Chapter Summaries

Plot points and events

• Danzo, alarmed by Uchiha Yi’s sudden promotion to jonin, sends Root operatives to forcibly bring him to Root headquarters.
• Yi is transported by the Flying Thunder God Formation. Danzo demands his submission, then orders Root to kill him when he refuses.
• Yi overwhelms Root’s defenses with a powerful Fire Release technique, then reveals his Mangekyō Sharingan and Susanoo. He defeats Danzo’s Wood Release attacks and devastates the underground base.
• When the Third Hokage and other Konoha ninja arrive, Danzo claims Yi is rebelling and warns that his Mangekyō could let him control the Nine-Tails.
• Yi exposes Danzo’s Sharingan-studded arm, revealing that he has taken Uchiha eyes. He also accuses Danzo of using the First Hokage’s body for Wood Release and links him to Orochimaru’s experiments and the Hokage resurrection technique.
• The Third Hokage, recognizing the accusations as credible and unable to shield Danzo any longer, orders him to surrender. Danzo instead creates a dust screen and attempts to escape as Root operatives fight Konoha’s forces.

Character developments

• Uchiha Yi is established as far more powerful than Danzo expected. He remains confident under threat and turns the confrontation into a public exposure of Danzo’s crimes.
• Danzo shifts from coldly commanding to furious, then panicked as Yi defeats him and reveals his secrets. His insistence that his actions served Konoha fails to persuade those present.
• The Third Hokage is forced to confront the extent of Danzo’s wrongdoing. His disappointment becomes a public demand for Danzo’s surrender.
• Tsunade and the assembled ninja react with anger and suspicion once Danzo’s appropriation of Uchiha eyes and alleged use of the First Hokage’s body are exposed.

Significant themes

• Power and corruption: Danzo’s claim to act for Konoha contrasts with his exploitation of the Uchiha and pursuit of forbidden power.
• Truth and accountability: Yi turns a private attack into a public reckoning, making Danzo answer for his actions before the village.
• Loyalty and treason: Danzo labels Yi a traitor, but his own attempt to flee after his crimes are exposed raises the chapter’s central question of who has truly betrayed Konoha.

Character interactions

• Yi repeatedly taunts Danzo, refusing to submit and challenging his claims of strength.
• Danzo treats Yi as a threat to be eliminated; Yi answers by defeating Root’s forces and exposing Danzo’s hidden power and conduct.
• Before the gathered Konoha ninja, Danzo tries to enlist the Third Hokage against Yi, but Hiruzen defends Yi and ultimately orders Danzo to surrender.
• Yi’s accusations provoke Tsunade’s fury and shift the crowd’s judgment against Danzo, isolating him as he makes his escape attempt.

Key plot points and events

• Uchiha Yi and Tsunade pursue Danzo after he flees Konoha. Yi uses his marked Flying Thunder God technique to catch up with him.
• Danzo repeatedly revives using Izanagi, drawing on the Sharingan implanted in his arm. Tsunade and Yi kill him several times, while Yi warns Tsunade that Danzo has more lives left.
• Danzo tries to use Kotoamatsukami to control Yi, but his target is actually Aburame Torune, whom Yi has disguised through genjutsu. Yi kills Danzo again.
• Cornered, Danzo activates the Reverse Four Symbols Seal in a final attempt to take everyone with him. Yi transports Tsunade to safety, and the explosion kills Danzo for good.
• Root is destroyed, and its hidden crimes—including underground laboratories, human experimentation, and the theft and tampering of corpses from Konoha’s notable figures—are exposed. The Shimura Clan’s assets are confiscated because its wealth funded Danzo.
• Tsunade becomes the Fifth Hokage after the Third Hokage steps down. She consolidates her authority and sidelines the two senior advisers, with Yi’s influence helping deter their opposition.
• Tsunade also approaches the Hyuga Clan to seek Hinata’s hand in marriage for Yi. At the clan meeting, the elders oppose the match, and Yi realizes he will have to make his own case.

Character developments and interactions

• Yi proves both formidable and crafty, relying on teleportation, lightning attacks, and deception to defeat Danzo. He also reveals his care for Tsunade by saving her from the sealing technique, and his concern for Hinata by not wanting her caught between him and Konoha.
• Tsunade fights alongside Yi, helps establish the truth about Danzo’s crimes, and takes credit for Danzo’s death to shield Yi from political fallout. As Hokage, she quickly strengthens her position and actively supports Yi’s relationship with Hinata.
• Danzo shifts from fleeing to desperate counterattacks, attempting both to control Yi and to destroy him with a suicide seal. His repeated defeats end with his death.
• The Third Hokage is shaken by the revelations about Danzo, whom he had tolerated as someone supposedly acting for Konoha. His health is failing, and he steps down.
• Hinata and the Hyuga leadership become central to Yi’s personal concerns. Hiashi remains silent at the council meeting, while the elders—especially the first elder—hold the clan’s real authority. The second elder openly rejects the proposed marriage.

Significant themes

• Consequences of tolerating wrongdoing: The Third Hokage’s long indulgence of Danzo is shown to have enabled grave abuses.
• Political power and accountability: Danzo’s crimes lead to Root’s destruction and the Shimura Clan’s loss of wealth, while Tsunade uses her new office to reshape Konoha’s leadership.
• Loyalty and protection: Tsunade shields Yi politically, and Yi risks himself to save her; both also try to protect Hinata from being caught in clan and village conflicts.
• Love across old divisions: Yi’s wish to marry Hinata challenges the longstanding rivalry between the Uchiha and Hyuga clans.

Plot points and events

• Uchiha Yi reveals that the Uchiha and Hyuga share an ancestor: Hamura Ōtsutsuki. The Third Hokage backs him up, and Tsunade produces a stone tablet with supporting evidence. Hyuga records confirm Hamura’s lineage, though the clan knows little about his brother, Hagoromo, the Sage of Six Paths.
• Yi explains that the Byakugan may evolve into the Tenseigan, just as the Sharingan can reach the Rinnegan. This convinces the Hyuga elders to approve his marriage to Hinata—on the condition that he first awaken the Tenseigan in Hanabi.
• Yi refuses that condition, saying he can help Hinata awaken it instead. After a tense negotiation, the elders accept, but insist that any children who inherit the Byakugan belong to the Hyuga clan. Yi agrees, and the engagement is settled.
• At Ichiraku Ramen, Naruto is shocked by the engagement, while Shikamaru and Choji tease Yi for committing so young.
• Yi remains unsure how to awaken Hinata’s Tenseigan. A system notification then confirms that his plan can work: absorbing a powerful Tenseigan from an Ōtsutsuki can enable Hinata’s evolution. The system also explains that its silence was due to conserving energy after bringing Yi to this world; Yi’s hopes of unlocking a skill-exchange feature are left hanging.

