Chapter Summaries

Uchiha Makoto killed Danzo’s Root elites while Danzo recovered, and Hanzo of the Salamander refused to intervene. Danzo then revealed his Wood Release, leaving Makoto to wonder whether Orochimaru’s experiments involving him had brought this power about earlier than expected.

• Uchiha Makoto killed the Root elites who rushed to protect Danzo.
• Hanzo of the Salamander arrived and declined Danzo’s demand for help, hoping the two Konoha fighters would weaken each other.
• Danzo accused the Uchiha Clan of being too dangerous and unleashed Wood Release: Deep Forest Emergence.
• Hanzo of the Salamander was shocked by Danzo’s Wood Release, while Uchiha Makoto dodged the attacking trees and reconsidered how Danzo had gained the power.
• Uchiha Makoto recalled that he had once sought benefits and greater standing as Orochimaru’s apprentice.

Uchiha Makoto realized his earlier theories had helped Orochimaru develop Danzo’s Wood Release, but Pakura’s arrival turned the battle in his favor. After she burned through Danzo’s wooden attacks, Makoto ordered her to eliminate Danzo and she unleashed a massive golden Scorch Release assault.

• Uchiha Makoto realized Orochimaru may have used the biotechnology theories he provided to help Danzo develop Wood Release.
• Danzo’s Wood Release trapped Uchiha Makoto as Hanzō watched and planned to take advantage of the fight.
• Pakura appeared and destroyed Danzo’s wooden trunks with her golden Scorch Release.
• Uchiha Makoto escaped, taunted Danzo, and ordered Pakura to eliminate him.
• Pakura summoned a giant Golden Crow and surrounded Danzo with a sea of golden fire and binding chains.

Danzo survived Uchiha Makoto’s Scorch Release attack by sacrificing a Sharingan to use Izanagi, and Hanzo tried to persuade Makoto to spare him to prevent a war. Makoto rejected Hanzo’s appeal and hinted that Konoha would soon face a crisis that would keep it from investigating Danzo’s death.

• Danzo used Izanagi to rewrite his death from Makoto’s Scorch Release attack, blinding his right Sharingan in the process.
• Hanzo ordered Amegakure patrols to seal off the battlefield, then watched Makoto challenge the exhausted Danzo to continue fighting.
• Hanzo revealed himself to Makoto and urged him to spare Danzo to avoid provoking Konoha into a devastating war against the Land of Rain.
• Makoto refused, arguing that Konoha was already stretched across several fronts and would not risk a war over Danzo’s death.
• Makoto told Hanzo that Konoha would soon face an even bigger surprise and would be too occupied to investigate Danzo’s disappearance.

Uchiha Makoto ordered Pakura to kill Danzo while Hanzō chose not to interfere. Pakura overwhelmed Danzo, who lost his sight using Izanagi and watched Makoto kill his summon, leaving him helpless in Pakura’s Scorch Release field.

• Hanzō decided that protecting Danzo was too risky and stepped back as Uchiha Makoto retreated from the battlefield.
• Uchiha Makoto ordered Pakura to attack Danzo without holding back while avoiding Hanzō’s poison mist.
• Pakura’s Scorch Release overwhelmed Danzo’s Wood and Wind Release, forcing him to use Izanagi and blind himself completely.
• Danzo summoned Baku, but Uchiha Makoto appeared and killed it instantly with a compressed wind blade.
• Danzo lost hope as Pakura’s Scorch Release field continued to heat the area around him.

Uchiha Makoto tried to make Danzo believe he had awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan, but Danzo trusted the lie zero percent, wasting Makoto’s daily manifestation chance. After Pakura stopped Danzo’s suicide seal, Makoto had her tear out Danzo’s heart, leaving him dying but still conscious.

• Uchiha Makoto told Danzo he had awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan, but the system reported Danzo’s trust in the lie at zero percent and gave Makoto only a power boost.
• Danzo began forming the Reverse Four Symbols Seal to kill himself and everyone nearby.
• Pakura used imitation Yin-Yang Release Black Rods to pierce Danzo’s limbs and chakra nodes, disrupting the seal.
• Uchiha Makoto ordered Number Three to take Danzo’s heart, and Pakura’s modified Earth Grudge Fear tendrils ripped it from his chest.
• Danzo lay bleeding and near death as his expression shifted from madness to apparent peace.

Uchiha Makoto killed Danzo in the Land of Rain, concealed the evidence, and returned to Konoha without being questioned. After using his lie-manifesting ability to make Danzo’s death harder to investigate, he focused on overcoming his weaknesses and unlocking the Mangekyō Sharingan before the war.

