Recaps

Yuhara defeated Uchiha Shisui and another Uchiha with a devastating Rasenshuriken, then returned to the waiting area as the exam paused for repairs. Minato Namikaze and the others reviewed Yuhara’s records and considered what his extraordinary victory meant.

• Yuhara’s Rasenshuriken destroyed part of the arena, while Flying Thunder God kunai moved the three Uchiha out of its path.
• An ANBU Ninja tried to stop Yuhara from approaching the damage, but the Fourth Hokage intervened and Shiranui Genma declared Yuhara the winner.
• Yuhara helped dig Uchiha Shisui out of the wall, blamed Shiranui Genma for allowing the match, and returned to the examinees’ waiting area exhausted.
• Minato Namikaze reviewed Yuhara’s records, which noted his creation as Orochimaru’s Test Subject, his teammate’s death, and his encounter with a wiped-out Kirigakure squad.
• Orochimaru laughed at Yuhara’s hostility toward the Uchiha, then regretted having misjudged his former Test Subject.

After impressing Konoha’s leaders with his Wind Release, Yuhara forfeited his next Chunin Exam match and watched the tournament conclude. The Fourth Hokage summoned him afterward to ask about the technique, and Yuhara claimed it was his original ninjutsu.

• Orochimaru regretted abandoning Yuhara as a test subject, while the Third Hokage explained his earlier encounter with the young shinobi and the Fourth Hokage praised Yuhara’s strength.
• Yuhara forfeited his second-round match, saying he had used too much Chakra, and his opponent advanced without a fight.
• An Akimichi Clan shinobi won the tournament, though Konoha postponed announcing which candidates had passed the exams.
• Kakashi brought Yuhara to meet the Fourth Hokage, who asked about the Wind Release Ninjutsu he had used in the arena.
• Yuhara told the Fourth Hokage that the Wind Release technique was his original ninjutsu.

Yuhara explained his Rasenshuriken to the Fourth Hokage and hinted at the dangers facing the Hokage’s family, then encountered Orochimaru, who questioned him about Nature Energy. Jiraiya confronted Orochimaru afterward, while Yuhara left without revealing his secrets.

• Yuhara explained that his Rasenshuriken was based on a model of celestial bodies, and the Fourth Hokage accepted his explanation.
• Yuhara asked the Fourth Hokage what he would do if Konoha and his family were threatened at the same time.
• Yuhara met Orochimaru in an alley, where Orochimaru asked how he had applied Nature Energy and suggested they might cooperate.
• Jiraiya emerged after Yuhara left and accused Orochimaru of teaching Yuhara Senjutsu.
• Orochimaru denied involvement, leaving Yuhara’s origins and the growing attention from Konoha’s factions unresolved.

After being promoted to Chunin, Yuhara accepted an appointment to Konoha's Anbu and joined Gojo's team under the codename Lu Yu. His first assignment began with an eight-hour shift of tactical security duty in the Hokage administration building.

• Sixteen Genin, including Yuhara, were promoted to Chunin after the exam results were announced.
• Yuhara retrieved the belongings he had hidden outside Konoha and received a sealed letter offering him an appointment from a central Konoha department.
• Yuhara reported to the Anbu headquarters and met Gojo, his team captain, along with new recruits Batsu and Kizuna.
• Yuhara chose the codename Lu Yu, put on his Anbu equipment and a fox-faced mask, then joined Gojo's team.
• Gojo led Yuhara, Batsu, and Kizuna to the Hokage administration building, where they took over an eight-hour tactical security shift.

Yuhara studied Chakra nature transformation during his ANBU guard duty before receiving a secret mission to capture a fellow Konoha ninja. The target was revealed to be Uchiha Tetsu, an Uchiha jonin who opposed Konoha.

• Yuhara learned about the Critical Cultivation Method and tried to begin learning Fire Release nature transformation.
• After his guard shift, Yuhara found a card ordering him to attend an ANBU mission briefing.
• Captain Gojo briefed the squad on a secret mission to capture a Konoha ninja alive as he left the village.
• Gojo assigned Yuhara to capture the target while the other three squad members restrained him.
• Gojo identified the target as Uchiha Tetsu, a staunch anti-Konoha faction member in the Uchiha Clan.

Yuhara and Gojo’s Anbu squad captured Uchiha Tetsu in a staged ambush, but Yuhara later attacked Gojo after suspecting him of framing Kakashi. The chapter ended with Yuhara’s lightning-charged hand poised near Gojo’s heart.

