Chapter Summaries

After leaving the Hokage Office Building, Obito walked home with Fugaku, who explained the Uchiha Clan’s strained position in Konoha and said he valued Obito’s talent. Obito copied two of Fugaku’s Fire Release techniques but decided to postpone getting involved in the clan’s troubles.

• Kurenai said she was unwell and went home, while Obito and Fugaku headed back to the Uchiha Clan Grounds together.
• Fugaku congratulated Obito on awakening the Three-Tomoe Sharingan and acknowledged that his sudden attention might seem self-serving.
• Fugaku described the Uchiha Clan’s conflicts with villagers, its isolation within Konoha, and his suspicion that someone was stirring up trouble behind the scenes.
• Fugaku warned Obito not to discuss the suspected plot in public and said the clan would expect him to help shoulder its burdens.
• Obito copied Fugaku’s Fire Release: Phoenix Flower Jutsu and Fire Release: Great Dragon Fire Technique, then chose to focus on building his strength before involving himself in clan affairs.

Obito trained with the prodigious young Shisui and looked ahead to copying his techniques, while the chapter recounted events leading up to the Ninja Academy graduation. Hiruzen summoned Minato to discuss guiding the new graduates but had not yet told him which students he would lead.

• Obito returned home late after eating with classmates, apologized to Grandma, and joined Shisui for training after learning Shisui had mastered the Phoenix Flower Jutsu.
• Three months passed, during which Obito and Kurenai grew closer, Hatake Sakumo died by suicide, and Liangtian and Keiko were reassigned to patrol duty.
• Obito accepted gifts from Danzo's subordinates but refused to show interest in joining Root, while Uchiha Mikoto became pregnant with the child expected to be Uchiha Itachi.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi summoned Minato Namikaze and asked him to guide the Ninja Academy's graduating class.
• Minato asked Hiruzen which children he would be leading.

Hiruzen Sarutobi assigned Minato Namikaze to lead Obito Uchiha, Rin Nohara, and Kakashi Hatake, hoping he would guide Kakashi through his grief and help Obito connect Konoha with the Uchiha. Minato gathered Team 7 after their assignments were announced and brought them to a wooded area to begin their first mission.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi explained that Kakashi had become isolated and extreme after Hatake Sakumo's death, and asked Minato to guide him.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi also asked Minato to keep an eye on Obito and help ease tensions between Konoha and the Uchiha Clan.
• Muki announced Team 7's members as Obito Uchiha, Rin Nohara, and Kakashi Hatake, prompting other students to wonder why Kakashi had returned to a team.
• Minato arrived late to meet Obito and Rin, then called Kakashi into the classroom and formally introduced himself as their supervising teacher.
• Minato led Team 7 to a wooded area behind the academy and announced that they would carry out their first mission since graduating.

Minato tested Obito, Rin, and Kakashi by challenging them to defeat his shadow clone, and Obito and Kakashi nearly clashed before Rin redirected them toward the mission. Kakashi attacked the clone first, and Obito and Rin began a coordinated plan as Rin threw kunai at it.

• Minato created a shadow clone and tasked the three students with defeating it together to pass their graduation test.
• Minato revealed that Obito had defeated a Special Jōnin, surprising Rin and Kakashi and prompting Kakashi to question Obito's past.
• Obito challenged Kakashi to a match, but Rin stepped between them and reminded them to focus on Minato's test.
• Obito whispered a plan to Rin, and Minato started the test while watching from a tree.
• Kakashi attacked Minato's clone with kunai and a short sword, but the clone knocked him down and aimed a kunai at his face.
• Obito called for Rin, who threw a volley of kunai at Minato's clone from behind Kakashi.

Obito, Rin, and Kakashi defeated Minato’s shadow clone by working together, passing Minato’s teamwork-focused graduation test. Minato officially formed Team 7 and told them to meet the next morning for their first missions.

