Recaps

At Fū Uchiha and Tsukina Fujiwara’s wedding, Tatsu Uchiha remembered the girl he had loved and lost during the war. He gave the newlyweds a heartfelt blessing, hoping they would stay together forever.

• Tatsu Uchiha watched Fū Uchiha and Tsukina Fujiwara leave the room together and remembered how he had once fallen in love with a girl.
• In his memory, Tatsu Uchiha promised the girl he would become grand elder and give her a lively wedding, but the war destroyed their plans.
• The girl died in Tatsu Uchiha’s arms, and his Sharingan changed as he grieved.
• Fū Uchiha and Tsukina Fujiwara reached the final stage of their wedding and prepared to remove their masks.
• Tatsu Uchiha interrupted the ceremony to bless the couple, wishing they would remain together in peace and never be parted.

After a peaceful year of reforms and profits, Uchiha Takashi learned that the Senju Clan might ally with the Hyuga Clan to attack the Uchiha. He decided to investigate the Hyuga Clan’s intentions himself, despite Tatsu Uchiha’s objections.

• Fū Uchiha returned to the village with Tsukina Fujiwara, while Hen Uchiha complained about being left with administrative work.
• The Uchiha Clan’s investment in grain production began earning profits, and the clan completed its military reforms into a full-time shinobi army.
• Uchiha Takashi received news that the Senju Clan was seeking an alliance with the Hyuga Clan to surround and attack the Uchiha.
• Uchiha Takashi, Tatsu Uchiha, and Kyō Uchiha discussed how to respond if the Hyuga Clan joined the Senju.
• Uchiha Takashi decided that Tatsu Uchiha would publicly visit the Hyuga Clan while he secretly infiltrated its headquarters for intelligence, but Tatsu Uchiha protested.

The Hyuga Branch Family head grew determined to resist the Main Family’s rule and saw the Uchiha Clan as the force that could make it possible. He planned to wait for Uchiha action over the Hyuga-Senju alliance and then ask them to help eliminate the Main Family.

• The Branch Family head warned two elders that the Hyuga Clan’s closeness with the Senju could lead to war with the Uchiha and the clan’s destruction, but the elders said the Main Family made the decisions and the Caged Bird Seal kept them powerless.
• Angered by the Branch Family’s submission, the Branch Family head challenged the elders to resist, while the first elder argued that the Main Family could punish dissenters with the Caged Bird Seal.
• The Branch Family head left the elders and, seeing the Caged Bird Seal marks on young clan members, resolved to find a way to oppose the Main Family.
• He concluded that the Branch Family could not fight the Main Family alone and identified the Uchiha Clan as the outside force they needed.
• The Branch Family head planned to wait for the Uchiha to respond to the Hyuga-Senju relationship, then present the Branch Family’s demands and use Uchiha support to remove the Main Family.

Uchiha Takashi argued with Kyō Uchiha and Tatsu Uchiha over his plan to visit the Hyuga Clan, eventually securing approval to go with an elite delegation. He agreed to wait a week while the clan prepared.

• Kyō Uchiha and Tatsu Uchiha refused to let Uchiha Takashi leave the compound alone for an infiltration mission.
• Uchiha Takashi proposed that Kyō Uchiha lead a delegation with Uchiha elites, who could seize control of the Hyuga Clan if negotiations revealed a threat.
• Tatsu Uchiha realized Uchiha Takashi was using the delegation plan to ensure he could join the mission, and Takashi claimed he had held back the idea as a negotiating tactic.
• Uchiha Takashi explained that he wanted to gather intelligence personally and was concerned about Kyō Uchiha's lack of diplomatic experience.
• Tatsu Uchiha agreed to the plan on the condition that Takashi wait a week for preparations, and Takashi accepted while suggesting they take even longer.

Uchiha Takashi spent his free time inspecting the Uchiha Clan school and observing its students. He heard complaints about the academic classes, cafeteria food, and prisonlike school, and decided to address the cafeteria issue later.

