Recaps

The Nine-Tails explored the renovated Naka Shrine and was startled by an explosion at the Uchiha Research Institute. The researchers revealed they had developed the Mutually Multiplying Explosive Tags Technique, which multiplied the damage of chakra-infused explosives.

• The Nine-Tails admired the transformed Naka Shrine, then went to sleep after an Uchiha clansman showed him to his room.
• An explosion woke the Nine-Tails, who followed the noise to the Uchiha Research Institute and learned its frequent blasts were routine.
• Tatsu Uchiha and Kyō Uchiha arrived and questioned the soot-covered researchers about the latest explosion.
• The researchers explained that their new technique made chakra-infused explosives cause several times their original damage and named it the Mutually Multiplying Explosive Tags Technique.

Kakashi Hatake, Sasuke Uchiha, Naruto Uzumaki, and Sakura Haruno emerged from a space-time rift into an unfamiliar land and searched for a village. They found a merchant caravan, but Kakashi’s sudden appearance on the road angered one of its merchants.

• Kakashi Hatake and the three young ninjas fell through a space-time rift and landed outside an unfamiliar capital.
• Kakashi Hatake said they needed to find a village to replenish their dwindling supplies, and the team set off in one direction.
• After walking all day, the team heard horse-drawn carts and recognized the sound of a merchant caravan.
• Kakashi Hatake ran onto the road in front of the caravan, nearly causing a cart to overturn, and the merchant angrily berated him.

Kakashi Hatake, Naruto Uzumaki, Sasuke Uchiha, and Sakura Haruno accepted a suspicious merchant’s offer of a ride to a nearby town in an unfamiliar world. The merchant’s messenger reached the capital of the Land of Light and reported them as possible Uzumaki Clan spies and an infiltrator targeting the Uchiha.

• Naruto Uzumaki and Kakashi Hatake asked a caravan merchant for directions and a ride, but the merchant acted strangely after learning their names.
• Kakashi Hatake and Sasuke Uchiha suspected the merchant and caravan were hiding something, while Naruto Uzumaki failed to notice the warning signs.
• The four boarded the caravan, and Sasuke Uchiha noticed a rider galloping ahead, apparently to report to someone.
• Kakashi Hatake explained the suspicions to Naruto Uzumaki, who asked why his name had upset the merchant.
• The messenger reached the Konoha Military Police Force office in the capital of the Land of Light and accused the group of being spies, pointing to Naruto Uzumaki’s surname and a symbol worn by one of them.

Kakashi Hatake and Team 7 approached a town in what they suspected was the Warring States period, where Uchiha forces ambushed them as Uzumaki spies. Kakashi Hatake’s escape plan failed, and the three youngsters were captured almost instantly.

• An Uchiha clansman learned that supposed Uzumaki Clan spies were being brought to the town and gathered Uchiha reinforcements to ambush them.
• Kakashi Hatake, Naruto Uzumaki, Sasuke Uchiha, and Sakura Haruno discussed the possibility that they had traveled to the Warring States period as their carriage neared the town.
• Uchiha forces surrounded the carriage and ordered the supposed spies to surrender, so Kakashi Hatake planned for Team 7 to flee into the town.
• Sasuke Uchiha threw smoke bombs as Team 7 charged out, but Sasuke Uchiha, Naruto Uzumaki, and Sakura Haruno were captured within seconds, leaving Kakashi Hatake dumbfounded.

Kakashi Hatake and the three youngsters were mistaken for enemies by the Uchiha Clan, whose ranks also included Hyuga and Nara clansmen. Uchiha Takashi stopped the fight and revealed that he knew they had arrived through the Dragon Vein, leaving Kakashi willing to discuss how to return home.

• The Uchiha surrounded Sasuke Uchiha and Kakashi Hatake, but Sasuke proved he was an Uchiha by activating his Sharingan.
• The Uchiha and a Nara clansman speculated about the group's identities, then ordered the Konoha Military Police Force to arrest them.
• Uchiha Takashi arrived, recognized Little Team 7, and halted the impending fight.
• Uchiha Takashi told Kakashi Hatake that the Dragon Vein might explain their arrival and offered to help send them back.
• Uchiha Takashi subdued Kakashi Hatake with his Sharingan to prove his strength, then released the three youngsters, and Kakashi agreed to talk.

Kakashi Hatake, Sasuke Uchiha, Naruto Uzumaki, and Sakura Haruno learned that they had arrived in a different world where the Uchiha had founded the Land of Light. Uchiha Takashi warned that reaching the Dragon Vein to return would be dangerous, concealed his interest in their world's Uchiha, and privately planned to stir up trouble.

