Chapter Summaries

Uchiha Senichi was nominated as acting clan leader while the war against Hidden Mist continued, and Konoha’s leaders debated the Uchiha clan’s upheaval and Fugaku’s possible motives. The chapter ended with Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura urging Hiruzen to punish Senichi and strip the Uchiha of their military achievements.

• Uchiha Yan and Uchiha Senichi agreed to recruit Fugaku’s followers and preserve the clan’s strength, then Uchiha Hao joined them as they teleported away.
• At a clan meeting, Uchiha Senichi agreed to become clan leader after the Hidden Mist war, and the elders decided to announce his nomination immediately.
• The Uchiha announced Uchiha Senichi as acting clan leader until the troops returned from the front line.
• Nara Shikayama speculated that Fugaku had taken Uchiha Tianrong’s eyes to gain Mangekyō Sharingan that would not go blind, while Yamanaka Arashi confirmed Fugaku had killed Tianrong.
• Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura urged Hiruzen to warn Senichi, remove him as deputy commander, and erase the Uchiha’s military achievements.

The Third Hokage persuaded Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura not to punish the Uchiha over military merit or Uchiha Yan’s battlefield position, while explaining how much Yan had contributed to the Medical Talisman. Hyuga Keiichi then prepared Hyuga Hiashi to succeed him and insisted that Hiashi uphold the main family’s authority over the branch family.

• The Third Hokage warned Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura that attacking the united Uchiha could damage the village and weaken the war effort, and convinced them to drop the idea.
• Utatane Koharu complained about Uchiha Yan and Tsunade, but the Third Hokage argued that Yan had likely created most of the Medical Talisman and had mastered and improved the Flying Thunder God.
• Hyuga Keiichi told Hyuga Hiashi that he would become clan head after the war and claimed Uchiha Senichi had likely ordered Uchiha Tianrong’s eyes taken.
• Hyuga Keiichi instructed Hiashi to protect the main family’s authority even against Hizashi, warning that Hizashi resented being made a branch-family member and marked with the Caged Bird.

Hyuga Hiashi accepted that he lacked the strength to change the Hyuga Clan’s Main and Branch House rules, while Uchiha Yan publicly promised to protect Fugaku’s unborn child. Hiashi then saw a possible way to challenge his clan’s system by seeking Uchiha Yan’s help for his and Hizashi’s future children.

• Hyuga Keiichi slapped Hiashi and warned him that challenging the clan rules would endanger Hizashi and burden Hiashi’s future children.
• Hiashi concluded that the Main and Branch House system was wrong but believed he lacked the strength to overthrow it, and he resolved not to have more than one child if the rules remained unchanged.
• Three days later, the Uchiha Clan held a funeral for Uchiha Tianrong, where visiting clan representatives praised the clan’s reforms and its children.
• Uchiha Yan announced that he would take Fugaku’s unborn child as his disciple and protect the child and Yunko from mistreatment.
• After hearing Yan’s pledge, Hiashi considered having Uchiha Yan become the teacher of his future child and Hizashi’s future child.

Hyuga Hiashi decided he would ask Uchiha Yan to become Hizashi’s disciple, hoping Yan’s strength could help change the Hyuga clan’s Main and Branch House system. Two months later, during ceasefire negotiations with the Hidden Mist, Uchiha Yan crushed Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura with his pressure after Koharu demanded he hand over the Seven Ninja Swords.

• Hyuga Hiashi resolved to discuss having Uchiha Yan take Hizashi as a disciple and use Yan’s strength to reform the Hyuga clan.
• Uchiha Yan noticed Hyuga Hiashi’s fervent stare at the memorial service, greeted him, and left as the service continued.
• Two months later, the Hidden Mist delegation demanded the return of its Seven Ninja Swords, and Utatane Koharu agreed to retrieve them from Uchiha Yan.
• Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura went to the Hokage Office and demanded that the Third Hokage make Uchiha Yan surrender the swords.
• Uchiha Yan forced Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura to the floor with his pressure and warned them not to insult him or his parents.