• Uchiha Takashi left the administrative building and chose to inspect the school beside it.
• A dedicated security guard greeted Uchiha Takashi at the school gates and insisted on protecting the clan’s students.
• Uchiha Takashi watched two boys try to pass homework between them, and they panicked when they noticed him at the window.
• Uchiha Takashi continued through the school and heard students complain about academic classes, the cafeteria food, and the school’s resemblance to a prison.
• Uchiha Takashi decided to deal with the cafeteria complaints later but considered the other complaints acceptable.

Uchiha Takashi visited the Uchiha Secret Technique Research Institute to check on Chidori, which researchers had struggled to make efficient enough for widespread use. After observing a demonstration, he identified problems and showed them an improved version that used five hand seals and far less chakra.

• Uchiha Takashi left the school after ordering improvements to the cafeteria and wandered around the clan grounds.
• Uchiha Takashi entered the research institute and asked how the researchers' improvements to Chidori were progressing.
• A researcher explained that Chidori's final form was complete, but its enormous chakra consumption prevented its widespread use.
• Uchiha Takashi watched a researcher demonstrate Chidori and identified issues with its lightning shaping, chakra flow, and hand seals.
• Uchiha Takashi demonstrated an improved Chidori using five hand seals, and the researcher marveled at how easily he had refined it.

Uchiha Takashi inspected the Konoha Military Police Force and learned that its members struggled to distinguish customary Uchiha behavior from offenses under the law. He resolved to reinforce the law’s authority and planned ways to collect suggestions from clan members.

• Uchiha Takashi left the research institute after ordering Chidori to be recorded in the Uchiha Clan's Ninjutsu scrolls, then decided to inspect the Konoha Military Police Force.
• Uchiha Takashi visited the busy headquarters and asked Uchiha Seki about the force’s daily work and most common incidents.
• Uchiha Seki explained that the force was uncertain how to classify some fights because Uchiha customs treated them as normal, while the law prohibited them.
• Uchiha Seki listed other customary behaviors that violated the law, and Uchiha Takashi noted them down so he could reinforce legal standards in the clan.
• Uchiha Takashi offered to improve the force’s uniforms, equipment, and procedures, then decided to send Uchiha Seki a questionnaire and set up a suggestion box.

After finding the Uchiha Guard Force was well organized and popular with civilians, Uchiha Takashi stopped a fight outside its building and realized that clansmen often settled disputes through combat. He decided to build a regulated dueling arena where the Uchiha could fight over unresolved disagreements without breaking the law or causing serious injuries.

• Uchiha Takashi confirmed the Guard Force was operating well and left its building, reassured by the positive civilian feedback.
• Uchiha Takashi found clansmen preparing to fight while a crowd urged them on, and ordered everyone to stop.
• The two clansmen explained that they had argued over who bumped into whom and admitted that disputes in the clan were often settled by whoever won a fight.
• Uchiha Takashi ordered the two clansmen to report themselves to the Guard Force and write self-criticisms.
• Uchiha Takashi decided to build a dueling arena where the Guard Force would review disputes and allow controlled fights only when neither side was clearly at fault.

Uchiha Takashi’s delegation visited the Hyuga Clan while he secretly infiltrated its territory to gather intelligence. The Hyuga clan head weighed the Senju Clan’s offer against the Uchiha’s arrival, determined to profit from both sides.

• Uchiha Takashi reviewed the delegation list, which included more than thirty elite Uchiha, and secretly left the group before it reached the Hyuga Main Family.
• Kyō Uchiha led the delegation to a Hyuga Branch Family encampment, where an elder received them and waited for permission to proceed.
• A Senju envoy offered the Hyuga clan head additional land in exchange for betraying the Uchiha, but the clan head demanded more benefits.
• After learning the Uchiha had arrived with only a normal-sized delegation, the Hyuga clan head ordered that they be admitted and prepared to hear their offer.
• Uchiha Takashi hid in the Branch Family encampments and then infiltrated the Main Family, where he overheard elders say the clan head intended to profit from both the Senju and the Uchiha.

