Chapter Summaries

Cloud Village's Fox Hunt squad abducted Kushina, but Minato pursued them into the forest and rescued her. An Anbu squad returned them safely to the village, while Uchiha Sou observed the events and Root retreated into the shadows.

• Cloud Village's Fox Hunt squad infiltrated the Hidden Leaf Village and seized Kushina despite Mito's alarm seal and the Anbu's response.
• Minato heard the alarm, learned the kidnappers' direction from an Anbu sensory ninja, and took a shortcut to intercept them.
• Minato used shadow clones to distract the Cloud ninja, wounded the one carrying Kushina, caught her, and escaped across the river.
• Minato carried Kushina through the forest until they evaded their pursuers, and Kushina thanked him and called him amazing.
• An Anbu squad followed Minato's markers and escorted Minato and Kushina back to the village, prompting officials to strengthen her protection.
• Uchiha Sou recorded the events, while Root retreated into the darkness.

After the Cloud Village attack, Hiruzen strengthened Kushina's protection and rejected Danzō's attempt to transfer her to Root. From Angkor Fortress, Uchiha Sou observed their conflict before preparing to investigate the Dragon Vein near Rōran.

• An Anbu captain reported the attack to Hiruzen, who ordered Minato's achievements recorded and Kushina's protection increased.
• Danzō demanded that Root take control of Kushina and Jinchuriki research, but Hiruzen refused and ordered Root to stay out of Jinchuriki affairs.
• Danzō left the Hokage's office defeated for the moment and resolved to pursue his plans covertly.
• Uchiha Sou observed the struggle between Hiruzen and Danzō through his Ghost Eye Manifestation and analyzed how the attack had intensified their conflicting ambitions.
• Sou asked Light to confirm the Dragon Vein energy window and told Mirror to conceal the observation points as Angkor Fortress advanced toward Rōran.

Tsunade saved Dan Katō and began to confront her growing feelings for him, while Hiruko fled Konoha using an unstable Chimera Technique. Uchiha Sou observed both developments before directing Angkor Fortress toward Rōran to investigate the Dragon Vein.

• Tsunade stabilized Dan Katō's soul damage, and Jiraiya teased her about her concern for him before offering his blessing.
• Orochimaru sought to study Dan Katō's Spirit Transformation Technique, but Tsunade ordered him to leave.
• Hiruko evaded Root's pursuit by using his incomplete Chimera Technique, which gave him bursts of power while damaging his body and sanity.
• Uchiha Sou observed the changing causal threads around Tsunade, Dan Katō, and Hiruko from Angkor Fortress.
• Uchiha Sou ordered Angkor Fortress to descend toward Rōran and begin exploring the Dragon Vein.

As the Second Ninja World War neared its end, Tsunade struggled with her fear of loss, while divisions within the Uchiha clan deepened. Uchiha Jiri spotted her teacher, Uchiha Sou, and suspected that he was observing or guiding the gathering threads of fate.

• Dan Katō told Tsunade that the war might soon be over, but she cut off his attempt to discuss the future and left, shaken by her feelings and memories of Nawaki.
• Uchiha Setsuna urged the clan to confront Konoha, while Uchiha Daohuo argued for communication and integration.
• Uchiha Xiyue told Uchiha Diena that the clan's radicals were drawing him and other young Uchiha toward conflict, and she pledged to stand by him and urged him to survive.
• Minato said he wanted to become strong enough to protect Konoha, while Kushina vowed to master her power and become as strong as Grandma Mito.
• Uchiha Jiri considered the clan's growing divisions and saw Uchiha Sou watching from the shadows before he disappeared.

After reflecting on the clan’s divisions, Uchiha Jiri sparred with her teacher, Uchiha Sou, who tested her judgment and combat skills. She left the woods considering how to find a resilient personal path and protect the truth she believed in.

