Recaps

Uchiha Yū opened a low-priced weapon shop and negotiated a major supply contract with Konoha while revealing his weapons were mass-produced. Orochimaru then told Yū that Danzo had started a Radiation Element laboratory and had received the test subject Yū selected.

• Shan Juhua stocked the renovated shop, and the Uchiha Clan spread word of its opening throughout Konoha.
• The Third Hokage visited the shop, tested a kunai, and agreed to make Konoha its largest weapons partner after Uchiha Yū offered an additional bulk discount.
• Uchiha Yū introduced Shan Juhua to the Third Hokage for contract negotiations and assured customers that the shop belonged to him, not the Uchiha Clan.
• Orochimaru saw the busy shop, questioned its low prices, and learned that Uchiha Yū mass-produced uniform kunai using a method other craftsmen could not replicate.
• Uchiha Yū took Orochimaru to a quiet room, where Orochimaru said Danzo had established a Radiation Element laboratory and received the test subject Uchiha Yū had selected.

Uchiha Yū enlisted Orochimaru to advance Radiation Element research and arranged to hire Kakuzu for a mission to seize Hoshigakure’s meteorite. As his shops expanded in Konoha, Nawaki and another ninja visited after surviving the Chunin Exams, and Yū asked them to watch the shop while he was away.

• Uchiha Yū and Orochimaru agreed to advance the Radiation Element plan and use Danzo’s influence for their purposes.
• Orochimaru offered to take Yū to Ryūchi Cave so he could encounter sage power and investigate Radiation Element-based Sage Transformation.
• Shan Juhua told Yū that Konoha wanted priority access to their weapons, and Yū asked her to find Kakuzu for a possible mission against Hoshigakure.
• Yū warned Shan Juhua that the meteorite mission might involve slaughter, though he said they would avoid casualties if Hoshigakure cooperated.
• Uchiha Yū’s shops expanded despite competitors’ discounts, and Nawaki and another ninja arrived after the Chunin Exams.
• Yū asked the two visitors to watch his shop while he handled business the next day.

Orochimaru brought Uchiha Yū to Ryūchi Cave to attempt the first stage of the White Snake Sage’s trial. Uchiha Yū resisted Tagorihime’s illusion and emerged from it, leaving her astonished and Orochimaru impressed by how quickly he passed.

• Orochimaru introduced Uchiha Yū to Tagorihime, who warned that he would be punished if he failed the trial.
• Uchiha Yū attacked Tagorihime with a gleaming strike, prompting her to create an illusion of tempting food around him.
• Uchiha Yū’s Sharingan helped him resist Tagorihime’s illusion, and her attempt to trap him instead caught her in his illusion briefly.
• Tagorihime challenged Orochimaru’s confidence in Uchiha Yū, but Orochimaru insisted that the trial depended on character rather than the Sharingan.
• Uchiha Yū resisted the castle illusion’s temptations, calmly declared that money and food could not control him, and emerged from the fog after breaking it.

Uchiha Yū completed Ryūchi Cave’s second checkpoint by combining chakra with natural energy and Radiation Element. Ichikishimahime acknowledged his success, and Uchiha Yū told Orochimaru their research might help him learn Sage Mode as they prepared for the final checkpoint.

• Orochimaru explained the remaining checkpoints to Uchiha Yū, and Tagorihime decided to accompany them to watch Ichikishimahime’s trial.
• Ichikishimahime explained that Uchiha Yū had to light stones and place them into gaps in a wall to pass the second checkpoint.
• Uchiha Yū found that chakra alone was insufficient and gathered natural energy and Radiation Element to make the stones glow.
• Uchiha Yū filled the wall’s final gap, completing the second checkpoint and impressing Ichikishimahime, Tagorihime, and Orochimaru.
• Uchiha Yū told Orochimaru that their research into natural energy and Radiation Element might help Orochimaru learn Sage Mode, and they prepared to continue to the final checkpoint.

