Recaps

Shinji ambushed Night Owl and took the Red Eyes from him and one of his subordinates before they fled Konoha. Meanwhile, Kakashi led a pursuit, while Neji and Kimimaro’s teams faced off near the central tower in the Forest of Death.

• Night Owl sensed danger as Shinji attacked, but fled by himself while his subordinates confronted Shinji.
• Shinji used Susanoo and Amaterasu to defeat Night Owl’s subordinates and injure Night Owl, then demanded the Red Eyes.
• Night Owl and one subordinate surrendered their Red Eyes, which Shinji stored before leaving.
• Night Owl treated his wounds and fled toward Konoha’s outskirts with his companions.
• Kakashi, Sasuke, and a group of Jonin arrived at the fight scene and followed the fugitives’ trail.
• Neji and Kimimaro’s teams prepared to fight near the central tower, but three injured members of the interception squad suddenly emerged from the bushes.

Kimimaro and Neji fought Night Owl’s interception team, killing Night Owl and leaving his two subordinates critically injured. Kakashi and Sasuke arrived to find the aftermath, while Shinji watched from a distance and planned to use the incident to cover his movements and investigate the team’s mission.

• Night Owl ordered his interception team to charge through Kimimaro and Neji’s standoff, and Kimimaro and Neji moved to meet them.
• Kimimaro opened the first gate and killed Night Owl with a single slash, while Neji struck Night Owl’s two subordinates at their vital points and knocked them down.
• Tenten, Shion, and the others fired emergency flares, and Neji urged the arriving Kakashi and Sasuke to get medical help for the injured men.
• Sasuke recognized Night Owl and his subordinates as the men who had attacked him earlier, then grew more miserable as the others questioned how they could have hurt him.
• Shinji confirmed the interception team’s fate from a distance and decided to use the incident as cover while Konoha investigated why they had entered the village to kidnap him and Sasuke.

Shinji’s squad reached the Central Tower and learned they had placed first because the other teams had been disqualified after setting off emergency flares. The Jonin then brought in Sasuke’s, Kimimaro’s, and Neji’s squads, and everyone turned to the battered Sasuke.

• Shinji returned to Haku and Karin, and the three continued toward the Central Tower despite the attempted abduction of Sasuke.
• Shinji’s squad encountered Shikamaru’s and Shino’s squads near the tower, and both groups stepped aside to let them pass.
• Iruka told Shinji, Haku, and Karin that their squad had arrived first because the other students in the tower had been disqualified.
• Iruka explained that Naruto, Shion, and Tenten had set off emergency flares, disqualifying Sasuke’s, Kimimaro’s, and Neji’s squads.
• The Jonin arrived with the three disqualified squads, and the students asked the bandaged, bruised Sasuke if he was okay.

The Third Hokage and Kakashi investigated the attackers and suspected that Akatsuki's “A” might be Itachi hiding in the village. At a classmates' gathering, Sasuke tried to explain that he had lost to Jōnin, while Shinji concealed how he had defeated them and received the group's praise.

• Kakashi told the Third Hokage that Night Owl was a Kirigakure missing-nin and that his group had targeted Shinji Uchiha on the Akatsuki's orders.
• The Third Hokage learned that “A” had taken Night Owl's eyes and considered Kakashi's suspicion that “A” was Itachi Uchiha in disguise.
• At Choji's barbecue gathering, Sasuke insisted that the attackers were Jōnin and that this explained his defeat.
• Neji and Kimimaro confirmed that the attackers had unusual Chakra and were already injured when they fought them.
• When Shion asked whether Shinji had fought the attackers after they were injured, Shinji claimed that he and Haku had won by catching them off guard.
• Ino, Shion, and Tenten praised Shinji, while Sasuke sat down frustrated that his explanation had failed to impress them.

After Shinji’s feat at the assessment dinner impressed his classmates and pushed Sasuke to train harder, the village ended its surveillance of Shinji. Shinji slipped into the Forest of Death and began testing whether he could control Night Owl’s Red Eyes through Susanoo.

• Neji asked Shinji about using an enemy’s hand to form seals, and Shinji casually confirmed he had done it.
• Sasuke thanked Shinji for the assessment and vowed to take first place next time, then left to train.
• After a week of surveillance, the village stopped monitoring Shinji but continued watching Sasuke.
• Shinji left a Shadow Clone at home and secretly entered the Forest of Death, avoiding hidden sentries to find a cave.
• Shinji used the Susanoo Lamp to remove Fugaku’s Mangekyo and the Byakugan from Susanoo, then placed Night Owl’s Red Eyes into its empty eye sockets.

