Chapter Summaries

Naruto convinced Hyuga Hiashi that Hiruzen Sarutobi might use rogue ninja to secretly wipe out the Uchiha and frighten the other clans into submission. They agreed to wait until the Uchiha Military Police Force was crushed, then join the other clans to protect Uchiha civilians and Genin, while Hiashi warned Naruto to give up on marrying Hinata.

• Naruto suggested that Hiruzen Sarutobi could hire S-rank rogue ninja to exterminate the Uchiha and use the massacre to intimidate Konoha's other clans.
• Hyuga Hiashi realized that the Uchiha's destruction would make the other clans fear Hiruzen's hidden power.
• Naruto argued that the Uchiha hawks should not take power because their aggression could trigger another war and burden Konoha with conquered nations.
• Naruto proposed that the clans wait until Hiruzen crushed the Konoha Military Police Force, then unite to save Uchiha civilians and Genin.
• Hiashi agreed to contact the other clan heads, then told Naruto that Hinata would inherit the Hyuga Clan and that he should abandon his hopes of marrying her.

Naruto returned to class as the new students reacted to their teacher’s announcement that only nine could graduate. The civilian students turned against one another over the single place left for them, while Naruto reflected on the importance of family and inherited power in the ninja world.

• Kiba Inuzuka pressed Naruto to continue the story of Konoha’s founding, but Naruto refused and said he wanted to study.
• Naruto noticed the civilian-born students resented his group for entering without taking the exam and thought about how few of them would graduate.
• Akagi Ganglie introduced himself as the class’s homeroom teacher and announced that only nine students would receive Genin headbands after the practical drills.
• The civilian students realized only one graduation place remained for them and began glaring at one another, leaving Sakura Haruno isolated.
• Naruto mocked the civilians’ selfishness and privately judged Itachi Uchiha and Sasuke.

Akagi Ganglie failed to control Naruto and the other rookie twelve on his first day teaching, prompting Hiruzen Sarutobi to replace him and assign Itachi Uchiha to watch the clan students. Naruto skipped the Academy and tried to break Minato Namikaze’s seal from within the Nine-Tails’ space, passing out after striking its iron gate with a Rasengan.

• Akagi Ganglie singled out Naruto for sleeping in class, but Naruto walked out, and the rookie twelve escaped through the windows while Akagi chased him.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi read the Academy’s report, realized he had chosen Akagi Ganglie, and ordered him replaced.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi asked whether Itachi Uchiha had started his post and had him summoned to watch the Uchiha students.
• Naruto skipped the Ninja Academy, avoided the two ANBU following him, and entered the Nine-Tails’ sealing space to discuss the seal with Kurama.
• Naruto explained that Minato Namikaze’s seal restricted Kurama’s Chakra and that forcing more of it out risked severe damage to his body.
• Naruto struck the seal’s iron gate with a massive Rasengan and passed out, while Kurama noted that he had been doing this for more than three years.

Naruto continued grinding away at Minato’s seal in hopes of learning from his parents, while teasing Hinata and spending time with his classmates. As tension between the Uchiha and Konoha’s villagers grew, Naruto and several clan heirs used their card games as cover to exchange secret letters.

• Naruto recovered after trying to break through Minato’s seal and reflected that it had taken him three years to reach the point of activating a Two-Tails Tailed Beast Transformation.
• Hinata brought Naruto lunch, and he pulled her close and teased her by pretending to feed her sushi before eating it himself.
• Over the next half year, Hiruzen Sarutobi quietly fueled friction between the Uchiha and Konoha’s villagers, while the Uchiha Police Force repeatedly arrested villagers.
• Naruto, Shikamaru, Kiba, Choji, and Ino skipped class to play cards, and Naruto won with an improbable string of high cards and Jokers.
• During the break, Shikamaru, Shino Aburame, Kiba Inuzuka, and Naruto secretly passed letters to one another, while the ANBU watching Naruto dismissed their gatherings as idle fun.

Itachi Uchiha watched the Uchiha compound as clan members gathered to discuss their growing conflict with Konoha’s leadership. When he sensed a surge of chakra nearby, he left his ANBU subordinates to investigate, while the meeting questioned the absence of Shisui and Itachi.

