Recaps

Uchiha Mai led a Konoha force toward the Iwagakure encampment, intending to draw out Roshi. When Iwagakure’s captains learned that Uchiha Mai was leading the attack, their confidence gave way to fear as they prepared to fight.

• Uchiha Mai advanced at night with two hundred Konoha ninja, Yamato, two Uchiha Jonin, and a disguised Orochimaru.
• Yamato recognized Orochimaru from his distinctive tongue gesture and grew uneasy about the raid.
• Uchiha Mai ordered his force to prepare a ninjutsu bombardment near the Iwagakure encampment, making no effort to hide their chakra.
• Iwagakure’s sensory ninja reported the approaching Konoha force and four powerful chakra signatures to Sato, Ueno, and Ito.
• Ito identified Uchiha Mai as the likely leader, and the three captains recalled his past victories and feared the coming battle.
• Ueno ordered an intelligence ninja to request reinforcements and told Sato and Ito to prepare to fight Uchiha Mai.

Uchiha Mai used a time-altering ability to break the Rock Shinobi’s opening barrage, then tore through their ranks as Orochimaru concealed his strength and waited for Roshi. The Rock leaders lost their nerve and held back, hoping Roshi’s arrival would turn the battle around.

• The Rock Shinobi leaders Sato, Ueno, and Ito ordered their three hundred troops to meet Uchiha Mai’s two hundred Konoha ninja with a full ninjutsu assault.
• Orochimaru left the fight to Uchiha Mai so he could keep his strength hidden until Roshi arrived.
• Uchiha Mai used Innate Time Control: No Ignorance to disrupt the Rock Shinobi’s ninjutsu and open a gap in their defenses.
• Orochimaru deduced that Uchiha Mai’s technique manipulated time, and Uchiha Mai claimed he had adapted forbidden Uchiha techniques.
• Uchiha Mai charged into the Rock Shinobi ranks with swordsmanship, Fire Style, and ocular techniques while Orochimaru followed as his bodyguard.
• Sato and the other Rock leaders huddled among their troops, unwilling to advance and waiting for the jinchuriki to arrive.

Uchiha Mai overwhelmed three Iwagakure Jonin in a brief fight, then left his subordinates to continue battling the Rock Shinobi. Yamato believed that he and Senior Mai had secured the local victory together.

• Uchiha Mai charged Sato, Ueno, and Ito as they attacked him with Earth Release techniques and a sword.
• Uchiha Mai used Consciousness-Only: No Ignorance to stop Sato’s hand seals, then wounded Ito with Izumi no Kami Kanesada.
• Uchiha Mai dodged Ueno’s Earth Dragon Bullet, disabled Ueno, and cut off Sato’s fingers when Sato tried to intervene.
• Uchiha Mai crushed Sato’s heart, then killed the wounded Ueno and Ito in under twenty seconds.
• Uchiha Mai watched his subordinates fight from a tree while Yamato credited their supposed teamwork with killing the three Jonin and helping secure victory.

Uchiha Mai and Orochimaru set a trap to draw Roshi out, using battlefield intelligence to make him believe Mai was at Sato’s position. Roshi arrived to hunt Mai, who revealed he had been waiting nearby.

• Orochimaru asked whether Roshi would come, and Uchiha Mai explained why the intelligence would reach him.
• Ishikawa sent Sato’s report to Roshi by ninja hawk after escaping the battlefield.
• Roshi learned that Uchiha Mai had led the attack on Sato’s unit and decided to reinforce it and kill Mai.
• Roshi reached the battlefield, found only Rock Shinobi corpses, and ordered his men to track Mai.
• Uchiha Mai called out from the nearby woods and said he had been waiting for Roshi.

Uchiha Mai and Orochimaru ambushed Roshi and his four Jonin, using a Shadow Clone ruse to lure him into their trap. Mai disrupted Roshi with Consciousness-Only: No Ignorance and attacked his followers, leaving the fight poised to continue.

