Chapter Summaries

Uchiha Makoto forced Tobirama Senju to surrender three-tenths of the Blood Tax to buy his silence about the Land of Fire Elder’s assassination, then persuaded Hashirama Senju to discuss distributing Konoha’s captured Tailed Beasts and convening a Six Kage Summit. Hashirama supported giving the beasts to the other villages as gifts, while Tobirama worried that weakening Konoha would leave it vulnerable to the Akatsuki Ninja Village.

• Uchiha Makoto took three-tenths of the Blood Tax from Tobirama Senju in exchange for keeping quiet about the assassination, and Tobirama angrily vowed not to work with him again.
• Hashirama Senju mediated their quarrel, then heard that they planned to suppress the Bandits once the Daimyo released the funds.
• Uchiha Makoto diverted Hashirama Senju from revisiting the Elder’s assassination by raising the question of what to do with Konoha’s captured Tailed Beasts.
• Hashirama Senju proposed giving the Tailed Beasts to the other villages and convening a Six Kage Summit to establish peace in the Ninja World.
• Tobirama Senju opposed giving away the Tailed Beasts, fearing that Konoha would need them to defend itself from the Akatsuki Ninja Village.

Makoto bargained with Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju over the distribution of the Tailed Beasts, securing the Seven-Tails for Akatsuki Ninja Village. He then arranged to visit Uchiha Madara and meet Hashirama, while ensuring Tobirama would be kept away.

• Tobirama Senju opposed Hashirama Senju's plan to give the Tailed Beasts away for free, and Makoto advised using them as bargaining chips at the Six Kage Summit.
• Makoto argued that Akatsuki Ninja Village deserved another Tailed Beast and demanded the Nine-Tails, but Tobirama Senju insisted it remain in Konoha.
• Makoto settled for the Eight-Tails and then the Seven-Tails after Hashirama Senju asked him to compromise, and Tobirama Senju prepared to demand payment.
• Makoto suggested consulting Uchiha Madara and said he would visit him before returning to Akatsuki Ninja Village, while also offering to investigate Konoha's Anbu.
• Hashirama Senju asked Makoto to help bring Uchiha Madara out of the Naka Shrine, and Makoto insisted Tobirama Senju stay away from their meeting.
• Hashirama Senju agreed to exclude Tobirama Senju, leaving Tobirama feeling hurt and resentful.

After the bandit-suppression fundraising enriched Akatsuki Ninja Village and Konoha, Uchiha Makoto pressured Tobirama Senju to accept that the scheme would happen again. Tobirama agreed to turn a blind eye and help with intelligence in exchange for a cut, leaving Makoto with fewer restraints and Tobirama with money for his private plans.

• The Feudal Lord of the Land of Fire announced that bandits had assassinated the Grand Elder and organized a nationwide bandit-suppression fundraiser.
• Uchiha Makoto and Tobirama Senju received the fundraising ledger, which showed a huge sum would be divided among Akatsuki Ninja Village, the Land of Fire leadership, and Konoha.
• Tobirama Senju regretted suggesting that the scheme might happen again, but Uchiha Makoto used their shared involvement and Tobirama's ambitions to pressure him.
• Tobirama Senju agreed that Konoha would not participate directly in future schemes but would overlook Akatsuki Ninja Village's actions and provide intelligence in exchange for a share.
• Uchiha Makoto offered Tobirama Senju ten percent for future cooperation, and Tobirama accepted the money for his private treasury and plans.

After returning to Konoha, Uchiha Makoto visited baby Tsunade with Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju, while the Uchiha elders began planning to build support for Uchiha Madara’s Hokage ambitions. The chapter left the elders preparing to promote Madara, despite his distance from them.

• Uchiha Makoto gave the returning Akatsuki Ninja Village ninjas a day off in Konoha before following Hashirama Senju to the Senju Clan Grounds.
• Tobirama Senju argued with Hashirama Senju and delayed Uchiha Makoto’s visit to Tsunade, hoping to irritate him and discourage the betrothal.
• Uchiha Makoto and Hashirama Senju admired baby Tsunade, then joined Tobirama Senju in refusing to let Hashirama teach her his gambling skills.
• The Uchiha Great Elder explained why the clan had not accused Tobirama Senju of the Land of Fire Elder’s assassination, and the elders agreed to focus on Uchiha Madara’s attitude toward becoming Hokage.
• The Uchiha elders decided to use the clan’s influence to build support for Madara, hoping to win back his favor after he had withdrawn from them.