Shinji tested how mastering different ocular Kekkei Genkai affected his Dojutsu, then used the Susanoo Lamp to forcibly fuse two pairs of Red Eyes. The fusion succeeded, leaving the Susanoo with one pair of eerily glowing Red Eyes and an empty third pair of sockets.

• Shinji mastered a pair of Red Eyes and found that they increased his Dojutsu more than Fugaku's Mangekyō Sharingan had.
• Shinji mastered a second pair of Red Eyes and gained another noticeable increase in Dojutsu.
• Shinji examined the Red Eyes' abilities and suspected that their chakra illusion could have untapped potential.
• Shinji used the Susanoo Lamp to forcibly fuse the two pairs of Red Eyes despite strong resistance.
• Shinji completed the fusion, and the Susanoo's second pair of eye sockets glowed with more eerie Red Eyes while the third pair went dark.

Shinji fused two pairs of Red Eyes and found that their Dojutsu power had grown dramatically, though their vision and perception had improved only slightly. Later, Shion confessed that she wanted to prove herself and become a true ninja, leaving Shinji to face her hopes and his confusion over how she sensed his increased strength.

• Shinji fused the two pairs of Red Eyes with the Susanoo Lamp and examined their increased Dojutsu power.
• Shinji found that the fused eyes had only modestly improved vision and perception, and suspected they had an undiscovered ability.
• Shinji assigned the fused Red Eyes and Fugaku's Mangekyo Sharingan as the Susanoo Lamp's additional eye pairs, then returned to his apartment.
• Shinji encountered Shion alone in a park, and she sensed that he had grown stronger.
• Shion told Shinji that she wanted to earn praise through her own abilities and become a true ninja.

Shinji encouraged Shion to pursue her dream of becoming a ninja, then discovered that her heightened senses were connected to Moryo’s destruction. He warned that Moryo could return as long as Shion lived, and Shion suddenly sensed that the demon was back.

• Shion told Shinji she wanted to become a ninja so she could make friends and escape the loneliness of being a shrine maiden, and Shinji said he believed she could become powerful.
• Shinji took Shion to Ichiraku Ramen and learned that her sensory abilities had grown stronger about a month earlier.
• Shinji connected the change to the day Moryo was apparently destroyed during the chaos surrounding the Fourth Raikage’s ambush.
• Shion recalled that she had stopped having nightmares, and Shinji warned that Moryo might resurrect because it was part of a shrine maiden.
• Shion clutched her head in pain and told Shinji that Moryo had returned.

Shinji reassured Shion that Moryo could ultimately be defeated by reuniting with it, then offered to train her so she could grow strong enough to face that danger. At their first training session, he discovered that Kurama Yakumo was seriously ill and sent her away, but she rejected his warning and left in anger.

• Shinji told Shion that sealing Moryo would only delay its return and that she would eventually need to accept it again, though he warned that merging carried risks.
• Shinji offered to train Shion as a ninja, and she eagerly agreed.
• At the training ground, Shion brought Kurama Yakumo along to join their lessons, and Shinji agreed to train them both.
• Shinji noticed Yakumo's coughing and told her that her condition made ninja training dangerous and even ordinary life difficult.
• Yakumo accused Shinji of looking down on her, insisted she would become a ninja, and stormed away.
• Shion scolded Shinji for upsetting Yakumo, but he told her their training was not over.

Shinji recognized the monster Ido within Kurama Yakumo and suspected his newly mastered Red Eye let him perceive it. When Yakumo's Ido awakened and trapped her parents in a deadly genjutsu, a masked figure in a Red Cloud outfit entered the illusion and confronted it.

• Shion muttered about Shinji while training, and Shinji supervised her at the practice grounds.
• Shinji recalled that Yakumo's frailty and the pressure of her clan had created Ido, a monster with the power to interfere with reality through genjutsu.
• Shinji wondered whether his new Red Eye could perceive mental worlds or spirits filled with malice.
• Kurama Murakumo and Kurama Ryō told Yakumo that Tsunade had said her congenital frailty would take a long time to improve, and urged her to leave the Ninja Academy.
• Yakumo's Ido erupted with an evil aura, trapped Kurama Murakumo and Kurama Ryō in a genjutsu, and prepared to kill them.
• A masked figure wearing a Red Cloud outfit appeared inside the illusion, and Ido cried out in alarm when the figure entered its domain.