• Uchiha Mai told Roshi that Sato and the other Rock Shinobi were dead.
• Uchiha Mai revealed that Orochimaru was waiting behind Roshi, trapping Roshi and his men between them.
• Orochimaru explained that the force seen raiding a camp had been his Shadow Clone, which had summoned Manda to make the deception convincing.
• Roshi activated Lava Release Chakra Mode and charged Uchiha Mai.
• Uchiha Mai used Consciousness-Only: No Ignorance to make Roshi's heart hurt and stall his charge, then attacked Roshi's Jonin with Deathfire Oscillating Sword.

Uchiha Mai and Orochimaru ambushed Roshi and his four Rock Shinobi subordinates, then used their combined attacks to overwhelm the Four-Tails Jinchuriki. Roshi ended the chapter badly wounded and surrounded, with all four subordinates dead.

• Orochimaru and Uchiha Mai attacked Roshi and his four subordinates from both sides, killing two Jonin as the battle began.
• Roshi ordered his two remaining Jonin to hold off Orochimaru while he fought Uchiha Mai alone.
• Uchiha Mai stunned Roshi with Consciousness-Only: The End of No Ignorance and cut through his lava armor, but the Four-Tails intervened and knocked Mai back.
• Orochimaru pierced Roshi with the Kusanagi Sword, and Uchiha Mai wounded him further with the Two-Sword Style: Oscillating Cross Sword and a dragon spear.
• Orochimaru killed the remaining two Rock Shinobi, then used the Kusanagi Sword to pierce Roshi a second time, leaving him surrounded by Orochimaru and Uchiha Mai.

Uchiha Mai and Orochimaru battled Roshi after he entered Partial Tailed Beast Transformation, eventually forcing him to use a Tailed Beast Ball. Mai stopped the attack with his Consciousness-Only Sharingan’s Distortion ability, leaving Roshi badly wounded and the outcome of the fight unresolved.

• Roshi entered Partial Tailed Beast Transformation and attacked Uchiha Mai with magma techniques, but Mai dodged and counterattacked with Deathfire Flame Dragons.
• Orochimaru summoned giant snakes and made them explode around Roshi, creating an opening for Mai to slash through Roshi’s tails and wound his chest.
• Mai and Orochimaru continued suppressing Roshi, who forced them back and began forming a Tailed Beast Ball.
• Mai stopped Orochimaru from using Triple Rashomon and used Positive-Negative Rotation to distort Roshi’s left arm and tailed beast chakra.
• Roshi screamed and accidentally fired the Tailed Beast Ball into a distant hill, while Mai noted that Distortion Power activated too slowly for an immediate killing blow.

Uchiha Mai wounded Roshi with his ocular technique, but Roshi transformed into the Four-Tails and forced Mai and Orochimaru into a difficult fight. After a failed attempt to affect the transformed jinchuriki, Mai copied Hatake Sakumo's sword technique and charged back into battle with two chakra-edged blades, landing a deep slash on the Four-Tails.

• Uchiha Mai's Distortion Power crushed one of Roshi's arms, and Mai warned that he could use the technique again.
• Roshi transformed completely into the Four-Tails, Son Goku, and attacked Mai with fists and lava while Orochimaru tried to restrain him.
• The Four-Tails unleashed Lava Release: Mount Huaguo, lightly injuring Mai and Orochimaru despite their retreat.
• Uchiha Mai used Consciousness-Only: Even No Ignorance Ends on Roshi but barely affected the Four-Tails, so he withdrew and left Orochimaru to hold it off.
• Uchiha Mai took Orochimaru's Kusanagi Sword and replicated Hatake Sakumo's Dōjigiri Yasutsuna with both swords.
• Uchiha Mai charged the Four-Tails and slashed a deep wound across its body, replenishing some of his chakra with its life force.

Uchiha Mai crippled the Four-Tails and badly injured Roshi, helping Orochimaru rout the Iwagakure army. As Mai continued hunting Roshi, he used the pursuit to earn style points by calling out each disguise Roshi tried.

• Uchiha Mai used Distortion Power to twist the Four-Tails into chakra and severely injure Roshi, leaving the beast too frightened and weakened to transform again.
• Roshi fled underground while Orochimaru rallied Konoha's forces and led an assault that shattered Iwagakure's army.
• Uchiha Mai pursued Roshi for dozens of kilometers, then charged through the retreating Rock Shinobi after they obstructed him in order to protect their commander.
• Uchiha Takuya's unit joined the fighting, but Rock Shinobi continued shielding Roshi as he tried to escape by hiding his red hair beneath a piece of his robe.
• Uchiha Mai shouted out Roshi's disguises to test whether the familiar scheme would earn style points, and Roshi shaved off his red beard and changed his appearance in response.

