Chapter Summaries

Sasuke stopped Orochimaru’s attempt to destroy the VIP seats, exposed the treachery to the village, and turned the barrier assault into recorded evidence. As Baki stirred unrest among the exam candidates, Sasuke left to confront the next crisis while the others guarded Orochimaru and his captured operative.

• Neji identified a hidden fifth Sound Ninja and explosive tags in the Four Violet Flames Formation, so Kakashi used Kamui to send the explosives into the sky.
• Sasuke ordered the Konoha Military Police Force to activate the Reverse Barrier, exposing and capturing the fifth Sound Ninja as the formation’s chakra flow was reversed.
• Sasuke had Orochimaru’s words and the scene broadcast to the village and ordered recordings sent to the Military Police Force, the Council of Elders, and the Daimyo’s Residence.
• Baki accused Konoha of endangering the examinees and stirred unrest inside the exam grounds while Shikaku warned Sasuke that Sunagakure was using the chaos to challenge the lockdown.
• Sasuke assigned Fugaku, Kakashi, and Neji to guard Hokage Rock, Orochimaru, and the captive, then went to deal with Baki and the exam-ground crisis.

Sasuke exposed Baki’s attempt to incite a riot and sabotage Konoha’s supplies, while evidence tied Sunagakure’s envoy and ANBU to the plot. As Gaara began losing control, Baki ordered Sunagakure’s ninja to break through, and Sasuke commanded the Military Police Force to kill anyone who resisted.

• Baki turned the candidates against Konoha and attacked a proctor, but Sasuke entered and stopped his wind blade.
• Sasuke presented recordings and confessions linking Sunagakure ANBU to a plan to burn Konoha’s granary and frame the Sound Ninja.
• Inoichi, Hiashi, and Shikaku corroborated the evidence, while Sasuke announced charges against Baki and the Sunagakure ANBU.
• Sasuke played Orochimaru’s voice from the VIP seats, prompting Sunagakure’s candidates to question whether the person there was the Kazekage.
• Kabuto abandoned his plan as Gaara began losing control, and Sasuke accused Baki of provoking him to release a monster.
• Baki ordered Sunagakure’s ninja to protect Gaara and break through, and Sasuke ordered the Military Police Force to kill anyone who resisted.

Sasuke used wartime authority to crush the Sunagakure riot at the Chunin Exams, gaining public support while the ANBU withdrew and Obito took notice. The crisis shifted to the VIP platform, where Orochimaru began a forbidden technique against the Third Hokage as his identity was exposed to the village.

• Fugaku killed a Sunagakure attacker, and Sasuke ordered the Military Police Force to suppress the riot while Yamada Naoto recorded the evidence.
• Sasuke restrained Gaara’s leaking chakra, ordered the Sand ninja to disarm, and authorized the execution of armed resisters after one tried to destroy the evidence.
• Sasuke confronted the ANBU over protecting the VIP seats instead of stopping the riot, and the ANBU withdrew as civilians praised the Military Police Force and the Uchiha.
• Black Zetsu reported Sasuke’s rise to Obito, who decided to wait and see whether Orochimaru would force out Sasuke’s hidden abilities.
• After the last Sand resister was pinned, Kakashi warned Sasuke that Orochimaru was forming a forbidden technique to kill the Third Hokage, while the water mirror revealed Orochimaru’s pale face beneath the Kazekage mask.

Orochimaru revealed himself as the false Kazekage, and Sasuke broadcast evidence of his crimes and the Third Hokage’s failures across Konoha. As Sunagakure turned against the Sound Ninja, Orochimaru continued summoning the First and Second Hokage, leaving a coffin opening as the village watched.

• Orochimaru removed his disguise in front of the Third Hokage, while Sasuke arranged for his words and the confrontation to be broadcast throughout Konoha.
• Sasuke showed footage linking Sunagakure forces to stolen Explosive Tags and arson, then accused Baki of failing to verify the false Kazekage’s identity.
• Orochimaru admitted he had killed the Kazekage and began Impure World Reincarnation; Kakashi trapped the third coffin underground with Kamui.
• Sasuke broadcast footage of Orochimaru killing Fourth Kazekage Rasa, prompting Baki to order Sunagakure to attack the Sound Ninja and recover Rasa’s remains.
• The Konoha Military Police Force let Sunagakure pass toward the Sound Ninja while guarding civilian areas, as Orochimaru continued summoning the First and Second Hokage.
• A crack opened in the first coffin and a withered hand emerged while Orochimaru taunted the Third Hokage through the village-wide broadcast.

