Recaps

At the Konoha Jonin Meeting, Fugaku Uchiha revealed that the Uchiha had withdrawn their students from the Ninja Academy to apply for a second Konoha academy. Danzo called the proposal a move to split the village and demanded Fugaku’s arrest, leaving the meeting in a tense standoff.

• Danzo accused Fugaku Uchiha of using the conflict over Uchiha Chuan to split the village, while Fugaku calmly challenged Danzo’s account of what had happened.
• Danzo cited the Uchiha students’ withdrawal from the Ninja Academy as proof of disloyalty, and Fugaku distributed documents explaining the decision.
• The documents revealed the Uchiha’s application to establish Konoha Second Ninja Academy, which Fugaku said would offer better teaching.
• Danzo denounced the application and ordered Fugaku seized, prompting Uchiha elders and jonin to activate their Sharingan and stand between them.
• The Third Hokage silenced the room, and the Uchiha elders argued that submitting an application was proper before Fugaku accused Konoha’s leaders of favoring their own clans.

Fugaku challenged Hiruzen and Konoha’s leadership over restrictions on Uchiha training and the Ninja Academy curriculum. Hiruzen removed Danzō as Hokage Advisor and confined him to his home for a year, but the meeting ended with Fugaku’s curriculum proposal defeated and the conflict unresolved.

• Fugaku confronted Hiruzen over the rejected Uchiha Ninja Academy and argued that the Uchiha could establish an after-school training school like other clans trained their young.
• After Danzō objected to the Uchiha’s proposed training, Hiruzen stripped him of his advisor post, ordered Root restructured, and confined him to his home for one year.
• Fugaku dropped the academy proposal but demanded that Konoha expand its Ninja Academy curriculum, while Koharu and other leaders resisted.
• Hiruzen called for a vote on expanding the curriculum, but only the Uchiha Jonin and Hatake Sakumo raised their hands.
• Fugaku accepted the vote’s outcome, and the meeting resumed while the underlying conflict remained unsettled.

Uchiha Chuan sent Obito Uchiha and the other children to build a field for his game-based training while he went fishing. At the Jonin Meeting, Hatake Sakumo resigned as ANBU director and returned the Hokage Half-Sleeve, leaving his request to lead a team of genin undecided.

• Uchiha Chuan gave Obito Uchiha and the other children a blueprint and told them to build a field with gates and find a ball.
• Uchiha Chuan sent the children to work while he headed to the river to fish.
• Hatake Sakumo announced that he would resign as ANBU director and return the Hokage Half-Sleeve because he felt unsuited to become Hokage.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi accepted Hatake Sakumo's resignation and his return of the half-sleeve.
• Hatake Sakumo asked to become a team-leading jonin, and Hiruzen Sarutobi said they would discuss it later.

Hatake Sakumo resigned from ANBU and withdrew from consideration for Hokage after openly supporting the Uchiha, while Hiruzen Sarutobi ordered Danzo to stop targeting the clan and planned to counter Uchiha influence through the Will of Fire. Meanwhile, Uchiha Chuan had Obito and the other children build stilts for an undisclosed purpose, and Fugaku and the elders arrived celebrating their success at the Jonin meeting.

• Shikaku Nara questioned Hatake Sakumo's resignation and blunt support for the Uchiha, and Sakumo said he had to make his position clear to the Hokage.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi said Sakumo was unsuited to become Hokage, then ordered Danzo to stop targeting the Uchiha and use his attention beyond the village after confinement.
• Hiruzen and his advisers decided to strengthen education in the Will of Fire to counter Uchiha ideology and win over a future generation of the clan.
• Uchiha Chuan showed Obito and the children how to use stilts and instructed them to build pairs for themselves without explaining his plans.
• Fugaku Uchiha and the three elders arrived to celebrate the Uchiha's victory at the Jonin meeting, where Danzo had lost his adviser position and been confined.

