Recaps

Orochimaru tried to brand Sasuke with the Cursed Seal of Heaven, but Uchiha Mu intervened and drove him away. Orochimaru then attacked Anko and Kakashi, leaving both shinobi badly wounded as the arena watched.

• Orochimaru secretly approached Sasuke and tempted him with the promise of power and revenge.
• Uchiha Mu appeared before Orochimaru could complete his plan, blocked his escape with spatial power, and forced him to withdraw.
• Sasuke struggled with his desire for strength while Naruto reassured him, and Temari's admiration for Uchiha Mu grew.
• Orochimaru returned and attacked Anko, dismantling her techniques and wounding her as he mocked her strength.
• Kakashi charged Orochimaru with Chidori, but Orochimaru evaded him and used Hidden Shadow Snake Hands to overpower and wound him.

Uchiha Mu forced Orochimaru to retreat after he nearly defeated Anko and Kakashi, but Orochimaru remained at the exam arena awaiting the Konoha Crush Plan. The Third, Hiruzen Sarutobi, arrived to confront his former student, and Orochimaru began summoning the dead with Impure World Reincarnation.

• Uchiha Mu stopped Orochimaru from seriously injuring Anko and Kakashi, threatening him with Amaterasu until he withdrew.
• Temari watched Uchiha Mu with growing affection while the Hidden Sand invasion spread chaos through Konoha.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi arrived at the exam arena and challenged Orochimaru over his betrayal of Konoha.
• Orochimaru rejected Hiruzen's ideals and declared that Konoha's collapse was inevitable.
• Hiruzen summoned Monkey King Enma and prepared to fight Orochimaru.
• Orochimaru performed Impure World Reincarnation as his forbidden technique's power stirred beneath the arena.

Uchiha Mu stepped in to keep Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju from helping Orochimaru fight Hiruzen Sarutobi, imprisoning the two Hokage with his spacetime technique. Hashirama broke free with Wood Release: True Several Thousand Hands, shattering the prison and devastating Konoha’s outer district.

• Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju emerged through Orochimaru’s Impure World Reincarnation, leaving Hiruzen facing three opponents.
• Uchiha Mu volunteered to hold back the two Hokage while Hiruzen fought Orochimaru.
• Uchiha Mu used Spacetime: Stasis Prison to restrain Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju, preventing Orochimaru from attacking Hiruzen with them.
• Hashirama Senju unleashed Wood Release: True Several Thousand Hands and shattered Uchiha Mu’s spacetime prison.
• Hashirama Senju’s attack sent shockwaves through the area, destroying half of Konoha’s outer district.

Uchiha Mu fought Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju to a standstill, earning their recognition as a protector of Konoha. The Third Hokage sealed the two brothers and Orochimaru with the Reaper Death Seal, leaving half of Konoha in ruins and Mu’s name famous across the shinobi world.

• Uchiha Mu reversed Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju’s attacks, then fought them evenly with his space-time techniques, Eight Gates, and other powers.
• Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju acknowledged Uchiha Mu’s strength and accepted that he could protect Konoha.
• The Third Hokage, badly wounded, used the Reaper Death Seal while Orochimaru and the two Hokage were unable to escape.
• Uchiha Mu stepped aside as the First and Second Hokage’s souls were pulled from their Impure World Reincarnation bodies and returned to the Pure Land.
• The battle left half of Konoha destroyed, and Uchiha Mu’s name resounded throughout the shinobi world.

Uchiha Mu defeated the reanimated First and Second Hokage, ending Orochimaru’s attack on Konoha and earning the battlefield’s awe. As Orochimaru fled, Danzo secretly prepared to assassinate Mu, who sensed the threat and was ready to confront him.

• Uchiha Mu’s battle with Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju ended when the Reaper Death Seal took their souls and sealed Orochimaru’s hands.
• Naruto, Sasuke, Temari, the Konoha jonin, and Hiruzen Sarutobi reacted with awe, shock, admiration, or guilt as they watched Mu stand victorious.
• Orochimaru fled the battlefield with Kabuto Yakushi, leaving the Konoha Crush Plan in failure.
• The gathered ninja praised Mu as Konoha’s hero, but he remained indifferent to their respect.
• Shimura Danzō decided Mu threatened his ambitions, ordered Root ANBU operatives to prepare an assassination, and Mu sensed his killing intent.

After the battle, Danzo ambushed Uchiha Mu with Root’s elite ANBU, but Mu killed them all and forced Danzo out of hiding. Danzo vowed to take Mu down with him as Mu prepared to face him.

