Chapter Summaries

Uchiha Kei fought five Kirigakure clan leaders, who mistook him for the Mysterious Uchiha and imagined a conspiracy between Konoha and the Mizukage. He revealed Susanoo’s full power, killed Hozuki Ginyue, and prepared to finish off the four surviving leaders as they launched another desperate attack.

• Uchiha Kei analyzed the Shirai Clan and Hagoromo Clan abilities after their attacks struck his Susanoo.
• Uchiha Kei emerged from the lake in his fourth-stage Susanoo and split the artificial lake with a sword strike, while the five clan leaders guessed he was the Mysterious Uchiha behind a conspiracy.
• Hozuki Ginyue and Hoshigaki Shihira trapped Uchiha Kei in an oil-filled Water Prison and joined the others in a combined attack, but his towering black Susanoo survived the explosion unharmed.
• Uchiha Kei cut a massive chasm through the land and killed Hozuki Ginyue with another sword strike, leaving Hoshigaki Shihira, Hagoromo Masaya, Shirai Naoki, and Fuma Yohei badly injured.
• Fuma Yohei restrained Uchiha Kei with Mandala Binding while the other three prepared their strongest attacks, and Uchiha Kei watched them calmly as they burned through their life force.

Hyuga Aya and Imai Kenta headed toward Uchiha Kei after realizing he was responsible for the upheaval, while Kei defeated the clan heads with Perfect Susanoo. The battle left Hagoromo Masaya and Hoshigaki Shihira cornered as Kei declared their end was already decided.

• Hyuga Aya met Imai Kenta on the way to Uchiha Kei, and they confirmed that their battles had involved Mei Terumi and Kisame Hoshigaki.
• Uchiha Kei broke Fuma Yohei's Mandala Binding and killed him, leaving two of the five clan heads dead.
• Shirai Naoki summoned his golden eagle while Hagoromo Masaya and Hoshigaki Shihira launched attacks against Kei.
• Shirai Naoki merged with the eagle and tried to flee, but Uchiha Kei's Susanoo cut him down with a sword wave.
• Uchiha Kei faced the wounded Hagoromo Masaya and Hoshigaki Shihira and told them their end had already been decided.

Uchiha Kei defeated the five Clan Heads and captured the dying Hagoromo Masaya to study his unusual chakra-fusing bloodline. He left with Imai Kenta and Hyuga Aya, raising the possibility of fusing more than three chakra natures and discovering what lies beyond Kekkei Tōta.

• Uchiha Kei recovered after using Perfect Susanoo to defeat the five Clan Heads, reflecting that the battle had pushed him despite his overwhelming power.
• Uchiha Kei found the barely alive Hagoromo Masaya and offered to use Genjutsu before having the Yamanaka Clan interrogate him.
• Imai Kenta and Hyuga Aya reached the devastated battlefield and found Uchiha Kei beside Hagoromo Masaya's body.
• Uchiha Kei sealed Hagoromo Masaya's body in a scroll to study the Hagoromo Clan's ability to gain and fuse chakra natures.
• Uchiha Kei asked what might result from fusing four or five chakra natures, prompting Imai Kenta and Hyuga Aya to consider whether it could help them unlock their genes.
• Uchiha Kei told Imai Kenta that the other Clan Heads were dead and that he had discovered something interesting.

Shirai Naoki reached the Kirigakure cleanup squad while dying from Uchiha Kei’s Amaterasu and warned that the Mizukage had betrayed the Genji faction by selling its information to Konoha. After Naoki died, Shirai Shinichi led the survivors back to Kirigakure to report what had happened.

• Shirai Shinichi’s squad prepared to burn the bodies of the dead Kekkei Genkai clan members as tremors from the distant battle shook the area.
• Shirai Naoki arrived in his golden eagle form, burned by Amaterasu, and swallowed Shirai Shinichi’s golden eagle to sustain himself.
• Amaterasu spread to two Mist Shinobi who tried to help Naoki; one died in the flames, while the other cut off his burning arm and survived.
• Shirai Naoki told the squad that the Mizukage had sold their information to Konoha, that Uchiha Kei was the attacker behind the earlier incidents, and that the other Clan Heads were dead or near death.
• Shirai Naoki gave Shirai Shinichi a chakra-bearing bone and entrusted him with the Shirai Clan before Amaterasu consumed him.
• Shirai Shinichi ordered the survivors to return to Kirigakure and keep Naoki’s revelations secret until they could report them.

