Recaps

Eight-year-old Sasuke exposed Itachi and Danzo’s plan to exterminate the Uchiha, turning the secret massacre into a public confrontation. As Itachi was surrounded, Sasuke led clansmen toward the Hokage Building to demand answers.

• Sasuke confronted Itachi during the killings and played a recording of Itachi and Danzo discussing the clan’s extermination.
• Sasuke alerted the Uchiha, and clansmen discovered the victims and challenged Itachi over the murders.
• Sasuke urged the clan to capture Itachi and demand an explanation from the Third Hokage, while Itachi retreated under pressure.
• Danzo learned that the recording had been heard throughout the compound and ordered Root to stop Sasuke from leaving.
• Sasuke left the Military Police Force to surround Itachi and led the other clansmen toward the Hokage Building.

Sasuke exposed Itachi and Danzo’s plan to the Uchiha and the civilians, turning the attempted massacre into a public crisis for Konoha’s leadership. As Sasuke led the clan toward the Hokage Tower to demand answers, Root moved to intercept him.

• Sasuke challenged Itachi’s claim that he had no choice, and the Uchiha clansmen attacked Itachi while Sasuke ordered them to preserve evidence of the killings.
• Sasuke replayed Danzo’s recorded order in front of the ANBU and civilians, forcing the ANBU leader to fall silent as public anger grew.
• Hiruzen watched the confrontation through the Crystal Ball and decided to go to the Uchiha compound, then learned that Root had left its base for the main street.
• Sasuke led a group of Uchiha toward the Hokage Tower, publicly demanding an explanation from the Konoha High Command as Root approached from both sides.

Sasuke led the Uchiha and civilians toward the Hokage Building, exposing Danzo’s role in the clan massacre and drawing Root into a public confrontation. With Kakashi’s ANBU detaining Root, Sasuke reached the building and demanded that Hiruzen explain himself.

• Sasuke played Danzo and Itachi’s recorded conversation for the civilians and accused the Hokage of either incompetence or complicity.
• Sasuke sensed Root agents ahead and positioned the civilians as witnesses before Root attacked him in the street.
• Sasuke used an explosive tag to drive Root back, then urged the crowd to testify that Root had tried to kill him.
• Ito Shin and other civilians backed Sasuke’s account as Root fought the Uchiha until Kakashi and ANBU arrived and ordered Root to surrender.
• Sasuke led the crowd onward to the Hokage Building and called Hiruzen Sarutobi out to answer for the Uchiha massacre.

Sasuke confronted Hiruzen at the Hokage Building and presented recordings and an order document tying Danzo and Root to the Uchiha massacre and an attempt on his life. Hiruzen agreed to protect the evidence with clan witnesses, but reports that Root was sealing its base and destroying documents left Sasuke demanding Danzo’s arrest.

• Sasuke showed the crowd his injury and played Danzo’s recorded order while demanding that Hiruzen explain Root’s attack.
• Sasuke produced a Root order document bearing Shimura Danzō’s seal and signature, and Hiruzen admitted he had not known Danzo would go so far.
• A restrained Root Ninja lunged at Sasuke, but the Uchiha subdued him and Kakashi prevented him from taking poison.
• Sasuke demanded that evidence be jointly held by the Konoha Military Police Force, Hokage’s Direct Anbu, and clan representatives, and Hiruzen agreed to summon the clan heads.
• An Anbu reported that Root was sealing its passages and moving documents, then reported explosions and lost contact with operatives inside.
• Sasuke urged Hiruzen to arrest Danzo and told Kakashi that the night’s second live broadcast had begun.

Sasuke forced the Third to accept public scrutiny of the evidence against Danzo and sign an order suspending Root and naming Itachi a prime suspect. The chapter ended with Danzo missing and Root defying the disarmament order, while ANBU reported finding three Uchiha corpses with their eyes gouged out.

