Chapter Summaries

Itachi awakened his Sharingan after watching Sarutobi Hiruzen host Kirigakure’s delegation and became determined to oppose the damaging alliance. His questions pushed Uchiha Fugaku to confront Hiruzen, and Fugaku stormed into the Sarutobi residence as the negotiations continued.

• Sarutobi Hiruzen warmly welcomed Hozuki Mangetsu and the Kirigakure delegation while hosting them at the Sarutobi Clan Compound.
• Itachi watched Hiruzen entertain Kirigakure and awakened a One-Tomoe Sharingan, then ran to find his father.
• Itachi challenged Fugaku over Konoha’s cooperation with Kirigakure, arguing that the agreement harmed Konoha and had been forced upon it.
• Fugaku agreed with Itachi, summoned Inabi and Tekka, and set out for the Sarutobi Clan Compound as Uchiha clan members cheered.
• Hiruzen and Mangetsu discussed the project’s profit-sharing terms before Fugaku burst in and angrily confronted Hiruzen.

Uchiha Fugaku exposed the infrastructure agreement with Kirigakure as unauthorized and forced Sarutobi Hiruzen to postpone it until after Konoha’s Fifth Hokage election. With the election set for seven days later, Fugaku prepared to face the divided Hokage faction and declared he was certain to win.

• Fugaku barged into the banquet and challenged Hiruzen’s support for the infrastructure alliance, arguing that his own signature had no legal force without Hokage approval.
• Hozuki Mangetsu pressed Hiruzen for a decision, so Hiruzen claimed Konoha could not sign the agreement before the Fifth Hokage was elected and revealed that the election was seven days away.
• After Mangetsu and the Konoha Jonin left, Hiruzen fumed while Danzo, Utatane Koharu, and the Hokage faction began campaigning against the Uchiha.
• The Uchiha and the Hokage faction competed for voters with posters, speeches, and food giveaways as the election campaign intensified.
• Fugaku told Mangetsu that the Hokage faction’s rival candidates would divide their support, while the Uchiha had only him as a candidate.
• Mangetsu assured Fugaku that someone had already paid for his support, and Fugaku resolved to stay in Konoha and become Hokage.

As Konohagakure’s Hokage election intensified, Sarutobi Hiruzen backed Shimura Danzō against Uchiha Fugaku. In Hueco Mundo, Uchiha Shisui awakened from his sealed experiment, learned how events had unfolded, and unleashed his new Hollowfication Bankai against Yuki Yoru.

• Sarutobi Hiruzen failed to unite the candidates behind Torifu Akimichi and chose to support Danzō instead of Fugaku.
• Danzō promised Hiruzen he would leave his old methods behind as Hokage and stop the Uchiha, and Hiruzen entrusted his hopes to him.
• Shisui broke free of the Ninety-Six Billion Fire Cage Seal and remembered his identity, his deal with Yuki Yoru, and the Hollow-Shinigami experiment.
• Yuki Yoru told Shisui that Fugaku was likely to win the election, gave him a scroll detailing recent events, and asked him to obtain contracts from the Uchiha in Kirigakure.
• Shisui released his unstable power on Shadow Island, entered Hollowfication Bankai, and challenged Yuki Yoru to face Clear Moon, Bright Wind.

Hollowfied Shisui unleashed his Bankai and attacked Yuki Yoru, but Yoru countered his abilities and overwhelmed him. As Shisui entered a deeper stage of Hollowfication, he used Hadō #96, Ittō Kasō, against Yoru.

• Hollows fled Clear Mist Island as Shisui's immense spiritual pressure filled Hueco Mundo.
• Yuki Yoru urged Shisui to release his power, and Shisui admitted that he wanted to kill Yoru before activating his Bankai, Clear Moon, Bright Wind.
• Shisui's Bankai stopped the flow of time across the area, but Yoru escaped his strike and explained that Shisui's spiritual pressure was still weaker than his own.
• Shisui used Shinra Tensei and Banshō Ten'in, but Yoru's invisible defense prevented either ability from reaching him.
• Shisui advanced to a higher stage of Hollowfication and attacked Yoru, who caught his blade and struck his chest.
• Shisui released a pillar of fire with Hadō #96, Ittō Kasō.

