Recaps

Shinji kept the Sunagakure volunteer alive to divert attention while Karin fused with the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan, and the rumors stirred tension throughout Konoha. As Karin’s fusion neared completion, Kakashi gathered Jonin to find a mentor for Shinji.

• The Ninja Academy students discussed the surviving Sunagakure transplant volunteer as Konoha and the other villages remained silent and wary.
• Yakumo worried that reports of another successful transplant would encourage more people to undergo the dangerous operation, and she walked away without answering Shion.
• Shinji explained to himself that the volunteer had not fused with the First Hokage cells and survived only because he kept drawing out the volunteer’s rampaging Yang Release Chakra.
• Shinji sent the extracted chakra to Karin, whose Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan fusion was seventy to eighty percent complete after three weeks.
• Kakashi brought several Konoha Jonin to watch the students and hoped one of them would take Shinji Uchiha as a student.

Kakashi urged the Jonin to choose promising Academy students as disciples, but Shinji Uchiha and Kimimaro were left without instructors. As rumors spread about their exclusion, Shion told Shinji that her Jonin trainer had agreed to let them practice together.

• Kakashi proposed that the Jonin select promising students, but Asuma, Shizune, Kurenai, Guy, and Yamato explained their existing commitments or declined to choose Shinji Uchiha.
• A week later, Asuma, Kurenai, Shizune, and Yamato began training their assigned students, while Rock Lee also found a Jonin to teach him.
• Shinji was relieved that the new apprenticeship craze diverted attention from Karin, but rumors arose because he and Kimimaro were the only outstanding students left without instructors.
• Haku reassured Shinji about the rumors, and Sasuke offered to ask Kakashi to take him as a disciple, but Shinji refused both concerns.
• Shion told Shinji that her Jonin trainer had agreed to practice with him and said she would claim the Jonin had chosen him himself.

Shinji worried that the village’s failure to assign him a Jonin instructor had sparked rumors, while he continued preparing for Karin’s next procedure. An explosion at Konoha Hospital revealed an attack on the surviving Sunagakure volunteer, and Shinji decided to let the man die in a way that looked natural.

• Shinji kept a low profile as rumors spread that Konoha’s leadership had rejected him, and the Ninja Academy expelled several students for spreading them.
• Kakashi assured Iruka that the village was not targeting Shinji and had simply not found a suitable instructor for him.
• Shinji went to Konoha Hospital to work on formulas for Karin’s future procedures and noticed unfamiliar people in the corridors.
• An explosion shook Shinji’s lab, and he used his vision to locate it in the intensive care ward where the surviving Sunagakure volunteer was staying.
• Shinji concluded that someone had attacked the volunteer and decided not to save him, intending for his death to look natural.

Shinji let the Sunagakure volunteer die during an attack on Konoha Hospital, deepening tensions between the villages. As Konoha’s leaders argued over the death, Shinji removed the bandages covering Karin’s eyes and told her she could open them.

• Shinji sensed the First Hokage cells overwhelming the Sunagakure volunteer and chose not to intervene as his vital signs failed.
• Tsunade announced that the volunteer had died, and Chiyo demanded to know why it happened during the attack.
• Shinji slipped away while Sunagakure accused other villages and Konoha faced growing turmoil over the failed operation.
• Tsunade argued with Danzo, Mitokado Homura, Utatane Koharu, and the Third that the volunteer’s death was not caused by the attack.
• Tsunade recalled that the First Hokage cells’ Yang Release Chakra had also unexpectedly calmed during Yakumo’s surgery.
• Shinji, dressed as an Akatsuki member, removed Karin’s eye bandages and told her she could open her eyes.

Karin awakened her newly fused Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan, and Shinji confirmed she could activate the eyes herself. He removed them for testing and discovered that they granted him a substantial amount of Dojutsu, revealing that the two pairs of Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan complemented each other and still had room to improve.

• Karin opened her eyes, confirmed she could see clearly, and activated her Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan herself.
• Karin told Shinji that her left eye had awakened Amaterasu and her right eye enhanced Susanoo.
• Shinji removed Karin’s Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan and took them to a hidden cave in the Forest of Death.
• Shinji used Susanoo Lamp to replace Fugaku Uchiha’s Mangekyo Sharingan with Karin’s Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan.
• Shinji found that the new eyes granted him more Dojutsu than the Byakugan and concluded that both pairs of Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan could still improve.

