Chapter Summaries

Itachi watched Shisui fall from the cliff after Shisui entrusted him with his remaining eye, but Wuye rescued Shisui downstream and restored the eye Danzo had stolen. Shisui recovered beside Wuye and reunited with Mikoto and Kagami, whose refusal to fulfill his hopes left him confused.

• Shisui told Itachi that Danzo had stabbed him and stolen one eye, and warned Itachi that Danzo wanted the Uchiha Sharingan.
• Itachi argued that the clan's rebellious members had to be eliminated, while Shisui insisted he could not accept innocent elders and children being killed.
• Shisui gave Itachi his remaining eye and jumped from the cliff, prompting Itachi to awaken his Mangekyo Sharingan.
• Wuye intercepted Shisui in the river, revived him, and replaced the eye Danzo had taken; he told Shisui that Danzo was dead.
• Wuye urged Shisui to cherish being alive, and Shisui reflected on the beauty of the sunset before Mikoto and Kagami arrived.
• Shisui learned that Kagami would not do what he had hoped, and Wuye asked Mikoto to explain their cryptic exchange.

Uchiha Kagami revealed that he was Wuye’s biological father, and Wuye accepted the news without resentment. After reading a dossier on the hidden Uchiha, Wuye learned that many people who had shown him kindness as a child had secretly watched over him as their future young clan leader.

• Wuye deduced that Uchiha Kagami was his biological father, and Uchiha Kagami confirmed it.
• Wuye explained that he felt little shock because he had grown up without parental love and had found emotional anchors in people like Kushina and Sister.
• Uchiha Kagami apologized for failing to give Wuye a complete family, but Wuye said he did not blame anyone and valued the freedom he had growing up.
• Wuye asked Uchiha Kagami for a list of hidden Uchiha members and discovered that Tianyu, Tenten, and others had ties to the clan.
• Uchiha Mikoto told Wuye that the hidden Uchiha had watched over him since childhood because they saw him as their future young clan leader.

Wuye showed Uchiha Mikoto and the others a plan to spare many Uchiha clansmen, then proposed using his wedding to Mikoto as bait to draw out the elders behind the rebellion. The group prepared to act while keeping Danzo’s disappearance secret, and Uchiha Shisui raised concerns about Uchiha Izumi.

• Wuye told Uchiha Mikoto he would not forgive those who tried to overthrow his regime.
• Wuye gave Uchiha Shisui an Anbu dossier identifying nearly seventy percent of the Uchiha Clan as eligible to be spared and placed under their watch.
• Wuye proposed marrying Uchiha Mikoto to lure the elders behind the rebellion out of hiding, while refusing Uchiha Shisui’s offer to join the attack.
• Uchiha Kagami agreed to the plan, and Uchiha Mikoto wept as Wuye promised to stay by her side.
• Wuye agreed to suppress news of Danzo’s disappearance until the Uchiha matter was resolved.
• Uchiha Shisui warned that Uchiha Izumi’s response to Itachi’s defection was uncertain.

Uchiha Shisui returned alive, and Itachi Uchiha asked him to protect Sasuke while preparing to become a rogue ninja and join Akatsuki. News of Wuye and Uchiha Mikoto's wedding spread across Konoha, while the Uchiha elders' unease foreshadowed the coming blood-red night.

• Uchiha Shisui reunited with Itachi Uchiha, who embraced him in relief, and Sasuke arrived to find them together.
• Shisui explained that Sasuke would be excluded from the Hokage's plan and would need to live freely while Shisui's hidden clansmen remained confined.
• Itachi accepted that Sasuke would see him as a target for revenge, planned to join Akatsuki as a spy, and asked Shisui to keep Sasuke safe.
• Shisui left before dinner, and Itachi ate peacefully with Sasuke and their mother, Mikoto.
• Word spread that Wuye would marry Uchiha Mikoto at the Hyuga estate, while the Uchiha elders suppressed their plans and prepared to attend the wedding.

Wuye and Itachi carried out a plan to kill the Uchiha elders and stage a massacre at the clan compound, while Mikoto insisted on witnessing the killings. As they approached the compound, Wuye agreed to let Sasuke enter as Itachi wished.

• Hyuga Suzu told Hinata and Hanabi that Wuye could marry only two wives, and the girls looked disappointed.
• Wuye used his Mangekyō Sharingan to control the Uchiha elders, then had Itachi kill them while Mikoto watched.
• Wuye made Shadow Clones impersonate the elders and other guests, and he and Mikoto left for the Uchiha compound.
• Nara Shikaku reported that Uchiha Shisui had evacuated most innocent Uchiha while Itachi killed the rest inside the soundproof barrier.
• Nara Shikaku asked whether to let Sasuke enter the compound, and Wuye agreed to follow Itachi's wishes.

