Chapter Summaries

Minagawa Uchiha learned that Konoha’s leaders had only planned to pressure him into leaving, while Sasuke struggled with his brother Itachi’s disappearance and grew close to Minagawa. The chapter left Sasuke asking Minagawa to teach him a curved throwing technique as he pursued the goal of bringing Itachi home.

• Minagawa received intelligence about Sarutobi Hiruzen and the other leaders’ plan to make him leave Konoha and reflected on Sasuke’s uncertain future.
• Sasuke learned that Itachi had killed clan members and disappeared, and he became an outcast among the Uchiha children.
• Minagawa trained Sasuke during his visits to the Clan Head’s courtyard, and Sasuke began calling him Brother Nanga.
• Sasuke resolved to become strong enough to find Itachi, knock sense into him, and bring him back.
• Sasuke found Minagawa reading in the clan’s Library and asked him to teach him a throwing technique that could curve.

Kakashi told Minagawa Uchiha that he had found evidence his father’s death was orchestrated by Root and the village’s leaders. Minagawa urged him to honor his father’s wishes, and Kakashi offered to join the Uchiha Clan in opposing the higher-ups.

• Minagawa Uchiha took Sasuke to the training ground, sparred with him, and demonstrated Uchiha shurikenjutsu while sensing someone watching.
• Minagawa Uchiha recognized Kakashi waiting nearby, left Sasuke to train, and went to meet him.
• Kakashi explained that his investigation showed the mission that led to his father’s disgrace had been a Root conspiracy, with his teammates and obstacles arranged to guarantee failure.
• Kakashi said the records blamed Shimura Danzō, but he believed the Hokage had authorized the mission and caused his father’s death.
• Minagawa Uchiha encouraged Kakashi to clear his father’s name and carry out his final wishes by confronting the village’s darkness.
• Kakashi asked to join the Uchiha Clan’s effort against the higher-ups, and Minagawa Uchiha welcomed the unexpected offer.

Minagawa Uchiha recognized Might Guy as a major threat to the Uchiha’s plans and saw Kakashi as the key to keeping him from opposing them. After Kakashi joined the campaign against Sarutobi Hiruzen, Minagawa explained why the Uchiha needed to rally other clans, then credited Fugaku for his political insight.

• Minagawa Uchiha judged that Might Guy’s Eight Inner Gates could devastate the Uchiha and concluded that winning over Kakashi was the best way to prevent Guy from fighting them.
• Kakashi asked to join the Uchiha campaign against Sarutobi Hiruzen and the other high-ranking officials, delighting Minagawa Uchiha.
• Minagawa Uchiha welcomed Kakashi and urged him to help gather support from clans and ninja dissatisfied with Hiruzen and Danzo.
• Kakashi accepted Minagawa Uchiha’s argument that the Uchiha needed allies to make their actions look like a effort to set Konoha right rather than a rebellion.
• When Kakashi praised his judgment, Minagawa Uchiha said Fugaku had taught him how to analyze political matters.

Minagawa Uchiha asked Hatake Kakashi to spar so he could improve his basic combat skills, while Kakashi hoped to discuss secrets Minagawa had uncovered about his former teammates and teacher. Their training match began at the Uchiha Clan's training ground, where Minagawa's tactics surprised Kakashi.

• Minagawa Uchiha asked Kakashi to spar and promised to explain what he had learned about Kakashi's teammates and teacher afterward.
• Minagawa introduced Sasuke to Kakashi, scolded him for claiming the training ground belonged to the Uchiha Clan, and told him to watch their match.
• Minagawa and Kakashi exchanged kunai and shuriken attacks as Sasuke watched from the edge of the training ground.
• Kakashi prepared Chidori to strike Minagawa's flank, but Minagawa anticipated the attack, dodged, and swept at Kakashi's lower body.
• Kakashi leaped back and realized the shuriken Minagawa had thrown earlier were now threatening him from behind.

Minagawa Uchiha defeated Kakashi in a spar, received advice on improving his combat experience, and sent Sasuke away before revealing what he knew about Obito Uchiha. Kakashi learned that Obito was alive and that Uchiha Madara may have saved him, but the chapter ended with Minagawa explaining how Madara could have survived using Izanagi.

• Minagawa Uchiha and Kakashi fought until Minagawa admitted defeat, and Kakashi praised his strength while advising him on combat tactics.
• Minagawa thanked Kakashi and asked about training with Might Guy, while Kakashi sent Sasuke home to study what he had learned.
• After Sasuke left, Kakashi asked about Obito Uchiha, Rin, Minato, and Kushina, and Minagawa said Obito was alive and had been behind the Nine-Tails Incident and the Uchiha Clan's destruction.
• Minagawa told Kakashi that Uchiha Madara had likely saved Obito at Kannabi Bridge, shocking Kakashi, who believed Madara had died in the First Hokage's era.
• Minagawa suggested that Madara had survived by using Izanagi, and Kakashi confirmed that he knew of the forbidden technique.

