Recaps

Kiyoshi and Shisui staged Shisui’s death to deceive Root while Kiyoshi moved the Uchiha children and families through a hidden door to safety. The clan mourned Shisui as missing or dead, while Kiyoshi recorded him as dead and a secret note confirmed that his right eye was genuine.

• Shisui lured Danzo into an ambush at the Naka River, staged his defeat, and escaped while Danzo took an airtight case.
• Kiyoshi watched a young Anbu member’s Sharingan flare red before the fog swallowed the scene, then helped families and children relocate through the door to the warehouse.
• Kiyoshi laid down rules for the new settlement, and the Ledger rewarded him with ten strange items when the account filled.
• Two days later, the clan learned that Shisui had vanished, and searches of the river found no body.
• Kiyoshi wrote “dead” in Shisui’s Ledger entry, while a Dossier recorded Shisui as eliminated and a hidden note confirmed his right eye was genuine.

Kiyoshi helped move clan members to a hidden settlement while gathering documentary and physical evidence against Danzo’s Root and recording the clan’s movements. Shisui sent word that the date was set for September, leaving Kiyoshi to prepare for what was coming.

• Kiyoshi and Izumi helped settle women, children, and young people at the place on the slope while the clan continued its ordinary routines.
• Shisui met Kiyoshi at the old ferry landing and gave him copies of Root files, matching correspondence, river evidence, and a written account of his supposed death.
• Kiyoshi recorded the Konoha Military Police Force’s assignments and guard-rotation dates from two Clan Meetings, completing three sets of evidence.
• Kiyoshi left Shisui’s entry marked dead and Fugaku’s entry blank in his ledger, unsure which book Fugaku’s entry belonged in.
• A crow delivered a note saying the date was set for September, and Kiyoshi burned it before continuing to prepare.

Mikoto reread the documents Kiyoshi had delivered, which recorded the Hawk Faction's crimes, and struggled with what they meant for her family. She hid the papers again at home and decided she had to ask someone a question, though she did not reveal whom.

• After Shisui's death, Mikoto read the documents hidden in the cookbook and concealed them beneath Sasuke's baby keepsakes.
• In July, Mikoto reread the papers through the night, then folded them carefully and hid them in a drawer without telling Fugaku.
• At breakfast, Mikoto watched Sasuke and Kiyoshi bicker, while Fugaku quietly left for the day.
• Kiyoshi told Mikoto small stories about Sasuke, and she wondered whether the boy might one day share a long life with her family.
• Mikoto sat with Fugaku in the study, and neither spoke about the papers or their burdens.
• After Fugaku left, Mikoto returned the papers to the wooden box and hid it in the cupboard, then decided she had to ask someone something.

Mikoto confronted Kiyoshi about the paper warning of the Uchiha clan’s fate and learned that Shimura Danzō wanted the Sharingan. She chose to keep living as usual, asked Kiyoshi to protect Sasuke if disaster came, and Kiyoshi recorded that she knew.

• Mikoto brought out the paper and asked Kiyoshi what he knew about the warning and the threat to the clan.
• Kiyoshi said Shimura Danzō wanted the Sharingan but refused to explain how he had learned the details or what Fugaku knew.
• Mikoto asked Kiyoshi whether he trusted her, and he said he did.
• Mikoto decided not to confront Fugaku, flee with Sasuke, or tell Sasuke, and asked Kiyoshi to keep their conversation secret.
• Mikoto asked Kiyoshi to protect Sasuke if the day in the warning came, and he agreed.
• Kiyoshi added “she knows” to Mikoto’s ledger column, then received a crow’s note saying the goods had arrived.

Kiyoshi and Shisui built the slope into a refuge for the clan’s elderly and children, using Kiyoshi’s door to make their evacuation plan possible. As they waited for September, an unknown man connected two people in a note and carried it toward the village, creating a threat not yet recorded in the refuge’s register.

• Kiyoshi visited the slope, helped the children study, and compared updates with Shisui, who had his right eye wrapped in cloth.
• In April, Shisui chose the abandoned warehouse as a secluded refuge, and Kiyoshi surveyed its defenses.
• Kiyoshi showed Shisui the door, which opened onto a destination of Kiyoshi’s choosing, and they continued planning the evacuation.
• Kiyoshi and Shisui arranged for a crow to watch Itachi without interfering, while the refuge later became a home for the eleven people rescued on Eagle Spring’s mission.
• Kiyoshi noted that the final group still waited in the village and that he had yet to persuade one person to join them.
• At a tea stall, an unknown man linked “the girl who entered the hills at dusk” with “the bookkeeper's junior schoolmate” in a note, then headed toward the village to decide whom to target first.