• Uchiha Takashi explained that his clan had founded the Land of Light on territory that had once belonged to the Land of Fire.
• Kakashi Hatake concluded that the group had come from another world, and Uchiha Takashi said the Dragon Vein might have brought them there.
• Uchiha Takashi warned that returning through the Dragon Vein would require crossing several nations and clans that might attack them.
• Sasuke Uchiha questioned Uchiha Takashi about his lack of curiosity in their world, but Takashi said the worlds could not affect each other.
• Uchiha Takashi prevented Sasuke Uchiha from revealing the fate of their world's Uchiha Clan, fearing the news would provoke his clansmen.
• Uchiha Takashi planned to make Kakashi Hatake and the others believe he did not want to know about their world while quietly preparing to stir up trouble.

Uchiha Takashi privately told Sasuke Uchiha the full history and hidden plans of his world, while urging him to keep that information from the local Uchiha Clan. Sasuke resolved to grow stronger and seek revenge on Uchiha Itachi, and the group agreed to postpone dealing with the Dragon Vein while the visitors stayed with the clan.

• Uchiha Takashi took Sasuke Uchiha aside and explained that he already knew about the massacre, Uchiha Itachi, and Konoha.
• Uchiha Takashi warned Sasuke Uchiha not to reveal his world's affairs to the local Uchiha Clan, then offered to tell him the full truth about his world.
• Uchiha Takashi told Sasuke Uchiha about the Shinobi World's history and the plans of the Sage of Six Paths, Black Zetsu, and Obito Uchiha.
• Sasuke Uchiha said he wanted to beat up the Sage of Six Paths and would seek revenge on Uchiha Itachi once he was strong enough.
• Uchiha Takashi returned with Sasuke Uchiha, and Sasuke assured Kakashi Hatake that he had not shared information about the local Uchiha Clan.
• Uchiha Takashi said the group could stay with the Uchiha Clan until they found a route to the Dragon Vein that avoided it, and Kakashi Hatake agreed.

Kakashi Hatake and Team 7 spent an ordinary day exploring the Land of Light while waiting for a chance to return to their world. Naruto Uzumaki enjoyed the locals’ kindness and drew Sasuke Uchiha out of his thoughts with a sweet.

• Kakashi Hatake confirmed that Sasuke Uchiha had not revealed the Uchiha Clan massacre and planned to wait for a chance to reach the dragon vein.
• Naruto Uzumaki happily bought goods from friendly merchants, spending money allocated by the Household Bureau.
• Kakashi Hatake visited a bookstore and eagerly read its collection of adult books.
• Naruto Uzumaki noticed Sasuke Uchiha was lost in thought, and Sasuke Uchiha denied that he had ever merely spaced out.
• Naruto Uzumaki tricked Sasuke Uchiha into eating a three-color dango, and Sasuke Uchiha accepted the treat while warning him not to sneak-attack him again.

Kakashi Hatake became absorbed in a newspaper about the Will of Fire while Sasuke Uchiha and Naruto Uzumaki explored the Warring States-era setting. Sasuke entered the Uchiha Duel Arena to challenge its fighters, and the clerk drew Uchiha Hikari as his first opponent.

• Kakashi Hatake put away a porn book and read a newspaper article about Uchiha Takashi and the Will of Fire.
• Sasuke Uchiha and Naruto Uzumaki left Kakashi Hatake and found the Uchiha Duel Arena's rankings, where Uchiha Takashi was listed first.
• Sasuke Uchiha entered the arena despite Naruto Uzumaki's warning and registered as a twelve-year-old Genin with an uneven Sharingan.
• The Nara Clan clerk explained the arena's age and rank-based matches and drew Uchiha Hikari as Sasuke Uchiha's first opponent.

Sasuke Uchiha entered his first arena match against Uchiha Hikari, unaware that she was a ten-year-old Mangekyō Sharingan user. Hikari quickly defeated him, leaving Sasuke despairing over his weakness and his ability to avenge Uchiha Itachi.

• Sasuke Uchiha received a first-match assignment to fight Uchiha Hikari, and both entered the arena as beginners.
• Naruto Uzumaki learned from the watching Uchiha that Hikari had awakened her Mangekyō Sharingan at seven and was already at clan head level.
• Sasuke Uchiha challenged Hikari to surrender, then was stunned when she revealed she had the Mangekyō Sharingan.
• Hikari told Sasuke she had awakened her Mangekyō at seven, prompting him to despair over their different levels of power despite their shared suffering.
• Hikari used the Body Flicker Technique to kick Sasuke to the ground before he could perform a Ninjutsu.
• Sasuke pounded the ground and questioned how he could avenge Uchiha Itachi when he was so weak.

