Recaps

Uchiha Takashi negotiated an alliance with the Hyuga Clan in exchange for control of an iron mine’s output, and the clan agreed to target the Sarutobi and Uzumaki. He returned to find the grand elder preparing to attack the Hyuga in case negotiations failed.

• The Hyuga elder demanded thirty percent of Uchiha iron ore output and five hundred tan of farmland, but Uchiha Takashi negotiated the terms down to thirty percent of a nearby mine’s output, mined by the Hyuga themselves.
• The Hyuga Clan agreed to intercept the Sarutobi and Uzumaki after receiving the ore, while refusing to fight the Senju head-on.
• Uchiha Takashi and the Hyuga representatives signed an alliance agreement, making the Hyuga the Uchiha Clan’s first ally.
• Uchiha Takashi returned to the clan grounds and found the grand elder gathering fighters to attack the Hyuga if the talks had failed.
• Uchiha Takashi told the grand elder that the alliance terms were settled, and the grand elder praised his diplomatic ability.

Uchiha Takashi prepared to lead an elite force around the front and strike the Three-Clan Allied Forces’ camp from behind. He followed a Senju supply convoy to the camp gates but held back from attacking, leaving Homura Uchiha frustrated and demanding action.

• After receiving the Second Elder’s report that Uchiha forces faced overwhelming numbers, Uchiha Takashi proposed leading 100 men on a flanking attack, and the Grand Elder increased the force to 150.
• Uchiha Takashi assembled 150 elite clansmen, including Homura Uchiha, who insisted on joining to avenge Aka Uchiha.
• Uchiha Takashi led the group through an unmapped forest route toward the Three-Clan Allied Forces’ main camp.
• The Uchiha force encountered a Senju supply convoy, and Uchiha Takashi stopped Homura from attacking so they would not reveal their objective.
• Uchiha Takashi followed the convoy as it entered the main camp, but he refused to order an immediate attack despite Homura’s protests.

Uchiha Takashi led a surprise raid on the Senju Clan’s allied camp, striking both gates while the defenders struggled in darkness. At the rear gate, he confronted Tsuru Senju and pressed the fight with a flaming kunai.

• Uchiha Takashi ignored Homura Uchiha’s warning and led hundreds of Uchiha in an attack on the Senju transport convoy and camp entrance.
• The Uchiha slaughtered the convoy and fought into the camp while the defenders tried to close the crowded gate and call for reinforcements.
• Genichi Senju sent Tsuru Senju to defend the rear gate and led the response at the front, learning that contact with the roaming units had been lost.
• Tsuru Senju reached the dark, chaotic rear gate and found Uchiha Takashi waiting beyond it as Uchiha fighters attacked his troops.
• Tsuru Senju evaded Uchiha Takashi’s Genjutsu and countered his Fire Style with Water Release, but Uchiha Takashi vanished and attacked with a flaming kunai.

Uchiha Takashi defeated Tsuru Senju with a triple-layered genjutsu during a nighttime battle. The Uchiha forces wiped out Tsuru Senju’s force by exploiting their Sharingan and the darkness.

• Tsuru Senju fought Uchiha Takashi amid the darkness, believing he had killed him after a close-range clash.
• Tsuru Senju realized the corpse and battlefield were illusions, but remained convinced he had broken free of Uchiha Takashi’s genjutsu.
• Uchiha Takashi revealed that Tsuru Senju was still trapped in a layered genjutsu and stabbed him through the chest.
• Tsuru Senju died, and Uchiha Takashi saw that his force had been completely wiped out.
• The Uchiha used the darkness to target torchbearers and make the allied forces unable to locate them.

Uchiha Takashi used his Mangekyō Sharingan to kill the allied forces’ commanders during a surprise assault on their camp. With the Senju and Uzumaki troops thrown into disarray, the Uchiha assault squad pressed its attack.

• Uchiha Takashi led his clansmen through the rear gate and attacked the Three-Clan Allied Forces’ camp.
• Tetsu Uzumaki fought Takashi but struggled against his speed and skill until Genichi Senju arrived to help.
• Takashi’s Fire Style attack failed to injure Genichi, so he used his Mangekyō Sharingan ability to make Genichi forget his awareness of him and slit his throat.
• An unseen attacker stabbed Tetsu Uzumaki, and both commanders fell, throwing the Senju and Uzumaki clansmen into chaos.
• Takashi’s assault squad exploited the disorder as the chapter explained that his dōjutsu briefly erased objects from reality or a person’s awareness of him.

Uchiha Takashi’s surprise attack routed the Three-Clan Allied Forces and inflicted heavy losses, prompting the Senju to order a counterattack. Back at the Uchiha base, Takashi read the clan’s stone tablet and recognized its teachings as Black Zetsu’s alterations.

