Recaps

Uchiha Takashi warned the Guard Force to keep his black powder secret, then noticed how carelessly the injured were being bandaged and realized that wound infections could be killing people. He confronted a hospital medical-nin and explained that unseen bacteria on dirty cloth could cause deadly infections.

• Uchiha Takashi told the onlookers to disperse and ordered the Guard Force to keep the black powder secret as the Uchiha Clan's trump card.
• Uchiha Takashi saw injured researchers bandaging themselves with filthy cloth and connected dirty wounds to battlefield deaths.
• Uchiha Takashi went to the hospital and watched a medical-nin treat patients with herbs, chakra, and unwashed cloth.
• Uchiha Takashi stopped the medical-nin from bandaging an injured civilian and challenged his treatment methods.
• Uchiha Takashi explained that bacteria on dirty cloth could multiply, infect wounds, cause fever and other symptoms, and sometimes kill patients.

Uchiha Takashi instructed the medical-nin to use garlic on minor wounds and improve bandage hygiene after learning how the hospital treated injuries. Seeing a clansman heat water with Fire Style led Takashi to decide he would limit reliance on chakra and encourage ordinary technology alongside chakra technology.

• Uchiha Takashi asked whether the medical-nin had garlic, and the medical-nin revealed the clan kept it for seriously injured patients.
• Uchiha Takashi explained that garlic was more useful for shallow wounds and told the medical-nin to reserve it for minor injuries.
• Uchiha Takashi ordered that wound dressings be boiled, dried, and stored cleanly, and promised to write rules for medical personnel.
• The medical-nin took the bandages to the water-boiling room, where a Uchiha clansman used Fire Style to heat a pot.
• Uchiha Takashi decided to discourage unnecessary chakra use and develop physical technology alongside chakra technology.

Uchiha Takashi compiled four manuals and expanded garlic cultivation, then rushed to investigate a gunpowder accident at an Uchiha experiment site. He learned that the researchers had tried loading kunai into an explosive device, causing a blast that detonated nearby gunpowder.

• Uchiha Takashi finished four books on medical conduct, medicinal herbs, chakra restrictions, and useful techniques, then gave them to Tatsu Uchiha to distribute.
• Uchiha Takashi followed up with Fū Uchiha about expanding garlic cultivation after sending seed garlic to the newly selected fields.
• An Uchiha clansman reported an explosion, and Uchiha Takashi hurried to the site, where several people lay unconscious and kunai were scattered around a charred tree.
• Uchiha Takashi confronted a surviving researcher, who explained that the team had packed kunai with gunpowder and increased the charge until it ignited nearby stored gunpowder.

Uchiha Takashi learned that the Senju Clan had seized control of the Hagoromo Clan and turned it against the Uchiha. He considered conquering the Hagoromo Clan and taking its strategic territory.

• Uchiha Takashi praised an Uchiha clansman's explosive weapon experiment and sent him for medical treatment, hoping he would continue researching.
• Uchiha Takashi received an urgent report about the Senju Clan's move against the Hagoromo Clan and summoned Tatsu Uchiha.
• Tatsu Uchiha explained that the Senju Clan had killed the Hagoromo Clan's head and installed the deputy head as a puppet ally.
• Uchiha Takashi assessed the threat of the Hagoromo Clan joining the Uchiha's enemies and considered attacking to seize its territory.

Black Zetsu discovered that the Uchiha and Senju were conquering other clans instead of fighting each other, threatening his plan to awaken the Rinnegan and rescue Otsutsuki Kaguya. He went to persuade Uchiha Takashi to change course, but was mistaken for an intruder before offering to provide the Uchiha with intelligence.

• Black Zetsu emerged from hiding and learned that the Uchiha had absorbed the Shimura and Hyuga Clans while the Senju had absorbed the Hagoromo Clan.
• Black Zetsu worried that the Uchiha and Senju would not fight, making it less likely for an Uchiha to awaken the Mangekyō Sharingan and pursue the Rinnegan.
• Black Zetsu decided to manipulate Uchiha Takashi into attacking the Senju Clan and traveled to the Uchiha grounds.
• Uchiha Takashi, Tatsu Uchiha, and Yukimichi Uchiha discussed their plans to defeat the Hagoromo Clan and their lack of intelligence on the Senju.
• Black Zetsu appeared in Uchiha Takashi's office, dodged Yukimichi Uchiha's attack, and offered to act as the Uchiha's intelligence operative.

Black Zetsu tried to persuade the Uchiha to use his intelligence against the Senju, but Uchiha Takashi saw through his motives and ordered him captured. Takashi sealed Black Zetsu in place, and Yukimichi Uchiha and Tatsu Uchiha carried him away to be locked up.

