Uchiha

Biodata

Power Progression

The Clan System measures Family Prosperity through population, renown, total combat strength, and the strength of the clan’s leading fighters 1.

Population and Military Strength

History

Before Xuantou’s Leadership

The Uchiha inherited Indra’s bloodline and maintained a long rivalry with the Senju. Hashirama describes the founding of Konoha as the two clans setting aside two thousand years of hatred to escape a world where children routinely died in battle 323 471.

During the Warring States period, the clan exploited Uchiha Hikari as a weapon. Her campaigns became so destructive that rival clans united under Senju leadership and sealed her away 413.

Madara Uchiha and Hashirama Senju founded Konoha together, and Naka Shrine moved there with the clan. When Madara later urged the Uchiha to leave, they refused because they had grown accustomed to the village’s peaceful life. He departed with the remains of his father Tajima and brother Izuna 25 371.

Leadership Succession and the Third Shinobi World War

The serving clan head died in battle after naming Fugaku acting head. Xuantou entered the succession contest while establishing himself as the clan’s representative before Konoha’s leadership 3.

Xuantou committed three hundred elite military police personnel to the Sunagakure front. His victory forced Sunagakure to pay reparations and ended the Third Shinobi World War, improving the standing of a clan long treated as Konoha’s “problem clan” 12 22 26. The subsequent leadership contest pitted him against Fugaku; Xuantou later appears as the confirmed clan head 27 74.

Nine-Tails Crisis and Escalating Persecution

Before the Nine-Tails catastrophe, Xuantou relocated most clan members to a town outside Konoha. Three hundred military police under Fugaku and the clan’s Anbu remained behind 43.

The returning procession numbered over three thousand, with no clan members lost in the disaster. Villagers nevertheless blamed the Uchiha and demanded compensation. Shisui awakened his Mangekyō while wishing to change their minds, and Inabi’s faction urged Xuantou to launch a coup 50.

Meanwhile, the clan’s independent Mission Hall and Ninja Academy increased its wealth and autonomy. Danzō advocated arresting Xuantou and eliminating the clan; Hiruzen authorized him to handle the situation while warning against provoking open rebellion 74.

Departure and Founding of Hidden Xuan Village

After Xuantou killed Danzō, the confrontation escalated into fighting against Konoha’s Anbu. Xuantou, Shisui, and Fugaku fielded three Susanoo, and Xuantou formally declared the Uchiha’s withdrawal from Konoha despite mediation attempts by Shikaku and Inoichi 82 84.

Shisui used Kotoamatsukami to make the Land of Hot Water’s daimyō, Adachi Yuto, loyal to Xuantou. Xuantou then used a Family Migration Card to transport the entire compound—including its foundations, streets, walls, and trees—to land beside Azure Tide Port. The clan founded Hidden Xuan Village and adopted its fan crest for the village’s forehead protectors 86 89.

Rise as an Independent Power

Azure Tide Port’s transport links helped the Uchiha attract high-ranking commissions. Ninja earned nearly twice their former Konoha income, while housing, shops, and the clan population expanded rapidly 105 107.

Kumogakure attempted to force compensation and a permanent thirty-percent share of Hidden Xuan’s mission payments. Its thousand-strong expedition instead faced two hundred Uchiha Anbu supported by three Susanoo. The campaign ended with Yugito captured and the Raikage paying a substantial ransom 107 108 111 126.

During the Fourth Shinobi World War, Uchiha escorts developed such a reputation that bandits, rogue ninja, and regular armies avoided their missions. Their completion rate approached one hundred percent 126.

Xuantou subsequently became daimyō of the Land of Hot Water. The Uchiha’s intervention against Kumogakure then ended the war threatening the Land of Fire within half a month, prompting Sunagakure and Iwagakure to withdraw. Konoha’s clan leaders recognized the Land of Hot Water as the shinobi world’s sixth great nation 149 165.

Return to Konoha

Under Tsunade, Konoha and Hidden Xuan developed cooperation in missions, training, and intelligence. Later, Konoha’s clan leaders welcomed a proposed merger with Xuanyin despite Hiruzen’s objections. Uchiha-crested flags and Xuanyin reconstruction teams became widespread throughout Konoha 190 318 371.

Nearly twenty years after the departure, Xuantou led almost the entire clan in a ceremony returning ancestral burial plots to a rebuilt estate on their original Konoha grounds. The ceremony fulfilled the wishes of older members who had longed to return to their homeland 454.

Leadership and Notable Members

Clan Administration

• Uchiha Xuantou / Xuandou — Clan head, founder of Hidden Xuan Village, and later daimyō of the Land of Hot Water. Establishes a reward-and-punishment system with the elders 84 89 149 469.
• Uchiha Fugaku — Acting head after the previous leader’s death, Xuantou’s rival in the succession contest, and commander of the military police contingent retained during the evacuation 3 22 43.
• Uchiha Somen / Zongyan — Elder involved in clan representation, Shisui’s development, ancestral records, and ceremonial affairs 3 14 371 454.
• Uchiha Shingen — Second elder; oversees the clan’s finances, transactions, and properties 26.
• Elder Chie — Third elder and the only female elder. Responsible for sacrificial rites and Naka Shrine; remembered affectionately for giving children star-shaped candies 334.