Uchiha Makoto’s return drew Konoha’s clan leaders, who hoped to consult him about Tobirama Senju’s reforms modeled on Akatsuki Ninja Village. Makoto recognized a chance to influence Konoha openly and began addressing the visitors as Tobirama listened nearby.

• Konoha’s ninja clans grew interested in Akatsuki Ninja Village’s support and jobs for injured ninja, while Tobirama Senju prepared reforms inspired by its development model.
• Clan leaders learned that Konoha’s finances could support the reforms and sought meetings with Uchiha Makoto to protect their clans’ interests.
• A stream of clan leaders visited Hashirama Senju’s home, where they focused their attention on Makoto rather than Tobirama Senju.
• Makoto exchanged a smug look with Tobirama, who silently endured the provocation.
• The clan leaders probed Makoto about Konoha’s reforms, and he said they nearly matched Akatsuki Ninja Village’s direction before addressing Tobirama by name.

Uchiha Makoto advised Konoha's minor clan leaders on Tobirama Senju's flawed reform plan, winning their trust while Tobirama endured his criticism. Hashirama Senju then asked Makoto to help guide Konoha's reforms, giving Makoto an opportunity he had hoped to gain.

• Uchiha Makoto offered to advise Tobirama Senju on Konoha's reforms, and Tobirama reluctantly listened.
• Uchiha Makoto lectured the small and medium clan leaders, identifying flaws in Tobirama Senju's reform plan and suggesting solutions.
• The clan leaders praised Uchiha Makoto and began to view him as a more capable leader than Tobirama Senju.
• Uchiha Makoto ended the afternoon's discussion, noting that the absent major clans also needed to approve the reforms.
• Hashirama Senju asked Uchiha Makoto to help Tobirama Senju with Konoha's reform plan, and Makoto pretended to hesitate.

Hashirama Senju invited Uchiha Makoto to help guide Konoha’s reforms, but Tobirama Senju fiercely opposed letting the Light Shadow influence the village’s internal affairs. After Makoto’s conciliatory performance won over Hashirama and the Clan Leaders, Hashirama removed Tobirama from the reform plan and asked Makoto to help instead.

• Hashirama Senju pleaded with Uchiha Makoto to assist with Konoha’s reforms, while Tobirama Senju muttered that Makoto was manipulating his Big Brother.
• Tobirama Senju objected that Makoto, as the shadow of Akatsuki Ninja Village, had no right to take part in Konoha’s internal affairs.
• Uchiha Makoto declined to interfere, but warned that Tobirama Senju’s reform plan had oversights and offered to help if Konoha later needed him.
• The Clan Leaders saw Makoto as magnanimous and Tobirama as jealous and incapable, while Hashirama Senju rebuked his brother for harming the village’s interests.
• Hashirama Senju removed Tobirama Senju from the reform plan and asked Uchiha Makoto to identify its problems and suggest solutions.
• Tobirama Senju warned Hashirama Senju he would regret the decision, but Hashirama Senju ended the argument by asserting that he was the Hokage.

Uchiha Makoto agreed to help Hashirama Senju with Konoha’s reforms and maneuvered Tobirama Senju into writing a public Letter of Guarantee. He arranged a meeting of Konoha’s leaders for two days later, while Tobirama suspected Makoto planned to claim the Hokage’s seat and feared Hashirama would skip the meeting to see Uchiha Madara.

• Uchiha Makoto agreed to assist with Konoha’s reforms and persuaded Hashirama Senju to let Tobirama Senju continue working on them.
• Makoto suggested Tobirama write a Letter of Guarantee promising to uphold the Will of Fire and protect relations between the Senju and Uchiha clans, and Hashirama ordered him to read it aloud at a meeting.
• Makoto proposed holding a meeting of Konoha’s leaders in two days to discuss reforms and Tobirama’s letter, and the clan leaders voiced their support.
• Tobirama suspected Makoto wanted to sit in the Hokage’s chair, so he persuaded Hashirama to attend the meeting.
• Makoto told Hashirama he would try to arrange a meeting with Uchiha Madara, delighting Hashirama and leaving Tobirama worried that his brother would miss the meeting.