Uchiha Kei explained why the information Shirai Naoki sent was unlikely to cause trouble, then returned to the Konoha rally point and found several Kirigakure shinobi captured. He noticed that Hozuki Mangetsu’s neck wound looked unusual and turned his attention to Kakashi.

• Uchiha Kei told Imai Kenta and Hyuga Aya that Shirai Naoki’s information would likely be suppressed because the Shirai Clan needed someone to carry it back and Kirigakure had reasons to contain it.
• Minato ordered the Yuki Clan to leave the devastated battlefield quickly and forbade his people from discussing what they had seen.
• Uchiha Kei, Imai Kenta, and Hyuga Aya reached the rally point, where Konoha shinobi were treating injured prisoners and allies.
• Imai Kenta identified the captured Mei Terumi, Hozuki Mangetsu, and Kisame Hoshigaki, explaining how he and Hyuga Aya had subdued them.
• Uchiha Kei examined Hozuki Mangetsu’s twisted neck wound, realized it did not look like a sword injury, and looked toward Kakashi.

Uchiha Kei and his team discussed their captured Kirigakure shinobi while Kakashi explained the strange power he had used against Hozuki Mangetsu. Kei helped Kakashi awaken his Mangekyo Sharingan, revealing that it was a precious gift Obito had left him.

• Uchiha Kei checked on the wounded and ordered his team to prepare to regroup and return to Konoha.
• Kei, Imai Kenta, Hyuga Aya, and Kakashi discussed their captives and considered the possible value of Mei Terumi, Kisame Hoshigaki, and Hozuki Mangetsu.
• Kakashi told Kei that a strange state during his fight with Hozuki Mangetsu let him read movements and strike a weakness, but also caused space to twist around Mangetsu's neck.
• Kei used his Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan to draw out the power in Kakashi's Sharingan until it awakened as a Mangekyo Sharingan.
• Kei told Kakashi that the Mangekyo was a gift Obito had left him, and Kakashi tearfully called it precious.

Uchiha Kei returned to Konoha with Kakashi and the rescued Kirigakure clans, then advised Minato and Konoha’s leaders on settling the refugees. He argued that the Yuki Clan should take a new public surname, and Minato asked Kei to suggest one.

• Kakashi adjusted to his Mangekyō Sharingan while Kei encouraged him to honor Obito’s gift and reassured the others about his condition.
• Hyuga Aya asked Kei for combat missions, and he agreed before the group reached Konoha with several hundred rescued refugees.
• Shiranui Genma took charge of the refugees as Kei and his companions went to meet Namikaze Minato and Konoha’s leaders.
• Kei declined to choose where Minato’s clan would settle and suggested that the Yuki Clan adopt a new public name to make its defection easier for Konoha to accept.
• Minato agreed that the Yuki name would no longer be used publicly, then asked Kei for a suggestion; Kei proposed the surname “Yuki.”

Uchiha Kei watched the newly arrived Kirigakure refugees establish the Yuki Clan in Konoha, then sparred with Hyuga Aya while they discussed her research and Kakashi’s Mangekyo. The chapter ended with Uchiha Kei effortlessly controlling their match as spectators watched.

• Minato accepted the Kirigakure refugees into the Yuki Clan, gave them the surname Yuki, and chose to open their compound to the public.
• Uchiha Kei sparred with Hyuga Aya at the training grounds behind the Uchiha Clan Compound while Imai Kenta watched.
• Uchiha Kei asked Hyuga Aya about her research on Hagoromo Masaya’s body, and she said the genetic investigation was still underway.
• Hyuga Aya told Uchiha Kei that Kakashi had questioned her about the Sharingan and Mangekyo, so she had sent him to Uchiha Kei for guidance.
• Uchiha Kei told Hyuga Aya that Kakashi had come to him and that he had offered suggestions, then continued sparring while the spectators watched.

