Chapter Summaries

Uchiha Tokimitsu and Hatake Sakumo launched their planned offensive against Sunagakure, with Tokimitsu leading the Red Force in a frontal assault. Tokimitsu's force overwhelmed the first Sand Ninja counterattack, and the chapter left him facing Elder Chiyo as she entered the battle.

• Tokimitsu assembled more than 260 Uchiha under his command while Sakumo secured the requested war supplies.
• Tsunade, Jiraiya, and Orochimaru began their coordinated feint in the Land of Rain, prompting Hatake Sakumo and Uchiha Tokimitsu to set their own forces in motion.
• Tokimitsu led the Uchiha Red Force against the Sunagakure camp while Sakumo took the Mobile Unit ahead for a planned beheading strike.
• The Uchiha used combined Fire and Wind Style, explosive tags, and coordinated attacks to break the defenses of the roughly 500 Sand Ninja who charged out of camp.
• Tokimitsu's force drove the Sand Ninja toward collapse, then he spotted Elder Chiyo leading a fresh force from the camp and welcomed her challenge.

Uchiha Tokimitsu led the outnumbered Uchiha Ninja Army in a fighting retreat against Elder Chiyo’s forces, then countercharged and killed Chiyo when Hatake Sakumo and the Mobile Unit struck. The Sand Ninja withdrew to their main camp, and Tokimitsu greeted Sakumo as the future Squad Leader of the Jonin.

• As Sand Ninja reinforcements arrived, Uchiha Tokimitsu ordered the Uchiha Ninja Army to regroup and retreat behind a Yin Fire Dust Concealment Technique, while Elder Chiyo dispelled the smoke with her puppets.
• Elder Chiyo threatened to turn Tokimitsu into a Human Puppet, and Tokimitsu ordered his forces to fight while retreating as the Sand Ninja attacked with coordinated Wind Style Ninjutsu.
• Tokimitsu used an Uchiha Flame Formation, Flying Tag Formation, and Explosive Tags to slow the Sand Ninja advance, then led the Uchiha Ninja Army in a countercharge when the encirclement closed.
• As Tokimitsu fought through the Sand Ninja ranks, three signal flares rose from the camp and a Konoha Mobile Unit arrived; Elder Chiyo sent troops to intercept them while continuing to pursue Tokimitsu.
• Hatake Sakumo ambushed Elder Chiyo from underground and killed her, while Tokimitsu seized her head and announced her death to the Sand Ninja.
• With Chiyo dead, the Sand Ninja Army lost its will to fight and retreated to its main camp; Tokimitsu laughed with Hatake Sakumo and called him the future Squad Leader of the Jonin.

After Uchiha Tokimitsu and Hatake Sakumo killed Chiyo, they withdrew their battered force while Konoha commanders debated ending the campaign against Sunagakure. Their victory strengthened Sakumo’s bid to become Jonin Squad Leader and disrupted Orochimaru’s secret plan against Tokimitsu.

• After Chiyo's death, Uchiha Tokimitsu and Hatake Sakumo feinted against the retreating Sand Ninja Army, collected their fallen comrades, and withdrew their troops.
• Tokimitsu ordered a conspicuous but fruitless night raid as a smokescreen, then led the Red Force away overnight and broke contact with Sunagakure.
• Torifu Akimichi read the battle report and told Nara Shikahira that Sakumo’s achievements already justified his promotion, while the Nara Clan still had time to respond.
• Tsunade urged Orochimaru and Jiraiya to withdraw from the Land of Rain campaign, partly because Dan Katō had been sent to Konoha to recover from severe injuries.
• Orochimaru agreed to withdraw after Tsunade and Jiraiya supported the plan, then reread the report and brooded over how Tokimitsu’s victory had derailed his secret plan.

After Konoha’s edict slighted Uchiha Tokimitsu and Hatake Sakumo, the two promoted Sakumo’s New Konoha reform platform and prepared for a political struggle over the Jonin Squad Leader position. The chapter ended with Elder Setsuna backing Tokimitsu’s plan to reform and expand the Konoha Military Police Force.

• Uchiha Tokimitsu and Hatake Sakumo rejected the edict’s unequal praise and affirmed their alliance around building a New Konoha.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu sent the Red Force back to its garrison while he and Hatake Sakumo returned to Konoha and spread Sakumo’s reform ideals.
• Rumors portrayed Hatake Sakumo as an Uchiha tool, and Uchiha Tokimitsu had the villagers who harassed Sakumo arrested by the Konoha Military Police Force.
• When Hatake Sakumo visited the Uchiha Clan Compound feeling discouraged, Uchiha Tokimitsu urged him to meet supporters and prepare for the Jonin Council vote.
• After Hatake Sakumo left, Elder Setsuna revealed he had been listening and agreed to support Uchiha Tokimitsu’s plan to reform and expand the Konoha Military Police Force.