Uchiha Makoto secured influence over Konoha’s reform and considered how to expand Akatsuki Ninja Village’s power while Tobirama Senju struggled to fund and preserve his plans. As Makoto returned to the Uchiha compound, he noticed Konoha’s growing reliance on Akatsuki currency and anticipated that economic trouble could undermine the village.

• Uchiha Makoto left the Senju grounds after telling Hashirama Senju to remind Tobirama Senju to write a letter of guarantee, while Hashirama promised to watch him do it.
• Konoha’s clan leaders left unsettled by Light Shadow’s intervention, suspecting that the Uchiha Clan was preparing to challenge Tobirama Senju’s authority.
• Uchiha Makoto walked through Konoha and observed its economic growth, which he credited partly to Tobirama Senju’s reforms and partly to Akatsuki Ninja Village’s investment.
• Tobirama Senju faced mounting pressure from the Uchiha Clan, a shortage of funds, and the Fire Lord’s efforts to prevent wealthy investors from supporting Konoha.
• Uchiha Makoto saw merchants using Akatsuki Ninja Village currency and concluded that Konoha’s growing financial dependence could leave it vulnerable to a future economic crisis.
• Uchiha Makoto headed toward the Uchiha compound, pleased by the opportunity to expand Akatsuki Ninja Village’s influence over Konoha.

After the Land of Fire Elder withdrew his support, the Uchiha Great Elder focused on winning over Lord Shadow and building alliances with small clans. The chapter ended with the Uchiha divided over Tobirama Senju’s reforms, as younger members backed change and the elders resisted.

• The Uchiha Great Elder failed to persuade the Land of Fire Elder to resume supporting the Uchiha after the Elder feared Uchiha Makoto’s threat.
• The Uchiha Great Elder rewarded a small-clan leader with ninjutsu scrolls for bringing useful information and urged him to keep reporting news.
• A young Uchiha member of the One Heart Association argued that the clan should support reform and follow Lord Shadow’s lead.
• The Uchiha elders objected that Tobirama Senju’s reforms would weaken the Uchiha’s influence and harm Konoha.
• The Uchiha Great Elder watched another dispute break out between the clan’s reform-minded youth and its conservative elders.

Uchiha Makoto returned to the Uchiha compound and considered how to place loyal allies in Konoha's upcoming internal reform. He chose Kagami Uchiha as a promising recruit and brought him into the clan's center of power.

• The Uchiha Great Elder silenced the clan's factions and ordered preparations to welcome Uchiha Makoto.
• Uchiha Makoto returned to the compound and planned to replace conservative Clan Elders with younger Uchiha loyal to Akatsuki Ninja Village.
• Uchiha Makoto recognized Kagami Uchiha and decided he was a suitable ally because of his strength and ties to Tobirama Senju.
• Uchiha Makoto told Kagami Uchiha that the Uchiha must establish a New Konoha and offered him a chance to help.
• The Uchiha Great Elder welcomed Uchiha Makoto with fireworks, then led him toward the clan's meeting room as Makoto brought Kagami along.

Uchiha Makoto defended Kagami Uchiha from the clan elders’ suspicions and urged the Uchiha to join Tobirama Senju’s internal reforms while seeking influence in Konoha’s new departments. He backed Kagami to take responsibility for the clan and deal with Tobirama, leaving Kagami stunned by the assignment.

• Uchiha Makoto insisted that Kagami Uchiha stay in the meeting and declared that he trusted him despite the elders’ concerns about Tobirama Senju.
• The Uchiha Great Elder allowed Kagami to remain and warned him not to shame the clan.
• The elders proposed building support for Uchiha Madara to become Konoha’s Second, and Uchiha Makoto agreed to help their efforts.
• Kagami supported reform if it benefited Konoha, and Uchiha Makoto said he also backed Tobirama Senju’s plan.
• Uchiha Makoto urged the Uchiha to participate in the reforms, then promised to help place clan members in important new departments at a meeting in two days.
• Uchiha Makoto told Kagami to attend the meeting, shoulder the Uchiha’s responsibility, and deal with Tobirama Senju, leaving Kagami bewildered.

