Chapter Summaries

Obito told Mikoto about the old man who had abducted him and tried to convince him that the world was beyond saving and that an eternal illusion was the only true peace. Mikoto suspected the enemy had deep ties to the Uchiha and hurried to report the threat to Chiyo-niichan.

• Obito recounted being trapped in a dark stone place and hearing an old voice tell him that those he cherished would betray him.
• Obito said the old man spoke of Uchiha power, hatred, and an eternal illusion, prompting Mikoto to connect his words to the Uchiha Shrine's Stone Tablet.
• Obito described the man's cold, oppressive Chakra as somewhat familiar but not quite like the Uchiha Clan's, and Mikoto suspected a powerful enemy with intimate knowledge of the clan.
• Mikoto reassured Obito that the old man's claims were lies and told him to keep the encounter secret from everyone, including Kakashi and Rin.
• Mikoto watched Obito leave, then hurried to record what he had told her and notify Chiyo-niichan at the highest security level.

Chiyo Uchiha learned that Madara Uchiha had approached Obito, then received the surrender treaties that ended the war and made him Konoha’s celebrated hero. As the army began its victorious return, Kushina confessed her love to Chiyo and he accepted her.

• Chiyo Uchiha recognized Madara Uchiha behind the mysterious voice and Chakra presence described in Mikoto Uchiha’s report, and resolved to watch for him.
• A messenger delivered unconditional surrender treaties from the four great nations, and Chiyo ordered Konoha’s army to celebrate while remaining alert.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi, Shimura Danzō, and the clan leaders praised Chiyo for winning the war, and the army prepared to return to Konoha.
• Kushina Uzumaki confessed her feelings to Chiyo, who told her he had noticed her devotion and kissed her.
• The next morning, Chiyo led the victorious army home alongside Tsunade and a blushing Kushina, while an exhausted Mei Terumi watched resentfully.

Chiyo returned to Konoha as a celebrated hero, and the victory elevated the Uchiha Clan’s standing while stirring unease among village leaders. He reunited with Mikoto, whose report of postwar business and new findings about Obito led him to head home with her and Kushina.

• Chiyo entered Konoha to a jubilant welcome, accepting gifts as Hiruzen, Danzō, Minato, Jiraiya, and Sakumo watched and reacted to his influence.
• Chiyo reunited with Mikoto and greeted her affectionately in front of the Uchiha Clan and the cheering villagers.
• Kushina grew flustered remembering her intimate encounter with Chiyo, and Mikoto wondered why she was acting strangely.
• Mikoto told Chiyo that postwar affairs needed his attention and that the clan had new findings about Obito.
• Chiyo took Mikoto’s hand and headed to the Uchiha Compound with Kushina following close behind.

Chiyo confirmed to Mikoto that Madara Uchiha had survived and explained that an altered Stone Tablet had led him to pursue the Infinite Tsukuyomi, making him a pawn in someone else’s plan. Chiyo dismissed the threat without panic and prepared to face the Hokage with Mikoto.

• Mikoto reported that her investigation into Obito’s abduction and the Eternal Dream pointed to Madara Uchiha.
• Chiyo confirmed Madara was behind it and called him a tool deceived by an ancient lie.
• Chiyo explained that the altered Stone Tablet had convinced Madara to pursue the Infinite Tsukuyomi as a path to peace.
• Mikoto struggled to accept that Madara intended to trap the world in an eternal dream, while Chiyo warned that he remained dangerous.
• Chiyo told Mikoto not to let Madara’s plans unsettle them and said they should deal with the Hokage; Mikoto agreed to go with him to the Hokage Building.

At a solemn meeting, Chiyo Uchiha persuaded Konoha’s leaders to end the special house arrest of Ōnoki and A and send them to high-security prison. Hiruzen Sarutobi approved the transfer, marking a hardening of Konoha’s stance toward its defeated enemies.

• Chiyo Uchiha and Mikoto entered the Hokage conference room as leaders reviewed the war’s casualty report.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi proposed holding a village-wide memorial service for Konoha’s fallen heroes in three days.
• Hiruzen raised the question of how to treat Ōnoki and A, who were being held under house arrest in the village.
• Chiyo argued that the captured Kage should be imprisoned, saying their comfort would dishonor Konoha’s dead and signal weakness to its enemies.
• Clan representatives rallied behind Chiyo’s proposal, and Hiruzen ordered Ōnoki and A transferred to Konoha Prison’s high-security section under strict guard.