Uchiha Yan confronted Konoha’s elders over their attempt to give away his trophies, then faced the Third Hokage’s order to send the Uchiha from the Hidden Mist front to the Hidden Stone Battlefield. He concealed his anger, planned to end the war decisively, and continued preparing to force the Hokage from power.

• Uchiha Yan demanded that Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura stop trying to give away the Seven Ninja Swords he had seized as trophies.
• Uchiha Yan’s pressure slammed Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura into the floor, and he released them after the Third Hokage intervened.
• The Third Hokage dismissed Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura, then tried to justify transferring the Uchiha forces from the Hidden Mist Battlefield to the Hidden Stone Battlefield.
• Uchiha Yan told the Third Hokage that he supported the transfer and blamed the elders for giving away his property, avoiding an open objection to the order.
• Uchiha Yan planned to reveal more of his strength, defeat the Hidden Stone, and use the victory to advance his efforts to remove the Third Hokage.

Uchiha Yan rejected the Third Hokage’s demand to return the Seven Ninja Swords, saying he had melted most of them down, and negotiated a trade for the Sword of the Thunder God. He agreed to negotiate with the Hidden Mist, leaving Samehada and the Explosive Blade with the Third Hokage until a treaty was signed.

• The Third Hokage asked Uchiha Yan to return the Seven Ninja Swords so Konoha could negotiate peace with the Hidden Mist, but Yan said he had already melted down all but Samehada and the Explosive Blade.
• The Third Hokage offered the Sword of the Thunder God in exchange for the swords, and Uchiha Yan accepted the trade.
• Uchiha Yan argued that the Hidden Mist should accept defeat and pay compensation, then offered to negotiate with them himself while promising not to attack their envoys.
• The Third Hokage agreed to let Uchiha Yan negotiate and said he would hand over the two remaining swords after the Hidden Mist signed a treaty.
• Uchiha Yan gave the Third Hokage scrolls containing Samehada and the Explosive Blade, warning that the Hidden Mist could summon the swords back.

Uchiha Yan received the Sword of the Thunder God and agreed to join the next day’s negotiations with Hidden Mist. He told the Uchiha elders he would bypass Danzo’s plans by quickly crippling the Hidden Stone forces and forcing Ōnoki to negotiate.

• The Third Hokage gave Uchiha Yan the Sword of the Thunder God in exchange for Samehada and the Explosive Blade, and Yan demonstrated its cutting power.
• Uchiha Yan learned the Hidden Mist negotiations would resume at nine the next morning and said he would attend.
• Uchiha Yan told the First Elder and Third Elder that he had resisted pressure from the Third Hokage and the elders to send Uchiha clansmen to the front lines.
• Uchiha Yan proposed striking the Hidden Stone forces directly to force Ōnoki to surrender, and the elders approved his plan.
• The First Elder and Third Elder warned Yan about Ōnoki, Dust Release, the Tailed Beasts, and the Uchiha’s history with him, but Yan said he was not concerned.

Uchiha Yan reassured the elders about Uchiha Madara, then attended negotiations with the Hidden Mist delegation over the Seven Ninja Swords. He crushed their attempt to demand the swords for free and left them shaken by his strength.

• Uchiha Yan explained that Madara had mastered Wood Release after taking flesh from the First Hokage, and warned the elders not to underestimate him.
• The First Elder asked Uchiha Yan to gather Fugaku's former Uchiha forces from the front lines, seal their secrets, and consider resurrecting trusted clan members; Uchiha Yan agreed.
• Uchiha Yan accompanied the Third Hokage to meet the Hidden Mist delegation, who accused Konoha of covering up his role in the deaths of the Third Mizukage and the Seven Ninja Swordsmen.
• The Third Hokage told the delegation they would have to negotiate directly with Uchiha Yan and offer enough in exchange for the swords.
• When the Hidden Mist representatives demanded the swords back for free, Uchiha Yan unleashed his aura, slammed them against the table, and rebuked them for negotiating as if they had won the war.
• The Hidden Mist delegation realized Uchiha Yan had defeated the powerful Uchiha Madara, while Uchiha Yan dismissed their outrage over his humiliation of them.

