Recaps

Uchiha Yū practiced Tsunade’s Monstrous Strength Fist and joined Orochimaru, Nawaki, and Hyuga Reiko on a mission to escort Sand Village ninja from the Land of Rivers to Konoha. After a strenuous journey, the team rested for the night, with the prospect of encountering enemies still ahead.

• Uchiha Yū practiced the Monstrous Strength Fist, discovered its recoil could injure him, and declined Orochimaru’s offer to learn a snake-based ninjutsu.
• Orochimaru gathered Uchiha Yū, Nawaki, and Hyuga Reiko for a B-rank mission to escort Sand Village ninja from the Land of Rivers to Konoha.
• Orochimaru explained that the escort was intended to ensure Konoha could not be blamed if trouble arose in Sand Village, then led the team on a rapid journey to the Land of Rivers.
• After traveling until the latter half of the night, Orochimaru noticed Uchiha Yū’s weakness and realized he had been deliberately training his body.
• Nawaki took guard duty while Uchiha Yū warned Hyuga Reiko not to hesitate if they encountered enemies.

Uchiha Yū killed the Rain ninja Matsushita Ida after being ambushed in Hot Springs Village, then returned to find Nawaki and Hyuga Reiko cornered by two more Rain ninja. He faced the pair with his Sharingan activated, leaving the fight unresolved.

• Orochimaru, Uchiha Yū, Nawaki, and Hyuga Reiko arrived in Hot Springs Village early and went to its mixed-gender hot spring.
• Orochimaru left after noticing a problem, and Matsushita Ida confronted Uchiha Yū in a corridor.
• Uchiha Yū knocked Matsushita Ida back, countered his hidden-weapon attack with a Great Fireball, and killed him with concentrated radiation.
• Uchiha Yū hurried back to the bathhouse and found Nawaki and Hyuga Reiko cornered by two Rain ninja.
• Uchiha Yū stepped onto the hot spring's surface and activated his single-tomoe Sharingan to face the two ninja.

Uchiha Yū fought a group of Rain Village ninjas at a hot spring and used his overwhelming physical strength to kill Kanno Koji and Musashi. He left Nawaki and Reiko stunned by the scale of his power.

• Musashi recognized Uchiha Yū and warned his teammates not to look into his eyes, but Kanno Koji dismissed the young Uchiha and attacked with Water Release.
• Uchiha Yū dropped his iron weights, evaded Koji’s Water Turbulence, and struck him with a powerful kick before countering his kunai with the Sharingan.
• Koji unleashed Water Release: Rushing Torrent, but Uchiha Yū split the current with the Monstrous Strength Fist and trapped him with Front Lotus.
• Uchiha Yū and Koji plunged into the hot spring, where Yū killed Koji; he then emerged and broke Musashi’s arm before killing him.
• Nawaki and Reiko stared in shock as Uchiha Yū asked why they were making such stunned faces.

Uchiha Yū, Nawaki, and Hyuga Reiko survived an ambush by Rain Village ninjas, then joined Orochimaru to meet Sand Village’s delegation led by Ebizo. As the group traveled toward Konoha, the Third Hokage received intelligence that the Land of Earth and the Land of Lightning might be preparing an alliance.

• Uchiha Yū’s display of strength left Hyuga Reiko and Nawaki discouraged, and he urged them to train harder.
• Uchiha Yū, Nawaki, and Hyuga Reiko found the innkeeper dead, and Orochimaru returned after killing a Rain Village jonin.
• Orochimaru ordered his disciples to keep quiet about the attack and prepared to meet the approaching Sand Village delegation.
• Ebizo arrived with the Sand ninja, stopped a young man from provoking Orochimaru, and led the delegation onward at a punishing pace.
• Uchiha Yū kept up with the Sand ninja, impressing Ebizo, while the group reached Konoha without further trouble.
• The Third Hokage told Mitokado Homura to have the ANBU watch developments, and Mitokado Homura reported signs that the Land of Earth and the Land of Lightning might form an alliance.

