Recaps

Seiichi demanded that Kakashi return Obito’s Sharingan, while Kakashi insisted Obito had given it to him and challenged Seiichi to a duel. Seiichi accepted but demanded Kakashi’s complete Hatake Style Swordsmanship and Hatake Sakumo’s training insights as the stakes, leaving the wager contested.

• Kakashi argued that Obito had chosen to give him the Sharingan, but Minato covered Kakashi’s mouth as Seiichi and Yuri demanded its return.
• Seiichi compared the Sharingan to the Byakugan, and Hyuga Hiashi said he would find a new owner for a Byakugan given away by a clansman.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi urged Kakashi to give up the Sharingan and offered to have Konoha Hospital implant another eye.
• Kakashi challenged Seiichi to a duel, proposing that he would surrender the Sharingan if he lost and that the Uchiha Clan would stop pursuing it if he won.
• Seiichi pointed out that Kakashi risked nothing and agreed to the duel only if Kakashi wagered the complete Hatake Style Swordsmanship and Hatake Sakumo’s training insights.
• Minato objected that Seiichi’s proposed stakes were worth far more than one Three-Tomoe Sharingan.

Seiichi persuaded Kakashi to wager his Hatake family treasures against the Sharingan’s public recognition, and Kakashi accepted a duel three days later. Seiichi defeated Kakashi almost instantly with Genjutsu, leaving him unconscious but otherwise unharmed.

• Seiichi explained that Kakashi’s Sharingan would be publicly recognized by the Uchiha Clan if Kakashi won, and Kakashi reluctantly agreed to wager Hatake Style Swordsmanship and his father’s training insights.
• Kakashi trained for three days before meeting Seiichi at the Chunin Ninja Exams arena for their duel.
• Hyuga Hiashi announced that there would be no restrictions, a rule Hiruzen Sarutobi and the others expected would favor the experienced Kakashi.
• Kakashi and Seiichi threw smoke bombs, and Seiichi’s blue-white attack crossed the arena before Kakashi fell unconscious.
• Minato found that Kakashi had only been knocked out by Genjutsu, while Seiichi stood unharmed and the spectators realized the duel had ended in seconds.

After defeating Kakashi, Seiichi reclaimed the Sharingan and obtained Hatake swordsmanship, while Minato helped Kakashi recover his resolve. Seiichi then realized his influence had changed Konoha’s expected future, making the Fourth Hokage’s rise far less likely.

• Hiashi explained that Seiichi used a Shadow Clone, Body Flicker, and his Sharingan to defeat Kakashi, and Seiichi claimed Kakashi’s eye and Hatake swordsmanship.
• Seiichi left the arena with the Uchiha, while Kakashi departed in silence and Minato resolved to support him.
• Minato encouraged Kakashi to find his own path without the Sharingan, and Kakashi regained his resolve as Konoha Hospital offered him an eye transplant.
• Seiichi reviewed how his actions had altered the expected events, concluding that Hiruzen would likely remain Hokage and that Orochimaru might not defect.
• Seiichi realized that his own influence was the menace disrupting the future he had expected.

Seiichi abandoned his plans to resolve the Uchiha conflict through force and sought a bloodless alternative, then asked Mikoto to arrange a meeting with Minato and Kushina. Minato suspected Seiichi had targeted Kushina because she was the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki.

• Seiichi decided that fighting Hiruzen Sarutobi's faction would risk Uchiha lives, so he burned his plans and searched for another solution.
• Fugaku and Mikoto told Seiichi that Mikoto was expecting another child, and Mikoto mentioned that Kushina was expecting too.
• Seiichi asked Mikoto to arrange a meeting with Minato and Kushina so he could smooth things over after his dispute with Minato about Kakashi.
• Kushina told Minato about Seiichi's invitation, and Minato concluded that Kushina might be Seiichi's target because of her connection to the Nine-Tails.

Minato visited Seiichi at the Uchiha Clan Compound to learn why he wanted to meet, after reassuring Kushina that he would speak with Seiichi alone. Seiichi demanded the Nine-Tails, and Minato immediately attacked him, leaving his fist apparently striking Seiichi’s face.

