Recaps

The Uchiha executed the surviving criminals in the 414 Human Trafficking Case, deepening public resentment toward the Third and strengthening the Military Police Force’s authority. Hane accepted a rotation to the front lines and prepared to leave after arranging the clan’s new year ancestral worship ceremony.

• The Uchiha judge announced the executions, and the villagers watched as the Anbu criminals were beheaded while Hane mocked the Third.
• Grieving villagers attacked the dead Anbu, while Danzo hid nearby and feared what the crowd would do to him.
• The Third’s faction lost influence after the executions, and Sarutobi left without giving his usual speech.
• Hane received the Hokage’s order to lead Uchiha reinforcements to the front lines and decided to go, planning to end the war and expand his clan’s influence.
• Hane ordered Uchiha Retsuyō and twelve Mangekyō clan members to divide their duties, then instructed Retsuyō to organize ancestral worship and new year benefits for the clan.

Tsunade returned to Konoha and found the Uchiha-led Military Police Force exercising authority across the village. After watching Captain Hizashi’s team rescue a kidnapped child and arrest a trafficker, she began to understand why villagers feared the force’s strict enforcement.

• Tsunade and Shizune walked through Konoha, where Uchiha clan members spent lavishly and villagers treated them with unusual enthusiasm.
• Tsunade saw a Hyuga ninja leading clan and civilian ninja wearing the Uchiha crest, and wondered whether the Uchiha had already taken control of Konoha.
• Captain Hizashi confronted a woman carrying a child, and his team identified her as a trafficker by the child’s disrupted chakra flow.
• A Military Police Force member treated the child with a Clear-Mind Pill, and the child woke and called the woman bad, confirming the accusation.
• The woman confessed that she planned to sell the girl to a brothel, and Captain Hizashi’s team arrested her and returned the child’s safety to the villagers’ attention.
• Tsunade watched the child’s relieved mother reunite with her and learned that villagers feared the Military Police Force’s strictness more than they feared being harmed by it.

Tsunade returned to Konoha and questioned Sarutobi about the village’s troubles, refusing to help suppress the Uchiha. After seeing the Uchiha’s pills increase chakra and treat injuries and poison, she hurried to the Konoha Medical Institute to study them, while Sarutobi hoped their secrets would restore his faction’s standing.

• Tsunade brought Shizune to the Hokage Office and asked Sarutobi whether the village had reached the crisis he described.
• Sarutobi blamed Danzo for the village’s troubles and urged Tsunade to help restrain the Uchiha, but she refused to take part in their suppression.
• Sarutobi showed Tsunade the Uchiha’s pills and medicinal liquids, and she was shocked when a Qi-Gathering Pill increased her chakra.
• Tsunade heard about the pills’ other effects, then took the bottles and rushed off to research them at the Konoha Medical Institute.
• Sarutobi planned to send Tsunade his research materials and hoped she could uncover the pills’ secrets.

Tsunade investigated the Uchiha pills and went to their Clan Grounds, hoping to learn how they were made. There she found the clan celebrating at Naka Shrine as Hane urged everyone to have more children, leaving Tsunade stunned.

• Tsunade studied the Qi-Gathering Pill but could not identify the unusual plant-based energy in it.
• Yuna told Tsunade that the Uchiha grew their own herbs and that Anbu agents who tried to enter the gardens were caught in a lasting Genjutsu.
• Tsunade learned about the Uchiha's expensive Beauty-Preserving Pills and decided to visit the Clan Grounds.
• Tsunade found the Uchiha Clan Grounds empty and followed the clan's cheers to Naka Shrine.
• Hane urged the Uchiha clansmen to have more children and promised clan support for their families.
• Tsunade, Fugaku, Mikoto, Itachi, and Sasuke stared in disbelief at Hane's announcement.

At the Uchiha ancestral worship gathering, Hane announced a Birth Support Plan to grow the clan and secure its future. Tsunade learned of the plan and waited for Hane, increasingly troubled by the Uchiha’s rising influence and the Senju Clan’s decline.

• Hane called out Uchiha Retsuyō as an example of a sole heir and urged Uchiha families to have more children.
• Hane announced subsidies for childbirth, free schooling and training, and job placement for Uchiha children when they became adults.
• Tsunade listened from the foot of the mountain and feared the plan would rapidly expand the Uchiha and threaten Konoha’s balance of power.
• Hane sensed Tsunade nearby, and Uchiha Wada told her to wait until the gathering ended before meeting the clan head.
• Tsunade waited for an hour, growing resentful as she reflected on the Senju Clan’s disappearance and her grandfather’s decision to disperse it.

