Recaps

Mishita Tanaka’s unit returned poisoned, while Dan Katō was mortally wounded in a clash with Hanzō’s elite forces and died despite Tsunade’s efforts. With Tsunade overcome by grief and the war escalating, Uchiha Yū took charge of the field hospital and prepared to test medicines on captured enemy ninjas.

• Mishita Tanaka returned to the Kirigakure camp with his poisoned unit, and the camp quarantined him after learning the poison could spread.
• Tsunade returned safely and warned Orochimaru that Hanzō’s personal guard had moved against Konoha’s forces.
• Orochimaru received word that Dan Katō had been severely wounded, and Tsunade rushed to the vanguard but later stood weeping beside his corpse.
• Orochimaru put Uchiha Yū in charge of the field hospital and warned him that the war would bring increasingly difficult missions.
• Uchiha Yū presented antidote pills and a purple anesthetic he had developed, and Orochimaru ordered him to test the medicines on captured enemy ninjas.
• Uchiha Yū went to the prison to begin arranging the human experiments.

Uchiha Yū tested a diluted version of Ibuse’s toxin on Shan Juhua, a captured Amegakure ninja, and found it could work as a painkiller. He left her out of prison and in his care as an experimental subject, then sent the resulting medicine to the hospital wards.

• Uchiha Yū selected Shan Juhua from the prison and ordered female ninjas to clean her before bringing her to his hospital room.
• Uchiha Yū restrained Shan Juhua and injected her with diluted Ibuse toxin, then monitored her sleep and examined her after she woke.
• Uchiha Yū assured Shan Juhua that she would survive and would not return to prison, explaining that she would assist with his experiment.
• Uchiha Yū further diluted the toxin and injected it after cutting Shan Juhua’s arm, confirming that she felt no pain.
• Uchiha Yū packed the newly developed painkiller and sent it to the hospital rooms.

Uchiha Yū and Tsunade discussed the shortage of Ibuse venom and Orochimaru’s plan to starve Amegakure by attacking civilians, which Tsunade accepted while refusing to participate. After Shan Juhua learned of the plan, Yū declared that he would grow strong enough to end war and make a world without ninja.

• Uchiha Yū told Tsunade that their supply of Ibuse venom was inadequate and argued that Konoha needed to defeat Amegakure quickly before Sunagakure betrayed their alliance.
• Tsunade accepted Orochimaru’s plan to cut off Amegakure’s food by attacking surrounding villages, but decided she would not take part in killing civilians.
• Shan Juhua heard that Konoha planned to attack villagers and questioned Uchiha Yū, who defended the decision as a way to end the war sooner.
• Shan Juhua asked what could prevent war, and Uchiha Yū concluded that only overwhelming strength and unifying the ninja world could do so.
• Uchiha Yū vowed to become stronger than the Sage of Six Paths, end war, and ensure that no ninja remained in the world.

Uchiha Yū recruited Shan Juhua to help build Dawn and prepare for the coming war, then caught Hyuga Reiko spying on them. The chapter ended with Yū explaining that he had trapped Reiko in a genjutsu after mistaking her for an enemy.

• Shan Juhua pledged to follow Uchiha Yū and help him pursue a shinobi world without war, and he accepted her request.
• Uchiha Yū named his new organization Dawn, explained his plans to Shan Juhua, and assigned her to leave Amegakure and build a weapons trade network.
• Uchiha Yū promised to connect Shan Juhua with buyers, including Orochimaru, and said he would later provide blueprints for commissioned parts.
• Uchiha Yū sensed someone watching them, found Hyuga Reiko caught in his genjutsu, and struck her head to wake her.
• A Hyuga branch-family member asked what Uchiha Yū had done to Reiko, and he explained that he had mistaken her Byakugan for an enemy's gaze.

Uchiha Yū sent Shan Juhua out of the camp to begin a trade route, while Hyuga Reiko learned that the Hyuga Clan would join the attack on Amegakure. Orochimaru confronted Yū about releasing Shan Juhua, then began discussing how to use Yū’s poison in the battle.