• Sasuke demanded that the Konoha Military Police Force and clan representatives witness the Root search and receive copies of its evidence catalog.
• Shikaku Nara and other clan leaders joined the crowd, while Sasuke projected Danzo's orders to retrieve the Sharingan and leave no witnesses onto the Hokage building.
• Sasuke demanded Danzo's arrest, Root's disarmament, Itachi's classification as a rogue ninja, and a public apology, compensation, and memorial for the dead.
• Sasuke presented a drafted notice, and the Third signed it, suspending Root's operations and naming Danzo a suspect and Itachi a prime suspect; Sasuke ordered copies posted publicly.
• The Third ordered Danzo removed as Hokage's aide and Root's documents sealed, but an ANBU reported that Root personnel refused to disarm and Danzo was missing.
• An ANBU reported finding a sealed operating room containing three Uchiha corpses with their eyes gouged out, and Sasuke demanded that the Third stop calling the crimes a misunderstanding.

Sasuke forced the Third Hokage to condemn Danzo, suspend Root, and agree to a joint investigation and compensation for the Uchiha. As the crowd began to disperse, news arrived that Fugaku and Itachi were heading to the square.

• Sasuke stopped the Uchiha from attacking the ANBU and secured an agreement for clan representatives to witness the examination of the Uchiha bodies.
• Sasuke pressured the Third Hokage to strip Danzo of his positions and declare him suspected of treason against the village.
• Sasuke won support from the Hyuga, Ino-Shika-Cho, and other clan heads for a joint investigation into Root.
• Sasuke demanded that the ANBU, Konoha Military Police Force, and clan representatives oversee Root's investigation, and the Third Hokage agreed to suspend Root's operations.
• Sasuke secured a public inventory of Root's assets and compensation for the Uchiha victims.
• A Konoha Military Police Force ninja reported that Fugaku was approaching with men and that Itachi had broken free of his captors and was coming to see Sasuke.

After Itachi returned to the Hokage Building, Sasuke confronted him over the massacre while Fugaku handed Sasuke the Uchiha clan head's token. Itachi escaped custody, leaving a note that challenged Sasuke to meet him alone at the village entrance.

• Sasuke stopped the Uchiha from attacking Itachi and challenged the Third Hokage over his appeal to family.
• Fugaku arrived with elite Uchiha, learned Root operatives had attacked Sasuke, and praised his son for taking control of the situation.
• Itachi argued that he had acted to prevent a war, while Sasuke and Fugaku confronted him over killing Uchiha clansmen and their families.
• Fugaku gave Sasuke the clan head's token and pledged to obey him, followed by the elite Uchiha.
• The Third Hokage ordered ANBU to arrest Itachi, but Itachi escaped in smoke and left a note asking Sasuke to meet him alone at the village entrance.

Sasuke secured Konoha’s formal recognition as the Uchiha clan head and organized the clan’s defenses after exposing Danzo’s informant. He prepared to confront Itachi at the village entrance, but a hidden message revealed that another agent inside the clan awaited orders.

• Sasuke rejected the Hokage’s authority to choose the Uchiha clan head, and Fugaku and the clansmen publicly accepted him.
• The Third Hokage formally registered Sasuke as clan head, and Sasuke assigned squads to guard the compound, protect survivors, and escort captured Root members.
• Sasuke restricted ANBU access to the compound and ordered a gray-hatted informant caught with a message from Danzo’s network.
• Sasuke told the informant to warn Danzo that he would expose the agents planted among the Uchiha, then set out to meet Itachi with Kakashi following at a distance.
• Kakashi stopped the informant from releasing a black pellet, which contained a message that someone inside the clan awaited orders.

Sasuke imposed a village-wide lockdown after the Uchiha massacre, mobilizing the police, ANBU, clans, and civilians to capture Root operatives and investigate an insider. The chapter ended with Sasuke uncovering ledgers suggesting Danzo had stolen money from the Uchiha through the Konoha Military Police Force.

• Sasuke declared a lockdown until dawn and persuaded the Third Hokage to have the ANBU and police jointly seal Konoha’s exits.
• Sasuke ordered Uchiha Takaya to deploy police at all four gates, recheck the clan members, and investigate everyone’s contact with Root.
• Sasuke enlisted civilians to report Root sightings and asked the Nara, Yamanaka, and Akimichi clans to assist with witnesses, interrogations, and security.
• Sasuke ordered the Uchiha to jointly supervise police records and armory access while the police and ANBU detained seven Root operatives carrying sealing scrolls.
• Takaya’s messenger reported catching two Root operatives with ledgers and banknotes, and Sasuke found a record of special appropriations for the Konoha Military Police Force.