Uchiha Shisui survived Yuki Yoru’s test of Hollowfication and reunited with Tsunade, Kushina, and Orochimaru in Kirigakure. Together with Yoru, they watched the election of Konohagakure’s Fifth Hokage begin, with the Uchiha Clan possibly in contention.

• Shisui unleashed Hadō #96: Ittō Kasō against Yoru, but Yoru emerged unharmed, welcomed Shisui back, and Shisui’s Hollowfication proved powerful but dangerous.
• Yoru gave Yumi Shisui’s research report and arranged for Shisui to help her collect Hollowfication data before Shisui left for the Uchiha compound.
• Kushina intercepted Shisui and brought him to meet Tsunade and Orochimaru, who questioned him about Hollowfication and his Rinnegan.
• Tsunade told Shisui that Konohagakure was holding its Fifth Hokage election and that someone from the Uchiha Clan might be chosen.
• Yoru and the others prepared food and watched the election on a Spirit Power screen as Hiruzen Sarutobi began his speech.

The Fifth Hokage election began with Uchiha Fugaku leading by a wide margin, but Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura began transferring their votes to Shimura Danzo. The vote count had not yet been settled, and Fugaku and the Uchiha were furious at the Hokage faction’s maneuver.

• Sarutobi Hiruzen opened the Fifth Hokage election, and shinobi cast ballots for eleven candidates.
• Uchiha Fugaku drew the longest voting line and appeared far ahead of Shimura Danzo and the other candidates.
• Uchiha Shisui suspected Sarutobi Hiruzen and Shimura Danzo had a hidden plan, while Yuki Yoru and the others watched the election from Kirigakure.
• After voting ended, Utatane Koharu dumped her ballots into Shimura Danzo’s box and declared that she was transferring her votes to him.
• Mitokado Homura also announced that he would give all his votes to Shimura Danzo, provoking the Uchiha and activating Uchiha Fugaku’s Mangekyō Sharingan.

Sarutobi Hiruzen backed Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura’s interference in the Hokage election, and the other candidates handed their votes to Shimura Danzō. Hyuga Hiashi then unexpectedly gave his votes to Uchiha Fugaku, hoping Hozuki Mangetsu’s promise would restore the Hyuga Clan’s lost power.

• Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura disrupted the election, but Sarutobi Hiruzen ruled that their actions did not violate the rules.
• Uchiha Fugaku challenged Sarutobi Hiruzen’s ruling but stayed calm as ANBU and Root prepared for possible violence.
• Torifu Akimichi, Aburame Shibi, and the other candidates withdrew and transferred their votes to Shimura Danzō.
• Hyuga Hiashi gave all his votes to Uchiha Fugaku, shocking the hall and the Hyuga Clan’s Main Family.
• Hyuga Hiashi recalled Hozuki Mangetsu’s promise that helping Fugaku win would restore the Hyuga Clan’s ancient glory and power.

Hyuga Hiashi’s decisive vote helped Uchiha Fugaku win the election for Fifth Hokage, while Yuki Yoru revealed that he had secured the Hyuga’s support by promising research and information. Yoru then told Hiashi that the Hyuga descended from Hamura Ōtsutsuki and showed him evidence of the Ōtsutsuki Clan on the moon.

• Hyuga Hiashi voted for Uchiha Fugaku, enraging the Hyuga Main Family and giving Fugaku the decisive advantage over Shimura Danzō.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen announced that Fugaku had won and become Konohagakure’s candidate for Fifth Hokage.
• Yuki Yoru told Tsunade and the others that he had traded Byakugan research and information about the people in the sky for Hiashi’s support.
• Uchiha Inabi left for the Land of Fire’s capital with the Hokage candidate list, while the Uchiha Clan celebrated and Fugaku moved into the Hokage’s office.
• Yuki Yoru visited Hiashi and revealed that the Hyuga and Kaguya Clans shared roots in Hamura Ōtsutsuki.
• Yoru gave Hiashi a scroll depicting the Ōtsutsuki Clan, descendants of Hamura who lived on the moon.

