Recaps

Yakushi Nonō joined Uchiha Minamoto’s Konoha Military Police Force and Great Love Group after he offered her a paid position. As Minamoto left the orphanage with Naruto Uzumaki, Tsunade confronted him and demanded Shimura Danzō’s arm and White Zetsu’s corpse.

• Yakushi Nonō accepted Minamoto’s offer to join the Konoha Military Police Force and received an offer of a much higher salary in the Great Love Group.
• Minamoto recruited Nonō into the Great Love Group but did not raise the subject of recruiting Kabuto Yakushi.
• Tsunade stopped Minamoto and Naruto outside the orphanage, recognized Naruto, and ordered Minamoto to come with her.
• Tsunade led Minamoto, Naruto, and Shizune to a training ground and demanded Danzō’s arm and White Zetsu’s corpse.

Uchiha Minamoto refused Tsunade’s demand for the evidence and used the [Heart of Great Love] to learn and counter her technique. He left Tsunade trapped by his stronger version of it, with her body pulling his face into her chest as Naruto Uzumaki and Shizune watched.

• Uchiha Minamoto told Tsunade that the Konoha Military Police Force could not hand over Shimura Danzō’s arm or White Zetsu’s corpse yet.
• Tsunade used the [Body Pathway Derangement Technique] on Uchiha Minamoto to make him surrender the evidence.
• Uchiha Minamoto used the [Heart of Great Love] to learn the technique, countered it, and won a bet with Tsunade.
• Uchiha Minamoto challenged Tsunade to another bet and used [Sage Art: Body Pathway Lightning Calamity Technique] to take control of her nervous system.
• Tsunade’s body grabbed Uchiha Minamoto and pressed his face into her chest, prompting Naruto Uzumaki to cry out and Shizune to blush.
• Tsunade realized what was happening and screamed in embarrassment.

Tsunade challenged Uchiha Minamoto to another bet after losing their earlier wagers, then attacked him to settle the contest with strength. Minamoto dodged her devastating blows, and Tsunade waited for an opening as he taunted her for being too slow.

• Tsunade regained control after crushing Minamoto against her chest and shoved him into the sky.
• Tsunade ignored Minamoto's reminder about his unclaimed winnings and offered her money, medical techniques, clan scrolls, and even herself as stakes.
• Tsunade challenged Minamoto to a bet on strength and launched a powerful punch with Strength of a Hundred.
• Minamoto dodged Tsunade's punch and Heavenly Foot of Pain with Instant Prison Thunder, leaving her attacks to crater and split the training ground.
• Minamoto flashed in front of Tsunade and called her too slow, while Tsunade spotted an opening.

Uchiha Minamoto defeated Tsunade by strengthening his Susanoo with senjutsu chakra, then reminded her that she owed him two wagers. Tsunade disputed the third wager and asked what he wanted her to do.

• Tsunade struck Uchiha Minamoto's Susanoo with her Strength of a Hundred, but her punch did not damage its skeleton.
• Uchiha Minamoto used Heavenly Man Mode and his Mangekyō Sharingan to restore and expand Susanoo into its half-body form, then caught Tsunade in its hand.
• Tsunade could not damage the enhanced Susanoo and admitted defeat, so Uchiha Minamoto released her.
• Naruto Uzumaki praised Uchiha Minamoto, who told him that communicating more with the Nine-Tails could make him just as powerful.
• Uchiha Minamoto said Tsunade owed him two wagers, but Tsunade rejected the third wager and asked what he wanted from her.

Uchiha Minamoto persuaded Tsunade to train Naruto Uzumaki after she refused to join the Konoha Military Police Force as its medical adviser. He sent Naruto to deliver Shimura Danzō’s Sharingan-free arm to Tsunade, while keeping White Zetsu’s corpse for later leverage.

• Uchiha Minamoto offered Tsunade a position as chief adviser to the Konoha Military Police Force’s Medical Corps, but she refused.
• Uchiha Minamoto invoked his Mangekyō Sharingan and pressured Tsunade to become Naruto Uzumaki’s instructor.
• Tsunade agreed to train Naruto and told him to meet her at the training ground the next morning.
• Uchiha Minamoto gave Naruto a Sealing Scroll containing Shimura Danzō’s arm and told him to deliver it to Tsunade.
• Uchiha Minamoto kept White Zetsu’s corpse, intending to use it as future leverage over Tsunade.