Sasuke Uchiha lost a series of arena fights and fell into Uchiha Shin’s Mangekyō Sharingan Genjutsu, where he relived a battle with Itachi. Uchiha Takashi then took control of the illusion, implanted false memories of Sasuke fighting Otsutsuki Kaguya, and planned to use the experience to provoke Sasuke’s Mangekyō Sharingan awakening.

• Sasuke Uchiha refused to surrender after Uchiha Hikari beat him badly, then insisted on another arena match despite Naruto Uzumaki’s warning.
• Sasuke Uchiha was matched against Uchiha Shin, who activated his Mangekyō Sharingan and trapped him in a Genjutsu.
• In the illusion, Sasuke Uchiha defeated Uchiha Itachi, then realized the apparent victory was another layer of Genjutsu and broke free.
• Naruto Uzumaki told Sasuke Uchiha that Otsutsuki Kaguya had cast a Genjutsu, and Sasuke remembered fighting her alongside Naruto.
• Uchiha Takashi secretly took over the Genjutsu, erased Sasuke Uchiha’s original memories, and implanted a false scenario to try to awaken his Mangekyō Sharingan.

Sasuke Uchiha and Naruto Uzumaki sealed Otsutsuki Kaguya after Naruto distracted her with the Reverse Harem Technique, then fought over their conflicting ideals. Years later, Sasuke Uchiha saw Uchiha Itachi while visiting his newborn daughter and realized he was trapped in a genjutsu that returned him to the night of the Uchiha massacre.

• Naruto Uzumaki used the Reverse Harem Technique to distract Otsutsuki Kaguya, allowing him to strike her, and he later sealed her alongside Sasuke Uchiha.
• Sasuke Uchiha and Naruto Uzumaki fought over who would become Hokage, and Naruto Uzumaki won after they both lost an arm.
• Naruto Uzumaki married Hinata and became Seventh Hokage, while Sasuke Uchiha married Sakura Haruno and had a daughter, Sarada Uchiha.
• While visiting newborn Sarada Uchiha, Sasuke Uchiha saw Uchiha Itachi and suspected that his memories and experiences had been an illusion.
• Uchiha Itachi's expression deepened as Sasuke Uchiha's surroundings changed to the massacre scene, where he saw his parents' bodies and screamed that he could not tell what was real.

Uchiha Takashi’s genjutsu drove Sasuke Uchiha to the brink of madness and awakened his Mangekyō Sharingan, whose new ability automatically saw through illusions. Sasuke recovered, while Takashi wondered why Naruto Uzumaki had not awakened in response and ended by revealing that Akamaru’s IQ was higher than both boys’.

• Uchiha Takashi ended his genjutsu and found Sasuke Uchiha confused and unable to tell reality from illusion.
• Sasuke Uchiha calmed himself and revealed that his Mangekyō Sharingan ability, Ichimokuren, automatically saw through anything false.
• Uchiha Takashi wondered whether Sasuke’s awakening had linked him to Shura Senju’s Asura chakra instead of Naruto Uzumaki’s.
• Naruto Uzumaki approached Sasuke Uchiha to check on him, and Sasuke privately judged Naruto’s intelligence.
• Uchiha Takashi told Sasuke Uchiha that his IQ was 100, Naruto Uzumaki’s was 90, and Akamaru’s was 105, ruining Sasuke’s smug expression.

Uchiha Takashi told Little Team 7 that a merchant caravan could take them to Rōran, where they could use the Dragon Vein to return to their own world. Before leaving, Sasuke Uchiha signaled that he had formed a plan for his future, setting up his return to the Shinobi World.

• Uchiha Takashi learned that Sasuke Uchiha's next opponent was Uchiha Hikari, the only fighter available, and Sasuke left without taking another match.
• Sasuke Uchiha spent several days admiring the Mangekyō Sharingan he had awakened, while Naruto Uzumaki and the others mistook his behavior for the aftermath of his defeats.
• Uchiha Takashi summoned Little Team 7 and announced that a merchant caravan could legally take them to Rōran to return through the Dragon Vein.
• Kakashi Tsumiki and Sakura Haruno welcomed the news, while Naruto Uzumaki and Sasuke Uchiha regretted leaving a world where they felt accepted.
• Uchiha Takashi silently asked Sasuke Uchiha whether he had made a plan, and Sasuke nodded, having deduced that the scripts described his future and resolved to make a major move in the Shinobi World.

