Recaps

Uchiha Yao destroyed one of Kakuzu’s hearts and repelled the combined attacks of Kakuzu and Orochimaru. When Orochimaru summoned Great Snake, Yao expanded his Susanoo to its third stage and towered over the summon.

• Uchiha Yao moved faster than Kakuzu could predict and destroyed Kakuzu’s lightning mask and one heart with a lightning strike.
• Orochimaru attacked Yao with Shadow Snake Hand, but Yao’s electricity destroyed the snakes.
• Kakuzu and Orochimaru attacked Yao together with elemental jutsu and a swamp, but Yao’s Lightning Clone dispersed the attacks while Susanoo protected him.
• Orochimaru summoned Great Snake and urged it to attack Yao.
• Uchiha Yao formed his third-stage Susanoo, making it slightly taller than Great Snake and frightening the summon.

Itachi and Fugaku fought with their Susanoo, and Itachi defeated his father with the Yata Mirror and Tsukuyomi. In Tsukuyomi Space, Itachi revealed his plan to make Sasuke hate him and grow strong enough to take his eyes, while Fugaku condemned the plan as a curse.

• Fugaku asked whether Itachi would kill Mikoto too, and Itachi answered by attacking him with the Totsuka Blade.
• Fugaku blocked Itachi's strike and counterattacked, but he hesitated to hit Itachi's vital point.
• Itachi used the Yata Mirror to absorb Fugaku's attacks, then severed his Susanoo's left arm with the Totsuka Blade.
• Itachi cast Tsukuyomi, causing Fugaku's Susanoo to dissipate and forcing Fugaku to his knee.
• In Tsukuyomi Space, Fugaku asked whether Itachi would kill Sasuke, and Itachi said Sasuke would live, hate him, grow stronger, and eventually take his eyes.
• Fugaku called Itachi's plan a curse and questioned whether it was truly what Sasuke needed, but Itachi insisted that hatred and power would keep Sasuke alive.

Uchiha Yao defeated Great Snake and pretended the battle had exhausted him to lure Uchiha Obito out of hiding. As Orochimaru and Kakuzu watched, a masked figure emerged behind Yao and stabbed at his back.

• Uchiha Yao used Susanoo to overpower Great Snake, shrugging off its venom and smashing it into the ground.
• Great Snake escaped to Ryūchi Cave just before Uchiha Yao could strike it with the Heavenly Cloud Sword.
• Uchiha Yao dismissed Susanoo and feigned exhaustion, provoking a strong reaction from Uchiha Obito.
• Uchiha Yao told Orochimaru and Kakuzu they were next, making them think he had run out of strength.
• A Swirl Mask figure emerged behind Uchiha Yao and thrust a black short blade toward his unguarded back.

Uchiha Yao revealed that his weakness had been an act and faced Obito, Orochimaru, and Kakuzu together. He nearly killed Kakuzu, but spared him and claimed Kakuzu’s life for his own, leaving Kakuzu to flee.

• Obito emerged from a space-time spiral and tried to stab Uchiha Yao, but Uchiha Yao dodged with lightning armor and revealed he had been prepared for the ambush.
• Obito, Orochimaru, and Kakuzu formed a temporary alliance and attacked Uchiha Yao together.
• Uchiha Yao evaded their attacks, disrupted Obito’s Kamui, and struck Kakuzu with Chidori and Lightning Fire Rasengan, destroying two of Kakuzu’s hearts.
• Uchiha Yao stopped before destroying Kakuzu’s final heart and declared that Kakuzu’s life belonged to him.
• Kakuzu agreed and fled into the darkness with only one heart remaining.

Uchiha Yao attacked Orochimaru while Uchiha Obito’s intangibility kept him from landing a hit on the masked man. Yao nearly killed Orochimaru with a powerful fire-and-lightning technique, but Orochimaru escaped, leaving Yao to face Obito.

• Uchiha Obito appeared beside Uchiha Yao and phased through Yao’s punch, boasting that Yao could not touch him.
• Uchiha Yao ignored Obito and charged Orochimaru with a combined fire-and-lightning technique.
• Orochimaru summoned Triple Rashomon, but Yao’s Lightning Fire Dragon Breath destroyed all three gates and engulfed him.
• Orochimaru survived by shedding his charred body and escaped as a small white snake after Yao’s Chidori burned most of the others.
• Uchiha Yao turned toward Uchiha Obito and decided to let the masked man show off before exposing his identity.

