Recaps

Seiichi welcomed Hikari into the Uchiha household, and the two grew closer as she settled into life with him, Shisui, and Itachi. He then attended Tsunade’s inauguration as the Fourth Hokage and was invited to speak with her afterward.

• Seiichi urged Hikari to stay with the Uchiha, and she agreed before sharing a meal with him, Shisui, and Itachi.
• Hikari trained with Shisui and Itachi and spent her days walking and eating with Seiichi as she adjusted to her new life.
• Fugaku told Seiichi that Tsunade would be inaugurated as the Fourth Hokage the next day, and Seiichi decided to attend.
• Seiichi brought Hikari, Shisui, and Itachi to Tsunade’s inauguration, where she accepted the Hokage hat and addressed the villagers.
• After the ceremony, Minato invited Seiichi to meet with Tsunade, and Seiichi asked whether he would serve as her close guard or aide.

Seiichi negotiated Uchiha support for Tsunade’s investigation of Danzo in exchange for autonomy over a new territory, then joined Kakashi and several Anbu at Root’s former headquarters. The group arrived at the site, and Kakashi asked Seiichi how they should enter.

• Tsunade asked the Uchiha Clan to provide high-level combat support, and Seiichi negotiated a preliminary agreement granting them an exclusive territory near the village.
• Seiichi agreed to protect the investigators probing Danzo and asked how far he could go; Tsunade said he could kill Danzo only with evidence and had to bring him back alive.
• The Uchiha elders negotiated with the Hokage’s subordinates and secured five square kilometers of forest southeast of Konoha.
• Four days after Tsunade’s inauguration, Seiichi met Kakashi and several Anbu, who told him they were heading to Root’s former headquarters.
• Kakashi explained that Danzo had restarted Root with members of the Shimura Clan, and the group reached the headquarters as Kakashi asked Seiichi how to enter.

Seiichi helped Kakashi and the Anbu infiltrate Danzo’s underground laboratory, where Kakashi uncovered evidence tied to Senju Nawaki’s organs and was exposed after taking a scroll. Seiichi kept the scroll while Kakashi fought off Danzo’s forces, leaving Kakashi trapped under a barrage of attacks.

• Seiichi cast the Ordinary Villager genjutsu on himself, Kakashi, and the other Anbu, then sent clones after the team when they split up.
• Kakashi found Danzo’s human experimentation laboratory, photographed its evidence, and took experiment logs.
• Kakashi triggered an alarm when he touched a scroll labeled “Senju Nawaki,” and Danzo ordered his ninja to search for it.
• Danzo’s men exposed Kakashi when he used the Body Flicker Technique, while Seiichi took the scroll and read its records about Nawaki’s organs and Hashirama cell experiments.
• Danzo attacked Kakashi with Wind Release techniques, and Kakashi fled the destruction of an earthen wall as the assault continued.

Seiichi used Susanoo to destroy Root, taunted Danzo, and apparently killed him before Hiruzen and Tsunade arrived. He then restored Danzo, immobilized him and Hiruzen, and prepared to demonstrate how Danzo had come back to life.

• Seiichi summoned Susanoo and demolished Root while slapping away the people who tried to approach.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi arrived and attacked Susanoo, but Tsunade stopped the surrounding shinobi from joining in.
• Seiichi challenged Hiruzen’s authority and slapped Danzo back toward the group after Danzo tried to sneak away.
• Hiruzen embraced Danzo after seeing him alive, while the onlookers and Uchiha were stunned.
• Seiichi immobilized Hiruzen and Danzo, picked up a kunai, and made two quick slashes at Danzo to explain his return.

Seiichi exposed Danzo’s stolen Sharingan and use of Izanagi, then tried to take the eyes back despite Tsunade’s order to wait for an investigation. Danzo revealed his Wood Release, but Seiichi’s chakra Tengu Armor blocked it, leaving Danzo pleading for his life and Hiruzen tempted by his claims about Konoha’s future.

• Seiichi showed the gathered ninja the Sharingan embedded in Danzo’s right arm and accused him of stealing Uchiha techniques and using Izanagi.
• Seiichi charged at Danzo, but Tsunade intervened and promised to investigate before ordering everyone to remain calm.
• Seiichi accepted Tsunade’s decision but insisted on taking back Danzo’s Sharingan, while Danzo protested and Hiruzen Sarutobi tried to intervene.
• Danzo used Wood Release: Cutting Sprigs against Seiichi, but Seiichi’s chakra Tengu Armor blocked the branches.
• Danzo begged Hiruzen Sarutobi for help and claimed his Hashirama cells and Wood Release could help Konoha, exciting Hiruzen Sarutobi.

