Recaps

Orochimaru and Sunagakure agreed to a supervised treatment in exchange for supplies, as Uchiha Yū identified Chiyo as the poisoned expert. The treatment began at a Konoha camp, where Yū and Orochimaru found Chiyo among the gathered patients.

• Uchiha Yū explained that Chiyo’s prolonged exposure to his radiation ability had likely poisoned her, and Orochimaru agreed to treat her in exchange for Sunagakure’s concessions.
• Chiyo isolated herself and the other patients, while the Third Kazekage told her he had negotiated for Uchiha Yū to remove the poison.
• Uchiha Yū and Orochimaru prepared for the meeting as Hatake Sakumo guarded the site, and Yū judged Sunagakure would likely end the war rather than risk ruin.
• Geng Ji brought the patients and supplies to the agreed location, and Orochimaru led Uchiha Yū and guards to begin treatment.
• Uchiha Yū and Orochimaru found Chiyo at the center of the gathered patients.

Uchiha Yū removed the poison from Chiyo and the Sunagakure ninjas but refused to heal the lasting injuries, leaving Chiyo unable to return to the Second Shinobi World War. Chiyo then requested a private discussion with Orochimaru, and the chapter ended as Orochimaru read the Kazekage’s secret order.

• Uchiha Yū gave Chiyo and the Sunagakure ninjas ordinary pills and withdrew the radioactive substance from their bodies.
• Uchiha Yū told Chiyo that he was only responsible for detoxification and that her lingering injuries would keep her from the battlefield.
• Chiyo nearly attacked Yū, but Orochimaru and the Konoha ninjas intervened, and Chiyo ordered her people not to fight.
• Chiyo accepted that Sunagakure could not afford to continue the war and asked Orochimaru to discuss another matter privately, with Yū present.
• Tsunade worried that Yū was becoming involved in village politics too early and resolved to speak with him alone.
• Chiyo presented the Kazekage’s secret order, and Orochimaru reacted with shock after reading it.

Orochimaru and Chiyo discussed a secret plan for Konoha and Sunagakure to feign continued war while sending forces to the Land of Lightning, and Uchiha Yū carried the proposal to the Third Hokage. Orochimaru prepared for the plan to be refused and resolved to change Konoha’s corruption or destroy it.

• Chiyo explained that Sunagakure’s Kazekage had devised a plan to fool their enemies and promised Sunagakure would gain what it wanted if it succeeded.
• Orochimaru asked Uchiha Yū to assess the proposal, and Yū judged it mostly genuine while warning that Sunagakure might exploit Konoha’s troop movements.
• Orochimaru gave Uchiha Yū a secret letter and command token to deliver directly to the Hokage, while planning to stage a show of continued fighting with Sunagakure.
• Orochimaru began mobilizing shinobi as Uchiha Yū secretly left for Konoha, and Tsunade came to the camp asking about him.
• Orochimaru warned Tsunade that Danzo might target Uchiha Yū and argued that Yū needed to gain power to protect himself and influence Konoha.
• After Tsunade left angrily, Orochimaru reflected that Konoha was rotting and resolved to change it or destroy it.

Uchiha Yū returned to Konoha with Orochimaru’s intelligence about the Kazekage’s proposal, then clashed with Danzo before reporting to the Third Hokage. The Hokage and his advisors agreed to mobilize Konoha’s strongest clans to break the war’s stalemate, while Yū returned to the Uchiha compound and spoke with Uchiha He.

• Uchiha Yū hurried back to Konoha and used Orochimaru’s token to enter the Hokage’s office.
• Danzo warned Yū that he regretted refusing to join him, and Yū challenged Danzo’s authority as they passed in the corridor.
• Yū delivered Orochimaru’s intelligence to the Third Hokage, who asked him to wait while the advisors discussed the Kazekage’s proposal.
• Danzo proposed sending the Uchiha and other powerful ninja to the battlefield, and the Third Hokage approved a plan to concentrate Konoha’s strength while using genin and chunin as a diversion.
• Yū returned to the Uchiha compound and reminded Uchiha He that he had won their wager about becoming clan leader.

