Chapter Summaries

Kangetsu severed his ties with Uchiha Tajima, splitting the Uchiha Clan and leaving Kangetsu in control of most of its strength. He then declared Uzumaki Mito his fiancée.

• Kangetsu condemned Uchiha Tajima and said he would no longer call him Father.
• Kangetsu told Uchiha Madara and Uchiha Izuna to stay alive, then walked past them and Uchiha Tajima, marking the Uchiha Clan's split.
• Kangetsu's side controlled Scarlet City, most of the Uchiha Clan's forces, and the clan's finances, while Uchiha Tajima retained about ten thousand members.
• Kangetsu reached Uzumaki Suien and declared that Uzumaki Mito was his fiancée.

Kangetsu ordered Nara Isshin to purge disloyal people from his forces and move them to a new Scarlet City on the Ishikura Clan's former grounds. He revealed that the relocation was meant to separate his people from the Uchiha Clan, though he still cared about his elder brother, Uchiha Madara.

• Kangetsu told Nara Isshin that he had become head of the Uchiha Clan and needed to decide on a relocation.
• Kangetsu gave Isshin one year to screen the Nara, Akimichi, Yamanaka, Onmyo, and Uchiha clans and expel destabilizing or disloyal people from Scarlet City.
• Kangetsu ordered Isshin to leave those expelled with the Uchiha Clan and gradually move their own people to a new Scarlet City on the Ishikura Clan's former grounds.
• Isshin asked whether Kangetsu intended to split from the Uchiha Clan, and Kangetsu confirmed it, criticizing Uchiha Tajima while saying he cared about Uchiha Madara.

Kangetsu reflected on the Uchiha clan’s shallow family bonds before his mother, Uchiha Eiko, explained why Uchiha Tajima had chosen Kangetsu’s older brother as successor. She said Tajima’s power and position depended on Kangetsu, but his dislike of Kangetsu blinded him to that fact.

• Kangetsu thought the black soil he had discovered would keep his clansmen from going hungry.
• After Nara Isshin left, Kangetsu condemned the Uchiha clan’s supposed love and expressed contempt for paternal love.
• Kangetsu sensed Uchiha Eiko approaching and recognized her chakra as connected to the lightning within his soul.
• Uchiha Eiko told Kangetsu that his childhood achievements had created three factions in the clan, with Kangetsu’s faction having the most followers and hers the strongest.
• Uchiha Eiko explained that Uchiha Tajima had chosen Kangetsu’s older brother as successor because he disliked Kangetsu, forgetting that his own authority came from Kangetsu.

Uchiha Madara, Izuna, and Kangetsu confronted the family rift caused by Uchiha Tajima, while Kangetsu prepared for another battle against the Hagoromo Clan. Meanwhile, a man surprised Mito as she daydreamed about her fiancé.

• Uchiha Madara apologized to Kangetsu and promised to return the forces Uchiha Tajima planned to give him.
• Kangetsu told Uchiha Madara he did not want to discuss the matter and returned to his tent.
• Uchiha Izuna condemned Uchiha Tajima for driving away Kangetsu and their mother, then ran off.
• Uchiha Madara questioned whether Uchiha Tajima was truly his father before walking away.
• Kangetsu prepared supplies for the next battle and considered how to improve his Flying Thunder God Technique.
• A man found Mito smiling to herself in an Uzumaki Clan tent and asked if she was thinking about her fiancé.

Kangetsu received the Uzumaki Clan's complete collection of Sealing Jutsu from Uzumaki Mito and learned about the clan's internal factions. He decided to target the Ziyan Faction while protecting Uzumaki Suien's faction, leaving him with a plan to take control of the clan without betraying Mito.

• Kangetsu thanked Uzumaki Mito for giving him the Uzumaki Clan's Sealing Jutsu, making her happy.
• Uzumaki Suien arrived late at night and took Uzumaki Mito away, pleased with Kangetsu as a prospective son-in-law.
• Kangetsu summoned Nara Isshin and told him to act on the information Mito had shared about the clan's factions.
• Nara Isshin said he would make the Ziyan Faction the target of Kangetsu's plan to take control of the clan.
• Kangetsu decided to protect Uzumaki Suien's faction and ordered Nara Isshin to head back.

