Recaps

Yayoi strengthened the Land of Night’s military and prepared its school while the major nations restored relations with the Land of Fire. At a Uchiha clan meeting, Madara announced that he intended to leave Konoha, shocking both factions.

• Yayoi treated Mu well before letting him leave, hoping to secure his friendship and future support.
• The major nations resumed diplomatic ties with the Land of Fire, easing smaller countries’ fears of war.
• Yayoi reviewed the Land of Night’s growing ninja and samurai forces with Irori and ordered expanded recruitment and faster construction of the Military School.
• Madara summoned twenty-six influential Uchiha clansmen to Naka Shrine and announced that he would withdraw from Konoha and sever all ties.
• The Radical and Conservative factions reacted with shock and anger, questioning Madara’s decision and his disregard for the clan.

Madara left Konoha after warning the divided Uchiha clan that Tobirama’s future as Hokage would endanger them, but no one joined him. Elsewhere, Izayoi Uchiha and Uchiha Meirou learned of his departure and chose to return to their base rather than rejoin the clan in Konoha.

• Madara told the Uchiha factions that Tobirama’s election as the next Hokage threatened their clan, and he announced his departure from Konoha.
• Uchiha Korei urged Madara to reconsider, but Madara left the clan gathering and waited at Konoha’s main gate.
• No clansmen joined Madara, so he walked away from Konoha alone; news of his departure later spread among other countries and ninja villages.
• Izayoi Uchiha killed a ninja for a bounty and sealed his corpse and head before Uchiha Meirou delivered Uchiha Korei’s letter about Madara’s departure.
• Izayoi rejected returning to the Uchiha clan in Konoha, chose a bounty target, and decided to visit the base where the other departed Uchiha were staying.

Yayoi, Aoi, and Rinko finished building fifty Enhanced Ghost Puppets to strengthen the General's Residence's defenses. After the puppets deployed, Yayoi planned to teach Aoi and Rinko medical skills for studying captured ninjas.

• Rinko showed Yayoi a finely assembled puppet arm, and he praised her and Aoi's work.
• Aoi and Rinko finished assembling and painting the Enhanced Ghost Puppets, then learned that their self-destruct devices were as powerful as ten Explosive Tags.
• Yayoi installed Chakra receivers in fifty Enhanced Ghost Puppets, which Zero activated and sent out to join the defensive line.
• Yayoi explained that intruding ninjas would usually be captured alive for experiments and said he would teach Aoi and Rinko medical knowledge.

Yayoi sparred with Kicho and saw how powerful her developing Gentle Fist technique, Divine Rend, had become. After learning that the meteorite called "Star" had been found in the Land of Bears, he sent a team that included Yuroketsu and hired Uchiha mercenaries to retrieve it, while secretly assessing the Uchiha clan.

• Yayoi and Kicho sparred, and Kicho used Divine Rend to break his Chakra Cloak before Yayoi won by exhausting her stamina.
• Yuroketsu reported that his intelligence squad had found the meteorite "Star" in the Land of Bears and that others were seeking it too.
• Yayoi ordered Kurobei, Hoshigaki Kairyu, and Yuroketsu to retrieve the meteorite, with outside help from Uchiha Hokuto, Uchiha Izayoi, and Uchiha Meirou.
• Yayoi promised the Uchiha thirty million ryo for helping with the mission, and Yuroketsu led the team toward the Land of Bears.
• After the team departed, Yayoi told Irori that he intended to use the mission to assess the Uchiha and establish contact with them.

In the Land of Bears, Yuroketsu, Kurobei, and Hoshigaki Kairyu seized and sealed the Star meteorite after Uchiha Hokuto, Uchiha Meirou, and Uchiha Izayoi eliminated its guards and reinforcements. The mission was complete, and the group prepared to deliver the Star to the General in the Land of Night.

