Recaps

Uchiha Yao defended his forceful Police Force reforms to Uchiha Fugaku and secured authority over key clan decisions and secret records. He left determined to restore the Uchiha’s standing and claim the Hokage position for the clan.

• Uchiha Fugaku urged Uchiha Yao to curb his crackdown and take a gentler approach toward the villagers to protect the clan’s stability.
• Uchiha Yao presented training results showing stronger Police Force members, more Sharingan awakenings, and overwhelming loyalty to his orders.
• Uchiha Fugaku conceded defeat and granted Uchiha Yao a role in Police Force deployments, clan funds, and external strategy, then handed him the clan’s secret scrolls.
• Uchiha Yao received a system reward that greatly enhanced his Mangekyō ocular power and advanced his Susanoo development.
• Uchiha Yao acknowledged Fugaku’s past compromises but declared that the Uchiha would stop bowing to others and seek the Hokage position.

Uchiha Yao advanced his Susanoo and secured the elders’ support to remove Uchiha Fugaku as clan head. The Uchiha elders and key members agreed to back Yao at the clan assembly in three days, setting up a contest for leadership.

• Uchiha Yao reached the third stage of Susanoo development and resolved to make the Uchiha Clan follow his leadership.
• Uchiha Yashiro immediately supported Yao’s plan to remove Uchiha Fugaku, while Uchiha En hesitated until Yao argued that compromise had failed and the clan needed unity.
• Uchiha En agreed to support Yao’s resolution at the elders’ meeting, and Yao said Fugaku would step down willingly or be forced to do so.
• Uchiha Yao summoned the Hawk and Dove Faction elders and key members to Naka Shrine without notifying Fugaku, then presented evidence of gains in the Police Force, clan businesses, and the younger generation’s Sharingan awakenings.
• Uchiha Yashiro and Uchiha En backed Yao’s succession first, and the remaining elders and elites also agreed to support removing Fugaku at the clan assembly in three days.

Uchiha Yao confronted Uchiha Fugaku and demanded that he surrender the clan leadership, defeating him in their genjutsu clash. Yao left with an ultimatum for the clan assembly in three days, while Fugaku regained his composure and clung to his pride.

• Uchiha Yao told Uchiha Fugaku that his era as clan head had ended and demanded that he step down.
• Uchiha Fugaku refused, invoked his Mangekyō Sharingan, and trapped Uchiha Yao in an ocular jutsu world.
• Uchiha Yao awakened his Mangekyō Sharingan and turned the illusion against Fugaku, showing him a vision of his wife and clansmen dead.
• Uchiha Yao shattered Fugaku's genjutsu, leaving Fugaku injured and bleeding in the study.
• Uchiha Yao ordered Fugaku to relinquish the clan head position at the assembly in three days or face public humiliation.
• Uchiha Fugaku wiped away the blood and tea stains and insisted that he did not need Yao to grant him dignity.

Uchiha Fugaku accepted that his leadership was ending and prepared to face Uchiha Yao at the clan assembly, while Yao made plans to take control of the clan. At dawn, the two men arrived at Naka Shrine as the Uchiha gathered to decide the clan’s future.

• Uchiha Fugaku reflected in the ancestral hall on his leadership and resolved to face the clan assembly rather than step down quietly.
• Uchiha Yao ordered Kenji and Shunichi to secure the assembly and warned them to eliminate any outside threats without provoking internal strife.
• Uchiha Itachi worried that Yao’s rise would destroy the possibility of peace between the Uchiha and the village, while Uchiha Mikoto reminded him that Fugaku wanted to protect their family.
• On the final night before the assembly, Uchiha Fugaku told Uchiha Mikoto he intended to bring his leadership to a fitting close.
• At dawn, Uchiha Yao and Uchiha Fugaku arrived separately at Naka Shrine as the clan gathered for the assembly.