Yuki Yoru revealed to Hiashi how the Byakugan could evolve and warned him that the Hyuga Clan’s treatment of its Branch Family risked disaster. He recognized Hinata’s exceptional Byakugan and began discussing how to address her weak Gentle Fist performance, leaving Hiashi to confront how his strict upbringing might be limiting her.

• Yoru showed Hiashi research on the Byakugan’s evolution into the Tenseigan and Jōgan, and Hiashi feared the Hyuga Clan’s Caged Bird system could provoke a Branch Family uprising.
• Yoru criticized the Caged Bird system, and Hiashi acknowledged the Main Family’s privilege had made the clan arrogant and stagnant.
• Yoru noticed Hinata nearby and told Hiashi that his daughter had exceptional potential, despite her poor results in the Gentle Fist assessment.
• Hiashi brought Hinata to meet Yoru, who praised the purity of her Byakugan and said her weak physical responses could be addressed.
• At dinner, Hinata behaved timidly under Hiashi’s strict expectations, and Yoru told him that raising her this way could make her ordinary.

Yuki Yoru explained that Hiashi’s strict rules had kept Hinata from eating enough, then accepted her as his personal disciple instead of becoming her godfather. He gave Hinata a mysterious blue crystal and placed a star-shaped seal on her neck, leaving Hiashi eager for her future under Yoru’s guidance.

• Yuki Yoru told Hiashi that the Hyuga Clan’s pressure and restrictions had prevented Hinata from developing properly.
• With Hiashi’s permission, Hinata ate two tablefuls of food, revealing that she had been going hungry.
• Hiashi thanked Yuki Yoru and proposed that Hinata make him her godfather.
• Yuki Yoru declined the godfather role but offered to take Hinata as his personal disciple, and Hiashi eagerly agreed.
• Hinata called Yuki Yoru her teacher, and he gave her a sky-blue crystal that produced a star-shaped seal on her neck.

Uchiha Fugaku received the Daimyo’s approval and became Konohagakure’s Fifth Hokage, prompting Kumogakure to plot a Byakugan theft and leaving Ōnoki to confront Iwagakure’s decline. Deidara’s explosive clay invention reminded Ōnoki that Iwagakure might still have a future.

• Uchiha Fugaku gained the Daimyo’s approval and officially became Konohagakure’s Fifth Hokage.
• The Fourth Raikage decided Kumogakure would target the Hyuga Clan’s Byakugan during peace negotiations with Konohagakure.
• Ōnoki worried that Iwagakure’s losses had left it vulnerable while the other great villages grew stronger.
• Deidara showed Ōnoki a tiny clay spider that exploded and wrecked the Tsuchikage’s office.
• Ōnoki recognized Deidara’s talent and took heart that the boy could help secure Iwagakure’s future.

Obito learned that Kirigakure and Yuki Yoru had gained influence over Konoha and that Orochimaru’s defection had exposed their plans, but Black Zetsu offered him a possible path to become a Reincarnated Six Paths. Meanwhile, Uchiha Fugaku took office as Fifth Hokage, embraced the infrastructure partnership he had opposed, and began reshaping Konoha’s leadership with Hozuki Mangetsu’s support.

• Obito learned that the Hyuga Clan had helped Fugaku become Hokage and that Yuki Yoru had taken Hyuga Hiashi’s daughter as his disciple.
• White Zetsu reported that five Tailed Beasts were missing, and Obito suspected Yuki Yoru was killing them whenever they revived.
• Black Zetsu revealed that Orochimaru had defected to Kirigakure and presented a plan to create a Reincarnated Six Paths by combining the descendants’ bloodlines with Hiruko’s Chimera and nature energy.
• Obito embraced the plan and ordered Zetsu to gather information about the Sage of Six Paths’ descendants, while Black Zetsu considered bringing Madara out early as a backup.
• Fugaku praised the trilateral infrastructure partnership, issued an Edict of Self-Blame for his earlier opposition, and began replacing Sarutobi Clan influence in Konoha’s power structure.
• Fugaku welcomed Hozuki Mangetsu to his office, and the two joked about Fugaku holding the Hokage position for decades.

Uchiha Fugaku signed an agreement to advance the Three-Nation Infrastructure Alliance and copied Kirigakure’s policies to improve Konoha. His reforms made him popular among civilian shinobi and weakened the Sarutobi and Shimura clans’ influence, while Sarutobi Hiruzen and the elders failed to stop him.

