Uchiha Senmon

Biodata

Power Progression

Background

Senmon grew up in a small Shizuoka village and became its first resident admitted to the University of Tokyo. After graduating, he passed the Metropolitan Police Department’s recruitment examinations and moved to Tokyo 5.

Mikoto died before their son Naruto entered elementary school. Senmon refused every subsequent matchmaking proposal and remained single for nearly ten years. His frequent business trips left Naruto largely accustomed to living without him 5.

His devotion to police work concealed a personal purpose: finding the monster responsible for Mikoto’s murder. He eventually admitted that this pursuit had consumed so much of his attention that he could not remember which school Naruto attended 179.

Appearance

Senmon is introduced as a notably handsome man whose appearance remains youthful at thirty-six. His glasses, polite manner, and long black hair initially give him a scholarly, gentle impression 5.

• Hair: Ink-black, initially tied back and hanging over his chest; later worn swept back with a loose lock at his temple 5 338.
• Eyes: Naturally dark; scarlet with black tomoe when using the Sharingan 266 338.
• Build: A defined, muscular torso is described after his Wood Release inheritance 338.
• Glasses: Discards his black-framed glasses after Akagi’s death, when one lens has been shattered 266.
• Mangekyō pattern: A three-petaled cherry blossom 458.
• Later presence: His gaze and bearing become sufficiently intimidating to unsettle senior officials and Naruto’s girlfriend, Matsudaira Chiyo 370.

Personality

Initially gentle, refined, and trusted by his subordinates, Senmon is regarded by some superiors as excessively softhearted. He advocates informing the public about supernatural phenomena rather than maintaining official secrecy, and he visits the graves of colleagues killed in service 77 338.

His enduring love for Mikoto develops into an obsession with revenge and resurrection. He considers killing all twenty-one Cabinet members to ensure that her murderer cannot escape, but postpones the plan because it could alert his target and obstruct his search for the Ritual of the Lord of Mount Tai. He recognizes that his schemes could endanger Japan and nevertheless regards Mikoto’s resurrection as the only cure for his madness 338 396.

Despite his growing ruthlessness, he retains considerable restraint in ordinary life: he avoids luxury, diligently handles supernatural affairs, and treats his village’s elderly chief with greater personal warmth than the powerful dignitaries surrounding him 370 375. By his final confrontation with Madara, he argues that the Sharingan exists not merely for revenge, but to overcome regret and protect loved ones 511.

Abilities & Skills

Investigation, Command, and Marksmanship

Senmon is an experienced supernatural-crisis investigator who combines police procedure, knowledge of Japanese mythology, and battlefield judgment 7 300 306.

• Orders surveillance reviews, temple-record searches, and witness transfers while investigating Chiriku 7.
• Assesses allies’ firepower, energy consumption, and endurance during combat 300.
• Provides effective supporting fire through honed marksmanship without revealing his supernatural abilities 300.
• Persuades General William to keep Doctor Satomi and the Buddha’s Stone Bowl in Japan, although they are transferred to Yokosuka 146.

Sharingan

His Sharingan provides supernatural perception, copying, hypnosis, memory manipulation, and combat genjutsu 266 376 378.

• Energy perception: Sees the currents of supernatural energy within Itachi immediately after awakening 266.
• Copying: Reproduces an unfamiliar Great Dragon Fire Technique during Naka Shrine’s trial 376.
• Copying limits: Can copy Fire, Water, and Earth Release, but cannot reproduce abilities such as Mineko Yuki’s Lava Release, Satomi’s Dark Release, Inaba’s Wind Release, or Toru Yamashita’s Magnet Release 436.
• Memory manipulation: Erases Assistant Ichimaru’s recollection of the Naka Shrine encounter and removes Namiru’s memories of that night and feelings for him 377 378.
• Demonic Illusion: Mirror Heaven and Earth Change: Reverses Fuka’s Binding Technique, immobilizing her instead 435.
• Political control: Places Cabinet officials under genjutsu and compels their obedience. Unlike Kotoamatsukami, this does not rewrite their wills into genuine loyalty 472 473.

Mangekyō Sharingan and Eight Thunder Gods

Senmon’s personally awakened Mangekyō grants a distinctive dojutsu associated with the soul, alongside access to Susanoo 458 511.

• Eight Thunder Gods: Pulls at Madara’s soul and helps Naruto reclaim control through soul fragments hidden within the Five Kage’s Cursed Seals 511.
• Strain: Madara’s resistance drives his eye toward blindness; Senmon expends his remaining ocular power to complete his intervention 511.
• Progressive damage: His eyesight begins deteriorating after using Susanoo at Yokota Air Base 463.

Kamui

Senmon acquires Kamui through the eye Itachi passes to him, rather than through his own Mangekyō awakening 463.

• Distorts space, enables intangibility, and opens portals for long-distance travel 463.
• Teleports alone to Aomori to confront Shukaku 472.
• Stores a nuclear warhead in the Kamui Dimension 482.
• Remains unharmed when Sasuke’s Chidori Sharp Spear passes through him to expose a concealed intruder 492.
• Uses the Kamui Dimension as concealment during his operations against Madara 500.