Uchiha Yū faced the third Ryūchi Cave trial, confronting and defeating an inner demon identical to himself. He emerged transformed and began absorbing natural energy, leaving Orochimaru convinced that Yū’s unusual body could point the way to Sage Mode.

• Tagitsuhime warned Uchiha Yū that the venomous third trial would force him to face the demons in his heart, and Orochimaru explained that this was where he had failed.
• Tagitsuhime injected venom into Uchiha Yū, whose inner world presented him with a brutal, snake-faced version of himself.
• Uchiha Yū recognized that he had to defeat his own current self and fought his identical opponent across a mirror-like lake.
• As Uchiha Yū’s expression calmed, natural energy and mist gathered around him, prompting Orochimaru to order Tagitsuhime and the others to retreat.
• Uchiha Yū absorbed Radiation Elements without becoming a monster, then opened his eyes with a deeper Sharingan and newly increased physical strength.

Uchiha Yū passed the White Snake Sage’s trials and began the final, dangerous stage of learning Snake Sage Art. As the Sage’s venom spread through his body and caused a painful transformation, he used natural energy and Radiation Element to try to survive.

• Tagitsuhime congratulated Uchiha Yū for completing all three trial stages, and Orochimaru praised his talent.
• The White Snake Sage tested Uchiha Yū’s resolve and explained that Snake Sage Art required him to endure her deadly venom and transform.
• Orochimaru warned Uchiha Yū that the venom could kill him and offered an alternative path, but Uchiha Yū chose to continue.
• The White Snake Sage injected Uchiha Yū with venom, causing severe pain, black markings, and inhuman changes as he absorbed Radiation Element to repair the damage.

Uchiha Yū completed his Snake Sage transformation at Ryūchi Cave and agreed to assist it in future conflicts, provided the missions were not too dangerous. At Mount Myōboku, the Great Toad Sage delivered a prophecy of the shinobi world's destruction, prompting Jiraiya to set out to investigate.

• Uchiha Yū's body transformed as he absorbed the Snake Sage Art, gaining heightened senses and speed while leaking Radiation Element.
• The White Snake Sage asked Uchiha Yū to promote Ryūchi Cave and help it in conflicts, and he agreed to offer appropriate assistance while avoiding excessive danger.
• The Great Toad Sage awoke and summoned Jiraiya to deliver a prophecy about the shinobi world's destruction and a light that would follow it.
• Jiraiya said he would travel across the shinobi world to investigate and explained that he had found a possible Child of Prophecy in Amegakure.
• Fukasaku urged Jiraiya to consider the new prophecy's meaning, and Jiraiya departed on his journey.

Uchiha Yū and Orochimaru explored how to develop a Curse Mark that could help people absorb natural energy and undergo sage transformation, while confronting the danger it posed to the body. After their experiments, Tsunade prepared to leave Konoha and hand the hospital’s affairs to Yū, leaving the village increasingly short of its strongest ninja.

• Uchiha Yū complained that absorbing natural energy outside Ryūchi Cave was slow, and Orochimaru explained that Sage Mode required time to accumulate it away from the sacred lands.
• Orochimaru brought Yū to a hidden laboratory, showed him failed Snake Sage Art experiments, and began studying Yū’s Sage Mode while accounting for his Radiation power.
• Yū proposed developing a Curse Mark that could stimulate sage transformation, and he and Orochimaru discussed using Radiation Element as a medium while warning that natural energy and radiation could destroy the human body.
• After a day of experiments, Yū returned to Konoha, where Tsunade noticed his cold aura and told him she would gradually hand the hospital’s affairs over to him before leaving on a trip.
• Yū objected that Tsunade was dumping her work on him, while she framed her departure as a chance for him and the next generation to grow; with Jiraiya already gone, Konoha’s strength continued to decline.

