Chapter Summaries

After two and a half years in Takigakure, Uchiha Yufeng continued training his young companions and welcomed Uzumaki Karin into his care. Karin joined Hozuki Suigetsu as a trainee, and Yufeng's Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan fragment card met its rank-up requirements.

• Uchiha Yufeng rested with Uchiha Izumi and Fū, then had Izumi trap Fū in a Genjutsu to discipline her.
• Uzumaki Karin told Uchiha Yufeng she wanted to train under him, and he assured her that her mother would be protected and urged her to grow stronger.
• Uchiha Yufeng gave Hozuki Mangetsu the Twin Blades, Hiramekarei, and instructed him to train Hozuki Suigetsu and Uzumaki Karin.
• Hozuki Suigetsu met Karin, who became emotional as she remembered the pain she had endured in Kusagakure.
• Uchiha Yufeng's Second Pillar (Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan) Fragment reached its rank-up requirements, and he chose to rank it up.

Uchiha Yufeng used Second Pillar’s Rinnegan card and unlocked the special form Second Pillar (Ultimate Susanoo Form), which required cards for all nine Tailed Beast Jinchuriki. He designated a Jinchuriki card as the guaranteed result in a ten-draw, received Gaara (Youth), and then faced a choice of three cards, reacting in shock to the Golden Growth Card.

• Second Pillar’s Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan card advanced into Second Pillar (Rinnegan), and the system unlocked a special form after Uchiha Yufeng used it.
• Uchiha Yufeng learned that Second Pillar (Ultimate Susanoo Form) required cards for the Jinchuriki of all nine Tailed Beasts, and that future ten-draws could guarantee a Jinchuriki card.
• Uchiha Yufeng replaced the guaranteed Ninja Card in his ten-draw with a Jinchuriki card and received the Growth Ninja Card Gaara (Youth).
• Uchiha Yufeng began a choose-one-of-three draw and saw Zabuza, Kakuzu, and a Golden Growth Card featuring a watermelon-haired youth.
• Uchiha Yufeng recognized the youth on the Golden Growth Card and exclaimed in surprise.

After gaining the youth cards of Senju Hashirama and Gaara, Uchiha Yufeng returned to Konoha and learned that some Uchiha were again declaring their loyalty to Uchiha Madara. He agreed to meet with the clan and discuss the situation, while Shimura Danzō was left unsettled by the power in Yufeng’s eyes.

• Uchiha Yufeng used the Senju Hashirama (Youth) and Gaara (Youth) cards, then left Takigakure for Konoha with Pakura.
• Uchiha Yufeng struck Utatane Koharu when she challenged him in the Hokage's Office, and the Third Hokage gave him intelligence about the Uchiha Clan.
• Uchiha Yufeng and the Third Hokage agreed that Yufeng would speak with Fugaku and the other Uchiha leaders that night.
• Uchiha Yufeng left to return home and see Sasuke, while Shimura Danzō wondered why Yufeng's Dojutsu Power had made his eye tremble with fear.

Uchiha Itachi asked Uchiha Yufeng what true pain was, and the loss of his companion stirred his grief and awakened his Two-Tomoe Sharingan. Uchiha Yufeng explained how love and loss awakened the Uchiha’s eyes, then revealed that his own Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan let him overcome the darkness.

• Uchiha Yufeng arrived home with Pakura and praised Sasuke for making friends with children from twenty nearby households.
• Uchiha Itachi asked Uchiha Yufeng what true pain was, and remembering his companion’s sacrifice brought tears to his eyes and awakened his Two-Tomoe Sharingan.
• Uchiha Yufeng explained that intense love and its loss could awaken the Sharingan, while hatred and darkness could consume its wielder.
• Sasuke asked why Uchiha Yufeng had not been consumed by darkness, and Uchiha Yufeng revealed his Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan.