Shinji entered Ido’s illusion, subdued Kurama Yakumo’s parents, and defeated Ido with his Sharingan genjutsu. After awakening Yakumo and explaining what had happened, he prepared to leave, but she asked him to help her become an ordinary ninja.

• Shinji entered Ido’s illusion and knocked Kurama Murakumo and Kurama Ryō unconscious with genjutsu.
• Ido attacked Shinji with a genjutsu that misled his five senses, but he trapped her in his own Sharingan illusion.
• Shinji sensed Ido’s powerful Yin Release Chakra and awakened Kurama Yakumo inside the illusion.
• Shinji told Yakumo that her parents were safe and said her talent was too good to waste.
• Yakumo asked Shinji to help her become an ordinary ninja, and he said he could only help her become one of the very best ninjas.

Shinji offered to treat Yakumo’s congenital frailty with a White Zetsu cell transplant, but warned that the procedure could overwhelm her without powerful Yin Release Chakra. Yakumo and Ido agreed to work for him, and Shinji proposed first transplanting eyes with Dojutsu close to the Mangekyō Sharingan to improve her chances.

• Shinji examined Yakumo and explained that her underdeveloped organs and meridians caused her frailty, and that ordinary medical treatment would not be enough.
• Shinji pointed out Ido, and Yakumo resolved to destroy her Inner Demon after recalling that Ido had nearly killed her parents.
• Shinji warned Yakumo that destroying Ido would cost her the talent her clan depended on, then offered to help her if she worked for him without harming her comrades or village.
• Yakumo agreed to work for Shinji, and Ido also accepted his offer.
• Shinji explained that White Zetsu cells could restore Yakumo’s body but might devour her unless her Yin Release Chakra could balance their Yang Release Chakra.
• Shinji suggested transplanting eyes with Dojutsu close to the Mangekyō Sharingan before the cell operation.

Shinji recruited Kurama Yakumo and Ido into the Akatsuki Organization, promising to arrange a safe cure for Yakumo. After leaving her with her parents, he began planning how to conceal her gradual recovery from Konoha and Tsunade.

• Shinji considered Yakumo's potential and decided she could become one of his attendants, while Yakumo despaired at needing Mangekyō-level eyes for the surgery.
• Yakumo offered to risk the cell transplant despite the danger, but Shinji reassured her that he would take responsibility and arrange what she needed.
• Shinji gave Yakumo an Akatsuki outfit and mask, marked her Spirit Body, and told her to get along with Ido and keep her involvement with the organization secret from her clan.
• Yakumo made Ido promise not to harm her parents again, and Shinji sealed her parents' memories before leaving her to explain what had happened.
• Back at his apartment, Shinji realized Yakumo's sudden recovery would draw suspicion from Konoha and Tsunade, so he planned to make her improvement appear gradual.

Shinji secretly infused Yakumo with Karin’s Yang Release Chakra, temporarily easing her congenital frailty and preparing an explanation for her apparent recovery. The next morning, Yakumo trained at the Ninja Academy, where Shizune noticed her improved vitality and considered reporting the change to Tsunade.

• Shinji used Magatsu to transfer Yang Release Chakra into Yakumo and warned her that the improvement would only last temporarily.
• Yakumo arrived at the Ninja Academy the next morning and trained, drawing attention from the other students and Iruka.
• Shinji supervised Shion’s late-arriving morning training while Yakumo continued practicing.
• Iruka called Shizune to examine Yakumo, and Shizune found that Yakumo’s physical vitality had increased.
• Shizune asked whether Yakumo had received treatment, then considered reporting her unusual condition to Tsunade.

At Konoha Hospital, Tsunade found that Yakumo’s body had been nourished by traces of the First Hokage’s Yang Release Chakra, but she could not explain how it happened and discovered that the monster inside Yakumo was gone. Shinji’s experiment let “Ido” leave Yakumo and act independently as a Spirit Body, giving him a way to use her even if the village watched Yakumo.

• Tsunade examined Yakumo but could not identify the cause of her recovery, and she arranged a further examination for the next day.
• After Yakumo left, Tsunade told Shizune she had detected lingering traces of the First Hokage’s Chakra in Yakumo’s organs despite finding no unusual Chakra or signs of surgery.
• Tsunade revealed that the monster inside Yakumo was gone, shocking Shizune.
• In an empty hospital room, Shinji learned that his Red Eye experiment had given “Ido” a stable Spirit Body that could leave Yakumo and act independently within a limited range.

