Chapter Summaries

Uchiha Kyu secured the Ten-Tails’ shell after the Mist Ninja’s defeat and began considering whether Orochimaru could create a miniature Ten-Tails. After returning to Konoha, he kept Konan in his home as a maid, while she remained obedient despite his suspicion of her motives.

• Uchiha Kage presented Uchiha Kyu with the Kubikiribōchō, which Uchiha Kyu returned to the clan as a trophy for someone fated to wield it.
• Uchiha Kyu used Kamui to store the Ten-Tails’ shell and considered asking Orochimaru to research a miniature Ten-Tails, which would require confronting Akatsuki and Uchiha Obito.
• Uchiha Kyu left battlefield cleanup to Hirota Uchiha and reviewed the casualty list, which showed that sixty-four Uchiha ninja had died.
• Uchiha Kyu planted the idea of cooperating with Konoha in the unwilling Fourth Mizukage, who arranged to send an envoy to Konoha.
• Uchiha Kyu returned to Konoha and had Konan stay in his home, where she obediently scrubbed the floor as his maid despite his warning that she should know her place.

Uchiha Kyu withheld the truth about Nagato from Konan, then visited the clan’s training ground and told Uchiha Kyo that the Uchiha children needed to be taught a unified ideology. He left the clan’s future in Kyo’s hands while declaring that united Uchiha would prosper and make the Shinobi World their backyard.

• Uchiha Kyu teased Konan about Nagato and refused to explain the past until she understood equivalent exchange.
• Uchiha Kyu visited the training ground, entrusted the young Uchiha to Uchiha Kyo, and praised the children as the clan’s future.
• Uchiha Kyu encouraged a little girl to hold onto her knife and defend the Uchiha Clan from its enemies.
• Uchiha Kyo admitted he had been wrong to compare Uchiha Kyu to Madara and explained that the clan did not blame Madara for his choices.
• Uchiha Kyu told Uchiha Kyo that children must learn the clan’s ideology so the Uchiha could unify their thinking and prosper.

Uchiha Kyu reviewed the clan’s family records and began planning to grow the Uchiha population while writing an ideology book for reform. After telling Konan that Uchiha Obito had orchestrated Yahiko’s death, he completed a third of the book and learned that a Kirigakure delegation had arrived in Konoha.

• Uchiha Kyu visited Uchiha Kyo to prepare him for the clan’s ideological reform, then collected Fugaku Uchiha’s records on every clan member.
• Uchiha Kyu reviewed the records and planned to raise the Uchiha population to ten thousand within ten years by having the clan pay to raise children.
• Konan brought Uchiha Kyu chicken soup, and he told her that Uchiha Obito had schemed to cause Yahiko’s death.
• Uchiha Kyu began writing a book about Uchiha ideology and continued working on it for three days, completing a third of its contents.
• Uchiha Kyu returned home to sleep, and Konan quietly took away his changed clothes.
• Hyuga Hiashi sent word to Uchiha Kyu that a delegation from Kirigakure had arrived in Konoha.

Uchiha Kyu assigned Minato Namikaze to lead the campaign that forced the Sand Ninja to surrender, while Konoha’s leaders managed the surrender of Kirigakure. After securing his clan’s future with an ideological education textbook, Uchiha Kyu read battlefield reports showing Minato’s forces turning their attention toward the Stone Ninja.

• Uchiha Kage delivered Uchiha Kyu’s orders to Hyuga Hiashi and Minato Namikaze, placing Minato in command of the operation against the Sand Ninja and entrusting him with subsequent operations.
• Konan stayed beside Uchiha Kyu to learn more about the Rinnegan and protect Nagato, despite knowing the masked man had caused Yahiko’s death.
• Konoha’s leadership received Kirigakure’s unconditional surrender, and Minato Namikaze led Anbu and clan forces out of the village.
• A week later, Uchiha Kyu reviewed the ideological education textbook with Uchiha Kyo and took Konan through Konoha.
• Uchiha Kyu read reports that Minato Namikaze and the Mist Ninja had secured the Sand Ninja’s surrender and were now targeting the Stone Ninja.