After the war meeting, Chiyo and Mikoto shared ramen at Ichiraku, where Kurenai Yuhi met Chiyo and eagerly asked him about training. The evening ended with Chiyo receiving a mission to intercept Kurenai Yuhi.

• Chiyo and Mikoto left the Hokage Building and went to Ichiraku Ramen, where villagers and shinobi welcomed Chiyo as a hero.
• While waiting for ramen, Chiyo checked his character panel and reflected on gaining Indra's Chakra and the confusing family relations it might imply.
• Chiyo and Mikoto ate together, and Mikoto considered the clan's future and her hopes for Chiyo's involvement.
• Kurenai Yuhi recognized Chiyo and Mikoto, joined them for ramen, and asked Chiyo about combat, training, and Genjutsu.
• Chiyo received a mission to intercept Kurenai Yuhi, with a random divine technique as the reward.

Chiyo offered to train Kurenai Yuhi in Genjutsu, and she eagerly accepted him as her teacher. After Mikoto left for home, Chiyo headed to the Konoha Orphanage to visit someone he cared about.

• Chiyo praised Kurenai Yuhi's Genjutsu talent and offered to guide her training, which she gratefully accepted as his student.
• Kurenai spent the evening asking Chiyo questions about Genjutsu and his battles until her father, Shinro Yuhi, came to take her home.
• Chiyo saw Mikoto off after she expressed concern about Kurenai's enthusiasm and reminded him not to work too late.
• Chiyo left Ichiraku Ramen and made his way through the night toward the Konoha Orphanage.

After returning from the war, Chiyo visited Yakushi Nonō at the Konoha Orphanage and shared a quiet reunion with her. He checked on Yakushi Kabuto, then carried Nonō away for a private evening, leaving their destination unstated.

• Chiyo arrived at the orphanage and found Nonō baking cookies for the children.
• Chiyo and Nonō embraced, and she told him about caring for children recently brought from the border.
• Chiyo and Nonō visited Kabuto, who was studying medicine late in the library, and Chiyo praised his diligence.
• After Kabuto returned to the dormitory, Chiyo carried Nonō away when she asked whether he was returning to the clan grounds.

Konoha held a rain-soaked memorial for the shinobi who died in the war, and Chiyo later warned Minato Namikaze that Madara Uchiha might still be alive and targeting Obito. Minato agreed to strengthen security around his team as the danger gathering in the shadows remained unresolved.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi gave a memorial speech urging Konoha to remember the fallen and carry on their will, and the villagers laid flowers at the Memorial Stone.
• Chiyo stayed behind after the ceremony and asked Minato Namikaze to speak with him privately.
• Chiyo told Minato that Mikoto had linked Obito's encounter with a mysterious person to the possibility that Madara Uchiha was alive and targeting Obito and those around him.
• Minato accepted the warning and resolved to reassess security for Obito's team, especially Kakashi, Obito, and Rin.
• Chiyo and Minato discussed possible responses, then shared ramen before parting in the rain.

Chiyo visited Rōran Town with Mei Terumi and found Pakura, Sara, and Yugito building new lives there. He invited them to have lunch together, leaving the women gathered around him in the town’s peaceful atmosphere.

• Chiyo brought Mei Terumi to the bustling Rōran Town, where Pakura and Maki caught a thief and handed him over for punishment.
• Pakura told Chiyo she intended to remain in Rōran as a Public Security Advisor rather than move to the Uchiha Compound, since tensions between Konoha and the Sand Ninja remained.
• Pakura explained that Sara had begun studying medicine and was treating people for free at a clinic stall.
• Chiyo found Sara treating patients with Yugito’s help, and the women greeted him warmly.
• Sara said she wanted to help Rōran’s people, while Yugito said she was helping because Sara could not manage everything alone.
• Chiyo invited Pakura, Sara, Yugito, and Mei Terumi to have lunch together.

Chiyo hosted a barbecue and sake gathering at Sara’s residence, where Pakura and Sara shared painful memories before becoming drunk and leaning on him for comfort. After they were helped to bed, Yugito admitted her feelings to Chiyo and declared that he would be her light.

• Chiyo prepared an elaborate barbecue, and Sara, Maki, Pakura, Yugito, and Mei Terumi praised his cooking.
• Over drinks, Pakura described how Sunagakure had betrayed her, and Sara recounted how Mukade had killed her mother and tried to control Rōran.
• Pakura and Sara thanked Chiyo and clung to him, so he asked Maki and Mei Terumi to escort them to their rooms.
• Chiyo sat beside Yugito and asked whether she was adjusting to life away from Kumogakure.
• Yugito embraced Chiyo, thanked him, confessed that she liked him, and said he would be her light from then on.

