Sasuke

Biodata

Power Progression

Background / History

Sasuke and Naruto knew one another at the Ninja Academy. After a quarrel on the training grounds, Iruka made them perform the Seal of Reconciliation. They later belonged to Team 7, whose collapse deeply distressed Sakura when both became rogue ninja 12 22.

Sasuke’s revenge centers on the extermination of the Uchiha Clan and the truth about his brother, Itachi. After their battle, he leads Taka against the Eight-Tails, then breaks with Akatsuki and prepares to take revenge on Konoha 4. Danzo later personally confirms that he ordered Itachi to carry out the massacre 19.

His campaign expands from targeting Danzo to attacking Konoha’s population indiscriminately. After repeated defeats, he breaks with Obito and seeks greater strength through Kabuto, Ryūchi Cave senjutsu, and cell transplants intended to help awaken the Rinnegan 62 63 92 154 157 166 217.

Losing his left eye to Madara and nearly losing Kabuto changes his priorities. He returns to Konoha to seek treatment for Kabuto, submits to Tsunade, and later accepts Shikaku’s argument that people ignorant of the massacre bear no guilt. He redirects his vengeance toward its responsible decision-makers, killing Homura and Koharu and declaring the hatred between Konoha and the Uchiha settled 236 239 240 259 260 261.

Completing revenge leaves him without a purpose. He separates from Kabuto and travels alone, eventually confronting the Land of Lightning’s oppressive social hierarchy. His attempt to force change through slaughter creates another national crisis before the wider conflict with Indra and Kaguya draws him into Naruto’s struggle 261 283 284 299 300 314 315 346 350.

Original Timeline

• Sasuke and Naruto join forces during the Fourth Shinobi World War to seal Kaguya 1.
• Sasuke’s Rinnegan is destroyed during the battle against Isshiki. Losing its spatial transportation ability prompts Naruto to learn Flying Thunder God as an alternative 1 4.
• Sasuke dies in the catastrophe caused by Shinshiki. His loss is among the griefs Naruto carries into the past 1.
• He eventually becomes a ninja who protects Konoha and the shinobi world and restores the Uchiha name. Itachi learns of this future through Naruto’s account 144.
• His family with Sakura includes a daughter named Sarada. Seeing Naruto’s memories later makes Sasuke aware of that family life, although it does not recur in the same form in the altered timeline 426 441.
• Spatial travel is his specialty. He visits the dimension containing records of the Ōtsutsuki who came to Earth, but does not identify the pair whose emblems were deliberately destroyed 380 390.

Indra’s Reincarnation

• Naruto identifies Sasuke as the current Indra reincarnation and himself as the current Asura reincarnation when explaining Rinnegan evolution to Orochimaru 80.
• The White Snake Sage independently recognizes Sasuke’s connection to Indra. Her willingness to cultivate him is partly repayment of an old debt to Indra, who once defeated the Nine-Headed Snake Sage for her 157.
• Kabuto uses this knowledge to pursue the combination of Indra’s and Asura’s powers through cell transplantation, while remaining cautious about whether Hashirama’s previous-generation power can fully awaken Sasuke’s Rinnegan 166.
• Sasuke eventually rejects being defined by the Indra–Asura conflict, insisting that he will choose his own path to strength 236.

Appearance

• Clothing: Wears a cloak during the Land of Iron confrontation; during recovery from Itachi’s eye transplant, he wears black with white bandages covering his eyes 19 34.
• Eyes: His three-tomoe Sharingan transforms into the Mangekyō. The Eternal Mangekyō later displays an intricate pattern with straight tomoe 13 41.
• Ocular strain: Blood runs from his left eye during Amaterasu use, including after awakening the Eternal Mangekyō 13 42.
• Susanoo: Manifests dark-purple chakra, eventually forming Crow-Tengu armor 21 22 41.
• Left-arm injuries: Danzo severs his left arm, which Obito barely reattaches with White Zetsu cells. During his encounter with Madara it is in plaster and a sling; Madara tears it off again. Sasuke later removes a reattached arm himself when severing his relationship with Obito 81 84 92.
• Missing left eye: After Madara takes it, the socket is bandaged; his bangs cover the empty socket when he brings Kabuto to Konoha 236 239.
• Sage Transformation: Earlier transformations produce black horns and silver-gray sage snakes around his body. His improved transformation displays eight snakes 260.
• Near-death deterioration: His hair turns snow-white after Indra’s attack, and the six tomoe vanish from his remaining Rinnegan as its power is depleted 302.
• Six Paths-era eyes: Later possesses Six-Tomoe Rinnegan in both eyes. When ocular power is exhausted, the six tomoe disappear and his distinctive exchange abilities become unavailable 321 374.
• Six Paths-enhanced Sage Mode: Produces dark-purple eyeshadow but no longer causes the prominent horns of his earlier transformation 320.
• Later clothing: Appears as a cold-faced young man dressed in black at the meeting of the Five Great Nations’ daimyo 417.

Personality

Sasuke insists that revenge must be his own achievement. He allows Danzo to escape rather than accept a victory made possible by Naruto, whom he particularly resents for intervening. Defeat only intensifies his pursuit of power: after Naruto subdues him, he requests Itachi’s eyes specifically to crush Naruto and Konoha 19 26.