Uchiha Yan forced the Hidden Mist delegation to accept a two-hundred-million-ryo deal for Samehada and the Explosive Blade, allowing peace talks with Konoha to continue. He then traveled to the front and used genjutsu and mental seals to secure the loyalty of Uchiha clansmen under his command.

• Uchiha Yan threatened to attack Kirigakure unless the Hidden Mist representatives agreed to buy back Samehada and the Explosive Blade for two hundred million ryo.
• The Hidden Mist delegation accepted the price and agreed to continue peace talks after Uchiha Yan withdrew his killing intent and left.
• Uchiha Yan returned home, then used the Flying Thunder God to reach Konoha's front-line camp and meet Uchiha Senichi.
• Uchiha Yan addressed more than three hundred Uchiha clansmen and drew them into his Labyrinth World genjutsu.
• Uchiha Yan placed hostile clansmen under Enslavement Marks and gave others Secrecy Contracts or Half-Enslavement Marks to monitor their loyalty.

Uchiha Yan used a mental genjutsu to bind more than three hundred Uchiha elites to his family, then devised a plan to end the war on the Hidden Stone Battlefield and undermine the Third Hokage. Orochimaru approached Yan to renew their deal, and Yan asked whether he had found clues to the divine artifact or obtained the Kusanagi Sword.

• Uchiha Yan dispelled the genjutsu and explained that the Enslavement Seals would reshape the elites into loyal supporters; he gave Uchiha Senichi more than three hundred Death-Substitution Talismans to distribute.
• Uchiha Senichi asked whether the Third Hokage could be persuaded to call off the Uchiha clan's deployment to the Hidden Stone Battlefield, and Yan said the Hokage would not change his mind.
• Uchiha Hao proposed a rebellion, but Yan rejected it as the worst-case option and said he would defeat the Hidden Stone army and Ōnoki himself to end the war.
• Uchiha Senichi and Uchiha Hao agreed to Yan's plan, and Yan sensed Orochimaru approaching the tent.
• Orochimaru asked whether their old deal still stood and sought more of Yan's research, and Yan asked if he had found the divine artifact or obtained the Kusanagi Sword.

Uchiha Yan agreed to keep trading divine artifacts with Orochimaru, then promised Kushina that the war would end soon and Tsunade would become Hokage. Meanwhile, Uchiha Fugaku learned that Hidden Mist was preparing to make peace with Konoha and set out to Kirigakure to keep the village fighting.

• Uchiha Yan told Orochimaru he wanted more divine artifacts and rare materials, and Orochimaru offered to protect the Uchiha clan on the Hidden Stone front.
• Uchiha Yan returned to Konoha and promised Kushina that he would help put Tsunade in office after the war and free her to travel.
• Uchiha Yan told Kushina he planned to end the war within ten days, and she promised to support Tsunade's rise to Hokage.
• Black Zetsu told Uchiha Fugaku that Hidden Mist was preparing to make peace with Konoha and explained that the Fourth Mizukage remained under control through stored ocular power.
• Uchiha Fugaku decided to stop Hidden Mist from withdrawing and left with Black Zetsu for Kirigakure.

After Hidden Mist and Konoha signed a peace treaty, Fugaku explained to Black Zetsu that he planned to seize control of Hidden Mist and recruit its talent. Black Zetsu told him about Nagato’s Rinnegan and described the requirements for awakening one, leaving Fugaku intent on investigating the method himself.

• Hidden Mist withdrew after signing a peace treaty with Konoha, and the Uchiha clan and others transferred to the Hidden Stone battlefield.
• Fugaku told Black Zetsu he would use the peace to purge Hidden Mist’s disobedient forces and recruit talent for his plans against Uchiha Yan.
• Black Zetsu proposed bringing Nagato and Akatsuki under their control, explaining that Nagato possessed Madara’s Rinnegan.
• Fugaku asked whether he could awaken the Rinnegan, and Black Zetsu said it required ultimate Yin Release and Yang Release Chakra.
• Black Zetsu directed Fugaku to the underground chamber beneath South Kaga Shrine and explained that Yang Release could be acquired by fusing Hashirama Senju’s flesh and blood.

