Chapter Summaries

Uchiha Sanpo proposed that Konoha’s clans support Uchiha Fugaku as Fourth Hokage in exchange for negotiating a favorable distribution of war spoils. After the clans settled on a campaign against Kirigakure’s remaining forces, Konoha routed them from the Land of Fire.

• Uchiha Sanpo proposed surrounding and eliminating Kirigakure’s remaining forces before sending Konoha’s chunin and jonin to attack Kirigakure, while genin stayed behind to defend.
• Uchiha Sanpo offered to negotiate the spoils if the clan heads supported Uchiha Fugaku becoming Fourth Hokage after the war.
• Clan Head Kazami and Clan Head Kurama supported Fugaku, while Nara Shikaku said the Ino-Shika-Cho clans needed time to consider.
• Uchiha Fugaku declared that he could lead Konoha toward a stronger future, and the clan heads agreed to the campaign against Kirigakure’s forces.
• More than seven thousand Konoha shinobi encircled Kirigakure’s remaining troops, killing 731, capturing 409, and driving the rest into the Land of Hot Water.

Sarutobi Hiruzen and Shimura Danzō tried to end the war through peace talks, while Uchiha Sanpo and Uchiha Fugaku prepared to invade Kirigakure and prevent negotiations. The Uchiha army entered the Land of Water, and Konoha learned its envoy teams had vanished, deepening the rift between the Uchiha Clan and the Hokage.

• Shimura Danzō proposed using Root spies to push Kirigakure into peace talks or spread rumors that Uchiha Fugaku planned to destroy it, and Sarutobi Hiruzen approved the plan.
• Uchiha Sanpo accused Konoha's leadership of secretly undermining the campaign, and Nara Shikaku declared Ino-Shika-Cho's support for the Uchiha Clan.
• Nara Shikaku recommended invading through the Land of Whirlpools, and Uchiha Sanpo ordered Kirigakure envoys to be killed before they could reach Konoha.
• Three days later, Uchiha Sanpo told Uchiha Fugaku that the envoys and Konoha teams had been eliminated, and Fugaku ordered the 4,000 shinobi to advance into the Land of Water.
• An Anbu reported that every Konoha contact team sent to Kirigakure had gone missing, and Shimura Danzō accused the Uchiha Clan of killing the envoys and plotting rebellion.

Uchiha Sanpo and Uchiha Fugaku led Konoha’s assault on Kirigakure, forcing the village to surrender after three days. Sanpo captured Terumi Mei and coerced her into submission, while Kirigakure agreed to pay forty billion ryo in reparations.

• Uchiha Sanpo led a thousand Uchiha in a coordinated fire-and-wind attack that overwhelmed Kirigakure’s defenders, while Uchiha Fugaku’s Susanoo forced Karatachi Yagura to retreat.
• Sanpo spotted Terumi Mei being carried away and pursued her as Fugaku ordered Konoha’s forces to chase Kirigakure’s retreating ninja.
• Konoha’s forces demanded the return of fifty billion ryo, and many Kirigakure ninja surrendered as their resistance collapsed.
• Sanpo secretly offered Kirigakure’s Kekkei Genkai clans refuge in Konoha, but the Yuki Clan rejected his relocation proposal.
• Sanpo captured Terumi Mei, used genjutsu and threats to intimidate her, and forced her to call him master.
• Three days later, Karatachi Yagura surrendered Kirigakure and offered forty billion ryo in reparations, and Fugaku declared the war over.

After Kirigakure surrendered, Uchiha Sanpo told Terumi Mei that her clan had arranged a political marriage and offered her a choice between marrying him or arranging for Yuki Chie to take her place. Sanpo’s teasing turned into a forced kiss, which raised Terumi Mei’s affection according to his system but ended with her stomping on his toe.

• Uchiha Sanpo told the injured Terumi Mei that the war had ended and Kirigakure had surrendered, then explained that her father had offered her in a political marriage.
• Terumi Mei attacked Sanpo with Boil Release, but he dispersed her mist with Wind Release and brought her to his tent.
• Sanpo offered Terumi Mei the choice of marrying him or having Yuki Chie marry him instead, and Terumi Mei objected when he said he knew Chie.
• Terumi Mei bit Sanpo’s arm during their argument, while he tried to persuade her that Chie could have a peaceful life with him.
• Sanpo forcibly kissed Terumi Mei, and his system reported that her affection had risen to 63%.
• Terumi Mei bit Sanpo’s tongue and then stomped on his toe.

