Chapter Summaries

Four-year-old Uchiha Tokimitsu reflected on his new life in Konoha and returned home with his cousin Uchiha Shiina. He revealed that he had mastered the Great Fireball Technique, leaving Shiina eager to tell his parents.

• Uchiha Tokimitsu left the Naka River and headed back to his wealthy Uchiha family home.
• Uchiha Shiina met Tokimitsu at the village wall, teased him, and walked him home.
• Tokimitsu told Shiina that he had mastered the Great Fireball Technique.
• Uchiha Shiina excitedly carried Tokimitsu through Konoha and returned with him to the Uchiha Clan Compound.

Uchiha Tokimitsu demonstrated that he had taught himself the Great Fireball Technique, impressing his parents with his talent. After Tokimitsu chose clan instruction over the Ninja Academy, Uchiha Nakagen said he would take him to meet Elder Setsuna.

• Uchiha Shiina brought Tokimitsu home and announced that he had learned the Great Fireball Technique, delighting Uchiha Nakagen and Uchiha Emiko.
• Tokimitsu demonstrated the technique in the courtyard, and Uchiha Nakagen broke apart the fireball and praised Tokimitsu's control.
• Uchiha Nakagen gave Tokimitsu a detailed lesson, then learned that Tokimitsu had taught himself from a Hand Seal Instruction Scroll.
• The family celebrated Tokimitsu's achievement over dinner, and Uchiha Nakagen asked whether he wanted clan instruction or the Ninja Academy.
• Tokimitsu chose clan instruction, and Uchiha Nakagen said he would take him to meet Elder Setsuna the next day.

Uchiha Tokimitsu visited Elder Setsuna to receive instruction and demonstrated extraordinary talent by learning the Phoenix Sage Fire Technique from a scroll. Elder Setsuna praised him as a future pillar of the clan, while Uchiha Nakagen felt relieved and Uchiha Kamon surveyed the damaged courtyard.

• Uchiha Tokimitsu woke, ate breakfast with Uchiha Nakagen, and traveled with him through the Uchiha Clan Compound to meet Elder Setsuna.
• Uchiha Nakagen asked Elder Setsuna to guide Tokimitsu, and Setsuna remarked that true Uchiha heroes were devoted to the clan.
• Elder Setsuna gave Tokimitsu a scroll of the Phoenix Sage Fire Technique after hearing he had learned the Great Fireball Technique in one day.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu studied the scroll and announced that he had learned the technique, leaving Uchiha Nakagen and Uchiha Kamon stunned.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu and Elder Setsuna exchanged Phoenix Sage Fire Techniques in the courtyard, damaging the garden as their fireballs collided.
• Elder Setsuna praised Tokimitsu as a pillar of the clan, while Uchiha Nakagen looked relieved and Uchiha Kamon hesitated over the wrecked garden.

Uchiha Nakagen and Emiko explained the clan’s history and political factions to Tokimitsu, then asked him to choose his allegiance. Tokimitsu declared that he would be the Uchiha’s fire.

• Uchiha Tokimitsu prepared his ninja tools for training and joined his parents for breakfast.
• Uchiha Nakagen told Tokimitsu that Elder Setsuna had served Uchiha Madara, who left Konoha after founding it with Senju Hashirama.
• Uchiha Nakagen and Emiko explained how Madara’s attack and later clan civil wars deepened hostility between the Uchiha and the village.
• Uchiha Emiko revealed that she had fought Anbu and been injured during a clan civil war.
• Uchiha Nakagen said he, Emiko, and Setsuna belonged to the Radical Faction and asked Tokimitsu to choose his own path.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu declared that he would be the fire of the Uchiha.

Uchiha Tokimitsu began lessons with Elder Setsuna and astounded him by shaping Chakra into a lifelike cat on his first attempt. After Setsuna summoned a masked ninja, Tokimitsu asked to learn the Three-Tomoe Sharingan.

• Uchiha Kamon greeted Tokimitsu and brought him to Elder Setsuna for his first lesson.
• Tokimitsu quickly demonstrated strong memory and comprehension during academic instruction.
• Elder Setsuna showed Tokimitsu Chakra manipulation, and Tokimitsu shaped Chakra into a lifelike cat.
• Setsuna summoned a masked ninja whose Three-Tomoe Sharingan caught Tokimitsu's attention.
• Tokimitsu asked Elder Setsuna to teach him the Three-Tomoe Sharingan.

Elder Setsuna taught Uchiha Tokimitsu a Yin Style technique under the false claim that it could awaken the Sharingan, and Tokimitsu developed unusual spiritual perception instead. When Setsuna showed him his own Sharingan, Tokimitsu awakened a one-tomoe Sharingan and then fainted from chakra exhaustion.