Danzō warned Konoha’s leaders that the Sand Village might turn against them, while Konoha secretly prepared to guard the border. After arriving in Konoha, Ebizo ordered Sand ninja to investigate promising young shinobi, even as Uchiha Yū, Hyuga Reiko, and Nawaki relaxed over an expensive barbecue meal.

• Danzō cautioned Konoha’s leaders that the Sand Village might side with their enemies, and they arranged for Sakumo Hatake to guard the border.
• Uchiha Yū, Hyuga Reiko, and Nawaki reached Konoha and discussed the Sand Village’s harsh conditions and dangerous ninja techniques over barbecue.
• Ebizo told the Sand ninja to investigate Konoha’s talented young shinobi, and he had already sent people to watch Uchiha Yū.
• Nawaki asked Uchiha Yū how he had grown so strong, and Uchiha Yū pretended that ordinary hard training was the secret.
• Nawaki agreed to pay for the meal, then stared in dismay at the bill as Reiko apologized for eating so much.

Uchiha Yū returned to the clan compound after dinner with Nawaki and learned that Sand Village ninjas had been following him. Fugaku protected him, advised him to train and awaken his Sharingan, and reported the intruders to the Hokage, where Danzō opposed an alliance.

• Hyuga Reiko left for the Hyuga compound with two branch-family ninjas, and Nawaki and Uchiha Yū parted ways after dinner.
• Fugaku told Uchiha Yū that Sand Village ninjas had followed him and showed him the wound he sustained confronting them.
• Uchiha Yū healed Fugaku, agreed to pause missions, and said he wanted to raise crows instead of contracting ninja cats.
• Fugaku advised Uchiha Yū on awakening the Sharingan and promised to send him genjutsu scrolls.
• Fugaku reported the Sand Village ninjas to the Hokage, who received similar reports from several clans as Danzō continued to oppose an alliance.

Konoha prepared for possible war after Sand ninja investigated the village’s prodigies, and Hiruzen Sarutobi negotiated with Ebizo over an alliance and material aid. Ebizo rejected the clans’ marriage demands and revealed that Hanzō had met with the Third Kazekage, leaving Konoha to consider the threat from Rain Village.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi ordered Konoha to detain Sand ninja caught investigating, spared Ebizo, and summoned him to negotiate.
• Danzō left to bring Ebizo in as Konoha’s clans and guard forces increased surveillance throughout the village.
• Uchiha Yū practiced the Hell Viewing Technique, suspecting the Sand ninja’s arrival was connected to the coming war.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi offered Sand Village an alliance and material aid, but Ebizo also demanded marriages between Sand prodigies and ninja from Konoha’s major clans.
• The clan heads rejected Ebizo’s marriage demand, and Ebizo revealed that Hanzō had met with the Third Kazekage and that Rain Village might target Konoha.

Uchiha Yū watched Konoha and the Sand Village reach an agreement that gave the Sand Village territory in the Land of Rain, and he worried that the coming war would bring danger to the Uchiha Clan. As Uchiha Fugaku helped him obtain trained ninja crows and warned him to prepare for dangerous missions, Yū resolved to grow stronger while carefully developing the uranium inside his body.

• The Third Hokage agreed to the Sand Village's demand for territory in the Land of Rain and approved its requests for supplies.
• Uchiha Yū watched the Sand Village group leave Konoha, then went to the clan training grounds as Uchiha Fugaku taught younger shinobi.
• Fugaku told Yū that ninja crows needed specialized training and offered to help him obtain some; Shuiyun watched from afar and vowed revenge on Yū.
• Fugaku gave Yū his notes on genjutsu and warned that war would bring dangerous missions for the Uchiha Clan.
• Yū feared that the war and Danzō's interest in Uchiha eyes would cost the clan many lives, and he resolved to strengthen himself while managing the uranium in his body.

