Recaps

Minato Namikaze discussed how to respond to Dawn Hidden Village’s destruction of Takigakure and its growing territorial ambitions, but Hiruzen Sarutobi doubted the villages could unite. Meanwhile, Uchiha Yū rebuilt Dawn Hidden Village through strict policies, economic expansion, and a new division of responsibilities.

• Minato Namikaze told Konoha’s senior officials that Dawn Hidden Village had wiped out Takigakure’s shinobi, taken its tailed beast, and threatened to spark another war.
• Minato Namikaze proposed that the villages unite, but Hiruzen Sarutobi argued that their hatred made cooperation unlikely.
• Minato Namikaze presented intelligence that Dawn Hidden Village was occupying nearby small nations, then paused the meeting to comfort Naruto.
• After the meeting, Minato Namikaze held Naruto and remembered how Uchiha Yū had once helped him manage the village’s crises.
• Uchiha Yū used White Zetsu clones and new factories to make Dawn Hidden Village appear prosperous and attract residents, while making it difficult for them to leave.
• Uchiha Yū divided Dawn Hidden Village’s administration between himself, Kakuzu and Shan Juhua’s financial department, and Konan’s Akatsuki.

Uchiha Yū gathered the tailed beasts and revealed Akatsuki’s hidden Ten-Tails to the powerful figures in Dawn Hidden Village. After forcing them to accept a secrecy seal, he offered to teach them the strength-enhancing Curse Mark.

• Pakura returned with the Sage of Six Paths’ treasured tool and reported that the One-Tail had been sealed inside after its host died.
• Uchiha Yū told Konan to notify Nagato to prepare the plan, while Uchiha Shisui returned with Killer B captured.
• Uchiha Yū led the group underground, where they saw Nagato and the Ten-Tails, then ordered them to receive the Cursed Tongue Eradication Seal to keep the secret.
• Uchiha Yū demonstrated Konan’s Curse Mark transformation and explained the benefits and dangers of its two forms.

Uchiha Yū and Nagato began restoring the tailed beasts to the Ten-Tails, recovering three before Killer B escaped their grasp. Uchiha Yū then set the group’s next target as Kirigakure, where they planned to help the Six-Tails’ jinchūriki defect.

• Uchiha Yū and Nagato activated the Curse Mark for their followers, then prepared to recover the tailed beasts with their help.
• Nagato led the extraction of the Seven-Tails and One-Tail, while Uchiha Yū subdued the One-Tail for the Ten-Tails to devour.
• Black and White Zetsu brought out Han, and the group extracted the Five-Tails from him and fed it to the Ten-Tails.
• Killer B escaped by leaving behind a severed octopus tentacle, which Nagato used to supply the Ten-Tails with chakra.
• Uchiha Yū outlined the remaining tailed beasts and announced that the group would help the Six-Tails’ jinchūriki escape from Kirigakure.

Uchiha Yū planned to secure the Kaguya Clan and the Sixth-Tails Jinchūriki while building an alliance with Ōnoki and Sunagakure to deter war. He decided to travel to Ōnoki himself and persuade him to join.

• Uchiha Yū showed Kakuzu a secret report revealing that the Kaguya Clan wanted his help to escape Kirigakure.
• Uchiha Yū said he would win the Kaguya Clan's loyalty and arrange medical research into their blood disease.
• Kakuzu warned that helping the Kaguya Clan and the Sixth-Tails Jinchūriki would make the Dawn Hidden Village Kirigakure's enemy.
• Uchiha Yū proposed an alliance with Ōnoki and Sunagakure, strengthened through trade and shinobi examinations, to deter Konoha and Kirigakure from starting a war.
• Uchiha Yū decided to visit Ōnoki personally and persuade him to join the alliance.

Uchiha Yū arrived in Iwagakure to meet Ōnoki, who prepared his village’s jōnin in case the Dawn Kage posed a threat. Uchiha Yū entered the guarded village with Uchiha Obito and Hiruko, leaving the negotiations about to begin.