Uchiha Minamoto visited Cat Granny to commission a chakra crystal ring and invited her to join the Konoha Military Police Force’s planned Ninja Tool Research and Development Bureau. Cat Granny agreed to consider the offer after the ring was finished, while Minamoto looked ahead to the coming war with Kumogakure.

• Uchiha Minamoto brought gifts to Cat Granny at the Cat House in the Empty District.
• Uchiha Minamoto showed Cat Granny a high-purity chakra crystal and chose to have it forged into a ring with leftover chakra metal.
• Cat Granny explained the ring’s chakra-conducting benefits and agreed to forge it in about three days.
• Uchiha Minamoto invited Cat Granny to join the Konoha Military Police Force’s new Ninja Tool Research and Development Bureau.
• Cat Granny said she would give him an answer after finishing the ring, and Uchiha Minamoto left expecting she might accept.
• Uchiha Minamoto looked north and anticipated that the war between Konoha and Kumogakure would provide his third major initiative.

Tsunade began training Naruto Uzumaki after receiving Shimura Danzō’s Hashirama-cell arm from him and honoring Uchiha Minamoto’s gesture. After testing Naruto’s abilities, she identified his strengths and started his training with a punishing run around Konoha.

• Naruto Uzumaki gave Tsunade the sealed arm from Shimura Danzō, and she recognized it as a product of Hashirama’s cells and resolved to have it destroyed.
• Naruto comforted Tsunade by repeating Uchiha Minamoto’s words about how being forgotten was true death, and Tsunade said she would remember Minamoto’s favor.
• Tsunade tested Naruto’s combat skills, chakra control, and knowledge, then became angry at Hiruzen Sarutobi for neglecting his education.
• Tsunade told Naruto that his strengths were his body, vitality, chakra reserves, taijutsu, and sealing jutsu, and promised to teach him from the basics.
• Tsunade began Naruto’s training by ordering him to run ten laps around Konoha, reassuring him that she could reattach his legs if necessary.

Uchiha Minamoto obtained Creation Rebirth and considered developing a new regeneration ninjutsu without the Yin Seal. At the Land of Fire's border, Kumogakure ninja ambushed a Konoha patrol, leaving Inuzuka Retsu surrounded and wounded.

• Uchiha Minamoto received Creation Rebirth after helping Naruto Uzumaki become Princess Tsunade's disciple.
• Uchiha Minamoto realized he lacked the Yin Seal but could use the Heart of Great Love's knowledge to develop a new regeneration ninjutsu.
• Inuzuka Retsu and his Konoha patrol encountered Kumogakure ninja near the border.
• C used Lightning Illusion: Flash Pillar to blind the patrol, and the Kumogakure ninja killed its members.
• Inuzuka Retsu escaped the encirclement and accused Kumogakure of breaking the ceasefire agreement.
• C ordered the Kumogakure ninja to attack Inuzuka Retsu, and a lightning attack grazed his left hand.

Kumogakure launched a surprise invasion along the Land of Fire’s northern border, prompting Hiruzen Sarutobi to prepare Konoha for war and seek the Uchiha’s support. At the Konoha Military Police headquarters, Cat Granny delivered a custom chakra-metal ring to Uchiha Minamoto, who was about to name it.

• Inuzuka Retsu and his ninja dog Kurokawa were overwhelmed by Kumogakure attackers, but Retsu summoned a ninja dog to carry a warning to Konoha before launching one last attack.
• Kumogakure forces struck six patrol squads and four border outposts, sending urgent reports that the invasion had begun.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi learned that Konoha’s border defenses had suffered devastating losses and recognized that Shimura Danzō’s death had left a gap in the village’s intelligence network.
• Hiruzen ordered Konoha’s departments to prepare for war, recalled ninja from missions, and told the Konoha Military Police Force about the invasion, insisting that the village needed the Uchiha.
• Cat Granny brought Uchiha Minamoto a finished ring decorated with Uchiha symbols, and he began thinking of a name for it.