• Uchiha Jiri visited a dango shop, then went to the clan’s sparring grounds to meet Uchiha Sou.
• Jiri explained that fear and arrogance drove Uchiha Setsuna and the hardliners, while Uchiha Shima and the Doves were weakened by compromise.
• Sou ordered Jiri to attack without holding back, and she used fireballs, shuriken, a Body Flicker Technique, and genjutsu against him.
• Sou countered Jiri’s attacks and pressured her with his presence, while she relied on her Sharingan, footwork, and Substitution Technique to evade him.
• Sou judged Jiri’s foundation solid but said she lacked life-or-death experience, then urged her to find a resilient and adaptable path through the clan’s conflict.
• Sou disappeared into the woods, leaving Jiri alone to reflect on strength, Causality, and the future she might shape.

Tsunade gave Dan Katō Hashirama Senju’s necklace before he returned to the front, while Danzō plotted against Dan and Hatake Sakumo. After Hiruzen honored Sakumo with the Hokage Half-Sleeve, Danzō’s jealousy hardened into a plan to destroy him, and Uchiha Sou observed the resulting shift in causality from Angkor Fortress.

• Tsunade gave Dan Katō Hashirama Senju’s necklace and made him promise to return alive.
• Danzō resolved to eliminate Dan and Hatake Sakumo, and secretly approached Hanzo about dealing with destabilizing factors after the war.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi awarded Hatake Sakumo the Hokage Half-Sleeve in a public ceremony, with Mitokado Homura and Utatane Koharu’s support.
• Danzō left the ceremony furious and began planning a trap to ruin Sakumo and clear his own path to power.
• Uchiha Sou watched the ceremony through Ghost Eye Manifestation and saw Danzō’s causality with Sakumo and Hiruzen turn sharply hostile.

Dan Katō uncovered signs of a leak on the Iwagakure front as Danzō plotted against Hatake Sakumo and Dan, while Uchiha Sou focused on the Dragon Vein beneath Rōran. Angkor Fortress descended toward the desert as Sou prepared to make contact with the Dragon Vein in twelve hours.

• Dan Katō led his squad in defeating an Iwagakure reconnaissance team near Canyon Seven and reported his suspicions of a leak to the Hokage's Anbu command headquarters.
• Orochimaru studied Cloud Village tissue samples at his mist-shrouded camp while Minato thwarted an attack on a desert water source and gained the name "Golden Flash."
• Hiruzen Sarutobi increased surveillance of Root, while Danzō planned a raid that would put Hatake Sakumo in danger and marked Dan Katō as a threat.
• Hanzo of the Salamander considered Danzō's proposal to target Akatsuki in exchange for Konoha's support after the war.
• Uchiha Sou observed the shifting causal threads across the Ninja World and ordered Guang to identify the Dragon Vein's stable window and Jing to cut external links.
• Angkor Fortress entered absolute radio silence and began descending toward the ruins of Rōran ahead of the predicted Dragon Vein contact opportunity in twelve hours.

Dan Katō died after Root’s manipulated intelligence led his squad into an Iwagakure ambush, and his death devastated Tsunade and enraged Konoha’s leadership. Hiruzen suspected Danzō but lacked proof, while Danzō began plotting against Sakumo next.

• Danzō arranged false intelligence and a diversion that sent Dan Katō’s squad into an Iwagakure ambush instead of Sakumo’s team.
• Dan used his Spirit Transformation Technique to help his squad escape, then stayed behind to cover their retreat and was killed.
• Tsunade learned of Dan’s death, suffered a severe breakdown, and became unable to face injured patients or return to hospital work.
• Jiraiya stood guard over Tsunade, while Minato, Kushina, Zhi Li, Xiyue, and Die Na reacted with grief and growing fear of the war.
• Hiruzen confronted Danzō over Sakumo’s report, but Danzō denied responsibility and blamed battlefield uncertainty.
• Danzō privately considered Dan’s death a success and began preparing to undermine Sakumo through claims of command failure.

The Second Ninja World War ended in a fragile armistice, leaving Konoha to mourn its dead and rebuild amid growing internal tensions. As Minato began training under Jiraiya and the Uchiha clan faced a shifting future, Uchiha Sou prepared to begin the Dragon Vein fusion in Angkor Fortress.