Uchiha Takashi discovered that the Hyuga Clan was wavering while the Uchiha delegation waited in the Branch Family compound. The Hyuga Branch Family head deduced the Uchiha’s hidden plan and approached Kyō Uchiha to negotiate on the Branch Family’s behalf, separating it from the Main Family.

• Uchiha Takashi inferred that the Hyuga clan head was delaying negotiations to extort more money from the Uchiha, then left the Main Family compound.
• Kyō Uchiha stayed calmly in the reception room while the Hyuga Main Family stalled the delegation, and the Branch Family head grew suspicious of the Uchiha’s true purpose.
• The Hyuga Branch Family head reasoned that the Uchiha delegation’s unusually large size meant it consisted of Mitsudomoe elites prepared to attack the Main Family.
• The Branch Family head confronted Kyō Uchiha, who openly challenged whether the Hyuga could stop thirty-odd Mitsudomoe users.
• The Branch Family head said he had come to negotiate for the Branch Family, claiming it had no connection to the Main Family and shared the Uchiha’s enemy.

Kyō Uchiha listened as the Hyuga Branch Family head offered to help the Uchiha attack the Hyuga Main Family in exchange for an alliance and protection from the Branch Family’s oppression. Kyō grew increasingly suspicious and prepared to kill him, but Uchiha Takashi returned before he could act.

• The Hyuga Branch Family head told Kyō Uchiha that the Hyuga Main Family was their shared enemy and explained the Branch Family’s oppression under the Caged Bird Seal.
• The Hyuga Branch Family head offered to guide the Uchiha past the Branch Family defenses so they could strike the Main Family directly.
• Kyō Uchiha weighed the offer against the risk that the Hyuga were stalling and trapping his thirty-odd elites.
• The Hyuga Branch Family head promised support against the Senju and offered for the Branch Family to pledge allegiance to the Uchiha.
• Kyō Uchiha grew more suspicious, gripped a hidden kunai, and prepared to silence the Hyuga Branch Family head.
• Uchiha Takashi returned just as Kyō Uchiha was about to act.

Uchiha Takashi accepted the Hyuga Branch Family head’s offer to help destroy the Hyuga Main Family, giving him one day to prepare. He then planned to make the Branch Family kill the Senju Clan’s envoys, forcing it into conflict with the Senju before the Uchiha attack.

• Uchiha Takashi used his Mangekyō Sharingan ability to verify that the Hyuga Branch Family head was telling the truth, then gave him one day to prepare the rebellion.
• The Hyuga Branch Family head promised that Uchiha forces would face no enemies during their raid and agreed to attack anyone they encountered.
• Uchiha Takashi told Kyō Uchiha that he intended to eliminate the Hyuga threat while avoiding the payment demanded by the Hyuga Main Family head.
• Uchiha Takashi revealed that the Senju Clan had sent envoys to the Hyuga Clan and decided to make the Branch Family kill them.
• Uchiha Takashi instructed Kyō Uchiha to tell the Hyuga Branch Family head to attack the Senju envoys before the Uchiha moved against the Hyuga Clan.

The Hyuga Branch Family head assured Uchiha Takashi that nothing would disrupt their plan, then poisoned the Hyuga elders and a Senju envoy. He ended the chapter declaring that the Hyuga Clan would have no Main or Branch Family after that night.