• Hyuga Reiko admitted she had used her Byakugan to peek into Uchiha Yū’s room, and Yū warned her not to spy on her own people.
• Reiko told Yū that Orochimaru had ordered the Hyuga Clan to help attack Amegakure and prevent its ninja from escaping.
• Yū told Reiko she would likely remain at headquarters while he joined the mission, leaving her disappointed.
• Yū disguised Shan Juhua as an ANBU member and escorted her out of camp toward the Land of Rivers so she could reach the sea and conduct trade.
• Orochimaru confronted Yū after he returned and asked about using the deadly poison Yū had developed during the battle.

Uchiha Yū offered to use toxins produced by his body against Amegakure and arranged a weapons supply deal that would also fund Orochimaru’s experiments. Orochimaru sent Tsunade and Jiraiya to attack from separate directions, assigning Yū to Jiraiya’s team as Konoha’s forces set out to destroy villages along their route.

• Uchiha Yū told Orochimaru that his body could produce toxins and offered to deploy them on the battlefield.
• Yū proposed buying weapons from an arms merchant, with ten percent of the proceeds going toward Orochimaru’s experiments, and Orochimaru approved the supply arrangement with a warning about quality.
• Orochimaru ordered Tsunade and Jiraiya to lead separate teams and destroy the villages around their route.
• Orochimaru assigned Yū to Jiraiya’s team because he doubted Jiraiya would kill everyone they encountered.
• Orochimaru’s squads departed to attack villages, aiming to advance into Amegakure within a day while Sunagakure held back Kirigakure.

Uchiha Yū and Jiraiya’s squad advanced through Rain Country, where Yū found Nagato, Konan, and Yahiko but let Jiraiya spare them. Kimura Daishi prepared Amegakure’s defenses with Ibuse, and Jiraiya’s forces reached the village outskirts, where Yū offered to try a plan against the poisonous gas.

• Orochimaru’s forces attacked villages on three routes, while Jiraiya intervened to stop several massacres.
• Uchiha Yū discovered Nagato, Konan, and Yahiko hiding in ruins, and Jiraiya stopped him from killing them.
• Jiraiya put Konan and Yahiko to sleep with genjutsu, while Nagato’s Rinnegan pressured Yū into deactivating his Sharingan.
• Kimura Daishi learned that Konoha’s forces were advancing and ordered a defensive line in Amegakure, summoning Ibuse to spread poisonous gas.
• Jiraiya brought his forces to the village outskirts and considered how to avoid the poison before Yū offered to try.

Uchiha Yū used radioactive toxins to weaken the Amegakure forces hidden in Ibuse’s poisonous mist, leaving Jiraiya and the sages alarmed by the destruction around him. When Yū stopped releasing the toxin, he reported that a few enemies had escaped.

• Jiraiya doubted that Uchiha Yū could help break through Amegakure’s defenses, but Yū approached the poisonous mist to release his toxins.
• Uchiha Yū radiated lethal energy that withered the surrounding plants and poisoned the Rain ninja despite their gas masks.
• Kimura Daishi realized his troops were being poisoned and ordered them to flee as their bodies weakened.
• Uchiha Yū warned Jiraiya to stay away, while the sages sensed that his power was contaminating the natural energy and destroying the land.
• After ten minutes, Uchiha Yū stopped releasing the toxin and told Jiraiya that a few Amegakure ninja had escaped.

Uchiha Yū’s radioactive poison wiped out the Amegakure force blocking Jiraiya’s group, and the reunited Konoha forces prepared for battle against Hanzō. Yū stopped Nawaki from charging into the fighting and warned him to stay close, while Nawaki remained eager to prove himself.

