Recaps

Uchiha Yoru answered Deidara’s clay-bird attack with a senjutsu-enhanced Wind Style: Ultra-Big Ball Rasenshuriken, which erased the Stone Village Ninja Academy’s back mountain and left Deidara shaken. Yoru stood unharmed and asked Deidara whether he still thought his explosions were art.

• Deidara launched a giant C2 clay bird at Yoru, who watched without moving.
• Yoru formed a Rasengan, added wind chakra, and infused it with natural energy to create a massive Sage Art: Wind Style: Ultra-Big Ball Rasenshuriken.
• Deidara detonated the clay bird, but Yoru’s Rasenshuriken silently annihilated its blast and swept across the surrounding terrain.
• The attack left a crater over five hundred meters wide, while Yoru remained unharmed at its center.
• Deidara stared in shock as Yoru asked whether he still considered his explosions art.

Uchiha Yoru defeated Deidara with a devastating attack, prompting Deidara to abandon his defiance and beg to become Yoru’s disciple. Yoru accepted him as a recruit for Orochimaru’s research department, while Ōnoki began considering how to deal with another troublesome challenger to the Uchiha genin.

• Yoru’s attack flattened half the back mountain, and Deidara fell at his feet, awestruck by what he called true art.
• Deidara clung to Yoru and pleaded to become his disciple, offering to serve him in exchange for learning the silent explosion.
• Yoru agreed to take Deidara on under three conditions: stop calling explosions art, report to Orochimaru’s research department, and cut his hair.
• Yoru sent Deidara to pack for his new post, while Ōnoki secretly watched and marveled at how easily Yoru had subdued him.
• Ōnoki told a passing Anbu he was inspecting redevelopment work, then noted that his daughter had been challenging an Uchiha genin.

Kurotsuchi tried to ambush Yoru at the training ground, but he effortlessly countered her technique and recognized her potential for Lava Release. She began training under him and grew devoted to him, while Yoru prepared to visit Orochimaru’s laboratory to collect a delivery that could break through his body’s limits.

• Kurotsuchi sneaked into the training ground and tried to trap Yoru with Earth Style, but he dispelled her chakra with a tap and criticized her technique.
• Yoru demonstrated his control of earth, identified Kurotsuchi’s water-and-earth chakra potential, and advised her on the path to Lava Release.
• Kurotsuchi was astonished by Yoru’s insight and began visiting his training ground before dawn to serve and train with him.
• Yoru told Kurotsuchi not to rush her chakra fusion and said he would be busy the next day.
• Yoru turned toward the underground research department and planned to collect a delivery from Orochimaru’s laboratory that would help him break through his body’s limits.

Uchiha Yoru underwent a dangerous fusion of Hashirama Cells, Uchiha power, and sage chakra, emerging with a Perfect Sage Body. He tested his new strength and concluded that he could tear apart a tailed beast without Susanoo.

• Uchiha Yoru entered Hidden Stone Village's highest-security laboratory after sending away Deidara and Kurotsuchi.
• Orochimaru reported that the Perfect Gene Fusion Serum had a 99.9% success rate.
• Uchiha Yoru injected the serum and used his Mangekyo Sharingan and Sage Mode to overcome the cells' violent reaction.
• Uchiha Yoru survived the fusion and gained a Perfect Sage Body, greatly increased chakra, and rapid healing.
• Uchiha Yoru clenched his fist and declared that he could tear apart a tailed beast without Susanoo.

Leaf Village’s manpower crisis worsened as the village forced the Hyuga Clan to take on most of its dangerous reconnaissance and escort missions. Hiashi Hyuga, seeing how the Uchiha were treated in Hidden Stone Village, began to wonder whether the Hyuga should have left with them.

• Koharu Utatane and Homura Mitokado warned Hiruzen Sarutobi that the village was losing missions and lacked combat strength.
• Shimura Danzo proposed shifting the burden to the Hyuga Clan, and Hiruzen Sarutobi tacitly agreed.
• Hizashi Hyuga told Hiashi Hyuga that seventeen branch-family members had died and more than fifty were seriously wounded after the clan received most of the village’s dangerous missions.
• Hizashi accused the village of using the branch family as cannon fodder, but Hiashi ordered him to stay silent and called their service the Hyuga Clan’s fate.
• Hiashi recalled the Uchiha Clan’s welcome in Hidden Stone Village and wondered whether the Hyuga would have fared better if they had left with them.