Uchiha Yū was forced to attend Tsunade’s medical ninjutsu classes, then became the subject of her investigation into his ability to handle extreme weights. After Tsunade found no unusual cause, Yū asked to use her laboratory to study the Healing Technique.

• Tsunade confronted Uchiha Yū for neglecting her research and made him join a group training session for medical ninjas.
• Uchiha Yū spent the day reviewing medical ninjutsu with Tsunade and the five trainees, then asked why he had to stay after the others left.
• Tsunade told Uchiha Yū to remove his upper-body clothes so she could examine him, suspecting his body could withstand heavy weights because of an unknown substance.
• Tsunade tested weighted equipment on Uchiha Yū and confirmed he could walk normally under weights that had overwhelmed Nawaki.
• Uchiha Yū told Tsunade about Might Duy, a taijutsu prodigy, and then asked to borrow her laboratory to test the Healing Technique on cells.
• Tsunade questioned why Uchiha Yū needed her laboratory when Orochimaru had experimental equipment of his own.

Uchiha Yū tested his unusual resistance to radiation and tried to develop the Healing Technique in Tsunade’s laboratory, but his experiments killed all her rabbits and cost him his mission earnings. Tsunade then assigned him to a medical mission escorting supplies to Sand Village, leaving him wary of the danger but interested in the reward.

• Uchiha Yū compared his blood and cells with Uchiha Clan samples, recorded that his cells absorbed radiation without mutating, and kept the findings secret.
• Uchiha Yū experimented on Tsunade’s rabbits while trying to reform the Healing Technique, but all ten died without producing results.
• Tsunade caught Uchiha Yū with the dead rabbits, beat him, and charged him ten thousand ryō, which he paid.
• Tsunade told Uchiha Yū that he would serve as a medical ninja on a mission transporting supplies to Sand Village, escorted by elite chūnin and Sand Village jōnin.

Uchiha Yū prepared for a mission transporting supplies to Sand Village by training crows with his Sharingan and chakra. After nine crows died from radiation, one developed unusual abilities, and Uchiha Yū joined the assembled escort team, where he saw his hostile clanmate Uchiha Shuiyun.

• Tsunade reassured Uchiha Yū that jonin would protect him during the mission to Sand Village, scheduled to begin in a week.
• Uchiha Yū bought ninja tools, then used his Sharingan and chakra to make ten crows form a low-cost Bird Clone.
• Uchiha Yū discovered that radiation had affected the crows; nine died, while the survivor grew larger, developed tomoe-like eyes, and gained radioactive claws and a beak.
• Ebizo returned, and the Third Kazekage and Konoha assembled a transport team with four jonin, three chunin, and Uchiha Yū.
• Uchiha Yū spotted Uchiha Shuiyun among the Konoha chunin, while Shuiyun watched him with hostility.

Uchiha Yū’s joint supply convoy left Konoha under the protection of Aburame Hanfeng and Sand Village ninja, while Uchiha Shuiyun secretly joined forces with Rain Village attackers. The Rain ninja ambushed the convoy in a mist-filled forest, and the two sides prepared to fight.

• Aburame Hanfeng assigned two tracking insects to Uchiha Yū and promised to protect him as the convoy departed Konoha.
• Uchiha Shuiyun met with Hanzō’s Rain Village squad and vowed to make Uchiha Yū and the Uchiha Clan pay, as his Sharingan changed from one tomoe to two.
• The Sand Village jonin halted the convoy after Jiro failed to report in, and mist spread through the forest.
• Aburame Hanfeng’s insects blocked an explosive-tagged kunai aimed at Uchiha Yū, revealing the Rain ninja’s ambush.
• The Sand Village jonin released two puppets as the Rain ninja declared that Hanzō intended to raise the Rain Village among the Five Great Ninja Villages.

Rain ninja attacked Konoha’s supplies while Salamander Pufferfish targeted Uchiha Yū, who escaped and deduced that Uchiha Shuiyun had betrayed the team. Yū confronted Shuiyun at the battlefield’s edge, where their fight began with Yū using his newly awakened one-tomoe Sharingan and enhanced speed.