• Yuroketsu used his insects to locate Akahoshi's escort carrying the Star, and Kairyu concealed the group with the Hidden Mist Technique.
• Kurobei killed Akahoshi and took the Star as the attackers ambushed the escort with Ninjutsu and Genjutsu.
• Hokuto, Meirou, and Izayoi eliminated the responding ninja and destroyed the bodies, leaving no survivors.
• Yuroketsu, Kurobei, and Kairyu identified the Star as a radioactive meteorite and sealed it in a scroll.
• Hokuto confirmed the mission was complete, and Yuroketsu announced they would deliver the Star to the General and collect the remaining payment.

Yayoi examined the meteorite Yuroketsu brought back and began regularly hiring the wandering Uchiha branch for low-risk research and retrieval work. During an archaeological commission, Hokuto found incomplete records about ancient scientists attempting to create Zero-Tails, and Izayoi demolished part of the ruins after her frustration with archaeology finally boiled over.

• Yuroketsu delivered the meteorite to Yayoi, who tested its unusual reaction to Active Chakra and paid the Uchiha Hokuto, Meirou, and Izayoi for the mission.
• Yuroketsu showed Yayoi and the others Chameleon Bug footage of the Uchiha fighting Land of Bears ninjas, and Yayoi judged Hokuto and Meirou powerful while noting Izayoi's potential.
• Yayoi repeatedly commissioned the Uchiha branch to gather intelligence and recover historical materials, prompting Izayoi to complain that she wanted more combat missions.
• Hokuto, Meirou, and Izayoi searched an ancient ruin and recovered books and scrolls, including incomplete research describing failed attempts to create biological weapons called Zero-Tails.
• Izayoi stayed behind after the others left, caused an explosion that collapsed several stone towers, and then emerged looking relieved.

Yayoi reviewed ancient Land of Song research on the Zero-Tails and Sky Fortress, then set both projects aside until the Land of Night had more researchers. Meanwhile, Tobirama planned a Hokage-controlled Anbu force for Konoha’s future, but his search for the vanished Madara came up empty.

• Uchiha Hokuto’s squad delivered the ruins’ documents to Yayoi, who paid them fifty million ryō.
• Yayoi and Irori examined incomplete Zero-Tails research and Sky Fortress blueprints from the ancient Land of Song, then decided to store them for later.
• As conflicts grew within several ninja villages, Konoha remained stable while civilian children began attending the Ninja Academy with Hashirama and Tobirama’s support.
• Tobirama drafted a proposal for a Special Assassination and Tactical Squad, intending to build a Hokage-controlled force that included civilian elites once the first civilian ninja had matured.
• A Senju intelligence ninja reported that he had found no trace of Madara, and Tobirama ordered the search stopped while remaining wary of Madara’s disappearance.

Yayoi awakened a new Puppet Lifeform, Yaya, by using Chakra drained from Seven-Tails, then met her peculiar personality. He led Yaya, Irori, and Kicho out to test her combat ability.

• Yayoi brought Irori and Kicho to the cultivation chamber, where Irori opened the tank holding the fully formed Puppet Lifeform.
• Yayoi used Chakra Threads to control the girl as she dressed, then took her to Seven-Tails and drained its Chakra with an improved technique.
• Yayoi used Secret Art: Life Creation to transfer Seven-Tails' Chakra into the girl's core and awaken her as Yaya.
• Yaya recognized Irori as her big sister, then tried to inspect Yayoi and called Kicho a little slut when Kicho asked her to say Mistress.
• Yayoi ended the exchange and led Yaya, Irori, and Kicho out to test Yaya's combat ability while Seven-Tails slept in its cage.

Yayoi tested Yaya’s strength by having her destroy a mountain, then arranged a battle between Yaya and Irori to gauge their abilities. The test ended with both sisters unharmed, and Yayoi felt more confident about the Land of Night’s strength.