• Kushina and Minato shared mushroom soup, and Minato reminded her to be careful because she was eating for two.
• Minato told Kushina he wanted to meet Seiichi alone, and she trusted him to handle it.
• The next day, Minato went to the Uchiha Clan Compound and was escorted to Seiichi’s laboratory by Mai Uchiha.
• Seiichi welcomed Minato, asked him to stay calm, and swore he bore no ill will toward Minato’s family.
• Seiichi bluntly said he wanted the Nine-Tails, and Minato used the Body Flicker Technique to punch him in the face.

Seiichi ended his fight with Minato by revealing his Mangekyō Sharingan and offering to answer five questions in exchange for provoking him. Minato recognized that Seiichi wanted a serious conversation, but hesitated over what to ask as Seiichi teased him.

• Seiichi blocked Minato's attacks with purplish-black chakra armor, then ordered Mai to keep everyone out and raised a soundproof barrier.
• Seiichi dismissed the armor, and Minato recognized his Mangekyō Sharingan before deciding to meet his gaze again.
• Minato realized Seiichi could have defeated or killed him but had instead provoked him to make their conversation easier.
• Seiichi offered to answer five questions truthfully, except for secrets he could not reveal.
• Minato recalled a portrait of Madara Uchiha and wondered why Seiichi reminded him of Madara, then explained that he did not want to waste the opportunity.
• Seiichi suggested they forget the offer rather than put Minato in a difficult position.

Seiichi told Minato he could extract the Nine-Tails while preventing the life-threatening effects on Kushina, and warned that childbirth would weaken her seal. After confirming the danger with Kushina, Minato agreed to work with Seiichi, while Kushina eagerly accepted the chance to stop being a Jinchūriki.

• Seiichi told Minato that he had a way to keep Kushina alive and healthy after extracting the Nine-Tails.
• Seiichi warned Minato that Kushina’s seal would weaken during childbirth, putting her and the Nine-Tails at risk.
• Minato left to confirm Seiichi’s warning with Kushina and returned to ask whether Seiichi was confident in his plan.
• Minato agreed to cooperate with Seiichi, provided he would not threaten the village with the Nine-Tails and would share what he could about his plan.
• Minato told Kushina about Seiichi’s offer, and Kushina eagerly agreed because she wanted to stop being a Jinchūriki.

Uchiha Seiichi promised Minato that he would not use the Nine-Tails against Konoha and revealed the next stage of the Sharingan. Minato learned that Seiichi possessed the eternal Mangekyō Sharingan, while Tobirama Senju’s notes offered an incomplete clue about its origins.

• Seiichi promised Minato that he would not threaten Konoha with the Nine-Tails and would use it to defend the village from outside enemies if needed.
• Minato asked whether Seiichi could control the Nine-Tails and handle the Third Hokage’s opposition, and Seiichi assured him he could resolve both problems.
• Seiichi told Minato that the Mangekyō Sharingan had a higher stage called the eternal Mangekyō Sharingan, which he said Minato had just seen.
• Minato recalled Tobirama Senju’s notes that Madara Uchiha’s Sharingan pattern changed after Uchiha Izuna died, though Tobirama never discovered what the change meant.

Seiichi explained his plan to deal with the Nine-Tails during Kushina’s childbirth, with Mikoto using her Mangekyō ability to protect Kushina and resurrection as a backup. Minato accepted the plan after considering the alternatives and left Seiichi a Flying Thunder God kunai, while Seiichi was left alone with his tea and a laugh.

• Seiichi told Minato he would speak to the Nine-Tails, handle it after its release, and have Mikoto address Kushina’s danger while Minato provided security.
• Minato questioned the plan, and Seiichi revealed that Mikoto had awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan and that he had a resurrection technique as a fallback.
• Seiichi explained that they would act after Kushina gave birth to reduce the risk to their child, and described what he would do if Minato refused to cooperate.
• Minato stopped Seiichi from describing the possibility of repeating the dangerous plan and decided Seiichi’s proposal was preferable.
• Seiichi told Minato to focus on Kushina’s health for the next seven months, and Minato left him a Flying Thunder God kunai before departing.

Seiichi helped the Uchiha turn their cooking techniques and seasonings into a highly profitable business, then traveled alone to Kusagakure after learning someone had copied their products. He found Karin’s pregnant mother being forced to let a wounded Grass Ninja bite her, and immobilized the two ninja holding her down.