• Itachi Uchiha reflected on his ambition to become the first Uchiha Hokage and the dilemma created by his father’s request that he spy for the clan.
• Uchiha clan members accused Konoha’s leaders of restricting and surveilling them, and Fugaku Uchiha recognized that the rift had become difficult to mend.
• Fugaku asked where Shisui was, and the gathered clan members worried that his absence weakened their plans.
• The clan members also criticized Itachi for not reporting intelligence from the ANBU, and Fugaku suspected his son had chosen a side.
• While monitoring the shrine, Itachi sensed violent chakra approaching and told his two ANBU subordinates to keep watch as he went to investigate.

Shisui Uchiha stopped Ao’s Hidden Mist team from infiltrating Konoha and asked Hiruzen Sarutobi for authority to rebuild trust between the Uchiha and the village. After Naruto vandalized Hokage Rock and ran away, his mischievous expression vanished as he asked Kurama whether he could do it.

• Shisui Uchiha used his reputation and chakra to make Ao retreat with his Hidden Mist team at Konoha’s border.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi praised Shisui’s mission and told him to take a few days off.
• Shisui asked Hiruzen for authority to work on rebuilding trust between the Uchiha and Konoha, and Hiruzen agreed to cover for him.
• Shisui threw a kunai at Naruto, who was painting Hokage Rock, and caught him when he fell.
• Naruto rejected Shisui’s help, ran away, and asked Kurama if he could do it.

Naruto and Kurama discussed how Shisui had noticed them, while Hiruzen Sarutobi continued monitoring the Uchiha. Shisui learned from Itachi that Fugaku Uchiha was considering a coup, and their conversation pushed Itachi further into distrust of his clan.

• Naruto returned to his apartment after Kurama said the malicious presence following him had withdrawn, and Hiruzen Sarutobi ordered the ANBU to keep watching him and Shisui.
• Shisui went to meet Itachi, who left Sasuke waiting after tricking him with a forehead flick.
• At the waterfall, Itachi told Shisui that Fugaku Uchiha planned a coup and described the clan's growing resentment toward Konoha.
• Shisui decided he would try to erase the suspicions between the Uchiha and the village, potentially using Kotoamatsukami on one side.
• Shisui warned Itachi that someone in the Military Police Force was watching him and said he had been assigned to watch him, deepening Itachi's hatred and distrust.

Shisui agreed to use Kotoamatsukami to bring the Uchiha and the village together, but Danzo ambushed him to steal his Sharingan. Naruto, hidden nearby, seized Shisui’s stolen eye from Danzo and fled as Root pursued him.

• Hiruzen persuaded Shisui that the village would improve the Uchiha’s treatment, while Danzo secretly coveted Shisui’s Kotoamatsukami.
• Danzo confronted Shisui at the shrine, revealed that he intended to take Shisui’s Sharingan, and attacked him with Izanagi.
• Shisui knocked Danzo unconscious with genjutsu, but Danzo used Izanagi to reappear, beat him, and remove one of his eyes.
• Naruto emerged from hiding, struck Danzo’s hand with a Rasengan, grabbed Shisui’s Sharingan, and escaped as Root split up to chase him and Shisui.
• Naruto’s shadow snatched a real-looking Naruto from the stream near Shikamaru, Choji, Shino, and Kiba, and the ANBU watching him joined the pursuit.

Naruto used a Shadow Clone and a body swap to escape Root while hiding Shisui Uchiha’s Sharingan inside himself, but Root’s attack struck his right eye. He unleashed the Nine-Tails’ chakra and entered the Three-Tails State.

• Naruto’s Shadow Clone carried his real body through the forest as he tried to evade Root’s pursuit.
• Naruto hid Shisui Uchiha’s Sharingan inside himself while Root attacked the clone with weapons, poison smoke, and explosive tags.
• The Root captain ordered his squad to target Naruto’s feet, but two ANBU agents raised an Earth-Style Wall to protect him.
• Root blocked the ANBU agents and pursued Naruto’s Shadow Clone as it lunged toward a tree.
• Naruto opened his eyes and struggled in the clone’s grip, but a Root operative’s kunai struck his right eye.
• Naruto’s scream turned into a roar as the Nine-Tails’ chakra formed a red Three-Tails Cloak around him.

After Naruto handed control of his body to Kurama, the Nine-Tails overwhelmed the Root squad in the forest. Itachi Uchiha intervened with a Fireball Jutsu, blasting Naruto away as Shikamaru and the others arrived.