Kiyoshi and Shisui finalized the extraction plan for the last group ahead of the massacre, fixed the door to the warehouse on the slope, and agreed to carry out the reluctant fighters unconscious. Kiyoshi left his parents’ choice to stay with the clan untouched and planned to persuade one remaining person the next day.

• Kiyoshi reviewed the ledger with Shisui and confirmed that the last group included four jonin-level fighters.
• Kiyoshi fixed the pink-framed door to the warehouse on the slope, and Shisui tested the passage.
• Kiyoshi and Shisui agreed that Shisui would carry reluctant elders through the door after knocking them unconscious with genjutsu.
• Kiyoshi saw Fugaku sorting scrolls and Mikoto sewing, but did not enter or try to persuade his parents to leave.
• Kiyoshi confirmed the last group’s plan in the ledger and decided to speak to one remaining person the next day.

Kiyoshi failed to persuade Mikoto to leave the clan grounds, though he promised the door would remain open if she changed her mind. That night, a crow delivered an urgent note saying Izumi had been asked to meet someone, leaving Kiyoshi uncertain about who had summoned her or why.

• Kiyoshi asked Mikoto to leave with him that night, but she refused because she needed to care for Sasuke, the remaining clanspeople, and Fugaku until he completed his final step.
• Kiyoshi accepted Mikoto's decision and told her the door would be open if she later chose to leave.
• Kiyoshi counted the diminishing lights across the clan grounds as he walked home.
• A crow delivered Kiyoshi a note saying Izumi had been asked to meet someone that night.
• Kiyoshi entered Izumi's meeting in the ledger but left the reason blank.

Kiyoshi prepared for the Uchiha clan’s evacuation and entered Izumi’s alley, while Danzo’s plans and the Third Hokage’s orders shaped the night’s operation. The chapter ended with Kiyoshi facing a mysterious ripple in the air as he waited outside Izumi’s home.

• Kiyoshi reviewed the operation with Shisui, checked his records and supplies, and used a ten-draw redemption to obtain a Perception-Blocking Talisman and other items.
• Kiyoshi crossed the increasingly empty Uchiha compound toward Izumi’s home while Root and Anbu watched from the shadows.
• Sasuke spent an ordinary day at the Ninja Academy and went home looking forward to his brother teaching him shuriken throwing.
• Danzo asked the Third Hokage to authorize an additional action, but the Third Hokage refused and ordered him to proceed only with the agreed operation.
• Kiyoshi reached Izumi’s alley early and stopped when a silent ripple formed in the air at the far end.

Kiyoshi distracted Obito long enough to escape, but returned to find Itachi had used Tsukuyomi on Izumi. A protective doll made Itachi believe she was dead, and Kiyoshi hid the surviving Izumi in a woodshed.

• Kiyoshi raised a barrier displaying Rin’s image, unsettling Obito and making him hesitate before killing a Root observer.
• Kiyoshi escaped Obito with a Random Teleportation Card, then returned to Izumi’s alley and found Itachi examining her.
• Izumi’s Sharingan briefly awakened as Tsukuyomi struck, but a doll in her pouch took the blow and crumbled, leaving her alive.
• Itachi checked Izumi and declared her dead before leaving, while Kiyoshi hid nearby and waited.
• Izumi woke two hours later, and Kiyoshi explained that everyone believed she was dead and agreed to keep her hidden.
• Kiyoshi concealed Izumi in a woodshed and kept watch as Itachi headed toward the main family’s house.

Itachi moved through the Uchiha compound, killing its residents before reaching the main house, while Sasuke was led away by a jonin. There, Itachi’s parents confronted him about his decision, and Fugaku gave him permission to kill him, leaving Itachi unable to take the next step.

• Itachi went from house to house through the silent clan compound, leaving only the main house on his list.
• A jonin escorted Sasuke through the compound and kept him hidden as Itachi’s footsteps passed nearby.
• Itachi entered the main house and told Fugaku and Mikoto that the clan was going to act and that he had chosen the village.
• Mikoto challenged Itachi’s claim that leaving Sasuke until last was for his own good, and Itachi admitted he had not considered what would happen afterward.
• Fugaku said he was the final name on the list and gave Itachi permission to kill him.
• Itachi’s hand began to tremble, and he could not bring himself to move as Fugaku stood facing him.

