Recaps

Gua stopped worrying about the missing Root bodies, but Kakashi’s repeated encounters and Orochimaru’s renewed interest kept disrupting his routine. Orochimaru showed Gua his laboratory upgrades, including a cold room powered by an Ice Release ninja, leaving Gua baffled by his approach to science.

• After finding the buried Root bodies gone, Gua chose to trust Orochimaru rather than defect from the village.
• Kakashi repeatedly intercepted Gua on his way home from school, and when Gua took a detour, Kakashi asked Itachi where he was.
• Orochimaru intercepted Gua on a side path and brought him to the laboratory.
• Orochimaru demonstrated a fully automatic Alloy Gate powered by interlocking gears and showed Gua a newly built cold room.
• Anko continued her experiment inside the freezing room, while Gua discovered an Ice Release ninja was making ice pillars to keep it cold.

Gua gave Orochimaru a hint about exploring the relationship between electricity and magnetism in exchange for an S-rank ninjutsu scroll. On his way home, he ran into Kakashi, who followed him and challenged whether he really understood science.

• Orochimaru escorted Gua through his laboratory, where Gua noticed the electric lights and wondered why Orochimaru was not making greater use of electricity.
• Gua asked for ninjutsu, and Orochimaru gave him an S-rank scroll in hopes of earning more of his advice.
• Gua suggested Orochimaru experiment with magnets and electricity, and Orochimaru eagerly returned to his laboratory to investigate.
• Gua declined Orochimaru's offer to take him home and walked back by himself.
• Kakashi intercepted Gua on his route home, followed him in silence, then asked whether Gua really understood science.

Gua discovered that Orochimaru had given him the S-rank Impure World Reincarnation scroll, but his low-grade aptitude prevented him from slotting it into his idle-training system. After telling his parents that Kakashi was visiting to make friends, Gua returned to his room and prepared to study the scroll.

• Kakashi questioned Gua about Orochimaru and asked whether they were friends, but Gua bluntly said no.
• Gua realized Kakashi was likely monitoring him as an Anbu agent and headed home, planning to use Orochimaru’s S-rank scroll.
• Gua found that the scroll contained Impure World Reincarnation and could not slot the technique because of his low-grade aptitude.
• Nai asked Gua whether something involving Izumi had changed his routine, and Gua said Kakashi had been visiting him.
• Gua reassured Dashan that Kakashi wanted to make friends, then returned to his room and spread out the scroll to study it.

Gua avoided Kakashi on the way to school, left the lunch his mother had packed at Izumi’s seat, and made no progress studying Impure World Reincarnation. Meanwhile, Orochimaru explored electricity and magnetism after being inspired by Gua, and the chapter ended with Izumi thanking Gua for lunch.

• Gua woke with the Heavenly Book on his chest, put it away, and took the lunch box Nai had packed for him.
• Kakashi pursued Gua on the way to school, but Gua ignored him until he reached the school gate.
• Gua encountered Ye Chuan Dahei, who mistook his lunch box for evidence that he had skipped breakfast and praised him as hardworking.
• Gua left the lunch box at Izumi’s seat and spent the day reviewing Impure World Reincarnation without making progress.
• Orochimaru studied the interaction between electricity and magnetism, credited Gua with inspiring his research, and considered using electricity to power a door.
• Izumi thanked Gua for the lunch, and Gua imagined introducing her to Nai so they could arrange his future marriage.

Gua finally unlocked Impure World Reincarnation for idle training after a month of relentless study, realizing he could grind out S-rank techniques. Meanwhile, Orochimaru continued his research and built an electromagnetic motor.

• Izumi offered to treat Gua to ramen, and Gua handed her a tissue when she started drooling.
• Gua spent weeks studying the S-Rank Scroll and Heavenly Book, avoiding outings and frustrating himself as he tried to unlock Impure World Reincarnation.
• Kakashi persistently waited for Gua outside his home and school, while Itachi noticed Gua working harder and harder.
• Gua finally unlocked Impure World Reincarnation as an idle-training option and replaced the Clone Technique with it.
• Gua's parents, Nai and Dashan, noticed his mood had improved, and Kakashi accompanied him toward school again.
• Orochimaru inspected his laboratory and switched on a copper-wrapped machine, which he named the Electromagnetic Motor.