Uchiha Chuan proposed using a stilt-football tournament to keep Konoha’s leadership occupied while bringing income and training to the Uchiha Clan. He taught Obito and the other children the game, then left them arguing over teams and positions.

• Uchiha Chuan advised Fugaku Uchiha and the elders to keep pressure on the village leadership and save their Ninjutsu-selling plan for a later confrontation.
• Uchiha Chuan proposed a stilt-football competition at the Ninja Academy, with C-rank Ninjutsu prizes and revenue from tickets, snacks, and vendor spaces.
• After Fugaku and the elders left, Obito and the other children returned with their homemade stilts and followed Uchiha Chuan to the training field.
• Uchiha Chuan demonstrated stilt football, scored a goal, and explained the rules to Obito and the children.
• Uchiha Chuan encouraged Obito to master the game and stand out, while the children argued over teams and positions as he watched.

Uchiha Chuan refereed a stilt soccer match between two Uchiha teams, enforcing fair-play rules as the players learned to cooperate. Team Two won three to two, and Fugaku Uchiha gathered the children afterward to give them a mysterious mission.

• Uchiha Chuan chose to referee, and the teams’ captains called the toss; Team One won and chose to attack Obito’s goal.
• Uchiha Chuan started the match and called fouls when players touched the ball after falling or deliberately tripped and charged into others.
• One Uchiha quit after arguing with Uchiha Chuan, but the remaining players continued the match.
• Team One scored an own goal against Obito’s side, then Obito organized his teammates and led them to score an equalizer.
• Team Two organized its players and won the match three to two.
• Uchiha Chuan ended the match and left, while Fugaku Uchiha gathered the players and gave them instructions for a mission.

The Uchiha students returned to the Ninja Academy without Uchiha Chuan, and their confidence in him helped them brush aside the hostility surrounding their clan. The Third Hokage grew more wary of the Uchiha’s growing unity as class began with Chuan’s seat still empty.

• The Uchiha students returned to the Ninja Academy, where other students spread rumors and voiced distrust of them.
• Obito calmly challenged Asuma’s mockery by asking why the Uchiha should trust him over Uchiha Chuan, leaving Asuma speechless.
• Rin Nohara and the other students praised Obito, while other Uchiha students defended their trust in Chuan in similar ways.
• The Third Hokage watched the Uchiha students overcome the hostility and worried that Chuan was uniting the clan.
• Kakashi asked Obito why Chuan had not returned, and Obito explained that Chuan had never wanted to attend the Academy and had nothing left to learn there.
• Umino Ikkaku began class, relieved to see Obito back but helpless about Chuan’s empty seat.

Hiruzen Sarutobi and his advisers worried about Uchiha Chuan’s growing influence after the Uchiha students returned to the Ninja Academy without him. At school, Obito led Rin Nohara and the other students to watch the Uchiha children build a ball field, leaving everyone curious about what they were making.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi, Utatane Koharu, and Mitokado Homura discussed Uchiha Chuan’s absence from the academy and feared his influence would keep the Uchiha united and rational.
• Obito grabbed Rin Nohara after class and led her outside to show her something fun.
• Asuma and Kurenai Yuhi followed Obito, while the other students, including Kakashi, joined them out of curiosity.
• More than twenty Uchiha students brought tools to a corner of the field and began digging and preparing the ground.
• Obito told Asuma that the Uchiha students were building a ball field designed by Uchiha Chuan, then continued directing their work.

The Uchiha introduced Stilt Football at the academy and challenged Asuma’s Sarutobi team to a match. The Uchiha sides traded daring plays as the crowd rallied behind them, and the game remained underway after the upper-year goalkeeper blocked a spectacular shot.

• The Uchiha children built goals and explained that Stilt Football was soccer played on stilts, while Kakashi studied the rules and agreed to referee.
• Obito challenged Asuma’s Sarutobi team to a match, and Kakashi started the game after both sides took their positions.
• The upper-year Uchiha advanced with the ball, leaped to catch it between his stilts, and avoided Obito’s sliding tackle.
• Uchiha Mion blocked the ball carrier, allowing the lower-year Uchiha to recover possession and launch a coordinated attack.
• A lower-year Uchiha spun in midair and kicked toward the goal, but the upper-year Uchiha goalkeeper leaped up and knocked the ball away as the crowd cheered.

