Chapter Summaries

Akira’s group traveled through the Land of Water and learned that Zabuza had failed to assassinate the Fourth Mizukage. On Hakumai Island, they intervened in the persecution of Shion and Haku, then left with them as their home burned.

• A Secret Guard reported that the Kaguya Clan might rebel and that Momochi Zabuza had attempted to assassinate the Fourth Mizukage before the Hidden Mist began hunting him.
• Akira’s group traveled across the sea to Hakumai Island after headquarters detected important intelligence there.
• Akira and Shisui found Shion and Haku facing an angry mob of villagers, and Akira had Shisui restrain the mother and son while Clones took their places.
• Akira’s Clones staged the deaths of Shion and Haku and set their house ablaze, causing the villagers to flee.
• Akira, Shisui, Shion, and Haku watched the fire before stealthily heading toward woodland on Hakumai Island.

Akira’s group infiltrated Taketori Island to monitor the Kaguya Clan’s planned rebellion against the Hidden Mist Village, while Akira investigated the village’s increasingly brutal Blood Mist Policy. After waiting underground beneath the clan’s territory for an opportunity, Akira received unexpected intelligence about a newcomer to the Land of Water.

• Akira sent Shion and Haku to the Fire Eye Island base, then traveled with his group toward Taketori Island.
• Akira learned that the Kaguya Clan had fled the Uchiha during the Warring States Period and decided he would only consider taking in their infants and children.
• A Secret Guard reported that the Kaguya Clan numbered 537 and was preparing to rebel, while Hidden Mist forces watched the island under Fuguki Suikazan’s command.
• Akira and Shisui discussed the Fourth Mizukage’s escalating Blood Mist Policy and the weakening of the Hidden Mist’s bloodline clans.
• Akira’s group spent over a week digging an underground passage beneath the Kaguya Clan’s territory and monitoring the island with Scouting Parasites.
• On the morning of the eighth day, Akira received unexpected intelligence and wondered why the person had come to the Land of Water.

Akira raided the Kaguya Clan’s archive and rescued its children while Orochimaru and the Hidden Mist forces attacked the clan. After the Kaguya Clan was destroyed, its surviving bloodline clans grew fearful and began plotting against the Fourth Mizukage, while Obito intensified his revenge.

• Akira ordered his Secret Guards to infiltrate the Kaguya Clan’s territory as its fighters headed for the southern docks to battle the Hidden Mist ninja.
• Akira stole the Kaguya Clan’s books and scrolls while Shisui took the children, and Akira used a clone to distract Orochimaru until the rescue was complete.
• Akira sent the twenty-nine children to Fire Eye Island and later used summoned lizards to take the bodies of more than ten fallen Kaguya Clan members.
• Orochimaru gained Kaguya Kimimaro’s loyalty, and the Hidden Mist ninja wiped out the Kaguya Clan.
• The Hozuki Clan and other bloodline clans became uneasy and began plotting to overthrow the Fourth Mizukage, while Obito ordered stronger surveillance and intensified his revenge.

Akira’s faction continued to grow as the Third Hokage launched a public opinion campaign to undermine the Uchiha and prepare cuts to the Guard Division’s budget. The chapter left Fugaku confronting the growing strength of Akira’s side and the unruliness of Yashiro and Inaho.

• The Third Hokage and Danzo discussed monitoring Akira’s faction and using a budget plan to target the Guard Division, while rumors spread that the Uchiha drew salaries without working.
• Akira refused to meet with Yashiro and the others, learned that 236 more clan members had joined his side, and concluded that Konoha’s leaders were still trying to suppress and divide the Uchiha.
• Yashiro and Inaho rallied wavering clan members as the Uchiha’s new Combat Faction gained momentum.
• Inaho confronted Soma at the Guard Division headquarters and attacked him, but Soma’s Fire Whirlpool Wall forced Inaho to retreat.
• Fugaku watched Soma reveal his Elite Jonin-level strength and grew more troubled by his own followers’ unruliness and Akira’s faction’s power.