• Uchiha Yū traced the fleeing Amegakure ninjas by their radioactive residue, warned the pursuing Konoha ninjas not to approach them, and the Konoha force burned the contaminated corpses.
• Jiraiya’s group reached the other Konoha forces before nightfall, and Jiraiya told Tsunade and Orochimaru how Uchiha Yū had destroyed the enemy village force.
• Uchiha Yū discovered Nawaki had secretly followed Orochimaru to the battlefield and challenged his belief that Monstrous Strength Fist would protect him from Ibuse’s poison or Hanzō.
• Uchiha Yū warned Nawaki that enemies could use him to threaten Tsunade and instructed him to stay by his side during the coming battle.
• Nawaki protested that he might end up protecting Uchiha Yū, while the Konoha forces waited for the final battle with Amegakure.

Konoha’s forces surrounded Amegakure as Hanzō learned that a deadly poison had devastated Kimura Daishi’s troops and ordered an investigation. After probing with small teams, Hanzō prepared a nighttime counterattack, and Orochimaru’s forces moved to meet it.

• Yū and Nawaki formed a team and chose to stay on the outskirts, away from the core battlefield.
• Kimura Daishi returned to Hanzō severely poisoned, reported that his force had been killed, and died; Hanzō recognized the poison’s similarity to the one used against Kirigakure ninja.
• Hanzō ordered his troops to stall Konoha, sent ninja to investigate the poison, and told them to alert Kirigakure.
• Orochimaru, Tsunade, and Jiraiya held back from a direct assault while Amegakure’s scouting teams approached their positions.
• Hanzō assembled his forces for a nighttime counterattack, and a Hyūga branch family ninja relayed the news to Orochimaru.
• Orochimaru’s and Hanzō’s forces advanced toward each other as the battle began to take shape.

Uchiha Yū fought on the outskirts of the battle after Nawaki was shaken by the horrors of war. His radioactive Fire Release and reputation as a poison ninja drove both Konoha and Amegakure ninja away, leaving him alone in a deserted stretch of the battlefield.

• Nawaki lost focus after seeing the carnage, and Uchiha Yū slapped him back to his senses and warned him that the war had only begun.
• Two Amegakure ninja tried to seize Uchiha Yū’s Sharingan, but Yū stopped Nawaki from intervening and struck one attacker with the Monstrous Strength Fist.
• Uchiha Yū countered the second attacker’s Water Release with a Great Fireball whose intense heat injured him and forced nearby ninja to retreat.
• Amegakure ninja recognized the radiation injuries as matching those suffered by Kimura Daishi and identified Yū as the poison ninja who had killed their frontline troops.
• Both Konoha and Amegakure ninja avoided the area around Uchiha Yū, who wondered whether he should keep fighting.

As Kirigakure reinforcements joined the battle, Orochimaru left Jiraiya and Tsunade to hold Hanzō and confronted the Mist forces. Uchiha Yū was targeted by the jōnin Hōzuki Sōkai and fled toward the battlefield’s center, using clones and fire to cover his escape.

• A Hyūga Branch Family ninja spotted Kirigakure reinforcements, and Raiga Kurosuki led them into Konoha’s battle zone.
• Orochimaru asked Jiraiya to hold out against Hanzō while he dealt with Kirigakure, and Tsunade released her Yin Seal to face Hanzō.
• Hōzuki Sōkai recognized Uchiha Yū as the poison ninja and attacked him to avenge Mishita Tanaka.
• Hōzuki Sōkai stabbed Yū, then fired Water Gun Technique bullets that Yū narrowly dodged with his Sharingan.
• Yū created shadow clones and used Phoenix Flower Jutsu to obscure himself as he retreated toward the battlefield’s center.

Uchiha Yū escaped Hōzuki Sōkai’s pursuit with Orochimaru’s help, then treated poisoned Konoha fighters as their forces broke through Amegakure’s defenses. Hanzō conceded defeat and named Jiraiya, Tsunade, and Orochimaru the Legendary Sannin, while Yū’s reputation as a Toxic Ninja began to spread.