• Yuhara and three Anbu ninja ambushed Uchiha Tetsu, who avoided their first attack with the Substitution Technique.
• Yuhara used his armor, a headbutt, and a trap wire to help subdue Uchiha Tetsu, who was then paralyzed by a lightning-charged arrow.
• Gojo praised Yuhara, and the squad secretly returned Uchiha Tetsu to Konoha through an Anbu channel.
• Gojo dismissed Yuhara and the other Anbu before taking Uchiha Tetsu to complete the handoff.
• Yuhara attacked Gojo from behind with a lightning-charged hand and suggested that Gojo had been stabbed by Kakashi.

Yuhara suspected that the mission to capture a Uchiha ninja was an illegal plot and ambushed Gojo to stop him from silencing the witnesses. He brought the wounded squad leader near the Hokage's office and went to report the matter privately to Minato Namikaze.

• Yuhara concluded that the sudden mission to capture a Uchiha jōnin had not been legitimately ordered and would put the three new Anbu shinobi in danger.
• Yuhara ambushed Gojo and wounded him, intending to capture him alive and take him to the Fourth Hokage.
• Gojo spat a poisoned needle at Yuhara, but Yuhara restrained him, blocked his mouth with iron sand, treated his wounds, and encased him in iron.
• Yuhara carried Gojo near the Hokage's office building, left him in an alley, and entered to request a private meeting with Minato Namikaze.
• Minato recognized Yuhara by his codename and asked about the poisoned needle lodged in his mask before taking him to the rooftop.

Yuhara reported that an unauthorized mission had led to Uchiha Tetsu being captured and handed to an unknown party, prompting Minato Namikaze and the Third Hokage to investigate. Interrogation linked the forged orders to Danzō’s Root Organization, but key details remained concealed, and the Third Hokage went to confront Danzō.

• Yuhara told Minato Namikaze that an ANBU squad had secretly captured Uchiha Tetsu under a forged order, and reported that he had captured Gojo and tied up the squad leader.
• Minato sent trusted ANBU to take the squad leader to the Torture and Interrogation Department, then went to consult the Third Hokage while Yuhara stayed behind.
• Inoichi Yamanaka reported that Gojo had been trained by the Root Organization, but the order’s issuer and Uchiha Tetsu’s eventual custodian could not be identified.
• The Third Hokage and Minato learned that Uchiha Tetsu was the grandson of a former Uchiha clan head, and considered why Danzō might have targeted him.
• The Third Hokage said he would speak with Danzō about the incident.

Yuhara reflected on his growing standing in Konoha and planned to improve his skills while finding a way to obtain Orochimaru’s research on Living Corpse Reincarnation. On his way back to the inn, he rejected Shimura Danzō’s attempt to recruit him into Root and prepared to fight the masked messenger.

• Yuhara waited with Kizuna for their absent captain, Gojo, while the Anbu dealt with the tense aftermath of the Uchiha kidnapping incident.
• Yuhara considered his recent reward and trust from the Fourth Hokage, then set goals to improve his taijutsu and ninjutsu and seek Orochimaru’s help with reviving his former teammate.
• A masked ninja blocked Yuhara on his way to the inn and demanded that he come meet an important person.
• Yuhara threatened the stranger until the ninja revealed he served Shimura Danzō, who wanted Yuhara to join Root.
• Yuhara refused Danzō’s invitation, and the mercury in his palm began to tremble as he prepared to act.

Yuhara refused Danzo’s offer to join Root and fought off the recruiter, then reported the incident to the Fourth Hokage. Danzo recorded Yuhara’s name for later, leaving their conflict unresolved.

• A Root Ninja threatened Yuhara for rejecting Danzo’s invitation, and Yuhara challenged him instead of backing down.
• Yuhara struck the Root Ninja with a lightning-charged blow and trapped him in iron sand until he admitted he understood Yuhara’s refusal.
• Yuhara released the injured ninja and left, worrying that Danzo might target him through Root while he worked to grow stronger.
• The Root Ninja reported Yuhara’s Magnet Release abilities to Danzo, who ordered his subordinates to leave Yuhara alone for now and wrote his name in a notebook.
• The Fourth Hokage found Yuhara’s first-person report about the recruitment attempt on his desk the next morning.