Character developments and interactions

• Uchiha Yi uses the clans’ shared ancestry and the promise of the Tenseigan to win the elders’ approval, while standing firm when they try to redirect the power to Hanabi. His confidence reflects the increased respect his strength has earned him.
• Hinata remains absent from the negotiations, but her future and happiness are largely treated as matters for the elders to bargain over.
• Hyuga Hiashi is shown to care about Hinata despite appearances. He explains that the elders’ influence led to Hinata receiving the Caged Bird Seal instead of Hanabi, who is now being groomed as heir.
• The First Elder shifts from skepticism to support once he sees the potential value of the Tenseigan, prioritizing the clan’s future and bloodline over Hinata’s wishes. The Second and Third Elders remain hostile to the Uchiha until the new possibility silences them.
• The Third Hokage and Tsunade support Yi’s claims but stay out of the marriage negotiations, recognizing that the decision belongs to the clans. They also see the engagement as a way to bind Yi more closely to Konoha.
• Naruto, Shikamaru, and Choji provide comic relief: Naruto is stunned, while Shikamaru calls love a burden and Choji would rather have barbecue.

Significant themes

• Power and political leverage: Yi’s strength and knowledge reshape how others treat him and give him leverage in negotiations.
• Clan interests versus individual happiness: The elders focus on inheritance, bloodlines, and status, while Hinata’s own wishes receive little consideration.
• Legacy and shared history: The revelation of the Uchiha–Hyuga connection offers a new basis for cooperation between rival clans.
• Ambition and uncertainty: The Tenseigan could transform the Hyuga clan’s prospects, but Yi still needs to find a way to make the awakening happen.

Key plot points and events

• Uchiha Yi asks whether Hinata can awaken the Tenseigan by absorbing an Ōtsutsuki Tenseigan. The system warns that this would almost certainly kill her, and instead proposes making her his Familiar and granting her a Tenseigan.
• The plan requires Yi to reach Limit Sharingan level 6, which unlocks Familiar slots and three additional skill slots. He has already reached the required proficiency, so his Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan evolves into the Rinnegan.
• The system explains that further progress requires devouring powerful eyes and ocular chakra; Shadow Clone training is now too inefficient. Yi considers targeting the Ōtsutsuki, but recognizes that fighting Kaguya is beyond him for now.
• Yi assesses his new abilities and limitations. His Rinnegan grants powerful techniques, but his chakra reserves are modest, and his brief, incomplete chakra mode reflects his lack of Senjutsu.
• The following day, Yi’s engagement to Hinata is celebrated at a large ceremony attended by Konoha’s elite. Kazahana Koyuki appears, tells Yi she accepts his engagement so long as he does not forget her, then warmly befriends Hinata.
• Tsunade explains that Koyuki is in Konoha to negotiate a Chakra Armor deal. Yi also recalls evidence that someone is collecting Tailed Beasts, a threat that Jiraiya’s investigation and the Great Toad Sage’s confirmation have made more credible. The ceremony lasts all day, leaving Yi exhausted.

Character developments and interactions

• Uchiha Yi grows more powerful with the Rinnegan, but remains constrained by weak natural chakra reserves and incomplete mastery of Senjutsu. He is eager to exploit the system’s Familiar and skill mechanics, especially to help Hinata.
• Hinata is central to Yi’s plans, though she does not directly participate in the chapter’s discussions. Her engagement to Yi is formalized publicly.
• Kazahana Koyuki reveals affection for Yi and accepts his engagement, asking only that he remember her. Her easy rapport with Hinata leaves Yi confused.
• Tsunade praises Yi’s recent mission work and explains the strategic importance of Koyuki’s visit. Yi admits he pursued a stone tablet during that mission.
• Jiraiya has investigated the Tailed Beast threat and, after consulting the Great Toad Sage, accepts the tablet’s warning as genuine.

Significant themes

• Power and its costs: Yi’s extraordinary ocular abilities do not overcome his underlying chakra limitations, while unsafe attempts to pass on power could be fatal.
• Relationships and obligation: Yi’s engagement to Hinata intersects with Koyuki’s feelings and the political expectations surrounding the ceremony.
• Strategic preparation: Konoha’s interest in Chakra Armor and the warning about Tailed Beast collection underscore the need to prepare for a growing threat.
• Ambition tempered by caution: Yi considers pursuing powerful Ōtsutsuki opponents but recognizes that some battles, especially against Kaguya, are premature.

Plot points

• Uchiha Yi escorts Kazahana Koyuki back toward the Land of Snow after Konoha finalizes a Chakra Armor deal.
• Hiruko ambushes them with three followers, targeting Yi’s Sharingan. Yi recognizes that Orochimaru has helped Hiruko perfect his Chimera Technique early, apparently as revenge for Yi’s past interference.
• Yi creates a powerful Shadow Clone to escort Koyuki and her party onward, then faces Hiruko and his subordinates alone.
• Yi defeats the three followers with Amaterasu and Kirin, then destroys Hiruko’s composite beast with the Rinnegan’s repulsive force and Kamui.
• Hiruko reveals Steel Release, Storm Release, and other stolen abilities, but Yi counters his attacks, pins him with a lightning spear, and overwhelms his strongest storm technique with Black Kirin.
• Cornered, Hiruko swallows a mysterious lump of flesh. His vitality, chakra, and overall power surge beyond Kage level, and Yi suspects the final ingredient was another kekkei genkai—possibly First Hokage cells.

Character developments and interactions

• Yi remains composed and mocking throughout the fight, confidently countering Hiruko’s attacks and exposing the gap between their abilities. He quickly deduces Orochimaru’s role in the ambush and begins to recognize the source of Hiruko’s transformation.
• Hiruko is driven by obsession: he wants to surpass Orochimaru and become a “perfect being” by stealing Yi’s eyes. His arrogance gives way to brief wariness after Yi’s displays of power, but he escalates by revealing his true Chimera Technique.
• Koyuki responds decisively to danger, leaving with Yi’s Shadow Clone rather than lingering at the scene.
• Orochimaru, though absent, shapes the conflict by helping Hiruko advance his technique and directing him toward Yi.

