Chapter Summaries

Uchiha Makoto accepted Fugaku’s request to train Itachi, beginning the boy’s instruction with rigorous taijutsu and a warning against relying too much on the Sharingan. Days later, Kumogakure massed troops at the border, and Makoto dismissed the threat as posturing.

• Fugaku asked Uchiha Makoto to take Itachi as his disciple, and Makoto accepted after weighing the benefits.
• Makoto told Itachi to set aside ninjutsu and genjutsu for now and focus on taijutsu, fitness, and control of his body.
• Makoto tested Itachi’s chakra affinities and found yin and yang release along with wind, water, and fire nature transformations.
• Kumogakure massed troops along the border, prompting Konoha’s High Command to raise its combat readiness.
• Makoto heard about Kumogakure’s mobilization while training Itachi and dismissed the Raikage’s actions as a show of force.

Uchiha Makoto began planning a personal force after his agents captured a White Zetsu, which he used to develop clones in his underground base. As the base became crowded, he decided the Land of Fields could be the site of a village of his own.

• Uchiha Makoto considered creating his own troops after comparing his resources with Danzo's Root, Orochimaru's Otogakure, and Madara Uchiha's Akatsuki and White Zetsu army.
• Number Two, Tufeng, Number Three, Yako, and Number Four, A Mu reported capturing a creature suspected to be an Ancient Creature Remnant, which Uchiha Makoto identified as White Zetsu.
• Uchiha Makoto cultivated White Zetsu clones and found they reproduced quickly, though most were too weak and unstable to serve as vessels for multiple kekkei genkai.
• Uchiha Makoto imagined creating a high-quality artificial weapon infused with multiple kekkei genkai and powerful enough to approach Six Paths or Ōtsutsuki strength.
• Uchiha Makoto judged his underground base beneath Konoha too crowded and risky to expand further, then considered establishing his own village in the Land of Fields.

Uchiha Makoto planned to establish a shinobi village in the Land of Fields under his control. At his base, he stopped Uzumaki Shiori from injuring herself to heal a wounded companion and promised protection to those who followed the rules.

• Uchiha Makoto planned to send Number Two and Number Three with White Zetsu soldiers to infiltrate the Land of Fields and secure the daimyo's cooperation or replace him.
• Uchiha Makoto noticed a commotion in the base's residential sector and saw Shiori preparing to let an unconscious young man bite her arm so her Uzumaki vitality could heal him.
• Number Two-Yako stopped Shiori and revealed that her arm was covered in old and new bite scars from healing others.
• Uchiha Makoto told Shiori that she did not need to hurt herself to prove her worth, and that the base had medical care and supplies.
• Uchiha Makoto promised protection and the chance to grow to those who offered loyalty and followed the base's rules.

Uchiha Makoto reassured the Uzumaki Clan and arranged care and training for Shiori, then questioned her about the life-draining cost of her healing ability. He proposed studying and developing it, but made clear that her and her daughter's Uzumaki bloodline interested him.

• Uchiha Makoto told the crowd he wanted them alive and capable, then instructed Yako to treat Shiori's wounds and help her rest.
• Uchiha Makoto asked Shiori how her ability worked and learned that healing others left her tired and might shorten her life.
• Yako warned Shiori that repeatedly sacrificing her life could leave her vulnerable to people seeking to exploit her ability.
• Shiori explained that she used her ability because she could not bear to watch loved ones suffer helplessly, especially her daughter.
• Uchiha Makoto called Shiori's self-sacrifice foolish and suggested researching ways to control or improve her ability.
• Uchiha Makoto offered to provide resources and a safe environment for research, saying Shiori and her daughter’s Uzumaki bloodline interested him.

Shiori accepted Uchiha Makoto’s offer of protection and training in exchange for absolute loyalty. In Spring of Year 51, the Land of Fields’ daimyo learned that Konoha and Kumogakure might bring conflict into his country, and his adviser urged him to establish a powerful new shinobi village under his control.

• Uchiha Makoto offered Shiori and her daughter protection and support in exchange for their absolute loyalty and obedience.
• Shiori accepted Uchiha Makoto’s offer.
• The daimyo of the Land of Fields learned that Konoha and Kumogakure were mobilizing elite ninja who might enter his country.
• The daimyo feared that Tanigakure was too weak to defend the Land of Fields from the great nations.
• The adviser urged the daimyo to establish a new, powerful shinobi village under his direct control.

