Recaps

Xuandou rejected Inabi’s plan to seize the Hokage position by force, then learned about Shisui’s Kotoamatsukami and chose to save its left eye for controlling a Daimyō. At a meeting after Minato’s death, Hiruzen resumed the Hokage position without opposition, and Xuandou spoke up as the meeting turned to other matters.

• Xuandou explained to Inabi that killing Hiruzen would not make the Uchiha accepted as leaders, and Inabi agreed to trust him.
• Shisui told Xuandou about the abilities and limitations of both Kotoamatsukami eyes and offered to use the left eye on Hiruzen or Danzo.
• Xuandou rejected using the left eye on Hiruzen or Danzo, saying he intended to use it on a Daimyō, which shook Shisui’s beliefs about shinobi and their rulers.
• Xuandou found Fugaku and went with him to the meeting where Hiruzen announced Minato’s death and said he would continue serving as Hokage.
• Shikaku Nara, Inoichi Yamanaka, Hyuga Hiashi, and the other clan representatives supported Hiruzen, while Danzo remained silent; Xuandou then said he had something to add.

Xuandou surrendered the Uchiha’s control of the police force in exchange for permission to open a Mission Hall, and Danzo took over the force. Two months later, the owner of a barbecue restaurant sought help when a drunken ninja assaulted his daughter, but the new police officers arrived as she was pinned to a table.

• Xuandou gave up the Uchiha’s police leadership and secured Hiruzen’s approval to establish a Mission Hall, while Danzo became the new police chief.
• Fugaku questioned Xuandou’s decision, and Xuandou told him he would lead the Mission Hall once it was built.
• Danzo filled the police force with Root ninja as Konoha rebuilt, and villagers began to notice the force was not what they had expected.
• A drunken ninja refused to pay Xiaozhi’s restaurant bill and grabbed her, while her father threatened to call the police force.
• The restaurant owner found two police officers from Root and persuaded them to come to the restaurant, where they saw the ninja pinning Xiaozhi to a table.

Inabi and Tekka encountered a ninja assaulting Xiaozhi while corrupt Konoha Military Police officers protected him. Inabi refused to help the shopkeeper who had helped drive out the Uchiha, leaving Xiaozhi in danger under Danzo’s rule.

• A ninja bribed two Konoha Military Police officers, who assaulted the shopkeeper and let him continue abusing Xiaozhi.
• The shopkeeper asked Inabi and Tekka to intervene, but Inabi said the matter had nothing to do with them.
• Inabi reminded the shopkeeper that he had campaigned to expel the Uchiha and insisted Danzo would protect Konoha.
• Inabi rejected the shopkeeper’s pleas, and Tekka kicked him away as the brothers left.
• The ninja pinned Xiaozhi down again and threatened to assault her while the shopkeeper watched helplessly.

Xuandou heard how Konoha police mistreated civilians and connected their abuse to the village’s treatment of its own people. After the system gave him quests tied to the Uchiha clan’s prosperity and Mission Hall, he sent Fugaku to collect missions and put the new building to use.

• Two Konoha Military Police Force members beat a shopkeeper, assaulted a woman in his shop, and left after taking bribes.
• Inabi told Xuandou about the incident, and Xuandou compared the police’s treatment of civilians to Danzo’s brutal methods for recruiting Root members.
• The system issued Xuandou a Grade A family prosperity quest and a Fame side quest that would reward him with a Mangekyō Dōjutsu Copy Card after one hundred commissions.
• Xuandou told Fugaku to collect two hundred mission commissions, and Fugaku received the scrolls from Hiruzen Sarutobi.
• Fugaku returned to the Uchiha Clan Compound with the missions and saw the completed Mission Hall.

Fugaku opened the Uchiha clan's Mission Hall and assigned its first batch of missions, while Xuandou completed his side quest and copied Shisui's left Kotoamatsukami. After learning Mikoto had come to visit, Xuandou headed to meet her with a bold idea in mind.

• Fugaku sorted two hundred mission scrolls and assigned missions to Uchiha teams at the new Mission Hall.
• Xuandou reviewed Fugaku's mission assignments, praised his work, and put him in charge of assigning the clan's missions.
• A week later, Xuandou received the Mangekyō Dōjutsu Copy Card as the reward for completing the Fame side quest.
• Xuandou visited Shisui and copied his left Kotoamatsukami, which could permanently alter a target's will without their awareness.
• Pakura told Xuandou that Uchiha Mikoto was waiting in the Reception Room, and Xuandou went to see her with a bold idea.

