Chapter Summaries

Tsunade stopped Uchiha Yue from killing a Root operative and took him away to speak with him. Yue asked her to reveal what the village had been hiding from him, insisting that she tell him the truth.

• A Root operative disguised as an Anbu tried to stab Uchiha Yue, but Yue dodged with Basic Shatter Step and prepared to retaliate.
• Tsunade knocked the operative down and calmed Yue before he could kill him.
• Tsunade told Uchiha Fugaku she was taking Yue with her, and Fugaku urged Yue to return to the Uchiha Clan if Tsunade withheld the truth.
• After Fugaku and Shikaku Nara left, Tsunade invited Yue to ask what he wanted to know.
• Yue asked what had happened in the village and demanded that Tsunade not lie to him.

Tsunade and Fugaku brought Yue to a teahouse to reveal what had happened in Konoha and the Uchiha clan. When Fugaku told Yue that his mother, Minako, had been sent to Kirigakure, Yue’s Sharingan awakened and its three tomoe began to connect.

• Tsunade decided to tell Yue the truth about events in Konoha once they returned to the village.
• At Konoha’s gates, Fugaku offered a private place for Yue and Tsunade to talk, and Tsunade agreed after he said the matter involved Yue and his father.
• In the teahouse, Fugaku asked Tsunade to explain what had happened in the village before he revealed the Uchiha clan’s affairs.
• Tsunade apologized to Yue for failing to protect his parents, and Fugaku revealed that Konoha had chosen Yue’s mother, Uzumaki Minako, to help reinforce Isobu’s seal in Kirigakure.
• Yue’s eyes turned crimson as three tomoe appeared and began spinning, seemingly on the verge of connecting.

Uchiha Yue awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan after learning that his mother, Minako, had been sent to Kirigakure, and discovered that Konoha’s own curse seal would damage her body. He rejected Tsunade’s order to stay in Konoha and prepared to act, while Tsunade moved to stop him.

• Uchiha Yue’s Sharingan evolved into the Mangekyō as Tsunade and Uchiha Fugaku watched.
• Tsunade urged Uchiha Yue not to act rashly, but he refused to believe her reassurances about Minako’s safety.
• Uchiha Yue pressed Uchiha Fugaku to tell the truth, and Fugaku admitted Minako would likely be studied in Kirigakure and had been given a curse seal that would damage her bodily functions.
• Uchiha Yue challenged Tsunade over whether he should abandon his mother for Konoha, then released a powerful wave of chakra.
• Tsunade resolved to keep Uchiha Yue in Konoha by force, but she had underestimated his strength in his berserk state.

Uchiha Yue used his newly awakened Mangekyō Sharingan and Five Senses Control to evade Tsunade and flee toward Konoha’s gates after learning that his mother, Minako, had been sent to Kirigakure. Uchiha Fugaku chose not to have the Military Police Force stop Yue, recognizing how powerful he had become.

• Uchiha Yue’s Mangekyō Sharingan pressure immobilized Uchiha Fugaku and weighed heavily on Tsunade as she tried to restrain him.
• Uchiha Yue dodged Tsunade’s punch, which smashed into a teahouse wall and injured several people inside as the building began to collapse.
• Uchiha Yue cast a genjutsu on Tsunade and deprived her of four senses, but Tsunade broke free by harming herself.
• Uchiha Yue fled toward Konoha’s gates, and Tsunade chased him through the village.
• Uchiha Fugaku refused the Military Police Force’s request to apprehend Uchiha Yue, declaring that Yue was now too strong for them to stop.

Uchiha Yue fought Tsunade and her Anbu as he tried to leave Konoha, refusing to return without his mother. Cornered at the village gate, he killed an Anbu with genjutsu and claimed he was no longer Uchiha Yue, but Asura seeking revenge.

• Uchiha Fugaku ordered the Konoha Military Police Force to let Uchiha Yue and Tsunade continue their pursuit battle without interference.
• Tsunade ordered her Anbu to stop Uchiha Yue by any means, but he dodged their taijutsu attacks as he made for Konoha's main gate.
• Tsunade and her Anbu surrounded Uchiha Yue at the gate, and Tsunade promised to bring his mother safely back if he returned with her.
• Uchiha Yue rejected Tsunade's offer, saying he would become a rogue ninja but could not stand by while his mother remained in danger.
• Uchiha Yue used Flash Step and genjutsu to kill an Anbu, then told Tsunade he could no longer control himself and declared that he was Asura, come from hell to exact revenge.

Uchiha Yue killed Tsunade’s Anbu to replenish his Mangekyō Sharingan and developed a deadly genjutsu technique called Falling Moon Style Eye Kill. After killing the remaining Anbu, he left Konoha for Kirigakure to save his mother.

