Chapter Summaries

Uchiha Fugaku tried to bring his clan to help defend Konoha, but Shimura Danzō blocked them and accused the Uchiha of involvement in the attack. The Third Hokage admitted Fugaku to the Hokage Building, while Danzō and an unseen observer both took an interest in Fugaku’s Mangekyō Sharingan.

• Uchiha Fugaku realized Uchiha Homura had abandoned their plan and led the Uchiha elders toward the Hokage Building to help Konoha.
• Shimura Danzō stopped Fugaku’s group and presented evidence linking the Uchiha to Ibuse’s arrival and a breach in Konoha’s barrier.
• An Uchiha elder challenged Danzō, but Fugaku calmed his clansmen and asked Danzō to let them pass.
• Fugaku activated his Sharingan, revealing its Mangekyō pattern, just as the Third Hokage arrived and invited him inside.
• The Third Hokage ordered Danzō to withdraw Root, while an unseen observer watched Fugaku’s Mangekyō with greed.

Uchiha Yufeng used Tsukuyomi to torment Uchiha Homura, leaving him mentally broken before attacking the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path and the puppet Uchiha Madara. A black-and-white creature rescued Homura and began sinking the statue underground, but Yufeng’s Shadow Clone struck at it with a Chidori-covered Kusanagi Sword.

• Uchiha Yufeng’s attacks on the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path were repeatedly deflected by Uchiha Homura’s Mangekyō Sharingan ability.
• Uchiha Yufeng trapped Uchiha Homura in Tsukuyomi and subjected him to seventy-two hours of torture within the illusion while only a moment passed in reality.
• Uchiha Homura returned to reality mentally broken and fell from the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.
• Uchiha Yufeng used Amaterasu to set the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path and the puppet Uchiha Madara ablaze.
• A black-and-white creature emerged from underground, dragged Uchiha Homura away, and sank the statue into the earth while dispelling the flames.
• Uchiha Yufeng’s Shadow Clone attacked the creature’s head with a Chidori-covered Kusanagi Sword.

Uchiha Yufeng defeated the black-and-white creature controlling Uchiha Homura’s forces, then treated Yuhi Shinku and other injured Konoha ninja. As Minato and Yufeng tried to subdue the Nine-Tails and save Kushina, a black shadow emerged and Kushina stabbed Minato through the chest.

• Uchiha Yufeng decapitated the black-and-white creature and destroyed its head and half its body with Amaterasu, ending its control over the elite Uchiha Clan ninja.
• Uchiha Yufeng treated Yuhi Shinku’s fractures and extracted the poison from his organs while Yuhi Kurenai watched.
• Uchiha Yufeng healed injured Konoha ninja, then headed outside the village when he sensed the Nine-Tails.
• Namikaze Minato diverted the Nine-Tails’ Tailed Beast Bomb away from Konoha with Flying Thunder God, and Uchiha Yufeng arrived to control the Nine-Tails with his Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan.
• Uchiha Yufeng asked Namikaze Minato to seal the Nine-Tails back into Uzumaki Kushina, but a black shadow covered Kushina and she stabbed Minato through the chest.

Black Zetsu wounded Namikaze Minato while possessing Uzumaki Kushina, and Minato chose to sacrifice himself to seal half of the Nine-Tails into Naruto alongside Kushina’s and his own remaining Chakra. After Minato and Kushina died, Uchiha Yufeng froze their bodies and vanished with them, leaving Naruto with the Third Hokage.

• Black Zetsu stabbed Namikaze Minato while possessing Uzumaki Kushina, but Kushina regained control and drove the shadow away.
• Namikaze Minato asked Uchiha Yufeng to bring Naruto to them, then explained that he would seal half of the Nine-Tails into their son.
• Namikaze Minato used the Reaper Death Seal to take one half of the Nine-Tails, then sealed the other half, along with his and Kushina’s remaining Chakra, into Naruto with the Eight Trigrams Seal.
• Namikaze Minato and Uzumaki Kushina died after the sealing, and the Third Hokage and Konoha clan elites entered the barrier.
• Uchiha Yufeng froze Minato and Kushina’s bodies and disappeared with them using Flying Thunder God, while the Third Hokage stayed behind to care for Naruto.