Gua kept training Impure World Reincarnation while Kakashi prepared to help with the Kumogakure armistice treaty, and Itachi pushed himself harder to keep up with Gua. At a treaty-planning meeting, Konoha’s leaders excluded the Uchiha, revealing how strained relations had become.

• Kakashi told Gua he would be busy helping prepare the armistice treaty, and Gua rejected Kakashi’s offer of friendship before leaving.
• Itachi trained intensely at home to keep pace with Gua, and Fugaku told him he did not need to push himself so hard.
• Gua’s idle training let him learn to draw Impure World Reincarnation’s formation, but he made little progress on its other principles and techniques.
• Konoha’s leaders and clan representatives met to plan Kumogakure’s treaty visit, but the Uchiha were absent.
• When the Inuzuka Clan’s leader asked about Fugaku, Danzo said the Uchiha clan leader would not be needed because the Police Force was busy.

Gua accompanied Itachi to watch Kumogakure’s delegation arrive, then joined Itachi and Izumi for ramen, where he briefly saw the young Naruto. Itachi ended the chapter regretting that he had come along.

• Gua and Itachi watched Hizashi Hyuga welcome the Kumogakure delegation at Konoha’s gate.
• Itachi stared at Samui until Karui shouted at him, but Samui stopped Karui from escalating the confrontation.
• Gua and Itachi encountered Izumi, who invited them to eat ramen at Teuchi’s shop.
• Gua recognized a little blond boy as Naruto when Naruto finished his ramen and left the shop.
• Izumi ordered ramen for herself and Gua, leaving Itachi to decide whether to order anything for himself.

Gua enjoyed Ichiraku Ramen with Itachi and Izumi, then the three browsed Konoha's shopping street while Nai and Dashan secretly followed them. The outing was interrupted when Karui confronted Itachi, ending on a mocking accusation that he was a pervert.

• Gua found Ichiraku's century-old bone broth delicious, and Itachi paid for the three children's ramen.
• Izumi suggested they browse the shopping street, and Gua and Itachi went along with her.
• Nai and Dashan secretly tailed their son as Nai celebrated what she believed was a budding romance between him and Izumi.
• Karui and Omoi walked along the same street, with Karui silencing Omoi's anxious speculation.
• Itachi admired masks in a nearby shop, and Gua reassured him that he would not make fun of him.
• Karui mocked Itachi, calling him a little pervert who did not deserve to like masks.

Gua defended Itachi and Izumi after Karui confronted Itachi, then defeated Karui with a single kick when she attacked. As Kumogakure shinobi moved to retaliate, Gua faced an incoming punch and activated his Sharingan.

• Karui accused Itachi of acting rudely, and Gua stopped him from apologizing before the trio could leave.
• Karui charged at the children with her sword, but Gua kicked her away and sent her crashing to the ground.
• Samui, the Third Hokage, Danzo, and clan heads watched Gua's victory from the Hokage Building, while Neji and Naruto watched from the crowd.
• Kumogakure shinobi arrived, blamed Konoha, and one of them charged at Gua as Itachi and Izumi called out to him.
• Gua calmly faced the man's punch and activated his Sharingan, judging the attack too slow.

Gua was nearly attacked by Kumogakure men after revealing his Sharingan, but Kakashi and then Orochimaru intervened. Samui apologized on behalf of the men, and Orochimaru asked Gua how he wanted to proceed.

• Gua saw the Kumogakure men’s attacks coming, but Kakashi blocked a burly man from striking him as Nai and Dashan rushed to protect their son.
• The Kumogakure men demanded that Konoha hand Gua over, claiming he had injured one of their children and arguing that he was Uchiha.
• Orochimaru arrived, shielded Gua and the others, and pressured the burly Kumogakure man until he lost his nerve.
• Konoha villagers condemned the Kumogakure men and praised Orochimaru for standing up for their village.
• Samui reprimanded her men and apologized to Orochimaru on their behalf, after which Orochimaru asked Gua what he thought.

