Chapter Summaries

Madara chose Uchiha Ye as a target, planning to make him despair by destroying the bonds he cherished, unaware that Ye cultivated those bonds for system points. During a D-rank cat-catching mission, Obito beat Kakashi in a contest, leaving Kakashi stunned.

• Black Zetsu told Madara about Ye’s strength and close ties to Kakashi, Obito, and Rin, so Madara ordered him to break Ye by killing his companions before his eyes.
• Ye counted his 7.93 million system points and hoped to earn enough for another Million-Tier Grand Prize Pool draw.
• Minato assigned Ye’s team to recover ten lost cats, and Obito challenged Kakashi to a contest to catch the most.
• Kakashi tracked down three cats while Obito returned with seven, despite being badly scratched.
• Obito gloated over his victory as Kakashi stared in disbelief.

Obito used his connections with Konoha’s elderly women to catch the cats, while Rin asked Minato for special training and learned her precise Chakra control could suit her for Sealing Jutsu. The team returned the cats and went to Minato’s home for dinner, where Kushina offered to assess Rin’s talent and teased Ye for acting like Minato.

• Ye explained that Obito found the cats through information from three elderly women he had helped, and Obito taunted Kakashi about his connections.
• Kakashi reminded Obito that the cat-catching job was only a D-rank mission, cutting short Obito’s celebration.
• Rin told Minato she felt too weak and requested special training, so Minato tested her Chakra control and identified her potential for Sealing Jutsu.
• Minato invited the team to dinner and said Kushina would assess Rin’s talent; the team then returned the ten cats and collected the mission reward.
• At Minato’s home, Kushina praised Ye’s Ice Release and teased him for being like Minato, while Ye privately insisted he was not showing off.

Minato and Kushina hosted Obito, Kakashi, Rin, and Ye for dinner, where Kushina agreed to teach Rin Sealing Jutsu. The meal ended on a somber note as Ye recognized that Kushina was confined to Konoha as the Nine-Tails' jinchuriki, while Minato hoped to free her if he became Hokage.

• Kushina served dinner, teased Kakashi and Obito, and joined in their lively banter around the table.
• Rin nervously asked Kushina to teach her Sealing Jutsu, and Kushina accepted, scheduling daily lessons after Rin's missions.
• Kushina told Rin she was glad for the company, then briefly revealed her sadness about having little to do in the village.
• Ye realized Kushina was forbidden to leave Konoha because she was the Nine-Tails' jinchuriki, and Minato silently recalled his resolve to open that door one day.

Rin accepted Kushina’s offer to teach her Sealing Jutsu, and the team shared a lively dinner at Minato and Kushina’s home. After Kushina scolded Ye about how he treated his teammates, she wondered whether his vitality and abundant Chakra resembled those of the Uzumaki Clan, but Minato dismissed the idea because Ye was an Uchiha.

• Rin thanked Kushina and promised to study Sealing Jutsu seriously.
• Minato made Ye wash the dishes, and Kushina punched Obito for calling her “Sensei’s wife” and told him to call her “Big Sis.”
• Kushina warned Ye to treat his teammates as people he could trust rather than targets, and Ye claimed he had only been helping them build resilience.
• Obito praised Kushina and vowed to defend her, while the four teammates later split up at a fork in the road.
• Kushina told Minato that Ye’s vitality and Chakra reminded her of the Uzumaki Clan, but Minato said Ye was an Uchiha and Kushina dismissed her suspicion.

Ye formed the Rasengan and traded its principles to Minato for access to the Flying Thunder God scroll, though he struggled to master its spatial technique. As war loomed over Konoha, Minato assigned his team a special mission to infiltrate enemy territory and destroy Kannabi Bridge.

• Ye unexpectedly created a stable Rasengan in front of Minato, Obito, Kakashi, and Rin.
• Ye offered Minato the Rasengan's principles in exchange for a Hokage's Office application for the Flying Thunder God training scroll, and Minato agreed.
• Ye received the scroll but could only manage an unstable technique mark after practicing for half a month.
• As war approached, Obito demanded an outside-the-village mission, and Minato took the team to the Mission Center.
• Minato revealed their special wartime mission: infiltrate behind enemy lines and destroy Iwagakure's supply route bridge, Kannabi Bridge.

