Recaps

Xuandou and Fugaku competed to decide Elder Chie’s vote in the Uchiha clan-head selection. Xuandou’s powerful genjutsu immobilized Fugaku, and as Xuandou closed in with a kunai, Fugaku prepared to use a hidden technique.

• Elder Somen voted for Xuandou, while Elder Shingen voted for Fugaku, so Elder Chie made the deciding vote a combat match between them.
• Elder Chie set the rule that neither fighter could strike to kill, then started the match outside the shrine.
• Xuandou and Fugaku exchanged fire techniques, and Fugaku’s Majestic Destroyer Flame forced Xuandou to dodge while completing unfamiliar hand seals.
• Xuandou used Yin Release: Heart's Divergent Gate, and Fugaku’s Sharingan failed to dispel the genjutsu.
• Xuandou charged with a kunai as Fugaku mistook him for his son Itachi and struggled to move, then resolved to use a hidden technique.

Xuandou defeated Fugaku after trapping him in his Mangekyō ability, Yomotsu, and was chosen as the new Uchiha clan head. The clan system then unlocked its full panel for Xuandou.

• Fugaku awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan and protected himself with Susanoo, but Xuandou revealed that he had awakened the Mangekyō too.
• Xuandou used Yomotsu to pull Fugaku into a space where his senses and chakra were steadily eroded.
• After failing to escape or fight effectively, Fugaku conceded, and Xuandou returned with him to Naka Shrine.
• Elder Chie supported Xuandou, and Elder Zongyan declared him the new head of the Uchiha Clan.
• Xuandou received a system notification that the clan panel had officially unlocked and opened it.

After becoming Clan Head, Xuandou set out to raise Uchiha prosperity by reorganizing the clan and prioritizing population growth. He ordered Shisui to establish an Anbu and find skilled builders, then went home to Kurenai and Pakura.

• The system unlocked the Family Ancestral Shrine, Indulgence Apartments, and Desire Hot Springs, then gave Xuandou a quest to raise clan prosperity to B-rank.
• Xuandou kept Fugaku as commander of the Konoha Military Police Force and appointed Shisui to lead a twenty-person Uchiha Anbu that would report directly to him.
• Xuandou made encouraging childbirth a clan priority and dismissed the meeting.
• Xuandou gave Shisui four hundred million ryō to fund the Anbu and ordered him to find skilled house-building craftsmen.
• Xuandou returned home and found Kurenai waiting; after telling her he had become Clan Head, he carried her inside, where she saw Pakura, his captured Sunagakure secretary.

The daimyo granted Hiruzen Sarutobi one more year as Hokage and named Minato Namikaze and Xuandou as candidates to succeed him. After Hiruzen ordered the Military Police Force to address worsening public disorder, Xuandou encountered a drunken man being restrained beside a crying woman.

• Iwayama Kōmon delivered the daimyo’s decree that Hiruzen Sarutobi would retire after one final year and named Minato Namikaze and Xuandou as Hokage candidates.
• Danzo asked to be considered, but Iwayama Kōmon said the daimyo had not mentioned him and dismissed him as too old.
• Hiruzen told Xuandou to increase Military Police Force patrols and curb fights and harassment of civilians.
• Danzo ordered a masked Root operative to investigate Minato Namikaze and Xuandou’s past actions.
• Xuandou found two Military Police officers restraining a drunken man beside a sobbing woman and asked what had happened.

Xuandou reflected on the Uchiha’s unpopular role in enforcing Konoha’s laws, then hired craftsmen to build the clan’s shrine, apartments, and hot springs. Meanwhile, Danzo learned about the Soldier Pills and ordered Root to capture Uchiha clan members for questioning.

• Xuandou ordered guards to take away a drunk who had harassed a woman, and considered how the Military Police Force’s duties worsened the Uchiha’s reputation.
• Shisui brought craftsmen to Xuandou, and Goumu Yanō agreed to build the Family Ancestral Shrine, Indulgence Apartments, and Desire Hot Springs for a large fee.
• Xuandou paid an advance to Goumu and entrusted Shisui with funds to pay for construction as it progressed.
• Aburame Torune reported to Danzo that Uchiha Xuantou had distributed Soldier Pills during the war and presented two pills.
• Danzo tried a Soldier Pill, ordered Torune to investigate its formula and supply, then directed Root to capture Uchiha clan members alive and question them.

