Recaps

Uchiha Minamoto completed a powerful Lightning Release combat system while considering how to exploit the Uchiha massacre crisis for rewards. The Great Love Newspaper Office’s second exposé turned Konoha against the Shimura Clan, and Shimura Danzō ordered an operation in response.

• Uchiha Minamoto considered using Susanoo to feign awakening the Mangekyō Sharingan and wondered whether delaying the massacre crisis was a repeatable quest chain.
• The Great Love System upgraded Uchiha Minamoto’s Lightning Release Transformation Technique to A-rank, then derived Lightning Flash Instantaneous Movement, Three Thousand Lightning Doppelgangers, and Lightning Sense.
• Uchiha Minamoto tested his new Lightning Release abilities and concluded that his offense, defense, speed, and perception formed a complete system.
• The Great Love Newspaper Office published an exposé accusing the Shimura Clan of running criminal enterprises and reporting that Shimura Ryo had attacked the Konoha Military Police Force.
• Konoha’s villagers connected the previous paper’s battlefield deserter to Shimura Danzō, who angrily ordered Root to begin an operation.

Orochimaru received Shimura Danzō’s request to target Uchiha Minamoto and agreed to help, while the Akatsuki members gathered to report on their missions. The chapter ended with Juzo Biwa claiming that Karatachi Yagura had likely gone mad.

• Orochimaru examined Kimimaro Kaguya and recalled how he had given the boy a reason to keep living.
• A Root ninja brought Orochimaru intelligence about Uchiha Minamoto, a thirteen-year-old with a Three-Tomoe Sharingan and elite jonin strength.
• Orochimaru recognized the report as Shimura Danzō’s indirect assassination request and decided to help while studying Minamoto’s Sharingan.
• Orochimaru joined an Akatsuki meeting, where Kakuzu reported earning nearly one hundred million ryō and tracking a new target.
• Sasori of the Red Sands reported on the Fourth Kazekage Rasa’s tests of the One-Tail Jinchuriki, and Juzo Biwa said Karatachi Yagura had probably gone mad.

Akatsuki learned that Naruto Uzumaki had begun doing good deeds under the influence of Uchiha Minamoto, whose activities also drew Orochimaru’s interest. In Konoha, Minamoto’s newspaper fueled public outrage against the Shimura Clan, and he arrived at his new post in the Military Police Force to the admiration of his fellow Uchiha.

• White Zetsu reported on the villages’ Jinchuriki and revealed that Naruto Uzumaki was doing good deeds after being influenced by Uchiha Minamoto.
• White Zetsu identified Minamoto as the Uchiha who had founded the Great Love Group, and Orochimaru expressed interest in his Three-Tomoe Sharingan.
• Uchiha Minamoto watched villagers crowd the Love Newspaper Office to buy its latest report on Shimura Ryo’s crimes.
• The newspaper’s reports further damaged the Shimura Clan’s reputation, and Minamoto learned that students had begun bullying Shimura Clan children.
• Uchiha Minamoto took over Uchiha Hazuki’s former office as the Fifth Squad leader, while Uchiha ninjas greeted him with respect for confronting Shimura Danzō.

Uchiha Minamoto accepted a suspicious B-rank caravan escort mission to the Land of Fields and agreed to bring Shisui Uchiha along. Shimura Danzō learned that both Uchiha would depart the next morning and was pleased that his trap might eliminate them together.

• Uchiha Minamoto saw that the Great Love Group’s points had topped sixty thousand and reviewed a B-rank escort commission to the Land of Fields.
• Uchiha Minamoto suspected the mission was a trap connected to Shimura Danzō and decided to handle it personally rather than refuse it.
• Shisui Uchiha volunteered for the mission, and Uchiha Minamoto agreed that they would go together.
• Shimura Danzō received confirmation that Uchiha Minamoto and Shisui Uchiha had accepted the commission and would leave the next morning.

