Recaps

Liu Heng transmigrated into an Uchiha with a Three-Tomoe Sharingan during the Nine-Tails' attack on Konoha in Year 48. As he feared the clan’s coming persecution and his own lack of memories, a violent impact knocked him unconscious after his Sharingan briefly changed into a Four-Pointed Windmill Sharingan.

• Liu Heng awoke in Konoha during the Nine-Tails' attack and realized he had transmigrated into an Uchiha with a Three-Tomoe Sharingan.
• Liu Heng recalled that Sarutobi Hiruzen and Shimura Danzō had isolated the Uchiha, while Uchiha Fugaku had kept the clan from joining the fight.
• Liu Heng feared that his missing memories would expose him to interrogation or make others suspect him of helping the attacker controlling the Nine-Tails.
• Liu Heng collapsed after a sudden, agonizing impact struck deep within his mind.
• Liu Heng's Sharingan briefly transformed into a Four-Pointed Windmill Sharingan before he lost consciousness.

Liu Heng woke in the body of Uchiha Shōji, whose memories and personality had fused with his own, and learned that his Sharingan had evolved into the Mangekyō. He accepted Uchiha Chihaya, Uchiha Saki, and Uchiha Yang as his family, but his new strength remained untested.

• Uchiha Saki and Uchiha Yang welcomed the awakened Shōji and called their grandmother, Uchiha Chihaya.
• Shōji reassured his family that he was recovering from overtraining, and Uchiha Chihaya took the children away so he could rest.
• After they left, Liu Heng reflected that he had become Uchiha Shōji, a fourteen-year-old Uchiha with a history as a capable shinobi.
• Shōji examined his reflection and saw that his Sharingan had evolved to the Mangekyō Sharingan.
• Liu Heng realized that his soul had fused with Shōji's, giving him both sets of memories and making Shōji's family feel like his own.

After recovering, Uchiha Shōji resolved to protect his family and find a way to prevent the Uchiha Clan’s destruction, while preparing for conflict with Konoha’s leadership. He stayed out of the Clan’s first assembly after the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox’s Attack, then learned that the Uchiha had been ordered to relocate to the village’s remote outskirts.

• Liu Heng accepted Uchiha Shōji as his identity after their memories and emotions fused, and vowed to protect the Uchiha Clan from Sarutobi Hiruzen and Shimura Danzō.
• Shōji planned to seek allies among the Clan’s younger generation, approach Uchiha Fugaku and possibly Sarutobi Hiruzen, and guard against Uchiha Itachi discovering his plans.
• On the fourth day after the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox's Attack, Sarutobi Hiruzen, Shimura Danzō, and Konoha’s leaders met with the heads of the major Ninja Clans and proposed relocating the Uchiha Clan.
• Uchiha Fugaku reluctantly accepted the proposal and called the Clan’s Jōnin to an assembly at Naka Shrine, while Shōji stayed home because he was not eligible to attend.
• After the assembly, the Uchiha learned they had to move their residence again, this time to the village’s most remote outskirts.

After the Uchiha reluctantly accepted the relocation plan, Shōji visited his branch-family elder to seek entry into the clan assembly and found Shisui there. Shōji recognized Shisui’s growing distress over the divide between the Uchiha and the village, and the chapter ended with Shisui asking why he had come.

• Uchiha Fugaku reprimanded clansmen who called for a coup and persuaded the assembly to accept the relocation plan despite their anger.
• Shōji decided that gaining influence and a place in the clan assembly was necessary to unite the Uchiha and pursue his plans.
• Shōji visited Elder Genran, where he encountered Shisui Uchiha.
• Shisui said he was working for both the clan and the village, though Shōji noticed his worry about the Uchiha’s treatment after the Nine-Tails’ attack.
• Shōji advised Shisui to maintain balance, and Shisui asked what had brought him to Elder Genran’s home.

Shōji asked Elder Genran to let him join the Uchiha Clan Assembly, arguing that the clan needed to unite its strength. He demonstrated that he already had the qualifications by revealing his newly awakened Three-Tomoe Sharingan.

• Elder Genran arrived and asked Shōji why he had come to visit after recovering from overtraining.
• Shōji told Elder Genran that he wanted to enter the Clan Assembly, surprising Shisui and prompting Genran to question his timing and qualifications.
• Shōji said he wanted to contribute to the clan when it needed unity and insisted that he already met the requirements.
• Shōji revealed his Three-Tomoe Sharingan, and Elder Genran recognized it as proof of his strength.

