Chapter Summaries

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.

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.