s cranial nerves and Byakugan, making it only a symbol.

Menma arranged protection and resources for the gifted young researcher Katasuke Tono, while Orochimaru prepared to return to Otogakure and pursue Nagato’s Rinnegan. Three months later, Hiruzen ordered Kakashi to stage a border provocation against the Land of Stars, leaving Kakashi committed to a scheme that could draw the Land of Wind and Land of Earth into conflict.

• Menma praised Katasuke’s potential, assigned Idasuke to protect him, and urged him to continue studying under Orochimaru.
• Orochimaru told Menma he planned to return to Otogakure and seek a chance to test Nagato’s Rinnegan; Menma warned him not to underestimate it and began considering a trip to Amegakure for White Zetsu.
• Menma spoke with Yakushi Nonō about the academy’s new Uchiha and Hyuga students and Kabuto’s medical studies, then taught the children about chakra and natural energy.
• Three months later, Sasuke trained under Yamato while Kakashi watched, until an Anbu messenger summoned Kakashi to Hiruzen.
• Hiruzen and Shikaku explained that the Land of Stars’ growing power and fertile western lands threatened neighboring nations, then ordered Kakashi to disguise his squad as Hoshigakure shinobi and provoke conflict near the Land of Wind and Land of Earth.
• Kakashi objected that the plan could betray Konoha’s alliance with the Land of Wind and risk wider war, but accepted Hiruzen’s order to lead the mission.

Mikoto settled into a quiet life in Star City with Kushina and Minato while longing for Sasuke, as Akatsuki sent Itachi and Zabuza to investigate Kakuzu in Tsuruga. After a fierce battle, Itachi revealed that Akatsuki wanted Kakuzu to join, but Kakuzu responded with renewed killing intent.

• Uchiha Yuta bought snacks from Mikoto, who gave him a fried shrimp tempura after noticing his Uchiha crest and thinking of Sasuke.
• Kushina and Minato told Mikoto that Sasuke was safe in Konoha and hinted that Kushina's other child was living in the Land of Stars.
• White Zetsu and Black Zetsu relayed Pain's order for Itachi and Zabuza to investigate Kakuzu and potentially recruit or eliminate him.
• Itachi and Zabuza found Kakuzu guarding Gato's cargo at Tsuruga Port, and Zabuza challenged him to a fight.
• Kakuzu used his Earth Grudge Fear techniques and ninjutsu to withstand Zabuza, while Itachi watched and eventually intervened to stop Kakuzu's ambush.
• Itachi invited Kakuzu to join Akatsuki, but Kakuzu rejected the approach with a threat to kill both men.