Sasuke exposed Orochimaru’s crimes and the Third Hokage’s past knowledge of his experiments while containing the Impure World Reincarnation. As Orochimaru tried to kill the Third Hokage, Sasuke intervened to keep him alive for a public trial, but Orochimaru launched another attack.

• Orochimaru revealed that the Third Hokage had discovered his laboratory, and Sasuke broadcast footage linking Orochimaru’s experiments to Danzo’s Root and Konoha supplies.
• Sasuke used Wood Release and the Konoha Military Police Force’s formation plates to suppress the reincarnation coffins, while Orochimaru’s admissions and evidence were recorded for the village and the Daimyo’s Residence.
• Sasuke presented records tying Orochimaru to the Kazekage’s murder, impersonation, and attempted body theft, prompting villagers to question the Third Hokage’s past decisions.
• Orochimaru attacked the Third Hokage with the Kusanagi Sword, and Sasuke crossed the barrier to shield him with a Susanoo arm and declare that he wanted the Third Hokage alive for trial.
• Orochimaru stretched his neck over Sasuke’s Susanoo arm and lunged at the Third Hokage with a second Kusanagi blade.

Sasuke exposed the collapse of Orochimaru’s invasion and prepared to confront Orochimaru as he summoned a swarm of snakes. The chapter ended when Root opened a cabinet beneath the Hokage Building and found Danzo’s Black Seal List, addressed to Hiruzen Sarutobi.

• Sasuke used the Water Mirrors to reveal that Konoha had trapped the Sound Ninja forces, intercepted their supply point, and contained the fighting outside the Exam Venue.
• Sasuke showed that the Hokage Building and Scroll of Seals were under joint guard, while Neji discovered Root operatives moving through the Old Well toward the Internal Affairs Storehouse.
• Sasuke ordered Neji to let Root touch the sealed cabinet so the Image Recording Array could capture evidence, and Shikaku confirmed the recording was active.
• Orochimaru reversed his summoning blood contract and unleashed white snakes, prompting Sasuke, Kakashi, and Fugaku to prepare to stop him.
• Neji reported that Root had opened the wrong cabinet and found Danzo’s Black Seal List, whose first line said it was to be opened personally by Hiruzen Sarutobi.

Sasuke captured Orochimaru alive after subduing his Yamata Snake Body, then blocked the Third Hokage from taking custody and ordered a witnessed mind reading. As Inoichi began searching Orochimaru’s memories, Neji reported that Root had fled with the last page of the Black Seal List, which contained a newly written name.

• Sasuke used Wood Release and Susanoo to restrain Orochimaru’s Yamata Snake Body while the Konoha Military Police Force protected the recording array.
• With help from Kakashi, Fugaku, and the Hyuga Team, Sasuke stopped Orochimaru’s escape attempts and sealed his chakra.
• Sasuke captured Orochimaru alive, and Yamada Naoto announced that the battle had been recorded from start to finish.
• Kakashi, Hiashi, Shikaku, and Inoichi opposed the Third Hokage’s attempt to hand Orochimaru to the ANBU, citing Root’s seizure of cabinets in the Hokage Building Underground.
• Sasuke ordered Inoichi to read Orochimaru’s mind under witnesses, and Inoichi began the technique as Orochimaru convulsed.
• Neji reported that Root’s death squad was retreating after tearing off the last page of the Black Seal List, where someone had written a new name.

Sasuke exposed Orochimaru and Danzo’s crimes through Inoichi’s interrogation, while evidence also showed that Hiruzen had once let Orochimaru escape. The village detained Orochimaru and turned its attention to Danzo’s remaining Root forces, but Orochimaru ended by revealing that the real First Hokage Seal was elsewhere.

• Sasuke ordered Neji to let one Root death squad member escape so Danzo would learn that the list had not been completely destroyed.
• Inoichi uncovered Orochimaru’s Impure World Reincarnation records and testified that Orochimaru had murdered the Fourth Kazekage and used his guards as sacrifices; Baki halted Sunagakure’s resistance and agreed to cooperate.
• Inoichi read Danzo’s transaction ledger, linking Root to missing refugees, Uchiha casualties, orphan abductions, and experiments on Hyuga branch family members; Hiashi, Shikaku, and Fugaku approved capital punishment.
• Inoichi revealed a memory showing that Hiruzen had found Orochimaru’s laboratory and let him leave Konoha, prompting Sasuke to record the evidence against Hiruzen.
• Inoichi discovered that Danzo’s remaining Root forces were at a northwest forest bunker called Owl Nest, and Neji identified Hiruzen’s name on the Black Seal List.
• Sasuke ordered Orochimaru imprisoned in the Uchiha Dungeon and kept Kakashi to watch Hiruzen; as Orochimaru was taken away, he said Danzo’s new name was meant for a sacrifice and that the real First Hokage Seal was not with Hiruzen.

