Chapter Summaries

Sasuke used himself as bait in the Forest of Death to draw out Danzo’s Root operatives while following Shisui. As Root attacked, Sasuke revealed a powerful repulsion technique and prepared to unleash the strength stored within a mysterious gray statue.

• Sasuke waited beside Naruto in the Forest of Death and sensed six masked figures approaching, five of whom bore signs of Danzo’s Root.
• Sasuke recalled that Shisui had left the village on a mission and suspected Danzo’s men were targeting him after he followed Shisui into the forest.
• Naruto said he could sense the attackers’ malice, surprising Sasuke with his apparent ability to detect them.
• Root operatives attacked Sasuke with ninja tools, but he used Shinra Tensei to redirect them while the ANBU member Niu Er protested.
• Root’s leader Gou San coordinated wind and fire techniques with close-range attacks to trap Sasuke, who drew power from the gray statue in his mind and pointed toward the sky.

Shisui rushed to the Forest of Death after sensing Sasuke was in danger, where he found Sasuke had survived an attack by Root and subdued five operatives with a Wood Release-like technique. Sasuke left the aftermath to Shisui and Niu Er, while Shisui abandoned his planned mission and decided to consult Itachi before choosing what to do next.

• Shisui heard explosions in the Forest of Death and hurried there, fearing someone was attacking Sasuke.
• Niu Er rescued Naruto from the flames, but Sasuke emerged unharmed and transformed into a taller, more powerful form.
• Sasuke used blue-and-gold vines to bind five Root operatives and asked Shisui to inspect their tongues.
• Sasuke made Niu Er repeat an insult about Danzo, then returned to his child form and pointed out that the Root operatives could not reveal information about Danzo.
• Shisui canceled his mission and said he would discuss what he had witnessed with Itachi, while Sasuke and Naruto left the forest.
• Shisui and Niu Er were left wondering what to do with the five suspended Root operatives.

Sasuke met Tang San and Xiao Yan in the Gray Fog Space, where they shared memories and discussed their plans. After Sasuke revealed his scheme against Danzo, Tang San proposed a strategy, while a confrontation between Danzo and Hiruzen outside the Hokage's office stirred Kakashi to reconsider his withdrawal.

• Sasuke dreamed of Itachi killing him, then woke in the Gray Fog Space and reunited with Tang San and Xiao Yan.
• Sasuke reviewed Tang San's memories, learning about his thousand-year first soul ring, his connection to Ah Yin, and his experiments with soul rings and Ring Detonation.
• Sasuke reviewed Xiao Yan's memories and learned that Xiao Yan had kept his cultivation and was caught between Xiao Xun'er and Nalan Yanran.
• Sasuke shared his plan to provoke Danzo and expose the tensions around Root, Wood Release, and the Uchiha, and Tang San offered a strategy for dealing with Danzo.
• Outside the Hokage's office, Iruka, Guy, and Kakashi heard Danzo angrily threaten Hiruzen, and Kakashi began reconsidering his guilt-driven withdrawal.

Hiruzen confronted Danzo over Root’s attempt to assassinate Sasuke and Naruto, then assigned Guy to advise the boys and moved Kakashi out of ANBU. When Shisui told Itachi that Sasuke had been attacked, Itachi believed his brother was dead and swore to kill Danzo, only to find Sasuke alive.

• Hiruzen ordered Danzo to withdraw Root operatives from the Uchiha and Naruto, pull back Root’s influence, and stop interfering with the Uchiha.
• Hiruzen reviewed reports about Sasuke and Naruto with Iruka, Guy, and Kakashi, then appointed Guy to give the boys taijutsu advice and reassigned Kakashi from ANBU.
• Hiruzen sent intelligence about the assassination attempt to the Military Police Force and discovered a top-secret dossier on Sasuke that mentioned Wood Release.
• Shisui told Itachi that Root had attacked Sasuke in the Forest of Death and gave him Sasuke’s dango and note.
• Itachi believed Sasuke was dead, swore to kill Danzo, and then froze when Sasuke emerged alive from his bedroom.

After Root attacked Sasuke, he explained Danzo’s plan and tried to stop Itachi and Shisui from responding rashly. He claimed a dream visit from the Sage of Six Paths explained his Wood Release, leaving Itachi and Shisui unsure whether to believe him.

• Itachi examined Sasuke and asked what had happened during the Root attack and how he had used Wood Release.
• Sasuke said Danzo had tried to use his death to inflame tensions between the Uchiha and the village, and warned that Danzo might stage further incidents.
• Itachi told Sasuke to stay inside and said he would handle the matter, then asked Shisui to accompany him to see Lord Hokage.
• Sasuke stopped them from acting and redirected the conversation to his Wood Release.
• Sasuke claimed the Sage of Six Paths had visited him in a dream and granted him temporary power, but Itachi and Shisui doubted the explanation.