His hostility conceals unresolved attachment. He is disappointed when Naruto’s attack on Danzo appears motivated by Naruto’s own goals rather than concern for him. He also hesitates when Obito proposes using Konoha to lure Naruto into a trap, though memories of Itachi ultimately drive him to accept 22 47.

Greater power makes him increasingly arrogant and ruthless. Karin senses his chakra becoming colder and darker; he later attacks the Akatsuki hideout despite knowing she is inside. He also remains silent when Obito tears off Jugo’s arms, prompting Suigetsu to challenge his treatment of a teammate 13 34 42 47.

During the Konoha invasion, his ruthlessness extends to using Karin as a human shield and leaving her to die. He also kills Sai and severely injures former classmates who try to stop him. His contempt for opponents repeatedly leads him to underestimate coordinated tactics or specialized abilities 69 92 97 98 124 147 148.

His development is not a straightforward abandonment of vengeance. He begins accepting personal responsibility after losing to Hinata, acknowledging that attacking Konoha was his own decision. His growing bond with Kabuto subsequently draws out compassion, loyalty, and a willingness to place another person’s survival above immediate revenge 166 210 236 259.

After Shikaku challenges his reasoning, Sasuke accepts that uninformed civilians are innocent, but concludes that those who knowingly enabled the massacre deserve death. He remains dissatisfied when others eliminate revenge targets before he can act himself 240 259.

Completing revenge produces emptiness rather than fulfillment. His travels lead him to seek meaningful action, including small practical acts of assistance, but his attempt to overthrow the Land of Lightning’s entrenched hierarchy retains the violent methods formed by years of revenge 261 284 299.

His feelings toward Naruto remain conflicted. He explicitly calls Naruto the only person he can truly consider a friend, yet resents owing him his life and opposes his plan to revive Kaguya. Later, his attachment to Huahua is interpreted by Itachi as an opportunity for Sasuke to learn to protect something rather than destroy it 314 315 373.

Abilities & Skills

Sharingan and Genjutsu

• Supports precise swordsmanship and visual analysis of opponents 20 42.
• Attempts Sharingan genjutsu against Naruto, but Naruto’s Rinnegan prevents it from working 20.
• Previously controlled and used Manda, leaving the snake bitter enough to demand Sasuke’s death 45.
• Deduces that Obito must become tangible when attacking, although this insight does not let him overcome Kamui 42.
• Tsukuyomi: Eventually accesses Itachi’s inherited technique. Uses it on Sakura after receiving Six Paths power; the technique affects her despite her Impure World Reincarnation body 121 145 315.
• Ocular endurance: Eternal Mangekyō prevents ordinary progressive blindness but does not eliminate chakra consumption or exhaustion 147.
• Tactical limitations: The Raikage uses specialized sensor goggles to counter Uchiha genjutsu during their confrontation 300.

Amaterasu and Kagutsuchi

Sasuke’s left eye produces Amaterasu; his right controls the black flames’ shape and can extinguish them 21.

• Burns Konan’s paper clone and strikes Naruto directly 13 21.
• Shapes flames into Susanoo swords, defensive walls, and Blaze Release arrows 22 41 42.
• Burns away Obito’s Fire Release: Blast Wave Wild Dance 42.
• Creates an atmospheric updraft with a black-flame arrow to prepare Kirin 42.
• Causes visible eye bleeding during use 13 20 42.
• Burns back Danzo’s Wood Release forest during their attrition battle 76.
• Extinguishes Amaterasu on Ino when Shikamaru’s invented story about a surviving younger brother captures his attention 98.
• Creates a black-flame defense beneath half-body Susanoo, although Kabuto’s Inorganic Reincarnation penetrates it 147.
• Broader flame control: Kagutsuchi can manipulate ordinary ninjutsu-created flames and natural fire, not only Amaterasu. Sasuke uses it to redirect ANBU fire techniques and to surround Homura and Koharu with burning trees’ flames 239 260.
• Uses black-flame spears to hold Hiruzen beneath rubble after blasting him into an abyss 228.
• Later coordinates Kagutsuchi-infused Susanoo arrows from multiple copies of his construct. Konra’s Soul Society Technique blocks the barrage 462.

Susanoo

A dark-purple chakra construct that develops from a skeleton into armored Crow-Tengu form 21 22.