• Salamander Pufferfish led the Rain ninja’s attack on the supplies and targeted Uchiha Yū, while Aburame Hanfeng tried to protect him.
• Uchiha Yū escaped Salamander Pufferfish’s Waterfall Technique with a substitution and transformation, then spotted Uchiha Shuiyun missing from the group and suspected him of betrayal.
• Uchiha Yū searched likely hiding places for Shuiyun and intercepted him after Shuiyun attacked with an explosive-tag kunai.
• Uchiha Shuiyun revealed his two-tomoe Sharingan and challenged Yū, who dropped the iron weights he had been wearing and rushed him with sudden speed.
• Uchiha Shuiyun used the Substitution Technique and cast Great Fireball Technique, but Uchiha Yū struck the ground and raised earth to block the attack.

Uchiha Yū defeated Uchiha Shuiyun during a Rain Village ambush, then treated the wounded after the attackers retreated. His medical ninjutsu impressed the Sand Village jonin, who planned to report it to the Kazekage.

• Uchiha Yū survived Uchiha Shuiyun's explosive-tag trap with the Bird Clone Technique and killed him with his radiation power.
• Aburame Hanfeng's Destruction Bugs held off Salamander Pufferfish until the Rain ninja summoned salamanders and spread poisonous gas across the battlefield.
• The Rain ninja attacked the supplies and then retreated, leaving Sand and Konoha ninja to count their losses.
• Aburame Hanfeng checked Uchiha Yū for injuries and praised his sharp reactions during the ambush.
• Uchiha Yū removed a kunai from a Sand ninja's chest and healed the wound with medical ninjutsu, astonishing the Sand Village jonin.

Uchiha Yū and the Konoha team delivered the damaged supplies to Sand Village, where the Kazekage summoned the leaders to discuss the attack. While waiting, Yū met the young Pakura, who was struck by his appearance and asked his name.

• Uchiha Yū treated the wounded Sand ninja but left some of his injuries unhealed, then collected salamander venom while the Konoha and Sand leaders discussed the lost supplies.
• The team crossed into the Land of Wind and met Sand ninja sent to receive them, who learned that Rain Village had damaged the supplies.
• After reaching Sand Village, Uchiha Yū observed its layout before a jonin summoned the Konoha visitors to meet the Kazekage about the attack.
• Pakura approached the Konoha ninja from a rooftop, introduced herself, and asked Uchiha Yū his name.
• The Konoha ninja teased Uchiha Yū about winning Pakura over and bringing her back to Konoha.

Uchiha Yū impressed Chiyo with his strength and medical skills after sparring with Pakura in the Sand Village. Chiyo invited him to treat injured shinobi, and he began healing one under her watch.

• Uchiha Yū outmaneuvered Pakura in a fight, then returned to his team as the Sand children crowded around him.
• Chiyo and Ebizo discussed Konoha's strong new generation and the Sand Village's difficulty developing medical-nin.
• Chiyo approached Uchiha Yū and invited him to examine patients, while Aburame Hanfeng challenged her intentions.
• Uchiha Yū accepted Chiyo's invitation and went with her and Aburame Hanfeng to a medical room.
• Uchiha Yū cut away necrotic flesh from an injured shinobi's arm, then used the Healing Technique to stimulate the wound's recovery.

Uchiha Yū returned to Konoha after an S-rank mission involving an elite jonin and told Nawaki and Hyuga Reiko about its dangers. He then organized their squad for likely future missions near the front lines, urging them to prioritize staying alive.

• Uchiha Yū treated an injured ninja while Chiyo watched, then Aburame Hanfeng led him away as the group prepared to return to Konoha.
• Uchiha Yū's mission was rated S-rank, prompting Nawaki and Hyuga Reiko to confront him with envy and questions about the mission.
• Uchiha Yū described the danger of the mission and the elite jonin clash, while Nawaki and Reiko argued over who would become Hokage.
• Uchiha Yū stopped Nawaki and Reiko's fight and assigned Reiko to reconnaissance while he and Nawaki handled threats directly.
• Uchiha Yū warned Nawaki and Reiko to put their lives first in future squad missions.