Itachi killed Fugaku, but Mikoto saw through her Sharingan that Danzo ordered the massacre and the Third Hokage allowed it. Shisui and Kiyoshi arrived as Itachi broke down, while Sasuke witnessed the aftermath from the gate and Root’s attack continued.

• Itachi killed Fugaku, and Mikoto grasped his sword wrist, cutting her palm as she awakened her Sharingan and saw Danzo’s order and the Third Hokage’s silence.
• Mikoto confronted Itachi over the decision to sacrifice her and the clan, then Shisui and Kiyoshi entered the house.
• Itachi told Shisui he could not stop after killing the clan and dropped his kunai when he admitted Fugaku had still been standing.
• Kiyoshi offered Itachi a handkerchief, while Sasuke saw Fugaku, Mikoto’s bloody hand, Itachi’s blade, and Shisui from the open gate.
• Shisui spotted Root’s shadows moving through the clan grounds and warned that the night was not over.

Shisui and Kiyoshi evacuated the Uchiha Clan Grounds and killed the Root operatives inside, while Kiyoshi recorded the survivors and dead. At dawn, more than half the clan had survived, and the Hokage learned the Uchiha count had not matched their agreement.

• Shisui cleared the Clan Grounds of Root operatives as Kiyoshi guided people through the doorway and recorded their names.
• A figure vanished from the rooftops, while a Root survivor reported Shisui to Danzo, who brought Shisui’s old death file into the light.
• Kiyoshi read the survivors and dead from the register at the mountain shelter and confirmed that more than half the clan had survived.
• Kiyoshi told Mikoto, Sasuke, and Itachi that the count was complete, while Fugaku’s body remained in the main room.
• A messenger told the Hokage that the Uchiha register tallied at dawn did not match what they had agreed on.

After the massacre, Mikoto began taking charge of the Uchiha clan while Kiyoshi gave her evidence against Danzo and members of their own clan. The Hokage summoned the person in charge to Konoha within three days, and Mikoto asked Kiyoshi to accompany her.

• Izumi settled into life at the mountain base under Shisui's cover story and thanked Kiyoshi by helping split firewood.
• Kiyoshi gave Mikoto a hidden collection of documents and evidence, and she agreed to handle it.
• The clan elders and Jonin recognized Mikoto as the person who should make decisions for the Main House, though she postponed discussing the position.
• Shisui told Mikoto and the elder that he knew why he was alive, then returned to the slope.
• An errand boy reported that the Hokage had summoned the person in charge to Konoha within three days, and Mikoto asked Kiyoshi to go with her.
• Kiyoshi saw that the Awkwardness Pool held 84 draws and decided there was no hurry to use them.

Mikoto and Kiyoshi presented evidence to the Third Hokage and gave him three days to resolve the Uchiha clan’s debt with Root. As they left, an unseen figure learned of the deadline and told someone to let the clan collect.

• An Anbu delivered an invitation for Mikoto to meet the Third Hokage, and the clan decided to show him half their evidence.
• Mikoto and Kiyoshi entered the Hokage Building, where Kiyoshi identified himself as the Uchiha bookkeeper and Mikoto presented the Dossier copy, correspondence, and fractured pebble.
• Mikoto challenged the Third Hokage to confirm the evidence’s authenticity and gave him three days to resolve the clan’s claims against Root.
• Mikoto warned that she could see people’s memories, while the Third Hokage promised to return the Konoha Military Police Force’s roster the next day.
• A person reported the evidence and deadline to someone in a candlelit room, and the shadowed person said to let the Uchiha collect.

Mikoto accepted leadership of the Uchiha clan by taking responsibility for the names in its register rather than claiming the vacant seat, and she began bringing displaced households back. As Danzo pressed to seize hidden documents, watchers gathered around the clan grounds and an unusually early crow appeared at Kiyoshi’s window.

• Mikoto accepted the elders’ nomination and took the register, and Kiyoshi helped conduct her mourning-era succession ceremony.
• Mikoto ordered the first group of displaced households to return, reduced the slope’s base to a guarded transit station, and had Kiyoshi record a household that the clan would conceal from outsiders.
• Danzo demanded authority to seize documents allegedly hidden by the Uchiha, but the Third Hokage insisted on investigating before confiscation and gave Danzo’s three-day deadline no immediate concession.
• A hidden man ordered his subordinate to search the Uchiha main household for the documents and recover them within three days.
• A crow arrived a day early as unfamiliar watchers took positions around the clan grounds, so Mikoto doubled the gate guards and Kiyoshi recorded the sightings in the register.