• Elder Setsuna gave Uchiha Tokimitsu a secret Yin Style scroll and taught him how to meditate and sense spiritual power.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu used the technique to project his spiritual power, producing a galaxy-like vortex in his eyes rather than awakening the Sharingan.
• Elder Setsuna admitted the scroll was only a preliminary sensory ninjutsu method, then gave Tokimitsu three sensory technique scrolls.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu asked to see Elder Setsuna's Sharingan, and Setsuna activated his Three-Tomoe Sharingan.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu's ocular power surged, awakening his one-tomoe Sharingan before he fainted from chakra exhaustion.

Uchiha Tokimitsu awakened his Sharingan and began training in practical combat under Elder Setsuna. After demonstrating courage and resourcefulness against Uchiha Chian, he asked what mattered most to a ninja, and Setsuna answered that it was fearless battle and surviving through it.

• Uchiha Tokimitsu admired his newly awakened single-tomoe Sharingan, which he believed would help him survive the wars ahead.
• Uchiha Nakagen examined Tokimitsu's Sharingan over breakfast and suspected his unusually strong Spiritual Power had contributed to its awakening.
• Elder Setsuna taught Tokimitsu how ninja used ninjutsu in combat, then arranged for him to spar with Uchiha Chian.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu attacked with kunai and a Great Fireball, broke Chian's genjutsu with his Sharingan, and used wires to send scattered ninja tools flying at him.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu fought Chian in close quarters until Elder Setsuna stopped the match, then asked what was most important to a ninja.
• Elder Setsuna told Tokimitsu that a ninja needed fearless battle and survival through battle.

In Konoha Year 30, Uchiha Tokimitsu continued his secret training as signs of an approaching war unsettled the ninja world. After defeating Uchiha Kamon's Shadow Clone in a training exercise, Tokimitsu learned he would enter the upcoming Uchiha Clan Tournament.

• Uchiha Tokimitsu's training over the past two years made him a formidable swordsman, while his cousin Uchiha Chimei awakened a Three-Tomoe Sharingan after losing a spar to him.
• Emiko gave Uchiha Tokimitsu nearly a hundred powerful Explosive Tags and hinted that war might be near as the clan's arms business boomed.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu fought Uchiha Kamon's Shadow Clone in a forest exercise and nearly struck him with Uchiha Style: Sword Flame Slash, but Kamon tricked him with a Substitution Technique and won.
• Elder Setsuna praised Uchiha Tokimitsu's performance and ordered him to rest before the Uchiha Clan Tournament, which would begin in four days.

Uchiha Tokimitsu competed in the Uchiha clan’s youth tournament and easily defeated the other finalists, proving his strength to the clan. After winning, he stood as the competition’s overwhelming victor, while his mother and Elder Setsuna celebrated.

• Emiko accompanied Uchiha Tokimitsu to the clan competition and encouraged him to win.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu easily defeated every opponent in his elimination group and advanced to the final four with Uchiha Nobutora, Uchiha Yashiro, and Uchiha Yuki.
• The final four began a group battle, and Uchiha Tokimitsu chose to face all three opponents at once.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu used fire techniques and quick attacks to eliminate Uchiha Nobutora and Uchiha Yuki.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu trapped Uchiha Yashiro in a genjutsu and knocked him unconscious, stunning the watching clan members.

After Uchiha Tokimitsu’s victory made him famous, he proposed that the Uchiha establish a centralized ninja academy to strengthen clan education. Elder Setsuna and the Radical Faction elders seized on his suggestion and decided to push for a Konoha Military Police Force Reserve Training Academy.

• Uchiha Tokimitsu’s victory spread through the clan, and clan members increasingly chose home education over the village Ninja Academy.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu told Elder Setsuna that clan education needed a centralized academy with stronger training and access to advanced techniques.
• The elders argued over the academy’s costs, political opposition, and the clan’s circumstances until Elder Setsuna stopped their quarrel.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu proposed naming the school the Konoha Military Police Force Reserve Training Academy so it could be framed as an internal force-training institution.
• Elder Setsuna approved the plan and rallied the Radical Faction elders to press the clan head for a Clan Meeting.
• Elder Setsuna gave Uchiha Tokimitsu a scroll of advanced Fire Style Ninjutsu and promised to arrange the academy’s establishment.

The Uchiha Clan debated whether to establish the Konoha Military Police Force Reserve Training Academy, with Radical and Conservative factions clashing over the proposal. After Elder Setsuna clarified how the academy would operate, the vote passed, beginning the countdown to its formal establishment.