Uchiha Yū suspected Danzo was targeting the Uchiha Clan through a deployment order and helped Clan Head Uchiha He prepare a covert attack on Root. He then asked Orochimaru to transfer him to the Cloud Shinobi front alongside his clan.

• Uchiha He gave Yū a scroll of Uchiha Fire Release techniques and warned him not to grow arrogant.
• After an ANBU delivered the Hokage's order sending the Uchiha Clan to the Land of Lightning border, Yū and Uchiha He suspected Danzo was behind the deployment.
• Yū gave Uchiha He radioactive kunai to place near a Root base, intending to weaken Root's ninja without killing them.
• Yū told Orochimaru he wanted to transfer to the Cloud Shinobi front with the Uchiha Clan, and Orochimaru warned him that the Cloud Shinobi were stronger than the Sand Shinobi.
• Yū stood firm, believing that joining his clan was necessary to preserve his value and help ease the conflict between the Uchiha and the village.

Orochimaru gave Uchiha Yū access to the Ryūchi Cave summoning contract, and Yū had to fight a hostile black snake to earn its recognition. He weakened the snake with radioactive shuriken and fire techniques, leaving it collapsing in pain.

• Orochimaru warned Uchiha Yū to prioritize survival and let him sign the Ryūchi Cave summoning contract.
• Uchiha Yū summoned a black snake, which recognized Orochimaru but tried to swallow Yū when it discovered he was the summoner.
• Uchiha Yū endured the snake’s attack and struck it with Fire Release: Phoenix Sage Flower Nail Crimson and radioactive shuriken.
• Uchiha Yū hit the black snake with the Monstrous Strength Fist, then used Fire Release: Dragon Fire Technique to trigger the poison in its wounds.
• The black snake collapsed, weakened and in pain, as Uchiha Yū called his attack a gift package of deadly poison.

Uchiha Yū subdued and healed the black snake, then let Orochimaru study his radioactive poison. After Orochimaru invited him to attempt Ryūchi Cave’s trial once the war ended, Yū returned to the village ahead of the move to the Land of Lightning.

• Uchiha Yū cut away the black snake’s contaminated flesh and healed its wounds after the snake surrendered.
• Orochimaru asked Uchiha Yū to expose him to the poison, then theorized that it worked by altering an environment rather than through breathing.
• Orochimaru warned Uchiha Yū not to rely too much on his summoning beast, and Yū released the recovering black snake.
• Orochimaru told Uchiha Yū he could attempt Ryūchi Cave’s trial after the war, and Yū recognized it as the Sage Mode trial.
• Uchiha Yū said he would survive the war and hurried back to the village as preparations began for the Land of Lightning front.

Uchiha Zhu and the hawks waited for a chance to lead the clan out of Konoha, believing Uchiha Yū could become their leader. After Yū returned from the Land of Wind, Uchiha He prepared the clan’s jonin for the coming battle and placed Yū in the center of their formation.

• Uchiha Zhu urged the clan’s hawks to wait for an opportunity to leave the village and identified Uchiha Yū as their hoped-for leader.
• Uchiha Yū returned from the Land of Wind and told Uchiha He that Orochimaru was establishing a defensive line and had sent him back with jonin.
• Uchiha Zhu arrived and reminded Uchiha He that he was responsible for bringing the Uchiha children back safely.
• Uchiha He told the assembled clan that Yū would stay at the center of the formation, protected by the jonin.

Uchiha Yū arrived at the Land of Lightning front, where he warned the command that Kumogakure might unleash the Eight-Tails and took charge of treating the wounded. Shi Hebei secretly revealed that he had tampered with a group of injured ninja as part of a mission targeting Yū.