Wood Release

Inherited from Konohanasakuyahime, Wood Release becomes Senmon’s publicly acknowledged signature power 306 378.

• Deep Forest Emergence: Creates vast growths of roots and trees to overwhelm opponents, restrain Toru, and immobilize Shukaku 350 472.
• Cutting Technique: Fires a wooden spike more than three meters long. At fifty meters, it strikes faster than a handgun bullet 317.
• Exploding Spear Tree: Forms a large tree from his arm to block fireballs and engulf attackers 376.
• Tree Binding Eternal Burial: Used against Itachi’s Susanoo 377.
• Wood Dragon Technique: Drains chakra and restrains opponents, allowing him to defeat Itachi’s weakened Susanoo 377.
• Wood Golem Technique: Unlocked during his life-or-death confrontation with Jiraiya; later used to block Madara’s Susanoo blade 440 507.
• Practical construction: Creates a furnished house with Four Pillars House Technique and grows fruit for the recovering Sasuke 468.
• Regeneration: Heals burns visibly and allows unusually rapid use of transplanted Sharingan 472 507.
• Sage Art: True Several Thousand Hands: His strongest documented Wood Release attack, shaped after his memory of the Lord of Mount Tai 510.

Fire Release

Senmon uses Fire Release as both a concealed weapon and a technique family his Sharingan can copy 302 376.

• Great Fireball Technique: His fireball is nearly twice the size of Mineko Yuki’s during the lunar-ruins battle 302.
• Phoenix Flower Jutsu: Directs multiple fireballs accurately against pursuing puppets 302.
• Great Dragon Fire Technique: Copies and overpowers a defensive apparition’s version at Naka Shrine 376.
• Early limitation: Consecutive techniques leave him gasping from depleted spiritual power 302.

Sage Transformation, Susanoo, and Izanagi

• Sage Transformation: Learned from Jiraiya and initially kept secret from everyone except Mineko Yuki 378 413.
• Susanoo: Manifests after his Mangekyō awakening; at his later limit, its black form reaches nearly one hundred meters tall 463 501.
• Izanagi: Converts an unfavorable outcome—including death—into illusion. Senmon survives the Yokota explosion through it, permanently blinding the eye used 459.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Firearms and grenades — Uses a handgun during Akagi’s betrayal, grenades against a fused demon insect, and an automatic rifle in the lunar ruins 265 293 302.
• Kiba blades — Lightning-emitting demonic swords he takes up at Tenmangu Shrine; later uses one to kill Kidomaru 413 434.
• Kiba’s lightning — Discovers through observation and testing that it neutralizes Michelangelo’s explosive clay 457.
• Obito’s Mangekyō Sharingan — Entrusted to him by Itachi and transplanted to replace his sacrificed eye 459 463.
• Hand seal containing White Seimei — Conceals the allied white fox after confirming their pact 430.
• Captured nuclear warhead — Removes it from American control and stores it in the Kamui Dimension 482.

Relationships

• Mikoto — His deceased wife. His refusal to remarry, hunt for her murderer, and pursuit of resurrection all stem from his continuing devotion to her 5 179 396.
• Uchiha Naruto — His son. Senmon cares deeply for him but acknowledges providing little beyond financial support. Unknown to Senmon, Naruto secretly protects him with summoned crows and arranges opportunities to strengthen him 267 371 380.
• Section Chief Akagi — His senior colleague and best friend. Akagi recommends him as a successor, later attempts to murder him, and dies in their gunfight; the trauma accompanies Senmon’s Sharingan awakening 179 265 266.
• Uchiha Itachi — A rescuer, unsettling guide, and occasional opponent. Introduces him to the alleged history of their clan, tests his “capacity,” and eventually entrusts him with Obito’s eye 266 376 377 463.
• Konohanasakuyahime — Protects him inside Princess Kaguya, grants him Wood Release, and later warns him against falling into darkness 306 328.
• Jiraiya — His Sage Transformation mentor and a source of information about resurrection. Senmon considers avenging him a personal as well as public obligation 328 413.
• Yamanashi Inaba — Daughter of two deceased police colleagues. He offers her protection and a place in his organization; she later identifies his mortal enemy and accepts responsibility for protecting Naruto and Namiru 81 350 452 463.
• Sakaki Namiru — Mikoto’s younger sister, whose romantic feelings he rejects. He removes those feelings and her memories of the Naka Shrine encounter through the Sharingan 377 378.
• Mineko Yuki — A subordinate and recurring companion who knows about his Sage Transformation and responds with relief when he survives Yokota 378 459.
• Assistant Ichimaru — His personal assistant and an overt agent of establishment interests. Senmon recognizes his divided loyalty and erases sensitive memories from him 375 377.
• Michelangelo / Two-Faced Demon — Mikoto’s murderer and the target of Senmon’s decade-long investigation; discovered possessing Commander William 265 453.
• Uchiha Sasuke — A clansman and later battlefield ally. Senmon treats him after the brothers’ duel and transplants Itachi’s eyes into him 468 472 492.
• Madara Uchiha — An adversary whose grief Senmon recognizes as resembling his own. Madara claims to have manipulated the Uchiha into serving his resurrection, then drains Senmon to nourish the God Tree 496 511.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Supernatural Investigations

