Chapter Summaries

Uchiha Yū and Ōnoki combined their strength to attack the Third Raikage, but Yū betrayed Ōnoki to unleash a dangerous fission technique. Yū survived the blast with Black Snake's help and emerged injured, while the Third Raikage and Ōnoki's fates remained unclear.

• Ōnoki used the Added-Weight Rock Technique on Uchiha Yū, and they plunged toward the Third Raikage as a massive boulder.
• The Third Raikage met their attack with Hell Stab: One-Finger Nukite while Ōnoki increased the rock's weight with the Super Added-Weight Rock Technique.
• Uchiha Yū shoved Ōnoki into the Third Raikage's path and unleashed Nuclear Release: Mutually Multiplying Fission.
• The blast hurled Uchiha Yū away, and he summoned Black Snake to shield him from the second shockwave.
• Uchiha Yū crawled out of Black Snake's mouth with internal injuries as Black Snake demanded that they end their summoning contract.

Uchiha Yū and Ōnoki’s explosion severely wounded the Third Raikage and Ōnoki, leaving the Raikage surrounded by Konoha and Iwagakure forces. As Kumogakure shinobi fought desperately to rescue him, the Third Raikage ordered them to retreat and prepare for his possible death.

• Ōnoki emerged from the explosion inside a sphere of earth and rock, and the Third Raikage broke free with devastating internal injuries.
• Uchiha Yū ordered Sarutobi Hiri to gather elites and hunt the Third Raikage, while Ōnoki told Kitsuchi to surround him.
• Konoha and Iwagakure forces joined against the Raikage as Kumogakure shinobi launched suicidal attacks to reach and rescue him.
• The Third Raikage’s injuries worsened as he evaded attacks, and he ordered the Kumogakure shinobi to return and let Dodai stabilize the village.
• Kumogakure shinobi refused to abandon the Raikage and continued arguing over whether to break through and save him.

Uchiha Yū pressured Black Snake into helping disrupt the Iwagakure forces while the injured Third Raikage fought to protect his comrades. After the Third Raikage challenged Ōnoki and Uchiha Yū to wager everything, Uchiha Yū accepted, leaving Ōnoki to answer.

• Uchiha Yū warned Black Snake to cooperate, and Black Snake reluctantly agreed to create chaos among the Iwagakure shinobi.
• Uchiha Yū worried that the battle’s mounting casualties would be severe unless Hatake Sakumo arrived soon.
• The Third Raikage threw Kumogakure shinobi toward safety and ordered them to retreat while he held off the allied forces.
• The Third Raikage challenged Ōnoki and Uchiha Yū to fight him with everything they had.
• Uchiha Yū healed himself atop Black Snake and accepted the challenge, while Ōnoki watched and responded with a wry remark.

Ōnoki and Uchiha Yū joined forces against the Third Raikage, who fought to the death and was defeated. Uchiha Yū took the Raikage’s corpse, while Ōnoki began to view him as a growing threat.

• Ōnoki armored himself with the Rock Fist Technique, and Uchiha Yū launched a Sage Technique Fire Dragon Bullet at the Third Raikage.
• The Third Raikage used Lightning Release Chakra Mode to meet Uchiha Yū’s attack, and the two exchanged a powerful physical blow as Ōnoki struck with his stone giant.
• Ōnoki used the Added-Weight Rock Technique to burden the Third Raikage, who broke through the stone giant but began to falter as his body failed.
• Uchiha Yū attacked the Third Raikage with Hidden Shadow Snake Hands and a giant venomous snake, then confirmed the Raikage had died.
• Uchiha Yū used a summoned snake to take the Third Raikage’s corpse, and Ōnoki eyed him warily as he considered Iwagakure’s need to defeat Konoha.

Uchiha Yū foiled Ōnoki’s attempt to kill Black Snake with Dust Release and led the Konoha ninja in a retreat from Iwagakure. The force reached the border and met Hatake Sakumo and his reinforcements.

• Ōnoki ordered Iwagakure’s ninja to surround and eliminate the Konoha force while Uchiha Yū prepared to hold him off.
• Uchiha Yū summoned Black Snake into the battle, and Ōnoki targeted it with Dust Release.
• Uchiha Yū dismissed Black Snake before the attack hit, then ordered the Konoha ninja to break through and retreat.
• Ōnoki sent his son after the retreating force, warned him to withdraw if Konoha reinforcements appeared, and collapsed from his injuries after they left.
• Uchiha Yū directed the Konoha force along its planned route, and the ninja reached the border and met Hatake Sakumo’s reinforcements.

Hatake Sakumo arrived in time to stop Iwagakure’s pursuit, and Uchiha Yū gave him the sealed corpse of the Third Raikage. The Raikage’s death sent Kumogakure into crisis and prompted Konoha’s leaders to consider winning Yū over and easing tensions with the Uchiha Clan.