As Minato’s team prepared to destroy Kannabi Bridge without Minato, Madara and Black Zetsu began their plan. The newly promoted teammates exchanged gifts, ending with Ye’s prank leaving Obito’s hair full of broken comb teeth.

• Black Zetsu told Madara Uchiha that Minato’s Team had accepted the Kannabi Bridge mission, and Madara declared that the plan had begun.
• Minato briefed Obito, Kakashi, Rin, and Ye on the dangerous bridge-destruction mission and said he would be reassigned, leaving them to carry it out alone.
• Minato announced that Kakashi, Obito, and Ye had been promoted to Jonin and Rin to Chunin.
• Obito proposed a gift exchange, and Rin gave them handmade first-aid kits while Kakashi gave them military ration pills.
• Ye gave Obito a wooden comb as a supposed Uchiha clan hair-care item, and it broke in Obito’s hair when he tried to use it.

Ye spent ten million Guard-Break Points on a ten-pull and received several major rewards, including Flying Thunder God mastery, a Sage Body, and Mangekyō Sharingan. Before the lottery, he encouraged Obito about the Kannabi Bridge mission, which left Obito hopeful about awakening his own Mangekyō.

• Obito complained about the broken comb teeth stuck in his head while Ye gained Guard-Break and Grievance Points from him.
• At the fork in the road, Obito predicted he would awaken the Mangekyō Sharingan during the Kannabi Bridge mission, and Ye sincerely encouraged him to do his best.
• Rin urged everyone to return safely from the dangerous mission, and the team parted ways.
• Back at the Uchiha compound, Ye confirmed his Guard-Break Points had passed ten million and spent them on a ten-pull.
• The lottery gave Ye Mastery-Level Flying Thunder God, a System Shop, Wood Release and survival scrolls, and fragments from several Tailed Beasts.
• The final rewards gave Ye a Sage Body and Mangekyō Sharingan.

Ye absorbed his rewards, awakened his Mangekyo Sharingan, and gained immense power before setting out with Minato’s team. At the northeastern border, Minato left to support the main battlefront and placed Ye in command of the Kannabi Bridge operation.

• Ye learned that his Mangekyo abilities were Amenominaka and Takemikazuchi, and he discovered the purpose of the Mysterious Farmhouse Experience Card.
• Ye fused his rewards, awakening his Mangekyo Sharingan and merging the powers of Yin and Yang within his body.
• Ye tested his enhanced senses, Chakra, and Flying Thunder God technique, then resolved to bring every member of the mission back safely.
• Ye joined Minato, Kakashi Hatake, Obito, and Rin at the Konoha gate, and the team headed toward the northeastern border.
• Minato reported that Hidden Cloud had sent three battalions as reinforcements and appointed Ye absolute commander of the Kannabi Bridge operation before departing to support the main front.

Ye took command of the team as they began their mission to sabotage Kannabi Bridge, while Iwagakure received anonymous intelligence revealing their identities and target. The chapter left the team moving through enemy territory as their mission was exposed.

• Minato left a Tri-Pronged Kunai behind and told Ye to bring the team back alive.
• Kakashi reported that the team had two and a half days to reach Kannabi Bridge before the Iwagakure supply unit crossed.
• Ye struck Obito for proposing a reckless advance and ordered the team to follow Kakashi’s concealed route and report anything unusual.
• Kakashi took point, Rin stayed in the middle, Obito guarded the right flank, and Ye brought up the rear as they moved through the forest.
• An anonymous scroll reached Iwagakure’s command post, revealing that Minato was absent and Uchiha Ye’s four-person squad was targeting Kannabi Bridge.

Iwagakure and Danzo both ordered their forces to kill Uchiha Ye and his squad at Kannabi Bridge, while Hiruzen chose not to investigate Root’s deployment. The chapter left the four young ninja facing a massive ambush from both enemy forces and their own village’s assassins.

• An elderly jonin recognized the intelligence scroll as matching the one that had preceded Hatake Sakumo’s devastating attack, and Iwagakure’s commander ordered every available elite unit to converge on Kannabi Bridge and kill the four Konoha ninja.
• A hundred and twenty Iwagakure elites set out for Kannabi Bridge under the highest-level extermination order.
• Danzo learned that his intelligence scroll had reached Iwagakure and ordered Root to kill Uchiha Ye, Kakashi Hatake, Obito Uchiha, and Rin Nohara if Iwagakure failed.
• Danzo ordered Root to bring back Uchiha Ye’s and Obito’s Sharingan, and sixteen Root assassins left Konoha in secret.
• Hiruzen saw a report of Root’s unusual deployment but dismissed it as an intelligence mission and took no action.