Uchiha Yufeng used Sharingan illusions to trick prisoners into sacrificing their Chakra and life force to revive Namikaze Minato and Uzumaki Kushina. Kushina and then Minato awakened in the Kamui Dimension, while Yufeng and Pakura remained with them.

• Uchiha Yufeng and Pakura brought prisoners into the Kamui Dimension, where he thawed Namikaze Minato and Uzumaki Kushina and hypnotized two prisoners into using One's Own Life Reincarnation on them.
• The two prisoners exhausted their Chakra and life force and died, but Uchiha Yufeng detected warmth in Minato and Kushina's bodies.
• Uchiha Yufeng revived Wind God and Thunder God, hypnotized them into believing the reincarnation technique was the Fullness Technique, and directed them to use it on Minato and Kushina.
• Wind God and Thunder God transferred their Chakra and life force into Minato and Kushina, then died as Uchiha Yufeng checked the pair's condition.
• Uzumaki Kushina woke and asked if she was in heaven, while Namikaze Minato remained unconscious despite having a heartbeat and breathing.
• After another ten minutes, Namikaze Minato opened his eyes, and Uchiha Yufeng greeted him.

Uchiha Yufeng saved Namikaze Minato and Uzumaki Kushina, but Minato remained unconscious with severely weakened spiritual energy after the Reaper Death Seal. Back at Konoha, Yufeng reunited with Uzuki Yugao, whose relief at seeing him safe turned into anger at his teasing.

• Uchiha Yufeng examined Namikaze Minato and found his soul weaker than Uzumaki Kushina's, then Minato fainted from abnormally low Chakra.
• Uchiha Yufeng told Uzumaki Kushina that Minato would likely recover if his soul could be retrieved from the Death God's stomach, and said the attackers were enemies of the Ninja World.
• Uchiha Yufeng left the Kamui Dimension with Pakura and burned the four prisoners with Amaterasu to prevent anyone from uncovering his secrets through their memories.
• Uzuki Yugao checked Uchiha Yufeng for injuries, embraced him, and confessed that she feared losing him as she had lost her father.
• Uchiha Yufeng teased Uzuki Yugao about getting thinner, and she drew her Kusanagi Sword and attacked him.

Uchiha Yufeng brought the Third Hokage into the Kamui Dimension, where Namikaze Minato revealed that he and Kushina had survived and explained the threat posed by Uchiha Homura and Black and White Zetsu. Minato arranged to be declared dead and leave for Takigakure with Kushina, while the Third Hokage agreed to resume leadership and protect Naruto.

• Uchiha Yufeng brought the Third Hokage into the Kamui Dimension to meet Namikaze Minato and Kushina.
• Namikaze Minato warned the Third Hokage that Uchiha Homura and Black and White Zetsu were dangerous enemies tied to a prophecy about turmoil across the Ninja World.
• Namikaze Minato asked the Third Hokage to announce that he and Kushina had died, and the Third Hokage agreed to take up the Hokage position again.
• Namikaze Minato and Kushina planned to travel to Takigakure under new identities, with Uchiha Yufeng offering to help them.
• Uchiha Yufeng warned the Third Hokage to keep Danzo under control while he was away, and the Third Hokage gave Minato a scroll explaining Naruto's barrier protections.
• Namikaze Minato said he would visit Naruto before leaving for Takigakure and asked the Third Hokage and Uchiha Yufeng to look after him.

After the memorial for the attack, Uchiha Yufeng visited Iruka and checked on his acquaintances before planning a trip to Kirigakure to search for fragments. At a village meeting, Shimura Danzō pushed to relocate the Uchiha Clan to a remote area, and Uchiha Fugaku reluctantly accepted after the Third Hokage offered a compromise.

