Recaps

Sasuke, the Hyuga, and the Uchiha repelled Orochimaru and Root operatives who attacked the Hyuga compound, while recording evidence of their alliance. The chapter ended with ANBU receiving footage implicating Danzo’s Root and revealing a Hokage Building access insignia.

• Hiashi and Fugaku organized defenses as Orochimaru, the Sound Four, and Root operatives attacked the Hyuga compound.
• Sasuke warned the Hyuga not to touch Root’s explosive-sealed kunai and ordered them to record the attackers’ techniques and identities.
• Neji protected Sasuke from a Root operative’s Chakra Threads, and Sasuke broke the Sound Four’s barrier at a chakra-network fault.
• Hiashi defeated the Root captain while Sasuke recovered evidence, and Orochimaru declared that Hiruzen’s roots were rotten before escaping.
• Sasuke gave Kakashi a recording scroll to take to the Hokage Building, and Hiashi prepared to bring the evidence and captives to confront the Hokage.
• ANBU arrived, and Sasuke showed them footage of Orochimaru’s message and a Hokage Building access insignia beneath the Root captain’s cuff.

Sasuke forced the Third Hokage to issue an S-rank wanted notice for Shimura Danzō and approve a public review of the Kumogakure incident files. The chapter ended when a bloodstained message warned that Root operatives were in the Daimyo's Residence envoy convoy, which had reached Konoha's South Gate.

• Sasuke stopped an ANBU from taking away the Hokage Building Access Seal evidence and demanded that its registry be checked publicly.
• Sasuke, Hiashi, and their allies presented the evidence against Root and challenged the Third Hokage in front of the gathered villagers.
• Sasuke pressured the Third Hokage to sign an S-rank wanted notice for Shimura Danzō, and the Third Hokage stamped it.
• Hiashi demanded the original Kumogakure incident files, and the Third Hokage approved a joint review involving representatives from several clans and ANBU.
• Sasuke called for the implicated advisors to recuse themselves and for the Council of Elders to be restructured, gaining support from Hiashi, Shikaku, Inoichi, and Choza.
• A bloodstained message arrived warning that Root operatives were in the Daimyo's Residence envoy convoy at Konoha's South Gate.

Sasuke exposed Root's plot against the Daimyo's Residence Envoy and revealed that Mitokado Homura and Utatane Koharu had embezzled funds. With public and political pressure mounting, the Third Hokage dismissed the two advisors and appointed Hiashi and Shikaku to the vacant seats; the chapter ended with a message that Shimura Danzō wanted to see Sasuke.

• Sasuke stopped the envoy's convoy and, with Kakashi, Neji, and the Hyuga, exposed a Root operative and explosive tags hidden beneath the carriage.
• Sasuke showed the envoy a secret order implicating Root and accounts tracing Daimyo's Residence funds to private estates owned by Mitokado Homura and Utatane Koharu.
• The envoy, clan representatives, and Shikaku signed a Temporary Dismissal Order, and the Third Hokage sealed it, allowing police recruits to arrest the two advisors.
• Sasuke proposed Hiashi and Shikaku for the vacant Council of Elders seats, and both accepted their appointments.
• A Hyuga Scout reported a Root Backup Bunker in the Northwestern forest and delivered a blood-written message saying Shimura Danzō wanted to see Sasuke Uchiha.

Sasuke used the new council’s authority to impose oversight on ANBU, Konoha’s finances, and military policing, sidelining the Third Hokage as the village prepared to hunt Danzo. The team uncovered signs of Danzo’s activity at an abandoned Hashirama Cells storage site, where a final warning revealed that the right arm had awakened and all ten eyes were open.

• Sasuke, Hiashi, and Shikaku approved laws requiring shared oversight of ANBU operations, financial transfers, and an internal ANBU review, while the Third Hokage’s veto failed.
• Kakashi accepted responsibility for the ANBU review, and the new laws were posted for the villagers as the Third Hokage remained isolated in his office.
• Sasuke found an old ANBU mission record tied to Root’s recovery of Wood Release remains and received approval to deploy Kakashi and eight ANBU against Danzo.
• Sasuke, Kakashi, Hiashi, Neji, and their team set out for an abandoned valley that had once stored Hashirama Cells.
• An ANBU scout reported that the dogs outside the valley had been killed by wooden branches and delivered a bloodied eye patch bearing a warning that the right arm had awakened and all ten eyes had opened.