Significant themes

• Obsession and ambition: Hiruko’s pursuit of strength has become delusional, culminating in his fantasy of becoming the new Sage of Six Paths.
• Power versus understanding: Hiruko boasts about his abilities but repeatedly underestimates Yi’s skill and versatility.
• Revenge and manipulation: Orochimaru uses Hiruko as a means of striking back at Yi.
• Escalation and suspense: Yi appears dominant, but Hiruko’s sudden transformation leaves the fight unresolved and hints at a more dangerous next phase.

Chapter summary

Key plot points and events

• Hiruko announces that he has acquired Wood Release by absorbing a body cultivated from the First Hokage’s cells. He boasts that it counters the Uchiha, but Uchiha Yi dismisses his claims.
• Yi destroys Hiruko’s Wood Release techniques first with a Fire Release: Great Fireball, then with the Rinnegan’s Universal Pull, which obliterates the forest and leaves Hiruko’s unstable body fatally damaged. Hiruko dies before achieving his ambitions.
• Kabuto emerges from a snake after the battle, collects data and a blood sample, and plans to use the findings to improve the Chimera Technique for Orochimaru.
• Back with the Land of Snow party, Yi asks Kazahana Koyuki whether she wants to become a ninja, motivated by concern for her safety. Since Koyuki has no chakra training, Yi gives her a level-four Enhanced Eight Gates ability. It grants her chakra reserves comparable to an Elite Jonin’s.
• Yi uses Koyuki’s chakra to create a Kage-level Shadow Clone shaped like her, giving the Land of Snow a powerful new defender. Koyuki laughs at the result and teases Yi about being jealous of his own clone.
• The next day, Yi discovers that a clone seeded with Shukaku’s chakra has developed into a new, unconscious Shukaku-like tailed beast. The system confirms it is a tailed beast, though it cannot exceed Shukaku’s power without Yi upgrading his Limit Sharingan.
• Yi considers creating more tailed beasts and even a Ten-Tails, but the system warns that the latter is beyond his current abilities. He decides to pursue creating more tailed beasts instead.

Character developments

• Uchiha Yi remains overwhelmingly confident in battle, but his concern for Koyuki prompts him to use his abilities for her protection. He also begins contemplating the strategic possibilities of creating tailed beasts and jinchūriki.
• Hiruko is exposed as overconfident and mistaken about the strength and stability of his Wood Release. His body cannot withstand Yi’s attack, and his hopes of completing his transformation end in failure.
• Kazahana Koyuki accepts Yi’s help in becoming more capable, though she questions how an ordinary person could use ninjutsu. She gains chakra and a defensive asset, but has no expressed desire to become a frontline fighter.
• Kabuto shows fear of Yi’s power while remaining focused on gathering research for Orochimaru.

Significant themes

• Power versus overconfidence: Hiruko’s boasts collapse when his borrowed abilities prove unstable and inadequate against Yi.
• Protection and agency: Yi wants Koyuki to be safer, but his decision to give her power is shaped by his own protective instincts and preference that she avoid combat.
• The escalation of power: The discovery that a tailed beast can be artificially produced raises the possibility of mass-producing jinchūriki, while the system marks clear limits on Yi’s current strength.
• Power as a resource: Yi transfers abilities and uses Koyuki’s chakra to create a powerful clone, treating individual skills and chakra as tools that can be redistributed.

Character interactions

• Yi and Hiruko exchange boasts before Yi swiftly defeats him; Hiruko’s claim that Wood Release naturally counters the Uchiha is left unchallenged.
• Kabuto observes the aftermath and gathers data for Orochimaru, underscoring the threat Yi represents even to those studying him.
• Yi reassures Koyuki after the battle, then offers her a way to protect herself. She questions the practical value of ninjutsu without chakra, prompting Yi to choose the Eight Gates instead.
• Koyuki playfully mocks Yi over the clone made in her image, showing their easy, affectionate rapport.

Key plot points and events

• After returning from the Land of Snow, Uchiha Yi tells Tsunade and Jiraiya he intends to confront the Nine-Tails sealed inside Naruto. They fear a breach of the seal, but Yi demonstrates his powerful Tsukuyomi: Illusion Realm and persuades them to let him proceed under heavy ANBU protection.
• Yi brings Naruto to a secluded valley, explains that he can make the fox behave, and puts Naruto to sleep before entering the seal’s inner space.
• The Nine-Tails—later identified as Kurama—threatens to escape, consume Naruto, and destroy the Uchiha and Konoha. Yi traps him in Tsukuyomi: Illusion Realm, but Kurama initially believes this gives him a chance to evade the original seal.
• Kurama attacks with his tails and a Tailed Beast Bomb. Yi deflects and redirects the bomb with Kamui: Reversal, then physically overwhelms Kurama before switching to Wood Release.
• Yi restrains Kurama with a Wood Dragon, a wooden guardian, and finally the sealing power of the Gate of the Great God. Kurama submits after recognizing Yi’s Rinnegan.
• Yi offers to free Kurama in five years if he cooperates with Naruto and stops causing trouble. Kurama is excited by the promise; Yi’s immediate leverage is that he could seal him more completely, leaving Naruto able to draw chakra only if Kurama chooses to help.

Character developments

• Uchiha Yi displays confidence in his abilities, but the confrontation reveals that Kurama’s chakra exceeds his expectations. Yi adapts quickly, using multiple powers and bargaining rather than risking Kurama’s destruction.
• Tsunade and Jiraiya remain cautious about Naruto’s unstable situation, but Yi’s demonstration convinces them to authorize the attempt. They still take extensive precautions.
• Naruto trusts Yi without hesitation and eagerly agrees to his help, but is asleep for the actual confrontation.
• Kurama shifts from contemptuous defiance to surprise and submission once Yi reveals the Rinnegan and seals him. The prospect of eventual freedom gives him a reason to cooperate.

Significant themes

• Power balanced by control: Yi’s strength lets him dominate Kurama, but he must restrain rather than destroy him.
• Cooperation through leverage and trust: Yi combines a credible threat with a promise of future freedom to secure Kurama’s cooperation.
• The danger within Naruto: The Nine-Tails is both a threat to Naruto and a potential source of power whose help cannot simply be assumed.

Character interactions

• Yi negotiates with Tsunade and Jiraiya, overcoming their objections by demonstrating his genjutsu and accepting their safeguards.
• Yi reassures Naruto and gains his willing trust before putting him to sleep.
• Yi and Kurama engage in a battle of threats and power: Kurama tries to escape and attack, while Yi counters, restrains him, identifies him by his true name, and offers a conditional path to freedom.