Seiichi took one of Danzo’s Sharingan and prepared to finish confronting him, but Hiruzen Sarutobi intervened and argued that Danzo should be spared. The chapter left Seiichi furious at Hiruzen’s defense of Danzo, while Tsunade challenged Hiruzen’s disregard for the Uchiha Clan’s rights.

• Seiichi tore out Danzo’s right Sharingan and handed it to a fellow Uchiha for safekeeping.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi stepped in and proposed confining Danzo to the Shimura Clan’s grounds for the rest of his life.
• Seiichi restrained his clan members and told Hiruzen to either fight the Uchiha alongside the Shimura Clan or stop interfering.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi found that the other villagers would not openly join him, but insisted on protecting Danzo and keeping the remaining Sharingan for him.
• Tsunade tried to stop Seiichi and questioned Hiruzen Sarutobi’s defense of Danzo, while Hiruzen argued that the village should make an exception for a contributor.

Seiichi confronted Hiruzen Sarutobi over Danzo’s theft of the Uchiha Sharingan and the village’s past persecution of the Uchiha. He vowed to repay the Sarutobi and Shimura clans in kind, then stopped Danzo from reaching Tsunade after she saw blood and weakened.

• Seiichi challenged Hiruzen Sarutobi to name Danzo’s contributions, and Hiruzen could only claim that Danzo had worked diligently.
• Seiichi argued that the Uchiha Clan had no duty to reward Danzo and mocked his history of scheming against the Uchiha, drawing cheers from the clan members.
• When Hiruzen called the past abuses misunderstandings, Seiichi declared that the Uchiha would repay the surveillance, suppression, arrests, insults, and provocations one by one.
• Hiruzen appealed to Tsunade, who hesitated over the public confrontation as Seiichi threw her a scroll.
• Danzo lunged toward Tsunade with blood-covered hands, causing her to weaken from her blood phobia, but Shizune caught her and Seiichi kicked Danzo away.

Seiichi removed Danzo’s remaining Sharingan, causing Hashirama cells to transform him into a giant tree, then forced Hiruzen Sarutobi and the Sarutobi Clan to retreat. Back at the Uchiha clan grounds, Seiichi began studying an ancient technique that could strengthen ninjutsu with natural energy.

• Seiichi gouged out Danzo’s remaining Sharingan, and Danzo transformed into a towering tree as the Hashirama cells overtook him.
• Seiichi slapped Hiruzen Sarutobi away and warned that he would fight the Sarutobi Clan if they wanted war.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi stopped his clansmen from retaliating, and Seiichi left with the Uchiha.
• After dawn, Hiruzen Sarutobi declared the Sarutobi Clan and Uchiha Clan irreconcilable enemies and led his clansmen away.
• Seiichi searched the Uchiha clan’s forbidden texts and found an incomplete technique that infused ninjutsu with captured natural energy.

Seiichi focused on training and strengthening the Uchiha Clan as its leaders gained powerful new abilities, while Kakashi lost his left eye in a mysterious attack that Seiichi suspected was Obito’s work. With Mikoto and Kushina nearing their due dates, Seiichi ordered Shisui to maintain security and remained watchful as the chapter ended with mention of a newly established division.

• Seiichi devoted himself to training and ninjutsu, while he expanded practical combat training and resources for the Uchiha Clan’s younger members.
• Uchiha Yanren, Uchiha Raimei, Itachi, Guang, and Fugaku gained new eye powers, eternal Mangekyō Sharingan, or Susanoo abilities, and Seiichi directed Raimei to train in the Eight Gates and Reaper Death Seal.
• Kakashi was attacked at Konoha Cemetery, knocked unconscious, and found at Konoha Hospital without his left eye; Seiichi suspected Obito was responsible.
• Seiichi told Shisui to keep security tight because Mikoto and Kushina were nearing their due dates, and he declined Guang’s offer to protect Mikoto.
• Seiichi noted that he had established another division during this period.

Seiichi rushed to Mikoto’s home after Kushina went into labor, where Obito appeared intending to seize the Nine-Tails. The chapter ended with Obito facing the assembled Uchiha and their allies as Seiichi let him introduce himself.