Shimura Danzō arranged to join Orochimaru’s planned ambush on Uchiha Minamoto and Shisui Uchiha, hoping to claim Shisui’s Mangekyō Sharingan. As Minamoto and Shisui began escorting a caravan north, Shikaku Nara warned them about trouble near the Land of Fields, and Shisui cautioned Minamoto not to trust anyone.

• Shimura Danzō ordered his subordinate to tell Orochimaru that Shisui Uchiha was an additional target and that Danzō would join the operation.
• Uchiha Minamoto and Shisui Uchiha met the caravan and found no suspicious chakra, weapons, or hidden cargo.
• Shikaku Nara told Minamoto that Shikamaru, Ino, and Choji had become more proactive because of him, then warned that the Land of Fields was unsettled.
• Minamoto and Shisui set out north with the caravan, and Shisui taught Minamoto how to watch for danger on missions outside the village.
• Shisui warned Minamoto that even clients and traveling companions could not always be trusted.

Uchiha Minamoto and Shisui Uchiha uncovered a trap in a deserted village and waited outside as enemy ninjas attacked under cover of a dust screen. Minamoto sensed Shimura Danzō and another familiar, eerie presence among the approaching chakra signatures.

• Uchiha Minamoto and Shisui Uchiha stopped before the village, and Minamoto knocked out the caravan members to keep them out of the coming fight.
• Minamoto sensed trained ninjas and corpses inside the village, so he and Shisui decided not to enter and instead waited for the enemies to emerge.
• The hidden ninjas unleashed Wind Release to create a dust screen that obscured vision and hindered the Sharingan.
• Minamoto used [Lightning Sense] to detect dozens of approaching chakra signatures, including Shimura Danzō and a second presence he suspected was the slippery snake.

Uchiha Minamoto upgraded Yatagarasu and used its enhanced control over Amaterasu to rain black flames down on Shimura Danzō’s Root forces. The flames overwhelmed the battlefield, leaving Danzō alive behind his guards’ defenses as the Root ninja around him were consumed.

• Uchiha Minamoto summoned his upgraded Yatagarasu and flew with Shisui Uchiha toward the smoke-covered battlefield.
• Yatagarasu shaped its feathers into a vast ring, covered them in Amaterasu, and sent them plunging toward the Root ninja.
• Shimura Danzō spotted the falling feathers, but the flames struck before he could finish ordering his forces to scatter.
• Root ninja tried Water Release and Wind Release against the flames, but water failed to extinguish them and wind scattered the burning feathers across the battlefield.
• Amaterasu consumed the Root ninja in the smoke, while several of them used defensive ninjutsu to shield Shimura Danzō with their lives.

Uchiha Minamoto and Shisui Uchiha chased Shimura Danzō and Orochimaru from the air after destroying most of Root’s force and disrupting their ambush. Minamoto kept taunting the fleeing group and told Shisui he wanted to let them run before catching them again.

• Uchiha Minamoto and Shisui Uchiha surveyed the devastation from Yatagarasu as Shimura Danzō and Orochimaru saw that the ambush had failed.
• Orochimaru sealed some of Minamoto’s black flames with the Fire Sealing Method: Flame Seal and complained that Danzō had concealed the Uchiha’s ability to fly.
• Shimura Danzō tested the distance with a Wind Release: Shuriken, then ordered Orochimaru to cancel the operation and fled with his surviving subordinates.
• Uchiha Minamoto mocked Danzō for running and pursued the group on Yatagarasu while Shisui asked whether they would keep chasing them.
• Uchiha Minamoto told Shisui to let Amaterasu fly longer and compared his plan to a cat repeatedly catching and releasing a mouse.

Uchiha Minamoto and Shisui Uchiha cornered Shimura Danzō and Orochimaru after Yatagarasu sealed off their escape. Minamoto killed the remaining Root ninja and faced Danzō, who began removing the bandages on his left arm.