Uchiha Yū told Uchiha He that he had killed Uchiha Shuiyun after Shuiyun betrayed the village and clan, and learned the Hokage had ordered the Uchiha Clan to pay for the mission’s damage and send shinobi to the front. Uchiha He offered him the chance to become the clan’s next head, while Uchiha Yū vowed to make a name for himself in the coming Second Shinobi World War.

• Uchiha Yū left Nawaki and their companion to meet Uchiha He after a clansman summoned him.
• Uchiha Yū admitted he had killed Uchiha Shuiyun for betraying the village and revealing their movements to Rain Village.
• Uchiha He explained that the Hokage knew the truth but had ordered the Uchiha Clan to compensate for the damage and send clansmen to the front.
• Uchiha He urged Uchiha Yū to grow into the clan’s next leader, but Uchiha Yū said he would pursue a mutually beneficial relationship rather than carry the clan’s beliefs.
• Uchiha Yū promised to earn a name in the Second Shinobi World War, and Uchiha He agreed to give him that chance while warning him to become clan head if he failed.
• Uchiha He promised to suppress the mission’s details and protect Uchiha Yū from trouble within the clan, leaving him to face any hostility from the village with his own strength.

Danzō tried to recruit Uchiha Yū into Root, but Yū killed the operative sent to his home. When the Sand Village declared war on the Rain Village, Konoha began preparing to enter the conflict.

• Danzō argued that the Uchiha Clan’s punishment was too lenient, but the Third Hokage and his advisors chose to avoid further conflict and keep the clan’s combat strength available.
• Danzō ordered an ANBU operative to recruit Uchiha Yū into Root before he fully sided with the Uchiha Clan.
• Kaizuke ordered Yū to join Root, but Yū used the radiation around his home to cripple and kill him.
• Danzō learned Kaizuke had not returned and blamed the Uchiha Clan, then received word that the Sand Village had declared war on the Rain Village.
• Danzō went to discuss the declaration with the Third Hokage as Konoha’s ninja gathered to plan for the coming war.

As war approached, Uchiha Yū joined Orochimaru’s force on the Rain Village front and was assigned to the base hospital as a medical shinobi. He noticed the hospital’s treatment process could not handle rising casualties and raised the problem with Tsunade.

• Nawaki told Uchiha Yū to assemble at the village gates, where Orochimaru, Tsunade, and Jiraiya prepared to lead the mission.
• Uchiha Yū reunited with Minato Namikaze, and the two exchanged teasing remarks before wishing each other well.
• Orochimaru announced that their team was temporarily disbanded and explained Konoha’s deployment across the Rain Village, Cloud, Rock, and Sand fronts.
• At the Rain Village front, Tsunade treated wounded shinobi while Uchiha Yū joined the base hospital as a medical shinobi.
• Uchiha Yū noticed the hospital lacked an effective treatment system and warned Tsunade that its procedures had a major flaw.

Uchiha Yū proposed reorganizing Konoha Hospital to sort wartime injuries and assign specialists, impressing Tsunade and prompting her to arrange for him to remain in the rear. Though he wanted to earn a name on the battlefield, he began studying advanced medical ninjutsu under Tsunade while planning to reach the front as a field medic.

• Uchiha Yū explained how nurses and ordinary doctors could sort patients by injury type and severity before medical ninja treated them in specialized operating rooms.
• Tsunade praised Uchiha Yū's hospital reform and ordered follow-up plans, then decided to speak with Orochimaru about recruiting him.
• Orochimaru agreed to Tsunade's request to keep Uchiha Yū at the hospital, leaving Yū frustrated that he could not fight on the front lines.
• Uchiha Yū planned to join a field medical team once the war began, while Tsunade taught him the Chakra Scalpel and Mystical Palm Technique.
• Tsunade confined Uchiha Yū with medical texts and training notes, requiring him to master them before he could leave.

