Chapter Summaries

Itachi struggled with Shisui’s death but resolved to protect Sasuke, while the Konoha Military Police secretly grew suspicious of Itachi. In the Land of Hot Water, Huayue found Hidan, and Akatsuki approached the immortal zealot with an offer to recruit him.

• Itachi returned home grieving Shisui, then reassured Sasuke and resolved to protect his brother’s happiness.
• Yashiro, Tekka, and Inabi questioned Shisui’s suicide note and suspected Itachi, so they arranged to watch him without informing Fugaku.
• Huayue received news that Shisui had died after Danzo ambushed him and dismissed Shisui’s decision to entrust his hopes to Itachi.
• Huayue used Orochimaru’s information to locate Hidan in the Land of Hot Water.
• Hidan revived after a ritual, and four Akatsuki members approached him to offer recruitment before he mistook them for sacrifices.

Kakuzu tested Hidan’s claimed immortality, and Nagato offered Hidan a place in Akatsuki after witnessing his ritual. Before Hidan could receive his ring, Uchiha Huayue appeared to confront Orochimaru, and Hidan charged at him.

• Kakuzu punched through Hidan’s chest, but Hidan activated his ritual and stabbed himself in the heart, destroying one of Kakuzu’s hearts.
• Kakuzu attacked Hidan in anger, and Nagato used Shinra Tensei to separate them and proposed recruiting Hidan into Akatsuki.
• Hidan agreed to join after Nagato promised Akatsuki would not interfere with his faith, and Nagato prepared to give him the Ring of San and the codename Santai.
• Uchiha Huayue appeared in a Black Cloak and Demon Fox Mask, teasing Orochimaru about giving up Hidan as experimental material.
• Hidan angrily charged at Uchiha Huayue, while Orochimaru called him an idiot.

Uchiha Huayue overwhelmed Orochimaru, Sasori, and Kakuzu with techniques that disrupted summons, severed chakra control, and unleashed powerful flames. As the Akatsuki turned to Nagato, he raised his hand to attack Huayue with Shinra Tensei.

• Hidan discovered that Orochimaru had bound him with the Bloody Scythe of the Three Moons, and Orochimaru began casting Impure World Reincarnation.
• Huayue used Sage Art: Binding Way Fifty-One, Realm Severance to disrupt the connection to the Pure Land and destroy Orochimaru’s palm.
• Sasori attacked with Iron Sand, but Huayue severed his chakra control and summoned the Shinigami, which could take away chakra.
• Kakuzu entered Earth Grudge Fear mode and attacked Huayue with a combined Fire and Wind Release, but Huayue countered with Amaterasu and Blaze Release: Kagutsuchi.
• Nagato raised his hand and used Shinra Tensei against Huayue.

Uchiha Huayue escaped Nagato, gained the God Tree entry after encountering Hidan, and left Hidan trapped in genjutsu. The next evening, Uchiha Itachi faced clan members who accused him of killing Shisui, and his Sharingan began to change.

• Huayue used a disguise and a Wood Clone to escape Nagato’s attack, then dispersed his poisonous smoke with Wind Release.
• Huayue encountered Hidan and gained the Sacrificial Ritual (Jashin) ability and the exclusive entries Jashin’s Gift and God Tree.
• Huayue learned that faith had helped create the Sage of Six Paths and Hamura, then trapped Hidan in genjutsu and headed back to Konoha.
• At Fugaku’s home, Uchiha Yashiro and other clansmen questioned Itachi about Shisui’s suicide and the note found at Shisui’s home.
• Itachi denied knowing about the suicide and said he had been on a classified Anbu mission, but Uchiha Inabi and the others accused him of killing Shisui.
• As Itachi’s anger rose, the Three Tomoe in his eyes began to change.

Itachi attacked members of the Uchiha Clan who accused him of killing Shisui, but Fugaku stopped the confrontation after Sasuke witnessed it. The next day, Naruto was lured toward the back mountain by Huofeng and his friends, and Huayue noticed Naruto was missing before class.

• Itachi fought Yashiro and other Uchiha clan members after they confronted him over his absence from clan meetings and suspected role in Shisui's death.
• Fugaku intervened, ordered the others to leave, and Itachi apologized after Sasuke called out to him; Sasuke saw Itachi's changed Sharingan.
• Sasuke slept badly, preoccupied with Itachi's unfamiliar eyes, while cracks appeared in the Uchiha family.
• Huofeng and two other children told Naruto that enemy ninja tools had been left in the back mountain, hoping to lure him there.
• Naruto recognized the children's malice but decided to investigate the back mountain, while Shikamaru and Choji watched.
• Huayue arrived near the start of class, noticed Naruto was absent, and asked where he was.

