Chapter Summaries

Uchiha Yū died after fighting Konoha’s ninja, and Minato Namikaze ordered his name and records sealed. Shisui and Itachi Uchiha awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan, while Uchiha Fugaku revealed that Yū was not truly dead and fled Konoha with them.

• Uchiha Yū refused to escape and impaled himself on Minato Namikaze’s kunai, dying in Minato’s arms.
• Hyuga Reiko took Uchiha Yū’s body, and Minato Namikaze ordered the village to treat Yū’s name as taboo and seal his records in the Konoha Archives.
• Watching Uchiha Yū’s apparent death, Shisui and Itachi Uchiha awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan, and Itachi lost consciousness.
• Uchiha Fugaku trapped Shisui in an illusion, then revealed that Uchiha Yū was not dead and showed him Yū’s eye.
• Uchiha Fugaku escaped Konoha with Shisui and Itachi as the approaching ninja froze at the sight of Shisui’s eyes.
• Minato Namikaze realized that the Uchiha Clan now had three Mangekyō Sharingan users, while Konoha also faced a threat from Dawn Hidden Village.

At Uchiha Yū’s funeral, Black and White Zetsu secretly removed his coffin, and Uchiha Yū revived through Izanagi. He and Black and White Zetsu discussed their plans for the tailed beasts and Dawn Hidden Village, leaving the immediate focus on recruiting more people and avoiding a wider conflict.

• Nawaki and Hyuga Reiko attended Uchiha Yū’s funeral, where Qianshu and other comrades left flowers at his grave.
• Black and White Zetsu secretly dragged Uchiha Yū’s coffin away from Konoha and waited to see whether Izanagi had worked.
• Uchiha Yū revived with his wounds healed, and Black and White Zetsu congratulated him on returning alive.
• Uchiha Yū warned that Konoha and the other villages would pose a threat to Dawn Hidden Village, so they should not rush to capture the tailed beasts.
• Uchiha Yū and Black and White Zetsu agreed to target the Eight-Tails and Seven-Tails for now and to send White Zetsu into Dawn Hidden Village to attract recruits.

Kakuzu and Shan Juhua doubted that Uchiha Yū had truly died in Konoha, and he returned to Dawn Hidden Village to explain his resurrection and blind eye. He promised not to risk his life so recklessly again, then faced the mountain of documents condemning Dawn Hidden Village.

• Shan Juhua and Kakuzu linked Uchiha Yū's supposed death, Black and White Zetsu's actions, and the chakra surge in Konoha, concluding that his death was suspicious.
• Kakuzu worried that Konoha might retaliate and complained that Uchiha Yū had left Dawn Hidden Village to bear the consequences of the attack alone.
• Uchiha Yū returned masked in a white robe and explained that he had died in Konoha, been revived by a forbidden technique, and left one eye blind while his replacement eye remained with Uchiha Fugaku.
• Kakuzu and Shan Juhua reprimanded Uchiha Yū for risking his life, and he promised not to gamble so recklessly again.
• Kakuzu unsealed the accumulated documents condemning Dawn Hidden Village, and Shan Juhua picked one up to read.

Uchiha Yū rejected Konoha’s demand for an explanation and compensation, deciding Dawn Hidden Village would deny responsibility and resist any attack. He tasked Shan Juhua with retrieving his eye from Uchiha Fugaku in Sunagakure, while she prepared to disrupt Konoha’s economy.

• Shan Juhua reported that Konoha had demanded an explanation and cut off most business with Dawn Weapons Store.
• Uchiha Yū concluded that Konoha wanted compensation and a target for its anger after the Nine-Tails’ Attack.
• Kakuzu and Shan Juhua suggested making concessions, but Uchiha Yū refused, warning that other villages would demand their own share.
• Uchiha Yū ordered Shan Juhua to go to Sunagakure and retrieve his eye from Uchiha Fugaku.
• Shan Juhua promised to blockade Konoha’s economy and limit its ability to escalate the conflict.

