Chapter Summaries

Uchiha Minamoto confronted Shimura Danzō at the Konoha Military Police Force after Danzō demanded the release of Shimura Ryo. The standoff ended with Minamoto accusing Danzō of intentional treason.

• Uchiha Minamoto reviewed his Elite Jonin assessment and discussed interrogating Shimura Ryo with Uchiha Rai.
• Shimura Danzō left Root with two subordinates and stormed into the Konoha Military Police Force building.
• Uchiha Minamoto rejected Danzō’s demand for Shimura Ryo, saying Danzō needed written approval from the Commander-in-Chief or the Third Hokage.
• Shimura Danzō and his attendants prepared to fight as the Uchiha activated their Sharingan, but Minamoto warned that attacking the force would undermine Konoha’s order.
• Uchiha Minamoto accused Shimura Danzō of sowing discord and intentional treason amid Konoha’s crises.

Uchiha Minamoto drove Shimura Danzō out of the Military Police Force headquarters and ordered the Uchiha to take over Shueisha’s publishing assets. The chapter ended with Uchiha Itachi guarding the door for Hiruzen Sarutobi at the Hokage Building.

• Uchiha Minamoto confronted Shimura Danzō with accusations about his dealings with Orochimaru, his orders during the Nine-Tails' Attack, and his treatment of the Uchiha.
• Shimura Danzō drew a kunai, but backed down after seeing the Uchiha force assembled at the headquarters and left with his two men.
• Uchiha Minamoto taunted Shimura Danzō as he departed and announced that the Military Police Force had shut down the Shueiying Group.
• The Uchiha celebrated Shimura Danzō’s retreat, and several members awakened or advanced their Sharingan.
• Uchiha Minamoto ordered Uchiha Hinotori to take over Shueisha’s bookstore, printing plant, and publicity channels to launch a newspaper.
• Uchiha Itachi guarded the door for Hiruzen Sarutobi at the Hokage Building.

Uchiha Minamoto pressured Shimura Ryo to confess or join the Great Love Group, while Shimura Danzō sought Hiruzen Sarutobi’s help to free him. By the time Uchiha Itachi returned with the Hokage’s order, Shimura Ryo had already confessed and been executed.

• Uchiha Itachi stayed on duty at the Hokage Building and avoided the Clan Meeting.
• Shimura Danzō rushed to Hiruzen Sarutobi and demanded that he stop the Uchiha Clan, explaining that the Konoha Military Police Force had arrested Shimura Ryo.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi sent Uchiha Itachi to the Konoha Military Police Force to retrieve Shimura Ryo.
• Uchiha Minamoto confronted Shimura Ryo with evidence against the Shueiying Group and offered him a choice between signing a confession agreement or joining the Great Love Group.
• Uchiha Itachi returned and reported that Shimura Ryo had confessed and been executed.

Uchiha Minamoto killed Shimura Ryo after he refused to cooperate, then sent his corpse to the Analysis Division to have its intelligence extracted. Shimura Danzō erupted over the death and Minamoto’s messages, then left to take Root to the northern battlefield.

• Uchiha Minamoto offered Shimura Ryo a chance to cooperate, but when Shimura Ryo stayed silent, Minamoto staged a weapon grab and killed him.
• Uchiha Minamoto ordered Shimura Ryo’s body sent to the Analysis Division and received 30,000 Great Love Points and the B-rank ninjutsu Wind Release: Vacuum Great Sphere.
• Shimura Danzō confronted Hiruzen Sarutobi in the Hokage’s office and accused the Uchiha Clan of preparing to rebel, while Hiruzen refused to launch a civil war.
• Uchiha Itachi relayed Uchiha Minamoto’s instructions that Shimura Danzō collect Shimura Ryo’s body after the Analysis Division finished examining it, and invited him to the Love Newspaper Office’s opening ceremony.
• Shimura Danzō left, planning to take Root out of the village overnight and head to the northern battlefield.

Hiruzen Sarutobi stopped Shimura Danzō from leaving Konoha amid the war in the north, while agreeing to handle the Uchiha himself. Uchiha Minamoto opened the Love Newspaper Office and tried to hire Hiruzen to attend its opening, steadily raising the mission rank and payment as Hiruzen refused.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi persuaded Shimura Danzō to stay in Konoha and told him to keep Root in line and watch the northern situation.
• Uchiha Minamoto arrived at the newly renovated Love Newspaper Office, whose sign featured the Great Love Group's red heart emblem.
• Uchiha Minamoto and Uchiha Rai brought invitations to the Hokage Building, while deliberately leaving Shimura Danzō without one.
• Hiruha Sarutobi initially refused Uchiha Minamoto's invitation, so Minamoto submitted a D-rank mission request offering ten thousand ryō for Hiruzen to attend and speak.
• After Hiruzen continued refusing, Uchiha Minamoto offered progressively higher payments and reached an A-rank mission request.