Sasuke led a team into Danzo’s hidden laboratory, where they uncovered evidence that Danzo had stolen Uchiha eyes and experimented on people with Wood Release. The team cornered Danzo and forced him to spend several Izanagi lives, but he activated a Reverse Four Symbols Seal and began collapsing the laboratory with everyone inside.

• Sasuke led Fugaku, Hiashi, Kakashi, Neji, and their teams into a concealed underground Root facility after discovering signs of Wood Release outside the village.
• The team found failed experiments, preserved Sharingan labeled with the names of missing Uchiha, and Root operatives killed by Wood Release.
• Danzo revealed a right arm implanted with more than ten Sharingan and claimed his experiments were meant to protect Konoha.
• Sasuke ordered Fugaku, Kakashi, and Hiashi to attack Danzo in turns, forcing him to use several Sharingan to recover from lethal injuries through Izanagi.
• Danzo triggered a hidden Reverse Four Symbols Seal connected to the laboratory’s Wood Release conduits, causing the underground complex to collapse.

Sasuke led the escape from Danzo’s collapsing laboratory with the severed arm and records as evidence, while Danzo escaped after losing the arm. A secret Hokage order put Kakashi under instructions to surveil Sasuke, and a second order authorized treating Sasuke as an out-of-control bloodline limit if he refused.

• Danzo activated a sealing jutsu to destroy the underground level, but Sasuke exposed his attempted escape and baited him into admitting his crimes on the recording scroll.
• Sasuke, Fugaku, Hiashi, and Kakashi forced Danzo into the seal, and Sasuke severed Danzo’s right arm before Danzo escaped.
• Sasuke’s group evacuated with the arm, experiment records, and recording scrolls, while Sasuke ordered that the evidence remain sealed and protected.
• Sasuke claimed the collapsed laboratory as a crime scene, barred unauthorized access, and explained that keeping Danzo alive would let his escape create further charges.
• Kakashi received a secret order to report Sasuke’s movements and contacts every twenty-four hours, and Sasuke called Kakashi the Hokage’s first blade delivered into his hands.
• An ANBU operative brought Kakashi a second secret order authorizing Sasuke to be treated as an out-of-control bloodline limit if he refused surveillance.

Sasuke forced the Third Hokage to recognize Danzo as an S-Rank missing-nin and imposed strict rules on ANBU surveillance of the Uchiha Compound. He then baited Kakashi with a file about the Hokage Building’s role in Hatake Sakumo’s disgrace, leaving Kakashi inside Sasuke’s study with the evidence within reach.

• Sasuke accepted ANBU surveillance only under Kakashi’s command and required the Uchiha, Hyuga, and ANBU to witness and seal the evidence against Danzo.
• Sasuke presented Danzo’s Sharingan-implanted arm, Root experiment records, and witness testimony to the Third Hokage, then demanded that Danzo be declared an S-Rank Missing-nin fleeing prosecution.
• Under pressure from Sasuke, Fugaku, and Hiashi, the Third Hokage signed and sealed the wanted notice for Danzo.
• Sasuke agreed to ANBU guarding the Uchiha Compound but barred them from key clan areas and required every member and shift change to be recorded.
• Sasuke left a file about the Hokage Building’s involvement in the public campaign against Hatake Sakumo where Kakashi could see it.
• Kakashi entered Sasuke’s study to reach the file, and Sasuke invited him to read the records of his father’s life.

Sasuke showed Kakashi evidence that Root and the Hokage Building had fueled the rumors that drove Hatake Sakumo to his death, and Kakashi’s faith in Konoha’s leadership collapsed. Kakashi agreed to serve Sasuke while secretly reporting to the Third Hokage, as a bloodstained message revealed that the Fourth Hokage’s team might have suffered a similar cover-up.