Xuandou met Orochimaru in his underground laboratory and agreed to contact him about Sharingan research. After Orochimaru punished Anko for resisting his experiments, Xuandou returned to the Uchiha compound, where Shisui reported catching two people who had tried to abduct clan members.

• Xuandou encountered Anko, who led him and Pakura to Orochimaru's hidden laboratory in the Forest of Death.
• Orochimaru asked Xuandou to help him study the Sharingan and offered to share his research; Xuandou accepted a summoning scroll for contacting him.
• Anko told Orochimaru she no longer wanted to take part in his experiments, so he triggered her Cursed Seal and threatened her.
• Xuandou returned to the Uchiha compound with Pakura, where Shisui presented two bound people he had caught trying to abduct Uchiha clan members.

Xuandou discovered that Danzo’s Root agents had tried to infiltrate the Uchiha and arrested two of them, while Danzo escalated his campaign against the clan. The chapter ended with three Root ninja confronting Xuandou in the Uchiha compound and preparing to attack him.

• Xuandou used Yin Release: Heart's Divergent Gate on a captured ninja, but the Cursed Tongue Eradication Seal activated before he could reveal Root’s secrets; Shisui took both agents away.
• Aburame Torune reported that the two Root ninja sent to the Uchiha had disappeared, and Danzo blamed Hiruzen for allowing the Uchiha to grow powerful.
• Danzo argued with Hiruzen and the advisers about Uchiha Xuantou’s potential as Hokage, then ordered Root to arrest him under the pretext of investigating the missing agents.
• At the Uchiha construction site, three Root ninja demanded that Xuandou come with them, but he refused and told them to leave the compound.
• The Root ninja ordered one another to teach Xuandou a lesson and attack him.

Xuandou established the Uchiha ancestral shrine and held a clan gathering, where Itachi awakened his two-tomoe Sharingan and another fifty-two clan members awakened theirs. The clan celebrated Xuandou’s leadership as he began to announce the next matter: the new apartment building.

• Xuandou used Susanoo to defeat three Root ninja, ordered them imprisoned, and called a mandatory clan meeting.
• The next day, Uchiha clan members gathered to see the completed apartment building and ancestral shrine.
• Elder Chie led the clan in paying respects to their ancestors at the shrine.
• Itachi suddenly awakened his two-tomoe Sharingan, and Xuandou told the clan that the shrine’s blessing had prompted the awakening.
• Shisui reported that fifty-three people had awakened their Sharingan, and the clan members cheered for Xuandou.
• Xuandou quieted the crowd and began discussing the apartment building.

Xuandou announced new clan housing and voluntary body donations for research, then summoned Manda to deliver the donated bodies to Orochimaru. A month later, Desire Hot Springs was completed and opened, and Xuandou brought Kurenai there to try it.

• Xuandou announced free apartments for unmarried young clan members and invited voluntary donations of battle-dead clan members' bodies for research.
• Shisui delivered two donated bodies to Xuandou, who summoned Manda and sent the sealed bodies back to Orochimaru.
• Xuandou used the system to inspect the Family Ancestral Shrine and Indulgence Apartments, then called Pakura inside.
• A month later, Xuandou toured the completed Desire Hot Springs and announced that it was officially open.
• Xuandou brought Kurenai to Desire Hot Springs to experience it.

Xuandou took Kurenai to a private pool at the crowded Desire Hot Springs and gave her a massage. As the steam thickened around them, they remained together in the secluded pool.

• Xuandou found the public baths packed and led Kurenai to a pool reserved for the Clan Head.
• Kurenai changed into a red bikini and entered the warm spring water.
• Xuandou joined Kurenai in the pool and sat close beside her.
• Xuandou began massaging Kurenai’s shoulders and neck as she relaxed against the pool’s edge.
• The fragrance and steam grew stronger, enveloping Xuandou and Kurenai.

Uchiha hot springs gained a reputation in Konoha for healing injuries and improving the clan’s benefits. After Kushina Uzumaki asked to use them, Xuandou made an exception and granted her ongoing access, and she hurried off with Mikoto.

• Uchiha clan members reported that the hot springs eased old injuries and improved their sleep, drawing long queues and spreading rumors across Konoha.
• Xuandou watched the women’s bath through the system feed and recalled seeing Mikoto there, while Pakura grew resentful of his behavior.
• Mikoto visited Xuandou with Kushina, who asked to use the hot springs after hearing about their benefits.
• Xuandou initially said outsiders were not allowed, but made an exception for Kushina because she was the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki and had served Konoha.
• Xuandou told Kushina she could return whenever she wanted, and she pulled Mikoto away to go soak.