In Konoha Year 55, Akira’s faction strengthened its economic independence through collective farming, fishing, a welfare home, and a cheap food shop as the Uchiha Clan’s finances declined. The chapter left Obito, Danzo, and the Third Hokage increasingly concerned that the Uchiha could become independent within Konoha.

• Akira’s collective system expanded as crops were harvested, livestock and fisheries supplied food, and clan members worked in industry.
• Yami brought elderly Uchiha without family and several orphans to the newly completed Uchiha Welfare Home, which she managed.
• Teuchi and Hazuki served children and elderly residents plentiful meals, while the residents voiced grievances about Fugaku’s leadership.
• Akira’s Naka River Specialty Shop sold affordable food supplied through trade with the Cat Clan, drawing customers despite questions about the source of its goods.
• Obito, Danzo, and the Third Hokage worried that Akira’s growing economic network would make the Uchiha Clan effectively independent.

Akira infiltrated a rainforest village, killed Shennong, and replaced him with a Secret Guard to conceal the takeover. After reviewing Shennong’s memories, Akira and Shisui headed for the Sky Ninja headquarters, Angkor Fortress, where they learned the Sky Ninja were building an army and researching Zero-Tails.

• Akira and Shisui traveled to a remote village in Crescent Peninsula to find Shennong, the Sky Ninja leader posing as a doctor.
• Akira trapped Shennong in an illusion, damaged his mind, and had Secret Guards extract his memories before killing him.
• Akira arranged for a Secret Guard to impersonate Shennong so the villagers would not suspect his disappearance.
• Amaru returned with herbs, and the disguised Shennong left with Akira’s group under the pretense of treating a patient.
• Akira and Shisui reviewed Shennong’s memories while traveling toward Angkor Fortress and learned the Sky Ninja were building aircraft and researching the artificial tailed beast Zero-Tails.

Akira and Shisui captured Angkor Fortress and defeated the Sky Ninja, then took control of their aircraft carriers and flying Ninja Tools. Akira examined the fortress’s Zero-Tails and learned how its Dark Chakra had been created.

• Akira sent a Secret Guard disguised as Shennong to summon the Sky Ninja Jonin to Angkor Fortress’s conference hall.
• Akira and three disguised guards trapped the 134 Jonin behind a barrier, and Akira defeated them while Shisui’s force swept through the fortress.
• Akira subdued Night Owl, Shinmaru, and Gurin, leaving the Sky Ninja without resistance.
• Most of the Sky Ninja joined the Flame Gate by signing Soul Contracts, and the Flame Gate acquired five aircraft carriers and other flying Ninja Tools.
• Akira cut a piece from Zero-Tails, exchanged it for 400 system points, and learned that it was a life-form made from Dark Chakra.

After Flame Gate absorbed the Sky Ninja Village, Akira used newly derived technologies to turn Zero-Tails into a Tree of Nature that produced and stored Chakra. He allowed the former Sky Ninja researchers to study the tree and its Emotion Cores.

• Flame Gate's population surpassed twenty thousand after its conquest of the Sky Ninja Village, and Akira kept the Ninja Army at 4,200 personnel.
• Akira used the system to derive the Tree of Nature, Emotion Conversion Core, Chakra Energy Storage Crystals, Chakra Cannon, and Multi-Layer Defense Barrier System.
• Akira inserted a seed into Zero-Tails' cocoon, which burst apart as the Tree of Nature rapidly grew inside Angkor Fortress.
• Akira connected the tree's roots to the fortress's energy circuits, restoring its lighting and creating Chakra Crystal and Emotion Core production structures.
• Akira explained the tree and its products to the researchers, then agreed to let them study the new technologies.

Akira integrated Sky Ninja Village into Flame Gate, transformed Angkor Fortress into an aviation port city, and renamed the territory Angkor District. He then sent Tekka Uchiha and an aerospace fleet to secretly take control of the Sea Country, where reconnaissance teams began infiltrating Sea Heart Island.

