Chapter Summaries

On Kobe Bridge, Zabuza Momochi fought Guy while possessing Noro, and Guy fought through Teruzo Kurogane’s body. Guy defeated Zabuza with the Eight Gates’ Front Lotus, but Teruzo was left dying as a black-haired young man with Sharingan appeared.

• Zabuza Momochi and Guy recognized the Ritual of the Lord of Mount Tai as the method behind their return, and Zabuza said the competitors had to kill one another to truly come back to life.
• Zabuza possessed Noro and attacked Guy with the Hidden Mist Technique, while Guy took control of Teruzo Kurogane’s body to fight him.
• Zabuza thickened the mist and used Silent Killing, wounding Guy as Teruzo worried that his weak, injured body was holding Guy back.
• Guy used Zabuza’s blood scent to locate him, opened the Gate of Opening, and killed him with the Front Lotus.
• Teruzo collapsed with fatal injuries, and a black-haired young man with a glowing Sharingan appeared and observed that both fighters had been critically injured.

Uchiha Naruto watched the first Holy Grail War test in Kobe, rescued Teruzo Kurogane for further experiments, and concealed the evidence before the Shadow Ninjas could be exposed. The next day, he went on a date with Matsudaira Chiyo at New Senso-ji, where an Akatsuki member in a Spiral Mask appeared.

• Uchiha Naruto assessed the battle between Zabuza Momochi and Might Guy's Shadow Ninja, noting that limited natural energy had weakened them.
• Uchiha Naruto retrieved the Shadow Ninjas, used the Mystical Palm Technique to save Teruzo Kurogane, and burned Noro's corpse to hide the battle.
• Uchiha Naruto cleared the mist from Kobe Bridge and left the scene deserted, planning to continue the Holy Grail War experiments elsewhere once he had gathered enough data.
• Uchiha Naruto met Matsudaira Chiyo at Asakusa Station, and she took him to New Senso-ji to fulfill her vow and pray for their relationship and Uchiha Senmon's safety.
• Uchiha Naruto noticed a man in an Akatsuki cloak and Spiral Mask near the temple gates, and the surrounding visitors recognized Akatsuki.

Uchiha Naruto visited New Senso-ji with Matsudaira Chiyo, where the Lord of Mount Tai’s statue cracked and Naruto drew a terrible-misfortune fortune. After learning that his last distant Uchiha elder had died, Naruto prepared to return to Shizuoka and considered resolving the matter at Naka Shrine.

• Uchiha Naruto and Matsudaira Chiyo watched police arrest a young man wearing Akatsuki cosplay outside New Senso-ji.
• Uchiha Naruto and Matsudaira Chiyo toured the rebuilt temple and offered incense and prayers.
• Worshippers discovered a crack across the Lord of Mount Tai’s statue, prompting panic among the temple’s visitors and monks.
• Uchiha Naruto drew a fortune slip marked terrible misfortune, and Matsudaira Chiyo worried about the omen.
• Uchiha Naruto learned that his last distant Uchiha elder had died and decided to return to Shizuoka before Senmon joined him.
• Uchiha Naruto considered tying up the loose end at Naka Shrine and giving Senmon access to Uchiha secrets.

Uchiha Naruto and Matsudaira Chiyo arrived in his rural hometown and stayed at the Sakaki family home, where Sakaki Namiru welcomed and questioned them. As they discussed family and the village’s decline, Namiru revealed that the last village elder bearing the Uchiha name had died and that his wake was that night.

• Uchiha Naruto drove Matsudaira Chiyo through the countryside to the village where he had spent part of his childhood.
• Sakaki Namiru welcomed Naruto and Chiyo at her family’s ancestral home, then warmly took Chiyo inside.
• Namiru sent Chiyo to see Naruto’s old room and privately asked Naruto how he had won her over.
• Naruto explained that Chiyo had attended Jinguji Private High School, prompting Namiru to recall meeting her there three years earlier.
• Naruto asked about his grandparents, and Namiru said they were healthy but wanted to return to the village.
• Namiru told Naruto that the last village elder bearing the Uchiha name had died and that the funeral wake was that night.