Yuhara’s report about the missing Uchiha ninja led to no meaningful action because there was no evidence tying Danzō to the incident. At Anbu headquarters, Yuhara joined a taijutsu sparring session and was quickly overwhelmed, while an Anbu ninja discovered he could not lift Yuhara’s heavy ninja tool.

• The chapter explained that Danzō could not be punished for the Uchiha ninja’s disappearance because no evidence proved he had ordered the abduction, and the Uchiha remained classified as missing.
• The Third Hokage warned Danzō, while the Fourth Hokage struggled to control the Anbu and left Yuhara’s report without a serious response.
• Yuhara spent two days on guard before relaxing and joining the Anbu’s taijutsu training at headquarters.
• Yuhara entered the arena for a half-hour sparring match and was forced to the ground after twenty seconds.
• An Anbu ninja tried to move Yuhara’s box-shaped ninja tool but could not lift it, despite Yuhara’s poor showing in the arena.

As tensions rose between Konoha and the Uchiha over a missing ninja, Yuhara and his teammates monitored the clan while Yuhara joked about escalating surveillance. The standoff ended when the Uchiha clan head named his newborn son Sasuke as a gesture of submission to the Third Hokage.

• After an Uchiha ninja failed to return from a mission, rumors spread that Konoha had assassinated him, and the Anbu intensified their surveillance of the Uchiha.
• Yuhara and Kizuna watched the Uchiha Residential Area while pretending not to know what had happened to the missing ninja.
• Yuhara proposed increasing surveillance forces each day until the Uchiha submitted, alarming Captain Furry, who dismissed him and Kizuna at shift change.
• The Uchiha endured a month of tension without finding the missing ninja, then backed down through a symbolic gesture.
• In July, the Uchiha clan head named his newborn son Sasuke to express the clan's reverence for the Third Hokage and its submission to Konoha.

After the Uchiha incident temporarily subsided, Yuhara’s Anbu squad finished its long-term surveillance mission and ran into Uchiha ninjas while leaving their post. Captain Furry stopped Yuhara from starting a fight, then shoved an Uchiha aside to assert the Anbu’s right of passage, leaving the Uchiha unable to retaliate without reigniting the conflict.

• Danzo concluded that the Uchiha were unruly and might eventually cause trouble, despite having caused the disappearance that sparked their anger.
• Yuhara and his Anbu squad packed up their surveillance post after months of monitoring the Uchiha Clan.
• Uchiha Shisui recognized Yuhara and thanked him for his guidance during the Chunin Ninja Exams.
• Yuhara insulted the Uchiha Military Police ninjas, and his iron sand began to take a threatening form before Captain Furry stopped him.
• Captain Furry scolded Yuhara, then shoved an Uchiha ninja aside and declared that Anbu missions had priority passage.
• The Uchiha ninjas stayed put rather than chase the Anbu squad and risk provoking another conflict.

Yuhara tried to keep a low profile as the Nine-Tails incident drew near, knowing he lacked the strength to confront it. Instead, Konoha urgently sent him and more than twenty Anbu to intercept a Sand Village envoy traveling secretly to the Mist Village, leaving Yuhara wary of the mission and its team.

• Yuhara concluded he could do nothing about the approaching Nine-Tails incident beyond the warning he had already given the Fourth Hokage.
• Three days after the Uchiha mission, Yuhara and several Anbu squads were urgently summoned to headquarters.
• A Sub-Captain explained that a Sand Village envoy was traveling by sea to restore communication with the Mist Village.
• The Sub-Captain ordered the Anbu to move out and intercept the envoy.
• Yuhara followed his captain, wondering whether this twenty-four-member Anbu force would resemble his previous team.

Yuhara and Unit Twenty-Four joined Konoha’s attempt to intercept Pakura at sea, where the Anbu launched a coordinated attack against the Sand Village messenger. Yuhara and Kizuna rushed in to restrain her, but Pakura counterattacked and knocked Kizuna away.

• Yuhara reasoned that Konoha intended to kill Pakura before she could reach the Land of Water, despite her being sent there to die under the Sand Village’s peace terms.
• Yuhara and the other Anbu traveled to the southern sea and split into teams to search for the messenger.
• The Sub-Captain spotted Pakura’s boat, and Captain Furry ordered the squad to join the operation after receiving a scroll.
• Captain Furry used Water Dragon Bullet against Pakura, while other Anbu used wind and fire techniques to clear the steam and drive her toward Yuhara’s squad.
• Yuhara grabbed Pakura’s wrist and forced her hands apart, but Pakura kneed Kizuna in the chin and kicked him away.