After testing Karin's Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan, Shinji realized that both her eyes and his own still had room to grow, and he decided to strengthen Karin's Yang Release Chakra with First Hokage cells. Meanwhile, Shion, Yakumo, Sakura, Ino, Hinata, and Tenten went to visit Karin, who was still recovering at home.

• Shinji found that Karin's Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan had nearly as much Dojutsu as his own and exposed weaknesses in his eyes.
• Shinji considered ways to strengthen an Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan and decided to move up Karin's First Hokage cell transplant.
• Shinji removed Karin's Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan after testing it and planned to see how well Karin herself could wield it.
• Shion, Yakumo, and Sakura decided to visit Karin, and Ino, Hinata, and Tenten joined them.
• The girls bought fruit and snacks and knocked on the door of Karin's apartment.

Yakumo and Karin sensed an unexplained threat in each other during a visit, while their classmates misread Yakumo’s unease as a grudge over Shinji. Later, Yakumo recognized an attack on Konoha’s Archives and rushed there, where ANBU confronted a figure in Akatsuki attire fleeing with two ninjutsu scrolls.

• Shion brought Yakumo and their classmates to visit Karin, and Yakumo and Karin each felt wary of the other while sensing the other’s power.
• Karin declined the group’s barbecue invitation, and Yakumo asked her to tell Shinji that she wanted to fight him again.
• Karin resented Yakumo for challenging Shinji, while Shion, Sakura, Tenten, and Ino wrongly assumed Yakumo had a grudge against Karin because of Shinji.
• Yakumo’s classmates joined her for barbecue after Shinji, Sasuke, Neji, and Kimimaro declined the invitation to train.
• A blast set the Archives ablaze, and Yakumo recognized it as an attack and rushed to the scene.
• An ANBU squad surrounded a figure escaping the Archives with two ninjutsu scrolls and identified the figure’s attire as belonging to the Akatsuki Organization.

A masked Akatsuki member attacked Konoha’s archives, escaped the initial pursuit, and proved immune to a powerful compound Ninjutsu. Sasuke confronted him after spotting his Mangekyō Sharingan, while Kakashi and the other Konoha Ninja prepared to hold him off until reinforcements arrived.

• A masked Akatsuki member stole two scrolls from the burning archives and escaped as ANBU pursued him.
• Sasuke learned the attacker might be Itachi and chased after him despite Kakashi’s warning.
• Tsunade organized a pursuit squad with Yakumo and Ninja from the other villages, while Jiraiya stayed to protect Konoha.
• The masked figure emerged unharmed from a Fire and Wind Release compound attack outside the village.
• Sasuke recognized the attacker’s Mangekyō Sharingan and challenged him, while Kakashi readied his own Sharingan.

Karin, acting on Shinji’s orders, raided the Konoha Archive to test her new Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan and provoke Sasuke, easily capturing him with Susanoo. Tsunade and the other village ninja arrived, and Yakumo found herself torn between attacking a fellow Akatsuki member and allowing the raid to continue.

• Sasuke attacked the masked raider with kunai and explosive tags, but Karin’s Susanoo caught him in its skeletal grip.
• Karin revealed that she was the raider, acting under Shinji’s orders to test her Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan, obtain Uzumaki sealing techniques, and provoke Sasuke.
• Karin tightened Susanoo’s grip on Sasuke as he struggled and tried to intensify his Sharingan.
• Yakumo used Wood Release to bind Karin’s Susanoo, and Tsunade arrived with ninja from the other four villages.
• Tsunade identified the attacker as Akatsuki’s “B,” while Yakumo realized she was facing a fellow member and hesitated over what to do.

Yakumo used Wood Release to free Sasuke from Karin’s Susanoo, but Sasuke’s Chidori failed to damage it. Yakumo then attacked Susanoo with Deep Forest Emergence, cracking its defenses as Karin awaited her lord’s instructions.

• Yakumo examined Karin with her Red Dragon Eye and sensed her unusual body and immense Chakra.
• Yakumo used Wood Release to weaken Susanoo’s grip, freeing Sasuke, who attacked Karin with Chidori but failed to pierce Susanoo.
• A branch carried Sasuke away from the battle, and Kakashi caught him while Tsunade questioned Karin about the archives.
• Tsunade ordered Yakumo to attack, and Yakumo used Deep Forest Emergence to crush Susanoo until it began to crack.
• Karin wondered whether the damage was acceptable, and her lord told her to do as she pleased.