Uchiha Naruto attended his great-great-uncle’s wake in rural Shizuoka with Matsudaira Chiyo and Sakaki Namiru. The wake became a gathering of local dignitaries seeking an audience with Uchiha Senmon, who had not yet arrived.

• Uchiha Naruto, Matsudaira Chiyo, and Sakaki Namiru arrived at the farmhouse wake and presented condolence offerings.
• The old village chief welcomed Uchiha Naruto and recalled Uchiha Senmon’s rise from the village.
• Sakaki Namiru explained that local businesspeople had come hoping to reach Uchiha Senmon through her.
• The mayor and prominent company and agricultural leaders arrived, repeatedly asking whether Director Uchiha had come.
• More officials and wealthy figures, including the Shizuoka governor and prefectural police chief, gathered at the wake to look for Uchiha Senmon.

Uchiha Naruto drew the attention of Shizuoka’s dignitaries while waiting for Uchiha Senmon to arrive at the wake, and overheard officials discuss the planned elevation of the Supernatural Konoha Military Police Force. Just as Naruto decided the wake should begin without his father, a helicopter appeared overhead.

• The governor of Shizuoka Prefecture recognized Uchiha Naruto and led local dignitaries in courting him, while Matsudaira Chiyo handled their conversation.
• Naruto overheard the governor explain that the Supernatural Konoha Military Police Force might become an agency because the three-year term for Severing the Connection Between Earth and Heaven was nearly over.
• Sakaki Namiru asked whether Uchiha Senmon had arrived, and Naruto said they should begin the wake without him.
• A black helicopter raced toward the gathering through the night sky.

After using his Wood Release to impress world leaders at a supernatural summit in New York, Uchiha Senmon prepared to return to Japan, where he planned to attend his great-uncle’s funeral and treat Higashiyama Kaname. On the plane, Senmon discovered that he had awakened Three-Tomoe Sharingan, which he hoped would help him uncover a demon in Japan’s Cabinet and find the elusive Naka Shrine.

• The president hosted a supernatural summit in Manhattan, where Uchiha Senmon used Wood Release to grow oak saplings into a grove and posed for photographs with the leaders.
• Uchiha Senmon reflected on his month in the United States, including his visit to NASA, which had no plans for a crewed moon landing despite clues that the Age of Gods originated on the moon.
• On the flight home, Assistant Ichimaru told Uchiha Senmon that Higashiyama Kaname remained unconscious after Toru Yamashita injured him in the Forest of Death, and Senmon agreed to help.
• Uchiha Senmon learned that his great-uncle had died and told Ichimaru he needed to travel to Shizuoka Prefecture for the funeral.
• In the plane’s restroom, Uchiha Senmon saw that he had awakened Three-Tomoe Sharingan and resolved to use it to investigate the demon in Japan’s Cabinet and search for the Naka Shrine.

Uchiha Senmon arrived at his great-uncle’s wake, where local dignitaries sought his favor and he introduced Uchiha Naruto’s girlfriend, Matsudaira Chiyo, as family. After the wake, Senmon dismissed the uninvited guests and prepared to investigate his clan’s buried history, while the village chief received unexpected offers from visiting business leaders.

• Uchiha Senmon arrived by helicopter, greeted the governor and police chief, and showed special courtesy to the village chief.
• Uchiha Naruto introduced Matsudaira Chiyo to Uchiha Senmon, who accepted her as Naruto’s girlfriend and thanked her for looking after him.
• Uchiha Senmon recalled his unsuccessful searches for the Uchiha Clan’s history and considered whether his awakened Three-Tomoe Sharingan could reveal what he had missed.
• Uchiha Senmon began the wake, where the monk chanted Buddhist sutras and an invocation to the Lord of Mount Tai before the guests paid their respects.
• Uchiha Senmon sent Uchiha Naruto home, prompting the Shizuoka dignitaries to leave, and several business leaders offered the village chief investments and development proposals.

