Chapter Summaries

Sasuke broke Itachi’s Tsukuyomi and trapped him in the South Gate trial square, exposing that Itachi had tried to draw him into a private confrontation. With Itachi weakened and surrounded, Sasuke prepared to strip him of his ability to resist before the public trial.

• Sasuke broke free of Itachi’s Tsukuyomi and used his Susanoo to turn the genjutsu against Itachi.
• Shikaku secured the square while Kakashi, Guy, and the Konoha forces kept Kisame occupied.
• Sasuke showed Itachi visions of the trial preparations, revealing that he had never intended to negotiate privately.
• Itachi emerged from the shattered Tsukuyomi badly injured, and Sasuke ordered Yamada Naoto to record the illegal intrusion and genjutsu attack.
• Sasuke trapped Itachi inside an Amaterasu ring, and Fugaku rejected Itachi’s justification for the clan massacre.
• Sasuke summoned his Semi-Perfect Susanoo and moved to dismantle Itachi’s ability to resist before the trial began.

Sasuke overpowered Itachi at Konoha’s south gate, publicly recording his crimes and preparing to seal his chakra points. As Neji moved in to seal him, a black feather reassembled beside the Water Mirror Formation Disc and aimed at the village-wide channel’s activation talisman.

• Sasuke used Susanoo and Kagutsuchi to defeat Itachi’s attacks while Guy, Kakashi, and Nara’s shadows kept Kisame contained.
• Neji and the Hyuga Team stopped Itachi from summoning a crow clone, and Sasuke smashed him into a pit and disarmed him.
• Sasuke had Yamada Naoto record Itachi’s attempted counterattack, while Fugaku refused to defend his son or excuse the clan massacre.
• Sasuke seized control of Itachi’s Amaterasu and pinned him down as Itachi pleaded with Fugaku and claimed he had acted to keep Sasuke alive.
• Sasuke ordered Neji to seal Itachi’s chakra points, but a black feather reassembled beside the Water Mirror Formation Disc and targeted the village-wide channel activation talisman.

Sasuke publicly beat and disabled Uchiha Itachi while preserving him for a village-wide trial. As the Water Mirror channel was prepared, Sasuke unsealed a record of the massacre night and ordered it broadcast to everyone in Konoha.

• Neji stopped Itachi from hijacking the Water Mirror channel, and Yamada Naoto recorded the failed attempt as evidence.
• Sasuke crippled Itachi’s hands and legs, then used Susanoo and his fists to beat him while accusing him of choosing to massacre his clan.
• Shikaku ordered the recording maintained and medical sealing prepared, while Fugaku insisted that Itachi be left able to speak publicly.
• Sasuke disabled Itachi’s ability to escape or fight, and Kisame tried to flee while Guy and Kakashi kept him at bay.
• Fugaku asked Itachi to confess before the clan’s departed, and Sasuke ordered the Water Mirror array prepared as villagers entered the observation area.
• Sasuke opened the sealed scroll box containing images from the massacre night and ordered Yamada Naoto to broadcast them across Konoha.

Sasuke began a public trial of Itachi by connecting the sealed recording to water mirrors across Konoha. The first footage showed Danzo ordering the Uchiha massacre and Itachi accepting the mission, and the chapter ended as the recording reached the first killing in the clan compound.

• Yamada Naoto activated the village-wide water mirror channel while Shikaku organized the viewing area and Sasuke announced the charges against Itachi.
• Sasuke played footage of Danzo giving Itachi a secret order, promising Sasuke would live if Itachi eliminated the Uchiha.
• The recording showed Danzo ordering the deaths of Fugaku and any escaping Uchiha children, provoking outrage among the viewers.
• Sasuke made Itachi explain that he had chosen to prevent a coup, then recorded his admission and rejection of coercion as an excuse.
• Sasuke ordered Yamada Naoto to play the next segment at full volume, and the footage showed Itachi beginning the massacre in the Uchiha compound.

Sasuke publicly displayed the clan extermination night, forcing Itachi and Konoha to confront the massacre and its effect on the Uchiha survivors. Itachi insisted he had no other path, but collapsed before he could explain why the clan’s infants had threatened peace.