• Uchiha Mu left the battlefield, while Sasuke followed him in silence before turning to leave.
• Danzo’s Root ANBU surrounded Mu and launched a coordinated attack, believing his strength had been depleted.
• Mu activated his Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan and five kekkei genkai, stopping the attacks and killing every Root ninja.
• Mu found Danzo’s hiding place and forced him to fall from the trees.
• Danzo threatened to die together with Mu as Mu’s five kekkei genkai, Susanoo, and Sky Piercer halberd gathered power.

Uchiha Mu defeated Danzō and stripped him of his power after breaking through Izanagi with his Susanoo. As Konoha’s leaders and jonin bowed to him, news of his strength spread across the ninja world, leaving his legendary rise only beginning.

• Danzō revealed the Sharingan implanted in his right arm and used Izanagi before charging at Uchiha Mu.
• Uchiha Mu summoned his third-stage Susanoo and struck Danzō with the Sky-Piercing Halberd, breaking Izanagi and crippling him.
• Uchiha Mu sealed Danzō’s chakra and condemned him for acting out of ambition rather than for Konoha.
• Mitokado Homura, Utatane Koharu, and Konoha’s jonin witnessed the battle and bowed to Uchiha Mu.
• News of Uchiha Mu’s victory spread through Konoha and across the ninja world, making the surviving Uchiha a figure of fear and reverence.

Envoys from the Five Great Ninja Villages arrived in Konoha to pay their respects to Uchiha Mu and gauge the village’s position. Mu exchanged silent, affectionate glances with Mabui and Temari from the mountain, while the envoys chose to wait at the gates rather than disturb him.

• Sasuke trained relentlessly at the grounds while Uchiha Mu watched without offering guidance.
• Envoys from the Hidden Cloud, Hidden Stone, Hidden Mist, and Hidden Sand arrived at Konoha carrying treasured gifts for Uchiha Mu.
• Mabui and Mu exchanged a silent glance, while Temari traveled with Kankuro hoping to see Mu again.
• Homura Mitokado and Koharu Utatane welcomed the envoys, but Homura explained that Mu disliked being disturbed.
• Mabui and the other envoys agreed to wait outside Konoha's gates for Mu.

Uchiha Mu refused to meet the five villages’ envoys until Mabui’s gift caught his attention, prompting him to appear at Konoha’s entrance. Temari confessed her feelings to him, and he left both her and Mabui with encouragement before teleporting away.

• Uchiha Mu declined to meet the envoys from the five great ninja villages, who had waited at Konoha’s entrance.
• Mabui left Kumogakure’s Lightning Release chakra crystal as a gift, and Uchiha Mu appeared to accept it and thank her.
• Temari publicly confessed that she liked Uchiha Mu, and he told her to train hard and that he would be watching her.
• Uchiha Mu told Mabui “You too,” then teleported away, while Temari resolved to train and stand by his side.
• The envoys left their gifts and departed, as Kankuro urged Temari to return to Sunagakure.

Konoha’s leaders failed to find Uchiha Mu and decided to use marriage to tie him to the village, while Mu watched Sasuke train. Itachi and Kisame then appeared at the training ground, where Sasuke confronted the brother he hated.

• Mitokado Homura and Utatane Koharu brought gifts to Mu’s former mountaintop, found him gone, and left the gifts behind.
• The Konoha higher-ups decided to offer eligible women to Mu in hopes of securing his bloodline and loyalty through marriage.
• Mu found Sasuke training with Fire Release at an abandoned training ground and watched him practice.
• Itachi and Kisame appeared at the training ground, and Mu recognized Itachi’s formidable strength.
• Kisame challenged Mu as his chakra surged, while Sasuke stiffened at Itachi’s voice and shouted his name.

Itachi activated Sasuke’s Cursed Seal of Heaven and overwhelmed him, intensifying his hatred and resolve to gain power. After Itachi and Kisame left, Sasuke demanded a fight from Naruto, then Uchiha Mu knocked him unconscious as Jiraiya warned that only Tsunade might heal his injuries.