• Ōnoki rebuked Deidara for causing an explosion in Iwagakure, while Deidara defended his art and mourned the reported death of Uchiha Yū.
• A shinobi told Ōnoki that the Dawn Kage had arrived, and Ōnoki initially tried to avoid meeting him.
• After reading Uchiha Yū’s letter, Ōnoki ordered the jōnin to gather nearby and prepared to detain the Dawn Kage if necessary.
• Ōnoki told Deidara to put away his clay and accompany him to receive their guest, and Deidara reluctantly obeyed.
• Uchiha Yū approached Iwagakure’s gates with Uchiha Obito and Hiruko, who were ready to help him escape if the village attacked.
• Uchiha Obito activated his Mangekyō Sharingan, and Uchiha Yū strode into the village as its shinobi watched tensely.

Uchiha Yū negotiated with Ōnoki over trade and a Joint Chūnin Exam while concealing his real aim: using the exam to make Konoha believe Iwagakure had allied with Dawn Hidden Village. The talks ended with Ōnoki agreeing to support the exam and pursue trade, while demanding discounted goods.

• Uchiha Yū and his companions entered Ōnoki’s office, where the two sides tested each other with their auras before sitting down to negotiate.
• Ōnoki said trade was a matter for the daimyo and nobles, but he had no objection to holding a Joint Chūnin Exam and asked what the other villages intended to do.
• Uchiha Yū urged Ōnoki to join Sunagakure and Dawn Hidden Village in a war against Konoha to seize its fertile land, but Ōnoki refused to commit Iwagakure to another conflict.
• Uchiha Yū threatened that Sunagakure had already agreed to cooperate, prompting Ōnoki to insist that Iwagakure would not attack Konoha while offering to support the exam and send ninjas to promote trade.
• Uchiha Yū privately revealed that he wanted the Joint Chūnin Exam as a public pretext to spread false claims of an alliance and pressure Konoha’s leaders.
• Ōnoki demanded that goods traded with Iwagakure be priced one-third below normal.

Uchiha Yū negotiated an alliance with Ōnoki by promising cheaper goods and a Dawn Weapons Store factory in exchange for cooperation, while Ōnoki agreed to hold a joint Chūnin Exam. The exam would take place in Iwagakure, where Deidara began considering secretly leaving the village to visit Dawn Hidden Village.

• Ōnoki demanded lower prices and a Dawn Weapons Store factory near Iwagakure, with the village receiving a share of its profits.
• Uchiha Yū promised to help secure the factory if Ōnoki allied with Dawn Hidden Village and told him that Shan Juhua liked Uchiha Yū, prompting Ōnoki to connect their plans against Konoha to her feelings.
• Ōnoki agreed to hold a joint Chūnin Exam, though he insisted on obtaining the factory before finalizing the alliance.
• Deidara watched Uchiha Yū and decided he would secretly leave Iwagakure to see Dawn Hidden Village.
• Uchiha Yū proposed holding the joint exam in Iwagakure, and Ōnoki agreed to host it and protect the visiting ninja.

Uchiha Yū and Hiruko secured an alliance with Kirigakure, then caught Deidara spying on them and let Hiruko teach him a lesson. Deidara showed off his explosive clay techniques, but Hiruko met his C2 Dragon with Steel Transformation.

• Kirigakure began secretly investigating why it had been excluded from the Joint Chūnin Exams.
• Uchiha Yū told Hiruko that the negotiations had always been aimed at an alliance and planned to contact the Six-Tails and the Kaguya Clan.
• Uchiha Yū spotted Deidara spying from a clay bird, and Hiruko nearly struck him with Storm Release before Uchiha Yū stopped the attack.
• Deidara landed and complained, so Uchiha Yū ordered Hiruko to give him a small lesson.
• Deidara attacked with Little Birds, but Hiruko used Swift Release to dodge and punched him hard enough to send him flying.
• Deidara summoned his C2 Dragon, and Hiruko activated Steel Transformation as the dragon charged at him.