• Investigates a murder scene and footage of flames retreating into a building, treating reports of an evil spirit and the fire-breathing monk Chiriku as credible leads 7.
• Proposes public disclosure of supernatural phenomena after the Seishi-gumi incident. His superior rejects the proposal over fears of panic and orders him to take leave 77.
• At the devastated Saitama blast site, argues that Itachi has shown no malice toward humanity despite the government’s fear of his power 179.

Akagi’s Betrayal and the Uchiha Revelation

• Forces Akagi to discuss his knowledge of the Two-Faced Demon, only to be attacked with an exploding phone and gunfire. A crow intercepts Akagi’s first bullet, and Senmon kills him in the ensuing exchange 265.
• Akagi’s dying warning places the demon within the political establishment and tells Senmon not to trust the Metropolitan Police Department 265.
• Itachi appears as a claimed blood relative and explains the Sharingan. Naruto later privately recognizes Senmon’s awakening as an exceptional event and continues concealing his own role 266 267.

Moon City and Public Rise

• Is transported by Tobi and later passes through Lake Motosu’s route to Moon City. Escapes a genjutsu built around a reunion with Mikoto 293 299.
• Receives Wood Release inside Princess Kaguya and subsequently reveals that power while defending Senso-ji 306 317.
• Becomes a publicly promoted supernatural leader, with broadcasts emphasizing his education, command record, and distinguished service 338 340.
• Follows his great-uncle’s soul to Naka Shrine, learns the clan’s techniques, and passes Itachi’s combat test. Naruto’s private reflections reveal that he arranged the shrine experience to help Senmon protect himself 373 377 380.

The Resurrection Search and Heavenly Origin Game

• Develops the Flowers in the Mirror, Moon on the Water plan while searching for the Ritual of the Lord of Mount Tai. Orders surveillance of places associated with Abe no Seimei and prepares to begin with Tosu Hideo and Satomi’s team 396.
• Traces monstrous residue to Seimei’s ritual beneath Honno Temple, then secures contact with Taka through White Seimei 417 430.
• Enters Sendai’s Heavenly Origin Game as Konoha, intending to stop the players’ mutual slaughter and disrupt the ritual. After he captures multiple players, Seimei offers freedom and 100 points for killing him 434.
• Refuses to abandon his wish when confronted by the resurrected Jiraiya and breaks through with Wood Golem Technique 440.

Revenge at Yokota

• Receives Inaba’s evidence identifying his enemy and arranges a meeting with Commander William 452.
• Exposes Michelangelo inside William and fights it at Yokota Air Base. The confrontation brings his Sharingan into the open and culminates in the Great Yokota Explosion 453 457 459.
• Survives through Izanagi and leaves with Itachi. When his former subordinates confront him, he claims that the trusted Senmon they knew never existed and that he had merely used them 459.
• The government interprets his connections to Itachi and Taka as proof that he masterminded the supernatural organizations, and considers using Naruto as leverage against him 460.

Control of Japan and the Apocalyptic Crisis

• Subdues Shukaku, then discovers that the government suppressed information about the tailed beasts and suspended the Twelve Divine Generals 472.
• Takes control of the Cabinet through Sharingan genjutsu, becoming Japan’s uncrowned ruler 472 473.
• Forces American leaders to obey his commands until the apocalypse is resolved and removes their remaining nuclear warhead 482.
• Fights alongside Sasuke against Pain and restrains the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path. His confidence after the apparent victory nearly leaves him vulnerable to an intruder resembling Orochimaru 492.

Rescue of Naruto and Final Battle

• Experiences a peaceful life in which Mikoto and Akagi are alive. Touching a white Gunbai restores memories of supernatural violence, leaving him unable to distinguish ordinary happiness from his other life 502.
• Returns with God Tree-enhanced strength and joins Inaba and Jeanne in an attempt to rescue Naruto from Madara 506 507.
• Unleashes True Several Thousand Hands, earning Madara’s acknowledgment that only Hashirama surpassed him among his past opponents 510.
• After being drained, uses Eight Thunder Gods and his remaining ocular power to help Naruto reclaim control. Naruto restores his sight and thanks him for genuinely risking his life to save him 511 512.

Notable Quotes

“Mikoto, I will avenge you. Even if I have to rely on my strength alone!” 266

“I am not a good father, much less a good husband. … But I will atone for my sins here!” 456

“The Sharingan’s power and Dojutsu reflect their owner’s wishes. That power is not only for revenge. It is meant to make up for past regrets, so that in the future, we can protect what we love and never lose it again.” 511