Key plot points

• Uchiha Yi convinces the Nine-Tails to cooperate with Naruto, leaving a trace of his ocular power in Naruto’s seal space. Jiraiya confirms that Naruto’s chakra has stabilized, and Naruto wakes unharmed.
• After a farewell meal, Naruto and Jiraiya leave Konoha earlier than planned. Yi turns his attention to developing his own senjutsu, believing that absorbing a large supply of natural energy will help him reach true Six Paths Sage Mode.
• Yi travels to Rōran and releases the Fourth Hokage’s seal on the Dragon Vein. The system begins absorbing its energy, but an unknown interference disrupts the process. Yi is pulled through time, and the Dragon Vein disappears.
• Yi arrives in Rōran’s past, where the system falls silent. He discovers that Sara is already queen and approaches the tower containing the Dragon Vein.
• When Sara attacks with two puppets, Yi destroys them effortlessly and restrains her. He asks whether she knows Mukade; her confusion suggests Mukade has not yet traveled back. The chapter ends with Yi taunting Sara about the trouble she can cause.

Character developments and interactions

• Yi is confident and resourceful, but the Dragon Vein’s unexpected time-travel effect catches him off guard. With the system apparently dormant, he must investigate his situation without its guidance.
• Naruto and Jiraiya depart on their journey reassured that the Nine-Tails is no longer causing Naruto’s chakra to fluctuate.
• Sara shows composure under pressure, maintaining her authority even after Yi demolishes her puppets and restrains her. She remains wary and confrontational toward the intruder.
• Yi and the Nine-Tails reach an agreement, though Yi privately suspects Naruto may eventually persuade the fox to stay beyond the promised five years. Yi also tests his standing with Sara by asking about Mukade and challenging her threat.

Significant themes

• Strength and leverage: Yi’s power gives him access to Konoha’s classified information and lets him treat dangerous situations as manageable.
• Ambition and risk: His pursuit of natural energy and Six Paths-level abilities leads him into an unforeseen time-travel crisis.
• Unexpected consequences: Despite the system’s reassurance that time travel was nearly impossible, interfering forces derail Yi’s plan.
• Control versus uncertainty: Yi can easily overpower others, but he cannot control the Dragon Vein’s effects or explain the system’s silence.

Plot points and events

• Young Minato Namikaze rescues Queen Sara from Uchiha Yi, then sends Choza and Shibi away with her. He recognizes Yi as a Konoha ninja but treats him as a possible threat.
• Minato and Yi fight. Yi matches Minato’s Rasengan and Flying Thunder God, eventually revealing that he is a Konoha ninja from the future. Minato concludes that Yi traveled through time via the dragon vein, as Mukade did.
• Minato explains that Mukade—now known as Rōran’s regent, Anrokuzan—arrived six years earlier and plans to exploit the dragon vein. When Mukade’s puppets attack, Minato leaves to protect Sara while Yi stays to confront him.
• Yi destroys Mukade’s puppet forces with lightning and black flames. Mukade transforms into a giant puppet spider, but Yi blocks his attacks with Susanoo and restrains him. Yi also destroys the puppet parts Mukade tries to use to transform again.
• Yi attempts to trap Mukade in Tsukuyomi, but the technique fails to pull Mukade’s soul into the illusion realm.

Character development and interactions

• Uchiha Yi is confident, quick to adapt, and powerful enough to imitate Minato’s signature techniques. Though he is confused by the tangled timeline, he focuses on stopping Mukade. His dismissive humor contrasts with the seriousness of the fight.
• Minato is cautious and perceptive. He initially suspects Yi, but recognizes his abilities and accepts his explanation, trusting him to handle Mukade while Minato protects Sara.
• Mukade/Anrokuzan is arrogant and reliant on the dragon vein’s power. When his puppet attacks fail, he panics and flees, then resorts to transforming himself into a monstrous puppet. He boasts of immortality, but Yi’s restraint exposes the limits of his power.
• Sara is rescued but has little involvement beyond angrily accusing Yi before Minato knocks her unconscious.

Significant themes

• Time travel and a tangled timeline: Yi and Mukade have both traveled through the dragon vein, leaving the history of their arrivals uncertain.
• Power and mastery: Yi’s command of varied techniques overwhelms Mukade’s dependence on dragon-vein-enhanced puppets.
• Trust and cooperation: Despite their brief clash, Minato and Yi reach a practical understanding and divide their responsibilities.

Plot and key events

• Mukade survives Uchiha Yi’s first genjutsu by drawing on the Dragon Vein, whose unusual natural energy makes him resistant to ordinary illusion techniques. He enlarges his puppet body and relies on rapid regeneration, but Yi overwhelms him with Susanoo’s punches.
• Yi then uses Kamui: Reversal to shift Mukade into a space cut off from the Dragon Vein. With his regeneration source gone, Mukade falls to Tsukuyomi: Illusion Realm and dies.
• Following Mukade’s memories, Yi finds Naruto and Yamato imprisoned. This Naruto is unfamiliar: Yi cannot sense the ocular power he previously left in Naruto, and the Nine-Tails still hates him. Yi puts both prisoners to sleep and brings them along.
• Yi absorbs the Dragon Vein. The system explains that touching its trace of time-law energy created an extra parallel world; consuming the Dragon Vein from this timeline will restore the proper spacetime.
• Minato and Sara arrive. Yi explains why he is taking the Dragon Vein, and Sara welcomes its removal, hoping her people can escape their dependence on it. The system confirms the absorption and says the fusion will take a day.
• As Yi prepares to return to his original spacetime, Minato suggests erasing everyone’s memories to protect history. Yi objects that this could make him forget his mission, then begins altering their memories with the Rinnegan. The system interrupts, saying he does not need to do it; the chapter ends before it explains why.

Character developments and interactions

• Uchiha Yi defeats Mukade through persistence and tactical use of space-time powers, then becomes increasingly unsettled by the unfamiliar Naruto and the implications of parallel worlds. He remains pragmatic, but his teasing exchange with Sara shows a playful side.
• Mukade is exposed as overconfident in his Dragon Vein-fueled strength; once separated from that power, he is quickly defeated.
• Sara expresses gratitude and openly accepts losing the Dragon Vein, while privately feeling reluctant to see Yi leave.
• Minato cooperates with Yi but raises the concern that their memories should be erased to avoid changing history. Yi challenges the proposal, prompting the system’s interruption.

Significant themes

• Power and dependence: Mukade’s apparent invincibility—and Sara’s people’s reliance on the Dragon Vein—comes from an external source that can be removed.
• Identity and parallel worlds: The strange Naruto forces Yi to question which timeline he is in and how many versions of familiar people exist.
• Consequences of interference: The Dragon Vein’s connection to time has disrupted spacetime, making Yi’s actions and the characters’ memories part of a larger effort to restore order.