Kangetsu gave Uzumaki Mito a scroll explaining how to learn the Rasengan, then prepared the blood-soaked battlefield for his Flying Thunder God Technique. He left Mito with the gift and readied a hidden formula that would let him move freely and attack within its bounds.

• Kangetsu gave Uzumaki Mito a Rasengan scroll as a gift and told her it was meant for her alone to practice.
• Uzumaki Mito read the scroll and looked at Kangetsu with joy and love as he headed toward the battlefield.
• Kangetsu touched the bloodstained ground and formed hand seals to spread three red tomoe patterns across it.
• Kangetsu used red tomoe to conceal a Flying Thunder God formula across the battlefield, preparing to move and fight freely within its bounds.

Kangetsu learned that his subordinate had died after completing a mission by marrying into the Hagoromo Clan, and he took responsibility for the man's family. He then ordered an attack on the Hagoromo Clan using a volley of marked Kunai and Shuriken.

• Kangetsu's dying subordinate revealed that he had a wife and son with Storm Release ability, then killed himself.
• Kangetsu demanded the man's body, wife, and son from Hagoromo Tian, who agreed to release the family.
• Kangetsu ordered Inoue to care for the mother, child, and corpse.
• Kangetsu commanded his forces to kill the Hagoromo Clan, and Hagoromo Tian warned his people about Kunai marked with tomoe.
• Kangetsu ordered his subordinates to throw over a thousand marked Kunai and Shuriken, including both genuine and painted markings.

Kangetsu’s allies intervened when Hagoromo Tian’s lightning giant attacked, and Uchiha Eiko revealed her Susanoo to defend her son. The confrontation continued as three newcomers summoned lightning giants to counter Eiko’s attack.

• Kangetsu began forming a blood-red skeletal giant, but Uzumaki Suien restrained Hagoromo Tian’s lightning giant with a golden sealing chain.
• Hyuga Tianyi sent a yin-yang chakra symbol at Hagoromo Tian, who shattered it with a blue laser aimed at Kangetsu.
• Uchiha Eiko blocked the laser with her pink Susanoo and sent a cherry-blossom Shuriken toward Hagoromo Tian’s lightning giant.
• Three people appeared behind Yu Tian, summoned lightning giants, and slashed at Eiko’s cherry blossoms with lightning blades.

Kangetsu used the God Tree's power to manifest Susanoo's complete form, fueled by Indra and Asura's chakra. He faced the colossal lightning giant Hagoromo Tian had formed, while blood tears ran from his Sharingan.

• Hyuga Tianyi formed enormous yin-yang taiji diagrams over his hands as Kangetsu recognized the strength of the Warring States clans.
• Kangetsu unleashed blood-red chakra and summoned his complete-form Susanoo.
• Kangetsu drew on the God Tree to replenish the power of Indra and Asura's chakra and sustain the Susanoo.
• Kangetsu's Susanoo appeared as a winged general clad in spiked blood-red armor, with a dragon's head on its chest.
• Kangetsu's Sharingan shed blood tears as he faced the colossal lightning giant Hagoromo Tian had formed from three lightning giants.

Kangetsu fought Hagoromo Tian with his complete Susanoo, while Black Zetsu watched and decided to keep Kangetsu alive. As the battle continued, Hagoromo Tian’s lightning giant began to fall apart.

• Kangetsu’s clashes with Hagoromo Tian sent deadly sparks and blade energy across the battlefield, killing many Hagoromo Clan ninjas.
• Nara Isshin ordered nearby forces to evacuate, while Kangetsu had already told Inoue and the others to leave.
• Black Zetsu appeared on the battlefield and suspected that Indra’s chakra had reincarnated in both Uchiha Madara and Uchiha Kangetsu.
• Black Zetsu abandoned his plan to let Hagoromo Tian kill Kangetsu and began forming hand seals to intervene.
• Kangetsu noticed that Hagoromo Tian’s lightning giant was beginning to fall apart.

Hagoromo Tian trapped Kangetsu with four lightning giants and unleashed a vast barrage of blue laser beams after destroying the tomoe markings Kangetsu used as spatial coordinates. Kangetsu escaped into a black space, while the attack devastated the battlefield and killed people from the withdrawing clans.

