Chapter Summaries

The Third Hokage Sarutobi Hiruzen’s faction debated Uchiha Tokimitsu’s proposal to govern the occupied areas of the Land of Lightning and chose to accept it while pursuing reforms. Sarutobi Hiruzen announced Orochimaru, Tsunade, and Hatake Sakumo as candidates for Fourth Hokage and appointed Sarutobi Shinnosuke as Garrison Commander, with Orochimaru overseeing the occupation effort.

• The Nara Clan Head called the proposal to govern the occupied areas of the Land of Lightning a conspiracy, while Mitokado Homura warned that refusing it would also carry political costs.
• Torifu Akimichi urged the faction to accept the territory, and Sarutobi Shinnosuke proposed weakening Kumogakure through alliances and adopting the Shogunate’s techniques for controlling Cloud Village.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen revealed that the Daimyo had approved Orochimaru, Tsunade, and Hatake Sakumo as Fourth Hokage candidates, and the gathered clan heads and elders supported the decision.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen appointed Sarutobi Shinnosuke Garrison Commander of the Occupied Territory and tasked Orochimaru with advising him and organizing the Occupation Army.

Uchiha Tokimitsu used the Lightning bonds to expand Golden Yuan Notes’ circulation, then faced a growing dispute over Konoha’s Fourth Hokage candidates. After negotiating with Hatake Sakumo, Tokimitsu agreed to restrain the clan from going to war but announced that the Shogunate’s forces would wear Uchiha emblems and use Golden Yuan Notes; afterward, he assembled his Jonin corps.

• Uchiha Tokimitsu used Golden Yuan Notes to subscribe for one billion ryo in the Land of Lightning’s bonds, and Kumogakure sold 1.5 billion ryo in infrastructure bonds within seven days.
• Uchiha Shifang and other Uchiha Jonin challenged the Hokage candidate process, while Hatake Sakumo worried that the clan might resort to force.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu transferred Uchiha Nagakage to command the Northern Border Defense Force as the dispute over the candidates intensified.
• Hatake Sakumo suspended the Jonin Squad’s operations and met Uchiha Tokimitsu, who demanded fairness and said the clan would not go to war with Konoha.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu declared that Shogunate forces would stop wearing village forehead protectors and that Uchiha arms deals and United Company industries would use Golden Yuan Notes.
• After Hatake Sakumo departed, Uchiha Tokimitsu destroyed the Reception Hall with a slash and ordered his Jonin corps to assemble.

Uchiha Tokimitsu prepared to bring the Shogunate's jonin back to Konoha as tensions over the Hokage candidate list threatened to split the village. The Hyuga, Senju, and Orochimaru faced escalating pressure from the Uchiha, while Sarutobi Hiruzen hoped Hatake Sakumo would contain the crisis.

• Uchiha Tokimitsu ordered the Shogunate's divisions to change uniforms and directed every registered jonin to return to Konoha with him in five days, warning them to obey his commands.
• The Hyuga Clan Head learned that branch-family ninja serving the Tokimitsu Shogunate and Kamon Shogunate had refused recall orders, then arranged a meeting with the Aburame and Inuzuka clan heads and sent Hizashi Hyuga to reflect.
• Uchiha ninja repeatedly detained Senju clansmen on fabricated suspicions, escalating friction between the Senju Clan and the Uchiha Clan.
• Orochimaru ordered his people and laboratory staff moved to the Internal Affairs Base in the Death Forest after the Military Police Force raided his laboratories and seized their equipment and documents.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen faced clan leaders' complaints and a Jonin Squad impeachment motion, and he privately hoped Hatake Sakumo could calm the growing conflict.

The clash between the Uchiha Clan and the Hokage Faction escalated into deadly violence, while Hatake Sakumo tried to persuade Sarutobi Hiruzen to address the conflict’s causes. Hiruzen refused and prepared to mobilize Konoha’s clans, as Sakumo organized the Reform Association and Uchiha Tokimitsu’s returning force was revealed to consist entirely of Jonin.

• The Uchiha Clan and the Hokage Faction escalated their confrontation, and a clash between the Military Police Force and the Internal Affairs Department left three Internal Affairs Department ninja dead and five injured.
• Hatake Sakumo challenged Sarutobi Hiruzen and the Two Advisors over their treatment of the Uchiha Clan and urged them to reconsider the Fourth Hokage candidate process.
• Hiruzen refused to hear Uchiha Tokimitsu’s conditions and ordered Sakumo to restrain the Uchiha Clan, even if doing so led to civil war.
• Sakumo threatened to submit a motion to impeach Hiruzen, then left the office as Tsunade departed in anger.
• Hiruzen and the Two Advisors decided to assemble the ninja armies of every clan, while Sakumo gathered ninja under the Reform Association and sent a confidant west to seek reinforcements.
• An Anbu reported that Uchiha Tokimitsu’s returning Shogunate force numbered about two hundred, all of them Jonin, stunning Hiruzen and the Two Advisors.