Karin stopped holding back and unleashed a towering Susanoo against the gathered shinobi, while Yakumo and the allied forces prepared to capture her. The chapter ended with the Susanoo growing so enormous that the forest seemed like grass beneath it.

• Yakumo worried that Karin was not escaping, as Tsunade organized a barrier and allied shinobi arrived to surround the battlefield.
• Karin opened her eyes and expanded her Susanoo, breaking free of Yakumo's Wood Release restraints.
• The armored Susanoo swept through the forest, forcing the shinobi to retreat or defend themselves while Yakumo shielded Tsunade, Shizune, and the others with a Wood Wall.
• Tsunade and other leaders told their forces to endure the Susanoo's attack, believing its immense power could not last long.
• The Susanoo grew again, sprouted legs, and rose so high that the shinobi stared up at it in shock.

Karin's complete Susanoo towered over Konoha, triggering panic across the village and battlefield. Tsunade resolved to defend Konoha, while Karin looked down at the village from the Susanoo's forehead.

• The Third Hokage and the Advisor Elders received reports that Konoha's facilities were secure, and Danzo speculated that the Akatsuki Organization was targeting Naruto or Kurama Yakumo.
• The Third Hokage and the elders saw the colossal Susanoo and recalled the Uchiha's terrifying power, prompting the Third Hokage to send ANBU to investigate the battlefield.
• Neji, Hiashi, Kimimaro, and others saw the Susanoo, while Shion experienced images of a golden Susanoo rescuing her and wondered why she remembered none of them.
• Sakura and Ino feared Sasuke and Shinji were in danger, and Shion led the others out of the barbecue restaurant to find them.
• Tsunade told the Konoha ninjas they had to fight to protect the village and asked Yakumo to use her power against the complete Susanoo.
• Karin reached the diamond-shaped space in the Susanoo's forehead and admired Konoha below.

Karin tested her newly fused Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan by confronting the Konoha Ninja pursuing her, while Yakumo met her with Wood Release. Their battle shook the village, and both fighters still held powerful abilities in reserve.

• Karin stopped fleeing and used her Complete Form Susanoo, spreading wings that let it fly above the forest.
• Yakumo unleashed Deep Forest Emergence and raised herself among the trees to block Karin from reaching the village.
• Karin summoned a massive red spear and attacked Yakumo’s trees while Konoha Ninja’s ninjutsu failed to penetrate Susanoo’s armor.
• The Third went to the village wall with his ANBU and watched the clash, fearing the village faced another crisis like the battle at the Valley of the End.
• Karin and Yakumo continued fighting without using their remaining trump cards, including Karin’s other Mangekyo abilities and Wood Release, and Yakumo’s Red Dragon Eye powers and Ido.

Shinji watched Karin and Yakumo battle, recorded Karin’s abilities, and decided the test had gone on long enough. Yakumo’s Wood Release could no longer restrain Karin, so she tried to turn the fight with genjutsu, but Karin broke free almost immediately.

• Shinji watched the battle from a tree and noted Karin’s smooth use of her Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan and powerful Susanoo.
• Shinji concluded that Karin and Yakumo could each threaten him in a one-on-one fight, then decided it was time to end the test.
• Karin’s Susanoo cut through Yakumo’s Wood Release, while Yakumo realized her branches barely absorbed Karin’s Chakra.
• Yakumo refused to let Ido take over because Tsunade and the other Jonin were present, and she chose to try one last genjutsu instead.
• Yakumo used her Red Dragon Eye to cast genjutsu on Karin, who briefly saw a bloody horizon before breaking the illusion with her Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan.

Karin, disguised as “B” of the Akatsuki Organization, fought Konoha’s forces before following Shinji’s orders and retreating. The Konoha leaders returned to the village and learned that the battle had caused only seven injuries and no deaths.

• Yakumo’s genjutsu briefly affected Karin, but Karin recovered and attacked Yakumo with her Susanoo spear.
• Kakashi caught Yakumo as Tsunade summoned Katsuyu, while Might Guy opened the Seventh Gate and struck Karin’s Susanoo with Day Tiger.
• Karin pretended to retreat after Guy damaged her Susanoo, and Konoha’s forces did not pursue her.
• Tsunade ordered the exhausted Konoha forces to return to the village, where residents celebrated their survival.
• The Third and the other leaders heard that only seven people were injured and no one had died, and Tsunade said the enemy had not tried to kill anyone.