Shirai Shinichi reported the destruction of the five Clan Heads to Genji, who decided to conceal the losses and feign cooperation with the Mizukage. In Konoha, Sarutobi Hiruzen learned that Uchiha Kei had killed the Clan Heads and captured Mei Terumi, while Kei visited the prisoners and considered recruiting Ninja with the potential to become Mizukage.

• Shirai Shinichi told Genji that the five Clan Heads had been wiped out and shared Shirai Naoki's intelligence about a conspiracy between Konoha and the Mizukage.
• Genji, unable to challenge the Mizukage without his lost forces, ordered Shirai Shinichi to hide the truth and pretend his mission had merely failed.
• Uchiha Shisui reported to Sarutobi Hiruzen that Uchiha Kei had killed five Clan Heads and captured Mei Terumi.
• Uchiha Kei, Imai Kenta, and Hyuga Aya went to the Anbu prison to visit the captured Ninja.
• Uchiha Kei said he wanted to recruit the Shark Face and suggested that two other prisoners also had the potential to become Mizukage.

Uchiha Kei visited the Kirigakure prisoners and tried to recruit a despairing Kisame Hoshigaki by offering him a chance to find a new purpose. He told Mei Terumi that he had killed the five Clan Heads and captured Hozuki Mangetsu, leaving her to hope Elder Genji prevailed in Kirigakure’s coming infighting.

• Uchiha Kei considered Hozuki Mangetsu a potential future Mizukage and decided to keep him as a possible asset.
• Uchiha Kei visited Kisame Hoshigaki, whose faith in Kirigakure had collapsed after his unit was betrayed and killed.
• Uchiha Kei urged Kisame Hoshigaki to seek a new purpose, and Kisame showed a clear reaction to the offer.
• Uchiha Kei checked on Mei Terumi, who accused the Mizukage of conspiring against the Genji Faction.
• Uchiha Kei told Mei Terumi that he had killed the five Clan Heads and that Hozuki Mangetsu was also captive.
• Uchiha Kei warned Mei Terumi she might remain in Konoha for years and told her to hope Elder Genji won Kirigakure’s internal struggle.

Three years after Konoha’s reforms began, Uchiha Kei saw the village become the Ninja World’s strongest and prepare to expand its influence among neighboring small countries. On his twentieth birthday, as friends urged him to marry Hyuga Aya and a visitor arrived, Kei anticipated the start of a new phase of plans and action.

• Konoha’s funding and reforms accelerated its development, while its new firearms were banned because they were ineffective against ninja and dangerous in civilian hands.
• Namikaze Minato gained broad support, and the Yuki gradually adapted to life in Konoha and its ninja system.
• Mei Terumi remained a captive with sealed chakra and regular blood draws, while despairing over Kirigakure’s prospects; Kisame Hoshigaki and Hozuki Mangetsu accepted Uchiha Kei’s offers and began settling into Konoha.
• Uchiha Kei, Imai Kenta, and Uchiha Keisuke discussed their plans and Kei’s relationship with Hyuga Aya during his birthday dinner gathering.
• A visitor arrived at Uchiha Kei’s home as he prepared to begin a new volume of plans and actions.

Iori chose to keep her memories and proved herself as Uchiha Kei’s research assistant, so he decided not to erase them. On Uchiha Kei’s twentieth birthday, Naruto and Sasuke delivered an early gift, while Kei hinted that a plan he had started three years earlier was proceeding as intended.

• Iori persuaded Uchiha Kei to let her prove herself, and after three months of assisting Hyuga Aya and his research, he decided to preserve her memories.
• Uchiha Kei arranged for Iori to pursue her chosen path after graduation, and she became a volunteer caregiver at the Orphanage.
• Naruto and Sasuke arrived at Uchiha Kei’s home before his birthday dinner and gave him their present and wishes.
• After the boys left, Uchiha Kei told Imai Kenta that a plan he had set in motion three years earlier was going according to plan.