Uchiha Yū discovered that a Root spy had been watching him and drove Yakushi Nonō from Konoha Hospital with a venomous snake bite. After a caretaker asked him to treat sick children at Konoha Orphanage, he followed them there and saw how badly neglected the orphanage was.

• Uchiha Yū used Snake Sage Art to locate the hidden observer and identified the masked ninja as a member of Root.
• Yakushi Nonō escaped Uchiha Yū after a venomous snake bit her thigh, then returned to the orphanage to slow the poison with her medical skills.
• A caretaker from Konoha Orphanage asked Uchiha Yū to treat children with colds, and he agreed before heading out on his planned mission.
• Uchiha Yū arrived at the dilapidated orphanage and resolved to donate money once circumstances allowed.

Uchiha Yū confronted Yakushi Nonō at the orphanage and spared her after discovering she was a Root agent. He coerced her into becoming his agent inside Root and promised to support the orphanage, leaving her to deliver a poisonous substance to Danzo’s workplace.

• Uchiha Yū followed Yakushi Nonō’s scent to the orphanage and learned from a caregiver that she seemed ill.
• Uchiha Yū tracked Yakushi Nonō to her room, broke down the door, and found her cutting open her thigh.
• Uchiha Yū subdued Yakushi Nonō and threatened the orphanage’s children, but spared her after recognizing her concern for them.
• Yakushi Nonō refused to reveal Danzo’s secrets because Root’s curse mark prevented her from doing so.
• Uchiha Yū ordered Yakushi Nonō to act as his agent in Root and place a highly poisonous substance near where Danzo worked.
• Yakushi Nonō agreed, and Uchiha Yū promised to fund the orphanage.

Uchiha Yū assembled a team of bounty ninja to steal Hoshigakure’s meteorite and led them into the Land of Bears. The team split near the storage site, with Kakuzu and others set to draw away the guards while Yū approached the meteorite.

• Uchiha Yū accepted a mission to provide medical aid to a poisoned Dawn member and traveled to the rendezvous point.
• Uchiha Yū recruited five elite jōnin, including Kakuzu and Kimura Hoshi, and revealed that their target was Hoshigakure’s meteorite.
• Uchiha Yū assigned Kakuzu, Kimura Hoshi, and Murano to lure away Hoshigakure’s Third Hoshikage while the others seized the meteorite.
• Kakuzu warned the team about Hoshigakure’s unusual chakra and the harmful side effects of the Mysterious Peacock Method.
• Uchiha Yū and the bounty ninja reached Hoshigakure, split into two groups, and Yū approached the meteorite storage site.

Uchiha Yū attacked Hoshigakure to seize its meteorite, using his Radiation Element to weaken the village’s meteorite-trained ninja. After killing two defenders, he faced a jonin who risked his life by drawing on the meteorite’s power, and Yū intensified the radiation.

• Uchiha Yū sent Kakuzu to intercept Hoshigakure’s elite jonin while he entered the village with two allies.
• Uchiha Yū confronted Star Shadow and the meteorite-trained defenders, then disrupted their energy and weapons with his Radiation Element.
• Uchiha Yū entered Sage Mode and killed two chunin, while the remaining jonin watched in horror.
• The jonin absorbed the meteorite’s power without restraint to avenge his comrades and protect Hoshigakure.
• Uchiha Yū increased the Radiation Element mixed with the meteorite’s power as the jonin prepared to fight him.

Uchiha Yū and Kakuzu defeated Hoshigakure’s defenders and seized the meteorite. Yū recruited two elite jonin into Dawn and tried to persuade Kakuzu to manage its finances, leaving Kakuzu tempted by the offer.

• Uchiha Yū killed a Hoshigakure jonin with a punch after disrupting the man’s Star Chakra.
• Kakuzu arrived and killed the Star Shadow while the two elite jonin watched.
• Uchiha Yū examined the meteorite’s Star Chakra and decided to test it after returning, intending to use its radiation to enhance Dawn’s talents.
• Uchiha Yū invited Kakuzu and the two elite jonin to join Dawn, and the two jonin accepted.
• Kakuzu refused because he trusted only money, so Uchiha Yū offered him a monthly S-rank mission fee to manage Dawn’s finances; Kakuzu looked tempted.

