Recaps

Uchiha Yū forced Sunagakure to accept his terms, chose Anko as his student, and helped Uchiha Fugaku become clan head while secretly arranging for Uchiha to escape Konoha. As war approached, Yū trained Anko and Minato’s team and continued waiting for Konoha to weaken before advancing his plan.

• Uchiha Yū ended the Sunagakure supply crisis by sending scarce food and water after the Third Kazekage backed down.
• Uchiha Yū declined to lead Rin Nohara, Uchiha Obito, and Hatake Kakashi, formed Minato Namikaze’s team, and chose Anko Mitarashi as his student.
• Uchiha Yū trained Anko in chakra control and water walking while Hizashi Hyuga revealed the Branch Family’s growing unrest and Uchiha Yun reported that Uchiha Fugaku would succeed Uchiha He.
• Uchiha Yū backed Fugaku in the clan-head contest, stopped challenges to Fugaku’s victory, and warned Uchiha He that he planned to lead some Uchiha away with Dawn.
• Uchiha Yū discovered and killed the White Zetsu impersonating Obito’s grandmother, then helped the Uchiha accept relocation while secretly arranging escape routes with Fugaku and Dawn.
• Uchiha Yū took Anko and Minato’s team on a C-rank mission, taught them fieldcraft, and watched them kill the mountain bandits before warning them that ninja must obey orders.
• Uchiha Yū directed Fugaku to speed up the clan’s relocation and arranged for two Uchiha to leave on a Dawn supply mission to the Land of Rivers.
• As Konoha mobilized for war, Uchiha Yū sent medical genin to the front and delayed his plan, while Hiruzen Sarutobi convened his advisors after Sunagakure intercepted a shipment and killed its Konoha escorts.

Uchiha Yū maneuvered Sunagakure and Kumogakure into conflict while preparing a radiation-filled mountain trap for the Cloud army. The trap ensnared Kumogakure’s force, and Hatake Sakumo and A faced off as Killer B went into the valley to find the source of the deadly power.

• Uchiha Yū joined Hatake Sakumo’s Land of Wind campaign, established an underground field hospital, and recruited Sasori to Dawn for a plan to draw Kumogakure into conflict with Konoha and Sunagakure.
• After Sunagakure attacked Konoha’s camp, Uchiha Yū captured Pakura and used her as a bargaining chip while raising mountains to form a trap for the Cloud army.
• Uchiha Yū spread the Third Kazekage’s disappearance and arranged for Dawn operatives to implicate Sunagakure in attacks on Cloud Shinobi, worsening tensions between the villages.
• Uchiha Yū released Pakura so she could see that Sunagakure had not come to rescue her, then returned to prepare the mountains for Kumogakure’s advance.
• The Third Raikage sent A and Killer B into the Land of Wind as bait, and Hatake Sakumo led Konoha’s forces into position after receiving Uchiha Yū’s message.
• Uchiha Yū spread Radiation Element across the mountains, forcing Kumogakure’s scouts to retreat and leading Bai Shi Xiaofu’s force into a narrow passage.
• Hatake Sakumo’s explosive-tag ambush triggered a landslide, but the Cloud Shinobi shielded themselves with Earth Walls as Uchiha Yū contaminated the battlefield with Radiation Element.
• Gyūki warned Killer B about the deadly power, so Killer B entered the valley to find its source while A and Hatake Sakumo prepared to fight.

Uchiha Yū defeated Sunagakure’s leaders and brought the village under his control, then turned to securing passage through Amegakure as Konoha prepared to face Kumogakure. The arc ended with Ibuse Hanzō weighing Yū’s request while suspecting Konoha might use the crossing to infiltrate his village.

• Uchiha Yū fought Killer B and the Eight-Tails, survived their attacks, and withdrew after warning them that his radiation poison threatened the valley.
• Hatake Sakumo let the Kumogakure force retreat and organized Konoha’s defenses, while Uchiha Yū concluded that Sunagakure’s new leadership gave him an opening.
• Uchiha Yū invited the Fourth Kazekage and Sunagakure’s leaders to a banquet, then fought them and defeated the Fourth Kazekage, Ebizo, and Chiyo’s forces.
• Uchiha Yū took control of Sunagakure, allowed Ebizo to leave, appointed Kakuzu as a village higher-up, and kept Pakura with him to train.
• As Kumogakure advanced, Uchiha Yū and Hatake Sakumo prepared Konoha’s forces to move and agreed to seek passage through Amegakure with Akatsuki’s help.
• Uchiha Yū and Shan Juhua arranged a partnership between Dawn Weapons Store and Akatsuki, with Dawn agreeing to buy the explosive tags Konan could produce.
• Uchiha Yū entered Amegakure openly and asked Ibuse Hanzō for permission to cross its border region, while Hanzō worried the request could conceal a Konoha infiltration.

Uchiha Yū uncovered Danzo and Hanzō’s plot against the Uchiha, then used the clan’s strike against Kumogakure to help Konoha’s war effort. After returning to Konoha, he supported the orphanage and exposed Danzo through a newspaper, leaving Danzo under public scrutiny and searching for the source.

• Uchiha Yū negotiated passage through Amegakure with Hanzō in exchange for eliminating Akatsuki, while Hiruzen Sarutobi approved the plan and a small Uchiha force led by Uchiha Fugaku.
• Danzo and Hanzō arranged an ambush on the Uchiha reinforcements to steal their Sharingan, killing Uchiha He and awakening Uchiha Fugaku’s Mangekyō Sharingan.
• Uchiha Yū identified Danzo and Hanzō as conspirators, kept the Uchiha from retaliating openly, and arranged for Root to take on dangerous frontline missions.
• Uchiha Yū and Uchiha Fugaku led a strike on Kumogakure’s camp, where Yū injured Bai Shi Xiaofu and fought Yugito Nii while the Uchiha attacked and withdrew.
• Uchiha Yū returned to Konoha with Hatake Sakumo’s report, received praise for the Uchiha’s contribution, and visited Yakushi Nonō’s orphanage, where he met Kabuto Yakushi.
• Uchiha Yū promised to address Danzo’s plan to take orphanage children for Root and launched a newspaper exposing Danzo’s secret forces and experiments.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi questioned Danzo about the newspaper, while angry villagers chased Danzo and he ordered Root to investigate the newspaper’s source.