Kirigakure captured the Three-Tails and sent it toward the Land of Fire as a weapon against Konoha while Ye's team rested near Kannabi Bridge. Ye sensed a large force surrounding them, woke his teammates, and prepared for an attack.

• Kirigakure ANBU and elite Jonin subdued the Three-Tails and received orders to smuggle it into Konoha inside a designated container.
• Ye led Obito, Kakashi, and Rin into a concealed hollow and ordered them to rest for eight hours.
• Ye used his Sage Body to extend his senses across the surrounding area before taking his watch.
• Ye sensed dozens of approaching Chakra sources closing in from three directions and woke Obito, Kakashi, and Rin.
• More than forty attackers emerged from the bamboo forest and charged the team.

Ye watched Kakashi, Obito, and Rin fight Iwagakure’s ambush, then finally prepared to join the battle as more than forty enemies closed in. Rin’s counterattack exposed the invisible assassin and gave her teammates a chance to regroup.

• Iwagakure’s vanguard attacked from three directions, while Mahiru clashed with Kakashi and Kakkō used Earth Release to trap the team.
• Obito spotted Taiseki’s invisible approach and warned Rin, but Kakashi and Obito could not break free to reach her.
• Rin cut her palm, used a blood-drawn Basic Binding Sealing Array to disrupt Taiseki’s Chakra, and broke his Camouflage Technique.
• Kakashi and Obito struck Taiseki while the team regrouped around Rin, forcing the Iwagakure Jonin to abandon their surprise attack.
• Mahiru signaled more than forty Iwagakure elites to charge, and Ye stood up, declaring that it was his turn.

Ye slaughtered Iwagakure’s first group of forty elites, then faced a fresh encirclement of 120 and revealed his newly awakened Mangekyō Sharingan. The chapter ended as he activated Amenominaka and twisted space to halt the Rock Pillar Spears aimed at him.

• Ye used his Body Flicker Technique, swordsmanship, and Ice Release to kill forty Iwagakure elites in less than half a minute.
• Obito and Kakashi watched Ye’s assault in shock while Mahiru and the remaining Iwagakure soldiers fled.
• Iwagakure’s commander surrounded Ye, Obito, Kakashi, and Rin with 120 elites and ordered an Earth Release attack.
• Ye awakened his Mangekyō Sharingan and activated his left-eye technique, Amenominaka.
• Ye pointed into the air, causing space to twist and the incoming Rock Pillar Spears to stop.

Ye massacred Iwagakure’s forces after crushing more than a dozen shinobi with an invisible power and sealing the group’s Earth Release. As he cut through the remaining soldiers, a masked team appeared at the battlefield’s edge and changed its plan after recognizing the Mangekyo.

• Ye crushed more than a dozen Iwagakure shinobi in midair, horrifying Obito, Kakashi, Rin, and the surviving soldiers.
• The Iwagakure commander ordered a full assault, but Ye used Takemikazuchi to sever the rule governing Earth Release and stop the shinobi’s techniques from working.
• Ye drew his White Fang Short Sword and silently killed Iwagakure shinobi with precise strikes infused with Ice Release Chakra.
• Sixteen masked figures appeared at the battlefield’s edge, and their tanuki-masked leader recognized the Mangekyo and ordered an immediate change of plan.

Root kidnapped Rin to force Ye and Obito to surrender their Sharingan, but Ye sensed she was still alive and stopped Obito from rushing after her. As Ye promised to clear the remaining Iwagakure forces before pursuing Rin, their commander ordered a desperate full charge.

• Four Root ninja snuck into the crater, knocked Rin unconscious, and carried her northwest.
• Obito noticed Rin was missing and tried to charge after her, but Ye restrained him and said he could still sense her Chakra.
• Ye explained that Rin was unharmed and warned Obito that rushing after her would make him another hostage.
• Kakashi asked Ye what they should do, and Ye said he would defeat the remaining Iwagakure ninja in thirty seconds before they went after Rin.
• The Iwagakure commander decided retreat and surrender were impossible, then ordered his troops to charge Ye and overwhelm him.