As Itachi Uchiha slaughtered the Uchiha Clan, Mikoto awakened her Mangekyo Sharingan and concluded that the clan would always perish. Wuye rescued Uchiha Izumi from masked Obito’s clone and took her away as Sasuke ran toward the compound.

• Mikoto awakened her Mangekyo Sharingan while watching the Uchiha Clan members die, then left the compound after Wuye told her to go with Kushina.
• Itachi Uchiha spared Uchiha Izumi, telling her to forget him and live her future without him.
• Masked Obito tried to take Izumi’s eyes, but Wuye attacked and discovered he had struck a Shadow Clone.
• Wuye told Izumi to live with Mikoto and stay out of sight for five years, then led her away.
• Sasuke Uchiha ran toward the Uchiha Clan compound as crows startled him and a nearby figure vanished.

Itachi Uchiha massacred the Uchiha clan and used Tsukuyomi to make Sasuke witness the slaughter repeatedly. After Sasuke attacked him and passed out, Itachi retrieved his Konoha forehead protector and wept.

• Sasuke Uchiha entered the Uchiha compound, saw the dead, and rushed home to find his mother and brother.
• Itachi Uchiha killed his mother and told her he had purged the clan for protection and justice.
• Itachi Uchiha used Tsukuyomi on Sasuke, forcing him to relive the massacre, then claimed he had acted to test his capacity.
• Sasuke Uchiha attacked Itachi Uchiha, fled in terror, and threw three kunai at him, knocking off his Konoha forehead protector before fainting.
• Itachi Uchiha picked up his forehead protector, tied it back on, and wept as he looked back at Sasuke.

Wuye returned from the Uchiha compound after Itachi destroyed the clan, explaining to Izumi that the Uchiha had planned to overthrow him. Back at the Hyuga residence, he found Mikoto traumatized by the massacre and stayed with her while Izumi waited outside, believing she had nowhere else to go.

• Wuye told Uchiha Izumi that Itachi had acted out of duty and that the Uchiha Clan had made the mistake of plotting to overthrow him.
• Wuye returned to the Hyuga residence as Hanabi, Hinata, and Temari teased him about staying for the wedding festivities before Temari led the girls away to study.
• Wuye entered Mikoto's room and found her lying silently in bed after witnessing the clan's destruction.
• Kushina left Wuye to stay with Mikoto and told Uchiha Izumi to wait in the corridor until Wuye arranged a place for her.

On their wedding night, Wuye comforted Mikoto as she grieved for the Uchiha clansmen lost in the rebellion, and they agreed to wait until she felt better before consummating their marriage. The night ended with Mikoto welcoming Uchiha Izumi into their home for company during the years Izumi could not appear in the village.

• Wuye held Mikoto and listened as she explained how much the Uchiha clan had meant to her.
• Mikoto assured Wuye that she did not blame him for the deaths and asked him to stay with her.
• Wuye comforted Mikoto with gentle kisses, then chose to hold her while she rested rather than press her to go further.
• Wuye remembered that Uchiha Izumi was waiting outside and explained that Izumi would live with them while she stayed away from the village.
• Mikoto welcomed Izumi into her home and thanked Wuye for bringing her.

Mikoto told Wuye about her Mangekyō abilities, including a one-use power to return to the past at the cost of her eyesight and possibly her life. After a sleepless night haunted by memories of the Uchiha clan’s deaths, she finally fell asleep, while Wuye spent the morning with Kushina, Hinata, and Hanabi.

• Mikoto explained that her left eye could see alternate possibilities in the past and her right eye could make one of those possibilities real by sending her back in time.
• Mikoto said her right-eye technique could be used only once and could cost her eyesight or life, so Wuye urged her not to use it.
• Wuye explained that he and Mikoto had severe drawbacks from their Mangekyō abilities and that Eternal Mangekyō eyes could remove those limits; he declined to accept Shisui's eyes for now.
• Mikoto stayed awake through the night, reliving the Uchiha clan’s deaths in her nightmares, and finally fell asleep at dawn.
• Kushina confronted Wuye at breakfast about Mikoto’s exhaustion, and Wuye explained that she had been unable to sleep because of her grief.
• Hinata and Hanabi discussed Temari’s loneliness and her attempt to use them to cause trouble for Wuye as they ate breakfast together.