The Hidden Cloud Village accused the Hyuga Clan of killing its envoy and demanded the murderer, while Hiruzen Sarutobi pressured the clan to accept blame to preserve peace. Hizashi Hyuga accepted the sacrifice in place of his brother Hiashi and left the Hokage Building, resigned to the branch family's fate.

• Hiashi Hyuga was summoned to a meeting where Hidden Cloud envoy Headman accused the Hyuga Clan of killing an envoy who had sought a meeting with Hinata Hyuga.
• Hiashi accused the Hidden Cloud Village of attempting to kidnap Hinata and refused to accept its demands, but Hiruzen Sarutobi insisted the matter had to be settled to avoid another conflict.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi and the elders proposed handing over Hizashi Hyuga, Hiashi's twin, as the supposed killer because he looked like his brother.
• Hizashi bowed to Hiashi, accepted the branch family's fate, and walked out of the Hokage Building as Hiashi tearfully called after him.
• Hizashi touched the Caged Bird curse mark on his forehead and told Hiashi not to mourn, saying the branch family had always been treated as a sacrifice.

Uchiha Yoru stopped Hizashi Hyuga from killing himself and freed him from the Caged Bird curse mark. Hizashi pledged his life to Yoru, while a White Zetsu clone stood ready to take his place.

• Hizashi prepared to die for the Hyuga Clan and left a note for his brother.
• Uchiha Yoru appeared through a spatial vortex, stopped Hizashi, and broke his kunai.
• Yoru challenged Hizashi’s belief that his death would protect his family or the village.
• Yoru unsealed a White Zetsu clone of Hizashi to serve as his stand-in.
• Yoru used his Mangekyō Sharingan and chakra to dismantle Hizashi’s Caged Bird curse mark.
• Hizashi knelt before Yoru and pledged his life to him.

Hiruzen Sarutobi handed a corpse he claimed was Hizashi Hyuga to the Hidden Cloud delegation, but the Hidden Stone Village soon exposed the sacrifice and mocked the Leaf’s leadership in a mass-distributed proclamation. The Leaf Village erupted in anger, and Hiruzen collapsed after reading the flyer signed by Ōnoki and Uchiha Yoru.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi handed the Hidden Cloud delegation a body resembling Hiashi Hyuga and asked to restore peace between the villages.
• A giant ninja eagle scattered thousands of flyers across the Leaf Village, carrying the Hidden Stone Village’s proclamation.
• Leaf villagers read the proclamation accusing their leaders of sacrificing Hizashi Hyuga and inviting oppressed clans to defect to the Hidden Stone Village.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi read the flyer in his office, recognized that its accusations were true, and spat blood before collapsing unconscious.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi blamed Uchiha Yoru as he lost consciousness.

Minato awakened in Hidden Stone Village after Orochimaru's Hashirama Cell treatment and learned from Yoru's newspapers that Leaf Village's leaders had sacrificed Hizashi, oppressed civilian shinobi, and endangered Naruto. He rejected the village he had once protected and declared that it should be destroyed.

• Minato woke in the medical pod, reunited with Kushina, and recalled that Yoru had saved and brought their family to Hidden Stone Village.
• Yoru showed Minato newspapers reporting Hizashi Hyuga's death, civilian shinobi protests, and Naruto's suspected imprisonment by Leaf Village's higher-ups.
• Kushina condemned Leaf Village's leaders, while Minato questioned the village's past abuses and his own role as Hokage.
• Minato crushed the newspapers, unleashed his enhanced power, and told Yoru that Leaf Village no longer deserved to exist.

Minato reunited with Kushina and Naruto in the Hidden Stone Village and formally left the Leaf Village with his family to serve Ōnoki. Yoru then revealed that Kakashi was leading a Leaf delegation to the border to beg for food.

• Yoru brought Minato, newly awakened and wearing a plain white cloak, to meet Ōnoki in the Tsuchikage Building.
• Naruto rushed into the office, and Kushina and Minato recognized their healthy, cheerful son and embraced him.
• Seeing Naruto safe and happy in the Hidden Stone Village, Minato abandoned his remaining attachment to the Leaf Village.
• Minato and Kushina formally declared that they were leaving the Leaf Village and would serve the Hidden Stone Village.
• Yoru told Minato and Ōnoki that Kakashi was leading Leaf villagers to the border to beg for food.