• Danzo died after asking that Konoha be protected, and Uchiha Makoto burned his corpse until no trace remained while preserving Danzo’s heart in a sealing scroll.
• Hanzō fled, and Uchiha Makoto sent Pakura and Moyu to search for surviving Root ninja and spies before leaving the Land of Rain with his companions.
• Uchiha Makoto returned to Konoha, submitted a simplified mission report, and received no questions or summons from Hiruzen or Orochimaru.
• Uchiha Makoto asked Kakuzu whether Danzo’s death would be exposed, and Kakuzu judged that Hanzō would likely keep quiet and that the evidence would be difficult to uncover.
• Uchiha Makoto’s lie-manifesting ability shrouded the circumstances of Danzo’s death, buying him time to prepare for the coming war.
• Uchiha Makoto resolved to address his vulnerability to poison and powerful opponents and to unlock the Mangekyō Sharingan.

Uchiha Makoto kept his real research hidden in an underground Secret Base while maintaining a sham laboratory in Konoha. When Orochimaru summoned him over Danzo’s disappearance, he questioned Makoto’s unnaturally calm reaction, but Makoto denied knowing anything.

• Uchiha Makoto maintained a clean, inconspicuous laboratory as a front for his hidden Secret Base.
• Orochimaru’s messenger snake led Uchiha Makoto to one of his Secret Laboratories.
• Orochimaru told Uchiha Makoto that Elder Shimura Danzō had disappeared and watched for his reaction.
• Orochimaru pointed out that Makoto’s calmness seemed suspicious given Danzo’s hostility toward the Uchiha and the attack on Shisui.
• Uchiha Makoto relied on the system’s lie effect and denied knowing anything about Danzo’s disappearance.

Uchiha Makoto reconciled with Orochimaru by sharing research findings, then learned that Konoha was entering the war and the Uchiha Clan would be sent to the front. As Kumogakure opened a major offensive, Hiruzen Sarutobi ordered the Uchiha to form two units to reinforce Konoha’s defenses.

• Orochimaru stopped pressing Uchiha Makoto about Danzo and accepted Makoto’s research scrolls, which offered new ideas for his experiments.
• Orochimaru warned Uchiha Makoto that Konoha would soon enter the war and that the Uchiha Clan would likely be deployed.
• Kumogakure launched a full-scale invasion through the Land of Hot Water and the Land of Fields, stretching Konoha across three fronts against Sunagakure, Iwagakure, and Kumogakure.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi ordered Uchiha Yashiro to form two elite Uchiha units, one to reinforce Orochimaru in the Northern Land of Hot Water and the other to support Sakumo Hatake in the Western Land of Fields.

Uchiha Yashiro gathered the clan’s leaders and assigned two units to the war, while Uchiha Makoto privately weighed the dangers and opportunities of the coming battles. Makoto was assigned to reinforce Orochimaru in the Land of Hot Water as Konoha finalized its deployments.

• Uchiha Yashiro announced the Hokage’s orders, and the Young Hawks welcomed the war as a chance to restore the clan’s standing.
• Uchiha Fugaku considered how to use the clan’s strengths while limiting casualties, as Uchiha Makoto silently anticipated devastating losses and planned to gather resources on the battlefield.
• Uchiha Makoto accepted his assignment to the Northern Land of Hot Water without objection.
• Uchiha Yashiro finalized two thirty-ninja Uchiha units: one would join Sakumo Hatake in the Land of Fields, and the other would reinforce Orochimaru in the Land of Hot Water with Makoto among its members.

Uchiha Makoto realized that materializing the Mangekyō Sharingan directly was too difficult, so he tried to make the system materialize an intense pain experience that might trigger its awakening. He began telling trusted targets that the pain would come in ten days, and the chapter left the plan underway with several days remaining.

• Uchiha Makoto concluded that the Uchiha Clan's limited deployment to the front lines was a cautious commitment and that Shisui would stay behind to recover.
• Uchiha Makoto questioned Kakuzu about awakening the Mangekyō Sharingan, but their discussions and experiments produced only a small insight into Sharingan chakra flow.
• Uchiha Makoto decided to materialize an intense pain experience rather than the Mangekyō itself, hoping the experience would awaken his eyes.
• Uchiha Makoto told Kakuzu that he would experience intense pain in ten days, and the system recorded 80% trust and an estimated 40% completion.
• Uchiha Makoto told Might Guy the pain would come in nine days, then told Shisui Uchiha it would come in eight days and urged him to keep the prediction quiet.

Uchiha Makoto secured enough belief from his comrades to manifest a lie about suffering intense pain, then prepared to join the battlefront in the Land of Hot Water. He set out with two fabricated Uchiha teammates, expecting the coming ordeal might involve Kumogakure ninja.

