Chapter Summaries

After becoming a Chunin, Uchiha Makoto joined Orochimaru, Kakashi, and Harada Yuichi on a B-rank mission to escort Princess Sara to Rōran and investigate the queen’s illness. The team reached Rōran’s ruins, where Orochimaru sent the others to search while he left to investigate Sunagakure.

• Orochimaru assigned Uchiha Makoto, Kakashi, and Harada Yuichi to escort Princess Sara and investigate the threat in Rōran.
• Uchiha Makoto recognized the mission as resembling Team Minato’s mission from The Lost Tower and prepared to go anyway.
• The team crossed the desert, using careful teamwork as Uchiha Makoto’s Mimic Sand Lizard Cloak helped him endure the conditions and mask his chakra.
• After several days, the team reached Rōran’s ruins, where Kakashi and Harada Yuichi searched for Princess Sara while Uchiha Makoto conducted wide-area reconnaissance.
• Orochimaru told the three to investigate Rōran, then left alone to scout Sunagakure.

Uchiha Makoto used summoned crows to find a hidden entrance to Rōran’s underground city, where he discovered that Anrokuzan had taken control of the Dragon Vein and was secretly exploiting the city’s people. He learned that Anrokuzan had murdered the queen, installed Princess Sara as a puppet ruler, and was building a vast army of war puppets.

• Uchiha Makoto summoned a flock of crows to scout Rōran while Harada Yuichi watched and Kakashi accompanied them.
• A crow found signs of a concealed entrance in a warehouse, and Uchiha Makoto opened the metal hatch and descended underground.
• Uchiha Makoto saw that the underground city appeared prosperous, but its residents behaved like puppets and the streets were patrolled by combat models.
• Uchiha Makoto entered the central building and used Genjutsu: Sharingan to make an official reveal the city’s secrets.
• The official explained that Anrokuzan had murdered the queen, installed Princess Sara as a puppet monarch, drained residents’ life energy to sustain the Dragon Vein, and manufactured an enormous army of war puppets.

Uchiha Makoto and his squad uncovered Mukade’s plan to use Rōran’s dragon vein to build an army of puppets, then rescued a wounded Konoha ninja, Naruto, from an attack. They learned that Mukade had taken control of the city and resolved to stop him, though the puppet army’s size left them facing a difficult fight.

• Uchiha Makoto discovered from an official’s memories that Mukade intended to use the dragon vein and an immortal puppet army to conquer the shinobi world.
• Kakashi reported that puppet troops had intercepted his team and that an unidentified Konoha ninja was fighting nearby.
• Uchiha Makoto, Kakashi, and Harada Yuichi defeated several puppets and helped Naruto escape the encirclement.
• Uchiha Makoto treated Naruto’s shoulder wound, warned him to stay alert, and led the squad away.
• In an abandoned room, Uchiha Makoto explained Mukade’s takeover of Rōran and his plan to mass-produce war puppets.
• Kakashi said they had to stop Mukade, while Harada Yuichi worried about the size of the puppet army.

Uchiha Makoto split from Kakashi and Harada Yuichi to infiltrate the tower that controlled Mukade’s puppet army. He found the central hub and Mukade’s workshop, where he began gathering valuable technical documents and designs.

• Uchiha Makoto sent Kakashi and Harada Yuichi to secure Princess Sara and cause a distraction while he searched for the control hub.
• Uchiha Makoto used his Three-Tomoe Sharingan to study the tower’s defenses and spotted a robed man he believed was Mukade leaving with elite puppets.
• Uchiha Makoto slipped into the tower and found the central hub, but decided not to destroy it before learning more about Mukade’s real body and puppet factory.
• Uchiha Makoto discovered Mukade’s workshop and found puppet blueprints, components, tools, and technical scrolls.
• Uchiha Makoto recognized the workshop’s research on Dragon Vein energy and mechanical systems as valuable material for his own studies.

Uchiha Makoto looted Mukade’s workshop, rigged its energy node with Explosive Tags, and followed a chakra pipe to Rōran’s dragon vein core. There he rescued the unconscious Yamato from the corrosive currents and secretly collected his blood for research.