Over four years, Uchiha Yoru and Minato helped transform Hidden Stone’s academy into a brutal, high-tech training system that produced exceptionally capable young ninja. After deciding the regular students had reached their limits, Yoru prepared to personally train two talented boys from Minato and Fugaku’s families.

• Ōnoki praised Yoru’s modern education reforms as young students trained under double gravity, while Yoru complained about the equipment’s enormous power costs.
• Minato put the students through punishing high-speed reaction drills, striking them with paint-filled tennis balls and ordering extra push-ups.
• Fugaku and Uchiha elites tested the students’ resistance to genjutsu, and the children broke through the mental interference without collapsing.
• Young Hidden Stone students demonstrated their strength by using C-rank ninjutsu, frightening foreign spies who fled to report what they had seen.
• Yoru told Minato and Fugaku to prepare their families’ talented boys for special tutoring that he would begin the next day.

Yoru began brutal private training for Naruto and Sasuke in the Hidden Stone Village, pushing their rivalrous growth with Minato’s help. During a spar, Naruto awakened the Nine-Tails’ chakra, and Yoru stopped Minato from intervening because he sensed no killing intent.

• Yoru assigned Naruto to real combat training with Minato and made Sasuke practice under a Fivefold Gravity Seal.
• Naruto and Sasuke trained relentlessly for half a month, sharpening their Wind Style and Lightning-nature chakra while competing with each other.
• Yoru held a sparring match in which Sasuke trapped Naruto with fireballs and wire.
• Naruto’s Nine-Tails’ chakra erupted, forming a dark-red cloak and fox tail that blasted apart the flames and melted the wires.
• Minato moved to suppress Naruto, but Yoru stopped him and said Naruto’s chakra showed competitiveness rather than killing intent.

Naruto entered his inner world and met Kurama, whose attempt to overwhelm him with hatred failed against Naruto’s cheerful curiosity and kindness. Back at the training grounds, Kurama’s chakra withdrew, and Yoru urged Sasuke to attack Naruto while he was exhausted.

• Kurama tried to seize control of Naruto by unleashing his malice, but Naruto showed no fear and called him a huge red fox.
• Naruto offered Kurama dried meat and promised they would be friends, leaving Kurama stunned by his kindness.
• Kurama’s crimson chakra vanished, and Naruto dropped to his knees, panting on the scorched training ground.
• Minato asked Yoru why Kurama’s chakra had retreated, and Yoru said Naruto had friend-zoned the fox.
• Yoru told Sasuke that Naruto’s chakra was running low and urged him to attack.

Yoru entered Naruto’s sealing space and persuaded the Nine-Tails to lend Naruto chakra in exchange for games, movies, and food. Back at the training field, Naruto awakened Nine-Tails Chakra Mode, leaving Sasuke and Minato stunned as Yoru urged him to fight.

• Yoru suppressed the Nine-Tails with the Gate of the Great God after it threatened Naruto.
• Yoru offered the Nine-Tails entertainment and food in exchange for providing Naruto with chakra, and the Nine-Tails agreed.
• Naruto erupted in golden chakra with black magatama patterns as Sasuke approached him with a kunai.
• Sasuke was blasted backward, and Minato recognized Naruto’s power as Nine-Tails Chakra Mode.
• Yoru told Naruto to attack Sasuke while Minato demanded to know what Yoru had done.

Jiraiya returned to Leaf Village after four years away and found Minato and Kushina’s home sealed and abandoned. An Anbu told him that the Uchiha Clan had taken Naruto to Stone Village and that Minato was reportedly alive, leaving Jiraiya determined to confront the Third Hokage.

• Jiraiya returned to Leaf Village, eager to visit his four-year-old godson Naruto before reporting to the Hokage.
• Jiraiya found Minato and Kushina’s home dusty, empty, and sealed with Anbu tags.
• Jiraiya seized a patrolling Anbu and demanded to know where Naruto was.
• The Anbu revealed that the Uchiha Clan had defected during the Nine-Tails’ Attack and taken Naruto with them, and that Stone Village had announced Minato was alive and with them.
• Jiraiya suspected the Third Hokage had concealed wrongdoing and headed toward the Hokage Building demanding an explanation.