• Uchiha Takashi led his squad to the front gate, where the Uchiha forces attacked from both sides and routed the Three-Clan Allied Forces.
• The Uchiha tally keeper reported fifty-two Uchiha dead and at least five hundred enemy deaths, most caused by the squad led by Uchiha Takashi.
• Fū Senju learned that the front had been lost and ordered Tsuru Senju to retake the camp within three days, unaware that Tsuru Senju and Genichi Senju were dead.
• The Uchiha grand elder welcomed Uchiha Takashi back and took him to the shrine to read the ancestral stone tablet.
• Uchiha Takashi used his Mangekyō Sharingan to read the tablet and identified its claims about the Senju and gaining power as alterations made by Black Zetsu.

Uchiha Takashi learned that the tablet described tailed beasts and the power of combining yin and yang, then asked the grand elder to record a warning against forcibly controlling the beasts. He later traveled with the Guard Force to a threatened village and offered its residents protection and a new home in Uchiha Village.

• Uchiha Takashi told the grand elder about the tablet’s references to tailed beasts and combining yin and yang, and they agreed that future generations should not forcibly control the beasts.
• Uchiha Takashi visited Uchiha Village, where Fū Uchiha reported that a nearby village of several hundred people was at risk of being wiped out.
• Uchiha Takashi led Yukimichi Uchiha and the Guard Force to the village, where Yukimichi used his Three-Tomoe Sharingan to incapacitate the guard at the entrance.
• The village chief greeted the Uchiha, and Yukimichi offered the residents protection, farmland, and a chance to live in Uchiha Village under its laws.

Yukimichi Uchiha offered a village land and farming tools under Uchiha rule, with a thirty-percent tax that the villagers welcomed as unusually low. After Takashi punished a villager who demanded better terms, he ordered Yukimichi to kill anyone else who resisted and told the Uchiha clansmen to dispose of the defiant man.

• Yukimichi Uchiha promised the village chief land, farming tools, and a thirty-percent tax, and the chief eagerly agreed to join Uchiha Village.
• The chief announced the move to the villagers, who accepted after hearing the Uchiha Clan would collect only thirty percent in taxes.
• A middle-aged villager demanded more land and no taxes, so Takashi kicked him to the ground and warned the others against greed and resistance.
• Takashi authorized Yukimichi to kill anyone who pushed their luck, and Yukimichi ordered the clansmen to string up the man as a warning.
• After the villager threatened to appeal to the daimyo, Takashi ordered the Uchiha clansmen to dispose of him.

Uchiha Takashi discovered that mountain bandits had occupied an abandoned iron mine and decided to capture them for forced mining rather than attack with only himself and Fū Uchiha. After returning to the village for a squad and restraints, he found the storehouse already stocked with numerous tools for imprisoning people.

• Uchiha Takashi ordered the villagers to pack and set out for Uchiha Village under Yukimichi Uchiha's guard.
• While scouting, Uchiha Takashi met Fū Uchiha, who was heading to inspect an abandoned iron mine.
• Uchiha Takashi and Fū Uchiha found mountain bandits occupying the mine and agreed they should be captured to work it.
• Uchiha Takashi explained that they should return to the village for a squad and restraints before trying to control the bandits.
• Fū Uchiha went to fetch supplies, and Uchiha Takashi was surprised to find the storehouse contained many tools for imprisoning people.

Fū Uchiha and the Uchiha clansmen seized an iron mine camp from a band of robbers, though they accidentally killed the camp’s leader before they could question him. Fū found Tsukina Fujiwara, a captive from a robbed caravan, and carried her out of the storeroom.

• Fū Uchiha led a dozen Uchiha clansmen in a direct assault on the bandit camp while others guarded its perimeter.
• The Uchiha killed several bandits, and the survivors surrendered as the clan took control of the camp.
• Fū asked who was in charge, then learned his clansmen had already killed the bandit leader despite his order to keep the bandits alive.
• The Uchiha found Tsukina Fujiwara hiding in the storeroom, and she explained that the bandits had captured her after robbing her caravan.
• When Tsukina stumbled while following Fū, he tucked her under his arm and carried her outside.

Uchiha Takashi questioned Tsukina Fujiwara under Genjutsu and learned that she belonged to a family related to the daimyo’s minister, Suke Fujiwara. He decided the Uchiha Clan might benefit from winning the Fujiwara family’s support.