Shōji revealed that his Sharingan had reached Three-Tomoe, and Elder Genran asked him to spar with Shisui to prove he qualified to attend the next Clan Meeting. Shisui defeated Shōji with a genjutsu and Body Flicker, leaving Shōji aware of the gap between them.

• Shōji told Shisui and Elder Genran that his Sharingan had recently evolved to Three-Tomoe.
• Elder Genran proposed a spar with Shisui to judge whether Shōji could attend the next Clan Meeting.
• Shōji and Shisui activated their Three-Tomoe Sharingan and began sparring in the courtyard.
• Shōji used a substitution to evade Shisui's attack, then pressed him with a strike that Shisui dodged.
• Shisui used the dust from Shōji's missed strike to plant a genjutsu suggestion, then appeared behind him with Body Flicker and won the spar.
• Shōji admitted that he had been careless and recognized that Shisui was far stronger.

After sparring with Shisui, Shōji proved his strength to Elder Genran and earned a place at the next Clan Meeting. As he explored Konoha and greeted the Uchiha clansmen, his inherited affection for them deepened his resolve to save the clan at any cost.

• Shōji sparred with Shisui and judged that his Three-Tomoe Sharingan made him a capable Jōnin, with greater potential when he used his Mangekyō Sharingan.
• Elder Genran praised Shōji and promised to notify him before the next Clan Meeting, hoping he would continue serving the clan.
• Shōji left Elder Genran's home, unaware that Shisui was watching him with a new sense of uncertainty and interest.
• Shōji walked through the Uchiha compound, greeted the clansmen, and reflected on how his inherited memories and emotions shaped his desire to protect them.
• Shōji left the compound determined to save the clan at any cost, then headed toward Konoha's bustling commercial district.

Shōji surveyed Konoha and blamed Sarutobi Hiruzen for the village’s decline and the Uchiha Clan’s isolation. Meanwhile, Shisui met privately with Hiruzen, whose influence had made Shisui a willing spy within his clan.

• Shōji reflected that Hiruzen and Shimura Danzō had maneuvered the Uchiha Clan toward destruction while pretending to uphold righteousness.
• Shōji noticed Konoha ninjas watching him with suspicion because of the Sharingan seen in the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox’s eyes.
• Shōji toured Konoha, visited its cemetery, and condemned Hiruzen for the village’s failures before returning toward the Uchiha compound.
• Shisui avoided the Uchiha Clan members and traveled to an eastern district residence to meet Sarutobi Hiruzen.
• Shisui greeted Hiruzen with reverence, having willingly become a spy for Konoha’s leadership within the Uchiha Clan.

Sarutobi Hiruzen questioned Shisui about the Uchiha Clan’s reaction to relocating its compound and urged him to uncover anyone plotting against the village. As Shisui returned to watch the clan, reports of Konoha’s losses after the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox’s attack stirred other nations and villages, especially Kumogakure and Iwagakure.

• Sarutobi Hiruzen asked Shisui how the Uchiha Clan, particularly Fugaku and the elders, viewed the relocation order.
• Shisui reported that many clan members complained, but Fugaku and several elders had agreed to obey the village’s plan, while others had not openly opposed it.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen told Shisui to watch for unusual activity and expose the mastermind behind the turmoil so the clan and village could regain peace.
• Shisui swore to follow Hiruzen’s orders, then vanished when Hiruzen dismissed him.
• News of Konoha’s heavy casualties and the Fourth Hokage’s death prompted signs of large-scale deployments in Kumogakure and Iwagakure, alarming Konoha’s leaders.

Konoha began a sweeping reconstruction that forced the Uchiha and many other clans to relocate, deepening the Uchiha’s isolation. Shōji focused on training and comforting his family, while Shisui worried that the clan’s growing resentment would make the village more suspicious of them.

• The Third, Shimura Danzō, and the other leaders confirmed that the tense border standoff had not escalated into war and began organizing Konoha’s reconstruction.
• Konoha’s officials ordered more than twenty clans, including the Uchiha, Sarutobi, and Shimura, to relocate their compounds for the reconstruction project.
• Shōji prioritized adapting to his Mangekyō Sharingan and training, believing he needed Kage-level strength to influence major affairs.
• Little Saki asked Shōji whether the Uchiha were moving, and he reassured her that their family would remain together in their new home.
• Shisui feared the relocation would fuel the Uchiha’s resentment and increase the village’s suspicion, as he and Shōji pursued opposing paths.