• Hatake Sakumo drove back the Iwagakure ninja, and Kitsuchi ordered a withdrawal while Sakumo forbade Konoha from pursuing them.
• Uchiha Yū handed Hatake Sakumo a scroll containing the Third Raikage’s corpse and said he would lead the forces back toward Konoha’s border while Sakumo delivered it to the village.
• Dodai learned that the Third Raikage had fallen and ordered Kumogakure’s frontline forces to withdraw, warning the AB Combination not to risk the village’s survival.
• News of the Third Raikage’s death spread, and reports identified Uchiha Yū’s attack as the blow that had seriously wounded him.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi and his advisors discussed Uchiha Yū’s growing importance and considered how to win him over and ease conflict with the Uchiha Clan.

Hiruzen Sarutobi planned to repair relations with Uchiha Yū, while Danzo remained convinced Yū was dangerous and Uchiha Madara began plotting to push him toward the same path. On the front lines, Yū hid the severity of his injuries from Anko as he continued handling his duties.

• Danzo offered to apologize to Uchiha Yū but warned Hiruzen Sarutobi that Yū was a calculating man, while Hiruzen proposed strengthening Yū’s ties to the village through a romantic match.
• Uchiha Madara asked Black Zetsu whether Yū could inherit his will and ordered him to worsen the conflict between the Uchiha Clan and the Hokage faction.
• Uchiha Madara also directed Black Zetsu to send White Zetsu to incite Hanzō and hasten his plans.
• Anko visited the injured Uchiha Yū, who assured her he was nearly recovered and sent her to care for other patients.
• A Hyūga Branch Family member observed that Yū had dismissed Anko so she would not worry about his true injuries.

While recovering at the battlefield camp, Uchiha Yū learned that ninjas from the Uchiha Clan had allegedly attempted to assassinate the Third Hokage. He prepared to return to Konoha to contain the crisis and went to speak with Uchiha Fugaku.

• Uchiha Yū reviewed the camp’s situation and ordered Yugito Nii kept in custody rather than sent to Konoha immediately.
• Hatake Sakumo reported that the Third Raikage’s death had earned the Hokage’s praise, but Uchiha Clan ninjas had attacked the Third Hokage.
• Uchiha Yū doubted the clan had committed treason without cause and said he needed to return to prevent the conflict from worsening.
• Hatake Sakumo arranged an escort, and Uchiha Yū packed to travel back to Konoha.
• Uchiha Yū went to the Uchiha Clan’s resting area, where Uchiha Fugaku had not yet heard the news.

Uchiha Yū and Uchiha Fugaku returned to Konoha to investigate the Uchiha Clan’s attack on Hiruzen Sarutobi, while Hiruzen Sarutobi debated how to respond. The chapter left the attack’s cause unresolved, with Danzo urging the clan’s destruction and Hiruzen Sarutobi resisting.

• Uchiha Yū told Uchiha Fugaku that Uchiha Clan members had attacked Hiruzen Sarutobi and that they needed to return to Konoha and investigate.
• Uchiha Yū and Uchiha Fugaku reached Konoha, surrendered their weapons to reassure the ANBU, and were escorted toward the Hokage’s office.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi questioned why the attackers had fought to the death instead of fleeing and suspected someone might be plotting behind the attack.
• Danzo and Mitokado Homura demanded severe punishment for the Uchiha Clan, with Danzo pushing to destroy it.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi rejected Danzo’s proposal, citing the danger of provoking Uchiha Yū and weakening Konoha.

Uchiha Yū and Uchiha Fugaku investigated the suspicious attack on the Third Hokage, finding evidence that the attackers had impersonated Uchiha ninja to frame the clan. The meeting ended with Konoha’s leaders demanding proof, while Yū recognized that a hidden enemy was behind the plot.

• Uchiha Yū and Uchiha Fugaku arrived at Hiruzen Sarutobi’s office to discuss the attacks on the Third Hokage.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi presented a report showing that the attackers were registered Uchiha ninja who had died in suicide assaults, leaving no bodies or survivors.
• Uchiha Fugaku identified names on the list as ninja he had transferred away, including two whose deaths had been confirmed, and Danzo accused him of faking their deaths.
• Uchiha Yū argued that someone else could have impersonated the Uchiha, and Hiruzen Sarutobi said the attackers’ chakra and Sharingan had been verified by the Hyuga Clan’s Byakugan.
• Uchiha Yū concluded that a hidden plotter had used White Zetsu to drive a wedge between Konoha and the Uchiha Clan, but Danzo and the Hokage advisors demanded evidence.