Uchiha Minamoto persuaded Hiruzen Sarutobi to bring Shimura Danzō to the Love Newspaper Office’s opening ceremony by raising the mission reward to one million ryō. At the ceremony, Hiruzen gave a long speech, then Minamoto won over the crowd with free eggs, newspapers, discounts, and a prize draw.

• Uchiha Minamoto raised the mission commission’s reward until Hiruzen Sarutobi agreed to attend the opening ceremony with Shimura Danzō.
• Uchiha Minamoto told Uchiha Hinotori to follow their original plan when Hiruzen and Danzō arrived.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi gave a lengthy speech about the Will of Fire while Shimura Danzō tried to keep out of sight.
• Uchiha Minamoto announced free eggs and newspapers, discounts, and cash prizes, prompting the villagers to cheer.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi watched the crowd celebrate with a stiff smile.

Uchiha Minamoto distributed a newspaper exposing Shimura Danzō’s retreat during Tobirama Senju’s last stand, while praising Hiruzen Sarutobi’s courage. The stunt earned Minamoto an A-rank genjutsu, Bringer-of-Darkness Technique.

• Uchiha Minamoto thanked Hiruzen Sarutobi and Shimura Danzō, then introduced the Love Newspaper Office’s first edition.
• Uchiha Minamoto’s group handed newspapers to the villagers, and Hiruzen Sarutobi and Shimura Danzō read the exposé about Tobirama Senju’s final battle.
• Shimura Danzō recalled that he had hesitated to stay with Tobirama, while Hiruzen Sarutobi had volunteered and been chosen as the Third Hokage.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi accepted the article’s praise and spoke about the Will of Fire, while Minamoto revealed that he had staged the newspaper photograph and story.
• Uchiha Minamoto received 100,000 great love points and the A-rank Bringer-of-Darkness Technique.

Uchiha Minamoto used his Great Love Points to upgrade his breathing technique and discussed the newspaper’s attack on Shimura Danzō with Hiruzen Sarutobi. The chapter ended with Shisui Uchiha sitting beside the Naka River, lost in thought.

• Uchiha Minamoto spent one hundred thousand Great Love Points to upgrade [Yang Extremity Breathing Technique] into [Sage Way Breathing Technique], which drew natural energy into his body and strengthened him.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi visited Uchiha Minamoto at the Great Love Newspaper Office and worried that its report would damage Shimura Danzō’s reputation.
• Uchiha Minamoto argued that Shimura Danzō did not need a good reputation as the leader of Root, then told Hiruzen Sarutobi to let Danzō bear the hardship while he took the good name.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi left the newspaper office, and Uchiha Minamoto watched him go while questioning whether their arrangement was right.
• Toward evening, Shisui Uchiha sat beside the Naka River with a fishing rod and gazed at the horizon as footsteps sounded behind him.

Uchiha Minamoto told Shisui Uchiha that the clan’s planned coup would fail and declared his ambition to become the Fifth Hokage. He urged Shisui to help forge a path forward by gaining the village’s recognition rather than sacrificing himself.

• Shisui Uchiha thanked Uchiha Minamoto for portraying Kagami Uchiha positively in the newspaper, then asked about the Uchiha Clan’s darkness.
• Uchiha Minamoto calmed the Naka River and told Shisui Uchiha to let his thoughts settle before seeking answers.
• Shisui Uchiha revealed that the clan was preparing a coup and feared it would be destroyed by Konoha.
• Uchiha Minamoto rejected the coup and said he wanted to become the Fifth Hokage, not to side with the clan leadership.
• Uchiha Minamoto told Shisui Uchiha that people’s recognition made someone fit to become Hokage and urged him to carve a path through the darkness.

Uchiha Minamoto recruited Shisui Uchiha and received Susanoo from the Great Love Panel, while Shimura Danzō resolved to kill the Uchiha. Minamoto attempted to use Susanoo with his Three-Tomoe Sharingan but could only form a partial skeletal manifestation before stopping.

• Uchiha Minamoto asked Shisui Uchiha to become his partner, and Shisui accepted.
• The Great Love Panel awarded Uchiha Minamoto 100,000 great love points and Susanoo for recruiting Shisui Uchiha.
• Shimura Danzō brooded over his lost chance to become Hokage, tore up the newspaper, and vowed to kill the Uchiha Clan.
• Uchiha Minamoto activated Susanoo with his Three-Tomoe Sharingan and formed translucent ribs and one skeletal arm.
• Uchiha Minamoto stopped releasing ocular power when his eyes began to hurt and concluded that he was not good at Susanoo.

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.