At his great-uncle’s wake, Uchiha Senmon arranged to fund his village’s development and learned that Matsudaira Chiyo’s mother was his old University of Tokyo acquaintance, Jinguji. As a sudden storm trapped everyone in the mourning hall, Senmon saw an old man outside the window and wondered if it was his great-uncle.

• Uchiha Senmon asked Sakaki Namiru to help revitalize the village and explore its history, offering twenty million dollars of his own money.
• Sakaki Namiru learned that Matsudaira Chiyo’s mother was Jinguji, an old acquaintance of Senmon’s, and privately resolved to break up Chiyo and Naruto.
• Uchiha Senmon urged Sakaki Namiru to think about her own future, then prepared to send her home.
• Heavy rain and thunder forced Sakaki Namiru, Senmon, the military police, and the bereaved family to keep vigil together in the mourning hall.
• Uchiha Senmon spotted a stooped old figure staring through the window and whispered, “Great-uncle?”

At Uchiha Senmon’s great-uncle’s wake, the dead man’s rational spirit led Senmon and the others into a hidden realm on Mount Fuji. Senmon recognized the ancient shrine there as Naka Shrine, the Uchiha Clan’s ancestral grounds, and entered to investigate while the others sheltered in a wooden house.

• Uchiha Senmon saw his deceased great-uncle’s spirit at the wake, but discovered it was rational when it silently left the house.
• Uchiha Senmon pursued the spirit and found himself and the others in a strange, isolated mountain forest resembling Mount Fuji.
• Assistant Ichimaru reported that their communications had failed, and Uchiha Senmon concluded they had entered a hidden realm.
• Uchiha Senmon led the group after his great-uncle’s spirit through the forest and found Naka Shrine, identifying its crest as the Uchiha Clan’s.
• Uchiha Senmon created a Four Pillars House to protect the others, then entered Naka Shrine while two dark figures slipped out of the shelter.

Uchiha Senmon followed his great-uncle’s soul to Naka Shrine and uncovered a hidden passage beneath the worship hall. As he descended, he discovered the Uchiha Clan’s Sharingan techniques and reached a mural describing the forbidden technique Izanagi.

• Uchiha Senmon entered Naka Shrine and noticed a stone fox with nine tails standing before its worship hall.
• Uchiha Senmon found a stone slab beneath the seventh tatami and opened it by channeling his Sharingan into its three-tomoe pattern.
• Uchiha Senmon descended into the passage and read murals explaining Sharingan techniques, including Demonic Illusion: Mirror Heaven and Earth Change and Demonic Illusion: Shackling Stakes Technique.
• Uchiha Senmon reached a mural describing a forbidden technique called Izanagi.

Uchiha Senmon discovered an ancient mural showing an Uchiha controlling the armored Nine-Tails and encountered Uchiha Itachi, who revealed that the figure was Madara Uchiha. Itachi identified Madara as Izanagi, the creator god of Japan, as Senmon stood before the indestructible stone tablet beneath the mural.

• Uchiha Senmon deciphered the Izanagi Technique, learned that it could negate death only briefly and permanently blind a Sharingan after use, and memorized its hand seals.
• Uchiha Senmon entered a vast underground chamber and found a mural of an armored Nine-Tails carrying a long-haired Uchiha, while the other half of the mural had been destroyed.
• Uchiha Senmon's eye activated a Transcription Seal, releasing Uchiha Itachi from a crow hidden inside him; Itachi's Amaterasu burned against the stone tablet without damaging it.
• Uchiha Itachi revealed that the man standing atop the Nine-Tails was Madara Uchiha, founder of the Uchiha Clan.
• Uchiha Itachi told Uchiha Senmon that Madara Uchiha was known in the Kojiki as Izanagi, Japan's creator god.

Sakaki Namiru and Assistant Ichimaru descended into a hidden passage beneath the shrine, where its defenses drove them toward Uchiha Senmon and Uchiha Itachi. After Uchiha Senmon revealed his Sharingan and rescued Namiru, Ichimaru concluded that the government director was an Akatsuki spy.