Uchiha Yao challenged Fugaku’s leadership, arguing that compromise had failed to protect the clan and invoking Shisui’s death. After both men revealed their Mangekyō Sharingan, Fugaku accepted Yao’s challenge to settle the clan’s future through a duel.

• Uchiha Yao presented gains in clan security, industry, and Sharingan awakenings as evidence that the Uchiha needed a new leader.
• Uchiha Yashiro, Uchiha En, and other clan members supported Yao’s proposal to replace Fugaku.
• Uchiha Fugaku revealed his Mangekyō Sharingan and said he had restrained himself to protect the clan.
• Uchiha Yao rebuked Fugaku over his failure to protect Uchiha Shisui and revealed his own Mangekyō Sharingan.
• Uchiha Fugaku declared that the clan’s future should be decided by strength and challenged Uchiha Yao to a duel.

Uchiha Yao and Uchiha Fugaku agreed to a public duel at the Naka River to decide the Uchiha Clan’s sole leader and will. As Konoha’s clans reacted to the news of two Mangekyō Sharingan wielders, Yao awaited the battle that would reshape the clan.

• Uchiha Fugaku challenged Uchiha Yao to a public duel one day later, with the winner becoming clan leader.
• Uchiha Yao accepted on the condition that the loser withdraw from power and support the winner without defiance, and Uchiha Fugaku agreed.
• An ANBU reported the duel and both Mangekyō Sharingan to Hiruzen Sarutobi, who worried that intervening or standing aside would endanger Konoha.
• Danzo learned of the duel and resolved to kill Uchiha Yao, considering using Shisui’s ocular technique if necessary.
• Hyuga Hiashi ordered his clan to strengthen its guard and avoid conflicts with the Uchiha, while the Ino-Shika-Cho clan heads held an emergency meeting.
• Uchiha Yao stood atop Police Force headquarters with Kenji and Shunichi as he prepared to show Konoha the Uchiha Clan’s new strength.

Uchiha Yao and Uchiha Fugaku faced off in a public duel to decide who would lead the clan. As Konoha’s other clans and the Hokage’s forces watched, Fugaku awakened his Mangekyō Sharingan, leaving the outcome unresolved.

• Uchiha Yao and Uchiha Fugaku took their positions before the assembled Uchiha clansmen.
• ANBU monitored the duel on Hiruzen Sarutobi’s orders, while Root watched for Yao’s Mangekyō weakness and prepared to seize Fugaku if he lost.
• Hyuga Hiashi and the Ino-Shika-Cho clan heads discussed the threat posed by the duel’s outcome, while Shikaku Nara urged them to stay neutral.
• Uchiha Itachi held Sasuke’s hand as Sasuke asked why Fugaku and Yao were fighting, but Itachi could not answer.
• Uchiha En declared that the victor would become clan head and the defeated must swear lifelong obedience to the winner’s decisions.
• Uchiha Fugaku awakened his Mangekyō Sharingan, unleashing its oppressive ocular power over the training ground.

Uchiha Yao overwhelmed Uchiha Fugaku in their training-ground duel, overpowering his Fire Release and shattering his Mangekyo genjutsu with Time Reversal. The chapter ended with Fugaku’s Mirror Flower illusion collapsing under Yao’s power.

• Uchiha Fugaku unleashed Great Fire Annihilation, but Uchiha Yao’s darker flames tore through it and scorched the training ground.
• Uchiha Yao attacked with Dragon Flame Song of the Dragon, forcing Fugaku to dodge several explosive flame strikes.
• Uchiha Fugaku used his Mangekyo dojutsu, Mirror Flower, to trap Yao in an illusion filled with copies of himself and attacks from every direction.
• Uchiha Yao used Time Reversal to undo the attacks and strip Fugaku of control over the illusion.
• Uchiha Yao declared the duel over, and Fugaku’s Mirror Flower genjutsu cracked apart and shattered.

Uchiha Yao defeated Uchiha Fugaku’s Susanoo with a Mangekyō-amplified Lightning Fire Dragon Breath, then reversed the attack before it killed him. Fugaku acknowledged Yao’s strength and declared him the Uchiha clan’s rightful clan head.

