Chapter Summaries

Uchiha Fugaku ordered the clan to evacuate in three days and accepted that he might not survive, while Black Zetsu watched the Uchiha's preparations from the shadows. Meanwhile, Hyuga Hiashi and Hizashi Hyuga uncovered the damaged Giant Tenseigan and prepared to replenish it with Byakugan, as Hiashi recalled how the Main Family had killed the gifted Hikaru Hyūga.

• Uchiha Fugaku united the clan and ordered Itachi to prepare an evacuation for midnight three days later.
• Fugaku told Itachi to protect Sasuke, Naruto, and the Uchiha's future, while accepting that some would have to die.
• Black Zetsu watched the Uchiha gather in secret and judged that their destruction was already underway.
• Hyuga Hiashi and Hizashi Hyuga entered their clan's abandoned ancestral shrine and descended to the chamber containing the Giant Tenseigan.
• Hiashi found cracks in the Tenseigan and brought out ten containers holding pairs of Byakugan to replenish it.
• Hiashi recalled that the Main Family had killed Hikaru Hyūga, a gifted Branch Family member, because they feared his talent.

Hiashi used ten pairs of Byakugan to restore the Giant Tenseigan to about twenty percent of its power and revealed his plan to abolish the Hyuga Main Family and make the Caged Bird Seal equal for all. He intended to die after destroying the seal’s control formula, leaving Hizashi to lead the clan as Konoha’s unrest continued.

• Hiashi told Hizashi that five pairs of Byakugan came from battlefields and five came from Main Family members he had secretly killed.
• Hiashi fed all ten pairs of Byakugan to the Giant Tenseigan, restoring about thirty percent of its cracks and roughly twenty percent of its power.
• Hiashi explained that he would keep the Caged Bird Seal but change its meaning by placing it on every Hyuga and abolishing the Main Family.
• Hiashi said he would kill the Main Family members who knew the control formula, then die himself so the formula could never be used again.
• Hiashi told Hizashi that his wife supported his decision and asked him to lead the new Hyuga Clan after his death.
• Hizashi accepted Hiashi’s plan through tears as Hiashi declared that the clan would act once the Tenseigan’s power stabilized.

Lin Ze infiltrated Iwagakure to target Deidara’s Explosion Release and watched Ōnoki confine the young shinobi after one of his explosive demonstrations. As Lin Ze waited for Deidara to try escaping, he considered how to capture him without confronting Iwagakure directly.

• Lin Ze arrived outside Iwagakure, intending to obtain Deidara’s Explosion Release Kekkei Genkai for an Earth Release Clone.
• Deidara demonstrated his clay dragon to Kurotsuchi, then Ōnoki reprimanded him for causing an explosion in the village and ordered him confined.
• Ōnoki took Deidara to a secluded courtyard, sealed it, and left four ANBU to guard him while Kurotsuchi followed.
• Lin Ze watched from a distance and decided a direct attack would be too risky with Deidara, Ōnoki, and Iwagakure’s forces nearby.
• Deidara used a clay bird to scout the guards, then pretended to rest as he planned a way to escape; Lin Ze sensed that he would not stay confined.

Lin Ze weighed the race to reach Six Paths-level power and received encouraging news from Kabuto about Hashirama Cell fusion and the Rinnegan research. As he planned to obtain Deidara’s cells, the Yūhi Clan fled Konoha toward the coast to meet ships from Dragon Release Village.

• Lin Ze had a summoned snake watch Deidara’s courtyard while he considered how to obtain Earth Release material and develop his remaining clones.
• Lin Ze concluded that awakening the Rinnegan and the Azure Dragon Fruit were both uncertain paths to reaching Six Paths-level strength before the Eye of the Moon Plan.
• Chinchilla delivered Kabuto’s message that Hashirama Cell fusion had a success rate above ninety percent and that the Soul Shadow Clone Technique would be ready for practical use within six months.
• Lin Ze decided to pursue Deidara’s cells and paid Chinchilla five thousand ryō for delivering the message.
• Yuhi Shinku led more than fifty Yūhi Clan members toward the coast, where ships from Dragon Release Village were waiting to carry them to safety.

Shikaku Nara and the clan leaders were summoned to a tense late-night meeting after the Yūhi Clan evacuated Konoha. Meanwhile, Itachi led Uchiha civilians toward a secret escape passage as Obito and Black Zetsu prepared to provoke the clans and begin another Nine-Tails attack.