• Hōzuki Sōkai chased Uchiha Yū until Orochimaru intervened and fought him off, forcing Sōkai to flee.
• Uchiha Yū observed Orochimaru’s battle, then withdrew to recover chakra and help treat wounded Konoha ninja poisoned by Ibuse.
• Konoha’s forces broke Amegakure’s defensive line, and Hanzō ended the fight after finding his allies defeated.
• Hanzō acknowledged Konoha’s victory and named Jiraiya, Tsunade, and Orochimaru the Legendary Sannin.
• Uchiha Yū witnessed the title spread and became known in the Ninja World as the Toxic Ninja.

Uchiha Yū stayed behind with Jiraiya to help care for Yahiko, Nagato, and Konan after Konoha’s campaign devastated their village. As the children slept, Yū questioned whether they could survive the shinobi world, and Jiraiya resolved to seek peace in his own way.

• Tsunade punched Uchiha Yū and Nawaki for their reckless actions on the battlefield.
• Jiraiya shared food with Yahiko, while Uchiha Yū stopped him from taking Tsunade’s food and recognized Nagato and Konan nearby.
• Yahiko asked Jiraiya to teach them ninjutsu, and Yū stopped Orochimaru from killing the children.
• Jiraiya chose to care for Yahiko, Nagato, and Konan, and Yū stayed behind with him while Orochimaru returned to his duties.
• Uchiha Yū asked Jiraiya whether helping the children was worth the effort, and Jiraiya said he would find his own path to peace.

Uchiha Yū and Jiraiya taught Yahiko, Nagato, and Konan while debating how peace could be achieved. After Nagato awakened the Rinnegan, Yū revealed that his eyes were part of a conspiracy and sent him toward a woman named Shan Juhua before returning to the warfront.

• Yahiko told Jiraiya that peace would come through people protecting one another, while Uchiha Yū said he wanted to unify the world through absolute strength and end the age of shinobi.
• Wandering shinobi raided the house while Jiraiya and Uchiha Yū were away, and Nagato awakened the Rinnegan after the attack killed everyone inside.
• Uchiha Yū detected and destroyed a White Zetsu hiding in a tree, then Jiraiya accepted Yahiko, Nagato, and Konan as his disciples.
• Uchiha Yū told Nagato that he was Uzumaki Nagato and that his Rinnegan was part of a conspiracy, then urged him to follow Yahiko’s path or seek a new conviction from Shan Juhua.
• Uchiha Yū asked Nagato to travel through the Land of Rivers to North Cape by the sea, then left to treat the wounded on the other fronts.

The Third Kazekage abandoned Sunagakure’s alliance with Konoha and planned to invade, while Hiruzen Sarutobi prepared to defend the village and took note of its rising ninja. After returning to Konoha, Uchiha Yū treated wounded soldiers and persuaded Tsunade to fund a blood-typing machine, leaving them ready to develop it together.

• The Third Kazekage and Chiyo decided Sunagakure would break its alliance with Konoha and join other villages in invading it for land and supplies.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi ordered Hatake Sakumo to hold back the enemy and sent Danzo and Root to assassinate them.
• Hiruzen reviewed reports on the Legendary Sannin, Ino–Shika–Cho, Fugaku, and Uchiha Yū, and felt confident in Konoha’s prospects.
• Uchiha Yū returned to Konoha and used a cautious transfusion and a Healing Technique to stabilize a wounded ninja at the hospital.
• Uchiha Yū proposed a blood-typing machine to prevent dangerous transfusions and share profits with Tsunade, who agreed to fund the project.

Uchiha Yū successfully tested his blood separator and proposed selling the machines to the great clans to fund Konoha and expand Qiming. As Sunagakure declared war and Tsunade prepared to send medical ninja to the front, they received word that Danzo had been seriously injured.

• Uchiha Yū completed the blood separator, and Tsunade watched it successfully separate blood serum.
• Uchiha Yū asked Tsunade to encourage villagers to donate blood and proposed selling expensive blood separators to the great clans under the Hokage's name.
• Tsunade agreed to the plan and urged Uchiha Yū to begin mass-producing the machines.
• Uchiha Yū asked Tsunade about the war, and she told him Sunagakure had officially declared war on Konoha.
• A messenger rushed in and reported that Danzo had been seriously injured.

