Chapter Summaries

The Third Mizukage’s strange attention to Rin Nohara alerted Mei Terumi, while Rin later lured Kakashi Hatake and Obito Uchiha out of Konoha on a suspicious mission. As the team raced toward Rōran Town, five attackers burst from underground and ambushed them.

• The Third Mizukage watched Obito and Kakashi argue, and a brief crimson glimmer in his eyes coincided with Rin’s momentary loss of focus.
• Mei Terumi noticed the Mizukage’s unsettling gaze fixed on Rin, hid from him, and decided to watch him closely.
• Rin summoned Obito and Kakashi to the forest at night and claimed that Minato had given her an urgent mission to investigate bandits near Rōran Town.
• Kakashi questioned the mission’s irregular details, but Obito defended Rin, and Kakashi agreed to go while insisting they stay alert.
• Rin led the team beyond Konoha’s border toward Rōran Town, where five figures erupted from underground and attacked them.

Kakashi, Obito, and Rin were ambushed by strange, regenerating enemies, then Rin knocked the others unconscious after the fight. Chiyo identified Madara Uchiha as the likely force behind their disappearance and launched a high-priority search, while Madara’s plan continued underground.

• Kakashi, Obito, and Rin fought five masked White Enemies, discovering that powerful attacks could destroy them despite their rapid healing.
• The White Enemies wounded Obito and attacked him in a coordinated rush; Kakashi and Rin eliminated all but one, which escaped underground.
• As Kakashi prepared to carry the injured Obito back to Konoha, Rin’s eyes glowed red and she knocked Kakashi and Obito unconscious.
• Minato told Chiyo that Kakashi, Obito, and Rin were missing and that their supposed emergency mission had been forged; patrols had found signs of a battle outside the village.
• Chiyo blamed Madara Uchiha, ordered a large-scale search and tighter village security, and summoned Shikaku Nara, Hatake Sakumo, and Fugaku Uchiha.
• Konoha’s ninja began searching beyond the village as a carefully planned scheme continued in a distant underground cave.

Obito woke in Madara Uchiha’s underground hideout, where Tobi eventually offered him a way out. As Obito rushed to find Rin and Kakashi, Madara revealed that the escape was part of his plan to make Obito the executor of the Eye of the Moon Plan.

• Obito woke injured in an underground cavern, confronted Madara Uchiha, and demanded to know where Rin and Kakashi were.
• Obito defended his bonds with his companions and insisted that his life in Konoha was real, while Madara said the truth would shatter his happiness.
• Tobi appeared, teased Obito about calling Kakashi’s name, and spent the following days probing his feelings about companionship and reality.
• After hearing Obito insist in his sleep that he needed to return to everyone, Tobi opened a passage and told him it led to the surface.
• Obito entered the passage to find Rin and Kakashi, while Madara watched and said Obito could not escape his role in the Eye of the Moon Plan.

Obito found Rin and Kakashi under attack and awakened his Mangekyō Sharingan after Rin took a fatal blow meant for Kakashi. Chiyo Uchiha revealed the attackers as White Zetsu and revived Rin and Kakashi, leaving Obito with hope that they had survived.

• Obito escaped the cave and found Kakashi and Rin fighting Iwa and Cloud ninja at the Land of Fire border.
• Obito joined the battle, but an explosion separated the trio, and Rin took a kunai through her chest while shielding Kakashi.
• Obito awakened his Mangekyō Sharingan and used Kamui to slaughter the attackers with space-warping power.
• Minato Namikaze and Chiyo Uchiha arrived, and Minato found that Rin and Kakashi were not breathing.
• Chiyo declared the world real, exposed the attackers as White Zetsu, and used their stolen life force to revive Rin and Kakashi.

Chiyo revived Kakashi and Rin, learned how Madara Uchiha had manipulated Obito, and led Minato and Obito to attack Madara’s hideout. Madara escaped the destruction, and Chiyo resolved to train Obito and pursue him.

• Chiyo revived Kakashi and Rin, and Obito recounted how Madara and Tobi had trapped him in a cruel ordeal to awaken his Mangekyō Sharingan.
• Chiyo explained Madara’s plan to turn Obito’s grief into despair, then urged Obito to test his new Kamui by sending Kakashi and Rin into his dimension.
• Obito sent Kakashi and Rin into his space, and he, Chiyo, and Minato fought through White Zetsu clones as they rushed toward Madara’s cave.
• Chiyo used Susanoo to demolish the cave and the surrounding underground structure, but the group found no sign of Madara or the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.
• Chiyo concluded that Madara had escaped, ordered Obito to master his eyes, and received missions to take Obito as a disciple and kill Madara.

