Chapter Summaries

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 his son Shima and joined Hokuto and the others in investigating the unidentified ninja operating in the Land of Fields. They discovered that Kumogakure had tried to capture the Nine-Tails, while Kinkaku and Ginkaku remained trapped inside it, and awaited Lord Yayoi’s instructions.

• Yuroketsu found Shima concealed inside a rock wall, gave him supplies to recover, and sent him back with an escort.
• Yuroketsu continued the reconnaissance mission with Hokuto and the others while the black-clad Kumogakure forces prepared to check the Nine-Tails and consider retreating after several squads went missing.
• Izayoi and Meirou replenished their strength after attacking ninja squads along the Land of Fields border, and Hokuto and Yuroketsu returned from interrogating prisoners.
• Hokuto confirmed that the captured ninja were Kumogakure agents led by Kinkaku and Ginkaku, who had failed to capture the Nine-Tails and been swallowed by it.
• Yuroketsu said he had sent someone to seek Lord Yayoi’s instructions, and the group waited for a reply from Nightview City.

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.

Hokuto’s faction clashed with Uchiha Shiranuma’s Konoha group after Shiranuma failed to persuade them to return, until Irori froze Shiranuma and ended the fight. At the General’s Residence, Yayoi told Tobirama that the group had been taken into custody, and Tobirama chose to stay in the Land of Night through Yayoi’s wedding.

• Shiranuma confronted Hokuto at the Uchiha compound and demanded that he return to Konoha, but Hokuto refused.
• A shuriken struck Hokuto, triggering a fight between the two Uchiha groups that damaged the unfinished compound.
• Meirou tried to stop the battle, but Irori arrived and froze Shiranuma with Ice Release: Snow Frost Slaughter.
• At the General’s Residence, Yayoi told Tobirama that Irori had taken Shiranuma’s group into custody.
• Tobirama declined to see the prisoners and said he would stay until after Yayoi’s wedding.

Tobirama explained to Shiranuma and the imprisoned Uchiha that their unauthorized entry into the Land of Night could provoke a war, and warned them to behave while Konoha negotiated their release. Shiranuma thanked Tobirama as he left, while the Uchiha began to recognize how much trouble they had caused him.

• Tobirama visited Shiranuma and the other Uchiha in prison and explained that their fighting had damaged Konoha's reputation.
• The Uchiha defended themselves by saying Hokuto's group had attacked first, but Tobirama said fighting had made the original attacker irrelevant.
• Tobirama revealed that the Uchiha's forged documents and unauthorized entry into the Land of Night could be treated as military aggression and might spark a wider war.
• Tobirama said Konoha would not abandon them, but their release could take ten days to a month, and Konoha had no reason to intervene for Hokuto's group.
• Shiranuma thanked Tobirama, who left, and the Uchiha discussed the trouble he had taken to help them.

Izayoi explored the Capital Museum in Nightview City, where she ran into Tobirama Senju, while Yayoi continued refining a long-range sealing technique. He tested the technique on the Seven-Tails and learned that its restraint was powerful but its sealing formation remained unstable.

• Izayoi explored the Capital Museum and impressed an elderly scholar by recounting the history of an artifact she had excavated herself.
• Izayoi encountered Tobirama Senju in disguise, and they silently avoided each other rather than cause trouble in the museum.
• Yayoi practiced combining earth and water chakra with the Seven-Star Seal to create a golden Sealing Sphere that trapped a boulder.
• Yayoi asked the Seven-Tails to test the Sealing Sphere, promising to help it recover chakra faster.
• The Seven-Tails said the sphere restrained it strongly but had flaws it could exploit, so Yayoi decided to keep practicing while the tailed beast remained his test subject.

Kakuzu led the Land of Night’s delegation to Uzushiogakure to escort Uzumaki Hisana back for her wedding to Yayoi. After confirming the arrangements with Uzumaki Ashina, the party departed with Hisana aboard a massive mechanized vehicle.

• Kakuzu brought Hoshigaki Kairyu and an escort force to Uzushiogakure, where they met Uzumaki Ashina and confirmed the return itinerary.
• Kakuzu reassured Hoshigaki Kairyu that Hyuga, Aburame, and other sensory ninja would guard against another ambush.
• Kakuzu and the delegation prepared to leave with fifty ninja, fifty samurai, and a huge mechanized vehicle built by the Land of Night.
• Uzumaki Hisana approached the vehicle in her wedding attire, and Uzumaki Nene scolded her for looking around before helping her inside.
• Hisana sat down in the vehicle and worried that she might have made an embarrassing mistake while being watched outside.

Nene and Hisana traveled in a remarkable mechanical carriage with Oboro, while Nene recognized Oboro as a battle-hardened shrine maiden. In Nightview City, Hokuto assigned the Uchiha clan roles in the Land of Night, and the clan members began considering how to counter the influence of the General’s new Uzumaki concubine, leaving Izayoi under scrutiny as a possible candidate for the inner residence.

• Nene reassured Hisana during the carriage ride, inspected the carriage’s mechanisms, and introduced herself to the masked shrine maiden Oboro.
• Hokuto assigned Uchiha clan members posts in the Security Forces, patrols, and other Land of Night departments at a meeting in Naka Shrine.
• An Uchiha member warned Hokuto that the General’s new concubine came from the Uzumaki Clan and might pose a threat to the Uchiha.
• Kasumi explained that the Chinoike Clan had been exiled because of a daimyo’s principal wife, persuading Izayoi not to underestimate women in a ruler’s household.
• Kasumi proposed placing an Uchiha woman in the General’s inner residence, and the group turned to Izayoi after Kasumi and another woman ruled themselves out.