• Tsunade collapsed after seeing an Anbu die from bleeding, leaving her unable to stop Uchiha Yue.
• Uchiha Yue used Falling Moon Style Steel-Severing Flash to kill an attacking Anbu and absorbed the ocular power from the death.
• Uchiha Yue killed another Anbu with a genjutsu and named the technique Falling Moon Style Eye Kill.
• Uchiha Yue used Falling Moon Style Eye Kill to kill the remaining Anbu and replenish his ocular power.
• Uchiha Yue walked out through Konoha’s gates and headed for Kirigakure to save his mother.

Uchiha Yue left Konoha to rescue his mother, Minako, while the village's leaders stayed silent and the Uchiha and Hyuga clans faced separate crises. Tsunade asked Jiraiya to retrieve Yue, and Jiraiya agreed to send a special team to Kirigakure.

• Uchiha Yue absorbed the ocular power of the dead Anbu and left Konoha to rescue Minako in Kirigakure.
• The Third Hokage and the Council of Elders took no action against Uchiha Yue, while Uchiha Fugaku sent clan elites to protect him.
• Hyuga Hiashi prepared to use Yue's departure against the Uchiha Clan, but a conflict with Hizashi Hyuga threatened to split the Hyuga Clan.
• Tsunade asked Jiraiya to bring Uchiha Yue back and prevent anyone from harming him.
• Jiraiya agreed to send a special team to retrieve Uchiha Yue from Kirigakure.

Tsunade warned Jiraiya that Uchiha Yue had become dangerously powerful, but Jiraiya sent Minato Namikaze and a trusted team to bring him back from his challenge to Kirigakure. As the team set out, Hatake Kakashi questioned whether Yue could be persuaded to return while his mother was being held by Kirigakure.

• Tsunade urged Jiraiya to take Yue seriously and warned that he might become like his ancestor, but Jiraiya said he could not leave Konoha.
• Jiraiya told Minato Namikaze to lead a team and bring Yue back, then introduced Kushina Uzumaki, Hatake Kakashi, Choza Akimichi, and Inoichi Yamanaka as his teammates.
• Minato Namikaze and the others agreed to leave immediately because Yue had a day's head start on his way to Kirigakure.
• As the team traveled, Hatake Kakashi told Minato Namikaze he feared they could not stop Yue, since Kirigakure held Yue's mother captive.
• Hatake Kakashi asked whether Minato Namikaze could give up his own birth mother for the village, questioning whether Yue would return willingly.

Uchiha Yue raced to the Land of Water to rescue his mother, evading Konoha’s pursuit and resting before infiltrating the border. As he attacked a Kirigakure sentry, his Mangekyō Sharingan’s first unique ability awakened: amplifying genjutsu.

• Minato Namikaze and Hatake Kakashi formed a special squad to pursue Uchiha Yue and bring him back to Konoha.
• Uchiha Yue crossed the Land of Fire in four days, hiding his tracks while rushing toward the Land of Water.
• After reaching the border exhausted, Uchiha Yue replenished himself, used Purple Eye to find a lightly guarded route, and rested.
• Uchiha Yue crossed the border using Basic Shatter Step and spiritual energy to conceal his presence.
• When Uchiha Yue entered a Kirigakure sentry post’s range, he confronted a Kirigakure jonin and cast genjutsu with his Mangekyō Sharingan.
• Uchiha Yue realized his right eye’s unique ability had awakened and identified it as genjutsu amplification.

Uchiha Yue tested his newly awakened Mangekyō ability, Genjutsu Amplification, by killing four Kirigakure jonin with enhanced genjutsu. He prepared to resume his journey to rescue Minako, but trouble appeared before he could leave.

• Uchiha Yue amplified a C-rank genjutsu with his Mangekyō, trapping a Kirigakure jonin and killing him with Fubuki Tachi.
• Uchiha Yue deprived the other three Kirigakure jonin of four senses and killed them with Falling Moon Style Eye Kill.
• Uchiha Yue absorbed the ocular power from all four dead jonin, quickly recovering from the weakness caused by his attack.
• Uchiha Yue considered challenging the Kirigakure forces alone, then focused on rescuing Minako and prepared to continue his journey.
• Trouble appeared just as Uchiha Yue was about to set off.

Uchiha Yue killed the Kirigakure sentries guarding his chosen route, but the missing reports exposed him and drew a rapid reinforcement force. He slaughtered the twelve chunin and discovered that his newly awakened left Mangekyō ability amplified his chakra control, then attacked the remaining jonin with Enchanting Light.