Uchiha Yū brought Kakuzu into Dawn to manage its money and restrained the organization’s expansion to avoid attracting Konoha’s suspicion. Orochimaru began examining the meteorite, while Yū warned him to keep the research secret and stay alert because ninja had gone missing.

• Uchiha Yū hired Kakuzu to manage Dawn’s finances after leaving the Land of Bears.
• Orochimaru recognized Uchiha Yū in an intelligence report and anticipated receiving test subjects, while Danzo ordered Root inspected after hearing ninja cough.
• Shan Juhua reported Dawn’s success in Konoha’s weapons market, and Uchiha Yū instructed her to support a separate organization in other villages before expanding Dawn further.
• Orochimaru visited Uchiha Yū’s weapon shop and examined the meteorite, concluding its stable power might enhance the human body.
• Uchiha Yū stopped Orochimaru from taking the meteorite, warned him to keep it secret, and advised him not to leave the village because ninja had gone missing.

Uchiha Yū learned that Shan Juhua had been attacked by bounty ninja and led a search party into the forest to find her. He uncovered signs of a planned ambush and a possible spy, then found a trail and continued the search with Hizashi Hyuga.

• Orochimaru warned Uchiha Yū that major clans were searching for bloodline-limit abilities, and Yū considered Hiruko a possible culprit.
• Jie Jiro gathered weapons merchants and coerced them into joining a plot to kill Shan Juhua.
• Shan Juhua set out for the factory near Konoha’s border, and a wounded guard later reached the village to report that bounty ninja had attacked her and she had escaped.
• Uchiha Yū summoned Hyuga ninja and followed Shan Juhua’s trail to the battle site, where he found corpses but no sign of her.
• Yū concluded that the enemy had known Shan Juhua’s secret route, suspected a spy and the weapons merchants, and found a trail with Hizashi Hyuga.

Uchiha Yū reached the injured Shan Juhua just before her pursuers could kill her and sent her off with a Shadow Clone while he faced the bounty ninja. After defeating one chunin with his Sharingan genjutsu, he was trapped by Cun Yilang’s Earth Release and summoned the Black Snake for support.

• Hizashi Hyuga located Shan Juhua and identified one jonin and two chunin pursuing her.
• Uchiha Yū arrived as Shan Juhua prepared to detonate an explosive tag, then used a Shadow Clone to escort her toward Hizashi Hyuga and Konoha.
• Uchiha Yū’s Shadow Clones blocked the two chunin while he trapped one in genjutsu and killed him.
• Cun Yilang used Earth Release: Ant Hell to turn the ground beneath Uchiha Yū into quicksand.
• Uchiha Yū summoned the Black Snake to give himself a foothold against Cun Yilang and the remaining enemy ninja.

Uchiha Yū fought the bounty ninja Cun Yilang with Black Snake while poison weakened the battlefield around them. As Cun Yilang unleashed his full strength, Konoha reinforcements found Hizashi carrying Shan Juhua and learned that Yū was still fighting.

• Cun Yilang recognized Uchiha Yū as the Poison Ninja, and a poisoned Chūnin begged Yū for a cure before Yū killed him.
• Yū ordered Black Snake to churn up the ground and spread sand, while Cun Yilang and Yū exchanged Fire Release and Earth Release attacks.
• Black Snake buried the original ground under sand, and Cun Yilang began losing coordination as Yū's poison took effect.
• Cun Yilang declared he would kill Yū and unleashed his full strength as Yū waited for Konoha reinforcements.
• Hizashi carried Shan Juhua to a stream, where Uchiha Clan ninjas found him and learned that Yū was still fighting Cun Yilang.