Uchiha Tokimitsu backed Hatake Sakumo’s bid to become Jonin Squad Leader while positioning the Uchiha Clan as advocates for wider access to village power. At the Senju Inaba Shrine, he confronted Tsunade over the village’s factional struggles and left after meeting Nawaki, whose fate had changed in this timeline.

• Uchiha Tokimitsu and Hatake Sakumo gained support from Konoha’s clans as tensions rose between the Military Police Force and Anbu.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu recalled three hundred Uchiha ninja from the Land of Grass as Tsunade, Jiraiya, and Orochimaru returned from the Land of Rain.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu urged Hatake Sakumo to pursue the Jonin Squad Leader position and explained how trade and the Ino-Shika-Cho clans’ monopolies affected villagers and civilian ninja.
• At the Senju Inaba Shrine, Tsunade challenged Uchiha Tokimitsu about his support for Hatake Sakumo and the Uchiha Clan’s control of the Military Police Force.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu argued that village positions should be open to all and warned Tsunade that suppressed ambition could lead to civil war.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu collided with Nawaki outside the room, helped him up, and left the shrine reflecting that the boy had survived in this timeline.

Uchiha Tokimitsu and Hatake Sakumo gathered a massive coalition of Konoha Jonin as they headed to the Jonin Council meeting, where the Jonin Squad leadership transition would be decided. Sarutobi Hiruzen prepared to attend while Danzo refused to join, judging the meeting a guaranteed defeat.

• Uchiha Tokimitsu had breakfast with Uchiha Nakagen and Emiko before joining a procession of Uchiha Jonin heading to the meeting hall.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu and Clan Head Shijo joined forces with Uchiha Fugaku and more than one hundred and eighty Uchiha Jonin, while affiliated clans and the Kurama Clan joined along the way.
• Hatake Sakumo met the procession, thanked Uchiha Tokimitsu for his support, and joined him as their gathering grew to more than four hundred Konoha Jonin.
• The Hyuga Clan procession encountered the Uchiha and advanced beside them, prompting Sarutobi Hiruzen and his advisers to watch the gathering warily from the Hokage's Office.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen prepared to attend the Jonin Council meeting, but Danzo refused and wheeled himself out of the office.

At the Jonin Council, Uchiha Tokimitsu and his allies pushed to replace Nara Shikatsune, and Hatake Sakumo won the election for Jonin Squad Leader by a wide margin. The Hokage Faction lost its longstanding control of the Jonin Squad, and Tokimitsu turned his attention to reorganizing the Uchiha Clan.

• Uzumaki Ashina, Tsunade, Orochimaru, Jiraiya, Dan Katō, and the other Jonin gathered as Sarutobi Hiruzen opened the council.
• Utatane Koharu read Uchiha Tokimitsu’s motion to impeach Nara Shikatsune, and more than seventy percent of the Jonin supported holding a new election.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu nominated Hatake Sakumo, while a Nara Jonin nominated Tsunade; Utatane Koharu rejected Torifu Akimichi’s nomination.
• The Jonin cast their ballots, and Hatake Sakumo received far more votes than Tsunade.
• Mitokado Homura announced Hatake Sakumo as the new Jonin Squad Leader, and Sarutobi Hiruzen formally confirmed the result.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu reflected that his years of effort had changed history and prepared to reorganize the Uchiha Clan.

After Hatake Sakumo became Jonin Squad Leader, Uchiha Tokimitsu sought his support for a sweeping Konoha Military Police Force reform. The Uchiha Clan approved Tokimitsu and Uchiha Fugaku’s proposal and submitted it to the Hokage’s Office and Jonin Squad Leader for filing.

• Hatake Sakumo welcomed Uchiha Tokimitsu to his home, and Tokimitsu asked for his support in proposing new Police Directorates as part of a broader reform.
• Hatake Sakumo agreed to support the proposal at the Jonin Council, while Tokimitsu explained that the new directorates were a bargaining condition for advancing other reforms.
• After consulting Uchiha Nakagen and gaining Elder Setsuna’s approval, Uchiha Tokimitsu persuaded Uchiha Shifang to submit the proposal for discussion at the Clan Meeting.
• At Naka Shrine, Uchiha Tokimitsu presented plans for new headquarters departments, specialist squads, a correctional system, a hospital, a training school, regional directorates, and a detailed rank structure.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu answered the clan members’ questions, and the Uchiha Clan unanimously approved the proposal jointly submitted by him and Uchiha Fugaku.
• The Uchiha Clan sent the reform proposal to the Hokage’s Office and the Jonin Squad Leader for filing.