• Fugaku’s Mangekyō genjutsu shattered against Yao, leaving Fugaku badly injured.
• Fugaku summoned his third-stage Susanoo and repeatedly attacked Yao, who evaded every strike with Lightning Release Chakra Mode.
• Yao unleashed a Mangekyō-amplified Lightning Fire Dragon Breath that shattered Fugaku’s Susanoo and left him helpless.
• Yao used his left eye’s Time Reversal to stop the dragon just before it struck Fugaku and restore it to harmless Chakra.
• Fugaku accepted Yao’s strength and named him the Uchiha clan’s one and only rightful clan head.

While Uchiha Yao and Uchiha Fugaku fought, Uchiha Kenji led the guard unit in purging Root agents and driving the Hokage’s ANBU and other outsiders from the Uchiha Clan Compound. After Yao’s lightning-and-fire dragon shattered Fugaku’s Susanoo, Kenji ordered the compound sealed until the new clan head gave further instructions.

• Uchiha Kenji and the guard unit began hunting Root agents and other intruders when Fugaku’s Fire Release signaled the duel’s start.
• The Uchiha killed hidden Root agents, broke the arms and legs of the Hokage’s ANBU, and threw them out of the compound.
• Uchiha Kenji warned the Third Hokage that the Uchiha’s affairs were private, while the Uchiha forced a Hyuga observer to leave.
• Uchiha Kenji saw Fugaku raise Susanoo and then watched Yao’s lightning-and-fire dragon shatter it.
• Uchiha Kenji ordered the Police Force to maintain the blockade and admit no one without the new clan head’s orders.

After defeating Fugaku, Uchiha Yao became the new Uchiha Clan Head and used his first speech to declare the clan’s defiance of Konoha’s surveillance. He left the clansmen cheering for his hardline orders, while Itachi feared the clan was heading toward a break with the village.

• Fugaku admitted defeat, surrendered the Clan Head’s sword and seal to Yao, and urged him to lead the Uchiha toward a brighter future.
• The clansmen acclaimed Yao as their new Clan Head, and elders Uchiha Yashiro and Uchiha En bowed to him.
• Yao announced that his guards had executed Root ninja caught inside the compound and that the Elder Guard had injured and expelled the Hokage’s ANBU.
• Yao declared the compound sacred territory and authorized the Uchiha to arrest or execute outsiders spying on the clan, while ordering the Police Force to protect Uchiha members from ANBU and Root surveillance.
• Yao demanded that the Third Hokage or Shimura Danzō personally explain any arrests, as Itachi feared the clan was moving toward armed conflict and Sasuke admired Yao.
• Yao raised the Clan Head’s sword and declared that the Uchiha would no longer swallow their anger or bow their heads.

After the Uchiha Clan expelled the Hokage’s ANBU, Hiruzen Sarutobi placed Konoha on high alert but avoided provoking the clan. He secretly urged Itachi to monitor Uchiha Yao, until Uchiha Kenji arrived with an order summoning Itachi to the clan meeting.

• Utatane Koharu and Danzo urged Hiruzen Sarutobi to arrest Uchiha Yao, but Hiruzen ordered a village-wide alert and forbade unauthorized approach to the Uchiha Clan Compound.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi ordered ANBU to raise the Uchiha Clan’s threat level and investigate Uchiha Yao’s life and abilities.
• Hiruzen met Itachi alone and asked him to watch Yao and the clan, framing the request as a way to protect the Uchiha and Sasuke.
• Itachi said Yao’s strength might open a new path for the Uchiha, but Hiruzen warned him that the path could lead to war.
• Uchiha Kenji appeared and told Itachi that the clan head had ordered all jonin to assemble at Naka Shrine within ten minutes, with no absences allowed.