After the Uchiha Clan’s relocation deepened its isolation within Konohagakure, Shōji cautiously sought a few trustworthy allies and prepared to begin the next phase of his plan. He learned that a Clan Meeting would consider sending people to the Northeastern Border after Kumogakure massed forces there.

• The Uchiha Clan completed its move to a territory surrounded by neighboring clans, which Shōji recognized as a sign of suspicion and containment.
• Shōji observed his clansmen’s anger and poor discretion, then gave up on most potential allies and gradually approached only three or four reliable people.
• Shōji explained his goal of securing fair treatment for the Uchiha and shared limited, general plans for strengthening the clan and gaining other clans’ support.
• Shōji sought out Uchiha Genran on the way to the Naka Shrine and learned that the upcoming Clan Meeting would discuss selecting people for the Northeastern Border.
• Uchiha Genran told Shōji that Kumogakure had massed heavy forces along the border, threatening Konohagakure.

Shōji and Elder Genran went to the Naka Shrine for a Uchiha Clan Assembly after the Fourth Raikage reinforced Kumogakure’s border forces. Shōji planned to use the coming deployment against Kumogakure as a chance to leave the village and act more freely.

• Shōji and Elder Genran discussed Kumogakure’s troop movements and the summons issued by Sarutobi Hiruzen, while Shōji wondered whether it concealed another purpose.
• Elder Genran considered the summons a routine response to border tensions and felt pleased that Shōji had become a promising figure in their clan branch.
• Shōji resolved to ask to join the Uchiha members sent to the front lines, believing the deployment could become an opportunity for him.
• Shōji and Elder Genran entered the Naka Shrine’s underground chamber, where dozens of Uchiha had gathered before the Stone Tablet.

Shōji attended a secret Uchiha Clan Meeting where Fugaku explained that Konoha wanted the clan to provide troops for the growing conflict with Kumogakure. The meeting opened with angry calls to refuse, leaving Fugaku without a clear path forward and Shōji wary of his clanmates’ poor judgment.

• Shōji arrived at the meeting and exchanged a greeting with Shisui before Fugaku entered with his loyal supporters.
• Fugaku told the assembled Uchiha that the Third Hokage had asked the major clans to decide how many troops they would send to the northeastern border.
• Fugaku privately suspected the conscription order concealed an ulterior motive, but he had no reasonable grounds to refuse it outright.
• Several Uchiha clansmen angrily demanded that Fugaku reject the village’s request and resist being pushed around.
• Shōji judged the clansmen’s complaints to be unconstructive and worried that their reckless talk could endanger the clan.
• Fugaku listened to the complaints and silently lamented that he had no reliable person in the clan to consult.

At a secret Uchiha Clan Meeting, Shōji urged the clan to answer Konoha’s call-up order and send members to fight the Kumo Ninja, arguing that cooperation would protect the clan’s future. His proposal drew ridicule, and Uchiha Chie challenged him to consider whether the order was another attempt to suppress the Uchiha.

• Fugaku demanded that the clan discuss how to respond to Konoha’s call-up order and asked the elders for their opinions.
• Shōji stood and proposed sending Uchiha members to the front lines to fight the Kumo Ninja for the village and the clan’s future.
• Several clan members mocked Shōji, while Shisui showed concern and the elders watched him closely.
• Fugaku silenced the room and told Shōji to justify his proposal and persuade the clan.
• Shōji argued that the Uchiha needed to earn the village’s trust rather than act on resentment.
• Uchiha Chie questioned whether Konoha’s call-up order was another attempt to suppress the clan.

At the Uchiha Clan Meeting, Shōji argued that the clan should restore its standing by proving its loyalty to Konoha through action. His words shifted Fugaku’s view toward sending Uchiha on the village’s operation, which could also expose the mysterious Uchiha behind the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox’s Attack.