After Yukimichi Uchiha repelled the Sarutobi Clan's earlier attack, he led 500 Uchiha elites across the border and swiftly captured their fortress. The Sarutobi messenger concealed the scale of the defeat from the clan’s court, where the true losses remained far worse than he claimed.

• Uchiha Takashi ordered Yukimichi Uchiha to lead 500 elites west and strike into the Sarutobi Clan's Land of Gold.
• Yukimichi Uchiha bombarded the Sarutobi border fortress with gunpowder and used Fire Style: Ashen Earth Returns to the Abyss to destroy its walls.
• Yukimichi Uchiha led the Uchiha through the Sarutobi defenses, causing the defenders' morale to collapse and capturing the border front with few Uchiha casualties.
• A messenger reported the fortress's fall to the Sarutobi Clan's court and falsely claimed that the defenders had inflicted heavy losses on the Uchiha.
• The messenger hid that only about a hundred of the original 400 Sarutobi defenders remained, all wounded.

The Sarutobi Clan's chief and his advisers argued over how to stop the Uchiha advance, with military officers demanding more troops and civil officials warning that war taxes would ruin public support. The chief chose to risk nationwide conscription and a war tax to ambush the Uchiha, despite the civil officials' objections.

• A military officer proposed ambushing the Uchiha's main force in a southeastern valley, while a civil official challenged the plan over its cost and manpower.
• Military officers and civil officials traded insults until the Sarutobi Clan's chief ordered them to stop arguing and focus on the crisis.
• A military officer said they needed at least eight hundred troops, and a civil official insisted that funding was the primary problem.
• A civil official proposed conscripting ninja nationwide and imposing a war tax, drawing objections from another civil official and support from a military officer.
• The Sarutobi Clan's chief decided to gamble on destroying the Uchiha force, arguing that victory could open the way for the Land of Gold to expand.

The Land of Gold imposed a crushing war tax on its people, and corrupt samurai violently extorted farmers who could not pay. The chapter ended with similar abuses spreading throughout the country.

• The Land of Gold ordered a war tax, and townspeople learned they were required to pay thousands in banknotes.
• A farmer returned home and discovered that his savings of 1,200 were far short of the announced 5,000 tax.
• A samurai demanded 6,000 plus a 1,000 fee, then seized the farmer’s savings and valuables.
• When the samurai tried to take the farmer’s child to sell, the farmer attacked him but was beaten and killed.
• The samurai left with the farmer’s child and money as the farmer’s wife also lay dead, while similar incidents unfolded across the Land of Gold.

Yukimichi Uchiha led his army to the Land of Gold’s second defensive line and mistook its abandoned pass for a Sarutobi Clan ambush. After searching the empty city, he realized he had confidently warned his subordinates about a trap that did not exist, leaving him furious and humiliated.

• Yukimichi Uchiha’s army swept through the Land of Gold’s border regions and advanced to a fortified pass in a valley.
• Yukimichi Uchiha halted his troops, convinced the Sarutobi Clan was hiding nearby to ambush them.
• An Uchiha squad climbed the wall and searched the city but found no Sarutobi Clan members.
• Yukimichi Uchiha led a search himself and confirmed the pass had been abandoned.
• Yukimichi Uchiha grew angry and ashamed because his confident warnings had been disproved in front of his subordinates.

Yukimichi Uchiha advanced rapidly toward the capital and found a nearby town with barely any defenses, but chose to send Uchiha clansmen inside to investigate for an ambush. The scouts mistook the town’s quiet streets for evidence of a Sarutobi Clan deception and entered a restaurant to question its waiter.

• Yukimichi Uchiha reached a town near the capital in less than a day and saw that its defenses were sparse.
• Yukimichi Uchiha suspected a possible ambush and sent men who had searched the valley checkpoint to scout the town.
• The Uchiha scouts found the town deserted and concluded that the Sarutobi Clan had evacuated its people to hide a trap.
• The Uchiha scouts entered a restaurant, paid the astonished waiter three thousand ryo, and argued over whether the sum was enough.
• The Uchiha leader began using genjutsu to question the waiter for information.

Uchiha clansmen discovered that the city had no ambush or meaningful garrison after capturing a Sarutobi ninja and several tax-collecting samurai. Yukimichi Uchiha struggled to understand the Sarutobi Clan’s withdrawal and suspected its previous military competence had come from following the Senju Clan’s orders.

• Uchiha clansmen questioned a genjutsu-bound waiter and learned that the city was deserted because samurai were collecting a new war tax.
• Uchiha clansmen captured the tax-collecting samurai and Sarutobi ninja who entered the restaurant.
• The captives revealed that the city had almost no defenders because its garrison had been transferred to the capital.
• Uchiha clansmen investigated and confirmed the city had no ambush or garrison, then reported the news to Yukimichi Uchiha.
• Yukimichi Uchiha doubted the report at first, then wondered whether the Senju Clan had been responsible for the Sarutobi Clan’s former military competence.