• Sasuke broadcast Itachi’s memories of killing Uchiha families as villagers watched and reacted in anger and horror.
• Fugaku watched his own death and condemned Itachi for using Mikoto’s final words to justify his actions.
• The memory showed young Sasuke returning home and suffering repeated Tsukuyomi torture, which officials recorded as psychological harm to an underage survivor.
• Villagers threw objects at the restrained Itachi until Sasuke stopped them and questioned him about his claim that the massacre protected Konoha’s peace.
• Itachi said he had no other path, but vomited black blood before he could answer Sasuke’s question about why an infant threatened peace.

Sasuke dismantled Itachi’s justifications during the public trial, exposing the choices he had ignored and the harm he had inflicted on the Uchiha and Sasuke. As Itachi collapsed and Sasuke moved to claim his Mangekyo as Uchiha property, Kisame threatened to escape by igniting Explosive Tags inside Samehada.

• Sasuke challenged Itachi’s claims that the massacre was necessary for peace, that he had protected Sasuke, and that he had borne the darkness.
• Fugaku and Sasuke confronted Itachi with evidence that the Uchiha had considered negotiation and other alternatives to a coup.
• Itachi admitted he had killed his parents and clansmen and tortured Sasuke, then suffered a mental and physical collapse.
• Sasuke ordered Shizune to keep Itachi alive and declared that Itachi’s Mangekyo belonged to the Uchiha as stolen bloodline property.
• As Sasuke raised the Medical Ninja Blade toward Itachi’s eye, Yamada Naoto warned that Kisame was trying to escape by igniting Explosive Tags inside Samehada.

Sasuke drove Itachi’s public trial to the confiscation of both Mangekyo, then ordered Neji to permanently disable him. Kisame escaped through the moat with a warning that other Akatsuki members wanted Sasuke’s eyes.

• Naoto warned that explosive tags hidden in Samehada threatened the Side District, and Sasuke ordered Guy and the others to contain Kisame.
• Kisame detonated the tags and used Water Release to escape through the moat’s underground channel, while Sasuke let him go so the Akatsuki would see the escape footage.
• Sasuke obtained Tsunade’s medical witness seal and had Neji seal Itachi’s eye chakra pathways before removing both Mangekyo in public.
• Fugaku sealed the recovered eyes in the Uchiha clan vault, and Sasuke ordered Neji to sever Itachi’s tendons and destroy his remaining chakra pathways.
• Naoto brought Sasuke Kisame’s message warning that other Akatsuki members had their eyes on Sasuke’s eyes.

Sasuke oversaw Itachi’s public punishment and sentenced him to life imprisonment in Konoha’s Severe Psychiatric Hospital. As Itachi was carried away, he warned Sasuke that he had left something inside Sasuke’s eyes.

• Sasuke ordered Neji to cripple Itachi’s hands, legs, and chakra pathways while Yamada Naoto recorded the punishment.
• Sasuke announced that Itachi’s Mangekyo had been confiscated and rejected Itachi’s request to die, while Fugaku stayed as a witness.
• Sasuke secured Tsunade’s signature on Itachi’s life-imprisonment order, which barred visits and Genjutsu treatment.
• Sasuke announced Itachi’s sentence and ordered his crimes publicly displayed as he was sent to the deepest level of the Severe Psychiatric Hospital.
• Itachi warned Sasuke that he had left something inside Sasuke’s eyes.

After Itachi warned that his eyes might contain a trap, Sasuke kept the trial verdict intact and ordered the eyes examined by multiple teams. The examination triggered a hidden seal, but Sasuke insisted on proceeding with the pre-transplant examination as the right eye turned toward him.