Chapter Summary

Key plot points and events

• Uchiha Yi learns that taking the Dragon Vein will erase it—and likely Rōran and Sara—from history. He saves Sara by making her his Familiar, allowing her to travel with him to his own time and world.
• The Dragon Vein’s removal triggers a spacetime reset. Naruto and Yamato disappear from Yi’s Flying Thunder God Space, and the events in the altered timeline are set to be erased.
• Yi turns his attention to the enormous Tenseigan on the moon, hoping to evolve his Byakugan. He leaves Madara’s Rinnegan alone because taking it could disrupt the original timeline.
• Yi and Sara travel through a spatial passage to the moon. Sara is fascinated by the view of the Shinobi World, but Yi soon senses approaching chakra and sends her back into his space.
• Six members of the moon-dwelling Ōtsutsuki confront Yi. Their coordinated Gentle Fist attack fails against his Kamui intangibility. Yi kills five with a Lightning Dragon and incapacitates their leader with the Rinnegan and Truth-Seeking Orbs, then uses Tsukuyomi to extract information.
• From the leader’s memories, Yi learns that the Ōtsutsuki Branch Family recently destroyed the Main Family. He takes the Byakugan from the defeated group and follows the leader’s memories to the clan’s residence.
• A larger group ambushes Yi at the entrance. His black flames and lightning devastate them. He kills Elder Chiga with a single kick, then defeats Elder Yuma and the remaining survivors with Universal Pull, collecting their Byakugan.
• As Yi enters the Ōtsutsuki residence, he senses a new, dangerous presence.

Character developments

• Uchiha Yi remains confident and pragmatic, prioritizing his own objectives while showing little concern for the timeline being erased. He acts decisively to save Sara and pursues the Tenseigan, while overwhelming the Ōtsutsuki with a wide range of abilities.
• Sara accepts becoming Yi’s Familiar to avoid disappearing. Her excitement at seeing the moon and the Shinobi World reveals her curiosity and sense of wonder.
• The Ōtsutsuki leader and elders are initially aggressive and proud, but quickly discover that Yi is far beyond their strength. Yuma’s fury at the invasion contrasts with how effortlessly Yi defeats him and his allies.

Significant themes

• Erasure, memory, and consequence: Removing the Dragon Vein resets an entire branch of events, raising questions about what remains when a world’s history is undone.
• Protection through attachment: Sara’s bond with Yi gives her a way to survive the collapse of her world.
• Power and arrogance: The Ōtsutsuki assume their territory is secure, but Yi’s strength makes their numbers and inherited techniques ineffective.
• Ambition and restraint: Yi seeks the Tenseigan and the Byakugan, yet deliberately avoids taking Madara’s Rinnegan to protect the original timeline.

Character interactions

• Yi explains the Dragon Vein’s consequences to Sara and offers her a place as his Familiar; she agrees.
• On the moon, Sara shares her wonder at seeing the Shinobi World before Yi removes her from danger.
• The Ōtsutsuki demand Yi identify himself and attack when he remains silent. Yi challenges their treatment of an apparent guest, then responds to their hostility with overwhelming force.
• Yuma vows revenge for the fallen clan members, but Yi dismisses the threat and defeats him.

Plot points and events

• Uchiha Yi evades the Giant Tenseigan’s devastating beam and teleports directly to Ōtsutsuki clan leader Tsukiya, demanding the Tenseigan.
• Tsukiya’s forces attack, but Yi uses Kamui and powerful lightning techniques to kill several near-Kage-level fighters. Tsukiya then sacrifices Noma by removing his Byakugan to activate the Tenseigan; Yi redirects the beam, though it kills two more fighters.
• Tsukiya summons Ōtsutsuki Chuan Yu from a spatial seal. Chuan Yu condemns Tsukiya for betraying the Main Family, but Tsukiya uses the Tenseigan to erase and control him.
• Chuan Yu attacks Yi with Heavenly Imperial Guard, an exceptionally powerful, chakra-reinforced form of Rotation. Yi’s attacks cannot break through its defense.
• Yi traps Chuan Yu briefly with Wood Release, then uses Planetary Devastation to seal him.
• With Chuan Yu removed and Yi’s chakra depleted, Tsukiya’s three elders attack together to give their leader time to use a final technique. Tsukiya prepares to act as the chapter ends.

Character developments

• Uchiha Yi proves highly adaptable, combining space-time abilities, the Rinnegan, Wood Release, and Planetary Devastation to overcome an opponent whose defense initially seems impenetrable. His chakra reserves, however, are starting to run low.
• Tsukiya is revealed as a Branch Family leader who seized authority and rules through brutality. He sacrifices clan members and enslaves Chuan Yu rather than yield the Tenseigan.
• Chuan Yu, the Main Family’s true leader, is shown to possess a pure bloodline and formidable defensive ability, but Tsukiya strips him of his will and uses him as a weapon.
• The elders accept the danger of confronting Yi and choose to sacrifice themselves to protect their clan’s treasure and buy Tsukiya time.

Significant themes

• Power and its cost: The Tenseigan’s strength depends on sacrifices and drains the lives or autonomy of others.
• Tyranny and betrayal: Tsukiya’s claim to leadership conceals his rebellion against the Main Family and his willingness to destroy his own people.
• Adaptation and limits: Yi wins through creative combinations of techniques, but the battle exposes the limits of his chakra and the challenge posed by absolute defense.

Character interactions

• Yi and Tsukiya clash over possession of the Tenseigan, with Tsukiya repeatedly threatening him rather than negotiate.
• Tsukiya sacrifices Noma and later controls Chuan Yu, treating members of his clan as tools.
• Chuan Yu confronts Tsukiya over his betrayal before being stripped of his consciousness.
• The elders coordinate an attack on Yi and urge Tsukiya to unleash his final technique.

Key plot points and events

• Tsukiya draws power from the Giant Tenseigan, sacrificing the lives of his clansmen to enter a temporary chakra-enhanced state.
• Uchiha Yi finishes off the elders, then reveals that absorbing the Dragon Vein has granted him senjutsu chakra and true Six Paths Sage Mode.
• Tsukiya attacks with Tenseigan techniques, but Yi easily counters them. Yi realizes Tsukiya’s “Truth-Seeking Orbs” and signature attacks are only crude imitations, far weaker than the real techniques.
• Tsukiya sacrifices the remaining clan members to summon a regenerating stone statue of Hamura. Yi cannot destroy the statue, so he bypasses it and knocks Tsukiya unconscious with a single punch.
• Yi absorbs the Giant Tenseigan. His Byakugan evolves into a Tenseigan, and he receives five million Sharingan proficiency points.
• He tests his new eyes and activates Tenseigan Chakra Mode, which appears sky blue rather than green. He begins testing its power by lifting a huge rock.