• Yatagarasu surrounded Shimura Danzō and Orochimaru with black Amaterasu feathers, cutting off their escape route.
• Uchiha Minamoto and Shisui Uchiha jumped down from Yatagarasu, and Shimura Danzō ordered Orochimaru to follow their original plan.
• Uchiha Minamoto assigned Shisui Uchiha to fight Orochimaru and approached Shimura Danzō himself.
• Uchiha Minamoto used Lightning Release Transformation Technique: Lightning Flash Instantaneous Movement to kill the surviving Root ninja.
• Shimura Danzō confronted Uchiha Minamoto and began unwrapping the bandages on his left arm.

Uchiha Minamoto crushed Shimura Danzō with Susanoo after Danzō revealed the Sharingan embedded in his arm. With Danzō dead and Root defeated, Orochimaru considered attacking Minamoto and Shisui Uchiha, but Shisui trapped him in a genjutsu.

• Shimura Danzō exposed the five Sharingan embedded in his pale arm and attacked Uchiha Minamoto with a Wind Release-enhanced kunai.
• Uchiha Minamoto blocked the strike with skeletal Susanoo, then seized Shimura Danzō and crushed him to death.
• Orochimaru recoiled at Minamoto's power and coveted the Mangekyō Sharingan he believed Minamoto and Shisui Uchiha possessed.
• Orochimaru asked to make peace, but Shisui Uchiha activated his Mangekyō Sharingan and trapped him in Demonic Illusion: Shackling Stakes Technique.

Shisui Uchiha wounded Orochimaru, who escaped using his skin-shedding technique, while Uchiha Minamoto fought Shimura Danzō. Danzō revived twice with Izanagi, but Minamoto outmaneuvered him and struck at close range.

• Shisui Uchiha cut through Orochimaru, who shed his skin and fled underground.
• Uchiha Minamoto identified Shimura Danzō’s return from death as Izanagi and questioned how he had obtained the Uchiha technique.
• Shimura Danzō summoned Baku to attack Minamoto, but Yatagarasu’s Amaterasu feathers set the summon and Danzō ablaze.
• Shimura Danzō revived with only three Sharingan still glimmering on his right arm and fired Wind Release: Vacuum Great Sphere.
• Uchiha Minamoto evaded the wind projectile with Lightning Flash Instantaneous Movement and attacked Danzō with a lightning-wreathed short blade.

Uchiha Minamoto severed Shimura Danzō’s Sharingan-filled right arm and sealed it away, leaving Danzō desperate to flee. Danzō’s escape was stopped by Shisui Uchiha, who appeared in his path with his eyes turned scarlet.

• Shimura Danzō revived after another death and tried to find a way to escape Uchiha Minamoto.
• Danzō attacked with Wind Release: Vacuum Serial Waves, but Minamoto dodged the blades and struck him with Thunderclap Slash.
• Minamoto severed Danzō’s right arm, sealed it in a scroll, and took away the Sharingan embedded in it.
• Danzō used the Body Flicker Technique to flee toward Konoha while Minamoto followed at a leisurely pace.
• Shisui Uchiha appeared in front of Danzō and addressed him as his eyes turned scarlet.

Uchiha Minamoto captured Shimura Danzō after stopping him from activating a suicide seal, then brought him and the caravan back toward Konoha. Minamoto planned to expose Danzō’s allies and investigate the caravan leader’s suspected collusion with him.

• Shimura Danzō accused Shisui Uchiha of betraying the village, but Uchiha Minamoto listed Danzō’s crimes and challenged his accusations.
• Shimura Danzō tried to activate the Reverse Four Symbols Seal and use Izanagi, but Uchiha Minamoto bound and chakra-sealed him with Lightning Light Chain Lock.
• Shisui Uchiha worried that killing a senior village elder would be difficult to explain, so Uchiha Minamoto proposed putting Danzō on trial and executing him as a Missing-nin.
• Uchiha Minamoto and Shisui Uchiha returned to the village with the unconscious Shimura Danzō and woke the caravan leader.
• Uchiha Minamoto told the caravan leader that the mission’s rank had not matched the danger and ordered the caravan back to Konoha.
• Uchiha Minamoto suspected the caravan leader had colluded with Shimura Danzō and planned to put him in the Konoha Military Police Force Prison for questioning.

