Chapter Summaries

Akira watched Danzo ambush Uchiha Shisui and steal one of his Mangekyo Sharingan, then decided to intervene before Danzo could take the other. The chapter ended with Akira activating his Mangekyo and attacking Danzo.

• Akira spotted Shisui heading to a shrine and noticed another group approaching the same place.
• Danzo confronted Shisui, revealed that he knew about the planned Uchiha meeting, and argued that Shisui’s plan to control Fugaku would not stop the coup.
• Danzo’s Aburame subordinate, Tsurunagare, immobilized Shisui with insects while Danzo declared that he would take Shisui’s eyes.
• Danzo gouged out Shisui’s right eye, but Shisui escaped with the Body Flicker Technique before Danzo could take the other.
• Danzo sent Tsurunagare and Root ninjas after Shisui, while Akira watched through a Scouting Parasite and resolved to stop Danzo.
• Akira activated his Mangekyo and attacked Danzo for harming the Uchiha Clan.

Akira stole Shisui's Mangekyo from Danzo, discovered Danzo's use of Izanagi and suspected Root of murdering Uchiha for Sharingan. As the Uchiha assembly ended in worry over Shisui and Itachi's absence, Shisui met Itachi and revealed his bloody eye, saying he had failed.

• Akira ambushed Danzo, severed the hand holding Shisui's Mangekyo, and killed two Root ninjas, but Danzo revived with Izanagi and summoned reinforcements.
• Akira connected Danzo's Sharingan and Izanagi to the disappearance of Uchiha clan members, then chose not to intervene while the wounded Shisui escaped Root's pursuit.
• Danzo ordered Fuu Yamanaka and Root to keep tracking Shisui and block his return to the Uchiha Clan Land.
• Akira and Mihara attended the clan assembly, where Fugaku Uchiha grew worried because Uchiha Itachi and Uchiha Shisui were absent.
• At the cliff where they had met the night before, Shisui showed Itachi his bloody right eye and said he had failed.

After Danzo ambushed Shisui and took his eyes, Itachi accepted Shisui’s request to kill him and awakened the Mangekyo Sharingan. Akira’s group rescued Shisui and implanted a Sage’s Heart, saving his life at the cost of five years.

• Shisui told Itachi that Danzo had ambushed him and urged him to kill Shisui to gain the Mangekyo Sharingan.
• Itachi took the eye Shisui entrusted to him, and his Three Tomoe Sharingan evolved into the Mangekyo Sharingan as Shisui fell into the Naka River.
• Qingmang awakened her Three Tomoe Sharingan when she saw Shisui, while Naoko warned Akira that Shisui was close to death.
• Akira implanted the Sage’s Heart into Shisui, repairing his injuries and poison while costing him five years of life.
• Shisui woke among Akira’s group and learned that he had lost his eyes but survived; Qingmang stayed beside him.

After Itachi faced suspicion from the Uchiha Guard Division over Shisui’s disappearance, Shisui watched their confrontation from Misty Isle and questioned Akira about leaving Konoha. Akira argued that the Uchiha could legally end their alliance with Konoha and explained how the Daimyo and ninja village systems perpetuated war.

• Inaho, Yashiro, and Tehi confronted Itachi about missing the clan gathering and questioned him over Shisui’s apparent suicide.
• Yashiro showed Itachi Shisui’s suicide note and suggested that Shisui might have been murdered, but Fugaku intervened before the dispute became a fight.
• Shisui watched the confrontation from Misty Isle, then asked Akira whether he intended to lead the Uchiha out of Konoha.
• Akira showed Shisui the Senju-Uchiha alliance document and argued that, since it did not forbid withdrawal, the Uchiha could terminate the alliance rather than defect.
• Akira explained that Daimyo funding and the ninja village system drove recurring wars, leaving Shisui shaken by his argument.