• Akira combined Flame Gate and Sky Ninja expertise, improved living conditions in Angkor Fortress, and incorporated former Sky Ninja leaders and residents into Flame Gate.
• Akira abolished the name Sky Ninja Village, naming its territory Angkor District and the former Mist Sea Archipelago branch Mist Sea District.
• On April 5, Konoha Year 55, Tekka Uchiha led four aircraft carriers and 1,240 soldiers from Angkor District toward the Moon Sea under an invisibility barrier.
• Akira tasked Tekka with secretly taking control of the Sea Country while the weakened Mist Ninja were less able to monitor it.
• The fleet anchored among hidden reefs about 86 kilometers north of Sea Heart Island, where thick sea mist concealed the carriers.
• Night Owl launched four invisible Secret Guard teams, which entered Sea Heart Island and scattered Scouting Parasites among its animals and plants.

Tekka sent the Secret Guards after White Tail, a rogue ninja secretly making pills in an underground base with blood collected from prisoners. The guards overwhelmed White Tail’s group, and White Tail fled the base only to find two guards blocking the exit.

• The Daimyo sent A'fu to ask White Tail when the next batch of pills would be ready, but White Tail’s assistant said he was away and the pills were unfinished.
• White Tail’s group killed three Kuroshima Clan ninja sent by the Ikeda Family, and the hooded man identified their allegiance by reading their memories.
• Tekka ordered a Secret Guard squad to investigate White Tail, and a guard used Echo Map to discover the underground base and its imprisoned captives.
• The Secret Guards infiltrated the base and attacked White Tail’s group, who had been collecting prisoners’ blood to make pills.
• White Tail swallowed a red pill and tried to escape after his explosive-tagged kunai killed two of his own men, but two Secret Guards blocked the exit.

Night Owl’s squad uncovered an Orochimaru outpost in Sea Country and rescued six surviving members of the Uzumaki Clan. White Tail escaped their pursuit by fleeing toward Ghost Realm Island, where Tekka prepared to investigate a suspected second base.

• White Tail swallowed vermilion pills and fought two Secret Guards with blood-red fireballs before fleeing through the mountain forest.
• Night Owl learned that the captured people worked for Orochimaru and that the six emaciated red-haired prisoners were Uzumaki survivors discovered by White Tail.
• Tekka ordered Night Owl to bring the survivors to the fleet, where a medical ninja reported that their health was gravely damaged.
• White Tail used clones and the Invisibility Technique to evade pursuit, but the Secret Guards tracked him toward the northern coast.
• White Tail swam through a coastal passage toward Ghost Realm Island, and the Secret Guards linked the island to disappearances and suspected Orochimaru’s base was there.
• Tekka planned to join Night Owl and lead the assault on Ghost Realm Island.

Tekka and the Flame Gate forces raided Tenzhi’s underground base on Ghost Realm Island and defeated its defenders. White Tail was killed, Sea Monk was sealed, and Tenzhi was captured alive.

• Tenzhi treated the wounded White Tail, who blamed the Ikeda Family and the Mist Ninjas for the attack on him.
• After the base’s barrier alarm sounded, Tenzhi and White Tail prepared to fight, releasing the Fish-Men test subjects from the underground base.
• Tekka’s forces surrounded Ghost Realm Island, opened the underground base, and killed White Tail with an enhanced Spirit Bomb and a blade strike.
• Tenzhi tried to escape underwater on Sea Monk, but a barrier blocked their way and the soldiers detected them.
• Night Owl’s forces attacked Sea Monk with fire and sealed it in a container, then Night Owl severed Tenzhi’s limbs and the Secret Guards restrained him.

Akira’s forces seized the gains from their operation in Sea Country, while Flame Gate expanded its control and named the territory the Sea Heart District. In the Land of Fields, Orochimaru learned that his Sea Country base had gone silent and ordered Kabuto Yakushi to watch the Uchiha Clan.