• Uchiha Yue killed four Kirigakure jonin, and their failure to report alerted other sentries to his presence.
• Uchiha Yue detected reinforcements arriving and tried to reach the Land of Water, but six Kirigakure jonin and twelve chunin caught up with him.
• The twelve Kirigakure chunin charged to test Uchiha Yue, and he used Falling Moon Style: Sweeping Dash to kill them all.
• While fighting, Uchiha Yue realized his left Mangekyō Sharingan amplified his chakra control, strengthening his techniques and improving his chakra efficiency.
• Uchiha Yue formed a heart-shaped mass of pink chakra and threw it at a Kirigakure jonin with Falling Moon Style: Enchanting Light.

Uchiha Yue killed the Kirigakure vanguard with his techniques and Mangekyō Sharingan, but more Kirigakure ninja arrived at the Land of Water border. Surrounded by the remaining forces, including twenty-five jonin, he prepared to continue fighting beneath the full moon.

• Uchiha Yue killed twelve Kirigakure chunin and used Enchanting Light to immobilize and kill a Kirigakure jonin.
• Uchiha Yue evaded five Kirigakure jonin with Flash Step, then killed two with Falling Moon Style Eye Kill and the remaining three with Enchanting Light and his swordsmanship.
• Uchiha Yue killed all eighteen Kirigakure chunin and jonin in the vanguard.
• The pursuing Kirigakure forces arrived, leaving Uchiha Yue surrounded by the border's remaining ninja, including twenty-five jonin.
• Uchiha Yue looked up at the full moon and vowed to kill the Kirigakure ninja surrounding him.

Uchiha Yue fought twenty-five Kirigakure jonin and nearly sixty chunin, remaining confident as he searched for a way to defeat them without exhausting himself. He drew the enemies together and launched Eerie Fox Fire as a distraction while preparing a powerful Mangekyō Sharingan technique.

• Uchiha Yue faced the assembled Kirigakure force and evaded their attacks with Flash Step and Basic Shatter Step.
• Uchiha Yue killed Kirigakure chunin with Falling Moon Style: Sky-Breaking Slash.
• Uchiha Yue decided to try a technique from a secret scroll to defeat the Kirigakure ninja in one attack.
• Uchiha Yue lured the Kirigakure ninja together, then attacked with Eerie Fox Fire while forming seals for his true finishing move.

Uchiha Yue tried to destroy the gathered Kirigakure ninja with a powerful technique, but his first attempt failed and he escaped their counterattack. He then used Amaterasu, and black flames appeared on the foremost Kirigakure ninja.

• Uchiha Yue used Eerie Fox Fire to kill several Kirigakure chunin and drive the remaining Kirigakure ninja into a group.
• Uchiha Yue's first attempt to cast his planned technique failed, and he used Flash Step to evade the Kirigakure ninja's attack.
• Uchiha Yue used two Wind Style afterimages to kill chunin who charged to delay him while he formed hand seals.
• Uchiha Yue used Eerie Fox Fire again to occupy the Kirigakure ninja as he prepared his technique once more.
• Uchiha Yue activated his left Mangekyō Sharingan and cast Amaterasu, setting black flames on the foremost Kirigakure ninja.

Uchiha Yue used Amaterasu to wipe out every Kirigakure ninja guarding the Land of Water’s border, then continued toward his goal of rescuing Minako despite the strain on his Mangekyō Sharingan. Two days later, Minato Namikaze’s squad reached the border and discovered dried blood in the soil.

• Uchiha Yue unleashed Amaterasu and killed all the Kirigakure ninja gathered at the border.
• Uchiha Yue felt the heavy eye-power cost and worsening vision caused by Amaterasu, but resolved to keep using his Mangekyō Sharingan to rescue Minako.
• Uchiha Yue left the border and continued through the night, using Purple Eye to find his way.
• Several days later, a Kirigakure unit arrived to rotate shifts and discovered that the border sentries had been wiped out.
• Minato Namikaze’s squad arrived two days after Uchiha Yue had left, and Minato noticed something strange in the soil.
• Kushina Uzumaki, Choza Akimichi, Inoichi Yamanaka, and Hatake Kakashi inspected the ground and found dried blood.

Minato Namikaze's team found evidence that Uchiha Yue had killed Kirigakure ninjas at the Land of Water's border and feared his actions could provoke a war. After Hatake Kakashi returned to Konoha with the intelligence, the remaining team discovered Yue was openly killing Kirigakure shinobi and marking their bodies with his codename, leaving him in grave danger.