• Danzo ordered Root ninja to secretly dispose of Uchiha Yū and follow the force heading for the Land of Lightning.
• Uchiha He and the other Konoha jonin reached the front, where Naluo Luyuan showed them intelligence that Kumogakure had unleashed a tailed beast.
• Uchiha Yū identified Fukai as the likely Eight-Tails jinchuriki and warned that another tailed beast might also enter the battle.
• Naluo Luyuan assigned Yū to care for the wounded, and Yū supplied the camp hospital with blood bags and blood-type identification machines.
• Shi Hebei met a fox-masked ninja in secret and said he had tampered with a batch of wounded as part of the mission against Uchiha Yū.

Uchiha Yū discovered that three patients had been deliberately killed to make his surgeries look like failures, then survived an assassination attempt by a disguised Cloud Shinobi Shadow Clone. He investigated the sabotage and narrowed his suspects to two people, returning to the operating room to bait them.

• Three wounded patients died after violently struggling during surgery, while rumors spread that Uchiha Yū was responsible for their deaths.
• Yū found the patients' bodies in the morgue and dodged an attack from a Cloud Shinobi, whose apparent body turned out to be a Shadow Clone.
• Yū dissected the three corpses and discovered that someone had secretly cut their necks and used a Healing Technique to conceal the wounds.
• Yū suspected that someone was targeting him with both sabotage and rumors, and considered Danzo and Nara Luyuan among possible conspirators.
• Yū investigated the personnel who transported the wounded and ruled out the first suspect, leaving the person who delivered the patients and Shi Hebei as his leading suspects.
• Yū returned to the operating room and pretended nothing had happened so he could lure the culprit out.

Uchiha Yū left the hospital to draw out the people behind the failed operations, but Shi Hebei and Root ninja Yūhi Guangxia ambushed him with genjutsu. After summoning the Black Snake to separate the attackers, Yū turned the tables on Yūhi Guangxia and awakened a two-tomoe Sharingan.

• Uchiha Yū left the hospital, and Shi Hebei stopped him from leaving the camp without an escort.
• Shi Hebei led Uchiha Yū away under a genjutsu, but Yū broke free with his Sharingan and found himself outside the camp.
• Yūhi Guangxia and Shi Hebei revealed themselves as two special jonin sent by Danzo's Root to kill Uchiha Yū.
• Yūhi Guangxia attacked with explosive tags and genjutsu while Shi Hebei moved in to strike, so Yū summoned the Black Snake to hold Shi Hebei back.
• Yūhi Guangxia trapped Uchiha Yū in Demonic Illusion: Tree Binding Death, but crows disrupted the illusion and Yū's Sharingan changed from one tomoe to two.

Uchiha Yū used his newly awakened two-tomoe Sharingan, powerful punches, and radiation-laced crows to defeat Yūhi Guangxia, a Root ninja sent to kill him. Yūhi Guangxia died in an explosion, leaving Yū to reflect on Root’s ruthlessness.

• Uchiha Yū broke Yūhi Guangxia’s genjutsu with his two-tomoe Sharingan and smashed through an Earth Wall with Monstrous Strength Fist.
• Yūhi Guangxia trapped Yū in Genjutsu: Absolute Lotus, but Yū disrupted the genjutsu while mutated crows attacked and scratched him.
• Yūhi Guangxia crushed a crow, exposing himself to radiation-filled blood, and Yū revealed that the crows were mobile sources of poison.
• Yūhi Guangxia attacked at close range, but Yū broke his rock rod and trapped him briefly with Genjutsu: Hell Viewing Technique.
• Yūhi Guangxia, unable to speak about Danzo because of the Tongue Eradication Seal and weakened by poison, charged with explosive tags, but Yū escaped using the Substitution Technique.

Uchiha Yū fought Root medical ninja Shi Hebei, whose chakra-disrupting techniques briefly hindered him, while the surrounding radioactive poison steadily weakened Shi Hebei. After Shi Hebei died, Uchiha Yū was suddenly restrained before he could cremate the body.