Uchiha Mai pursued the wounded Roshi into the Land of Earth, where Ōnoki intervened just as Mai was about to kill him. Mai and Ōnoki clashed and traded words, leaving the battle unresolved as Mai insisted he could retreat without guilt.

• Uchiha Mai rejected Uchiha Takuya’s suggestion to end the pursuit and continued after Roshi into the Land of Earth.
• Roshi’s troops took a wrong turn, reached a dead end, and were cut off by Uchiha Mai’s forces.
• Ōnoki arrived and stopped Uchiha Mai’s attack on Roshi by raising the ground beneath Mai.
• Uchiha Mai and Ōnoki exchanged blows, with both recognizing the other’s strength, then paused their forces’ fighting.
• Ōnoki threatened to kill Uchiha Mai and questioned whether he would abandon his subordinates, but Mai turned the argument back on Ōnoki and said he could retreat without guilt.

Uchiha Mai fought Ōnoki while buying time for the Konoha ninja to retreat, but Ōnoki repeatedly thwarted Mai’s attempts to attack the injured Roshi. Their similar barrier-based abilities countered each other, and the confrontation ended with Mai asking Ōnoki what Uchiha Madara’s Mangekyō Sharingan ability was.

• Uchiha Mai ordered Takuya and the other Konoha ninja to retreat while he stayed to face Ōnoki.
• Ōnoki sent a clay golem after the retreating ninja, so Uchiha Mai attacked the exhausted Roshi and forced Ōnoki to protect him.
• Ōnoki shielded Roshi from Uchiha Mai’s Deathfire attacks and enclosed him in an Earth Dome Prison.
• Uchiha Mai repeatedly tried to use Innate Time Control on Roshi’s heart, but Ōnoki moved Roshi out of each barrier with Earth Release: Moving Earth Core.
• Uchiha Mai asked Ōnoki about Uchiha Madara’s Mangekyō ability, and Ōnoki recalled that Madara had defeated him and Second Tsuchikage Mū with Susanoo.

Uchiha Mai and Ōnoki fought to a stalemate, with Mai evading Dust Release and injuring Ōnoki’s lower back before their battle shifted into a tense standoff. As Ōnoki threatened a far wider Dust Release attack, an ominous voice arrived from the south.

• Ōnoki reminisced about his defeat by Uchiha Madara and vowed to wash away his humiliation by killing Uchiha Mai.
• Ōnoki trapped Mai in a Dust Release barrier, but Mai escaped with Clock Up before the technique atomized its contents.
• Mai used Consciousness-Only: No Ignorance to injure Ōnoki’s lower back, then attacked him at close range; Ōnoki defended with Earth Style techniques and forced Mai to retreat.
• Mai and Ōnoki exchanged attacks without either gaining the upper hand, and Ōnoki used Dust Release a second time as Mai dodged its barrier in midair.
• Mai and Ōnoki held their positions as Ōnoki threatened to expand Dust Release’s range, then an ominous voice from the south addressed Mai and mentioned the Four-Tails’ jinchūriki.

Uchiha Mai and Orochimaru abandoned their attempt to kill Roshi after Ōnoki intervened, then withdrew while Mai sent Roshi a taunting message. A kilometer away, Mai revealed he could use his eye technique at extreme range and prepared to strike Ōnoki and Roshi despite his dwindling Eye Power.

• Orochimaru arrived during Ōnoki and Uchiha Mai's standoff, and the three agreed to withdraw rather than risk fighting.
• Uchiha Mai told Ōnoki to tell Roshi that he had picked up a life, and Ōnoki freed Roshi after Mai and Orochimaru left.
• Roshi admitted to Ōnoki that he had been a burden and that Mai's message was accurate, while Ōnoki explained why he had not fought the two attackers.
• Uchiha Mai told Orochimaru that Ōnoki's Dust Release had forced him to rely on Innate Time Control, and he vowed to kill Roshi another time.
• Uchiha Mai stopped at a distance of about one kilometer and revealed that his Sharingan had extreme range, alarming Orochimaru with the prospect of a long-range eye technique.
• Uchiha Mai warned Orochimaru to be ready to run and began targeting Ōnoki and Roshi, despite having enough Eye Power left for only one use of Distortion Power.