• Hikari joined the newly formed Zero Division, bringing its membership to three alongside Seiichi and Fugaku.
• The Uchiha designated land outside Konoha as a Training Ground, where Seiichi tested his Wind Scale Fire Dragon combination ninjutsu.
• Shisui told Seiichi that Kushina’s water had broken, and Seiichi teleported with him to the compound where Kushina was giving birth.
• Obito learned Kakashi no longer had the Sharingan he had entrusted to him, then came to the Uchiha Compound to target Kushina and the Nine-Tails.
• Obito found Seiichi, Hikari, Fugaku, Shisui, Itachi, Minato, and Jiraiya waiting in the courtyard, and Seiichi asked who he was.

Seiichi exposed Obito as an impostor, immobilized him, and had his remaining Mangekyō Sharingan removed before Fugaku’s clan secured him. The group then realized Kushina was about to give birth, and Minato rushed to check on her.

• Obito claimed to be Madara Uchiha, but Seiichi challenged him and made him enter the courtyard and sit.
• Seiichi revealed that Obito’s Mangekyō pattern differed from Madara’s, and Obito’s attempt to escape failed when Seiichi immobilized him.
• Minato removed Obito’s mask, recognized him, and asked why he had attacked; Obito said he was acting for peace in the Shinobi World.
• Seiichi took Obito’s remaining Mangekyō Sharingan, and Fugaku sealed Obito’s chakra and had him bound and guarded by Shisui and Itachi.
• Seiichi asked whether anyone had spoken with the Nine-Tails, prompting the group to realize Kushina was about to give birth; Minato hurried to check on her, and Suzune Uzumaki reported that she was doing well.

While Kushina awaited labor, Seiichi entered her mindscape to speak with the Nine-Tails and found it chained between statues of Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha. After Kushina removed the statues, Seiichi tried to negotiate, but the Nine-Tails recognized his Uchiha chakra and began to reject him.

• Yureiko settled into her work at the Uchiha Factory, while Suzune joined Mikoto and Kushina’s group and gave birth before them.
• Shisui asked how soon Kushina would give birth, and Tsunade explained that labor could still take several hours.
• Seiichi used his Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan to enter Kushina’s mindscape with her.
• Seiichi found the Nine-Tails chained between lifelike statues of Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha, which Kushina had copied from Grandma Mito’s example.
• Kushina removed the statues at Seiichi’s request, and he approached the Nine-Tails to negotiate.
• The Nine-Tails recognized Seiichi’s Uchiha chakra and started refusing to make an agreement, but suddenly could not finish its threat.

Seiichi and Kushina persuaded the Nine-Tails to stay calm and trust the Uchiha while they prepared to free it without harming Kushina. After the Nine-Tails agreed, Kushina went into labor, and Seiichi and Kushina left to attend to the birth.

• Seiichi revealed his Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan and promised the Nine-Tails freedom and a peaceful life among the Uchiha if it stayed quiet during Kushina’s delivery.
• Kushina removed the chains binding the Nine-Tails, and Seiichi and Kushina bumped fists with it to show their sincerity.
• The Nine-Tails agreed to let Kushina give birth safely, then mistakenly thought she would die before Seiichi explained they could release it without killing her.
• Kushina thanked the Nine-Tails, clutched her belly, and said she was going into labor, so Seiichi and Kushina hurried away.

Kushina safely gave birth to Naruto, whom Minato and Kushina named Naruto Uzumaki, and the family celebrated with their friends. After Kushina recovered enough, Seiichi took everyone to the Uchiha Training Ground to release the Nine-Tails, leaving the chapter at the moment Kushina was ready to undo the seal.

• Kushina went into labor, and Minato anxiously waited with the others until Mikoto announced that mother and son were safe.
• Minato rushed to Kushina instead of holding the newborn, then brought her dessert while she rested.
• Minato and Kushina named their son Naruto Uzumaki, and Kushina became emotional when Minato reminded her that their next child would take the Namikaze surname.
• Naruto stopped crying and looked around as Jiraiya and the others gathered to admire him.
• After Tsunade checked Kushina and confirmed she was well enough, Seiichi brought everyone to the Uchiha Training Ground to release the Nine-Tails.
• Kushina agreed to undo the seal, and the group prepared for the release.

Kushina survived the Nine-Tails’ release after Mikoto treated her, and the group returned to the Uchiha Clan Compound. Seiichi questioned Obito about Madara Uchiha and his dream of peace, leaving Obito to defend the plan Seiichi said he opposed.