• Shikaku Nara learned that the Yūhi Clan had left Konoha and worried that the Uchiha’s unusual silence signaled trouble.
• Itachi gathered the Uchiha elders, women, and children, including Sasuke and Naruto, and led them toward a secret passage in Konoha’s southern wall.
• Obito Uchiha, Black Zetsu, and White Zetsu watched the evacuation, while Black Zetsu revealed that they had spread news intended to turn Konoha’s clans against the Uchiha.
• Obito confirmed that Naruto was among the evacuees and opened a space-time vortex as Black Zetsu announced the start of a second Night of the Nine-Tails.
• Uchiha Fugaku told the assembled clan leaders that an outside force was plotting to attack Konoha, drawing hostility from Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura.
• Shikaku sensed something was wrong when Hyuga Hiashi remained unusually withdrawn and Hizashi Hyuga’s seat was empty.

Uchiha Fugaku confronted Konoha’s clan leaders after the Uchiha evacuation was exposed, and refused to call it off. The fighting began in the Hokage Building as the major clans joined forces against the Uchiha.

• An Inuzuka Clan ninja reported that the Uchiha were secretly gathering to evacuate Konoha, and the clan leaders accused Uchiha Fugaku of betraying the village.
• Fugaku revealed his Mangekyō Sharingan and declared that the Uchiha would leave that night, killing anyone who stood in their way.
• Uchiha Yashiro attacked Utatane Koharu, and Shikaku Nara launched an assault with Choza Akimichi and Shino Yamanaka.
• The Uchiha countered the coordinated attack, burning away Shikaku Nara’s shadows, forcing Choza Akimichi back, and injuring Shino Yamanaka with a rebounded mental attack.
• Utatane Koharu called for the Uchiha to be taken down, and Sarutobi Shinnosuke and representatives of several clans joined the fight.

Hyuga Hiashi revealed that he had awakened the Tenseigan and planned to end the Main Family system by killing its members and giving every clan member an equal Caged Bird Seal. After destroying the gathered Main Family, he left his brother Hizashi to lead Hyuga’s rebirth and went to take care of one last thing.

• Hyūga Tennin admitted that he had once wanted to abolish the Caged Bird Seal but had lacked the courage, and he accepted Hiashi’s plan before taking his own life.
• Hizashi told Hiashi that he had gathered sixty-seven Main Family members and their followers in the underground chamber under the pretext of protecting them.
• Hiashi entered the chamber with the Tenseigan and declared that the Main Family system would end.
• Hiashi used the Tenseigan to erase the gathered Main Family members and their followers with a golden beam.
• Hiashi told Hizashi that all Hyuga clan members would be equal, entrusted him with the clan and with Hinata and Hanabi, and disappeared into the darkness.

Uchiha Fugaku used his Perfect Susanoo to hold off Konoha’s forces and fly toward the Uchiha Clan Compound. As the Uchiha evacuation came under attack, a masked man abducted Naruto with Kamui, causing the Nine-Tails to appear.

• Uchiha Fugaku ordered the elders to protect the evacuation group while he faced the pursuing clans, then wounded Torifu Akimichi with Susanoo and Amaterasu.
• Uchiha Fugaku swept Susanoo’s blade through the assembled ninjas, killing several, then flew toward the Uchiha Clan Compound.
• Uchiha Feng tried to protect the evacuating Uchiha, while Uchiha Mikoto guarded Sasuke and Naruto amid the attack by over a thousand enemy ninja.
• A Spiral Mask-wearing man used Kamui to abduct Naruto, and the Nine-Tails appeared with three tomoe turning in its eyes.

Obito Uchiha controlled the Nine-Tails and began a second attack on Konoha, trapping the evacuating Uchiha. Uchiha Fugaku intervened with Susanoo, but the battle remained unresolved as the Uchiha tried to escape and Shikaku Nara’s forces waited to finish them off.

• Obito Uchiha appeared atop the Nine-Tails and announced that the second Night of the Nine-Tails had begun.
• Uchiha Fugaku blocked the Nine-Tails’ Tailed Beast Bomb with Susanoo, then failed to control the beast because Obito’s visual power was stronger.
• Fugaku redirected the Tailed Beast Bomb into the shopping street and ordered the Uchiha to abandon their plan and flee through the southern wall.
• Uchiha Yashiro, Inabi, and Tekka led the Uchiha jōnin through the first line of Konoha’s encirclement while Shikaku Nara ordered his forces to hold them back.
• The Nine-Tails attacked Susanoo, and Fugaku met its claw with his Chakra Sword as Shikaku Nara’s forces stayed back and waited for the two to weaken each other.

Uchiha Fugaku tried to draw the Nine-Tails away from the fleeing Uchiha, but Obito’s control resisted his Mangekyō ability. As the clan’s defenders and civilians suffered heavy casualties, Uchiha Itachi returned and fought to help Mikoto and Sasuke escape.