• Kyō Uchiha relayed Uchiha Takashi’s plan to the Hyuga Branch Family head, who promised nothing unexpected would happen.
• Uchiha Takashi questioned how the Hyuga Branch Family head could ensure the plan’s success, but Kyō Uchiha said the head had seemed certain.
• The Hyuga Branch Family head invited the Hyuga first and second elders and the Senju Clan’s special envoy to his residence and served them tea, wine, and food.
• The Hyuga Branch Family head poisoned the drinks; the first elder and Senju envoy began convulsing, while the second elder begged for an antidote.
• The Hyuga Branch Family head told the second elder there was no antidote, watched him die, and declared that there would be no more Main or Branch Family, only Hyuga.

The Hyuga Branch Family launched its rebellion by killing the Senju delegation while the Uchiha Clan infiltrated the Main Family compound. The Uchiha elites attacked and killed the Main Family leader and grand elder, leaving the Main Family under assault.

• The Hyuga Branch Family leader ordered the rebellion to begin and had the Senju delegation confined to its quarters.
• The Hyuga Branch Family leader attacked the Senju deputy envoy, disrupted his Chakra, and killed him while his clansmen slaughtered the rest of the delegation.
• Uchiha Takashi waited for the signal that the Senju delegation had been dealt with, then ordered the Uchiha elites to attack the Main Family.
• The Main Family leader spotted Uchiha forces surrounding the compound and sent a distress signal as the Uchiha entered the residence.
• Kyō Uchiha killed the Main Family leader and grand elder before they could use Rotation.

Uchiha Takashi stopped Hyuga Branch Family members from killing five-year-old Hyuga Yō, rescued her from the Main Family compound, and ordered both clans to spare children under six. By morning, several young Main Family members had survived, and Kyō Uchiha and the Hyuga Branch Family head waited for Uchiha Takashi to arrive.

• Uchiha Takashi found Hyuga Yō fleeing Branch Family members and persuaded them to spare her because she was a young child who had been destined for the Branch Family.
• Uchiha Takashi agreed to take Hyuga Yō with him and ordered the Uchiha clan and Hyuga Branch Family not to harm children under six.
• After the night of violence, Branch Family members cleaned up the Main Family compound while the surviving five- and six-year-old children gathered in fear.
• Kyō Uchiha and the Hyuga Branch Family head waited for Uchiha Takashi to arrive.

Uchiha Takashi spared the Hyuga Main Family children, stationed Uchiha forces in Hyuga, and sent Hyuga clansmen to the front against the Senju. As the Senju reacted to the Uchiha’s growing power, Fū Senju appointed Oto Senju to build an alliance against them and learned Oto’s five-year-old brother was named Shura.

• Uchiha Takashi agreed that the Hyuga Main Family children could live under the Caged Bird Seal and took them into Uchiha custody until a less harmful seal could be developed.
• Uchiha Takashi arranged for Uchiha forces to garrison Hyuga while the Hyuga Branch Family sent most of its clansmen to the front against the Senju.
• The Uchiha main force relieved the Hyuga clansmen, and Tatsu Uchiha told Kyō Uchiha that sparing the Main Family would keep the Hyuga divided, though Uchiha Takashi had actually wanted to protect the children.
• Fū Senju learned that the Uchiha had secured the Hyuga Clan and, after speaking with Oto Senju, appointed him diplomatic envoy to recruit clans hostile to the Uchiha.
• Fū Senju learned that Oto Senju’s younger brother was named Shura and was five years old, matching a figure mentioned in Fū’s dream about defeating the Uchiha.

Uchiha Takashi sought a way to learn senjutsu and was summoned to Mount Myōboku after a toad arrived with a request from the Great Toad Sage. He reached the sage land, intending to find out why the Great Toad Sage wanted to see him and hoping to learn senjutsu.

• Uchiha Takashi reviewed the clan’s reports and worried that his limited offensive abilities and Mangekyō Sharingan’s side effects left him short of the strength he needed.
• Uchiha Takashi decided to seek senjutsu and searched the Uchiha Clan Compound for a Mount Myōboku toad, repeatedly giving up before resuming his search.
• A talking toad told Uchiha Takashi that the Great Toad Sage had sent it to summon him because the Shinobi World’s future was at stake.
• Uchiha Takashi told a clansman to inform Senior Tatsu Uchiha that he would be away, then signed the toad’s contract.
• The toad used the Reverse Summoning Technique to take Uchiha Takashi to Mount Myōboku.