• Naruto pulled the kunai from his eye, then passed out and let Kurama take control of his body.
• Kurama charged the Root and ANBU operatives, knocking one Root ninja aside with a single blow.
• Three Root operatives trapped Naruto in a Three-Way Seal, but Kurama pierced the barrier and killed them with his tails.
• Kurama attacked the squad captain, while the two ANBU agents stood frozen and Shikamaru and the others arrived.
• Itachi Uchiha blasted Naruto away with a Fireball Jutsu, revealing his Three-Tomoe Sharingan.

Itachi suppressed the Nine-Tails Chakra leaking from Naruto and took the injured boy to the hospital, defying Danzo’s Root squad. After Shisui escaped Danzo’s ambush, Danzo blamed Hiruzen for his failure and resolved to proceed with a plan to wipe out the Uchiha Clan.

• Itachi entered Naruto’s sealing space and suppressed the Nine-Tails Chakra, but he sensed that the Nine-Tails had let him do so too easily.
• Shikamaru, Shino, and the other young ninjas rushed toward Naruto, but the ANBU and Root captain blocked them.
• The Root captain demanded Naruto, but Itachi carried the unconscious boy away with a Body Flicker and headed for the hospital.
• Shisui escaped the Root squads using Susanoo and Yasaka Magatama, while the surviving Root members reported back to Danzo.
• Danzo concluded that Hiruzen had outmaneuvered him and, with Shisui’s Sharingan out of reach, decided to wipe out the Uchiha Clan.

Naruto survived his injuries but lost his right eye, while Itachi discovered that Danzo had stolen Shisui’s right eye. Shisui gave Itachi his remaining eye and died by jumping from a cliff, leaving Itachi to pursue his own dark path for the village and his brother.

• Doctors saved Naruto, but they had to remove his right eye after it was pierced by a kunai.
• Itachi left Naruto at the hospital and hurried to a cliff, where he found Shisui waiting with his right eye missing.
• Shisui told Itachi that Danzo had taken his right eye and gave him his left eye, asking him to protect the village and the Uchiha Clan’s honor.
• Shisui jumped from the cliff, and Itachi awakened his Mangekyō Sharingan as he watched him fall.
• Itachi returned to the Uchiha Clan Grounds and vowed to follow his chosen path in the darkness for the village, Sasuke, and the Uchiha Clan.

Itachi reported Shisui’s death to Konoha’s leaders as the village’s tensions with the Uchiha simmered beneath a fragile calm. Three months after losing his right eye, Naruto left the hospital and reunited with his friends, then revealed that his eyepatch concealed a Sharingan.

• Itachi told Konoha’s leaders that Shisui’s death had crushed the Uchiha’s morale, while Danzo suggested ANBU announce it as suicide.
• The village put the Uchiha’s rebellion plans on hold, assigned Itachi to assassination missions with Kakashi, and gave someone else the task of monitoring the clan.
• Naruto spent three months recovering as villagers feared and shunned him, and Hinata and his friends visited him in the hospital.
• Naruto was discharged wearing an eyepatch, and Shikamaru, Ino, Hinata, Choji, and Second Pillar welcomed him before he invited them to Ichiraku Ramen.
• Naruto returned to his room that night, removed his eyepatch, and summoned a scarlet Sharingan into his palm.

Naruto prepared to transplant Shisui’s Sharingan, believing its power and his vast chakra reserves would help him grow stronger and learn ninjutsu. With Kurama’s chakra, he began forcing the eye into his right socket.

• Naruto decided Shisui’s Sharingan was a better shortcut than waiting years for Sasuke’s eyes to mature.
• Naruto planned to use the Sharingan’s insight and copying ability to correct his habits and accelerate his training.
• Naruto considered how the eye’s Kotoamatsukami: Radiance could help him break free of ANBU surveillance.
• Naruto asked Kurama to help, and red chakra reopened his healed eye socket.
• Naruto shoved Shisui’s Sharingan into the socket as Kurama’s chakra connected it to his nerves.

Naruto transplanted a Sharingan and awakened its Mangekyo, discovering that Asura’s Yang Release chakra could repair the damage it caused. He learned the eye’s abilities and limits, then began training to test his new vision.

• Naruto adjusted to the Sharingan’s sharper vision, struggled with the mismatch between his eyes, and found that his body could not keep up with what he saw.
• Naruto forced more chakra into the Sharingan and awakened the Mangekyo, whose heavy chakra drain and burning pain eased when Asura’s Yang Release chakra flowed into his eye.
• Naruto reasoned that Yang Release healed Mangekyo damage and formed a theory about how close relatives’ eyes could fuse into the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan.
• Naruto gained access to Shisui’s Kotoamatsukami and discovered the potential for a powerful Susanoo, but found that his single eye and limited chakra prevented him from using it effectively.
• Naruto stayed awake from excitement, then covered his right eye with an eyepatch and began taijutsu training to test his new vision.