Wuye found Uchiha Izumi caring for the sleeping Mikoto, then agreed to teach Temari Wind Release chakra nature transformation under a wager that would make her remove a piece of clothing each month she failed to master it. After leaving Temari to train, Wuye headed to the Hokage Building to manage the aftermath of the Uchiha Clan's extermination, while Konoha's people discussed only the version of events he allowed them to hear.

• Wuye found Uchiha Izumi wiping the floor in Mikoto's room and told her she could stay and help as long as she remained in the inner residence.
• Temari confronted Wuye about his promise to teach her ninjutsu, and he proposed a monthly wager tied to her progress in Wind Release chakra nature transformation.
• Temari accepted the wager despite realizing it could leave her naked, and Wuye took her to the training ground to practice cutting leaves.
• Wuye left a Shadow Clone Technique to train Temari and went to the Hokage Building to handle the aftermath of the Uchiha Clan's extermination.
• Wuye observed Konoha's residents discussing the clan's fall, while the real history remained hidden from them.

Wuye met with Nagato and Konan to coordinate Akatsuki’s plans, then returned to Konoha and found Mikoto and Izumi burying their grief in endless housework. He stopped Mikoto from continuing to wait on him and pulled her toward the dining room to drink with him.

• Wuye told Nagato to keep Onoki convinced that Akatsuki would take paid jobs, and advised him to leave Itachi alone and pair him with Kisame when useful.
• Nagato said the shinobi world’s attention was turning toward Konoha and predicted the Fourth Shinobi World War would give Akatsuki its chance to act.
• Wuye reassured Konan that Konoha would become more united after the Uchiha matter, but their intimate moment ended when she used Paper Release and he insisted on being in the sky.
• Wuye returned to Konoha, checked on Temari, then found Uchiha Mikoto and Uchiha Izumi doing housework together while Kushina was away.
• Mikoto changed Wuye into indoor clothes, served him water, and began massaging him, but he sensed her suppressed grief and told her to stop.
• Wuye caught Mikoto’s hand and pulled her toward the dining room, saying they would drink.

Wuye encouraged Mikoto, who had never drunk before, to drink so she could forget her worries and let herself go. After she became tipsy and started playing around, Kushina joined them, and the evening turned into a drinking contest.

• Mikoto told Wuye she disliked alcohol and worried about getting drunk, but he brought her to the dining room and prepared yogurt and drinks.
• Wuye had Mikoto try fruit wine, then sake, while Izumi served them and Mikoto gradually became dizzy.
• Wuye and Mikoto played rock-paper-scissors for drinks, and Mikoto grew loud and exuberant after several bottles of sake.
• Kushina arrived and found Mikoto sitting on Wuye, then joined her in drinking and playing rock-paper-scissors.
• Mikoto climbed onto the table to challenge Kushina as Wuye watched them fool around.

After drinking, Mikoto and Kushina dragged Wuye to the hot spring, where Mikoto insisted he demonstrate an intimate act with Kushina while she watched. Temari, Hinata, and Hanabi secretly spied outside the bathing room as Wuye approached a trapped, flustered Kushina.

• Mikoto and Kushina got drunk, and Wuye carried them toward the hot spring in his home.
• Temari saw them, then recruited Hinata and Hanabi to spy outside the bathing room window.
• Mikoto stripped herself and Kushina and pulled Kushina into the hot spring.
• Mikoto demanded that Wuye demonstrate with Kushina the intimate act he had not done with her.
• Mikoto pinned Kushina in the water and urged Wuye to begin as Kushina closed her eyes, resigned yet expectant.

After a month of awkwardness caused by the household discovering Wuye and Kushina’s intimate night with Mikoto, life gradually returned to normal. Years later, Wuye addressed Hinata, Hanabi, and their classmates at their graduation, marking the start of the main story.

• Wuye discovered that the Slug, Uchiha Izumi, Temari, Hinata, and Hanabi had watched the night he spent with Kushina and Mikoto.
• Over the following months, Mikoto slowly resumed her everyday routines, and the household settled into a calmer life.
• Hinata, Hanabi, Naruto, Sasuke, and their classmates graduated from Konoha Academy, while Neji, Tenten, and Rock Lee had graduated a year earlier.
• Wuye gave the graduates a speech about living each day as themselves and treasuring the people and experiences that mattered.
• As the graduates left to await their class assignments, Wuye thought that they had finally entered the main story.

