Recaps

Senju Toka and Uchiha Hōkaku fought over their five-year-old daughter, Uchiha Shingetsu, whom Toka had snatched away. Shingetsu’s history revealed how Madara Uchiha had helped her survive before claiming her as his disciple, leaving Toka and Hōkaku struggling to decide which clan could keep her.

• Senju Toka pursued Uchiha Hōkaku along the Naka River while carrying Shingetsu, and the two traded accusations over who had taken the girl.
• Shingetsu complained that she was dizzy as her parents argued, and she reflected on being an unlucky transmigrator born into the Uchiha clan.
• Senju Toka and Uchiha Hōkaku had conceived Shingetsu after their clans allied, and the fetus drained so much chakra that both parents sought Madara Uchiha’s help.
• Madara Uchiha provided a place for Toka to stay and suppressed news of her pregnancy while the child grew safely.
• After Shingetsu’s birth, Madara knocked out Toka and Hōkaku, named the child Uchiha Shingetsu, and took her as his disciple.

Uchiha Shingetsu reflected on Konoha’s food shortage while Senju Toka and Uchiha Hōkaku argued, until Madara Uchiha arrived and punished her for unfinished training. The chapter left Shingetsu facing doubled training and recounting how Madara’s harsh regimen had consumed her life since age four.

• Uchiha Shingetsu lamented Konoha’s poverty and food shortage as Senju Toka and Uchiha Hōkaku continued arguing by the Naka River.
• Madara Uchiha attacked Toka and Hōkaku, knocking them into the river and catching Shingetsu before she fell.
• Madara Uchiha asked whether Shingetsu had finished her assigned training and doubled all of that day’s training when she avoided answering.
• Shingetsu recalled how Madara Uchiha had subjected her to long daily workouts, lessons, and chakra training since she turned four.
• Shingetsu contrasted Madara Uchiha’s punishing methods with her father Uchiha Hōkaku’s indulgence and dreaded the training ahead.

Uchiha Shingetsu used clones and Uchiha swordsmanship to win a training wager against Madara Uchiha by making him move, though he had held back. Madara rewarded her by agreeing to take her into Konoha, and carried her out of the Uchiha Clan Compound.

• Shingetsu attacked Madara with a sword, clones, and a Fire Release technique, forcing him to move and winning their wager.
• Madara acknowledged Shingetsu's victory and reflected that he hoped she would awaken the Sharingan later, so she could remain happy.
• Shingetsu asked Madara when she would awaken her Sharingan, and he reassured her that there was no hurry.
• Shingetsu asked to play in the village, and Madara agreed to take her outside the compound.
• Shingetsu hugged Madara's leg and asked him to carry her, so he picked her up and headed out with her.

Uchiha Shingetsu wandered through Konoha with Madara Uchiha, who indulged her cravings and bought her jewelry while the villagers watched in disbelief. Their outing sparked gossip that drew Madara and the Uchiha closer to the village.

• Shingetsu decided she would accompany Madara when he eventually left Konoha, then asked him to buy her dango.
• Madara carried Shingetsu down Konoha's main street and ate dango with her as villagers gaped at them.
• Madara chose a ruby-set hairpin for Shingetsu and tried other jewelry on her while she ate and got syrup and flour on her face.
• Madara crushed a jade bracelet by accident, bought all the stallholder's goods with gold coins, and left with Shingetsu.
• Villagers joked that Shingetsu was Madara's daughter and traded stories about him, easing the distance between the Uchiha and the village.

Madara and Shingetsu watched Konoha from Hokage Rock, where Shingetsu urged him to build a village-wide school and help commoners. Madara accepted her proposals, but their conversation ended with Hashirama unexpectedly appearing behind them.

• Madara brooded over Konoha’s future until Shingetsu’s affection calmed the dark chakra surrounding him.
• Shingetsu resolved to prevent the Uchiha massacre and change the shinobi world, then suggested opening a school for all Konoha’s children.
• Shingetsu proposed giving food, money, and unused Uchiha land to struggling villagers, hoping to build support among commoners.
• Madara approved her plans and encouraged her to attend the Ninja Academy, briefly mistaking her for his late brother Izuna.
• Hashirama appeared behind Madara and Shingetsu, leaving Shingetsu panicked about how much he had overheard.

Senju Toka and Uchiha Hōkaku secretly watched Madara with Shingetsu, then panicked when Hashirama approached and asked about the child. Hashirama grew oddly certain that Shingetsu felt closer to him than a blood relative, leaving Madara and Shingetsu alarmed that he might uncover her secret.

