Chapter Summaries

Uchiha Yū survived the dangerous Hero Water experiment, which expanded his chakra pathways and greatly increased his chakra output. He then briefed the Akatsuki on a Kirigakure mission to escort the Six-Tails jinchuriki and help the Kaguya Clan evacuate, ending with an order to kill anyone who opposed them.

• Uchiha Yū endured the swelling and pain caused by Hero Water as Muichiro Tokito offered to increase the anesthetic dosage.
• Uchiha Yū completed the experiment, and the surge of chakra from his body damaged equipment and shattered culture vessels in the laboratory.
• Muichiro Tokito celebrated the successful research, while Uchiha Yū apologized for nearly destroying the laboratory and left after encouraging him to continue developing Hero Water.
• Sasori looked forward to turning the Mizukage into a Human Puppet, but Pakura warned him not to jeopardize the mission.
• Uchiha Yū told the Akatsuki to escort the Six-Tails jinchuriki out of Kirigakure and send a group to help the Kaguya Clan evacuate.
• Uchiha Yū declared that the Akatsuki would kill everyone standing in their way.

Uchiha Yū sent Akatsuki to Kirigakure to help Foam and the Kaguya Clan escape while weakening the village. The Kaguya Clan agreed to revolt at midnight, but planned to test the Dawn Shadow and kill him if they deemed him weak.

• Uchiha Yū mobilized Akatsuki and secretly brought them by ship to Kirigakure.
• Black and White Zetsu told Foam that the Kaguya Clan would help create chaos so they could escape together.
• Black and White Zetsu met the Kaguya Clan head, who nearly attacked him before hearing the offer of help.
• Black and White Zetsu instructed the Kaguya Clan to betray Kirigakure at midnight and flee east, where Akatsuki would receive them.
• The Kaguya Clan head ordered the release of the clan's secret weapon and vowed to join Dawn Hidden Village only if the Dawn Shadow proved worthy.

Uchiha Yū and Akatsuki began their midnight plan in Kirigakure as the Kaguya Clan launched a bloody rebellion. As Mei Terumi and Kisame pursued the clan east, Uchiha Yū watched from the shadows and spotted Orochimaru, determined to claim Kimimaro for himself.

• Black and White Zetsu told Uchiha Yū that the Kaguya Clan had agreed to help cause chaos at midnight, and Uchiha Yū ordered Akatsuki to proceed with the plan.
• An explosion triggered widespread fighting in Kirigakure as the Kaguya Clan attacked the village and its members slaughtered ninja around them.
• The Kaguya Clan head released Kimimaro, calling him the clan's secret weapon and urging him to demonstrate his power.
• Mei Terumi ordered the village ninja to surround and kill the Kaguya Clan, while she sent Kisame and an elite group to flank them as they charged east.
• Uchiha Yū observed the fighting from the forest and recognized Orochimaru, deciding that he would not let Orochimaru take Kimimaro.

Uchiha Yū intervened as Kisame Hoshigaki pursued the fleeing Kaguya Clan, overpowering Kisame in a clash and offering him a chance to grow stronger. He spared Kisame and told him to witness the upheaval about to come to Kirigakure.

• Uchiha Yū unexpectedly encountered Orochimaru and decided to invite him to his laboratory.
• Kisame Hoshigaki used Water Release to stop the fleeing Kaguya Clan, but Uchiha Yū countered with Majestic Destroyer Flame and Great Breakthrough.
• Uchiha Yū told the Kaguya Clan to follow him, and they rallied behind him against the Kirigakure ninjas.
• Uchiha Yū overpowered Kisame in a weapon clash and urged him to seek stronger guidance to break through his limits.
• Uchiha Yū spared Kisame and told him that his subordinates would take the Kaguya Clan away during the coming upheaval in Kirigakure.

Uchiha Yū defeated the Kirigakure ninjas attacking the Kaguya Clan and offered Kisame Hoshigaki a chance to join him. Meanwhile, Mei Terumi was held back and injured by Hiruko, Sasori, and their allies, until an unknown figure appeared before Hiruko could strike again.

• Kisame Hoshigaki reconsidered Uchiha Yū's offer after realizing Mei Terumi had been prevented from reaching the planned battle.
• Uchiha Yū used Shadow Clones to defeat the Kirigakure ninjas attacking the Kaguya Clan, then ordered the clan to prepare to leave while he went to retrieve the others.
• Kisame Hoshigaki picked up a replacement blade and followed Uchiha Yū to see how strong his subordinates were.
• Mei Terumi confronted Hiruko, Sasori, and several masked ninjas, who tested their Curse Mark power and coordinated attacks to keep her from pursuing the retreating Kaguya Clan.
• Hiruko warned the injured Mei Terumi that they did not intend to kill her, but an unknown figure appeared just as he was about to attack.