Sasuke exposed ledgers showing Danzo had diverted Uchiha funds, war death benefits, and other village allocations into Root operations and a laboratory. As the Third Hokage ordered an audit and raids on Root storehouses, investigators discovered a child with a transplanted Sharingan who claimed to know Danzo.

• Sasuke showed the ledgers to Shikaku, who revealed that Murata Ryosuke's son's three-hundred-thousand-ryō death benefit had been allocated but never paid.
• Inoichi read a Root operative's memory and confirmed the ledgers came from Root's secret storehouse and recorded stolen death benefits, disability subsidies, and Military Police Force funds.
• Sasuke pressured the Third Hokage to establish a Temporary Financial Audit Committee with three-way archived copies, while villagers demanded an audit.
• Shikaku and Inoichi traced suspicious medical equipment purchases to the Root Underground Laboratory, prompting the Third Hokage to order the storehouses sealed with Military Police Force and clan witnesses present.
• An ANBU operative brought a half-burned scroll linking Uchiha death benefits and spare eyes to the Wood Release Experiment, Phase Three.
• Another ANBU operative reported finding a child with a transplanted Sharingan in the underground laboratory, who said he knew Danzo.

Sasuke forced the Hokage and the clans to let him question Sawada Ao, whose testimony implicated Danzo and a medical ninja in Root’s experiments. He secured a temporary high-level council seat with access to relevant records, but Sawada Ao’s Sealing Ring activated just as he warned that anyone asking about the names had to die.

• Sasuke pressured the Third into bringing Sawada Ao out for treatment and questioning under clan observation.
• Sawada Ao testified that Danzo ordered experiments to obtain Wood Release and Sharingan, and identified a bandaged old man and a purple-haired medical ninja as those who replaced his eye.
• Sasuke demanded a temporary high-level council seat, threatening to take the evidence to the Daimyo’s Residence if the Uchiha were excluded.
• The Third granted Sasuke a temporary seat for matters concerning the Danzo case and added his right to examine relevant ledgers, interrogation records, and Root personnel lists.
• A Hyuga ninja discovered that someone had tampered with Sawada Ao’s Sealing Ring, which activated as Sawada Ao warned that Danzo had ordered anyone asking about the names to die.

Sasuke secured authorization to investigate Root, pushed the Third Hokage to issue an S-rank warrant for Itachi, and prepared to meet him publicly at the village entrance. The chapter ended with Root demanding Sasuke’s left eye to reveal its list while Itachi threatened to kill someone waiting behind the door unless Sasuke came alone.

• Sawada Ao identified the Root Old Well’s third level and Snake-Patterned Door before losing consciousness, and the Third Hokage sent Kakashi’s team to investigate.
• Sasuke persuaded the Third Hokage to issue an S-rank warrant for Itachi, and the Uchiha clan agreed with the decision.
• Sasuke arranged a witnessed meeting with Itachi at the village entrance while Takaya and the others continued the Root investigation.
• An ANBU reported that the Snake-Patterned Door demanded Sasuke’s left eye in exchange for the list.
• A crow delivered Itachi’s message threatening to kill the person behind the door unless Sasuke came alone.

Sasuke confronted Itachi at Konoha’s gate over his threats and alleged collaboration with Danzo, while Shikaku recorded the exchange. Itachi’s genjutsu failed to make Sasuke retreat, and the chapter ended with the Uchiha elders showing Itachi the names of the dead and demanding his death.

• Sasuke rejected the advisors’ proposal to send ANBU alone and arranged a recorded meeting with Itachi, with Shikaku as witness and other forces watching the Root trap.
• Fugaku agreed to stay behind as Sasuke left for the village gate, where Itachi waited outside the cordon.
• Sasuke accused Itachi of helping Danzo plot the clan’s extermination and rejected Itachi’s claim that he had acted to protect Sasuke.
• Itachi awakened his Mangekyo and used Genjutsu Pressure, but Sasuke’s One-Tomoe Sharingan resisted it without making him retreat.
• Sasuke brought the frail Uchiha elders into the torchlight, where they showed Itachi white cloths bearing the names of the dead and called for his death.