Uchiha Yū defeated Deidara and warned Uchiha Obito not to exploit the young Iwagakure ninja while their village needed an alliance. Back in Dawn Hidden Village, he chose genin for the joint Chūnin Exams and left Kakuzu to lead them as he turned to more important business.

• Hiruko used Dark Release to drain Deidara's chakra and immobilize him, but Uchiha Yū threw Deidara clear before the clay could swallow him.
• Uchiha Yū told Deidara that he needed strength to survive outside Iwagakure, and Deidara vowed to develop C3 and defeat Dawn Hidden Village.
• Uchiha Obito suggested controlling Deidara to aid the coming invasion, but Uchiha Yū warned him against harming Ōnoki's disciple or jeopardizing their alliance with Iwagakure.
• Uchiha Obito pretended to accept Uchiha Yū's warning while privately plotting to use everyone, including Uchiha Madara, to create a world with Rin.
• Uchiha Yū and Kakuzu selected genin for the Chūnin Exams, with Fū and Pakura determined to defeat Uchiha Yū despite the village's lack of promising young talent.
• Uchiha Yū left Kakuzu in charge of leading the team to Iwagakure and went to attend to more important matters.

Uchiha Yū learned that Hero Water expanded the body’s meridians and could be endured by someone with sufficient physical strength, so he began a carefully prepared experiment to use it himself. After the final dose was injected, he felt the pain intensify but signaled the researchers to continue.

• Muichiro Tokito presented Uchiha Yū with the research findings, explaining that Hero Water’s effects could overwhelm weaker bodies rather than poison them.
• Uchiha Yū asked about the minimum strength needed to withstand Hero Water, and Muichiro Tokito said a body had to be eight times stronger than an ordinary person’s.
• Uchiha Yū ordered the laboratory to begin administering Hero Water to him and traveled with Muichiro Tokito to the underground facility.
• The researchers placed Uchiha Yū in a culture chamber and administered three doses, including an improved version of Hero Water.
• Uchiha Yū felt a needle-like sting as the final dose entered his body, then nodded for the researchers to continue as the pain grew into a burning sensation.

Uchiha Yū survived the dangerous Hero Water experiment, which expanded his chakra pathways and greatly increased his chakra output. He then briefed the Akatsuki on a Kirigakure mission to escort the Six-Tails jinchuriki and help the Kaguya Clan evacuate, ending with an order to kill anyone who opposed them.

• Uchiha Yū endured the swelling and pain caused by Hero Water as Muichiro Tokito offered to increase the anesthetic dosage.
• Uchiha Yū completed the experiment, and the surge of chakra from his body damaged equipment and shattered culture vessels in the laboratory.
• Muichiro Tokito celebrated the successful research, while Uchiha Yū apologized for nearly destroying the laboratory and left after encouraging him to continue developing Hero Water.
• Sasori looked forward to turning the Mizukage into a Human Puppet, but Pakura warned him not to jeopardize the mission.
• Uchiha Yū told the Akatsuki to escort the Six-Tails jinchuriki out of Kirigakure and send a group to help the Kaguya Clan evacuate.
• Uchiha Yū declared that the Akatsuki would kill everyone standing in their way.

Uchiha Yū sent Akatsuki to Kirigakure to help Foam and the Kaguya Clan escape while weakening the village. The Kaguya Clan agreed to revolt at midnight, but planned to test the Dawn Shadow and kill him if they deemed him weak.

• Uchiha Yū mobilized Akatsuki and secretly brought them by ship to Kirigakure.
• Black and White Zetsu told Foam that the Kaguya Clan would help create chaos so they could escape together.
• Black and White Zetsu met the Kaguya Clan head, who nearly attacked him before hearing the offer of help.
• Black and White Zetsu instructed the Kaguya Clan to betray Kirigakure at midnight and flee east, where Akatsuki would receive them.
• The Kaguya Clan head ordered the release of the clan's secret weapon and vowed to join Dawn Hidden Village only if the Dawn Shadow proved worthy.