Uchiha Mai used his last reserves of eye power to wound Ōnoki from a distance, then escaped with Orochimaru before heading back toward Konoha. He rested in a town to recover and time his return, while battle reports of his feats left Konoha and its leaders stunned.

• Uchiha Mai used Distortion Power to twist Ōnoki’s arm, then fled with Orochimaru as Ōnoki and Roshi realized the attack had come from afar.
• Ōnoki decided he could not catch Uchiha Mai and compared his ability to escape with Namikaze Minato’s.
• Uchiha Mai carried Orochimaru more than ten kilometers, dropped him, and flew toward Konoha; Orochimaru regretted not taking Mai’s eyes while his power was depleted.
• Uchiha Mai stopped in a town to recover and wait until news of the victory reached Konoha, planning to return when his reputation was at its height.
• Battle reports credited Uchiha Mai and Orochimaru with defeating the Four-Tails’ jinchuriki and escaping Ōnoki, stunning Sarutobi Hiruzen and Danzo.

Uchiha Mai returned to Konoha after injuring Ōnoki, and news of his strength shook the Ninja World as Iwagakure and Kumogakure ordered their ninja to flee if they encountered him or Minato. After Shisui welcomed Mai at the village gate, Mai took him toward Police headquarters and offered to train him.

• Reports confirmed that Ōnoki had returned to Iwagakure with an arm severed, and he ordered his ninja to abandon missions rather than face Uchiha Mai.
• Kumogakure issued a similar order concerning Namikaze Minato and Uchiha Mai, while Ōnoki continued preparing a major attack on Konoha.
• Uchiha Shisui waited at Konoha's gate and greeted Uchiha Mai when he returned to the village.
• Mai and Shisui walked toward Police headquarters, where Mai explained that Shisui needed Jonin-level strength before joining the battlefield.
• Mai offered to have Shisui transferred to his Void Division so he could train him in Fire Style Nintaijutsu and Ninja Swordsmanship, and confirmed that he had probably injured Ōnoki.

Uchiha Mai returned to Konoha after his battlefield victories and explained to Fugaku that his mutated Sharingan had driven him to kill Hanzo. Fugaku accepted his explanation and urged him to meet with the wary Hokage, while Mai considered how the Uchiha could eventually gain power within the village.

• Shisui praised Uchiha Mai for injuring Ōnoki, and Mai cautioned him that battlefield circumstances had helped make the feat possible.
• Uchiha Mai arrived at the Police Force headquarters, where clan members gathered around him and Fugaku continued interrogating a troublesome ninja.
• Fugaku told Mai that his growing popularity and military achievements gave the Uchiha leverage, then questioned him about his decision to kill Hanzo.
• Uchiha Mai claimed his mutated Sharingan needed spiritual power from killing Hanzo to awaken, and described its powerful vision and destructive ability to Fugaku.
• Fugaku accepted Mai's explanation, advised him to avoid provoking the Hokage, and sent him to meet Sarutobi Hiruzen.
• Uchiha Mai went to the Hokage Office, passing Kakashi, who reflected on how far Mai had surpassed him.

Uchiha Mai met with Sarutobi Hiruzen, passed his tests by explaining his Sharingan and his killing of Hanzo, and was appointed Anbu’s second deputy head. He remained in Konoha with greater authority while the senior Anbu leaders served at the front, leaving him positioned to influence the organization.

• Uchiha Mai waited several hours while Sarutobi Hiruzen finished his documents, and Hiruzen greeted him as though he had only just noticed him.
• Uchiha Mai rejected the idea of a triumphant return and vowed to capture Ōnoki before calling his victory complete.
• Uchiha Mai fully explained the Consciousness-Only: Sharingan and admitted that he had joined Sasori of the Red Sands to kill Hanzo; Sarutobi Hiruzen forgave him and praised the act as a merit.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen said Uchiha Mai would remain in Konoha to deter Sunagakure and Kirigakure, then asked what position he wanted.
• Uchiha Mai demanded a position above Danzo’s in the Anbu, and Sarutobi Hiruzen appointed him the Anbu’s second deputy head.