• Kakashi read records linking Root and the Hokage Building to the campaign against White Fang and demanded to know whether they were authentic.
• Sasuke showed Kakashi a preserved memory of Danzo ordering Root to spread rumors about Hatake Sakumo while Hiruzen remained silent.
• Kakashi agreed to follow Sasuke’s orders, promised to keep sending the Third Hokage misleading reports, and asked to have Danzo handed over alive.
• Sasuke told Fugaku that Kakashi would help secure the ANBU Internal Affairs Archive, which held records tied to Danzo and the Third Hokage.
• A black crow dropped a bloodstained strip of cloth at Sasuke’s window, warning that the Death Report for the Fourth Hokage’s Team was locked in the archive.

Sasuke used Kakashi’s access to the ANBU archive to uncover Root’s holdings and seized its Konoha businesses before the Hokage Building could claim them. After forcing the elders to approve a division of the assets, he unveiled a proposed new police law and prepared to challenge the Hokage Building further.

• Sasuke recognized the bloody message as bait and sent Kakashi to retrieve Root’s business registrations and transfer records without opening the Fourth Hokage’s report.
• Kakashi sent Sasuke records of Root’s businesses and other property, and Sasuke ordered the Konoha Military Police Force to seal them before dawn.
• Sasuke led the seizure of Root-linked businesses, while Kakashi and other observers documented the operation and confirmed the properties bore Root’s covert seal.
• Sasuke pressured the Third Hokage and the elders to approve victim compensation, police expansion, evidence storage, and investigations before dividing the remaining assets.
• The Third Hokage signed the agreement, allowing the Konoha Military Police Force to take most of Root’s aboveground resources.
• Sasuke presented a document titled New Konoha Police Law and told the clan heads it was time to dig out the Hokage Building’s roots.

Sasuke opened the Konoha Military Police Force to civilian and clanless ninja, resisting the Third Hokage’s attempts to block the expansion as the first recruits were examined and accepted. After Sasuke planned to inspect the new recruit camp alone, a bloodstained message revealed that Sound Ninja had accepted a contract to collect eyes.

• Sasuke invoked the Three Seals to expand Police Force recruitment, and Hiashi and Shikaku supported the plan while the Third Hokage objected.
• Yamada Naoto posted the public recruitment notice, and Sasuke accepted Might Guy as a Taijutsu instructor candidate.
• Kakashi informed the Third Hokage that a new council resolution let the Police Force expand without personnel-office approval during the rogue-ninja pursuit.
• Sasuke and Fugaku oversaw examinations that assigned applicants to combat, patrol reserve, or logistics, and Sasuke ordered the Police Force to include the Hokage Building in its patrol districts.
• Neji reported that an anonymous black-market bounty targeting Sasuke used an old Root code, and Sasuke announced he would inspect the new recruit camp alone at dawn.
• A Message Dog arrived with a bloodstained note stating that Sound Ninja had accepted a contract from eye collectors.

Sasuke used the expanded Konoha Military Police Force to challenge the Hokage Building’s authority, arresting officials tied to corruption and Root while building independent funding and security systems. A Malice Perception scroll then revealed that Danzo had traded Konoha’s Defense Line Map to the Sound Ninja and that a mole named Aoda was already among the police recruits.

• Sasuke rejected Fugaku’s offer to follow him and arranged a trap at Training Ground Three while Kakashi prepared to release files implicating Hokage Faction officials and the Barrier Team’s deputy captain.
• The new police force arrested Fujiwara’s nephew for assault and property damage, then detained the Barrier Team’s deputy captain for accepting Root money and leaking a patrol gap.
• Sasuke expanded police patrols to the streets around the Hokage Building, while the Third Hokage watched public support shift toward the force.
• Sasuke countered the Hokage Building’s planned mission quota cuts with independent commissions from the Nara, Akimichi, Yamanaka, and Hyuga clans, then planned further changes to Konoha’s defenses.
• Sasuke’s Malice Perception scroll revealed a transaction involving Konoha’s Defense Line Map, the Sound Ninja, and Orochimaru, and Neji spotted a message identifying Aoda as a mole among the police recruits.

