Chapter Summaries

Uchiha Makoto visited the Hyuga Clan and turned their old rejection of the Akatsuki Ninja Village into a chance to negotiate cooperation. The Hyuga Clan agreed to support the Konoha Security Department, while Makoto left them considering a request to send a Main Family member to study in the Akatsuki Ninja Village.

• Uchiha Makoto and the Uchiha Clan Elders visited the Hyuga Clan, where Hyuga Morikyo welcomed them and recalled the Hyuga Clan's past refusal to join the Akatsuki Ninja Village.
• Uchiha Makoto reminded Hyuga Morikyo that the Kaguya Clan had joined the Akatsuki Ninja Village and gained a strong position and generous funding, prompting Morikyo to express regret over the Hyuga Clan's earlier decision.
• Uchiha Makoto asked the Hyuga Clan to support the new Konoha Security Department, and Hyuga Morikyo agreed to send capable members and accept a captain's position for the clan.
• Uchiha Makoto proposed a Ninja Study Abroad Program and asked the Hyuga Clan to send a member of the Main Family to study in the Akatsuki Ninja Village.
• Hyuga Morikyo worried that sending a Main Family member could expose the Hyuga Clan's Byakugan, but he did not reject Makoto's proposal outright.

Uchiha Makoto used offers of friendship and pressure to secure support from Konoha clans for the Security Department and Akatsuki Ninja Village shinobi exchanges. Tobirama Senju learned of Makoto’s tour and angrily decided to take the matter to Big Brother.

• Uchiha Makoto pressured Hyuga Morikyo into sending several Hyuga Branch Family members to study at the Akatsuki Ninja Village after Morikyo refused to send Main Family members.
• Uchiha Makoto suspected Konoha’s Anbu were following him and the Uchiha Clan Elders, then continued visiting Konoha’s clans.
• The Nara, Yamanaka, and Akimichi Clans agreed to help the Security Department and send shinobi abroad after Uchiha Makoto offered benefits and claimed other clans had agreed.
• The Inuzuka Clan accepted Uchiha Makoto’s requests after he promised salaries in food for ninja hounds serving as police dogs.
• The Sarutobi and Shimura Clans rejected Uchiha Makoto’s overtures, while other clans accepted them, prompting Makoto to encourage the Uchiha Clan Elders.
• Tobirama Senju heard that Uchiha Makoto was visiting clans and resolved to report him to Big Brother.

Tobirama learned that Uchiha Makoto had helped the Uchiha Clan build support for the Konoha Security Department and resented another setback to his plans. At dinner with Hashirama and Mito, Makoto secured Hashirama’s promise to attend the department’s formation the next morning while needling Tobirama about their villages’ future.

• Tobirama heard that Makoto had helped the Uchiha elders approach Konoha’s clans and ordered Anbu to keep watching the Uchiha Clan.
• Tobirama met Makoto at Hashirama and Mito’s home, where Makoto teased him about being Tsunade’s future father-in-law and Tobirama drew a kunai before Mito stopped him.
• Makoto asked Hashirama to attend the Konoha Security Department’s formation the next morning, and Hashirama agreed.
• Tobirama accused Makoto of interfering in Konoha’s affairs, but Makoto claimed he had merely accompanied the Uchiha elders on New Year visits, and Hashirama criticized Tobirama for overreacting.
• Makoto called Konoha his own village and said he hoped it would prosper, prompting Tobirama to recognize that Makoto wanted to absorb Konoha and resent Hashirama’s approval.

Uchiha Makoto secured the Senju Clan’s participation in an exchange program and attended the opening of Konoha’s Security Department, where he began planning to recruit civilian shinobi for Akatsuki Ninja Village. He spotted Orochimaru Ball among the applicants and was delighted by the potential recruit.

• Uchiha Makoto persuaded Hashirama Senju to approve a student exchange program between Konoha and Akatsuki Ninja Village, while Tobirama Senju reluctantly accepted the decision.
• Uchiha Madara and Hashirama Senju jointly opened the Konoha Security Department as Uchiha Makoto and the clan leaders attended.
• Uchiha Makoto watched clan shinobi and civilian shinobi argue over recruitment, then considered using the occasion to attract civilian shinobi to Akatsuki Ninja Village.
• Uchiha Makoto noticed an applicant resembling Orochimaru, taunted the Anbu watching him, and reviewed the man’s application.
• Uchiha Makoto discovered the applicant was named Orochimaru Ball, was married, and had a son, and he considered the find a great success.