The Uchiha Clan’s stilt football match captivated the Ninja Academy, while Hiruzen Sarutobi and his advisers worried over the clan’s growing influence. Asuma joined the game and lost with the Sarutobi Team, but vowed to win next time.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi, Utatane Koharu, and Mitokado Homura watched the Uchiha Clan’s stilt football match and debated whether it could be stopped.
• The Uchiha Senior Team defeated Obito’s team, and Asuma entered the next match with a Sarutobi Clan team.
• Asuma struggled to control the stilts as the Uchiha Senior Team scored twice and defended against the Sarutobi Team’s attacks.
• Hiruzen praised Asuma’s refusal to give up and decided the Uchiha Clan might as well integrate into the village.
• The Uchiha Senior Team defeated Asuma’s team, and Asuma vowed to win next time.

The Uchiha Team and Ino–Shika–Cho Squad played a stilt soccer match that ended in a draw as the crowd rallied around both teams. The Hokage’s advisers worried that Uchiha Chuan was pursuing a hidden plan, while Fugaku Uchiha and the elders trusted his strategy and had already shared the clan’s forbidden techniques with him.

• Obito accepted the Ino–Shika–Cho Squad’s challenge, and the Uchiha Team pressed them across the field as they struggled to master the stilts.
• Asuma and the spectators cheered for Ino–Shika–Cho, while Uchiha supporters answered with louder chants and the match drew attention from villagers.
• The stilt soccer match ended in a draw because the Uchiha Team ran out of stamina and Ino–Shika–Cho remained unfamiliar with the game.
• Utatane Koharu, Mitokado Homura, and the Third Hokage debated Uchiha Chuan’s motives, then decided to watch rather than intervene.
• Fugaku Uchiha and the elders praised Uchiha Chuan’s scheme and confirmed that the clan’s forbidden techniques had been passed on to him.

Obito distributed manuals for making stilts and playing Stilt Football, and the sport quickly spread through Konoha. As villagers and ninja recognized its training benefits, the Third Hokage worried that Uchiha Chuan’s growing influence would make the Uchiha Clan harder to restrain.

• Obito handed out stilt construction and Stilt Football manuals after his team’s defeat, and he and Asuma challenged each other to future matches.
• Children took the manuals home, and their parents became interested after learning that Uchiha Chuan had designed the sport for both training and recreation.
• Hatake Sakumo praised Stilt Football’s chakra-control benefits, advised Kakashi to practice on stilts, and demonstrated moving without using the handrails.
• Ninja and families across Konoha tried Stilt Football and praised its combination of training, teamwork, and entertainment.
• The Third Hokage tried the stilts Asuma had made and worried that Uchiha Chuan’s creativity would strengthen the Uchiha Clan’s influence.

Stilt Football improved the villagers’ attitude toward the Uchiha, alarming the Third Hokage and Utatane Koharu, who worried that the clan would become harder to suppress. Uchiha Chuan and Fugaku Uchiha prepared the next stage of their plan, while Chuan headed off to fish.

• The villagers grew more accepting of the Uchiha after seeing the Police Force’s dedication and friendliness, and the Uchiha began treating villagers more warmly in return.
• Utatane Koharu warned the Third Hokage that the Uchiha’s improving reputation would make them harder to target, and he suggested consulting Danzo.
• Uchiha Chuan told Fugaku Uchiha and the three Elders that it was time for the next step, and they praised his role in changing the clan’s standing.
• Fugaku Uchiha and the three Elders left to arrange the next stage of the plan, while Uchiha Chuan took his fishing rod and went to the riverbank.