Xuandou watched Mikoto and Kushina at Desire Hot Springs, then saw the Uchiha Clan Compound grow as new apartments helped drive a baby boom. In Konoha Year 51, he joined Fugaku at the arrest of a disruptive Special Jōnin, but an angry bystander threw an egg at a Uchiha officer.

• Mikoto told Kushina she wanted another child with Fugaku but rarely had time with him, and Kushina confided that Minato was often away and she wanted a child too.
• Over eleven months, Xuandou oversaw four more apartment buildings in the Uchiha Clan Compound, and more than two hundred Uchiha babies were born as Konoha experienced a wider baby boom.
• In Konoha Year 51, Xuandou went walking with Kurenai when an explosion from an Uchiha Great Fireball technique drew him toward trouble.
• Xuandou met Fugaku on the way, and Fugaku explained that a Special Jōnin was causing trouble.
• Fugaku ordered the Konoha Military Police Force to take the restrained Special Jōnin away, but someone threw an egg at an officer and shouted that all Uchiha deserved to die.

Xuandou witnessed public hostility toward the Uchiha Military Police before joining Fugaku at the hospital for Sasuke’s birth, which raised the clan’s prosperity and unlocked two new buildings. Back home, Xuandou used Tokitsumori to undo a B-rank draw and obtained wind-nature chakra mastery, leaving one draw attempt.

• An elderly woman accused the Uchiha Military Police of framing her son, and Fugaku ordered the officers to take the arrested ninja away despite the crowd’s grumbling.
• Itachi told Fugaku that Mikoto was giving birth, and Xuandou went with them to the hospital, where Fugaku named his newborn son Sasuke.
• Sasuke’s birth raised Uchiha clan prosperity to B-rank and unlocked the Sharingan Awakening Chamber and Mission Hall.
• Xuandou returned home and drew the B-rank Fire Release: Fire Dragon Flame Bullet, then used Tokitsumori to reverse the draw and regain the attempt.
• Xuandou drew again and received A-rank wind nature chakra mastery, then used his final draw attempt.

Xuandou obtained the Multiple Shadow Clone Technique after repeatedly rewinding time to improve his reward draw, then received a quest to save Kushina during the Nine-Tails' Catastrophe. He visited the heavily pregnant Kushina to pursue a plan, but Minato reacted badly when Xuandou asked about her due date.

• Xuandou rewound time through four draws, then won the A-rank Multiple Shadow Clone Technique on his fifth attempt and learned it.
• Xuandou tested the technique by creating two physical shadow clones and considered its chakra and memory-transfer risks.
• The system assigned Xuandou the Nine-Tails' Catastrophe quest, ordering him to save Kushina and offering one draw attempt as a reward.
• Xuandou decided against revealing Obito's conspiracy to Konoha's leadership and chose to visit Kushina instead.
• Xuandou brought fruit to Kushina's home, where he found Minato and spoke with the heavily pregnant Kushina.
• Xuandou asked Kushina about her hospital due date, and Minato's expression darkened as he called the question inappropriate.

Xuandou warned Konoha's leaders that an Akatsuki member with a Sharingan planned to seize the Nine-Tails during Kushina's delivery. Hiruzen rejected Xuandou's proposals for evacuations and moving Kushina, but promised to reinforce defenses on the day she gave birth.

• After Xuandou explained that an attacker might target Kushina during her delivery, Minato took him and Kushina to report the threat to Hiruzen.
• Xuandou told Hiruzen and the advisers that one Akatsuki member with a stray Uchiha Sharingan intended to seize the Nine-Tails.
• Danzo dismissed the warning, claiming Akatsuki had been destroyed and accusing Xuandou of seeking greater influence for the Uchiha.
• Xuandou proposed moving Kushina outside Konoha and evacuating civilians, but Danzo opposed both plans and challenged the credibility of the intelligence.
• Xuandou activated his Sharingan and confronted Danzo before Hiruzen stopped them and promised to deploy the Barrier Team and Anbu when Kushina gave birth.

After Konoha's leaders dismissed Xuandou's warnings, he resolved to find another way to protect Kushina and relocate the Uchiha. Hiruzen ordered Orochimaru's arrest, and Xuandou chose to help Orochimaru escape in pursuit of the Flying Thunder God reward.