Shinji learned that Tsunade had ordered ANBU to monitor Kurama Yakumo, then tested how far Ido could travel from her. The test revealed that Ido weakened beyond a limited range, and Shinji considered ways to strengthen Yakumo and Ido.

• Ido reported that Tsunade had assigned ANBU to watch Yakumo’s estate, and Shinji warned her that Spirit Bodies could be countered.
• Shinji sent Ido away from Konoha to test her limits, and she began weakening as she moved farther from Yakumo.
• Ido returned and reported that her Spirit Body weakened with distance from Yakumo, while Shinji estimated its maximum range at about twenty-five to thirty kilometers.
• Shinji considered transplanting his Red Eyes and White Zetsu Cells into Yakumo to strengthen her and potentially allow Ido to exist independently.

Shinji kept Yakumo’s recovery secret while she rejected training with him and prepared to prove herself. At the training ground, Sasuke used his Sharingan to defeat Naruto and Sakura, prompting Jiraiya to consider how urgently Naruto needed to grow stronger.

• Shinji sent Ido back to the Kurama Clan estate, postponed Yakumo’s surgery, and continued secretly sustaining her recovery with Karin’s Yang Release Chakra.
• Yakumo refused Shion’s invitation to train with her and Shinji, wanting to compete with Shinji and restore her pride.
• Sasuke rejected Naruto and Sakura’s request to train together, used a genjutsu on Sakura, and knocked Naruto away when they failed to withstand his attacks.
• Kakashi and Jiraiya watched the students train, and Kakashi told Jiraiya that Shinji ranked first, followed by Kimimaro, Neji, and Sasuke.
• Jiraiya reflected on Naruto’s poor academy grades and concluded that strengthening him quickly had become urgent because Akatsuki was targeting Jinchuriki.

Yakumo broke Sasuke’s genjutsu on Sakura, prompting Sasuke to challenge her to a genjutsu contest supervised by Iruka. Sasuke’s genjutsu failed repeatedly against Naruto, and Yakumo prepared to try next with Ido’s help.

• Yakumo released Sasuke’s genjutsu and woke Sakura, earning praise from the students.
• Sasuke challenged Yakumo to a genjutsu contest, and Iruka agreed to supervise after they promised to be careful.
• Shinji suggested Naruto as the target, and Yakumo and Sasuke accepted.
• Sasuke tried several genjutsu on Naruto, but none of them worked.
• Yakumo prepared to cast her genjutsu and asked Ido to help her enter Naruto’s inner world.

Ido entered Naruto’s inner world to cast genjutsu but fled after encountering the Nine-Tails. When Sasuke challenged Shinji to try his genjutsu on Naruto, Shinji knocked Naruto unconscious and called it a “physical type” of genjutsu.

• Ido invaded Naruto’s inner world and discovered the Nine-Tails behind an iron gate.
• The Nine-Tails’ Chakra spread toward Ido, forcing her to flee and leaving Yakumo frightened by the experience.
• Iruka declared Sasuke and Yakumo’s genjutsu contest a draw and ended the gathering.
• Sasuke challenged Shinji to use genjutsu on Naruto, and Shinji accepted.
• Shinji struck Naruto on the back of the neck, knocked him unconscious, and joked that his physical genjutsu had put Naruto to sleep.

Shinji decided to exploit Mizuki’s resentment to lure him into a trap and reassure Konoha that it was closing in on the spy who exposed Naruto’s whereabouts. The chapter ended with Shinji confronting Mizuki in his home while disguised as an Akatsuki member.

• Jiraiya warned Kakashi to watch the Uchiha students because the Akatsuki Organization had targeted them.
• Shinji realized village surveillance had forced him to suspend his plans involving Karin, Kimimaro, Neji, and Yakumo.
• Shinji decided to bait Mizuki with the promise of power and expose him as a spy to ease Konoha’s suspicions.
• Shinji told Meiqiu to stop selling Akatsuki intelligence after the Five Great Shinobi Villages began watching them, and he urged Meiqiu to investigate the Ketsuryūgan instead.
• Mizuki returned home resentful of the young geniuses at the Ninja Academy, and Shinji appeared in an Akatsuki disguise and threatened to reveal his connection to Orochimaru.

Shinji recruited Mizuki to help the Akatsuki Organization by tempting him with a Kekkei Genkai and directing him to manipulate Naruto into stealing the Scroll of Seals. The next morning, Mizuki planted the idea in Naruto, setting the plan in motion.

