Chapter Summaries

Uchiha Kyu reflected on the Uchiha Clan’s future and approached the Hyuga Clan, warning Hizashi Hyuga that Konoha’s leadership had begun to distrust them. He offered cooperation as the Hyuga Clan’s only way out and left Hizashi facing a stark choice.

• Uchiha Kyu asked Uchiha Fugaku when he and Mikoto would have another child, then considered the time remaining before the Nine-Tails attack.
• Hizashi Hyuga and Hizashi discussed the Hyuga Clan’s isolation, the elders’ inaction, and Konoha’s suspicions.
• Uchiha Kyu entered the Hyuga residence and told Hizashi Hyuga that the Konoha leadership no longer trusted the Hyuga Clan.
• Uchiha Kyu revealed that Hiruzen Sarutobi had transferred three streets of Hyuga-owned shops to the Uchiha without notifying the Hyuga Clan.
• Uchiha Kyu offered to cooperate and help abolish the Hyuga elders, insisting that the clan had no other choice.

Uchiha Kyu secured a preliminary alliance with the Hyuga Clan and stirred Hiashi Hyuga’s interest by claiming the Byakugan and Sharingan were the same. Meanwhile, Uchiha Kyu prepared to target Danzo, while Uchiha Obito urged Nagato and Konan to exploit Konoha’s weakened future generations by provoking another war.

• Hiashi Hyuga agreed to cooperate with Uchiha Kyu after they discussed trust, the Hyuga Clan’s businesses, and the clan’s future.
• Uchiha Kyu claimed that the Byakugan and Sharingan were the same, then left before Hiashi Hyuga could question him further.
• Fugaku Uchiha began arranging for Uchiha clan members to take over the businesses on the three streets outside the Uchiha Compound.
• Uchiha Kyu focused on killing Danzo and considered the Hyuga Clan alliance useful for making his scheme succeed.
• Konan told Nagato that most younger members of Konoha’s major clans had been eliminated by the Uchiha Clan, and Uchiha Obito proposed inciting other villages to drag Konoha into war.

Nagato agreed to Uchiha Obito’s plan to provoke a war by accepting commissions from shinobi villages, while Uchiha Kyu worked to draw customers to the Uchiha-run shops and helped Orochimaru move his research. The chapter ended as Uchiha Kyu handed Orochimaru’s matter over to Hyuga Hiashi in the underground laboratory.

• Uchiha Obito proposed accepting commissions from shinobi villages to start a war, and Nagato agreed.
• The Uchiha reopened the shops on the Three Great Streets, but villagers avoided them, so Uchiha Kyu sent for Huo Uchiha and told him to act lawfully and within the rules.
• Danzo confronted Hiruzen Sarutobi over evidence against Orochimaru, then left, while Minato Namikaze continued working through Konoha’s troubles.
• Orochimaru secretly transferred his important research documents and equipment with the Uchiha’s help, leaving misleading material behind for Danzo.
• An Uchiha Elite Chunin escorted Orochimaru to an underground laboratory, where Uchiha Kyu introduced Hyuga Hiashi and entrusted Orochimaru’s matter to him.

Uchiha Kyu, Orochimaru, and Hyuga Hiashi lured Danzo and Hiruzen Sarutobi to Orochimaru’s laboratory, planning to expose their human experiments. As the confrontation began, Orochimaru faced his former teacher and declared that Hiruzen had grown old.

• Orochimaru told Hyuga Hiashi that Danzo would likely go to the laboratory to inspect the Wood Release test subject, and Uchiha Kyu revealed Danzo’s secret use of Uchiha Sharingan and Root operatives.
• Hizashi Hyuga confirmed that Danzo had left for the laboratory, while the Anbu informed Hiruzen Sarutobi, who set out with his forces.
• Uchiha Kyu, Orochimaru, Hyuga Hiashi, and Uchiha Kage used a Flying Thunder God kunai to reach the laboratory, knocked out the guards, and left venomous snakes at the entrance before withdrawing.
• Hiruzen entered the laboratory and found Danzo moving equipment; they argued over the test subject until Uchiha Kyu arrived with Orochimaru, Hyuga Hiashi, and Uchiha Kage recording them.
• Uchiha Kyu accused Hiruzen and Danzo of human experiments and claimed authority to search them, while Hiruzen expressed disappointment in Orochimaru.
• Danzo blamed Hiruzen for Orochimaru, and Orochimaru took out a kunai and told his former teacher that he had grown old.