Mikoto brought Itachi to Xuandou after he awakened the Three-Tomoe Sharingan following a mission where his teammates died. Xuandou assigned him to Shisui’s squad, then used Kotoamatsukami on Mikoto as she was leaving, and she returned to him with a sultry gaze.

• Mikoto showed Xuandou that Itachi had awakened the Three-Tomoe Sharingan after surviving a mission that killed his two teammates.
• Itachi said a ninja’s most important duty was to protect his family and asked to join a team of Jōnin.
• Xuandou assigned Itachi to the clan’s Anbu under Shisui and ordered Shisui to train him personally.
• After Mikoto prepared to leave, Xuandou activated Kotoamatsukami on her with the Mangekyō Dōjutsu Copy Card.
• Mikoto’s gaze changed, and she turned back and walked toward Xuandou.

After Mikoto left, Xuandou claimed an S-rank reward that doubled his chakra and gave him a card capable of resurrecting one person. He later went to check on the Mission Hall, but Fugaku arrived with an urgent report.

• Xuandou placed a seal on Mikoto so they could stay in touch, and she left after tidying up the scene.
• Xuandou claimed an S-rank Clan Treasure Chest, receiving a Life Reincarnation Card and a massive increase in chakra.
• Pakura confronted Xuandou and called him a huge lecher, and an hour later he left home refreshed.
• Xuandou checked the busy Mission Hall from outside, then went to the clan head's office.
• Fugaku knocked on Xuandou's door and urgently announced that something terrible had happened.

Xuandou confronted Hiruzen Sarutobi after the Hokage's Office denied the Uchiha missions, and Ebisu's accidental report forced Hiruzen to hand over a backlog of commissions. Xuandou returned to the Mission Hall with Fugaku and, after assigning him the work, used the opportunity to activate Mikoto's slave mark.

• Fugaku told Xuandou that Uchiha ninja had run out of missions and that Hiruzen had refused to provide more.
• Xuandou went with Fugaku to meet Hiruzen, where Ebisu revealed that the village had a large backlog of urgent commissions.
• Hiruzen ordered Ebisu to give Xuandou more than five hundred commissions, then said the Hokage's Office would not provide future assignments.
• Xuandou and Fugaku found that the box contained mostly high-rank missions, including A-rank, B-rank, and some S-rank commissions.
• Xuandou promised to appoint Fugaku Mission Hall Director if he handled the assignments well, then left him to work late.
• Xuandou activated Mikoto's slave mark after leaving the Mission Hall.

Mikoto met Xuandou at Desire Hot Springs, where they discussed picking up Kushina after her hospital discharge. After leaving, Xuandou witnessed Konoha Military Police Force ninja beating civilians, and one victim begged him to bring the Uchiha back.

• Mikoto left Itachi to watch Sasuke and went to meet Xuandou at Desire Hot Springs.
• Xuandou and Mikoto spent time together in his private hot spring, and Mikoto told him Kushina would leave the hospital in three days.
• Mikoto urged Xuandou to help pick up Kushina, warning that Konoha had become less safe since Danzo took over the Military Police Force.
• Xuandou agreed to go with Mikoto to get Kushina after her discharge.
• Xuandou saw Konoha Military Police Force ninja beating civilians, and a bloodied man recognized him as the Uchiha Clan Head and pleaded for the Uchiha to return.

Xuandou watched Danzo’s police violently suppress civilian protests while the Uchiha Mission Hall began attracting clients through successful work. The chapter ended when a retainer of the Land of Hot Water’s Daimyō offered the Uchiha a commission to kill Hidan.

• Xuandou refused to stop Konoha police from beating a civilian who pleaded for the Uchiha to return.
• Danzo’s police attacked a protest of more than fifty civilians, and Danzo ordered them to continue until an Anbu arrived with Hokage’s demand to stop.
• Over the next two days, police suppressed further protests, while Xuandou observed that Konoha had become unsafe for civilians.
• Inabi told Xuandou that satisfied clients were bringing new commissions to the Uchiha Mission Hall after Fugaku urged the clan to treat clients politely.
• Fugaku introduced a retainer of the Land of Hot Water’s Daimyō, who offered the Uchiha a mission to hunt down the rogue ninja Hidan.