• Sakaki Namiru followed her brother-in-law’s footprints down the secret passage while Assistant Ichimaru secretly followed her and photographed the Sharingan murals.
• Assistant Ichimaru wondered why Uchiha Senmon’s great-uncle’s soul had led them to the shrine, then spotted a black-mist figure and fled from it.
• Assistant Ichimaru tumbled down the stairs and warned Sakaki Namiru to run as ghostlike shadows chased them into a vast chamber.
• A Sharingan-wielding shadow attacked Sakaki Namiru with a Great Fireball, but Uchiha Senmon pulled her away with vines and revealed his three-tomoe Sharingan.
• Uchiha Itachi explained that the passage’s defenses attacked outsiders, and Assistant Ichimaru mistook Uchiha Senmon’s familiarity with him as proof that Senmon was an Akatsuki spy.

Uchiha Itachi revealed that he had destroyed the Heavenly Realm’s Uchiha Clan to test their capacity for the Mangekyō Sharingan, then challenged Uchiha Senmon to prove his own. After Senmon defeated Naka Shrine’s Uchiha spirits and learned more about the Three-Tomoe Sharingan, Itachi began manifesting Susanoo.

• Uchiha Itachi told Uchiha Senmon that the Uchiha descended from Izanagi and that he had destroyed the Heavenly Realm clan because they lacked the capacity to bear the Mangekyō Sharingan.
• Uchiha Itachi challenged Uchiha Senmon to awaken the Mangekyō Sharingan, but Sakaki Namiru and Assistant Ichimaru interrupted before they could fight.
• Uchiha Senmon protected Sakaki Namiru and Assistant Ichimaru from Naka Shrine’s shadowy Uchiha guardians, using Wood Release and copying their Great Dragon Fire Technique.
• Uchiha Itachi explained that the guardians trained Uchiha in Sharingan abilities, while Uchiha Senmon realized their destruction had taught him how to use his newly awakened Three-Tomoe Sharingan.
• Uchiha Senmon asked who the third Mangekyō Sharingan wielder was, and Uchiha Itachi dismissed his guess that it was Madara Uchiha.
• Uchiha Itachi summoned Susanoo and challenged Uchiha Senmon to withstand its power.

Uchiha Senmon defeated Uchiha Itachi’s weakened Susanoo with Wood Release and learned that both Wood Release and the Mangekyō Sharingan could tame the Nine-Tails. After Itachi disappeared, Senmon erased Assistant Ichimaru’s memories and prepared to erase Sakaki Namiru’s memories and feelings for him.

• Uchiha Senmon restrained Uchiha Itachi’s Susanoo with Wood Release, then used the Wood Dragon Technique to drain Itachi’s chakra and pin him down.
• Uchiha Senmon read the stone tablet and learned that Mangekyō Sharingan power could tame the Nine-Tails; Uchiha Itachi added that Wood Release could do so as well.
• Uchiha Itachi told Uchiha Senmon that he had the capacity to bear the Mangekyō Sharingan and promised they would meet again after Senmon awakened it, then vanished.
• Uchiha Senmon hypnotized Assistant Ichimaru and erased his memories of the encounter to protect the Uchiha Clan’s secrets.
• Uchiha Senmon told Sakaki Namiru that she would forget the night and her feelings for him by morning, leaving her on the verge of tears.

After burying his great-uncle, Uchiha Senmon hid the Uchiha Clan’s secrets and used his Sharingan to turn Assistant Ichimaru into a double agent. With new power and intelligence, he began planning his revenge, starting with the Twelve Divine Generals.

• Uchiha Senmon used Wood Release to grow a tree over his great-uncle’s ashes, then left the funeral with Assistant Ichimaru.
• Uchiha Senmon decided that Uchiha Naruto should remain ignorant of the Uchiha Clan’s secrets and congratulated him on entering the University of Tokyo.
• Uchiha Senmon reviewed the powers he had gained at Naka Shrine and used his Sharingan to make Assistant Ichimaru reveal the deputy prime minister’s informants.
• Uchiha Senmon hypnotized Assistant Ichimaru into reporting his daily actions to him and disclosing intelligence from the government.
• Uchiha Senmon resolved to control the Twelve Divine Generals before taking on the Cabinet and chose Higashiyama Kaname as his first target.