• Uchiha Fugaku signed Hozuki Mangetsu’s cooperation agreement and learned that Yuki Yoru had taken Hiashi’s daughter as his student.
• After Mangetsu suggested studying Kirigakure’s policies, Fugaku copied its education and training reforms and made low-rank jutsu available to Konoha shinobi.
• Fugaku established the Konoha Library and opened D-rank and C-rank jutsu to senior Academy students, earning widespread praise.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen, Danzo, Utatane Koharu, and the other elders confronted Fugaku, but he refused to withdraw the reforms and asserted his authority as Hokage.
• Fugaku recognized that the reforms reduced the Sarutobi and Shimura clans’ advantage in access to jutsu and threatened the influence they had built under Hiruzen.

Fugaku assigned Sarutobi Hiruzen to lead peace talks with Kumogakure after receiving Orochimaru’s Sharingan research, while Kumogakure’s delegation secretly planned to steal Hinata’s Byakugan with help from a hidden accomplice. Yuki Yoru learned the delegation had arrived and chose not to increase surveillance, confident that Hinata was protected.

• Fugaku’s reforms helped Konohagakure recover, and he gave Sarutobi Hiruzen the Kumogakure peace mission after Hiruzen handed over research on the Sharingan.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen welcomed the Kumogakure delegation and arranged for them to stay at an inn beside the Sarutobi Clan Compound.
• Luo Te Yi discovered Konohagakure’s barriers and Uchiha patrols made the planned Byakugan theft difficult, but a mysterious accomplice offered to help him evade detection and break through the Hyuga Clan’s barrier.
• Yuki Yoru learned that the Kumogakure delegation had arrived and decided not to monitor them more closely, trusting the protections he had arranged for Hinata.

Yuki Yoru took Hinata to Konohagakure’s peace festival, where he saw Naruto being shunned and paid for his ramen. He then confronted Fifth Hokage Uchiha Fugaku about Naruto’s neglect, warning him to honor Minato Namikaze’s sacrifice as the chapter ended with Fugaku shaken.

• Sarutobi Hiruzen finalized and signed a peace treaty with Kumogakure after a month of negotiations, and Konohagakure celebrated with a festival.
• Yuki Yoru took Hinata through the festival despite Hiashi’s objections, telling him that a clan needed the people’s support.
• Yoru noticed Naruto waiting at Ichiraku Ramen Shop with an expired coupon while villagers insulted him.
• Yoru gave Teuchi a hundred thousand ryo to cover Naruto’s ramen, and Naruto tearfully vowed never to forget him.
• After sending Hinata back with Hyuga Clan Jonin, Yoru met Uchiha Fugaku and warned him that Naruto deserved better treatment as Minato Namikaze’s son; Fugaku’s Mangekyo Sharingan opened in alarm.

Yuki Yoru warned Uchiha Fugaku that Kushina could learn how Konohagakure had mistreated Minato, prompting Fugaku to promise to take Minato into the Uchiha compound. Meanwhile, Obito infiltrated the Hyuga Clan, abducted Hikaru, and then Hinata was reported abducted as well.

• Yuki Yoru told Fugaku that Kushina was alive in Kirigakure and warned him to protect Minato, so Fugaku vowed to bring Minato to live with the Uchiha Clan.
• Fugaku realized Uchiha Shisui was behind Kirigakure's support and resolved not to disappoint him or the Uchiha Clan.
• After Konohagakure's celebration and the Kumogakure delegation's visit, Obito infiltrated the Hyuga shrine while Hinata practiced Gentle Fist nearby.
• Obito revealed his interest in the Byakugan, chose Hyuga Hikaru as a target, and abducted him with Space-Time Ninjutsu.
• Hiashi learned that Hikaru had been abducted and prepared to seek help from the Fifth Hokage, but a messenger reported that Hinata had also been abducted.

Kumogakure shinobi kidnapped Hinata and other Hyuga children to steal the Byakugan, setting Konoha against the newly signed peace agreement. Hiashi caught up with Luo Te Yi, who held the unconscious Hinata at kunai-point as the pursuit reached a standoff.