• Uchiha Makoto took precision gears, tools, rare metals, and blueprints from Mukade’s workshop and transferred most of them into a Space Scroll.
• Uchiha Makoto booby-trapped the room’s pillars and energy-pipe junctions with Explosive Tags linked by Chakra Threads.
• Uchiha Makoto followed the thick purple chakra pipe underground and discovered Rōran’s enormous dragon vein core.
• Uchiha Makoto found Yamato unconscious and partly submerged in the dragon vein’s corrosive energy, then dragged him to safety with Chakra Threads.
• Uchiha Makoto tried his unfinished Chakra Absorber on the dragon vein energy, but it failed after five seconds.
• Uchiha Makoto drew Yamato’s blood and sealed the sample for his research into Hashirama cells.

Uchiha Makoto revived Yamato and rushed him toward the battle after sensing the Nine-Tails’ chakra erupt. Naruto broke free of the puppets, but Mukade transformed into a giant spider puppet and overwhelmed him until Kakashi and Harada Yuichi arrived; Makoto and Yamato then joined them.

• Uchiha Makoto used a medical ninja tool to revive Yamato, who was shocked to see a young Uchiha wearing a Konoha flak jacket.
• A surge of Nine-Tails’ chakra erupted above them, and Uchiha Makoto carried the weakened Yamato toward his teammates.
• Naruto unleashed the Nine-Tails’ chakra, blasting away the puppets that had pinned him down.
• Mukade transformed into a giant spider puppet and directed more than a hundred puppets to attack Naruto.
• Kakashi and Harada Yuichi arrived, cut down puppets, and protected Naruto and Princess Sara.
• Uchiha Makoto reached the battlefield with Yamato as Kakashi and Harada Yuichi faced Mukade.

Naruto and his allies crippled Mukade’s puppet army by detonating Uchiha Makoto’s explosive tags, allowing Naruto to damage Mukade’s spider puppet with a Rasengan. Mukade rebuilt it into a colossal, more powerful form, and Naruto’s shadow clones failed to break through its armor.

• Uchiha Makoto remotely detonated explosive tags at the underground city’s junctions, disabling most of Mukade’s puppets.
• Naruto seized Mukade’s distraction and struck the spider puppet’s head-and-torso joint with a Rasengan.
• Uchiha Makoto noticed Naruto’s wound was worsening and suspected his healing abilities had been weakened by time travel.
• Mukade absorbed nearby wreckage and masonry, reconstructing his spider puppet into a towering, heavily armored monster.
• Naruto created more than a dozen shadow clones, but the puppet scattered most of them and resisted the others’ Chakra Blades.

Uchiha Makoto treated Naruto and summoned Moyu to help destroy Mukade’s giant puppet, but Mukade rebuilt an even larger body with the dragon vein’s chakra. The team’s attacks failed to stop him, and the underground structure neared collapse.

• Uchiha Makoto used a medical tool to treat Naruto’s bleeding arm and examined the scarlet chakra inside him.
• Uchiha Makoto summoned Moyu, whose charge smashed Mukade’s spider puppet into a wall.
• Uchiha Makoto’s Fire Style attack and Moyu’s assault melted a main joint, sending the puppet crashing into a pit.
• Mukade gathered wreckage with chakra threads and formed a larger puppet, proclaiming himself immortal through the dragon vein.
• Naruto, Kakashi, Harada Yuichi, and Uchiha Makoto attacked the new puppet, but Mukade’s strikes drove them back as the underground space began to collapse.

Naruto freed Sara from Mukade’s control and urged her to lead Rōran, while Uchiha Makoto sought a way to claim the Dragon Vein. Sara rallied the citizens to march on the Ryūmyaku Core, but Makoto remotely activated repaired puppets to attack them.

• Mukade used chakra threads to try to force Sara to snap her own neck, but Naruto cut the threads with a Chakra Blade and fell from the puppet.
• Uchiha Makoto caught Naruto, who gave Sara a Chakra Blade and told her to protect herself.
• Naruto called on Sara to stop acting like a puppet princess, and Sara tore off her gown, rallied Rōran’s citizens, and led them toward the Ryūmyaku Core.
• Uchiha Makoto ordered his crow clones to animate puppet wreckage, and the revived puppets attacked Sara’s unarmed followers.

As Mukade’s enhanced puppets overwhelmed the battlefield, Uchiha Makoto convinced Naruto that a sealing tool could stop the Dragon Vein and made the lie real with Naruto’s trust. Makoto took Naruto’s blood and raced toward the underground tower where the Dragon Vein’s energy was strongest.