Naruto found a stolen Konoha Defense Map in the back mountain and captured three female enemy spies who attacked him. He brought them and the map back to the Ninja Academy, where Huayue sent the spies to the Third Hokage.

• Shikamaru told Huayue that Naruto had gone to the back mountain, and Huayue reassured him that Naruto could handle the danger.
• Naruto found a Konoha Defense Map and confronted three female spies who demanded that he hand over the intelligence.
• Naruto used Wind Release to deflect the spies' shuriken, then captured them with Outer Shell: Blut Arterie after they attacked with a fire dragon.
• Naruto returned to Huayue's classroom with the spies, and Huayue told him to take them to the Third Hokage.
• The Third Hokage examined the captured spies and the Konoha Defense Map and laughed with delight.

Naruto won Sarutobi Hiruzen’s praise for capturing a spy, while news of Uchiha Shisui’s suicide made Hiruzen wary of Uchiha Huayue’s reaction. Hiruzen arranged for Huayue to meet the Ino-Shika-Cho fathers at Yakiniku Q, where Ino and Shikamaru discovered his face beneath his mask.

• Sarutobi Hiruzen praised Naruto for capturing an enemy spy and ordered Konoha units to follow a new defense map that excluded the Uchiha.
• Kakashi told Sarutobi Hiruzen that Uchiha Shisui had died by suicide, prompting Hiruzen to wonder what had caused his death and how Huayue might respond.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen decided to test Huayue and arranged a meeting with Inoichi, Shikaku, and Choza at Yakiniku Q.
• Huayue met the three fathers while Ino, Shikamaru, and Choji listened from the neighboring room.
• Ino and Shikamaru pulled open the curtain and saw Huayue’s handsome, unmasked face.

At a barbecue dinner, Inoichi worried that Ino might fall for Uchiha Huayue, while Shikaku told Shikamaru that Huayue was secretly the God of Shinobi. The village’s unrest faded after Uchiha Shisui’s death, and Huayue’s Academy class began combat training with Sasuke matched against Uzumaki Naruto.

• Inoichi used the Mind Body Disturbance Technique to send Ino away from Huayue, and Ino complained that Huayue was more handsome than Sasuke.
• On the way home, Inoichi warned Ino not to get involved with her teacher, Uchiha Huayue, and hinted that trouble lay ahead for the Uchiha.
• Shikaku told Shikamaru that Huayue was not a shogi piece but the player controlling Konoha’s peace, and revealed Huayue’s epithet: the God of Shinobi.
• After Uchiha Shisui’s accidental death, the unrest in the village seemed to subside.
• At the Ninja Academy, Huayue began combat training, and the next match was set between Sasuke and Uzumaki Naruto.

Naruto and Sasuke fought under Huayue’s unrestricted rules, displaying skills far beyond their Academy classmates. Naruto overwhelmed Sasuke with more than a thousand Shadow Clones, while Hiruzen watched and praised Naruto’s growth.

• The class cheered for Sasuke and Naruto before their match, while Shikamaru predicted Naruto might win and Kiba declared himself the strongest.
• Huayue created an arena and announced that ninjutsu and ninja tools were allowed as long as neither fighter left the field.
• Sasuke attacked with shuriken and wire-controlled blades, but Naruto deflected them with a pebble and Sasuke used Wind Release to send him flying.
• Naruto created more than a thousand Shadow Clones and challenged Sasuke to face them, while Sasuke charged into the clones and fought on.
• Hiruzen watched Naruto through a crystal ball and told Minato that Naruto was becoming an outstanding ninja and would inherit the Will of Fire.

Naruto defeated Sasuke with the Front Lotus and urged him to understand loneliness as the path to strength. As Hiruzen weighed Uchiha Huayue’s motives and discussed the clan’s growing unrest with Itachi, Neji demonstrated a long-range Gentle Fist technique developed with Huayue’s help.

• Naruto defeated Sasuke with the Front Lotus, and Sasuke was shaken by his loss and Naruto’s words about loneliness and power.
• Hiruzen wondered why Huayue had taught Naruto the Eight Gates and considered the growing risks posed by the Uchiha and the Hyuga Branch House.
• Itachi met with Konoha’s leaders and reported that the Uchiha Military Police Force had begun arming itself and stirring up clan members.
• Neji used his explosive long-range Air Palm to destroy a target from three hundred meters away, crediting Huayue for helping him develop the technique.
• Hizashi praised Neji’s achievement and lamented that more Uchiha did not share Huayue’s attitude.