Uchiha Kyu attacked Danzo and Hiruzen Sarutobi after demanding that Hiruzen kill Danzo or face death. The battle left Hiruzen unconscious, while Uchiha Kyu disabled Danzo’s sealing technique and began beating him.

• Uchiha Kyu ordered Uchiha Kage to preserve the recording, then Uchiha Haruto and Uchiha Okamoto arrived with eight Elite Jonin.
• Uchiha Kyu gave Hiruzen Sarutobi the choice to kill Danzo or fight, and the Uchiha and Hyuga forces clashed with the Anbu and Root ninja.
• Danzo revealed Sharingan implanted in his arm, while Uchiha Kyu waited for him to release the seal.
• Danzo and Hiruzen Sarutobi coordinated an attack, but Uchiha Kyu appeared beside Danzo and severed his arm before striking Hiruzen with a Rasengan.
• Danzo tried to activate the Reverse Four Symbols Sealing Technique, but Uchiha Kyu sealed it and repeatedly stomped on him.

Uchiha Kyu captured Hiruzen Sarutobi and Danzo, then arranged to keep Hiruzen alive so Minato Namikaze could not claim power. After Uchiha forces attacked Root, Minato arrived at the Uchiha Compound, where Kyu asked Hyuga Hiashi what he planned to do about Danzo’s vacant position.

• Uchiha Kyu’s group defeated Danzo’s forces, captured Hiruzen Sarutobi, and sealed Danzo’s chakra after breaking his limbs.
• Uchiha Kyu arranged for Orochimaru to retrieve Danzo’s Sharingan and for Hyuga Hiashi to preserve the corpses for experiments.
• Uchiha Kyu decided not to kill Hiruzen Sarutobi, saying his death would let Minato Namikaze take control of Konoha.
• Uchiha Kyu ordered Uchiha Haruto to tell Minato that Danzo had wounded Hiruzen and that Root had endangered Konoha, while Fugaku Uchiha led an assault on Root’s base.
• Minato arrived at the Uchiha Compound, and Uchiha Kyu asked Hyuga Hiashi whether he had plans for the power vacuum left by Danzo.

Uchiha Kyu used Hiruzen Sarutobi’s capture to pressure Minato Namikaze into accepting the Uchiha and Hyuga clans’ demands. The chapter ended with Minato unable to refuse their push to make Hyuga Hiashi a Hokage Advisor.

• Hyuga Hiashi warned Uchiha Kyu that Minato Namikaze might not value Hiruzen Sarutobi’s survival, but Kyu insisted Minato’s loyalty to the village made it his weakness.
• Minato visited Hiruzen and learned that he was alive, though his chakra had been sealed.
• Uchiha Kyu and Hyuga Hiashi blamed Danzo for treason, urged Minato to declare him an S-rank missing-nin, and asked him to conceal the disappearances to protect Konoha’s stability.
• Uchiha Kyu proposed Hyuga Hiashi for the Hokage Advisor position, and Hiashi pledged the Hyuga Clan’s support.
• Minato realized he could not reject their demand, which was likely the price of Hiruzen’s release.

Uchiha Kyu consolidated his influence by placing Hyuga Hiashi in the Hokage's aide position and using the Hyuga Clan as a pawn in his struggle with Konoha's leadership. As the Uchiha Clan strengthened its grip on commerce and absorbed Root's resources, Might Guy sensed something was wrong in the village.

• Uchiha Kyu and Hyuga Hiashi agreed that Hiashi would become Hokage's aide, while Minato Namikaze urged them to get Hiruzen Sarutobi medical care.
• Uchiha Huo sealed shops across the three commercial streets, and Minato Namikaze used his reputation to reassure villagers shopping there.
• Danzo's designation as an S-rank missing-nin went unchallenged, and three days later Hyuga Hiashi took the aide position and authority to rebuild Root.
• Uchiha Kyu explained to Fugaku Uchiha that the aide position trapped the Hyuga Clan in the power struggle, while Uchiha operatives took control of half of Root's personnel.
• Fugaku Uchiha reported Root's records and supplies, and Uchiha Kyu ordered the clan to strengthen its younger members and protect them from retaliation.
• Might Guy told Kakashi that the village had seemed strange lately.