Konoha's leaders discussed the Akatsuki Organization's attack, concluded that its "B" might be as powerful as "A," and debated surveillance of Sasuke and Shinji. Meanwhile, Karin returned from testing Yakumo and handed Shinji two scrolls stolen from the Archives.

• Tsunade and Kakashi told the Third that the attackers had not intended to kill them, and Tsunade reported that Might Guy would recover.
• Inoichi Yamanaka admitted the Intelligence Squad had misjudged "B," while Danzo urged Konoha to raise "B's" threat level and surveil Sasuke Uchiha and Shinji Uchiha.
• Tsunade opposed surveilling the two boys, and Kakashi suggested using the Archives' missing items to infer the attackers' goal.
• Tsunade and Kakashi told the Third that the attack had tested Yakumo's Wood Release, and Kakashi said Sasuke's future as a Konoha ninja depended on how the village treated the Uchiha.
• Karin met Shinji in the forest and gave him the scrolls labeled "Adamantine Sealing Chains" and "Four Symbols Seal."

Shinji confirmed Karin had retrieved the Uzumaki sealing scrolls and praised her for carrying out the archive attack. At Konoha Hospital, Yakumo questioned Sasuke about B and concluded that B had spared him because he had simply ignored him.

• Shinji checked that the Adamantine Sealing Chains and Four Symbols Seal scrolls were genuine, then asked Karin whether she had destroyed the archive as instructed.
• Karin explained that the attack had destroyed the archive and worried that she had interfered with Shinji's plans; Shinji told her he was proud of her, and she cried with relief.
• At Konoha Hospital, Yakumo met Sasuke, who was recovering from injuries he had sustained while watching the battle between Karin's Susanoo and Yakumo's Wood Release.
• Yakumo asked Sasuke whether he knew B, and he said he did not recognize him despite suspecting at first that B might be Itachi Uchiha.
• Yakumo realized that B had spared Sasuke not out of familiarity but because he had ignored him, leaving Sasuke humiliated as she hurried to tell Tsunade.

Yakumo returned home after the battle and reflected on how powerless she and Ido had been against the Akatsuki member “B.” The next day, rumors linking Shinji and Sasuke to the Akatsuki spread through the Ninja Academy, and Shinji considered how the hostility might affect Sasuke.

• Yakumo reunited with her worried parents, then went to rest while Ido challenged her defense of Sasuke and Shinji.
• Yakumo and Ido recognized that “B” had surpassed them in ninjutsu, genjutsu, and spiritual strength, though Ido vowed to get even.
• Shinji arrived at the Ninja Academy and found Sasuke had beaten several students who accused him of ties to the Akatsuki Organization.
• Yakumo, Haku, Neji, Tenten, and Rock Lee supported Shinji as rumors and fear spread among the students.
• Shinji dismissed the rumors and considered using Sasuke’s ostracism to provoke an unexpected result.

Shinji learned the Four Symbols Seal and prepared Karin to return to the Ninja Academy by suppressing her Chakra with concealed seals. He told her the next stage of his plan was a First Hokage cell transplant, then Karin returned to school unnoticed.

• Shinji studied the Four Symbols Seal and failed to learn the Uzumaki Clan’s Adamantine Sealing Chains.
• Shinji gave Karin both sealing scrolls and told her she could return to the Ninja Academy after he suppressed her Chakra.
• Shinji concealed five sealing formulas on Karin’s clothes so Sensory Ninjas would have difficulty detecting her Chakra.
• Shinji told Karin she would receive a transplant of First Hokage cells and explained the surgical preparations.
• Karin returned to the Ninja Academy, where nobody connected her to the Akatsuki Organization’s “B.”

Shinji joined his classmates for a dinner celebrating Karin’s return, where Sasuke warned him that people in the village were targeting the Uchiha. After Yakumo challenged Shinji to a fight, he agreed to face her after awakening his eyes and decided to wait until Karin had stabilized before proceeding with her surgery.

• Shinji entered the barbecue restaurant and noticed that the villagers’ conversations about the Uchiha attack stopped as they watched him.
• Shinji joined his classmates for dinner, and Sasuke quietly warned him that people in the village were targeting them.
• Sasuke said that the Akatsuki’s B was exceptionally strong and urged Shinji to awaken his eyes so the Uchiha could counter Wood Release.
• Yakumo challenged Shinji to a fight, and Shinji agreed to fight her after awakening his eyes.
• Shinji returned to his apartment and decided to monitor Karin for another week or two before beginning her First Hokage cells transplant.