• Uses a divine bow, named the Heavenly Makako Bow and Heavenly Ama-no-Makaguyumi Bow in the passages 21 22.
• Fires conventional chakra arrows and stronger arrows shaped from black flames 21 22.
• Wields an Amaterasu-blackened sword after the Eternal Mangekyō awakens 41.
• Early use causes severe bodily pain and exhaustion 21.
• Does not provide absolute protection: Naruto overwhelms it with Sage Art attacks and Gamahiro, while Obito shatters it with a Tailed Beast Bomb 22 42.
• Legged form: Counters attempts to exploit its underside by forming legs and increasing mobility 66.
• Complete / Perfect Form: Uses an enormous full construct against Konoha and Danzo. Against Danzo, its repeated attacks rapidly consume Izanagi’s available Sharingan but also exhaust Sasuke 68 76.
• Forehead vulnerability: Kakashi uses Kamui to breach the forehead compartment and attack Sasuke directly. Naruto later identifies the caster’s small compartment as a more practical target than the entire construct 68 71.
• External control: Can remain outside Susanoo while commanding it. Uses its hand to throw himself hundreds of meters toward Hiruzen 228.
• One-eye use: Retains skeletal and lesser manifestations after losing an eye, but cannot access the complete form during the advisers’ battle 260.
• Eight Branches Perfect Susanoo: A senjutsu-enhanced form with horns and eight giant armored snakes around its arms 163.
• Ultimate Form: Available with Six-Tomoe Rinnegan in both eyes; surpasses Complete Form and channels yin and yang lightning through its hands 321 322.
• Combined armor: Joins Naruto, Obito, and Madara in armoring the four-headed Kurama, with Sasuke initially covering the left-facing head and torso 346.
• Specialized counters: Kabuto’s White Rage Technique incapacitates Sasuke and collapses Susanoo; Nagato’s sealing chains, Underworld Swamp, and Super Shinra Tensei also overcome it 124 148.
• Barrier incompatibility: At his demonstrated postwar level, he cannot maintain Susanoo while sustaining Formless Heavenly Hand Realm. He resumes half-body Susanoo only after the barrier fails 374.

Inherited Sacred Weapons

• Yata Mirror: Initially appears without Sasuke consciously willing it when Guy threatens his life. Later Sasuke deliberately uses it to deflect Madara’s tomoe after his Rinnegan exchange powers are exhausted 124 374.
• Totsuka Blade: Itachi’s fiery-red Susanoo manifests around Sasuke to interrupt Nagato’s attempted soul extraction and later seals Kabuto’s Eight-Branched Serpent 124 148.
• Yasaka Magatama: Madara senses it among the sacred weapons latent within Sasuke’s inherited eyes 84.
• Full inheritance: By the battle using the combined Susanoo-clad Kurama, Sasuke is explicitly stated to have fully inherited Itachi’s divine artifacts 346.

Lightning Release

• Chidori: Used against Obito, whose intangibility lets the attack pass through him 8.
• Chidori Sharp Spear: Severs an Eight-Tails tentacle during Taka’s failed capture mission 8.
• Chidori Stream: Cuts through Obito’s Wood Release restraints 42.
• Chakra blades: Forms a lightning blade and channels Lightning Release through his Kusanagi Sword 19 20.
• Kirin: Calls down a thunderstorm attack, described by Sasuke as his strongest Lightning Release technique. Obito’s Uchiha Flame Formation blocks it 42.
• Kirin countered by word-spirit dōjutsu: Kabuto uses Ear Truth, Face Command to order its lightning to stop and disperse 147.
• Moga Bera: An ocular lightning attack that brings down an indigo pillar from the sky. Used against Hiruzen, Hashirama’s statue, and Madara’s Wood Clone 228 319 373.
• Takemikazuchi: Shapes and extends lightning. Forms Moga Bera into a spear against Tobi’s wooden construct and turns Chidori into a long-range lightning whip against ANBU 223 239.
• Six Paths Lightning Release: Channels black lightning through the hand marked with yin power. Six Paths Chidori directly kills Madara’s Limbo shadows 319 374.
• Yin and yang lightning: Ultimate Susanoo gathers black lightning in its yin-marked left hand and white lightning in its yang-marked right hand 322.

Fire Release

• Uses the Great Fireball Technique, including while Naruto pulls him closer with Banshō Ten’in 22.
• Exchanges fire techniques with Naruto and Obito; Obito’s enhanced Fire Release overwhelms his fireball before he counters with Amaterasu 20 42.
• Later clashes evenly with Madara’s Fire Release during their postwar dispute over Huahua 373.
• Combines flames with an Eight Branches Giant Bomb to destroy White Zetsu forces obstructing his approach to Obito 223.

Swordsmanship

• Trained from childhood, with Sharingan-supported precision 20.
• Deflects Konan’s paper spears using the Kusanagi Sword 13.
• Matches Naruto’s sword exchanges before both enhance their weapons with elemental chakra 20.
• Uchiha Style: Lightning Flash Slash: Attempts a surprise sword attack after Madara disables him with poisonous pollen. Madara catches his wrist and judges his swordsmanship limited, particularly because his right hand is not his dominant hand 84.
• Later overwhelms an ANBU in sword exchanges and deliberately knocks him unconscious with the back of his blade rather than killing him 239.
• Continues fighting with a sword and high-speed Body Flicker after his Rinnegan abilities are exhausted, though Madara’s extended damage immunity defeats the attempt 374.

Senjutsu and Sage Transformation

• Learns Ryūchi Cave senjutsu after accepting Kabuto’s guidance following their duel 154.
• Survives the White Snake Sage’s excessive infusion by releasing power his body cannot safely contain rather than trying to absorb all of it 157.
• Compresses expelled sage power inside Susanoo, creating a snake-adorned sage construct 157.
• Trains further on Ryūchi Cave’s Back Mountain with Kabuto 157.
• Later adapts perfectly to Guoshang’s cells and develops eight sage snakes, partially compensating for the strength lost with his left eye 260.
• Six Paths power qualitatively strengthens his senjutsu and reduces the visible bodily distortion of his transformation 320.