• Fū Uchiha returned from the bandit stronghold with its captives and Tsukina Fujiwara, whom he had rescued.
• Uchiha Takashi teased Fū about carrying Tsukina and learned that Fū had no interest in women and was focused on becoming stronger and avenging his parents.
• Uchiha Takashi stopped Fū and used his Mangekyō Sharingan to question Tsukina about her identity and how the bandits had captured her.
• Tsukina revealed that her father was Suke Fujiwara’s younger paternal cousin and that their family did business in the nearby City of Red.
• Uchiha Takashi learned that Arikaze Tanaka’s bandits had abducted Tsukina that morning, shortly before the Uchiha arrived and defeated them.
• Uchiha Takashi reconsidered bringing Tsukina into the Uchiha Clan and saw the Fujiwara family as a potential ally in the Land of Fire’s court.

Uchiha Takashi learned that Yuki Senju had been sent from prison to work for him and warned her against causing trouble. Yuki Senju arrived in the village and was left trembling after Uchiha Takashi threatened to test a pain-amplifying genjutsu on her.

• Uchiha Takashi sent Yukimichi Uchiha to deliver a letter to Kai Fujiwara and learned from the First Elder that Yuki Senju was being sent to work for him.
• Homura Uchiha escorted Yuki Senju to the village in shackles and left her with Fū Uchiha.
• Yuki Senju mocked the village as Fū Uchiha led her to Uchiha Takashi's office, where Fū kicked her inside.
• Uchiha Takashi reminded Yuki Senju of her past capture and threatened to use a pain-amplifying genjutsu to keep her in line.

With the front stabilized and Uchiha Village thriving, Uchiha Takashi focused on strengthening the clan before war resumed. He suspected Kai Fujiwara had been killed and Tsukina Fujiwara sent away to protect her from Suke Fujiwara, so he dispatched Yukimichi Uchiha to investigate the Fujiwara Family in the City of Fire.

• Uchiha Takashi had Yuki Senju taken away and read reports showing that the Hyuga Clan’s alliance had helped stabilize the front and halt the fighting.
• Uchiha Takashi planned to use the coming months to develop the Uchiha before war with the Senju resumed.
• Uchiha Village grew to over a thousand people, reclaimed farmland, began establishing an iron-mining area, and organized its laws and Guard Force.
• Yukimichi Uchiha told Uchiha Takashi that Kai Fujiwara had left the City of Red for the City of Fire soon after Tsukina Fujiwara departed, apparently after receiving a letter from Suke Fujiwara.
• Uchiha Takashi suspected Kai Fujiwara was already dead and that Tsukina Fujiwara had been sent away for her safety, then ordered Yukimichi Uchiha to investigate the Fujiwara Family in the City of Fire.

Uchiha Takashi decided that absorbing the Chinoike Clan might strengthen the Uchiha bloodline and improve their combat abilities, so he asked the grand elder to arrange it. He learned the Uchiha had helped exile and imprison the Chinoike, leaving a peaceful merger uncertain, and prepared to use force if necessary.

• Uchiha Takashi considered how to preserve the Uchiha bloodline without restricting marriages and identified the Chinoike Clan as a possible way to strengthen it.
• Uchiha Takashi wrote to the grand elder, asking him to send people to the Land of Hot Water and bring the Chinoike Clan into the Uchiha, by force if needed.
• The grand elder replied that he recommended using force and explained that the Uchiha had driven the Chinoike from the Land of Lightning and continued guarding their imprisonment in Hell Valley.
• Uchiha Takashi realized the clans' history made a peaceful merger unlikely and prepared to force the Chinoike to join if they refused.

Uchiha Takashi traveled to the Land of Hot Water to investigate the Chinoike Clan and discuss the possibility of recruiting them. After learning about the clan’s situation, he fled a brothel in embarrassment when he realized what kind of service the hot spring offered.

• Uchiha Takashi brought Hen Uchiha and Sora Uchiha to Hot Water City before continuing to Hell Valley.
• Uchiha Takashi relaxed in a hot spring until a local Uchiha clansman arrived to brief him.
• The clansman reported that the Chinoike Clan had around two to three thousand members, was led by Naka Chinoike, and lived in poor conditions in Hell Valley.
• Women entered to offer the establishment’s services, and Uchiha Takashi realized the hot spring also operated as a brothel.
• Uchiha Takashi got a nosebleed and hurried outside to cool off, leaving Hen Uchiha confused.

Uchiha Takashi discussed absorbing the Chinoike Clan and learned that a large Uchiha force was stationed in the Land of Hot Water under contract. He left the hot spring establishment suspecting that the Chinoike bloodline might have originated from an Uchiha ancestor’s descendants.