Hizashi and Uchiha Fugaku discussed the future of their clans as tensions in Konoha mounted. At Naka Shrine, Fugaku revealed his Mangekyō Sharingan to Itachi and declared that Konoha would fall, regardless of the rebellion’s outcome.

• Hizashi warned Neji that the Main House’s eldest daughter had grown stronger, and Neji insisted that the Hyuga had only one clan with two branches.
• Uchiha Fugaku visited the Hyuga Branch House to discuss the future of their clans and Konoha, prompting Anbu to report his meeting to the Hokage Office Building.
• Fugaku returned home and ordered Itachi to meet him at Naka Shrine the following night, while the Anbu outside planned to kill Itachi if he rebelled.
• Fugaku revealed his Mangekyō Sharingan and told Itachi that he foresaw the Uchiha Clan’s defeat and destruction.
• Itachi challenged Fugaku’s willingness to sacrifice the clan, and Fugaku said the Uchiha were driving him toward rebellion before declaring that rotten Konoha would meet its end.

Fugaku asked Itachi to carry out a bloodless revolution that would force Konoha’s leaders to confront the Uchiha conflict. Huayue reassured Yugao, Kurenai, and Anko that he would not join a rebellion, while Danzo secretly pushed Itachi toward destroying the Uchiha Clan.

• Fugaku told Itachi that he wanted to drag Konoha’s anti-Uchiha leadership into ruin and proposed a bloodless revolution that Itachi could carry out.
• Yugao, Kurenai, and Anko confronted Huayue about Fugaku’s request, and he explained that Fugaku had not asked him to lead an uprising.
• Huayue said he had no interest in Konoha and that the Uchiha Clan was not irreplaceable, while Yugao shared the Third Hokage’s promise to spare Uchiha civilians who stayed clear of the rebels.
• The Konoha F4 reviewed the Uchiha coup plans, and Hiruzen asked for time to consider how to respond.
• After Hiruzen and the advisors left, Danzo told Itachi to act as he wished and promised Anbu support, intending to make Itachi destroy the clan he cherished.

Itachi left home after clashing with Fugaku, while Huayue negotiated with Konoha’s leaders over the Uchiha Clan’s future. That night, Root began massacring the Uchiha Clan under Danzo’s orders, with Sasuke spared and the slaughter framed as a sacrifice for Konoha’s peace.

• Fugaku told Itachi that the Uchiha name would survive through him or Uchiha Huayue, but Itachi refused to attend the clan meeting and left on a confidential Anbu mission.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen and the Hokage Advisors met Huayue about Orochimaru’s forbidden laboratories and offered to remove the Uchiha hardliners and let Huayue lead the clan.
• Huayue demanded Uzumaki Naruto and the Nine-Tails, as well as guarantees for Second Pillar’s life and freedom, and threatened to destroy Konoha if his conditions were rejected.
• Naruto wondered why Iruka had led his class meeting instead of Huayue as night fell.
• Itachi appeared near the Uchiha compound and apologized to his family in the name of Konoha’s peace before disappearing.
• Root ninja erected barriers around the compound and, on Danzo’s orders, began killing Uchiha Clan members regardless of age or gender, sparing Second Pillar.

Itachi killed the Uchiha Clan, including his parents, while insisting he acted to protect the clan’s name and Sasuke. Huayue challenged Konoha’s leaders over the massacre, demanded Naruto be moved into Uchiha territory, and left the officials facing the consequences of their secret actions.

• Itachi entered his family home, where Fugaku and Mikoto accepted their deaths and entrusted Sasuke to Huayue.
• After killing his parents, Itachi met Huayue, who questioned whether assimilating the Uchiha into Konoha could bring peace and warned him that his crimes were unforgivable.
• Sasuke returned to the compound, discovered bodies, and ran toward his home as Itachi watched from a distance.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen and Konoha’s officials returned to the compound, where Huayue confronted them and accused Danzo of secretly interfering in the massacre.
• Sarutobi proposed stripping Danzo of his positions and folding Root into the Anbu, while Huayue demanded that Naruto move into Uchiha territory the next day.
• Huayue left with Anko and two others, while an unknown woman with long black hair stirred inside a pale-blue Culture Vessel.

Uchiha Huayue defended his role in the Uchiha Clan's destruction to Konan, describing himself as an innocent victim while planning to raise Sasuke and reshape the Ninja World. He left to retrieve another child as a ragged figure wandered across a snowy island in the Land of Water.