Hiruzen Sarutobi, Utatane Koharu, and Mitokado Homura confronted Danzo about how to restrain the Uchiha. Danzo revealed that he had learned the secret of the Mangekyō Sharingan by reading Kagami’s memories, leaving Hiruzen furious at his treatment of their former comrade.

• Hiruzen, Koharu, and Homura visited Danzo in confinement and argued over whether suppressing the Uchiha would endanger Konoha.
• Danzo argued that the Ninja Academy was Konoha’s advantage and proposed using its importance against the Uchiha.
• Danzo claimed Uchiha could awaken the Mangekyō Sharingan by personally killing relatives, and said that this had caused the Uchiha Civil War after Madara Uchiha left.
• Hiruzen realized Danzo had learned the secret by reading Kagami’s memories and angrily accused him of desecrating their companion.
• Danzo defended his actions as service to Konoha, while Hiruzen stood speechless with rage.

Danzo, Utatane Koharu, and Mitokado Homura persuaded the Third Hokage to spread Uchiha secrets through revised history textbooks and provoke conflict within the clan. The Uchiha then announced a youth stilt football tournament with valuable prizes, drawing teams from across Konoha and shocking the returning Konoha F3.

• Danzo proposed adding Uchiha civil-war history to schoolbooks so the Uchiha youths would learn their clan’s secrets and fight among themselves, while avoiding Uchiha Chuan’s notice.
• Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura approved Danzo’s plan, and the Third Hokage reluctantly accepted it after considering the risks.
• The Uchiha announced a youth stilt football league for players under sixteen, offering C-rank Ninjutsu to the top three teams and money to teams placing fourth through tenth.
• Genin and Ninja Academy students rushed to form teams, while Asuma challenged Obito and Obito recruited Kakashi, Rin Nohara, and their classmates after being kicked off the Uchiha team.
• Kakashi reluctantly agreed to captain the group, and Genin over sixteen complained that they could not enter.
• The returning members of Konoha F3 were stunned when they heard the tournament’s rules and prizes.

The Uchiha’s Youth Stilt Football League won support from civilians and drew anger from the Third Hokage, Danzo, and their allies. The Third Hokage decided to enter a team, while Obito and Asuma trained for the league’s opening match.

• Civilians welcomed the league as an affordable way for children who had failed to enter the Ninja Academy to exercise and improve their chances of becoming ninja.
• Mitokado Homura, the Third Hokage, and Danzo reacted angrily to Uchiha Chuan’s plans, while civilian ninja began to favor the Uchiha and question the Third Hokage.
• The Third Hokage decided to enter the competition, and Utatane Koharu proposed the Hokage Team, coached by the three leaders and composed of players at least fifteen years old.
• The Third Hokage asked Asuma about Stilt Football and learned that his son was enthusiastic about the game and admired Obito’s playing.
• As Stilt Football fields appeared around the village, Obito said he had eavesdropped on Uchiha Chuan’s training, and Asuma challenged him before the Youth Stilt Football League’s opening match arrived.

The Daimyo arrived at the Uchiha Clan Territory to watch the Youth Stilt Football League, praising the Uchiha and announcing plans to organize a football league of his own. His arrival heightened the opening match’s excitement, and the Youth Uchiha Team and Youth Sarutobi Team took the field before the match began.

• The Third Hokage learned that the Daimyo had come to watch the league and took him to the Uchiha Clan Territory.
• Uchiha Chuan told Fugaku Uchiha not to worry about the Daimyo’s arrival, and Fugaku went to welcome him.
• Uchiha Chuan used his Broadcasting Technique to announce the Daimyo to the stadium, prompting a roar of cheers that pleased the Daimyo.
• The Youth Uchiha Team, led by Uchiha Mion, and the Youth Sarutobi Team, led by Asuma Sarutobi, entered the field and exchanged taunts.
• Might Duy and Hatake Sakumo commentated as the teams completed the coin toss, and the opening match began with a whistle.

Asuma’s Sarutobi Team faced the Uchiha in a ninja stilt football match, where an Uchiha goalkeeper awakened the Sharingan and Asuma answered with a clever team goal. The first half ended with the Sarutobi Team leading and both sides determined to win.