Uchiha Makoto pushed the clan to appoint Kagami Uchiha to a major responsibility, arguing that Kagami’s experience and abilities made him suitable despite his sensitive ties to Tobirama Senju. The Uchiha Great Elder ultimately agreed, though other Clan Elders remained opposed.

• Uchiha Makoto told Kagami Uchiha that he trusted him to serve the clan and Konoha and that Tobirama Senju could no longer lead Konoha forward.
• Uchiha Makoto reasoned that Tobirama Senju’s judgment of talent meant Kagami was likely capable, as Hiruzen Sarutobi and other figures Tobirama had valued had become powerful leaders.
• Uchiha Clan Elders objected to giving Kagami the responsibility and said they wanted to wait for a chance to undermine Tobirama Senju’s reforms.
• Uchiha Makoto defended Kagami’s qualifications as a Konoha jonin who had completed multiple A-rank missions, and urged the Clan Elders to give younger members opportunities.
• The Uchiha Clan Elders challenged Uchiha Makoto, but he asked the Uchiha Great Elder to decide whether to support him.
• The Uchiha Great Elder agreed to the appointment, recognizing that the Uchiha Clan still needed Uchiha Makoto’s help.

Uchiha Makoto visited Uchiha Madara in Naka Shrine, where Madara discussed the Moon Eye Plan and his doubts about the Uchiha Clan’s future in Konoha. Makoto urged him to reconsider leaving with the clan, but Madara remained certain that the Uchiha would follow him.

• Uchiha Makoto left a meeting with the Clan Elders after the Great Elder supported him, then showed Kagami Uchiha reforms he planned to propose.
• Uchiha Makoto went to Naka Shrine and told Uchiha Madara that Hashirama Senju wanted to see him, but Madara avoided the subject.
• Uchiha Madara explained his belief in the Moon Eye Plan and asked Uchiha Makoto about awakening the Rinnegan, but Makoto said he had no guaranteed method.
• Uchiha Madara told Uchiha Makoto he was considering taking the Uchiha Clan out of Konoha to establish a village of their own.
• Uchiha Makoto warned that the clan might not want to abandon Konoha, but Uchiha Madara insisted that the clansmen would follow him.

Uchiha Makoto persuaded Uchiha Madara to leave Naka Shrine and reunite with Hashirama Senju, though Madara still intended to defect from Konoha. Their meeting revived their old bond, while Mito Uzumaki reacted angrily to finding Madara at Hashirama’s home.

• Uchiha Makoto stopped trying to dissuade Uchiha Madara from defecting and asked him to meet Hashirama Senju as promised.
• Uchiha Madara accepted after Uchiha Makoto challenged him, then left Naka Shrine the next day to meet Hashirama Senju.
• Uchiha Madara tried to comfort a lost little girl but frightened her, until Hashirama Senju calmed her with a flower.
• Uchiha Madara and Hashirama Senju resumed their familiar bickering and went to Hashirama Senju’s home with Uchiha Makoto.
• Mito Uzumaki found Uchiha Madara there, became angry, and left for the Hokage Building after Hashirama Senju asked her to prepare lunch.

Uchiha Makoto presided over Konoha’s reform meeting in Hashirama Senju’s absence, forcing Tobirama Senju to read a Letter of Guarantee before helping him secure approval for the revised plan. He then gave the Uchiha Clan control of several powerful departments and named Kagami Uchiha to oversee them, provoking Tobirama Senju.

• At dinner, Uchiha Madara stayed silent when Hashirama Senju asked why he had been living at Naka Shrine, and Uchiha Makoto eased the tension by bringing up Little Tsunade before obtaining the Seven-Tails.
• Uchiha Makoto arrived at the Hokage’s Office in a Lord Shadow robe, sat in the Hokage’s chair, and announced that Hashirama Senju could not attend the reform meeting.
• Tobirama Senju read his Letter of Guarantee aloud while Uchiha Makoto called out two Uchiha for laughing, turning the solemn reading into a joke.
• Uchiha Makoto and Tobirama Senju debated Konoha’s reform plan with the higher-ups for three days and three nights until they formally approved it.
• Uchiha Makoto assigned several powerful departments to the Uchiha Clan and put Kagami Uchiha in charge, leaving Tobirama Senju furious that Makoto had used his former disciple against him.