• Naruto exhausted his chakra trying to fight a puppet, which struck him into a wall while Sara and civilians were wounded or killed.
• Uchiha Makoto told Kakashi and Harada Yuichi to hold their position and wait for a signal, while his crow puppets harassed Sara’s group without killing her.
• Makoto reached the injured Naruto and claimed he had a secret Hokage-provided tool capable of sealing the Dragon Vein.
• Naruto trusted Makoto completely, causing the Dragon Vein Sealing Disc to manifest as a usable tool.
• Makoto drew and stored some of Naruto’s blood, then used Moonwalk to race toward the underground tower as his crow puppets held off attackers.

Uchiha Makoto sealed the Dragon Vein’s core, leaving Mukade powerless and allowing Orochimaru to kill him before he could detonate it. Naruto and Yamato returned to the future, while Orochimaru was left studying the empty site and wondering how Makoto had taken the entire Dragon Vein.

• Uchiha Makoto used the sealing disk to absorb the Dragon Vein’s energy, shutting down Mukade’s giant puppet.
• Orochimaru appeared and killed the weakened Mukade before he could detonate the Dragon Vein.
• The Dragon Vein’s energy vanished, and the remaining puppets collapsed as Naruto and Yamato began returning to the future.
• Yamato punched young Kakashi before disappearing, while Naruto warned Uchiha Makoto to guard the seal and watch out for Orochimaru.
• Orochimaru found the Dragon Vein gone and considered how Uchiha Makoto had sealed it.

After the Dragon Vein vanished, Orochimaru led the team back toward Konoha and showed growing interest in time travel. That night, Uchiha Makoto inventoried the valuable materials and research he had collected in Rōran and resolved to protect Naruto’s future.

• Orochimaru ordered the team to clear the site and return, suspecting that time travel had consumed the Dragon Vein’s energy.
• Orochimaru praised Kakashi, Harada Yuichi, and Uchiha Makoto during the journey back while showing particular curiosity about Makoto.
• Uchiha Makoto reviewed his gains at an inn, including the sealed Dragon Vein, Naruto’s and Yamato’s blood samples, Rōran materials, and Mukade’s research.
• Uchiha Makoto considered preventing Naruto from becoming Menma and decided he might need to act during the Nine-Tails’ attack.

Uchiha Makoto and his team received an A-Rank evaluation and payment for their Rōran mission, and Makoto decided to use the Dragon Vein as power for his secret laboratory. As he told his friends about his plans, news of rising tensions made him suspect that the Third Shinobi World War was approaching.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi approved the mission with an A-Rank evaluation and warned Orochimaru to report dangerous discoveries such as the Dragon Vein to the village.
• Orochimaru divided the one million ryo reward, giving Makoto three hundred thousand, Kakashi one hundred thousand, and Yuichi fifty thousand.
• Makoto examined the Dragon Vein Sealing Orb and chose to use its energy as a power source for his secret laboratory.
• Makoto treated Yuichi, Obito, Guy, and Kakashi to a barbecue, where they discussed rising tensions around the Land of Fire.
• Makoto told his friends he planned to build a laboratory for developing and testing Scientific Ninja Tools, but said its hidden location was off-limits.

Uchiha Makoto convinced Obito that he had a hidden secret base, triggering his lie-into-reality ability to manifest one inside the Uchiha Clan Compound. He learned the base’s location and layout, then summoned crow scouts to check its safety.

• After the group left the barbecue restaurant, Makoto asked Obito whether he trusted him and claimed he had a secret base hidden in the village.
• Obito believed Makoto completely, giving the lie an 80% trust assessment and causing the secret base to manifest at 64% completion.
• Makoto learned that the base was in an old maple grove on the Back Mountain of the Uchiha Clan Compound and received its blueprints and operating hand seals.
• Makoto sealed his room against sound and summoned a flock of crow scouts to inspect the base’s security.

Uchiha Makoto secretly entered an underground facility beneath the Back Mountain and installed the Dragon Vein Sealing Orb in its energy machine. The system powered up, lighting and activating the laboratory while spreading a stable barrier through the space.

• Uchiha Makoto sent three teams of crows to watch his house, the clan compound’s main road, and the Back Mountain.
• Uchiha Makoto disguised himself and slipped into the Maple Forest, where he found a concealed entrance beneath an old maple tree.
• Uchiha Makoto descended into the underground facility and found its Energy Room and dormant machine.
• Uchiha Makoto fitted the Dragon Vein Sealing Orb into the machine and activated it with the Basic Energy Control Formula.
• The machine converted Dragon Vein energy into chakra, powered the facility’s lights and equipment, and raised a stable barrier around the underground space.