Akira persuaded Shisui to embrace his plan to free the Uchiha from Konoha and reshape the shinobi world, prompting Shisui’s Sharingan to evolve to Three Tomoe. Shisui signed Akira’s Soul Contract, received new techniques and a Death Substitute Magic Eye, and shared intelligence that left Akira wary of Konoha’s hidden strength.

• Akira argued that war arose from population growth outstripping available land and urged technological development, education, population control, and exploration to break the cycle; Shisui’s worldview shattered and his Sharingan evolved to Three Tomoe.
• Akira asked Shisui to help lead the Uchiha out of Konoha, and Shisui agreed while warning that he would kill Akira if he betrayed his ideals.
• Shisui signed Akira’s Soul Contract and received ninjutsu and a Mental Power Training Method; Akira also explained his plan to use Izanami on Uchiha who refused to leave.
• Akira gave Shisui a Death Substitute Magic Eye, which Shisui implanted in his arm and prepared to activate Izanagi as protection against being killed instantly.
• Shisui identified Tenzo as a former Root operative in Kakashi’s ANBU squad, and Akira shared evidence of a powerful Wood Release ninja whose abilities far exceeded Shisui’s knowledge of Tenzo.
• Akira told Shisui that he had killed Danzo, who revived with Izanagi, and offered to return the recovered Mangekyo; Shisui declined and shared ANBU intelligence with Akira.

Akira and Shisui used Mangekyo techniques to alter the Great Elder’s memories and position Akira as a potential Uchiha leader, but Akira suspected the elder had seen through their scheme. The Great Elder planned to announce Akira’s succession prospects and marriage to Yami, while Shisui’s Kotoamatsukami was exhausted.

• The Third Hokage cut the Guard Division’s budget as Fugaku again compromised with Konoha’s leaders after Shisui’s disappearance weakened support for the coup.
• Akira entered the Great Elder’s room and used a Mangekyo genjutsu to let Shisui implant memories that made the elder favor Akira as a future leader.
• The Great Elder agreed to test candidates for his succession, proposed that Akira marry his granddaughter Yami Uchiha, and said he would announce both matters the next day.
• After Akira and Shisui left, the Great Elder revealed that he had noticed their intentions and privately considered Akira’s strength and leadership potential.
• Akira suspected the Great Elder had seen through them, while Shisui explained that using Kotoamatsukami had exhausted its remaining power for around ten years.

The Great Elder announced Yami Uchiha’s betrothal to Akira and opened a contest to choose his successor, with Akira qualifying alongside Yashiro, Munehiro, Tekka, and Inabi. As the five prepared to fight, Fugaku waited to see how the succession would affect him, while Konoha’s leaders and Danzo began considering how to respond.

• The Great Elder announced that Yami would marry Akira when they came of age.
• The Great Elder invited nominations for his successor, and Akira qualified for the contest with seven votes alongside Yashiro, Munehiro, Tekka, and Inabi.
• The Great Elder scheduled a no-rules battle among the five candidates at the Naka River training grounds that afternoon.
• Fugaku heard about the succession contest and decided he could only wait and see how it would affect his position.
• Itachi reported the matter to Sarutobi Hiruzen, who told him to keep watch, while Koharu and Homura discussed how the succession might be used to influence the Uchiha.
• Danzo questioned Itachi about the Great Elder’s decision, then ordered four Root ninjas to monitor Itachi and use force if necessary.

Obito learned that Uchiha Akira had become a candidate for Great Elder and planned to reclaim his eyes. At the selection battle, Akira overwhelmed the other candidates with deceptive clones, leaving Munehiro, Yashiro, and Inaho fighting him.

• White Zetsu told Obito that Setsuna had betrothed Yami to Akira and announced the Great Elder candidates, including Akira.
• Obito decided to speak with Itachi and seek an opportunity to reclaim Akira's eyes.
• The Great Elder began the contest, and Tekka, Yashiro, Inaho, and Munehiro surrounded Akira as the hidden observers watched.
• Akira's illusions and clones confused the candidates, and he wounded Tekka badly enough for the Great Elder to order his removal for treatment.
• Akira called Munehiro out of hiding and faced him, Yashiro, and Inaho with more than a hundred clones, while Munehiro began to understand how Akira's clones and genjutsu worked.