• Senju Toka and Uchiha Hōkaku argued while spying on Madara and Shingetsu until Hashirama appeared behind them.
• Hashirama asked who Shingetsu was, and Hōkaku nervously identified her as Madara's disciple.
• Hashirama joined Madara and Shingetsu, but Shingetsu hid from him and refused his attempts to charm her with a flower.
• Madara handed Shingetsu to Hashirama, who proposed swapping her for Hiruzen Sarutobi, but Madara and Shingetsu both refused.
• Hashirama sensed an unusual closeness to Shingetsu, and she feared he had discovered her secret.

Shingetsu’s dormant God Tree resonated with Hashirama Senju’s Wood Release chakra, frightening her that the connection could expose her secrets and endanger her family. Madara took her away, while Hashirama chose not to question Toka and instead invited her to teach at the future Ninja Academy.

• Shingetsu discovered that the God Tree sapling in her consciousness had begun responding to Hashirama Senju’s Wood Release chakra.
• Afraid Hashirama would suspect she possessed Wood Release or uncover her lineage, Shingetsu clung to Madara, who protected her as Hashirama let the moment pass.
• Hashirama invited Shingetsu to visit the Senju Clan Compound and proposed that he, Madara, and Tobirama teach together, but Madara refused to give up his student.
• Madara left with Shingetsu, and Hōkaku hurried after them while Toka remained with Hashirama.
• Hashirama silently considered questioning Toka about what she was hiding, then chose not to ask and suggested she become a Ninja Academy teacher.

Over dinner, Shingetsu persuaded Madara and Hōkaku that the Uchiha should join Konoha’s Ninja Academy by sending students and serving as teachers, even though they could not control it. Madara approved the plan and ordered Hōkaku to become a teacher once the Academy opened.

• Hōkaku gave Shingetsu his fish, but she returned most of it and then dumped her natto into his bowl.
• Hōkaku tried to make Shingetsu eat natto, and Madara stopped him when she refused.
• Hōkaku mourned Izuna’s death and worried that the Uchiha would be vulnerable to Tobirama’s influence after Hashirama’s death.
• Hōkaku asked Shingetsu to explain her advice about the Ninja Academy, and she argued that the Uchiha should send teachers even if they could not run the school.
• Madara agreed to follow Shingetsu’s suggestion and ordered Hōkaku to teach at the Academy.

Shingetsu agreed to attend the Ninja Academy after Madara discussed assigning Hōkaku to teach there. That night, the God Tree grew two mysterious eyes that merged with Shingetsu’s Sharingan, and Hōkaku discovered her newly awakened power.

• Madara told Hōkaku to teach at the Ninja Academy, and Hōkaku eagerly agreed despite his private dislike of teaching Senju children.
• Shingetsu asked to attend the Academy, and Madara considered whether to enroll her despite the risks of exposing her unusual circumstances.
• Hōkaku carried his exhausted daughter home and urged her to support Madara, who had lost his family.
• Shingetsu returned to her consciousness space and found two glowing blue eyes growing on the God Tree.
• The eyes entered Shingetsu’s sockets and merged with her original eyes, causing her Sharingan to awaken with the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception.
• Hōkaku rushed into Shingetsu’s room after sensing her ocular power and stared in shock at her new Sharingan.

The Ninja Academy opened in Konoha, bringing civilian children and clan prodigies together for their first day of classes. Uchiha Shingetsu overslept after exhausting training and missed attendance, leaving Tobirama Senju waiting for her arrival.

• Konoha residents gathered to see the Ninja Academy’s first student roster, which included children from major clans and civilian families.
• Uchiha Miki discovered that Uchiha Shingetsu was missing and sent Uchiha Kagami to find her.
• Uchiha Kagami found Shingetsu asleep after Madara Uchiha had trained her through the night, then woke her by warning that Madara would be at the academy.
• Tobirama Senju began taking attendance, and Hiruzen Sarutobi and Shimura Danzō answered their names.
• When Tobirama called Uchiha Shingetsu, no one answered, and the students whispered until he silenced them.

Shingetsu and Kagami arrived late to the Ninja Academy’s opening day and introduced themselves to Tobirama Senju and their classmates. As Tobirama led the students to welcome Hashirama, the teachers learned that Shingetsu and Kagami were the late Uchiha children.