Uchiha Yū managed Dawn Hidden Village’s conflict with Konoha, then welcomed Uchiha Shisui and revealed the secrets behind his survival and the village’s plans. After learning Shisui’s Mangekyō abilities, Yū assigned him to the Akatsuki and tasked him with helping expand its ranks.

• Uchiha Yū handled Dawn Hidden Village’s affairs while Konoha retaliated with assassinations and mission seizures, causing losses but not halting construction.
• Shan Juhua returned with the eyes and brought Uchiha Shisui to Dawn Hidden Village, where Yū reclaimed his eyes and replaced the Great Elder’s.
• Yū explained Izanagi, the Mangekyō Sharingan’s costs, and why he had kept the clan’s secrets from Shisui.
• Shisui revealed that his Mangekyō abilities were Kotoamatsukami and Mind Illusion, which had even trapped Uchiha Fugaku’s senses.
• Yū told Shisui to keep his identity secret, declared that Uchiha Yū had died in Konoha, and assigned him to the Akatsuki’s plans to capture tailed beasts.
• Yū gave Shisui a list of people for Konan to invite as the Akatsuki continued expanding its ranks.

Uchiha Yū planned Akatsuki’s next moves to capture the Seven-Tails and seize opportunities involving other tailed beasts. He assigned Kakuzu and Sasori to accompany him to Takigakure, sent Hiruko and Pakura to Sunagakure, and ordered Shisui to capture Killer B alive.

• Uchiha Yū selected new recruits to serve as covert operatives and gathered Akatsuki’s core members for a meeting.
• Uchiha Yū announced that Kakuzu would guide him and Sasori to secluded Takigakure to capture the Seven-Tails, and Kakuzu agreed.
• Uchiha Yū gave Hiruko and Pakura the Amber Purifying Pot and sent them to Sunagakure to contain its jinchūriki’s tailed beast when he died.
• Uchiha Yū ordered Konan to lead the remaining ninja against the remnants who had attacked an outpost, while Shisui captured Killer B alive.
• Uchiha Yū assigned Obito to help Shisui keep the tailed beast chakra within Killer B from going berserk, and Shisui accepted the mission.

Uchiha Yū, Kakuzu, and Sasori attacked Takigakure to take its Tailed Beast. After the Takikage refused to surrender it, Uchiha Yū let Sasori begin the fight.

• Kakuzu led Uchiha Yū and Sasori to Takigakure through the waterfall entrance.
• Uchiha Yū, Kakuzu, and Sasori destroyed the waterfall with their techniques and entered the village.
• The Takikage recognized the three attackers and asked Uchiha Yū why he had attacked.
• Uchiha Yū demanded Takigakure's Tailed Beast and threatened to slaughter the village if it refused.
• The Takikage rejected the demand and rallied the village's ninjas to fight.
• Uchiha Yū told Sasori to kill the Takigakure ninjas.

Uchiha Yū and Kakuzu searched Takigakure for the Seven-Tails jinchūriki while Sasori harvested corpses for his Performance of a Hundred Puppets. They found the dying Nakamori Akina with young Fū, and Kakuzu confronted her after she tried to escape.

• Uchiha Yū left Sasori to slaughter Takigakure's ninja and collect corpses for his puppets.
• Uchiha Yū located the hidden Seven-Tails jinchūriki, and he and Kakuzu broke into her refuge.
• Uchiha Yū killed the three guards and demanded that Nakamori Akina come with them.
• Nakamori Akina shielded Fū and refused to surrender the tailed beast, then tried to flee using her wings.
• Kakuzu bound Nakamori Akina with black threads as she used the Scale Powder Concealment Technique, and he countered with Wind Pressure.

Nakamori Akina tried to flee with Fū, but Uchiha Yū stopped her after she saw Sasori’s massacre of Takigakure. Akina surrendered to protect the villagers, while her body was failing from the Seven-Tails’ chakra.