Uchiha Makoto accepted a Konoha border mission as cover while moving to seize control of the Land of Fields and establish a new shinobi village. By dawn, the daimyo’s palace and the capital were under his faction’s control, and a rebuilt Tanigakure was rising in a secluded valley.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi assigned Uchiha Makoto to lead an elite force toward the Kumogakure border, and Makoto accepted without conditions.
• Uchiha Makoto met A Mu, who reported that Tanigakure had been taken over and most of its shinobi had submitted.
• After learning that the daimyo was still hesitating over the proposed village, Uchiha Makoto ordered Number Two to seize the palace and deploy White Zetsu troops across the capital.
• Pakura led the takeover of the Daimyo’s Palace, and the daimyo and the former regime’s people were eliminated.
• White Zetsu troops took control of the capital’s defenses and institutions while a larger Tanigakure was built in a secluded valley.

Uchiha Makoto tracked Sasori to an abandoned mine in the Land of Birds and offered him a place in Tanigakure in exchange for his Human Puppet expertise. Sasori attacked to test Makoto’s strength, and Makoto awakened his Mangekyō Sharingan as the chapter ended.

• Uchiha Makoto established control over the new Tanigakure and set out to recruit talents and build its strength.
• Number Two reported that Sasori had entered the Land of Birds and was hiding in an abandoned mine to repair a Human Puppet.
• Uchiha Makoto and Number Two entered the mine while the other subordinates sealed the exits.
• Uchiha Makoto confronted Sasori and offered him research resources and freedom to pursue his work in Tanigakure.
• Sasori fired a storm of iron senbon from Hiruko, and Uchiha Makoto told Number Two not to intervene before his Sharingan transformed into a black vortex.

Uchiha Makoto used a new mental-domain technique to sever Sasori’s control over his puppets, then destroyed Sasori’s ambush puppet with a single kick. As more than a hundred Tanigakure shinobi surrounded the mine, Sasori remained unfazed and challenged Makoto’s reliance on numbers.

• Uchiha Makoto’s Sharingan-based mental domain disrupted Sasori’s control of the iron sand by making Sasori believe he had released his chakra threads.
• Sasori activated a hidden scorpion puppet ambush, but Uchiha Makoto dodged its poisoned stinger and smashed its head with a kick.
• Sasori acknowledged Makoto’s reflexes and strength, then declared he wanted to turn him into a Human Puppet.
• More than a hundred Tanigakure shinobi emerged to surround the mine after receiving Uchiha Makoto’s order through the Chakra Communication Technique.
• Sasori saw the assembled shinobi and the remains of his puppet, then asked whether Makoto thought numbers would help.

Sasori unleashed the Performance of a Hundred Puppets against two Land of Fields fighters, who destroyed his first wave with precise taijutsu. As Sasori adapted his control and the remaining puppets grew more dangerous, he warned the pair that destroying his puppets brought them closer to death.

• Sasori revealed hundreds of puppets and used them to slaughter more than a hundred elite ninja from the Land of Fields.
• Sasori sent his puppets against a dark-haired young man and a masked ninja, who dismantled the first wave by striking the puppets' weak points.
• Sasori changed the remaining puppets' formation and controlled them with greater precision, forcing the dark-haired fighter to falter.
• Sasori withdrew his puppets and warned the fighters that every puppet they destroyed brought them closer to death.

Uchiha Makoto awakened his Mangekyō Sharingan and evaded Sasori’s coordinated poison attacks, forcing Sasori to recognize him as a serious opponent. Sasori then revealed that his remaining puppets concealed resin beneath their wooden shells as he prepared to unleash his full strength.

• Sasori triggered concealed poisoned needles and a scorpion puppet’s stinger to attack Uchiha Makoto from three directions.
• Uchiha Makoto’s Mangekyō Sharingan let him read the attacks, and he dodged them without using Ninjutsu or Substitution.
• Sasori recognized the Mangekyō Sharingan and questioned whether Makoto was an Uchiha from Konoha.
• Makoto said he could see through every puppet, trap, and ambush, invalidating Sasori’s earlier warning.
• Sasori admitted he had underestimated Makoto and said he would use his full strength.
• Sasori halted his remaining puppets and revealed that resin lay beneath their wooden exteriors.