Uchiha Yū rescued Shan Juhua from an attack and suspected a traitor had revealed her route, so he reassigned parts of Dawn’s management and ordered preparations to expand into the Land of Wind. Konoha’s investigation found the suspected weapons merchants dead with their memories erased, leaving Yū to ask the Hokage for help.

• Uchiha Yū stopped the reinforcements from entering the radiation-filled area and defeated Cun Yilang, who collapsed after his final attack.
• Uchiha Yun told Yū that Hizashi and Shan Juhua had been found and sent away, and Yū asked the others to investigate the attack.
• After Shan Juhua was hospitalized, Yū warned her that someone close to her might have leaked her route and assigned Kakuzu to take over Dawn’s remaining affairs.
• Yū ordered Shan Juhua to establish a rival weapons store in the Land of Wind, cooperate with the Kazekage, and drive local competitors out of business.
• Konoha investigators found the suspected weapons merchants dead; a Morino Clan expert discovered their memories had been erased, so Yū asked the Hokage to investigate.

Danzo struggled to save Root ninjas suffering from radiation poisoning, while Uchiha Yū treated the patients who arrived at his hospital and planned to make Root pay for their care. The chapter ended with Yū confident that someone would cover the cost, as the patients filled the hospital wards.

• Danzo ordered Root to send lightly poisoned ninjas to the hospital and major clans, while leaving the severely ill and officially dead at an abandoned base.
• Uchiha Yū continued investigating Shan Juhua's attack and identified Jie Jiro as a weapons merchant who had vanished after meeting the victims.
• A medical ninja alerted Uchiha Yū to a surge of patients whose bodies were failing, and Yū recognized that their Radiation Element had erupted.
• Uchiha Yū concealed his amusement, said he could not identify the illness, and had the Root patients isolated in a separate ward.
• When a medical ninja worried about the expense of treating over a hundred patients, Uchiha Yū said someone would pay for them.

Uchiha Yū used the supposed virus outbreak to conceal the Radiation Element poisoning among Root shinobi while the Third Hokage and clan heads treated it as an epidemic. At the Hokage’s office, Yū assured them the outbreak was contained and chose to help Danzo keep Root’s involvement hidden.

• Clan heads reported that shinobi, including jonin, had fallen ill and told the Third Hokage they could not identify the cause.
• Uchiha Yū claimed the hospital was overwhelmed by a virus, prompting the Third Hokage to order isolation and summon his advisors.
• The clan heads and Danzo gathered at the Hokage’s office, where they agreed to prioritize the sick jonin and keep news of the supposed epidemic quiet.
• Uchiha Yū arrived and realized that the Third Hokage did not know the illness came from the Radiation Element, though Danzo did.
• Uchiha Yū told the Third Hokage that he had contained the epidemic and decided to help Danzo conceal Root’s involvement.

Uchiha Yū reported that Root shinobi infected by the plague could be kept alive but would lose much of their strength, forcing Danzo and Konoha to pay for treatment. The Third Hokage ordered a five-day lockdown of major clans and village access points while the plague was investigated, and Danzo threatened Uchiha Yū afterward.

• Uchiha Yū told the Third Hokage that the hospital had no cure yet, though it could preserve the infected Root shinobi’s lives at the cost of their strength.
• Danzo agreed that Konoha and Root would cover treatment expenses after Uchiha Yū made clear that the patients would be left weakened.
• Uchiha Yū urged the Third Hokage to confine clans and anyone who had contact with the infected until the plague’s spread was known.
• The Third Hokage ordered a lockdown of the major clans and village entrances for up to five days, placing Uchiha Yū in charge.
• Danzo threatened Uchiha Yū after they left the Hokage’s office, and Uchiha Yū warned him that his weakening body needed treatment.