Uchiha Makoto explored his newly materialized laboratory, finding basic equipment and a chakra-imaging microscope, then decided to improve its security and use it for research. He began recruiting Guy by inventing an elaborate laboratory full of training-analysis equipment, and the system assessed Guy’s trust in the lie at 40%.

• Uchiha Makoto inspected the laboratory and discovered that its microscope could display chakra flow.
• Uchiha Makoto identified the base’s limited space, basic equipment, and weak security, and planned to install a better alarm system.
• Uchiha Makoto decided to recruit Guy and Kakashi as additional investors after relying on Obito alone proved slow.
• Uchiha Makoto approached Guy after his workout and claimed his secret laboratory had expanded to over a thousand square meters.
• Uchiha Makoto described fictional equipment for analyzing Guy’s taijutsu, and the system assessed Guy’s trust in the laboratory lie at 40%.

Uchiha Makoto persuaded Guy and Kakashi to believe increasingly elaborate claims about his secret laboratory, and their trust caused Lie-Into-Reality to expand his base. He explored the newly materialized second level and found its equipment impressive in scale but rougher than he had claimed.

• Uchiha Makoto promised Guy the first test puppet, and Guy eagerly accepted.
• Uchiha Makoto told Kakashi that his laboratory had two levels and advanced equipment supplied by Orochimaru, and Kakashi said he believed him.
• Kakashi’s trust in the laboratory lie reached 75%, materializing a secret base and using Makoto’s daily ability charge.
• Uchiha Makoto entered the base at night and found widened stairs, brighter lighting, and an elevator leading to a second basement level.
• Uchiha Makoto inspected the expanded laboratory and found its tools, biological equipment, and psychic array present but less advanced than he had described.

Uchiha Makoto inspected his newly manifested Secret Base and planned its calibration and initial research. Over the next half year, he upgraded its equipment, advanced his ninja-tool crafting and Puppet Technique, and developed puppets capable of attacking autonomously.

• Uchiha Makoto explored the eight-hundred-square-meter Secret Base and noted its incomplete equipment and tangled energy conduits.
• Uchiha Makoto planned to calibrate the equipment, secure the base, study Hashirama Cells and Dragon Vein energy, and modify Mukade's puppets.
• Uchiha Makoto spent the next six months accompanying Orochimaru on missions while Danzo and Root left him alone.
• Uchiha Makoto upgraded the base's equipment and learned to design complex ninja tools, including an adaptive ninja puppet device.
• Uchiha Makoto developed a Semi-Biological Puppet Core that let puppets learn simple patterns and attack autonomously.

Uchiha Makoto’s ocular power surged beyond that of an ordinary Three-Tomoe Sharingan, but when his eyes transformed, he awakened a Four-Tomoe Sharingan instead of the Mangekyō. He discovered that his perception and other Sharingan abilities had improved, while a new chakra pathway in his eyes remained unexplained.

• Uchiha Makoto continued secretly boosting his ocular power by telling Kakashi, Obito, Shisui, and Guy that his Sharingan abilities were improving.
• While working on a sensor in the base’s Puppet Testing Room, Makoto felt intense pain in his eyes, which began to bleed.
• Makoto expected his Mangekyō Sharingan to awaken, but he saw a Four-Tomoe Sharingan in the mirror.
• Makoto tested his new eyes and found that his perception, motion tracking, and genjutsu resistance had improved, and he sensed an unfamiliar chakra current in his eyes.

After awakening a previously unknown Four-Tomoe Sharingan, Uchiha Makoto concealed his eyes and focused on keeping a low profile while balancing missions, Orochimaru’s lab work, and his own research. On his way home, he was drawn into a confrontation when a bullied Uchiha girl called for his help, and a civilian boy charged at him.

• Uchiha Makoto found no record of a Four-Tomoe Sharingan and decided to conceal the extra tomoe while suspending his ocular abilities.
• Uchiha Makoto split his time between Chunin missions, assisting Orochimaru in the Laboratory, and conducting independent research at his Secret Base.
• After leaving Orochimaru’s Laboratory, Uchiha Makoto saw a group of children harassing an Uchiha girl and initially tried to walk past.
• The girl called out Uchiha Makoto’s name, prompting him to turn back as the group’s leader mocked his status as a young Chunin.
• The lead boy threw a stone at Uchiha Makoto, who caught and crushed it, then charged at him with wild punches.