• Kagami Uchiha hurried Shingetsu to the Academy, but they arrived after the entrance-ceremony curtain was taken down.
• Tobirama Senju began class introductions and noted Shingetsu’s unusually large chakra reserves and her wish to become a top-tier fighter.
• Kagami introduced himself as someone who wanted to protect those around him, while Hinata Kotoma could not name a dream and Yakushi Chinatsu spoke of growing up safely with the orphans.
• Tobirama told the students to follow him to welcome Hashirama Senju at the school’s opening ceremony.
• Senju Toka and Uchiha Hōkaku learned that Shingetsu and Kagami had been the students who arrived late.

At the Academy, Shingetsu endured Hashirama Senju’s speech about the Will of Fire while questioning the sacrifices it demanded and the wars it failed to prevent. Afterward, she challenged Kagami Uchiha to consider whether loyalty to the village could ever require turning against family and friends, leaving him unsettled.

• Hashirama Senju delivered a long speech about the Will of Fire as Shingetsu grew bored and reflected on the darkness and wars that could follow its ideals.
• Shingetsu yawned during the speech, alarming Tōka and Hōkaku and confirming Tobirama Senju’s suspicion that she was Madara Uchiha’s disciple.
• Kagami Uchiha asked Shingetsu whether she disliked Hashirama Senju and the Will of Fire, and she claimed she was only sleepy.
• Kagami said he admired the Will of Fire and wanted to become a hero who protected the village and its people.
• Shingetsu asked Kagami what they should do if protecting the village meant turning their blades on family and friends, and he struggled to answer.

Hashirama Senju reconsidered the village’s future after overhearing Shingetsu’s warning, while Tobirama Senju began teaching the academy children and arranged a sparring match between Shingetsu and Hiruzen Sarutobi. The chapter ended as the two students prepared to face each other.

• Hashirama Senju overheard Shingetsu tell Kagami Uchiha that the village could betray its ideals, and her words shook his faith in Konoha.
• Tobirama Senju condemned Shingetsu’s rebellious attitude, but Hashirama Senju stopped him and warned him not to harm her.
• Uchiha Hōkaku taught the students the basics of kunai throwing, and Shingetsu and the other Uchiha students hit the targets with ease.
• Shingetsu helped Yakushi Chinatsu correct her throwing technique, and Chinatsu landed a kunai in the bull’s-eye.
• Tobirama Senju interrupted Hōkaku’s lesson and ordered Hiruzen Sarutobi and Uchiha Shingetsu to spar in front of the class.

Tobirama Senju pushed Shingetsu and Hiruzen Sarutobi into a public sparring match despite Hōkaku’s objections. The fight began with both students showing their skills, and Hiruzen extinguished Shingetsu’s Great Fireball Technique with Water Release.

• Tobirama Senju insisted that Shingetsu and Hiruzen Sarutobi fight, while Hōkaku tried to stop the match.
• Tobirama stirred the students’ excitement until Shingetsu and Hiruzen agreed to fight, and Hōkaku warned Shingetsu not to reveal her Sharingan.
• Shingetsu opened with six wooden shuriken, but Hiruzen avoided them with an Earth Clone and attacked her from underground.
• Shingetsu escaped Hiruzen’s kunai with a substitution and launched a Great Fireball Technique at him.
• Hiruzen surfaced and used Water Formation Wall to extinguish Shingetsu’s fireball.

Shingetsu and Hiruzen Sarutobi fought fiercely at the Ninja Academy, using ninjutsu, taijutsu, and genjutsu as their classmates watched. After Kagami Uchiha and Shimura Danzō supplied them with wooden weapons, the fight continued with both opponents armed.

• Shingetsu avoided Hiruzen Sarutobi's earth-style ambushes, but he pursued her with the Great Flame Technique and nearly engulfed her.
• Tobirama Senju restrained Uchiha Hōkaku and told him that Shingetsu was unharmed as the fight continued.
• Shingetsu used the Body Flicker and Substitution Techniques to strike Hiruzen, then struggled against his greater strength and stamina in close combat.
• Shingetsu trapped Hiruzen in the Hell Viewing Technique, but he disrupted his chakra flow and broke free by rejecting the vision of the Senju brothers' deaths.
• Kagami Uchiha threw Shingetsu a wooden short sword, while Shimura Danzō gave Hiruzen a wooden staff, and the two resumed their fighting stances.

Shingetsu’s spar against Hiruzen Sarutobi escalated after he summoned Enma and attacked with a water dragon. At the brink of defeat, Shingetsu awakened her one-tomoe Sharingan and used her Mystic Eyes to cut through the water dragon, leaving Hiruzen stunned with her sword at his neck.