Sasuke forced Itachi to face the Uchiha survivors’ grief and challenged his justifications for the massacre, but a masked man rescued Itachi before he revealed what lay behind the Snake-Patterned Door. The masked man left a threat demanding that the Old Well Gate be opened, or someone would die first.

• Uchiha survivors spat on Itachi and named relatives he had killed, while Sasuke made him confront the victims’ families and the people he had meant to sacrifice.
• Sasuke accused Itachi of choosing slaughter over exposing Danzo and ordered him to stay alive and remember the people he had harmed.
• Itachi refused to explain what was behind the Snake-Patterned Door, and a masked man used Space-Time Ninjutsu to pull him away.
• The masked man left a sealing spike and a note threatening that someone would die first unless the Old Well Gate was opened.

Sasuke used his newly acquired Yomotsu Hirasaka to save Shinji and retrieve a scroll from Danzo’s Snake-Patterned Door. The scroll revealed a roster of undercover operatives in the Konoha Military Police Force, and Sasuke confronted Mitokado Homura over ash from the destroyed door on his cuff.

• Sasuke went to the Old Well despite warnings, where he found Shinji bound by sealing threads and a door demanding Sasuke’s left eye.
• Sasuke acquired Yomotsu Hirasaka and used it to suppress Danzo’s sealed consciousness while Kakashi and Takaya helped free Shinji.
• Sasuke and his allies retrieved the Gray-Cord Scroll, and the Snake-Patterned Door collapsed after Danzo warned that he still had eyes inside the police force.
• The Third Hokage’s party opened the scroll enough to confirm it contained a roster of undercover operatives in the Konoha Military Police Force.
• Sasuke ordered the Uchiha compound sealed and police officers grouped together, then questioned Mitokado Homura about matching black ash on his cuff.

Sasuke publicly verified a Root roster of infiltrators in the Konoha Military Police Force and exposed three Uchiha traitors, while evidence tied Mitokado Homura to the Snake-Patterned Door. The chapter ended with the captured men warning that a greater secret lay hidden in the police force’s dungeon.

• Sasuke ordered Mitokado Homura to provide an ash sample, and a test matched it to residue from the Snake-Patterned Door.
• Sasuke moved the roster verification to the Hokage Building, where Shikaku read out names before the assembled police force and villagers.
• Sasuke identified Uchiha Tajima, Uchiha Kaito, and Uchiha Sosuke on the roster and played a recording of them conspiring with Root.
• Kaito and Sosuke tried to flee and attack a spectator, while Sasuke and Shikaku subdued all three men.
• Tajima, Kaito, and Sosuke warned Sasuke that a greater secret was hidden in the Konoha Military Police Force’s dungeon.

Sasuke publicly executed three Uchiha traitors after exposing their ties to Danzo and uncovering a dangerous prisoner in the Military Police Force dungeon. Kakashi returned with evidence linking the prisoner to Senju Hashirama’s cells and a photograph of a boy presumed dead.

• Sasuke had Tajima, Kaito, and Sosuke disarmed and questioned, then executed Tajima after he admitted knowing about the dungeon.
• Kaito and Sosuke revealed that Danzo had hidden an experimental subject called Wood Number in A Cell, where Hashirama cells and dangerous sealing tags were involved.
• Sasuke sent Kakashi, two Anbu, Takaya, and clan members to inspect the dungeon while Shikaku recorded the testimony.
• Sasuke executed Kaito and Sosuke after Sosuke accused Mitokado Homura of helping conceal the dungeon’s secrets, and the Third Hokage ordered Homura to recuse himself from the investigation.
• Kakashi returned with a Sealing Box and a file identifying Wood Number’s implants as Senju Hashirama’s cells, along with a photograph of a boy with a Sharingan who was presumed dead.

Sasuke opened the Konoha Military Police Force to civilian and retired ninja, using seized Root funds to establish recruitment allowances and compensation for victims. As the new force gained public support, Danzo prepared a smear campaign against Sasuke and had anonymous leaflets posted across Konoha.