Sasuke revealed the future behind the Uchiha coup and massacre, leaving Itachi shaken by the possibility that his future self had helped destroy his clan for nothing. Sasuke tried to comfort him but ended by provoking him instead.

• Sasuke told Itachi and Shisui about the Sage of Six Paths, Madara, and the masked man who used Madara’s name.
• Sasuke revealed that Shisui’s plan to use Kotoamatsukami would have exposed the Uchiha eye technique to the village leadership, and Shisui left to compose himself.
• Sasuke described the masked man’s cooperation with Danzo and his role in the Uchiha massacre, leading Itachi to suspect that his future self had killed his own family.
• Itachi struggled to reconcile Sasuke’s account with his beliefs about Fugaku, Shisui, and the massacre, and nearly broke down.
• Sasuke reached out to Itachi, then joked that crying would not stop the clock, prompting Itachi to threaten to hit him.

Sasuke convinced Itachi and Shisui that the future could still be changed and urged cooperation between the village and the Uchiha. Itachi deduced that Kakashi’s Sharingan was a Mangekyo and that the Masked Man was Obito, before Sasuke proposed confronting Fugaku to reach a clan consensus.

• Sasuke reassured Itachi that their actions could change the future, and Itachi regained his resolve.
• Itachi questioned Sasuke about the Mangekyo wielders, deduced that Kakashi had a Mangekyo, and identified the Masked Man as Obito.
• Shisui returned, heard the revelations, and retreated again in shock.
• Itachi set aside the revelations for later and agreed that preventing the disastrous future was their priority.
• Sasuke proposed bringing the village and the Uchiha closer together, starting with the clan’s Mangekyo wielders reaching a consensus with Fugaku.

Uchiha Fugaku received word that Sasuke had been attacked and struggled to decide whether Hiruzen Sarutobi was warning him sincerely or manipulating him. Sasuke returned safely with Itachi, and Shisui and Itachi joined them as Fugaku faced his son.

• Uchiha Fugaku read Hiruzen Sarutobi’s intelligence about the attack on Sasuke and suspected Danzo was responsible.
• Uchiha Fugaku considered confronting Danzo, then questioned whether Hiruzen Sarutobi had deliberately sent the report to provoke him.
• Uchiha Fugaku finally rushed home to check on Sasuke but collided with Sasuke and Itachi at his office door.
• Sasuke noticed signs of Fugaku’s distress and reflected on Fugaku’s indecision and excessive restraint.
• Shisui and Itachi arrived as Sasuke prepared to address Fugaku.

Sasuke told Fugaku and the others about the future he had seen, and Fugaku's Mangekyo ability showed him that Sasuke's warning could come true. After Shisui explained the situation, the group went to the Naka Shrine to inspect its stone tablet, where Sasuke asked Fugaku what his Mangekyo ability was.

• Fugaku's eyes confirmed that Sasuke's warning about the clan's destruction and two survivors could happen, leaving him shaken.
• Sasuke urged Fugaku to communicate with Itachi and warned him about the Uchiha Clan's destruction and the suffering it would cause.
• Shisui took over the explanation, recounting the history of Ninshu, the Uchiha and Senju, and the future Sasuke had described.
• Fugaku agreed to visit the Naka Shrine and check its stone tablet with the Mangekyo.
• At the shrine, Fugaku, Itachi, and Shisui read the tablet while Sasuke waited, then Sasuke asked Fugaku whether his Mangekyo ability involved prophecy.

Fugaku explained that his Mangekyo showed him bad futures and could manifest a future, while Sasuke offered to study Shisui’s eyes and resolve the clan’s distrust. Sasuke activated a trial card, then gouged out his own left eye and urgently asked Shisui to lend him one before his wound healed.

• Fugaku revealed his Mangekyo abilities, Ebisu and Omoikane, and described how they had made him indecisive.
• Sasuke realized Fugaku was wary of Shisui because Fugaku feared Shisui might hypnotize him, and he stepped between them.
• Sasuke told Shisui he could study a borrowed eye and help resolve the crisis of trust.
• Sasuke activated his First Hokage trial card and used his skills to heal Itachi’s body.
• Sasuke gouged out his own left eye, then called for Shisui to lend him one before the wound healed.