Gua left the confrontation with the Kumogakure group, and the Third Hokage ended the dispute before it could escalate. As Gua headed home with his family, Itachi, and Izumi, Orochimaru and Kakashi secretly followed him, leaving Kakashi suspicious of Orochimaru’s interest in Gua.

• Gua walked away from the confrontation, and Itachi, Izumi, Uchiha Nai, and Uchiha Oyama followed him while Orochimaru left Kakashi to handle the situation.
• The Third Hokage ended the dispute, and Samui apologized on Karui’s behalf before asking to stay in Konoha with her group.
• Danzo urged the Third Hokage to act against the Uchiha after Gua awakened his Sharingan, but the Third Hokage rejected his demand and walked away.
• Uchiha Nai invited Itachi and Izumi home with the family, and Gua agreed to the invitation.
• Orochimaru followed Gua because he wanted his advice on new technology and Impure World Reincarnation, while Kakashi followed to protect Gua and grew suspicious of Orochimaru.

Gua’s parents welcomed Itachi and Izumi warmly, and Nai fussed over Izumi throughout dinner while Gua and Itachi competed for the food. After walking Itachi home, Gua accompanied Izumi to her quiet, sparsely lived-in house, where the silence unsettled him.

• Gua’s father chatted with Izumi while helping Nai prepare dinner, embarrassing Gua with a story about how Izumi’s mother had encouraged him to pursue Nai.
• At dinner, Nai repeatedly served Izumi the best food, while Itachi ate most of the potato croquettes and Gua grabbed what remained.
• Nai ordered Gua to walk Izumi home, and Gua agreed despite noticing that the sun had not yet set.
• Gua walked Itachi to the Uchiha clan leader’s enormous home before continuing with Izumi.
• Gua accompanied Izumi inside her small, neglected house and was struck by its eerie silence.

Gua stopped outside the Hyuga Clan Compound on Hinata Hyuga’s birthday, when Kumogakure agents abducted her. The agents fled through the woods but realized a child had spotted them.

• Gua remembered that Hinata Hyuga’s birthday coincided with the abduction that led to Hizashi Hyuga’s death, and stopped at the Hyuga Clan Compound.
• Hinata Hyuga heard Hizashi and Neji return home before two black-clad Kumogakure agents broke into her room and seized her.
• Hizashi discovered Hinata was missing, activated his Byakugan, and pursued the kidnappers.
• The Kumogakure agents carried Hinata through the woods, intending to take her Byakugan back to Kumogakure.
• The lead agent stopped on a treetop after spotting a child in the woods.

Gua intercepted two Kumogakure men abducting Hinata and defeated them after revealing his two-tomoe Sharingan. Orochimaru and Kakashi watched in shock, unable to understand how Gua had awakened the second tomoe.

• Gua confronted the two black-clad Kumogakure men carrying Hinata, and one nearly escaped with her.
• Gua revealed his two-tomoe Sharingan and kicked one attacker into a tree, breaking his ribs.
• The remaining attacker threw Hinata away and fled, but Gua used the Clone Technique to protect her and pursue him.
• Gua caught the second man and knocked him out of the tree with a side kick.
• Orochimaru and Kakashi watched Gua's fight and wondered what had triggered his sudden awakening.

Gua captured the two Kumogakure kidnappers and rescued Hinata Hyuga. After Hizashi arrived and offered to handle the captives, Gua agreed to take Hinata home.

• The captured man in black begged Gua to spare him, and Gua agreed to take the two captives to the Hokage.
• Gua's clone brought Hinata to him after confirming she was unharmed.
• Hizashi arrived, checked Hinata, and thanked Gua for rescuing her.
• Hizashi recognized Gua and felt ashamed that an Uchiha had saved a Hyuga girl from a clan the Hyuga had helped suppress.
• Hizashi asked Gua to escort Hinata home while he took the two captives to the Hokage, and Gua agreed.

Gua escorted Hinata back to the Hyuga Compound while struggling with his thoughts about Izumi, and Hinata noticed he seemed unhappy. After Neji thanked him for bringing Hinata home, Gua headed back to his parents, who were imagining he might bring home a future bride.

