Chapter Summaries

Itachi and Fugaku agreed to stage the Uchiha clan’s destruction to spare Sasuke and preserve his chance to choose his own future. Three days before the full moon, Itachi left the study ready to carry out the plan, while Fugaku watched Sasuke and grieved in private.

• Itachi told Fugaku he would slaughter the clan, including his parents, and make Sasuke the sole survivor so Sasuke could live as an avenger.
• Fugaku revealed his Mangekyō Sharingan and admitted he had considered sacrificing himself and the clan, then agreed to become Itachi’s accomplice.
• Fugaku asked Itachi to let Sasuke hate him until Sasuke could understand the truth, and said the Hawks would force him to sign the coup order at Naka Shrine on the full-moon night.
• Fugaku told Itachi to let his mother die in her sleep and to let Sasuke see his face during the massacre.
• Itachi left the study, leaned against the hallway wall, and told Shisui’s crow that he was ready as three days remained until the full moon.

Itachi told Hiruzen that the Uchiha planned a coup in three days and proposed killing the clan himself to prevent civil war and protect Sasuke. Hiruzen asked for one night to decide, but Itachi said he would carry out his choice regardless.

• Itachi warned Hiruzen that the Uchiha would launch a coup on the night of the full moon, three days later.
• Itachi sealed the Hokage's office and proposed slaughtering the Uchiha clan, then leaving Konoha as a traitor and supplying the village with intelligence.
• Itachi demanded that Hiruzen protect Sasuke and let him believe Itachi had killed the clan in a fit of madness.
• Hiruzen argued for negotiation and intervention, but Itachi said those options would not prevent further conflict or protect Sasuke.
• Hiruzen asked for one night to consider the proposal, and Itachi left, declaring he would act either way.

Danzo pressured Hiruzen to accept Itachi's plan to massacre the Uchiha clan and conceal the truth, arguing it was necessary to prevent civil war. Hiruzen agreed on the condition that Sasuke be protected, while the massacre was set for the night of the full moon, three days later.

• Danzo confronted Hiruzen about Itachi's proposal and insisted that wiping out the Uchiha was the only way to protect Konoha.
• Hiruzen objected that innocent Uchiha would die, but Danzo argued that the clan's estrangement and the danger of a coup made the sacrifice necessary.
• Danzo described how Itachi would be blamed as a lone traitor, and Hiruzen questioned whether Danzo would sacrifice Root for Konoha in turn.
• Hiruzen agreed to the plan after demanding that Sasuke's identity remain secret and that he be protected and raised peacefully.
• Danzo left to arrange the massacre for three days later, while Hiruzen mourned the Uchiha and apologized to Itachi, Kagami, and Shisui.

Itachi met Obito after agreeing with the Third Hokage to destroy the Uchiha clan in exchange for Sasuke’s life. Obito offered to help with the massacre and recruit Itachi into Akatsuki, then left him questioning what was real as the full moon approached.

• Itachi encountered Obito in a dark alley, and Obito revealed he knew about Itachi’s deal with the Third Hokage and his family.
• Obito offered to help Itachi complete the clan’s destruction on the night of the full moon in exchange for Itachi joining Akatsuki afterward.
• Itachi asked whether Obito had killed Shisui, and Obito denied it while revealing he had witnessed Shisui’s death and knew about the eye in Itachi’s possession.
• Obito warned Itachi that what the Sharingan sees may not be real, then disappeared as Itachi continued toward the Uchiha compound.
• Obito watched Itachi leave and mentioned Uchiha Sou, wondering whether his supposed causality could change the destined ending.

Three days before the Uchiha clan massacre, Itachi and Fugaku prepared for the coming slaughter while Danzo finalized Root’s operation, Lunar Eclipse. The next morning, Fugaku watched Uchiha members gather at Police Force Headquarters, still believing they could change their fate.

• Mikoto mended Itachi’s flak jacket and told him Fugaku was waiting in the study.
• Fugaku told Itachi that the massacre was set for eleven at night in three days, that Sasuke would be away, and that Mikoto would remain at home.
• Danzo ordered Root to seal the Uchiha compound, recover the clan’s Sharingan, eliminate evidence, and leave Sasuke alive as a future avenger.
• Itachi sensed Root and the masked man watching the compound, prepared his weapons, and meditated through the night as he faced killing his family and clan.
• The following morning, Fugaku watched Uchiha members arrive at Police Force Headquarters for a meeting they believed could change their fate.

Uchiha Sou prepared a causal technique in Angkor Fortress to intercept the souls and dojutsu imprints of 137 Sharingan-awakened Uchiha when they died in the coming massacre. As Itachi and Obito prepared to begin the clan’s extermination under the full moon, Sou’s network activated and awaited the first deaths.