• Sasuke attacked Itachi with a Great Fireball Technique, but Itachi dodged and struck Sasuke with chakra that activated the Cursed Seal of Heaven.
• The chapter recounted how Itachi and Kisame had defeated several Konoha instructors and reached the rear mountain training ground.
• Itachi taunted Sasuke and fueled his hatred, while Uchiha Mu watched; Sasuke swore he would grow stronger and kill Itachi.
• Itachi and Kisame departed after Itachi told Sasuke to seek him out once he was strong enough, and Mu calmed Sasuke’s rampaging Curse Mark.
• Naruto rushed to Sasuke, who demanded that Naruto fight him so he could become stronger; Mu then knocked Sasuke unconscious.
• Jiraiya told Mu that Tsunade might be the only one able to heal Sasuke’s injuries.

Jiraiya and Naruto found Tsunade and asked her to return to Konoha as Fifth Hokage, but she refused because of the losses she had suffered. Orochimaru then offered to revive Nawaki and Dan Katō in exchange for breaking the seal on his hands, and Tsunade rejected him and prepared to fight.

• Jiraiya asked Tsunade to return to Konoha, become Fifth Hokage, and treat the injured, but Tsunade rejected his request.
• Naruto urged Tsunade to protect Konoha and promised to train and keep her safe.
• Orochimaru and Kabuto Yakushi entered the tavern, and Orochimaru offered to revive Nawaki and Dan Katō if Tsunade broke the seal on his hands.
• Tsunade saw through Orochimaru's offer and refused to help him endanger Konoha.
• Tsunade activated the Strength of a Hundred Seal and prepared to fight Orochimaru.

Orochimaru and Kabuto attacked Tsunade after she refused to help them, but Naruto and Jiraiya intervened to protect her. Seeing them fight and remembering Nawaki and Dan Katō, Tsunade overcame her hemophobia and rose to join the battle.

• Orochimaru ordered Kabuto to cripple Tsunade, and Kabuto used poisonous mist and a bloodied kunai to trigger her hemophobia.
• Kabuto struck at the helpless Tsunade, but Naruto erupted with Nine-Tails chakra and blocked his attack before countering with a Rasengan.
• Jiraiya entered Sage Mode and attacked Orochimaru with a fire technique, while Orochimaru summoned a mass of snakes that Jiraiya cut down with a Rasenshuriken.
• Tsunade remembered Nawaki, Dan Katō, and the people fighting to protect her, then suppressed her fear and reactivated the Strength of a Hundred Seal.
• Tsunade stood and walked toward the battlefield with a determined gaze.

Tsunade overcame her hemophobia and joined Jiraiya and Naruto in fighting Orochimaru and Kabuto. After Tsunade defeated Kabuto and Naruto helped injure Orochimaru, Orochimaru unleashed a forbidden technique and attacked Jiraiya with his transformed snake tails.

• Tsunade overcame her hemophobia, struck Kabuto with Monster Strength, and awakened her resolve to fight for Konoha.
• Jiraiya battled Orochimaru with Sage Art while Tsunade fought Kabuto and Naruto supported Jiraiya with Rasengan.
• Tsunade shattered Kabuto's shoulder, leaving him unable to fight, while Naruto's Nine-Tails: Rasengan destroyed Orochimaru's venomous snake and injured Orochimaru.
• Wounded and low on chakra, Jiraiya, Tsunade, and Naruto stood their ground as Orochimaru began transforming.
• Orochimaru used the Forbidden Technique: Snake Shedding Technique and lashed his snake tails toward Jiraiya.

Uchiha Mu appeared as Jiraiya, Tsunade, and Naruto were on the verge of defeat against Orochimaru. He stopped the battle and suppressed Orochimaru, dismantling the power of his forbidden technique.

• Jiraiya summoned Mount Myoboku’s chief toad while Tsunade and Naruto attacked Orochimaru, but Orochimaru injured them and struck Jiraiya with a poisoned needle.
• Jiraiya and Tsunade continued fighting Orochimaru until their injuries and dwindling strength left them unable to gain an advantage.
• Naruto, too injured to move, silently prayed for Uchiha Mu to appear as Orochimaru prepared to finish off Jiraiya and Tsunade.
• Uchiha Mu arrived, and his presence made Jiraiya, Tsunade, and Orochimaru stop moving.
• Uchiha Mu declared Konoha’s affairs his concern and suppressed Orochimaru, sealing his chakra and stripping away the power of his forbidden technique.

Uchiha Mu brought Tsunade back to Konoha to become the Fifth Hokage, while Sasuke chose to leave and seek power from Orochimaru after fighting Naruto. The chapter ended with Uchiha Mu allowing Sasuke to go and Naruto calling after him.