Character developments

• Uchiha Yi grows substantially stronger, reaching Six Paths-level power and acquiring the Tenseigan. His confidence is reinforced as he outmatches Tsukiya with ease.
• Tsukiya becomes increasingly desperate and irrational. His reliance on the Tenseigan escalates until he sacrifices his entire clan and loses control of himself.

Significant themes

• Power gained through sacrifice: Tsukiya’s borrowed strength depends on consuming others’ lives, exposing its cost and instability.
• True strength versus imitation: Tsukiya’s copied techniques look impressive but cannot match their genuine counterparts—or Yi’s power.
• Power and restraint: Yi’s strength lets him end the fight without destroying the resilient statue, while Tsukiya’s ambition drives him to ruin.

Character interactions

• Tsukiya taunts Yi and boasts that the Tenseigan makes him invincible; Yi responds with calm mockery as he repeatedly defeats Tsukiya’s attacks.
• Yi identifies Tsukiya’s sacrifice of the clan and recognizes that Tsukiya has become dangerously deranged.
• After the fight, Yi consults the system about absorbing the Tenseigan, jokingly worries about another mishap, and then celebrates his new abilities.

Plot points and events

• In the alternate past, Uchiha Yi tests his newly acquired Tenseigan powers. His Tenseigan Chakra Mode and Reincarnation Explosions prove extraordinarily strong, though he cannot sustain the mode for long.
• Before leaving the vanished Rōran, Yi collects valuable Ōtsutsuki remains and learns that the clan’s stronghold has been emptied by Tsukiya’s sacrifice. Toneri is nowhere to be found.
• Yi returns to the present with Sara. Rōran has disappeared, but the Giant Tenseigan on the moon remains unchanged. He discovers that his actions in the parallel world have advanced his return by two years, though the main timeline otherwise appears intact.
• Kazahana Koyuki explains that the Land of Snow has prospered through Chakra Armor. A Shadow Clone of Yi protected it from Kakuzu, driving him off after destroying three of his hearts.
• Back in Konoha, Yi finds Naruto and learns that the events of Shippuden are beginning. He tells Tsunade what he knows about several Akatsuki members and says he has a plan for dealing with the organization.
• Yi visits the dying Third Hokage. He promises to protect Konoha and help Naruto become Hokage, then uses Yin–Yang power to prolong the Hokage’s life slightly. As he leaves, he encounters a taller Hinata.

Character developments and interactions

• Yi gains a clearer grasp of the Tenseigan’s strength and limitations, and accepts that the system’s actions—not his own body—account for the modest change in his chakra.
• Sara is welcomed by Koyuki, who initially suspects Yi is making excuses for bringing home another girl, but believes him after Sara confirms the time-travel story.
• Koyuki’s teasing gives way to concern and affection, while Yi remains focused on catching up with the changes in the world.
• Naruto greets Yi warmly and casually invites him to Ichiraku, unaware that Yi feels only days have passed.
• Tsunade is relieved and irritated that Yi was absent for two years; her remark that she would have no one to turn to if he died reveals her dependence and concern.
• The Third Hokage’s final exchange with Yi is poignant: he still wishes Yi would become Hokage, but finds comfort in the promise that Naruto will pursue the role. Yi’s inability to heal him fully leaves him grieving.

Significant themes

• Time and consequence: Yi’s interference in a parallel past changes when he returns, even though the main timeline’s larger history remains stable.
• Duty and belonging: Yi affirms that Konoha is his home and commits to protecting it, despite refusing the Hokage position himself.
• Legacy and succession: The Third Hokage’s hopes shift from Yi to Naruto, whose temperament gives him hope for Konoha’s future.
• Power and its limits: Yi’s formidable new abilities cannot solve every problem—he cannot sustain his strongest mode or restore the dying Hokage.

Key plot points and events

• Uchiha Yi reunites with Hinata after more than two years. He moves to embrace and kiss her, but Naruto interrupts. Hinata escapes and invites Yi to visit her father that evening.
• Naruto boasts about how much stronger he has become. Yi challenges him to a test of strength and quickly defeats him at the training ground, despite Naruto’s mastery of Wind Release: Rasenshuriken.
• The two go to Ichiraku Ramen, where Yi jokingly feeds the battered Naruto while Ayame looks on in dismay.
• At the Hyuga compound, Yi is treated with unusual respect, as though the clan already considers him Hinata’s future husband. During lunch, the elders hint that he and Hinata should settle their relationship. Yi says he and Hinata will leave the village in three days, then departs.
• Hanabi confronts Yi outside and demands a spar. She believes she has sealed his chakra points with Gentle Fist, but Yi reveals that her attacks have had no effect. He teases her about peeking at him the previous night and leaves her flustered.

Character developments

• Yi is confident and teasing, but he is also sensitive to the Hyuga elders’ pressure and uncomfortable with their assumptions about his relationship with Hinata.
• Naruto has advanced dramatically, learning Rasenshuriken and beginning training for Nine-Tails Chakra Mode, though he still lacks finesse and remains easily distracted by food.
• Hinata appears more comfortable with Yi than before, but remains shy and retreats when Naruto interrupts their reunion.
• Hanabi is embarrassed by what she witnessed the previous night, yet tries to mask her discomfort with defiance. Her challenge shows her pride and desire to prove herself.

Significant themes

• Growth and power: Naruto and Hanabi’s abilities are tested against Yi’s greater strength.
• Family expectations and relationships: The Hyuga elders treat Yi and Hinata as a settled match, while Yi and Hanabi push back—each in their own way—against those assumptions.
• Teasing and embarrassment: Much of the chapter’s humor comes from interrupted affection, awkward family dynamics, and Hanabi’s attempts to hide her embarrassment.

Character interactions

• Yi and Hinata share a warm but brief reunion, interrupted by Naruto.
• Yi and Naruto’s friendship is expressed through sparring and ramen, with Yi playfully punishing Naruto for interrupting him.
• Yi’s meeting with the Hyuga elders is strained by their matchmaking hints, while Hanabi silently finds the formal meal uncomfortable.
• Yi needles Hanabi about calling him her brother-in-law and about her failed sparring attempt; Hanabi responds with indignation and a renewed determination to challenge him.