• Uchiha Sou marked the death nodes of 137 living Uchiha with awakened Sharingan, linking them to Angkor Fortress so their bodies would die while their soul cores and dojutsu imprints were preserved.
• Uchiha Sou confirmed that the technique could not save Uchiha without awakened eyes and would leave those it preserved with death trauma and temporarily weakened Sharingan.
• Itachi Uchiha shared a final dinner with Fugaku, Mikoto, and Sasuke, then left without telling them what was coming.
• At Naka Shrine, Obito explained that he would kill Uchiha outside the shrine while Itachi killed the core members, including his parents, and left Sasuke until the end.
• Itachi activated his Mangekyō Sharingan, causing Uchiha Sou’s prepared causal network to resonate and activate.

Danzo prepared to exploit the Uchiha crisis, while Mikoto discovered a warning from Itachi and Sakumo and Uchiha Xiyue watched the clan district from afar. As midnight approached, Itachi drew a kunai and headed toward Naka Shrine beneath a blood moon.

• Danzo confirmed that Root had arranged a temporary surveillance Barrier failure and adjusted Anbu patrols, then revealed his plan to seize the Uchiha power and betray the masked man.
• Mikoto found Itachi’s black-wrapped kunai outside her home, with a message saying he was sorry and that everything was to protect Sasuke.
• Sakumo and Uchiha Xiyue watched the Uchiha district, where Xiyue grieved that he could only stand by as the clan faced slaughter.
• With fifteen minutes remaining until midnight, the argument at Naka Shrine fell silent, and Itachi opened his Mangekyō Sharingan, drew a kunai, and walked toward the shrine.

Itachi slaughtered the Uchiha gathered at Naka Shrine and killed his father, Fugaku, after Fugaku ordered the others to stand down. He let the surviving clansmen flee and left for the compound, where his younger brother was waiting.

• Itachi killed the Third Elder and seven Uchiha jonin who attacked him inside Naka Shrine.
• Fugaku ordered the remaining Uchiha to stand down and faced Itachi alone.
• Itachi killed a young clansman who charged at him, then stabbed Fugaku at Fugaku's request.
• Itachi told the surviving Uchiha to leave Konoha and never return, and they escaped through the shrine's back door.
• Itachi left the shrine and walked toward the clan compound and his younger brother.

Sasuke awoke to strange sounds and found his mother dead, then saw Itachi return covered in blood and attack him with a kunai. As Itachi left after telling Sasuke to hate him and survive, Sasuke awakened his single-tomoe Sharingan amid the massacre of the Uchiha clan.

• Sasuke woke at 2:17 a.m. to distant screams and found his mother lying dead in a pool of blood.
• Itachi arrived at the residence covered in blood, carrying a kunai and displaying unfamiliar Mangekyō Sharingan.
• Sasuke asked Itachi what he had done, and Itachi approached and cut Sasuke's forehead with the kunai.
• Itachi told Sasuke to hate him, live on, and cling to life, then left without looking back.
• Sasuke's Sharingan awakened with a single tomoe as he saw his mother's body and the slaughtered clan in crimson detail.

Itachi subdued Sasuke and left the Uchiha compound, while Obito killed seven escapees and took their Sharingan. Root recovered the clan’s eyes and cleaned up the massacre as Itachi departed Konoha to become the enemy Sasuke would one day seek to kill.

• Itachi used a genjutsu to put Sasuke to sleep, left him beside Mikoto with their mother’s amulet, and walked away.
• Obito showed Itachi the seven Sharingan he had taken from the Uchiha who fled through the shrine’s back gate and set a meeting with him at the Land of Rain border in three days.
• Aburame Ryoma led Root operatives through the clan compound, recovered Sharingan from corpses, and ordered his team to leave Sasuke for the Medical Corps.
• Root found Fugaku’s body at Naka Shrine and recorded that 24 corpses were missing their eyes.
• Itachi looked back at Konoha from a cliff, then left the village and resolved to live as a rogue ninja and Akatsuki member.
• Sasuke’s fingers twitched in the hospital as he clutched the warm amulet in his palm.

Sasuke woke in Konoha Hospital and learned that his mother and the entire Uchiha clan had been killed, with Itachi identified as the perpetrator who defected. After meeting Hiruzen, Sasuke vowed to grow stronger, find Itachi, and kill him, while Hiruzen concealed his doubts about whether Itachi had acted willingly.