• Konan confronted Uchiha Huayue over sacrificing his clansmen, and he blamed the massacre on Uchiha Itachi and Konoha's higher-ups.
• Huayue explained that he intended to care for Sasuke and use his loneliness to guide him toward revolution.
• Konan acknowledged that her work with Huayue had come to include a hope for change beyond protecting Yahiko and Nagato.
• Huayue asked Konan to tell him when the woman in the Culture Vessel woke, then left to pick up a child.
• A tiny ragged figure wandered through the freezing snow on a small island in the Land of Water.

After learning that the Uchiha Clan had been slaughtered, Sasuke returned to his family home and awakened his Sharingan amid grief and rage. Naruto appeared in the ruins, and Sasuke demanded to know why he had come.

• In a flashback, a starving Haku accepted an offer from a stranger with black-and-crimson eyes to become his tool.
• Sasuke woke in the Konoha Medical Squad and overheard nurses discussing the Uchiha Clan's massacre and Uchiha Huayue's absence.
• Sasuke rushed to the sealed Uchiha district and found his home empty except for pools of blood.
• Sasuke searched the kitchen for his mother, then remembered Itachi's words and awakened his Sharingan.
• Naruto arrived at the Uchiha home, and Sasuke angrily challenged him for entering the clan's territory.

Naruto fought Sasuke, defeated him with a combined ninjutsu, and reached out to him over their shared loneliness. Sasuke accepted Naruto’s offer to seek power, and Naruto prepared to take him to someone in Konoha.

• Sasuke awakened his Sharingan and attacked Naruto, who led him to a lake near the Uchiha Clan grounds.
• Sasuke used Fire Release and a shuriken trap against Naruto, but Naruto evaded the attacks with Wind Release and a Shadow Clone.
• Naruto’s clones pulled Sasuke into a lake vortex, defeated him, and left him sinking beneath the water.
• Naruto told Sasuke that he understood his loneliness and offered to help him gain the power to protect what mattered or take revenge.
• Sasuke took Naruto’s hand and agreed to go with him, insisting that he only wanted power and did not consider Naruto a friend.
• Naruto said they were friends because they had both experienced loneliness and told Sasuke they would seek someone in Konoha who could give him power.

Naruto brought Sasuke to meet Huayue, who agreed to train him and challenged him to prove his resolve. Later, Mikoto awoke in a culture vessel and heard someone behind her claim to be Fugaku.

• Naruto led Sasuke to Huayue’s home, where Sasuke met the woman Haku and learned Huayue would train him in several ninja arts.
• Huayue showed Sasuke his Mangekyō Sharingan and refused to reveal the Uchiha massacre’s secrets until Sasuke awakened Three Tomoe.
• Naruto challenged Huayue to a match, but Huayue told him to master his chakra and work with Kurama first.
• Haku embraced Huayue, agreed to attend school with Karin, and fell asleep in his arms.
• Mikoto woke inside a culture vessel, and someone behind her told her not to turn around, claiming to be Big Brother Fugaku.

Huayue told Mikoto why Itachi had massacred the Uchiha Clan and offered her a way to stay near Sasuke in a child’s form. As Sasuke began training under Huayue, Itachi worried about Konoha and encountered a strange figure near the Land of Rice Fields.

• Huayue told Mikoto that Itachi had become an S-rank Rogue Ninja and explained how Shisui’s death and pressure from Konoha and the Uchiha Clan led Itachi to sacrifice the clan to protect Sasuke and pursue peace.
• Huayue offered Mikoto the chance to return in her childhood appearance and remain by Sasuke’s side, and she decided to do so.
• Sasuke visited Huayue for power, injected Huayue’s Blut Vene serum, and tested its defense by thrusting a needle toward his eye.
• Huayue sent Sasuke to the training ground with heavy gravity rings, while Mikoto grieved over his darkness and Huayue reassured her that there was still time to help him.
• Itachi watched Konoha from near the Land of Rice Fields and wondered whether the Third Hokage and Danzo would keep their promise.
• A pale figure emerged from a nearby tree, recognized Itachi as the Clan Killer, and identified him as the newcomer mentioned by its leader.

Uchiha Itachi joined Akatsuki as its Vermilion Bird but learned little about the organization beyond its rules. In Konoha, Sarutobi Hiruzen saw Naruto and Sasuke training together and was stunned that Naruto had a friend.

• Nagato welcomed Uchiha Itachi into Akatsuki as the Vermilion Bird and warned its members not to interfere with or kill one another.
• Itachi left the secret meeting, reflected on Sasuke, and waited along the borderlands for another chance to gather intelligence.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen read a classified report about the Rinnegan and worried about the threats facing Konoha, including Uchiha Huayue's cryptic warning.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen wandered through peaceful Konoha and reached the desolate Uchiha Clan grounds.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen followed a loud sound to a lake and found Naruto and Sasuke training together, where he wondered how they had become friends.