Uchiha Takashi confronted the Great Toad Sage on Mount Myōboku, rejecting his warnings and condemning his failure to prevent suffering in the Shinobi World. After revealing how much he knew about Otsutsuki Kaguya, Takashi activated his Mangekyō Sharingan and faced the Great Toad Sage down.

• Uchiha Takashi arrived at Mount Myōboku and met the Great Toad Sage, who said Takashi's Sharingan spanned the mind, space, and time.
• The Great Toad Sage explained that Takashi's four-square Mangekyō Sharingan repeatedly interrupted his prophetic dreams and left him unable to foresee the Shinobi World's future.
• Uchiha Takashi accused the Great Toad Sage of watching wars and deaths unfold instead of using his powers to stop them.
• Uchiha Takashi told the Great Toad Sage about Otsutsuki Kaguya, the Sage of Six Paths, Hamura Otsutsuki, and the black entity born from Kaguya.
• Uchiha Takashi declared that he would follow his own path and activated his Mangekyō Sharingan as chakra surged around him.

Uchiha Takashi argued with the Great Toad Sage that he could reduce war by uniting the Shinobi World and advancing society, even if war could not yet be eliminated. The Great Toad Sage accepted a bet to watch his efforts and agreed to teach him senjutsu.

• The Great Toad Sage questioned Uchiha Takashi's goal of ending the era of war and warned that war could not be avoided.
• Uchiha Takashi explained that he wanted to reduce the frequency and intensity of wars while working toward a more advanced society.
• Uchiha Takashi explained his ideas about technological progress and social development, and the Great Toad Sage acknowledged his reasoning.
• Uchiha Takashi argued that uniting the Shinobi World by force would reduce wars and challenged the Great Toad Sage to judge his success over time.
• The Great Toad Sage accepted the bet, and Uchiha Takashi asked him to teach senjutsu; the Great Toad Sage agreed.

Uchiha Takashi began learning senjutsu from Sage Fukasaku and displayed extraordinary talent, quickly sensing natural energy and producing senjutsu chakra. Sage Shima arrived as Fukasaku marveled at Takashi’s abilities.

• The Great Toad Sage warned Uchiha Takashi that failed senjutsu training could turn him into stone and assigned Sage Fukasaku to teach him.
• Sage Fukasaku explained how to sense natural energy, and Uchiha Takashi detected it almost immediately.
• Fukasaku compared Takashi’s talent to that of the Sage of Six Paths, while Takashi claimed he might have a sage body.
• Takashi learned to synthesize and store senjutsu chakra in half a day, astonishing Fukasaku.
• Sage Shima arrived and asked Fukasaku why he was still teaching, and Fukasaku explained Takashi’s rapid progress.

Uchiha Takashi returned from Mount Myōboku and learned that the clans had remained quiet, but a pile of Shimura requests to change teammates awaited him. He called Tatsu Uchiha to discuss reorganizing the squads, only to find Tatsu exhausted after covering Takashi’s work.

• Uchiha Takashi left Mount Myōboku after Fukasaku told him to return for a checkup before activating Sage Mode.
• Uchiha Takashi returned to the clan headquarters and learned that the Senju, Hyuga, Shimura, and Chinoike had made no unusual moves.
• Uchiha Takashi found applications from young Shimura ninja asking to switch teammates and join squads with Uchiha.
• Uchiha Takashi decided not to break up Uchiha squads without testing the effects, but considered reorganizing units now that the Hyuga had joined and the Chinoike could form an army.
• Uchiha Takashi summoned Tatsu Uchiha, who complained that Takashi’s two-day absence had left him overwhelmed with clan business.