Uchiha Minamoto examined the Sharingan-studded arm taken from Shimura Danzō and had [Heart of Great Love] scan its Hashirama cells. A week later, the caravan was nearing Konoha, and the scan was almost complete.

• Uchiha Minamoto reviewed the captured ninjutsu, including [Izanagi], and considered its permanent Sharingan cost too high to use.
• Uchiha Minamoto unsealed Shimura Danzō's arm, and Shisui Uchiha recognized the Sharingan embedded in it and renewed his hatred of Shimura Danzō.
• Shisui Uchiha cast several torture genjutsu on the unconscious Shimura Danzō while Uchiha Minamoto scanned the arm.
• [Heart of Great Love] completed its scan of the arm's A-rank Three-Tomoe Sharingan and began scanning its S-rank Hashirama cells.
• A week passed as the caravan returned toward Konoha, with the Hashirama cell scan nearing completion.

Uchiha Minamoto summoned the clan’s leaders and Great Love Group members to Naka Shrine, where they found Shimura Danzō captured and gravely broken. Minamoto began explaining that Danzō had colluded with Orochimaru to ambush him and Shisui, but the chapter ended before he finished presenting the case.

• Uchiha Minamoto told the caravan to wait at Naka Shrine and sent Shisui Uchiha to notify the clan leader about a clan meeting.
• Uchiha Minamoto sat in the head seat at Naka Shrine beside the battered Shimura Danzō, whom Shisui Uchiha had tortured with genjutsu for nearly a week.
• Uchiha Fugaku arrived, recognized Shimura Danzō, and laughed with relief before taking the seat beside Uchiha Minamoto.
• Uchiha Setsuna, Uchiha Yashiro, Uchiha Yakumi, Uchiha Inabi, and Uchiha Tekka arrived and reacted with surprise and delight at seeing Danzō captured.
• Shisui Uchiha, Uchiha Rai, Uchiha Hinotori, Uchiha Hazuki, and the other core members of the Great Love Group joined the gathering.
• Uchiha Minamoto explained that he and Shisui Uchiha had been ambushed during a mission by Orochimaru and Shimura Danzō, who had conspired to attack Konoha ninja.

Uchiha Minamoto proposed defecting from Konoha and putting Shimura Danzō on public trial, but Uchiha Yashiro called for an immediate coup. Minamoto subdued Yashiro with Susanoo and won the clan leaders’ support for his plan.

• Uchiha Minamoto announced that he intended to defect from the village and publicly try Shimura Danzō.
• Uchiha Yashiro urged the clan to launch a coup, seize the Hokage Building, and make an Uchiha Hokage.
• Uchiha Minamoto outlined charges against Danzō and proposed a public trial before Hiruzen Sarutobi and the Jonin Commander, followed by Danzō’s execution.
• When Yashiro opposed the plan again, Uchiha Minamoto used Susanoo to seize and silence him, stunning the clan leaders with his power.
• Uchiha Setsuna, Uchiha Yakumi, Uchiha Inabi, and Uchiha Tekka declared support for Minamoto’s plan.

Uchiha Fugaku approved Uchiha Minamoto’s plan and promoted him to detachment leader of the Konoha Military Police Force’s Fifth Division. At the clan meeting, Minamoto announced a public trial for Shimura Danzō in one week and rallied the Uchiha, drawing the clan’s jonin into the Great Love Group.

• Uchiha Fugaku approved Uchiha Minamoto’s plan, and Uchiha Yashiro left after Minamoto reminded him to attend the clan meeting.
• Uchiha Fugaku told Minamoto he would become the Fifth Division’s detachment leader, and Minamoto accepted the promotion.
• Uchiha Minamoto announced at Naka Shrine that the Konoha Military Police Force would hold a public trial for Shimura Danzō in one week.
• Uchiha Minamoto urged the clan to restore the Uchiha’s former glory, and the meeting ended with clansmen gathering around him.
• Uchiha jonin praised Minamoto and joined the Great Love Group, impressed by his position, strength, and rumored Mangekyō Sharingan and Susanoo.