Uchiha Tokimitsu advanced the Military Police Force reforms despite the Hokage's order blocking a separate Police Directorate, then sought to turn the Uzumaki outpost into a branch and bring the Uzumaki Clan closer to the Uchiha. Uzumaki Ashina considered the offer and asked how many positions the Military Police Force could provide.

• Sarutobi Hiruzen and the Two Advisors rejected the proposed Police Directorate and decided to issue an order against establishing it, while dismissing the other reforms as internal adjustments.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu crumpled the Hokage's imperial decree, and Uchiha Shifang appointed Uchiha Tokimitsu and Uchiha Fugaku Police Superintendents, giving Fugaku a path into headquarters management.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu visited Uzumaki Ashina and learned that intruders had tried to enter the Uzumaki compound after Uzumaki Mito's death, while Uzumaki Kushina remained at the Senju Residence.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu asked to upgrade the Military Police Force Outpost into a branch and offered positions to Uzumaki Clan members in exchange for their support.
• Uzumaki Ashina asked how many positions the Military Police Force could provide, and Uchiha Tokimitsu told him to name the number he wanted.

The Uzumaki Branch opened as the reformed Konoha Military Police Force clamped down on merchants and clashed with the Administrative Department, strengthening Uchiha Tokimitsu’s faction. Tokimitsu reached an agreement with Conservative Faction Elder Michiyo to move their members into administrative posts, then heard that the Uzumaki Branch had clashed with the Anbu.

• Uchiha Kazushi led forty-two ninja to staff the new Uzumaki Branch, with Uzumaki Koji as deputy commander and Uchiha Fugaku among its officers.
• The Konoha Military Police Force imposed detailed regulations and penalties, arrested merchants, and imprisoned four Administrative Department ninja who tried to secure bail for detainees.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu’s crackdown won support from commoners and lesser clans, while he transferred Conservative Faction members out of operational roles and replaced them with Radical Faction Uchiha.
• Elder Michiyo pleaded with Tokimitsu to spare the Conservative Faction, and Tokimitsu agreed to move its members into internal administrative posts if they severed ties with the Hokage Faction.
• An Uchiha ninja reported that the Uzumaki Branch had clashed with the Anbu, and Tokimitsu welcomed the news.

Uchiha Tokimitsu escalated a dispute between the Konoha Military Police Force and Anbu by disarming and detaining the Anbu who tried to seize a Kirigakure spy. Afterward, Sarutobi Hiruzen and the Two Advisors decided Tokimitsu had to be removed, and Hiruzen approved Danzo’s plan to eliminate him.

• Uchiha Tokimitsu arrived at Konoha Commercial Street as Uchiha Shiina and the Anbu argued over who had authority to arrest a Kirigakure spy.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu severed the Anbu Captain Hare’s wrist, ordered his men to defeat the other Anbu, and had them taken to the Konoha Military Police Force for trial.
• Sarutobi Shinnosuke arrived and asked Uchiha Tokimitsu to release the Anbu, but Tokimitsu ignored him and sent the prisoners away.
• Jiraiya warned Uchiha Tokimitsu against stirring up conflict during the war, but Tokimitsu challenged Jiraiya’s judgment and left with his men.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen and the Two Advisors concluded that Uchiha Tokimitsu threatened the Hokage’s authority and decided he could not remain.
• Danzo entered the Hokage’s office and offered to eliminate Uchiha Tokimitsu, and Sarutobi Hiruzen agreed.

Uchiha Tokimitsu negotiated with Hatake Sakumo over the clash between the Konoha Military Police Force and the Anbu, then prepared countermeasures after Sakumo warned him of danger. The chapter left Shimura Danzō ordering Root to watch Tokimitsu and assembling support for a possible assassination.

• Uchiha Tokimitsu told Hatake Sakumo he would release the detained Anbu the next day and argued that the conflict stemmed from the gap between the Military Police Force's theoretical authority and the Anbu's unrestricted power.
• Hatake Sakumo warned Uchiha Tokimitsu to be careful, and Tokimitsu asked Uchiha Shiina to monitor Root's movements.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu persuaded Uchiha Shifang to launch a village-wide extermination of creatures that could serve as the Three Ninja's informants.
• Shimura Danzō ordered Root's Fox to monitor Uchiha Tokimitsu using ordinary people, recall the Assassination Squad, and invite Orochimaru in exchange for funding his research.