Uchiha Makoto recruited Orochimaru Ball to Akatsuki Ninja Village and used his final day in Konoha to direct the Uchiha Clan toward commerce and quiet political competition. Before leaving, he visited Hashirama Senju, discussed capturing the Two-Tails, and learned Tobirama Senju was secluded in his laboratory researching dangerous techniques.

• Uchiha Makoto offered Orochimaru Ball a million ryo and generous provisions for his family, and Orochimaru Ball agreed to join Akatsuki Ninja Village.
• Uchiha Makoto met with the Uchiha Clan Elders, urged them to build strength, form alliances, and invest in businesses, and gave them merchant contacts.
• Uchiha Makoto visited Hashirama Senju with Tsubaki Uzumaki, then discussed Konoha, Akatsuki Ninja Village, and the future of the Ninja World with Hashirama Senju.
• Hashirama Senju asked Uchiha Makoto to join the group capturing the Two-Tails, and Uchiha Makoto agreed.
• Uchiha Makoto learned that Tobirama Senju was in his laboratory researching dangerous ninjutsu and suspected that Tobirama was developing techniques against him.

Uchiha Makoto returned to Akatsuki Ninja Village and planned to obtain seabird-dropping deposits from the Land of Water to make fertilizer and resolve food shortages. Meanwhile, Mū survived a devastating mission with severe burns, and the First Tsuchikage vowed revenge.

• Uchiha Makoto exchanged taunts with Tobirama Senju at his farewell ceremony in Konoha, then returned to Akatsuki Ninja Village.
• Uchiha Makoto urged the village’s experts to expand education and train workers to support its growing industries.
• Uchiha Makoto focused on food production and, after hearing about the Land of Water’s Bird Dropping Islands, proposed claiming them and settling fishing disputes with the Land of Water and Kirigakure alongside Konoha.
• The First Tsuchikage learned that Mū’s life had been saved but that severe burns would likely leave him reliant on medicine and bandages for life.
• The First Tsuchikage vowed that Iwagakure would repay the blood debt for the mission that had devastated Mū and his fellow ninjas.

Uchiha Makoto welcomed Konoha's study-abroad students to a thriving Akatsuki Ninja Village, then learned that a clash between Iwagakure and Kirigakure might escalate into war. He used the news media to inflame the dispute, while Tobirama Senju suspected Makoto was behind the rising tensions.

• The First Tsuchikage questioned an injured Iwagakure ninja and learned that a Kirigakure squad had ambushed them and stolen their mission supplies.
• Uchiha Makoto enjoyed breakfast with Tsubaki Uzumaki and surveyed Akatsuki Ninja Village's booming economy before welcoming the arriving Konoha students.
• The Konoha students toured Akatsuki Ninja Village and were astonished by its prosperity, modern roads, and bustling streets.
• An Anbu ninja informed Uchiha Makoto that the First Tsuchikage planned to confront Kirigakure after Mū was severely injured in their clash.
• Uchiha Makoto ordered news outlets to exaggerate the incident and portray it as a potential war, hoping to exploit the conflict for Akatsuki Ninja Village's interests.
• Tobirama Senju recognized the familiar public-opinion campaign and suspected Uchiha Makoto was behind it.

Uchiha Makoto manipulated public opinion to pressure Iwagakure and Kirigakure, then secured support for Akatsuki Ninja Village to issue chakra-backed paper currency and spread it across the Ninja World. After receiving Senju Tobirama’s angry summons, Makoto welcomed Konoha’s involvement in his plans.

• Senju Tobirama suspected Uchiha Makoto had leaked information about Iwagakure’s losses and ordered his subordinates to monitor the dispute and contact Makoto.
• The First Tsuchikage feared that public pressure would force Iwagakure into a costly war with Kirigakure, suspected Makoto was behind the situation, and decided to approach him for support.
• The First Mizukage rebuked Hozuki Gengetsu for attacking Iwagakure’s ninja, but declared Kirigakure would fight if war became unavoidable.
• Uchiha Makoto explained his plan to issue paper currency backed by chakra and use a future currency crisis to direct wealth from the Land of Fire into other countries; the invited representatives agreed to support Akatsuki Ninja Village.
• Uchiha Makoto received Senju Tobirama’s letter summoning him and was pleased that Konoha might become involved in his plans.