• Kushina trusted Minato and Seiichi’s risky plan, while she and Minato prepared to strengthen themselves for danger.
• Seiichi proposed that the Uchiha sell their cooking techniques and special sauces and seasoning, and the clan’s new school and factory brought in far greater profits.
• Uchiha Gangmu told Seiichi that someone in Kusagakure had copied the Uchiha’s products, and Seiichi decided to investigate alone.
• Seiichi entered Kusagakure under an “Ordinary Villager” genjutsu and found a concealed underground complex beneath the leader’s office.
• Seiichi discovered two Grass Ninja forcing Karin’s pregnant mother to offer her arm to a wounded patient, then used “Bind” to immobilize them.

Seiichi found Kusagakure’s counterfeit Uchiha production facility and subdued the Grass Ninja guarding it. He took Uzumaki Suzune with him after promising to bring her to Kushina.

• A woman killed the critically injured patient with a toad and tried to flee, but Seiichi stopped her and questioned her about Kusagakure’s counterfeit Uchiha products.
• Seiichi immobilized the two Grass Ninja, who revealed that Kusagakure’s leader ordered the counterfeits and that a refugee woman was making them.
• Seiichi learned the woman’s name was Uzumaki Suzune and told her he knew Kushina and could take her to see her.
• Suzune sensed a large concentration of chakra nearby and guided Seiichi to the production facility.
• The Grass Ninja leader ordered his people to attack Seiichi, but Seiichi immobilized everyone in the room with his Sharingan technique.

Seiichi seized Kusagakure’s supplies and records, then used Susanoo to split the village with one slash before returning to Konoha. There, he revealed his Perfect Susanoo to Hiruzen Sarutobi and the assembled clan leaders, shocking them with the Uchiha’s power.

• Seiichi ignored the Grass Ninja Leader’s offer of compensation, confronted a woman mixing medicinal powders, and took Kusagakure’s equipment, supplies, money, documents, and scrolls.
• Seiichi brought the woman and Suzune outside Kusagakure, announced his judgment, and split the village with a Susanoo sword slash.
• Seiichi flew back to Konoha, where the gate guards mistook his arrival for an enemy attack and summoned Hiruzen Sarutobi and the clan leaders.
• At Hiruzen Sarutobi’s request, Seiichi summoned his over three-hundred-meter-tall Perfect Susanoo, causing Hiruzen Sarutobi, Danzo, and the others to recognize its power.

After Seiichi revealed his Susanoo, the Hokage faction abandoned its plan to provoke and suppress the Uchiha Clan. Seiichi and Fugaku told Hiruzen Sarutobi that the clan would relinquish the Military Police Force and have its ninja return to civilian life, leaving the Hokage faction relieved.

• Seiichi briefly showed his Susanoo, then left with Suzune and the woman using Shadow Clones and the Body Flicker Technique.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi ordered Danzo to cancel the plan to provoke the Uchiha, as the faction had no way to counter Seiichi's strength.
• Fugaku and Seiichi met with Hiruzen Sarutobi, who offered the Uchiha an elder's seat and then Danzo's advisor position, assuming they had come to seek power.
• Fugaku used his Mangekyō Sharingan to stop Hiruzen's rambling, and Seiichi explained that the Uchiha would give up the Military Police Force and resign from ninja service to become a merchant clan.
• Fugaku and Seiichi left a scroll confirming the decision, and Hiruzen Sarutobi and Danzo felt relieved when they read it.

Shisui awakened his Mangekyō Sharingan and revealed that both eyes granted Kotoamatsukami. Seiichi then proposed organizing the deregistered Uchiha into specialized divisions, leaving the clan to begin selecting its elite members.

• Shisui burst into Seiichi’s room with Itachi and announced that he had awakened his Mangekyō Sharingan.
• Shisui revealed that both eyes held Kotoamatsukami, with his left eye permanently rewriting a person’s will and his right eye temporarily rewriting it.
• Seiichi asked Itachi about his ambitions, then made him help Shisui repair the damaged bedroom door.
• Seiichi summoned Fugaku and the elders to the laboratory, where Shisui demonstrated his Mangekyō Sharingan.
• Seiichi proposed dividing the Uchiha into specialized units, assigning Shisui to lead the intelligence division and naming captains for research, medical treatment, and sealing.
• Seiichi outlined plans for nine divisions of one hundred members each, to be filled by the best of the Uchiha’s eleven thousand ninja.

Seiichi’s Uchiha squad plan became a public display of the clan’s military strength, prompting the other shinobi villages to reconsider their ties with the Uchiha. In Iwagakure, Ōnoki panicked at the prospect of another Madara-like Uchiha and raged against the Uchiha and Konoha.