• The nations signed an armistice in the Land of Iron, and Konoha celebrated the end of the war as Hiruzen ordered memorials, reconstruction, aid for the wounded and bereaved, and increased surveillance.
• Danzō dismissed the peace as a sign of Hiruzen's weakness and resolved to expand Root, while Tsunade grieved Dan's death and Orochimaru returned to his laboratory.
• Hiruzen appointed Minato as Jiraiya's formal disciple, and Minato promised to train diligently.
• Uchiha Xiyue and Uchiha Diena held a union ceremony, while Uchiha Fugaku gained support among clan members and younger shinobi.
• Minato shared his news with Kushina, and they vowed to grow stronger together and protect the peace.
• Uchiha Sou told Uchiha Jiri to keep observing, then ordered Light and Mirror to begin the final Dragon Vein fusion procedure as Angkor Fortress descended toward Rōran.

In postwar Konoha, scarce missions and perceived restrictions fueled resentment among the Uchiha, weakening Uchiha Shima’s moderates and strengthening radicals. Fugaku Uchiha challenged his clan’s hostility through a measured act of respect, but discontent continued to build.

• Uchiha shinobi complained that they were receiving only low-ranked missions, while Uchiha Shima urged patience at a clan meeting and Elder Uchiha Setsuna called for a more confrontational approach.
• Fugaku Uchiha left the meeting troubled by the clan’s divisions, while Uchiha Xiyue and Uchiha Jiri continued their ordinary duties amid growing tension.
• Uchiha Jiri saw young Uchiha radicals taunting a Hyuga branch-family boy near the training ground.
• Fugaku Uchiha stopped the taunting, apologized to the Hyuga boy, and told the Uchiha youths to earn their glory through strength rather than bullying.

Uchiha Genma's denied mission helped ignite a battle between the radical and moderate factions inside the Uchiha compound, where Setsuna and other fighters used Izanagi to rewrite fatal injuries at the cost of their eyesight. As Fugaku rescued noncombatants and prepared to intervene, Uchiha Jiri resolved to stop the clan's self-destruction.

• Uchiha Genma returned from the Hokage Building after Mitokado Homura awarded the daimyo-guard mission to Sarutobi Yamura, and his report fueled anger among the Uchiha.
• Elder Uchiha Setsuna attacked Uchiha Shima at the shrine, and the rival factions broke into open combat across the compound.
• Setsuna used Izanagi to evade a lethal attack and wound Uchiha Jingchuan, prompting fighters on both sides to repeatedly sacrifice their Sharingan to rewrite fatal injuries.
• Fugaku Uchiha summoned Flame Fan Cat to evacuate women and children, then revealed a rudimentary kaleidoscope pattern and prepared to fight.
• Uchiha Jiri watched the clan descend into violence and decided that someone had to stop the madness.

Uchiha Jiri developed Izanami and used it to end the clan’s civil unrest by trapping Setsuna and other Izanagi users in repeating cycles that forced them to face their choices. Uchiha Sou then erased Jiri and her connections from everyone’s memories, while Danzō moved to claim the battle’s Sharingan as strategic materials.

• Jiri awakened a new Sharingan power and disrupted the radicals’ attacks by flooding nearby Sharingan users with memories of warmth and kinship.
• Fugaku defeated Setsuna’s fighting will, but Setsuna continued abusing Izanagi until Jiri realized she needed a technique that could force him to confront the consequences of his choices.
• Jiri used Izanami to trap Setsuna and the other Izanagi users in repeating cycles, allowing Fugaku, Shima, and the others to subdue the remaining radicals and end the unrest.
• Uchiha Sou supported the exhausted Jiri, then used Universal Forgetting to erase her identity and causal connections while preserving Izanami’s name and principles on an ancient scroll.
• The survivors counted forty-seven dead and fifty-three permanently blinded Sharingan, while Danzō requested the recovery of the eyes and considered their possible use in another technique.