Uchiha Yū learned that Danzo had returned from a costly infiltration mission with intelligence on Sunagakure, but had lost an arm. Tsunade led a group of medical ninja, including Yū, to the struggling front, where they found Konoha’s forces and medical teams in dire condition.

• Tsunade went to the Hokage’s office to treat the gravely wounded Danzo, while Yū stayed behind and reviewed the frontline casualty report.
• Danzo gave the Third Hokage intelligence about Sunagakure’s defenses and routes after revealing that his ANBU team had been killed and he had lost an arm.
• Tsunade saved Danzo’s life, and the Third Hokage assigned her to lead medical ninja to deliver the intelligence to Orochimaru.
• Tsunade warned the volunteers that the field hospital could be breached, then ordered them to prepare poisons to slow Sunagakure’s advance.
• Yū volunteered to make poisons, and the group gathered herbs before traveling to the front.
• Tsunade arrived to find Orochimaru’s forces repeatedly retreating, medical ninja killed in traps, and the wounded left lying on the ground.

Orochimaru assigned Uchiha Yū to prepare a poison-and-trap ambush in a canyon to halt Sunagakure's advance, while Hatake Sakumo was tasked with intercepting Chiyo's son. Yū assembled a team of sensory ninjas and began coordinating with Hatake Sakumo for the dangerous mission.

• Orochimaru told Tsunade and Uchiha Yū that Konoha's forces were suffering severe casualties and that Chiyo's son and daughter-in-law had joined the fight.
• Tsunade revealed that Danzo had assassinated the Kazekage and obtained intelligence, and Orochimaru ordered Yū to prepare a poisoned valley ambush and Hatake Sakumo to intercept Chiyo's son.
• Yū selected Hyūga Branch Family, Aburame Clan, and Inuzuka Clan sensory ninjas to track the enemy's numbers and arrival while chunin helped lay traps.
• Yū explained that the team would delay Sunagakure's force by filling the canyon with poison and traps, aiming to kill the entire vanguard.
• Hatake Sakumo met with Yū after receiving Orochimaru's plan and pointed out a route that Yū needed to watch.

Uchiha Yū led a Konoha force to prepare a poison ambush in a canyon, while Tsunade and Orochimaru questioned the village’s Will of Fire. Sunagakure’s Ueno Juri ordered Keiko and Kanna to block the canyon’s escape route as his troops prepared a frontal attack.

• Uchiha Yū departed with a group of chunin and sensory ninjas to set traps in the canyon.
• Tsunade and Orochimaru worried that Yū was being made to face an excessive danger and questioned the Will of Fire.
• Uchiha Yū assigned the Inuzuka, Hyuga, and Aburame ninjas roles in a plan to lure in Sunagakure’s forces and track them before releasing his deadly poison.
• Ueno Juri’s force discovered Konoha’s presence at the canyon, and he ordered Keiko and Kanna to block the enemy’s escape route.
• Ueno Juri prepared a frontal attack, intending for Keiko and Kanna to kill Konoha’s ninjas when they retreated.

Uchiha Yū’s canyon defenses stalled Sunagakure’s advance, but an elite jōnin broke through the traps and began driving toward the command post. Yū ordered his shinobi to retreat in an orderly fashion rather than face the powerful enemy directly.

• Inuzuka and White Wolf lured a Sand patrol toward the canyon, where explosive tags killed one shinobi and the survivors reported back to Ueno Juri.
• Ueno Juri learned that Konoha had planted traps throughout the canyon but remained determined to attack and seize resources.
• Uchiha Yū prepared the canyon defenses and held his chūnin in place as Sunagakure’s vanguard probed the entrance.
• A Sand jōnin used Wind Release: Great Sickle Weasel to destroy the falling rocks and clear a path for the advancing shinobi.
• Uchiha Yū recognized that the elite jōnin could overwhelm the traps and ordered his forces to retreat in an orderly fashion.