• Yayoi brought Yaya, Irori, and Kicho to a remote mountain forest and told Yaya to attack a hill.
• Yaya shattered the hill with one punch, impressing Kicho with her speed, strength, and durability.
• Yayoi asked Irori to test Yaya, and Irori attacked with Ice Release techniques while Yaya dodged and countered with Taijutsu.
• Irori bombarded Yaya with ice weapons, but Yaya caught and hurled them back at her, forcing Irori to evade.
• Yayoi stopped the battle before they destroyed the forest and concluded that the sisters’ combined strength would bolster the Land of Night.

Yayoi dealt with Yaya’s overprotective antics before turning to his work and planning to improve his Chakra Cloak. Elsewhere, five masked ninjas pursued a wounded fugitive near the Land of Night, but an explosive insect decoy let the real target escape, leaving the pursuers suspicious that the Aburame Clan had discovered something.

• Yaya mistook Kicho’s teasing for proof that Yayoi had been injured and cried until Yayoi reassured her; Aoi and Rinko learned that Yaya was a lifeform he had created.
• Yaya followed Yayoi to the Tenshu Tower and insisted on guarding his purity, while he and Irori finished the morning’s official business.
• Yayoi considered adding chakra nature transformations to his Chakra Cloak to make it more effective against elite ninjas.
• Five masked ninjas cornered a wounded fugitive in a misty canyon, but he used exploding insects as a decoy and escaped.
• The masked ninjas identified the insects as likely belonging to the Aburame Clan and suspected the clan had uncovered something; they searched the canyon before leaving.

Yayoi failed to infuse earth nature transformation directly into Chakra Armament Mode, but developed a stable dark golden chakra sphere that he hoped to expand and combine with the Seven-Star Seal. He then learned that Aburame Shima was trapped and injured in the Land of Fields, and sent Uchiha Hokuto, Uchiha Meirou, and Uchiha Izayoi to investigate and help.

• Yayoi tried adding earth nature transformation to his Chakra Cloak, but the pressure overwhelmed him and he dispelled it after suffering internal injuries.
• Yayoi infused earth nature transformation into a non-rotating chakra sphere, creating a stable, heavy dark golden sphere, and considered combining it with the Seven-Star Seal.
• Yuroketsu reported that Aburame Shima had been injured and trapped in a canyon in the Land of Fields after investigating a large group of suspicious ninja and a creature suspected to be a Tailed Beast.
• Yayoi told Irori to contact Uchiha Hokuto and commissioned Hokuto, Uchiha Meirou, and Uchiha Izayoi to carry out missions in the Land of Fields.
• Hokuto, Meirou, and Izayoi set out for the Land of Fields with Yuroketsu.

Yuroketsu rescued Shima and continued investigating the abnormal activity in the Land of Fields, where Kumogakure forces had secretly attempted to capture the Nine-Tails. After interrogating captured enemies, the team learned that Kinkaku and Ginkaku had been swallowed by the beast, and they waited for instructions from Yayoi.

• Yuroketsu found Shima hiding inside a rock wall, gave him supplies to recover, and sent him back under escort while continuing the mission with Hokuto and the others.
• Kumogakure's leaders learned that several squads had gone missing and ordered their forces to check on the Nine-Tails and consider retreating.
• Izayoi and Meirou rested after helping ambush and defeat several unidentified ninja squads in the Land of Fields.
• Hokuto reported that the captured ninja were Kumogakure shinobi who had tried to capture the Nine-Tails, led by Kinkaku and Ginkaku.
• Yuroketsu explained that Kinkaku and Ginkaku had been swallowed by the Nine-Tails, then said he had requested instructions from Yayoi; the team waited for a reply.

Yayoi investigated Hidden Cloud Village’s attempt to capture the Nine-Tails and reached the battlefield in the Land of Fields. He watched the Nine-Tails overwhelm the Cloud ninja and chose to stay back, focused on keeping the beast away from the Land of Night.