• Asuma used a Tiger-Style Shot, but the Uchiha goalkeeper awakened his Sharingan and stopped the attack.
• Uchiha Chuan clarified the rules, restricting ninjutsu to the ball and banning techniques that damaged it or affected players.
• The teams continued with clone-assisted plays, producing confusion and comic mistakes as the Daimyo watched with excitement.
• Asuma launched a Blazing Fire-Style Shot, and a Sarutobi teammate redirected the goalkeeper’s deflection into the Uchiha goal.
• Asuma celebrated the Sarutobi Team’s lead, and the first-half whistle sounded as he and Uchiha Mion exchanged defiant remarks.

The Uchiha Team mounted a desperate attack against the Sarutobi Team, and repeated Sharingan awakenings gave them a major surge of confidence. The Sarutobi Team won when the final scramble sent the ball out of bounds, but Uchiha Amane awakened his Sharingan afterward, leaving six Uchiha awakened in one match.

• An Uchiha forward awakened his One-Tomoe Sharingan, broke through the Sarutobi Team’s defense, and was forced to pass when Asuma and two teammates stopped him.
• Three more Uchiha players awakened their Sharingan and surged forward together, but they ignored Uchiha Amane’s call for a pass and charged at Asuma.
• An Uchiha player used Asuma’s Tiger-Style Shot, and the ensuing contest for the rebounding ball ended with it going out of bounds as the final whistle sounded.
• The Sarutobi Team celebrated its victory while the Uchiha players lamented their loss, and Uchiha Amane urged them to win the next match.
• Uchiha Amane’s Sharingan opened, bringing the number of Uchiha who awakened their eyes during the match to six, and Fugaku Uchiha celebrated despite the defeat.

After the opening match, Uchiha Chuan demonstrated a mysterious Lip-reading Technique while Fugaku and the Third Hokage argued over the Broadcasting Technique. He then rebuked the defeated Uchiha Team for losing despite their newly awakened Sharingan, but the arrogant members rejected his criticism and Uchiha Mion was left disappointed.

• The Third Hokage announced the tournament schedule, and Fugaku instructed an Uchiha ninja to bring the defeated team to Uchiha Chuan for reprimanding.
• Uchiha Chuan spoke to Fugaku, the Third Hokage, and the daimyo from outside the stadium using the Lip-reading Technique, leaving them unable to locate or understand his method.
• Fugaku and the Third Hokage argued over whether the Broadcasting Technique was powerful enough to warrant trading for a forbidden technique before the daimyo urged them to go eat.
• Uchiha Chuan told the defeated Uchiha Team that their awakened Sharingan had made them arrogant and unable to control their emotions, which had contributed to their loss.
• The awakened Uchiha rejected Uchiha Chuan’s criticism and insulted him, while Uchiha Mion explained that his Stilt Football had helped them awaken their Sharingan.
• Uchiha Mion watched in disappointment as the awakened Uchiha dismissed her explanation and continued to look down on those without the Sharingan.

Uchiha Chuan’s soccer team broke apart after newly awakened players demanded authority over their teammates, prompting the First Elder to explain that early Sharingan awakenings could make young Uchiha arrogant. The First Elder concluded that the Police Force had once served to restrain the clan, and Uchiha Chuan realized his recent actions had weakened that restraint.

• The awakened Uchiha players blamed their loss on teammates who had not passed them the ball and demanded that the unawakened obey them.
• Uchiha Chuan left, and Uchiha Mion argued with the awakened players before the Uchiha Youth Soccer Team split up.
• Uchiha Mion told the First, Second, and Third Elders what had happened, and the First Elder sent her away before seeking Uchiha Chuan.
• The First Elder told Uchiha Chuan that early eye awakenings could produce arrogance and recalled that the Second Hokage had used this concern to persuade his grandfather to place the Uchiha in charge of the Konoha Military Police Force.
• The First Elder explained that the Police Force restrained the Uchiha, but Uchiha Chuan’s recent actions had weakened that check and stirred the old arrogance in young clan members.

