Chapter Summaries

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.

Kushina Uzumaki explained Minato Namikaze’s plan to blame an outside enemy for the Nine-Tails incident, and the Third Hokage approved it despite Shimura Danzō’s objections. Yuhara was promoted to Jōnin for his actions during the attack, then learned that Biwako Sarutobi had survived.

• Kushina Uzumaki told the Third Hokage and the Advisors that Minato believed the masked attacker was Madara Uchiha and wanted the incident blamed on an external party.
• Shimura Danzō argued that the Uchiha should be held responsible, but the Third Hokage overruled him and upheld Minato’s final order.
• The Third Hokage ordered Yuhara to keep Naruto Uzumaki’s status as a Nine-Tails Jinchuriki secret.
• The Third Hokage promoted Yuhara from Chunin to Jōnin, and Kushina Uzumaki defended the decision by proposing a special promotion criterion based on defeating the Nine-Tails.
• After Yuhara left the meeting, Kizuna told him that Biwako Sarutobi had pulled through.

Kushina organized support for the Fourth Hokage’s legacy while Kakashi joined a mission to catch spies leaking news of Minato’s death. After Kakashi rescued a hostage and killed a spy, his team discovered the girl was an Uchiha; meanwhile, Yuhara received another summons from the Third Hokage for an important mission.

• Kushina thanked Shibi Aburame, Aoba Yamashiro, Shiranui Genma, Namiashi Raidō, and Iwashi Tatami, then asked them to keep spreading their account of the incident.
• Kakashi and his teammates intercepted a spy who killed himself before Kakashi could question him, but they stopped his message lizard from escaping.
• Kakashi’s team continued hunting spies to delay news of the Fourth Hokage’s death from spreading beyond Konoha.
• When a spy took a little girl hostage, Kakashi used his Sharingan and Lightning Cutter to kill him, and his teammates caught the girl.
• Kakashi’s teammates realized the rescued girl was an Uchiha, while Yuhara was summoned by the Third Hokage for an important mission.

After recovering from the Nine-Tails incident, Yuhara met with the Third Hokage, who revealed Konoha’s official account of the attack and assigned him a diplomatic mission to Sunagakure. Yuhara accepted, and the Hokage allowed him to choose a companion for the journey.

• Yuhara recovered in the hospital, restored his Six Dimensions Seal, and was summoned by the Third Hokage after his discharge.
• Yuhara told the Third Hokage that the attacker used a Sharingan to control him and the Nine-Tails, and the Hokage explained Konoha would publicly blame the Cloud Hidden Ninja.
• The Third Hokage appointed Yuhara as an official envoy to Sunagakure to negotiate a peace agreement and explained that his strength and actions during the attack made him a suitable choice.
• Yuhara weighed the risks of traveling during wartime and accepted the mission after learning Sunagakure would be notified and receive him formally.
• The Third Hokage gave Yuhara Konoha’s negotiation limits and said he could choose one companion for the mission.

Yuhara chose a Root shinobi as his companion for the diplomatic mission to Sunagakure, and the Third Hokage took the shinobi from Shimura Danzō’s control. The chosen shinobi was Kou, who possessed Wood Style and the power of the God of Shinobi.

• Yuhara decided he needed a companion for the mission and asked the Third Hokage if he could choose from any shinobi in Konoha.
• Yuhara and the Third Hokage went to Root Organization, where Shimura Danzō gathered its shinobi at the Hokage’s command.
• Yuhara inspected the assembled Root shinobi and selected the short shinobi named Kou.
• Yuhara whispered that Kou was a Wood Style Ninja, and the Third Hokage ordered Danzō to let Kou accompany them.
• Shimura Danzō protested losing Kou, but the Third Hokage invoked Konoha’s interests and the Second Hokage’s teachings to overrule him.

Yuhara showed the Third Hokage that Kou could use Wood Style and asked him to remove Kou’s Cursed Tongue Eradication Seal. After the Hokage took Kou away, Kakashi brought Yuhara to meet Kushina at the Fourth Hokage’s home, where their conversation was about to begin.

• Yuhara explained that Kou had survived one of Orochimaru’s experiments and had used Wood Style in an underground base.
• Kou demonstrated Wood Style for the Third Hokage, who recognized it and agreed to have Danzo remove Kou’s Cursed Tongue Eradication Seal.
• The Third Hokage took Kou temporarily, while Yuhara prepared for his trip to the Sand Village and realized he needed somewhere to live.
• Kakashi found Yuhara and escorted him to Kushina, who was recuperating at home with her baby.
• Yuhara arrived at the Fourth Hokage’s residence and saw Kushina with the baby, a visiting female ninja, and a young girl.