Wood Release and Cellular Enhancements

• Gains an initial opportunity to develop Wood Release through a small Hashirama-cell transplant placed in healing wounds. Kabuto uses this method to limit adverse effects in Sasuke’s non-Uzumaki body 166.
• Guoshang’s cells further increase his chakra and Wood Release proficiency. Kabuto explains that cellular regeneration is transferable, but deeper Uzumaki gifts are not automatically acquired in the same way 217.
• Hotei and Wood Dragon: Uses advanced Wood Release against Hiruzen. The dragon restrains Enma’s staff and drains its chakra 228.
• Deep Forest Emergence: Raises a vast advancing forest against Homura and Koharu while in his strengthened Sage Transformation 260.
• Uses Wood Release and Fire Release unsuccessfully to slow the transformed Raikage 300.
• Explicitly states that he still cannot use Adamantine Sealing Chains after the Guoshang-cell enhancement 217.

Rinnegan and Six Paths Abilities

• Awakening: His remaining right eye is forced to awaken through resonance before his body reaches the proper threshold, leaving him unconscious and depleted as Hashirama cells gather around the eye 283.
• Heavenly Reverse Hand: Exchanges the states of injury of Sasuke and another person. Reverses the Raikage’s impalement and later transfers Sasuke’s severed left arm to Naruto 300 319.
• Heavenly Reverse Hand restrictions: The user cannot exploit self-inflicted wounds. The technique also requires Sasuke to remain alive and have enough ocular power to activate it; near-fatal depletion prevents its use 300 302 319.
• Amenotejikara: Exchanges positions, including switching with Madara to escape an All-Killing Ash Bone. Used tactically to pursue Madara’s substitutions during their postwar duel 350 373.
• Formless Heavenly Hand Realm: Combines both Rinnegan eyes to create an invisible mobile barrier centered on Sasuke. Within it he can exchange positions or states, including swapping himself with empty air for repeated unmarked spatial movement 374.
• Formless Heavenly Hand Realm limitations: Its repeated use consumes severe ocular power. Madara defeats its mobility advantage by forcing continuous evasion until Sasuke’s tomoe disappear and both Amenotejikara and Heavenly Reverse Hand become unavailable 374.
• Deva Path flight: Uses gravitational powers to fly during the postwar battle with Madara 373.
• Rinne Rebirth: Black Zetsu forces him to use the resurrection technique after Indra grievously wounds him. Naruto subsequently saves him through another resurrection technique 314.
• Six Paths yin and yang power: Receives both marks and uses their corresponding black and white lightning through Ultimate Susanoo 315 319 322.
• Anti-Kaguya sealing potential: Black Zetsu identifies Sasuke as one of the two combatants capable of sealing Kaguya, making him her priority target 350.
• Planetary Devastation counter: Breaks Nagato’s technique by targeting its gravitational core with Perfect Susanoo 124.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Kusanagi Sword — Used against Konan and Naruto; can be infused with Lightning Release chakra 13 20.
• Itachi’s eyes — Transplanted to obtain greater ocular power, culminating in the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan. Madara later takes the left eye 26 34 41 236.
• Gunbai — Collects the shattered fan at Kabuto’s request after Naruto’s attack. Kabuto intends to repair it for him; Sasuke later uses a Gunbai to block Madara’s shuriken and explosions 210 373.
• Heavenly Ama-no-Makaguyumi Bow — Susanoo’s divine bow, used for chakra and Kagutsuchi arrows 21 22 462.
• Itachi’s sacred weapons — Inherits the Yata Mirror, Totsuka Blade, and Yasaka Magatama; full inheritance is confirmed during the combined Susanoo-clad Kurama battle 84 346.
• White Snake Sage’s single-use talisman — Kabuto uses it to transport both of them to safety during Madara’s attack 236.