Akira defeated four veteran Uchiha without using his Sharingan, demonstrating the power of his Illusionary Body Flow. After Yashiro conceded, the Great Elder named Akira the candidate for next Great Elder, beginning a one-year transition period.

• Akira's Phantom Clones overwhelmed Yashiro, Munehiro, Inaho, and Tekka, while observers including Sarutobi Hiruzen, Obito, and Itachi watched with concern.
• Akira's Illusionary Dragon Scale Kill forced Yashiro to surrender after the attack pierced the ground around him.
• Akira returned to the riverside boulder and silently acknowledged the Great Elder.
• The Great Elder announced Akira as the candidate for next Great Elder, with a one-year transition period, and the Uchiha raised no objections.

Uchiha Akira built up his faction while Konoha’s clans and leaders reacted to his candidacy for Great Elder. After forming Flame Gate and gathering his core members, he began openly consolidating support against Fugaku and the other factions.

• Danzo ordered Root to collect intelligence on Akira, while Hiruzen and the elders courted Fugaku and Fugaku tried to draw Combat Faction members to his side.
• Akira told the Great Elder that Fugaku, Hiruzen, and Danzo would not control the Uchiha Clan through their schemes.
• Akira used the Great Elder’s authority to secure Soul Contracts from 725 Uchiha Clan Members and had Shisui, Mihara, and Munehiro reorganize the Uchiha Secret Guard into twenty-six members.
• Akira gathered the Uchiha on his side into an organization called Flame Gate.
• Akira invited his faction’s core members to leave for Fugaku’s side if they wished, but warned them against switching sides later.
• Tekka, Aoka, and the others stayed with Akira, who declared they would now stand together.

Akira reorganized the Uchiha Guard Division and imposed loyalty and resource-sharing measures on the clan. He won the Combat Faction over by offering points redeemable for powerful tools and techniques, including Death Substitute Magic Eyes and Mangekyo training methods.

• Akira announced that the Guard Division would shrink from 207 members, retaining twenty-four Public Security Battalion ninjas and hiring seventy-two village assistants to form mixed squads.
• Akira and Munehiro persuaded Tekka and the other Uchiha elites to sign Soul Contracts after explaining that the contracts would expose clan members working against them.
• Akira ordered their relatives to sign Soul Contracts and live in a designated area, and declared a one-year temporary control period in which eighty percent of individual income would go to the collective.
• Akira displayed a Death Substitute Magic Eye, and Munehiro explained that it could activate Izanagi in place of a Three Tomoe Sharingan.
• Akira promised an internal points bank where members could exchange contributions for Death Substitute Magic Eyes, Illusionary Body Flow, and Mangekyo Sharingan training methods, then revealed his own Mangekyo and drew the elites into his camp.

Itachi tried to uncover the Combat Faction’s plans but was driven off by Munehiro and the Secret Guards after they identified him. Later, a masked man claiming to be Uchiha Madara approached Itachi and warned him that Mangekyo Sharingan use would cost him his sight.

• Itachi hypnotized Araki to learn about the meeting, but Munehiro and seven Secret Guards arrived before he could question him, forcing Itachi to escape with a Shadow Clone.
• Munehiro and Mihara reviewed the Communication Parasite’s recording, identified the intruder as Itachi, and ordered meeting attendees to stay alert in groups.
• In a forest by the Naka River, the masked man appeared before a troubled Itachi and passed through his kunai and fireballs without being harmed.
• The masked man claimed to be Uchiha Madara, revealed that he knew about Itachi’s Mangekyo, and warned that using it excessively would make him lose his sight.
• The masked man left a shuriken in a Poplar Tree as a signal for another meeting, then vanished, while Itachi remained wary of him.