Uchiha Yufeng attended negotiations between the Uchiha Clan and Konoha, but left after Danzo’s misleading report turned the meeting into a confrontation. He told Uzuki Yugao that the Uchiha’s future depended on the clan and village speaking honestly, and that he could not sway clansmen pursuing power.

• Uchiha Fugaku demanded that Konoha end surveillance of the Uchiha Clan, let them return to their old territory, and admit them into the village’s core.
• Mitokado Homura presented evidence of the Uchiha Clan’s preparations before Ibuse attacked Konoha and a report accusing the Uchiha Police Force of misconduct.
• Uchiha Yufeng and Uchiha Fugaku challenged the police report’s inaccuracies, and Mitokado Homura admitted Danzo had prepared it.
• Uchiha Yufeng criticized both sides for hiding their intentions and left the conference room despite the Third Hokage trying to stop him.
• Uchiha Yufeng took Uzuki Yugao to an empty training ground and explained why Konoha would resist the Uchiha entering its core and why he could not decide the clan’s future alone.

Uchiha Yufeng learned that Naruto had been shunned since the Nine-Tails’ chakra leaked, then brought Sasuke to meet him. Naruto eagerly befriended Sasuke, and Yufeng took the hungry boys to Ichiraku Ramen.

• Uchiha Yufeng used his Sharingan to question an Anbu ninja and learned that Naruto had gone on a rampage half a year earlier and that villagers knew he was the Nine-Tails' Jinchuriki.
• Uchiha Yufeng brought Sasuke to Naruto's dusty home, ordered nearby Anbu to clean it, and took Sasuke to a drink shop.
• Uchiha Yufeng found Naruto watching a mother and son, greeted him, and teased him about not having bathed in a week.
• Uchiha Yufeng introduced Sasuke to Naruto, and Naruto excitedly shook Sasuke's hand and introduced himself.
• Uchiha Yufeng offered to buy the hungry boys a meal, and Naruto enthusiastically chose Ichiraku Ramen.

At Ichiraku Ramen, Uchiha Yufeng treated Uzumaki Naruto and Sasuke to a meal, then took them to the Seventh Training Ground to practice throwing kunai. After Sasuke showed his skill, Yufeng had him teach Naruto, setting the two boys against each other in a friendly rivalry.

• Uchiha Yufeng treated Uzumaki Naruto and Sasuke to ramen, and Teuchi gave Naruto extra char siu.
• After Naruto finished his meal, Uchiha Yufeng used Body Flicker to take both boys to the Seventh Training Ground.
• Uzumaki Naruto threw a kunai far short of the target, while Sasuke hit the target with both of his throws.
• Uchiha Yufeng told Sasuke to teach Naruto his kunai-throwing technique, and the boys began training together.

Uchiha Yufeng shared a ramen meal with Naruto and Second Pillar, then advanced his Gaara card and gained new cards and abilities. He gave Naruto supplies and assigned both boys weighted running, planning to recommend them for the Ninja Academy once they met his physical training standards.

• Uchiha Yufeng ate ramen at Naruto's home while Naruto and Second Pillar bickered over the deluxe cup.
• Uchiha Yufeng advanced Gaara (Youth) into Gaara (Kazekage) and used ten draws, obtaining Orochimaru (Youth), Yugito Nii, and other rewards.
• Uchiha Yufeng used the Gaara (Kazekage), Orochimaru (Youth), and Yugito Nii cards and absorbed their abilities.
• Uchiha Yufeng gave Naruto ramen, milk, and snacks, then ordered Naruto and Second Pillar to run around the village wearing weighted bags.
• Uchiha Yufeng told the boys he would recommend them for the Ninja Academy after their physical training met his standards.

Uchiha Yufeng prepared to leave Konoha, entrusting Naruto and the younger Uchiha to trusted allies while revealing his overwhelming strength to Shisui. At the orphanage, he showed Yakushi Nonō genuine photographs of Kabuto, exposing Danzo’s deception and comforting her as she realized the danger.