Uchiha Kei discussed the growing divide within the Hyuga Clan and the changed relationships among the children in Konoha. After Naruto and Sasuke celebrated coming in first, Sasuke headed to find Shisui and Itachi, while Naruto followed despite his mother's warning to keep his distance from Shisui.

• Uchiha Keisuke worried that Kei might harm Shisui, but Kei said he would not casually act against his clan.
• Kei, Hyuga Aya, and Imai Kenta discussed the Hyuga Clan's division and Hiashi's preparations, while Kei offered to ask Fugaku to keep Sasuke from bothering Neji.
• Kei reflected on how Naruto's upbringing and the Hyuga siblings' closeness had changed the future relationships he knew from the Original work.
• Naruto and Sasuke celebrated coming in first, but Sasuke declined Naruto's suggestions and decided to train with Shisui and Itachi.
• Naruto remembered his mother's warning to keep his distance from Shisui, then followed Sasuke without knowing how to explain it.

Shisui and Itachi sparred, and Shisui revealed he could not attend Uchiha Kei’s birthday because of a mission, leaving Sasuke and Naruto puzzled. After the birthday banquet, Kei escorted Aya home, and they encountered a concealed Anbu member on the way.

• Shisui defeated Itachi in their sparring match by keeping him trapped in a Genjutsu, then discussed how their Sharingan had awakened.
• Shisui told Itachi he would miss Kei’s birthday because he had a mission, and he gently turned Sasuke away when Sasuke arrived hoping to train.
• Sasuke and Naruto watched Shisui and Itachi leave, and Naruto realized Shisui was avoiding the birthday party.
• After Kei’s birthday banquet, Kei walked Aya back toward the Hyuga Clan compound late at night.
• Kei and Aya discussed the precautions he had made to protect her and the clan, then noticed an Anbu member hiding nearby.

Yakushi Kabuto told Uchiha Kei that Orochimaru had disappeared after a Byakugan user killed Manda, leading Kei to suspect the moon-dwelling Otsutsuki were involved. On the moon, Otsutsuki Masaya revealed that Orochimaru had reached their territory and ordered him kept alive for interrogation about the Ninja World.

• Yakushi Kabuto reported that Orochimaru had gone missing after he failed to meet him and the snakes of Ryuchi Cave said Manda had been killed by a Byakugan user.
• Uchiha Kei suspected Orochimaru had encountered the Otsutsuki on the moon and told Kabuto to bring him anything Orochimaru had left behind.
• Uchiha Kei told Hyuga Aya that Orochimaru had likely found the moon-dwellers and might be in danger.
• Otsutsuki Masaya considered the weakened state of his clan and the threat posed by Orochimaru, who had appeared inside the moon a month earlier.
• Otsutsuki Masaya ordered Otsutsuki Toru to deploy the completed puppets and keep Orochimaru alive to extract intelligence about the ground and the Ten-Tails' shell.

Uchiha Kei and Namikaze Minato discussed Orochimaru’s disappearance, Kirigakure, and the risks of sending Kei’s squad to investigate the captors. After making plans to cover their duties, Kei prepared to travel to the moon and confront the Otsutsuki clan’s power.

• Uchiha Kei told Namikaze Minato that Orochimaru had vanished, Manda was dead, and the Ryuchi Cave contract still listed Orochimaru.
• Uchiha Kei explained that Imai Kenta and Hyuga Aya had inferred Obito’s identity from Kakashi’s Mangekyo, and Namikaze Minato accepted that they could keep the secret.
• Uchiha Kei advised continued surveillance of Kisame Hoshigaki and Hozuki Mangetsu, while Namikaze Minato discussed the possibility of making Hozuki Mangetsu Mizukage.
• Uchiha Kei proposed that his squad investigate Orochimaru’s disappearance, and he and Imai Kenta named temporary replacements for their Konoha posts.
• Uchiha Kei estimated the mission could take a month or longer and acknowledged the danger posed by the Otsutsuki clan and its enormous eyeball.
• Uchiha Kei left to prepare for the mission and considered investigating Otsutsuki Hamura’s descendants on the moon.