Sarutobi Hiruzen and his advisors confronted Hatake Sakumo’s proposal to define authority across Konoha’s departments, which threatened the Hokage faction’s control. Danzo proposed secretly using Kirigakure and the Mobile Unit to eliminate Sakumo and Uchiha Tokimitsu, while Hiruzen’s advisors prepared to delay the reforms through consultations.

• Sarutobi Hiruzen summoned Mitokado Homura and Utatane Koharu to discuss Hatake Sakumo’s proposal, which already had signatures from one-fifth of Konoha’s Jonin.
• Mitokado Homura and Utatane Koharu realized that clarifying departmental authority could weaken the high-ranking officials’ control, and Danzo joined their discussion.
• Danzo argued that the proposal left no room to turn back and urged the officials to eliminate Hatake Sakumo, Uchiha Tokimitsu, and their supporters.
• Danzo proposed stirring conflict in the Land of Whirlpools to draw in Kirigakure and using the Mobile Unit as bait, with Root prepared to prevent survivors from returning.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen approved Danzo’s plan while ordering Mitokado Homura and Utatane Koharu to delay Sakumo’s reforms through cautious consultations with him and the Jonin Squad.

As reports of Mist activity in the Land of Whirlpools grew more alarming, Uchiha Tokimitsu suspected the enemy reports concealed a trap and was ordered to investigate alongside Hatake Sakumo. He secretly dispatched the Dark Guard and forces from the Red Force to the eastern border, intending to ambush whoever was manipulating events.

• Reports from the Eastern Border Defense Force described escalating Mist activity, while Anbu squads sent to investigate the Land of Whirlpools disappeared.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu suspected the attackers who injured the Ninja Cat Clan were not Mist ninja and grew wary of the village’s intelligence.
• The Third Hokage summoned Hatake Sakumo and Uchiha Tokimitsu to investigate the Land of Whirlpools after Anbu and Root squads failed to return with useful information.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu recognized that the surviving Root ninja’s account of a Mist ambush was likely false and suspected Danzo had set a trap.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu ordered Uchiha Nagakage to secretly take the Dark Guard across the sea and bring two squadrons from the Red Force to the eastern border to eliminate anyone watching their movements.

Uchiha Tokimitsu secretly assembled forces for the mission to the Land of Whirlpools, where Kirigakure’s Karatachi Yagura ambushed the Mobile Unit with the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist and a thousand ninja. Tokimitsu’s hidden Uchiha reinforcements engaged the Mist army, and he attacked Yagura as the battle began.

• Uchiha Tokimitsu prepared the Dark Guard and other clan forces while Hatake Sakumo noticed his unease and agreed to deploy the Mobile Unit together.
• Tokimitsu and Hatake Sakumo led the Mobile Unit out of Konoha, and Danzo ordered Root to begin a cleansing mission after learning Hatake Sakumo had left.
• The Mobile Unit crossed the sea under Tokimitsu’s sensory and concealment techniques, then encountered Karatachi Yagura in a forest in the Land of Whirlpools.
• Karatachi Yagura revealed the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist and a thousand Kirigakure ninja, while Tokimitsu summoned more than two hundred Uchiha reinforcements.
• Tokimitsu’s Dark Guard and Tokimitsu Red Force engaged the Mist army, and Tokimitsu attacked Yagura with a sudden slash after taunting him about Isōbu.

Uchiha Tokimitsu, Hatake Sakumo, and the Mobile Unit fought Karatachi Yagura and the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist in a brutal battle. After both sides paused to regroup, Tokimitsu and Sakumo renewed their assault, leaving the Mist forces shaken and the fight unresolved.

• Uchiha Tokimitsu and Hatake Sakumo combined their attacks against Karatachi Yagura while the Mobile Unit engaged the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist.
• An Uchiha Jonin sacrificed himself in an explosion that severely wounded Kushimaru Kuriarare, whom Hatake Sakumo then beheaded; the Mobile Unit also severed Munashi Jinpachi's right arm, while three Jonin were killed.
• Karatachi Yagura used Three-Tails Chakra to withstand Tokimitsu and Sakumo's attacks, forcing both sides to withdraw briefly and take stock of their losses.
• The Five remaining ninja sword users spread mist, but the Uchiha Jonin countered with Fire Style; Tokimitsu then burned through Yagura's water defense and ignited the Yin Fire absorbed by Suikazan Fuguki's Samehada.
• Hatake Sakumo attacked from underground and fatally pierced the injured Munashi Jinpachi, making Karatachi Yagura and the remaining ninja sword users recoil in alarm.