• Kakuzu revealed his Earth Grudge Fear masks, and Nakamori Akina used the Seven-Tails’ chakra to escape with Fū.
• Nakamori Akina and Uchiha Yū saw Sasori slaughtering shinobi and ordinary people as they fled Takigakure.
• Uchiha Yū confronted Sasori and shattered Hiruko, forcing Sasori to admit he should have spared the ordinary people.
• Uchiha Yū offered to spare the village if Nakamori Akina surrendered, and she accepted to protect its people.
• Nakamori Akina asked Uchiha Yū to keep his promise as her body failed from the tailed beast’s chakra.

Uchiha Yū forced Takigakure’s villagers to choose between protecting Fū and receiving his protection, making Fū witness that they would abandon her. He took Fū with him and entrusted her to Kakuzu as the group departed with Hero Water and the Seven-Tails’ jinchūriki.

• Uchiha Yū stopped Kakuzu from killing Fū and compared her abandonment by the villagers to Kakuzu’s past betrayal.
• Uchiha Yū gave Takigakure’s villagers a choice: expel Fū for his protection or be driven from their homes, and a chūnin agreed to expel her.
• Uchiha Yū took Hero Water in a sealing scroll, intending to have it studied despite its toxicity.
• Uchiha Yū handed the crying Fū to Kakuzu, who warned her not to provoke him or speak carelessly about the Seven-Tails’ jinchūriki.
• Sasori wondered why Uchiha Yū went to such lengths to show Fū the darkness of the ninja world.

Minato Namikaze discussed how to respond to Dawn Hidden Village’s destruction of Takigakure and its growing territorial ambitions, but Hiruzen Sarutobi doubted the villages could unite. Meanwhile, Uchiha Yū rebuilt Dawn Hidden Village through strict policies, economic expansion, and a new division of responsibilities.

• Minato Namikaze told Konoha’s senior officials that Dawn Hidden Village had wiped out Takigakure’s shinobi, taken its tailed beast, and threatened to spark another war.
• Minato Namikaze proposed that the villages unite, but Hiruzen Sarutobi argued that their hatred made cooperation unlikely.
• Minato Namikaze presented intelligence that Dawn Hidden Village was occupying nearby small nations, then paused the meeting to comfort Naruto.
• After the meeting, Minato Namikaze held Naruto and remembered how Uchiha Yū had once helped him manage the village’s crises.
• Uchiha Yū used White Zetsu clones and new factories to make Dawn Hidden Village appear prosperous and attract residents, while making it difficult for them to leave.
• Uchiha Yū divided Dawn Hidden Village’s administration between himself, Kakuzu and Shan Juhua’s financial department, and Konan’s Akatsuki.

Uchiha Yū gathered the tailed beasts and revealed Akatsuki’s hidden Ten-Tails to the powerful figures in Dawn Hidden Village. After forcing them to accept a secrecy seal, he offered to teach them the strength-enhancing Curse Mark.

• Pakura returned with the Sage of Six Paths’ treasured tool and reported that the One-Tail had been sealed inside after its host died.
• Uchiha Yū told Konan to notify Nagato to prepare the plan, while Uchiha Shisui returned with Killer B captured.
• Uchiha Yū led the group underground, where they saw Nagato and the Ten-Tails, then ordered them to receive the Cursed Tongue Eradication Seal to keep the secret.
• Uchiha Yū demonstrated Konan’s Curse Mark transformation and explained the benefits and dangers of its two forms.

Uchiha Yū and Nagato began restoring the tailed beasts to the Ten-Tails, recovering three before Killer B escaped their grasp. Uchiha Yū then set the group’s next target as Kirigakure, where they planned to help the Six-Tails’ jinchūriki defect.