• Mikoto shielded Kushina while the Nine-Tails broke free, then treated her with help from the Nine-Tails’ chakra.
• Tsunade confirmed Kushina was healthy, and Seiichi shrank the Nine-Tails before transporting everyone to the Uchiha Clan Compound.
• Tsunade knocked Jiraiya out of the living room after he made a sleazy remark about learning Seiichi’s ability.
• Seiichi freed Obito, asked where Madara Uchiha was, and inferred from Obito’s reaction that Madara was dead.
• Obito spoke up about his dream, and Seiichi said he agreed with peace but rejected the kind Obito envisioned.

Obito explained that he planned to use Infinite Tsukuyomi to end conflict by trapping everyone in dreams, but Seiichi and the others rejected his plan. Obito remained determined to pursue his version of peace, even as the group recognized that his beliefs could not be changed.

• Obito told Fugaku and the others that the Uchiha stone tablet described Infinite Tsukuyomi, a technique that would place the world in pleasant dreams.
• Jiraiya, Minato, Tsunade, and Kushina challenged Obito, arguing that dreamlike happiness was false and could not replace real peace.
• Obito insisted that Infinite Tsukuyomi was the fastest path to peace and said he would pursue it whatever the cost.
• Seiichi warned that waking from the dreams into a ruined reality could drive people toward mass despair and endless war.
• Tsunade urged Obito to face hardship with courage and hope, but Obito stayed unmoved, and the others saw that his beliefs would not change.

Seiichi met Xian, the Shinobi World's consciousness, who explained that Kaguya Otsutsuki had stolen his power and that chakra had caused him even greater harm. Xian left the full nature of the threat unexplained, but revealed why he had brought Seiichi to meet him.

• Hikari and Nine-Tails relaxed together on the Laboratory rooftop while Seiichi appeared to fall asleep.
• Seiichi found himself in a white expanse and met the featureless figure who called himself Xian, the world's consciousness.
• Xian revealed that he had brought Seiichi into the world and said Seiichi would eventually need to become strong enough to subdue the universe.
• Xian explained that Kaguya Otsutsuki had planted a tree that stole his source power while he was asleep.
• Xian said Kaguya's sealing was not the worst of his troubles, and Seiichi learned that the later introduction of chakra had harmed Xian most.

Xian explained to Seiichi that chakra cultivation was a dangerous system that drained life and could let one person reclaim the chakra of every cultivator, while hidden realms further weakened the world. Seiichi agreed to cooperate with Xian, who offered to transform his constitution and set him on a path to restore natural-energy cultivation, leaving him with a mission to grow stronger and change the Shinobi World.

• Xian explained that the original natural-energy cultivation system had supported the world's growth, while chakra cultivation drained the world's energy and shortened cultivators' lives.
• Xian warned Seiichi that chakra seeds and techniques for reclaiming chakra could let someone harvest cultivators' power, making the system resemble a demonic cultivation trap.
• Seiichi realized that chakra cultivation might make him and others unwittingly serve the same goal as Obito's Infinite Tsukuyomi plan.
• Xian offered to give Seiichi an attributeless constitution suited to natural-energy cultivation, though it lacked the advantages of a specialized path.
• Xian told Seiichi to grow stronger, seek ancient cultivation legacies, destroy the hidden realms and small planes, and spread natural-energy cultivation throughout the Shinobi World.

Xian transformed Seiichi’s chakra into natural energy, leaving him vastly stronger after nine days of unconsciousness. Seiichi explained his new power to Hikari and left with her to learn senjutsu, leaving marks at home so he could return quickly if needed.

• Xian exhausted himself converting all of Seiichi’s chakra into natural energy, then disappeared to sleep.
• After nine days, Hikari woke Seiichi and the Nine-Tails recoiled in terror from his new presence.
• Seiichi demonstrated a greatly strengthened Wind Scale Fire Dragon and explained that he now wielded natural energy without chakra.
• Hikari asked to learn senjutsu, and Seiichi agreed to take her with him.
• Seiichi told Fugaku and Mikoto he was leaving with Hikari, then placed return marks on a pillar and a kunai before they departed.

Seiichi and Hikari traveled to the Land of Demons, where Seiichi offered to eliminate Moryo rather than merely seal it. Miroku, hoping to spare her daughter the fate of succeeding her, agreed to trust Seiichi and take the risk.