Uchiha Takashi planned to organize the growing number of non-Uchiha ninja into mixed squads, then tried to get Fū Uchiha to handle the work for him. Meanwhile, Oto Senju approached the weakened Hagoromo Clan to propose helping them recover and joining forces against the Uchiha, and left after winning the clan leader’s agreement to consider the offer.

• Uchiha Takashi proposed forming balanced mixed squads from the Hyuga, Chinoike, and Shimura ninja, but Tatsu Uchiha left the task to him.
• Uchiha Takashi wrote to Fū Uchiha, ordering him to return with information on the Chinoike Clan’s ninja so he could help with the work.
• Oto Senju arrived at the Hagoromo Clan’s camp and offered the clan help, arguing that both clans had reason to oppose the Uchiha.
• The Hagoromo clan leader rejected the Senju’s motives and called the Senju their greater enemy, but Oto Senju urged him to prioritize the Uchiha’s more recent attack.
• The Hagoromo clan leader said his clan would discuss the proposal but would not let the Senju use them, while Oto Senju considered the first step of his plan successful.

Uchiha Takashi approved plans to expand the Uchiha village and realized its technological development needed to catch up with its military strength. He decided to recruit the Shimura and Nara Clans to lead research, leaving technology development as the next step.

• Uchiha Takashi reviewed the village’s expansion request and planned to add blacksmithing, cloth production, shopping streets, and food streets as food production grew sufficient.
• Uchiha Takashi realized that the Shinobi World’s reliance on ninja had stunted military technology, and he resolved to advance technology to prepare for the Otsutsuki without relying on chakra.
• Uchiha Takashi imagined the Uchiha Clan using modern weapons and advanced technology, then recognized that its battle-minded members were unlikely to develop technology patiently.
• Uchiha Takashi decided to seek out intelligent clans suited to research and identified the Shimura Clan and the Nara Clan as candidates.
• Uchiha Takashi planned to use the research institute to involve the Shimura Clan, which Uchiha Ichi had already absorbed, and then bring the Nara Clan into the Uchiha fold.

Uchiha Takashi recruited clever members of the Shimura and Hyuga clans to research technology while planning to bring the Nara Clan under Uchiha influence. He proposed provoking a crisis in the south by letting the Senju Clan hear that the Uchiha were considering an alliance with the Nara, and Tatsu Uchiha wondered what the Senju would do.

• Uchiha Takashi ordered Fū Uchiha and Senior Kyō to select clever people from the Shimura and Hyuga clans for him.
• Uchiha Takashi sent the recruits to the research institute and ordered them to develop explosive powder without chakra.
• Uchiha Takashi gave the researchers approximate ingredient proportions and warned them not to blow up the institute.
• Tatsu Uchiha confronted Uchiha Takashi about the research spending, but Takashi persuaded him to consider absorbing the Nara Clan.
• Uchiha Takashi proposed letting word spread that the Uchiha might ally with the Nara so the Senju would react, and Tatsu predicted the Senju would pursue the Nara themselves.

Uchiha Takashi plotted to use Senju pressure to push the Nara Clan into an alliance with the Uchiha, then investigated a research institute explosion caused by an experimental powder. The researchers survived, but the institute was damaged and Shimura was injured.

• Uchiha Takashi explained to Tatsu Uchiha how the Senju could be maneuvered into pressuring the Nara Clan and making them rely on the Uchiha.
• A powerful explosion rocked the research institute, and Uchiha Takashi and Tatsu Uchiha hurried to investigate.
• The Konoha Military Police Force cordoned off the institute and rescued the soot-covered researchers.
• A researcher explained that the Uchiha had mixed a huge quantity of charcoal and saltpeter, then ignited it with Fire Style, blowing off the laboratory's ceiling.
• Uchiha Takashi reprimanded the researchers, ordered the institute repaired, and said the repair costs would come out of their wages.