• Fugaku used Divine Punishment on the Nine-Tails, but Obito’s Mangekyō repelled the attack and wounded Fugaku with the backlash.
• Fugaku flew toward the Forest of Death with the Nine-Tails pursuing him, easing the pressure on the Uchiha trying to reach the perimeter wall.
• Uchiha Tekka blew himself up to kill three jōnin after being surrounded and mortally wounded.
• Utatane Koharu ordered the allied clans’ ninja to kill the Uchiha civilians, and Mikoto was struck while protecting Sasuke.
• Uchiha Itachi returned through the secret passage, drove off Mikoto’s attackers, and sent shadow clones to cover her and Sasuke’s retreat.

As the Uchiha faced annihilation, several Konoha figures watched the fighting without intervening, while Hyuga Hiashi weighed his clan’s interests against his debt to Uchiha Fugaku. He had not yet decided whether to help the Uchiha.

• Uchiha Yashiro and Inabi reached the secret passage with fewer than ten surviving clansmen and urged them to rescue whoever they could.
• Fox, Night Owl, Gray Wolf, Mountain Lord, Might Duy, Might Guy, and Kakashi watched the chaos from Hokage Rock and chose not to intervene.
• Gray Wolf recalled Lin Ze and wondered how events might have differed if he were still in Konoha.
• Hyuga Hiashi observed the battle with his Byakugan and realized the Uchiha evacuation group was unlikely to break through.
• Hiashi considered the benefits of the Uchiha’s fall but remembered that Fugaku had saved Hizashi and supported the Hyuga, leaving him conflicted about whether to help.

Hyuga Hiashi used the Giant Tenseigan to enter a borrowed form of Tenseigan Chakra Mode and rescued Uchiha Itachi, Uchiha Mikoto, Sasuke, Uchiha Izumi, and Uchiha Yashiro from their attackers. He concealed his aid by sealing their original escape route and directing them toward a Hyūga passage to the Land of Fire Border.

• Hyuga Hiashi drew power from the Giant Tenseigan and formed a weaker, borrowed Tenseigan Chakra Mode.
• Uchiha Yashiro, Uchiha Itachi, Uchiha Mikoto, Sasuke, and Uchiha Izumi faced Utatane Koharu, Mitokado Homura, and their ninja at the secret passage's exit.
• Hiashi arrived and used Silver Wheel Reincarnation Explosion to wipe out Koharu, Homura, and the surrounding ninja.
• Hiashi told Itachi that he had repaid Uchiha Fugaku for saving his younger brother's life.
• Hiashi collapsed the secret passage and directed the Uchiha toward a Hyūga passage leading to the Land of Fire Border.

Uchiha Fugaku held off Konoha’s pursuit force so Itachi and the others could escape, while Hiashi battled the Nine-Tails. After Fugaku’s Susanoo fell, he summoned Little Black and removed his own eyes.

• Itachi thanked Hiashi, then carried his exhausted mother east with Sasuke and Uchiha Izumi toward the Land of Whirlpools, Dragon Release Village.
• Hiashi joined Uchiha Fugaku’s fight against the Nine-Tails and restrained its tails with Truth-Seeking Orbs while Fugaku realized Itachi’s group had escaped.
• Fugaku flew to the secret passage’s exit and confronted the assembled Konoha pursuit force, declaring that no one would pass him.
• Fugaku fought the pursuing ninja until his Susanoo dissipated, then summoned Little Black and removed his own eyes.

After giving his eyes to Itachi, Fugaku sacrificed his life to unleash a blood-red Susanoo and died defending Konoha. Hiashi then broke Obito’s control over the Nine-Tails, and Hiruzen asked him to help seal the beast.

• Fugaku gave his eyes to Xiaohei to deliver to Itachi, then used his life force to maintain a blood-red Susanoo that killed over a hundred ninja before he died.
• Hiashi arrived in a pale green chakra cloak, repelled the Nine-Tails, and used Banshō Ten'in to draw it toward him.
• Hiashi attacked the Mangekyō Sharingan’s control over the Nine-Tails and dodged Obito’s Kamui before counterattacking with a golden spear.
• The Nine-Tails’ tomoe vanished as Hiashi broke Obito’s control, but the beast turned toward the surrounding Konoha ninja.
• Hiruzen approached Fugaku’s body and asked Hiashi to help seal the Nine-Tails.

After the Nine-Tails was sealed back into Naruto, Hiruzen ordered Naruto’s Uchiha memories erased and a false past implanted. Konoha mourned Fugaku and debated who should become the Sixth Hokage, while Shikaku pursued the fleeing Itachi.

• Hiashi restrained the Nine-Tails while Hiruzen and the Sealing Squad sealed it into Naruto.
• Hiruzen ordered Shino Yamanaka to erase Naruto’s Uchiha memories and implant a past as an orphan ostracized by the village.
• An Inuzuka scout reported that Itachi and three others had fled toward the border, so Hiruzen sent Shikaku and twenty jōnin after them.
• Hiruzen ordered Fugaku’s body given a proper burial, acknowledging him as Konoha’s Fifth Hokage.
• Torifu urged Hiruzen to return as Hokage, but Hiruzen refused, leaving the leaders to wonder who could become the Sixth.