Relationships

• Naruto Uzumaki — Former teammate, rival, and an enduring personal bond Sasuke resists acknowledging. Naruto protects him from Orochimaru and ocular damage, but promises to stop any attack on people beyond Danzo 11 20 22. Sasuke later admits Naruto is the only person he can truly call a friend, despite resenting his repeated rescues. Naruto spends fifty years of his life saving him and eventually intervenes in his postwar duel with Madara. Sasuke later joins Naruto’s expedition into the Netherworld to retrieve Madara’s soul 314 315 374 519.
• Itachi Uchiha — Older brother and the emotional center of Sasuke’s vengeance. His final smile helps determine Sasuke’s decision to attack Konoha; his transplanted eyes enable Sasuke’s Eternal Mangekyō 4 41 47. Itachi’s power repeatedly protects him through fiery-red Susanoo interventions. Sasuke pursues Itachi’s remains from Obito and insists that, although he cares deeply for Kabuto, the title of older brother belongs to Itachi. After the war, Itachi supports his independence and hopes protecting Huahua will help him change 124 148 203 217 223 373.
• Obito Uchiha — Manipulative ally whom Sasuke initially knows as “Madara.” Provides access to Itachi’s eyes, defeats and confines Sasuke, then offers military support against Konoha to draw Naruto into battle 26 42 47. Obito later admits he is not Madara and offers Sasuke a choice of paths without further coercion. Sasuke nevertheless severs their alliance. Obito uses his discarded arm in a bloodline-assimilation procedure and, much later, prepares to reverse time to save him during the postwar duel 81 92 102 374.
• Karin — Taka member with an intense crush on him. Tracks Naruto, offers to heal Sasuke, and fears his increasingly dark chakra; Sasuke later dismisses her safety during his attack on the hideout 8 19 20 34 42. He subsequently uses her as a shield against Kakashi and abandons her. Her devotion persists, and she secretly supports Naruto’s efforts to keep Sasuke safe while reporting to Kabuto. They eventually have a daughter, Sarada 69 290 519.
• Jugo — Loyal Taka member who explicitly refuses to betray him. Delivers Naruto’s warning about Danzo despite being maimed by Obito 35 47. Follows him into Konoha and tries to stop Kakashi from reaching him, but Hiashi seals his chakra points 62 69.
• Suigetsu Hozuki — Taka member who follows his combat orders but confronts him for allowing Obito to injure Jugo 20 47. Reluctantly joins the Konoha invasion and is defeated while helping defend Sasuke against the village’s forces 62 69.
• Orochimaru — Seeks Sasuke’s body as a vessel until Naruto defeats him and obtains his promise to abandon that pursuit 9 10 11.
• Danzo Shimura — Revenge target who admits responsibility for ordering the Uchiha massacre 19. Sasuke later battles his heavily modified body but loses his left arm; Naruto rescues Sasuke and ultimately kills Danzo 76 81.
• Sakura Haruno — Former Team 7 teammate who grieves his actions and believes Naruto is the person who can save him 12. Sasuke nearly kills her during his invasion; her later hesitation to strike him allows him to counterattack her group. Tsunade reveals that her parents died in his assault 68 97 98 102. Sasuke later sincerely apologizes and repeatedly hopes to rekindle their relationship after learning of their original-timeline family, but Sakura refuses. She later approaches him to explain the altered-timeline Sarada’s origins 426 441.
• Konan — Opponent assigned by Naruto to delay Taka while Naruto confronts Danzo 13 19.
• Kabuto Yakushi — Initially an opportunistic guide toward greater power, then Sasuke’s senjutsu mentor, caretaker, and close companion. Their hostile duel ends with Itachi’s intervention, but Kabuto later persuades Sasuke of his sincere desire to help him surpass Naruto 73 147 148 154. Their relationship becomes family-like: Sasuke cares for him after his paralysis, protects him in battle, and humbles himself before Tsunade to obtain treatment. Kabuto eventually parts from him to pursue his own identity; Naruto later thanks Kabuto for the companionship he provided 210 217 228 236 239 261 284 290.
• Madara Uchiha — A brutal superior opponent who tears off Sasuke’s reattached arm and later takes his left eye. Their later relationship mixes rivalry, cooperation, and hostility: they fight together against Indra and Kaguya, then duel over Huahua after the war 84 236 346 350 373 374. Sasuke accepts the Tree Hunter role as the price for retrieving Madara’s soul from Yomi; Madara’s guilt leads him to train Sarada without withholding the Uchiha’s skills 519.
• Kakashi Hatake — Former teacher who opposes his invasion of Konoha. Breaches Susanoo with Kamui, saves Sakura, and is shocked when Sasuke sacrifices Karin to avoid his attack 63 68 69.
• Might Guy — Opposes Sasuke with Daytime Tiger and prepares to use the lethal Eighth Gate before Naruto arrives. Itachi’s Yata Mirror later protects Sasuke from another threat involving Guy 66 69 124.
• Shikamaru Nara — Leads coordinated attempts to stop him, exploits Susanoo’s weaknesses, and briefly immobilizes him through a combination of Nara, Yamanaka, and Akimichi techniques. His fabricated story about a younger brother persuades Sasuke to extinguish Ino’s flames before Kabuto exposes the lie 66 97 98.
• Shikaku Nara — Stops Sasuke’s attempted suicide before Tsunade and challenges his belief that all of Konoha deserves punishment. His argument helps Sasuke distinguish innocent people from knowing participants in the massacre 239 240 259.
• Tsunade — Refuses his initial plea to treat Kabuto because of his crimes against Konoha. Sasuke later observes a promise not to attack the village while she remains Hokage 239 259.
• Homura Mitokado and Koharu Utatane — Former advisers who admit ordering Itachi’s involvement in the massacre. Sasuke defeats them and considers their deaths the completion of his revenge 259 260 261.
• Hinata Hyuga — Defeats his renewed assault after his senjutsu training, leaving him devastated. Later proposes using her Tenseigan to help shorten the distance to the dimensions where Naruto and Madara are fighting 166 361.
• Guoshang / Kokusho Senju — Senju child whose cells Kabuto transfers to Sasuke. Sasuke worries about leaving him comatose, while later evidence establishes the procedure’s severe physical and psychological harm to the child 217 259.
• White Snake Sage — Oversees his dangerous Sage Transformation trial and recognizes him as Indra’s reincarnation. Grants him further training in acknowledgment of Indra’s past service 157.
• Nagato — Reanimated opponent who rejects Sasuke’s revenge-driven purpose and nearly kills him until Itachi’s protection and Kabuto’s intervention prevent it 124.
• Black Zetsu — Exploits his defeat by Naruto, directs him toward Kabuto and Rinnegan awakening, and later forces him to perform Rinne Rebirth after Indra gravely wounds him 73 314.
• Chiri Uchiha — Elderly creator of Izanami whom Sasuke encounters while seeking purpose in the Land of Lightning. Challenges his assumptions about helping oppressed people and entrusts her remaining Mangekyō to the cat associated with him 284.
• Huahua — Cat to whom he becomes strongly attached. His dispute with Madara over keeping Huahua escalates into a dangerous postwar duel, which Itachi views as a possible lesson in protection 373 374.
• Sarada Uchiha — Daughter with Karin. Her name initially shocks Sasuke because it matches the daughter he saw in Naruto’s memories of his family with Sakura. Madara later takes her as his disciple while Sasuke is bound to Yomi 441 519.
• Yamashita Cixin and Dodai — Accompany him at the daimyo meeting. Dodai credits Sasuke with helping stabilize the Land of Lightning 417.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Failed Eight-Tails Mission