Sasuke forced a public joint review of Orochimaru’s crimes and the Hokage Building’s failures, while evidence increasingly implicated the Third Hokage in shielding Orochimaru. As Kakashi prepared to reveal signed records, Neji discovered a sealed box tied to an emergency succession order.

• Inoichi extracted Orochimaru’s damaged memory, revealing a box marked with both the Daimyo’s crest and Root’s seal, and Sasuke had Orochimaru confined for a joint trial.
• Hiashi, Shikaku, Kakashi, and other clan leaders backed Sasuke’s demand for a public review, and Sasuke presented evidence before the village and the Daimyo’s Residence envoy.
• Sasuke questioned the Third Hokage about security failures, Root’s access to the Hokage Building, and human experiments; Kakashi and Baki added evidence against the Hokage Building.
• Sasuke projected the Third Hokage’s memory of releasing Orochimaru and recorded his admission that doing so had been a major dereliction of duty.
• Sasuke ordered Kakashi to reveal old records and ledgers bearing Hiruzen Sarutobi’s signature, but Neji reported finding a sealed box that would trigger the Third Hokage’s Emergency Succession Order if the records became public.

Sasuke exposed records implicating Hiruzen Sarutobi in shielding Orochimaru, diverting funds to Root, and tolerating a campaign against Hatake Sakumo, prompting clan leaders and ANBU to break from the Hokage Building’s control. The chapter ended as Neji discovered a hidden Root takeover order inside the sealed box, which began burning and named Shimura Danzō as its taker.

• Sasuke ordered Neji to document the sealed box without opening it, then revealed records of Hiruzen Sarutobi’s handling of Orochimaru’s human experimentation case and had Inoichi Yamanaka confirm the evidence against Orochimaru’s memories.
• Sasuke presented accounts showing Hokage Building funds diverted to Root, and Shikaku, Yamazaki Masanari, and clan representatives called for financial oversight.
• Kakashi and Sasuke revealed an ANBU record linking the Hokage Building to public opinion manipulation against Hatake Sakumo, and Kakashi challenged Hiruzen over the White Fang case.
• Shikaku proposed suspending the Hokage Building’s direct command over the old ANBU, several clans approved, and Kakashi called on ANBU members to remove their masks and undergo joint review.
• Neji found a hidden order directing Root to take over Konoha’s defense if Hiruzen was impeached, but the sealed box began burning and revealed Shimura Danzō as its taker.

Sasuke exposed evidence that the Hokage Building had prepared for Root to seize power, and the clans and Daimyo’s Residence suspended Hiruzen and transferred authority to a provisional council. Sasuke then let Danzo’s forces enter Konoha so Danzo would openly reveal his rebellion, while Danzo received a message welcoming him as its leader.

• Neji uncovered sealed documents naming Danzō as Hiruzen’s emergency successor and authorizing Root to take over defense if Hiruzen lost capacity.
• Sasuke presented a joint impeachment petition, which clan leaders and the ANBU review team supported before Yamazaki Masanari suspended Hiruzen and sealed his powers and assets.
• Hiruzen handed the Hokage’s private seal to Sasuke, who ordered the Hokage Building secured and the Old ANBU Unit disarmed.
• Neji and Hiashi reported Root’s gathering at the Owl Nest, and Sasuke refused to seal Konoha, intending to expose Danzo as a rebel if he entered the village.
• Danzo ordered nearly a thousand Root fighters into Konoha to seize the Hokage Building and execute Sasuke, then found a message welcoming him as the rebel leader Shimura Danzō.

Danzo launched a three-pronged Root assault on Konoha under a forged Daimyō order, while Sasuke used the village’s evacuation and surveillance to document Root’s rebellion. As Danzo led his forces toward Hokage Rock, Neji spotted that the Hokage Seal Box carried by one of his guards had a different seal from the one Sasuke held.