Naruto resumed training after three months in the hospital, using a Shadow Clone to attend Academy classes while he learned the Eight Gates Released Formation from Might Guy. Hiruzen Sarutobi discovered Naruto’s progress and considered arranging an early graduation so he could place guards around him.

• Naruto ran laps around Konoha, sent a Shadow Clone to attend class, and decided to reveal more of his abilities.
• Might Guy welcomed Naruto back, and Naruto asked him to teach the Eight Gates Released Formation.
• Naruto trained with Guy and secretly learned basic ninjutsu while his Shadow Clone studied at the Academy.
• Naruto deliberately kept placing last in exams, though he knew Hiruzen’s ANBU were observing his real body.
• Hiruzen read the ANBU report, realized Naruto had opened the Second Gate and mastered Shadow Clones, and considered graduating him early.

Hiruzen Sarutobi offered Naruto early graduation in exchange for choosing jutsu from the Scroll of Seals, and Naruto agreed after bargaining for two. Naruto arrived at the sixth-year exam, where an upperclassman challenged his right to graduate early.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi asked Naruto to graduate early, but Naruto's Shadow Clone refused until Hiruzen offered a choice from the Scroll of Seals.
• Naruto bargained with Hiruzen Sarutobi and accepted two jutsu in exchange for taking the graduation exam.
• Naruto stopped training with Might Guy and went to the ninja academy for the sixth-year exam.
• Naruto entered the examination room, where a spiky-haired student mocked him for trying to skip grades.

Naruto confronted Renno and his lackeys at the graduation exam, then overpowered an examiner who tried to punish him. He revealed that he had taken the exam as a Shadow Clone and demanded that the Third require three techniques for graduation.

• Renno and two lackeys blocked Naruto, but Naruto knocked all three unconscious with Leaf Great Whirlwind.
• Two examiners entered and demanded to know who had attacked the students, and Naruto admitted it.
• An examiner tried to seize Naruto, but Naruto blasted him into the wall with Wind Release: Gale Palm.
• Naruto asked what the exam tested, then told the examiners to tell the Third that he would not graduate unless it required three techniques.
• Naruto vanished in a puff of smoke, revealing that the examinees had been facing his Shadow Clone.

Hiruzen Sarutobi reprimanded two proctors for mistreating Naruto and arranged a team for him, while Naruto received a screened copy of the Scroll of Seals. As he searched it, Naruto spotted an unexpected ninjutsu and reacted with shock.

• Two proctors burst into Hiruzen Sarutobi's office and accused Naruto of attacking them and demanding ninjutsu.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi fired the proctors and instructed Headmaster Iwagami to choose Naruto's two strongest peers as teammates.
• An ANBU operative delivered Naruto his forehead protector and a scroll, telling him to select three ninjutsu before meeting his team at Training Ground Three.
• Naruto found that the scroll was a screened copy without the techniques he wanted and dismissed most of its contents.
• Naruto spotted an unexpected ninjutsu in a corner of the scroll and gripped it in shock.

Naruto found useful techniques listed in the Scroll of Seals and chose Multiple Shadow Clone Jutsu, Adamantine Sealing Chains, and slug summoning from Shikkotsu Forest. He headed to the gathering place pleased, intending to pursue Shikkotsu Forest’s senjutsu rather than Mount Myoboku’s.

• Naruto spotted the A-rank Slug Summoning technique and learned that Hiruzen Sarutobi had the Senju Clan’s contract scroll.
• Naruto chose slug summoning and asked the ANBU operative to bring him the Multiple Shadow Clone Jutsu and Adamantine Sealing Chains.
• The ANBU operative said he would bring the scroll and jutsus that night, then Body Flickered away.
• Naruto decided the Multiple Shadow Clone Jutsu suited his training, while Adamantine Sealing Chains could help him fight other Jinchuriki.
• Naruto rejected Mount Myoboku’s senjutsu because he distrusted Gamamaru and planned to pursue the senjutsu of Shikkotsu Forest.
• Naruto tied his forehead protector around his arm and cheerfully headed toward the training ground.