• Uchiha Yū and Nagato activated the Curse Mark for their followers, then prepared to recover the tailed beasts with their help.
• Nagato led the extraction of the Seven-Tails and One-Tail, while Uchiha Yū subdued the One-Tail for the Ten-Tails to devour.
• Black and White Zetsu brought out Han, and the group extracted the Five-Tails from him and fed it to the Ten-Tails.
• Killer B escaped by leaving behind a severed octopus tentacle, which Nagato used to supply the Ten-Tails with chakra.
• Uchiha Yū outlined the remaining tailed beasts and announced that the group would help the Six-Tails’ jinchūriki escape from Kirigakure.

Uchiha Yū planned to secure the Kaguya Clan and the Sixth-Tails Jinchūriki while building an alliance with Ōnoki and Sunagakure to deter war. He decided to travel to Ōnoki himself and persuade him to join.

• Uchiha Yū showed Kakuzu a secret report revealing that the Kaguya Clan wanted his help to escape Kirigakure.
• Uchiha Yū said he would win the Kaguya Clan's loyalty and arrange medical research into their blood disease.
• Kakuzu warned that helping the Kaguya Clan and the Sixth-Tails Jinchūriki would make the Dawn Hidden Village Kirigakure's enemy.
• Uchiha Yū proposed an alliance with Ōnoki and Sunagakure, strengthened through trade and shinobi examinations, to deter Konoha and Kirigakure from starting a war.
• Uchiha Yū decided to visit Ōnoki personally and persuade him to join the alliance.

Uchiha Yū arrived in Iwagakure to meet Ōnoki, who prepared his village’s jōnin in case the Dawn Kage posed a threat. Uchiha Yū entered the guarded village with Uchiha Obito and Hiruko, leaving the negotiations about to begin.

• Ōnoki rebuked Deidara for causing an explosion in Iwagakure, while Deidara defended his art and mourned the reported death of Uchiha Yū.
• A shinobi told Ōnoki that the Dawn Kage had arrived, and Ōnoki initially tried to avoid meeting him.
• After reading Uchiha Yū’s letter, Ōnoki ordered the jōnin to gather nearby and prepared to detain the Dawn Kage if necessary.
• Ōnoki told Deidara to put away his clay and accompany him to receive their guest, and Deidara reluctantly obeyed.
• Uchiha Yū approached Iwagakure’s gates with Uchiha Obito and Hiruko, who were ready to help him escape if the village attacked.
• Uchiha Obito activated his Mangekyō Sharingan, and Uchiha Yū strode into the village as its shinobi watched tensely.

Uchiha Yū negotiated with Ōnoki over trade and a Joint Chūnin Exam while concealing his real aim: using the exam to make Konoha believe Iwagakure had allied with Dawn Hidden Village. The talks ended with Ōnoki agreeing to support the exam and pursue trade, while demanding discounted goods.

• Uchiha Yū and his companions entered Ōnoki’s office, where the two sides tested each other with their auras before sitting down to negotiate.
• Ōnoki said trade was a matter for the daimyo and nobles, but he had no objection to holding a Joint Chūnin Exam and asked what the other villages intended to do.
• Uchiha Yū urged Ōnoki to join Sunagakure and Dawn Hidden Village in a war against Konoha to seize its fertile land, but Ōnoki refused to commit Iwagakure to another conflict.
• Uchiha Yū threatened that Sunagakure had already agreed to cooperate, prompting Ōnoki to insist that Iwagakure would not attack Konoha while offering to support the exam and send ninjas to promote trade.
• Uchiha Yū privately revealed that he wanted the Joint Chūnin Exam as a public pretext to spread false claims of an alliance and pressure Konoha’s leaders.
• Ōnoki demanded that goods traded with Iwagakure be priced one-third below normal.

Uchiha Yū negotiated an alliance with Ōnoki by promising cheaper goods and a Dawn Weapons Store factory in exchange for cooperation, while Ōnoki agreed to hold a joint Chūnin Exam. The exam would take place in Iwagakure, where Deidara began considering secretly leaving the village to visit Dawn Hidden Village.