• Uchiha Yū confronted Shi Hebei after learning that he was a Root member, and Shi Hebei chose to fight rather than surrender.
• Shi Hebei disrupted Uchiha Yū’s chakra during their close combat, but Uchiha Yū used Fire Release to spread the radioactive poison around them.
• Shi Hebei’s body weakened rapidly from the poison, and he continued fighting despite coughing blood and failing to kill Uchiha Yū.
• Shi Hebei dropped to his knees and died with his kunai still pointed at Uchiha Yū.
• Uchiha Yū prepared to cremate Shi Hebei, but an unseen force suddenly restrained him.

After Uchiha Yū survived an assassination attempt by Root, Nara Luyuan concealed the incident and arranged for Yū to take charge of the field hospital. Yū used his new position to expand Qiming’s commercial operations as the war continued.

• Nara Luyuan arrived and learned from Uchiha Yū that Root shinobi had tried to assassinate him and that Shi Hebei was one of them.
• Nara Luyuan asked Uchiha Yū to keep the assassination secret while he reported it to the Hokage, and Yū agreed while demanding a satisfactory answer.
• Uchiha Yū and Nara Luyuan burned Shi Hebei’s body and altered the scene, then Nara Luyuan brought Yū back to camp and explained away the disturbance as a summoning experiment.
• Nara Luyuan put Uchiha Yū in charge of the field hospital, and Yū formally took over the post as the staff who had mocked him worried about his reaction.
• Uchiha Yū contacted Shan Juhua and told her to buy medicinal herbs and experimental equipment so Qiming could grow into a commercial organization during the war.

The Third Hokage and his advisors confronted Danzo over Root’s attempt to assassinate Uchiha Yū and arranged compensation to keep the incident secret. Yū accepted the terms but planned to use the Hokage’s promised favor to advance Dawn’s business interests.

• The Third Hokage summoned Danzo and the two Hokage advisors after Nara Luyuan’s letter revealed Root’s assassination attempt against Uchiha Yū.
• Danzo defended his actions against the Uchiha Clan, but the Third Hokage and the advisors demanded that he make amends.
• Danzo offered executions, supplies, and a promise to leave Yū alone, while the Third Hokage added access to the forbidden technique scroll and one reasonable request.
• Nara Luyuan delivered the Hokage’s sealed letter to Yū at the hospital, and Yū agreed to keep the assassination attempt secret.
• Yū burned the letter and decided to use the Hokage’s promised request to open a weapon shop that could connect him with Shan Juhua and help Dawn grow.

As the war intensified and Konoha Hospital struggled to treat the wounded, Uchiha Yū saved Uchiha He after the Uchiha force suffered heavy losses fighting the Eight-Tails. Uchiha He noticed Yū’s increased chakra and discovered that the twelve-year-old had awakened a two-tomoe Sharingan.

• Uchiha Yū expanded hospital capacity, set up temporary tents, and prioritized treatment for wounded jonin as casualties mounted.
• A messenger told Uchiha Yū that the force led by Uchiha He needed rescue, and Yū rushed to treat the gravely wounded clan head.
• Uchiha He explained that the Uchiha had fought the Eight-Tails’ jinchuriki, who was badly injured and rescued by Dodai, and that a Tailed Beast Ball had caused their greatest losses.
• Uchiha He noticed Uchiha Yū’s unusually large chakra reserves and asked him to discuss the matter privately.
• Uchiha Yū revealed his two-tomoe Sharingan, astonishing Uchiha He.

Uchiha Yū reassured Uchiha He after a troubling incident, then arranged hospital expansion and medical supplies with Nara Luyuan. At Kumogakure's camp, the Third Raikage decided to raid Konoha and capture medical ninja to treat Fukai.