Obito and Nagato learned that 'B' had displayed a Complete Susanoo and considered how it affected their plans. In Konoha, Shinji prepared to transplant First Hokage cells into Karin and began the surgery in a secluded cave.

• Zetsu reported 'B's attack on Konoha and the hundred-meter Complete Susanoo, and Obito suspected Nagato might have learned the secret of the Rinnegan.
• Obito decided not to confront Nagato yet and told Zetsu to find more people, then lamented that his remaining eye could no longer activate Susanoo.
• Nagato and Konan discussed the threat of a Complete Susanoo, but Nagato said they had to wait for the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path to recover before collecting the Tailed Beasts.
• After a week, Shinji finished preparing the Fusion Agent and suppressants and confirmed that Karin was stable enough for surgery.
• Shinji took Karin to a cave in the Forest of Death, explained the risks, and began the First Hokage cell transplant surgery.

Shinji performed an uninhibited First-cell transplant on Karin to strengthen her Yang Release Chakra and help her awaken the Rinnegan. As Wood Release ran wild and threatened to kill her, Karin stopped Shinji from injecting the inhibitor, declaring that she would rather die than disappoint him.

• Shinji began transplanting First's cells into Karin and warned her to use her Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan to control the Yang Release Chakra.
• Shinji completed the transplant without injecting the inhibitor, hoping to maximize the cells' activity, while Karin endured the painful fusion.
• Karin repeatedly used her Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan to withstand the surges of Yang Release Chakra from First's cells.
• A powerful surge caused Wood Release to erupt from Karin's arm, and Shinji prepared to inject the inhibitor to save her.
• Karin grabbed Shinji's hand and told him she would rather die than disappoint him.

Shinji destroyed Karin’s inhibitor to strengthen her resolve as she fought to assimilate the First Hokage cells. Karin balanced the Yin and Yang Chakra, gained the Power of All Things, and survived the procedure, leaving Shinji to assess her greatly increased power.

• Shinji crushed the inhibitor while secretly connecting to Karin with Naobi and preparing Magatsu as a backup.
• Karin’s Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan strengthened, slowing the rampaging Yang Release Chakra and restoring a balance in her body.
• Karin stabilized the Yin and Yang Chakra, produced the Power of All Things, and completed the assimilation of the First Hokage cells.
• Shinji observed and recorded Karin’s changes as the Power of All Things strengthened her eyes, body, Spirit Body, and Chakra.
• Karin asked whether she had succeeded, and Shinji confirmed it before explaining that the Chakra tree on her arm had withered after she drew its leaked Chakra back.
• Karin reported that her Chakra had increased and that Shinji’s seal no longer seemed to work.

After Karin fused with First Hokage cells, Shinji assessed her immense power and explained that her strength could eventually surpass the First Hokage and Madara Uchiha. Concerned that her Chakra would draw attention at the Ninja Academy, Karin used a Four Symbols Seal on her jacket to conceal it.

• Shinji compared Karin's current abilities with the First Hokage and Madara Uchiha, noting that her combat experience and skills still lagged behind theirs.
• Karin worried that people would notice her enormous Chakra if she attended the Ninja Academy, and Shinji explained that her unstable Chakra would gradually settle.
• Shinji told Karin to conceal her Chakra herself because his Sealing Technique would not work well on her.
• Shinji instructed Karin to carve a Four Symbols Seal into her jacket's lining, and she activated the seal to contain her Chakra.

After Karin’s successful First Hokage cells transplant, Shinji reviewed the procedure and considered the risks of undergoing it himself. He concluded that Karin’s Rinnegan awakening could be tracked through her Spirit Body, and hoped to harvest the Power of All Things from her if she succeeded.

• Shinji approved Karin’s sealing technique, advised her to refine it and maintain it daily, then sent her back carefully.
• After Karin left, Shinji cleaned the cave and erased every trace of the surgery before returning to his apartment.
• Shinji compared his three First Hokage cells transplant surgeries and noted how the Fusion Agent, limb placement, Dojutsu, and Suppressant affected the procedure.
• Shinji considered the risks of his own future transplant and questioned whether he could achieve a perfect fusion without Suppressant.
• Shinji decided he could monitor Karin’s progress toward the Rinnegan by tracking whether her Spirit Body continued to grow stronger.
• Shinji hoped Karin would awaken the Rinnegan so he could use Magatsu to harvest the Power of All Things and strengthen himself.