• Obito and Rin coordinated to block Minato’s marked kunai while Obito attacked with fire techniques, and Kakashi joined the fight.
• Obito restrained Minato’s shadow clone with Tree Binding Death, allowing Kakashi to destroy it with his short blade.
• Minato praised the team’s coordination and explained that teamwork was the test’s main purpose, while warning Kakashi about charging in recklessly.
• Minato officially formed Team 7 and told the three to meet by the bridge outside the Ninja Academy at eight the next morning.
• Rin thanked Obito for giving her a supporting role, and Obito said they had worked together as a team.

After parting from Rin, Obito received a system mission to visit Might Guy and build their friendship. He met Guy and his father, Might Duy, and began talking with Guy about their team assignments.

• Rin praised Obito as more dependable, stronger, and smarter before leaving to help her mother at the shop.
• Obito received a system mission to visit Might Guy and increase his friendship affinity in exchange for a copying opportunity and a novel related to Icha Icha Paradise.
• Obito went to Might Guy's home and met Might Duy, who tearfully welcomed him and asked him to spend more time with Guy.
• Guy came out to greet Obito and said Team Three would begin carrying out ninja missions the next day.
• Might Duy invited them inside, and Guy asked Obito about being assigned to the same team as Kakashi.

Obito visited Might Guy and Might Duy, earning rewards from his system and copying several Taijutsu techniques. After receiving Might Duy’s nunchaku, he fought Guy in the courtyard before heading home to shower.

• Obito visited Might Guy’s home, where Might Duy warmly welcomed him and served him fruit.
• The system rewarded Obito with a copy attempt and Make-Out Paradise, and Obito copied Might Duy’s Nunchaku Technique and several of Might Guy’s techniques, including the first two gates of the Eight Gates Formation.
• Obito asked to try the nunchaku, and Might Duy gave them to him as a gift.
• Obito and Might Guy fought in the courtyard, trading Taijutsu blows while Obito used the nunchaku and his Sharingan to keep up.
• After fighting for over half an hour, Obito declined Might Duy’s invitation to dinner and went home to shower.

Obito returned home after graduating and learned he had been assigned to Minato Namikaze's team, while Danzo discovered a child had survived an experiment with the First Hokage's cells and ordered Obito killed for refusing to join Root. The next morning, Obito met Kakashi and Rin at the bridge, where Rin noticed his dark circles.

• Obito told his grandmother he had graduated and been assigned to Minato Namikaze's team, then stayed up late reading Make-Out Paradise.
• Orochimaru told Danzo that experiments transplanting the First Hokage's cells had killed the children, but Danzo discovered one child had survived and manifested Wood Release.
• Danzo learned Obito had joined Minato Namikaze's team instead of Root and ordered A and B to kill him and retrieve his Sharingan discreetly.
• Obito arrived late to the bridge where Kakashi and Rin were waiting, and Rin noticed his dark circles.

Minato assigned Obito, Rin, and Kakashi a D-rank mission to drive wild boars away from a farmer’s cornfield, then turned it into a competition between his team and the students. The students began hunting together, but Kakashi killed their first boar before Obito could claim it, setting off a contest between them.

• Minato arrived late and told Obito, Rin, and Kakashi that their mission was to deal with wild boars threatening a farmer’s cornfield.
• Minato split the mission into a competition, sending his shadow clone with the students while he worked separately, with lunch at stake.
• Rin spotted movement in the bushes, and Obito threw kunai that struck a wild boar and drew it out.
• Kakashi killed the boar with his short sword before Obito could finish it, prompting Obito to complain that Kakashi had stolen his kill.
• Kakashi took the lead and decided to kill more boars than Obito.

After Team Minato completed the boar-hunting mission, Obito brought a giant tiger under his Sharingan’s control back to the village and set out to sell it as a summoning beast. He left the tiger on display at a ninja equipment street and named his price when a buyer approached.

• Team Minato hunted down the large wild boars, and Minato won the competition by killing more than four hundred.
• Obito controlled a giant tiger with his Sharingan and decided to take it back to the village to sell as a summoning beast.
• Villagers whispered negatively about the Uchiha Clan, and Minato and Rin comforted Obito before Team Minato returned to report the mission.
• Obito took the tiger to a ninja equipment street and put up a sign advertising a summoning beast for sale.
• A burly man asked Obito the tiger’s price, and Obito offered it for a hundred thousand ryō with a Summoning Contract.