Chiyo received the Hydrification Technique as a reward for intercepting Yugito Nii and investigated the security situation in Rōran Town. Concluding that ordinary patrols could not stop White Zetsu, he decided to seek Orochimaru’s help and headed toward Konoha.

• Chiyo received the Hydrification Technique and saw that his Chakra had risen to 97 Kakashi units.
• Chiyo questioned an Uchiha shinobi stationed in Rōran, who reported no unusual activity or Chakra signatures.
• Chiyo considered how Madara and White Zetsu could evade the town’s Uchiha and Anbu defenses.
• Chiyo thought of asking Kushina to use Nine-Tails Chakra Mode to identify White Zetsu and considered developing specialized warning traps.
• Chiyo decided Orochimaru could help create a more effective defense and left Rōran Town for Konoha.

Chiyo received a mission to make Orochimaru willingly return to Konoha and considered using Shisui Uchiha’s Kotoamatsukami to influence him. At the Uchiha Training Ground, Chiyo accepted a second mission by taking Itachi Uchiha as his disciple, then planned to speak with Shisui about Kotoamatsukami and pursue Orochimaru.

• Chiyo examined intelligence linking Orochimaru to disappearances and Chakra experiments near the Land of Fire’s southwest border.
• A mission tasked Chiyo with making Orochimaru willingly return to Konoha, and Chiyo considered using Shisui Uchiha’s Kotoamatsukami to achieve it.
• Chiyo went to the Uchiha Training Ground and watched Shisui teach four-year-old Itachi Uchiha to throw shuriken.
• Chiyo offered to take Itachi as his disciple, and Shisui and Itachi accepted.
• The completed mission rewarded Chiyo with Steel Release, and his Chakra reached 102.
• Chiyo sent Shisui and Itachi home and planned to speak with Shisui about Kotoamatsukami before pursuing Orochimaru.

Chiyo told Fugaku that he would take Itachi as his disciple, then recognized that Fugaku had awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan. He recruited Shisui to accompany him to the Southwest Border and use Kotoamatsukami to make Orochimaru willingly return to Konoha and serve him.

• Chiyo visited Fugaku and secured his agreement to let Itachi become Chiyo's disciple.
• Chiyo warned Fugaku that Uchiha's new standing was not secure and urged him to focus on integrating the clan into Konoha.
• As Chiyo left, he revealed that he knew Fugaku had awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan, leaving Fugaku shaken.
• Chiyo asked Shisui to explain Kotoamatsukami and ordered him to use it on Orochimaru.
• Shisui agreed to join Chiyo on a mission to the Southwest Border and make Orochimaru believe that returning to Konoha and serving Chiyo was his true desire.

Chiyo and Shisui found Orochimaru conducting human experiments in an underground laboratory, where they confronted him over his pursuit of eternity. Shisui used Kotoamatsukami to change Orochimaru’s allegiance, and Orochimaru agreed to return to Konoha with them.

• Chiyo and Shisui discovered a hidden underground laboratory filled with grotesque experiments and corpses.
• Orochimaru defended his experiments as a path to eternity and evolution, while Chiyo argued that strength needed protection to give it meaning.
• Shisui used his Mangekyō Sharingan and Kotoamatsukami on Orochimaru.
• Under the genjutsu’s influence, Orochimaru renounced his experiments and pledged to serve Chiyo and Konoha.
• Chiyo ordered Orochimaru to destroy his forbidden research and return to Konoha with them.

Chiyo brought Shisui and a mind-controlled Orochimaru back to Konoha, where the village’s forces and residents reacted with alarm and awe. After receiving Kotoamatsukami as a system reward, Chiyo declared that Orochimaru had voluntarily returned to atone under the village’s supervision and led him toward the Uchiha Compound.

• Shisui told Chiyo that using Kotoamatsukami had drained his Dōryoku and would leave the technique unusable for several years.
• Chiyo considered how Kotoamatsukami might be resisted, then traveled toward Konoha with Shisui and the obedient Orochimaru.
• Uchiha guards and other Konoha forces surrounded Orochimaru at the village gate, while the crowd praised Chiyo for bringing him back.
• Chiyo received Kotoamatsukami as his system reward and sensed both Shisui’s lingering imprint on Orochimaru and his own control of the technique.
• Chiyo ordered the forces to lower their weapons and announced that Orochimaru had returned voluntarily to accept punishment and conduct supervised research for Konoha.
• The Anbu captain agreed to report Chiyo’s decision to the Third Hokage, and Chiyo led Shisui and Orochimaru toward the Uchiha Compound.