Kakashi learned from the Root Base records about Uchiha Madara’s plans, Obito’s role, and Konoha’s leaders’ failures during the Nine-Tails Incident. Convinced that the current Masked Man had abandoned the Obito he once knew, Kakashi vowed to kill him and agreed that Konoha’s High Command should be exposed and put on trial.

• Kakashi learned that Uchiha Madara had used Obito to carry out his unfinished plans and had arranged Rin Nohara’s death to awaken Obito’s Mangekyō Sharingan and draw him into darkness.
• Minagawa Uchiha argued that Uchiha Madara had secretly controlled Kirigakure and that Obito later continued the Bloody Mist policies after Rin’s death.
• Kakashi accepted that the Masked Man had become a different person and vowed to kill him rather than acknowledge him as Obito Uchiha.
• Minagawa Uchiha blamed Konoha’s High Command, led by Shimura Danzō, for excluding the Uchiha Clan during the Nine-Tails Incident and allowing the Fourth Hokage to die.
• Thinking of Naruto Uzumaki’s suffering, Kakashi clenched his fists and turned his hatred toward the Hokage Building.

Kakashi regained his resolve and trained with Minagawa Uchiha while Jiraiya learned of the Uchiha Clan’s conflict with Konoha’s higher-ups. Jiraiya decided to return to the village with Tsunade and confront Sarutobi Hiruzen’s recklessness.

• Kakashi rejected the idea that Obito Uchiha’s past hardships excused his crimes and renewed his efforts to grow stronger alongside Minagawa Uchiha.
• Minagawa Uchiha spent his days studying ninjutsu, training with Kakashi, and occasionally guiding Second Pillar at the Ninja Academy.
• Jiraiya received Konoha intelligence and learned that the higher-ups had plotted to destroy the Uchiha Clan, but the Uchiha had killed Shimura Danzō and Root.
• Jiraiya questioned Sarutobi Hiruzen’s motives and decided to return to Konoha to protect the village and his disciple’s orphan.
• Jiraiya resolved to find Tsunade first and return with her.

Tsunade rejected Sarutobi Hiruzen’s appeal to return to Konoha, convinced the village’s leaders had caused the Senju Clan’s destruction and the deaths of Nawaki and Dan. Jiraiya found her and told her how the Uchiha Clan had struck back against the Konoha High Command, but the news also revived Tsunade’s bitterness about her own clan.

• Tsunade crushed Sarutobi Hiruzen’s message and refused Shizune’s pleas to return to Konoha.
• Tsunade recalled how the Senju Clan had been sacrificed and how suspicious Nawaki’s and Dan Katō’s deaths had been.
• Jiraiya found Tsunade in a tavern, joked with her, and offered her his money before explaining why he had come.
• Tsunade rejected Jiraiya’s invitation to return to Konoha, and he instead described the Uchiha Clan’s counterattack against the Konoha High Command and Shimura Danzō’s crimes.
• Tsunade celebrated Shimura Danzō’s death and the Uchiha Clan’s resistance, then grew somber as she remembered the Senju Clan’s fate.

Jiraiya decided to return to Konoha with Tsunade to resolve the conflict between the Uchiha Clan and the village leadership and clear corruption from the village. Tsunade agreed to help but refused to take the Hokage Seat, while Jiraiya planned to assess whether an Uchiha could lead Konoha.

• Jiraiya explained that the conflict between the Uchiha Clan and Konoha's leaders threatened the village, and asked Tsunade to help him restore it.
• Tsunade agreed to return with Jiraiya but insisted she would not take over the Hokage Seat.
• Jiraiya joked about their journey, and Tsunade punched him, sent him into a crater, and took his wallet.
• Tsunade asked Jiraiya whether he would leave the old Hokage in office, and he said he would first examine the Uchiha Clan and consider recommending a capable member as Hokage.
• Tsunade warned Jiraiya about Tobirama Senju's findings that the Uchiha were emotionally unstable, but Jiraiya argued that most Uchiha could think rationally and that considering a candidate could help bring the clan closer to Konoha.

Minagawa Uchiha planned his next steps toward greater strength, then brought Uchiha Fugaku into the Kamui World and showed him Shisui’s Mangekyō Sharingan. The chapter ended with Fugaku asking whether Minagawa intended to transplant the eyes into other clan members.

