Chapter Summaries

Xuanyu attended the Ninja School, met Naruto, Hinata, and Nara Shikamaru, and watched the children form their early friendships. After school, he spotted Uchiha Itachi meeting Shimura Danzō and resolved to speak with Itachi soon.

• Uchiha Hanjō persuaded Xuanyu to enroll at the Ninja School, and Xuanyu agreed to attend.
• Xuanyu met Naruto, Hinata, and Nara Shikamaru, and shook hands with Shikamaru.
• Hinata sat beside Xuanyu in class while Shikamaru fell asleep and Naruto tried to sit with Sakura Haruno.
• Xuanyu attended Iruka's routine class introductions and found the lesson dull.
• After school, Xuanyu saw Uchiha Itachi and Shimura Danzō together on a rooftop and decided to talk to Itachi soon.

Danzo tried to pressure Itachi into choosing the village over the Uchiha Clan, but Itachi left to take Sasuke home. Later, Xuanyu caught several great-clan heirs beating a commoner and ordered their arrest.

• Danzo confronted Itachi about the Uchiha Clan and warned him to decide where his loyalties lay.
• Itachi ignored Danzo’s threats and walked away with Sasuke, while Danzo resolved to exploit Sasuke as Itachi’s weakness.
• Xuanyu patrolled Konoha and found Hao Ri and other great-clan heirs beating a commoner youth and threatening to break his hands.
• Xuanyu ordered Uchiha Fuling to record the heirs’ crimes and take them to the Military Police Force.
• Uchiha Fuling and his men subdued the heirs, who protested by invoking their clan status and ties to the Hokage.

Xuanyu arrested Sarutobi Tenmaru, Hyuga Hao Ri, and other great-clan youths for beating Zhong Kui, then publicly denounced their abuse of commoner students. The villagers’ anger grew as they identified the offenders, while Xuanyu had Zhong Kui carried away and set the stage for their punishment.

• Xuanyu kicked the youths who had beaten Zhong Kui and ordered Feng Ling to record that they had resisted the Military Police Force.
• Xuanyu learned the youths’ identities, spoke with Zhong Kui, and kicked him down when he insisted he could walk, then ordered him carried away.
• Xuanyu accused the youths of seriously injuring Zhong Kui and exposed their repeated beatings of him to the gathered villagers.
• Sarutobi Tenmaru and the others protested and claimed Zhong Kui was faking, but their remarks enraged the villagers.
• The crowd identified the youths by their clan ties and grew increasingly hostile toward them.

Xuanyu arrested Sarutobi Tenmaru and the other clan children for brutally beating Zhong Kui, then learned the injured civilian was born with the rare Kekkei Tōta Gravity Domain and offered him a place in the Uchiha Merchant Guild. As news of the incident reached the Hokage Office, Sarutobi Hiruzen ordered Itachi to bring the arrested children to him.

• Xuanyu had the crowd witness the arrest of Sarutobi Tenmaru and the other bullies, then took the badly injured Zhong Kui to Uchiha Hospital.
• Xuanyu questioned the doctor about Zhong Kui's injuries and promised the boy that his attackers would pay.
• Zhong Kui thanked Xuanyu, explained that he had been born with the Gravity Domain Kekkei Tōta, and said his weak mental strength and Chakra limited its use.
• Xuanyu invited Zhong Kui to join the Uchiha Merchant Guild after graduation and promised him double pay; Zhong Kui accepted eagerly because his mother needed treatment.
• Zhong Kui's injury report spread through Konoha, and Sarutobi Hiruzen ordered Itachi to bring the arrested children to the Hokage Office for a scolding.

Sarutobi Hiruzen sent Itachi to retrieve the clan heirs captured by Xuanyu, while Xuanyu used Zhong Kui’s injuries to rally civilians and challenged Itachi to stand with the Uchiha clan. Itachi saw through Xuanyu’s maneuver but left to carry out Hiruzen’s order.

• Sarutobi Hiruzen ordered Itachi to bring back all the captured clan heirs, claiming he wanted to calm tensions between the great clans and civilians.
• Xuanyu showed the crowd Zhong Kui’s medical report, describing severe injuries, and promised free treatment at Uchiha Hospital.
• Itachi entered the Xuan Yu Merchant Guild Police Force office, where Xuanyu accused Hiruzen of favoring his grandson and urged Itachi to stand with the clan.
• Itachi asked for the captured heirs, and Xuanyu revealed that he had already transferred them to the Uchiha Police Force under the Clan Head’s command.
• Itachi realized Xuanyu had arranged the transfer to shift blame onto his father, then left to carry out Hiruzen’s task.