• Uchiha Mu drove Orochimaru away and persuaded Tsunade to return to Konoha as its Fifth Hokage.
• Tsunade returned to Konoha, restored order, treated the injured, and improved the village's medical system.
• Sasuke decided to leave Konoha, and Naruto chased him to the Valley of the End.
• Naruto and Sasuke fought with their chakra, ninjutsu, and Sharingan, leaving both injured.
• Sasuke told Naruto he would pay any price to grow stronger, then left to find Orochimaru while Uchiha Mu watched without stopping him.
• Naruto stiffened and roared Sasuke's name as Sasuke disappeared beyond Konoha.

After Sasuke left to train under Orochimaru, Naruto resolved to grow stronger and traveled with Jiraiya for a year of demanding wilderness training. Tsunade became the Fifth Hokage and began restoring Konoha, while Uchiha Mu warned that threats from Orochimaru and the Akatsuki remained.

• Uchiha Mu stopped Naruto from chasing Sasuke and told him that he would need to become stronger to bring Sasuke back.
• Naruto asked Jiraiya to train him, and Jiraiya agreed to take him on missions.
• Tsunade officially became the Fifth Hokage, while Jiraiya began gathering intelligence on the Akatsuki and Sasuke reached Orochimaru.
• Uchiha Mu warned Tsunade that Konoha still faced danger from Orochimaru and the Akatsuki, then vanished using a spacetime technique.
• Tsunade and Konoha's senior officials worked to restore order and arrange defenses, while Tsunade went with Shizune to check on the Third Hokage.
• Jiraiya took Naruto across the world for a year of grueling training, strengthening his body and chakra control and helping him suppress the Nine-Tails' malice.

From Konoha Year 62 to 65, Naruto trained with Jiraiya to master senjutsu and control the Nine-Tails’ chakra, while Sasuke grew stronger under Orochimaru and secretly planned against him. Meanwhile, Uchiha Mu rose within Konoha’s ANBU and uncovered Danzo’s secrets, though he had already killed most of those involved.

• Naruto traveled with Jiraiya for three years, mastered Sage Mode, developed new Rasengan forms, and learned to briefly activate Nine-Tails Mode.
• Sasuke endured Orochimaru’s brutal training, refined his swordsmanship and Chidori techniques, and mastered his Three-Tomoe Sharingan and Cursed Seal of Heaven.
• Naruto remained determined to find Sasuke and bring him back to Konoha, while Sasuke vowed to settle things with Itachi and Orochimaru.
• Uchiha Mu gained the Third Hokage’s trust as a core ANBU member while secretly gathering intelligence on Konoha’s leadership and Danzo’s activities.
• Uchiha Mu learned that Danzo cultivated Root, assassinated dissidents, coveted the Uchiha Clan’s Sharingan, and had ties to the Akatsuki Organization, though Mu had already killed most of those involved.

Uchiha Mu left Konoha and formally established the Void Organization at its hidden valley base, where he used a Collective Rank-Up Card to strengthen its members. He ordered the organization to investigate the Tailed Beasts and left its next move dependent on an opportunity to seize their chakra, just as an intelligence officer arrived.

• Uchiha Mu left Konoha while an incarnation remained behind, then traveled to the hidden valley base where Izumi was waiting.
• Izumi reported that Void had forty members, and Uchiha Mu used a Collective Rank-Up Card to turn its thirty chunin into jonin.
• Uchiha Mu declared that the Void Organization had officially entered the ninja world, and its members pledged loyalty to him.
• Uchiha Mu ordered the members to investigate the Tailed Beasts in groups and report any leads without acting alone.
• Uchiha Mu told Izumi he would wait for the right opportunity to seize Tailed Beast chakra, and the two reunited before an intelligence officer hurried to the valley.

Uchiha Mu subdued spies near the Void Organization’s base, then secluded himself to fuse the chakra of One-Tail Shukaku and Three-Tails Isobu. He succeeded, doubling his chakra reserves and reaching the limit of Kage level, one step from Super Kage level.

• Uchiha Mu teleported above the spies near the organization, defeated them, and uncovered their identities.
• Uchiha Mu entered seclusion to fuse the Shukaku and Isobu chakra he had collected while in ANBU.
• Uchiha Mu used his Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan to suppress the clashing chakra and repeatedly rewound time when the fusion damaged his meridians.
• Uchiha Mu finally fused the two tailed beasts’ chakra, and a surge of earth- and water-nature power spread through the base.
• Uchiha Mu found his chakra reserves had doubled and his strength had reached the limit of Kage level.

