Chapter Summaries

Wuye learned that the Rain Ninja Village leader had arrived in Konoha to sign an alliance agreement, then returned to the village ahead of his evening engagement banquet with Uchiha Mikoto. He spent the morning with his family and checked in at the Hokage's office, where Terumi Mei challenged his plan to stop coming to work.

• Slug told Wuye that the Rain Ninja Village leader had led a delegation to Konoha to sign the alliance agreement, prompting Wuye to return to the village.
• Kushina teased Wuye about Tsunade and said she would attend his engagement banquet with Uchiha Mikoto that evening.
• Kaguya told Wuye that Rei and Minako were showing signs of difficult labor, and Wuye said he would keep an eye on both families.
• Wuye carried the sleeping Kaguya to bed, then headed for the Hokage Building with Pakura following him.
• Terumi Mei argued with Wuye after he said he would stop coming to the office, and Wuye asked whether she had any say in the matter.

Wuye oversaw the signing of an alliance agreement between Konoha and the Land of Rain, then took Konan on a tour of Konoha and advised her on developing Rain Ninja Village. The chapter ended with Konan questioning whether their hand-holding would harm his image as a married Hokage, and Wuye assuring her that people were used to it.

• Terumi Mei stood up to Wuye over her administrative work, and he praised her talent before teasing her about wanting to see him every day.
• Wuye left the office for the agreement-signing ceremony, while Terumi Mei secretly enjoyed handling the work he had assigned her.
• Wuye welcomed Konan and the Land of Rain ninja, and both sides signed an alliance agreement.
• Minato recognized Konan as the girl he and Wuye had met in the Land of Rain and joked about Wuye attracting female village leaders.
• Konan visited Wuye to learn about Konoha, and he explained how Rain Ninja Village could organize its development.
• Wuye took Konan's hand and led her through Konoha, telling her not to worry about his image as a married Hokage.

Wuye took Konan to a barbecue restaurant, where they discussed her return to the Land of Rain and the possibility of bringing stability to its people. Kushina joined them, and her revelation about Wuye and Konan left both of them stunned.

• Wuye walked through Konoha holding Konan’s hand and admitted he had relationships with several women, while Konan said she had prepared herself for the consequences of having once given him up.
• Akimichi Torifu teased Wuye about charming women across Konoha’s major clans and asked if he planned to conquer the ninja world with the Seduction Technique.
• Konan compared Konoha’s peaceful people with the suffering residents of the Land of Rain, and Wuye promised that he would help them live stable lives.
• Pakura reported that Konan had discovered a hostile ninja from Rain Ninja Village, and Wuye ordered Kushina to send the suspect to the Intelligence Department.
• Kushina arrived, learned that the woman dining with Wuye was Konan, and told Konan that Wuye had said his female disciple had seduced him into a romantic relationship.

Wuye attended his engagement banquet with Mikoto alongside Kaguya, Kushina, Konan, and Terumi Mei, while his arrival stirred unexpected hope and tension among the Uchiha. The chapter left Wuye seated beside Mikoto as the Uchiha clansmen congratulated them, unaware that Fugaku’s vision and future choices would threaten the clan.

• Kushina invited Konan to Wuye’s engagement banquet, and then invited Kaguya as well.
• On the way to the Uchiha compound, Kaguya took Wuye’s hand after a premonition that this would be the last time she saw the sunset with him.
• Wuye encouraged Uchiha Shisui to train with the Anbu and praised Uchiha Itachi as the two headed into the compound.
• A masked man worried that Kushina’s presence would disrupt his plan, while Uchiha Fugaku believed Wuye and Mikoto would restore the Uchiha Clan’s glory.
• Wuye sat beside Mikoto at the engagement banquet and accepted the Uchiha clansmen’s congratulations.

Uchiha Fugaku and the masked Obito used their Mangekyō Sharingan to manipulate Kushina and release the Nine-Tails while Wuye helped Minako deliver twins. Wuye reached the village in time to divert the Nine-Tails’ Tailed Beast Bomb and bind the beast with Adamantine Sealing Chains.

• Uchiha Fugaku and the masked Obito waited for Wuye to leave Kushina, then used their Mangekyō Sharingan to send her toward the First Training Ground.
• Minato took the drunken Wuye to Konoha Hospital, where Wuye delivered Minako’s twins.
• Pakura resisted the attackers’ genjutsu, escaped, and warned Wuye that Kushina was in danger at the First Training Ground.
• The masked Obito released the Nine-Tails, which gathered chakra for a Tailed Beast Bomb as Konoha descended into chaos.
• Wuye struck the Nine-Tails’ chin to divert the Tailed Beast Bomb away from the village, then bound the beast with Adamantine Sealing Chains.