Ye used a giant Rasengan and reversed gravity to slaughter or scatter the Iwagakure ninja, then set out with Obito and Kakashi to retrieve Rin. Three kilometers away, Root ninja carrying the unconscious Rin encountered a group of Kirigakure ANBU guarding a sealed vat.

• Ye formed a five-meter Rasengan and reversed gravity around it, pulling the charging Iwagakure ninja into the spinning sphere and killing them.
• The Iwagakure commander fled, and the surviving ninja scattered; Ye then told Obito and Kakashi that they would go pick up Rin.
• The Root team carrying Rin reached a forest clearing and found more than twenty Kirigakure ANBU blocking their path.
• The Kirigakure group stood with a heavy sealing stone vat that leaked violent gray-black Chakra.

Kirigakure ANBU seized Rin from Danzo’s Root forces while Ye deliberately led Obito and Kakashi away from her trail. The Third Mizukage confronted them, and after their attacks failed, the fight continued with Ye hiding his strongest abilities so he could be captured.

• The scar-faced Kirigakure ANBU leader recognized Rin as the Three-Tails’ intended container and ordered his forces to take her, defeating Root and escaping with Rin and the stone vat.
• The tanuki-masked Root captain fled toward the village after his team’s mission failed.
• Ye sensed Rin’s Chakra but deliberately led Obito and Kakashi southeast, claiming that a large enemy force lay ahead.
• The Third Mizukage appeared and attacked Ye, Obito, and Kakashi with water techniques.
• Ye countered the Mizukage’s Water Mirror Jutsu with Ice Release, while Obito and Kakashi’s attacks failed to injure him; Kakashi was burned by the Mizukage’s liquefied body.

The Third Mizukage defeated Kakashi and Obito, captured Ye, and carried him toward Madara Uchiha’s hiding place while Obito awakened his Three-Tomoe Sharingan and set off after him with Kakashi. At the hidden rock field, the Mizukage ordered the Kirigakure ANBU to leave Rin and the Three-Tails behind and return to the front lines.

• The Third Mizukage incapacitated Obito and Kakashi, then captured Ye after trapping him in a Water Prison.
• Obito’s despair over losing Ye and Rin awakened his Three-Tomoe Sharingan, and he vowed to bring them back.
• Obito carried the badly injured Kakashi into the forest to pursue the Mizukage and rescue Ye and Rin.
• Ye secretly recovered while the Mizukage carried him southeast toward Mountain Graveyard, where Madara Uchiha was hiding.
• The Third Mizukage arrived at the rock field where Kirigakure ANBU guarded Rin and the Three-Tails, then ordered the ANBU to leave them behind and return to the front lines.

Madara Uchiha had the Mizukage bring Ye and Rin to his underground cavern, where he sealed the Three-Tails inside Rin and prepared her as bait for Obito and Kakashi. Ye remained conscious while pretending to be unconscious, and Madara planned to win his trust and make him another pawn.

• The Mizukage restrained Ye with three techniques, then carried him and Rin to Madara's underground cavern.
• Madara sealed the Three-Tails inside Rin, placed a curse mark on her heart, and sealed away her recent memories.
• Madara explained that Rin could not harm herself and ordered White Zetsu to leave her near Obito and Kakashi, expecting Kakashi's choices to drive her toward Obito's blade.
• Ye stayed motionless while recognizing that Rin's training could let her suppress the Three-Tails and that Obito might awaken the Mangekyo without her death.
• Madara ordered the Mizukage to leave when Ye woke and planned to pose as his rescuer so Ye would trust him and become his second pawn.

Ye woke in Madara Uchiha’s cave and pretended to be gravely injured and grateful after recognizing Madara as his rescuer. Madara began manipulating him by portraying Konoha as an enemy that would always distrust and exploit the Uchiha.

• Ye faked a painful recovery while Madara waited for him to wake beside the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.
• Ye recognized Madara Uchiha and claimed that an Uchiha portrait and a bloodline resonance had revealed his identity.
• Madara believed Ye’s explanation and raised his assessment of him as a potential ally.
• Ye asked what had happened to his teammates, and Madara said he had saved Ye out of kinship but had not been obliged to save the others.
• Madara told Ye to call him Senior, and Ye outwardly thanked him while privately criticizing his act.
• Madara tried to turn Ye against Konoha by saying its leaders distrusted the Uchiha and treated Ye as a weapon.