Chiyo, Minato, and Obito reached Amegakure and reunited with Yahiko, Nagato, and Konan. Chiyo revealed that Madara Uchiha had transplanted Nagato’s Rinnegan and was using him in the Moon’s Eye plan, then asked Nagato to summon the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path to sever Madara’s lifeline; Nagato asked for time to decide.

• Chiyo, Minato, and Obito arrived at the ruined cabin before continuing to Amegakure, where the Anbu surrounded them.
• Yahiko, Nagato, and Konan stopped the Anbu and brought the visitors to a secret chamber.
• Chiyo asked Nagato to summon the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, shocking Nagato, Yahiko, and Konan.
• Chiyo revealed that Madara Uchiha had transplanted his Rinnegan into Nagato and intended to use him to carry out the Moon’s Eye plan.
• Chiyo explained that summoning the statue away would sever Madara’s connection to it and could kill him.
• Nagato asked for time to consider Chiyo’s request, and Yahiko arranged rooms for the visitors.

Yahiko, Konan, and Nagato sought evidence for Chiyo’s claim that Nagato’s Rinnegan had been transplanted, and Chiyo brought them to the Stone Tablet beneath Naka Shrine. After deciphering it, Nagato learned the Rinnegan’s origins and confirmed that Chiyo’s warning about the Infinite Tsukuyomi was true, leaving him devastated and furious.

• Yahiko questioned Nagato about his earliest memories, and Nagato recalled that his Rinnegan had appeared after his parents died but could not remember how.
• Konan urged Yahiko and Nagato to trust Chiyo’s past kindness, and the three agreed to ask him for proof rather than summon the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.
• Chiyo told them that the Stone Tablet beneath Naka Shrine described the Rinnegan’s origins and could be deciphered by someone with the Rinnegan.
• Obito transported Yahiko, Nagato, and Konan through Kamui while Chiyo and Minato used the Flying Thunder God Jutsu to reach Konoha.
• Nagato read the Stone Tablet and learned that the Rinnegan required the combined power of Indra and Asura, and that the Infinite Tsukuyomi plan was real.
• Yahiko and Konan supported the shaken Nagato as Chiyo, Obito, and Minato left the chamber.

Nagato summoned the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path at the Valley of the End while Chiyo and the others fought off a White Zetsu army. The statue’s arrival killed Madara Uchiha and completed Chiyo’s mission, and the system offered to unlock Chiyo’s Rinnegan.

• Yahiko urged Nagato to summon the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path and sever Madara Uchiha’s connection to it, and Nagato agreed.
• Chiyo, Minato, Obito, Kushina, Yahiko, Konan, and Nagato traveled to the Valley of the End so Nagato could perform the summoning.
• A White Zetsu army surrounded them in disguises, but Kushina sensed their false emotions and exposed them.
• Minato, Konan, Yahiko, Obito, and Kushina fought the White Zetsu while Chiyo supplied Nagato with Chakra to overcome Madara’s resistance.
• Nagato summoned the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, whose arrival caused the White Zetsu to collapse and confirmed Madara Uchiha’s death.
• Chiyo received Asura’s Chakra, and the system announced that he could now unlock the Rinnegan.

Chiyo awakened the Rinnegan after eliminating Madara Uchiha and sent the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path away. He confessed his feelings to Konan, who accepted them, then began arranging the aftermath while she returned to Yahiko and Nagato with renewed hope.

• Chiyo unlocked the Rinnegan, gained its basic abilities and the exclusive Divine Technique Fleeting Bloom, and saw his Chakra increase.
• Chiyo confirmed that Madara Uchiha was gone, and Nagato sent the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path back to its own space.
• Minato directed Obito to clear away the remaining White Zetsu while Yahiko helped Nagato recover.
• Chiyo told Konan that he had watched over her and cared for her, and Konan responded by accepting his feelings.
• Chiyo told Konan to return with Yahiko and Nagato, stabilize Amegakure, and keep what happened confidential before he went to arrange the aftermath.

Chiyo’s Inner Cabinet agreed to make the Land of Rain a friendly partner through strategic cooperation and mutual aid, and he sent the resolution to Amegakure. Later, he visited Izumi Uchiha and discovered a mission tied to a mysterious Uchiha weapon described in her clan history book.

• Shikaku, Minato, and Teuchi proposed policies for the Land of Rain, and Chiyo chose to make it a model partner under Konoha’s new order.
• Chiyo sent Konoha’s cooperation resolution and a personal message to Amegakure for Konan, Yahiko, and Nagato.
• Chiyo visited Hatsuki Uchiha’s home to check on Izumi’s training, and Izumi returned excitedly after mastering a fire technique.
• Izumi told Chiyo that Shisui had given her a book about Uchiha history, and Chiyo noticed several missing pages describing an unusual clan member treated as a weapon.
• The system gave Chiyo a mission to find and unseal the Uchiha weapon.