Obito sold a giant tiger Summoning Beast for one hundred thousand ryō, then accepted a system mission to deepen his relationship with Kurenai Yuhi. He visited Kurenai and took her to their usual training woods, where he nervously considered holding her hand.

• Obito sold the giant tiger to a burly man for one hundred thousand ryō, and the man formed a contract with it.
• The system assigned Obito a mission to find Kurenai Yuhi and further develop their relationship, with a copying opportunity and Make-Out Paradise, Volume Two as rewards.
• Obito treated Minato and the others to barbecue, then went to Kurenai's home and invited her to train.
• Inako and Shinku Yuhi watched Obito and Kurenai leave together and discussed whether their closeness might bring Kurenai trouble because Obito was an Uchiha.
• Obito and Kurenai reached their training woods, where Obito hesitated to take her hand when she asked why he had been so quiet.

Obito completed the system task by kissing Kurenai, then spent the afternoon sparring with her while three black-robed men watched and plotted to capture them. As Obito and Kurenai headed out of the woods, he spotted disturbed soil that suggested a trap ahead.

• Obito kissed Kurenai, completing the system task and earning a copying opportunity and the second volume of Make-Out Paradise.
• Obito ran from Kurenai, and they later sparred together in the woods throughout the afternoon.
• Three men in black robes watched Obito and Kurenai and discussed knocking Kurenai unconscious before dealing with Obito.
• As Obito and Kurenai started back through the woods, Obito noticed freshly disturbed soil and stopped her.
• Kurenai realized that someone might have set a trap.

Obito and Kurenai were ambushed by three masked attackers in the woods, but Obito protected her and used Kamui to send her to the Alternate Dimension. The attackers revealed they had been ordered to kill Obito and bring back his Sharingan, and they charged him again.

• Obito spotted threads attached to the disturbed soil, but the attackers triggered the traps and bombarded him and Kurenai with weapons and swinging logs.
• Three black-robed figures surrounded Obito and Kurenai, and one sent a swarm of black insects at them.
• Obito burned the insects with Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique, knocked Kurenai unconscious, and sent her into the Alternate Dimension with Kamui.
• The attackers' swords passed through Obito, and he kicked one of them down before questioning them about Hokoku Shimura and Danzo.
• The attackers said their orders were to make Obito Uchiha disappear and bring back his Sharingan, then charged him again.

Obito fought three black-clad ninja, using his strange intangibility and ocular techniques to kill one and capture another. When the last ninja refused to reveal who sent them, Obito killed his captive and faced the insect-controlling ninja’s desperate final attack.

• Obito evaded the three ninja’s combined attacks by sinking underground, then used genjutsu and Kamui to make one of them vanish.
• Obito caught another ninja in a Skeletal Arm and demanded to know who had sent them.
• The captive refused to talk, so Obito crushed him to death.
• The insect-controlling ninja panicked, exposed his upper body, and sent insects crawling from holes in his skin toward Obito.

Obito captured two Root operatives and suspected Danzo had sent them after him. He staged a public complaint outside the Hokage Office Building, drawing a crowd and bringing Hiruzen Sarutobi downstairs.

• Obito used his Sharingan to control the insect-controlling ninja, then freed the other operative from the Kamui Dimension and questioned both men.
• The operatives said they only knew their masked leader was a captain in Root, leading Obito to suspect Danzo.
• Obito decided to pursue the system mission to make Danzo lose face rather than attack Root directly.
• Covered in blood, Obito dragged the two bound corpses through the village to the Hokage Office Building and asked to lodge a complaint with the Third Hokage.
• A guard went upstairs to alert the Hokage, while hundreds of villagers gathered outside.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi came downstairs and asked Obito what had happened.

Obito publicly accused Root of sending two ninjas to assassinate him, forcing Hiruzen Sarutobi to investigate in front of the gathered villagers. After a former Root member identified the dead attackers as jōnin Yamanaka Kine and Shimura Yuri, Shimura Danzō arrived to answer Hiruzen’s summons.