• Sasuke woke in the hospital and learned from a medical ninja that Mikoto and the Uchiha clan were dead and that Itachi had been named the attacker and had defected.
• An Anbu escorted Sasuke from the hospital to meet Hiruzen, while Sasuke saw that the Uchiha compound had been sealed as a crime scene.
• Hiruzen told Sasuke that Itachi had escaped and that the village would protect him, and Sasuke declared that he would find and kill his brother.
• Hiruzen arranged a residence near the Konoha Orphanage, continued schooling, secret Anbu protection, and daily taijutsu training for Sasuke.
• Sasuke asked whether Itachi had acted willingly, but Hiruzen stayed silent and later apologized to Kagami, Fugaku, and Shisui.

Itachi traveled toward the Land of Rain with Obito and joined Akatsuki to protect Sasuke and deter Konoha from harming him. Meanwhile, Uchiha Sou preserved the souls of Sharingan-wielding Uchiha in Angkor Fortress and prepared them to awaken as part of his future plans.

• Obito told Itachi that Sasuke had awakened, and Itachi said Sasuke’s hatred would make him stronger.
• Itachi questioned Obito about Akatsuki and the Eye of the Moon Plan, then explained he needed Akatsuki’s influence to protect Sasuke.
• Itachi accepted Obito’s offer to work together and continued with him toward the Land of Rain.
• Uchiha Sou held the souls of the Sharingan-wielding Uchiha in Soul-Returning Coffins, though their memories of death remained and their Sharingan had regressed.
• Hatake Sakumo reported that Danzo had recovered one hundred and three Sharingan and that Sasuke was in the Third Hokage’s care.
• Uchiha Sou ordered Hatake Sakumo to secretly monitor Akatsuki, especially Obito and Itachi, and declared that the preserved Uchiha would awaken when the time was right.

Uchiha Sou filtered the 137 souls in the Rebirth Chamber, keeping only 43 whose devotion to the Uchiha clan met his standards. He imprinted the survivors to direct their loyalty toward him and suppress their Sharingan powers, then left the chamber exhausted while they remained asleep.

• Uchiha Sou examined the souls’ Causality traits and erased Fugaku Uchiha, Mikoto Uchiha, and other souls he judged insufficiently devoted to the Uchiha clan.
• After an hour of filtering, Uchiha Sou kept 43 souls, including Uchiha Yashiro and Uchiha Tekka, as the foundation for the clan’s rebirth.
• Uchiha Sou placed Causality Imprint: Clan Chains on the 43 souls, binding their awakening to him, steering their clan identity toward him, and blurring traumatic memories of death and betrayal.
• Uchiha Sou suppressed the survivors’ Dojutsu Power, regressing their Sharingan by at least two levels to reduce the risk of madness and make their recovery dependent on loyalty and acceptance of their mission.
• Exhausted by the imprinting, Uchiha Sou left the Rebirth Chamber as the 43 souls remained asleep in their coffins.

Uchiha Sou awakened forty-three Uchiha who had died and confronted them with his reasons for leaving Konoha and the clan’s doomed future there. After showing them the destruction of the Uchiha district and the fate awaiting their bodies, he left the resurrected clan in despair edged with a new resolve.

• Uchiha Yashiro awoke in a rebirth chamber alongside forty-two other Uchiha and recognized Uchiha Sou by his Rinnegan.
• Uchiha Sou explained that he had faked his death and said the Uchiha’s future did not lie in Konoha.
• Uchiha Mori condemned Sou for abandoning the clan, but Sou’s overwhelming pressure forced all the gathered Uchiha to their knees.
• Uchiha Sou argued that Konoha would never trust the Sharingan and warned that a coup would bring further conflict and corruption.
• Uchiha Sou showed the clan a vision of the ruined Uchiha district and said Konoha would take their corpses while Danzo claimed their eyes.
• The Uchiha watched the vision disappear, and their grief and confusion gave way to despair with a faint glimmer of hope.

Cang revived forty-three Uchiha and offered them a choice between binding themselves to him and returning to death; all chose to follow him and become the foundation of the new Uchiha. The chapter leaves them beginning their new lives under the guidance of Hatake Sakumo and Kagami Uchiha.

• Cang told the revived Uchiha that he sought a future beyond the shinobi world and offered each of them a mark binding their souls and fate to him.
• Yashiro chose to follow Cang, and Tekka, Inabi, Yakumi, Elder Sen, and the other Uchiha followed until all forty-three accepted.
• Cang named them the foundation of the new Uchiha and said their training would begin in three days.
• Cang introduced Hatake Sakumo as their taijutsu and tactics instructor and Kagami Uchiha as their guide to Uchiha history.
• After Cang left, the Uchiha discussed the power they had felt in him, then followed Yakumi out of the Rebirth Chamber.

Uchiha Yashiro and the other revived Uchiha settled into Angkor Fortress and agreed to follow Uchiha Sou's plan for their future. Sou and his allies prepared their training and instruction, while Kagami Uchiha wrestled with the morality of binding the resurrected Uchiha to their cause.