Jiraiya confronted Hiruzen Sarutobi over Minato and Naruto’s disappearance and condemned his rule and treatment of the Uchiha Clan. After smashing the Hokage’s desk, Jiraiya left to find his godson in the Hidden Stone Village.

• Jiraiya forced his way into the Hokage's office and demanded that Hiruzen Sarutobi explain where Minato and Naruto had gone.
• Hiruzen blamed Minato's departure on the Uchiha Clan and defended Danzō's actions, but Jiraiya rejected his account.
• Jiraiya accused Hiruzen of sacrificing Hizashi Hyuga and White Fang to protect his own authority and criticized his use of Root.
• Jiraiya smashed the Hokage's desk with a chakra-enhanced punch, leaving Hiruzen on the floor as the Anbu held back.
• Jiraiya refused to help Hiruzen clean up the village's problems and announced he would go to the Hidden Stone Village to find his godson.

After Hiruzen Sarutobi drove Orochimaru from Leaf Village to divert scrutiny from the village’s scandals, Orochimaru fled to the Valley of the End, where Uchiha Yoru confronted him. Yoru offered Orochimaru a scroll and said he had come to bring him the truth.

• Danzō showed Hiruzen Sarutobi evidence of Orochimaru’s human experiments and urged him to deal with the fallout.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi led Anbu to raid Orochimaru’s laboratory, but Orochimaru escaped after suffering serious injuries.
• Orochimaru reached the Valley of the End and planned to travel to the Land of Rice Fields to establish Sound Village.
• Uchiha Yoru appeared atop Madara Uchiha’s statue, and Orochimaru attacked him with venomous snakes.
• Yoru destroyed the snakes with chakra pressure, offered Orochimaru a scroll, and said he had come to bring him the truth.

Yoru used advanced scientific plans to recruit Orochimaru, offering him a fully equipped laboratory and unlimited research resources in Iwagakure. Orochimaru accepted the offer by kneeling before Yoru and asking what he had to do.

• Yoru sent Orochimaru a scroll detailing technologies for Hashirama cell fusion, cloning, and other scientific advances.
• Orochimaru was stunned by the scroll’s ideas for chakra batteries, explosive-tag weapons, and hand-seal-free armor.
• Yoru offered Orochimaru hundreds more technologies and promised him a lavish laboratory and access to Ōtsutsuki ruins in Iwagakure.
• Orochimaru knelt before Yoru and asked what price he needed to pay.
• Yoru told Orochimaru to join his research department and promised unlimited funding and materials.

Uchiha Yoru established a lavish research institute in Hidden Stone Village and recruited Orochimaru to develop a safe Wood Release gene serum. After two weeks of work, Orochimaru succeeded and declared Hidden Stone Village the true holy land of science.

• Yoru brought Orochimaru to Ōnoki, suppressed the Tsuchikage's suspicion, and led Orochimaru to his new laboratory.
• Yoru showed Orochimaru the advanced institute and introduced Kakuzu as Hidden Stone Village's chief financial officer, who provided a billion ryō in research funding.
• Yoru gave Orochimaru Hashirama's cell sample and ordered him to create a safe gene fusion serum, then slapped him for proposing to steal Sasuke's body.
• Orochimaru embraced the cloning research, spent the next half month working in the laboratory, and successfully produced a stable Wood Release cell serum.
• Orochimaru praised Hidden Stone Village as a holy land of science and condemned Leaf Village for wasting his life.

Black Zetsu discovered that Uchiha Yoru had disrupted its plans, as the Uchiha Clan, Minato, and Orochimaru had all defected to the Hidden Stone Village. It decided to make Obito test Yoru and retrieve the Nine-Tails jinchūriki.