• Sasuke abolished the Uchiha-only recruitment rules and invited civilian ninja, retired ninja, and clanless shinobi to apply to the police force.
• Sasuke proposed using half of Root’s seized assets for recruitment, compensation, and appeals, while Shikaku, Hiashi, and Fugaku helped establish oversight and screening procedures.
• Yamada Naoto and other civilians registered, while Sasuke set rules requiring mixed teams, written records, and same-day deposits of confiscated property.
• The Third Hokage agreed that ANBU and the police force would jointly guard Dungeon Cell A, with Sasuke and Kakashi approving the guard roster and Mitokado Homura remaining recused.
• Danzo ordered Root to distribute leaflets accusing Sasuke of being possessed by the demon fox and responsible for the massacre, and the first leaflet appeared beneath Hokage Rock before dawn.

Sasuke tracked a wave of rumors accusing him of being controlled by the demon fox while refusing to arrest the people spreading them. As a crowd demanded that the Third Hokage expel him, Sasuke prepared to expose the payments and forces behind the campaign.

• Flyers accusing Sasuke of using the demon fox spread through Konoha, frightening civilians and shaking the confidence of new police force recruits.
• Sasuke ordered his allies to record the rumors and the Hokage Building’s inaction instead of arresting spreaders, while Naruto visited to offer support.
• Yamada Naoto’s men caught a flyer distributor carrying banknotes marked by the Underground Black Market Bounty Exchange, and Sasuke ordered them to preserve the evidence.
• The Third Hokage and his advisers chose not to publicly refute the rumors, hoping the campaign would curb Sasuke without causing casualties.
• Sasuke directed his team to protect the registration office and record people’s faces as a crowd gathered at the Hokage Building demanding his expulsion.

Sasuke exposed paid agitators who spread rumors about him and the Nine-Tails, then uncovered evidence linking their operation to Root. He ordered the Military Police to pursue the records at Root’s Third Safehouse, but Kuroda warned that opening the secret message had triggered the records’ destruction.

• Sasuke arrived at the Hokage Building with Fugaku, Takaya, Yamada Naoto, and the Military Police, then presented payment records identifying Kuroda Roppei and other paid agitators.
• Sasuke revealed that the agitators had spread false rumors and shown that Kuroda had gambling debts, turning the crowd against the organizers.
• Sasuke presented Root-marked payment evidence, and Yamano Jiro confessed that a Root agent had paid them and expected Sasuke to be placed under house arrest.
• Sasuke and Takaya found poison pills on the captured agitators, while Tanabe Suke died after swallowing a capsule containing a coded message directing the agents to destroy records at the Third Safehouse.
• Sasuke ordered the Military Police to follow the black-market records and make arrests, but Kuroda warned that the Third Safehouse was already burning the evidence.

Sasuke led the Konoha forces to raid Root’s safehouses and uncovered evidence that Root diverted military funds to incite unrest and pay advisors Mitokado Homura and Utatane Koharu. The Emergency Elders’ Council ordered Root’s assets frozen, but Danzo resisted at the Root Vault and threatened to detonate it along with Konoha’s underground seals.

• Sasuke ordered Konoha forces to raid Root’s Third Safehouse, where they stopped the staff from burning the records and found hidden ledgers and Root personnel.
• The captured bookkeeper revealed two more locations, and Sasuke sent teams to seize the North Alley Winery and the Old Bathhouse, uncovering money, propaganda materials, and hiring lists.
• Sasuke presented the evidence to the Third Hokage and demanded an Emergency Elders’ Council Meeting, then revealed records linking Mitokado Homura and Utatane Koharu to Root payments.
• The bookkeeper implicated both advisors, and Sasuke produced a receipt tying Utatane Koharu to purchases for Root’s laboratory.
• The Third Hokage convened the council, where Sasuke demanded that all Root funds, facilities, and personnel be frozen.
• An ANBU operative reported that Danzo had barricaded himself in the Root Vault with the Death Squad and threatened to detonate it and Konoha’s underground seals.