• Yashiro met with Tekka, Inabi, and Yakumi, and they confirmed their resurrection and discussed Sou's plans for Uchiha's future.
• Yashiro concluded that the four of them must train, adapt to the fortress, and prove their value to Sou.
• Sou monitored the revived Uchiha and directed Sakumo and Kagami to prepare their training and lessons for the next three days.
• Sou identified Yashiro as the group's likely deputy and told Sakumo to treat him normally while evaluating the others through training and missions.
• After Sou left, Kagami questioned whether resurrecting and binding the Uchiha was right, and Sakumo defended those measures as necessary against the Otsutsuki threat.

At Angkor Fortress, Kagami revealed the Uchiha’s ancient origins and the Otsutsuki threat, persuading the revived Uchiha that they had a mission to protect the planet. The first lesson ended with their training set to begin the next day, while Yashiro remained curious about how long Lord Cang had been preparing.

• Sou announced the start of training and introduced Kagami, who revealed that he had survived and would teach the Uchiha their history and future enemies.
• Kagami explained that the Uchiha and Senju descended from Indra and Asura, sons of the Sage of Six Paths, and that the Otsutsuki harvested chakra from the planet.
• Kagami told the Uchiha that Lord Cang had prepared for the Otsutsuki’s return and had chosen them to become the planet’s first line of defense.
• Yashiro, Inabi, and other Uchiha embraced the mission, and Kagami ended the lesson by warning them not to force their suppressed Sharingan powers.
• Yashiro asked Kagami how long Lord Cang had been preparing, and Kagami said he would learn once he had proven his worth.

Uchiha Sou tested Jiri’s mastery of Causality and told her that true Izanami defined inevitability rather than predicting possibilities. After Jiri questioned the purpose of the resurrected Uchiha, Sou explained that they might eventually become companions, but for now their hatred and training served a greater goal.

• Jiri attacked Sou with Izanami’s causal techniques, but Sou nullified her attacks and showed that she was still trapped by possibility.
• Jiri asked about the resurrected Uchiha, and Sou said they were adjusting to their new bodies, diminished Dojutsu Power, and new identities.
• Jiri worried that grief and betrayal would consume the resurrected clan members, but Sou said he would control their hatred with a Causality imprint.
• Sou told Jiri she could guide the resurrected Uchiha but must hide her identity and avoid treating them as companions yet.
• Sou told Light that he hoped the resurrected Uchiha would eventually become companions united by a greater purpose.
• Elsewhere in the fortress, forty-three resurrected Uchiha trained as they adapted to their new lives and awaited an uncertain future.

Uchiha Shisui recovered at Angkor Fortress after Uchiha Sou rescued him and gave him transplanted eyes. Sou revealed that Konoha’s leaders had already decided the Uchiha massacre and that Shisui’s death had helped push Itachi toward killing the clan, leaving Shisui to face what he would do next.

• Uzumaki Tsubaki told Shisui that his eye transplant was healing and that Lord Cang had rescued him at Angkor Fortress.
• After several days of recovery, Uchiha Sou introduced himself to Shisui and condemned his decision to die as an escape from responsibility.
• Sou told Shisui that Konoha’s leaders had planned the Uchiha’s destruction before his death and that Itachi had chosen to kill the clan to spare Sasuke.
• Shisui collapsed in despair as Sou explained that Danzo and the Third Hokage had used his death to strengthen the case against the Uchiha.
• Sou urged Shisui to live, remember what happened, and decide whether he would take action once his eyes had fully recovered.

Uchiha Xiyue and Kagami revealed to Shisui how Danzo had arranged their supposed deaths and manipulated the Uchiha tragedy, while Lord Cang secretly saved them. Shisui learned that surviving Uchiha clansmen were preparing for revenge, and the chapter ended as Kagami began explaining a thousand-year war tied to the origin of Chakra.

• Uchiha Xiyue overcame his hesitation and entered the medical room to reveal himself as Shisui’s living father.
• Kagami Uchiha arrived and explained how Danzo’s ambush and a Transcription Seal: Izanagi had let him survive his apparent death.
• Xiyue recounted how Danzo’s forces killed Die Na and drove him to self-destruct before Izanagi saved him.
• Xiyue and Kagami explained that they had stayed away because they believed returning could not stop Danzo, and they described how Danzo and Hiruzen had cornered Itachi into massacring the Uchiha to save Sasuke.
• Shisui vowed to kill Danzo, and Xiyue told him that forty-three revived Uchiha clansmen were alive and training in the fortress.
• Kagami began explaining that the Uchiha were key to a thousand-year war concerning the world and the origin of Chakra.