Xuanyu exposed that Uchiha Itachi had released the clan youths and Sarutobi Hiruzen gave them a mild punishment while dismissing public anger. After reviewing Zhong Kui’s file, Sarutobi Hiruzen decided to keep him out of school and end his prospects as a ninja.

• Xuanyu sent Uchiha Feng Ling to check whether Uchiha Itachi had freed the youths, then ordered news of their release spread when Feng Ling confirmed it.
• Uchiha Itachi brought Sarutobi Tenmaru and the other youths to Sarutobi Hiruzen, who ordered them to apologize to Zhong Kui and remain confined to their clans for a month.
• The youths’ relatives collected them and disparaged commoners, while Itachi watched without responding.
• Sarutobi Asuma brought Zhong Kui’s file to Sarutobi Hiruzen, who dismissed his Gravity Domain as useless.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen ordered Zhong Kui to stay away from school for the rest of the year and declared that he would not return afterward.

After the Third Hokage retaliated against Zhong Kui by keeping him out of the Ninja School, Xuanyu offered him a place in the Military Police Force and promised to help him grow stronger. While examining Zhong Kui’s Gravity Domain, Xuanyu discovered he could use it to float effortlessly.

• Zhong Kui’s teacher told him he could not return to the Ninja School, claiming he needed a year to recover and had offended someone powerful.
• Xuanyu confronted the teacher and offered Zhong Kui a choice between returning to school or training with the Military Police Force.
• Zhong Kui rejected the school and agreed to follow Xuanyu, who told him his sick mother had been brought to the hospital for treatment.
• After Zhong Kui recovered, Xuanyu asked him to demonstrate his Gravity Domain and learned that Zhong Kui could control its effect on himself and others.
• Zhong Kui floated off the hospital bed, and Xuanyu realized the ability might let him move with remarkable ease.

Xuanyu studied Zhong Kui’s Gravity Domain, hoping to learn how it worked and connect it to his Banshō Ten'in. After failing to recreate its energy field, he realized spiritual power might be the missing link and began testing the idea.

• Xuanyu asked Zhong Kui to demonstrate his flight and Kekkei Tōta, then took him to an open area so he could observe the Gravity Domain.
• Xuanyu reassured Zhong Kui that he would protect him from bullies, and Zhong Kui felt deeply grateful for his support.
• Zhong Kui activated a fifty-three-meter Gravity Domain, and Xuanyu used his Double Pupils to study how Zhong Kui’s Chakra drew in natural energy.
• Xuanyu spent more than two hours trying to reproduce the medium that formed the domain, while Zhong Kui’s spiritual power ran low.
• After Xuanyu dismissed the domain, he realized he could fuse spiritual power with Banshō Ten'in and began testing the idea as his Four Tomoe spun.

Xuanyu briefly mastered Gravity Domain before it collapsed, then used Zhong Kui’s ability to intensify his physical training with Hua Yu, Hashira, Neji, and the returning Might Guy. Meanwhile, Sarutobi Hiruzen grew wary of Xuanyu’s plans, and Danzo pressed Itachi for an answer about Konoha’s demand.

• Xuanyu formed Gravity Domain by fusing Lightning, Wind, and Yin Attribute Chakra, but the unstable technique soon collapsed.
• Xuanyu decided to keep practicing Gravity Domain and use it to strengthen his body during training.
• Xuanyu and the others trained under Zhong Kui’s doubled gravity, and Might Guy returned from a dangerous mission and joined them.
• An Anbu ninja told Sarutobi Hiruzen that Zhong Kui was training with Xuanyu, and Hiruzen said Zhong Kui would not have time to continue.
• Danzo confronted Itachi outside the Ninja School and demanded to know how he had considered Konoha’s question.

Shimura Danzō pressured Uchiha Itachi to personally massacre the Uchiha Clan, threatening Sasuke to force his decision. Itachi left to consult the Third Hokage, while Danzō gave him three days to choose.

• Uchiha Itachi told Shimura Danzō that he would stop the Uchiha coup, but Danzō insisted that every risk had to be eliminated.
• Shimura Danzō demanded that Itachi carry out a clan massacre and offered to spare Sasuke as the Uchiha Clan’s remaining spark.
• Itachi threatened to kill Danzō if he touched Sasuke, and Danzō revealed that he had prepared to fight Itachi with Root and the Third Hokage.
• After seeing Sasuke leave the Ninja School, Itachi departed to ask the Third Hokage whether there was another choice.
• Shimura Danzō gave Itachi three days to decide, and Itachi walked with Sasuke, who asked why his brother seemed unhappy.