Kiyoshi, Mikoto, and Shisui trapped a Root team sent to seize the evidence and captured one operative alive with Root's Cleanup Order. They kept the directive as Bright Court's third bargaining chip and sent the operative back to warn Danzo, leaving the Third Hokage to face the evidence at daybreak.

• Kiyoshi and Mikoto kept watch as Root remained quiet for two days after the crow's warning.
• The crow alerted Mikoto that Root had sent one team toward the sugar-figurine stall and another along the main family's outer wall.
• Kiyoshi, Mikoto, and Shisui let Root's seven-member team enter the narrow alley, then sealed it and immobilized the operatives.
• Near dawn, they found Root's Cleanup Order on a captured low-ranking operative and kept the directive as Bright Court's third bargaining chip.
• Kiyoshi chose to release the operative alive, and Shisui sent him back with a warning that the evidence was out in the open and Danzo could not reach into the alley.

Mikoto and Kiyoshi presented evidence that led the Third Hokage to suspend Danzo and take him into custody, while Root remained active in the village. At the clan’s public deliberation, Itachi accepted exile to the Akatsuki and seven days of kneeling at the graves, and Sasuke watched from the doorway as the first day began.

• Mikoto and Kiyoshi presented six pieces of evidence, including Root records, the Cleanup Order, and a volume documenting human experimentation.
• The Third Hokage suspended Danzo pending investigation and ordered him taken into custody, while Root’s operatives and rosters remained in place.
• Mikoto presided over a public deliberation where survivors called for Itachi’s death before she urged that he be allowed to atone.
• Itachi accepted the name of missing-nin and offered to infiltrate the Akatsuki, agreeing to kneel at Fugaku’s grave and the Uchiha graves for seven days each.
• Sasuke listened from the doorway as Itachi accepted the conditions without looking at him.
• Itachi began kneeling before Fugaku’s grave as clan members watched.

Izumi’s grief over the massacre awakened three tomoe in her Sharingan when she saw Itachi kneeling at the Clan Cemetery. She fainted after Kiyoshi called to her, and she later woke as Itachi’s fourteen days of atonement neared their end.

• Kiyoshi secretly followed Izumi as she slipped past the cemetery watchmen to visit the graves at night.
• Izumi saw Itachi kneeling before a grave and began shedding bloody tears as three tomoe turned in her eyes.
• Kiyoshi called Izumi’s name, and she fainted as her suppressed emotions surged back.
• Kiyoshi rinsed Izumi’s eyes and covered her with his robe while Itachi watched without approaching.
• Naruto told Kiyoshi to stay alive and prove others wrong, and Kiyoshi urged him to keep learning how to say something decent.
• Izumi woke with the three tomoe receded as Itachi’s fourteen days of atonement drew to a close.

Hinata brought Kiyoshi a homemade lunch and a drawing that he treasured, while Shisui spoke with him about survival, remembrance, and the settled matter of Itachi. Back in his own room, Kiyoshi made his first visible single draw with the Bracelet and received a useless Sneezing Shuriken.

• Hinata visited Kiyoshi with homemade lunch and secretly left a drawing in the lunch box.
• Kiyoshi kept Hinata’s drawing close to his heart and admitted he would keep it.
• Kiyoshi met Shisui at their old spot on the Back Mountain, where Shisui said he knew why he was alive and the matter of Itachi was settled.
• Kiyoshi told Shisui he kept the ledger so people would not be easily lost, and Shisui praised how steadily he was standing.
• Kiyoshi made a single draw openly in his own room and received a low-grade Sneezing Shuriken, which he put in a drawer.

Kiyoshi founded the Future Association at the stone table, recording the names of the village’s people, including Izumi, as she returned to him as a living student. After Itachi departed, Kiyoshi returned to a Clan Grounds beginning to feel like home, while a shadow watched from beyond his window.

• Kiyoshi established the Future Association, declared that everyone whose name was recorded belonged there, and set the stone table as its meeting place.
• Izumi bowed to Kiyoshi, promised to run back, and had her name written in the ledger.
• After fourteen days, Itachi left the village; Kiyoshi placed the washed handkerchief in his pack as Sasuke watched from the slope.
• Kiyoshi returned to the Clan Grounds, where a helper’s daughter laughed and Mikoto called him to wash up and eat.
• That night, Kiyoshi saw a partial silhouette facing toward the Akatsuki and latched the window.