• Hizashi discovered that the two Kumogakure envoys had died from poison concealed in their teeth.
• Hinata took Gua's hand and told him she thought he looked unhappy before introducing herself.
• Gua and Hinata reached the Hyuga Compound, where Neji recognized Gua and anxiously checked Hinata was safe.
• Neji thanked Gua and invited him inside, but Gua left to return home to his waiting mother.
• Uchiha Nai and Uchiha Oyama joked about Gua being out late with a girl just as he opened the door.

Gua withdrew from school and spent several days trying to understand how to face suffering, prompting his family and friends to worry about him. Orochimaru came to counsel him, but Kakashi suddenly attacked Orochimaru, and someone intervened just as their fight was about to turn deadly.

• Gua stayed home for several days, pondering how to prevent suffering and how to face war, loneliness, and pain.
• Itachi, Izumi, and Kakashi took leave to sit quietly beside Gua, and Orochimaru later arrived after telling Dashan that Gua was depressed.
• Orochimaru advised Gua not to take everyone else's loneliness upon himself, and Gua realized Orochimaru had been secretly following him.
• Kakashi attacked Orochimaru, and the two exchanged swift blows until they both prepared to force a mutual kill.
• Two hands landed on Kakashi's and Orochimaru's shoulders, stopping the fight at the last moment.

Gua refused Orochimaru’s offer to help him find answers, while Kakashi and Itachi each misunderstood his intentions. Meanwhile, Konoha and the Hyuga Clan struggled to respond to Kumogakure’s demand that Hizashi be handed over, and the clan rejected a series of increasingly absurd proposals.

• Orochimaru stopped his attack on Kakashi when Gua intervened, and Gua told them not to fight in his room.
• Itachi urged Gua not to listen to Orochimaru, but Gua declined Orochimaru’s offer and said he wanted to find his own answers.
• Orochimaru sat beside Gua with Izumi, Itachi, and Kakashi, and they all spent the afternoon idling together.
• Hizashi’s killing of two Kumogakure envoys led Kumogakure to demand that Konoha hand him over, and Orochimaru threatened to break Gua out of prison and defect if Hiruzen Sarutobi surrendered him.
• Hyuga Hiashi and the clan elders debated how to answer the crisis, rejecting proposals to hand over Hizashi, give Kumogakure a Byakugan, defect, or sacrifice an Uchiha child.

Hyuga Hiashi visited Uchiha Fugaku and persuaded him to form an alliance between their clans over Kumogakure’s demands. The Third Hokage collapsed after Danzo urged him to eliminate both clans, and Danzo ordered Root to increase surveillance at the Medical Room.

• Hiashi told Fugaku that Gua had saved his daughter and asked the Uchiha to stand with the Hyuga rather than surrender Hizashi.
• Hiashi proposed a lasting alliance, and Fugaku agreed to join forces with the Hyuga Clan.
• The Third Hokage received the clans’ jointly signed letter and spent the day shut away in his office, while Shikaku waited outside.
• Danzo burst into the Hokage’s office and called for the Uchiha and Hyuga to be killed, after which the Third Hokage lost consciousness.
• Medical Ninja treated the Third Hokage for overwork and excessive smoking, and Danzo ordered a Root ninja to increase surveillance at the Medical Room.

After the Third was admitted to the Medical Room, Gua learned that the Hyuga and Uchiha were openly forming an alliance while Kumogakure’s demands put the Third under strain. Unable to enter the Medical Room and seeing a Root operative guarding it, Gua feared Danzo would exploit the Third’s condition to take the Hokage title.

• Dashan told Nai that the Third had been admitted to the Medical Room, and Orochimaru and Kakashi hurried out to check on him.
• Izumi told Gua about the conflict with Kumogakure, and Itachi revealed that the Hyuga and Uchiha were forming an alliance.
• Gua worried that the Third might die and that the Uchiha would be forced to leave Konoha, so he went to the Medical Room with Itachi and Izumi.
• A Root operative blocked Gua, Itachi, and Izumi from entering, while Kakashi said that he could not get inside either.
• Gua recognized the guard as Root and feared Danzo would seize the Hokage title if the Third died.

Gua anxiously waited while Orochimaru treated the Third Hokage, then learned Danzo had taken control of the situation. The next day, Danzo became Acting Hokage, leaving Gua convinced the Uchiha massacre might be imminent.