Uchiha Minamoto established new roles for Cat Granny and the ninja cats in the Konoha Military Police Force, then went to the Hokage Building after Hiruzen Sarutobi summoned Konoha’s jonin commanders. The chapter left Minamoto entering a tense meeting as war with Kumogakure appeared imminent.

• Uchiha Minamoto tested the S-rank Uchiha Ring Cat Granny had made and thanked her for her work.
• Uchiha Minamoto agreed to give ninja cats positions and salaries in the Konoha Military Police Force, and approved Tabi and Hina’s applications to join.
• Uchiha Minamoto appointed Yakushi Nonō to lead the new Medical Corps and Cat Granny to direct the Ninja Tool Development Bureau.
• An Anbu ninja summoned the jonin commander to the Hokage Building, so Uchiha Minamoto left the meeting with Uchiha Fugaku and Shisui Uchiha.
• Uchiha Minamoto recognized that war between Konoha and Kumogakure was coming and entered the grim jonin commanders’ meeting led by Hiruzen Sarutobi.

After Kumogakure broke the ceasefire and attacked Konoha’s northern border, Hiruzen Sarutobi convened the village leaders to plan their response. Uchiha Minamoto proposed sending the Military Police Force as a vanguard and volunteering to lead an elite squad, drawing Mitokado Homura’s objection.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi reported that Kumogakure had attacked Konoha’s northern border, causing more than fifty casualties, and declared the village at war.
• Shikaku Nara assessed the attack as a coordinated test of Konoha’s defenses and urged swift military action rather than peace talks.
• Shikaku Nara recommended sending an elite squad to investigate Kumogakure’s forces while the main army prepared a defensive line.
• Uchiha Minamoto requested permission to form a Mobile Combat Team from the Military Police Force and Uchiha Clan elites for the northern front.
• Uchiha Minamoto nominated himself to lead the advance squad, but Mitokado Homura objected because of his age and lack of large-scale command experience.

Uchiha Minamoto proved his speed to Konoha’s commanders and won leadership of a squad sent to the Northern Border. He and his veteran teammates prepared to depart immediately to repel Kumogakure and gather intelligence.

• Uchiha Minamoto argued that speed mattered more than age or experience for leading the Northern Border mission.
• Uchiha Minamoto used Instant Prison Thunder to circle the meeting room and then appear behind Mitokado Homura, shocking the Jonin with his speed.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi approved Uchiha Minamoto as squad leader and assigned Uchiha Fugaku to organize the Military Police Force’s Mobile Combat Team.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi named Inoichi Yamanaka, Shibi Aburame, and Inuzuka Gaku as squad members and ordered them to reach the Northern Border, drive out Kumogakure, and gather intelligence.
• Uchiha Minamoto led the squad out and ordered its members to meet at the village entrance in half an hour with their equipment and supplies.

Uchiha Minamoto prepared the Konoha Military Police Force and Great Love Group for war, then led an advance squad toward the northern border aboard his enormous summon, Yatagarasu. As the squad traveled, its members shared their abilities and began planning how to coordinate.

• Uchiha Minamoto announced the formation of a special mobile combat unit, left the police force's daily affairs to Elder Setsuna, and entrusted the Great Love Group to Uchiha Hazuki, Uchiha Hinotori, and Big Brother Lei.
• Uchiha Minamoto stocked up on weapons and supplies, while Cat Granny gave him specially forged kunai and Yakushi Nonō provided medical kits.
• Uchiha Minamoto met Inoichi Yamanaka, Shibi Aburame, and Inuzuka Gaku at Konoha's gate and introduced them to his summon, Yatagarasu.
• Uchiha Minamoto and the advance squad flew toward the northern border on Yatagarasu, with Chachamaru frightened by the giant bird.
• Uchiha Minamoto, Inoichi Yamanaka, Shibi Aburame, and Inuzuka Gaku described their abilities so they could coordinate during the mission.