• Itachi warned Sasuke not to transplant his eyes and revealed that he had prepared an Amaterasu Seal and Transcription Genjutsu, but Shikaku said the statement would not change the verdict.
• Sasuke ordered Fugaku to take the sealed eyes to the Uchiha underground chamber for examination by the Hyuga, Yamanaka, and medical teams, and the trial continued with Itachi sentenced to detention at a psychiatric hospital.
• Sasuke ordered the prison carriage feed kept public until the hospital entrance, instructed Shikaku to report the trial evidence to the Daimyo's Residence, and told Kakashi that he wanted Kisame to carry news of Itachi's fate back to Akatsuki.
• Naruto told Sasuke he would use the case file to challenge anyone who hurt comrades in the name of protection, and Sasuke told him to improve his sealing jutsu.
• At the underground chamber, Tsunade's team opened the first seal layer, triggering a hidden jutsu formula in Itachi's left eye; Sasuke ordered them to keep dismantling it and begin the pre-transplant examination.
• As the medical array lit, the right eye in the container turned toward Sasuke and began forming an incomplete black seal.

Sasuke broke through Itachi’s sealed message, exposing Obito Uchiha’s identity and preserving evidence of his cooperation with Itachi. As Kumogakure and Iwagakure mobilized against Konoha, Sasuke called an emergency Supreme Commander Meeting.

• Itachi’s sealed Amaterasu activated when Sasuke examined his eye, but Sasuke and the others contained the flames and began extracting the hidden memories.
• Sasuke forced the vision to reveal Itachi’s knowledge that the masked man was Obito Uchiha and his warning that Obito stay away from Sasuke.
• Sasuke controlled the flames and transferred Itachi’s memories and records of Kamui into Image Recording Scrolls.
• Sasuke classified the Kamui and infiltration evidence, while deciding to disclose Itachi’s cooperation with the Nine-Tails Incident but withhold Obito’s name.
• A report revealed that Kumogakure and Iwagakure were demanding the Hyuga Byakugan and compensation, and their allied forces had crossed the buffer line.
• Sasuke ordered an immediate Supreme Commander Meeting and headed for the exit.

Sasuke tore up Kumogakure’s ultimatum, declared highest-level war readiness, and detained its envoys as suspected spies. A search of Dodai Nobuyoshi’s memories exposed a plan to seize the Byakugan and abduct Uchiha and Yamanaka children, which Sasuke prepared to broadcast after dawn.

• Dodai Nobuyoshi delivered an ultimatum demanding the Hyuga Byakugan, the release of Kumogakure prisoners, and five billion ryo, while threatening war with Iwagakure.
• Sasuke destroyed the peace treaty and ultimatum, activated highest-level war readiness, and ordered the envoys detained; Konoha’s clan leaders committed forces and supplies.
• Sasuke restricted Tsunade’s communications and required her official inquiry to pass review before it could be sent to the Daimyo’s Residence.
• Neji and Fugaku discovered a hidden Kumogakure communication bug, and Sasuke identified Dodai Nobuyoshi as a suspected spy.
• Inoichi searched Dodai Nobuyoshi’s memories and revealed Kumogakure’s plan to plunder Byakugan and abduct Uchiha and Yamanaka children; Sasuke prepared to broadcast the evidence after dawn.

Sasuke publicly exposed Kumogakure’s plans to seize bloodlines and attack civilian routes, then Konoha declared a lawful subjugation and imposed an economic blockade. The chapter ended with Killer B heading toward a civilian border town under a Complete Tailed Beast Transformation permit.

• Sasuke and Konoha officials broadcast Dodai Nobuyoshi’s memories and evidence of Kumogakure’s ultimatum, espionage, bloodline-plundering plans, and planned attacks on civilian routes.
• The Land of Lightning’s Daimyo disavowed Kumogakure’s actions, while Sunagakure and Kirigakure demanded investigations and Iwagakure distanced itself from the alliance.
• Sasuke led Konoha officials in signing a subjugation order and directed the Intelligence Monopoly Center to cut Kumogakure’s military supplies and freeze its funds.
• Obito ordered Akatsuki members to accelerate the Tailed Beast Plan as Kumogakure faced public condemnation.
• After Kumogakure refused to withdraw its troops, Sasuke ordered Konoha’s border forces to defend without attacking and record the approaching forces.
• Shikaku received a report that Killer B had left Kumogakure with a Complete Tailed Beast Transformation permit and was heading for a civilian border town.

Sasuke used evidence of Iwagakure’s covert support for attacks on Konoha to force Ōnoki to withdraw his troops, then imposed sanctions on Kumogakure’s military trade. When Killer B crossed the border and destroyed an outpost, Sasuke prepared to confront him and document the attack.