Uchiha Yū and Akatsuki began their midnight plan in Kirigakure as the Kaguya Clan launched a bloody rebellion. As Mei Terumi and Kisame pursued the clan east, Uchiha Yū watched from the shadows and spotted Orochimaru, determined to claim Kimimaro for himself.

• Black and White Zetsu told Uchiha Yū that the Kaguya Clan had agreed to help cause chaos at midnight, and Uchiha Yū ordered Akatsuki to proceed with the plan.
• An explosion triggered widespread fighting in Kirigakure as the Kaguya Clan attacked the village and its members slaughtered ninja around them.
• The Kaguya Clan head released Kimimaro, calling him the clan's secret weapon and urging him to demonstrate his power.
• Mei Terumi ordered the village ninja to surround and kill the Kaguya Clan, while she sent Kisame and an elite group to flank them as they charged east.
• Uchiha Yū observed the fighting from the forest and recognized Orochimaru, deciding that he would not let Orochimaru take Kimimaro.

Uchiha Yū intervened as Kisame Hoshigaki pursued the fleeing Kaguya Clan, overpowering Kisame in a clash and offering him a chance to grow stronger. He spared Kisame and told him to witness the upheaval about to come to Kirigakure.

• Uchiha Yū unexpectedly encountered Orochimaru and decided to invite him to his laboratory.
• Kisame Hoshigaki used Water Release to stop the fleeing Kaguya Clan, but Uchiha Yū countered with Majestic Destroyer Flame and Great Breakthrough.
• Uchiha Yū told the Kaguya Clan to follow him, and they rallied behind him against the Kirigakure ninjas.
• Uchiha Yū overpowered Kisame in a weapon clash and urged him to seek stronger guidance to break through his limits.
• Uchiha Yū spared Kisame and told him that his subordinates would take the Kaguya Clan away during the coming upheaval in Kirigakure.

Uchiha Yū defeated the Kirigakure ninjas attacking the Kaguya Clan and offered Kisame Hoshigaki a chance to join him. Meanwhile, Mei Terumi was held back and injured by Hiruko, Sasori, and their allies, until an unknown figure appeared before Hiruko could strike again.

• Kisame Hoshigaki reconsidered Uchiha Yū's offer after realizing Mei Terumi had been prevented from reaching the planned battle.
• Uchiha Yū used Shadow Clones to defeat the Kirigakure ninjas attacking the Kaguya Clan, then ordered the clan to prepare to leave while he went to retrieve the others.
• Kisame Hoshigaki picked up a replacement blade and followed Uchiha Yū to see how strong his subordinates were.
• Mei Terumi confronted Hiruko, Sasori, and several masked ninjas, who tested their Curse Mark power and coordinated attacks to keep her from pursuing the retreating Kaguya Clan.
• Hiruko warned the injured Mei Terumi that they did not intend to kill her, but an unknown figure appeared just as he was about to attack.

Uchiha Yū ordered Hiruko to demonstrate Curse Mark Two against Mei Terumi, then stopped him when rage overwhelmed his reason. After warning Mei that she could not stop them, Uchiha Yū turned to a figure in the treetops and asked them to make their choice.

• Uchiha Yū arrived at the battlefield and told Hiruko to show Kirigakure's forces the power of Curse Mark Two.
• Hiruko transformed, warned that the form strained his body and threatened his sanity, then attacked Mei Terumi with Swift Release.
• Mei Terumi used Water Pillar, but Hiruko absorbed it with Dark Release and counterattacked with Judgment.
• As Hiruko grew more frenzied, Uchiha Yū suppressed and knocked him unconscious, then ordered Uchiha Shisui to take him for treatment.
• Uchiha Yū warned Mei Terumi that she could not stop them and invited the figure in the treetops to make their choice.

Kisame Hoshigaki renounced Kirigakure and joined Uchiha Yū’s group after the attack on the village. Uchiha Yū led the Kaguya Clan and the sleeping Kimimaro away, promising to investigate his illness and develop medicine for it.