• Yayoi ordered Irori and Yaya to join him in the Land of Fields after learning that Hidden Cloud Village had provoked the Nine-Tails.
• Yayoi examined a massive crater and identified it as the impact site of a less-than-full-power Tailed-Beast Bomb.
• Yayoi explained to Hokuto that Hidden Cloud Village likely wanted to capture the Nine-Tails and use it as a Jinchūriki weapon.
• Yayoi and his group followed the Nine-Tails’ roars, passing the bodies of disguised Hidden Cloud Village ninja who had been slaughtered.
• Yayoi watched the Nine-Tails repel the Cloud ninja with its tails and claws, while its overwhelming presence frightened most of his group.
• Yayoi refused Irori and Yaya’s offer to attack, choosing to monitor the battle and ensure the Nine-Tails did not head toward the Land of Night.

After surviving inside the Nine-Tails for two weeks, Kinkaku and Ginkaku emerged with its chakra and encountered Yayoi’s group. Kinkaku transformed and prepared a Miniature Tailed-Beast Bomb as Yaya charged straight at him.

• The Nine-Tails spat Kinkaku and Ginkaku out before fleeing, and the brothers revealed that eating its chakra meat had given them its power.
• Ginkaku sensed someone nearby, and Yayoi led his group out of the woods to meet the exhausted Hidden Cloud Village ninja.
• Kinkaku attacked Yayoi, but Yaya intercepted him with a punch that sent him flying and made him spit out a wriggling red mass.
• Kinkaku recovered and transformed into a six-tailed beastlike form while Ginkaku and the Hidden Cloud Village ninja watched in alarm.
• Kinkaku gathered a Miniature Tailed-Beast Bomb, and Yayoi stopped Yuroketsu from intervening before ordering Yaya to attack.

Yaya kicked Kinkaku’s Tailed-Beast Bomb back, forcing Kinkaku and Ginkaku to reconsider fighting Yayoi’s group. After Tonkaku brokered a truce, Yayoi collected a piece of Nine-Tails chakra flesh, and the group set out to track the Nine-Tails without attempting to capture it.

• Yaya kicked Kinkaku’s Tailed-Beast Bomb back, and its explosion badly injured nearby Hidden Cloud Village ninja.
• Ginkaku and Kinkaku readied their Six Paths Ninja Tools, but Tonkaku stepped between the groups and urged them to stop fighting.
• Yayoi called Irori and Yaya back, and Kinkaku and Ginkaku left with Tonkaku after Tonkaku apologized.
• Yayoi collected a small piece of Nine-Tails chakra flesh that Kinkaku had spat out and explained how the brothers had survived inside the Nine-Tails.
• Yayoi told Hokuto that they would continue tracking the Nine-Tails to make sure it was not heading toward the Land of Night, since he could not capture it.

After confirming that the Nine-Tails had settled in a cavern and posed no threat to the Land of Night, Yayoi returned home while the Uchiha witnesses reflected on the changing era. In Uzushiogakure, Hisana learned that she could choose a maid to accompany her when she married the Land of Night general and was given seven days to decide.

• Yayoi’s group tracked the Nine-Tails to a seaside cavern, confirmed it was staying there, and ended their mission without a fight.
• Yayoi returned to the Land of Night with Irori, Yaya, and Yuroketsu, while Hokuto, Meirou, and Izayoi remained behind.
• Hokuto worried whether the Uchiha branch could survive the coming era, Izayoi resolved to grow stronger, and Meirou considered urging the departed clansmen to return.
• Uzumaki Dōmei told Hisana that she could choose a maid to accompany her after she married the Land of Night general.
• Hisana asked for time to consider her choice, and Dōmei gave her seven days before the elders’ council would decide.

After returning to Nightview City, Yayoi monitored the Nine-Tails and investigated the Kinkaku and Ginkaku brothers while developing his strength. He tested a new Earth-enhanced sealing technique on the Seven-Tails, then began considering a more advanced version as the beast fled.