• At the Memorial Stone, Umino Iruka thanked Uchiha Yufeng for saving his parents, and Yufeng accepted his flower and encouraged him to train.
• Uchiha Yufeng checked that Yuhi Shinku was safe, then headed to the Konoha Orphanage and planned to search Kirigakure for Uzumaki Karin and Hozuki Suigetsu.
• Shimura Danzō proposed changes to village zoning, including relocating the Aburame Clan and rebuilding the Uchiha Police Force headquarters in a remote area.
• Uchiha Fugaku objected when Shimura Danzō proposed moving the entire Uchiha Clan away from the village center.
• The Third Hokage said the remote location could provide the Uchiha with an exclusive training ground, and Uchiha Fugaku sat down and accepted the compromise.

Uchiha Yufeng returned to the Land of Water, rescued Haku after discovering his Ice Release, and agreed to take him along. He reached the town where he had trained Terumi Mei and reunited with her.

• Uchiha Yufeng killed a Mist ninja who attacked him and continued searching for the Hozuki clan.
• Uchiha Yufeng found Haku unconscious in the snow after the child’s Ice Release erupted and carried him to shelter.
• Haku told Uchiha Yufeng that his father had tried to kill him, then asked to follow him.
• Uchiha Yufeng accepted Haku as his follower and gave him an ice shuriken.
• Uchiha Yufeng and Haku reached the town where he had trained Terumi Mei, who recognized him and rushed into his embrace.

Uchiha Yufeng took Haku and Terumi Mei into Kirigakure to find Hozuki Suigetsu, using genjutsu to locate a Hozuki Clan ninja. The search ended in an ambush by Uchiha Homura, whom Yufeng confronted.

• Terumi Mei mistook Haku for Uchiha Yufeng's child, and Yufeng explained how he had met him.
• Yufeng asked Terumi Mei for help finding Hozuki Suigetsu, and she agreed to lead him into Kirigakure.
• Yufeng used genjutsu to enter Kirigakure with Terumi Mei and Haku, then found the Hozuki Clan ninja from her scroll.
• Yufeng used his Sharingan to make the Hozuki Clan ninja reveal the clan's settlement location, but the ninja summoned a scroll that launched a sealing chain at him.
• Uchiha Homura appeared wrapped in White Zetsu, and Yufeng taunted him for being afraid to meet his eyes.

Uchiha Yufeng defeated Uchiha Homura with the Second Hokage’s Mutual Exploding Tag technique, then continued with Terumi Mei and Haku to find Hozuki Suigetsu. He captured Hozuki Mangetsu and used Sharingan to ask where Suigetsu was.

• Uchiha Yufeng evaded Uchiha Homura’s Susanoo and destroyed it with a barrage of Mutual Exploding Tags, leaving Homura gravely injured.
• Black and White Zetsu appeared, took Uchiha Homura, and escaped underground.
• Uchiha Yufeng and Terumi Mei continued toward Hozuki Suigetsu’s location after he questioned a dazed ninja and struck him down.
• A hidden attacker shot a water droplet at Terumi Mei, but Uchiha Yufeng used Flying Thunder God to get them out of its path.
• Uchiha Yufeng froze the mist, identified Hozuki Mangetsu, and restrained him with Lightning Release after Mangetsu reformed from water.
• Uchiha Yufeng put Hozuki Mangetsu under Sharingan and asked where Hozuki Suigetsu was.

Uchiha Yufeng took Hozuki Suigetsu from the Hozuki clan and persuaded Hozuki Mangetsu to leave the Land of Water and become his subordinate. After Mangetsu defeated Kirigakure pursuers with the Kubikiribōchō Yufeng gave him, the group left together.

• Uchiha Yufeng told Hozuki Mangetsu that the Hozuki clan faced danger in the Land of Water, then led Hozuki Suigetsu away.
• Hozuki Mangetsu asked to become Uchiha Yufeng's subordinate, gathered the clan's books and scrolls, and joined him.
• Hozuki Mangetsu asked to handle approaching Kirigakure ninjas, and Uchiha Yufeng waited with Terumi Mei, Hozuki Suigetsu, and Haku.
• Uchiha Yufeng gave Hozuki Mangetsu the Kubikiribōchō, and Mangetsu used it to overpower two mist shinobi.
• The two ninjas recognized Uchiha Yufeng and lost their will to fight, so Hozuki Mangetsu killed them and followed Yufeng's group away.