Uchiha Yao exposed the masked man as Uchiha Obito and condemned him for orchestrating the Nine-Tails’ attack and killing Minato and Kushina. After using his ocular technique to restore his wounds and Chakra, Yao prepared to confront Obito on behalf of Minato, Kushina, and Naruto.

• Uchiha Obito claimed to be Uchiha Madara, but Uchiha Yao called him an impostor and identified him as Uchiha Obito.
• Uchiha Yao accused Obito of controlling the Nine-Tails during Kushina’s childbirth and causing the deaths of Kushina and Namikaze Minato.
• Uchiha Obito admitted his identity and defended his plan to create peace through Infinite Tsukuyomi, where Rin would still be alive.
• Uchiha Yao used his ocular technique, Time Reversal, to heal his wounds and restore his Chakra to its peak.
• Uchiha Yao said he would teach Obito a lesson on behalf of Minato, Kushina, and Naruto.

Uchiha Yao used an amplified Lightning Release Chakra Mode to overwhelm Uchiha Obito and exploit the brief moment when Obito became solid. Obito’s mask shattered, and he realized Yao had defeated his intangibility in the same way Namikaze Minato once had.

• Obito declared that he would create a peaceful world with Rin and insisted Yao could not hurt him while he was intangible.
• Yao amplified his Lightning Release Chakra Mode and attacked Obito at extreme speed, forcing Obito to stay intangible.
• Yao stopped attacking and struck Obito as he became solid to use Kamui, shattering his mask and sending him crashing into the training ground.
• Obito recognized that Yao had exploited the same brief opening Minato had once used against him and spat out blood.

Uchiha Yao defeated Uchiha Obito and stopped him from escaping with Kamui by reversing time, but Black Zetsu intervened and rescued Obito. Obito recovered in hiding as Black Zetsu reattached his severed arm and urged him to accelerate the Moon Eye Plan.

• Uchiha Yao shattered Uchiha Obito's mask and used Time Reversal to undo Obito's attempt to activate Kamui.
• Uchiha Yao struck Obito with Chidori, severing his right arm, but Black Zetsu shielded him and pulled him underground.
• Black Zetsu brought Obito to safety, where Obito demanded to know how Uchiha Yao had countered Kamui and learned his name.
• Black Zetsu reattached Obito's arm with Hashirama Cells and ordered him to avoid Uchiha Yao until they found a counter to his ocular technique.
• Obito condemned the world for existing without Rin, and Black Zetsu told him to heal and accelerate Akatsuki's actions.

Uchiha Yao rescued Uchiha Fugaku and relentlessly beat Uchiha Itachi, even shattering his Susanoo with one punch. Itachi remained determined to turn the fight around by using Shisui’s Kotoamatsukami on Yao.

• Uchiha Yao appeared between Uchiha Fugaku and Itachi just as Itachi was about to kill Fugaku.
• Uchiha Yao knocked Itachi into the ruins and told Fugaku to stand up as a member of the Uchiha.
• Uchiha Yao relentlessly pummeled Itachi, who could neither dodge nor counterattack.
• Itachi summoned Susanoo, but Uchiha Yao amplified his power and shattered it with a single punch.
• Itachi resolved to use Shisui’s eye and Kotoamatsukami to control Uchiha Yao.

Uchiha Yao defeated Itachi’s Kotoamatsukami and captured Shisui’s eye, then brutally tortured Itachi. He refused Fugaku’s plea to kill Itachi quickly and planned to make the Uchiha clan, especially Sasuke, witness his public judgment.

• Itachi unleashed Kotoamatsukami on Uchiha Yao, but Yao’s Mental Barrier nullified the genjutsu.
• Yao sealed the crow containing Shisui’s eye into a scroll and seized Itachi by the throat.
• Yao broke Itachi’s limbs and tore off his right arm after condemning him for killing his father and betraying the clan.
• Itachi escaped with a substitution technique, but Yao caught him and ground his face into the rubble.
• Fugaku pleaded for Yao to give Itachi a quick death, but Yao vowed to publicly judge Itachi before the clan and make Sasuke watch.
• Yao dislocated Itachi’s jaw to stop him from killing himself and promised to make him suffer.

Uchiha Yao prepared to take Itachi’s Mangekyō Sharingan, but Obito attempted to rescue him with Kamui and was driven off. Yao then removed one of Itachi’s eyes and prepared to take the other.