Konoha ANBU killed Pakura while intercepting her, then spent two days searching the sea for the diplomatic letter she had hidden. They found the letter, but it was blank, revealing that the Sand Village and Mist Village had used the supposed message as a pretext to arrange her death.

• Yuhara restrained Pakura, and the ANBU Sub-Captain struck her with Gentle Fist Style: Eight Trigrams 128 Palms and Eight Trigrams Vacuum Palm, disrupting her Chakra.
• Two ANBU ambushers stabbed Pakura through the chest, and Captain Furry told Yuhara that the mission had been to kill the messenger.
• The ANBU searched Pakura's body but found no letter, so they used the Byakugan to search the sea for two days.
• The ANBU recovered Pakura's sealed letter and opened it, only to find a blank sheet inside.
• An ANBU reported that the letter was blank, and the captain fainted.

Yuhara prepared to counter genjutsu by modifying the Six Dimensions Seal, then joined an Anbu guard mission outside Konoha as Kushina Uzumaki neared childbirth. The chapter left him recognizing that the guards’ confident talk about the mission’s safety had already raised a flag.

• Yuhara clashed briefly with Cloud Hidden Ninja on several missions as two months passed.
• Yuhara adjusted the Six Dimensions Seal so Nature Energy would surge through his meridians if genjutsu disrupted his Chakra.
• Yuhara’s Anbu squad received a long-term assignment guarding a forest perimeter outside Konoha as Kushina Uzumaki approached her due date.
• Several Anbu shinobi reassured one another that the Hokage and the guards would prevent anything from going wrong.
• Yuhara silently complained that the guards had just invited disaster by talking so confidently.

During his guard duty on the night of Naruto’s birth, Yuhara spotted Obito Uchiha and raised the highest-level alarm. He and his teammates attacked Obito, while Yuhara tried to keep them from falling victim to his Kamui.

• Yuhara noticed Obito Uchiha behind him and blew the highest-level alarm whistle.
• Yuhara fired an arrow through Obito and warned his teammates that the enemy could use Space-Time Ninjutsu.
• Wind Civet led Yuhara and their other teammates in a charge toward Obito as backup Anbu ninja rushed to the area.
• Yuhara used Cold Plume Blazing Feather to interrupt Obito’s attempt to grab Wind Civet, then knocked Wind Civet away from him.
• Yuhara warned his team that Obito could teleport and cautioned the captain against getting too close.

Obito Uchiha’s attack on Konoha triggered a Genjutsu that sent Yuhara out of control, while Minato Namikaze stayed with Kushina Uzumaki through Naruto’s delivery. The chapter ended with the berserk Yuhara bursting into the delivery room and kicking Obito away from the baby.

• Obito Uchiha disappeared after drawing Anbu forces away, but Yuhara ordered them to stop moving and prioritize protecting the Jinchuriki.
• Obito’s implanted Genjutsu took hold of Captain Furry and Yuhara; Yuhara dispelled it with Nature Energy but lost control as more energy flooded his body.
• Kizuna fought Captain Furry while Ba cautiously moved to subdue him and avoid Yuhara’s aggro range.
• Naruto was born, and Minato Namikaze placed him in a cradle before Obito Uchiha appeared and threatened him with a kunai.
• Yuhara burst through the delivery room wall in a berserk state and kicked Obito away, sending Naruto flying from his arms.

Yuhara regained consciousness after striking Obito Uchiha, realized his Six Dimensions Seal was overclocking his body, and returned to the delivery room to rescue Biwako Sarutobi. As the Nine-Tails appeared in Konoha and targeted him, Yuhara faced an enormous blast while trying to get her to safety.

• Yuhara woke in the Naka River after his Nature Energy-fueled attack on Obito Uchiha and recognized that the Six Dimensions Seal was still overclocking him.
• Yuhara returned to the delivery room, found the ANBU dead, and carried the barely conscious Biwako Sarutobi out after treating her wound.
• Yuhara saw the Nine-Tails rampaging in Konoha and lowered his goal to protecting Biwako Sarutobi.
• The Nine-Tails sensed Yuhara's powerful energy, turned toward him, and fired a gigantic black sphere from its mouth.

Yuhara charged into Konoha and attacked the Nine-Tails, first with a Rasenshuriken and then with his mercury technique. The Nine-Tails struck him away while the Third Hokage hoped he had survived, unaware Yuhara was carrying Biwako Sarutobi.