• Obito reassured Makoto but took his warning seriously, while Kakashi cautiously accepted Makoto’s explanation of his precognition.
• Makoto calculated that the belief percentages totaled 111% and worried the promised pain might be dangerously intense, though he decided the risk was worth pursuing the Mangekyo.
• At Konoha’s main gate, Makoto joined the Uchiha squad bound for the Land of Hot Water; Nako, Shun, and Entetsu stayed behind because they were officially Genin.
• Makoto traveled with Uchiha Yeko and Uchiha Tufeng, whose identities he had manifested into Konoha’s records and who served as powerful support.
• Uchiha Fugaku led the Uchiha squad as its captain.

Uchiha Makoto traveled with Fugaku’s squad toward the Land of Hot Water while realizing he could have used the system to plan a future Mangekyō Sharingan awakening. The squad reached the war zone, where Fugaku ordered everyone to prepare for possible encounters with Kumogakure ninja.

• The system implanted convincing identities for Yako and Tufeng in the Uchiha group’s memories, and Fugaku treated the pair as respected senior clan members.
• Fugaku tried to speak with Yako and Tufeng during the journey, but their curt replies made him give up.
• Uchiha Makoto realized he could have stacked future manifestations to awaken the Mangekyō Sharingan, but his current 111% pain manifestation left him unable to change course.
• After five days of travel, Fugaku stopped the squad at the Land of Hot Water and ordered them to stay concealed, scout, and prepare for combat.

A led a Kumogakure night raid to destroy Konoha’s northern outposts and patrols before they could call for help. At dawn, Orochimaru, Shikaku Nara, Mitokado Homura, and Minato Namikaze faced the disappearance of the border forces, unaware of the full extent of the attack.

• Killer B questioned A’s cautious plan, but A warned him not to underestimate Konoha or Orochimaru and Minato Namikaze.
• A ordered more than a thousand Kumogakure ninja to attack Konoha’s three forward outposts and patrol network at three in the morning.
• A destroyed a Konoha watchtower with Lightning Release: Lariat, killed a guard, and crushed the signal flare before it could be fired.
• Kumogakure’s forces wiped out Konoha’s border lookout posts and patrol squads, cutting off their distress signals.
• At dawn, Orochimaru, Mitokado Homura, Shikaku Nara, and Minato Namikaze discussed the loss of contact with the northern border forces.

After Kumogakure cut off communications across the northern front, Konoha’s leaders predicted an elite strike and sent Minato Namikaze to intercept it. Minato confronted A and Killer B’s force in a valley, where both sides prepared to fight.

• Mitokado Homura blamed Orochimaru and the missing Danzo for the intelligence failure, while Minato and Shikaku Nara assessed Kumogakure’s likely plans.
• Minato volunteered to lead a mobile elite squad, and Shikaku began selecting routes and Konoha fighters for the interception.
• A led seventy Kumogakure elites, including Killer B, toward a logistics hub in the Land of Hot Water to disrupt Konoha’s defenses.
• Motem sensed Minato approaching, so A ordered his force to halt and form a defensive formation.
• Minato arrived with Shikaku Nara, Doto Akimichi, Inoichi Yamanaka, and other elite jonin, and A challenged him to battle.

Minato Namikaze and Konoha’s outnumbered force fought A and the Kumogakure assault, using speed and teamwork to hold the line. Killer B revealed his controlled tailed beast chakra as A ordered a retreat, and Minato faced a tentacle attack and the beginnings of a Tailed Beast Bomb.

• A led the Kumogakure force in an attack while Minato Namikaze and Shikaku Nara planned to hold them until Konoha reinforcements arrived.
• Minato Namikaze and A clashed at high speed, trading blows as Minato used Flying Thunder God Kunai to restrict A’s movements.
• Shikaku Nara, Doto Akimichi, and Inoichi Yamanaka worked together to block Kumogakure’s advance and stabilize Konoha’s line.
• Minato Namikaze directed his allies to throw Flying Thunder God Kunai from multiple angles, increasing the pressure on A.
• Killer B joined the central battle and used dark red tailed beast chakra tentacles to force Minato Namikaze to abandon an attack.
• A ordered the Kumogakure ninja to retreat as Konoha reinforcements approached, while Killer B began gathering a Tailed Beast Bomb to cover their escape.

Minato Namikaze stopped Kumogakure’s surprise attack and drove back the A-B Combo, while learning that the Eight-Tails Jinchūriki had joined the war. At the command camp, Uchiha Makoto watched Mitokado Homura direct the strategy meeting while Orochimaru remained silent, leaving Makoto puzzled by his teacher’s apparent lack of control.