Uchiha Obito’s attack triggered a major battle at the Egawa Coastal Defense Line, where Hirota Uchiha led his forces against Kirigakure. As Konoha’s clan heads met to respond, Hyuga Hiashi proposed that Uchiha Kyu take command at the front, and Uchiha Kyu agreed.

• Uchiha Obito visited Konoha, remembered Rin and Kakashi, and reflected on his plan to reunite with them in a new world.
• Hirota Uchiha led his hundred Uchiha Ninja in a fighting retreat as Kirigakure’s assault threatened the Egawa Coastal Defense Line.
• Uchiha Kyu learned that the first defense line had fallen and told Fugaku Uchiha that the war would give the Uchiha Clan an opportunity to grow stronger.
• Minato Namikaze convened Konoha’s clan heads to discuss Kirigakure’s attack, while Uchiha Kyu faced their hostility.
• Hyuga Hiashi suggested that Uchiha Kyu take command at the Egawa Coast, and Uchiha Kyu accepted.

Uchiha Kyu left Konoha with reinforcements for the Egawa Coastal Defense Line, while Hiruzen Sarutobi and the Hyuga prepared to act in his absence. At the besieged front, Uchiha Shin and Uchiha Tadashi debated how to protect their clan members before a Mist Ninja raid engulfed the camp in fog.

• Uchiha Kyu refused to take Uchiha Okamoto, Uchiha Shisui, or Uchiha Itachi with him, and left Uchiha Fugaku in charge of the clan.
• After Uchiha Kyu departed, Hiruzen Sarutobi secretly summoned the Ino–Shika–Cho clan heads, while Hyuga Hiashi arranged for the main family to monitor the Three Great Streets.
• Huo Uchiha told Orochimaru that Anbu were searching for him, but Orochimaru continued his experiments with the First Hokage Cells.
• At the Egawa Coastal Defense Line, Uchiha Shin and Uchiha Tadashi discussed gathering their scattered clansmen as Hirota Uchiha lay unconscious from his fight with three Elite Jonin.
• Explosions erupted near the camp and thick fog covered it, prompting Uchiha Shin to order the clansmen to gather while he withdrew with Hirota Uchiha.

Uchiha Tadashi and Uchiha Shin awakened the Three-Tomoe Sharingan during a desperate battle against the Mist Ninja, after Hirota Uchiha was seemingly killed protecting them. Uchiha Kyu arrived with Konoha reinforcements, helped turn the battle around, and the Mist Ninja retreated to their first Egawa Defense Line.

• Uchiha Shin left the injured Hirota Uchiha in hiding and returned to help Uchiha Tadashi lead the clansmen in defending against the Mist Ninja encirclement.
• Keisuke Uchiha, Masao Uchiha, Makoto Uchiha, Yuki Uchiha, Ayako Uchiha, and Kazu Uchiha stayed behind to hold off the Mist Ninja while Tadashi and Shin tried to protect the others.
• Hirota Uchiha ambushed Hikari Hozuki but was struck down, and Tadashi and Shin awakened their Three-Tomoe Sharingan in grief and attacked Hikari.
• Hirota Uchiha rose again and killed Hikari Hozuki with Lightning Release: Lightning Binding Blade, then collapsed as Uchiha Kyu arrived and supported him.
• Konoha's reinforcements charged in, and Uchiha Kyu ordered a pursuit that drove the Mist Ninja back to the first Egawa Defense Line.
• Uchiha Kyu congratulated Tadashi and Shin on awakening the Three-Tomoe Sharingan.

Uchiha Kyu explained that Izanagi was a forbidden technique meant to protect the clan and planned to teach it to qualified Uchiha, while holding the Egawa Coastal Defense Line rather than ending the war quickly. As attacks opened on several fronts, Fugaku Uchiha warned Uchiha Shisui that Konoha's leadership might move against the clan.

• Uchiha Kyu told Uchiha Shin and Uchiha Tadashi that he would teach them Izanagi, despite Hirota Uchiha's concern that the technique could provoke conflict.
• Uchiha Kyu arranged care for six badly wounded clansmen, then ordered his forces to camp and defend their current position with Hyuga support.
• Uchiha Kyu told Hirota Uchiha that he was prolonging the conflict to give the Uchiha Clan time to develop while the Fourth Hokage faced pressure to retake the line.
• Iwagakure, Kumogakure, and Sunagakure attacked Konoha's borders, forcing Minato Namikaze, Jiraiya, and Shikaku Nara to lead defenses on separate fronts.
• Fugaku Uchiha told Uchiha Shisui that Konoha's upper ranks might be preparing to target the Uchiha Clan and that Uchiha Kyu had gone to war to expose their hidden forces.