Uchiha Yufeng and his group left Kirigakure and stopped at a deserted underground laboratory, where he found an injured Mitarashi Anko. He suppressed the pain of her Curse Mark with the Evil Sealing Method and offered to take her with him.

• Uchiha Yufeng left Kirigakure with his group, while Terumi Mei stayed behind to try to change the village.
• Uchiha Yufeng sensed a familiar Chakra from a nearby island and led his group ashore, then broke into a hidden underground laboratory.
• Uchiha Yufeng found Mitarashi Anko unconscious in the laboratory and destroyed a White Snake that attacked him.
• Uchiha Yufeng examined Anko and found a Curse Mark; when she woke, she refused to have it removed because she still needed it to find Orochimaru.
• Uchiha Yufeng used the Evil Sealing Method to suppress Anko's Curse Mark, and Anko thanked him after recovering.
• Uchiha Yufeng offered Anko a ride back as he prepared to leave the island.

Uchiha Yufeng told the Third Hokage about missing Anbu and infants, then revealed that Danzo had hidden a Wood Release ninja in Root. Back home, he challenged Uchiha Shisui’s self-sacrificing view of being a ninja and agreed to help him join the Anbu.

• Uchiha Yufeng warned the Third Hokage that more than sixty people, including Anbu ninja and infants, had gone missing, and the Third Hokage promised to investigate.
• Uchiha Yufeng told the Third Hokage that Danzo had sent a Wood Release ninja to assassinate him and was keeping the child in Root; the Third Hokage planned to claim the ninja after dealing with Orochimaru.
• The Third Hokage gave Uchiha Yufeng a scroll for contacting Konoha with an Anbu Ninja Hawk, then ordered the Third Anbu Squad to report in.
• Uchiha Yufeng returned home and found Uchiha Shisui hoping to join the Anbu to serve the village.
• When Uchiha Shisui said he was willing to sacrifice himself for peace, Uchiha Yufeng punched him and urged him to stay alive so he could protect peace.
• Uchiha Yufeng healed Uchiha Shisui’s bruise, agreed to arrange his Anbu entry, and left to visit Mikoto and Sasuke.

Orochimaru and Danzō feared that Uchiha Yufeng had discovered their secret laboratory. Meanwhile, Uchiha Shisui joined Kakashi’s Anbu squad and impressed its members in his shuriken assessment, as the Third Hokage set out to confront Orochimaru.

• Danzō warned Orochimaru that Yufeng had previously extracted intelligence from a Root ninja and might have uncovered their secret.
• The Third Hokage told Kakashi that Yufeng had recommended Shisui for his Anbu squad, and Shisui joined the unit.
• Yufeng brought Sasuke to the training ground and asked Kakashi’s squad to guide Shisui and assess him by elite Anbu standards.
• Shisui hit every shuriken target, including those at blind angles, impressing Kakashi and the Anbu members.
• After receiving intelligence that Orochimaru seemed ready to leave, the Third Hokage led Anbu toward Orochimaru’s underground laboratory.

Uchiha Yufeng checked on Naruto and then joined his friends for dango with little Sasuke. Yuhi Kurenai soothed Sasuke easily, while the group discussed how Uchiha Yufeng had found and rescued Mitarashi Anko; the chapter ended with Yuhi Kurenai comforting her.

• Uchiha Yufeng noticed Anbu moving to capture Orochimaru, then visited Naruto and warned the guards to care for him properly.
• Uchiha Yufeng met Might Guy, Yuhi Kurenai, Nohara Rin, Mitarashi Anko, Shiranui Genma, and Yamashiro Aoba, and agreed to join them at the Dango Shop.
• Nohara Rin tried to hold little Sasuke, but he cried until Yuhi Kurenai took him and soothed him.
• Nohara Rin asked how Uchiha Yufeng had rescued Mitarashi Anko, and he said he had found her in an abandoned laboratory in the Land of Waves.
• Yuhi Kurenai held Second Pillar and gently took Mitarashi Anko's hand as the group sympathized with her.