Uchiha Makoto prepared to capture and study the Tailed Beasts, then met Senju Tobirama to discuss the tensions between Iwagakure and Kirigakure. They agreed that Konoha would join Makoto’s plan to mediate the dispute, expand its influence, and make a film, while secretly pursuing their own interests.

• Uchiha Makoto decided to prepare sealing techniques for the Tailed Beasts and sent a secret letter to the Uzumaki Clan.
• Uchiha Makoto met Senju Tobirama at a teahouse, dodged Tobirama’s kunai, and heard him complain about the dispute between Iwagakure and Kirigakure.
• Uchiha Makoto admitted that he had stirred up the dispute and explained that he wanted to resolve the Canned Food Factory’s fishing-ground problems.
• Uchiha Makoto proposed that Konoha help mediate the dispute, build influence across the Ninja World, and make a film about the effort.
• Senju Tobirama agreed that Konoha should participate, and he and Uchiha Makoto discussed their plans over tea and chess.

Uchiha Makoto and Tobirama Senju discussed their opposing visions for the Ninja World before Tobirama revealed that public opinion in the Land of Fire was aggressively praising Akatsuki Ninja Village and attacking Konoha. Makoto denied orchestrating the campaign, and the two considered how to respond as he suspected the Land of Fire’s higher-ups were behind it.

• Tobirama Senju warned Uchiha Makoto that his radical plans for changing the Ninja World would make him an enemy of existing powers, but Makoto insisted he was right.
• Tobirama told Makoto that newspapers and tabloids in the Land of Fire were praising Akatsuki Ninja Village while disparaging Konoha, and that some nobles had begun requesting Akatsuki ninjas for missions.
• Makoto swore he had not caused the smear campaign, and Tobirama accepted that Makoto was too intelligent to use such an obvious tactic.
• Makoto proposed silencing the rising-star journalist, but Tobirama explained that the journalist had already blamed Konoha in advance if anything happened to him.
• Makoto recommended countering the campaign with paid publicity and investigating the Land of Fire’s higher-ups, whom he suspected of wanting Konoha and Akatsuki Ninja Village to break their alliance.

Tobirama rejected Uchiha Makoto’s offer to intervene in the Land of Fire’s campaign against Konoha, insisting that Konoha would handle the matter itself. Back in Akatsuki Ninja Village, Makoto received a request from the First Tsuchikage to mediate the dispute between Iwagakure and Kirigakure.

• Makoto argued that the Land of Fire’s powerful officials were behind the campaign to smear Konoha, and Tobirama recognized that investigating them could expose the Daimyo’s involvement.
• Makoto offered to help Tobirama deal with the officials, but Tobirama refused, blamed Makoto for Konoha’s predicament, and warned him not to interfere.
• Makoto mocked Konoha’s loyalty and said Akatsuki Ninja Village would welcome Konoha ninja as settlers, while Tobirama insisted Konoha would not rebel against the Land of Fire.
• Tobirama and Makoto exchanged insults before parting, with Tobirama warning Makoto to stay out of Konoha’s investigation.
• Makoto received a secret letter from the First Tsuchikage inviting Akatsuki Ninja Village to mediate Iwagakure and Kirigakure’s dispute, and he accepted the prospect of acting as judge.

Uchiha Makoto prepared to use the First Tsuchikage’s need for mediation to secure commercial benefits for Akatsuki Ninja Village and advance negotiations between Iwagakure and Kirigakure. He also planned to establish an early Six Kage Summit led by Akatsuki Ninja Village, leaving the village poised to shape future negotiations across the Ninja World.

• Uchiha Makoto decided the First Tsuchikage was seeking his help to contain public outrage and used the opportunity to plan how Akatsuki Ninja Village could profit.
• Uchiha Makoto sent Tobirama Senju a brief letter telling him to advance their plan according to the Sharingan’s wishes.
• Uchiha Makoto convened merchants and Fire Country nobles, who proposed trade terms for Iwagakure and agreed to help persuade the Daimyo over the fishing grounds in exchange for canned-food factory profits.
• Uchiha Makoto planned an early Six Kage Summit in Akatsuki Ninja Village, intending to make it a forum for negotiations and expand the village’s influence through trade and investment.