Minato Namikaze pursued the retreating Stone Ninja through the Land of Earth as the Allied Forces plundered the region. Back in Konoha, Uchiha Kyu received battlefield intelligence, sent Uchiha Shisui to investigate Amegakure with secret information about Akatsuki, and reflected on the Uchiha Clan’s future.

• Minato Namikaze ignored Ōnoki’s attempt to divide him from the Uchiha Clan and continued the pursuit, demanding Iwagakure pay indemnities for the war’s losses.
• Ōnoki used Earth Release to trap and kill many pursuing ninjas, enraging Chiyo, who ordered her forces to attack while Kakashi led an Anbu squad to stall the Stone Ninja.
• Uchiha Shisui delivered frontline intelligence to Uchiha Kyu, who asked about his work and instructed him to investigate Amegakure.
• Uchiha Kage gave Shisui a scroll from Uchiha Kyu detailing Akatsuki, the Rinnegan, Uchiha Obito, and Madara Uchiha; Shisui memorized it, destroyed it, and left Konoha with trusted subordinates.
• Uchiha Kyu recalled that Uzumaki Nagato had summoned the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path from the Kamui Dimension, though Orochimaru had retained part of it for study.
• Uchiha Kyu watched young couples in the clan grounds and believed heartbreak might awaken their Sharingan, while the clan’s marriage and child-rearing rules eased families’ financial burdens.

Uchiha Kyu shaped the war’s final campaign around seizing the Land of Earth’s mines while arranging who would profit from them. As the fighting neared its end, he dismissed Jiraiya’s search for a Child of Destiny and focused on dividing the spoils.

• Uchiha Kyu told Konan that the weak could change the world only by attaching themselves to the strong, then teased her before leaving in the rain.
• Kakashi’s Anbu squad held back the Stone Ninja for twenty seconds while Minato Namikaze’s forces inflicted heavy losses.
• Minato Namikaze revealed to Shikaku Nara that the campaign’s objective was to capture the Land of Earth’s three major mines, and said the Mist Ninja and Sand Ninja would help defend them in exchange for a share.
• Uchiha Kyu promised Hyuga Hiashi half the proceeds from one mine, and Hyuga Hiashi thanked him for the deal.
• Uchiha Kyu disparaged Jiraiya’s search for the Child of Destiny and turned back to handling supply documents as the war neared its end.

As Konoha’s victory over Iwagakure became certain, Uchiha Kyu issued new orders for the war and manipulated the appointment of the Medical Department’s leadership. The chapter left Tsunade working in the department while Uchiha Haruto took the ministerial post, with Kyu’s political performance convincing those around him.

• Jiraiya held the Cloud Ninja defensive line through repeated counterattacks while waiting for Minato to finish the campaign against Ōnoki.
• Iwagakure surrendered, and Ōnoki raged when he learned that the Raikage had severely wounded Jiraiya too late to affect the surrender.
• Uchiha Kyu ordered Minato to replace Jiraiya and sent Shikaku Nara to demand harsh terms from the Stone Ninja.
• Hyuga Hiashi apologized and asked to resign as head of the Medical Department, and Uchiha Kyu accepted after making him feel responsible for the decision.
• Uchiha Kyu proposed Tsunade for Medical Department minister, but after Hiashi warned against it, he appointed Uchiha Haruto and arranged for Tsunade to remain in the department.

Uchiha Kyu used a public speech to shape Konoha’s account of the war and promise compensation to the fallen, while Minato Namikaze’s campaign forced the Cloud Ninja to concede. The war ended with Konoha’s forces returning home to a welcome from Uchiha Kyu.

• After Hyuga Hiashi stepped down as Head of the Medical Department, Uchiha Kyu held an open speech praising the Uchiha Clan, presenting Konoha as a defender of peace, and promising compensation to families of the dead.
• Minato Namikaze struck the Cloud Ninja’s supply lines, forcing the Fourth Raikage to give up as the Allied Forces overwhelmed his forces.
• Chiyo worried that Uchiha Kyu might start another war, while Hirota Uchiha, Uchiha Niura, and Shita Uchiha celebrated the Uchiha victory.
• Uchiha Obito raged at the war’s sudden end, and Nagato remained confused by Konan’s willingness to stay with Uchiha Kyu.
• Uchiha Kyu welcomed the returning Konoha forces at the gates and sent Shita Uchiha and the other elders ahead to prepare for a ceremony at the clan grounds.