• Minagawa Uchiha planned to learn Wood Release, Fuinjutsu, taijutsu, sage arts, and the Eight Inner Gates to increase his strength.
• Minagawa Uchiha decided to give away Shisui’s Mangekyō Sharingan to support Uchiha Fugaku’s rise to the Hokage Seat and strengthen his standing in the clan.
• Minagawa Uchiha found Uchiha Fugaku at the Military Police Force and transferred them both to the Kamui World.
• Minagawa Uchiha showed Uchiha Fugaku the two Mangekyō Sharingan and explained that one came from Danzo and the other from Itachi.
• Uchiha Fugaku inferred how Shisui’s eyes had ended up with Minagawa and asked whether he planned to transplant them into other clan members.

Minagawa Uchiha explained how his ability let him fuse the Masked Man’s Mangekyō Sharingan into Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan and offered to do the same for Uchiha Fugaku. Fugaku agreed, and Minagawa completed the fusion, leaving Fugaku with stable Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan that also carried Shisui’s Kotoamatsukami.

• Minagawa showed Uchiha Fugaku that his own eyes had advanced to Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan and explained that his space-based ability could fuse other people’s Kekkei Genkai.
• Minagawa offered to fuse Uchiha Shisui’s Mangekyō Sharingan with Fugaku’s, and Fugaku eagerly agreed after Minagawa assured him their clan blood ties were sufficient.
• Minagawa instructed Fugaku not to resist and fused their two pairs of Mangekyō Sharingan, carefully stabilizing and accelerating the new eyes’ adaptation.
• Minagawa confirmed that Fugaku’s eyes had become stable Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan and told him that Shisui’s Kotoamatsukami had also fused into them.

Minagawa Uchiha tested Uchiha Fugaku after giving him the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan and Kotoamatsukami, then warned him about Obito Uchiha and the danger of Might Guy's Eight Inner Gates. After Fugaku promised to guide the clan carefully, Minagawa returned home to study Wood Release Ninjutsu.

• Uchiha Fugaku learned how Kotoamatsukami worked and feared that Uchiha Shisui might once have considered using it on him.
• Uchiha Fugaku calmed down after gaining power and promised to follow Minagawa Uchiha's lead, explaining that he considered Minagawa more capable and deserving of gratitude.
• Minagawa Uchiha warned Uchiha Fugaku that Kotoamatsukami had limits and revealed that the Masked Man was Obito Uchiha, an agent connected to Uchiha Madara.
• Minagawa Uchiha explained that he had won over Kakashi partly to secure Might Guy's support, since the Eight Inner Gates could threaten the Uchiha Clan.
• Uchiha Fugaku promised to warn the clan and improve its attitude toward Might Guy, and Minagawa Uchiha returned home to study Wood Release Ninjutsu.

Minagawa Uchiha met Might Guy and began training with him, hoping to develop his Taijutsu and Sage Body. Guy took him on a five-hundred-lap run around Konoha, where Minagawa kept pace for two hundred laps before struggling, leaving Guy concerned about how far the boy was pushing himself.

• Kakashi brought Might Guy to meet Minagawa Uchiha at the training ground, where Guy startled Minagawa during his Taijutsu exercises.
• Kakashi explained that Minagawa wanted to learn Taijutsu from Guy, and Guy agreed to train him.
• Minagawa enthusiastically accepted Guy's guidance, prompting Guy to hug him and immediately start a five-hundred-lap run around Konoha.
• Minagawa broke free of Guy's grip and ran after him as Konoha residents remarked on seeing an Uchiha sprinting through the streets.
• Minagawa kept pace with Guy for two hundred laps using his Sage Body and recovery, but Guy grew worried because the boy's performance exceeded his training experience.

Might Guy worried that Minagawa Uchiha’s exceptional stamina was draining his lifespan, but Kakashi assured him that Minagawa was healthy. Guy then sparred with Minagawa, who was shocked when Guy broke apart his Great Fireball with a kick.

• Might Guy stopped the run and asked Kakashi to check whether Minagawa Uchiha’s abnormal stamina came from an illness that shortened his life.
• Kakashi examined Minagawa and said his constitution was naturally strong, while Minagawa kept his Sage Body secret.
• Might Guy invited Minagawa to spar so he could assess his Taijutsu, and Minagawa attacked with his Sharingan active.
• Might Guy countered Minagawa’s punches and knee-block, sending him flying and pressing the attack.
• Minagawa used the Great Fireball Technique to buy time, but Might Guy shattered it with Konoha Strong Whirlwind, astonishing him.

After Might Guy defeated Minagawa Uchiha with Taijutsu, Minagawa reconsidered his fighting style and resolved to pursue Nintaijutsu, using the Kamui World to train and strengthen his body. The chapter ends with an author’s note explaining the novel’s planned cultivation direction and eventual connection to the Dragon Ball world.

• Might Guy defeated Minagawa Uchiha and stopped him with a hand chop at his neck.
• Minagawa reviewed his weaknesses and concluded that he needed greater durability, room to maneuver, and strength.
• Minagawa decided to learn how Might Guy could disperse ninjutsu and to combine that method with Tsunade’s Super Strength Technique.
• Minagawa planned to use the Kamui World to develop Nintaijutsu, train against manifested opponents, complete his bloodline, and absorb Nature Energy.
• The author explained that Minagawa’s main cultivation path would be Taijutsu and that the story would eventually connect the Hokage world to the Dragon Ball world.