• Uchiha Yao crippled Itachi and began reaching for his Mangekyō Sharingan.
• Black Zetsu urged the injured Obito to rescue Itachi, and Obito agreed to use Kamui from a distance.
• Uchiha Yao reversed Obito’s Kamui with Time Reversal, preventing him from taking Itachi.
• Uchiha Yao appeared beside Obito and struck him with a Lightning Fire Rasengan, forcing him to flee through Kamui.
• Uchiha Yao removed one of Itachi’s Mangekyō Sharingan and placed it in a bottle, then turned to the remaining eye.

After Uchiha Yao defeated the attackers and captured Uchiha Itachi, he ordered the Uchiha jonin to launch a full-scale attack on Root. The chapter ended as nearly a hundred Uchiha fighters departed for Root’s headquarters.

• Uchiha Yao gouged out Itachi’s Mangekyō Sharingan and sent a red signal flare after defeating the attackers.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi and Shimura Danzō learned that the raid had failed, Itachi had been captured, and Uchiha Yao was unharmed.
• Uchiha Yao ordered the Twelve Elder Guard to take Uchiha Fugaku for treatment and imprison Itachi pending the clan’s judgment.
• Uchiha Yao gathered the Uchiha jonin and declared an operation to eradicate Root, persuading a hesitant former Dove Faction jonin to support the clan’s resistance.
• Uchiha Yao ordered the jonin to attack Root’s headquarters before dawn, and nearly a hundred departed into the night.

Uchiha Yao led an assault on Root while Hiruzen Sarutobi sent Kakashi Hatake to investigate and negotiate. Uchiha Yao defeated Kakashi and revealed allegations about the Third Hokage and Danzo’s role in Hatake Sakumo’s death, leaving Kakashi unconscious and doubtful.

• Uchiha Yao ordered Uchiha jonin to seal off the area around Root and began purging its ninja.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi learned that more than a hundred jonin were fighting near Root and sent Kakashi Hatake with ANBU to investigate and negotiate.
• Uchiha jonin blocked Kakashi’s team, and a battle broke out as Kakashi and his ANBU fought them.
• Uchiha Yao stopped Kakashi from retreating, overpowered him, and claimed Danzo had orchestrated Hatake Sakumo’s public disgrace while Hiruzen Sarutobi knowingly stayed silent.
• Kakashi questioned what he had been told, and Uchiha Yao knocked him unconscious.

Shimura Danzō tried to frame the Uchiha Clan as rebels and set a forest fire to turn Konoha against them. Uchiha Yao answered by using Susanoo to destroy Root’s mountain base, leaving Danzō and his shinobi trapped beneath the collapsing ruins.

• Shimura Danzō learned that Uchiha Yao and the Uchiha Clan had seized Root’s first level, then ordered his forces to raise defenses and send a breakout squad to accuse the Uchiha before Hiruzen Sarutobi.
• Shimura Danzō ordered Yamanaka Fu’s disguised Root squads to set the forest ablaze and make it appear that the Uchiha were burning Konoha.
• Uchiha Yao withdrew the Uchiha from Root’s base and summoned his third-stage Susanoo, then cleaved through the mountain with the Heavenly Cloud Sword.
• The mountain collapsed onto Root’s underground base, crushing passages and shinobi as Shimura Danzō ordered the survivors to flee through emergency exits.
• Uchiha Yao watched the mountain fall while the Uchiha jonin stood behind him in shock.

Uchiha Yao cornered Shimura Danzō and killed him with Chidori, but Danzō revived himself using Izanagi. The chapter left Danzō alive again, with one Sharingan on his arm blinded and his hatred for Yao undiminished.

• Root survivors emerged from the collapsed mountain as Uchiha jonin surrounded them, and a sensory ninja warned Shimura Danzō that the Third Hokage and ANBU would arrive within five minutes.
• Danzō accused Uchiha Yao of rebellion, then tried to negotiate while secretly preparing a poisoned kunai attack.
• Uchiha Yao activated Lightning Release Chakra Mode and pierced Danzō’s chest with Chidori, apparently killing him.
• Danzō’s body healed as Izanagi revived him, costing him the use of one Sharingan on his right arm.

Uchiha Yao slaughtered Danzo’s Root forces and repeatedly killed Danzo as he tried to escape. Hiruzen Sarutobi’s group was stopped by Uchiha guards, while Danzo was left with eight lives and still unable to flee.