Uchiha Jiri woke in Angkor Fortress after Sou stripped away her ties to her former life, and began training to observe energy and Causality. Sou then discussed Madara’s postwar plans with him, as Madara prepared to use the aftermath of the Second Shinobi War to advance the Eye of the Moon.

• Jiri awoke in Angkor Fortress and learned that Sou had stripped away her former identity and mortal bonds after she used Izanami on the Uchiha clan.
• Sou explained that Jiri’s next path was to study Causality, gave her a crystal with training methods, and told her to observe the fortress’s energy flows.
• Madara’s Chakra projection appeared before Sou and said the end of the Second Shinobi War was an ideal time to plant the seeds of the Eye of the Moon.
• Sou and Madara discussed using the wounded villages and Konoha’s internal conflicts to support Madara’s plan, while Sou maintained that he would remain an observer.
• After Madara’s projection faded, Sou urged Jiri to train faster so they could avoid becoming pieces in the coming upheaval.
• Sou turned his attention toward Konoha’s promising young ninja and wondered whom Madara would choose as his agent.

As the Ninja World recovered from the Second Ninja World War, Uchiha Madara began seeking an agent whose despair could serve his Eye of the Moon plan. In Angkor Fortress, Uchiha Jiri advanced in her training while Uchiha Sou prepared to master the Dragon Vein and preserve his ability to intervene.

• Konoha mourned its war dead as Shimura Danzō spread a damaging report about Hatake Sakumo, while Tsunade remained away and Jiraiya left the village to search for her and clues about the Child of Prophecy.
• Uchiha Madara told Uchiha Sou that Konoha's growing tensions could create a young agent who lost everything and embraced darkness, and Sou recognized that Madara's selection had begun.
• Uchiha Jiri learned to perceive energy flows and study Causality as Uchiha Sou taught her to understand power rather than master a particular technique.
• Uchiha Sou explained that the Eye of the Moon would force all possibilities under one will, but said he would observe the experiment while ensuring it did not destroy the laboratory.
• Uchiha Sou turned his attention to controlling Rōran's Dragon Vein so he could influence space and time as upheavals approached.

Uchiha Jiri underwent treatment and training to restore her damaged right eye, then awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan after realizing her teacher Sou was secretly influencing events across the Ninja World. The chapter left Jiri newly empowered and aware that she had a place in Sou’s wider plans.

• Uchiha Sou directed Uchiha Hikari to treat Jiri’s injured eye with Gelel Stone solution and purified Hashirama Cells, beginning the repair of its Chakra pathways.
• Jiri spent several days recovering and learning to sense natural energy in the fortress’s simulated forest, while Hikari advised her to calm her emotions.
• Jiri’s right eye began sensing natural energy, and she encountered Kagami Uchiha, who had supposedly died but was secretly working for Sou.
• Jiri overheard guards say Kagami had returned from investigating Danzo’s role in the White Fang Incident, prompting her to realize Sou was involved in hidden affairs and had a broader design.
• Jiri’s Sharingan transformed into the Mangekyō Sharingan as she grasped her place in Sou’s plans.

Within Angkor Fortress, Uchiha Sou tested standard Sage Mode, then activated the Rōran Dragon Vein and fused its power with the principle of polarity and Hashirama Cells to complete All Things in Nature Sage Mode. He emerged with greatly enhanced perception and abilities, declaring that he would use the power to rewrite fate.

• Uchiha Sou verified his theoretical Sage Art model and briefly entered standard Sage Mode, enhancing his senses and Sharingan while judging the form stable and manageable.
• Sou activated the Rōran Dragon Vein and drew its surging power into his body.
• Sou used the principle of polarity to shape and stabilize the Dragon Vein's energy, then relied on Hashirama Cells to withstand its strain.
• Sou completed the fusion of the Dragon Vein's power, polarity, and Hashirama Cells, achieving All Things in Nature Sage Mode.
• Sou experienced the new form's enhanced perception, physical abilities, and Sharingan power, then vowed to use it to rewrite fate.