Uchiha Sanpo joined Uchiha Fugaku’s meeting as Konoha’s fleet withdrew, arguing that Sarutobi Hiruzen’s acceptance of Sunagakure’s peace offer denied compensation to the Sunagakure battlefield and favored his own disciples. Uchiha Fugaku praised Sanpo’s analysis and declared that he alone should become the Fourth Hokage.

• Terumi Mei teased Uchiha Sanpo about his relationship with Uzumaki Huiyi, and Sanpo admitted they had gotten together after he rescued her from Kusagakure.
• Kirigakure watchers confirmed that Konoha’s fleet had left their territorial waters and discussed rumors of clan defections.
• Uchiha Fugaku told his officers that Sunagakure had withdrawn and proposed an alliance that Sarutobi Hiruzen had accepted.
• Uchiha Sanpo argued that Sunagakure wanted to avoid war reparations and that the alliance would leave Konoha’s Sunagakure battlefield casualties without compensation.
• Hyuga Hiashi condemned Sarutobi Hiruzen’s decision, while Sanpo highlighted that Orochimaru and Namikaze Minato had led the battlefields with no notable results.
• Uchiha Fugaku praised Sanpo’s analysis, ordered the units to reach the Land of Whirlpools before dawn, and said the Fourth Hokage position belonged to him.

Uchiha Sanpo returned to Nansha City with Terumi Mei and reunited with Uzumaki Huiyi, who confronted him about their relationship before accepting Mei as his friend. As Sanpo helped a wounded boy recover from his despair, he resolved to seek lasting treatment for the children injured in the war, and the group prepared to travel to Konoha.

• Uzumaki Huiyi welcomed Uchiha Sanpo back to Nansha City and dragged him aside after he introduced Terumi Mei as a friend.
• Uzumaki Huiyi introduced herself to Terumi Mei as Sanpo's girlfriend, and Mei teased her by revealing that Sanpo had called her his mistress.
• Uchiha Sanpo asked about the children injured in the war, and Uzumaki Huiyi said their physical and psychological wounds would take time to heal.
• Uchiha Sanpo used Sharingan: Genjutsu: Mind Healing to give the one-armed boy Sanji temporary relief from his despair.
• Uchiha Sanpo arranged for Uzumaki Huiyi to coordinate the wounded children's transfer and asked Terumi Mei to help buy medicinal herbs before their journey to Konoha.

Sarutobi Hiruzen and the Konoha elders arranged to pay only part of the Sunagakure battlefield compensation, leaving the rest for the next Hokage. Uchiha Sanpo returned to Konoha, saw through their political maneuvering, and began planning against Shimura Danzō while his unit’s wages were delayed.

• Sarutobi Hiruzen, Utatane Koharu, Mitokado Homura, and Shimura Danzō agreed to pay 3 billion ryō immediately and promise the remaining compensation within two years, hoping to burden Uchiha Fugaku’s administration.
• Uchiha Sanpo returned from Nansha City with more than a thousand shinobi and saw Sarutobi Hiruzen oversee the first compensation payments to grieving families.
• Uchiha Sanpo spotted Shimura Danzō in the Hokage Building and decided he needed to deal with Danzō and Root before confronting Sarutobi Hiruzen.
• Sarutobi Inoue told Uchiha Sanpo’s unit that their mission wages would be delayed until the Daimyo allocated funds, and Uchiha Sanpo stopped Uchiha Tekka from arguing before ordering the group back to the clan grounds.

Uchiha Sanpo persuaded the Uchiha Clan to expose Root’s crimes and kill Shimura Danzō, then recruited the Hyuga and Senju Clans to join the assault. The chapter ended with Senju Akagi agreeing to send forty clansmen after learning that Root had taken his nephew, Yamato.

• Uchiha Sanpo showed Uchiha Yashiro evidence that Sarutobi Hiruzen’s installment payments concealed a huge compensation shortfall for fallen and wounded Uchiha ninja.
• Uchiha Sanpo revealed Root’s brutal recruitment and casualties, along with Shimura Danzō’s Hashirama Cells, stolen Sharingan, and use of Izanagi; Uchiha Yashiro demanded Danzō’s death.
• Uchiha Sanpo arranged for leaflets exposing Root’s crimes and planned a nighttime attack on Root’s base, with Uchiha Ryuka leading the team alongside the Hyuga and Senju Clans.
• Uchiha Sanpo negotiated with Hyuga Hiashi, then told Senju Akagi that Root’s Wood Release user was his missing nephew, Yamato.
• Senju Akagi agreed to send forty Senju clansmen to the attack and demanded to kill Shimura Danzō, but Uchiha Sanpo warned him that Danzō was too strong.