Uchiha Yū treated a growing flood of casualties as the war expanded, while Hidden Rock, Hidden Cloud, and Hidden Mist forces threatened Konoha’s position. Orochimaru summoned him, and he arrived as Orochimaru and Tsunade argued over what role he should take.

• Uchiha Yū told Hyuga Reiko that Konoha had not fully entered the war, then warned her to stay safe as enemy attacks approached.
• Uchiha Yū learned that enemy forces had struck Nara’s line and that Hidden Mist had joined the fighting near the Rain Village.
• Uchiha Yū performed emergency operations at the overcrowded hospital, saving a ninja whose chest had been pierced by a kunai.
• Nawaki delivered Orochimaru’s summons, and Uchiha Yū went to the commander’s office.
• Tsunade objected to Orochimaru’s plans for Uchiha Yū, and Jiraiya urged them to let Uchiha Yū decide for himself.

Uchiha Yū insisted on joining Tsunade’s medical team at the front, despite her warnings about the danger. After reaching a battlefield full of wounded Konoha ninja, he suspected the enemy had staged the situation, but Hidden Mist forces surrounded the group before they could respond.

• Uchiha Yū told Tsunade and Orochimaru he would go to the front lines to save wounded ninja, and Tsunade reluctantly accepted his decision.
• Orochimaru assembled medical ninja and elite chunin guards, and Tsunade led the group toward the Land of Rain with Uchiha Yū close beside her.
• Tsunade killed two Hidden Mist ninja who emerged from a puddle, unaware that another enemy shadow was following the group to lure out the medical ninja.
• At the battlefield, Uchiha Yū noticed that many wounded ninja seemed to have survived the battle but were dying from untreated injuries and blood loss.
• Uchiha Yū warned Tsunade that the enemy might have deliberately arranged the wounded, and a large force of ninja surrounded the Konoha group.

As the Hidden Mist Village ambushed the wounded Konoha ninja, Tsunade summoned a slug to protect them and fought the Mist forces while Uchiha Yū spread radiation across the battlefield. Yū killed Tianyeshui with radiation poisoning and evaded his final Water Dragon Bullet, while Tsunade’s battle against Mishita Tanaka continued.

• Tsunade summoned a giant slug, ordered it to protect the wounded, and broke the Mist Concealment Technique with a punch.
• Mishita Tanaka, wielder of Thunder Fang, attacked Tsunade with lightning while other Mist ninja joined the fight.
• Uchiha Yū released radiation into the rain and surrounding area, then used genjutsu and Fire Release against two Rain Village ninja.
• Yū killed Yutaro’s companion while Yutaro remained trapped in the Hell Viewing Technique.
• Tianyeshui mistook his radiation sickness for poisoning, failed to recover with an antidote, and died after casting Water Dragon Bullet.
• Uchiha Yū leaped away from Tianyeshui’s out-of-control Water Dragon Bullet.

Uchiha Yū used a deadly toxin to kill Tianyeshui and drive back the Hidden Mist ninja, then helped Tsunade treat the wounded. A survivor revealed that Hanzō’s forces were targeting the vanguard, and Tsunade ordered the team to return quickly while she prepared to go there herself.

• Uchiha Yū’s toxin killed Tianyeshui and poisoned three Hidden Mist ninja, forcing Mishita Tanaka to retreat with his remaining men.
• Uchiha Yū absorbed the lingering radioactive elements, and Tsunade examined Tianyeshui’s corpse and warned him to keep his ability from harming allies.
• While Uchiha Yū treated the wounded, an injured ninja reported that Hanzō’s forces were targeting the vanguard, then fell unconscious.
• Tsunade first ordered Uchiha Yū to escort the wounded while she went to the vanguard, but apologized after he warned that the team lacked an elite jonin.
• Tsunade ordered the wounded transported back quickly so they could report the threat from Hanzō’s forces to Orochimaru.