• Ōnoki demanded lower prices and a Dawn Weapons Store factory near Iwagakure, with the village receiving a share of its profits.
• Uchiha Yū promised to help secure the factory if Ōnoki allied with Dawn Hidden Village and told him that Shan Juhua liked Uchiha Yū, prompting Ōnoki to connect their plans against Konoha to her feelings.
• Ōnoki agreed to hold a joint Chūnin Exam, though he insisted on obtaining the factory before finalizing the alliance.
• Deidara watched Uchiha Yū and decided he would secretly leave Iwagakure to see Dawn Hidden Village.
• Uchiha Yū proposed holding the joint exam in Iwagakure, and Ōnoki agreed to host it and protect the visiting ninja.

Uchiha Yū and Hiruko secured an alliance with Kirigakure, then caught Deidara spying on them and let Hiruko teach him a lesson. Deidara showed off his explosive clay techniques, but Hiruko met his C2 Dragon with Steel Transformation.

• Kirigakure began secretly investigating why it had been excluded from the Joint Chūnin Exams.
• Uchiha Yū told Hiruko that the negotiations had always been aimed at an alliance and planned to contact the Six-Tails and the Kaguya Clan.
• Uchiha Yū spotted Deidara spying from a clay bird, and Hiruko nearly struck him with Storm Release before Uchiha Yū stopped the attack.
• Deidara landed and complained, so Uchiha Yū ordered Hiruko to give him a small lesson.
• Deidara attacked with Little Birds, but Hiruko used Swift Release to dodge and punched him hard enough to send him flying.
• Deidara summoned his C2 Dragon, and Hiruko activated Steel Transformation as the dragon charged at him.

Uchiha Yū defeated Deidara and warned Uchiha Obito not to exploit the young Iwagakure ninja while their village needed an alliance. Back in Dawn Hidden Village, he chose genin for the joint Chūnin Exams and left Kakuzu to lead them as he turned to more important business.

• Hiruko used Dark Release to drain Deidara's chakra and immobilize him, but Uchiha Yū threw Deidara clear before the clay could swallow him.
• Uchiha Yū told Deidara that he needed strength to survive outside Iwagakure, and Deidara vowed to develop C3 and defeat Dawn Hidden Village.
• Uchiha Obito suggested controlling Deidara to aid the coming invasion, but Uchiha Yū warned him against harming Ōnoki's disciple or jeopardizing their alliance with Iwagakure.
• Uchiha Obito pretended to accept Uchiha Yū's warning while privately plotting to use everyone, including Uchiha Madara, to create a world with Rin.
• Uchiha Yū and Kakuzu selected genin for the Chūnin Exams, with Fū and Pakura determined to defeat Uchiha Yū despite the village's lack of promising young talent.
• Uchiha Yū left Kakuzu in charge of leading the team to Iwagakure and went to attend to more important matters.

Uchiha Yū learned that Hero Water expanded the body’s meridians and could be endured by someone with sufficient physical strength, so he began a carefully prepared experiment to use it himself. After the final dose was injected, he felt the pain intensify but signaled the researchers to continue.

• Muichiro Tokito presented Uchiha Yū with the research findings, explaining that Hero Water’s effects could overwhelm weaker bodies rather than poison them.
• Uchiha Yū asked about the minimum strength needed to withstand Hero Water, and Muichiro Tokito said a body had to be eight times stronger than an ordinary person’s.
• Uchiha Yū ordered the laboratory to begin administering Hero Water to him and traveled with Muichiro Tokito to the underground facility.
• The researchers placed Uchiha Yū in a culture chamber and administered three doses, including an improved version of Hero Water.
• Uchiha Yū felt a needle-like sting as the final dose entered his body, then nodded for the researchers to continue as the pain grew into a burning sensation.