Xuan Yu warned the Uchiha clan that Danzo and Itachi might be preparing to act, despite his relatives’ disbelief that the clan could be destroyed. He arranged heightened defenses and moved families toward Uchiha Hospital as the massacre drew near.

• Uchiha Fuling reported that Itachi and Danzo had argued during another meeting at the Ninja Academy.
• Xuan Yu told Uchiha Xia to keep the clan alert and warned that the massacre might happen within days, even though his Fifth Tomoe had not appeared.
• Uchiha Xia and Uchiha Fuling dismissed the possibility of the clan being wiped out, so Xuan Yu warned them that Danzo had considered it and that Itachi might be dangerous.
• Xuan Yu ordered the remaining Uchiha guards to set up covert defenses, maintain a single patrol team, and sound the alarm if anything unusual happened.
• Xuan Yu told Uchiha Xia to send their families to Uchiha Hospital, where Hua Yu and Xuan Yu planned to protect them.

Uchiha Itachi met with Sarutobi Hiruzen, who agreed that the Uchiha Clan should be eliminated, and Itachi chose to help in exchange for Sasuke’s safety. Itachi planned to defect after the massacre and use hostile forces to carry it out, while Root would surround the clan.

• Sarutobi Hiruzen told Uchiha Itachi that he supported wiping out the Uchiha Clan because he considered it a threat to Konoha.
• Itachi argued that many Uchiha were innocent, but Hiruzen insisted there was no other way and offered to let Itachi take Sasuke and leave Konoha.
• Itachi refused to leave and agreed to help eliminate the clan if Sasuke could grow up safely in Konoha.
• Itachi asked to defect after the massacre and continue serving Konoha as an informant, and Hiruzen accepted his conditions.
• Itachi asked Hiruzen to have Root surround the Uchiha Clan while he arranged for hostile forces to carry out the massacre, and Hiruzen agreed.

Uchiha Itachi arranged to massacre the Uchiha Clan in three nights and recruited the masked outsider to help. The masked man agreed, called himself Tobi or Madara, and revealed his Mangekyo Sharingan.

• Uchiha Itachi told Sarutobi Hiruzen that he would act in three nights and asked him to keep Sasuke at the Ninja Academy until the massacre was nearly over.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen and Shimura Danzō agreed to wait three days, with Hiruzen insisting that Itachi was the best person to carry out the massacre.
• Uchiha Itachi encountered a masked man at the Uchiha Clan Shrine and asked him to help wipe out the Uchiha Clan.
• The masked man agreed to join the operation after Itachi promised to defect from Konoha and join his organization.
• The masked man gave his names as Tobi or Madara and showed Itachi his Mangekyo Sharingan.

With Konoha’s forces gathering around the Uchiha Clan, Xuanyu prepared for an imminent massacre by warning Uchiha Xia and arranging protection for his mother and other families. He left Shisui and a clone to guard the hospital, then went to the Ninja School.

• Xuanyu noticed more than a hundred Konoha ninja monitoring the Uchiha Clan and warned Uchiha Xia that an attack could come within two days.
• Xuanyu confirmed that Uchiha Xia had ordered the clan members to stay alert, then took him to check on his mother and instructed Hua Yu to bring the women and families to his office if trouble arose.
• Xuanyu told Uchiha Shisui that Sarutobi Hiruzen and Danzo intended to wipe out the Uchiha Clan and asked him to protect the people at the hospital.
• Shisui agreed to defend the hospital and urged Xuanyu to preserve the Uchiha Clan’s remaining members and flee if necessary.
• Xuanyu left a Shadow Clone in the Basement and went to the Ninja School that afternoon.

Sarutobi Hiruzen and Shimura Danzō prepared to massacre the Uchiha Clan, with Danzō deploying 120 Root ninja and targeting the Uchiha Hospital. Hiruzen planned to spare Sasuke and use Itachi for further missions, while leaving Uchiha Xuan Yu's fate to Danzō.

• An Anbu ninja reported that Fugaku had gathered the Uchiha for a meeting, while Uchiha Hanjō's merchant guild showed no sign of reacting to surveillance.
• The Anbu ninja told Sarutobi Hiruzen that Uchiha Xuan Yu had taken his mother and other clan women to the hospital and gone to the Ninja School.
• Shimura Danzō told Sarutobi Hiruzen that he had deployed 120 ninja, including more than seventy Root Jonin, around the Uchiha Clan and placed operatives at the hospital.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen ordered Danzō's hospital operatives to restrain themselves, forbade him from harming Sasuke, and allowed him to do as he pleased with Xuan Yu.
• Shimura Danzō said Itachi was mourning Shisui outside Konoha and wanted him in Root, but Sarutobi Hiruzen refused and explained that Sasuke's survival kept Itachi working for Konoha.