Akira, Shisui, and Setsuna investigated the masked man and the Wood Release ninja, finding that Madara’s grave was empty and suspecting the masked man had a spatial ability. Meanwhile, Itachi read the Uchiha Stone Tablet and learned that attaining the Eternal Mangekyo required taking a brother’s Mangekyo, leaving Obito to watch as Itachi began to despair.

• Akira joined Shisui and Setsuna in reviewing footage of Itachi, the masked man, and the Wood Release ninja, and Setsuna argued that the masked man was not Madara.
• Akira and Shisui suspected the masked man’s apparent intangibility came from a spatial ability, while Setsuna’s digging lizards found Madara’s grave empty.
• Akira ordered the group to keep the information secret and prioritize surveillance, and he forbade Shisui from contacting Itachi until his Mangekyo ability was confirmed.
• Shisui agreed not to contact Itachi until he regained his Mangekyo, but said he would watch him and restrain him if he could not accept the truth.
• Itachi visited Naka Shrine and read that the Eternal Mangekyo required a brother’s Mangekyo, and White Zetsu reported his reaction to Obito.

Akira reorganized the Guard Division and assigned ordinary administrative work to newly hired civilian assistants, while Fugaku consolidated his own faction under the division’s new arrangements. As the assistants began training amid scrutiny from Konoha’s leaders and clans, Flame Gate selected an island near Misty Isle for its base.

• Fugaku announced reduced Guard Division salaries, and Akira proposed reorganizing personnel by faction; Fugaku agreed despite losing direct authority over much of the division.
• Akira assigned Tekka, Aoka, and Soma to recruit civilian assistant administrators for the East and North Districts, keeping Uchiha ninja out of routine cases involving villagers.
• Soma’s team posted recruitment notices near Ichiraku Ramen, and a villager asked how to apply as Kakashi and Might Guy watched.
• All seventy-two assistant administrator positions filled in less than half a day, and Tekka began training the recruits as Konoha’s leaders and clans watched Akira’s plan.
• Flame Gate found a large island near Misty Isle and planned to establish its true base there.

Akira selected Fire Eye Island as a base and used ninjutsu and technology to build and equip an underground complex powered by volcanic heat. He planned with Shisui to bring Uchiha clan members there and establish their Land of Hope.

• Akira reviewed intelligence about Fire Eye Island and its 3,869 Indigenous People, then chose the remote island as a base.
• Akira used Earth Release and Sage Art to construct and cement an underground complex in the western mountains.
• Akira and the Uchiha Secret Guards used their chakra natures to finish the complex, while Akira reinforced it with modified Wood Release roots.
• Akira planted roots in the volcanic crater to draw heat and generate electricity for the base.
• Akira and Shisui discussed how ninjutsu could serve society, and Shisui said the first group of about two hundred clan members would move there.

Akira relocated two hundred Uchiha Clan Members from Konoha to Fire Eye Island, where they chose to remain after he showed them Danzo ambushing Shisui. He organized the growing Flame Gate around civilian needs and agricultural production, then planned to acquire a useful ninjutsu.

• Fugaku agreed to relocate Flame Gate members together after Akira warned him that the Clan Head’s son had attacked Uchiha Araki.
• Akira brought two hundred elderly, disabled, and non-ninja Uchiha to Fire Eye Island through Reverse Summoning Jutsu.
• Akira showed the clansmen footage of Danzo ambushing Shisui, and all two hundred chose to stay rather than return to Konoha.
• Akira appointed experienced elders to manage the new settlement and organized the Flame Gate into Internal Affairs, Council, and Military departments.
• Setsuna Uchiha oversaw agricultural production as Oki Hayashi confirmed the Planting Houses were ready for use.
• Akira considered how science could expand access to ninjutsu and prepared to acquire a useful technique.