• Elder Chie’s criticism prompted the Uchiha leaders to scrutinize Shōji, while Elder Genran worried the fourteen-year-old might be speaking impulsively.
• Shōji urged the clan to earn trust through concrete service to Konoha and defend its own dignity rather than simply resent its rejection and isolation.
• Shisui and several clan leaders reflected on Shōji’s argument, while Fugaku reconsidered the clan’s response to the village’s call for personnel.
• Fugaku decided the operation could help test Hokage Sarutobi Hiruzen’s attitude and reveal the mysterious Uchiha clansman, despite the risk to more than a hundred Uchiha.

Shōji urged the Uchiha Clan to pursue peaceful reconciliation with the village, hoping to persuade Fugaku and reach the Third Hokage through Shisui. Fugaku ended the meeting without a public decision, and someone familiar called out to Shōji as he left.

• Shōji offered to be the first Uchiha to support his proposal if Fugaku agreed.
• Fugaku asked whether anyone had other thoughts, but the clansmen remained silent.
• Fugaku ended the Clan Meeting and stayed behind with the elders to discuss the matter.
• Shōji left the underground chamber, hoping his plan would succeed despite having backup measures.
• A familiar figure called to Shōji and asked to talk.

Shōji explained to Shisui why the Uchiha Clan had become feared after the Nine-Tails’ rampage and argued that the clan needed to prove its loyalty to Konoha. The chapter ended with Shisui excitedly suggesting that he shared Shōji’s view.

• Shisui stopped Shōji at the edge of Konoha and asked how he viewed the Uchiha Clan’s situation.
• Shōji said the Sharingan seen in the Nine-Tails’ eyes had made the clan dangerously suspect throughout the village.
• Shōji explained that the clan’s strength and history of rebellion had also fueled the village leadership’s distrust.
• Shisui asked whether Shōji’s proposal at the Clan Meeting was meant to restore the clan’s reputation.
• Shōji said the Uchiha needed to demonstrate devotion to Konoha and find the person responsible for the deaths and destruction during the attack.
• Shisui reacted excitedly to Shōji’s reasoning, and Shōji asked whether they shared the same view.

Shōji gained Shisui’s support for changing the Uchiha Clan’s situation, while withholding his more dangerous contingency plans. Shisui left to report the clan’s loyalty to the Third Hokage, and Shōji returned home resolved to prepare for every outcome.

• Shisui promised to support Shōji’s efforts to restore the clan’s honor and change its situation.
• Shisui kept his concerns involving Sarutobi Hiruzen to himself and left to visit clansmen and report to the Third Hokage.
• Shōji reflected that an Uchiha coup would likely end in the clan’s destruction, so he preferred earning the village’s trust while preparing for the worst.
• Shōji reaffirmed that he would fight at any cost if the Uchiha Clan faced destruction, then headed home.

After the Uchiha Clan volunteered to send its main forces to the border, Sarutobi Hiruzen and his advisors discussed what the decision revealed about the clan and Uchiha Shōji. Hiruzen decided to approve the deployment, using it to investigate the Uchiha and test Shōji.

• Uchiha Fugaku submitted the clan's request to volunteer for border duty, surprising Sarutobi Hiruzen with its speed.
• Shisui delivered intelligence that eased Hiruzen's doubts and drew his interest toward Uchiha Shōji.
• Mitokado Homura and Utatane Koharu advised Hiruzen to watch Fugaku and investigate the mysterious Uchiha clan member.
• Hiruzen proposed approving the Uchiha deployment to investigate the clan and test Shōji, and Koharu supported his decision.

Sarutobi Hiruzen decided to send Uchiha personnel, including Shōji, to the front lines as Kumogakure prepared another mobilization. He and the other elders agreed to test the Uchiha while avoiding Danzo’s proposed purge, and Hiruzen began coordinating the deployment with Uchiha Fugaku.

• Sarutobi Hiruzen cited the growing number of Kumogakure ninja at the border and ordered the clans’ personnel lists finalized within three days.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen, Mitokado Homura, and Utatane Koharu agreed to deploy Uchiha forces and assess Shōji while rejecting Shimura Danzō’s extreme approach to the clan.
• Mitokado Homura and Utatane Koharu divided the work of contacting the clans and arranging logistics.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen discussed personnel deployment with Uchiha Fugaku and planned to include Shōji, whose Three-Tomoe Sharingan Shisui had reported.
• Uchiha Fugaku approved sending Shōji and other young Uchiha to gain battlefield experience.