• Taka brings back an Eight-Tails tentacle rather than Killer B himself. Obito exposes the substitution after Sasuke has already broken with Akatsuki 4 8.
• News of Pain’s destruction of Konoha and Danzo’s appointment redirects Sasuke toward the Five Kage Summit 8 12.

Land of Iron Confrontation

• Konan delays Taka with paper clones, preventing Sasuke from reaching Danzo before Naruto defeats him 13 19.
• Sasuke obtains Danzo’s confession, attacks with Amaterasu, then abandons the pursuit because he refuses Naruto’s assistance in taking revenge 19.
• His ensuing duel with Naruto drives successive Susanoo developments. Naruto eventually uses the Rinnegan to drain his chakra and render him unconscious before continued ocular use damages his eyesight further 20 21 22.
• Obito removes Sasuke and Karin from the battlefield 22.

Eternal Mangekyō and Defeat by Obito

• Humiliated by Naruto’s strength, Sasuke chooses Itachi’s eye transplant and recovers in the Akatsuki hideout 26 34.
• Upon awakening the Eternal Mangekyō, he immediately attacks Obito and threatens the hideout with Kirin 41 42.
• Obito blocks Kirin, destroys Susanoo with the captured Eight-Tails’ Tailed Beast Bomb, and imprisons Sasuke in Kamui’s dimension 42.

Planned Assault on Konoha

• Obito offers approximately 100,000 White Zetsu to support Sasuke’s revenge, while Akatsuki handles Naruto 47.
• Sasuke accepts despite understanding that Konoha will serve as leverage to force Naruto into a confrontation 47.
• After Jugo and Suigetsu reunite with him, Sasuke rejects Naruto’s warning to pursue Danzo before he regains power, insisting his hatred will overcome him regardless 41 47.
• The plan becomes an invasion. Sasuke ignores instructions to keep Taka outside and enters Konoha ahead of the surrounding White Zetsu army 62.

First Invasion and Valley of the End Defeat

• Interprets Konoha’s reconstruction and Danzo’s completed Hokage Rock face as attempts to erase Uchiha history and responsibility for the massacre 62.
• Breaks coordinated ANBU defenses, rejects Kakashi and Sakura’s appeals, and announces his intent to kill everyone in the village 63.
• Escalates from armored Susanoo to a legged form and then Complete Form as the defenders exploit weaknesses and Guy counters him with Daytime Tiger 66 68.
• Kakashi breaches the forehead compartment with Kamui. Sasuke uses Karin as a shield, abandons her, and continues attacking the village 68 69.
• Naruto arrives before Guy can open the Eighth Gate and counters a black-flame arrow with a massive Rasenshuriken 69.
• Sasuke leaves for the Valley of the End, where he and Naruto exchange the Seal of Confrontation. Naruto defeats him; Black Zetsu later removes Naruto’s Flying Thunder God mark from his throat and proposes Rinnegan awakening as a route to victory 69 70 71 73.

Danzo, Madara, and the Break with Akatsuki

• Leaves the hideout to pursue Danzo after his failed invasion 74.
• Battles Danzo’s implanted Sharingan, Izanagi, and Wood Release. Perfect Susanoo repeatedly kills Danzo’s temporary bodies, but its cost leaves Sasuke vulnerable to Kagami’s Mangekyō ability 76.
• Wakes after Naruto rescues him, learning that Naruto has also killed Danzo. Obito asks whether he will protect Konoha according to Itachi’s wishes or pursue Akatsuki’s alternative 81.
• Madara overwhelms him, offers instruction, and tears off his recently reattached arm after Sasuke rejects the offer and loses the will to continue fighting 84.
• Learning that Naruto defeated Madara renews his interest in Kabuto’s promised route to power 88.
• Kills the White Zetsu guarding the hideout, discards his reattached arm, and declares his relationship with Obito finished. Leaves with the reanimated Kimimaro to find Kabuto and kills Sai when the latter discovers them 92 97 102.