Yukimichi Uchiha captured a Sarutobi Clan town and found its residents cheering the Uchiha as a royal army, even after he announced harsh rule. He halted before the Sarutobi capital, intending to let the Sarutobi gather their forces so he could surround and destroy them.

• Yukimichi Uchiha suspected the Sarutobi Clan had left its positions empty to lure the Uchiha into a trap.
• The Uchiha entered the town, where residents knelt and welcomed them as a royal army and bringers of justice.
• Yukimichi Uchiha announced taxes, tool rentals, and Uchiha ownership of the land, but the residents cheered even louder.
• After taking the town, Yukimichi Uchiha recognized that the Sarutobi Clan had left the capital exposed by abandoning its defensive positions.
• Yukimichi Uchiha stopped his army outside the capital to let Sarutobi forces gather, planning to surround and annihilate them.

Yukimichi Uchiha used the Hyuga Clan’s reconnaissance to track the Sarutobi Clan’s troop movements and judged their planned encirclement to be flawed. He led his force into the trap, leaving the Sarutobi convinced they had secured victory while the Uchiha still had reserves to call upon.

• The Sarutobi Clan discovered the Uchiha had reached a town near their capital and rushed to gather and deploy their troops.
• With the Hyuga Clan’s reconnaissance, Yukimichi Uchiha learned the Sarutobi Clan’s plans to divide eight hundred troops and encircle the Uchiha force.
• Yukimichi Uchiha concluded the Sarutobi Clan’s encirclement would fail because it could not reliably surround the Uchiha at once or break their morale.
• After the Sarutobi Clan finished moving its troops, Yukimichi Uchiha led his eager clansmen to their destination in less than half a day.
• The Sarutobi Clan spotted the Uchiha force entering the trap and celebrated, unaware that Uchiha Takashi could raise another force of several hundred.

Yukimichi Uchiha used mobile tactics to ambush and destroy Sarutobi squads one by one. After explosions wiped out two squads, the Sarutobi commander gambled that the Uchiha were exhausted and ordered the remaining forces to attack.

• Yukimichi Uchiha decided to keep his clan moving and defeat the four Sarutobi squads in sequence rather than hold their ground.
• Yukimichi ambushed the eastern Sarutobi squad, killed its commander, and trapped the disordered troops in an encirclement.
• Yukimichi and the Uchiha used a massive Fire Style technique to kill or gravely wound nearly all the Sarutobi clansmen in the encirclement.
• The Sarutobi commander heard explosions from the east and south and realized that two squads had likely been destroyed.
• The Sarutobi commander rejected retreat and ordered the remaining squads forward, gambling that the Uchiha had exhausted their chakra.

Yukimichi Uchiha rallied his troops as the Uchiha and Sarutobi forces met in a fierce battle. The Uchiha won the final head-on charge, leaving the Sarutobi commander-in-chief to accept his defeat and await death.

• Yukimichi Uchiha withdrew from direct combat, rallied the Uchiha troops, and led them toward the Sarutobi commander-in-chief.
• The Sarutobi commander-in-chief joined forces with the northern squad, bringing his numbers to nearly five hundred, while a civil official raised the troops’ morale.
• The Uchiha and Sarutobi forces clashed, fought in a chaotic melee, then pulled apart and reorganized.
• Yukimichi Uchiha and the Sarutobi commander-in-chief urged their soldiers to charge, and both armies abandoned their formations for a direct assault.
• The Uchiha broke the Sarutobi front rank and routed the remaining troops; the Sarutobi commander-in-chief accepted his defeat and closed his eyes as death approached.

After Yukimichi Uchiha defeated the Sarutobi forces, he looked forward to reaching the capital and earning honors. There, the Sarutobi Clan's leader accepted that resistance was futile and ordered the entire clan to surrender.

• Yukimichi Uchiha praised the fallen Sarutobi commander-in-chief and set his sights on the Sarutobi capital and the medals he hoped to win.
• The Sarutobi Clan's leader learned that the Uchiha had wiped out the remaining troops and despaired.
• A civil official urged the court to surrender, arguing that the Sarutobi Clan had no army, escape route, or viable allies.
• The civil official denounced the court for its failures, while the Sarutobi Clan's leader ordered the entire clan to surrender.
• The Sarutobi Clan's leader dismissed the officials and walked alone into the shadows.