After the mourning period, Kiyoshi returned to school and found that although his name had been cleared, the villagers still avoided him. He noticed the Konoha Military Police Force harassing a vendor and learned from Shisui that the patrol was becoming difficult to restrain.

• Kiyoshi walked through the village, where people still avoided him despite his name being cleared, and saw that his pity counter had fifteen points remaining.
• At school, Kiyoshi embarrassed Kiba with a remark about rice stuck between his teeth, while Sakura and Ino quietly worried about Sasuke.
• The panel awarded Kiyoshi fifty points of awkwardness for returning to school and settling his public profile.
• After school, Kiyoshi saw two Konoha Military Police Force officers intimidate Old Zhou and chose not to intervene.
• Beneath the bridge, Shisui told Kiyoshi that he was keeping the patrol in check but could not do so for long.

A staged dispute at the Shopping Street's West Entrance escalated when Uchiha Ju cut a stallholder, and Shisui stopped him and took control of the scene. As Kiyoshi left without recording the incident, Mikoto learned of the bloodshed and called a Clan Council meeting that night.

• Shisui brought Kiyoshi along on patrol as tensions between stallholders and the Konoha Military Police Force grew.
• A man in gray nudged Tajima's display rack, causing bowls to break and the crowd to blame the patrolmen.
• Tajima shoved Uchiha Ju, who drew a kunai and cut Tajima's forearm as the crowd cried that the Uchiha had attacked.
• Shisui restrained Ju, secured the scene with help from four Anbu, and ordered the people involved taken separately.
• Shisui asked Kiyoshi to record the incident, but Kiyoshi did not take out his ledger, and the man in gray disappeared.
• An Anbu messenger reported the bloodshed to Mikoto, who announced that the Clan Council would meet that night.

Kiyoshi presented his records of the Uchiha clan’s conflicts with villagers and argued that each incident created lasting debts for the clan. After Sosuke demanded a better solution, Kiyoshi promised to bring a plan in three days, and Mikoto held him to that deadline.

• At a tense Uchiha council meeting, Sosuke objected to village scrutiny after bloodshed at the west entrance, while others warned that another incident could revive old accusations.
• Kiyoshi read his ledger, citing forty-seven incidents of force by the Konoha Military Police Force and explaining how the clan’s actions had damaged its standing with villagers.
• Shisui confirmed Kiyoshi’s records and argued that the clan’s accounts were kept in people’s hearts, prompting Sosuke and the council members to argue over responsibility and the clan’s dead.
• Sosuke challenged Kiyoshi to offer a better way, and Kiyoshi said he would bring a plan in three days.
• As Kiyoshi left, Mikoto told him she would be waiting for his accounts in three days.

Kiyoshi’s Public Grievance Mediation Office opened, and Umezu Tsunekichi began hearing cases as villagers watched. The office gained its first public success with Naruto’s complaint, while an unknown person added a final name to the election registration book.

• Kiyoshi explained the mediation office’s charter, and Mikoto agreed to manage its accounts while Sosuke left without endorsing the plan.
• Umezu Tsunekichi and a vegetable-selling widow signed up for the office, though the widow later crossed out her name.
• Shisui brought Kiyoshi a note listing Akatsuki members and a masked man claiming to be Madara, suspected of involvement in the Nine-Tails’ Rampage.
• Kiyoshi used a single draw to obtain a self-tying rope and kept it with the note.
• Umezu accepted Naruto Uzumaki’s complaint against the Ramen Shop, mediated an agreement, and Naruto was served noodles.
• Umezu found an unfamiliar name added to the registration book before the election.

Aqi won the election to lead the Mediation Office after a gray-shirted man tried to intimidate voters, and she replaced the office’s Uchiha sign with a Konoha sign. Kiyoshi went home for dinner, while a shadow lurking behind the office hinted that someone was only testing the waters.

• Villagers gathered to vote between Aqi and Tanaka, while Kiyoshi watched and joked with Kiba after Akamaru stole Kiba’s breakfast bun.
• A gray-shirted man pressured voters to support Tanaka, but Shisui used a technique to stop him from interfering further.
• Aqi won by eleven votes, replaced the office’s Uchiha sign with a Konoha Mediation Office sign, and prepared to take assault cases from the Konoha Military Police Force.
• Kiyoshi ate dinner at home as his parents urged him to eat more and stop putting himself in front of everyone.
• A shadow hid behind the Mediation Office and said that they would test the waters first.