Uchiha Sanpo exposed Shimura Danzō’s crimes before the people of Konoha and accused Sarutobi Hiruzen of protecting him. As the crowd turned against Danzō and Hiruzen, Sanpo executed Danzō in the plaza.

• Uchiha Yakumi captured Shimura Musashi and Shimura Tani, and Uchiha Sanpo brought them to Konoha Plaza to draw out Shimura Danzō.
• Shimura Danzō arrived with Root ninja and ordered an attack, but Uchiha Shisui trapped him in a Genjutsu while Uchiha Sanpo severed Danzō’s right arm and tore out the Sharingan beneath his bandages.
• Uchiha Yusuke distributed flyers detailing Danzō’s crimes, Root’s brutal training, and the deaths of war orphans.
• Uchiha Sanpo accused Sarutobi Hiruzen of protecting Danzō, and villagers shared their stories as the crowd demanded Danzō’s death.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen denied knowing about Root, but Danzō insisted he had acted for Konoha, and Uchiha Sanpo beheaded him.

Uchiha Sanpo killed Shimura Danzō and exposed the Root Base’s child experiments to Konoha’s villagers, triggering riots against the Shimura Clan. The Shimura estate burned as clan members fled, while an unseen attacker killed an elder.

• Uchiha Sanpo killed Shimura Danzō in the square and denounced Sarutobi Hiruzen for protecting the powerful.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen withdrew with his Anbu as the Uchiha Clan crest appeared in a signal flare over the Forest of Death.
• Uchiha Sanpo led villagers into the Root Base, where they discovered children preserved in tanks and records of experiments on them.
• Enraged villagers attacked Shimura Clan businesses and killed a Shimura Clan ninja.
• A mob set fire to the Shimura Clan estate as its members fled through secret passages, and an unseen attacker killed a Shimura Clan elder.

After Uchiha Sanpo killed Danzō, Sarutobi Hiruzen arranged for Asuma and members of several clans to flee to the daimyō for support. Shinnosuke discovered he had been left behind, and Hiruzen explained that Asuma’s mission was meant to secure help for Konoha.

• Sarutobi Hiruzen, Utatane Koharu, and Mitokado Homura decided to activate the Twelve Guardian Ninja plan and send clan members to seek refuge with the daimyō.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen ordered Asuma to leave Konoha, and Asuma reluctantly agreed despite not wanting to leave Kurenai.
• At three in the morning, Asuma led more than sixty Sarutobi, Utatane, and Mitokado clan members into the secret passage with a sealed letter for the daimyō.
• After Asuma’s group departed, Shinnosuke confronted Sarutobi Hiruzen, believing his father had chosen Asuma over him.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen explained that Asuma had been sent to request support because Konoha’s forces were dangerously depleted, and Shinnosuke admitted he was wrong.

Uchiha Sanpo buried the children found in Root and struck a deal with Orochimaru for his cursed-seal research and improved Impure World Reincarnation. Orochimaru left Konoha despite Sanpo’s offer of Uchiha funding, and Sanpo returned to report the news to the clan’s leaders.

• Uchiha Sanpo watched the children recovered from Root’s base being buried as Uchiha Itachi asked Orochimaru about the meaning of life.
• Uchiha Sanpo offered Orochimaru information about Earth Grudge Fear in exchange for the complete research data on the Heaven and Earth Cursed Seal.
• Orochimaru gave Uchiha Sanpo the cursed-seal data, then agreed to provide his improved Impure World Reincarnation in exchange for Uchiha funding and access to his research results.
• Uchiha Sanpo told Uchiha Fugaku and the gathered clan members that Orochimaru had refused to stay in Konoha.

Uchiha Sanpo presented wartime casualty lists to the clan, using them to expose how the Uchiha and other clans had borne heavy losses while Sarutobi-aligned clans suffered few. Uchiha Fugaku launched his campaign for Fourth Hokage, with Sanpo planning to distribute the lists and build support among Konoha's clans and civilians.