Wuye awakened his Mangekyō Sharingan while trying to save Kushina and stop Obito from taking the Nine-Tails. His new abilities preserved Kushina’s vitality and countered Obito’s space-time ninjutsu, leaving the two locked in pursuit as the Nine-Tails fled from Konoha.

• Wuye used two Shadow Clones and Adamantine Sealing Chains to suppress the Nine-Tails, then found Kushina close to death after its extraction.
• Obito summoned the Nine-Tails away and began absorbing it into his space, prompting Wuye to awaken the Mangekyō Sharingan.
• Wuye used True Life to preserve Kushina’s vitality and Way Reversal to cancel Obito’s space-time passage, forcing the Nine-Tails back onto the ground.
• Wuye tried to apply a Contract Seal to Obito, but Obito became intangible, and the Nine-Tails struck Wuye with a claw.
• Obito fled with the Nine-Tails as Konoha’s forces approached, while Wuye repeatedly sealed the passages Obito opened to absorb it.

Wuye fought masked Obito to reclaim the Nine-Tails while Kushina lay dying after its extraction. As Kushina’s soul began to enter the Pure Land, Kaguya used chakra to exchange her own soul for Kushina’s.

• Masked Obito gave up trying to absorb the Nine-Tails directly and controlled it to attack Wuye.
• Nara Shikaku organized the Konoha ninja under emergency procedures, leaving Hiruzen Sarutobi alone.
• Kushina asked Mikoto to make Wuye happy and revealed that two people had been involved, one with the voice of the Uchiha Clan head.
• Kushina said she would die with Kurama rather than let the enemy use it against Wuye.
• Kaguya arrived and began exchanging her soul for Kushina’s to keep her from dying.

Wuye defeated Masked Obito’s attempt to absorb the Nine-Tails and persuaded Kurama to return with him so he could try to save Kushina. Minato and the Konoha shinobi saw Wuye bringing the Nine-Tails back to the village.

• Wuye ambushed Masked Obito with a transformed paper shuriken and a Rasengan, then used Contract Seal to free the Nine-Tails from his control.
• Wuye demanded that Kurama return to Kushina, and the Nine-Tails attacked him until his Susanoo’s initial form protected him.
• Wuye told Kurama they were not enemies and explained that he had to try to save Kushina; Kurama agreed to return and help him.
• Minato stopped Nara Shikaku’s shinobi from tracking the Nine-Tails and said Wuye was already on his way back.
• The Konoha shinobi saw Wuye standing atop the returning Nine-Tails and celebrated that the Hokage had brought it back.

Kaguya sacrificed her life to revive Kushina by returning part of the Nine-Tails to her, while sealing the rest inside Wuye. As Kaguya’s soul began to fade, she told Wuye that she would remain in the world but be reborn without her memories, leaving him devastated.

• Kaguya revealed that she was using One's Own Life Reincarnation to restore Kushina and explained how to divide the Nine-Tails between Kushina and Wuye.
• Wuye followed Kaguya’s instructions, sealing the Nine-Tails’ Yin Attribute Chakra into Kushina and its Yang Attribute Chakra into himself, restoring Kushina’s vitality.
• Nara Shikaku ordered the Anbu to investigate the Uchiha Clan and find the real culprit behind the attack.
• Kaguya collapsed after reviving Kushina, and Wuye caught her and held her as she asked to keep looking at him.
• Kaguya told Wuye that she would remain in the world as a reborn person without her memories, and Wuye fell silent in grief.

Wuye stayed beside the dying Kaguya and recalled their years together as she asked whether he remembered their shared moments. After Kaguya died in his arms, Wuye repeated his promise to marry only her and grieved over her body.

• Kaguya asked Wuye to recall their first meeting, and he remembered how she claimed him for the Hyuga Clan.
• Kaguya prompted Wuye to recount their lessons, adventures, embraces, and other memories from their life together.
• As Kaguya's consciousness faded, she asked whether Wuye remembered his promise to marry her, then her hand slipped from his and she died.
• Wuye held Kaguya and answered the questions she could no longer ask, remembering that he had promised his love would always count.
• Wuye recalled their first kiss, kissed Kaguya's cold lips, and wept as Kushina and the others cried behind him.

After Kaguya died, Wuye learned that Hyuga Hiashi’s newborn twins, Hinata and Hanabi, were connected to her reincarnation. Wuye awakened a new left-eye ability called True Life, which restored Kaguya’s body to life but left it under his control.