Uchiha Yū left Danzo weakened and isolated, then agreed to teach young Uchiha Shisui. Uchiha Fugaku revealed that the clan wanted Yū to succeed the badly injured Uchiha He as clan head, but Yū refused.

• Danzo threatened Uchiha Yū and left, while the heads of the major clans confronted him about their sick jonin and medical costs.
• Danzo warned the clan heads to keep Root's condition secret and sent them to seek help from Uchiha Yū.
• Uchiha Yū initially refused to meet the clan heads, then learned that the timid child beside him was Uchiha Shisui and agreed to teach him.
• Uchiha Fugaku explained that Uchiha He had been badly injured in the Second Shinobi World War and that the clan hoped Uchiha Yū would become its head.
• Uchiha Yū refused the position, and Uchiha Fugaku began to remind him of the terms of their original deal.

Uchiha Yū persuaded Fugaku to become clan head and warned him against Danzo and the hawks, then negotiated with clan leaders demanding cheaper medical supplies. As Yū considered Dawn’s plans for the coming war, he headed into the Uchiha hawks’ territory.

• Yū told Fugaku that the Uchiha Clan needed him as clan head and promised to support him, then warned him to beware of Danzo and the hawks.
• Fugaku told Yū to study clan management under Clan Head He, while Yū decided to kill Danzo before leaving the village.
• Yū offered the waiting clan leaders discounts on medical supplies and urged them to support Dawn by buying weapons.
• After the clan leaders left, Yū considered strengthening Sunagakure with Dawn’s support and expanding into the Land of Wind ahead of the Third Shinobi World War.
• Yū’s thoughts turned to the Uchiha hawks as he arrived in their territory, where Uchiha jonin had gathered.

Uchiha Yū visited the dying Great Elder Uchiha Zhu, who revealed the Uchiha Clan’s forbidden techniques and asked him to restrain the hawkish faction after his death. Outside, Uchiha Yun and the other hawks pressed Yū to help them expand their influence, but Yū rejected their plan and urged them to cooperate with his way forward.

• Uchiha Yū arrived at Uchiha Zhu’s bedside and tried to heal him, but the elder told him his injuries could not be cured.
• Uchiha Zhu explained the Uchiha Clan’s Sharingan records and revealed the forbidden techniques Izanami and Izanagi, which required sacrificing an eye.
• Uchiha Zhu asked Uchiha Yū to keep the hawkish faction in check and avoid provoking the Hokage faction; Yū offered to employ Uchiha clansmen as guards for Dawn.
• Uchiha Yun told Uchiha Yū that he was temporarily taking over Uchiha Zhu’s authority and asked him to place Uchiha members in the hospital.
• Uchiha Yū refused to let the hawks use the hospital to expand their power and said he had already devised a way forward for the Uchiha Clan.
• Uchiha Yun and the other hawks argued that the village’s weakness was their chance to intervene and urged Uchiha Yū to join them with Fugaku.

Uchiha Yū rejected Uchiha Yun’s ambitions for the clan and taught Shisui basic Fire Release techniques before arranging Qiming’s next steps with Shan Juhua. After Uchiha Zhu died, Yun gave Yū the Grand Elder’s final gift: two Sharingan and support for moving Uchiha who wanted no part in the struggle for power out of Konoha.

• Uchiha Yū rejected Uchiha Yun’s proposal to pursue power in Konoha and warned the clan against challenging the village.
• Uchiha Yun told the Uchiha members to stay put and avoid clashes with the Hokage faction while he consulted the Grand Elder.
• Uchiha Yū taught Shisui the basics of the Great Fireball Jutsu and kunai throwing, then told Shan Juhua to prepare a mission connected to the Land of Wind.
• Uchiha Yū treated the injured jonin and made a fortune over five days as the major clan heads avoided him after losing much of their assets.
• After Uchiha Zhu died, Uchiha Yun gave Uchiha Yū the Grand Elder’s two Sharingan and promised to help willing clan members leave Konoha with Qiming’s protection force.