Uchiha Yū lured Sunagakure forces into the canyon while concealing his plan to unleash the Radiation Element. As the enemy advanced into position, Yū began releasing the deadly toxin, leaving the Konoha ninja expecting a historic massacre.

• Uchiha Yū ordered an Aburame jonin to use venomous insects to halt the Sunagakure raiding force while Konoha ninja carried the wounded uphill.
• The retreating Sunagakure jonin reported to Ueno Juri that most of the cliff traps had been destroyed, but Ueno Juri suspected an ambush and left half his forces behind.
• Ueno Juri led the remaining Sunagakure ninja up the canyon, while Uchiha Yū used a Hyuga Clan jonin's Byakugan to track their positions.
• After the Sunagakure troops entered the designated attack position, Uchiha Yū sent the nearby Konoha ninja away and began releasing vast amounts of radiation.
• The Aburame jonin said his insects had sensed the invisible force, tried to flee, and died, as the Konoha ninja anticipated a massive massacre.

Uchiha Yū’s radiation trap weakened the advancing Sunagakure force, whose desperate ninjutsu shattered the canyon and buried the attackers. Konoha counted the ambush as a major victory while the surviving Sunagakure ninja prepared to report the disaster to the Kazekage.

• Ueno Juri realized his unit had been poisoned, but masks failed to stop their bodies from weakening and ninja from falling to their deaths.
• Ueno Juri ordered a retreat, but the weakened Sunagakure ninja launched a suicidal barrage of Fire and Wind Style ninjutsu.
• The attacks fractured the canyon, and White Wolf rescued Uchiha Yū as the cliffs collapsed and buried the Sunagakure force.
• A Hyuga jonin used his Byakugan to confirm there were no survivors, and Uchiha Yū promised to report everyone’s contributions to Orochimaru.
• The surviving Sunagakure force argued over whether their comrades could be rescued, then ordered that the disaster be reported to the Kazekage.

The Third Kazekage learned that Ueno Juri’s vanguard had been devastated by poison and that Hatake Sakumo had killed two leaders, prompting Chiyo to demand permission to join the battlefield. Uchiha Yū returned to camp after his successful mission, and Orochimaru and Tsunade praised him as Konoha prepared its defenses.

• A commander reported to the Third Kazekage that Ueno Juri’s unit had been wiped out in a suicidal assault and that the bodies carried a powerful poison.
• A messenger revealed that two leaders had been killed by Hatake Sakumo, and Chiyo and Ebizo asked the Third Kazekage to let them go to the battlefield.
• The Third Kazekage approved Chiyo and Ebizo’s request, urged Chiyo to develop an antidote, and ordered the invasion to slow temporarily.
• Uchiha Yū returned to camp and told Orochimaru that his mission had succeeded, wiping out half of Sunagakure’s vanguard and buying time for Konoha to prepare.
• Orochimaru praised Uchiha Yū, while Tsunade congratulated him and punched him after he complained about her roughness.
• Orochimaru proposed sending ninja to defend the canyon, but Uchiha Yū said his poison still remained there and would keep harming the enemy.

Uchiha Yū’s poisoning of the Sand vanguard made him famous and earned him a major bounty, while Sunagakure offered a fortune for him to undo the poison. Orochimaru arranged for the poisoned shinobi to be brought to Konoha under a temporary ceasefire, leaving Yū to decide whether to treat them.

• Hatake Sakumo returned with the bodies of Chiyo’s son and daughter-in-law, and Orochimaru arranged to extract their memories.
• Konoha’s camp celebrated Uchiha Yū for wiping out half of the Sand vanguard, while Yū worried that Sunagakure would target him.
• Yū found himself at the top of the black-market bounty list, and Tsunade joked about trading his head for money.
• Orochimaru told Yū that Sand shinobi had offered resources to ransom the two bodies and an even greater price to reverse the poison.
• Yū refused to travel to Sunagakure, so Orochimaru explained that the poisoned shinobi would be brought to Konoha during a temporary ceasefire.