Akira and Shisui infiltrated En no Gyoja’s fortress and negotiated for the Tsuchigumo Secret Technique in exchange for protecting his clan through Flame Gate. En no Gyoja accepted the deal and agreed to Akira’s plan to deceive Konoha, though the plan itself was not revealed.

• Akira used Echo Map and Mirror Sea to detect four people inside the fortress and eight guards around it before he and Shisui infiltrated.
• Akira trapped En no Gyoja in a mental space while Shisui subdued Hotaru and the servants and stopped En no Gyoja from gathering Natural Energy.
• Akira offered to protect the Tsuchigumo Clan, take Hotaru as his disciple, and relocate the clan to his country if En no Gyoja traded the secret technique and joined Flame Gate.
• En no Gyoja signed the Soul Contract with Akira and agreed to the trade.
• After Akira explained his plan for dealing with Konoha, En no Gyoja agreed to take the gamble.

En no Gyoja’s apparent rampage destroyed the Tsuchigumo village and fortress, making the clan seem wiped out to Konoha. In reality, Akira and Chūbei had relocated the Tsuchigumo to Fire Eye Island, where En no Gyoja joined the Flame Gate as an elder.

• Masked men attacked the Tsuchigumo village, and En no Gyoja unleashed the Tsuchigumo Secret Technique, killing attackers and leveling the village.
• En no Gyoja returned to Tsuchigumo Fortress, found his granddaughter and servants dead, and obliterated the area with a gigantic sphere of light.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen received the report, ordered a search for surviving Tsuchigumo descendants, and raised the northeastern garrison’s alert.
• Akira and Chūbei’s plan was revealed: the Tsuchigumo had been secretly moved to Fire Eye Island, while genjutsu and disguises had staged the apparent massacre.
• More than three hundred Tsuchigumo villagers and other residents joined the Flame Gate, and Akira appointed En no Gyoja an Elder of the Council Department.
• Tsuchigumo Shiratori, devastated by news of the clan’s destruction, disappeared into the underground black market with his remaining subordinates.

Akira expanded Flame Gate’s food production and absorbed the Tsuchigumo Clan’s survivors into its workforce and military. He then studied En no Gyoja’s living Heavenly Eye, discovering its valuable cells and considering their potential for producing sage Combat Soldiers.

• Akira assigned the Tsuchigumo ninja to the Ninja Army and the villagers to production work, giving Flame Gate more agricultural labor.
• Oki Hayashi planned rice, corn, and other crops across the Planting Houses to move Flame Gate toward food and supply self-sufficiency.
• Akira instructed Shisui to recruit scientists in the Land of Fire, taking advantage of the shinobi world’s open technology practices.
• En no Gyoja explained that the Tsuchigumo Clan inherited the Heavenly Eye, which came from an ancient Eye Tree and could absorb Natural Energy.
• Akira examined the living Heavenly Eye, exchanged its cells for 850 system points, and named its cells Tree Cells and the weaker Secondary Tree Cells.
• Akira found that Heavenly Eye cells rapidly degenerated outside their host and considered suppressing the side effects of Secondary Tree Cells to create sage Combat Soldiers.

Akira developed Sage Mecha, a modified version of Secondary Tree Cells that stored Natural Energy and let users cast recorded ninjutsu, then began deploying it throughout Flame Gate. After receiving intelligence, Akira and Shisui set out with six Secret Guards for the Land of Water, where the Bloody Mist era was reaching its final violent phase.

• Akira used the system to create Sage Mecha, which stored Natural Energy without the deadly side effects of Secondary Tree Cells.
• Yami and Xiao Ying tested Sage Mecha at the Fire Eye Island base, demonstrating its energy attacks and recorded Sage Ninjutsu.
• Akira adjusted Sage Mecha's functions and added basic ninjutsu and restrictions for users.
• Flame Gate relocated more than five hundred Uchiha members to Fire Eye Island, recruited ordinary people as ninja, and began expanding its island base.
• After receiving intelligence, Akira recalled Shisui and traveled with him and six Secret Guards toward the Land of Water.