Uchiha Minamoto sensed two Konoha ninja being pursued and raced to their rescue. He arrived as Maruboshi Kosuke and a wounded chunin were surrounded by Kumogakure ninja, then used a Sage Art to strike at the six attackers’ nervous systems.

• Uchiha Minamoto detected two Konoha ninja fleeing six pursuers and left his squad to reach them first.
• Maruboshi Kosuke and a wounded chunin were cornered by Kumogakure ninja after their patrol squad was attacked.
• Uchiha Minamoto arrived in a burst of silver lightning, startling Kosuke and the Kumogakure jonin.
• The Kumogakure jonin recognized Uchiha Minamoto as an Uchiha and ordered his men to surround him.
• Uchiha Minamoto unleashed the Sage Art: Body Pathway Lightning Calamity Technique, and the nearest Kumogakure ninja grunted as it took effect.

Uchiha Minamoto incapacitated six Kumogakure ninja without killing them, allowing Inoichi Yamanaka to extract their intelligence. The team learned that Kumogakure had deployed three main forces in the Land of Woods and that its Two-Tails Jinchūriki was heading to the front lines.

• Uchiha Minamoto knocked out six Kumogakure ninja with Sage Art: Body Pathway Lightning Calamity Technique and kept them alive.
• Uchiha Minamoto identified himself to Maruboshi Kosuke, then received 100,000 great love points and the A-rank Shuriken Shadow Clone Technique from the Great Love Panel.
• Yatagarasu arrived with Inoichi Yamanaka, Shibi Aburame, and Inuzuka Gaku, and Uchiha Minamoto asked Inoichi Yamanaka to extract intelligence from the prisoners.
• Shibi Aburame's kikaichū searched the Kumogakure ninja for hidden weapons before Inoichi Yamanaka used the Mind Reading Technique on them.
• Inoichi Yamanaka reported that Kumogakure had sent at least three main forces into the Land of Woods, allied with the Hannya Corps, and sent its Two-Tails Jinchūriki toward the front lines.
• Uchiha Minamoto questioned whether the intelligence about the Two-Tails Jinchūriki was accurate.

Uchiha Minamoto killed six Kumogakure ninja after extracting their intelligence, then received a new blade technique from the Great Love System. He led his squad to Outpost Three, where he incapacitated Kumogakure's follow-up troops and left Inoichi Yamanaka to read their memories.

• Inoichi Yamanaka reported that Yugito Nii was Kumogakure's Two-Tails Jinchūriki and that Killer B remained at the Valley of Clouds and Lightning.
• Uchiha Minamoto killed the six captured Kumogakure ninja after Inoichi had finished examining their memories, and Inoichi sealed their bodies for transport.
• The Great Love System rewarded Uchiha Minamoto with fifty thousand points and the B-rank Super Sonic Lightning Release Blade technique.
• Uchiha Minamoto took the injured Maruboshi Kosuke and a young Chunin to the nearest outpost aboard Yatagarasu.
• At the ruined Outpost Three, Uchiha Minamoto used Sage Art: Body Pathway Lightning Calamity Technique to incapacitate Kumogakure's follow-up troops.
• Inoichi began reading the incapacitated ninja's memories while Inuzuka Gaku reported that no one else was alive at the outpost.

Uchiha Minamoto’s advance squad cleared the Kumogakure invaders from the Land of Fire’s border and rescued the remaining survivors. In Konoha, Hiruzen Sarutobi debated whether to resume peace talks, and a Kumogakure diplomatic mission arrived as Mitokado Homura argued for negotiations.

• Uchiha Minamoto mourned the dead, confirmed through Inoichi Yamanaka that Kumogakure forces had gathered in the Land of Woods, and continued the pursuit.
• Uchiha Minamoto swept across the border with Yatagarasu, eliminating enemy remnants while Inoichi Yamanaka’s team gathered bodies, treated survivors, and questioned prisoners.
• At dusk, Uchiha Minamoto learned that fewer than ten border-force ninja had survived and ordered Inoichi Yamanaka to report the battle before he confronted Kumogakure in the Land of Woods.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi read the report of Uchiha Minamoto’s rapid victory while Mitokado Homura warned that the Uchiha Clan’s influence in the war was growing.
• Mitokado Homura urged Hiruzen Sarutobi to restart peace negotiations, and an Anbu ninja announced that a Kumogakure diplomatic mission was waiting at the village gates.