• Seiichi used Xian’s map to teleport with Hikari from Konoha to a village in the Land of Demons.
• A soldier escorted Seiichi and Hikari to the palace, where Yama Chōjirō brought them before Miko Miroku.
• Seiichi told Miroku he had come to eliminate Moryo permanently, alarming everyone except Hikari.
• Yama Chōjirō recognized Seiichi as Uchiha Seiichi, the Uchiha Clan’s Young Clan Leader, and asked whether he was confident he could defeat Moryo.
• Miroku chose to accept Seiichi’s offer so her daughter would not inherit the duty of guarding Moryo, and Chōjirō finally agreed to her decision.

Miroku agreed to take Seiichi to the Underground Palace so he could deal with Moryo, and Seiichi became certain that Miroku’s group could sense natural energy. On the way, Yomi ambushed them, but Hikari and Seiichi swiftly defeated his forces and killed him.

• Miroku and Yama Chōjirō explained that their heightened senses let them feel the enormous energy inside Seiichi and Hikari, and Seiichi concluded they could sense natural energy.
• Miroku, Yama Chōjirō, and their guards set out with Seiichi and Hikari for the Underground Palace where Moryo was sealed.
• Yomi and his men emerged from the woods and attacked Miroku’s group after Yomi ordered his subordinates to kill them.
• Hikari defeated Yomi’s seven subordinates with Majestic Destroyer Flame, while Seiichi captured Yomi and brought him back.
• Seiichi pierced Yomi with a modified Chidori Sharp Spear after Hikari asked why he had bothered to capture him.

Seiichi defeated Yomi, who revived with a strange power and continued fighting, but Seiichi overwhelmed him again. Yomi surrendered and offered Seiichi a scroll containing his secret technique.

• Seiichi struck Yomi with purple lightning, leaving him blackened and apparently dead.
• Yomi revived, healed his wounds, and attacked Seiichi and Hikari with black energy and green fireballs.
• Seiichi sent Hikari to protect Miroku and the others, then used Susanoo armor to fend off Yomi's water blades and countered with sword energy.
• Seiichi appeared behind Yomi and repeatedly stabbed him, causing his recovery to slow and leaving him exhausted.
• Yomi begged Seiichi to spare him, presented a black scroll as an offering, and Seiichi took it and began reading.

Seiichi immobilized Yomi, learned from the scroll about Yomi’s connection to Moryo, then dismembered and burned Yomi until he was certain he was dead. He rejoined Hikari and Miroku, and the group reached the underground palace where Moryo was sealed.

• Yomi attacked Seiichi with chakra insects, but Seiichi stopped them and immobilized Yomi while reading the scroll.
• Seiichi learned that Yomi’s family had taken power from Moryo and that Yomi planned to release him for more energy.
• Seiichi cut Yomi into tiny pieces and burned them, then confirmed that Yomi was dead.
• Seiichi rejoined Hikari, Miroku, Yama Chōjirō, and the others, and they set out for the underground palace.
• The group reached the palace, where the guards verified Miroku and Yama Chōjirō’s identities and opened the doors.

Seiichi sensed a great opportunity inside Moryo’s seal and prepared to enter, but he first took Hikari home and asked Miroku what resealing it would cost. Miroku and Yama Chōjirō reassured him that resealing would not require a priestess’s life.

• Seiichi sensed an opportunity near Moryo’s sealed gate and warned that he might remain inside for years.
• Seiichi took Hikari home, where she explained the situation to Mikoto, and warned his mother to watch out for Hiruzen Sarutobi’s schemes.
• Seiichi returned to Miroku and Yama Chōjirō and asked what price they would pay to reseal Moryo after he entered.
• Miroku and Yama Chōjirō told Seiichi that resealing would be easy, like closing a door, and would not require a priestess to sacrifice her life.

Seiichi entered the sealed space to confront Moryo while Miroku restored the seal without suffering the usual price. After struggling against Moryo’s regeneration and attacks, Seiichi discovered that energy flowed into a mass at the center of its body.

• Miroku opened the stone gate, and Seiichi blocked the surge of evil energy before entering the sealed space.
• Miroku restored the seal with only minor exhaustion, while she and the others prayed for Seiichi and the Land of Demons.
• Seiichi found Moryo, tried speaking to it, and fought its heads and tails with Shusui Parting Clouds and Evil-Breaking.
• Seiichi summoned his Perfect Susanoo, but Moryo absorbed energy to regenerate and blocked his attacks with a storm of heads and tails.
• Seiichi dodged Moryo’s attacks and observed that energy flowed into a mass at the center of its body.