Uchiha Yū ordered Hiruko to demonstrate Curse Mark Two against Mei Terumi, then stopped him when rage overwhelmed his reason. After warning Mei that she could not stop them, Uchiha Yū turned to a figure in the treetops and asked them to make their choice.

• Uchiha Yū arrived at the battlefield and told Hiruko to show Kirigakure's forces the power of Curse Mark Two.
• Hiruko transformed, warned that the form strained his body and threatened his sanity, then attacked Mei Terumi with Swift Release.
• Mei Terumi used Water Pillar, but Hiruko absorbed it with Dark Release and counterattacked with Judgment.
• As Hiruko grew more frenzied, Uchiha Yū suppressed and knocked him unconscious, then ordered Uchiha Shisui to take him for treatment.
• Uchiha Yū warned Mei Terumi that she could not stop them and invited the figure in the treetops to make their choice.

Kisame Hoshigaki renounced Kirigakure and joined Uchiha Yū’s group after the attack on the village. Uchiha Yū led the Kaguya Clan and the sleeping Kimimaro away, promising to investigate his illness and develop medicine for it.

• Kisame Hoshigaki told Mei Terumi he was leaving Kirigakure to follow a stronger leader, accepting that the village might hunt him.
• Uchiha Yū stepped between Kisame and Mei, declared Kisame a member of his group, and led his team away.
• Mei Terumi held back from pursuing them because Kirigakure’s injured ninja left her concerned that the attackers could threaten the village.
• The Kaguya Clan chief recognized Uchiha Yū as the clan’s leader and offered him Kimimaro as a follower.
• Uchiha Yū recognized Kimimaro’s genetic disease, promised to develop medicine for it, and soothed him with medical chakra until he fell asleep.

Uchiha Yū reunited with Orochimaru in the aftermath of Kirigakure’s turmoil and offered him a place, funding, and research facilities in exchange for his work. The chapter ended with Yū demanding that Orochimaru honor their agreement to share Impure World Reincarnation, while also promising help researching it and bloodline limits.

• Uchiha Yū wrapped his robe around the sleeping Kimimaro and entrusted the boy to the Kaguya clan leader.
• Orochimaru prepared to raid the damaged Kirigakure for resources and bloodline limits, but sensed danger and stayed hidden.
• Uchiha Yū found Orochimaru, revealed his identity, and explained that he had faked his death to escape Konoha.
• Orochimaru admitted that Konoha’s pursuit had left him short of money, materials, and safe laboratories.
• Uchiha Yū offered Orochimaru protection, funding, laboratories, and researchers in exchange for his cooperation.
• Uchiha Yū demanded Impure World Reincarnation and offered to help Orochimaru research it and bloodline limits.

Uchiha Yū and Orochimaru renewed their alliance and agreed to cooperate on research, while the shinobi world reacted to Kirigakure’s attack and a three-village alliance. After returning to the village, Uchiha Yū learned that Itachi Uchiha had dominated the Joint Chūnin Exams and secured first place for Sunagakure.

• Orochimaru agreed to work with Uchiha Yū on the Impure World Reincarnation and bloodline-limit research, with Yū supplying materials and receiving the results.
• Uchiha Yū and Orochimaru clasped hands to confirm their alliance, then left the Land of Water together by ship.
• Shinobi across the world discussed Kirigakure’s attack and the new alliance among three villages, while Kirigakure searched for the attackers.
• Uchiha Yū received the Joint Chūnin Exams report and learned that Itachi Uchiha had defeated the other teams, leaving him the sole new chūnin.
• Uchiha Yū reassured Fū after she blamed Itachi for eliminating her team, then arranged for factories to move into Iwagakure and gave Ōnoki a share of the profits.

Uchiha Yū visited the ill Kimimaro and explained that Dawn Hidden Village’s researchers were working to treat his blood disease. He also described the village’s new education system, leaving its students protesting as they were forced into school and kept away from battlefields.

• Uchiha Yū visited Kimimaro, reassured him that his illness was being suppressed, and said Orochimaru and the researchers would seek a cure.
• Uchiha Yū outlined Dawn Hidden Village’s four-stage education system, which combined compulsory schooling with later ninja training and classes for other professions.
• Fū protested being made to study basic subjects after failing the Joint Chūnin Exams, and other students joined her complaints.
• Dawn Hidden Village’s ninjas beat students who resisted the new system, while Uchiha Yū insisted they had to learn rather than enter battlefields.
• Uchiha Yū prioritized building and protecting schools and introduced credits that students could exchange for ninjutsu, including some forbidden techniques.