Confrontation with His Former Classmates

• Sakura’s group pursues him after Sai’s death. Shikamaru coordinates their abilities while Lee, Neji, and Shino contain Kimimaro 96 97.
• Ino’s forbidden soul-and-chakra exchange lets Shikamaru use Choji’s enlarged body to immobilize Susanoo. The team breaches its forehead and Ino takes control of Sasuke, collapsing the construct 97.
• Sakura cannot deliver the fatal strike. Sasuke exploits her hesitation, badly wounds Lee, costs Choji an arm, and sets Ino on fire 98.
• Shikamaru’s lie about a surviving younger brother briefly interrupts Sasuke’s attacks. Kabuto exposes the deception and brings out five powerful reincarnated warriors, while Sasuke leaves the battle to him 98.
• The aftermath includes Ino’s permanent burns and Sakura learning that her parents died in Sasuke’s Konoha assault 102.

Kabuto’s Guidance and Ryūchi Cave Training

• Challenges the reanimated Nagato in pursuit of power to destroy Konoha, Naruto, and Amegakure. Nagato’s versatility defeats his attacks and nearly extracts his soul 124.
• Itachi’s Totsuka Blade intervenes; Sasuke later begs Kabuto to stop Nagato when Perfect Susanoo is also overcome 124.
• Challenges Kabuto directly. Kabuto counters Amaterasu, exploits Susanoo’s underside, disperses Kirin, and collapses Perfect Susanoo with White Rage and Ear Truth, Face Command 146 147 148.
• Itachi’s Susanoo seals Kabuto’s Eight-Branched Serpent and prevents Sasuke’s death 148.
• Accepts Kabuto’s sincerity and asks to learn Ryūchi Cave senjutsu. Survives the White Snake Sage’s trial and creates a Sage Mode Susanoo from excess power 154 157.
• Returns confident that he can kill Naruto and chooses Naruto’s absence as an opportunity to attack Konoha again 158.

Second Konoha Assault and the Pursuit of the Rinnegan

• Uses Eight Branches Perfect Susanoo against Hinata despite Kabuto’s warning to retreat 163.
• Returns defeated and devastated, but acknowledges that attacking Konoha was his own decision 166.
• Kabuto implants a cautious quantity of Hashirama cells into his wounds, offering Wood Release development but no immediate guarantee of the Rinnegan 166.
• Insists he will retrieve Itachi’s remains from Obito and obtain the Rinnegan himself rather than ask Naruto 203.
• Cares for Kabuto after Naruto leaves him paralyzed and gathers the shattered Gunbai for attempted repair 210.
• Gains severalfold greater chakra and stronger Wood Release through Guoshang’s cells. With the Rinnegan still unawakened, Kabuto proposes participating in Naruto and Obito’s coming battle as a possible trigger 217.

Battle with the Reanimated Hokage and Loss of an Eye

• Arrives with Kabuto in Perfect Susanoo and admits that his immediate target is Obito, who possesses Itachi’s remains 222 223.
• Destroys obstructing White Zetsu and Tobi’s wooden construct with senjutsu, flames, Moga Bera, and Takemikazuchi. Tobirama rescues Tobi, and Hiruzen confronts Sasuke 223.
• Uses advanced Wood Release and external Susanoo control to overwhelm Hiruzen. Rejects Hashirama’s offer to hear his grievances and demands that he destroy Konoha to prove his commitment to justice 228.
• Hashirama prevents Tobirama from killing him. Sasuke prepares to withdraw but stops when the injured Madara appears 235.
• Madara takes Sasuke’s left eye and prepares to take the other. Kabuto intervenes and uses the White Snake Sage’s talisman to escape, suffering severe Amaterasu burns 236.

Plea to Tsunade and Completion of Revenge

• Refuses Kabuto’s request to abandon him and seek Naruto. Takes responsibility for losing his eye and vows to obtain treatment in Konoha 236.
• Spares the ANBU who intercept him, sends a request to Tsunade, lays down his sword, and kneels when she arrives 239.
• When Tsunade refuses treatment, attempts to stab himself. Shikaku stops him, and Kabuto offers the return of a surviving Senju child and the reanimated Guy as restitution 239.
• Shikaku explains why uninformed people cannot be held guilty for the massacre. Sasuke later accepts that distinction and focuses on knowing decision-makers 240 259.
• Learns that Root has been dismantled and Homura and Koharu expelled. Initially postpones revenge out of concern for Kabuto’s recovery, until Kabuto sheds his damaged body 259.
• Defeats the advisers with enhanced Sage Transformation, Wood Release, and Kagutsuchi. Insists Kabuto witness rather than perform his revenge, and offers the elders a merciful death if they confess 260.
• After they die refusing to recant, declares the hatred between Konoha and the Uchiha settled. Kabuto proposes parting ways, and Sasuke sets out to discover his own direction and understand Naruto 261.

Wandering and the Land of Lightning Crisis

• Travels alone after completing revenge. His right eye awakens through resonance before he is physically ready, leaving him depleted 283.
• Encounters an isolated village of elderly people whose men were taken for forced labor. Chiri explains the Land of Lightning’s hierarchy and warns that rescuing individuals cannot simply undo its entrenched culture 284.
• Offers relocation and rescue, then agrees to practical tasks such as chopping firewood and finding a home for a dog while seeking meaningful purpose 284.
• Decides to repeatedly eliminate the ruling class until the system changes. In seven days, kills more than a hundred nobles and over ten thousand people connected to them 299.
• Defeats the transformed Raikage by using Heavenly Reverse Hand to transfer a lethal impalement, then destroys the Daimyo’s Mansion with Susanoo. The resulting crisis threatens to ignite a wider war 300.