Chiyo visited Izumi and praised her training before offering to personally guide her later. He then accepted Obito as his disciple, gaining Kamui, and searched old Uchiha records with Sosuke, finding a volume about Uchiha weapons.

• Chiyo praised Izumi's Phoenix Sage Fire Technique training and promised to guide her once she progressed further.
• Chiyo went to Obito's home and asked him to become his disciple; Obito accepted and agreed to meet him at the Third Training Ground after daily training.
• The System rewarded Chiyo with Kamui Mangekyo Dōjutsu after Obito accepted.
• Chiyo visited Sosuke Uchiha and asked to examine old clan records about special combat power or weapons.
• Sosuke led Chiyo to a dusty archive, where Chiyo searched the old volumes and found a book about Uchiha weapons.

Chiyo uncovered records describing Yachihoko, a powerful Uchiha dōjutsu sealed jointly by the Senju and Sarutobi, and sought Tsunade’s help investigating the clans’ history. The Senju archives revealed little, so Chiyo planned to question Hiruzen Sarutobi, and Tsunade insisted on going with him.

• Chiyo read an old Uchiha scroll that identified Yachihoko as a dangerous power sealed by the Senju and Sarutobi clans.
• Chiyo thanked Sosuke Uchiha for access to the old records, then visited Konoha Hospital and confirmed Rin Nohara and Kakashi had recovered.
• Tsunade examined Chiyo for injuries from the Valley of the End and agreed to help him investigate the Senju and Sarutobi clans’ ancient records.
• Chiyo and Tsunade searched the Senju archives but found only vague accounts of a joint sealing operation.
• Chiyo decided to visit Hiruzen Sarutobi the next day, and Tsunade firmly said she would accompany him.

Chiyo and Tsunade visited Hiruzen Sarutobi to ask about a sealed operation from Konoha’s clan-warring era. Hiruzen revealed where the Sarutobi records were kept and sent them to Asuma for the key, leaving Chiyo entrusted with Konoha’s future.

• Chiyo and Tsunade visited Hiruzen Sarutobi at his residence and asked about an ancient sealing operation involving the Sarutobi and Senju clans.
• Chiyo explained that contradictory historical clues pointed to a forgotten being and a powerful force that could threaten Konoha if awakened.
• Hiruzen admitted that the operation involved a dark, deliberately obscured history and revealed that the Sarutobi clan still held records in a sealed archive.
• Hiruzen told Chiyo and Tsunade to get the archive key from Asuma and search the iron boxes in the building’s deepest room.
• As Chiyo and Tsunade departed, Hiruzen told Chiyo that Konoha was in his hands, and Chiyo solemnly accepted the responsibility.

Chiyo and Tsunade searched Hiruzen Sarutobi’s hidden study and found a journal revealing the location and method of the Three-Phase Seal. They planned to investigate the site cautiously, then shared a warm meal and reminisced about the sake brewery as they walked home together.

• Chiyo and Tsunade entered an abandoned study on the Sarutobi Clan Grounds with Asuma’s key and searched its records using Shadow Clones.
• Chiyo discovered a journal describing how the Uchiha, Senju, and Sarutobi Clans sealed the dangerous Yachihoko wielder at a Deep Forest Ley Line node.
• Chiyo decided to have the Intelligence Division compare the journal’s map with the present terrain and to study Sosuke Uchiha’s scroll before attempting to unseal anything.
• Chiyo and Tsunade stopped at Ichiraku Ramen, where Tsunade suggested visiting the sake brewery after they found more clues.
• Chiyo and Tsunade walked home holding hands beneath the night sky.

Chiyo left Tsunade resting under Mei Terumi’s watch and traveled to a ravine, where he uncovered the sealed Uchiha Hikari. He found the Three-Phase Seal too dangerous to break without a key or resonance, while Tsunade woke and headed to the village entrance to wait for him.

• Chiyo asked Mei Terumi to look after the resting Tsunade, and Mei resented being treated like a servant.
• Chiyo followed old notes and maps to a ravine on the southeastern border of the Land of Fire.
• Chiyo activated the seal and found Uchiha Hikari, the Uchiha Clan’s long-hidden weapon, asleep inside it.
• Chiyo’s chakra probe met the Three-Phase Seal’s resistance, so he decided he needed a key or a specific resonance to release Hikari safely.
• Tsunade woke, learned Chiyo had left without explaining where he was going, and dismissed Mei Terumi.
• Tsunade headed to the village entrance to wait for Chiyo.