Sasuke exposed Mitokado Homura and Utatane Koharu’s links to Danzo’s corruption and forced the Third Hokage to remove Danzo, freeze Root’s funding, and order the vault sealed. The chapter ended with Root’s death squad blocking the vault and challenging the Uchiha to come inside for their eyes.

• Sasuke pressed for the bookkeeper’s testimony and presented evidence tying Mitokado Homura and Utatane Koharu to diverted funds and Root experiments.
• Sasuke played a recording of Danzo, Mitokado Homura, and Utatane Koharu discussing withheld Uchiha funds and secret laboratory supplies.
• Sasuke appealed to the crowd and clan leaders, who demanded an investigation and supported measures against Danzo and Root.
• The Third Hokage removed Shimura Danzō from office, froze Root’s funding, and ordered ANBU, the Konoha Military Police Force, and clan representatives to seal the vault.
• Sasuke made the Third Hokage issue a written order and secured witness signatures from Hiashi, Inoichi, and Choza.
• An injured ANBU reported that Root had sealed the vault’s perimeter and left a message challenging the Uchiha to enter and take their eyes.

Sasuke led a coalition to break into Root’s vault after exposing Danzo’s schemes and disarming the defenders. Inside, the group found stolen clan property, including the Byakugan eyes of Hizashi Hyuga, leaving Hiashi shaken.

• Sasuke persuaded the Hokage to authorize a joint operation, with the Uchiha handling the breach and other clans securing the vault.
• Sasuke used a list of Root operatives’ families to sow doubt among the defenders and coordinated with Takaya, Kakashi, Shikaku, and Hiashi to disable the detonator and storm the entrance.
• The coalition subdued the Root operatives and used the Hokage’s order and the hidden Root seal to open the inner vault door.
• The group found gold, ninja tools, and stolen clan belongings, and Hiashi recognized two Byakugan eyes as those of Hizashi Hyuga.

Sasuke and the clan leaders uncovered evidence that Root had taken Hizashi Hyuga’s eyes and withheld fallen ninja benefits, then brought the records to the Hokage Building. Danzo ordered Orochimaru to prepare a weapon against Sasuke, while a Daimyo envoy arrived to demand answers about Konoha’s unrest.

• Hiashi learned from Root’s records that Konoha had substituted Hizashi for him during the Kumogakure envoy incident, while Root took Byakugan samples to study the Caged Bird Seal.
• Sasuke voided Root’s old rules, arranged for clan belongings to be returned and withheld death benefits to be paid, and ordered the evidence registered under joint custody.
• Hiashi and Fugaku agreed to seek answers at the Hokage Building, while Sasuke secured evidence of Root’s fallback route and decided to wait for the Third Hokage’s authorization before pursuing Danzo.
• Danzo learned that Root’s vault had fallen and Hizashi’s eyes had been found, then told a messenger snake to advance his deal with Orochimaru and obtain something to kill Sasuke.
• Sasuke, Hiashi, Fugaku, Shikaku, and Kakashi delivered evidence to the Hokage Building, where Sasuke placed Hizashi’s file beside the Daimyo’s urgent dispatch and asked who would be held accountable.

Sasuke forced the Third Hokage to grant the Hyuga access to records about Root’s Byakugan experiments, then revealed evidence that Hizashi’s death and the Caged Bird Seal had been exploited. Hiashi allied the Hyuga with the Uchiha, but their meeting was interrupted by an attack from unknown ninja seeking Sasuke and the Byakugan.

• Sasuke pressured the Third Hokage into signing an order that gave the Hyuga access to files about the Kumogakure incident and Byakugan experiments.
• At the Hyuga compound, Sasuke showed Hiashi and Neji Root records suggesting Hizashi’s eyes had been preserved and Branch Family members had been targeted for experiments.
• Neji asked to avenge his father, and Sasuke urged him to gain power and standing rather than kneel.
• Sasuke offered an alliance, and Hiashi signed a pact supporting the Uchiha’s audit and reorganization in exchange for help investigating Root’s crimes against the Hyuga.
• A barrier alarm sounded as enormous snakes broke through the compound wall, and four unfamiliar ninja announced they had come for Sasuke and the Hyuga Byakugan.