• Kisame Hoshigaki told Mei Terumi he was leaving Kirigakure to follow a stronger leader, accepting that the village might hunt him.
• Uchiha Yū stepped between Kisame and Mei, declared Kisame a member of his group, and led his team away.
• Mei Terumi held back from pursuing them because Kirigakure’s injured ninja left her concerned that the attackers could threaten the village.
• The Kaguya Clan chief recognized Uchiha Yū as the clan’s leader and offered him Kimimaro as a follower.
• Uchiha Yū recognized Kimimaro’s genetic disease, promised to develop medicine for it, and soothed him with medical chakra until he fell asleep.

Uchiha Yū reunited with Orochimaru in the aftermath of Kirigakure’s turmoil and offered him a place, funding, and research facilities in exchange for his work. The chapter ended with Yū demanding that Orochimaru honor their agreement to share Impure World Reincarnation, while also promising help researching it and bloodline limits.

• Uchiha Yū wrapped his robe around the sleeping Kimimaro and entrusted the boy to the Kaguya clan leader.
• Orochimaru prepared to raid the damaged Kirigakure for resources and bloodline limits, but sensed danger and stayed hidden.
• Uchiha Yū found Orochimaru, revealed his identity, and explained that he had faked his death to escape Konoha.
• Orochimaru admitted that Konoha’s pursuit had left him short of money, materials, and safe laboratories.
• Uchiha Yū offered Orochimaru protection, funding, laboratories, and researchers in exchange for his cooperation.
• Uchiha Yū demanded Impure World Reincarnation and offered to help Orochimaru research it and bloodline limits.

Uchiha Yū and Orochimaru renewed their alliance and agreed to cooperate on research, while the shinobi world reacted to Kirigakure’s attack and a three-village alliance. After returning to the village, Uchiha Yū learned that Itachi Uchiha had dominated the Joint Chūnin Exams and secured first place for Sunagakure.

• Orochimaru agreed to work with Uchiha Yū on the Impure World Reincarnation and bloodline-limit research, with Yū supplying materials and receiving the results.
• Uchiha Yū and Orochimaru clasped hands to confirm their alliance, then left the Land of Water together by ship.
• Shinobi across the world discussed Kirigakure’s attack and the new alliance among three villages, while Kirigakure searched for the attackers.
• Uchiha Yū received the Joint Chūnin Exams report and learned that Itachi Uchiha had defeated the other teams, leaving him the sole new chūnin.
• Uchiha Yū reassured Fū after she blamed Itachi for eliminating her team, then arranged for factories to move into Iwagakure and gave Ōnoki a share of the profits.

Uchiha Yū visited the ill Kimimaro and explained that Dawn Hidden Village’s researchers were working to treat his blood disease. He also described the village’s new education system, leaving its students protesting as they were forced into school and kept away from battlefields.

• Uchiha Yū visited Kimimaro, reassured him that his illness was being suppressed, and said Orochimaru and the researchers would seek a cure.
• Uchiha Yū outlined Dawn Hidden Village’s four-stage education system, which combined compulsory schooling with later ninja training and classes for other professions.
• Fū protested being made to study basic subjects after failing the Joint Chūnin Exams, and other students joined her complaints.
• Dawn Hidden Village’s ninjas beat students who resisted the new system, while Uchiha Yū insisted they had to learn rather than enter battlefields.
• Uchiha Yū prioritized building and protecting schools and introduced credits that students could exchange for ninjutsu, including some forbidden techniques.

Mei Terumi learned that the Dawn Hidden Village had taken Kirigakure’s Six-Tails and allied with Konoha to retaliate. Uchiha Yū’s village entered a cold war with the new alliance and prepared to capture the Three-Tails while accepting smaller villages seeking its protection.

• Mei Terumi received evidence linking Kisame Hoshigaki and the Curse Mark power to the Dawn Hidden Village, and concluded that it had attacked Kirigakure and taken the Six-Tails.
• Mei Terumi agreed to an alliance with Konoha and planned a campaign against the Dawn Hidden Village.
• Ninja in an underground bounty venue discussed how the two new alliances forced wandering ninja to choose a side or face extermination.
• Uchiha Yū recognized that the rival alliances had entered a cold war, giving his village time to develop.
• Kakuzu reported that the village had recovered the Six-Tails, and Uchiha Yū ordered ninja to wait for and capture the reincarnating Three-Tails.
• Konan presented a list of small villages seeking protection, and Uchiha Yū agreed to receive them.