Uchiha Makoto toured Tobirama Senju around Akatsuki Ninja Village before their villages hosted talks between Kirigakure and Iwagakure. Tobirama was stunned by Akatsuki’s booming commerce, research, construction, and finances, and left considering how Konoha could revive its own economy.

• The First Tsuchikage proposed a face-to-face investigation of the Kirigakure-Iwagakure dispute at Akatsuki Ninja Village, and both Konoha and Akatsuki publicly supported him.
• Tobirama Senju arrived in Akatsuki Ninja Village and marveled at its vitality as Uchiha Makoto welcomed him.
• Uchiha Makoto showed Tobirama the bustling commercial district and explained how policies, subsidies, and publicity had attracted merchants from across the Ninja World.
• Makoto refused Tobirama entry to Akatsuki’s High-Tech Industrial Park, and Tobirama denied intending to steal intelligence despite Makoto’s accusations.
• Makoto described plans for a new district and explained that paid Akatsuki ninjas were working on construction and development.
• Tobirama considered closer ties with Konoha’s major merchants to improve the village economy, while Makoto anticipated gains for the Arasaka-affiliated conglomerate.

Uchiha Makoto took Tobirama Senju to the Akatsuki Ninja Village’s Ninja Academy, where Tobirama saw the village’s students and learned how their training could improve the Ninja World’s productivity. Uchiha Makoto then declared his intention to overthrow the Daimyo and nobles, leaving Tobirama unsettled but privately wondering whether Makoto was right.

• Uchiha Makoto and Tobirama Senju visited the Ninja Academy, where the students crowded around Makoto as their revered Lord Shadow.
• Tobirama Senju watched hundreds of students training and questioned why Uchiha Makoto kept enrolling students he considered too weak to become proper ninjas.
• Uchiha Makoto explained that students could learn practical ninjutsu for farming and infrastructure, helping transform the Ninja World instead of serving nobles in battle.
• Uchiha Makoto said he intended to kill the Daimyo and nobles and have ninjas rule the Ninja World, alarming Tobirama Senju.
• Tobirama Senju rejected Makoto’s plan aloud but privately recognized that Makoto was working to improve the Ninja World and might be right.

Uchiha Makoto tried to persuade Tobirama Senju to tolerate the Akatsuki Ninja Village’s operations while the two maneuvered around Konoha and the Land of Fire’s leadership. Tobirama agreed to turn a blind eye in some situations but refused to help deceive Hashirama Senju, leaving Uchiha Makoto determined to reshape his thinking.

• Uchiha Makoto weighed the danger Tobirama Senju posed and decided he needed to weaken Tobirama’s influence while maintaining a careful working relationship with him.
• Uchiha Makoto told Tobirama Senju that his students would spread his Nindo through the Land of Fire and warned that conflicts might force him to take actions others would oppose.
• Uchiha Makoto explained how the Land of Fire’s leaders had retaliated against Konoha after Tobirama Senju blamed Takigakure for the Seika Family massacre, and Tobirama admitted he resented their treatment of him.
• Tobirama Senju warned Uchiha Makoto not to go too far and to leave no evidence, signaling that he would sometimes overlook the Akatsuki Ninja Village’s actions.
• Uchiha Makoto asked whether Tobirama Senju would help if the Feudal Lord involved Hashirama Senju, but Tobirama refused to deceive his brother.
• Uchiha Makoto laughed off the refusal and privately resolved to reshape Tobirama Senju’s thoughts completely.

Uchiha Makoto pitched Senju Tobirama on using Akatsuki Ninja Village’s Six Hokage Building to host a Ninja World peace organization, then agreed to lend Konoha startup funds in Akatsuki Ninja Village’s new currency. The chapter ended with Tobirama wary of Makoto’s motives as the loan could draw Konoha into the currency system.

• Uchiha Makoto showed Senju Tobirama the nearly completed Six Hokage Building and proposed a regular summit organization for resolving disputes among ninja villages.
• Senju Tobirama objected that Konoha should lead the initiative, but he ultimately agreed to let Akatsuki Ninja Village host the summit.
• Senju Tobirama asked Uchiha Makoto for money to fund reforms that would help Konoha catch up with Akatsuki Ninja Village.
• Uchiha Makoto agreed to lend the money at interest, provided the loan was paid in Akatsuki Ninja Village’s new currency, which could be exchanged for precious metals.
• Uchiha Makoto reassured Senju Tobirama that he would not cheat him, but Tobirama remained suspicious.