• Uchiha Yufeng told Nohara Rin he would leave Konoha and asked her to watch over Naruto, then revealed that Naruto was Minato’s son.
• Uchiha Yufeng planted a technique in Uchiha Shisui’s eyes with his Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan and told him he was the strongest person in the world.
• Uchiha Shisui told Uchiha Yufeng about a powerful weapon the Uchiha Clan had created and sealed during the Warring States period.
• Uchiha Yufeng visited Uchiha Mikoto, then went to the orphanage to meet Yakushi Nonō.
• Uchiha Yufeng showed Yakushi Nonō authentic photographs of Yakushi Kabuto and explained that the photographs Danzo had given her were fake.
• Yakushi Nonō realized Danzo had deceived her, broke down in Uchiha Yufeng’s arms, and thanked him for being there.

Uchiha Yufeng found Tsunade in Tanzaku Town and used Genjutsu to help her win a large sum at a casino. Tsunade treated him to a tavern, and he followed her while hoping to collect fragments and grow stronger.

• Uchiha Yufeng located Tsunade in a Tanzaku Town casino, where she was gambling with Kato Shizune and Tonton.
• Tsunade unexpectedly won the final round, and Kato Shizune defended her when the gamblers accused them of cheating.
• Uchiha Yufeng revealed that he had helped Tsunade win, and Tsunade recognized him and teased him about coming to town for fun.
• Kato Shizune counted nearly twenty million in winnings, and Tsunade declared that the money would fund months of gambling instead of repaying her debts.
• Tsunade offered to cover Uchiha Yufeng's expenses and led him and Kato Shizune toward a tavern in Tanzaku Town.

Uchiha Homura persuaded Uchiha Fugaku to consider changing the Uchiha Clan’s fate and proposed placing Itachi in the Anbu to gather information. After training with Sasuke, Itachi encountered Fugaku, who called him aside to talk.

• Uchiha Fugaku trained with shuriken before Uchiha Homura appeared and spoke of a secret weapon from the Warring States Era.
• Uchiha Homura stirred Fugaku’s resentment toward Konoha and suggested using Itachi’s Anbu placement to obtain intelligence.
• Uchiha Itachi demonstrated his kunai technique to Sasuke, then carried him home after Sasuke tripped while trying to imitate him.
• Uchiha Fugaku met the brothers on the road and asked Itachi to come with him for a discussion.

Uchiha Itachi chose to accompany Sasuke to the Ninja Academy entrance ceremony before joining the Anbu, where Fugaku tasked him with spying for the Uchiha Clan. As Itachi and Shisui discussed the conflict between the clan and Konoha, Danzo learned of Shisui’s Mangekyō ability and began plotting to seize his eyes.

• Uchiha Itachi refused Fugaku’s mission for the next day so he could take Sasuke to the Ninja Academy entrance ceremony, then treated Sasuke’s twisted ankle with ice.
• Three days later, Uchiha Itachi joined the Anbu, and Fugaku told him to serve as the Uchiha Clan’s eyes and ears inside Konoha.
• Uchiha Shisui asked Itachi how he would respond if the Uchiha Clan and Konoha reached a crisis, and Itachi said he would stop the conflict from happening.
• Danzo learned about Uchiha Shisui’s Mangekyō ability and ordered Root to summon Shisui for a secret mission and gather its elite members.

Danzo tricked Shisui and took one of his Sharingan, prompting Shisui to try to entrust his remaining eye to Itachi. Yufeng rescued Shisui from Kamui and set out to confront Danzo, while Tsunade decided to return to Konoha as well.

• Danzo used Izanagi to escape Shisui’s Genjutsu, stole one of Shisui’s eyes, and sent Root ninja after him.
• Shisui found Itachi and said he could no longer stop the coup, then tried to give Itachi his remaining eye.
• A spatial ripple pulled Shisui into Kamui before Itachi could take the eye, and Itachi awakened his Mangekyō Sharingan, believing Shisui was dead.
• Yufeng found Shisui in Kamui, healed him, and learned that Danzo had attacked him.
• Yufeng took Shisui toward Konoha to get justice from Danzo, and Tsunade decided to follow with Shizune and Tonton.