• Uchiha Yao killed Yamanaka Fu and Aburame Torune, then the Uchiha jonin wiped out the remaining Root shinobi.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi and his allies were blocked by Uchiha jonin, who refused to let them pass while the Uchiha settled their blood debt with Danzo.
• Danzo used Wind Release and the Body Flicker Technique to flee, but Uchiha Yao intercepted him and crushed his head, consuming one of his lives.
• Danzo revived with nine lives remaining, and Uchiha Yao mocked him as he approached.
• Danzo attacked with Wind Release: Vacuum Wave and tried to escape again, but Uchiha Yao killed him with lightning, leaving him with eight lives.

Uchiha Yao repeatedly killed Danzo, stripped him of Shisui’s Mangekyō Sharingan, and thwarted his final attempt to take his enemies with him. Yao crushed Danzo’s heart, exhausting his last resurrection and ending him for good.

• After Danzo resurrected from his fifth death, he used Shisui’s Kotoamatsukami on Uchiha Yao, but it had no effect.
• Yao trapped Danzo in a genjutsu, removed Shisui’s Mangekyō Sharingan, then killed Danzo again.
• Yao continued killing Danzo as his remaining Sharingan closed, leaving him with one final life.
• Danzo charged Yao and activated Reverse: Elephant Seal, but Yao reversed the technique onto him.
• Yao pierced and crushed Danzo’s heart, and Danzo’s final Sharingan closed, preventing any further resurrection.

Uchiha Yao beheaded Shimura Danzō in front of Hiruzen Sarutobi and the arriving Konoha leaders, then rejected accusations that the Uchiha had rebelled. He left Hiruzen enraged and challenged him to reconsider who had started the conflict.

• Uchiha Yao restrained Danzo and waited for Hiruzen Sarutobi to arrive so he could witness Danzo's death.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi arrived with ANBU, Konoha jonin, and clan heads, but Uchiha Yao ignored his order to stop and beheaded Danzo.
• Uchiha Yao claimed his hand had slipped, shocking the gathered Uchiha and Konoha ninja and enraging Hiruzen Sarutobi.
• An ANBU Squad Captain accused Uchiha Yao and the Uchiha of rebellion, and Uchiha Yao replied that Danzo had attacked them first.
• Uchiha Yao kicked Danzo's head aside and challenged Hiruzen Sarutobi to consider whether the Uchiha had truly started the trouble.

Uchiha Yao defended his killing of Danzo by exposing Danzo’s crimes and challenging Hiruzen Sarutobi to a duel or war. To avert civil war, Hiruzen accepted a duel with victory and defeat—but not death—as the stakes.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi demanded to know why Uchiha Yao had killed Danzo, and Uchiha Yao cited the Sharingan implanted in Danzo’s arm as proof of his crimes.
• Uchiha Yao accused Danzo of helping Orochimaru conduct human experiments, prompting the clan heads to remain silent rather than defend Danzo or openly oppose the Hokage.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi insisted that only Konoha’s authorities had the right to judge Danzo, but Uchiha Yao challenged him to choose between war and a duel.
• Uchiha Yao and the Uchiha jonin revealed their killing intent, bringing Konoha to the brink of civil war.
• Shikaku Nara advised Hiruzen Sarutobi that a duel was the only way to contain the conflict, and Hiruzen accepted Uchiha Yao’s challenge with the condition that it decide victory, not life or death.

Uchiha Yao effortlessly countered Hiruzen Sarutobi’s attacks, including his strongest five-element composite Ninjutsu, while his Susanoo remained unharmed. Hiruzen summoned Enma and ordered him to transform into the Adamantine Staff, preparing to continue the battle.

• Uchiha Yao shielded himself with Susanoo and emerged unscathed from Hiruzen Sarutobi’s Vacuum Sphere barrage.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi attacked with Fire Dragon Bullet and Earth Dragon Bullet, but Uchiha Yao destroyed them with Great Fire Annihilation and Chidori Spear.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi unleashed the Great Combination of Five Elemental Ninjutsu, and Uchiha Yao’s complete Susanoo withstood it without damage.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi summoned Enma and ordered him to transform into the Adamantine Staff.