Uchiha Yao consolidated his control of the Uchiha clan, reshuffled Police Force leadership, and forced Itachi to choose between leaving ANBU or being cast out. Itachi agreed to resign, while Yao secretly suspected him of deception and prepared to deal with him and Danzo later.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi let Itachi leave for the Uchiha clan summons, then grew wary of Uchiha Yao's influence.
• Uchiha Yao promoted Touka to elder, appointed Tekka Deputy Captain of the Police Force, and made Rin, Zhe, and Kai company captains.
• Itachi arrived late at Naka Shrine, and Uchiha Yao confronted him about meeting with the Hokage.
• Uchiha Fugaku ordered Itachi to leave ANBU, and Uchiha Yao gave him the choice of serving the clan or being stripped of his Uchiha status.
• Itachi agreed to resign from ANBU the next morning, while Uchiha Yao privately suspected he was pretending to comply.
• After the meeting ended, Uchiha Yao asked the system to settle the rewards for becoming Clan Head.

After Uchiha Yao unified the Uchiha Clan and became its head, the system rewarded him with the Eternal Mangekyo, an initial Sage Body fusion, and the Perfect Susanoo. He assessed his new abilities and learned that his strength was approaching Super Kage level.

• The system recognized Uchiha Yao as clan head and rewarded him for unifying the Uchiha Clan.
• Uchiha Yao's Mangekyō Sharingan evolved into the Eternal Mangekyo, removing the risk of blindness and enhancing Time Reversal.
• Uchiha Yao received an initial Sage Body fusion that greatly increased his vitality and Chakra reserves.
• Uchiha Yao unlocked the fourth form of Susanoo, the Perfect Susanoo.
• Uchiha Yao checked his status panel, which rated him Quasi-Super Kage level and recorded his control of the Uchiha Clan.

Danzō persuaded Hiruzen Sarutobi and the other Konoha leaders to force Uchiha Itachi to annihilate his clan, using Sasuke as leverage. They agreed to spare Sasuke, unaware that Uchiha Yao had deliberately let a Root survivor return to provoke them and create an opening to destroy Root and eliminate Danzō.

• Danzō presented intelligence about Uchiha Yao’s strength and argued that the Uchiha Clan had become an open threat to Konoha.
• Danzō proposed that Uchiha Itachi be made to carry out the clan’s annihilation to avert a coup and civil war.
• Danzō threatened Sasuke’s life to ensure Itachi would comply, and Hiruzen Sarutobi tacitly approved the plan.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi insisted that Sasuke be spared so Konoha could use him as proof that it had targeted rebels and as a future political asset.
• Utatane Koharu, Mitokado Homura, Hiruzen Sarutobi, and Danzō reached agreement, unaware that Uchiha Yao had released a Root survivor to lure Danzō into acting.

Danzo and Hiruzen convinced Itachi that Uchiha Yao was plotting a coup and ordered him to help purge the Uchiha Clan. Itachi accepted to protect Sasuke, while Root prepared to seal off the clan compound and kill the remaining clansmen.

• Itachi met Hiruzen and Danzo in the Hokage's Office, where Danzo presented fabricated evidence accusing Uchiha Yao of plotting a coup.
• Hiruzen and Danzo told Itachi that purging the Uchiha was necessary to prevent civil war and promised to protect Sasuke.
• Itachi accepted the mission, saying he could not defeat Yao and Fugaku alone and asking for powerful allies.
• Danzo said Root would seal off the Uchiha Clan Compound, help kill the ordinary clansmen, and leave Itachi and his allies to target Yao and Fugaku.
• Itachi left the office believing he had become the Uchiha's sinner, destined to walk in darkness.

Uchiha Itachi met the masked man who called himself Uchiha Madara and agreed to join him in the Uchiha clan massacre to protect Sasuke. The massacre was set for three nights later, with the masked man promising to help stop Uchiha Yao.