Chiyo studied Uchiha Hikari’s Three-Phase Seal and used Asura’s Chakra and his Rinnegan to awaken her, but she erupted into violence when she saw Tsunade and Chiyo. After subduing and temporarily sealing her powers, Chiyo left her under guard in Konoha, where she remained consumed by hatred and loneliness.

• Chiyo brought the unconscious Uchiha Hikari to his secret laboratory and studied the Three-Phase Seal with Tsunade.
• Chiyo’s Rinnegan stirred Uchiha Hikari’s consciousness, and he used Asura’s Chakra to soothe her and crack the seal around her spirit.
• Uchiha Hikari awoke, attacked Chiyo and Tsunade, and unleashed Amaterasu before Chiyo repelled it with Shinra Tensei.
• Chiyo overwhelmed Uchiha Hikari, restrained her, and sealed her ability to use Dōryoku and ninjutsu after seeing her despair.
• Chiyo told Tsunade to arrange a quiet guarded room for Uchiha Hikari, who remained hostile and lamented the darkness of the Shinobi World.

Chiyo took Uchiha Hikari on a tour of Konoha, with Mei Terumi explaining the village’s history and reforms. Hikari began questioning her belief that peace between former enemies was impossible, and Chiyo ended the walk by offering to show them Konoha’s specialty foods.

• Chiyo led Uchiha Hikari and Mei Terumi through Konoha while Mei described the village’s founding by the Senju and Uchiha clans.
• Uchiha Hikari dismissed the First Hokage’s distribution of Tailed Beasts as foolish, but Mei defended Konoha’s relative stability and Chiyo’s reforms.
• Mei explained Konoha’s orphanage and Ninja Academy as Hikari watched the children and students, visibly unsettled by what she saw.
• Chiyo told Hikari that former enemies could become companions, and Hikari fell silent as the village challenged her assumptions.
• Chiyo invited Hikari and Mei to try Konoha’s specialty foods, then remembered to claim the reward for the mission to unseal Hikari.

Chiyo took Uchiha Hikari on missions that showed her how shinobi used their abilities to help villagers and rebuild war-torn communities. Faced with a peaceful life and a hopeful Land of Rain unlike the world she remembered, Hikari began questioning her beliefs and her identity as a weapon.

• Chiyo used his new Kagutsuchi technique and took Uchiha Hikari out of Konoha to experience modern shinobi missions.
• Chiyo and Uchiha Hikari repaired fences and irrigated fields in three villages, where villagers thanked them and Hikari accepted a fruit from them.
• On the way back, Hikari asked whether this was what Chiyo protected, and he explained that shinobi could use their power to create and protect peace.
• Chiyo later brought Hikari to the Land of Rain, where she saw shinobi and civilians rebuilding villages and working together.
• Hikari recalled the wars and betrayals of her past, then wept as she began to consider that the world and her own life might hold possibilities beyond destruction and being used as a weapon.

Chiyo helped Uchiha Hikari confront the betrayal and pain of her past, then guided her to remember the love her parents had shown her. Hikari fell asleep in his arms as he carried her toward Konoha, and Chiyo received a Boil Release Kekkei Genkai as his reward.

• Uchiha Hikari broke down in the rain, questioning whether the peaceful world Chiyo had shown her was real and unleashing her sealed Chakra.
• Hikari threw herself into Chiyo's arms and asked why her clan had used her as a weapon before abandoning and sealing her.
• Chiyo told Hikari that she had done nothing wrong and explained that fear of her power had driven the Uchiha, Senju, and Hiruzen to treat her as a threat.
• Chiyo prompted Hikari to remember who had given her the name Hikari, and she recalled her parents naming her with hopes that she would bring light to the Uchiha.
• Hikari found comfort in Chiyo's embrace and fell asleep, and Chiyo carried her toward Konoha.
• Chiyo received a Boil Release Kekkei Genkai for resolving Hikari's inner knot.

Chiyo settled Uchiha Hikari into a safer, more welcoming life in Konoha and arranged for Izumi to help her adapt to the clan. Mei Terumi chose to keep learning at Chiyo’s side and formally became his secretary.

• Chiyo moved Uchiha Hikari to a comfortable room in the Hokage Building and ended her strict surveillance while retaining basic protection.
• After waking, Uchiha Hikari met Mikoto and Izumi at Chiyo’s home, where Izumi patiently taught her to use chopsticks.
• Chiyo asked Izumi to guide Uchiha Hikari around the clan and spend time with its children, and Hikari agreed to go with her.
• Chiyo told Mikoto that Uchiha Hikari was a clan member from the Warring Clans Era who had been treated as a weapon and sealed away.
• Mei Terumi told Chiyo she wanted to continue learning at his side, and Chiyo formally accepted her as his secretary.