Sasuke and Shisui exchanged eyes, and Sasuke used his Mangekyo to explain how the Uchiha’s eye powers deteriorated and how vitality could restore them. He then turned his new dojutsu on his reflection to test a powerful genjutsu.

• Sasuke offered Shisui his Sharingan, and Shisui gouged out his left eye before Sasuke healed him and transferred the Sharingan.
• Sasuke implanted Shisui’s Mangekyo and used his vitality to overcome its rejection, awakening new power in his own eyes.
• Sasuke examined the Uchiha eye pathways and explained that Mangekyo use damaged them, while balancing Yin Release with vitality could restore ocular power.
• Sasuke speculated about exchanging chakra with Naruto and teaching the Purple Demon Eye technique to others.
• Sasuke raised a mirror and activated his dojutsu against his reflection, calling out Amaterasu as Kotoamatsukami appeared.

Sasuke used Kotoamatsukami on himself to make himself immune to the technique, then restored Shisui’s eye and sealed his excess vitality into scrolls. He began outlining a plan to resolve the Uchiha clan’s worsening conflict with the village by removing the source of the tension.

• Sasuke commanded Kotoamatsukami to make him unaffected by Kotoamatsukami, causing the technique’s ocular power to clash inside his mind and strengthening his Sharingan.
• Sasuke stopped the clash from draining Shisui’s eye, restored its vitality and ocular power, and returned it to Shisui.
• Sasuke offered to replenish Fugaku and Itachi’s vitality and proposed sealing some of his own vitality in scrolls for later use.
• Sasuke sealed his vitality into six scrolls, each holding enough to serve as powerful emergency medicine.
• Sasuke described the vicious cycle between the Uchiha clan and the village, blamed Danzo for worsening the conflict, and proposed removing the thorn between them.

Sasuke rejected a coup or rebellion and laid out a plan to improve relations between the Uchiha and Konoha by clearing the clan’s name and building goodwill. He left the others with a strategy to pursue while he grew stronger and prepared to reveal his power.

• Sasuke told Itachi, Fugaku, and Shisui that neither a coup nor an outright rebellion could solve the Uchiha’s problems.
• Sasuke explained that the Uchiha were founding members of Konoha and blamed Danzo’s schemes and the Third Hokage’s failures for worsening relations.
• Sasuke proposed clearing the Uchiha’s false accusations and helping their clansmen see Konoha’s goodwill.
• Sasuke suggested using clan funds to build goodwill and expanding the police force by offering commoner ninja benefits such as ninjutsu.
• Fugaku warned that these efforts could make Konoha’s leadership more suspicious, and Sasuke said the clan should demonstrate its value and strength alongside its friendliness.
• Sasuke declared that once he grew stronger, things would change.

Naruto tested a powerful Wind Release taijutsu technique on Kakashi, while Sasuke criticized and then attacked their sensei. The boys discovered they had only destroyed Kakashi’s Shadow Clones because he had gone to the Bookstore to queue for Icha Icha Paradise.

• Naruto used his newly invented wind-powered taijutsu attack to smash through a tree, but Kakashi escaped with a Shadow Clone.
• Kakashi warned Naruto that the noisy technique could give opponents time to flee, while Sasuke praised Naruto sarcastically and pointed out flaws in his training.
• Sasuke attacked Kakashi with a lightning-enhanced technique, only to pierce another Shadow Clone.
• Naruto secretly struck Kakashi’s replacement clone with a quiet wind attack, and the boys realized Kakashi’s real body was elsewhere.
• Naruto learned that Kakashi had gone to the Bookstore to queue for Icha Icha Paradise and considered giving him a Thousand Years of Death.

Naruto warned Sasuke that Root operatives had begun watching their homes again, and Sasuke shared his plan for the upcoming Uchiha Clan Meeting. Sasuke recruited Naruto and Kakashi for the scheme, but a revelation about old anti-Uchiha rumors left Kakashi shaken.

• Naruto told Sasuke that Root operatives had returned and that Danzo was likely testing the waters again.
• Sasuke gave Naruto the program for the upcoming Clan Meeting, and they exchanged their plans through chakra.
• Sasuke invited Naruto to help purge Uchiha clan members who opposed Fugaku and to confront Danzo.
• Sasuke found Kakashi and invited him to dinner, mentioning that Itachi had found evidence of repeated anti-Uchiha rumors.
• Kakashi froze when Sasuke revealed that one wave of rumors dated to Year 42 of Konoha, the year Kakashi's father died, and Sasuke sent him information through chakra.

Danzo and the Masked Man agreed to attack the Uchiha Clan during its meeting and kill every member, including Sasuke. After Danzo left to confront Hiruzen, the Masked Man returned and studied Sasuke’s photograph and files about the Third Hokage.