• Danzo ordered Root squads to seize the Hokage Building, attack the Uchiha compound, and control civilian routes, declaring that Konoha needed to shed blood.
• Sasuke confirmed that civilians had been evacuated and told Neji’s Byakugan Team not to stop Root before its members made their intentions clear.
• Root squads entered using old Hokage Building keys and tried to plant Explosive Tags at the Uchiha North Old Warehouse, but the Byakugan Team disabled the tags and Choza’s clan blocked their retreat.
• The Third Hokage urged Root to surrender, but its members stabbed themselves with black-seal kunai and continued the attack; Sasuke then ordered the clans to hold position and draw Danzo out.
• Danzo exposed his unstable transplanted arm and personally led Root toward the Hokage Building Square, where Sasuke waited on Hokage Rock.
• Neji warned Sasuke that a guard behind Danzo carried a Hokage Seal Box whose surface seal differed from the one the Third had handed over.

Sasuke and Konoha’s clans trapped Danzo’s Root forces in the village square, exposing the assassination roster hidden in a box passed off as a Hokage Seal. Sasuke activated the suppression order and Konoha’s barriers, but Danzo revealed he carried another seal bearing the Third Hokage’s crest.

• The Third Hokage urged Sasuke to spare the suspicious Fire Seal Box, while Yamazaki Masanari declared Danzo’s order forged and Kakashi recorded Danzo’s attack on the envoy.
• Danzo ordered Root to attack, but Shikaku, Fugaku, and Neji’s forces contained the squad; Danzo then exposed Sharingan implanted in his arm, and he and Kakashi revealed the Third Hokage knew about his Izanagi trump card.
• Sasuke let the guards bring the Fire Seal Box forward, and Neji opened it to find bottles containing sealing tags and assassination rosters targeting clan heads.
• Danzo used Izanagi to survive Fugaku and Kakashi’s attacks, while Sasuke fired the signal gun and activated Konoha’s barriers and the Council of Elders’ suppression order against Root.
• Danzo revealed an old seal bearing the Third Hokage’s personal crest, leaving the Third Hokage stunned as Danzo claimed he had stolen more than one seal.

Sasuke and the Konoha clans cornered Danzo in the Square, exposing his illegal use of the Hokage’s auxiliary seal and forcing him to spend nearly all of his Izanagi eyes. The chapter ended with Danzo activating his final Sharingan and revealing Shisui’s eye as Sasuke’s Susanoo rose over the Square.

• Sasuke ordered the clans to suppress Root, while Yamada Naoto recorded Hiruzen Sarutobi’s admission that he had lost his private auxiliary seal without reporting it.
• Hiashi, Shikaku, Fugaku, and Choza helped defeat or capture Root fighters, including two who claimed to act under the Hokage’s secret orders.
• Sasuke joined the fight against Danzo and used the barrier’s Reverse Seal Verification Formation to expose Danzo’s illegal activation of the old seal.
• Fugaku, Kakashi, Neji, and Sasuke forced Danzo to expend eight Sharingan through Izanagi, while Sasuke restrained him with Susanoo and Wood Release.
• Danzo activated the Reverse Four Symbols Seal, but Sasuke’s allies secured the evidence beyond its sealing radius as Sasuke restrained Danzo.
• Danzo revealed Shisui Uchiha’s eye hidden inside the auxiliary seal and prepared to use Kotoamatsukami, while Sasuke summoned a towering Susanoo hand over the Square.

Sasuke exposed and stopped Danzo’s attempt to use Kotoamatsukami, then led the Konoha forces in crushing Root’s rebellion and capturing Danzo for public trial. As the Third Hokage secretly summoned Jiraiya, Neji spotted the message-bearing toad leaving Konoha.

• Danzo activated Shisui’s Eye and ordered Sasuke to kneel, but Sasuke used lightning to destroy the chakra circuit linked to the stolen eye.
• Sasuke presented the rebellion-suppression order and declared Danzo a rebel; Danzo threatened Root members’ families, and Shikaku broadcast the threat to the evacuation shelters.
• Fugaku, Sasuke, Kakashi, Neji, and allied clans defeated Root’s forces, while Kakashi cut the explosive fuses leading to the civilian district.
• Sasuke’s Susanoo destroyed Danzo’s escape tunnel, and Fugaku, Kakashi, and Neji restrained him for a public trial the next day.
• The Third Hokage secretly sent a message asking Jiraiya to return, but Neji spotted the toad carrying it toward the southwest outer road.

Sasuke stopped Danzo’s uncontrolled Hashirama Cells from erupting and exposed the Root human experiments and crimes to Konoha. He had Danzo bound in the square overnight, where a masked figure appeared to rescue him after Danzo promised to reveal Sasuke’s biggest secret.