• Minato Namikaze's team found dried blood at the Land of Water's border and realized Yue had likely fought the Kirigakure guards there.
• Inoichi Yamanaka warned that Yue might have wiped out the border force and urged the team to report the threat of war to Konoha.
• Minato Namikaze sent Hatake Kakashi back to Konoha to report to Tsunade and Uchiha Fugaku before informing the Third Hokage.
• Minato Namikaze, Kushina Uzumaki, Inoichi Yamanaka, and Choza Akimichi continued into the Land of Water and found more than a dozen Kirigakure ninja corpses.
• Minato Namikaze noticed that Yue had carved the symbols for “Asura” into the dead ninjas, making his killings an open show of force against Kirigakure.

Minato Namikaze and his companions rested in the Land of Water while searching for Uchiha Yue, and Yue secretly watched them as he continued seeking news of his mother, Minako. Inoichi Yamanaka and Choza Akimichi returned with intelligence so shocking that it could shake the Shinobi World, leaving its contents unrevealed.

• Inoichi Yamanaka argued that Yue’s strength and focus on rescuing Minako made Kirigakure unlikely to threaten him, and Kushina Uzumaki agreed that the team should rest.
• Minato Namikaze decided the team would recuperate and search for Yue’s supply points, while Inoichi Yamanaka and Choza Akimichi went to gather intelligence in nearby towns.
• Kushina Uzumaki told Minato Namikaze she admired Yue’s attacks on Kirigakure, and they rested together in the forest.
• Uchiha Yue watched Minato Namikaze and Kushina Uzumaki with Purple Eye while continuing to search for Minako through the Underground Exchange and killing Kirigakure ninja.
• Inoichi Yamanaka and Choza Akimichi hurried back with intelligence that shocked them and the others and could shake the Shinobi World.

Minato Namikaze, Kushina Uzumaki, Choza Akimichi, and Inoichi Yamanaka learned that Uchiha Yue, using the name Asura, had announced he would challenge Kirigakure alone. Yue had made the declaration to force Kirigakure to act so he could defeat its forces and search for his mother, Minako, leaving those who knew his identity worried about his safety.

• Choza Akimichi and Inoichi Yamanaka told Minato Namikaze and Kushina Uzumaki that Asura planned to challenge Kirigakure, and Kushina confirmed Yue had joined the Underground Exchange with Tsunade's permission.
• Minato Namikaze, Kushina Uzumaki, and the others realized the intelligence about Asura referred to Uchiha Yue.
• Two days earlier, Yue had killed Kirigakure shinobi after failing to find information about his mother, Minako.
• Yue decided the killings would not help him rescue Minako, so he planned to provoke Kirigakure into sending forces he could defeat.
• Yue used the Underground Exchange to spread his challenge under the name Asura, making him famous across the Shinobi World and worrying Minato, Kushina, and Tsunade.

Uchiha Yue realized that Uchiha Madara had arranged Minako’s capture to draw him into a trap, and he decided he needed Konoha’s support to rescue her. After setting his plan in motion, he prepared to reveal himself to Minato Namikaze and the others and negotiate a deal with Konoha.

• Uchiha Yue observed Minato Namikaze, Kushina Uzumaki, and the others, and concluded that his challenge to Kirigakure had drawn the attention he wanted.
• Uchiha Yue reconsidered why Kirigakure had taken Minako and realized that Yagura was controlled by Uchiha Madara.
• Uchiha Yue concluded that Madara had used Minako as bait to manipulate him and either estrange him from Konoha or lure him into Kirigakure.
• Uchiha Yue recognized that he could not rescue Minako alone while Madara was in Kirigakure, so he needed the support of the Uchiha Clan or Konoha.
• Uchiha Yue decided to reveal himself to Minato Namikaze, Kushina Uzumaki, and the others and negotiate a deal with Konoha.

Uchiha Yue appeared before Minato Namikaze, Kushina Uzumaki, and the others, then explained that he wanted Konoha to pressure Kirigakure so he could rescue his mother. He made clear that his target was Konoha, not his friends, leaving them to face his demand.

• Minato Namikaze, Kushina Uzumaki, Choza Akimichi, and Inoichi Yamanaka discussed the danger of war and the punishment Yue might face for killing Anbu.
• Uchiha Yue appeared before them and dismissed their concern about the Anbu he had killed.
• Inoichi Yamanaka stopped Minato Namikaze from embracing Yue, and Yue praised him for understanding why he had come.
• Minato Namikaze asked Yue to explain his purpose, and Yue said he wanted Konoha to pressure Kirigakure to keep his mother safe.
• Uchiha Yue said he intended to make things difficult for Konoha, not for Minato Namikaze, Kushina Uzumaki, Choza Akimichi, or Inoichi Yamanaka.