Leading Shinobi

• Madara Uchiha — Konoha co-founder and historical clan leader. On touring Hidden Xuan, praises its young ninja and is astonished by its accumulated techniques; Xuantou later restores him fully to life 225 234.
• Uchiha Shisui — “Body Flicker Shisui,” Mangekyō wielder, and a key subordinate in security, diplomacy, and warfare 14 50 86 165.
• Uchiha Itachi — Mangekyō wielder with Amaterasu, Tsukuyomi, and a Susanoo equipped with the Totsuka Blade and Yata Mirror. Serves as Hanyu’s instructor 104 227.
• Uchiha Inabi — Xuantou’s early training partner; later defends the clan against villagers’ accusations and advocates a coup 1 50.
• Uchiha Hikari — Former Warring States-era weapon whose Yachihoko can alter minds and plunder chakra. Later accepted within Xuantou’s household and the clan 413 438 443 469.
• Uchiha Obito — Initially a threat to the clan’s security. After his capture and release, eventually becomes a covert ninja associated with Azure Tide Port 44 129 434.

Xuantou’s Children

Abilities & Military Capabilities

Sharingan

The Sharingan is the clan’s inherited kekkei genkai, particularly valued for perception, copying, and visual genjutsu 8 89 224.

• Tracks enemy movements and exposes openings in battle 111 183.
• Allows genjutsu through eye contact without the environmental preparation ordinary illusions may require 8.
• Contains inherited Yin Release chakra, although most members cannot independently control Yin Release effectively 10 100.
• Awakening is associated with strong emotional stimulation; individual members can awaken directly into a multi-tomoe form 310.

Mangekyō Sharingan and Susanoo

The Mangekyō is an advanced Sharingan stage associated with intense psychological experiences, including the death of loved ones 27 310.

• Abilities differ between wielders, including mental manipulation, black flames, time-related techniques, and chakra theft 25 86 104 438.
• Multiple Susanoo provide the clan with overwhelming battlefield support against conventional ninja formations 84 111.
• Mangekyō awakening is historically rare; Awakening Cards offer Xuantou a system-assisted means of strengthening selected children 310.

Elemental Ninjutsu

Fire Release is the clan’s traditional specialty, with lightning its next most common chakra affinity. Wind and water affinities are less frequent 100.

• Great Fireball Technique — Passed down through generations of Uchiha 303.
• Fire and lightning repertoire — The clan’s accumulated techniques include Great Fireball, Kirin, Chidori, and Lightning Blade 177.
• Flash Release — Created by Xuantou from lightning and fire. Produces fiery-red lightning combining speed, cutting power, intense heat, and explosions; its creation reward includes a detailed fusion-training scroll 100.

Military and Intelligence Organization

• Military police — The clan can field three hundred elite police personnel for frontline service 12.
• Clan Anbu — Handles combat, intelligence, security, and protection of officials 84 111 149.
• Mission intelligence — Escort work supplies detailed information on foreign daimyō, their families, preferences, and internal disputes 84.
• Ninja-cat ties — A longstanding relationship with the Ninja Cat Clan supports reconnaissance and communications; both Madara and Itachi have ninja-cat companions 171.

Facilities

Culture and Traditions

• Fan crest — Appears on clothing, shrine lanterns, village forehead protectors, and flags 33 75 89 371.
• Ancestor worship — Elders maintain shrine lamps and incense on the first and fifteenth days of each lunar month 28.
• Protection of remains — Deceased members are kept under shrine supervision to prevent grave robbers from exposing or stealing the bloodline’s secrets 371.
• Marriage customs — Izuna states that the clan traditionally favored marriage within the Uchiha to preserve its bloodline 454.
• Attachment to Konoha — The “leaf” symbolizes the Uchiha’s wish for peace and prosperity. Some elders retain a strong attachment to Konoha even after the clan flourishes elsewhere 334 454.

External Relationships

• Konoha — Co-founded by the Uchiha and Senju. Relations deteriorate into surveillance, suppression, and armed separation, then recover through cooperation under Tsunade and the later merger initiative 84 190 225 318 323.
• Danzō and Root — Attempt infiltration, seek Xuantou’s arrest, and advocate eliminating the clan. Xuantou ultimately kills Danzō 32 74 82.
• Senju Clan — Ancient rivals and co-founders of Konoha. Xuantou’s relationship with Tsunade produces a child with both Uchiha and Senju bloodlines, despite Tobirama’s hostility 216 323 373.
• Chinoike Clan — According to Homura, the clans once intermarried before a conflict led to the Chinoike’s exile in Hell Valley. Konoha recruits the survivors partly to exploit their resentment toward the Uchiha 89 108.
• Kumogakure — Economic competition escalates into coercion and military conflict. Its failed campaigns result in captured jinchūriki, defeated forces, and costly ransoms 107 126 165.
• Kirigakure / Mei Terumi — Mei requests help overthrowing Yagura. Later contacts include intelligence cooperation and warnings about an anti-Xuan alliance 126 198 234.
• Ninja Cat Clan — Longstanding allies with a worldwide intelligence network; Mikazuki’s affinity strengthens the next generation’s connection 171 220.

Notable Quotes

“Supreme in ninjutsu, our might shakes the Shinobi World. This is who we Uchiha are!”
— Xuantou, committing the clan to war 12.

“I, Uchiha Xuantou, hereby declare in my capacity as Uchiha Clan Head: from this day forth, the Uchiha Clan leaves Konoha.”
— Xuantou’s declaration of independence 84.

“At a time like this, you should call me Clan Head, not Your Majesty...”
— Xuantou, during preparations to return the ancestral graves to Konoha 454.