Uchiha Sou assessed the catastrophic risks of All Things in Nature Sage Mode and the possibility that the Sage of Six Paths would oppose its existence. After studying Rōran’s Dragon Vein and the Sage’s will, Sou found a way to conceal the mode’s energy fluctuations and successfully tested it.

• Uchiha Sou sealed the All Things in Nature Sage Mode blueprint as a taboo and focused on conventional Sage Mode and Dragon Vein control.
• Uchiha Sou experimented in Rōran’s Dragon Vein core to conceal the mode’s energy and studied the Sage of Six Paths’ Chakra inheritance and the Tailed Beasts’ balance mechanism for possible weaknesses.
• Uchiha Sou designed genjutsu and energy-interference measures to exploit fluctuations in the Sage of Six Paths’ will.
• Uchiha Sou activated All Things in Nature Sage Mode in Rōran’s Dragon Vein core and confirmed that its energy fluctuations were completely concealed.

Kagami Uchiha warned Uchiha Sou that Danzo had devised a scheme to trap Hatake Sakumo in a deadly mission and discredit him if it failed. Sou ordered Kagami to keep monitoring and recording events without intervening, leaving Sakumo poised to face the conspiracy alone.

• Kagami reported that Danzo had arranged a dangerous mission for Sakumo using false intelligence and had secretly alerted Iwagakure, which prepared an ambush.
• Kagami explained that Danzo was spreading rumors about Sakumo's judgment and had fabricated evidence to blame him for any mission failure.
• Kagami said Danzo planned to isolate Sakumo by arranging pressure on other village defenses, making it difficult for powerful allies to support him.
• Sou concluded that Danzo aimed to destroy the White Fang's reputation and weaken Hiruzen Sarutobi's faction, while Kagami said Sakumo would likely accept the mission out of responsibility.
• Sou ordered Kagami to continue monitoring and recording the conspiracy without intervening, and Kagami vanished.

Hatake Sakumo accepted an S-rank mission that he suspected was a trap, then left Konoha at dawn to carry it out. Shimura Danzō had engineered the mission, while Kakashi silently watched Sakumo depart.

• Hatake Sakumo returned home to Hatake Kakashi, but an Anbu summons called him to the Hokage Building.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi and the advisors presented Sakumo with a secret S-rank mission to intercept Iwagakure's children and seize their supplies, and Sakumo questioned the uncertain intelligence.
• Mitokado Homura and Utatane Koharu stressed Konoha's need for the mission, and Sakumo accepted despite sensing that he was being manipulated.
• Shimura Danzō learned that his plan was proceeding, while Minato, Fugaku Uchiha, and Orochimaru reacted to the rumors in their own ways.
• Sakumo watched Kakashi sleep, left a lightning charm beside his pillow, and departed at dawn with White Fang.
• After Sakumo left, Kakashi opened his eyes, alert and silent.

Hatake Sakumo left Konoha alone for a mission that appeared to be an Iwagakure trap, while Hiruzen Sarutobi and Shimura Danzō reacted to his departure in opposite ways. Sakumo reached Ghost Sorrow Gorge, unaware that Iwagakure forces and Root observers were waiting to ensure he would be isolated.

• Hatake Sakumo left Konoha before dawn after placing his lightning charm beneath Kakashi's pillow, and Kakashi silently began his morning training.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi ordered Anbu to monitor Sakumo's mission area and investigate who had handled the suspicious intelligence.
• Shimura Danzō celebrated Sakumo's departure and instructed his confidant to have Iwagakure make the ambush intense and thorough.
• Fugaku Uchiha worried as Sakumo's departure fueled unrest among the Uchiha radicals and further weakened Uchiha Daohuo's influence.
• Hatake Sakumo approached Ghost Sorrow Gorge, noticed the suspicious quiet, and prepared to intercept the supposed convoy.
• Iwagakure elites and Root observers watched Sakumo from hiding as the trap was readied around the gorge.