After honoring the dead from the war, Uchiha Kyu rallied Konoha’s clan leaders against the daimyo’s demand to surrender the mines. He rejected the demand and ended by asking what they should do if the daimyo refused to listen.

• Hirota Uchiha and the others led the returning clansmen into the village, where Kushina Uzumaki embraced Minato Namikaze.
• Uchiha Kyu left the reunion to handle Konoha’s affairs, and the village held a funeral for the fallen shinobi the next day.
• At a meeting, Uchiha Kyu challenged Hiruzen Sarutobi’s past mistakes and asked whether Konoha should hand its mines over to the daimyo.
• Uchiha Okamoto and Hyuga Hiashi opposed surrendering the mines, while Minato Namikaze warned that Konoha might lose both the daimyo’s funding and the mines if Ōnoki reneged.
• Uchiha Kyu said Konoha would keep the mines and fight again if Ōnoki broke the treaty, then instructed Hyuga Hiashi to reject the daimyo’s demand.
• Uchiha Kyu asked the gathered leaders what they should do if the daimyo refused to listen.

Uchiha Kyu gave Konoha’s rival clans a chance to submit and warned that the Daimyo Estate’s future depended on the daimyo’s obedience. Shikaku Nara and the other clan leaders pledged loyalty, then began planning to eliminate the Daimyo Estate, while the daimyo retaliated by cutting Konoha’s military funding.

• Uchiha Okamoto and Uchiha Haruto offered to destroy the Daimyo Estate if Uchiha Kyu ordered it, and Uchiha Kyu told the assembled leaders that the daimyo’s fate depended on his compliance.
• Uchiha Kyu urged the rival clans to put aside their grudges, and Shikaku Nara, the Akimichi, Yamanaka, Aburame, and other clans pledged unconditional service to him.
• Uchiha Kyu adjourned the meeting without answering the clan leaders, and Fugaku Uchiha advised them to resolve the Hokage’s worries as subordinates.
• Shikaku Nara concluded that the clans had to eliminate the Daimyo Estate to earn Uchiha Kyu’s trust and called the others to meet that night.
• The envoy from Konoha accused the Fifth Hokage of defying the daimyo, and the daimyo ordered Konoha’s military funding cut off.

Uchiha Kyu sent Shikaku Nara and a team of clan leaders and Elite Jonin to eliminate the daimyo, while Uchiha Obito learned of the coming conflict and went to watch. The team headed for the capital, and Obito hoped both sides would be badly wounded.

• Uchiha Kyu decided to have his subordinates move against the daimyo and spent time with Konan at the hot spring.
• Shikaku Nara, Choza Akimichi, Shibi Aburame, Inoichi Yamanaka, and their Elite Jonin set out for the Land of Fire’s capital to strike the Daimyo Estate.
• Shikaku Nara urged the team to arrive in peak condition so they could wipe out the Daimyo Estate in one stroke.
• Black Zetsu told Uchiha Obito that Uchiha Kyu and the daimyo might clash, and warned that the Daimyo Estate could have hidden cards.
• Uchiha Obito left the Reincarnation Rift, hoping Uchiha Kyu and the daimyo would badly wound each other.

Uchiha Kyu dealt with the fallout after an attack on the Land of Fire daimyo’s estate made other daimyo distrust their ninja villages, while he strengthened the Uchiha clan and considered how to obtain the Nine-Tails’ chakra. The chapter ended with the furious daimyo threatening to destroy Konoha and offering another group permission to establish a ninja village in the Land of Fire.

• Daimyo across the nations contacted their ninja villages to demand explanations, and Uchiha Kyu left Hyuga Hiashi to handle the Land of Fire daimyo’s response.
• Uchiha Kyu ordered Fugaku Uchiha to forge the refined iron into weapons for the clan and later told him to double training and provide clan members with ample resources.
• Uchiha Kyu decided that the Nine-Tails was a more accessible source of chakra than the Dragon Vein and thought Minato Namikaze might be willing to free Kushina Uzumaki from being its Jinchūriki.
• Uchiha Obito and Black Zetsu discussed the failed assassination and speculated that Uchiha Kyu had grown overconfident.
• The daimyo cursed Konoha, ordered his army to mobilize, and promised permission to establish a ninja village in the Land of Fire to anyone who helped destroy Konoha.