• Sasuke confronted Ōnoki with records linking Iwagakure to Akatsuki’s attacks and demanded its troops withdraw from the Land of Fire buffer zone.
• Ōnoki ordered Iwagakure’s border troops back to the Land of Earth but refused to hand over the envoy for a joint review.
• Sasuke proposed a trade blockade targeting Kumogakure’s military suppliers while preserving registered civilian quotas, and told Tsunade he would handle the Eight-Tails himself.
• Shikaku announced sanctions as Konoha froze Kumogakure’s military funds and halted supplies to military-controlled merchants.
• Reports showed rising prices and discord within Kumogakure, but the Raikage refused to withdraw and ordered Killer B to break the blockade.
• Killer B crossed the border with twelve Kumogakure Elite Forces, destroyed an empty outpost, and challenged Sasuke; Sasuke ordered a full army roll call and set out to meet him.

Sasuke led Konoha’s army to Bluestone Gorge to confront Killer B after Kumogakure’s forces destroyed outposts and trade routes. As Killer B challenged him, Sasuke presented a sealed Kumogakure archive roster, leaving its contents and Killer B’s reaction unresolved.

• Morita Takuya obeyed Sasuke’s order to retreat without returning fire and preserved evidence of Kumogakure’s attacks.
• Killer B continued the blockade and damaged Konoha’s boundary marker to provoke Sasuke into appearing.
• Sasuke organized Konoha’s forces, assigned Naruto to defend the eastern district, and left Fugaku and Jiraiya in the village’s defense.
• Konoha’s army reached Bluestone Gorge, where Sasuke had recording arrays document Killer B’s presence and the destruction attributed to him.
• Sasuke threw a sealed Kumogakure archive roster toward Killer B, and C warned him not to touch it.

Sasuke publicly exposed records of Kumogakure's past abductions of bloodline users and used Killer B's border attack to justify Konoha's punitive response. With other villages verifying the records, Sasuke began fighting Killer B while Konoha's forces blocked the retreat routes.

• Sasuke presented archived Kumogakure records implicating successive officials in abducting bloodline users, and Gyuki confirmed that the papers bore authentic chakra seals.
• C tried to burn the records, but Kakashi stopped him and Nara Taketo restrained him; Sasuke then used C's words to establish that Kumogakure's secrets were at stake.
• Sasuke showed that Killer B had attacked a Konoha merchant convoy and a border outpost inside the Land of Fire, while Killer B refused to retreat and demanded that the broadcast stop.
• Kirigakure, Sunagakure, and several small countries recognized names and records, requested verification, and demanded the return of remains and stolen materials.
• Shikaku announced Konoha's punitive order, and Kakashi and Neji's teams blocked the routes back to the Land of Lightning while Sasuke took on Killer B.
• Killer B attacked with seven blades and grazed Sasuke's robe, but Sasuke activated his Mangekyo Sharingan and Wood Release to trap the blades and pointed his sword at Killer B's chest.

Sasuke exposed Kumogakure’s recorded operations to the shinobi world, prompting other villages to verify old cases and condemn Kumogakure as its elder admitted to plundering bloodline limits. Killer B faltered under the revelations, but continued fighting Sasuke and began a Complete Tailed Beast Transformation as Neji ordered the troops to retreat.

• Sasuke’s shadow clone revealed a Kumogakure mission involving Ao’s Byakugan, prompting Mei to demand records and put Kirigakure’s forces on a war footing.
• Sasuke’s clone read a record of Kumogakure’s murder of a Magnet Release shinobi, and Gaara reopened Sunagakure’s investigation and suspended military cooperation with the Land of Lightning.
• Sasuke continued reading records of abductions and killings, while villages and victims’ families connected old cases to Kumogakure’s missions.
• A demanded that Sasuke shut down the water mirror, but a Kumogakure elder defended the operations and admitted they had been carried out to strengthen the village.
• Sasuke’s team recorded the elder’s statement as testimony, and A smashed the communications array after the nations heard it.
• Sasuke wounded and battered Killer B, who began a Complete Tailed Beast Transformation, prompting Neji to order Konoha’s troops to fall back.