After the Uchiha ancestral worship ceremony, Tsunade asked Hane for medicinal herbs so she could try to reproduce the clan’s pill-making industry. Hane gave her the herbs and challenged her to remember the Senju and Uchiha’s shared history, leaving Tsunade reconsidering her view of the Uchiha.

• The Uchiha families left the ceremony excited to follow Hane’s policies and have more children, while Tsunade reflected on the Senju’s decline.
• Hane stopped the clan elders’ praise and asked Tsunade why she had come to the Uchiha Clan Grounds.
• Tsunade said she wanted medicinal herbs to research and replicate the Uchiha Clan’s industry, and Hane warned that her efforts would fail.
• Hane agreed to provide the herbs because of the Senju and Uchiha’s shared history, then gave Tsunade a box with instructions for preserving them.
• Hane told Tsunade that the Uchiha might one day have no opponents or friends, prompting her to reconsider the bond between their clans before she left.

A’s forces learned that Danzo had been killed and planned to exploit Konoha’s turmoil, while Jiraiya faced orders to rotate experienced Uchiha fighters off the front. Tsunade told Sarutobi that the Uchiha could perceive a powerful substance others could not, leaving him jealous and powerless.

• A learned that the young Uchiha clan head had killed Danzo and ordered Black Lightning and Yugito to prepare an assault on the Land of Fire border.
• Jiraiya received Sarutobi’s order to replace the experienced Uchiha at the border with inexperienced Uchiha reinforcements led by the new clan head.
• Uchiha Setsuna protested the rotation and mocked Sarutobi before leaving Jiraiya’s command tent.
• After three days of research, Tsunade concluded that the Uchiha could sense a mysterious power that she could neither observe nor identify.
• Tsunade told Sarutobi that the power was beyond Chakra and Natural Energy and that others could not perceive it.
• Sarutobi realized that the Uchiha’s exclusive ability was drawing other clans toward them and felt helpless and jealous.

Sarutobi and Tsunade tested whether Kakashi could see the spirit plant’s power, then summoned Itachi to try. Itachi refused to betray his brother, and as he went home he began to suspect that the Hokage, not he, had strayed from the Will of Fire.

• Tsunade and Sarutobi took Kakashi to the laboratory, where his Sharingan revealed no mysterious power in the spirit plant.
• Sarutobi brought Itachi to the laboratory and asked him to help investigate the plant, but Itachi refused to betray his brother.
• Itachi offered to try persuading his brother instead, prompting Sarutobi to criticize him until Tsunade intervened and sent Itachi away.
• On his way home in his Anbu uniform, Itachi noticed villagers’ hostile looks and concluded that the village’s hatred had shifted toward Anbu.
• Itachi decided Sarutobi was the one who had strayed from the Will of Fire, then hurried home to keep his promise to train with Sasuke.

Hane prepared the Uchiha for his departure to the battlefield, making the elders swear to obey his plans and warning them how dissenters would be punished. After he left Konoha with a supply convoy, Shikaku and Inoichi discussed the political consequences and how the Uchiha’s Qi-Gathering Pill missions had turned civilian ninja against the Hokage Faction.

• Hane told Itachi he was leaving for the battlefield, then gathered the Uchiha clansmen and instructed them to maintain clan affairs according to his plans.
• Uchiha Xuan raised concerns about Uchiha Setsuna and the returning war faction, and Hane ordered Uchiha Retsuyō to punish anyone who defied the Clan Head.
• The Uchiha elders pledged their obedience, and Hane ordered the clansmen to prepare supplies for an early departure.
• Hane said goodbye to Mikoto, Izumi, Fugaku, Itachi, and Sasuke, then led more than twenty Three-Tomoe clansmen and a supply convoy out of Konoha.
• Shikaku and Inoichi discussed how Hane’s departure might shift village politics and how the Uchiha’s Qi-Gathering Pill missions had fueled resentment toward Sarutobi and his allies.

Hane led an Uchiha escort convoy toward the Land of Lightning border, treating its exhausted laborers with consideration while suspecting the mission concealed a plot. When Cloud ninja ambushed the convoy, they discovered it was guarded by Uchiha with Three-Tomoe Sharingan and six Mangekyō users, and Black Lightning ordered a panicked retreat after Sosuke’s black flames burned off both his arms.