Mei Terumi learned that the Dawn Hidden Village had taken Kirigakure’s Six-Tails and allied with Konoha to retaliate. Uchiha Yū’s village entered a cold war with the new alliance and prepared to capture the Three-Tails while accepting smaller villages seeking its protection.

• Mei Terumi received evidence linking Kisame Hoshigaki and the Curse Mark power to the Dawn Hidden Village, and concluded that it had attacked Kirigakure and taken the Six-Tails.
• Mei Terumi agreed to an alliance with Konoha and planned a campaign against the Dawn Hidden Village.
• Ninja in an underground bounty venue discussed how the two new alliances forced wandering ninja to choose a side or face extermination.
• Uchiha Yū recognized that the rival alliances had entered a cold war, giving his village time to develop.
• Kakuzu reported that the village had recovered the Six-Tails, and Uchiha Yū ordered ninja to wait for and capture the reincarnating Three-Tails.
• Konan presented a list of small villages seeking protection, and Uchiha Yū agreed to receive them.

Uchiha Yū accepted a village’s surrender and found Uzumaki Xiangyi and her daughter, Uzumaki Karin, among its people. He offered Xiangyi a chance to decide the villagers’ fates, but she refused to accuse anyone, leaving Uchiha Yū dissatisfied as he returned Karin to her.

• The village’s ninjas gathered in the hall to submit to Uchiha Yū and ask him to spare their village.
• Uchiha Yū spotted Uzumaki Xiangyi and approached her as her baby, Uzumaki Karin, began crying.
• Uchiha Yū soothed Karin with healing chakra, held her, and praised the child’s enormous innate chakra reserves.
• Uchiha Yū told Xiangyi that she could choose which villagers lived or died, especially those who had bitten her for blood.
• Xiangyi said the villagers had never bullied her, and Uchiha Yū returned Karin to her without killing anyone.

Uchiha Yū annexed Kusagakure, offering its people a place in Dawn Hidden Village or a perilous life in the borderlands, while Konan welcomed Uzumaki Xiangyi. As word of Kusagakure’s fate spread, Hidan and his Jashin cultists decided to relocate and hunt talented ninja for sacrifices.

• Uchiha Yū made Kusagakure’s people choose between joining Dawn Hidden Village and heading to the borderlands, and the village chief chose annexation.
• Konan reassured Uzumaki Xiangyi and promised to introduce her to another Uzumaki Clan member.
• Ninja leaders and small organizations debated pledging allegiance to Dawn Hidden Village after hearing what happened to Kusagakure.
• Hidan declared that his Jashin cult would relocate and offer powerful ninja as sacrifices to gain Jashin’s favor.
• Hidan threatened anyone who refused to follow him, and the cultists enthusiastically agreed to hunt geniuses.

Uchiha Yū and Kakuzu surveyed Dawn Hidden Village’s growth and the strain caused by its rapid expansion. Their discussion was interrupted by reports of missing residents, and Kakuzu brought Uchiha Yū information about recent deaths that might be connected.

• Uchiha Yū and Kakuzu observed how the village’s alliances had divided the underground world and how Dawn Hidden Village had grown through new recruits and economic incentives.
• Uchiha Yū reflected on the village’s rising land and housing prices and planned to expand it into a town and eventually a city.
• Newly arrived villagers confronted the guard force, accusing it of failing to find their missing clansmen; the guards said residents and ninja had vanished.
• Uchiha Yū arrived, questioned the guard ninja, and learned that five people were missing but the cases had not been reported upward.
• Kakuzu interrupted Uchiha Yū with information about recent deaths among villagers and ninja who had fled from elsewhere.

Uchiha Yū investigated murders linked to the Jashin Religion and used the group’s beliefs about resurrection to expose Uchiha Obito’s desire to bring back Rin Nohara. Obito attacked Yū, but Shisui broke his genjutsu, and Yū’s next words left Obito frozen as he summoned something.

• Uchiha Yū identified the sacrifice markings as belonging to the Jashin Religion, ordered a search for its leader Hidan, and planned to handle the immortal himself.
• Uchiha Yū told Kakuzu that the village needed more help managing its growth, then sent its ninja into action against the hidden Jashin followers.
• Uchiha Yū asked Uchiha Obito whether the dead could be summoned and described forbidden techniques that could bring them back.
• Uchiha Yū revealed that he knew Obito wanted to resurrect Rin Nohara and warned him that his dream world was false.
• Uchiha Obito used his Mangekyō Sharingan to try to control Yū, but Uchiha Shisui arrived and broke the genjutsu.
• Uchiha Yū said that resurrecting Rin required an intact corpse, then used Summoning Jutsu as Obito froze in shock.