Uchiha Tokimitsu prepared his forces outside Konoha while Uchiha Fugaku reported that the clan compound was ready to resist the Hokage Faction. In Konoha, Hatake Sakumo kept his forces neutral as Third Hokage Sarutobi Hiruzen assembled his allies and ordered them to war.

• Uchiha Tokimitsu told Uchiha Fugaku that nearly a hundred more jonin were on their way and arranged for the Red Force's Second Squadron to return to Konoha.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu sent Nekomata back with Uchiha Fugaku so the cat could summon him if the clan compound faced danger.
• Hatake Sakumo kept the Mobile Unit and the Reform Association out of the conflict while monitoring the Hokage Faction's preparations.
• Hatake Sakumo learned that the Senju, Hyuga, Inuzuka, and Aburame forces had chosen neutrality or withdrawn behind the Hyuga compound.
• Third Hokage Sarutobi Hiruzen learned that the Hyuga, Inuzuka, and Aburame clans had refused his summons, then ordered his forces to war.

The Uchiha and Hokage factions began their decisive battle near Settsu County Castle, while Konoha’s clans locked down their districts and prepared for conflict. Uchiha Tokimitsu summoned the Two-Tails Matatabi and fought Third Hokage Sarutobi Hiruzen, leaving the battle underway as they clashed directly.

• Uchiha Shijo led clan reinforcements from Konoha toward Tokimitsu, while Hatake Sakumo and other factions secured parts of the village and imposed lockdowns.
• Torifu Akimichi visited Sakumo and said the factions would have to fight until one side won; he planned to head north the following day.
• Tokimitsu inspected the seals on Karatachi Yagura, learned that Hiruzen’s army was nearing, and ordered the Uchiha forces to prepare for battle.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen led more than fifteen hundred Hokage faction ninja toward the Uchiha position, and both armies exchanged ninjutsu and Tailed Beast weapon fire.
• Tokimitsu summoned the Two-Tails Matatabi, and Hiruzen attacked her with Enma while Tokimitsu armored her with Susanoo and counterattacked.

Uchiha Tokimitsu and Two-Tails Matatabi overwhelmed Third Hokage Sarutobi Hiruzen during their battle, while the Uchiha army gained the upper hand against the Hokage forces. Hiruzen opened the Gate of Life as he prepared to unleash the Hokage’s strongest power.

• The daimyo heard that Hiruzen’s fifteen hundred troops had engaged Tokimitsu’s more than three hundred elite clan soldiers, and Hattori warned that the rebels could still win.
• Tokimitsu used Perfect Susanoo with Matatabi to drive Hiruzen around the battlefield, while the Uchiha army broke through the Hokage army’s defenses.
• Hiruzen created Shadow Clones and trapped Tokimitsu and Matatabi in an Adamantine Prison Wall and Three-Way Seal, but Matatabi’s Tailed Beast Ball shattered both barriers.
• Tokimitsu and Matatabi endured Hiruzen’s strongest combined ninjutsu, and Tokimitsu taunted Hiruzen for failing to match the title of Ninjutsu Professor.
• Hiruzen sent his Shadow Clones to hold off Tokimitsu, leaped back, and opened the Gate of Life.

Uchiha Tokimitsu defeated and killed Third Hokage Sarutobi Hiruzen after breaking free of his seal, and the Uchiha forces won the battle. The Hokage Ninja Army surrendered, Utatane Koharu killed herself, and Tokimitsu celebrated the Uchiha victory.

• Uchiha Tokimitsu and Two-Tails Matatabi fought Sarutobi Hiruzen, who used the Eight Gates Formation and powerful ninjutsu to counter their attacks.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen trapped Tokimitsu and Matatabi underground with a sealing barrier, but Tokimitsu broke out with a Tailed Beast Ball and Susanoo.
• Uchiha Shifang arrived with the Clan Ninja Army as reinforcements, and Tokimitsu led both Uchiha forces against the Hokage Ninja Army.
• Tokimitsu’s Susanoo seized Sarutobi Hiruzen, who used his last strength to damage Susanoo before dying.
• Utatane Koharu ordered the Hokage Ninja Army to surrender and then killed herself, while Mitokado Homura was stopped from taking his own life.
• Tokimitsu celebrated as the Uchiha Ninja Army proclaimed victory.