Uchiha Yū told Hiruzen Sarutobi that White Zetsu was behind the threat to the Uchiha Clan and promised to capture one within a week. He revealed to Uchiha Fugaku that Uchiha Madara was alive and left for the clan grounds, where Konoha’s forces were keeping the clan under close watch.

• Uchiha Yū convinced Hiruzen Sarutobi and the advisors that White Zetsu existed and secured one week to capture one, while Danzo waited to see proof.
• Uchiha Yū and Uchiha Fugaku left the Hokage’s office, and Yū confirmed that White Zetsu was real and the Uchiha Clan was being targeted.
• Uchiha Yū told Uchiha Fugaku that Uchiha Madara was still alive and intended to destroy the clan to drive Yū toward revenge.
• Uchiha Yū said he could reach Madara through Nagato, then directed Fugaku to reassure the Uchiha still in the village.
• Uchiha Yū and Fugaku saw Konoha ninja, Aburame insects, and Inuzuka patrols surrounding the clan grounds, and Fugaku warned that the clan was in danger if Yū failed to find White Zetsu within seven days.

Uchiha Yū returned to the Uchiha Clan estate, calmed the clan’s tense ninja, and promised to uncover who had attacked Hiruzen Sarutobi. He left Konoha to investigate near Amegakure, while Hiruzen Sarutobi and the village elders considered the threat to Konoha’s barrier and how to resolve the Uchiha Clan’s suspicion.

• Uchiha Yū and Fugaku entered the cordoned-off Uchiha Clan estate, where Uchiha Yun had kept the clan’s angry ninja from resisting the ANBU.
• Uchiha Yū told the clan that neither they nor Hiruzen Sarutobi had arranged the attack and asked them to remain calm while he investigated.
• Uchiha Yun and Fugaku agreed to keep the clan safe so Uchiha Yū could focus on finding the culprit.
• Uchiha Yū left Konoha for the region near Amegakure, suspecting that Hanzō’s plan might soon begin.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi and the elders discussed how White Zetsu might have infiltrated Konoha and considered blaming the attack on individual Uchiha Clan ninja if Uchiha Yū returned without one.

Uchiha Yū reached Amegakure amid Hanzō’s purge of Akatsuki and joined Shan Juhua near the meeting site, where he planned to watch the confrontation and find White Zetsu. The chapter left Uchiha Yū asking Shan Juhua how the talks between Hanzō and Yahiko were progressing.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi forbade Danzo from secretly targeting the Uchiha Clan and awaited Uchiha Yū’s return with the strange creature.
• Uchiha Yū arrived in Amegakure and learned that Hanzō’s forces were capturing Akatsuki members while Root ninja remained in the village.
• Uchiha Yū found Shan Juhua’s intelligence and ordered the Dawn Weapons Store managers to close their shops to avoid the coming violence.
• Uchiha Yū killed two Amegakure guards who blocked his way and pressed on toward the meeting site, hoping to find White Zetsu when Nagato awakened the Rinnegan’s power.
• Shan Juhua recognized Uchiha Yū as he approached her hiding place, lowered her group’s weapons, and heard him ask how the two sides’ talks were progressing.

Uchiha Yū searched for the hidden White Zetsu while Yahiko led Akatsuki into negotiations with Ibuse Hanzō. Hanzō betrayed them and ordered a massacre, leaving Nagato’s Rinnegan awakened as he watched his companions fall.

• Uchiha Yū entered Sage Mode and searched underground and inside trees for White Zetsu while Shan Juhua’s shinobi waited nearby.
• Yahiko told Ibuse Hanzō that Akatsuki wanted to improve the village and help ordinary people.
• Ibuse Hanzō rejected Yahiko’s ideals, summoned an enormous ibuse to release poisonous gas, and ordered his shinobi to kill every Akatsuki member present.
• Root’s elite shinobi overwhelmed Akatsuki, killing companions and grievously injuring Konan as Yahiko tried to cover their retreat.
• Nagato’s grief and helplessness awakened the power of his Rinnegan, and he saw a sight he would never forget.

Nagato awakened the Rinnegan after Yahiko’s death and overwhelmed Ibuse Hanzō’s forces with its power. As Nagato’s body began to weaken from the cost of using it, Uchiha Yū spotted White Zetsu and vanished to pursue him.

• After Yahiko died, Nagato’s fury awakened the Rinnegan and unleashed a powerful surge of chakra.
• Ibuse Hanzō ordered his ninjas to attack Nagato and used Ibuse’s poisonous mist against him.
• Uchiha Yū told Shan Juhua that Nagato could defeat everyone there and explained that his eyes were the Rinnegan.
• Nagato summoned a gigantic monster, whose black chakra rods pierced his body, and began suppressing Hanzō and his forces.
• Uchiha Yū noticed White Zetsu emerging in the distance and left to capture him.