Indra, Resurrection, and Renewed Conflict with Naruto

• Fails to stop Indra’s Six Paths: Indra’s Arrow despite an Eight Branches defense. Near death, loses the tomoe needed to use Heavenly Reverse Hand 302.
• Black Zetsu forces him to use Rinne Rebirth. Naruto saves him with another resurrection technique at the cost of fifty years of life 314 315.
• Meets the Sage of Six Paths and learns that Naruto allowed Indra’s resurrection. Wakes with Six-Tomoe Rinnegan and both Six Paths marks 314 315.
• Rejects Sakura’s appeal, uses Tsukuyomi on her, and confronts Naruto over the plan to revive Kaguya 315.
• Returns to the Valley of the End. Naruto explains the Ōtsutsuki threat and his belief that Kaguya can become an ally, while Sasuke presses the fight with Moga Bera, Takemikazuchi, Heavenly Reverse Hand, and Six Paths-enhanced senjutsu 319 320.
• Reveals Ultimate Susanoo and channels yin and yang lightning at full strength 321 322.
• Resists Naruto’s explanation that Itachi and the former Hokage support his plan, questioning what choice he should have made when approached by the Sage of Six Paths 324.

War against Indra and Kaguya

• Later cooperates with Naruto, Madara, and Obito. Helps create an opening against Indra and contributes Susanoo armor and Itachi’s sacred weapons to the four-headed Kurama construct 345 346.
• Is transported into Kaguya’s Lava Dimension. Naruto’s chakra constructs keep him and Obito above the magma 350.
• Uses Amenotejikara to switch with Madara at the latter’s suggestion, escaping one Ash Bone attack while Madara substitutes a Limbo shadow for the fatal damage 350.
• Kaguya then ambushes him with Yomotsu Hirasaka and Ash Bone Claw. Sasuke disintegrates before Naruto can intervene 350.
• Is alive again in a later passage, outside Amegakure, where he urges Obito to find a way back to Naruto and Madara’s dimensional battlefield. The supplied passages do not specify how his restoration occurs 361.

Postwar Duel over Huahua

• Challenges Madara over possession of Huahua at Amegakure’s training ground. Itachi permits the fight in the hope that protecting the cat may help Sasuke change, while trusting Obito to intervene if necessary 373.
• Uses the Gunbai, Moga Bera, Amenotejikara, and Deva Path flight against Madara’s varied attacks 373.
• Reveals Formless Heavenly Hand Realm and hunts down Madara’s eight Limbo shadows with Six Paths Chidori 374.
• Misjudges the duration of Madara’s improved death-substitution immunity. Continuous evasions exhaust his ocular power, and his final sword attack fails to kill Madara 374.
• Naruto intercepts Madara’s finishing attack with a Truth-Seeking Orb Rasengan; Obito had been ready to reverse time and revive Sasuke if needed 374.

Later Affairs and Family

• Participates in postwar discussions of Kara, including Naruto’s account of the organization and the limits of his original-timeline spatial intelligence 380.
• Helps stabilize the Land of Lightning and appears with Yamashita Cixin and Dodai at the daimyo meeting. Challenges the daimyo’s hostility toward Naruto, citing the oasis Naruto created for the Land of Wind 417.
• Remains alone while other prominent shinobi form families. Despite sincere apologies and renewed interest after seeing the original timeline, Sakura refuses a relationship with him 426.
• Is shocked to encounter a red-haired competitor named Sarada Uchiha, recalling his original-timeline daughter with Sakura. Sakura approaches to explain the child’s origins 441.
• Later evidence identifies Sarada as his daughter with Karin 519.
• Fights alongside Obito against Konra, using coordinated copies of Susanoo to fire Kagutsuchi arrows at the enemy’s defensive barrier 462.

Netherworld Tree Hunter

• Joins Naruto, Hashirama, and Obito on an expedition into the Netherworld after Madara’s soul is cast into the depths of the afterlife for violating a Netherworld taboo 519.
• The group reaches the Lord of the Land of Yomi, the Third Generation King Tarine, Ōtsutsuki Kamuyamato Iware 519.
• Accepts the role of the Netherworld’s Tree Hunter as the price for absolving Madara’s transgression and returning his soul to the living world 519.
• Must remain in Yomi, with permission to return for only one day each year 519.
• Madara responds to his sacrifice by patiently training Sarada and teaching her Uchiha skills without reservation. A year later, Madara also proposes the Heaven Shinobi reunion 519.

Notable Quotes

“Especially you, Naruto. You're the very last person I want doing it for me...” 19

“I want enough power to crush Naruto and crush Konoha. Nothing more!!” 26

“These eyes can see the darkness with perfect clarity...!” 41

“I admit that. But I'm not Itachi. We want different things, so I won't follow the path he laid out for me.” 203

“With this, the hatred between the Uchiha and Konoha is settled...” 261

“Where do I go from here?” 261

“He's the only person I can truly call a friend, and the bond I once tried to sever. That's why I really don't want to owe him my life!” 314

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