After defeating Sarutobi Hiruzen, Uchiha Tokimitsu managed the prisoners and political fallout at Settsu County Castle, rejecting the Daimyo’s attempt to influence Konoha and avoiding the Hokage position. He planned to have Konoha’s clans jointly decide the village’s future while preserving Uchiha power through suitable allies.

• Uchiha Tokimitsu learned that his forces had suffered heavy casualties, visited the wounded, and ordered the dead collected and the army to remain at Settsu County Castle.
• Hattori Heiji delivered the Daimyo’s offer of support for Tokimitsu to become Fourth Hokage and receive thirty billion taels in annual military funding, but Tokimitsu warned the Daimyo not to interfere in Konoha’s affairs and accepted the funding for the Shogunate.
• The Nara Clan Head urged Tokimitsu to become Fourth Hokage on behalf of the Ino-Shika-Cho Three Clans, but Tokimitsu said the Ninja Clan Council and Jonin Squad should consider the village’s leadership, including possible joint rule.
• Uchiha Shifang questioned Tokimitsu’s lack of interest in becoming Hokage, and Tokimitsu said the Uchiha Clan needed lasting stability rather than temporary power.
• Mitokado Homura conceded defeat and agreed to help convene a Ninja Clan Council, while Tokimitsu reassured him that accepting the new era’s changes would allow his side to survive.

After the Civil War, Uchiha Tokimitsu met with Konoha’s leaders to set out reforms that would govern the village through two assemblies rather than a Hokage. He secured control over former Hokage Faction assets and Uzumaki Kushina, then received a scroll containing Hashirama Cells from Orochimaru.

• Uchiha Tokimitsu returned to a jubilant Konoha, detained younger clan members as hostages, and waited several days before meeting with Hatake Sakumo, Mitokado Homura, Tsunade, and the Hyuga Clan Head.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu declared that Konoha belonged to all its ninja and presented the Civil War as a campaign to restore order and remove parasites from the village.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu proposed replacing the Ninja Clan Council with a Konoha Senate and the Jonin Squad meeting with a Konoha House of Representatives, nominating Uchiha Shifang and Hatake Sakumo to lead them.
• Mitokado Homura agreed to help the Konoha Military Police Force search the Internal Affairs Department and retrieve Uzumaki Kushina from the Anbu.
• Orochimaru brought Uchiha Tokimitsu a scroll and a red-haired girl, and Tokimitsu allowed Orochimaru to continue his laboratory work under the village’s direction.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu opened the scroll and found Hashirama Cells.

After Konoha's civil war, Uchiha Tokimitsu reorganized the village's government and distributed vacant positions among his allies and former rivals. The chapter ended with the Land of Fire's Daimyo recognizing Tokimitsu as supreme commander of Konoha's ninja army and granting him the title of Great General of the Expeditionary Force.

• Uchiha Tokimitsu stripped the former Hokage Faction's clans of posts and assets, ordered three clans to abolish their clan systems, and arranged for Sarutobi Hiruzen's remains to be cremated and buried.
• Tokimitsu met with Hatake Sakumo, Mitokado Homura, Tsunade, the Hyuga Clan Head, Uchiha Setsuna, and Uchiha Shifang to fill Konoha's vacant government positions.
• Tokimitsu assigned Tsunade to oversee the medical system, Homura to lead the Administrative Department, Torifu Akimichi to head Foreign Affairs, and the Hyuga Clan Head to direct Intelligence.
• Tokimitsu proposed absorbing the former Anbu into the Konoha Military Police Force, gave Hatake Sakumo's ally the Mission Center, and took charge of the ninja army through a new Governor-General's Office.
• The meeting appointed Ashina to lead the Sealing Squad and Uchiha Nakagen to head Internal Affairs, while leaving the Ninja Academy leadership vacant for future reforms.
• On October 9th, Year 38 of Konoha, the Land of Fire's Daimyo sent an envoy to honor Tokimitsu as supreme commander of Konoha's ninja army and confer the title of Great General of the Expeditionary Force.

At Konoha’s first Senate session, Uchiha Tokimitsu formalized reforms that redistributed village governance while preserving Uchiha influence, and imposed harsh penalties on former Hokage loyalists. News of Konoha’s transformation unsettled the other great villages, prompting their leaders to consider reforms, seek alliances, or investigate Tokimitsu’s intentions.