• Hiruzen told Xuandou that Minato Namikaze had been chosen as the Fourth Hokage and asked him to attend the inauguration.
• Danzo visited Orochimaru's hidden laboratory, where they discussed using Hashirama cells research to seize power in Konoha.
• A Root ninja reported their conversation to Hiruzen, who ordered Anbu to arrest Orochimaru that night.
• Xuandou received a side quest offering the Flying Thunder God for helping either Hiruzen capture Orochimaru or Orochimaru escape.
• Xuandou chose to help Orochimaru and raced toward the Forest of Death.

Xuandou rescued Orochimaru and Anko from Hiruzen's raid by transporting them through Yomotsu Space to the Forest of Death. There, Orochimaru explained his findings about Sharingan chakra consumption, and Xuandou asked how exchanging a brother's eyes created the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan.

• Xuandou warned Orochimaru that Hiruzen planned to arrest him, and Orochimaru packed his research and summoned Anko.
• Hiruzen and the Anbu attacked the laboratory, so Xuandou used Yomotsu to take Orochimaru and Anko into his independent space.
• Xuandou brought the group to the Forest of Death, where Orochimaru recognized his ability as a Mangekyō Sharingan ocular technique.
• Xuandou told Orochimaru he would no longer supply Uchiha bodies, and Orochimaru revealed that Sharingan use depleted yin release chakra and could cause blindness.
• Xuandou asked Orochimaru how replacing a blinded Mangekyō with a biological brother's eyes created an Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan.

Xuandou learned from Orochimaru how Yin Release chakra could restore the eyes, then used the method to repair his Mangekyō Sharingan. A month later, after Minato became Fourth Hokage and the Uchiha relocated most of their clan, Xuandou sought approval for a public evacuation drill and found Hiruzen serving as Minato’s adviser.

• Orochimaru gave Xuandou his Sharingan research scroll before escaping with Anko, and Xuandou evaded the pursuing Anbu using Yomotsu.
• Xuandou studied Orochimaru’s notes and guided Yin Release chakra into his eyes, restoring their depleted power and believing he had mastered the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan.
• A month later, Shisui told Xuandou that the Uchiha had relocated outside Konoha, leaving Fugaku’s Military Police Force and the clan’s Anbu in the village.
• Xuandou and Shisui visited Minato, now the Fourth Hokage, to request approval for a publicly funded evacuation drill.
• Minato brought Hiruzen out of an adjoining room, and Hiruzen explained that he had retired but agreed to serve as Minato’s adviser.

Xuandou secured Hiruzen’s approval for the Uchiha evacuation drill, but Danzo turned Konoha’s civilians against Fugaku and the Uchiha, who withdrew. As night fell, a masked man appeared outside the village, watching Konoha.

• Hiruzen approved the Uchiha’s evacuation drill on the condition that civilians were kept safe and were not forced to leave, but he refused Xuandou’s offer to help with Kushina’s delivery.
• Fugaku announced the drill in Konoha’s central square, where angry civilians rejected the evacuation and accused the Uchiha of abusing their authority.
• Danzo denounced the drill, promised that Root would protect the civilians, and urged Fugaku and the Uchiha to leave.
• Xuandou withdrew with the Uchiha, warned Danzo to protect the civilians when danger came, and headed to the clan settlement while Fugaku and Shisui stayed vigilant.
• Konoha’s civilians celebrated the Uchiha’s retreat as another day and night passed.
• A masked man with a Sharingan emerged from a distortion in space outside Konoha and watched the village.

Kushina gave birth to Naruto while Minato guarded her seal, but a masked intruder killed Biwako and a medical ninja and took the newborn hostage. The intruder threatened Naruto, forcing Minato to choose between protecting his son and controlling the Nine-Tails.

• Hiruzen sent Biwako to escort Kushina to the secret delivery site, where Kushina met Mikoto and her newborn son, Sasuke.
• Fugaku ordered Mikoto to take Sasuke back to the Uchiha clan’s shelter, while Minato released Kakashi from Kushina’s guard duty.
• Kakashi visited Rin’s grave and spoke of Minato’s child being born that night, then a masked man appeared and threw away Kakashi’s flowers.
• Kushina delivered Naruto as Minato suppressed the restless power within her seal.
• A masked man killed Biwako and another medical ninja, seized Naruto, and threatened to kill him unless Minato stepped away from Kushina.