Uchiha Minamoto brought nearly all of the Uchiha Jonin into the Great Love Group and announced that its Ninjutsu Exchange Meeting would resume after Shimura Danzō's matter was resolved. He then took Shisui Uchiha to the Hokage's office, where he presented Hiruzen Sarutobi and the senior advisers with tomorrow's newspaper, hinting at a major revelation.

• Uchiha Minamoto recruited the Uchiha Jonin into the Great Love Group and promised new ninjutsu when the exchange meeting resumed.
• Uchiha Minamoto gave Uchiha Hinotori a newspaper headline manuscript and ordered him to distribute the paper throughout Konoha by noon the next day.
• Uchiha Minamoto asked Shisui Uchiha to accompany him to the Hokage Building while a Shadow Clone stayed behind to watch Shimura Danzō.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi reflected on the village's recent calm and Naruto Uzumaki's good deeds before Uchiha Itachi announced Uchiha Minamoto and Shisui's arrival.
• Uchiha Minamoto asked Hiruzen Sarutobi to summon Mitokado Homura and Utatane Koharu, then placed the next day's newspaper on the desk for them to read.

Uchiha Minamoto confronted Hiruzen Sarutobi and the advisers with evidence that Shimura Danzō had betrayed Konoha and demanded signed warrants to arrest him formally and search Root. Hiruzen sent Minamoto and Shisui Uchiha out so the elders could discuss Danzō’s capture and the danger of his crimes becoming public.

• Uchiha Minamoto showed Hiruzen Sarutobi, Mitokado Homura, and Utatane Koharu a newspaper report depicting Danzō’s defeat and described how Danzō had joined forces with Orochimaru to attack fellow Konoha Ninja.
• Minamoto presented arrest and search warrants, explaining that Danzō was held in the Military Police Force’s Special Prison and asking Hiruzen to sign them.
• Homura objected to publicizing Danzō’s case, but Hiruzen rebuked him and asked Minamoto and Shisui Uchiha to wait outside.
• Homura called the Uchiha born evil, while Koharu argued that Danzō’s capture made his actions a disastrous mistake that threatened Konoha’s Will of Fire.

Hiruzen Sarutobi agreed to issue warrants for Shimura Danzō and Root and let the Military Police Force hold Danzō’s public trial after Uchiha Minamoto challenged the elders’ objections. The next morning, Minamoto’s newspaper turned Konoha’s villagers against Danzō, and Minamoto ordered more copies printed so everyone could read it.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi decided he could not refuse Uchiha Minamoto’s request for warrants, though he planned to use the night to clear Root’s evidence.
• Uchiha Minamoto asked Hiruzen Sarutobi and the advisers to attend Danzō’s public trial alongside the Jonin Commander and the village clan heads.
• Mitokado Homura objected to the Military Police Force trying Danzō, but Minamoto challenged him and Hiruzen Sarutobi yielded to the trial.
• The Love Newspaper Office published a report accusing Shimura Danzō of causing heavy losses, and Konoha villagers condemned him.
• Uchiha Minamoto told Uchiha Hinotori to print more newspapers so everyone in Konoha could see the report.

Uchiha Minamoto received the Hokage’s orders to search Root and publicly try Shimura Danzō, then brought Tenzo and Shisui Uchiha to the Special Prison. He revealed the orders to Shimura Danzō, who was left shaken and unable to speak.

• Uchiha Minamoto received the arrest warrant for Shimura Danzō and the authorization to search Root, both bearing the Third Hokage’s seal.
• Uchiha Minamoto recognized the Anbu ninja Tenzo as Yamato and took him along with Shisui Uchiha to the Special Prison.
• Uchiha Minamoto entered Shimura Danzō’s cell and shocked him awake with a lightning-charged stomp.
• Uchiha Minamoto showed Shimura Danzō the newspaper and search warrant, telling him that the villagers saw him as Konoha’s sinner and that the Third Hokage had abandoned Root.
• Uchiha Minamoto began reading Shimura Danzō the arrest warrant for his public trial, while Shimura Danzō struggled to respond.