Uchiha Makoto arranged negotiations with Iwagakure and Kirigakure and prepared to establish Akatsuki Ninja Village Bank, then ordered a search for Kakuzu as a possible bank president. Tobirama Senju questioned Konoha’s economy after comparing it with Akatsuki Ninja Village, while the chapter ended with intelligence ninjas finding the Two-Tails Matatabi.

• Uchiha Makoto agreed on a deal with Tobirama Senju, then returned to work and prepared to receive the Kage of Iwagakure and Kirigakure for negotiations.
• Uchiha Makoto approved orders to establish Akatsuki Ninja Village Bank but, unable to find a suitable president, decided to capture Kakuzu and ordered an Anbu ninja to search for him without informing Konoha.
• Uchiha Makoto bought dango for Tobirama Senju, who spoke with the vendor and learned that ordinary wages had greater purchasing power in Akatsuki Ninja Village than in Konoha.
• Tobirama Senju reflected on Konoha’s economic shortcomings as Uchiha Makoto went home to dinner with Tsubaki Uzumaki.
• Intelligence ninjas from Konoha and Akatsuki Ninja Village found the Two-Tails Matatabi, which briefly became agitated before assuming nothing was wrong.

Uchiha Makoto publicly backed Akatsuki Ninja Village’s new currency before agreeing to join Hashirama and Tobirama Senju in capturing the Two-Tails. The next day, the Shadow Building was reported bombed after Makoto clashed with Tobirama Senju.

• Uchiha Makoto exchanged his savings for the new currency at the Akatsuki Ninja Bank and urged villagers to support it.
• The Clan Leaders exchanged their assets in the VIP room while villagers crowded the bank’s opening.
• Tobirama Senju told Uchiha Makoto that Konoha had found the Two-Tails and that Hashirama wanted them to capture it together.
• Uchiha Makoto agreed to go at the end of the month, after Kirigakure and Iwagakure arrived.
• Tobirama Senju kicked open Makoto’s office door again, and Makoto ordered the ninjas to stop him as a fight broke out.
• The next day, news spread that the Shadow Building had been bombed during Makoto’s supposed ninjutsu experiment, leaving one person injured.

After defeating Senju Tobirama, Uchiha Makoto treated his injuries and prepared with him for Kirigakure and Iwagakure’s arrival. The First Tsuchikage and First Mizukage arrived at the prosperous Akatsuki Ninja Village for negotiations, where Uchiha Makoto welcomed the gathering of ninja forces and hoped to unite them in the future.

• Senju Tobirama admitted that Uchiha Makoto had overwhelmed him in their fight and resolved to accelerate his forbidden-technique research.
• Uchiha Makoto visited Senju Tobirama, arranged medical treatment for his injuries, and confirmed details for the coming negotiations.
• Uchiha Makoto and Senju Tobirama welcomed the First Tsuchikage and Iwagakure’s delegation, whose leader was stunned by the Akatsuki Ninja Village’s prosperity.
• Uchiha Makoto welcomed the First Mizukage and Kirigakure’s delegation into the Six Hokage Building, where representatives of other ninja forces had gathered to observe the negotiations.
• Uchiha Makoto looked over the assembled forces and said he hoped the Akatsuki Ninja Village would one day be able to rally everyone with a single call.

Uchiha Makoto opened negotiations between Iwagakure and Kirigakure, urging peace while privately siding with the First Tsuchikage over an attack on Iwagakure shinobi. The First Mizukage stopped denying Kirigakure's involvement, allowing the parties to move on to compensation talks.

• Uchiha Makoto watched Takigakure shinobi promote canned fish before directing the Mizukage and Iwagakure delegations to their seats.
• Uchiha Makoto delivered a speech calling for peace, while Tobirama Senju silently blamed him for helping cause the Kumogakure War.
• The First Tsuchikage accused Kirigakure shinobi of attacking an Iwagakure team in the Land of Iron, and the First Mizukage denied the charge and demanded evidence.
• The First Tsuchikage presented battle traces and Kirigakure gear, but the First Mizukage dismissed them as inconclusive clues.
• Uchiha Makoto sided with the First Tsuchikage, urged the First Mizukage to investigate Kirigakure's role, and gave him a face-saving explanation.
• The First Mizukage acknowledged Uchiha Makoto's explanation, and the negotiations moved toward compensation.