• The Uchiha Clan Head opened the meeting as Radical Faction elders argued that the clan needed its own Military Police Force training academy.
• Elder Shigenobu and other Conservative Faction members objected, warning that a clan academy would deepen division and strain the Uchiha Clan’s ties with Konoha.
• The elders’ debate escalated into insults and threats, and the Uchiha Clan Head’s attempt to settle the matter by vote was rejected amid renewed arguments.
• The Uchiha Clan Head asked Elder Setsuna to offer a compromise, and Setsuna explained that the academy would train active-duty police in rotations and admit youths voluntarily through assessment.
• The Uchiha Clan Head called for a vote, and the proposal passed as the Radical Faction voted in favor while nearly half the Conservative Faction abstained.

Sarutobi Hiruzen and Konoha F4 discussed how to respond to the Uchiha Clan’s plan to establish a Police Force Preparatory Training Academy. Hiruzen chose negotiation over force, offering the Uchiha three Anbu positions and deciding to take Uchiha Tokimitsu as his disciple.

• An Anbu scout reported on the Uchiha Clan’s academy plan, and Sarutobi Hiruzen read the intelligence to Konoha F4.
• Shimura Danzō demanded that the Uchiha be punished and offered to lead Anbu against them, but Hiruzen ordered him to stop.
• Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura discussed questioning Uchiha Setsuna and investigating Uchiha Tokimitsu, while the group concluded that force or political pressure would be difficult.
• Hiruzen proposed offering the Uchiha three Anbu positions and having Anbu provide training for the Konoha Military Police Force.
• Hiruzen said he would take Uchiha Tokimitsu as his disciple, then dismissed the others; Danzō left angrily.

The Third Hokage, Sarutobi Hiruzen, offered the Uchiha Clan Anbu positions and a chance for one of their own to become his disciple in exchange for abandoning the Konoha Military Police Force Reserve Training Academy. Uchiha Tokimitsu and Elder Setsuna persuaded the clan elders to reject the offer and preserve the academy.

• The Uchiha Clan Head refused to accept Sarutobi Hiruzen's terms without first consulting the clan, then returned home and summoned the Branch Family Elders.
• The Uchiha Clan Head explained the offer to the elders, who began to waver over its benefits.
• Elder Setsuna asked Uchiha Tokimitsu to compare the Hokage's terms with the academy, and Tokimitsu argued that the academy would unite and strengthen the clan.
• Elder Setsuna urged the clan to prioritize unity and self-strengthening, calling Sarutobi Hiruzen's terms poison wrapped in sugar.
• The Uchiha Clan Head held a vote, and the elders unanimously chose to continue the academy and reject Sarutobi Hiruzen's offer.

In Konoha Year 32, Danzo urged Hiruzen to unite the Ninja World through war, but the Hokage rejected his proposal. Meanwhile, the Uchiha Clan’s training academy and influence continued to grow as the Second Great Ninja War began.

• Danzo pressed Hiruzen to launch a war that would make Konoha the sole power in the Ninja World, but Hiruzen defended Hashirama’s goal of protecting children and refused.
• The Uchiha Reserve Training Academy expanded its ninjutsu curriculum and admitted children from allied clans and civilian friends of the Uchiha.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu awakened Two-Tomoe Sharingan, developed Spiritual Power attacks, and became strong enough to overpower veteran Chunin and contend with ordinary jonin.
• Danzo, constrained by the growing war-readiness crisis and Root’s weakness, resorted to secretly manipulating public opinion against the Uchiha.
• The Second Great Ninja War began as the Uchiha Clan continued to prosper.

As conflict spread across the Ninja World, Konoha’s leaders prepared for war with Amegakure while arguing over the Uchiha Clan’s role. Sarutobi Hiruzen set Konoha’s mobilization plans and left the Uchiha mostly at home for now, while the clan eagerly anticipated a chance to prove its strength in battle.

• From Konoha Year 28 to Year 30, clashes between ninja factions intensified, and Uchiha Tokimitsu became a prominent young talent expected to serve as the clan’s standard-bearer.
• Mitokado Homura reported that Amegakure had massed troops at the border, while Sunagakure’s unusual movements drew Konoha’s attention elsewhere.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen ordered Homura to seek funding, Koharu to organize more troops and recall Jonin, and Tsunade, Orochimaru, and Jiraiya to lead reinforcements toward the Land of Rain.
• Koharu, Homura, and Danzo proposed transferring Uchiha forces to the front, but Hiruzen said the clan should keep protecting Konoha for now and might later be sent against the major nations of Lightning and Earth.
• Hiruzen assigned Danzo intelligence duties and transferred Hatake Sakumo to the Sunagakure direction as deputy commander.
• The Uchiha Clan welcomed the prospect of war, hoping to win battlefield prestige and strengthen their Sharingan through combat.