After ending the battle with Kirigakure, Uchiha Tokimitsu and Hatake Sakumo learned that Danzo had helped engineer the mission to kill them. They staged a vulnerable return on the coast to lure Danzo’s Root forces into an ambush, and revealed the Uchiha ninja waiting in the sea.

• Karatachi Yagura and Uchiha Tokimitsu negotiated a truce, exchanged seized blades as collateral, and agreed to withdraw their forces.
• Kirigakure revealed that it had acted on intelligence from a captured Root ninja, convincing Hatake Sakumo that Konoha’s leaders had set them up.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu and Hatake Sakumo agreed to eliminate anyone who ambushed them on their return, while Hatake Sakumo left the village’s response for later.
• Danzo mistook the two men collecting corpses on the coast for badly wounded survivors and ordered Root to surround them.
• Danzo offered Hatake Sakumo a place in Root if he killed Uchiha Tokimitsu, but Tokimitsu and Sakumo dropped their act and exposed the ambush.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu lifted the concealed barrier, revealing Uchiha ninja emerging from the sea to surround Danzo’s Root forces.

Uchiha Tokimitsu and the Uchiha Ninja Army overwhelmed Danzo’s Root forces, and Tokimitsu pursued Danzo after Aburame Ryoma carried him from the battlefield. Tokimitsu killed them both, and the shock of Danzo’s death awakened Tokimitsu’s Mangekyō Sharingan.

• Uchiha Tokimitsu revealed more than two hundred Uchiha ninja, leaving Danzo and the Root forces surrounded.
• Tokimitsu and the Uchiha Army attacked, while Hatake Sakumo fought Aburame Ryoma and the Uchiha forces began wiping out Root ninja.
• Ryoma rescued the wounded Danzo and fled, but Tokimitsu and the Uchiha Dark Guard caught up with them.
• Ryoma sacrificed himself to shield Danzo, but the Uchiha Dark Guard burned through his insects, and Tokimitsu killed Danzo before he could activate the Inner Four Symbols Seal.
• Tokimitsu saw the tomoe in his Sharingan transform and awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan.

Uchiha Tokimitsu awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan after defeating Danzo and prepared to use the victory to abolish Root and force the Hokage to yield. Sarutobi Hiruzen contained the crisis in the village and chose to have Shinnosuke handle Root while accepting that Danzo’s death could not be avenged openly.

• Uchiha Tokimitsu awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan, whose abilities strengthened his ninjutsu and amplified the Sharingan power of nearby Uchiha, and his Great Fireball Technique incinerated Danzo’s corpse.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu ordered the Dark Guard to keep his Mangekyō secret and clear the battlefield, then learned from Hatake Sakumo that no Root ninja appeared to have escaped and that Root’s dead included members of several clans.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu declared that Root should be abolished and threatened to bring the Border Army into the village if Sarutobi Hiruzen refused, while he and Hatake Sakumo summoned forces back to Konoha.
• A Root ninja reported to Sarutobi Hiruzen and the Two Advisors that the Curse of Tongue Severing had failed throughout Root, and Sarutobi Hiruzen ordered Sarutobi Shinnosuke to secure Root and suppress any leaks.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen concluded that he could not openly fight Uchiha Tokimitsu and Hatake Sakumo, and he told the Two Advisors that Shinnosuke would handle Root while vowing Danzo would not have died for nothing.

Uchiha Tokimitsu and Hatake Sakumo negotiated with Mitokado Homura after assembling forces outside Konoha, narrowly averting a civil war. They secured concessions that weakened the Hokage Faction and expanded the authority of the Uchiha and the Jonin Squad, then returned to Konoha.

• Uchiha Tokimitsu and Hatake Sakumo camped outside Konoha with their forces while border troops joined them and ninja clans recalled their members.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen sent Mitokado Homura to negotiate as reports revealed the Military Police had withdrawn, Root had fallen, and Aburame Ryoma had died.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu demanded Root's dissolution, recognition of Military Police Preparatory School graduates, and freedom for the Military Police to carry out its duties; Mitokado Homura and Hatake Sakumo negotiated compromises.
• Mitokado Homura agreed to recognize the Military Police restructuring, allow Three-Tomoe Uchiha to receive Military Police Jonin ranks, and let the Jonin Squad supervise village departments.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu and Hatake Sakumo led their forces back through Konoha's main gate after signing the agreement.