• Shinji offered Mizuki a Kekkei Genkai in exchange for serving the Akatsuki Organization, then showed him a pair of Red Eyes.
• Shinji told Mizuki to persuade Naruto to steal the Scroll of Seals, and Mizuki agreed after learning he could defect to the Akatsuki Organization if exposed.
• Shinji left Mizuki's home, intending for Konoha to catch Mizuki and Naruto together and expose Mizuki as an Akatsuki spy.
• At the training ground, Sasuke defeated Naruto and criticized him and Sakura for being weak.
• Mizuki treated Naruto's injuries and suggested that the Scroll of Seals contained powerful ninjutsu Naruto could learn to defeat Sasuke.

Naruto learned from Mizuki that the Scroll of Seals was kept at the Third Hokage’s home and stole it while the Third Hokage watched through a crystal ball. Naruto opened the scroll in a grove and found the Multiple Shadow Clone Technique.

• Naruto told Sakura about the Scroll of Seals, and her doubts only strengthened his resolve to learn from it.
• After students learned that Sasuke wanted a new teammate, Naruto asked Mizuki where the Scroll of Seals was kept.
• Naruto broke into the Third Hokage’s home and found the Scroll of Seals while the Third Hokage watched him with the Telescopic Technique.
• The Third Hokage ordered the ANBU to monitor Naruto without intervening, and the squad leader sent an ANBU to ask for further instructions after Naruto carried the scroll away.
• Naruto opened the Scroll of Seals in an unoccupied grove and spotted the Multiple Shadow Clone Technique.

Shinji implanted false memories in Mizuki to make him appear to have been an Akatsuki spy and concealed Mizuki’s memories of Orochimaru. Mizuki found Naruto with the Scroll of Seals and tried to take it, but ANBU surrounded them and arrested him.

• Shinji trapped Mizuki in a repeating dream that made him believe he had long served the Akatsuki Organization and sealed away his memories connected to Orochimaru.
• Mizuki regained consciousness and searched near the Hokage’s residence for Naruto, planning to take the Scroll of Seals and defect if Naruto had stolen it.
• Mizuki found Naruto studying the Scroll of Seals, confirmed it was genuine, and snatched it from him.
• Mizuki tried to knock Naruto unconscious and escape with the scroll, but more than a dozen ANBU surrounded them.
• An ANBU told Mizuki that he was under arrest.

Inoichi uncovered that Mizuki was an Akatsuki Organization spy who had endangered Naruto, but a Sharingan seal destroyed the memories that might have revealed more. Mizuki was sent to Konoha's maximum-security prison, where he still boasted of his Akatsuki affiliation.

• Mizuki denied wrongdoing during ANBU interrogation and hoped the Akatsuki Organization would rescue him.
• The Third Hokage ordered Inoichi to investigate Mizuki's mind after Kakashi suspected he was a spy.
• Inoichi found memories of Mizuki meeting a Red Cloud-clad figure and passing information about Naruto to the Akatsuki Organization.
• Inoichi discovered that the Sharingan's Dojutsu had sealed parts of Mizuki's memories and reported that Mizuki was the spy they had been seeking.
• With the Third Hokage's permission, Inoichi tried to break the seal, but it destroyed itself along with the memories it protected.
• A few days later, Mizuki entered Konoha's maximum-security prison and told the guards and prisoners that he was a member of the Akatsuki Organization.

Naruto met Jiraiya, who encouraged him to train and demonstrated the Rasengan after Naruto worried Sasuke would replace him. Shinji indirectly convinced Sasuke to keep his teammates, then focused on restarting his plans to strengthen himself once the village stopped investigating.

• Naruto sat alone at night, worried Sasuke would replace him, and told Jiraiya about his failed attempt to learn from the Scroll of Seals.
• Jiraiya shared that he had once been a weak student, urged Naruto to train, and showed him a powerful spinning jutsu that shattered a tree before fleeing with him.
• Shinji concluded Mizuki’s transfer meant his plan had likely worked while supervising Shion’s training the next morning.
• Shinji went with Sakura and the others to see Sasuke, then walked away after asking whether Sasuke planned to change teammates.
• Sasuke shouted that he would not change teammates and vowed to win next time, while Yakumo realized Shinji had provoked him into reconsidering.
• Shinji left, intending to resume his Rinnegan and Tenseigan plans once the village stopped investigating and to build his strength before the next crisis.