Uchiha Yao defeated Hiruzen Sarutobi with his Susanoo and demanded that the Hokage talk with him. After Hiruzen conceded, Yao refused to surrender Danzo’s body, claiming it for the Uchiha Clan so Danzo could repent before the memorial tablets of his victims.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi attacked Uchiha Yao’s Susanoo with the Adamantine Staff, but it barely damaged the giant Chakra construct.
• Uchiha Yao summoned the Heavenly Cloud Sword and sliced apart Hiruzen Sarutobi’s Adamantine Prison Wall.
• Uchiha Yao struck Hiruzen Sarutobi with the flat of the sword, sending him crashing into the ruins and leaving Enma badly injured.
• Uchiha Yao dispelled his Susanoo and asked Hiruzen Sarutobi if they could talk, and Hiruzen admitted defeat.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi asked Uchiha Yao for Danzo’s body so he could bury his comrade, but Yao refused and said the Uchiha Clan would take Danzo to Naka Shrine to repent before his victims’ memorial tablets.

Uchiha Yao summoned a five-hundred-meter Perfect Susanoo, crushing Konoha’s morale and forcing Hiruzen Sarutobi to accept that the Uchiha held the power. Yao demanded the end of Uchiha surveillance and segregation and ordered the Police Force’s authority restored over the entire village, including the Hokage’s ANBU.

• Uchiha Yao amplified his Susanoo until it towered five hundred meters over the gathered Konoha shinobi.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi, Shikaku Nara, and Hyuga Hiashi were stunned by the display, while Konoha shinobi fell to their knees and the Uchiha hailed Yao.
• Shikaku Nara told Hiruzen Sarutobi that Konoha had no choice but to obey Yao’s orders.
• Uchiha Yao demanded an end to the Uchiha’s surveillance and segregation and the restoration of the Police Force’s full authority throughout the village, including over the ANBU.
• Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura condemned Yao’s demand and invoked Uchiha Madara and the First Hokage to defend the existing order.

Uchiha Yao killed Utatane Koharu and forced Hiruzen Sarutobi to accept his demands by threatening Konoha with his Susanoo. He then demanded Danzō’s vacant advisor elder position and approval over Konoha’s decisions, leaving Hiruzen struggling to respond.

• Uchiha Yao struck Hiruzen Sarutobi aside and crushed Utatane Koharu beneath his Susanoo’s hand.
• Mitokado Homura escaped the blow with the Body Flicker Technique, then fell to his knees and begged Uchiha Yao for mercy.
• Uchiha Yao dismissed Hiruzen’s protest over Koharu’s death and threatened to destroy him and Konoha with the Heavenly Cloud Sword.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi reluctantly agreed to Uchiha Yao’s first demand.
• Uchiha Yao claimed Shimura Danzō’s vacant advisor elder position and demanded approval over Konoha’s decisions, while Hiruzen trembled and struggled to answer.

Uchiha Yao forced Hiruzen Sarutobi and Konoha’s shinobi to abandon Root, then addressed the Uchiha Clan about the attack and its mastermind, Shimura Danzō. He revealed that a traitor inside the clan had helped the plot succeed, leaving Uchiha Fugaku visibly shaken.

• Uchiha Yao dismissed his Susanoo and ordered Hiruzen Sarutobi to leave Root and surrender its assets to the Uchiha Clan.
• Hyuga Hiashi considered the Hyuga Clan’s future and recognized that it had to choose whether to submit to Uchiha Yao.
• Shikaku Nara, Choza Akimichi, and Inoichi Yamanaka agreed to wait for Uchiha Yao’s next move before deciding what would benefit their clans.
• Uchiha Yao summoned the Uchiha Clan at Naka Shrine and announced that they had crushed the force sent to destroy them.
• Uchiha Yao declared that he had slain Shimura Danzō, prompting cheers from the assembled Uchiha.
• Uchiha Yao revealed that a traitor within the Uchiha Clan had aided the conspiracy, and Uchiha Fugaku turned pale.

Uchiha Yao exposed Uchiha Itachi as a traitor and presented him bound and mutilated before the clan, accusing him of joining an invasion and attacking his father. Uchiha Fugaku confirmed the charges, leaving Sasuke and the Uchiha clan in shock.

• Uchiha Yao named Uchiha Itachi as the traitor, devastating Sasuke and Uchiha Mikoto.
• Two Uchiha jonin brought out Uchiha Itachi, bound to a stake with his eyes mutilated, while Sasuke struggled to reach him.
• Uchiha Yao accused Uchiha Itachi of joining Orochimaru, Kakuzu, and the Mysterious Masked Man in an attack on the clan and using Tsukuyomi on Uchiha Fugaku.
• Uchiha Itachi weakly called Sasuke's name as Sasuke broke down in tears.
• Uchiha Fugaku confirmed that Uchiha Itachi attacked him and intended to sacrifice the Uchiha Clan for peace and the village.