• Hiashi learned that Hinata, Hyuga Hikari, Hyuga Kagami, and several Branch Family children had disappeared, then ordered a pursuit and alerted the Hokage.
• Fugaku sent ANBU to support the Hyuga Clan and ordered Uchiha Satsuna to seal off the Sarutobi Clan compound after learning Kumogakure's delegation had not returned.
• Uchiha Satsuna incapacitated the Kumogakure shinobi present and told Sarutobi Hiruzen that the Hyuga's bloodline limit had been stolen.
• Uchiha Satsuna ordered the Yamanaka Clan brought in as Sarutobi Hiruzen realized the Kumogakure delegation might have used him to prepare the abduction.
• Luo Te Yi and the other Kumogakure shinobi split up while fleeing, but Hiashi caught up with Luo Te Yi, who threatened Hinata with a kunai.

Luo Te Yi held Hinata hostage during the Hyuga Clan’s confrontation with the Kumogakure delegation, while Fugaku recovered stolen Byakugan and learned that Luo Te Yi knew the Mangekyō Sharingan’s vision cost. Hinata appeared to be fatally wounded, but Yuki Yoru’s hidden safeguard reversed her injuries and killed Luo Te Yi, leaving Konohagakure facing political fallout and possible war.

• Luo Te Yi threatened to kill Hinata unless Hiashi let him escape, while Hiashi suspected a Space-Time Ninjutsu user was nearby.
• Fugaku returned with a restrained Kumogakure shinobi and a culture jar containing stolen Byakugan, and Hiashi stored the eyes away.
• Fugaku confronted Luo Te Yi, who revealed the Mangekyō Sharingan could gradually blind its user and claimed Kumogakure would win the war.
• Obito secretly blocked Fugaku’s genjutsu, allowing Luo Te Yi to stab Hinata and inflict fatal wounds before Hiashi struck him down.
• Hinata’s wounds vanished as Yuki Yoru’s Star Cross sigil glowed, while matching injuries appeared on Luo Te Yi and killed him.
• Hiashi warned that the deaths of the Kumogakure delegation could give Kumogakure grounds to escalate the conflict, and Fugaku told him to take Hinata home.

Fugaku confronted Obito after discovering him at the Hyuga Clan and fought him with Susanoo, fire, and his Mangekyō illusion. Obito shattered the illusion by unleashing his grief over Rin, then subdued the injured Fugaku with a Black Rod of Yin-Yang Release.

• Fugaku inspected Luo Te Yi's injuries, recognized that someone had reflected the wounds, and called out the hidden intruder.
• Obito appeared in his Spiral Mask and claimed to be Madara Uchiha, while Fugaku accused him of being an experimental subject and attacked with Susanoo.
• Obito used Kamui to evade Fugaku's attacks and countered with Wood Release, but Fugaku trapped the battlefield with Uchiha Fire Formation and struck with Susanoo and flames.
• Fugaku's left-eye Mangekyō technique drew Obito into a world where he relived killing Rin and witnessed Yuki Yoru kill Kakashi, driving him into despair.
• Obito's Dojutsu Power shattered Fugaku's illusion and caused a backlash that left Fugaku bleeding and disoriented.
• Obito pressed a Black Rod of Yin-Yang Release against Fugaku's neck and told him that he had lost.

Uchiha Obito tried to manipulate Uchiha Fugaku into helping him take children, while Yuki Yoru developed a Quincy defensive technique and learned of Obito’s plans. The chapter ended with Fugaku arriving before Yoru to report urgent information.

• Uchiha Obito defeated Uchiha Fugaku in a clash of Mangekyō power, then offered to restore Fugaku’s Dojutsu Power in exchange for help obtaining several children.
• Yuki Yoru showed Miroku Static Blood Armor, a Quincy technique that strengthened the body by reinforcing its blood vessels with Spiritual Particles.
• Miroku tested Static Blood Armor and found that it blocked Yoru’s ice spike, while Yoru explained that he was still developing the offensive technique Blut Arterie.
• Yuki Yoru learned through his surveillance cells that Obito had targeted Kaguya Kimimaro, a young genius suffering from a bloodline illness.
• Uchiha Fugaku used the Reverse Summoning Technique to appear before Yuki Yoru and announce that he had extremely important information to report.