Uchiha Chuan proposed a way to suppress the Uchiha Kekkei Genkai’s harmful effects by repeatedly cultivating geniuses to humble the clan’s arrogant members. Meanwhile, the Daimyo commissioned Konoha to provide security and Uchiha referees for a football tournament in the capital.

• Uchiha Chuan told the elders that the Uchiha Kekkei Genkai’s flaws could not be cured at their root, but its effects could be suppressed by making inflated clan members face reality.
• Uchiha Chuan proposed cultivating a super genius to defeat and humble them, and offered to create one if the clan gave him full support.
• The elders agreed to seek Fugaku’s cooperation and discuss a proposed one-billion-ryo budget with the clan.
• At the Daimyo’s reception banquet, the Daimyo asked the Third Hokage to arrange Jonin security for a football tournament in the capital.
• The Daimyo asked Fugaku to provide Uchiha Jonin as referees, and Fugaku agreed while the Third Hokage could not object.

The Third and his advisors feared that the daimyo was trying to win the Uchiha over, while Fugaku Uchiha learned that the Sharingan could foster dangerous arrogance and considered Little Chuan’s costly training plan. After Fugaku called a clan assembly, the Third ordered Root to monitor the Uchiha and deferred further action until Danzo’s confinement ended.

• The Third, Utatane Koharu, and Mitokado Homura discussed the daimyo’s effort to recruit the Uchiha and considered how to preserve Konoha’s influence.
• The First Elder, Second Elder, and Third Elder told Fugaku Uchiha that the Sharingan could encourage arrogance and that Little Chuan had proposed a training plan requiring one billion ryo.
• Fugaku Uchiha and the elders decided to convene a clan assembly to seek support for Little Chuan’s plan without revealing the Kekkei Genkai’s flaws.
• Fugaku Uchiha announced that the Uchiha Clan would hold an assembly the following day, and the news quickly reached the Third.
• The Third ordered Root to monitor the Uchiha and said they would wait for Danzo’s confinement to end before letting him handle the matter.

Sarutobi Guaguazhan tried to extort a tavern owner, but the Uchiha Police Force exposed his scheme and arrested him. The Third Hokage watched villagers praise the Uchiha and realized they had grown more popular than the Sarutobi Clan.

• Sarutobi Guaguazhan demanded compensation from a tavern owner after a waiter spilled wine on his clothes, then struck the owner and threatened them.
• Uchiha Police Force members arrived and used a hypnosis technique to make Sarutobi Guaguazhan confess that he had staged the incident to extort money.
• The Uchiha Police Force arrested Sarutobi Guaguazhan and beat him as he protested, while the tavern patrons cheered and the owner thanked them with sake.
• Sarutobi Guaguazhan was led away in disgrace as villagers praised the Uchiha Police Force and said they had once misunderstood the clan.
• The Third Hokage watched from a dark corner and realized the Uchiha had become more popular than the Sarutobi Clan.

Fugaku Uchiha and the three elders proposed spending one billion ryo and mobilizing the Uchiha Clan to help Uchiha Chuan cultivate super geniuses, but clan members rejected the plan over doubts about Chuan and the cost. The vote left the Uchiha Hardliners triumphant and Fugaku and the elders walking out.

• Fugaku Uchiha announced that the clan would invest one billion ryo and work with Uchiha Chuan to cultivate super geniuses.
• Uchiha clansmen opposed the spending, arguing that Chuan was too young and had not awakened his Sharingan, while his supporters defended his contributions.
• Fugaku Uchiha and the First Elder rebuked the critics and challenged the Uchiha Hardliners over their claims that they could have handled Konoha themselves.
• The Second Elder called for a vote, and the majority opposed spending the one billion ryo.
• The Uchiha Hardliners celebrated the result, while Fugaku Uchiha and the three elders left the assembly hall.