Uchiha Yū captured a White Zetsu spy while Nagato defeated Hanzō and his forces. After Nagato and Konan faced Yū and a group of shinobi, Yū offered them a place with his faction and warned that Hanzō’s death could plunge Amegakure into turmoil.

• Uchiha Yū caught a White Zetsu spying on Nagato and immobilized it with a specially prepared drug.
• Nagato defeated Hanzō and the other shinobi, then collapsed as Konan came to support him.
• Uchiha Yū approached Nagato and Konan carrying the captured White Zetsu, and they became wary of his intentions.
• Shan Juhua arrived with a group of shinobi, but Uchiha Yū stopped them from acting.
• Uchiha Yū reminded Nagato of his offer to join them and warned that Hanzō’s death could destabilize Amegakure.

Uchiha Yū recruited Konan and Nagato into Dawn, agreeing that they could call their blade Akatsuki, then arranged a ruthless consolidation of power in Amegakure. After warning Shan Juhua about the White Zetsu threat, he headed back to Konoha as Uchiha Madara reconsidered his plan.

• Konan agreed to serve Dawn as a blade for peace, and Nagato joined on the condition that their force be called Akatsuki.
• Uchiha Yū ordered Konan and Nagato to eliminate Hanzō's trusted subordinates, conceal Hanzō's death, and pacify Amegakure while Dawn controlled the public narrative and sent resources.
• Uchiha Yū warned Shan Juhua that White Zetsu could disguise themselves and that more than a hundred thousand might threaten Dawn, so they temporarily cut off contact.
• Uchiha Yū took the White Zetsu and set off for Konoha, expecting the next seven days to be consumed by Amegakure's secret moves in the Third Shinobi World War.
• Uchiha Madara concluded that events in Amegakure had disrupted his plans and discussed guiding Nagato to gather the tailed beasts while considering a new strategy.

Uchiha Yū returned to the village with a captured White Zetsu, stopping the Third Hokage and Danzo from carrying out a plan to blame selected Uchiha Clan members. He demonstrated White Zetsu’s ability to copy his appearance and chakra, leaving the village leaders intent on investigating the creature.

• Uchiha Madara ordered Black Zetsu to investigate what had happened in Amegakure and protect the Rinnegan, while preparing a backup plan for his resurrection.
• Uchiha Yū returned to the village as the Third Hokage and Danzo prepared to scapegoat Uchiha Clan members if he failed to bring back a White Zetsu.
• Uchiha Yū entered the Hokage’s office carrying an unconscious White Zetsu, and the Third Hokage asked the Hyuga Clan to examine it.
• Uchiha Yū explained that White Zetsu was an artificial creature responsible for framing the Uchiha Clan, then woke it with an antidote.
• Uchiha Yū coaxed White Zetsu into transforming, and it copied his appearance, clothes, and chakra exactly.

Uchiha Yū negotiated a secret agreement with Konoha’s leaders over White Zetsu, then Hyuga Reiko discovered that her Byakugan could not distinguish White Zetsu from its perfect copy. The Hokage’s office kept the creature’s abilities secret and assigned it to Orochimaru for research.

• Uchiha Yū told Konoha’s leaders that White Zetsu’s transformation abilities could not be replicated, and accepted an agreement that lifted restrictions on the Uchiha while publicly assigning them blame.
• Hyuga Reiko arrived at the Hokage’s office and greeted Uchiha Yū before Hiruzen Sarutobi asked her to examine White Zetsu.
• Hyuga Reiko used her Byakugan and reported that it could not detect which of the two identical figures was the impostor.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi ordered everyone present to keep White Zetsu’s abilities secret, and Uchiha Yū left with the Hyuga ninja.
• Danzo offered to take White Zetsu for interrogation and research, but Hiruzen Sarutobi assigned it to Orochimaru instead.

Uchiha Yū met Hyuga Reiko at a tavern and urged her to pursue the Hyuga Clan head position. After Reiko admitted she lacked the battle record and Main Family support to challenge Hyuga Hiashi, Yū promised to build her reputation through the front-line battlefield.

• Hyuga Reiko dismissed her Branch Family escorts and asked Uchiha Yū about his activities and the White Zetsu who had impersonated him.
• Uchiha Yū explained that he had killed the Third Raikage, identified the office impostor as White Zetsu, and noted Reiko's growing support within the Hyuga Clan.
• Uchiha Yū asked Reiko whether she wanted to compete for clan head, and she said she did but lacked prestige, battle experience, and Main Family backing compared with Hyuga Hiashi.
• When Reiko slumped onto the table, Uchiha Yū pulled her ponytail and told her he would help her change the clan's future.
• Uchiha Yū said he would lead ninja to the front line and publicize Reiko's accomplishments to build her reputation.