• Itachi watched the Uchiha Clan Compound before the masked man appeared and revealed he knew about Itachi's mission.
• The masked man called himself Uchiha Madara, offered to help Itachi defeat Uchiha Yao, and described his Moon Eye Plan.
• Itachi attacked the masked man with Amaterasu, but the flames passed through him because of Kamui.
• The masked man asked Itachi to join Akatsuki and gather intelligence on the tailed beasts, promising to protect Sasuke and keep Itachi's secret.
• Itachi agreed to the plan for the clan massacre in three nights, and Obito watched him leave, satisfied that Itachi had become his pawn.

Danzo recruited Orochimaru and Kakuzu to help Itachi destroy the Uchiha Clan, offering them powerful rewards. As the planned massacre approached, Itachi shared a sorrowful, unusually tender moment with Sasuke before leaving him behind.

• Danzo ordered Root to deliver Orochimaru a scroll promising Uchiha Fugaku's Mangekyō Sharingan and to hire Kakuzu to wipe out the Uchiha Clan.
• Danzo instructed Yamanaka Fu and Aburame Torune to gather Root's elite, intervene if Itachi and his allies gained the advantage, and retreat if Uchiha Yao proved too powerful.
• Orochimaru accepted Danzo's offer and promised to arrive in three days to claim the Mangekyō Sharingan.
• Kakuzu accepted the gold and promised payment for joining the attack on the Uchiha Clan.
• Itachi asked Sasuke whether he hated him, gently touched his forehead, apologized, and left after saying, “Maybe next time.”

Uchiha Yao learned that a clan-annihilation threat would arrive in three days and ordered his forces to protect the Uchiha civilians while he faced the attackers alone. After demonstrating his overwhelming strength, he set out to speak with former clan head Uchiha Fugaku.

• The system warned Uchiha Yao that Uchiha Itachi, Orochimaru, Kakuzu, and possibly Uchiha Obito threatened the Uchiha Clan.
• Uchiha Yao summoned the Twelve Guards and Uchiha Tekka and told them a war to annihilate the clan would begin in three days.
• Uchiha Yao ordered the thirteen men to escort the elderly, women, and children to the underground shelter and keep them there until the battle ended.
• Uchiha Kenji offered to fight beside Uchiha Yao, but Yao released a terrifying pressure that forced all thirteen elite jonin to their knees.
• Uchiha Yao sent his subordinates to protect the clan and went to discuss the coming battle with Uchiha Fugaku.

Uchiha Yao warned Uchiha Fugaku that the Uchiha Clan would be annihilated in three days, with Fugaku’s son Itachi among the planned executors. Fugaku agreed to stop Itachi if he betrayed the clan, while Yao insisted he would face the other attackers alone; afterward, Fugaku saw Itachi and could not bring himself to question him.

• Uchiha Yao told Uchiha Fugaku that Danzo and the Third Hokage planned to annihilate the Uchiha Clan in three days, using Itachi as the executor.
• Uchiha Fugaku struggled to accept that Itachi could betray the clan, then agreed to personally stop him if he did.
• Uchiha Yao named Orochimaru, Kakuzu, and the masked Uchiha behind the Nine-Tails' attack as additional attackers, but said he would confront them without help.
• Uchiha Yao told Uchiha Fugaku that his Susanoo was complete, leaving Fugaku stunned by the claim.
• Uchiha Fugaku met Itachi at the residence entrance but hid his suspicions and let him enter without asking whether he planned to betray the clan.

As the Uchiha Clan's destruction approached, Hiruzen arranged for Sasuke's safety while Danzo assembled Itachi, Orochimaru, Kakuzu, and rogue ninja to attack the clan. At sunset, Yao assured Fugaku he could face the attackers and told him to confront Itachi, and Fugaku accepted his role as night fell.

• Hiruzen told Itachi that Sasuke would be protected at the Ninja Academy during a special exchange event.
• Danzo brought Itachi to Root's base, where Orochimaru, Kakuzu, and more than twenty rogue ninja gathered for the assault on the Uchiha Clan.
• Danzo ordered the assembled forces to kill all Uchiha who were not designated targets and promised them double rewards.
• Kakuzu asked who would take Uchiha Yao and Uchiha Fugaku, and Danzo said they would be handled together.
• Yao told Fugaku he could handle the attackers and urged him to face Itachi, and Fugaku resolved to do so as night fell.