Sasuke uncovered Danzo’s deal with Orochimaru and identified Qingmu Shen as the recruit carrying instructions for the Sound Ninja. He prepared to expose Aoda during the planned attack at Training Ground Three, but a coded warning revealed that the real focus of the formation lay beneath the Hokage Building.

• Sasuke ordered the Konoha Military Police Force to keep recruits inside headquarters while he investigated the roster and planned to let Danzo’s deal proceed so he could gather evidence.
• Sasuke identified Qingmu Shen as a likely Root contact and arranged for him to guard Training Ground Three without arresting him.
• Danzo gave Orochimaru Sharingan and Konoha’s defense map in exchange for help capturing Sasuke, and Orochimaru sent Kimimaro and the Sound Four into the village.
• Danzo told Orochimaru that Aoda would provide Sasuke’s route and gave him a black needle to silence the contact if the operation failed.
• Sasuke arranged surveillance and recording scrolls for the next morning, while Neji spotted the black needle hidden in Qingmu Shen’s cuff.
• A crow delivered a snake scale warning Sasuke that Training Ground Three was only the entrance and that the formation’s true focal point was beneath the Hokage Building.

Sasuke used the Sound Ninja’s planned attack at Training Ground Three to expose Danzo’s role in supplying them with a Defense Line Map. The Sound Ninja entered Konoha and found Sasuke waiting, while Qingmu Shen’s support for the attack was exposed and the entire confrontation was recorded.

• Sasuke sent Kakashi to check the Hokage Building after receiving Orochimaru’s Snake Scale, while arranging to lure the Sound Ninja to Training Ground Three.
• Qingmu Shen met with Root remnants, accepted a Route Map, and agreed to place a White Stone to signal the Sound Ninja that the route was clear.
• Kimimaro and the Sound Four entered Konoha through the Old Drainage Outlet, unaware that an Image Scroll recorded their faces.
• Kakashi confirmed seal fluctuations beneath the Hokage Building, but Sasuke postponed investigating them to focus on exposing the Sound Ninja and Danzo.
• Qingmu Shen placed the White Stone, but Sasuke revealed that he knew about Danzo’s Defense Line Map as the Sound Ninja trapped him in the Four Violet Flames Formation.
• Yamada Naoto and a Yamanaka Ninja confronted Qingmu Shen as the Black Needles’ seal activated, while Kidomaru discovered that the entire training ground was being recorded.

Sasuke turned the Sound Five’s ambush into a trap, exposing Danzo’s sale of Konoha’s defense map and capturing the Sound and Root operatives with evidence. As the prisoners were taken into Konoha Military Police custody, Neji discovered a Sealing Line activating beneath the Hokage Building.

• Sasuke used the formation and his Sharingan to interrogate Jirobo, who revealed that Danzo gave Konoha’s defense map to Orochimaru, while Yamada Naoto secured Qingmu Shen and the black needle as evidence.
• Sasuke activated the Sealing Tags around the Four Violet Flames Formation as Kakashi, Fugaku, and Konoha forces surrounded the Sound Five and the Root remnants.
• Tayuya confessed that Danzo traded the defense map for Sasuke’s life, and the Konoha forces broke into the formation and captured the Sound Five.
• Sasuke ordered the Sound Five and Root remnants taken separately to the Konoha Military Police Force dungeon and sent the recording scroll to the Third Hokage.
• Neji used his Byakugan to detect a Sealing Line running from the old drainage outlet beneath the Hokage Building, and saw it begin to light up.

Sasuke captured the Sound Ninja and Root remnants, uncovered evidence that Danzo had sold Konoha’s defenses, and resisted the Third Hokage’s attempt to take the prisoners. The chapter ended when Neji reported that a backup defensive map had already been sent out of Konoha.