Black Zetsu persuaded Fugaku to completely fuse with Spiral White Zetsu, promising that its power could help him develop Yang Release and eventually awaken the Rinnegan. After the painful fusion greatly increased Fugaku’s vitality and chakra, Uchiha Yan discussed Fugaku’s coming campaign in Kirigakure with Minazuki Li, who planned to use it to purge rival clans.

• Black Zetsu told Fugaku that fusing completely with Spiral White Zetsu could strengthen his body and help him pursue the Rinnegan, and Fugaku agreed.
• Fugaku began the fusion while asking Uchiha Yan to watch over him through the Enslavement Mark.
• After enduring severe pain, Fugaku completed the fusion and discovered that his vitality and chakra reserves had increased tenfold.
• Black Zetsu congratulated Fugaku, while inwardly believing the fusion had made him harder to control.
• Uchiha Yan told Minazuki Li that Fugaku planned to bring the Blood Mist Policy to Kirigakure and purge its Kekkei Genkai clans.
• Minazuki Li welcomed Fugaku’s arrival as a chance to eliminate the Kaguya and Hozuki clans and opposition within the Minazuki Clan.

Uchiha Yan tasked Number One with preparing to infiltrate and take control of the Land of Fire after securing the Water Moon clansmen. Meanwhile, Hidden Stone intensified its assault on Konoha, and Danzo tried to force the Uchiha reinforcements into an early, dangerous arrival.

• Uchiha Yan asked Number One to lead revived Uchiha and former Root shinobi in replacing key figures in the Land of Fire, and Number One agreed to prepare after settling the Water Moon clansmen.
• Ōnoki learned that Hidden Mist had made peace with Konoha and that two thousand Konoha reinforcements were on their way, so he ordered Chongshan to intensify Hidden Stone's attacks.
• Hidden Stone launched increasingly desperate assaults, and Konoha's casualties rose as the two forces fought to break each other's lines.
• Jiraiya told Danzo that the reinforcements would arrive in about two days, but Danzo demanded that their elite troops reach camp by the next evening or face blame for delaying the war.
• Jiraiya challenged Danzo over the order, and Danzo accused him of opposing his authority.

Jiraiya blocked Danzo from targeting the Uchiha, but after reinforcements arrived, Danzo tried to push them into a dangerous assault. Uchiha Yan crippled one of Danzo’s provocateurs and overwhelmed the assembled elite ninja with his aura, leaving the conflict on the brink of escalation.

• Jiraiya defied Danzo’s order to send people after the Uchiha and kept watch until Danzo backed down.
• Two days later, Uchiha Senichi and the other reinforcements arrived as Hidden Stone’s attacks inflicted heavy casualties on both sides.
• Danzo proposed that the Uchiha lead an assault the next day, and his supporters provoked them during the command meeting.
• Uchiha Senichi challenged the provocateurs, but one accused the Uchiha Clan of rebellion.
• Uchiha Yan appeared, slammed the accuser into the ground, and crippled him.
• Uchiha Yan released a crushing aura that forced the assembled Elite Jōnin, Jiraiya, and Danzo to bend under its pressure.

Uchiha Yan confronted Danzo at the front lines, publicly exposed his scheme against the Uchiha Clan, and overpowered him. Danzo apologized but vowed to use the Third Hokage against Uchiha Yan after the war, while Uchiha Yan learned of his plan through Mind Reading.

• Uchiha Yan threatened Danzo and kept him pinned under his pressure, while the gathered ninja secretly welcomed Danzo's humiliation.
• Jiraiya tried to mediate and ordered Danzo to apologize to Uchiha Yan and the Uchiha Clan.
• Uchiha Yan accused Danzo of engineering a plot to send the Uchiha Clan to their deaths and said he would eventually ruin Danzo and the Shimura Clan.
• Danzo apologized, then argued that Uchiha Yan had broken village rules by arriving without a mission.
• Uchiha Yan dismissed Danzo's authority and kicked him from his chair, leaving him unable to move.
• Danzo secretly vowed to use the Third Hokage to punish Uchiha Yan and the Uchiha Clan, but Uchiha Yan heard his thoughts with Mind Reading.