• Hane allowed the convoy’s laborers to rest and told Sosuke that the Uchiha must not mistreat ordinary civilians.
• After two days of travel, Hane sensed fifty or sixty Cloud ninja surrounding the convoy near the Land of Lightning border.
• Sosuke rallied the convoy, and the Uchiha formed a defensive ring around the laborers, revealing their Three-Tomoe Sharingan.
• Hane accused the Cloud ninja of finding them through leaked intelligence, and six Uchiha opened their Mangekyō around him.
• Sosuke used black flames to burn Black Lightning’s arms, which a Cloud ninja severed to stop the flames spreading.
• Black Lightning ordered the Cloud ninja to flee and resolved to warn Kumogakure about the six Mangekyō users.

Hane’s Uchiha captured a Cloud ninja commander, but Arayama’s Tsukuyomi left him mentally broken before he could be questioned. Hane reassured Arayama and led the clan toward the battlefield, where Jiraiya arrived to meet the Uchiha and found two groups confronting each other.

• Sosuke and the Uchiha surrounded Black Lightning, and Arayama used Tsukuyomi on him after he insulted Hane, leaving him barely conscious.
• Arayama apologized to Hane for breaking the prisoner, and Hane comforted him and reminded the Uchiha that they were his trusted clansmen, not weapons.
• Hane ordered the Uchiha to take the prisoner and move toward the battlefield, declaring that they would prove the clan’s strength in the war.
• Jiraiya learned that the Uchiha and Konoha supplies had arrived and went to the training ground with Inoichi Yamanaka.
• Jiraiya and Inoichi saw an old man leading one group of Uchiha as they faced another group led by a young child.

Hane confronted Uchiha Setsuna, who challenged his appointment as clan head and accused him of being the Third Hokage’s puppet. After Hane’s reinforcements defeated Setsuna’s faction and Hane crushed Setsuna’s resistance, the Uchiha accepted Hane’s authority and were told to rest before returning to the clan.

• Uchiha Setsuna incited the returning clansmen to reject Hane as clan head, but Hane challenged their claim to be the clan’s strongest group.
• Hane ordered his Three-Tomoe Sharingan reinforcements to attack the dissenters, while Sosuke’s six companions surrounded Setsuna.
• Arayama used his Mangekyō to overwhelm Setsuna, and Sosuke warned him against opposing the clan head again.
• Hane’s reinforcements quickly defeated the battle-hardened Uchiha, and Jiraiya watched the fight without intervening.
• Hane forced Setsuna’s head into the ground when he sensed the elder’s lingering resentment, then dismissed the provocation and ordered the Uchiha to rest before returning to the clan.

Hane joined Jiraiya at Konoha’s front-line command center after capturing Black Lightning, a powerful Cloud ninja leader. When Kumogakure launched a full assault the next day, Hane turned Toroi’s Magnet Release attack back on the Cloud forces, devastating their formation.

• Hane showed Jiraiya the captured Black Lightning, and Jiraiya recognized him as the Raikage’s trusted assistant and an Elite Jonin.
• At the Cloud command center, Blue B learned that Black Lightning and his squad were missing and ordered a full assault for the next day, sending Yugito to fight as Kumogakure’s Perfect Jinchuriki.
• Hane arrived at the battlefield with Uchiha and other Konoha ninja as Toroi led a surprise Cloud attack against their position.
• Toroi’s forces used Magnet Release to accelerate Kunai toward Konoha, but Hane stopped them in midair and sent them back at the Cloud formation.
• The returning Kunai killed or wounded many Cloud ninja, while Toroi barely protected himself and lost flesh from one arm.
• Hane ordered Sosuke to take two Uchiha clansmen and slaughter the remaining Cloud ninja.

Sosuke and two Uchiha fighters overwhelmed the Cloud forces with Susanoo, while Hane defeated Yugito and extracted Matatabi from her. Hane returned to the Konoha camp with the Two-Tails as his captive pet, leaving Yugito behind.

• Sosuke and two Uchiha fighters summoned Susanoo and killed Toroi with a combined slash that split a distant mountain.
• Matatabi warned Yugito that the Uchiha were dangerous, but Yugito left Jiraiya to rush toward her comrades; Blue B ordered the Cloud forces to retreat temporarily.
• Yugito arrived to find her comrades dead and transformed fully, but Hane struck her back and pinned her with a giant hand of lightning.
• Hane used the Five Elements Severing Formation to pull Matatabi from Yugito, overcoming the Two-Tails' resistance with a golden mark.
• Hane carried Matatabi back to the Konoha camp, where Sosuke congratulated him and Matatabi mourned Yugito while submitting to Hane.

Hane’s victory over Kumogakure’s forces left the Land of Lightning furious and demanding concessions, while news of the Uchiha’s three Susanoo and Hane’s capture of Matatabi reached Obito. Obito reacted with hostility toward his clan and considered what the developments meant for the Eye of the Moon Plan.