Uchiha Yufeng was summoned to discuss Kumogakure’s proposed alliance treaty and warned the Third Hokage to guard against their schemes. He also judged that Kirigakure was too unstable for an alliance, leaving the Third Hokage still hoping for peace.

• Orochimaru defected despite the Third Hokage, Anbu, and Root trying to capture him, while Yufeng focused on helping care for little Sasuke.
• Uzuki Yugao delivered the Third Hokage’s urgent summons, and Yufeng teased her into kissing his cheek before they went to the Hokage’s Office.
• The Third Hokage showed Yufeng Kumogakure’s alliance treaty, and Yufeng agreed to an alliance while insisting its ceremony be held in Konoha and Konoha remain vigilant.
• The Third Hokage asked whether Konoha could also ally with Kirigakure, and Yufeng said its internal disorder made an alliance impossible for now.
• The Third Hokage lamented how distant peace in the Ninja World still seemed.

Yuhi Kurenai warned Hyuga Hiashi that Kumogakure's alliance delegation might be targeting the Byakugan, and Hiashi thanked her and prepared to protect his clan. That night, Kumogakure sent teams to the Hyuga and Uchiha compounds, where Uchiha Yufeng caught two intruders plotting to steal his child and unleashed Amaterasu.

• At a dango shop, Kurenai received a scroll from Uzuki Yugao telling her to warn the Hyuga Clan about Kumogakure's possible designs on them.
• Kurenai told Hyuga Hiashi that some Kumogakure delegates might be after the Byakugan, and Hiashi thanked her and agreed to stay vigilant.
• Hiashi gave Kurenai gifts and suggested that Hinata might join her team in the future.
• That night, Kumogakure sent two pairs of ninjas toward the Hyuga and Uchiha compounds while Yufeng was away from the clan compound.
• At the Uchiha compound, Yufeng caught two intruders, learned their Kage had sent them to steal his child, and attacked them with Amaterasu.

Konoha and Kumogakure representatives confronted each other over missing ninja, but Uchiha Yufeng revealed that Kumogakure agents had attacked the Hyuga and Uchiha clans. After killing the captured infiltrators and intimidating the delegation, he forced them to agree to the alliance.

• Kumogakure representatives demanded that the Third Hokage explain why four of their ninja had gone missing.
• The Third Hokage brought Hyuga Hiashi and Uchiha Yufeng into his office and revealed two captured infiltrators who had tried to murder the Hyuga Clan's eldest daughter.
• The Third Hokage suggested handing the infiltrators to Kumogakure, but Uchiha Yufeng killed them with his Kusanagi Sword.
• Uchiha Yufeng said he had also killed two agents who came to the Uchiha Clan and used his Mangekyo Sharingan to frighten the Kumogakure representatives.
• The Third Hokage urged Uchiha Yufeng to restrain himself, and the lead Kumogakure representative agreed to form the alliance.

After Uchiha Yufeng left Konoha for Takigakure, the Uchiha Clan resumed challenging the village, straining their relations. Uchiha Shisui trained Uchiha Itachi in kunai throwing, but Itachi abruptly left after his Shadow Clone at the Ninja Academy was dispelled.

• The Kumogakure ninja departed Konoha with the alliance documents despite Sarutobi Hiruzen's efforts to keep them, and Uchiha Yufeng grew closer to Hyuga Hiashi and Yuhi Kurenai.
• After little Sasuke's second birthday, Uchiha Yufeng left Konoha to visit the children in Takigakure.
• Utatane Koharu, Mitokado Homura, Shimura Danzō, and Sarutobi Hiruzen discussed rising complaints about the Police Force and the Uchiha Clan's growing resentment after Yufeng's departure.
• Uchiha Shisui found Uchiha Itachi practicing at a training ground and agreed to teach him shuriken techniques.
• Uchiha Itachi quickly copied Shisui's kunai-throwing techniques, then left when his Shadow Clone at the Ninja Academy was forcibly dispelled.