• Uchiha Takashi told a clansman he wanted the Chinoike Clan to join the Uchiha and asked whether they had enough strength to force them.
• The clansman revealed that fifteen Mitsudomoe and fifty Futatsudomoe Uchiha were stationed there, explaining that the Land of Lightning had hired them to guard the Chinoike and the clan head had never ordered them away.
• Uchiha Takashi argued that the Uchiha could take the Chinoike to their own clan without violating their guard contract and insisted on finding a way to absorb them without unnecessary deaths.
• Uchiha Takashi and the others left the hot spring establishment, and Takashi wondered whether the Chinoike Clan had descended from an Uchiha ancestor.
• Uchiha Takashi questioned ten-year-old Hen Uchiha about the establishment, and Hen awkwardly insisted that he had avoided letting the Uchiha bloodline spread outside the clan.

Uchiha Takashi reached the guard camp near Hell Valley and set out with Uoyuki Uchiha and the assembled Uchiha to confront the Chinoike Clan. As Naka Chinoike mourned the wine spilled when a messenger burst in, he learned that someone was coming to Hell Valley to beat them up.

• Uchiha Takashi learned that the Chinoike Clan had only a small number of fighters left in Hell Valley.
• Uoyuki Uchiha welcomed Uchiha Takashi at the guard camp and agreed to support him.
• Uchiha Takashi dismissed concerns about the Daimyo of the Land of Lightning and ordered the Uchiha to prepare to confront the Chinoike Clan.
• Naka Chinoike's wine spilled when a messenger kicked open his door with urgent news.
• The messenger confirmed that outsiders were coming to Hell Valley, and Naka Chinoike was shocked that he had guessed correctly.

Uchiha Takashi offered the Chinoike Clan a chance to leave Hell Valley if they joined the Uchiha, but clan leader Naka Chinoike resisted despite his clansmen's desire to escape. Under pressure from the armed Uchiha, the clansmen accepted the offer on their leader's behalf, leaving Naka stunned.

• Uchiha Takashi introduced himself to Naka Chinoike and explained that the Uchiha had come to offer the Chinoike a way out of Hell Valley.
• Naka Chinoike said he did not understand why the Daimyo of the Land of Lightning was their enemy, while another clansman grasped that they could leave Hell Valley.
• Uchiha Takashi said the Chinoike could leave only if they joined the Uchiha, and Naka initially refused.
• Seeing the Uchiha activate their Sharingan and draw their weapons, Naka hesitated when Takashi demanded a yes-or-no answer.
• The Chinoike clansmen accepted the offer for themselves, claiming Naka could stay behind to defend the clan's integrity, and left him stunned.

Uchiha Takashi forced Naka Chinoike and the Chinoike Clan to submit to the Uchiha, then considered how to strengthen his clan. He decided that encouraging the Uchiha to have more children could grow its population and future strength.

• Naka Chinoike's clansmen pledged loyalty to the Uchiha, and Naka quickly agreed after Uchiha Takashi threatened to discard him.
• Uchiha Takashi and the other Uchiha took Naka's treasured rice wine and assured him that the Uchiha would clear the charges against the Chinoike and deal with the Daimyo of the Land of Lightning.
• Naka questioned the Uchiha's motives and strength, so Uchiha Takashi demonstrated his power while Uoyuki Uchiha challenged Naka to spar and dragged him away.
• Uchiha Takashi considered ways to increase the Uchiha Clan's fighting strength and realized that having more children could expand the clan's population.

Uchiha Takashi planned to boost the clan’s population by funding child-rearing and keeping children off the battlefield longer, intending to use Tsukina Fujiwara’s family wealth to pay for it. He led the assembled Chinoike out of Hell Valley, while another Uchiha arrived at the Land of Lightning daimyo’s residence for a meeting.

• Uchiha Takashi reasoned that clan-funded child-rearing and later battlefield entry could create a growing population, and he considered Tsukina Fujiwara’s inherited fortune the answer to the cost.
• Naka Chinoike arrived badly bruised after Uoyuki Uchiha defeated him with genjutsu during a spar.
• Uchiha Takashi ordered the Uchiha and Chinoike families to leave Hell Valley, and he was pleased by the large number of people joining the clan.
• A samurai challenged an approaching Uchiha at the Land of Lightning daimyo’s residence, then nearly suffocated under the Uchiha’s pressure.
• A messenger invited the Uchiha inside to meet the daimyo, and the samurai collapsed gasping after the pressure lifted.

An Uchiha clansman visited Jinmu Yotsuki to end the Uchiha Clan’s contract to guard the Chinoike, claiming the clan no longer existed. He left Jinmu and his court terrified by genjutsu, and Jinmu ordered everyone to keep the incident secret rather than seek revenge.