Uchiha Yan stripped Danzo of command and announced he would fight the Hidden Stone alone the next morning, while Jiraiya took over the army. After Yan secretly marked Danzo’s followers with an Enslavement Mark, Jiraiya confronted Danzo, who vowed to report the incident to Hiruzen.

• Uchiha Yan declared he would attack the Hidden Stone alone and appointed Jiraiya to lead the army after him.
• Jiraiya warned Uchiha Yan about the Hidden Stone’s forces, but agreed to take command and support him from behind.
• Uchiha Yan threatened Danzo and his followers, then used Mental Illusion: Madder World to place Enslavement Marks on everyone except Danzo.
• The other shinobi left the tent and discussed Uchiha Yan’s strength and whether he could defeat the Hidden Stone.
• Jiraiya told Danzo to behave and accused him of targeting his own comrades, while Danzo vowed to report the incident to Hiruzen.

Uchiha Yan led Konoha’s forces against the Hidden Stone and destroyed its first defensive line with a powerful gravity technique. He then blocked Ōnoki’s Dust Release attack, leaving Ōnoki shocked to learn his opponent was Uchiha Yan.

• Jiraiya forced Danzo to leave his tent after they argued over Uchiha Yan and the coming battle.
• Uchiha Yan led Uchiha clan members and Konoha shinobi toward the Hidden Stone camp and challenged Ōnoki.
• Uchiha Yan used Earth Release Secret Technique: Gravity Domain to crush the Hidden Stone’s defenses and kill more than two hundred shinobi.
• Konoha’s shinobi, including Minato Namikaze, Obito, and Kakashi Hatake, were stunned by Uchiha Yan’s strength, while Danzo resolved to find a way to kill him.
• Ōnoki arrived with Roshi, Han, and a large Hidden Stone force, then attacked Uchiha Yan with Dust Release: Atomic Dismantling Jutsu.
• Uchiha Yan destroyed Ōnoki’s Dust Release barrier with Pulverizing Wave, then identified himself as Uchiha Yan.

Uchiha Yan turned Ōnoki’s Dust Release against the Hidden Stone forces, then endured attacks from Ōnoki and two Tailed Beast Jinchuriki while studying their techniques. After learning Dust Release and gravity-based jutsu, Yan revealed that he could use Dust Release too, leaving Ōnoki stunned and on guard.

• Ōnoki used Dust Release against Uchiha Yan and the Konoha formation, but Yan redirected the attack into the Hidden Stone forces, killing several hundred shinobi.
• Ōnoki ordered the Hidden Stone’s elite shinobi to retreat twenty li while he and two Tailed Beast Jinchuriki attacked Yan with large-area techniques.
• Yan redirected their attacks more than twenty li behind Ōnoki, killing hundreds more Hidden Stone shinobi, and avoided every attack as the fight continued for over an hour.
• Yan completed his observations and comprehended the cultivation methods for Dust Release and Light-Weight Rock Technique, along with Heavy-Weight Rock Technique.
• Yan formed a translucent Dust Release barrier, and Ōnoki was shocked and readied an identical barrier to attack.

Uchiha Yan revealed that he had learned Dust Release during his fight with Ōnoki, then defeated the Tsuchikage with a single punch. Ōnoki offered surrender and peace talks, but Yan demanded that Iwagakure kneel and compensate Konoha.

• Ōnoki and the Konoha ninjas were stunned when Uchiha Yan used Dust Release, and Minato realized Yan had learned it during their battle.
• Uchiha Yan and Ōnoki fired Dust Release beams at each other, which collided and destroyed one another.
• Uchiha Yan used Flying Thunder God to appear before Ōnoki and strike him with Eight Extremes Collapse, sending him crashing into the ground.
• Ōnoki used Light-Weight Rock Technique to survive the fall, but his injuries left him unable to move.
• Ōnoki admitted defeat and offered to surrender and negotiate peace if Yan spared the other Iwagakure ninjas.
• Uchiha Yan rejected a cost-free peace deal and demanded that Iwagakure kneel and compensate Konoha for its losses.