Uchiha Obito conceived a new plan to weaken the Shinobi World and went to Amegakure, where Uchiha Shisui was gathering intelligence. After Shisui confronted him, the two recognized each other’s abilities, and Shisui began to infer Obito’s identity.

• Uchiha Obito told Black Zetsu that he had thought of an excellent plan and left for Amegakure.
• Konan sent Nagato a paper crane with instructions not to rescue her, while Kakashi secretly monitored her for the Hokage.
• Uchiha Shisui spotted Konan’s paper crane and continued investigating Amegakure, including a mysterious masked man in blue robes.
• Uchiha Obito visited Nagato, then sensed that Uchiha Shisui was following him and challenged the hidden pursuer outside the village.
• Uchiha Shisui attacked Obito with the Body Flicker Technique, and Obito identified him by name.
• Uchiha Shisui recognized that Obito knew his technique and deduced that Obito was likely a rogue ninja from the Uchiha clan.

Uchiha Shisui fought the masked Uchiha Obito and used layered genjutsu to overcome his Kamui, forcing him to retreat. Shisui reported the encounter and remained in Amegakure, where his presence continued to keep Nagato from leaving.

• Uchiha Obito attacked Uchiha Shisui with Fire Style, and the two fought as flames spread through the forest.
• Uchiha Obito used Kamui to evade Shisui's strikes and appeared to stab him, but Shisui revealed himself as a crow clone and trapped Obito in genjutsu.
• Uchiha Obito broke free from the illusion of Rin's death, but Shisui's genjutsu caught him again before he could pull Shisui into the Kamui Dimension.
• Uchiha Obito escaped through a space-time ripple, and Uchiha Shisui waited until he was gone before departing.
• Uchiha Shisui sent intelligence about the masked man and continued staying in Amegakure, keeping Nagato from leaving.

Uchiha Kyu ordered Uchiha Shisui to lead Konoha’s forces against the Daimyo after learning that the Daimyo had gathered samurai, rogue ninja, and Onmyoji. Shisui’s army reached the capital and came under attack, where Shikaku Nara recognized the Onmyoji’s strange seals and called for a retreat.

• Uchiha Kyu learned that the Daimyo had assembled a large army and ordered Uchiha Shisui to return and command Konoha’s forces, with Shikaku Nara as his deputy.
• Hyuga Hiashi agreed to send twenty main-family ninja and one hundred branch-family ninja, then ordered the deployment details delivered to Uchiha Shisui and summoned the Nara Clan head.
• Konoha intelligence ninja reported the Daimyo’s defenses in the capital, including samurai, rogue ninja, and Onmyoji.
• Uchiha Shisui led Konoha’s army to the capital after Konoha ninja had harassed the city and set fire to its supplies.
• The city defenders triggered explosions against Konoha’s clones and fired arrows, which Konoha’s Earth Release ninja blocked with an Earth Wall.
• Uchiha Shisui spotted strange seals made by the Onmyoji, and Shikaku Nara recognized the danger and ordered the ninja to retreat.

Uchiha Shisui's army broke into the capital of the Land of Fire and moved to seize the daimyo, while Uchiha Kyu prepared to abolish the daimyo's title and claim the throne. As Uchiha Kyu reflected on how his goals had grown, his ambition now reached beyond Konoha.

• Uchiha Shisui destroyed the city wall with Susanoo, allowing the Konoha ninja army led by Shikaku Nara to storm the capital.
• Uchiha Shisui ordered Jonin to search the streets for dangerous opponents, then agreed to force his way into the daimyo's heavily guarded location.
• Uchiha Kyu received intelligence about the battle and instructed Hyuga Hiashi to announce that the daimyo had been executed and the Uchiha Clan would rule the Land of Fire.
• Hyuga Hiashi realized that Uchiha Kyu planned to leave Konoha and that the village might cease to exist.
• Uchiha Kyu recalled how his ambitions had grown from improving the Uchiha Clan's position to seeking greater power over the Land of Fire.