• Mitokado Homura publicly conceded the former Hokage Faction’s defeat, and Uchiha Tokimitsu presented reforms giving clans seats in the Senate, Jonin seats in the House of Representatives, and all ninja advancement by merit.
• Uzumaki Ashina and the Kurama Clan Head led the chamber in cheering for Konoha and Tokimitsu.
• Tokimitsu created the Punishment Corps for former Hokage loyalists who had fought at Settsu, while assigning other former faction members to garrison occupied areas and keeping their families in Konoha.
• Uchiha Nakagen presided over a clan dividend meeting, distributing money and scrolls and introducing policies to increase the Uchiha population.
• Ebizo proposed that Sunagakure learn from Tokimitsu’s policies to restrain the Daimyo, while the Third Raikage and Ōnoki considered the impact of Konoha’s reforms on their villages.
• The Daimyo of the Land of Water ordered an envoy to pursue reconciliation with Kirigakure and sent Konoe Atsushi to Konoha to gauge Tokimitsu’s intentions.

Uchiha Tokimitsu oversaw experiments to extract and cultivate regenerative cells from a White Zetsu corpse, seeking to protect his Mangekyō Sharingan eyesight. After many failures, the researchers successfully created a potent substance he named Sacred Particles, and Tokimitsu prepared to test it on himself.

• Uchiha Tokimitsu rewarded the Three Clans of Returning Righteousness Ninja Army, granted the Uzumaki Clan a hereditary fief, and made Uzumaki Kushina his retainer.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu tasked Uzumaki Researchers with extracting regenerative cells from a White Zetsu corpse and cultivating them with Chakra.
• The Uzumaki Researchers' experiments repeatedly failed despite using chakra from Three-Tails Jinchuriki Karatachi Yagura, Two-Tails Matatabi, and Uchiha Tokimitsu.
• After adjusting their methods, the researchers successfully cultivated White Zetsu cells into a substance that Tokimitsu named Sacred Particles.
• Tests showed that Sacred Particles enhanced animals and gave a dolphin a Chakra Seed, so Uchiha Tokimitsu ordered an injection for himself.

Uchiha Tokimitsu completed his final Sacred Particles injection, gaining immense physical strength and chakra while his Mangekyō Sharingan vision began to recover. Elsewhere, Black Zetsu watched the conflict in the Land of Lightning and renewed his plan to free Otsutsuki Kaguya from the moon.

• Uchiha Tokimitsu received the final Sacred Particles injection, which repaired his body, strengthened his chakra, and traced his Uchiha bloodline toward its Otsutsuki origins.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu impressed the Uzumaki Researchers with his overwhelming chakra and physical power, then doubled their bonuses and approved their research funding requests.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu tested his enhanced body and found that a custom-made kunai could not cut his skin, while his Mangekyō Sharingan vision continued to recover.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu condensed chakra into a lethal speck of light and declared that even a Tailed Beast was no match for his power.
• Black Zetsu observed the moon's abnormal dimming, considered Uchiha Madara's declining strength, and vowed to free Otsutsuki Kaguya from her lunar seal.

Uchiha Tokimitsu sought a war with Kirigakure to test his strengthened forces and pursue Uchiha Madara, the Flame Fan, the Rinnegan, and the Six-Tails Jinchuriki. He pressured the Water Daimyo’s envoy into accepting a naval blockade that threatened Kirigakure’s supply route, leaving the envoy dazed and intimidated.

• Uchiha Tokimitsu decided Kirigakure was the safest major target for the Expeditionary Shogunate and planned to seize its assets and confront Uchiha Madara.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu released Konoe Atsushi from house arrest and received the Water Daimyo’s envoy at Fubo Castle.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu challenged Konoe Atsushi over local governors who rejected headquarters’ Lifetime Honorary Genin status and imposed excessive taxes.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu ordered the western waters sealed for military exercises ten days later, threatening Kirigakure’s supply route to the Land of Lightning.
• Konoe Atsushi left the meeting confused and shaken, remembering the saying that Uchiha’s heart was known to everyone.

Uchiha Tokimitsu prepared a naval exercise to pressure Kirigakure while strengthening his body and developing his Yin Fire. Jiraiya and two talking toads arrived seeking an audience, and Tokimitsu ordered the First Division summoned before meeting them.

• Uchiha Tokimitsu ordered a naval military exercise and transferred the First and Second Divisions of the Red Force to reinforce his deterrence against Kirigakure.
• The Third Mizukage rejected the Daimyo's envoys' demand to withdraw from the war against Kumogakure, but sent Biwa Juzo to the Shogunate to discuss weapons purchases and assess its intentions.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu used meditation and Regenerative Power to repair his body, improve his Sharingan, and strengthen Hikari-no-Mikoto with Yin Fire.
• An Attendant Ninja told Uchiha Tokimitsu that Jiraiya and two talking toads had requested an audience.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu ordered the visitors taken to the Reception Hall and summoned the First Division.