Key plot points and events

• Hanabi attacks Uchiha Yi with the Gentle Fist, believing she has sealed his chakra points. When her strikes have no effect, Yi teases her that her technique is inadequate and hints that he knows she had been peeking at him, leaving her flustered.
• Yi dispels the 300 shadow clones he left training in the Uchiha compound. Their accumulated practice gives him over three million proficiency points and raises his Eight Gates to level 7. The permanently open Gate of Wonder multiplies his chakra reserves, allowing him to sustain Six Paths Sage Mode for several hours.
• After spending three days with Hinata at the Hyuga compound, Yi takes her to the moon. He plans for her to gain a Tenseigan by absorbing the Giant Tenseigan there, then eventually learn the Eight Gates. He abandons his earlier idea of simply granting her a Tenseigan because it would be weaker.
• On the moon, Yi and Hinata find the palace guarded by puppets. Yi destroys them and confronts the sole surviving lunar Ōtsutsuki, the sixteen-year-old Toneri. Yi infers that Toneri’s clan sacrificed itself trying to stabilize the Giant Tenseigan. He defeats Toneri with genjutsu and leaves shadow clones to guard him.
• Yi brings Hinata to the Giant Tenseigan and has the system begin transferring its power to her through their familiar bond. When the system warns that Hinata cannot withstand the Tenseigan’s full energy, Yi produces Ōtsutsuki Chuan Yu’s body as a possible solution. The chapter ends before the outcome is revealed.

Character developments

• Yi is increasingly powerful: his training gains and level-7 Eight Gates greatly expand his chakra capacity. He remains confident and teasing, but acts protectively toward Hinata and carefully plans her growth.
• Hinata is shy around Yi but becomes fascinated by flying and eager to awaken her own Tenseigan. Her vulnerability during the transfer highlights the risks of Yi’s plan.
• Hanabi shifts from triumphant confidence to frustration and embarrassment when her Gentle Fist fails and Yi suggests he noticed her peeking.
• Toneri is revealed as the frightened, isolated last member of the lunar Ōtsutsuki Clan, guarding a powerful inheritance he cannot safely control.

Significant themes

• Power gained through training and transformation: Yi’s clone training and the Tenseigan transfer both show power being accumulated through sustained effort or risky evolution.
• Protection and responsibility: Yi’s ambition to strengthen Hinata is driven by the approaching Fourth Shinobi World War, but his plan carries serious danger.
• Knowledge as leverage: Yi’s familiarity with the Ōtsutsuki Clan’s secrets unsettles Toneri and helps establish Yi’s control of the confrontation.
• Intimacy and embarrassment: Yi and Hinata’s closeness contrasts with Hinata’s persistent shyness and Hanabi’s flustered reaction to Yi’s teasing.

Character interactions

• Yi teases Hanabi after her failed attack, while she protests and privately worries about whether he saw her peeking.
• Hinata asks about their destination and the moon; Yi explains the lunar Ōtsutsuki and reassures her before beginning the Tenseigan process.
• Toneri challenges Yi’s identity, but Yi’s deductions expose the clan’s predicament. Yi defeats him while keeping Hinata safe.
• When the system warns that Hinata may not survive the energy transfer, Yi immediately searches for a way to protect her by bringing out Chuan Yu’s body.

Key plot points and events

• Uchiha Yi orders the system to extract Ōtsutsuki Chuan Yu’s bloodline and energy and transfer them to Hinata. Chuan Yu is drained and left as a husk.
• Hinata’s Byakugan is already close to becoming a Tenseigan, so she needs only a small amount of the transferred energy. The system initially fails to recognize this, then absorbs the excess itself.
• Hinata awakens a powerful, bloodline-based Tenseigan and enters Tenseigan Chakra Mode. After a brief adjustment period, she can use its abilities, including the Silver and Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosions and Hamura’s Heavenly Imperial Guard.
• Yi absorbs the remaining Giant Tenseigan energy, gains three million proficiency points, and advances his Ultimate Sharingan to level seven. Fusing the Tenseigan evolves his Rinnegan into the Tensei Rinnegan, enhancing his ocular techniques—but also triggering a “pulsation” phase that temporarily prevents him from opening his eyes or using eye techniques.
• Despite the temporary limitation, Yi remains confident in his other abilities. He and Hinata return to Konoha, where the Hyuga elders react with awe to Hinata’s Tenseigan and then probe Yi about his closed eyes.

Character developments and interactions

• Hinata gains immense power and confidence in her new Tenseigan, though she initially panics when she cannot open her eyes. She trusts Yi’s reassurance and adjusts successfully.
• Uchiha Yi demonstrates his protectiveness and technical knowledge by guiding Hinata through her awakening. His own power grows substantially, though his evolution leaves him temporarily unable to use ocular techniques.
• The system proves fallible and defensive: it misjudges Hinata’s energy needs, then shifts blame when Yi complains that it failed to warn him about his pulsation phase.
• The Hyuga elders are impressed—and physically cowed—by Hinata’s authentic Tenseigan. They then seize on Yi’s condition as a possible concern for Hinata and her marriage. Hiashi tries to shield the couple, but the elders dismiss his authority.

Significant themes

• Bloodline and inherited power: Hinata’s near-pure bloodline lets her awaken the Tenseigan with little energy, while its lineage-based power produces a stronger sense of legitimacy than the Giant Tenseigan.
• Power brings risks and adjustment: Both Hinata and Yi must cope with disruptive transition periods after major evolutions.
• Trust and control: Hinata relies on Yi, while Yi’s dependence on the system is complicated by its mistakes and evasions.
• Clan politics and manipulation: The elders frame their curiosity and interference as concern for Hinata, even as they undermine Hiashi and use the marriage as leverage.

Summary

Key plot points and events

• Uchiha Yi overwhelms the three Hyuga elders with a brief display of immense chakra, leaving them injured and unable to challenge him. He tells them to retire and let Hinata’s father, Hiashi, lead the clan. The First Elder reluctantly agrees.
• Yi leaves with Hinata. She says she supports him regardless of how he treats the elders, and the two grow closer. Hinata later moves into Yi’s home.
• Yi plans to remodel the moon into a secure territory of his own, partly because he worries about Kazahana Koyuki and the coming Fourth Shinobi World War. Using powerful shadow clones with Earth and Wood Release, he transforms the moon’s interior into vast cities and protected living space.
• The moon’s lack of sunlight becomes a problem. The system suggests using tailed-beast chakra to create a sun, so Yi decides to begin a “Sun Creation Project” by collecting more tailed-beast chakra.
• Learning that Akatsuki has abducted Gaara, Yi does not pursue Naruto’s team, since he already has Shukaku’s and the Nine-Tails’ chakra. Instead, he heads for Kumogakure, anticipating Akatsuki’s attack on the Two-Tails’ jinchūriki, Yugito Nii.
• The chapter ends as Hidan and Kakuzu corner Yugito in an underground passage. Hidan pauses to perform a ritual before the fight begins.