• Sasuke stopped Neji from touching a chakra line beneath the Hokage Building, while Tayuya revealed that Danzo had arranged an escape route and an accomplice inside Konoha.
• Sasuke ordered the prisoners held separately and tasked the Yamanaka Clan with locating Qingmu Shen’s sister, Aoki Yuri.
• Kakashi rejected the ANBU order to transfer the prisoners, and Sasuke played Tayuya’s recorded accusation against Danzo in front of witnesses.
• Inoichi extracted Qingmu Shen’s and Tayuya’s memories, revealing Danzo’s suicide order, his sale of Konoha’s defensive map to Orochimaru, and three preserved Sharingan.
• The Third Hokage arrived to claim the prisoners, but Kakashi and Sasuke insisted that evidence and procedure be respected.
• Neji reported that the sealing line beneath the Hokage Building had been severed and that a voice said Danzo’s backup defensive map had been sent out of Konoha.

Sasuke forced the Third Hokage to authorize a search beneath the Hokage Building, where evidence showed Danzo had sent Konoha’s abbreviated defense map toward the Western Territory. As Sasuke prepared to expose Danzo publicly at dawn, a scout revealed that Shimura Danzō himself had bought the map through the exchange.

• Inoichi recovered Tayuya’s memory of Danzo sending an abbreviated defense map to the Black Market Exchange, and Sasuke had him make three evidence copies.
• Sasuke secured a search warrant from the Third Hokage and assigned Fugaku, Hiashi, Shikaku, Kakashi, and Yamada Naoto to guard evidence and search the Hokage Building.
• Hiashi’s team and the others found Root markings and a message chute beneath the Old Well, along with a charred scrap indicating the map had been sent to the Western Territory.
• Sasuke ordered warnings and interceptions along the western route, then arranged to display the evidence publicly at first light and send a copy to the Daimyo’s Residence.
• Inoichi secured the Yamanaka Clan’s role in investigations and signed the evidence record as the clan’s witness to Danzo’s treason.
• As Sasuke prepared to start the public disclosure, a Hyuga scout reported that the exchange had listed the abbreviated map for sale and named Shimura Danzō as its buyer.

Sasuke publicly exposed Danzo’s betrayal and forced the Third Hokage to sign an S-rank treason pursuit warrant, then ordered police to investigate Root’s remaining network in Konoha. The chapter ended when a message revealed that Danzo was offering the abridged Defense Line Map in exchange for the location of the Hashirama Cells Final Cultivation Pod.

• Sasuke showed the village evidence that Danzo had given Orochimaru the Defense Line Map, enabling the Sound Five to enter Konoha and Root operatives to aid them.
• Qingmu Shen confessed that Danzo had ordered him to help the Sound Ninja infiltrate the village and to kill himself if captured, and Inoichi and Hiashi confirmed the evidence.
• Sasuke presented proof that Danzo had offered another map through a Western Territory Bounty Exchange and demanded a worldwide S-rank treason pursuit warrant.
• Shikaku, Hiashi, Inoichi, Choza, and the crowd pressured the Third Hokage until he signed the warrant, which Sasuke announced with rewards for locating or capturing Danzo.
• Sasuke ordered police to arrest suspected Root accomplices and restrict their accounts and movements, while the clans endorsed the investigation.
• Kakashi received a reply from the Western Territory Bounty Exchange stating that Danzo had canceled the bounty and was offering the map for the location of the Hashirama Cells Final Cultivation Pod.

Sasuke forced the Third Hokage to expand Danzo’s pursuit warrant, authorizing cross-border recovery of stolen Root assets and a sweep of Root remnants. As Danzo fled after Orochimaru rejected him, Konoha’s search uncovered hidden communications and evidence pointing to an ANBU agent who had stood behind the Hokage.

• Fugaku found evidence that Danzo had sought a final cultivation chamber for Hashirama cells, and Sasuke demanded expanded authority to recover stolen Root assets across borders.
• Shikaku, Hiashi, Inoichi, Choza, Kakashi, and the villagers pressured the Third Hokage until he signed the amended warrant; Sasuke ordered Root residences sealed and accounts frozen.
• Sasuke ordered the Old Well secured and the ANBU Internal Affairs Archive sealed, while the Third Hokage handed over the well key and archive duplicate key.
• Orochimaru rejected Danzo’s request for help and kept the Three Sharingan, leaving Danzo to discover a black-market token pointing to the cultivation chamber at the Northwestern Abandoned Mine.
• Konoha’s police and clan squads raided Root hideouts, finding a hidden message channel and a passage beneath the Old Well; Kakashi matched a broken ANBU insignia to a man who had stood behind the Third Hokage.