• Kushina refused to let Hyuga Hiashi take Wuye away from Kaguya, even when he asked Wuye to examine his newborn twin daughters.
• Uchiha Mikoto recognized a connection between the twins and Kaguya, and Wuye confirmed that he had already guessed Hinata and Hanabi were her reincarnations.
• Wuye revealed a changed left eye with pale golden rings and said that a soul without its memories had nothing to do with Kaguya.
• Wuye used True Life to restore warmth and vitality to Kaguya’s body, and she stood and opened her eyes without showing any awareness.
• Wuye explained that he could control Kaguya’s restored body and use its original strength, but had to keep his eyes open or seal her body away.

Wuye brought the lifeless Kaguya to Konoha Hospital, where she briefly acted on her own to awaken the newborn Hyuga twins before falling still again. At dawn, Wuye headed for the Uchiha Clan compound to kill, while Nara Shikaku warned him that attacking without evidence could destroy the village’s relationship with the clan.

• Wuye arrived at Konoha Hospital with Kaguya, and Hyuga Hiashi told him that Hyuga Suzu’s delivery room was nearby.
• Kaguya moved on her own, touched the two newborn girls’ foreheads, and the twins opened their eyes and cried.
• Wuye left the hospital with Kaguya and asked Kushina who besides the masked man had plotted against her, while Uchiha Mikoto struggled over whether to accuse Uchiha Fugaku.
• At dawn, Wuye declared it was time to kill and led Kushina, Mikoto, Konan, and Terumi Mei toward the Uchiha Clan compound.
• Nara Shikaku reported that the overnight investigation had found no useful leads and urged Wuye not to attack the Uchiha without evidence.
• Wuye replied that it was too late, leaving Nara Shikaku alarmed.

After discovering that the Uchiha had been involved in the attack on Kushina and Kaguya, Wuye confronted their clan and demanded that the conspirators come forward. The Uchiha refused, and Wuye summoned Susanoo’s Skeleton Form as the confrontation reached the brink of violence.

• Wuye arrived at the ruined Uchiha compound and demanded that those involved in the previous night’s plot step forward.
• Uchiha Fugaku denied that anyone in the clan had taken part, while Shisui left to seek help and Itachi watched from the edge of the crowd.
• Nara Shikaku reminded the crowd that the masked man who controlled the Nine-Tails had used the Sharingan, turning suspicion toward the Uchiha.
• Wuye manifested Susanoo’s Skeleton Form and warned the Uchiha to identify the conspirators or face death.
• When no Uchiha stepped forward, Wuye said they could die, and the clan prepared to flee.

Uchiha Mikoto exposed Uchiha Fugaku’s role in the plot against Kushina, and Fugaku admitted he had acted to bring about a future he believed would restore the Uchiha’s glory. Wuye killed Fugaku after revealing that his own Mangekyō ability could overcome Fugaku’s power to foresee the immediate future, then turned his attention toward another suspected conspirator.

• Uchiha Mikoto confronted Uchiha Fugaku and accused him of plotting against Kushina, who confirmed that Fugaku had attacked her.
• Uchiha Fugaku admitted the accusation and revealed that he had acted to make a future seen by his Mangekyō come true and restore the Uchiha’s glory.
• Uchiha Fugaku evaded Wuye’s first Susanoo strike with his Mangekyō’s ability to predict the near future, but Wuye anticipated his prediction and caught him.
• Wuye questioned Uchiha Fugaku about his collaborators and said he would spare the Uchiha if Fugaku revealed them, but Fugaku refused.
• Wuye crushed Uchiha Fugaku to death and looked toward another suspected collaborator in the village.

After killing Uchiha Fugaku, Wuye imposed policies to relocate and divide the Uchiha Clan while offering benefits to members who integrated into the village. He then intimidated Danzo over Root defections and ended the day bathing with Kaguya, as unrest continued to build.

• Wuye ordered the Uchiha Clan compound moved beside the First Training Ground and imposed extra mission fees, while offering benefits to members who left the clan compound and integrated into the village.
• Uchiha Mikoto remained kneeling by Fugaku's corpse, while Kushina left a Shadow Clone with her and followed Wuye.
• Uchiha Shisui comforted Itachi Uchiha, who awakened his two-tomoe Sharingan, admitted he wanted revenge, and was urged to become clan head and guide the clan.
• Danzo confronted Wuye after Hatake Sakumo's Anbu began recruiting Root ninja, but fled when Wuye threatened to kill him.
• Wuye returned to the inner residence with Kaguya and bathed with her.