• Yukimichi Uchiha and Tatsu Uchiha rejected Black Zetsu's offer, suspecting he had an ulterior motive.
• Uchiha Takashi considered how Black Zetsu's plan might benefit him, then ordered Yukimichi Uchiha and Tatsu Uchiha to seize him.
• Black Zetsu tried to escape underground, but Uchiha Takashi used his Mangekyō Sharingan to freeze him and applied a sealing jutsu.
• Uchiha Takashi ordered Black Zetsu locked up with sealing jutsu covering the area around him.
• Yukimichi Uchiha pried up the floor with Black Zetsu sealed to it and carried him away as he protested.

Uchiha Takashi led an assault on the Hagoromo Clan while Yukimichi Uchiha took a separate force to block the Senju Clan’s reinforcements. At the Hagoromo Clan’s defensive line, Takashi unleashed a lightning-enhanced Kirin that struck the walls and killed countless defenders.

• Uchiha Takashi and Yukimichi Uchiha finalized a plan to attack the Hagoromo Clan and block the Senju Clan’s reinforcements.
• Uchiha Takashi led eight hundred Uchiha troops toward the Hagoromo Clan, while Yukimichi Uchiha took five hundred auxiliary troops to hold off the Senju Clan.
• Uchiha Takashi’s force reached the Hagoromo Clan’s outer defensive line, where a thousand defenders had gathered.
• Uchiha Takashi taunted the Hagoromo Clan’s defenders as his troops watched them panic behind the walls.
• Uchiha Takashi used senjutsu-enhanced Kirin to summon lightning from the storm clouds and blast the Hagoromo Clan’s walls, killing countless defenders.

Uchiha Takashi led the Uchiha assault after his lightning strike destroyed the Hagoromo Clan’s wall and shattered their morale. He overwhelmed the defenders with coordinated Uchiha forces and devastating lightning techniques, leaving the battle decided in the Uchiha’s favor.

• Uchiha Takashi ordered the Uchiha clansmen to charge through the breach, while the Hagoromo supreme commander rallied his shaken defenders.
• The Uchiha Clan advanced in coordinated three-man squads and clashed with the disorganized Hagoromo Clan.
• Uchiha Takashi defeated several dozen Hagoromo clansmen in close combat, dodging their attacks and striking them down one by one.
• Uchiha Takashi used Flying Bird Breaks White Plum and Lightning Qilin Shatters the Sky Flash to devastate another group of Hagoromo clansmen with lightning.
• Uchiha Takashi declared that an army of thousands was no more than a slash or two, and the battlefield settled with victory already decided.

Uchiha Takashi’s forces crushed the Hagoromo Clan’s front line and then swiftly attacked its headquarters, where they slaughtered the defenders and took control. He spared children, unmarried women, and those who surrendered, planning to assimilate the survivors into the Uchiha population.

• Uchiha Takashi’s senjutsu-enhanced Chidori: Kirin blasted through the Hagoromo Clan’s defenses, and coordinated Uchiha squads won the battle in under fifteen minutes.
• Uchiha Takashi ordered the casualties counted, tripled compensation for fallen and injured Uchiha, and assigned clansmen to guard more than a hundred prisoners.
• Uchiha Takashi led the remaining forces on a rapid march to the Hagoromo Clan’s headquarters, surrounding it before its residents realized the front line had fallen.
• Uchiha Takashi ordered an assault, and Uchiha forces overwhelmed the lightly defended headquarters and slaughtered the Hagoromo Clan’s adult men.
• Uchiha Takashi spared children, unmarried women, and surrendering Hagoromo, planning to seal or prevent their chakra and assimilate them into the Uchiha population over generations.

The Senju reinforcements turned back after Yukimichi Uchiha’s elite troops blocked their route, while Uchiha Takashi began transporting supplies and prisoners from the conquered Hagoromo Clan. When the Hagoromo stopped communicating, Oto Senju concluded that the Uchiha had wiped them out, though the others dismissed the idea as impossible.

• The Senju sent reinforcements toward the Hagoromo, but Yukimichi Uchiha and 500 elite Uchiha blocked their path.
• The Senju commander abandoned the attempt to reach the Hagoromo, and Yukimichi ordered his troops to withdraw without fighting.
• Uchiha Takashi returned with the first batch of Hagoromo supplies and prisoners, then sent administrators to manage and transport the rest.
• The Senju noticed that the Hagoromo had stopped sending messages, while their returning reinforcements confirmed they had been blocked by the Uchiha.
• Oto Senju concluded that the Hagoromo Clan had been wiped out, but the others rejected the possibility as implausible.

The Senju suspected the Uchiha had hidden sources of strength and assigned their new Grand Elder to investigate. Uchiha Takashi learned of the reconnaissance and ordered the Uchiha to stop hiding their expanding town, confident they would soon found a country.