Uchiha Tokimitsu rejected Mount Myōboku’s request to inspect Konoha after the Great Toad Sage prophesied that someone there might become the Ninja World’s savior. Jiraiya left with Fukasaku and Shima, then decided to return to Konoha, while the Great Toad Sage insisted his vision had truly been a prophecy.

• Tokimitsu confronted Jiraiya, Fukasaku, and Shima in the Reception Hall, where the Red Force surrounded them and secured his advantage.
• Fukasaku explained that the Great Toad Sage wanted permission to enter Konoha and investigate a possible savior whose future Tokimitsu had disrupted.
• Tokimitsu refused the request, rebuked Jiraiya, and warned the toads not to release miscellaneous toads around the village.
• Fukasaku and Shima departed with Jiraiya, who later chose to leave them and run toward Konoha.
• Fukasaku and Shima reported their failure to the Great Toad Sage, who said Jiraiya’s return to Konoha was enough and affirmed that the vision had been a prophecy.

Jiraiya returned to Konoha after years away and found the village prosperous but changed, with expanded Military Police patrols and new regulations. Orochimaru met him and warned that the village was no longer as it had been, taking him home to explain its new rules and the Heavenly Eye.

• Jiraiya approached Konoha uncertain about how the village would receive him, and a patrol team treated him like an ordinary passerby.
• Jiraiya explored the busy streets and noticed increased Military Police patrols, non-Uchiha recruits, and unfamiliar public notices.
• Orochimaru surprised Jiraiya, recognized that he had returned, and warned him not to insult Uchiha Tokimitsu or risk arrest.
• Jiraiya questioned Orochimaru about the village's new organizations and Uchiha influence as they walked together.
• Orochimaru warned Jiraiya that the Heavenly Eye watched the village and told him to stop peeping into women's baths, then took him home to explain.

Jiraiya returned to Konoha, learned how the new surveillance and co-governance systems worked, and accepted a House of Representatives post before visiting Orochimaru. Uchiha Tokimitsu investigated the Three Great Sage Locations and ordered Namikaze Minato transferred to the Military Police Preparatory School as he considered how to disrupt the prophecy.

• Orochimaru told Jiraiya that the Heavenly Net monitored public areas and warned him not to cause trouble in the newly governed Konoha.
• Administrative Department ninja appointed Jiraiya vice chairman of the ninja Beast and Summoning Beast Management and Protection Committee, while Orochimaru revealed he chaired the Chakra Technology Development and Research Ethics Committee.
• Jiraiya learned Sarutobi Hiruzen was buried in the ordinary cemetery section and left Orochimaru's residence planning to stay at an inn.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu reviewed records about the Three Great Sage Locations and found an Uzumaki account describing the requirements and dangers of Sage Art, as well as the Kaguya Clan's claim that the locations were remnants of an old era.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu ordered an exchange program between the Ninja Academy and Military Police Preparatory School and specifically arranged for Namikaze Minato to transfer there.

Uchiha Tokimitsu deceived Biwa Juzo about the Shogunate’s intentions, prompting Kirigakure to rush more troops to the Land of Lightning Battlefield. News that the Third Kazekage had seized power in the Land of Wind led Tokimitsu to consider returning to Konoha and feigning interest in a campaign against Sunagakure.

• Uchiha Tokimitsu secretly gathered intelligence, stockpiled arms under false contracts, and prepared for a future war against Kirigakure.
• Biwa Juzo arrived at Fubo Castle and asked Tokimitsu for help expanding Kirigakure’s ship repair facility, hiring Shogunate forces, and purchasing warships and ninja tools.
• Tokimitsu agreed to help with the ship repair facility and offered warships, but refused to send his army to the Land of Lightning Battlefield and claimed ninja tools were in short supply.
• Biwa Juzo concluded that the Shogunate was probably supplying Kumogakure, then returned to the battlefield and ordered Kirigakure to redeploy forces to end the war quickly.
• Tokimitsu learned that the Third Kazekage had seized the Daimyo’s Mansion, forced the Daimyo to abdicate, and declared himself Regent Kanpaku.
• Tokimitsu decided to return to Konoha and asked his intelligence ninja to arrange a meeting with the Senju Clan, saying he was interested in Princess Tsunade’s proposal for a campaign against Sunagakure.