• Jiraiya arrived at the battlefield, learned that Hane had slaughtered the Cloud forces and taken the Two-Tails from Yugito, and ordered Konoha’s troops to withdraw.
• Three days later, Blue B told A that Yugito and more than a thousand elite Kumogakure troops had been lost, prompting A to smash his desk in rage.
• A ordered Blue B to send Konoha a protest demanding Matatabi’s return, compensation, and the Uchiha culprit, threatening another full-scale war if Konoha refused.
• Obito mourned Rin until Zetsu reported that three Susanoo had appeared in the battle between Konoha and the Cloud.
• Zetsu told Obito that Matatabi was in the hands of Obito’s clansmen, and Obito denied that the Uchiha were his clan before asking what to do about the Eye of the Moon Plan.

Obito ordered Akatsuki to begin its first operation as the Land of Lightning gave Konoha one week to hand over the Uchiha Clan Head and pay compensation. At a village meeting, the clans largely refused to blame the Uchiha, and Sarutobi gave them full authority to handle the dispute.

• Obito dismissed the Uchiha’s strength and told Black Zetsu to inform Nagato that Akatsuki would begin operations against the largest village in the Ninja World.
• The Cloud envoy demanded that Konoha hand over the culprit who killed the Jinchuriki and compensate the Land of Lightning, threatening war if Konoha did not decide within a week.
• Sarutobi and Danzo discussed using the crisis to pressure the Uchiha, and Sarutobi summoned the elders and Elite Jonin to a meeting.
• The Aburame Clan Head defended the Uchiha, citing the clan’s history with Root and arguing that Konoha should not surrender a village hero for winning a battle.
• Hiashi and other clan representatives called for the Uchiha Clan Head to be consulted, while civilian Elite Jonin favored avoiding war if possible.
• Sarutobi ended the meeting by summoning the Uchiha Clan Head and giving the Uchiha full authority to handle the dispute.

Hane returned from the Uchiha camp after Kumogakure demanded the Two-Tails and that the Uchiha hand him over, and he prepared to confront the village and the Land of Lightning. He reunited with Itachi and Sasuke, then ordered Retsuyō to notify the Third Hokage and addressed the trouble caused by Uchiha Setsuna.

• Jiraiya told Hane that Kumogakure had demanded the Two-Tails and the Uchiha clan hand over the person who killed its Jinchuriki, and Hane vowed to make the Raikage kneel and apologize.
• Hane sent Sosuke and five other Uchiha ahead toward Kumogakure, then flew back to Konoha with Matatabi.
• Hane found Itachi teaching Sasuke shuriken and reassured them that he would handle Kumogakure's demand; Itachi revealed his Mangekyō Sharingan, while Sasuke showed his One-Tomoe Sharingan.
• Hane asked Uchiha Retsuyō to notify the Third Hokage and learned that Uchiha Setsuna was still causing trouble among the clan members who had returned from the front.
• Hane told Retsuyō to find a way to let Setsuna leave with dignity if he continued making trouble.

Hane challenged the Third Hokage and the elders for considering Kumogakure’s demand for compensation, arguing that Konoha should not yield to threats after winning the war. His speech rallied the clan representatives and Tsunade, leaving the meeting ready to resist Kumogakure’s demands.

• Sarutobi called an emergency meeting after Hane returned to Konoha with Uchiha Retsuyō and Wada.
• Hiashi silently gave Hane his teacup, and the Uchiha and Hyuga exchanged a show of goodwill.
• Hane mocked Kumogakure’s demand for compensation and accused Sarutobi and the elders of weakening Konoha by considering it.
• Hane argued that Konoha should make the defeated Land of Lightning pay and warned that yielding would invite further threats.
• Hane urged the ninja to fight for Konoha and future generations, winning the support of the assembled representatives and impressing Tsunade.

Hane confronted Sarutobi over his refusal to accept responsibility for the coming war, then left the meeting and rescued Naruto from villagers who were chasing him for stealing food. He paid for the stolen goods and declared that the Uchiha would protect Naruto, leaving the boy in his care as they headed to the Uchiha shop.

• Hane told the clan representatives that the Uchiha would take responsibility for the war and vowed to make the Raikage answer for insulting Konoha.
• The clan representatives urged Sarutobi to step down, and Tsunade condemned his actions before leaving him to prepare for war.
• Hane told Uchiha Retsuyō and Wada that the Uchiha could pursue the Hokage position after dealing with the Raikage.
• Naruto fled a crowd of villagers and ran into Hane, who held him and protected him from the men accusing him of stealing food.
• Hane paid the shopkeepers, warned the villagers that the Uchiha would protect Naruto, and carried the boy toward his family's shop.