• Uchiha Sanpo and Uchiha Inabi reviewed casualty figures from the four major battlefields, including the heavy losses suffered under Orochimaru and Hyuga commanders.
• Uchiha Sanpo reported that 1,462 Uchiha had died and 175 had been severely wounded, prompting silence in the shrine.
• Uchiha Sanpo and Uchiha Inabi unveiled Hero and Parasite rankings that contrasted the losses of clans such as the Uchiha and Hyuga with the low casualties of the Sarutobi, Utatane, and Shimura clans.
• Uchiha Sanpo planned to print 80,000 copies of the rankings to sway public opinion and help Uchiha Fugaku win the Hokage election.
• Uchiha Fugaku and Uchiha Sanpo discussed gaining support from the Hyuga, Senju, Ino-Shika-Cho, and civilian shinobi.
• Uchiha Fugaku officially declared the Uchiha Clan's participation in the Fourth Hokage election, and Uchiha Yashiro celebrated their bid for the position.

The Uchiha spread flyers exposing wartime casualties and profiteering by Konoha’s leadership clans, provoking public outrage and a boycott. With crowds surrounding the Hokage Building and their shops attacked, Sarutobi Hiruzen offered Fugaku the Hokage position and planned to seek the daimyo’s protection for the four clans.

• Uchiha Sanpo sent a thousand Uchiha shinobi across Konoha to distribute eighty thousand flyers listing heroic clans and alleged wartime profiteers.
• Konoha residents read the lists and condemned the Sarutobi, Utatane, Mito, and Shimura clans for avoiding combat and profiting from supplies and weapons.
• Nara Shikaku, Yamanaka Inoichi, and Akimichi Choza shared records and accusations of inflated procurement costs, resale schemes, and forged supply claims.
• Angry residents gathered outside the Hokage Building and boycotted and vandalized shops belonging to the four clans.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen offered Uchiha Fugaku the Hokage position and told Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura to give up their advisory seats.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen decided to use reverse summoning to contact Asuma and ask him to tell the daimyo that the four clans would pledge allegiance.

Sarutobi Hiruzen resigned, and Uchiha Fugaku was named Konoha’s Fourth Hokage as the four clans led by Sarutobi, Utatane, Mito, and Shimura prepared to leave. The village confiscated their property, while Uchiha Sanpo worried that Fugaku had accepted a dangerous position.

• Sarutobi Hiruzen told the clan heads he would step down, remove Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura as advisers, and recommend Uchiha Fugaku as Hokage.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen presented the daimyo’s authorization for the Sarutobi, Utatane, Mito, and Shimura clans to relocate to the Daimyo Residence, prompting demands that they repay money taken from Konoha.
• Uchiha Sanpo argued over the value of the clans’ property and demanded thirteen billion ryo, while Utatane Koharu warned that their departure would leave Konoha with barely six thousand ninja.
• Uchiha Fugaku agreed to let the four clans leave with their personal property, and Sarutobi Hiruzen congratulated him on becoming the Fourth Hokage.
• Anbu announced that Fugaku would become Hokage, the four clans’ real estate would be confiscated, and their members would leave Konoha; villagers cheered as Uchiha Sanpo worried about Fugaku’s fate.

After becoming the Fourth Hokage, Uchiha Fugaku assigned village positions and announced policies to Konoha’s gathered villagers. The chapter ended with Namikaze Minato watching the speech and smiling with relief.

• Uchiha Fugaku and Uchiha Sanpo discussed filling vacant positions, and Fugaku appointed Sanpo chief of the Military Police Force, Namikaze Minato chief of the Anbu, and Uchiha Ryuka as his deputy.
• Uchiha Yashiro proposed that he oversee Finance, Clan Head Kurama take Logistics, Tsunade lead the Medical Department and become an Advisor Elder, and Nara Shikaku become another Advisor Elder; Sanpo promised to persuade Tsunade to return.
• Before Fugaku’s inauguration speech, Sanpo advised him to address overdue ninja wages, medical care, and children’s education.
• Uchiha Fugaku announced that overdue ninja wages would be paid within three days, medical fees would be halved with free lifelong treatment for war-injured ninjas, and a free cultural school would be established for school-age children without ninja talent.
• The villagers cheered Fugaku’s policies, while Namikaze Minato watched from a rooftop and smiled with relief.

Uchiha Sanpo enforced the Sarutobi Clan’s expulsion from Konoha by sealing their compound and inspecting their belongings, while Sarutobi Hiruzen tried to get his people and wealth out. Public interrogations exposed Sarutobi ninja’s fortunes and crimes, and the chapter ended as Sarutobi Yoshiko’s ill-gotten wealth and methods sparked outrage.