Kumogakure envoy Dodai proposed an alliance that would let Kumogakure station troops in Konoha, but Hiruzen Sarutobi countered with detailed intelligence on Kumogakure's forces. At the Land of Woods frontline, commander C learned that every squad sent toward the Land of Fire's border had vanished without contact.

• Dodai entered Konoha and observed that its villagers seemed calm and admired Uchiha Minamoto, who had headed to the front.
• Dodai offered Hiruzen Sarutobi a Kumogakure alliance, then presented a treaty that would allow Kumogakure to establish bases and station troops in Konoha.
• Hiruzen showed Dodai a scroll detailing Kumogakure's deployed forces, commanders, and ninja, prompting Dodai to say he needed to consult the Raikage.
• At the Land of Woods camp, C learned that the pursuit squad, support squad, and battlefield cleanup squad had all lost contact.
• C reviewed Kumogakure's operations and realized that something was wrong.

Kumogakure’s front-line commanders learned that Uchiha Minamoto had wiped out their forces in the Land of Fire and uncovered their deployments, while Yugito Nii was ordered to reopen peace talks. Minamoto rejected Konoha’s order to negotiate, leaving the Advance Squad facing a peace process tied to two previous deadly negotiations.

• C realized that the Kumogakure squads sent into the Land of Fire had all been killed before they could send distress signals.
• Yugito Nii arrived at the camp, and C told her that the enemy’s identity and the fate of their forces were unknown.
• An owl delivered intelligence revealing that Konoha knew Kumogakure’s military deployments and that Uchiha Minamoto had destroyed its forces.
• C told Yugito that the Fourth Hokage had ordered her to represent Kumogakure in renewed peace negotiations with Konoha.
• Minamoto laughed at Konoha’s order to negotiate, and Inoichi Yamanaka explained that the Third Hokage and the two elders were handling the talks.
• Minamoto and his veteran jonin recalled that Kumogakure’s previous peace talks with Konoha had ended in deaths, including Hizashi Hyuga.

Uchiha Minamoto and his team arrived at the peace talks with Kumogakure in the Land of Woods and detected a large force hidden nearby. Yugito Nii presented a treaty while Kumogakure’s forces prepared an ambush, and Minamoto confronted her about their supposed good faith.

• Uchiha Minamoto learned that Yugito Nii would represent Kumogakure at the negotiations in the Land of Woods.
• Minamoto, Inoichi Yamanaka, Shibi Aburame, and Inuzuka Gaku detected numerous hidden ninja near the meeting site.
• Yugito Nii arrived with armed Kumogakure ninja and offered Konoha a Thunder and Fire Security Treaty.
• C secretly signaled for the hidden Kumogakure ninja and Woodland Hannya Corps to move into position.
• Minamoto accused Kumogakure of breaking the ceasefire, attacking Konoha’s border forces, and hiding its main force nearby.
• Yugito called the hidden force a routine defensive adjustment, and Minamoto laughed at her explanation.

Uchiha Minamoto exposed Kumogakure’s peace talks as an ambush, survived its concentrated attack, and incapacitated nearly the entire delegation with a Sage Art. As Yugito Nii faced him alone, his allies received the Shadow Clones’ memories and prepared to report the betrayal to Konoha.

• Uchiha Minamoto revealed that he had seen through Kumogakure’s trap, and Yugito Nii ordered the hidden forces to attack.
• Uchiha Minamoto survived the barrage with Lightning Release Transformation Technique after the Shadow Clones of Inoichi Yamanaka, Shibi Aburame, and Inuzuka Gaku were destroyed.
• Uchiha Minamoto used Sage Art: Body Pathway Lightning Calamity Technique to knock out the concealed Kumogakure ninja and Hannya Corps members, leaving only Yugito Nii standing.
• Inoichi Yamanaka, Shibi Aburame, and Inuzuka Gaku received their Shadow Clones’ memories aboard Yatagarasu and realized the peace talks had been an ambush.
• Inoichi Yamanaka began recording the betrayal in a sealing scroll to report it to Konoha, while Inuzuka Gaku wondered what the Third might do.