As war threatened Konoha, Elder Setsuna rallied the Uchiha Radical Faction and named his disciple Uchiha Tokimitsu as his successor. Tokimitsu awakened Three-Tomoe at age eight, and the Sharingan resonance among the gathered Uchiha helped several others reach Three-Tomoe as well.

• News of unrest and military movements across the nations reached Konoha and raised fears of war.
• Elder Setsuna declared that the Uchiha would fight for their clan and promised war supplies and access to secret techniques.
• Elder Setsuna presented Uchiha Tokimitsu as the heir to his faction, and Uchiha Kamon and the others pledged their loyalty.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu awakened Three-Tomoe during the gathering, astonishing the assembled clan members.
• The Uchiha Sharingan resonated with one another, and several ninja awakened Three-Tomoe while others gained pupil power.

Uchiha Tokimitsu organized the Radical Faction Uchiha into combat, support, and guard units and began their concentrated training. He exposed and captured three suspected spies with a new long-range combination technique, earning the army’s respect as the training continued.

• Uchiha Tokimitsu and Uchiha Kamon organized the sixty-six participating ninja into combat, support, and guard troops according to their abilities.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu assigned training plans to the twenty-two support and guard ninja under his command, while Uchiha Kamon led the combat squads in tactical exercises.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu detected three lurkers near the training ground and sent Uchiha Nobuhiko and Uchiha Kensuke to capture them.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu tested his Lightning Style: Falling Lightning on the lurkers, and the Uchiha Jonin subdued and bound all three.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu identified the captives as suspected spies and ordered them escorted to the Konoha Military Police Force, then told the Uchiha to resume training.

Uchiha Tokimitsu led the Uchiha Ninja Army through disciplined drills and a conspicuous march back into Konoha, alarming the Hokage with the clan’s strength. Danzo then confronted Sarutobi Hiruzen over Uchiha Tokimitsu’s capture of Root operatives, but Hiruzen refused to escalate the dispute and Danzo stormed out.

• Uchiha Nakagen took custody of the three captured Lurkers while Uchiha Tokimitsu continued directing the Uchiha Ninja Army’s tactical exercises.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu and Uchiha Kamon ended the day’s training, then Tokimitsu led the clan members back into Konoha in disciplined ranks.
• An Anbu reported the Uchiha’s imposing return to Sarutobi Hiruzen, who privately grew more wary of the clan’s strength.
• Danzo barged into the Hokage’s office and accused the Uchiha of capturing Anbu, then admitted the prisoners belonged to Root and lacked registration numbers and residency records.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen ordered the matter left to the Konoha Military Police Force, while Mitokado Homura noted that Danzo had violated a grave taboo by spying on village comrades.
• Danzo denounced Hiruzen’s leniency and stormed out after Hiruzen reminded him that he was the Hokage.

Uchiha Tokimitsu defended his capture of three suspicious men to Uchiha Keiji, arguing that the Uchiha should not submit to the village. When Root agents arrived to retrieve the men without identification or a Hokage order, Uchiha Nakagen attacked them and the Military Police Force seized the rest.

• Uchiha Tokimitsu returned from drills and told Uchiha Nakagen how he had captured three armed men near the clan training ground.
• Uchiha Keiji criticized Tokimitsu for injuring them before confirming their identities, but Tokimitsu argued with him and rejected the idea that the Uchiha should seek equality with villagers or yield to the Hokage.
• A messenger informed Uchiha Nakagen that Anbu had come to retrieve the captives, so he and the others went to the Military Police Force lobby.
• A Root agent demanded the release of the men but could provide neither proof of identity nor a Hokage order.
• Uchiha Nakagen electrocuted the leading Root agent, and the Uchiha members rushed to seize the remaining agents despite Uchiha Keiji's attempt to intervene.

The Third Hokage confronted Shimura Danzō after the Uchiha detained Root operatives at the Konoha Military Police Force. Danzō’s plan to recruit clan children into Root failed when Hiruzen warned him of the Uchiha’s strength.

• The Anbu Captain reported that the Uchiha had detained Root ninja and accused them of being enemy spies.
• Shimura Danzō burst into Hiruzen’s office and demanded that the Uchiha ringleader be arrested and the clan sent to the border.
• Hiruzen challenged Danzō to consider how many jonin Root could command and asked why he had sent unregistered Root ninja to negotiate with the Uchiha.
• Danzō argued that Root needed reinforcements and proposed taking young children from ninja clans, especially Uchiha Tokimitsu.
• Hiruzen stopped Danzō and revealed that Tokimitsu had twenty jonin in his assigned ninja army, leaving Danzō unable to reply.