• The Uchiha approved Seiichi’s squad plan, held two weeks of trials, and selected ten squads with captains or interim vice-captains.
• The Uchiha standardized sleek black combat uniforms bearing squad numbers and clan insignia.
• Seiichi arranged for outsiders to watch the selection matches, where three Uchiha won without fighting after displaying their Susanoo.
• The major shinobi villages reviewed the Uchiha’s growing strength, and some ninja sought partnerships while others feared the clan.
• Ōnoki read the reports in his office and angrily cursed the Uchiha and Konoha, dreading Seiichi’s future power.

The other shinobi villages reacted to the Uchiha’s growing power, while Obito ordered the start of his Bloody Mist Village plan. In the Land of Fire, Tsunade gambled away the money she and Shizune needed for lodging, betting it all on triple sixes.

• Ōnoki cursed Kitsuchi over the Uchiha, and Kitsuchi concluded that no single village could challenge the clan without risking catastrophic losses.
• Killer B taunted A about Uchiha Seiichi, prompting the Fourth Raikage to chase him out of the office and beat him near Kumogakure.
• Obito Uchiha read intelligence about the Uchiha and ordered Karatachi Yagura to begin the Bloody Mist Village plan in Kirigakure.
• Tsunade took Shizune’s remaining lodging money and bet it all on triple sixes at a casino in the Land of Fire.

Tsunade and Shizune won a huge gambling payout, but the casino owner tried to stall them until Jiraiya arrived to summon Tsunade back to Konoha. Tsunade and Shizune took most of the casino’s cash, while Tsunade refused to go with Jiraiya.

• Shizune watched Tsunade bet their remaining money on triple sixes and was stunned when the dice landed on sixes.
• Shizune demanded their winnings, but the dealer fled and the casino owner tried to delay payment by urging them to gamble more.
• Shizune threatened the owner and his thugs until Tsunade recovered from her shock and backed her up.
• Jiraiya arrived with Konoha Ninja and told Tsunade that Konoha needed her, but she refused to return with him.
• Tsunade and Shizune went to the casino accounting office and took about ninety percent of its money.

Tsunade agreed to return to Konoha on the condition that she become Hokage, and Hiruzen Sarutobi accepted. She arrived in the village with Jiraiya and Shizune, where an unexpected person appeared.

• Tsunade told Jiraiya that becoming Hokage was her only condition for returning to Konoha.
• Tsunade worried that winning money would mean losing someone she loved, and she spent the night drinking.
• Jiraiya told Tsunade that Hiruzen Sarutobi had agreed to her condition.
• Tsunade, Jiraiya, and Shizune set out for Konoha, and Tsunade asked Jiraiya whether she could be a good Hokage.
• The three entered Konoha, where an unexpected person appeared and Jiraiya became tense and guarded.

Seiichi met Tsunade and Jiraiya before overseeing the Uchiha’s medical injections and improved Nutrient Solution. Elder Uchiha Setsuna then revealed that the Hokage Faction’s records contained a forgotten secret about an Uchiha who had awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan, but he had not yet disclosed the name.

• Seiichi greeted Tsunade and Jiraiya by chance and said he hoped the Uchiha and Senju clans could work together.
• Seiichi returned to the laboratory, where Squad members received the Key and Fugaku, Mikoto, and Shisui were injected with Divine Medicine.
• Seiichi described improving the Nutrient Solution into a more effective intravenous infusion and noted that Itachi had to wait for his injection.
• Uchiha Setsuna arrived and told Seiichi that the records taken from the Hokage Faction contained an important Uchiha secret.
• Setsuna explained that an old scroll bearing the Senju Clan Crest revealed that an Uchiha had awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan, then paused before giving his name.

Shana told Seiichi that Nameless had been sealed by a lost jutsu that froze space and time, and gave him the likely location of the sealing site. Seiichi reached the site, found a huge mountain standing alone on a plain, and began attacking it with Susanoo before stopping to reconsider.

• Shana explained that Nameless had been sealed by Senju and Uzumaki experts, and that the jutsu had frozen his consciousness and physical growth.
• Seiichi asked Shana for the sealing site's location, and she gave him a map and an address in the southeastern Land of Fire.
• Seiichi teleported to the site and found a towering mountain rising from a flat plain.
• Seiichi summoned Susanoo and used Shusui Parting Clouds to unleash a barrage of blade energy at the mountain.
• Seiichi stopped attacking after filling the mountain with gashes and holes, realizing he might have acted foolishly.