Sasuke used the live Image Recording Array to document Killer B’s refusal to stand down and his attempted Tailed Beast Bomb attack, establishing Kumogakure’s treaty violation. After Sasuke blocked the bomb with his Semi-Perfect Susanoo, he prepared to capture the Eight-Tails Jinchūriki.

• Sasuke refused Killer B’s demand to lift the blockade and ordered him to end his Tailed Beast Transformation and submit to Konoha’s investigation.
• Killer B rejected the Raikage’s order to cancel the attack and formed a Tailed Beast Bomb while Konoha’s army withdrew and held its fire.
• Sasuke had Yamada Naoto record the orders and Killer B’s refusal, then publicly declared Kumogakure responsible for violating the Tailed Beast Peace Treaty.
• Killer B launched the Tailed Beast Bomb at Konoha’s center army, and Sasuke blocked it with his Semi-Perfect Susanoo.
• Sasuke survived the blast and drew Susanoo’s chakra sword, declaring that Konoha would now capture Killer B.

Sasuke used Susanoo and Wood Release to defeat Gyuki and capture Killer B while Konoha recorded the battle as evidence of Kumogakure’s treaty violation. The news reached Ay, who learned that Killer B and the Eight-Tails Squad had been captured as diplomatic pressure mounted on Kumogakure.

• Gyuki abandoned a second Tailed Beast Bomb when Susanoo attacked, and Sasuke summoned a Wood Dragon that bound the Eight-Tails and drained its chakra.
• Mabui hesitated to attack after Kakashi warned that the recording showed Kumogakure’s shinobi assisting an unauthorized border crossing.
• Sasuke disrupted Gyuki’s close-range Tailed Beast Bomb with Kagutsuchi and continued draining its chakra as Konoha forces detained Omoi and the Kumogakure team.
• Killer B released Gyuki’s transformation, but Sasuke struck him down and Konoha sealed him as a prisoner of war.
• Ay received the report that Killer B and the Eight-Tails Squad had been captured while diplomatic demands reached Kumogakure and the elders blocked the Raikage’s Office.

Konoha secured a coalition of nations to sanction Kumogakure after capturing Killer B, while Sasuke left civilian food routes open under international supervision. The Land of Lightning's Daimyō halted Kumogakure's military funding, and the chapter ended with protests and even returning chūnin squads demanding a ceasefire.

• Ai ordered Darui to take command at the border and contract Kumogakure's defenses as other nations condemned the village and withheld support.
• Shikaku presented Konoha's sanctions initiative, and Kirigakure and Sunagakure joined after securing conditions for civilian food access and supervision of Killer B.
• Sasuke pressured Ōnoki with records from a black ledger chest, and Iwagakure and the remaining small nations joined the sanctions.
• The Land of Lightning's Daimyō rejected Kumogakure's funding request and suspended military expenditures, ordering an audit of secret appropriations.
• Protests and supply shortages struck Kumogakure, and Dodai found that three chūnin squads had signed a petition demanding a ceasefire.

A faced a collapsing front, dwindling supplies, and elders demanding his resignation while Sasuke prepared Konoha to invade Kumogakure using a secret barrier diagram. The chapter ended with Darui ordering a seventy-percent cut to front-line Explosive Tag and Soldier Pill allocations just as Sasuke’s army prepared to advance.

• Dodai reported that most of Kumogakure’s front-line companies had petitioned against continuing the offensive, while the elders blamed A and demanded his resignation.
• A offered to resign only if the elders admitted their shared responsibility for deploying the Eight-Tails and faced a public trial, but none agreed.
• A ordered the remaining Soldier Pills and dismantled Lightning Release tools sent to Darui’s troops as Kumogakure’s supplies dwindled.
• Sasuke examined evidence that merchant associations were cutting off support to Kumogakure and reviewed a secret diagram of its defensive barrier.
• Sasuke rejected Tsunade’s protest, declared that he intended to strip Kumogakure of its ability to wage war, and gave Killer B surrender terms for A to sign.
• Sasuke ordered Konoha’s army to prepare to advance, but Inoichi reported that Darui had reduced front-line Explosive Tag and Soldier Pill allocations by seventy percent.