In the Land of Woods, Yugito Nii confronted Uchiha Minamoto after Kumogakure’s ambush force was wiped out, but his strange lightning-like ability and repulsive force overwhelmed her partial transformation. She drew on more of the Two-Tails’ chakra and began transforming into the enormous blue-flamed beast.

• Inoichi Yamanaka, Inuzuka Gaku, and Shibi Aburame discussed Konoha’s past compromise with Kumogakure and believed Uchiha Minamoto’s strength could change the outcome this time.
• The three jonin sensed the Two-Tails’ chakra from the north, and Inoichi Yamanaka sent an intelligence scroll back to Konoha.
• Yugito Nii faced Uchiha Minamoto after the Kumogakure and Hannya Corps forces were wiped out, then used Partial Tailed Beast Transformation to attack him with Cat Claw and Cat Tail.
• Uchiha Minamoto’s body turned into silvery-white lightning when Yugito Nii’s attacks passed through him, and Amenotokotachi hurled her through the forest.
• Yugito Nii ignored the Two-Tails’ warning, demanded more power, and began changing into a huge, two-tailed beast covered in blue flames.

Uchiha Minamoto forced Yugito Nii to unleash Matatabi’s full power so Heart of Great Love could scan the Two-Tails’ abilities. He defeated Yugito with reflected lightning and Blaze Release, leaving her alive so Matatabi would not die with her.

• Uchiha Minamoto provoked Yugito Nii until she entered her Complete Tailed Beast Transformation as Inoichi Yamanaka, Shibi Aburame, and Inuzuka Gaku watched from above.
• Yugito attacked with Fire Rat Ball and Rat Tail Ball, but Uchiha Minamoto evaded the ghostly blue flames with Instant Prison Thunder.
• Yugito fired a Tailed Beast Bomb, which Uchiha Minamoto absorbed with Sage Art: Righteous Thunderbreak and reflected back at Matatabi as lightning.
• Uchiha Minamoto struck the weakened Matatabi with Sage Art: Blaze Release: Great Dragon Fire Technique, forcing Yugito out of her complete transformation.
• Uchiha Minamoto left Yugito alive because Matatabi would die with her and might take an unknown amount of time to revive.

Uchiha Minamoto defeated Yugito Nii and entered her sealing space to meet the Two-Tails, Matatabi. He offered to undo her seal if she would sign a summoning contract with him, but Matatabi grew wary of his Uchiha eyes and questioned whether he intended to control her like Madara Uchiha.

• Uchiha Minamoto knocked Yugito Nii unconscious and refused to kill her.
• Uchiha Minamoto scanned Yugito Nii, recorded the Iron Armor Seal, and entered its sealing space.
• Uchiha Minamoto met the weakened Two-Tails, Matatabi, and offered to remove the seal in exchange for a summoning contract.
• Matatabi recalled how Hashirama Senju captured and sold the tailed beasts, and how Madara Uchiha had forcibly controlled Kurama.
• Matatabi questioned whether Uchiha Minamoto planned to enslave her with his Mangekyō Sharingan, citing Madara Uchiha as a warning.

Uchiha Minamoto offered Matatabi freedom in exchange for a Summoning Contract, but explained that he could not remove her from Yugito Nii yet because Konoha needed her alive and he was still scanning Matatabi. Matatabi agreed to trust him for now and asked his name.

• Uchiha Minamoto offered Matatabi a fair deal: he would free her from the sealed space if she signed a Summoning Contract and answered his calls.
• Matatabi questioned why she should trust an Uchiha, and Minamoto mentioned that he had recently met Kurama.
• Minamoto said he would not remove Matatabi from Yugito Nii yet, since doing so would kill her and Konoha needed her intelligence.
• Minamoto's [Heart of Great Love] continued scanning Matatabi's abilities while he spoke with her.
• Matatabi agreed to trust Minamoto for now, then asked his name as he began introducing himself.