Xuanyu arranged for Might Guy to visit the hospital, warned Uchiha Xia that the massacre might happen that night, and returned to school while preparing for the danger. At dusk, Uchiha Itachi met Masked Tobi outside Konoha and led him into the village, saying he would first visit his father before signaling the attack.

• Might Guy asked Rock Lee to become his disciple, and Xuanyu demonstrated his strength so Rock Lee would accept.
• Xuanyu told Might Guy that Hashirama was recovering in the hospital, then left, expecting Hua Yu and her brother to keep Might Guy there.
• Nara Shikamaru urged Xuanyu to keep attending school, and Iruka announced that the students would practice and be dismissed late.
• Xuanyu used a Shadow Clone at school and secretly returned to the Merchant Guild's Military Police Force to warn Uchiha Xia to prepare for that night.
• At dusk, Uchiha Itachi met Masked Tobi outside Konoha and said he would visit his father before notifying Tobi when to act.

Uchiha Itachi killed his parents after revealing that he had chosen Konoha’s side and accepted the mission to wipe out the Uchiha Clan. He left with Tobi and began the massacre by entering the Second Elder’s courtyard.

• Uchiha Fugaku asked whether Itachi had come as a representative of the clan or Konoha, and Itachi said he had come on Konoha’s behalf.
• Itachi told Fugaku that the Third Hokage had ordered him to destroy the Uchiha Clan while sparing Sasuke, and admitted that he had come to kill Fugaku first.
• Fugaku and Uchiha Mikoto accepted Itachi’s decision, and Fugaku entrusted Sasuke to him before Itachi killed both of his parents.
• Itachi awakened his Mangekyō Sharingan, left the house, and ignored Tobi’s taunts as they set out to continue the massacre.
• Itachi said they would kill several elders before going to the Uchiha Police Force, then entered the Second Elder’s courtyard and confronted him.

Uchiha Itachi continued his mission to wipe out the Uchiha Clan, killing the Second Elder and his family despite their pleas. He left the courtyard with Masked Tobi and moved on to the next target.

• Uchiha Itachi told the Second Elder he had orders to wipe out the Uchiha Clan and stabbed him.
• The Second Elder pleaded for his son and grandchildren, but Itachi killed his son when he tried to flee.
• The Second Elder’s grandchildren came out, and the little boy awakened Three Tomoe before Itachi wounded him.
• Nan Nan and the children’s mother begged Itachi to spare the children, but he killed the family and left the courtyard.
• Masked Tobi appeared beside Itachi and asked where they would go next.

Uchiha Xuan Yu learned that Uchiha Itachi had killed Fugaku, his wife, and the Second Elder’s family, then set out to stop Itachi and Tobi from attacking the Military Police Force. The chapter ended with Itachi and Tobi entering the Uchiha Police Force Headquarters as Uchiha Izumi watched in confusion.

• Itachi and Tobi headed for the Uchiha Police Force after killing Fugaku and the Second Elder’s family.
• Xuanyu used his Byakugan to witness the killings and told Uchiha Xia that Itachi had turned against the clan.
• Xuanyu refused to let Uchiha Xia and Uchiha Fuling leave the Merchant Guild unguarded, but agreed to bring them along to confront Itachi and Tobi.
• Xuanyu tried repeatedly to use Flying Thunder God to take Uchiha Xia and Uchiha Fuling to the Police Force Headquarters.
• Itachi and Tobi entered the Uchiha Police Force Headquarters, while Uchiha Izumi watched and wondered why Itachi was wearing a mask.

Uchiha Itachi and masked Tobi slaughtered the Uchiha Military Police Force, and Itachi turned his blade on Uchiha Izumi after trapping her in a genjutsu. Xuanyu, Uchiha Xia, and a third man arrived as Itachi prepared to strike Izumi.

• Itachi and masked Tobi attacked the Military Police Force, killing or severely wounding half its personnel.
• Uchiha Izumi heard the fighting, entered the building, and realized that Itachi was attacking his clansmen.
• Tobi struck Izumi with his chain and bound her, then taunted Itachi about killing her himself.
• Itachi told Izumi he would give her a peaceful dream, cast her into a genjutsu, and raised his bloodied blade to kill her.
• Xuanyu, Uchiha Xia, and a third man appeared on a nearby rooftop as Itachi prepared to bring down his blade.