Character developments and interactions

• Yi demonstrates overwhelming strength and confidence, while revealing strong devotion to Hinata. He also shifts from personal ambitions to constructing a protected home and preparing for the wider conflict.
• Hinata remains gentle and loyal, openly standing by Yi despite his intimidation of her clan’s elders. Their relationship becomes more intimate and settled.
• The Hyuga elders are forced to accept Hiashi’s leadership. The First Elder recognizes both Yi’s power and his genuine affection for Hinata.
• Yugito is alert to Akatsuki’s threat and has been sent to investigate despite the Raikage’s skepticism. She confronts Hidan and Kakuzu alone.

Significant themes

• Power and authority: Yi’s strength makes resistance impossible, reshaping the Hyuga clan’s leadership.
• Loyalty and affection: Hinata’s unwavering support contrasts with Yi’s intimidating behavior toward others.
• Preparation and protection: Yi’s moon project reflects his desire to create a secure territory ahead of the coming war.
• Escalating conflict: Akatsuki’s pursuit of jinchūriki brings the larger war’s danger into focus.

Chapter Summary

Plot points and events

• Uchiha Yi appears during a confrontation between Yugito Nii and Akatsuki members Hidan and Kakuzu. He says he is there to “borrow something,” but his presence unnerves Yugito and the Two-Tails, Matatabi, who warns that he is overwhelmingly dangerous.
• Hidan provokes Yi and attacks him. Yi pierces Hidan with Chidori Sharp Spear, but Hidan survives thanks to his immortality. Yi follows up with powerful lightning techniques, forcing Kakuzu to defend them.
• Recognizing Yi’s extraordinary strength—and recalling a similar Lightning Release user he encountered in the Land of Snow—Kakuzu tries to flee with Hidan. Yi catches them with Lightning Dragon, destroying two of Kakuzu’s hearts and badly damaging Hidan.
• After Kakuzu repairs Hidan, both Akatsuki members resume fighting. Yi kills Kakuzu by destroying his remaining hearts. He then cuts Hidan into pieces and burns them to ash, challenging Hidan’s claim that Lord Jashin makes him impossible to kill.
• Yugito escapes while Yi is occupied. Yi catches up with her in the forest and identifies her as Kumogakure’s Two-Tails jinchūriki. When he says he wants one thing from her, she refuses before he has even specified what it is.

Character developments

• Uchiha Yi is confident and casual despite his reduced strength and closed eyes. He quickly shifts from annoyance to lethal seriousness, displaying overwhelming skill and a willingness to test Hidan’s immortality.
• Yugito begins boastful and eager to fight, but Matatabi’s fear and Yi’s power make her recognize the danger. She retreats and responds cautiously when he catches up.
• Matatabi shows unusual alarm, sensing that Yi is far beyond an ordinary opponent and urging Yugito not to provoke him.
• Hidan remains reckless and fanatically devoted to Jashin, treating severe injuries as little more than pain. His confidence is challenged when Yi apparently destroys him.
• Kakuzu initially dismisses Yi, then recognizes him as a serious threat, abandons the mission, and is killed after his escape fails.

Significant themes

• Power and fear: Yi’s presence overturns the confidence of both Yugito and the Akatsuki, establishing him as a threat even formidable fighters cannot easily face.
• Immortality versus destruction: Hidan’s faith in his invulnerability is tested through increasingly extreme attacks, leaving the chapter’s outcome deliberately provocative.
• Pride and reality: Kakuzu’s claim to have survived Hashirama’s attention is mocked, exposing the gap between his self-image and the truth.
• Uncertainty and pursuit: Yi’s vague claim that he wants “one thing” from Yugito ends the chapter on a threat and leaves his actual goal unresolved.

Character interactions

• Matatabi tries to restrain Yugito and warns her about Yi’s danger.
• Hidan’s insults provoke Yi into attacking, while Kakuzu alternates between defending Hidan, repairing him, and trying to escape.
• Yi mocks Kakuzu’s pride before killing him, then dismisses Hidan’s devotion to Jashin by attempting to destroy him outright.
• Yugito keeps her distance from Yi after escaping, but he catches her and confronts her directly; she refuses his demand without knowing what he wants.

Plot and key events

• Uchiha Yi confronts Yugito, who assumes he wants to capture Matatabi. She transforms first into a two-tailed chakra cloak, then fully into the Two-Tails, with Matatabi cooperating.
• Yi overwhelms Matatabi despite her fire and blue-flame attacks. He uses Wood Release to restrain her, catches her Tailed Beast Bomb with one hand, and extracts some of her chakra.
• Killer B arrives and attacks after Yugito warns him that Yi is with the Akatsuki. Yi easily stops his Lariat and then battles the Eight-Tails after B releases its chakra.
• Yi uses Wood Release techniques, culminating in Sage Art: True Several Thousand Hands, to beat the Eight-Tails’ form apart. B is knocked unconscious, and Yi extracts some of the Eight-Tails’ chakra before escaping.
• The Fourth Raikage arrives, prioritizes getting the badly injured B to safety, and later hears Yugito’s account. He doubts her certainty that Yi belongs to the Akatsuki and wonders whether Yi’s Wood Release suggests a connection to Konoha.

Character developments and interactions

• Yugito and Matatabi demonstrate their unusually close partnership and willingness to fight together, but their confidence gives way to shock and helplessness against Yi.
• Killer B begins playfully, then becomes serious when he thinks Yi is an Akatsuki member. Despite his strength and full use of the Eight-Tails, he is decisively defeated.
• Uchiha Yi remains casual throughout the fight. He says he wants only chakra, but his opponents interpret this as an attempt to capture their Tailed Beasts. His overwhelming abilities—especially Wood Release and Sage techniques—make him a formidable and mysterious threat.
• The Fourth Raikage shifts from concern for the battlefield to urgency over B’s injuries, then to suspicion about Yi’s identity.

Significant themes

• Misunderstanding escalates conflict: Yi’s claim that he wants chakra is mistaken for an attempt to take the Tailed Beasts, prompting Yugito and B to fight.
• Power and vulnerability: Even complete Tailed Beast transformations and powerful attacks prove ineffective against Yi.
• Uncertainty and suspicion: Yi’s identity and affiliation remain unclear, while his use of Wood Release raises the possibility that he is connected to Konoha.