• Uchiha Sanpo sealed the Sarutobi, Utatane, and Mito compounds, barred the use of Storage Scrolls and summoning techniques, and ordered the Sarutobi Clan to leave under inspection.
• Hyuga clan members discovered and collapsed the Sarutobi secret passage, while Sarutobi Hiruzen tested the exit rules by sending civilians out with their belongings.
• The Uchiha and Hyuga inspected and interrogated Sarutobi residents, allowing civilians to leave but confiscating their hidden Storage Scrolls.
• Uchiha Ryuka’s genjutsu revealed that Sarutobi Goken had gained mission advantages through clan connections and learned several ninjutsu outside his clan; his memories were sealed before he left with his money.
• Sarutobi Miyagi confessed to embezzling supplies, hiding Explosive Tags, and stealing Uchiha ninjutsu, so Yamanaka Inoichi sealed his memories and left him incapacitated.
• Sarutobi Yoshiko confessed under genjutsu that she had taken the assets of seven fallen jonin through sham marriages, prompting outrage among the watching villagers.

Uchiha Sanpo exposed the Sarutobi clan’s embezzlement and revealed to Kakashi that Sarutobi Hiruzen had arranged his father’s death. The villagers’ anger turned toward Hiruzen after his enormous fortune was registered, leaving him under attack.

• Uchiha Tekka and Uchiha Kawamo read aloud the Sarutobi clansmen’s wealth and the money they had embezzled, prompting villagers to accuse them of stealing rewards and compensation.
• Uchiha Sanpo stopped the villagers from attacking the Sarutobi clansmen, then kicked Sarutobi Eiki when he insulted them.
• Uchiha Sanpo told Kakashi that Sarutobi Hiruzen had used his father’s death to secure a deal and asked Kakashi to help kill Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura, and Kakashi agreed.
• Uchiha Ryuka’s Sharingan forced Sarutobi Shinnosuke to confess to altering mission reports and embezzling Anbu compensation.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen’s assets were registered at 24.7 billion ryo in cash, and Uchiha Sanpo reminded the villagers that Hiruzen had denied funding for public projects.
• The villagers hurled rotten food and stones at Sarutobi Hiruzen as their anger grew.

Uchiha Sanpo challenged Sarutobi Hiruzen to a fight inside the Sarutobi Clan Compound, demanding twenty billion ryo, and overwhelmed Hiruzen’s shadow clones with a massive combined fire technique. Sarutobi Hiruzen surrendered as the battle turned against him.

• Uchiha Sanpo stopped a youth from attacking Sarutobi Hiruzen and sent him away, then declared himself a temporary rogue ninja and challenged Hiruzen for twenty billion ryo.
• Uchiha Sanpo and Sarutobi Hiruzen entered the Sarutobi Clan Compound’s barrier to fight while Konoha villagers gathered outside and Sarutobi jonin protected the fortune inside a sealing barrier.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen sent four shadow clones to attack, and Uchiha Sanpo responded by creating sixteen clones in his two-headed, four-armed form.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen’s clones launched four combined ninjutsu attacks, but Uchiha Sanpo’s clones countered with enormous fire torrents that destroyed them.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen raised his hand and surrendered.

Uchiha Sanpo defeated Sarutobi Hiruzen and used genjutsu to interrogate him in front of Konoha’s people. Sarutobi confessed to engineering Sakumo Hatake’s suicide and betraying the Uzumaki Clan, while Uchiha Sanpo arranged for the interrogation and sealing of his ninjutsu memories to continue.

• Sarutobi Hiruzen summoned Enma and tried to escape the barrier, but Uchiha Sanpo’s shadow clones knocked him down and beat him as villagers cheered.
• Uchiha Sanpo ordered the Sarutobi ninjas to leave twenty billion ryo behind and let them move the remaining wealth out of Konoha.
• Uchiha Sanpo used Sharingan genjutsu to make Sarutobi Hiruzen confess that he had pressured Sakumo Hatake into suicide by threatening Kakashi’s future.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen confessed that he had informed the other great villages about the Uzumaki Clan’s sealing techniques and refused to send aid when they were attacked.
• Uzumaki Huiyi broke down after hearing the confession, and Uchiha Sanpo comforted her while instructing Uchiha Ryuka to continue the interrogation and seal some of Sarutobi Hiruzen’s ninjutsu memories.