Uchiha Mu completed his training with a powerful third-form Susanoo and advanced abilities, but Obito and Deidara launched a surprise attack on the Void Organization’s stronghold. Mu and Izumi confronted them, and Mu’s first assault left Susanoo shrouded in Deidara’s explosions.

• Uchiha Mu’s Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan and fused tailed beast chakra grew stronger, and he completed his training in the secret chamber.
• Obito and Deidara led an Akatsuki attack on the Void Organization’s stronghold, injuring several of its members and demanding the chakra of the One-Tail and Three-Tails.
• Uchiha Mu and Izumi joined the battle, and Mu revealed his third-form Susanoo while Izumi activated her first-form Susanoo.
• Uchiha Mu swung Susanoo’s sword at Deidara, who dodged and sent a swarm of explosive clay birds against it.
• Deidara watched the explosions engulf Susanoo and declared that Mu was finished.

Uchiha Mu and Izumi drove off Obito and Deidara, but the battle exposed the Void Organization’s stronghold and forced them to prepare to relocate. A jonin then reported that scouts had seen the mysterious fortress appear above the forest before vanishing, leaving Mu with a lead to pursue.

• Uchiha Mu used the Domain of Time and Scar of Space to wound Obito after Izumi’s Susanoo helped him repel Deidara’s attack.
• Obito grabbed the injured Deidara and escaped through Kamui, leaving a clone behind to block Mu’s sword aura.
• Uchiha Mu and Izumi decided to evacuate the exposed stronghold, and the surviving Void Organization ninja began packing and tending to the injured.
• A jonin returned from an intelligence mission and reported that scouts had seen the massive fortress appear above the specified forest before it vanished.

Uchiha Mu infiltrated the Fortress of Space and confronted Shennong, defeating his elite guards before battling the regenerative renegade ninja. When Shennong’s Body Activation Technique proved difficult to overcome, Mu summoned his Third Form of Susanoo, prompting Shennong to channel dark chakra into the Zero-Tails and unleash its power.

• Uchiha Mu traveled to the hidden fortress alone and discovered Shennong and the Zero-Tails inside.
• Uchiha Mu silently eliminated the fortress’s sentries, entered the central hall, and announced that he would take the fortress.
• Uchiha Mu defeated Shennong’s elite jonin guards, but Shennong attacked with his Body Activation Technique and rapidly regenerated from his injuries.
• Uchiha Mu used the Scar of Space and his Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan to evade Shennong, then summoned the Third Form of Susanoo.
• Shennong fed black chakra into the Zero-Tails, causing its mist to grow violent and swallow the light in the hall.

Uchiha Mu defeated Shennong, captured the Zero-Tails, and took control of the Fortress of Space. He left the fortress under the Void Organization’s control after surpassing Kage level and becoming the Zero-Tails jinchūriki.

• Shennong fused with the Zero-Tails and seized control of the Fortress of Space’s World-Destroying Main Cannon, but Uchiha Mu suppressed the fusion and pierced Shennong’s core.
• Uchiha Mu believed Shennong was dead and tried to capture the rampaging Zero-Tails, then discovered Shennong had bound himself to its source and severed their bond with Scar of Space.
• Uchiha Mu crushed the golden capture card and, with Susanoo and the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan, subdued the Zero-Tails and absorbed it alongside the One-Tail and Three-Tails chakra.
• Uchiha Mu surpassed Kage level and became the Zero-Tails jinchūriki.
• Uchiha Mu took complete control of the Fortress of Space, shut down its main cannon, and brought the fortress down as property of the Void Organization.

Uchiha Mu led a small team into the Land of Lightning to capture the Two-Tails, where they encountered Akatsuki members Kakuzu and Hidan. He awakened Matatabi and used the Domain of Time to disable Hidan’s regeneration, leaving him unable to fight.

• Uchiha Mu made the Fortress of Space the Void Organization’s permanent base and set out with Uchiha Izumi and three intelligence ninja to find the Two-Tails.
• Uchiha Mu’s team entered the Land of Lightning and discovered Kakuzu and Hidan waiting near Hidden Cloud Village for Yugito Nii.
• Uchiha Mu awakened Matatabi by releasing the tailed beast chakra within him, causing the Two-Tails to transform and go berserk.
• Uchiha Mu sent Uchiha Izumi to fight Kakuzu and faced Hidan himself.
• Uchiha Mu trapped Hidan in the Domain of Time, froze his regeneration, and struck him until his body and ability to fight were destroyed.