Uchiha Kei prepared to leave Konoha on a mission, appointing Uchiha Kawa to lead the Military Police Force and reassuring Kisame Hoshigaki about his place in the village. He traveled with Hyuga Aya and Imai Kenta to a snowy mountain, where Pakkun remarked that Kei now seemed more like a living person than he had years ago.

• Uchiha Kei handed Uchiha Kawa a document appointing him interim head of the Military Police Force during Kei’s absence.
• Uchiha Kei told Kisame Hoshigaki that surveillance would resume while he was away, and Kisame offered to join his mission.
• Uchiha Kei, Hyuga Aya, and Imai Kenta set out with Pakkun and discussed a clan living on the moon whose power was linked to the Hyuga Clan.
• The group reached a snowy mountainside, where Pakkun told Uchiha Kei that he now had the air of a living person.

Uchiha Kei, Imai Kenta, and Hyuga Aya activated a space-warping lake that led to the moon and prepared to confront the Otsutsuki descendants there. In the Pure Land, Otsutsuki Hagoromo learned that Kei had gone to the moon and decided to meet him.

• Uchiha Kei and his companions reached a strange lake and agreed to investigate it together, despite Imai Kenta's teasing request to be included in their plans.
• Hyuga Aya and Imai Kenta used their Sage Mode senses to find a way to activate the lake, while Uchiha Kei considered his own plans to acquire Sage Mode Chakra.
• Imai Kenta performed hand seals that triggered a silver beam from the lake, revealing a path to the moon, and the three prepared to go.
• Otsutsuki Hamura noticed Uchiha Kei's arrival at the moon and told Otsutsuki Hagoromo about it.
• Otsutsuki Hagoromo reflected on Kei's unusual origins and power, then decided to meet him and confirm several things.

Uchiha Kei, Imai Kenta, and Hyuga Aya arrived on the moon and split up to confront the Otsutsuki forces, while Kei launched a devastating attack on their puppets. The chapter also revealed how Orochimaru had reached the moon, where he was captured, and left Uzumaki Xiangcai and Karin waiting in hiding near Konoha.

• Uchiha Kei, Imai Kenta, and Hyuga Aya traveled through the silver passage and arrived on the moon, where Aya sensed puppet forces and their Byakugan-wielding controllers approaching.
• Uchiha Kei assigned Kenta to confront the force on the left, Aya to handle the right, and went forward to face the group ahead.
• Uchiha Kei burned through the approaching puppets with Majestic Destroyer Flame, then drew Qieyu and charged the Otsutsuki Clan.
• Otsutsuki Masaya questioned the captured Orochimaru, who stayed silent and considered his escape preparations and the two women he had left behind.
• Orochimaru had left Uzumaki Xiangcai and Karin at a hidden base near Konoha, intending to deliver them to Uchiha Kei after a week.
• Orochimaru entered the strange lake passage while investigating the Hyuga ancestors and was attacked by a Byakugan-wielding ninja after arriving on the moon.

Orochimaru was captured by the Otsutsuki Clan on the moon and endured their interrogations while studying their abilities. When Uchiha Kei arrived, he recognized the Otsutsuki's lack of combat experience and began cutting through their fighters.

• Orochimaru recalled how the Otsutsuki had overwhelmed him and killed Manda before imprisoning him on the moon.
• Orochimaru refused to reveal how he reached the moon unless Otsutsuki Masaya answered his questions about the clan.
• Otsutsuki Toru told Otsutsuki Masaya that a powerful person from the ground had arrived, and Otsutsuki Masaya left the prison to respond.
• Uchiha Kei fought ten Otsutsuki Ninjas and realized their poor coordination and numerous openings suggested they lacked combat experience.
• Uchiha Kei killed one Otsutsuki Ninja with Qieyu, badly injured another with a punch, and ignited an Explosive Tag on the injured man's abdomen.