Uchiha Yū revealed that Uchiha Madara had arranged Rin’s death by making her the Three-Tails’ jinchūriki, and that Kakashi had only ended her suffering. Obito accepted Yū’s help in pursuing revenge and asked him to find a way to revive Rin.

• Uchiha Yū showed Obito Rin’s corpse in an ice coffin, and Obito demanded to know why he had it.
• Uchiha Yū explained that Uchiha Madara had placed the Three-Tails inside Rin and that Kakashi had not killed her; Rin had asked Kakashi to end her suffering.
• Obito broke down upon learning the truth, awakened a surge of power, removed his mask, and vowed to make Uchiha Madara pay.
• Obito agreed to serve Uchiha Yū because their plans both opposed Uchiha Madara, but rejected the idea of reuniting with Rin through an incomplete composite body.
• Obito asked Uchiha Yū to develop a way to revive Rin so he could make amends, and Yū agreed while planning to undermine the resurrection plot from within.

Uchiha Yū planned ways to use forbidden ninjutsu to resurrect the dead, then led Akatsuki forces to confront the Jashin Religion after learning its followers threatened Dawn Hidden Village. The group entered the cult’s cave and faced Hidan, whose attacks could not hit Uchiha Yū; the nature of Jashin remained an unresolved concern.

• Uchiha Yū devised a plan to combine Life Transfer Reincarnation and Izanagi, potentially using White Zetsu as a sacrifice to resurrect someone.
• Kisame Hoshigaki reported that ninjas had surrounded the Jashin Religion, and Uchiha Yū ordered the cultists dealt with because they had targeted the village for sacrifice.
• Uchiha Yū, Obito, and Shisui arrived at the cave, where a ninja reported that Hidan could not die and had killed several comrades.
• Hidan rallied his followers to make one last charge, but Shisui’s Great Fireball burned cultists near the cave entrance as the group entered.
• Hidan attacked Uchiha Yū with his scythe, but the weapon passed through him and struck rock; Uchiha Yū mocked Hidan’s belief in Jashin’s power.

Uchiha Yū tested Hidan’s sacrificial power by letting Hidan use his blood, then used Radiation Element to injure him and study the ritual’s effects. Hidan led the group to the Jashin statue, where Kisame Hoshigaki reported seeing genjutsu.

• Uchiha Yū pinned Hidan down, cut his hand, and let Hidan use the blood to activate his sacrifice.
• Uchiha Yū sensed Jashin’s power link his body to Hidan’s and found that Radiation Element could slow, but not break, the effect.
• Uchiha Yū drew the Radiation Element out of Hidan, then ordered him to lead the group to the Jashin statue.
• Hidan led Uchiha Yū and the others through a blood-filled cave to the statue, where Kisame Hoshigaki said genjutsu had appeared before his eyes.

Uchiha Yū captured the Jashin Statue and learned that blood and sacrifices restored it, then ordered a hidden hazardous item collection room to be built. He also moved to expand Dawn Weapons Store’s economic influence in the Land of Earth and identified Rōshi’s departure from Iwagakure as an opportunity to pursue the jinchūriki without alerting their ally.

• Uchiha Yū used genjutsu to make Hidan reveal that the Jashin Statue restored itself through blood and sacrifices.
• Uchiha Yū ordered the cave destroyed, the ordinary cultists executed, and Hidan imprisoned for study.
• Uchiha Yū designated the statue hazardous item Number 001 and assigned Konan to oversee construction of a concealed storage room.
• Uchiha Yū instructed Kakuzu to begin the next phase of the plan to dominate the Land of Earth's economy.
• Uchiha Yū learned that Rōshi had left Iwagakure and decided to exploit the opportunity while keeping their alliance secret.

Rōshi and Deidara were ambushed by Akatsuki and Dawn forces, who captured them and secured the Four-Tails. Uchiha Yū then worried about the Three-Tails’ slow reformation and asked whether it could be accelerated.

• Rōshi warned Deidara that enemies were approaching, but Deidara eagerly prepared to fight.
• Kisame Hoshigaki and the attacking ninja overwhelmed Rōshi with coordinated attacks, barriers, and Adamantine Sealing Chains.
• Uchiha Yū appeared, knocked Deidara and Rōshi unconscious, and ordered Kisame Hoshigaki to take the Four-Tails’ jinchūriki away.
• Uchiha Yū said the Three-Tails’ slow reformation was now the most troublesome issue, and Kakuzu asked whether it could be sped up.