• Minato Namikaze halted the pursuit as Kumogakure retreated under cover from A and Killer B, then ordered battlefield aid and warnings about the jinchūriki.
• Uchiha Fugaku arrived at Konoha’s command camp with thirty Uchiha ninja and met Minato Namikaze, whose victory had lifted the troops’ morale.
• Uchiha Makoto wondered why Orochimaru had become commander-in-chief, then followed Fugaku into the command tent.
• Mitokado Homura proposed sweeping Kumogakure’s remaining units and bases from the Land of Hot Water, while Orochimaru listened without responding.
• Uchiha Makoto noticed that Mitokado Homura was directing the meeting and questioned why Orochimaru seemed to be acting like a figurehead.

Orochimaru assigned Uchiha Makoto to a temporary sweep team with Hyuga Keisuke and Kano Yuya, whose clans possessed rare kekkei genkai. As Makoto anticipated collecting samples, he remembered that the next day was when his foretold “intense pain” was due to arrive, and the chapter left his team sweeping Sector C-7 with few signs of Kumogakure forces.

• Uchiha Makoto suspected Orochimaru had used his commander-in-chief position to gather experimental materials from the battlefield.
• Orochimaru approved Mitokado Homura’s strategy, assigned Minato Namikaze’s squad to mobile reserve duty, and divided the Uchiha shinobi among sweep teams.
• Orochimaru assigned Uchiha Makoto to a temporary team with Hyuga Keisuke and Kano Yuya, and Makoto recognized the chance to study their Byakugan and breath pulse kekkei genkai.
• Uchiha Makoto remembered that the next day was the date he had predicted for “intense pain” and grew uneasy about what it might bring.
• Uchiha Makoto, Hyuga Keisuke, and Kano Yuya led their nine-member team through Sector C-7, where Konoha’s sweep found few Kumogakure troops.

Uchiha Makoto persuaded the others to set an ambush, hoping to face the expected danger in a controlled setting, but a large Kumogakure force led by Toroi soon attacked. The chapter ended as Hyuga Keisuke assigned the squads their battle positions.

• Uchiha Makoto convinced Hyuga Keisuke and Kano Yuya to stop searching and camp in a defensible clearing, where Pakura placed warning traps.
• While the group waited, Uchiha Makoto secretly told Pakura to keep Hyuga Keisuke alive if he was about to die, so Makoto could preserve his Byakugan.
• Hyuga Keisuke spotted more than twenty approaching enemies and identified their leader as Toroi, a Kumogakure shinobi who wielded Magnet Release.
• Hyuga Keisuke ordered Uchiha Makoto's squad to confront Toroi's main force, sent Kano Yuya's squad to the flank, and coordinated the defense from the center.

Uchiha Makoto's squad feigned weakness while Toroi's Magnet Release pushed Konoha's defenders toward collapse. Pakura unleashed her Scorch Release to create an opening, and Makoto used it to attack Toroi with poisoned, chakra-suppressing senbon.

• Uchiha Makoto ordered Pakura and Tufeng to eliminate weaker enemies while keeping Toroi alive, and the battle began with Toroi's magnetized shuriken storm.
• Uchiha Makoto, Pakura, and Tufeng held back while Toroi's attacks battered the Hyuga and Kano squads, leaving Hyuga Keisuke and Kano Yuya injured and two Konoha ninja dead.
• Uchiha Makoto ordered Pakura to protect Hyuga Keisuke and drive Toroi back, while Tufeng helped restrain Toroi and Kano Yuya was to be saved if possible.
• Pakura unleashed Scorch Release, burned two Kumogakure chunin, and disrupted Toroi's control by heating his magnetized shuriken.
• Uchiha Makoto exploited Toroi's momentary lapse and fired poisoned senbon with chakra-suppression tags at his joints and chakra points.

Uchiha Makoto’s team defeated Toroi’s squad, extracted Hyuga Keisuke’s Byakugan, and gathered valuable bodies and bloodline samples. Their victory was interrupted when A and Killer B arrived with five elite Kumogakure ninja, leaving Makoto facing a dangerous confrontation.

• Makoto ordered Pakura and Tufeng to kill the remaining Kumogakure ninja after they subdued Toroi.
• Pakura used the modified Byakugan Collector to extract Keisuke’s eyes while Tufeng harvested hearts from several fallen ninja.
• Makoto sent Kano Yuya’s corpse and the unconscious Toroi toward a secret outpost with Moyu’s crow clones.
• A and Killer B arrived with five elite ninja after responding to Toroi’s distress signal, and A realized Makoto’s group was not Minato Namikaze.