Wuye arranged the new ninja teams, keeping Hinata and Hanabi together under Mikoto with Haku as their teammate, while Sakura joined Team 8. When Tazuna arrived three months later, Wuye decided to disguise himself as an enemy for Team 7’s mission, despite Kakashi’s protests.

• Naruto graduated without the Nine-Tails incident, and his chakra test showed proficiency in Water Release and Earth Release.
• Wuye assigned Karin to Team 7, Sakura to Team 8, and Hinata and Hanabi to a team led by Mikoto with Haku as the final teammate.
• Temari joined the gathering and bickered with Hanabi and Hinata over Wuye before the three began playing together.
• Three months later, Tazuna arrived for a mission, and Wuye wondered how Team 7 could face a serious trial with Zabuza and Haku back in Konoha.
• Wuye decided to apply for a job with Kado and pose as an enemy to challenge Team 7, while Kakashi objected and Wuye reminded him to prepare for the Joint Chunin Exams.

Wuye and Haku ambushed Kakashi's team to test the young genin, but Kakashi escaped with everyone after confronting them. Wuye then went to Kirigakure, where he pinned Terumi Mei against her desk while the two argued in private.

• Wuye observed Kakashi's team and waited for them near the Land of Waves with Haku.
• Wuye lured Kakashi out, while Haku attacked Naruto and Sasuke with ice senbon.
• Wuye used Lava Release against Kakashi, who escaped with a Shadow Clone carrying the team.
• Wuye declined to pursue Kakashi and asked Haku to stay with Kado while he headed to Kirigakure.
• Wuye pinned Terumi Mei against her desk in the Mizukage's office, and she accused him of humiliating her.

Wuye returned to the Land of Waves and oversaw Kakashi's training before Naruto unexpectedly awakened Wood Release during a staged fight. After Wuye defeated Kado and his men, he revealed that the Chunin Exams were approaching.

• Wuye asked Terumi Mei about the Four Great Ninja Villages' plans, then returned to the Land of Waves seven days later.
• Wuye praised Kakashi's mastery of his abilities, while Kakashi revealed he had practiced Impure World Reincarnation and resolved to bring Obito back one day.
• Naruto awakened powerful Wood Release after believing Sasuke had been killed, and Wuye revealed himself as the Hokage behind the fight with Haku.
• Karin healed Sasuke after Naruto discovered he was alive, and Wuye freed Haku.
• Kado arrived with several hundred men, and Wuye swept them away with Water Release: Great Waterfall Technique.
• Sasuke and Karin left, and Wuye told Kakashi that the Chunin Exams were coming.

Three months later, Konoha began preparing to host the Chunin Exams, while Wuye kept Hinata and Hanabi from competing. Temari confronted Wuye about her brothers and their relationship, and the chapter ended with her kissing him.

• Wuye approved the Jonin's recommendations for the Chunin Exams and told them to prioritize their teams' safety.
• Wuye refused to let Hinata and Hanabi enter the exams, and he and Mikoto discussed taking them on missions for experience.
• Wuye found Temari brooding and learned she wanted to see her younger brothers, Gaara and Kankuro, who had come with the Sand Village team.
• Temari accused Wuye of deliberately allowing Orochimaru to impersonate her and asked what Wuye thought of their relationship.
• Temari attacked Wuye, and after he kissed her forehead, she stopped him with an inexperienced kiss.

As the other great ninja villages attacked small nations allied with Konoha, Wuye organized Konoha's forces for war and led Kushina toward the Land of Rain. Rather than rescue it directly, he planned to invade the Land of Earth and force Iwagakure to withdraw.

• During the Chunin Exams, Naruto used Wood Release to obtain answers, impressed against Orochimaru's snake, and watched Rock Lee suffer severe injuries after fighting Gaara.
• Nara Shikaku reported that Iwagakure, Kumogakure, and Kirigakure had attacked Konoha's allied small nations, including the Land of Rain, which faced more than ten thousand Iwagakure ninja.
• Wuye assigned Minato to confront Kumogakure, sent Hatake Sakumo and Nara Shikaku toward Kirigakure, and planned to lead Kushina and five thousand ninja toward the Land of Rain.
• Wuye arranged for the Third Hokage to oversee the Chunin Exams while Konoha mobilized its forces.
• Three days later, after learning that Onoki had led over ten thousand Iwagakure ninja into the Land of Rain, Wuye revealed that Konoha would invade the Land of Earth to force Iwagakure to turn back.