• Uchiha Yū told Uchiha He that something unpleasant had happened but said the Hokage had promised to prevent further problems.
• Nara Luyuan visited Yū, and Yū gained approval to expand the hospital and obtain basic herbs from a supplier.
• The Third Raikage learned that Kumogakure's medical ninja could not treat Fukai's injuries and angrily confronted them.
• Dodai advised seeking medical help from another village and preparing to transfer Fukai if treatment failed.
• The Third Raikage ordered his forces to raid Konoha's camp that night and capture Konoha's medical ninja.

Uchiha Yū was captured by the Third Raikage during a surprise raid on Konoha’s hospital, as Kumogakure needed a medical ninja to treat someone. He was taken away by Dodai while the Raikage held off Konoha’s pursuers, and Yū began assessing his captors and testing their limits.

• Uchiha Yū struggled with the hospital’s workload until the Third Raikage burst into his office and seized him.
• Nara Luyuan used the Shadow Imitation Technique to restrain the Raikage, but the Raikage broke free and escaped with Yū.
• Dodai carried the unconscious Yū away, and the Kumogakure ninja withdrew while the Raikage covered their retreat.
• Yū woke during the escape, recognized Dodai, and secretly observed the route while realizing Kumogakure wanted him to save someone.
• Yū asked the Raikage to slow down, and Dodai stopped the Raikage from losing his temper after they had paid so much to capture him.

Uchiha Yū operated on the Eight-Tails Jinchūriki Fukai while Dodai and the Raikage restrained his rampage, secretly pacing the treatment to buy time for Konoha to rescue him. Fukai survived the immediate crisis, but the Raikage suspected Yū was deliberately delaying further treatment.

• The Raikage brought Uchiha Yū to the Cloud camp and threatened him unless he saved the badly injured Fukai.
• Uchiha Yū examined Fukai and began surgery, removing infected flesh with a Chakra Scalpel and using Healing Technique to control the bleeding.
• Fukai's Eight-Tails chakra erupted during the operation, so the Raikage and Dodai restrained him while Yū continued treating his injuries.
• Uchiha Yū used the Mystical Palm Technique to repair Fukai's damaged internal organs, then pretended that he had exhausted his chakra.
• Yū said Fukai had passed the threshold between life and death but needed treatment in stages, prompting the Raikage to suspect he was stalling.
• A Cloud medical ninja urged the Raikage not to mistreat Yū after he had saved Fukai's life.

Uchiha Yū remained a prisoner in the Cloud Shinobi camp while Konoha planned to negotiate for his return, and he began looking for a way to escape. While treating the wounded Fukai, Yū slowed his recovery to delay Kumogakure from deploying the Eight-Tails, then encountered Killer B.

• At Konoha's camp, Nara Luyuan persuaded the Uchiha Clan members to keep Yū's identity secret and said he would seek his release through an exchange.
• The Raikage rejected Konoha's ransom terms for the time being, deciding to keep Yū until Fukai recovered or the war ended.
• Yū realized that a jonin guard followed him constantly and that escaping the Cloud Shinobi camp would be difficult.
• While treating Fukai, Yū removed some newly grown flesh and used the Healing Technique and Radiation Element to slow his recovery.
• Killer B appeared in Fukai's tent and urged him to recover so they could spar, prompting Yū to recognize him.

Killer B helped Uchiha Yū prepare a fake concert to create an escape opportunity while Konoha planned a major offensive. As the Raikage left the camp, Uchiha He’s surprise attack unit began its operation, though Yū remained inside and waited.

• Uchiha Yū persuaded Killer B to hold a concert and drew tickets that he could use to aid his escape.
• Nara Luyuan planned an offensive against Kumogakure, with Uchiha He leading elite jonin to rescue Yū during the attack.
• Konoha’s forces advanced while the Uchiha Clan rushed toward the enemy camp and the Hyūga Clan searched for weaknesses.
• Killer B handed out Yū’s tickets around the camp, while Yū waited for a chance to escape as a Shadow Clone disguised itself as a ticket.
• The Raikage left the camp with a large force, and a Hyūga Branch Family scout confirmed his departure to Uchiha He.
• Uchiha He ordered his surprise attack unit to capture a Cloud Shinobi for interrogation and destroy the camp.