• White Zetsu brought Black Zetsu intelligence reports showing that the Uchiha Clan had defected to the Hidden Stone Village and that Danzō had failed to stop them.
• Black Zetsu learned that Minato had survived the Nine-Tails incident and defected to the Stone Village with the newborn jinchūriki.
• Black Zetsu read that Orochimaru had left the Leaf Village to lead the Stone Village's Supreme Scientific Research Institute.
• Black Zetsu traced the upheavals to Uchiha Yoru, a previously insignificant genin who had torn apart the Death God and swayed Ōnoki.
• Black Zetsu learned that Obito was hiding in the Kamui dimension and decided to send him to test Yoru and take back the Nine-Tails brat.

Obito infiltrated the Hidden Stone Village to steal Naruto, but Uchiha Yoru and Minato Namikaze ambushed him. Yoru stopped Obito from escaping with Kamui and prepared to question him.

• Obito bypassed the Hidden Stone Village’s sensory barrier and found four-year-old Naruto asleep at the academy’s training grounds.
• As Obito began using Kamui to take Naruto, Yoru revealed that he had been waiting for him.
• Yoru exposed Obito’s Madara disguise and called Minato out of the shadows.
• Minato confronted Obito over the Nine-Tails attack, and Obito realized he had walked into a trap.
• Obito tried to escape with Kamui, but Yoru interfered with the space around him and stopped him.
• Yoru appeared behind Obito, restrained him, and asked which leg he would leave behind as his admission fee.

Minato Namikaze and Uchiha Yoru trapped Obito and stopped him from escaping with Kamui. After Minato struck him with a Super Big Ball Rasengan, Yoru prepared to remove his mask.

• Obito recognized Minato and tried to escape through Kamui.
• Minato teleported above Obito and brought down a Super Big Ball Rasengan.
• Yoru froze the space around Obito, stopping Kamui before he could become intangible.
• Minato's Rasengan smashed into Obito and threw him into a crater.
• Yoru grabbed Obito's spiral mask and prepared to tear it off.

Uchiha Yoru and Minato overwhelmed Obito at the training ground, but Obito used Izanagi to survive Minato’s attack and escaped through Kamui. Yoru stopped Minato from pursuing him, deciding to let Obito go for now.

• Minato struck Obito with a Super Big Ball Rasengan, while Yoru taunted him at the edge of the crater.
• Obito unleashed Wood Release spikes, but Yoru shattered them with a Susanoo arm and blocked Obito’s Kamui.
• Minato teleported to Obito and slashed his throat, but Obito used Izanagi to turn his death into an illusion at the cost of his left Sharingan.
• Obito reappeared nearby, badly injured, and opened a small Kamui rift to escape.
• Yoru stopped Minato from interrupting Obito’s escape and said there was no need to chase him.

Obito returned to the cave gravely wounded and reported that Minato was alive and Uchiha Yoru had trapped him by freezing space. Black Zetsu began to suspect that Yoru was an Ōtsutsuki ancestor who had come to the Shinobi World.

• White Zetsu emerged in the cave and wondered why Obito had not returned with the child yet.
• Obito was thrown from a Kamui tear, badly injured and pleading for help, and Black Zetsu used Yin-Yang Release chakra to keep him alive.
• Obito told Black Zetsu and White Zetsu that Minato was alive and stronger than during the Nine-Tails' Attack.
• Obito said Uchiha Yoru had frozen the space around him and stopped Kamui, forcing him to use Izanagi to survive.
• Black Zetsu recalled Yoru's recent feats and wondered whether he was an Ōtsutsuki ancestor reincarnated.

After defeating Obito, Uchiha Yoru proposed a five-year modernization plan to make Iwagakure the dominant power in the Shinobi World. The chapter ended with Ōnoki and the gathered leaders pledging the village’s resources to his ambition to unite the world under Stone Village.

• Ōnoki reflected on the defeat of Obito and felt secure with Uchiha Yoru and Minato Namikaze protecting Iwagakure.
• Yoru convened Iwagakure’s leaders and announced the Stone Village Five-Year Modernized Military Plan.
• Orochimaru demonstrated a Chakra-powered repeating crossbow that let even a genin unleash firepower comparable to a B-rank Fire Release.
• Yoru tasked Minato with developing a large-scale teleportation array for rapid deployments across the Shinobi World.
• Kakuzu revealed plans to manipulate food and iron ore markets around Leaf Village and other client nations.
• Ōnoki gave Yoru access to Iwagakure’s resources, and Yoru declared that Stone Village would become the Shinobi World’s sole overlord.