• An Uchiha clansman confronted Jinmu Yotsuki and reminded him of the centuries-old contract between the Land of Lightning and the Uchiha Clan.
• The Uchiha clansman used his Sharingan to incapacitate a minister, while the samurai refused to attack him.
• The Uchiha clansman announced that the contract was over because the Chinoike Clan no longer existed, and Jinmu accepted his explanation.
• When Jinmu demanded an explanation for the minister’s injury, the Uchiha clansman intimidated the court before vanishing from the hall.
• Jinmu realized the encounter had been genjutsu, silenced the minister, and decided not to retaliate against the Uchiha.

Yukimichi Uchiha searched the City of Fire for information about Kai Fujiwara and learned that Kai was dead and that Suke Fujiwara had killed him. When the city was sealed and Senju forces appeared at the gate, Yukimichi sent a crow toward Uchiha Village with a record of what he had discovered.

• Yukimichi Uchiha entered the City of Fire and searched merchant caravans and the area around the Fujiwara residence for information about Kai Fujiwara.
• Yukimichi Uchiha used genjutsu on a sleazy man, who revealed that Kai Fujiwara was dead, Suke Fujiwara had killed him, and the death had been covered up.
• Yukimichi Uchiha paid the man five hundred ryo, then saw samurai escorting him through the streets with signs accusing him of spreading malicious rumors.
• Yukimichi Uchiha found the city gate sealed and noticed Senju and Uzumaki chakra among the guards, so he returned to his inn and sent a crow carrying a record of events to Uchiha Village.
• A Senju Clan unit captain sensed a faint trace of yin chakra but dismissed it as his imagination, while the crow flew away unnoticed.

Uchiha Takashi reviewed Uchiha Village’s growing population and farmland before receiving news of the Senju and Uzumaki in the City of Fire. Convinced that they were conspiring with Suke Fujiwara to seize the Fujiwara Family’s wealth, he decided to seek the Daimyo of the Land of Fire’s support.

• Uchiha Takashi calculated that Uchiha Village’s expanding farmland could soon feed the Uchiha and Chinoike ninja and help free them from agricultural work.
• A crow delivered an encrypted message revealing that Kai Fujiwara was dead and that the Senju and Uzumaki had appeared in the City of Fire.
• Uchiha Takashi concluded that Suke Fujiwara had enlisted the Senju and Uzumaki to kill Kai Fujiwara and take the Fujiwara branch family’s assets, and that they had arranged the attack on Tsukina Fujiwara.
• Uchiha Takashi decided to go to the City of Fire and enlist the Daimyo of the Land of Fire against the Senju’s alleged scheme.

Uchiha Takashi infiltrated the sealed City of Fire and persuaded the powerless daimyo to authorize the Uchiha Clan to take control of the Fujiwara Family’s assets. The daimyo agreed, hoping the Uchiha would help him overthrow the three families that controlled his government.

• Uchiha Takashi used his eye technique to enter the City of Fire with his followers and ordered Yukimichi Uchiha to stay hidden at an inn.
• The daimyo lamented that the three great families had stripped him of authority and that he had no one in the capital he could command.
• Uchiha Takashi entered the daimyo’s residence and offered Uchiha support in removing the Fujiwara Family and the other two families.
• Uchiha Takashi asked the daimyo for his authorization in exchange for the Uchiha Clan handling the conflict and claiming the Fujiwara assets on behalf of Tsukina Fujiwara.
• The daimyo agreed to the proposal, and Uchiha Takashi left while privately dismissing the thought that he sounded like a villain.

After Yukimichi Uchiha revealed that soldiers had seen him enter the city, Uchiha Takashi abandoned his original plan and ordered a midnight assault on the Senju and Uzumaki camps. The Uchiha began their attack, killing the Senju commander and plunging the camp into chaos, but an Uzumaki fighter’s Adamantine Sealing Chains interrupted Takashi’s strike.

• Yukimichi Uchiha told Uchiha Takashi that soldiers had seen him use his Sharingan in the city, prompting Takashi to change his plan.
• Uchiha Takashi ordered the Uchiha clan to attack the Senju and Uzumaki quarters at midnight before reinforcements could arrive.
• Yukimichi Uchiha killed a Senju guard and led Uchiha clan members into the camp while Uchiha Takashi located the commander’s building.
• Uchiha Takashi killed the sleeping Senju commander, but an attacker shouted “Adamantine Sealing Chains!” and Takashi dodged and countered with a fireball that wrecked the building.
• After seeing the explosion, Yukimichi Uchiha attacked the Senju tents, and Uchiha clan members killed anyone trying to light the camp as alarms and confusion spread.