Minagawa Uchiha asked Might Guy how he had repelled a Great Fireball, and Guy explained that he had amplified chakra’s repulsive force through chakra control. Minagawa realized that chakra’s natural properties could account for the Rinnegan’s abilities and considered how ninja might develop them further.

• Minagawa Uchiha praised Might Guy’s technique and asked him to explain how he had dispersed the Great Fireball.
• Might Guy and Kakashi argued over whether Guy’s technique was impressive, then Guy challenged Kakashi to their eighty-third match.
• Might Guy explained that he had amplified chakra’s repulsive properties, which Minagawa recognized as the basis for Shinra Tensei and Banshō Ten'in.
• Might Guy encouraged Minagawa to improve his chakra control and taijutsu before leaving with Kakashi.
• Minagawa reflected on how chakra’s properties might underlie the Rinnegan’s paths and other ninja techniques, and theorized that taijutsu training had helped Guy develop repulsion.

Kakashi told Might Guy that the Uchiha Clan had uncovered the human experiments and killed Shimura Danzō and Root, while Minagawa Uchiha investigated chakra’s properties and planned to obtain Hoshigakure’s Star. He believed the Star was a fragment of the Ten-Tails that could help him understand its lineage and learn Sage Mode.

• Might Guy asked Kakashi about the village’s unusual atmosphere and his sudden involvement with the Uchiha Clan.
• Kakashi told Might Guy that the Uchiha Clan had exposed the human experiments and killed Shimura Danzō and Root.
• Minagawa Uchiha tested water-walking and concluded that chakra naturally repelled water, while chakra spread over a large area dissipated quickly.
• Minagawa Uchiha decided he needed Hoshigakure’s Star to improve his chakra use and investigate its properties.
• Minagawa Uchiha theorized that the Star was a fragment of the Ten-Tails that could reveal its lineage and help him learn Sage Mode.

Minagawa Uchiha met Kabuto Yakushi at a ninja tool shop and used his welcome to Konoha as an opportunity to get close to him. Afterward, Uchiha Fugaku visited to ask what Minagawa planned to do after his imminent graduation, leaving him to consider joining the Military Police Force or a ninja squad.

• Minagawa Uchiha decided to buy weighted gear to train his body and improve his control over Chakra's repulsive properties.
• Minagawa Uchiha ran into newly transferred classmate Kabuto Yakushi at a ninja tool shop and suspected he was spying for Orochimaru, while Kabuto sought to get close to Minagawa.
• Minagawa Uchiha paid for Kabuto Yakushi's ninja tools, and they arranged to train together another time.
• Uchiha Fugaku visited Minagawa Uchiha and explained that the clan's standing in the village was improving.
• Uchiha Fugaku asked whether Minagawa Uchiha would join the Uchiha Military Police Force or become a mission ninja after graduation, and Minagawa considered the Military Police Force's freedom and access to village information.

Minagawa Uchiha agreed to join a ninja team and was assigned to Team 7 with Kabuto Yakushi and Tamaki Hyuga. Their unexpectedly late team leader arrived atop a giant toad, leaving Minagawa to realize that the leader might be Jiraiya.

• Minagawa Uchiha agreed to join a ninja team and promised Uchiha Fugaku that he would make the Uchiha name resound throughout the Ninja World.
• Minagawa Uchiha passed the graduation test and was assigned to Team 7 with Kabuto Yakushi and Tamaki Hyuga.
• Minagawa Uchiha got to know Tamaki Hyuga and suspected the Hyuga Clan had arranged her assignment to align itself with the Uchiha Clan.
• The team waited past the afternoon for its leader, who appeared on a giant toad and startled Minagawa Uchiha.

Jiraiya introduced himself as the team’s Jonin instructor, and the students shared their introductions while revealing their views and personal struggles. The team’s first meeting ended with Tamaki Hyuga teasing Jiraiya about his many titles.

• Jiraiya arrived and introduced himself as the Toad Sage, but Tamaki Hyuga called him a late, sleazy old pervert.
• Minagawa Uchiha stayed distant as he recalled Jiraiya’s past choices and considered why he did not trust him.
• Jiraiya asked the students to introduce themselves, and Tamaki Hyuga said she wanted to become a self-reliant ninja.
• Kabuto Yakushi spoke of his orphanage and those who had taken everything from him, prompting Tamaki Hyuga and Jiraiya to offer their help.
• Kabuto Yakushi said his troubles were in the past, and Tamaki Hyuga teased Jiraiya for calling himself the White-Haired Boy after introducing himself as the Toad Sage.