Uchiha Yū escaped from the Cloud Shinobi camp during a Uchiha raid that destroyed supplies and left Fukai weakened after his Eight-Tails transformation. Back at Konoha’s camp, Yū revealed that he had poisoned Fukai with Radiation Element, and Nara Luyuan planned to report that the Cloud Shinobi might withdraw within a month.

• Uchiha He led the Uchiha Clan in an attack on the Cloud Shinobi rear camp and rescued Uchiha Yū, who warned them that Fukai could move again.
• Uchiha He discovered that Yū’s captor was a Shadow Clone and unleashed Fire Release to burn the camp.
• Fukai transformed into the Eight-Tails, but Yū told Uchiha He that he had poisoned Fukai while treating him, and the Uchiha retreated after destroying the camp.
• Konoha’s forces fought the Cloud Shinobi for a day, and the Raikage received news of the rear camp’s destruction and Fukai’s weakened condition.
• Uchiha Yū told Nara Luyuan that Radiation Element would kill Fukai within a month, and Luyuan decided to inform the Hokage and send Yū back to the village after he treated the wounded.

After returning from the front, Uchiha Yū helped treat Konoha’s wounded and discussed the village’s condition with Tsunade. He told her he planned to open a weapon and medicine shop and change Konoha, but Tsunade refused to join him, leaving Yū to pursue his decision alone.

• Uchiha Yū struggled to treat the wounded when the field hospital ran out of chakra, needles, and thread, so he had Nara Luyuan arrange for supplies and transport.
• Uchiha Yū returned to Konoha with the troops, where he and Tsunade spent several days saving most of the injured shinobi.
• Tsunade invited Uchiha Yū to a tavern, but he declined and told her he planned to open a weapon shop that would also sell medicine.
• Uchiha Yū said Konoha was sick and that he wanted to change it, but Tsunade refused to support him, saying the village’s problems were not his burden.
• Uchiha Yū left Tsunade, reaffirming that he respected her and inviting her to visit his shop.

Uchiha Yū went to the Third Hokage to claim the compensation owed to him and secured permission and buildings for a weapon shop. The chapter ended with Yū asking the Hokage to attend the shop’s opening ceremony.

• Yū told the Third Hokage he wanted to settle the village’s past wrongdoing peacefully and chose to learn the Reaper Death Seal.
• The Third Hokage warned Yū about the technique’s fatal drawback, then let him record it from the forbidden technique scroll.
• Yū asked to open a weapon shop for himself, promising that the Uchiha Clan would not control or participate in it.
• The Third Hokage offered Yū two buildings in the expanding village and required him to supply Konoha Hospital with research results and keep top-secret items from enemy ninja.
• Yū signed the agreement, gained permanent ownership of the buildings, and asked the Third Hokage to promote the shop at its opening.

Uchiha Yū tested a new uranium-based ninjutsu, creating a massive crater but nearly being blinded and injured by its uncontrolled fission. After identifying ways to improve his body and control, he drew the attention of the Uchiha Clan, whose elders saw him as the clan’s hope for revival.

• Uchiha Yū used Nuclear Release: Atomic Fission, leaving a ten-meter crater and suffering temporary blindness.
• Uchiha Yū recorded that his body could absorb uranium but could not withstand the explosion, and decided to strengthen his body and improve his control.
• Uchiha Yū considered using mirrors to focus sunlight and increase the energy he absorbed.
• Uchiha Clan ninja questioned Uchiha Yū about the explosion, and he said he had been testing a new ninjutsu.
• A hawkish Uchiha reported the incident to Uchiha Zhu, who concluded that Yū was destined to lead the clan’s revival.