Xuandou accepted a fifty-million-ryō mission to capture Hidan alive and sent Shisui to the Land of Hot Water with instructions on countering Hidan’s abilities. After picking Mikoto up from her home, Xuandou went with her to collect Kushina and her newborn son Naruto from the hospital, where he was left alone with Kushina and remembered the Slave Mark he had placed on her.

• A retainer from the Land of Hot Water offered the Uchiha a fifty-million-ryō S-rank mission to deal with Hidan, whose killings were hurting the country’s hot-spring economy.
• Xuandou assigned Shisui to capture Hidan alive, warning him about Hidan’s immortality and blood-based curse ritual.
• Mikoto arrived to take Xuandou to the hospital, and Xuandou delayed their departure by pulling her into bed while Pakura stood at the doorway.
• Xuandou and Mikoto reached the hospital, where Kushina held her sleeping newborn son, Naruto.
• Mikoto hurried out to handle Kushina’s discharge paperwork, leaving Xuandou alone with Kushina as he remembered her Slave Mark.

After Kushina left the hospital with Naruto, Hiruzen told her that her home and family assets had been lost or taken for Konoha’s reconstruction. Xuandou challenged Hiruzen over the confiscation, and Hiruzen defended it by blaming Minato for the Nine-Tails’ Catastrophe.

• Kushina thanked Xuandou for sealing the Nine-Tails, and he claimed he had invented the unusual seal himself.
• A masked silver-haired ninja escorted Kushina, Mikoto, and Xuandou to the Hokage’s Office after her discharge.
• Hiruzen told Kushina that the catastrophe had destroyed her home and that nothing had been recovered from it.
• Hiruzen admitted he had used Minato’s account assets, including Kushina’s inheritance from Mito, to fund Konoha’s reconstruction and offered them an apartment instead.
• Xuandou objected that Hiruzen should contribute his own wealth, and Hiruzen retorted that Minato bore responsibility for the catastrophe as Fourth Hokage.

Xuandou challenged Hiruzen over Minato’s death, Kushina’s finances, and her shabby new home, while Hiruzen clashed with Danzo over the Military Police Force’s treatment of civilians. After seeing the filthy apartment assigned to Kushina, Xuandou invited her and Naruto to live at his house.

• Xuandou accused Hiruzen and Konoha’s high command of ignoring his warning about an attack during Kushina’s childbirth, then criticized them for taking Minato’s assets and offering Kushina only fifty thousand ryo a month.
• Kushina urged Xuandou to let the matter go, and Hiruzen dismissed his criticism before sending Kushina and Naruto to Apartment Building 12, Room 304.
• Hiruzen warned Danzo to stop the Military Police Force from mistreating civilians, but Danzo defied him and left the Hokage’s Office.
• Kushina, Mikoto, and Xuandou found the assigned apartment filthy and rundown, and Mikoto questioned how Hiruzen could have placed Kushina there.
• Xuandou offered to let Kushina and Naruto live in one of his spare rooms.

Xuandou helped Kushina move into an Uchiha apartment and gave her money to settle in. That night, he used the live feed to watch her caring for Naruto, then followed her as she went to the bathroom.

• Xuandou offered Kushina a vacant apartment in the Uchiha Clan Compound, and she agreed to see it.
• Kushina admired the furnished apartment and accepted Xuandou's offer to live there.
• Xuandou lent Kushina five hundred thousand ryō and asked Mikoto to take her shopping.
• That night, Xuandou activated the apartment's live feed and watched Kushina feed Naruto and put him to sleep.
• Kushina heard other residents through the walls, grew restless, and walked toward the bathroom as Xuandou watched.

Xuandou received the captured Hidan and negotiated a lucrative long-term escort contract with the Land of Hot Water, planning to use the assignment to gather intelligence. He then asked Hidan to join his side and target Shimura Danzō.

• Itachi and Shisui brought the captured Hidan to Xuandou, while the Land of Hot Water's retainer praised the Uchiha and proposed a long-term escort contract.
• Xuandou negotiated a fee of thirty million ryō per Anbu member per year for guarding visiting Daimyō and nobles.
• Xuandou told Shisui to select ten Anbu members for the escort mission and secretly gather intelligence from their clients.
• Xuandou told Hidan he wanted him to join their side, then named Shimura Danzō as his target.