• Akira reviewed the captured people, research, and intelligence, earning system points from the Uzumaki survivors and fish-man modification technology.
• Akira learned from Tenzhi’s memories about the Hidden Mist Village’s human modifications and White Tail’s ties to the Evil God Cult, whose Blood God Pill technique drew a warning from the Human Reform League.
• Night Owl used White Tail’s medicine and special parasites to control Sea Country’s Daimyo, allowing Flame Gate to take the remote islands and establish the Sea Heart District as its third Controlled Area.
• Kabuto Yakushi told Orochimaru that the Sea Country base had lost contact and that Tenzhi and White Tail were missing, but Orochimaru dismissed them as expendable pieces.
• Orochimaru ordered Kabuto Yakushi to monitor the Uchiha Clan and became interested in Uchiha Akira, unaware that they had already crossed paths twice.

At a Jonin meeting, the Third Hokage and the Elders pushed through a budget cut for the Uchiha Guard Division while Akira and his allies stayed silent. Afterward, Shikaku suspected Akira was preparing either to separate the Uchiha from Konoha or to lead a coup, and urged the Ino-Shika-Cho clans to stay vigilant and out of the conflict.

• Koharu presented a budget proposal cutting the Guard Division's funding by forty percent, and Fugaku eventually agreed to a twenty-five-percent reduction after pressure from the Third Hokage, Danzo, and the Elders.
• Akira, Tekka, and their Uchiha allies remained silent during the dispute, and Shikaku noticed Akira's unsettling gaze as the meeting ended.
• At a barbecue restaurant, Shikaku used a Soundproof Barrier and told Choza and Inoichi that the Hokage's policies could strengthen the Uchiha radicals.
• Shikaku pointed out that the Uchiha had recently bought fewer supplies in Konoha and suggested they might have independent supply channels that could support a departure from the village.
• Shikaku concluded that Akira might instead lead a coup d'état, and he advised the Ino-Shika-Cho clans to remain vigilant without joining either side.

Akira answered Yashiro and Inaho’s accusations by insisting he had his own way to defend the Uchiha, then began moving clan members and resources to the Ancient Clan Land through the Naka River Trading Company. Danzo and the village elders discussed stopping him, and the Third Hokage hinted that Konoha might not protect the Uchiha if danger came.

• Akira intimidated Yashiro and Inaho, dismissed their accusations, and said he had his own methods to defend the Uchiha’s dignity.
• Akira established the Naka River Trading Company, recruited clan ninja, and used it to develop farmland and establish factories in the Ancient Clan Land.
• Akira arranged for Uchiha ninja to serve through the Guard Division’s Assistant Coordinator Office and the company’s security missions, transferring more than 300 clan members to the Ancient Clan Land.
• Fuu Yamanaka reported to Danzo that Uchiha members were rebuilding their former territory and constructing factories while ANBU and Root monitored them.
• Danzo urged the Third Hokage, Koharu, and Homura Mitokado to stop Akira, and the Third Hokage said he would speak to Fugaku while implying Konoha might not protect the Uchiha.

Konoha’s leaders responded to the Uchiha Clan’s withdrawal from the village, while Uchiha Itachi warned the Third Hokage that the clan was preparing for a coup. Itachi set the end of the year as his deadline to stop the rebellion, and the Third Hokage instructed Danzo to wait until then.

• Fugaku asked the Third Hokage to restore the Guard Division’s funding, but the Hokage promised only to revisit the issue at year-end and warned him that other forces might target the Uchiha Clan.
• After Fugaku left, Danzo agreed to watch the Uchiha Clan while the Third Hokage planned to send ANBU to the border.
• Uchiha Itachi told the Third Hokage that Yashiro, Inaho, and others were preparing weapons and supplies at a secret base in Kitagawa Territory, with Fugaku tacitly approving.
• Itachi vowed to stop the radicals before year-end and said he would personally end the rebellion if the situation could not be changed.
• The Third Hokage wrote Danzo a secret letter instructing him not to act rashly until the end of the year.