• Obito told Hiruzen Sarutobi and the villagers that two people had tried to assassinate him while he was training, and he insisted on explaining the incident publicly.
• Obito accused Root of sending the attackers, and Hiruzen ordered Anbu to summon Danzo and identify the bodies.
• A former Root member identified the dead ninjas as Yamanaka Kine and Shimura Yuri, both elite Root jōnin, startling the villagers.
• Shimura Danzō arrived with masked Root ninjas and asked Sarutobi why he had summoned him.

Danzo denied responsibility for the failed assassination attempt on Obito, while Hiruzen Sarutobi chose to shield him and let the matter be handled quietly. Obito left disappointed in the Hokage and was met by Uchiha Fugaku and clan members who had come to support him.

• Danzo saw the dead Root ninja and blamed the incident on Baoguo, while Hiruzen Sarutobi asked Obito how he wanted the matter handled.
• Obito accepted Hiruzen Sarutobi's decision without protest, received his system mission rewards, and left for the Uchiha Clan Compound.
• Anbu ninja discussed Obito's strength and concluded that he had lost faith in Hiruzen Sarutobi's attempts to recruit him.
• Uchiha Fugaku and a group of Uchiha ninja came to support Obito after hearing someone had tried to assassinate him.
• Obito reassured Fugaku that he was unharmed and felt grateful that his clan had come to protect him.

Obito went with Fugaku to the Uchiha compound, where he copied Fugaku’s eye power and explained Root’s attack to the clan elders. The clan decided it could not confront Danzo without proof, while Obito resolved to protect the Uchiha from destruction.

• Fugaku brought Obito to the Uchiha compound, and Obito copied Fugaku’s eye power and shuriken-throwing skill.
• Mikoto let Obito bathe before Fugaku and the clan elders gathered to discuss the attack and the Uchiha’s standing in Konoha.
• Obito told the elders what had happened but concealed that he had awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan.
• Uchiha Tekka and the third elder accused the Third and Danzo of conspiring against Obito and demanded action.
• Fugaku said the clan lacked enough evidence and strength to confront Danzo, so the meeting ended without a plan.
• Obito left Fugaku’s house determined to prevent the Uchiha’s destruction and to kill Danzo if he attacked the clan again.

Obito brought unconscious Kurenai home, where Grandmother caught him leaning in to kiss her and beat him before he could explain. A year later, after helping an elderly woman reach Konoha Hospital for a system reward, Obito arrived late to meet Team Minato and admitted to Kakashi that he had been helping her.

• Obito brought unconscious Kurenai out of the Kamui Dimension, but Grandmother mistook his attempt to kiss her for misconduct and attacked him with a broom.
• Over the next year, Obito, Kakashi, and Rin completed forty-eight D-rank and twenty-three C-rank missions as Team Minato.
• Obito triggered a system mission to carry an elderly woman princess-style and took her to Konoha Hospital.
• The system rewarded Obito with a copying opportunity and a set of assorted ninja tools, while the elderly woman gave him candy.
• Obito arrived late to meet Kakashi, Rin, and Minato, and told Kakashi he had taken the elderly woman to the hospital.

Minato gave Team 7 forms for the upcoming Chunin Ninja Exams and explained that Kakashi would retake them so the three-person team could enter together. After Minato collected the forms, Obito copied the Shadow Clone Technique and Rasengan from him, then found that Kakashi and Rin were both unavailable to train.

• Minato announced the Chunin Ninja Exams and handed registration forms to Obito, Kakashi, and Rin.
• Minato explained that Kakashi had to retake the exam because Konoha required a three-person team, and said the team would have time off from missions before the exams.
• Obito used his copying ability on Minato and gained the Shadow Clone Technique, Rasengan, and ten points of earth-nature chakra.
• After Minato left with the forms, Kakashi declined to train with Obito and went to develop a new technique.
• Rin also declined to train because she had to help at the shop while her mother went to the hospital, then left after pinching Obito's cheek.