Sasuke led a crackdown on Root’s surviving network after evidence showed its members were sending messages and concealing Cultivation Pod locations. The arrests revealed the Second Vault and a final Cultivation Pod, but Takehara Shin’s pulsing Black Mark threatened to trigger a Backup Seal.

• Sasuke ordered arrests across the ANBU logistics network, and Yamada Naoto discovered Morita Osamu had fled after taking an Old Key.
• Inoichi read Aota’s mind and learned Morita had gone to the Internal Affairs Storehouse, where Morita was found dead after burning location records and poisoning himself.
• Sasuke’s team intercepted three Ninja Hawks and found a message bearing the Hokage Building Logistics Administration Seal that ordered the Cultivation Pod moved to the Second Vault.
• Yamada Naoto’s squad tracked Root bookkeeper Takehara Shin to the Old Granary, where Sasuke’s team opened a trapped Sealed Box and found the Second Vault’s location and a diagram of the Final Cultivation Pod.
• Inoichi learned Danzo had ordered the Backup Seal activated if Konoha seized the Cultivation Pod, and Neji warned that Takehara Shin’s Root Black Mark was pulsing.

Sasuke led a team into Danzo’s Second Vault, seized its Hashirama-cell research, and secured it against ANBU custody. He began an experiment using the culture fluid on himself, and the chapter ended as his Sharingan gained a third tomoe while Wood Release chakra consumed its ocular power.

• Sasuke cut off Takehara Shin’s marked hand, sent him back to the dungeon for interrogation, and ordered his team to investigate the Second Vault.
• Sasuke and the others entered the Northwest Abandoned Mine through its watercourse, disabled the Sealing Core, and opened the vault using Danzo’s severed arm.
• Sasuke persuaded Root custodian Kishimoto Masashi to stand down by showing him that Danzo had stolen his family’s death benefits, and Kishimoto revealed how to disarm the self-destruct seals.
• Sasuke’s team secured the culture chamber, experimental records, and ledgers, then refused to hand them over to ANBU without countersigned orders.
• Sasuke reviewed the Hashirama-cell research and began an experiment with the culture fluid, while Fugaku, Kakashi, Hiashi, and Inoichi monitored him.
• As the culture fluid entered Sasuke’s bloodstream, his Sharingan gained a third tomoe, but Neji warned that Wood Release chakra was consuming its ocular power.

Sasuke stabilized his awakened Sharingan while containing the Wood Release backlash, then seized the Second Vault’s cultivation chamber, charts, and records despite the Third Hokage’s attempt to take them. The evidence was secured in the Uchiha secret chamber as Hiruzen prepared to confront Sasuke at the Council of Elders meeting, and a crow bearing a red-cloud message arrived.

• Sasuke stabilized his three-tomoe Sharingan and contained the Wood Release chakra in his left arm while Fugaku, Kakashi, Hiashi, Neji, and Inoichi monitored him.
• Sasuke ordered Fugaku to dismantle the final cultivation chamber and secure the charts and records, while a Hyuga team guarded the evidence.
• Sasuke found charts explaining that Hashirama cells consumed ocular power and could make Danzo’s right arm form an independent devouring core.
• Sasuke rejected Dog Face’s attempt to take the evidence, citing missing countersignatures and presenting Root ledgers that implicated the Hokage Building.
• The convoy stored the chamber and records in the Uchiha underground secret chamber, where Sasuke concluded that Danzo’s Sharingan arm made him dependent on the dead.
• Hiruzen gathered the old ANBU squads and planned to challenge Sasuke at the next Council of Elders meeting as a crow carrying a red-cloud message arrived.