Xuandou failed to make Hidan cooperate, then helped a bereaved Uchiha inherit his father’s Sharingan and awaken a second tomoe. The Uchiha reached A-Rank prosperity, unlocking a Ninja Academy and Training Ground, while Xuandou used repeated lottery rewinds to win the Yamanaka Clan’s mental secret techniques and decided to keep drawing.

• Xuandou ordered Shisui to seal away Hidan after Hidan refused to help kill Danzo.
• In Konoha year 56, Xuandou transferred a dead Uchiha’s one-tomoe Sharingan to his son, whose grief and hatred awakened a second tomoe.
• The system announced that Uchiha prosperity had reached A-Rank, with a population of 4,521 and 2,305 ninja, and unlocked a Ninja Academy and Training Ground.
• Xuandou gave Pakura the blueprints and told her to have Goumu Yanō build the two new clan facilities.
• Xuandou rewound repeated lottery draws until he received the S-rank Yamanaka Clan Mental Secret Techniques, including mind-control, mind-reading, and communication jutsu.
• After absorbing the techniques, Xuandou wondered whether he could obtain the Akimichi Clan’s Multi-Size Technique and told the system to keep drawing.

Xuandou sought Orochimaru’s help after the system tasked him with having a child, and learned his unusually strong Yin Release Chakra was preventing conception. He offered Orochimaru information about Kakuzu’s immortality and asked for Anko in exchange.

• Xuandou won an S-rank Mangekyō Dōjutsu Copy Card and received a quest to have his first child.
• Xuandou traveled to Orochimaru’s laboratory with Manda and asked him to investigate his infertility.
• Orochimaru discovered that Xuandou’s excessive Yin Release Chakra had altered his sperm cells and explained two possible ways to overcome the problem.
• Xuandou told Orochimaru that Kakuzu had survived since Hashirama Senju’s era and was now a bounty hunter from Takigakure.
• Xuandou offered further information about Kakuzu’s immortality in exchange for Anko, and Orochimaru asked what he wanted.

Xuandou traded information about Kakuzu’s forbidden technique to Orochimaru in exchange for Anko, then brought her to Konoha and offered her a place with him. Anko chose to stay with Xuandou rather than return to the village, and he took her to his private hot spring to help her bathe.

• Orochimaru gave Xuandou Anko and a scroll explaining how to control her Cursed Seal after Xuandou described Kakuzu’s Earth Grudge Fear technique.
• Xuandou stopped Orochimaru from erasing Anko’s memories and left with her for Konoha’s Forest of Death.
• Anko refused to return to Konoha, fearing the village would arrest and interrogate her, and asked to stay with Xuandou.
• Anko told Xuandou she wanted to be his woman because she believed his strength made Orochimaru wary of him.
• Xuandou took Anko through Konoha’s barrier to his home and led her to his private hot spring to bathe.
• Anko jumped into the hot spring to evade Xuandou, but he caught her ankle and said he only wanted to help her bathe.

Xuandou gained water-attribute chakra and created a new medical ninjutsu before overseeing the completed Uchiha Ninja Academy. He appointed its staff and then went to invite Kushina to teach, hoping to move their relationship beyond friendship.

• At the dango shop, Xuandou claimed an A-Rank Family Chest and gained Water-Attribute Chakra Nature Mastery.
• Xuandou used an A-Rank Ninjutsu Random Creation Card to create Yin Healing: Acupoint-Passing Finger, a technique that improved chakra circulation.
• A month later, Xuandou inspected the completed Ninja Academy in the Uchiha Clan Compound and appointed Uchiha Somen as principal.
• Xuandou assigned veteran ninja as teachers, with Kurenai teaching basic Genjutsu and Anko teaching introductory Taijutsu.
• Xuandou decided to invite Kushina Uzumaki to teach at the academy and went to her home, hoping to break through the unspoken barrier between them.

Xuandou rescued Naruto from villagers’ children who were bullying him and learned that Naruto suffered abuse because the village feared Kushina and did not know he was Minato’s son. After Kushina explained the Third’s secrecy order, Xuandou said he had something to tell her.

• Xuandou found several children throwing stones at Naruto and drove them away, then confronted the villagers who defended the bullying.
• Naruto clung to Xuandou and cried, and Xuandou reassured him before carrying him home to Kushina.
• Kushina saw Naruto’s injuries, held him close, and sent him to wash and change before they spoke with Xuandou.
• Kushina told Xuandou that Naruto was bullied every few days and hid his injuries so she would not worry.
• Kushina explained that the Third had forbidden her from revealing Naruto was Minato’s son, while villagers’ fear and hatred of her as a Jinchuriki fell on Naruto.
• Xuandou told Kushina she should not have to bear everything alone and said he had come to tell her something.