Uchiha Minamoto used Shisui’s Mangekyō Sharingan to extract Shimura Danzō’s secrets, then led a search of Root’s abandoned base with Hyuga Kamon and Yamato. Although the base had been thoroughly cleaned, the Love Newspaper Office began publishing scandalous revelations about Danzō, leaving his crimes exposed to the village.

• Uchiha Minamoto had Shisui use genjutsu on Shimura Danzō, who revealed intelligence about Root, Mitokado Homura, Utatane Koharu, and Hiruzen Sarutobi.
• Uchiha Minamoto introduced Hyuga Kamon and led him, Shisui, Yamato, and the Fifth Division to search Root’s base.
• Hyuga Kamon used the Byakugan to locate the base’s three levels and reported faint traces of chakra despite the apparent cleanup.
• Uchiha Minamoto found the base completely cleared of evidence and left with the search party, while Yamato nervously suggested insiders had handled the cleanup.
• The Love Newspaper Office published a series of reports accusing Shimura Danzō of colluding with Orochimaru, conducting illegal experiments, stealing Uchiha Sharingan, and defiling the First Hokage’s corpse.

Uchiha Minamoto executed Shimura Danzō in public after Danzō accused Hiruzen Sarutobi of sharing responsibility for Konoha’s darkness. The Great Love Panel rewarded Minamoto with one million Great Love Points and the S-rank Blaze Release Kekkei Genkai.

• Konoha’s villagers condemned Shimura Danzō after newspapers exposed his crimes, and Hiruzen Sarutobi’s reputation began to suffer.
• Uchiha Minamoto summoned Hiruzen Sarutobi, Mitokado Homura, and Utatane Koharu to Danzō’s public trial.
• Shimura Danzō declared that he had shouldered Konoha’s darkness and accused Hiruzen Sarutobi of having dirtier hands.
• Uchiha Minamoto executed Shimura Danzō with [Electric Light Pill] as the crowd watched.
• The Great Love Panel awarded Uchiha Minamoto one million Great Love Points and the S-rank Blaze Release Kekkei Genkai.

Uchiha Minamoto reviewed the abilities he had obtained from Shimura Danzō and others, then calculated that his Great Love Points had surged after Danzō’s execution. He ended with nearly 1.8 million points and considered future ways to improve his abilities.

• Uchiha Minamoto tested [Blaze Release] and noted that it resembled [Amaterasu] without its eye-damaging drawback.
• Uchiha Minamoto added Shimura Danzō’s [Reverse Four Symbols Sealing Technique] to the [Heart of Great Love] database but decided not to use it himself.
• Uchiha Minamoto assessed [Wood Release] and concluded that he lacked the chakra reserves to make it worthwhile.
• Uchiha Minamoto examined the Byakugan he had scanned from Hyuga Kamon and considered seeking the [Tenseigan] on the moon.
• Uchiha Minamoto counted nearly eight hundred thousand existing Great Love Points, then received one million more after executing Shimura Danzō.

Uchiha Minamoto used Heart of Great Love to derive the Mangekyō Sharingan, awakening the ocular techniques Kamumusuhi and Amenotokotachi, then upgraded his lightning abilities. He planned to save Great Love Points to improve his life energy and derive Sage Mode.

• Uchiha Minamoto spent 1.2 million Great Love Points to derive the Mangekyō Sharingan and strengthened the chakra pathways around his eyes.
• Uchiha Minamoto discovered that his left-eye technique, Kamumusuhi, was still unclear, while his right-eye technique, Amenotokotachi, manipulated gravity.
• Uchiha Minamoto tested Amenotokotachi by floating in the air and concluded that it was a space-time ocular technique.
• Uchiha Minamoto spent 200,000 Great Love Points to upgrade Lightning Sense to Heavenly Lightning Sense and Lightning Flash Instantaneous Movement to Instant Prison Thunder.
• Uchiha Minamoto kept the rest of his points to improve his A-rank life energy and eventually derive Sage Mode.