• Hagoromo Tian's lightning giant seized Kangetsu, then split into four giants that held his Susanoo in place.
• Kangetsu warned everyone to retreat, and Isshin led the others back toward camp while Kangetsu remained behind.
• Hagoromo Tian revealed that he had covered the tomoe markings with a lightning-shaped formula to destroy Kangetsu's spatial coordinates.
• Kangetsu rejected Hagoromo Tian's claim that this would trap him and opened a black space with his right hand.
• Kangetsu leaped into the black space as countless blue laser beams filled the battlefield, killing many people despite the clans' retreat.

After Kangetsu lost his sight and collapsed from the strain of battle, Uzumaki Mito rushed him back toward camp and used her life force to heal him. As she saved him, the essence of the fallen Hagoromo Clan members appeared around them.

• Kangetsu used a marker in Uzumaki Mito’s scroll to teleport to her after his eyes lost their sight and he could no longer travel long distances.
• Kangetsu asked Uzumaki Mito to take him to camp, then passed out from his injuries and the backlash of his Mangekyo Sharingan and Susanoo.
• Uzumaki Mito and Kangetsu’s escorts, including Uzumaki Suien, hurried back toward camp.
• Uzumaki Mito pressed her lips to Kangetsu’s and used her life force to heal him, despite Uzumaki Suien warning her of the cost.
• Blue specks of light, the essence of the dead Hagoromo Clan members, appeared in the air.

After Kangetsu returned to camp temporarily blinded from using Susanoo, Uchiha Eiko took him for treatment. Black Zetsu arrived intending to restore Kangetsu’s sight, but discovered that Uzumaki Mito had merged with Asura’s chakra.

• Kangetsu asked Uchiha Eiko to take him to his tent and call Yamanaka In and Yamanaka Yang after he realized they were back at camp.
• Uchiha Eiko took Kangetsu for treatment, while Uzumaki Suien reassured Uzumaki Mito that Kangetsu’s blindness was a side effect of the Mangekyō Sharingan.
• Uzumaki Mito struck Uzumaki Suien and argued that Kangetsu could still rely on Flying Thunder God even without the Sharingan.
• Black Zetsu arrived to treat Kangetsu’s blindness, believing only Six Paths power could restore his sight and hoping his eyes would become the Rinnegan.
• Black Zetsu sensed Asura’s chakra within Uzumaki Mito and realized Kangetsu had restored her by transferring a small part of the God Tree into her body.

While Kangetsu underwent eye surgery, Black Zetsu acted to take half of Indra’s chakra from Madara and transfer it to him. Meigetsu’s Sharingan awakened green lightning in Kangetsu, and the God Tree absorbed the Hagoromo Clan’s chakra and Black Zetsu’s chakra, leaving Kangetsu with a new mixture of chakra.

• Black Zetsu decided to take half of Indra’s chakra from Uchiha Madara and give it to Uchiha Kangetsu.
• Yamanaka In and Yamanaka Yang put Kangetsu to sleep, removed his eyes, and prepared to transplant Meigetsu’s Sharingan.
• Yamanaka Yang placed Meigetsu’s Sharingan into Kangetsu’s empty sockets as Yamanaka In and Yamanaka Yang flooded his head with healing chakra.
• Green lightning spread through Kangetsu’s eyes and body while he remained unconscious.
• The God Tree absorbed the blue motes of Hagoromo Clan chakra and released pure chakra that nourished Kangetsu’s bloodline.
• The God Tree absorbed Black Zetsu’s chakra and produced a special chakra that mingled with Kangetsu’s own.

Black Zetsu infused Kangetsu with part of Indra’s chakra, hoping to help him awaken the Rinnegan. Kangetsu’s inner God Tree absorbed and converted the chakra, while Black Zetsu remained unaware that Kangetsu was not Indra’s reincarnation.

• After Yamanaka Yang said Kangetsu was recovering, black chakra erupted across Kangetsu’s body.
• Black Zetsu explained that he had given Kangetsu part of Indra’s chakra and planned to give half of Asura’s chakra to Uzumaki Mito.
• Black Zetsu considered giving both chakra essences to Kangetsu and Uzumaki Mito’s child if Kangetsu failed to awaken the Rinnegan.
• Kangetsu felt Indra’s chakra resist him and attack his mental power, but the God Tree inside him absorbed and transformed it into his own chakra.
• Black Zetsu believed Kangetsu was absorbing Indra’s chakra without realizing the God Tree had converted it.