After leaving the Hokage Office, Uchiha Mai clashed with Shimura Danzō and used his new authority as Anbu deputy director to humiliate him. Danzo vowed revenge, then went to see Sarutobi Hiruzen while Aburame Ryoma remained behind.

• Uchiha Mai met Shimura Danzō outside the Hokage Office, and Danzo accused him of ignoring an urgent summons and disrespecting the Naruto.
• Uchiha Mai defended his delay by citing his injuries, then called Danzo an idiot and disrupted his attempt to draw his sword with Consciousness-Only: No Ignorance.
• Uchiha Mai knocked Aburame Ryoma unconscious with Consciousness-Only: The End of No Ignorance, then took Danzo's sword and held it to his throat.
• Uchiha Mai revealed that he had become the Anbu's deputy director, returned Danzo's sword, and walked away after dismissing him as nothing special.
• Danzo threatened to kill Uchiha Mai and wipe out the Uchiha Clan, struck Aburame Ryoma for failing to protect his dignity, and headed into the Hokage Office.

Sarutobi Hiruzen rebuked Shimura Danzō for challenging Uchiha Mai’s appointment as Anbu deputy director, then allowed Mai to manage the Anbu while keeping him under observation. Later, Mai agreed to teach Itachi and shared his Fire Style Nintaijutsu manual with Fugaku, who asked him to instruct the clan’s young ninja.

• Shimura Danzō confronted Sarutobi Hiruzen over Uchiha Mai’s appointment, and Hiruzen reminded him that the Anbu answered to the Hokage before Danzō retreated.
• Uchiha Mai took charge of Anbu affairs and sent Sarutobi Hiruzen reports, earning the Hokage’s confidence while remaining under observation.
• Fugaku visited Uchiha Mai and asked him to teach Itachi Fire Style Nintaijutsu, and Mai agreed to train Itachi alongside Shisui.
• Fugaku asked Mai to share his Fire Style Nintaijutsu with the Uchiha clan, and Mai gave him the first volume of his manual.
• After reading the manual, Fugaku asked Mai to hold classes for the clan’s young ninja, and Mai agreed.

Fugaku organized Uchiha Mai's fire style nintaijutsu classes to strengthen Mai's ties with the clan, drawing an eager crowd of students and older ninja. Obito took leave to attend the first lesson, where he discovered Fugaku's young son Uchiha Itachi had already brought a copy of Mai's book.

• Fugaku printed copies of Mai Style: True Explanation of Fire Release Nintaijutsu for the clan's jonin and announced Mai's upcoming classes for youngsters aged six to fourteen.
• Kakashi found Obito training with Might Guy and learned Obito planned to take leave to attend Mai's class.
• Obito teased Kakashi about learning fire style nintaijutsu, while Kakashi approved his leave request and challenged Might Guy to spar.
• More than two hundred Uchiha gathered at the assembly hall for Mai's first lesson, with youngsters seated and older ninja standing to observe.
• Obito spotted Uchiha Itachi, Fugaku's son, arriving with a copy of Mai's book.

Uchiha Mai taught the Uchiha Clan a lesson on Fire Style Nintaijutsu while Obito struggled to keep up and Itachi impressed him with his understanding. After sensing hidden watchers, Mai led Fugaku to the clan cemetery, where he exposed White Zetsu and Black-and-White Zetsu and recognized Tobi.

• Itachi demonstrated that he had extracted chakra, and Obito learned he qualified to attend the lessons.
• Uchiha Mai explained the principles and risks of Fire Style Nintaijutsu, while Itachi answered Obito’s questions and left him feeling outmatched.
• Uchiha Mai sensed watchers outside the classroom and told Fugaku that someone was monitoring the Uchiha Clan.
• Uchiha Mai tracked the watchers to the forest behind the Uchiha compound and forced White Zetsu out of the trees and Black-and-White Zetsu out from underground.
• Uchiha Mai burned the mass-produced White Zetsu and immobilized Black-and-White Zetsu, who recalled that Mai had detected them before in the Land of Rain.