After Matsudaira Chiyo proposed developing a tree-burial cemetery to revive the village economy, Uchiha Senmon approved trying the plan and suggested renaming the village Konoha. Uchiha Naruto recognized the name and offered a slogan, leaving Sakaki Namiru and Chiyo laughing at his apparent chuunibyou.

• Sakaki Namiru described the village's crops, mountain produce, and handicrafts when Matsudaira Chiyo asked what it produced.
• Matsudaira Chiyo proposed using connections to raise agricultural purchase prices and have the foundation market the village's specialties, but Namiru rejected the plan because Uchiha Senmon had forbidden exploiting local officials and businesses.
• Matsudaira Chiyo proposed building a tree-burial cemetery around the hill where Uchiha Senmon had performed a burial, and Uchiha Naruto agreed it was worth trying.
• Sakaki Namiru called Uchiha Senmon, who approved the cemetery plan and suggested renaming the village, subject to the village chief's and villagers' approval.
• Sakaki Namiru told Chiyo and Naruto that Senmon wanted to name the village Konoha, and Naruto choked when he heard the name.
• Uchiha Naruto suggested a fire-and-leaves advertising slogan for the cemetery, and Matsudaira Chiyo teased him about having chuunibyou.

Uchiha Naruto practiced kyudo while considering Uchiha Senmon’s safety, the Uchiha tablet, and whether to pursue the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan or Impure World Reincarnation. He agreed to enter the East-West Tournament qualifiers and realized the finals at Ise Grand Shrine could bring him near the Yata Mirror.

• Uchiha Naruto reflected on how he had guided Senmon through the Naka Shrine Secret Realm and worried about Senmon’s wish to resurrect the dead through the fictitious Ritual of the Lord of Mount Tai.
• Uchiha Naruto weighed upgrading his Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan against unlocking Impure World Reincarnation, considering whether the latter could help fulfill Senmon’s wish.
• Takigawa praised Uchiha Naruto’s perfect long-distance shooting and asked him to compete in the national university kyudo tournaments.
• Uchiha Naruto agreed to enter the East-West Individual Tournament qualifiers but declined the team competition.
• Uchiha Naruto recalled that the tournament finals would be held at Ise Grand Shrine, whose sacred object was the Yata Mirror.

Uchiha Naruto visited the secret realm after Yoruichi Kato reported that the Royal City’s first construction phase was complete. He surveyed the settlement and its ruined central hall, where Liliana arrived to urge him to stop slacking off.

• Uchiha Naruto discussed the Tokyo Metropolis Kyudo Federation qualifiers with Seventh-Dan Takigawa, then left with Yoruichi, who relayed that the Royal City was ready for inspection.
• Uchiha Naruto used a space-shifting technique to travel with Yoruichi to the secret realm, where she resumed her silent human form.
• Uchiha Naruto surveyed the Royal City and considered how it would shelter Taka Organization members and their families from the authorities and future dangers.
• Uchiha Naruto returned to the ruined hall where Uchiha Sasuke and Uchiha Itachi had fought, sat on the stone seat, and waited for Liliana.
• Liliana arrived supported by two puppets, saluted Uchiha Naruto, and told him to stop slacking off.

Uchiha Naruto inspected the Taka Organization’s renovated Royal City and checked on Liliana, who was exhausted from overseeing construction. Yoruichi Kato then reported that Shuichi Satomi had information about the mass-produced Superhumans Naruto wanted investigated.

• Liliana nearly collapsed while reporting to Uchiha Naruto, who caught her and urged her to rest.
• Liliana presented footage of the completed first phase of the Royal City renovation and requested more workers and engineers.
• Uchiha Naruto told Liliana not to rush the construction, and she explained that hundreds of tireless puppets were doing the building work.
• Uchiha Naruto asked Yoruichi Kato for a report, and she relayed that Shuichi Satomi had participated in the human experimentation project producing Superhumans with bone blades and bone bullets.