• Danzo met the Masked Man in Root’s base and proposed a surprise attack on the Uchiha Clan during its meeting in three days.
• Danzo and the Masked Man negotiated a fifty-fifty split of the Sharingan they planned to take from the Uchiha.
• Danzo insisted that Sasuke be killed first and named the operation the Night of the Uchiha Massacre, with no survivors.
• Danzo left Root’s base to stir things up with Hiruzen, believing the Third Hokage had grown indecisive and was unfit to lead.
• The Masked Man reappeared in Root’s hall, examined Sasuke’s photograph and files about Hiruzen, and remarked that Danzo and the Third Hokage were ill-fated mandarin ducks.

Hiruzen Sarutobi prepared for the Uchiha Clan Meeting, suspecting it might bring the clan’s conflict to a head. Shisui Uchiha then revealed Fugaku’s vision of an imminent massacre in the clan compound, leaving Hiruzen stunned.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi reviewed the intelligence about the Uchiha Clan Meeting and assigned secret missions to several jonin in preparation for it.
• Shisui Uchiha told Hiruzen that the clan would hold a meeting and offer sacrifices to their ancestors in three days.
• Shisui reported that Sasuke had sensed dark figures following him, prompting Hiruzen to suspect Danzo was involved again.
• Hiruzen asked whether Sasuke had uncovered something or Fugaku had decided to act, and Shisui said Fugaku’s Dojutsu had shown a masked man and marked followers slaughtering the Uchiha.
• Hiruzen was shocked by Shisui’s warning about the coming massacre.

Shisui delivered Sasuke’s letter and scroll to Hiruzen, who used Sasuke’s advice to abruptly shut down Danzo and his aides. After the confrontation, Sasuke returned to the Uchiha Compound and found himself back in the Gray Fog Space, where a newcomer appeared to be present.

• Shisui told Hiruzen that the Masked Man had appeared again and handed him a letter and scroll from Sasuke.
• Hiruzen read Sasuke’s cryptic letter and the scroll, then began writing files as he considered their contents.
• Danzo arrived with Mitokado Homura and Utatane Koharu, but Hiruzen repeatedly declared that he was the Hokage, driving them to leave.
• Sasuke returned to his room after refining the plan with Fugaku and others, then fell asleep.
• Sasuke awoke in the Gray Fog Space and noticed what seemed to be a newcomer.

Sasuke, Tang San, Xiao Yan, Han Li, and Ma Xianhong exchanged memories and prepared for threats in their respective worlds, while Sasuke and Fugaku awaited the Uchiha Clan Meeting. The chapter left the meeting hours away, with Shisui positioned beside the Third Hokage and Fugaku choosing to trust the younger generation’s plan.

• Tang San and Sasuke introduced themselves to Li Feiyu under false names, while Xiao Yan revealed Sasuke’s real name before Ma Xianhong appeared and claimed to be the Jiejiao Cult Master.
• The group learned that Ma Xianhong was a transmigrator from The Outcast whose memories had recently awakened, and that he had secretly refined four swords into an Immortal Slaughtering Sword Formation to use against Qu Tong.
• Han Li described his precarious position in Sage Hand Valley, Xiao Yan explained that he had awakened Yao Lao through trial-card credit, and Tang San considered using ideas from the Spirit World on the Douluo Continent.
• Ma Xianhong left to confront Qu Tong with the group’s techniques and powers, while Sasuke discussed learning Flying Thunder God after the Night of the Uchiha Massacre.
• Rumors about an Uchiha coup spread through Konoha, then became tangled with claims that Danzo’s organization had manipulated earlier waves of public opinion.
• In a secret chamber, Sasuke told Uchiha Fugaku that the Masked Man might appear but was not their main objective, and Fugaku chose to trust the younger generation’s plan before the Clan Meeting.

Uchiha Fugaku faced a divided clan meeting as Hawks pushed for a coup and the clansmen’s anger toward Konoha grew. He called a vote that ended in a tie, until Uchiha Itachi arrived and declared his opposition.

• Uchiha Fugaku listened as Sasuke advised him that the Uchiha chiefly wanted their grievances and dignity acknowledged.
• Uchiha Ryota and other Hawks urged Fugaku to launch a coup, while the clan meeting split among Hawks, Doves, fence-sitters, and eccentrics.
• Uchiha Fugaku called a vote on Ryota’s proposal to ambush the Hokage, and the votes for and against tied.
• Uchiha Itachi entered the meeting hall and announced that he opposed the coup.