• Yayoi assembled a squad to watch the Nine-Tails and ordered an investigation into the Kinkaku and Ginkaku brothers and their Six Paths Ninja Tools.
• Yayoi tested a new technique on the Seven-Tails, expanding a stable, Earth-infused chakra sphere and inscribing it with the Seven-Star Seal.
• The sphere crushed and immobilized the Seven-Tails, suppressing its chakra and leaving it furious at Yayoi.
• Yayoi dispelled the technique and considered developing a chakra sphere that could trap targets inside it.
• The Seven-Tails recognized Yayoi's interest in using it for more experiments and flew away.

Yayoi developed the Sealing Sphere by combining earth-nature chakra, water-nature chakra, and sealing formulas, but still needed to balance its speed and sealing function. After a day of exhausting experiments, he approved Kicho’s letter arranging his upcoming marriage alliance with the Uzumaki Clan and went to sleep.

• Yayoi tested an earth-nature Chakra Sphere, finding it could fly at about seventy meters per second and remain controllable for roughly two hundred meters, but it shattered targets instead of enclosing them.
• Yayoi added water-nature chakra to the sphere, allowing it to envelop a boulder, though the added nature slowed it and prevented the Sealing Jutsu from activating.
• Yayoi set aside Chakra Armament Mode experiments and focused on refining the Sealing Sphere, using a Shadow Clone to accelerate his training with Tobirama Senju’s help.
• After training left him exhausted, Yayoi returned to find Kicho asking him to review a letter about wedding arrangements with the Uzumaki Clan.
• Yayoi approved Kicho’s letter, then ate and fell into a deep sleep.

Uchiha Hokuto’s secluded group was discovered by Kusagakure, whose envoy tried to recruit them. After the offer was rejected, Hokuto gathered the nine Uchiha and argued that they needed to change their course to survive in the new era.

• Sōkō Gosuke led three Kusagakure Jonin to invite Hokuto’s Uchiha group to join Kusagakure.
• Hokuto feigned interest in the offer, then trapped a disrespectful Kusagakure Jonin in Genjutsu and ordered the visitors to leave.
• Meirou suggested that the Uchiha should consider their future, prompting Uchiha Ryuka to accuse him of wanting to submit to the Senju.
• Hokuto stopped the argument and had Uchiha Kasumi gather the remaining members for a meeting.
• Hokuto told the nine Uchiha that the One Country, One Village system had made change necessary for their survival.

Hokuto led the Uchiha clan in weighing whether to hide, join a ninja village, or establish one of their own. With the Five Great Nations’ villages unpopular and dangerous, he proposed joining the Land of Night, and the clan prepared to vote on the choice.

• Hokuto explained that the clan could either isolate itself from the world or join a village, and the gathered Uchiha rejected hiding as a slow path to decline.
• Meirou proposed returning to Konoha, but Izayoi and the other Uchiha opposed joining because of their hatred of the Senju Clan.
• The clan dismissed Kirigakure, Iwagakure, and Hidden Cloud Village as dangerous, while Ryuka’s suggestion to establish their own village was judged unrealistic.
• Hokuto recommended the Land of Night, citing its powerful shogun, generous treatment of allied clans, and strength among the small nations.
• Hokuto began a vote on joining the Five Great Nations’ villages; no one backed Kirigakure, Iwagakure, Hidden Cloud Village, or Konoha, while one or two people supported Sunagakure.

Hokuto led his Uchiha followers to choose the Land of Night as their new home and traveled there to negotiate with Yayoi. Yayoi agreed immediately and presented a detailed proposal for settling the clan, leaving Hokuto surprised by how thoroughly the arrangements had been anticipated.

• Hokuto asked his followers to choose a destination, and most backed the Land of Night while two Uchiha ninja hesitated over joining a small country.
• Hokuto challenged the hesitant ninja to prioritize their clansmen’s survival over pride, then ordered everyone to relocate to Base No. 2 after Kusagakure discovered their hideout.
• Yaya tried to attend to Yayoi in a nurse’s uniform, but Yayoi trapped her briefly with a golden Chakra sphere while Irori teased him about his exhaustion.
• Irori told Yayoi that Hokuto had arrived, and Yayoi agreed to meet him after Hokuto requested a place for his clansmen to settle in the Land of Night.
• Yayoi accepted Hokuto’s request and had Irori give him a prepared proposal detailing the Uchiha Clan’s settlement and treatment.