Fugaku Uchiha prepared the Uchiha Clan for Konoha’s growing hostility while Uchiha Kyu launched an attack on the Egawa Coastal Defense Line. When Uchiha Obito used Karatachi Yagura to test him, Uchiha Kyu exposed Obito’s identity and forced him to flee.

• Fugaku Uchiha told Uchiha Shisui to secretly find the Hyuga Clan head and warned Uchiha Mikoto to stay home as tensions with Konoha rose.
• Uchiha Kyu received a letter from home and ordered the Uchiha to attack the Egawa Coastal Defense Line two hours later.
• Uchiha Obito controlled Karatachi Yagura and unleashed the Three-Tails’ power to test Uchiha Kyu on the battlefield.
• Uchiha Kyu defeated Karatachi Yagura’s Water Mirror copy and used Flying Thunder God to reach him.
• Uchiha Kyu entered Karatachi Yagura’s mental space, identified Uchiha Obito, and triggered a genjutsu backlash that made Obito flee with Zetsu.

Uchiha Kyu kept Karatachi Yagura alive while pressing Kirigakure’s forces, as Hiruzen Sarutobi prepared a secret operation against the Uchiha Clan. Hyuga Hiashi decided to act to protect his clan, and Hizashi Hyuga left to carry out his plan.

• Uchiha Kyu kicked Karatachi Yagura, laden with Explosive Tags, toward the Mist Ninja, injuring and killing some while the Three-Tails helped preserve Yagura’s life.
• Uchiha Obito arranged further Mist Ninja reinforcements, believing Konoha and the Uchiha Clan might weaken each other while Uchiha Kyu remained at the front.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi told Minato Namikaze he would target the Uchiha Clan’s younger generation and revealed he had secretly trained five hundred deathsworn.
• Hyuga Hiashi concluded Hiruzen Sarutobi’s move against the Uchiha Clan was imminent and summoned Hizashi Hyuga to discuss protecting their clan.
• Hizashi Hyuga left to act, telling Hyuga Hiashi that serving the main family was the branch family’s purpose.

Hizashi Hyuga joined Orochimaru in warning the Uchiha that Konoha’s clans were preparing to attack, while Hyuga Hiashi secretly readied his clan to support them. The Uchiha evacuated their vulnerable members and prepared to fight, but the assault began before Hyuga reinforcements arrived.

• Hizashi Hyuga left the Hyuga compound to help protect his brother and the Hyuga Clan’s alliance with the Uchiha.
• Hyuga Hiashi purged the Hyuga Clan’s old guard, locked down the compound, and arranged to support the Uchiha.
• Hizashi found Orochimaru and told him the Hyuga Clan would stand with the Uchiha; Orochimaru summoned a python to retrieve a kunai before they headed out.
• Uchiha Shisui sensed danger and warned Fugaku Uchiha, who gathered the fighters and moved the elderly and children into underground safety passages.
• Fugaku asked Hizashi when the Hyuga reinforcements would arrive, and Hizashi said a signal flare would summon them to attack from within and without.
• The gates of the Uchiha Compound were blasted open, and ninjas from multiple clans charged inside.

Konoha forces attacked the Uchiha Compound, where Fugaku Uchiha and Orochimaru led a fierce defense. As the battle raged beneath fireworks, Hyuga forces moved to support the Uchiha while Hyuga Hiashi warned Minato Namikaze that Uchiha Kyu might retaliate.

• Konoha ninja entered the apparently empty Uchiha Compound and suffered a deadly snake ambush before Fugaku Uchiha and his fighters revealed themselves.
• Orochimaru, Uchiha Shisui, and Hizashi Hyuga appeared above the street, and Hiruzen Sarutobi ordered his forces to encircle the Uchiha.
• Fugaku Uchiha activated Susanoo and led the Uchiha in a charge against the Konoha forces as both sides unleashed their techniques.
• Munemasa Hyuga ordered his clan to support the Uchiha, and Hyuga forces drove back the Anbu monitoring them.
• Hyuga Hiashi challenged Minato Namikaze at the Hokage Office and warned that Uchiha Kyu might turn against Konoha.