Xuandou took Kushina and Naruto to Ichiraku, then offered Naruto a place at the Uchiha Ninja Academy and Kushina a teaching job. Kushina agreed to both, while a Root agent reported their meeting to Danzo.

• Xuandou took Kushina and Naruto to Ichiraku, where Teuchi warmly served Naruto ramen.
• On their walk home, Xuandou offered Naruto a place at the Uchiha Ninja Academy and invited Kushina to teach there for a monthly salary of three hundred thousand ryo.
• Naruto eagerly agreed to attend, and Kushina accepted both the school place for him and the teaching job for herself.
• After Kushina took Naruto inside, Naruto asked whether she liked Xuandou and suggested that he become his father.
• A dark figure went to the Root Base and told Danzo that Uchiha Xuantou had contacted the Jinchūriki again.

Naruto began attending the Uchiha Clan’s new Ninja Academy, where his classmates welcomed him with curiosity rather than hostility. While Naruto met the aloof Sasuke, Xuandou confessed his desire to marry Kushina and be Naruto’s father, then kissed her and began pursuing her in his office.

• Kushina brought Naruto to the Uchiha Clan Compound, where Xuandou introduced him to his teacher, Shizuka Uchiha.
• Shizuka presented Naruto to first-year Class One, whose students reacted to him with curiosity instead of rejection.
• Naruto approached the indifferent Sasuke and tried to get his attention.
• Xuandou and Kushina watched Naruto’s introduction before Xuandou led Kushina to his office.
• Xuandou told Kushina he wanted to be Naruto’s father and her husband, then kissed and embraced her.
• When Xuandou pushed Kushina onto the desk, she protested that they were in an office where someone might see them.

Xuandou took Kushina to a private hot spring and used his newly invented medical ninjutsu to clear her chakra points, easing her fatigue and old injuries. Afterward, Kushina turned the tables and approached him, ready to get back at him for teasing her.

• Xuandou led Kushina to a secluded indoor hot spring after she insisted they go somewhere else.
• Kushina changed into a swimsuit, and Xuandou claimed his new medical ninjutsu could ease her physical fatigue.
• Xuandou used Yin Healing: Acupoint-Passing Finger to stimulate Kushina’s chakra pathways and help heal her hidden injuries.
• Kushina admitted that the treatment felt good and left her relaxed, with her yang release chakra flowing more easily.
• Kushina pressed Xuandou onto the pool’s edge and approached him, saying she would show him what she could do.

Konoha’s leaders discussed the Uchiha’s growing influence and approved Danzo’s plan to move against them, while Xuandou earned an S-rank reward and received a powerful new ninja tool. The chapter left Xuandou examining five rings that could seal and control an enemy.

• Mitokado Homura, Utatane Koharu, and Danzo warned that the Uchiha’s Mission Hall and Ninja Academy were expanding the clan’s wealth and strength.
• Inoichi Yamanaka suggested negotiating with the Uchiha, but Danzo proposed arresting Uchiha Xuantou and eliminating the clan.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi assigned Danzo to handle the matter, warning him not to provoke an outright rebellion.
• Xuandou received an S-rank Clan Treasure Chest after meeting its objective and learned the Nara Clan’s secret shadow techniques.
• Xuandou used a Random Ninja Tool Creation Card and received five rings that could seal and control an enemy.

Xuandou arranged for Kushina and Naruto to move into a nearby house, where Kushina began making a home for them. After several days of settling in, Xuandou visited Kushina and proposed that they have another child.

• At the hot springs, Xuandou asked Kushina and Naruto to move into the Uchiha Clan Compound and offered them a free three-bedroom house with a yard.
• Kushina picked Naruto up from the Ninja Academy, heard about his first day and his meeting with Sasuke Uchiha, and greeted Itachi.
• Xuandou bought a detached house near the school and sent Uchiha Anbu to help Kushina move in and furnish it.
• Kushina planned flowers and vegetables for the yard and looked forward to making the house a home for herself and Naruto.
• Several days later, Xuandou embraced Kushina on the bed and suggested they give Naruto a little brother.