Uchiha Yufeng defeated a Mangekyō-wielding girl on his way back to Konoha, then confronted Danzo over Shisui’s stolen eye. He trapped Danzo in Tsukuyomi and began torturing him in an illusion where only seconds passed outside.

• Uchiha Yufeng detected an ambush, sent Shisui into the Kamui Dimension, and faced a girl with Mangekyō Sharingan who attacked him with Amaterasu and Fire Release techniques.
• Uchiha Yufeng used his Rinnegan to overpower the girl, drained some of her Chakra, and placed her in the Kamui Dimension.
• Uchiha Yufeng returned to Konoha, went to Root, and confronted Danzo about Shisui’s injury and stolen eye.
• Uchiha Yufeng pulled Danzo into Tsukuyomi, where Danzo initially taunted him and endured sword attacks.
• Uchiha Yufeng began a prolonged torture illusion, tearing out Danzo’s tongue and then threatening his fingers while revealing that seventy-two hours would pass inside Tsukuyomi.

Uchiha Yufeng stopped Danzo from using Izanagi, recovered Uchiha Shisui’s eye, and ended the Root Organization. Afterward, he brought a hostile Uchiha Girl out of the Kamui Dimension and explained Konoha’s origins, leaving her tearfully reflecting on the village and its meaning.

• Uchiha Yufeng cut off Danzo’s arm before he could complete Izanagi, took his bandaged eye, and survived Danzo’s Reverse Four Symbols Sealing as the Root ninja were caught within it.
• Uchiha Yufeng declared the Root Organization disbanded to Sarutobi Hiruzen, then returned to the Kamui Dimension and restored Uchiha Shisui’s eye.
• The awakened Uchiha Girl tried to attack Uchiha Yufeng, but he disarmed and tied her up before agreeing to take her out if she stayed by his side.
• Uchiha Shisui left for the Uchiha Clan compound after Uchiha Yufeng assured him that Danzo had been dealt with and promised to support him.
• Uchiha Yufeng explained how the clans formed Konoha to reduce war, and the girl asked whether villages had ended conflict before breaking into tears.

Tsunade returned to Konoha, confronted the Third Hokage about Danzo’s actions and death, and refused his offer to become Hokage. She and Kato Shizune went to the Uchiha Clan Compound, where the smell of blood and a severed body signaled that violence was still unfolding.

• Tsunade demanded answers from the Third Hokage about Uchiha Shisui’s stolen eyes and learned that Danzo was dead.
• Tsunade rebuked the Third Hokage for defending Danzo and questioned whether he had let Orochimaru escape.
• The Third Hokage began to ask Tsunade to succeed him, but she refused and left the Hokage’s Office with Kato Shizune.
• Tsunade and Kato Shizune reached the Uchiha Clan Compound, smelled blood, and saw a badly mutilated ninja’s body thrown outside.
• An unidentified figure blocked Tsunade and told her she could not enter.

Uchiha Yufeng persuaded Uchiha Fugaku that a coup would plunge Konoha into civil war and invite another great war, while Uchiha Itachi chose to go undercover as a rogue ninja. After the Uchiha compound was secured, Yufeng gave Tsunade an account to protect the clan’s reputation, and Anbu began investigating the bloodshed.