Seiichi carved through a mountain and discovered a sealed stone chamber containing an immense Composite Sealing Formation. He recognized the formation’s value but left its prisoner and exact workings unexplained.

• Seiichi used Wind Release: Great Breakthrough to clear the dust from the mountain peak.
• Seiichi reduced Susanoo to its third stage and used Shusui Parting Clouds to hollow out a cave.
• Seiichi entered the cave in his mini Perfect Susanoo armor and continued digging until he broke into a hidden stone chamber.
• Seiichi discovered a vast Composite Sealing Formation with nine pillars and golden chains binding a central pillar.
• Seiichi identified the formation as fourteen seals, including Adamantine Sealing Chains, and wondered why it was used to imprison an Uchiha clansman with the Mangekyō Sharingan.
• Seiichi judged the ancient formation too valuable to destroy casually and considered how difficult it would be to reproduce without its original documentation.

Seiichi memorized the Composite Sealing Formation, then used Shusui Parting Clouds to force his way through it and rescue a trapped Uchiha. The rescued woman, Uchiha Hikari, attacked him with Amaterasu and trapped him in Tsukuyomi, where he began trying to break free.

• Seiichi recorded the Composite Sealing Formation in his mind and chose to demolish its central pillar rather than solve it by normal means.
• Seiichi tested the formation with ordinary Ninjutsu, saw that it absorbed his attacks, and pierced the central pillar with Shusui Parting Clouds.
• As the space collapsed, Seiichi grabbed a newly sensed life-form and teleported away before the mountain vanished, leaving a vast pit behind.
• The rescued Uchiha woman attacked Seiichi with Amaterasu, and he separated the burning portion of his Tengu Armor.
• Seiichi realized the woman was Uchiha Hikari, who used Tsukuyomi to pin him inside a dark chamber; he shouted for the illusion to break.

Seiichi broke Hikari’s genjutsu and learned that the Uchiha had raised her as a weapon because of her powerful Yachihoko ability. After hearing her story and learning her real name, he told her that several hundred years had passed and that the Senju and Uzumaki clans had largely been wiped out.

• Seiichi broke Hikari’s genjutsu, endured her Yachihoko marking attempt, and knocked her down after she attacked him.
• Seiichi questioned Hikari about her hatred of the Uchiha, gave her healing pills, and learned that her clan had raised her as a weapon and renamed her Uchiha Nanashi.
• Hikari told Seiichi that her real name was Uchiha Hikari, and Seiichi encouraged her to leave the name Nanashi behind.
• Seiichi told Hikari that the Senju and Uzumaki clans had been largely wiped out and that several hundred years had passed since her era.
• Hikari reacted in disbelief as she realized how much time had passed.

Hikari agreed to return to the Uchiha Clan with Seiichi after he promised that no one would force her to fight. At the clan compound, Mikoto began treating Hikari’s severe injuries with her Mangekyō Sharingan, while Seiichi watched as the harmful effects left her body.

• Seiichi told Hikari that the Senju, Uzumaki, and Uchiha Clans from her era were gone, and promised she could live freely if she returned with him.
• Hikari accepted Seiichi’s invitation, and he carried her back to the Uchiha Clan Compound.
• Seiichi found Mikoto treating an injured clan member and asked her to treat Hikari first.
• Mikoto used her Mangekyō Sharingan’s Light Shield on Hikari, causing black, gray, and red gases to rise from her body.
• Mikoto explained that the gases represented negative factors, old injuries, and recent wounds, then ended the treatment once they stopped appearing.
• Seiichi stepped forward to check Hikari’s condition.

Seiichi brought Hikari to his Laboratory after Mikoto healed her, and Hikari discovered that she had nowhere to return to. She met Shisui and Itachi, and they invited her to stay with them, though she had not yet decided what to do.

• Mikoto healed Hikari, and Seiichi carried her to the Laboratory so she could rest.
• Hikari woke feeling healthier, learned why Seiichi had founded the Laboratory, and admitted she had no home to return to.
• Itachi arrived with Shisui, and Seiichi introduced Hikari as a fellow Uchiha who had awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan.
• Shisui asked how Hikari had awakened her Mangekyō, but she declined to discuss her painful memories.
• Itachi invited Hikari to stay at his house, and Seiichi joined in persuading her to remain with them.