Uchiha Mai and Fugaku interrogated Black Zetsu, who claimed to be Madara’s creation and proposed reincarnating Madara into a Mangekyō Sharingan wielder. Fugaku considered cooperating, but Mai rejected the need to revive Madara and vowed to surpass him himself.

• Black Zetsu claimed he was created by Uchiha Madara’s Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan and had spent decades seeking a way to revive him.
• Black Zetsu proposed reincarnating Madara into a young Uchiha who awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan, asking Fugaku for authority to select a suitable candidate.
• Fugaku questioned Black Zetsu about the reincarnation technique and considered the potential benefits to the Uchiha Clan.
• Fugaku asked Uchiha Mai for his judgment, and Mai acknowledged Madara’s legendary strength before declaring that he would surpass Madara without reviving him.

Uchiha Mai fought Black Zetsu and White Zetsu, revealing that he could counter their regeneration with Deathfire and Wood Release. When killing Black Zetsu proved difficult, Mai began sealing him with Tiger Glares Menacingly, leaving Black Zetsu desperate to escape.

• Uchiha Mai set Black-and-White Zetsu ablaze with blue Deathfire, then kicked them out of the ground when they tried to escape underground.
• Uchiha Mai sent Fugaku after White Zetsu and fought Black Zetsu, who used Wood Release to attack him.
• Uchiha Mai's Deathfire Flame Dragons burned through Black Zetsu's regenerating plants, and Mai cut Black Zetsu in half, but Black Zetsu reformed.
• Uchiha Mai warned Black Zetsu that Konoha's sealing experts could imprison him and summoned a tiger with Tiger Glares Menacingly.
• The tiger pinned Black Zetsu and began flattening him into a tattoo, leaving him panicked as he feared being sealed onto Uchiha Mai's body.

Uchiha Mai and Fugaku drove off Black-and-White Zetsu after Mai countered its Wood Release with his new large-scale technique, Bizarre and Dazzling: Three Thousand Worlds. Sarutobi Hiruzen heard Fugaku’s account and urged vigilance, and Mai returned to class to teach his students about chakra techniques.

• Black Zetsu escaped Mai’s sealing attempt, then ordered Tobi to retreat and unleashed Deep Forest Emergence to attack Mai and Fugaku.
• Mai used Bizarre and Dazzling: Three Thousand Worlds to destroy the Wood Release forest, while Black-and-White Zetsu escaped and Mai chose not to pursue it.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen arrived, heard Fugaku explain Madara’s scheme and Black Zetsu’s nature, and warned the Uchiha to stay vigilant while Konoha faced war.
• Mai changed clothes, returned to his class, and confirmed to his students that he had fought on the back mountain and destroyed the forest with Fire Style Ninjakenjutsu.

Black-and-White Zetsu reported to Uchiha Madara that Uchiha Mai had exposed their plans in Konoha and made selecting a successor difficult. Madara ordered them to continue seeking an Uchiha successor while preparing to rely on Nagato and reclaim the Rinnegan if necessary.

• Black-and-White Zetsu returned to Uchiha Madara's hideout after fleeing Konoha, and Black Zetsu explained that Uchiha Mai had discovered them and could threaten their operations with his eyes and sealing jutsu.
• Black Zetsu told Uchiha Madara that Uchiha Mai was Izuna's great-grandson and had rejected the proposal to help resurrect Madara, saying he would surpass him himself.
• Uchiha Madara praised Uchiha Mai's resolve and approved Black Zetsu's attempt to salvage the mission after being discovered.
• Black Zetsu explained that Uchiha Mai's presence made it difficult to select an Uchiha successor to guide Nagato and ensure the Eye of the Moon Plan proceeded as intended.
• Uchiha Madara ordered Black-and-White Zetsu to continue seeking a successor among Uchiha clansmen away from Uchiha Mai and to create pressure that would draw Mai onto the battlefield.
• Uchiha Madara instructed them to focus on developing Nagato's Rinnegan and reclaim it himself if selecting a successor became impossible.