Sasuke distributed resources seized from Root to secure his allies’ support, then underwent a dangerous experiment that spread Hashirama cells through his chakra pathways and greatly enhanced his body. As the Third Hokage’s ANBU inspected the police blockade, an unknown intruder passed through Konoha’s barrier using spatial distortion.

• Sasuke arranged for the Akimichi, Yamanaka, Hyuga, and Konoha Military Police Force to receive confiscated Root resources while keeping the Wood Release Charts for the Uchiha.
• Sasuke persuaded his allies to help him undergo a full-body Hashirama cell fusion, and Fugaku, Kakashi, Inoichi, Hiashi, and Neji controlled the operation as his chakra surged out of control.
• Sasuke forced the Wood Release chakra to obey, stabilized the transformation, and gained greatly increased chakra, strength, and recovery.
• Shikaku reported that the Third Hokage had sent old ANBU squads to inspect the police blockade points, and Sasuke decided to let him continue investigating.
• A Barrier Team member reported that someone had crossed Konoha’s outer barrier without leaving a breach or footprints, showing only traces of spatial distortion.

Sasuke tested his enhanced Sharingan, physical strength, and newly accessible Wood Release, then ordered tougher training for the Konoha Military Police recruits. His growth drew the attention of the Third Hokage, Danzo, and Akatsuki, and Obito approached Sasuke’s study in Konoha.

• Sasuke tested his speed and fought Might Guy without ninjutsu or genjutsu, proving he could withstand and briefly drive back the taijutsu instructor.
• Sasuke channeled Wood Release and grew a small sprout, then ordered the recruits’ taijutsu and barrier response training doubled.
• The Third Hokage read Kakashi’s report and worried that Sasuke was already experimenting with Wood Release.
• Danzo learned that the Final Cultivation Pod had been seized and Sasuke might have completed the fusion, while a report mentioned a Red Cloud Mark near Konoha.
• Zetsu told Obito, Pain, and Itachi about Sasuke’s rise, and Obito decided to investigate and possibly recruit or silence him.
• Obito entered Sasuke’s study through a spatial ripple, and Sasuke addressed him without looking up.

Obito confronted Sasuke in the Hokage’s study, but Sasuke used evidence and witnesses to expose the danger of Obito’s intrusion and challenge Itachi’s motives. As Obito tried to seize Sasuke, Sasuke named him as Uchiha Obito and mentioned the Fourth Hokage’s Rasengan, leaving Obito visibly shocked.

• Obito entered Sasuke’s study through a space-time distortion, and Sasuke revealed he knew about Akatsuki and their meeting place.
• Sasuke accused Itachi of helping Danzo harvest Uchiha eyes and said he would make Itachi face the consequences before he died.
• Sasuke used Obito’s barrier breach to threaten political pressure on the Third Hokage and asked what Itachi had told Akatsuki about him.
• Fugaku, Kakashi, and Yamada Naoto’s police squads gathered outside as Sasuke prepared to record Obito’s intrusion.
• Obito attacked Sasuke with his Mangekyo ability, but Sasuke named him Uchiha Obito and asked whether his back still hurt from the Fourth Hokage’s Rasengan, disrupting Obito’s space-time vortex.

Sasuke confronted Obito in the Uchiha study, exposing his identity and using knowledge of Kamui to pressure him while Fugaku and Kakashi waited nearby. Obito’s genjutsu failed to silence Sasuke, leaving their fight unresolved in the dark.

• Sasuke named Obito and revealed details of his role in the Nine-Tails’ attack, then threatened to expose his identity with a prepared scroll.
• Sasuke tracked the timing of Obito’s Kamui and used lightning, roots, and a sword strike to cut his sleeve.
• Obito taunted Fugaku with claims about Itachi and tried to seize scrolls from a sealed cabinet, but Kakashi’s Lightning Blade forced him back.
• Kakashi entered the study and demanded Obito’s identity, while Sasuke said Obito was connected to the Nine-Tails’ attack, Minato’s death, and Rin’s death.
• Obito attacked Sasuke with mental chakra, but Sasuke resisted and mocked his genjutsu as the study went dark.