Kangetsu recovered and gained the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan, restoring his clan’s confidence and quieting the Senju and Hyuga Clans. After suspecting Black Zetsu had influenced Hagoromo Tian, he ordered the Hagoromo Clan exterminated except for his brother’s wife and son and Hagoromo Tian’s family.

• Kangetsu recovered from his injuries and gained the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan, which Isshin publicized among his subordinates.
• The Senju and Hyuga Clans backed down after learning Kangetsu’s power had increased.
• Nara Isshin reported that the Hagoromo Clan had been wiped out and that its compound contained supplies and ninjutsu.
• Kangetsu recalled Hagoromo Tian’s final words and suspected Black Zetsu had prevented someone from killing him.
• Kangetsu ordered Isshin to kill the remaining Hagoromo Clan members while sparing his brother’s wife and son and preserving Hagoromo Tian’s bloodline through his family.

Kangetsu prepared to leave the Uchiha Clan, confident that Uchiha Madara and Uchiha Izuna could keep its remaining forces in line. He encountered Uchiha Tajima and his sons at the gates, where Izuna asked whether their relationship could still be mended.

• Kangetsu reflected that he controlled most of the Uchiha Clan's strength, while Uchiha Madara and Uchiha Izuna kept the rest obedient.
• Kangetsu reached the Uchiha Clan's gates and declared that there was nothing left for him to look back on.
• Uchiha Tajima arrived with Madara and Izuna, weakened and supported by the two children.
• Kangetsu told them their mother had left for Crimson Village a month earlier and regarded Tajima with coldness and murderous intent.
• Uchiha Izuna asked Kangetsu whether they could mend their relationship, saying Tajima had only said something he should not have.

Kangetsu’s Ice Style stopped Uchiha Madara’s Storm Release, and the brothers agreed to settle things in a fight. Their battle moved to the forest, where Kangetsu exposed Madara hiding inside a tree.

• Kangetsu froze Madara’s blue Storm Release with black flames that could freeze chakra, forcing Madara to cut off his attack.
• Madara told Izuna to take their father back for treatment, then challenged Kangetsu to fight as brothers.
• Kangetsu accepted and led Madara to the forest outside the Uchiha compound.
• Madara evaded Kangetsu’s kunai and shuriken with the Substitution Technique and Clone Technique.
• Kangetsu sensed Madara concealed inside a tree and struck it, breaking it apart and revealing him.

Kangetsu fought Uchiha Madara, evading his black flames and countering his Mangekyo ability. The clash continued as Kangetsu prepared a black, ice-covered Rasengan to meet Madara’s attack.

• Uchiha Madara’s Susanoo shattered, and he attacked Kangetsu with Scorch Style-Kagutsuchi.
• Kangetsu used the Flying Thunder God Technique to appear beside Uchiha Madara and strike him, but Madara turned into a black shadow.
• Kangetsu shattered the shadow and identified it as a Mangekyo Sharingan ability.
• Uchiha Madara attacked with Scorch Style-Yasaka Magatama, and Kangetsu formed a black Rasengan covered in sharp ice crystals.

Kangetsu overwhelmed Uchiha Madara in battle and explained the space-time abilities granted by Meigetsu's Mangekyo Sharingan. He demonstrated that one eye let him travel anywhere in his sight, while the other created deadly spatial rifts.

• Kangetsu's black Great Fireball overpowered Uchiha Madara's fireball and continued toward him.
• Kangetsu appeared beside Uchiha Madara and struck, but discovered he had pierced a shadow; he said Madara had at most five lives and that he had already taken two.
• Uchiha Madara admitted he could not resist Kangetsu and asked what technique let him move without using the Flying Thunder God Technique.
• Kangetsu explained that Meigetsu's eyes had developed abilities reflecting his desire to cross space: one let Kangetsu travel anywhere in his sight.
• Kangetsu used his left eye to create a spatial rift, and Uchiha Madara recognized it as the power to break through the Uchiha Clan's space.