Uchiha Yū accepted a village’s surrender and found Uzumaki Xiangyi and her daughter, Uzumaki Karin, among its people. He offered Xiangyi a chance to decide the villagers’ fates, but she refused to accuse anyone, leaving Uchiha Yū dissatisfied as he returned Karin to her.

• The village’s ninjas gathered in the hall to submit to Uchiha Yū and ask him to spare their village.
• Uchiha Yū spotted Uzumaki Xiangyi and approached her as her baby, Uzumaki Karin, began crying.
• Uchiha Yū soothed Karin with healing chakra, held her, and praised the child’s enormous innate chakra reserves.
• Uchiha Yū told Xiangyi that she could choose which villagers lived or died, especially those who had bitten her for blood.
• Xiangyi said the villagers had never bullied her, and Uchiha Yū returned Karin to her without killing anyone.

Uchiha Yū annexed Kusagakure, offering its people a place in Dawn Hidden Village or a perilous life in the borderlands, while Konan welcomed Uzumaki Xiangyi. As word of Kusagakure’s fate spread, Hidan and his Jashin cultists decided to relocate and hunt talented ninja for sacrifices.

• Uchiha Yū made Kusagakure’s people choose between joining Dawn Hidden Village and heading to the borderlands, and the village chief chose annexation.
• Konan reassured Uzumaki Xiangyi and promised to introduce her to another Uzumaki Clan member.
• Ninja leaders and small organizations debated pledging allegiance to Dawn Hidden Village after hearing what happened to Kusagakure.
• Hidan declared that his Jashin cult would relocate and offer powerful ninja as sacrifices to gain Jashin’s favor.
• Hidan threatened anyone who refused to follow him, and the cultists enthusiastically agreed to hunt geniuses.

Uchiha Yū and Kakuzu surveyed Dawn Hidden Village’s growth and the strain caused by its rapid expansion. Their discussion was interrupted by reports of missing residents, and Kakuzu brought Uchiha Yū information about recent deaths that might be connected.

• Uchiha Yū and Kakuzu observed how the village’s alliances had divided the underground world and how Dawn Hidden Village had grown through new recruits and economic incentives.
• Uchiha Yū reflected on the village’s rising land and housing prices and planned to expand it into a town and eventually a city.
• Newly arrived villagers confronted the guard force, accusing it of failing to find their missing clansmen; the guards said residents and ninja had vanished.
• Uchiha Yū arrived, questioned the guard ninja, and learned that five people were missing but the cases had not been reported upward.
• Kakuzu interrupted Uchiha Yū with information about recent deaths among villagers and ninja who had fled from elsewhere.

Uchiha Yū investigated murders linked to the Jashin Religion and used the group’s beliefs about resurrection to expose Uchiha Obito’s desire to bring back Rin Nohara. Obito attacked Yū, but Shisui broke his genjutsu, and Yū’s next words left Obito frozen as he summoned something.

• Uchiha Yū identified the sacrifice markings as belonging to the Jashin Religion, ordered a search for its leader Hidan, and planned to handle the immortal himself.
• Uchiha Yū told Kakuzu that the village needed more help managing its growth, then sent its ninja into action against the hidden Jashin followers.
• Uchiha Yū asked Uchiha Obito whether the dead could be summoned and described forbidden techniques that could bring them back.
• Uchiha Yū revealed that he knew Obito wanted to resurrect Rin Nohara and warned him that his dream world was false.
• Uchiha Obito used his Mangekyō Sharingan to try to control Yū, but Uchiha Shisui arrived and broke the genjutsu.
• Uchiha Yū said that resurrecting Rin required an intact corpse, then used Summoning Jutsu as Obito froze in shock.