Uchiha Fugaku agreed to Konoha’s deployment plan after negotiating limits on the number of Uchiha genin sent to the front. Sarutobi Hiruzen assembled more than a thousand ninja to reinforce the northeastern border, but Shimura Danzō confronted him over sending the Uchiha to the front lines.

• Uchiha Fugaku reviewed Sarutobi Hiruzen’s personnel list and negotiated limits on how many Uchiha genin would be deployed.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen agreed to Fugaku’s conditions, preserving the established rules protecting the clans’ basic interests.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen gathered more than a thousand Konoha Ninja, including eighty jōnin, to reinforce strongholds near the Land of Hot Springs.
• Shimura Danzō rushed to the Hokage’s Office and demanded that Sarutobi Hiruzen explain why he was allowing the Uchiha Clan to go to the front lines.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen defended the deployment as a conventional way to assess the Uchiha, while Shimura Danzō warned that it could drag the entire clan into danger.

Hiruzen rejected Danzō’s demand to distrust the entire Uchiha Clan, while the clan’s leaders treated Konoha’s deployment order as a chance to change their standing in the village. Shōji saw the mobilization as an opportunity to advance his plans as the selected Uchiha and other forces prepared to go to war.

• Hiruzen insisted that some Uchiha, including Shisui and Shōji, could be trusted, and Danzō left after warning him he would regret his decision.
• Fugaku, Genran, Chie, and the other Uchiha leaders supported volunteering for the deployment, believing the clan could gain the recognition of other Ninja Clans.
• Shōji received the deployment order and hoped the nearly hundred Uchiha named in it would help his plan progress.
• The selected Uchiha began preparing supplies alongside a force of major Ninja Clans and Commoner Ninja totaling more than 1,300 people.

Konoha prepared more than thirteen hundred reinforcements for outposts facing Kumogakure, with Nara Suzaku coordinating their deployment. Shōji departed with the Uchiha contingent, leaving his younger siblings and grandmother behind as they headed toward the Land of Hot Springs.

• Sarutobi Hiruzen reinforced Konoha's northeastern defenses because Kumogakure's border provocations had caused casualties and threatened a wider war.
• Nara Suzaku was appointed to coordinate the reinforcements and placed the Uchiha personnel on the second departure list.
• Shōji told Uchiha Yang to protect Uchiha Saki and Uchiha Chihaya while he was away, then said goodbye to his family.
• Shōji left home and joined more than a hundred gathered Uchiha clansmen, determined to continue despite having no path back.
• The chapter described the Land of Hot Springs as a likely battlefield between Konoha and Kumogakure, where the villages had fought for decades.

Konoha’s deployment to the Land of Hot Springs became a test of the Uchiha Clan’s position when Nara Suzaku ordered most of its personnel to reinforce the dangerous Mount Hot Spring stronghold. Uchiha Kogen accepted the change, and the reinforcements were told to reach their assigned posts by morning.

• The chapter explained that Fourth Raikage A was probing Konoha’s strength while Kumogakure cautiously escalated the border conflict.
• Uchiha Kogen challenged Nara Suzaku after learning that over two-thirds of the Uchiha contingent would be sent to strongholds in the Land of Hot Springs, including Mount Hot Spring.
• Nara Suzaku said the Hokage had ordered the reassignment because Mount Hot Spring needed reinforcements, and other clans were also transferring personnel there.
• Uchiha Kogen swallowed his anger and agreed that the Uchiha Clan would follow the village’s arrangements.
• Nara Suzaku ordered all the clans to depart that afternoon and reach their strongholds before morning as Kumogakure’s attacks intensified.

After Kogen announced that the Uchiha Clan would be reassigned to the dangerous Mount Hot Spring frontline alongside other clans and Suzaku, Shōji volunteered to go there. His offer surprised the clan members who remembered his influence at their recent meeting.

• Suzaku reflected that the reassignment was a routine reinforcement plan, not a plot to sacrifice the Uchiha, as Konoha's outpost near Mount Hot Spring urgently needed help against Kumogakure.
• Kogen reported the reassignment to the Uchiha Clan, whose members mostly grumbled while some elders worried that the deployment might still expose them to losses.
• Shōji decided that the dangerous outpost offered a chance to fight and improve, and believed his Mangekyō Sharingan gave him a strong chance of surviving battles.
• Shōji asked Kogen to add his name to the roster for the Mount Hot Spring Outpost, drawing the attention of the gathered Uchiha.