Uchiha Hokuto quickly secured the Uchiha clan’s relocation to the Land of Night and ordered the clansmen in the Land of Grass to move again. At Uzumaki Shrine, Uzumaki Hisana stumbled upon Uzumaki Nene’s collection of human eyeballs and learned that Nene’s research lab was struggling without funding.

• Uchiha Hokuto returned to the Land of Grass after settling the relocation terms with Yayoi in a short meeting.
• Hokuto told Meirou, Izayoi, and the other clansmen to prepare to relocate to the Land of Night, leaving Meirou to suspect Hokuto had planned the negotiations in advance.
• Uzumaki Hisana entered Uzumaki Nene’s underground laboratory looking for food and found a bag full of human eyeballs.
• Nene gathered the eyeballs and shared ready-to-eat food with Hisana, who criticized the shabby laboratory.
• Nene explained that the clan gave her little research funding, while Hisana pointed out that her research had not satisfied the elders.

Nene learned that Hisana needed a maid to accompany her marriage to the wealthy general of the Land of Night and asked to go with her, hoping to fund her research. Hisana chose Nene, but Head Priest Uzumaki Dōmei planned to recommend the guardian shrine maiden Uzumaki Oboro as well, leaving the choice to the elders’ meeting.

• Hisana told Nene that she would marry the general of the Land of Night in June and needed to choose a maid to accompany her.
• After hearing how wealthy the Land of Night was, Nene asked Hisana to choose her as the maid, and Hisana agreed to raise the request with the head priest and her grandfather.
• Hisana told Head Priest Uzumaki Dōmei that she had chosen Nene so her friend would not be left alone after she departed.
• Dōmei agreed to argue for Nene at the elders’ meeting but, recalling that the general’s principal wife had brought maids from the Hyuga branch family, summoned Uzumaki Oboro.
• Dōmei ordered Oboro to attend the meeting and serve as Hisana’s maid and protector in the Land of Night, and Oboro accepted.

Hokuto led 173 Uchiha clansmen into the Land of Night, where they began settling into a district prepared for them in Nightview City. Yayoi reviewed the clan’s strength and considered how to respond when Konoha came looking for them, confident so long as Hashirama Senju did not intervene.

• Kusagakure ninja followed Hokuto’s group to the Land of Night’s border but withdrew rather than provoke the country.
• Hokuto and the Uchiha clansmen arrived in Nightview City and were shown the land allocated for their new residential district.
• Izayoi imagined designs for the Uchiha home, while Meirou worried about the Uchiha in Konoha.
• Yayoi examined records for the 173 Uchiha clansmen and noted that their nine Jonin and other ninja made them a formidable force.
• Irori asked how they would respond to Konoha, and Yayoi said they had little to fear unless Hashirama Senju appeared personally.

Uchiha Kūto gathered the clan elders to discuss bringing Uchiha Hokuto’s branch back from the Land of Night, but Konoha’s leaders refused to intervene. Hashirama then sent Tobirama to meet the Land of Night’s general and prevent the dispute from escalating.

• Uchiha Kūto told the clan elders that Meirou had reported Hokuto’s branch had pledged itself to the puppet master general of the Land of Night.
• The Uchiha elders agreed to ask Konoha’s leaders to intervene, arguing that the departure risked leaking their Kekkei Genkai.
• At the high-level conference, the other clan heads declined to get involved, and Hashirama formally ended the matter without Konoha’s intervention.
• Hashirama and Tobirama agreed that Hokuto’s branch should not return to Konoha, and Hashirama asked Tobirama to travel to the Land of Night and speak with its general.