Itachi arranged to meet Obito again in five months, while Danzo and Orochimaru made plans that could involve the Uchiha. Akira learned of Itachi’s meeting, investigated the masked man’s possible identity, and found his own eyes nearing the Eternal Mangekyo stage.

• Itachi told Obito he would return in five months and would join his organization if Obito helped him.
• Danzo ordered Root to maintain surveillance on the Uchiha Clan Land and Kitagawa Territory, adjusted his battle preparations, and contacted an old friend.
• Orochimaru accepted Danzo’s invitation for five months later and became more interested in Uchiha vessels after discovering Kimimaro’s Bloodline Disease.
• Munehiro showed Akira records of Uchiha Clan Members who had disappeared, identifying Uchiha Obito as a possible masked man.
• Akira cautioned that Obito’s identity was uncertain and revealed that his Mangekyo was beginning to merge toward the Eternal Mangekyo stage.

Akira consolidated the Uchiha into the Flame Gate while keeping its growing military strength hidden from the Five Great Nations, shinobi villages, and the Otsutsuki. In Kitagawa City, Sanhara oversaw a fortified new home as Akira’s industrial and agricultural policies drew villagers away from farming and into the city.

• Akira’s Flame Gate recruited more than 1,500 Uchiha, and its Ninja Army reached 4,200 members, including around 400 Elite Jonin.
• Akira, Shisui, Munehiro, and the others made plans to conceal the Flame Gate’s strength, mindful of the Five Great Nations and the Otsutsuki Clan.
• Sanhara oversaw Kitagawa City’s construction on the Uchiha homeland, while the Flame Gate secretly monitored spies across the territory and prepared an underground fortress.
• Akira introduced points for rent and expanded factories in Kitagawa City, giving villagers a transition period to adopt the new currency.
• After bumper harvests drove down local agricultural prices, villagers increasingly abandoned farming for Flame Gate jobs, while Kitagawa City offered education and medical care for their families.

The Third Hokage and the Elder Council secretly prepared to move loyal clan troops back to Konoha, while Akira built up Flame Gate’s forces and assessed its shortage of Kage Level fighters. In late autumn, unexpected visitors arrived at East Gate Harbor, leaving Akira surprised.

• The Third Hokage told Koharu and Homura Mitokado he would secretly transfer elite troops from four loyal clans during the New Year rotation to prepare to deal with the Uchiha.
• The Third Hokage and the Elder Council sent secret orders to border troops and adjusted the New Year rotation lists.
• Akira expanded Flame Gate’s forces as it absorbed the Sea Country, while Uchiha Clan Members continued awakening Three Tomoe Sharingan.
• Akira assessed Flame Gate’s Mangekyo users and concluded that it needed many more Kage Level combatants to face the great villages and possible Otsutsuki threats.
• As more Uchiha Clan Members turned toward Akira, unexpected visitors arrived at East Gate Harbor, and Akira was surprised by the report.

Akira accepted Miko Miroku’s request to travel to the Land of Demons after reading her private letter. As his aircraft carrier headed there, Miroku continued battling Mōryō while Yomi waited for a chance to help the demon defeat her.

• Two envoys from the Land of Demons delivered a letter to Fire Eye Island, and Akira questioned them about Miko Miroku’s request for help.
• Kujo Ashikoki told Akira that Miroku could see fragments of the future and feared she was about to lose control of Mōryō.
• Akira read Miroku’s handwritten letter, agreed to go, and left with Kujo Ashikoki and Suzuki Sen aboard the Fire Eye aircraft carrier.
• Akira learned about the Miko lineage’s territory and its history with Mōryō as the aircraft carrier traveled toward the Land of Demons.
• Miko Miroku clashed spiritually with Mōryō while Yomi waited nearby for an opportunity to help eliminate her.