Uchiha Shisui held off Konoha’s death warriors and defeated Choza Akimichi and Inoichi Yamanaka before the Hyuga Clan’s reinforcements arrived. As Hiruzen Sarutobi’s forces came under pressure, he finally fired a signal flare to call Minato Namikaze into the battle.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi sent Dark One and hundreds of death warriors against the Uchiha, but Uchiha Shisui cut down more than a hundred with his speed, Mangekyō Sharingan, and genjutsu.
• Choza Akimichi and Inoichi Yamanaka attacked Uchiha Shisui, but he blocked Choza with Susanoo and struck back at both of them.
• Shibi Aburame arrived to protect Choza Akimichi and Inoichi Yamanaka, while Uchiha Shisui burned away Shibi’s insect swarm with a Great Fireball Technique.
• Hizashi Hyuga and the Hyuga reinforcements broke through the Anbu’s interception and joined Fugaku Uchiha’s side.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi ordered Dark One to stop the reinforcements and, after pressure from his allies, fired a special signal flare to summon Minato Namikaze.

Minato Namikaze arrived at the Uchiha Compound and joined the battle, where Uchiha Shisui held him off until his chakra ran low and he was injured. Uchiha Kyu watched the growing devastation and anticipated another unexpected arrival, while the Uchiha continued fighting at terrible cost.

• Minato Namikaze used the Flying Thunder God Technique to reach the compound, apologized to Fugaku Uchiha, and tried to end the conflict.
• Fugaku Uchiha sent Uchiha Shisui to stop Minato, and the two fought as Minato used the Bringer-of-Darkness Technique and an Ultra-Great Rasengan.
• Orochimaru summoned Manda, who swallowed Konoha ninja, while Hiruzen Sarutobi's forces and Hyuga Hiashi joined the battle against the Uchiha.
• Uchiha Itachi used his Sharingan and an enemy wire trap to kill three Chunin, while Uchiha Kyu watched from a utility pole and anticipated a concealed arrival.
• Uchiha Shisui lost his Susanoo's protection, suffered an injured arm from Minato's Rasengan, and told Huo Uchiha that his chakra was exhausted.

Uchiha Kyu returned to the battle controlling the Nine-Tails, forcing the fighting to stop and allowing the Uchiha and Hyuga clans to regroup. He revealed that the crisis had been part of his plan and prepared a Tailed Beast Bomb while Minato Namikaze feared for Kushina.

• Minato Namikaze tried to use the Flying Thunder God to remove Fugaku Uchiha, but the Nine-Tails appeared and halted the battle.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi realized Uchiha Kyu was controlling the Nine-Tails and suspected Kushina had left her hiding place and encountered him.
• Uchiha Kyu appeared atop the Nine-Tails, and Hyuga Hiashi led his clan to join the Uchiha while Fugaku reunited with Mikoto and Itachi.
• Uchiha Kyu admitted that the events had followed his plan, and Minato Namikaze blamed Orochimaru for revealing Kushina's identity.
• Uchiha Kyu began forming a Tailed Beast Bomb and threatened Minato Namikaze as he worried about Kushina.

Uchiha Kyu used the Nine-Tails’ Tailed Beast Bombs to exhaust Minato Namikaze while Konoha’s clans prepared a desperate counterattack. He rallied the Uchiha and Hyuga to charge in the name of justice, as Minato left to deal with the Nine-Tails and Hiruzen Sarutobi’s old back injury flared up.

• Minato Namikaze repeatedly transferred the Nine-Tails’ Tailed Beast Bombs away from the village, but warned Hiruzen Sarutobi that his chakra was nearly exhausted.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi called on Choza Akimichi and the other clans to use their remaining forces, and their signal flares summoned them to make a final stand.
• Uchiha Kyu returned to his allies, denounced Konoha’s leadership and the clans helping it, and urged the Uchiha and Hyuga to fight for justice.
• Hyuga Hiashi and Fugaku Uchiha led their clans in a charge against their enemies while Uchiha Kyu told the Nine-Tails to hold the line until reinforcements arrived.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi’s old back injury flared as Minato Namikaze vanished to find a way to deal with the Nine-Tails.