Hyuga Hiashi accepted the role of Acting Hokage until Tsunade returned, while Obito Uchiha learned that Hiashi wielded power beyond Kage and chose to leave Konoha alone for now. Meanwhile, Uchiha Itachi, Sasuke, Mikoto, and Uchiha Izumi struggled through the forest as they fled with Mikoto unconscious.

• Choza Akimichi nominated Hyuga Hiashi for Hokage, but Hiashi said he planned to take his own life after purging the Hyuga Main Family.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi and the clan heads persuaded Hiashi to serve as Acting Hokage until Tsunade returned, and Konoha's ninja greeted him in the role.
• Obito Uchiha, Black Zetsu, and White Zetsu watched Konoha, and Black Zetsu explained that Hiashi had borrowed power from the Giant Tenseigan and was beyond Kage.
• Obito decided to leave Konoha alone and focus on capturing the tailed beasts for the Eye of the Moon Plan, leaving Hiashi for Nagato to handle.
• Uchiha Itachi carried his unconscious mother, Mikoto, through the forest while leading Sasuke, with Uchiha Izumi following and guarding them.

Itachi sent Mikoto, Izumi, and Sasuke toward the Hyūga secret passage while he stayed behind to face Konoha’s pursuers, awakening his Mangekyō Sharingan and summoning Susanoo. The next morning in Iwagakure, Lin Ze learned the Uchiha clan had been wiped out and that Tashihime had obtained Sasuke’s and Naruto’s cells.

• Little Black gave Itachi Fugaku’s Mangekyō Sharingan and told him that Fugaku had died holding back their pursuers.
• Itachi ordered Izumi to take Mikoto and Sasuke east toward the Hyūga secret passage, then stayed behind as his Mangekyō Sharingan began to awaken.
• Shikaku Nara and twenty-one jōnin surrounded Itachi and urged him to surrender.
• Itachi awakened his Mangekyō Sharingan fully and summoned Susanoo, carrying the Yata Mirror and Totsuka Blade.
• In Iwagakure, Lin Ze received Tashihime’s message that Sasuke’s and Naruto’s cell samples had been obtained.

Lin Ze monitored Deidara in Iwagakure while considering how the Hyuga Clan’s rise and Itachi’s possible arrival would affect his plans. After three days, Deidara used a clay shadow clone and a hidden tunnel to escape, and Lin Ze set off after him.

• Lin Ze read that Hiashi had become Acting Hokage with the Giant Tenseigan’s power, while Itachi had fled toward Dragon Release Village after killing Shikaku Nara and the pursuing Jōnin.
• Lin Ze decided to keep monitoring Deidara and use the time to grow accustomed to his Genbu Shadow Clone.
• After three days confined in Iwagakure, Deidara created a clay shadow clone to distract the ANBU guarding his courtyard.
• Deidara slipped through a tunnel he had dug beneath his room and headed for the village outskirts.
• Lin Ze sensed Deidara’s escape, turned into water, and pursued him underground.

Lin Ze confronted Deidara in the Gobi and used the encounter to study Explosion Release. After Deidara deployed C4 Garuda, Lin Ze froze the microscopic bombs before they could detonate.

• Deidara escaped from Iwagakure and tested his C3 No. 18 clay centipede in the Gobi.
• Lin Ze blocked the centipede’s explosion with an ice wall, then trapped Deidara’s C2 Dragon and bomb in an ice prison.
• Deidara attacked with a C1 Spider Swarm, while Lin Ze dodged and observed its chakra before shielding himself with a Water Formation Wall.
• Lin Ze taunted Deidara, who responded by unleashing his C4 Garuda self-destructing clone.
• Lin Ze detected the microscopic clay bombs with his perception and froze them by dropping the temperature around him.

Lin Ze collected Deidara’s cells after defeating his Explosion Release attack, then set out to find Han. Meanwhile, Konoha prepared for threats after the massacre, as Kumogakure’s Fourth Raikage ordered an invasion of the Land of Fire.

• Lin Ze froze Deidara, took a sample of his cells, and let him escape after collecting combat data on Explosion Release.
• Lin Ze decided to seek out Han, the Five-Tails jinchūriki, before Roshi.
• Hyuga Hiashi told Konoha’s leaders that the village had lost the Uchiha Clan and many shinobi, then ordered ANBU to find Jiraiya and Tsunade and clans to prepare for war.
• Kumogakure’s Fourth Raikage dismissed Mabui’s warning about Hyuga Hiashi and ordered the army to march toward the Land of Fire.