Uchiha Kyu searched the Uchiha and Senju archives for records about Indra, but found that Black Zetsu had erased much of their history. Meanwhile, Uchiha Shisui learned that the missing daimyo had been found hanging at Iwagakure’s gate, and Shikaku Nara suggested the capital might become their future home.

• Uchiha Kyu visited Uchiha Itachi, then searched the clan archives for ancient records about Indra.
• Uchiha Kyu compared the Uchiha records with the Senju inheritance Tsunade had given him and recovered clues from fragments Black Zetsu had left behind.
• Uchiha Shisui discovered the daimyo was missing and concluded that a shinobi had likely taken him.
• A Hyuga Elite Jonin reported that a spy had found the daimyo hanging at Iwagakure’s entrance.
• Uchiha Shisui sent the intelligence to Lord Hokage, while Shikaku Nara urged him to secure the capital and suggested Konoha might move there.

Uchiha Kyu removed the Nine-Tails from Kushina Uzumaki and sealed it inside himself, freeing her from being a Jinchūriki. The Nine-Tails ended the chapter subdued in Uchiha Kyu’s sealing space, while Uchiha Obito plotted to destabilize the world.

• Uchiha Shisui ordered squads to clear the capital’s streets while sparing civilians and told Shikaku Nara to level the former Daimyo Estate.
• Uchiha Obito explained that he had exposed the daimyo’s death to shatter the daimyo’s authority and provoke conflict between ninja villages and their rulers.
• Uchiha Kyu brought Minato Namikaze and the pregnant Kushina Uzumaki outside Konoha, where Anbu and the Sealing Team guarded the area.
• Uchiha Kyu released the Nine-Tails from Kushina Uzumaki and sealed it inside his own body as Minato caught the unconscious Kushina.
• Uchiha Kyu assured Minato that Kushina would survive and subdued the Nine-Tails in his sealing space with his Mangekyō Sharingan.

After sealing the Nine-Tails and taking the Land of Fire’s capital, Uchiha Kyu ordered a sweeping purge and completed Konoha’s relocation. As the daimyo’s death strained trust across the Shinobi World, Uchiha Obito struggled to find a way to stop Kyu’s growing power.

• Uchiha Kyu reflected that the daimyo’s death had thrown the Shinobi World into chaos, then ordered Konoha to purge bandits and wandering shinobi across the Land of Fire.
• Uchiha Obito complained to Black Zetsu that the daimyo and Onmyoji had failed to stop Uchiha Kyu, while Black Zetsu suggested joining the other hidden villages against Konoha.
• Uchiha Obito rejected the alliance as unrealistic until the daimyo and hidden villages settled their conflict, and noted that Konoha’s move to the capital would delay its expansion.
• Half a month later, Konoha completed most of its relocation, and Hyuga Hiashi warned Hizashi Hyuga that Uchiha Kyu could take back the wealth and estate he had granted them.
• Uchiha Kyu approved the proposed plans for the new Uchiha Compound, which Uchiha Shisui presented on behalf of Shikaku Nara.

Uchiha Kyu announced a rapid campaign to conquer neighboring territories and personally led the main force toward Amegakure. As the force traveled, Jiraiya, Tsunade, and Orochimaru remained uncertain about Kyu’s plans.

• Uchiha Shisui told Uchiha Kyu that Shikaku Nara seemed sincere about pledging himself to the Uchiha Clan, and Kyu said Shikaku’s choices would depend on his own performance.
• Uchiha Kyu revealed plans to conquer small nations and the Land of Wind, then summoned Konoha’s leaders to a meeting.
• Uchiha Kyu assigned the forces to attack Sunagakure, Amegakure, Kusagakure, the Land of Rivers, and the Land of Birds, while making Amegakure the main target and choosing to lead that assault himself.
• Uchiha Kyu planned to weaken the Akatsuki and draw Nagato and Uchiha Obito into the open, but he ordered Shikaku Nara and the others to follow the manual without explaining further.
• Fugaku Uchiha took Uchiha Itachi with him on the operation after saying goodbye to the pregnant Uchiha Mikoto.
• Uchiha Kyu led five hundred ninja toward Amegakure, while Jiraiya asked Orochimaru what the Fifth Hokage was planning and Tsunade rebuked him.