Chapter Summaries

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.

Kiyoshi, Mikoto, and Shisui stopped three men from burning the Mediation Office warehouse and planting evidence to frame the office. They preserved the forged statement and bloodstained garment for dawn, while Kiyoshi kept a charred order fragment and planned to take the case upstairs the next day.

• Kiyoshi watched three men prepare a smoky fire and forged evidence in the warehouse, then sent a crow to alert his allies.
• Mikoto used her Mangekyō to freeze the man holding the fire striker before he could ignite the woodpile.
• Shisui blocked the escape route, disarmed one man, and stopped another from lighting an explosive tag as all three were captured.
• Kiyoshi and Mikoto examined the forged statement, bloodstained garment, and charred order fragment, finding signs that the men had rushed their setup.
• Kiyoshi kept the fragment bearing the words “by prior orders” and said they would go upstairs the next day.

Kiyoshi and the Uchiha presented evidence to the Third Hokage, who declared the Uchiha clean in the Nine-Tails case and reopened the old case as doubtful. That evening, Tajima apologized to Kiyoshi at the Mediation Office, while Kiyoshi’s guarantee counter reached 88 of 100.

• Kiyoshi, Mikoto, Shisui, and the Elder showed the Third Hokage the evidence linking the arsonists to the Old Decree, while Kiyoshi withheld the names that could not be brought into the light.
• Mikoto told the Third Hokage that someone calling himself Madara had a pair of Sharingan and might be connected to the Nine-Tails’ Rampage.
• The Third Hokage declared the Uchiha clean in the matter and reopened the Nine-Tails’ Old Case as doubtful.
• Tajima apologized to Kiyoshi outside the Mediation Office for his actions during the earlier confrontation, then left without waiting for a reply.
• Kiyoshi checked his accounts that night and saw that his guarantee counter had reached 88 out of 100.

The Mediation Office’s queue system and reputation took hold as Kiyoshi balanced its growing work with academy life and Izumi’s training. His parents visited the office and, seeing how much he was carrying, asked whether he could manage.

• The Mediation Office added a ticket counter, drew a growing line of complainants, and earned the neighborhood’s trust as the Military Police stayed out of mediation.
• Neji Hyuga passed Hinata without greeting her, while Kiyoshi and his classmates noticed the tension between them.
• Hinata brought lunch with a drawing of three figures, and Shikamaru recognized Kiyoshi’s handwriting on a copy of the Mediation Office charter.
• Kiyoshi visited Izumi as she trained with a Wooden Spear and controlled her Sharingan, and he told her about the office’s picky cat.
• Kiyoshi’s parents inspected the Mediation Office, and his mother asked whether he could manage before they left.

Kiyoshi and Shisui stopped an attack on the Old Warehouse and captured three men trying to free prisoners and burn records. Kiyoshi recovered an unfinished Command Talisman, while the Third Hokage reviewed the case file concerning Danzo.

• Kiyoshi memorized the positions of seven street lamps and saw an old woman bring a written agreement to the Mediation Office.
• Kiyoshi and Shisui waited in the Old Warehouse passage as two Konoha Military Police Force members guarded the back-alley entrance.
• Three men entered through a gap in the western wall and planned to take prisoners alive and burn the retained records.
• Shisui and Kiyoshi subdued the attackers, and the Konoha Military Police Force captured the third man as he tried to escape.
• The captured man warned Kiyoshi that higher-ups were investigating a child in his family, and Kiyoshi took an unfinished Command Talisman from his cuff.
• Mikoto made rubbings of the recovered evidence, and the next day the Third Hokage reviewed the case file concerning Danzo.

Kiyoshi settled disputes and completed administrative work in the Clan Grounds, meeting the conditions to raise his draw count to ninety-nine. After overhearing that higher-ups were watching his eyes, he returned home with the question of their scrutiny unresolved.

• Kiyoshi ended a fish seller and firewood seller’s argument by warning that anyone who made a bigger fuss would go last.
• Kiyoshi finished mediation cases, copied council documents, and prepared patrol rosters while Mikoto reviewed and signed paperwork.
• Kiyoshi received a system notification and drew eleven glowing orbs in the Back Mountain, raising his draw count from eighty-eight to ninety-nine.
• Kiyoshi overheard Elders discussing that his eyes still had not changed as he passed the council hall.
• Kiyoshi watched Sasuke practice Shuriken while Izumi counted his throws, then went home and confirmed that his draw count remained at ninety-nine.