Wuye struggled to control the conflict between his natural body and newly awakened ocular power, leaving him unable to move. He delegated Konoha’s affairs to Kushina, Konan, and Terumi Mei, and postponed his wedding to Mikoto while leaving her to choose how to proceed.

• Wuye sat beneath a cherry tree with Kaguya, suppressing the chaotic ripples in his eyes as his body and ocular power resisted each other.
• Wuye sent Konan back to the Land of Rain to develop it and promote Konoha’s alliances, and agreed that Terumi Mei could visit daily to report important matters.
• Wuye asked Kushina to coordinate with Shikaku and the advisory council, and instructed her to pressure the Uchiha Clan to integrate with the village.
• Wuye told Kushina to explain his condition to Mikoto and postpone their wedding until his body and mind were coordinated.
• Wuye suggested Mikoto could either marry him while he used his sister’s body for the Transformation Technique or wait until he recovered.

As the Uchiha Clan grew more isolated from Konoha, Uchiha Mikoto visited the Hyuga Clan and helped Hyuga Suzu discover that little Hinata and Hanabi kept trying to reach Wuye's courtyard. Hyuga Hiashi worried about what the twins' connection to Wuye might mean, but Suzu insisted they be allowed to go inside once.

• Uchiha Mikoto visited the Hyuga Clan after three days without seeing Wuye and encountered Hyuga Suzu struggling to keep Hinata and Hanabi from wandering away.
• Mikoto and Suzu let the twins walk and followed them as they headed toward a river, then crossed it with them.
• Hinata and Hanabi continued through the Hyuga Clan grounds and stopped outside the back courtyard of Wuye's residence.
• Hyuga Hiashi arrived and nervously ordered Suzu to take the twins home, but Suzu said they should be allowed to go inside once.

Hinata and Hanabi met Wuye and clung to him, calling him “Uncle” as their first word. After Hyuga Ling finally took the sleeping twins home, Mikoto asked Wuye what he planned to do about their attachment to him.

• Mikoto brought Hyuga Hiashi and Hyuga Ling to visit Wuye with Hinata and Hanabi.
• Wuye and the others let the twins approach Kaguya to test whether they were drawn to their sister’s body, but the girls ran past Kaguya and threw themselves into Wuye’s arms.
• Wuye held the twins as their affection stirred warmth in him, and Hinata and Hanabi called him “Uncle” for the first time.
• Hinata and Hanabi refused to go home until they fell asleep, so Hyuga Ling took them away that evening.
• Mikoto asked Wuye what he planned to do about Hinata and Hanabi’s attachment to him.

Wuye and Mikoto discussed his ties to the Uchiha and the possibility of the clan and village breaking apart, while he helped raise Hinata and Hanabi with Hyuga Suzu. Years later, Terumi Mei asked whether he would marry her, and Wuye challenged her fear of missing her marriageable years without giving her an answer.

• Mikoto asked Wuye what he would do if the Uchiha Clan and the village came into conflict, and he said he would stay with her while pursuing what he believed was necessary.
• Hyuga Suzu repeatedly brought Hinata and Hanabi to Wuye, and she and Wuye jointly cared for the twins after her family moved into a residence beside his backyard.
• Hinata and Hanabi gradually developed their own interests, allowing Wuye to spend more time with Konan and Tsunade.
• Terumi Mei told Wuye she feared missing her marriageable years and asked whether he intended to marry her.
• Wuye asked why Terumi Mei worried about marriageable years, and she explained that her mother had suffered abuse after her husband stopped cherishing her.
• Wuye told Terumi Mei that he would wait for someone he truly loved, even if both of them missed their marriageable years.

Terumi Mei learned that Kirigakure had begun the Blood Mist Policy and struggled to choose between staying with Wuye or returning to her village. Wuye let her decide for herself, then met with Nara Shikaku, who reported that Kumogakure had sent an envoy delegation.

• Terumi Mei asked Wuye for a promise, then told him that the Fourth Mizukage had imposed the Blood Mist Policy on Kirigakure.
• Terumi Mei said she wanted to return to Kirigakure, but Wuye warned that going back would mean death and asked whether she wanted his promise or his help ending the policy.
• Wuye told Terumi Mei to leave and return after deciding what she wanted, and he considered letting her choose for herself.
• Wuye took Hinata and Hanabi to the reception hall to meet Nara Shikaku, who asked about Wuye having children with Kushina.
• Nara Shikaku told Wuye that Kumogakure had sent an envoy delegation.