Hiruzen Sarutobi learned that Orochimaru had returned to Konoha and joined Chiyo, then sent Danzō with the Hokage's Personal Guard to demand Orochimaru for questioning. At the Uchiha Guard Unit, Chiyo tasked Orochimaru with developing a concealed Sage Sensing barrier, just as Danzō arrived to take him away.

• The Captain of the Hokage's Personal Guard reported that Orochimaru had returned willingly with Chiyo and gone to the Uchiha Guard Unit.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi regretted his failure as Orochimaru's teacher and ordered the guard captain to monitor Orochimaru.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi gave Danzō temporary command of the Hokage's Personal Guard and ordered him to bring Orochimaru in for questioning.
• Chiyo reviewed Orochimaru's research Scrolls and asked him to devise a concealed barrier that could detect specific life-forms using Sage Sensing.
• Orochimaru eagerly proposed a Nature Energy sensing network and agreed to begin the research.
• An Uchiha Clan Member announced that Danzō had arrived with the Hokage's Personal Guard and demanded Orochimaru.

Chiyo Uchiha blocked Shimura Danzō’s attempt to seize Orochimaru by citing Guard Unit regulations and challenging his authority. When Danzō prepared to force a confrontation, Chiyo used Kotoamatsukami to rewrite Danzō’s loyalties, and Danzō withdrew peacefully while Chiyo and Orochimaru resumed their discussion.

• Shimura Danzō arrived with the Hokage’s personal guard and demanded that Chiyo hand Orochimaru over on the Third Hokage’s orders.
• Chiyo cited the Guard Unit’s regulations and Orochimaru’s status as a willing returnee to refuse Danzō’s demand without formal documents.
• Orochimaru mocked Danzō, and Danzō ordered his guards to seize him as the Uchiha prepared to fight.
• Chiyo used Kotoamatsukami to make Danzō absolutely loyal to him, causing Danzō to apologize and accept Chiyo’s handling of Orochimaru.
• Danzō withdrew with his guards, and Chiyo returned to discussing Barrier Jutsu with Orochimaru.

Hiruzen Sarutobi confronted Shimura Danzō after Danzo returned without Orochimaru, but Danzo rejected Hiruzen’s authority and accused him of decades of hypocrisy and exploitation. Danzo abandoned his ambition for the Hokage Position and left Hiruzen shaken and consumed by guilt.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi demanded that Shimura Danzō explain why he had returned without Orochimaru.
• Danzo said Chiyo Uchiha had lawfully received and supervised Orochimaru, and refused to override village rules on Hiruzen’s verbal order.
• Hiruzen tried to motivate Danzo with the Hokage Position and accused him of past crimes, but Danzo condemned Hiruzen for using Root and betraying their comrades.
• Danzo blamed Hiruzen for abandoning Orochimaru, White Fang, and Kagami Uchiha, and rejected Hiruzen’s excuses about the advisors.
• Danzo declared that he no longer cared about the Hokage Position and slammed the office door as he left.
• Hiruzen collapsed into his chair, realizing that Danzo had changed and feeling that the consequences of his past choices had caught up with him.

Chiyo commissioned Orochimaru to develop an independent, offensive barrier for Rōran and told him to find Scales, a boy who could absorb Nature Energy, while also recommending Yakushi Kabuto as an assistant. He then reunited with Sara, Pakura, and Yugito, leaving Orochimaru to begin his research as the group headed off to celebrate.

• Chiyo rejected linking Rōran’s defenses to Konoha’s barrier and ordered Orochimaru to create an independent system that could identify and eliminate intruders.
• Orochimaru asked for living subjects to study Nature Energy, and Chiyo told him about Scales and ordered that the boy not be harmed when found.
• Chiyo recommended his disciple Yakushi Kabuto, who had Medical Ninjutsu and memory skills, as a potential assistant for Orochimaru.
• Sara, Pakura, and Yugito found Chiyo and invited him to celebrate with grilled meat, and he agreed to stay for the day.
• Orochimaru left to begin his research and wondered who Chiyo was preparing to defend against.