• Shingetsu drove Hiruzen back with her swordsmanship and unleashed Uchiha Style: Sun Halo Dance, but Hiruzen summoned Enma to block the attack.
• Hiruzen and Enma surrounded Shingetsu, then attacked her with the Adamantine Staff and Water Dragon Bullet Technique as Kagami and the other students panicked.
• Tobirama considered stopping the spar when he saw Shingetsu nearing her limits, while Shingetsu feared that the attacks would kill her.
• Shingetsu awakened her one-tomoe Sharingan and saw lines of death across the battlefield.
• Shingetsu cut the water dragon’s line of death with her broken wooden sword, causing it to collapse, then placed her sword against Hiruzen’s neck.

Uchiha Misaki accidentally revealed that Uchiha Shingetsu had awakened her Sharingan, prompting Tobirama Senju to recognize his suspicion was correct and scrutinize her unusual eyes. He concluded that Shingetsu was probably Uchiha Izuna's daughter, perhaps born from a union with a Hyuga woman.

• Uchiha Misaki laughed about the Uchiha Clan's Sharingan before Uchiha Inari reminded her not to reveal Shingetsu's awakening.
• Uchiha Misaki panicked and shouted about Shingetsu's Sharingan, while Uchiha Inari tried to silence her as Tobirama Senju watched.
• Tobirama Senju recalled how he had suspected the five-year-old Shingetsu was the Uchiha prodigy and compared her fundamental qualities to Madara Uchiha.
• Seeing Shingetsu's iridescent Sharingan, Tobirama Senju questioned whether Uchiha Hōkaku could really be her father and ruled out Madara Uchiha.
• Tobirama Senju deduced that Uchiha Izuna was likely Shingetsu's father and speculated that her mother might have belonged to the Hyuga Clan.

Shingetsu’s Sharingan revealed her Mystic Eyes of Death Perception, and she nearly gave in to the urge to kill Hiruzen Sarutobi before Tobirama and Hōkaku intervened. Hōkaku took the Uchiha children out of the Ninja Academy, while Shingetsu left furious at Tobirama for provoking her into revealing her eyes.

• Shingetsu struggled with the pain and distorted vision caused by her Sharingan and Mystic Eyes, recalling how Madara had helped her test their ability to kill anything by cutting its death lines.
• As Shingetsu’s destructive chakra and urge to kill surged, she pressed her blade toward Hiruzen’s death line, but Tobirama seized her wrist while Hōkaku restrained Hiruzen.
• Tobirama and Hōkaku released their hostages, and Shingetsu deactivated her Sharingan before retreating behind her father.
• Hōkaku carried Shingetsu home with the Uchiha children and decided to quit teaching at the Ninja Academy rather than send her back.
• Tobirama declared Shingetsu the winner, and she accused him of getting the confirmation he wanted before silently vowing to settle the score with him.

After the God Tree drained and restored Shingetsu’s energy, she remained in bed while her withdrawal from the Ninja Academy caused a crisis across Konoha. Hashirama confronted Tobirama over his treatment of the Uchiha, then Tobirama discovered Hashirama had revealed the locations of his experimental bases to Madara.

• The God Tree recovered and returned energy to Shingetsu, gradually altering her bloodline and body to support her eyes.
• Shingetsu’s withdrawal and Tobirama’s hostility toward her prompted shinobi clans to submit withdrawal requests, threatening to empty the Ninja Academy.
• Hashirama questioned Tobirama’s prejudice against the Uchiha, but Tobirama insisted Shingetsu could become a threat like Madara.
• Hashirama angrily ordered Tobirama not to speak that way about Shingetsu again.
• Tobirama confronted Hashirama for revealing the locations of his experimental bases, and Hashirama admitted he had done so to stop Madara from killing him.
• Shingetsu sneezed in bed, then hugged her plush and went back to sleep, unaware of the turmoil she had caused.

Shingetsu organized a new Uchiha farming settlement, providing displaced farmers with homes, tools, seeds, and land while arranging to buy their crops. A farmer named Kazuko pointed out the need for wells and irrigation, and Shingetsu agreed to arrange them.

• Madara brought Shingetsu to meet the displaced civilians selected to farm reclaimed Uchiha land.
• Shingetsu showed the farmers their homes, shared storehouse, iron tools, plows, seeds, and prepared fields.
• Shingetsu explained that land would be allocated by household and that the Uchiha would buy specified crops at market prices.
• Kazuko asked Shingetsu to arrange wells and irrigation channels because the fields lacked enough water.
• Shingetsu promised to have the work done and learned that the determined farmer's name was Kazuko.

Shingetsu learned from refugee leader Kazuko why civilians fled the Land of Fire’s brutal nobles and chose to seek shelter with the Uchiha. Their discussion of farmland and a proposed thirty-percent harvest tax revealed how severely the daimyō’s sixty-percent tax burden exploited the people.