• Gua waited outside the Medical Room until Orochimaru emerged and confirmed the Third Hokage would recover after a few days of rest.
• Orochimaru discovered Danzo's Root operatives were guarding the Third and confronted Kakashi about the absence of the Hokage's Anbu.
• Gua left, grumbled about Fugaku's poor judgment, and kicked Naruto Uzumaki when Naruto challenged him to a fight.
• Gua returned home fearing the Uchiha clan was in danger, and the village announced that Danzo would serve as Acting Hokage while the Third was critically ill.

Danzo became the Fourth-and-a-Half Hokage and escalated Konoha’s conflict with Kumogakure while preparing to move against the Uchiha and Hyuga. Gua warned his parents that the Uchiha might be destroyed, but his family stayed in Konoha with their belongings packed, and Itachi refused to flee.

• Danzo rejected Kumogakure’s demands for the Byakugan, prompting the Fourth Raikage A to order renewed attacks on Konoha.
• Danzo sent troops to the border and dismissed Kumogakure’s offer to settle for one Byakugan, while planning to purge the Uchiha and weaken the Hyuga.
• Gua urged Uchiha Nai and Dashan to defect, explaining that Danzo might destroy the Uchiha within a month.
• Gua’s parents agreed to prepare to leave but decided to wait and see, keeping their packed belongings ready.
• Gua asked Itachi to prepare to flee, but Itachi said he would live or die with the Uchiha and his father.
• Gua accepted Itachi’s choice and remained worried as the Third Hokage continued sleeping and danger mounted.

After Danzo moved against the Uchiha and Hyuga, Gua fled Konoha with his parents and headed for the Land of Earth. Meanwhile, Danzo prepared to consolidate his rule as the trapped Hyuga debated whether to make peace with the village.

• Danzo mustered troops and summoned the major clans, excluding the Uchiha and Hyuga, prompting Gua to flee Konoha with Oyama and Nai.
• Gua and his parents escaped through Konoha’s back gate and chose the Land of Earth as their destination.
• After crossing the Land of Grass, Gua heard that the Uchiha and Hyuga had allied and that Danzo had begun purging them.
• Danzo planned to eliminate the Uchiha and subdue the Hyuga while the Third Generation remained asleep.
• Root operatives sealed the Hyuga Compound for three days, and Hiashi warned Hizashi that Danzo would likely attack them.
• The Hyuga Grand Elder suggested making peace with the village rather than standing with the Uchiha.

Fugaku rallied the Uchiha to fight Konoha rather than surrender, while Itachi stayed behind to fight beside his father and Gua fled with his parents. At the Land of Earth border, Gua heard shuriken clanging in the woods as his parents went to hunt.

• Fugaku offered his life to spare the Uchiha, but the clansmen refused and pledged to fight Konoha for their honor.
• Fugaku used the Divine Blade to declare that the Uchiha would prevail, and the gathered clan answered with a roar.
• Fugaku recalled that Itachi had warned him about Danzo and Gua's advice to flee; Fugaku urged Itachi to leave with Gua, but six-year-old Itachi chose to stay and fight for his father.
• Gua traveled with his parents to the border of the Land of Earth and stopped to camp beside the Nian River.
• Gua's parents went into the woods to hunt, and Gua heard shuriken clanging nearby as he prepared to move away from the fire.

Gua watched a wounded gray-haired boy come under attack, but his parents arrived and the confrontation exposed their identities as Konoha deserters. As two Root operatives charged, Uchiha Nai and Uchiha Oyama prepared to fight while Gua stood on his own.

• Gua hid and watched as a gray-haired boy approached the river, cried out in anguish, and was hit by a Root operative's shuriken.
• Uchiha Nai and Uchiha Oyama rushed to the fire, mistook the wounded boy for Gua, and confronted the masked attacker.
• Gua revealed himself after stopping the wild chickens from escaping, and the Root operative recognized him as Uchiha Gua.
• The Root operative called for backup, and his companion arrived and identified Uchiha Oyama and Uchiha Nai as deserters.
• Uchiha Nai stood beside Uchiha Oyama with her kunai and warned Gua to protect himself as the two Root operatives charged.