• Sasuke ordered Jiraiya’s help request recorded and held for the Third Hokage, while Danzo’s Hashirama Cells began breaking through their seal.
• Danzo attacked the recording array, but Sasuke restrained him with Wood Release, and Neji suppressed the chakra runaway points.
• Sasuke displayed the Root Human Experiment List, prompting victims’ families and villagers to condemn Danzo.
• Sasuke publicly crippled Danzo, ordered copies of the list posted around Konoha, and had Danzo chained to a stone pillar overnight.
• A Spiral Mask appeared in the darkness, and Danzo pleaded for rescue by offering to reveal Sasuke Uchiha’s biggest secret.

Sasuke led an overnight purge of Root, seizing its bases, money, and hidden operatives while arranging compensation for Root’s victims. As Danzo awaited a public trial, a recovered scroll hinted at the Rinnegan, and he accused Hiruzen Sarutobi of being the one who should die first.

• The Masked Man failed to extract Danzo and vanished after Sasuke’s forces surrounded the Square, so Sasuke ordered Root purged and had Inoichi search Danzo’s memories.
• Sasuke deployed Fugaku, Hiashi, Kakashi, and Shikaku to seize Root’s weapons, accounts, remnants, and ANBU insiders across Konoha.
• Kakashi found evidence that Root had diverted death benefits from Hatake Sakumo’s case, while Shikaku’s team arrested two ANBU insiders linked to Root’s money laundering.
• Sasuke ordered seized funds to compensate Root’s victims and other war sufferers before the remainder went into a jointly managed treasury.
• A transfer slip tied Root’s funds to the Hokage’s confidential fund, and an incomplete scroll mentioning the Land of Rain, red clouds, and the Rinnegan was recovered.
• Danzo woke before his public trial and declared that Hiruzen Sarutobi should die before him.

Sasuke led a public trial that exposed Danzo’s crimes and stripped him of his status, then prepared to remove the Sharingan implanted in his body. As the crowd demanded justice, Danzo accused Hiruzen of approving the Uchiha Clan Massacre plan.

• Sasuke and the village leaders prepared a public trial, and Sasuke ordered Danzo’s stolen Sharingan to be exposed.
• Danzo was brought before the packed village square, where victims and their families testified to his abuses.
• Sasuke presented recordings and corroborated evidence of Danzo’s crimes, which the Daimyo’s Residence Envoy verified.
• Yamazaki Masanari stripped Danzo of his consultant status and designated him an S-Rank Missing-nin of the Land of Fire.
• Sasuke prepared to remove Danzo’s illegal organs, and Danzo accused Hiruzen of stamping the Uchiha Clan Massacre plan.

Sasuke stripped Danzo of his stolen Sharingan and exposed evidence implicating Hiruzen and the village leadership in Root’s crimes before the families of Danzo’s victims were invited to execute him. As Neji reached for the execution blade, the Hyuga detected a lingering Genjutsu seal in Danzo’s body.

• Kakashi blocked Hiruzen from interrupting the trial as Sasuke removed Danzo’s stolen Sharingan and documented each eye for the victims and the Uchiha clan.
• Sasuke revealed records showing Hiruzen had approved measures targeting the Uchiha, and Hiruzen admitted the Hokage Building had received Root’s disposal plan.
• Danzo’s ledger implicated Sarutobi clan accounts and secret payments to the Advisors’ Council and former ANBU, while Neji stopped two advisors from leaving.
• The Uchiha welcomed the recovered eyes, and Sasuke declared Danzo a rogue ninja as victims’ relatives and Neji were summoned to the execution stand.
• Neji touched the execution blade, but a Hyuga observer detected lingering Genjutsu seals in Danzo, who laughed that the victims would kill Neji themselves.

Sasuke oversaw Danzo’s execution, dismantled Root, and announced reforms while the crowd demanded the Third Hokage answer for his role. As Sasuke pressed the Third Hokage to resign, a message revealed Jiraiya was returning to Konoha with an unidentified companion.

• Sasuke exposed Danzo’s crimes and the victims’ families executed him before the watching crowd.
• Sasuke announced Root’s dissolution, a joint law-enforcement force, reviews of the ANBU, and compensation for victims.
• The clan leaders and Kakashi accepted their roles in Sasuke’s new arrangements, while Obito and Black Zetsu concluded that infiltrating Konoha would require a new plan.
• Sasuke presented the Third Hokage with a resignation letter, arguing that he should step down to stabilize the village.
• Shikaku received Jiraiya’s message that he was returning to Konoha, then saw a warning that Jiraiya’s companion had an unknown identity.