• Yuhara used mercury strips to propel himself toward Konoha as the Nine-Tails launched a Tailed Beast Ball after him.
• Yuhara outran the explosion, scaled Konoha's wall, and leaped toward the Nine-Tails with a giant mercury sword.
• The Third Hokage used Enma's Adamantine Staff to block Yuhara's sword, but Yuhara then hit the Nine-Tails with a Rasenshuriken.
• Yuhara planted a mercury sphere inside the Nine-Tails and triggered the Frostflow Mercury Lamp, causing it intense pain.
• The Nine-Tails swept Yuhara away with its tail, and the Third Hokage learned from an Anbu Ninja that the attacker was Lu Yu.
• The Third Hokage hoped Yuhara was all right, unaware that Yuhara had been carrying Biwako Sarutobi on his back.

Yuhara helped suppress the Nine-Tails and rescued the badly injured Biwako Sarutobi, but the beast was transported away from Konoha before the Third Hokage could engage it. After releasing the seals that had strained his body, Yuhara refused to go to the hospital and headed toward the battlefield to continue his duty.

• The Nine-Tails sent Yuhara crashing through buildings, but he survived and had already released Biwako Sarutobi before the impact.
• The Third Hokage ordered Anbu to take Biwako for medical treatment and told Yuhara that the Nine-Tails could not be killed.
• The Nine-Tails vanished from Konoha and reappeared in the distance, so the Third Hokage ordered the Fourth to pursue it.
• Yuhara undid the seals on his body to relieve the pressure, then declined a trip to the hospital and set off toward the battlefield.
• Unno and his squad finished evacuating civilians and prepared to search the area where the Nine-Tails had appeared.

Yuhara watched as Obito Uchiha escaped the barrier after being defeated, while Minato Namikaze and Kushina Uzumaki struggled to contain the Nine-Tails. The Third Hokage explained that Minato might have to use the Uzumaki Clan’s Forbidden Technique to split the beast and seal its halves separately.

• Yuhara learned that Minato had struck Obito with the Rasenshuriken, but Obito had returned unharmed, likely using Izanagi.
• Obito appeared outside Minato’s barrier in a battered state, then vanished again to flee.
• Kushina bound the Nine-Tails with Adamantine Sealing Chains and a second sealing formula.
• The Third Hokage said Kushina was too weakened to safely contain the whole Nine-Tails and that Minato had little time to act.
• The Third Hokage confirmed that the Uzumaki Clan’s Forbidden Technique could split the Nine-Tails so Minato and Kushina could seal its halves separately.

After the Nine-Tails attack, the Fourth Hokage and his wife lay dead, while Naruto became a Jinchuriki. As Yuhara recovered in the hospital, he heard a rumor blaming Kumogakure and suspected Kushina Uzumaki had deliberately redirected the blame to protect Konoha from internal conflict.

• The Third Hokage entered the collapsing barrier and later emerged with Naruto, while the Fourth Hokage and his wife lay dead at the battle site.
• Obito Uchiha retreated with Black Zetsu and Tobi, and Black Zetsu criticized Obito for his reckless attack on Konoha.
• Yuhara woke in Konoha Hospital with injuries and reflected on the damage caused by the Nine-Tails attack.
• Yuhara overheard people blaming Kumogakure for the attack and realized someone was spreading the rumor to turn Konoha's anger outward.
• Yuhara suspected Kushina Uzumaki had arranged for the accusation to be made through the victim herself.

Yuhara tried to pull Kakashi back from despair by suggesting the masked attacker may have learned the Fourth Hokage's Wife's due date from someone at a cemetery and by revealing the Mangekyō Sharingan's awakening condition. After leaving Kakashi to process the revelations, Yuhara returned to his ward and was summoned by the Third Hokage.

• Yuhara found Kakashi alone on the hospital rooftop and told him that someone may have leaked the Fourth Hokage's Wife's due date at a cemetery.
• Kakashi became distressed as Yuhara hinted that the mysterious attacker could have overheard someone there.
• Yuhara told Kakashi that the Mangekyō Sharingan could awaken when a person personally killed someone they cherished.
• Kakashi tried to process Yuhara's revelations, but Yuhara left before Kakashi could ask more questions.
• Yuhara returned to his ward, where ANBU ninja Kizuna told him that the Third Hokage wanted to see him.