Sasori unleashed his resin-coated puppets and the Third Kazekage Human Puppet’s Iron Sand against Uchiha Makoto, who called on Tufeng to reveal his dragon crystal sand. Tufeng’s golden sand dragon met the black Iron Sand in a devastating clash that shattered Sasori’s puppets.

• Sasori activated the resin of his puppet army, which could harden around targets and seal their chakra flow.
• Sasori deployed the Third Kazekage Human Puppet and flooded the battlefield with resin-infused Iron Sand.
• Uchiha Makoto praised the puppet’s abilities, then stepped back and asked Tufeng to show his dragon crystal sand.
• Tufeng formed a giant dragon from crystalline golden sand and sent it charging into the Iron Sand tide.
• The two Sand Techniques collided, breaking trees and stones while dragon crystal sand pierced Sasori’s puppets and disrupted his control.

Tufeng’s dragon crystal sand countered Sasori’s iron sand and overwhelmed the Third Kazekage Human Puppet. Sasori lost control of his puppet as it disappeared beneath the golden sand.

• Tufeng tested his dragon crystal sand against Sasori’s Third Kazekage Human Puppet, whose iron sand was weakened by the crystal’s properties.
• Uchiha Makoto explained that Tufeng’s dragon crystal sand was developed from the Third Kazekage’s iron sand and Crystal Release techniques to counter Magnet Release.
• Sasori unleashed the Iron Sand World Method, but its cutting threads could not pierce the dragon crystal sand, which repaired its surface and began eroding his control over the iron sand.
• Tufeng’s golden sand overwhelmed the iron sand and engulfed the Third Kazekage Human Puppet.
• Sasori’s chakra threads were severed, and he lost all connection to the puppet.

Tufeng’s dragon crystal sand devoured Sasori’s Third Kazekage Human Puppet and severed his control, forcing Sasori to reveal his true face and take the fight seriously. Uchiha Makoto stepped in and manifested a towering chakra warrior, beginning the battle to subdue Sasori for Tanigakure.

• Tufeng’s dragon crystal sand consumed the Third Kazekage Human Puppet and disrupted Sasori’s chakra control link.
• Sasori recognized dragon crystal sand as a sealing-type kekkei genkai and inferred that Tanigakure could cultivate more shinobi with the ability.
• Sasori revealed his true face and unleashed a powerful surge of chakra, threatening to add his opponents to his puppet collection.
• Uchiha Makoto stopped Tufeng, declared that he would personally make Sasori submit, and advanced with his Mangekyō Sharingan active.
• Uchiha Makoto formed a massive cyan chakra skeleton that gained flesh and armor as its power continued to condense.

Uchiha Makoto captured Sasori with Susanoo and placed his puppet core in a cultivation tank to receive a new mechanical body. Pakura and A Mu arrived at Tanigakure’s research base with No. 5 and No. 6, whose fused kekkei genkai approached a fraction of the Ōtsutsuki bloodline’s power.

• Uchiha Makoto used Susanoo to overwhelm Sasori and seize his puppet core.
• Uchiha Makoto placed Sasori’s core in a cultivation tank and ordered researchers to prepare a Type VII Drive Core mechanical body.
• Pakura arrived at the underground research base with A Mu, No. 5, and No. 6.
• The researchers’ latest modifications had fused the Uzumaki Clan’s vitality, Wood Release, and Shikotsumyaku within No. 5 and No. 6.

Uchiha Makoto celebrated Tanigakure’s growing strength after No. 5 and No. 6 captured Kisame Hoshigaki, while he planned to obtain four Akatsuki members. At the front, he welcomed three young Uchiha who volunteered to join his unit and showed them Tanigakure, leaving them amazed by how much the village had grown.

• A Mu reported that her compatibility between Shikotsumyaku and Wood Release had stabilized above ninety-seven percent.
• Pakura reported that No. 5 and No. 6 had captured fifteen-year-old Kisame Hoshigaki in under four minutes, overcoming his Water Release and Samehada.
• Uchiha Makoto declared that Tanigakure had the strength to challenge the Five Great Shinobi Villages, but said he needed at least four core Akatsuki members before making his next move.
• At the Land of Fields frontline camp, Number Two told Uchiha Makoto that three Uchiha had arrived to join his unit.
• Uchiha Makoto welcomed Seiji and the other two clansmen, then had his subordinates escort them to Tanigakure.
• The three Uchiha marveled at Tanigakure’s orderly streets and buildings, and one asked Uchiha Makoto whether he had built it all in a year.