Kagami Uchiha joined Konoha’s reform effort as the Uchiha Clan’s representative, while Tobirama Senju accepted the arrangement despite his anger at Uchiha Makoto. After the meeting concluded, Uchiha Makoto prepared to return to Akatsuki Ninja Village, and Hashirama Senju raised the subject of the Six Kage Summit.

• Uchiha Makoto pushed Kagami Uchiha forward to represent the Uchiha Clan, and Kagami formally greeted Tobirama Senju as his teacher.
• Uchiha Makoto reprimanded Kagami Uchiha for addressing Tobirama Senju as his teacher, and Kagami greeted him as an equal representative instead.
• Tobirama Senju accepted Kagami Uchiha’s role and later secured most of the remaining share of power in the reform plan with little resistance.
• After the meeting ended, Uchiha Makoto visited Hashirama Senju’s home to say goodbye before returning to Akatsuki Ninja Village.
• At dinner, Hashirama Senju told old stories about Uchiha Madara, then brought up the Six Kage Summit.

Uchiha Makoto returned to Akatsuki Ninja Village with the Seven-Tails and resumed overseeing its affairs. When Itama revealed a vast Gelel Stone vein in the Land of Wind, Makoto began eyeing the resource despite its location near Sunagakure.

• Hashirama Senju gave Makoto the Seven-Tails, infuriating Tobirama Senju when he learned it had been handed over for free.
• Makoto returned home, reunited the Seven-Tails with Two-Tails Matatabi, and spent several days with Tsubaki Uzumaki before returning to work.
• Makoto reviewed Akatsuki Ninja Village's progress and considered how to respond to a late, unusually severe spring that threatened crops across the Ninja World.
• Itama told Makoto that Akatsuki Ninja Village had found a huge Gelel Stone vein sealed beneath an uninhabited part of the Land of Wind.
• Makoto examined a refined Gelel Stone crystal, asked to see the vein's location, and lamented that Sunagakure had built its village atop Akatsuki Ninja Village's Chakra vein mine.

Uchiha Makoto learned that the Gelel Stone was an immense source of energy found in the Land of Wind and began planning how Akatsuki Ninja Village could claim its veins. He rejected a direct war as too costly and considered using the Six Kage Summit to secure a righteous pretext, leaving the plan unresolved.

• Akatsuki Ninja Village's R&D Center finished testing the Gelel Stone and gave its data to Uchiha Makoto.
• Uchiha Makoto learned that a few dozen fist-sized Gelel Stones could supply the village's daily energy needs, but the known veins lay only in the Land of Wind.
• Uchiha Makoto judged that a war against Sunagakure would be costly because of distance, desert conditions, guerrilla resistance, and the danger of Konoha taking advantage.
• Uchiha Makoto decided Akatsuki Ninja Village needed the moral high ground, Konoha's involvement, and a way to address Sunagakure's opposition.
• Uchiha Makoto considered the Six Kage Summit and the First Kazekage's demands for Land of Fire territory and tailed-beast funds as a possible opening.

Uchiha Makoto weighed how to secure the Gelel Stone Vein while avoiding war with Sunagakure, then turned to preparing for a Ninja World food crisis. He left a gathering of Fire Country grain merchants eager to profit from a planned export ban that would still permit smuggling.

• Uchiha Makoto considered securing the Gelel Stone Vein through a Six Kage Summit agreement and possible cooperation with Sunagakure, while recognizing that Sunagakure might fight to keep it.
• An Akatsuki Anbu summoned Uchiha Makoto to an Agricultural Association meeting, where he planned for falling grain yields caused by the cold wave.
• Uchiha Makoto told Fire Country nobles and wealthy grain merchants that Ninja World harvests could drop by about twenty percent and ordered them to stockpile and purchase grain.
• Uchiha Makoto announced a nationwide grain-export ban, alarming the merchants until he added that smuggling would be allowed.
• The merchants praised Uchiha Makoto after realizing the export ban and smuggling loophole could let them control grain prices and profit from the crisis.