Uchiha Yao and Uchiha Fugaku confronted more than twenty rogue ninja who had infiltrated the Uchiha Clan Compound. Yao killed their leader and unleashed a devastating fire technique, while Orochimaru and Kakuzu watched from a nearby rooftop and coveted his abilities and body.

• More than twenty rogue ninja searched the Uchiha Clan Compound and found its residences empty, realizing the clan had prepared for them.
• Uchiha Yao and Uchiha Fugaku appeared at the Military Police Force headquarters and faced the intruders.
• Demon Swordman Kenpachi attacked Yao, who killed him instantly with Lightning Release: Chidori without activating his Sharingan.
• The rogue ninja rushed Yao and Fugaku with several ninjutsu, but Yao's Fire Release: Great Fire Annihilation overwhelmed their attacks and consumed the front line.
• Orochimaru praised Yao's Chakra and Fire Release and declared that he wanted his body, while Kakuzu considered demanding more bounty money from Danzo and coveted Yao's heart.

Uchiha Yao and Uchiha Fugaku wiped out the rogue ninja, then confronted Uchiha Itachi, who arrived with Orochimaru and Kakuzu. After Itachi admitted he intended to eliminate the Uchiha for the village’s peace, Yao expelled him from the clan.

• Uchiha Yao slaughtered the attacking rogue ninja while Uchiha Obito watched from the Military Police Force headquarters.
• Yao sensed Obito’s threat to the clan’s shelter and killed the remaining rogue ninja with Chidori Stream.
• Uchiha Fugaku awakened his Mangekyō Sharingan and used Susanoo to kill the rogue ninja attacking him.
• Uchiha Itachi arrived with Orochimaru and Kakuzu, removed his mask, and told Fugaku that the Uchiha had to be eliminated for the village’s peace.
• Uchiha Yao declared Itachi a traitor and permanently expelled him from the Uchiha Clan.

Uchiha Yao drew Orochimaru and Kakuzu away from Fugaku and Itachi, while Obito followed him. As the Uchiha clan sheltered underground, Fugaku and Itachi began a fierce Susanoo battle, and Danzo learned that his plan had drawn the rogue ninja into contact with Yao.

• Uchiha Yao challenged Orochimaru and Kakuzu, then led them toward the clan compound's training ground.
• Obito followed Yao with Kamui, while Fugaku turned to face Itachi and activated Susanoo.
• Danzo learned that Yao had eliminated most of the rogue ninja bait and that Fugaku had finished the rest with Susanoo.
• Uchiha Yashiro and Uchiha En urged the gathered clansmen to stay in the underground shelter and trust Yao and Fugaku.
• Itachi struck Fugaku's Susanoo with the Totsuka Blade, beginning their fierce battle.

Itachi fought Fugaku in the Uchiha compound, while Uchiha Yao faced Orochimaru and Kakuzu at the clan training grounds. Yao overwhelmed Kakuzu’s opening attacks and prepared to continue the fight as Kakuzu vowed to kill him.

• Itachi told Fugaku that the Uchiha had to be sacrificed for Konoha, while Fugaku accused him of protecting Danzo and the Third Hokage and tried to subdue him.
• At the training grounds, Orochimaru and Kakuzu confronted Uchiha Yao, and Kakuzu launched a combined wind-and-fire attack.
• Yao countered with Fire Release: Great Fire Annihilation, swallowed Kakuzu’s flames, and engulfed him in a crimson firewave.
• Yao struck Kakuzu from behind with a lightning-wrapped fist, shattering his stone armor and injuring him.
• Kakuzu admitted that he had underestimated Yao and vowed to claim his head, while Yao said the warm-up was over.