Hane comforted Naruto, accepted him as family, and took him to eat at the Uchiha restaurant. After promising Naruto free meals there and reassuring him that he was a good child, Hane carried him toward his home so he could come visit whenever he wanted.

• Naruto asked whether Hane was family, and Hane promised to take care of him and introduce him to a lifelong friend.
• The Nine-Tails recognized Matatabi and sensed two Mangekyō-wielding Uchiha, then obeyed Hane's warning not to hurt Naruto after Hane threatened him and promised future freedom.
• Hane brought Naruto to the Four Seasons Restaurant, where Inabi agreed Naruto could eat for free whenever he came.
• Naruto ate the meal Hane chose for him and cried as he realized someone was caring for him.
• Hane told Naruto to return to the restaurant when he was hungry and carried him toward Hane's home.

Hane brought Naruto home, where Sasuke’s jealousy turned into a playful scuffle and the Uchiha family welcomed the lonely child. After dinner, Hane left to settle the remaining matter with the Raikage.

• Hane returned home carrying Naruto, and Sasuke became jealous before the two children began fighting over Hane’s attention.
• Mikoto and Fugaku learned how badly Naruto had been neglected and welcomed him into their home.
• Mikoto invited Naruto to stay the night with Sasuke, and Naruto accepted.
• After dinner, Hane left into the night to give the Raikage an answer.

Sarutobi and the village elders agreed to exploit the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki's visit to the Uchiha grounds to spread blame for the Nine-Tails Rebellion. Meanwhile, Hane led Sosuke and six Uchiha into Kumogakure, where they broke the village barrier and unleashed a devastating attack, leaving the Raikage enraged and helpless.

• Danzo persuaded Sarutobi, Utatane Koharu, and Mitokado Homura to let the Jinchuriki visit the Uchiha grounds and spread rumors that the Uchiha controlled the Nine-Tails.
• Hane crossed into the Land of Lightning and met Sosuke and six Uchiha at their arranged mountaintop rendezvous.
• Hane carried the group toward Kumogakure on his flying sword, and they smashed through the village's barrier with four giant swords transformed into divine beasts.
• The Raikage ordered the Cloud ninja to attack as Sosuke and the others summoned six Susanoo in the village center.
• The Susanoo shrugged off Lightning Release attacks and killed Cloud ninja and villagers while destroying buildings, as Hane watched and the Raikage seethed.

Killer B arrived to help the Raikage, but Arayama used Tsukuyomi to seize control of the Eight-Tails and make it destroy Kumogakure. Hane confronted the devastated Raikage, rejected his pleas, and continued killing Cloud ninja.

• Killer B transformed into the Eight-Tails, and Sosuke ordered Arayama to take control of it with Tsukuyomi.
• Arayama forced the Eight-Tails to fire a massive Tailed Beast Ball into Kumogakure, killing tens of thousands and devastating the village.
• The Raikage begged the Uchiha to stop and offered to agree to anything, while Hane descended and revealed himself as the culprit they had sought.
• Hane mocked the Raikage and blamed the Land of Lightning for provoking the war.
• Hane killed the Raikage's aide with an azure sword strike and warned the Cloud ninja that deaths were part of war.

Hane forced Raikage A to submit through threats, humiliation, and supernatural lightning, then demanded a written letter of repentance. The Raikage stamped and presented the letter as Kumogakure’s survivors watched in fear.

• Hane made Raikage A admit defeat and kneel, threatening to kill the refugees if he refused.
• Hane forced A to prostrate himself and declared that Kumogakure should treat him like a god.
• Hane summoned a colossal Lightning General and struck A with Nine Heavens Thunder when he denied what he saw.
• A begged to explain himself, and Hane ordered him to write a humble letter of repentance.
• A wrote the letter, stamped it with the Raikage Seal, and presented it to Hane while kneeling.

After forcing Raikage A to repent for his wars, Hane left the devastated Kumogakure and watched its survivors begin rebuilding. He then set course for the Capital of the Land of Fire to confront the daimyo over his ambitions toward the Uchiha business.

• Hane praised Raikage A's written apology and lectured him about the suffering war caused before leaving Kumogakure with his companions.
• After Hane departed, Raikage A cursed him, but Hane returned and warned A not to vent his anger on the ground.
• Raikage A considered the village's losses, worried about the hatred Killer B might face, and ordered the Cloud ninja to clear rubble and rebuild.
• Taro praised Hane's actions, and Arayama argued with him about Hane's words on the importance of peace.
• Sosuke asked whether they were returning to the clan, and Hane said they were going to the Capital of the Land of Fire to meet the daimyo.