The Masked Man extracted the Nine-Tails from Kushina and unleashed the beast on Konoha. As the village fell into chaos, Hiruzen sent Anbu to protect civilians, while Fugaku ordered the Uchiha police force to help despite their resentment.

• The Masked Man took Kushina, extracted the Nine-Tails, and controlled it with his Sharingan after Minato rescued her from an attack.
• The Masked Man summoned the Nine-Tails into Konoha, where it crushed houses and terrified the villagers.
• Hiruzen ordered Anbu to protect civilians and regretted dismissing Xuandou's warning about an attack during Kushina's childbirth.
• Fugaku sent Shisui to notify Xuandou and ordered the police force to rescue civilians, but Inabi and Tekka refused at first.
• Fugaku insisted that protecting the people was their duty, and the Uchiha police force headed into the burning village.

As the Nine-Tails devastated Konoha, Danzo ordered Root to stay out of the rescue effort while Anbu and clan ninja saved civilians. Uchiha Inabi abandoned an injured man who blamed the Uchiha for his broken leg, leaving him alone as the Nine-Tails approached.

• Danzo refused Torune's request to send Root ninja against the Nine-Tails and ordered Root to preserve its strength.
• Anbu and Konoha's clans, including the Uchiha and Ino-Shika-Cho, rushed into the burning village to rescue civilians and protect them from debris.
• Inabi found an injured man pinned beneath rubble and offered to carry him to safety.
• The man blamed Inabi and the Uchiha for his injury and threatened to complain to the Hokage, so Inabi left him behind.
• As the Nine-Tails approached the stranded man, he panicked, admitted he was wrong, and begged for Inabi to return and save him.

Minato and Konoha’s defenders fought to stop the Nine-Tails, while Minato prepared to seal it inside Naruto. As the Nine-Tails struck Minato and Kushina shielded Naruto, Xuandou appeared and activated Yomotsu.

• Minato diverted the Nine-Tails’ Tailed Beast Bomb away from Konoha and fought the Masked Man, breaking his control over the beast with Contract Seal.
• Hiruzen summoned Enma and drove the Nine-Tails outside the village, where Anbu joined the attack.
• Minato summoned Gamabunta, teleported the Nine-Tails and its forming Tailed Beast Bomb away, then returned with Kushina and Naruto as Kushina restrained the beast with Adamantine Sealing Chains.
• Kushina offered to die with the Nine-Tails, but Minato used the Reaper Death Seal to take half its chakra and prepared to seal the rest inside Naruto.
• When Kushina’s chains weakened, the Nine-Tails struck at Naruto; Minato took the claw through his chest, Kushina shielded Naruto, and Xuandou appeared and activated Yomotsu.

Xuandou sealed the Nine-Tails back into Kushina and saved her, while Minato died from his wounds. After completing his mission, Xuandou started to leave Konoha, but Hiruzen called out to him.

• Xuandou arrived too late to save Minato, but trapped the Nine-Tails and saved Kushina from its attack.
• Minato apologized to Xuandou, entrusted Kushina and Naruto to Hiruzen, and died after Kushina agreed to live for Naruto.
• Xuandou released the Nine-Tails, controlled it with his jutsu, and sealed its chakra back into Kushina with the Yin Seal: Slave Mark.
• Kushina passed out after the sealing, and Hiruzen ordered Anbu to take her to Konoha Hospital for treatment.
• Xuandou received a lottery draw reward for completing the Nine-Tails' Catastrophe and headed out to rejoin the Uchiha clan, but Hiruzen stopped him.

After returning to Konoha, the Uchiha were blamed for the Nine-Tails’ attack despite having lost no one, and Shisui awakened his Mangekyō Sharingan. Back at the Uchiha compound, Inabi urged Xuandou to lead a coup, and Xuandou faced the clan’s growing radical faction.

• Xuandou returned to Konoha with more than three thousand Uchiha clan members, and villagers accused them of causing the Nine-Tails’ rampage and demanded compensation.
• Fugaku tried to explain the Uchiha’s evacuation preparations, while Inabi defended the clan and condemned the villagers’ accusations.
• Shisui awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan as he wished to change the villagers’ minds, and Xuandou recognized the eyes as Mangekyō.
• A masked messenger delivered the Third Hokage’s orders for the Uchiha to return to their compound and for Xuandou and the Military Police Force chief to attend a meeting.
• Inabi and other Uchiha fighters urged Xuandou to launch a coup, while Fugaku held back his objection and Xuandou remained silent.