• Kazuko recounted how shinobi killed her husband, disasters and taxes cost her family their home, and her surviving relatives died as she wandered the Land of Fire.
• Kazuko told Shingetsu that nobles and samurai killed civilians for amusement, while refugees risked starvation, bandits, and rogue shinobi just to reach the Daimyō’s Capital.
• Kazuko asked why Shingetsu had cleared farmland, and Shingetsu said people first needed enough to eat; Kazuko laughed and said she wanted to see the future Shingetsu imagined.
• Shingetsu set the Uchiha’s share of the harvest at thirty percent, and Kazuko wept with relief at what she considered a low tax.
• Kazuko explained that the daimyō took sixty percent of harvests, leaving Shingetsu shocked at the scale of the exploitation and realizing shinobi protected the nobles from civilian rebellions.

After seeing the suffering of civilians, Shingetsu resolved to grow strong enough to kill the daimyō, while Madara explained why Hashirama opposed shinobi ruling the world. The next morning, Hashirama and Tobirama visited Madara to ask that Uchiha children return to school, and Madara demanded that Tobirama be removed as a teacher.

• On the road home, Shingetsu asked Madara how ordinary people survived, and he said their will to live endured even in terrible conditions.
• Shingetsu suggested that Madara and Hashirama annex the Land of Fire, but Madara explained that Hashirama wanted to separate shinobi affairs from civilian rule.
• After reflecting on Kazuko's exploitation and the nobles' power, Shingetsu decided to become strong enough to kill the daimyō for their gold drops.
• The next morning, Hashirama and Tobirama arrived at the Uchiha compound, where Hashirama asked Madara to let Uchiha children return to school.
• Madara offered to forgive Hashirama if Tobirama left the school, while Shingetsu's earlier advice had been for Madara to agree to reopening it only with a condition.

Hashirama persuaded Madara to teach at the Ninja Academy by promising he could keep an eye on Shingetsu, then insisted Tobirama apologize to her. The group went to Shingetsu’s home, where Tobirama was left facing her under Madara and Hashirama’s watchful eyes.

• Hashirama asked Madara to teach at the academy, and Madara agreed after Hashirama pointed out he could watch Shingetsu there.
• Hashirama stopped Tobirama from leaving and demanded that he apologize to Shingetsu, while Madara blocked his escape.
• Shingetsu refused Hōkaku’s natto and tried to bargain for brown sugar candy, only to be seen acting spoiled when the Senju brothers and Madara arrived.
• Hashirama gave Shingetsu a jar of konpeito and kissed her cheek, prompting Madara to snatch her away.
• Hōkaku demanded to know why the visitors had come, and Tobirama reluctantly stepped toward Shingetsu as Hashirama encouraged him.

After Tobirama Senju apologized to Shingetsu, the Uchiha returned to the Ninja Academy and Shingetsu resumed classes. There, Hiruzen Sarutobi confessed that he liked her and asked her to marry him when they grew up.

• Tobirama Senju apologized to Shingetsu, who hurriedly accepted so he would stop smiling at her.
• Three days later, the Uchiha returned to the Ninja Academy, and Kagami Uchiha and Hōkaku Uchiha made sure Shingetsu got to class on time.
• Yakushi Chinatsu gave Shingetsu a grass-woven Grasshopper she had made and offered to craft more toys for her.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi approached Shingetsu's desk despite the Uchiha students' hostile stares.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi confessed that he liked Shingetsu and asked her to marry him when they grew up.

Hiruzen Sarutobi confessed that he wanted to marry Uchiha Shingetsu, provoking her rejection and the fury of the Uchiha students. Madara Uchiha nearly crushed Hiruzen’s head before Hashirama Senju intervened, but Hiruzen recovered and insisted he would not give up on Shingetsu.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi confessed his love to Uchiha Shingetsu in front of their classmates and asked her to marry him when they grew up.
• Uchiha Miki tried to attack Hiruzen with a Great Fireball, while Uchiha Inari, Uchiha Kazuma, and Kaen restrained her; Uchiha Kagami then stepped between Hiruzen and Shingetsu.
• Shingetsu rejected Hiruzen’s proposal, and Hiruzen declared his feelings again while Kagami held him back.
• Madara Uchiha appeared and grabbed Hiruzen by the head, but Hashirama Senju pleaded with Madara until he released him.
• After Hashirama healed him, Hiruzen insisted he would not give up on Shingetsu, and Hashirama covered his mouth to stop him from speaking further.