• Uchiha Yufeng explained that Fugaku’s coup plan would lead either to endless clan uprisings or Konoha’s mutual destruction, and Fugaku questioned whether he had been wrong.
• Uchiha Itachi appeared and agreed to undertake an undercover mission after Uchiha Yufeng asked whether he had made up his mind.
• Uchiha Shisui blocked the clan compound’s exit and killed an Uchiha ninja trying to leave while Tsunade and Kato Shizune waited outside.
• Uchiha Yufeng left the compound with the Uchiha Girl and told Tsunade he had killed Uchiha parasites and Artificial Humans, while the compound lay eerily silent and dead Uchiha were found at doorsteps.
• Uchiha Itachi told Uchiha Yufeng that everything had been dealt with, slashed his forehead protector, and left; Yufeng gave Tsunade a scroll and instructed her to report the deaths as the work of returning border guards and arrange a top-tier rogue ninja identity for Itachi.
• Uchiha Yufeng and the others arrived at Mikoto’s home, where Uchiha Mikoto welcomed them, and Anbu ninja investigating the bloodshed headed to the Hokage Building.

Konoha learned that Uchiha Itachi had become an S-rank Rogue Ninja after killing most of his clan, while Uchiha Yufeng encouraged Sasuke to train and assured Mikoto that Itachi would survive. Yufeng then brought Uchiha Hikari to Naruto, whose nonstop chatter immediately annoyed her.

• Ninjas in Konoha received wanted notices identifying Uchiha Itachi as an S-rank Rogue Ninja who had slaughtered his clansmen.
• Second Pillar learned that his brother had killed the Uchiha and asked Uchiha Yufeng if it was true; Yufeng confirmed it and poked his forehead, prompting him to vow to train and surpass Itachi.
• Uchiha Yufeng reassured Uchiha Mikoto that a technique in Itachi's eyes would protect him and agreed to attend Sasuke's class meeting.
• Uchiha Yufeng took Uchiha Hikari to find Uzumaki Naruto, then used Banshō Ten'in to pull him over from down the street.
• Uzumaki Naruto excitedly told Uchiha Yufeng about his training and mistook Uchiha Hikari for his daughter, earning her complaint that he was an annoying brat.

Uzumaki Naruto spent time with Uchiha Yufeng, Uchiha Hikari, and Nohara Rin, who encouraged Naruto to study for his goal of becoming a ninja. Uchiha Hikari accepted Rin’s offer of friendship, while Yufeng left Naruto in Rin’s hands for a lesson.

• Uzumaki Naruto told Uchiha Yufeng that Nohara Rin would attend his parent-teacher meeting, then offered Yufeng and Uchiha Hikari ramen.
• Uchiha Yufeng invited Naruto to eat Onigiri at his home, and Uchiha Hikari objected when Naruto seemed to mistake her for Mikoto’s daughter.
• Nohara Rin arrived, greeted Yufeng, and learned that Uchiha Hikari was his friend.
• Nohara Rin held Uchiha Hikari’s hand and offered to be her friend, and Hikari was moved by the warmth of the gesture.
• Nohara Rin urged Naruto to study and agreed to teach him Chakra-related knowledge before the parent-teacher meeting.
• Uchiha Yufeng left Naruto with Rin for his lesson and invited her to get together again.

Uchiha Yufeng attended the Ninja Academy class meeting with Second Pillar and encountered the new generation of Konoha students and their parents. After Naruto admitted he had neglected his training, Rin watched him and Sasuke compete and became fascinated by their rivalry as a bond between boys.

• Uchiha Yufeng brought Second Pillar to the Ninja Academy, where Iruka praised Sasuke's entrance results and welcomed the parents to the class meeting.
• Uchiha Yufeng spotted Yamanaka Inoichi and Yamanaka Ino, then noticed Sakura's interest in Second Pillar.
• After the meeting, Nohara Rin asked Uchiha Yufeng to help record the students' physical information and explained that Naruto had stayed up excitedly the night before.
• Uchiha Yufeng asked Naruto about his training, and Naruto's hesitation prompted Second Pillar to boast about his own daily practice.
• Naruto challenged Second Pillar to a contest, and Rin interpreted their rivalry as a bond like the one between Obito and Kakashi.
• Iruka called for Sasuke and Naruto's information, and Uchiha Yufeng left to help fill it out while Rin watched the boys with curiosity.