• Oto Senju and Fū Senju questioned how the Uchiha had destroyed the Hagoromo Clan and suspected their recent secrecy concealed a major increase in strength.
• The new Senju Grand Elder volunteered to investigate the Uchiha, and Fū Senju gave him half a month to uncover their secrets.
• The Uchiha noticed the Senju gathering intelligence and delivered a report to Uchiha Takashi.
• Tatsu Uchiha suggested concealing the Uchiha expansion, but Uchiha Takashi ordered it to continue openly and said there was no need to hide their town.
• Uchiha Takashi planned to complete the expansion, announce the founding of the Uchiha country, and invite surrounding clans to join.

Fū Senju learned that the Uchiha had built a large village populated mostly by civilians, and Oto Senju concluded that they were secretly establishing an independent nation. Oto urged the Senju to found a nation of their own, but Fū rejected the idea and found that the Uchiha already controlled nearly every major clan he hoped to recruit against them.

• Senju intelligence operatives reported that the Uchiha controlled a village that had grown to the size of a town and was mostly populated by outsiders.
• Oto Senju told Fū Senju that the Uchiha were using the village, its taxes, and their reduced reliance on missions to establish an independent nation.
• Oto warned that the Uchiha could recruit civilians and clans as a nation, and urged the Senju to form a nation of their own with allied clans.
• Fū rejected founding a Senju nation and proposed joining forces with the Land of Fire's daimyo to destroy the Uchiha.
• Fū examined the map and realized that the Uchiha controlled the Hyuga, Uzumaki, Sarutobi, Shimura, and other major clans, leaving few potential allies.

Fū Senju sought the daimyo and other clans’ help against the Uchiha, while Oto Senju doubted the Senju could defeat them. Back home, Oto recognized Shura Senju’s unusual talent and agreed to tell him what had happened.

• Fū Senju ordered the Senju to contact the daimyo and summon the Uzumaki and Sarutobi clan heads.
• Oto Senju returned home and found Shura Senju enjoying their improved living conditions.
• Oto remembered how he had supported Shura alone after their parents died and how the Senju Clan had neglected them.
• Shura Senju questioned Oto about the Uchiha conflict and insisted that he wanted to help.
• Oto Senju decided Shura’s talent might lead him beyond the quiet life he had planned and began explaining the situation.

Fū Senju secured the Daimyo of the Land of Fire’s support for a campaign against the Uchiha, while the other great nations refused to intervene. The Senju prepared to confront the Uchiha, whose military and economic position seemed increasingly hopeless.

• The Daimyo of the Land of Fire asked the other four great nations for troops, but each daimyo refused and chose to watch the conflict from afar.
• A Senju clansman persuaded the Daimyo of the Land of Fire to provide the Senju with funds and logistical support in exchange for crushing the Uchiha.
• The Senju clansman proposed a marriage alliance, but the daimyo refused because he feared the Senju would gain a claim to power through his family.
• Fū Senju ordered every Senju clansman away from home to return and prepare to face the Uchiha, confident that the Land of Fire’s resources would prevail.
• Uchiha Takashi recognized that the Uchiha could not match the Senju backed by the Land of Fire and could neither expand nor abandon their village without weakening themselves.

Uchiha Takashi formed a samurai army to expand the Uchiha’s power and prepare to govern beyond their ninja forces. With preparations complete, he declared the founding of the Land of Light, leaving the Shinobi World’s clan warfare on the brink of major change.

• Uchiha Takashi proposed a samurai army to attack other towns and help the Uchiha control territory after founding a nation.
• Uchiha Takashi organized 4,500 non-ninja recruits into a newly equipped army, though they had trained for only a month.
• An Uchiha clansman told Uchiha Takashi that preparations for announcing the nation’s founding were complete and everyone had gathered.
• Uchiha Takashi raised the Uchiha Gunbai and declared the founding of the Land of Light.

After the Uchiha Clan founded its nation, Uchiha Takashi invited nearby clans to join, offering them protection. The Nara Clan weighed the invitation against the Senju Alliance’s appeal and concluded the Uchiha’s promises seemed more credible, leaving them to consider their response.

• The Uchiha Clan and Senju Clan maintained a wary standoff, while Uchiha Takashi let his army train and sent invitations to nearby clans.
• The clans doubted the Uchiha invitations were genuine, but the Nara Clan confirmed they had come from the Uchiha and recognized the clan’s strength after its victory over the Hagoromo Clan.
• The Nara Clan Head convened the First Elder and Second Elder to discuss the invitation and the risks of refusing it.
• The Nara Clan Head dismissed the Senju’s call to unite against the Uchiha because it offered no tangible benefits outside joining the Senju Alliance.
• The Nara Clan Head judged the Uchiha’s promises more credible than the Senju’s, since the Uchiha considered it beneath them to lie.

The Nara Clan Head explained why the Uchiha nation was positioned to defeat the Senju alliance and eventually dominate the Land of Fire. He concluded that the Nara Clan could either accept the Uchiha invitation or wait, but favored negotiating for better terms.

• The Nara Clan Head argued that the Senju alliance could not match the Uchiha's unified strength, resources, and control of a nation.
• He explained that the Senju and Uzumaki would face internal conflict because they were equal allies, while the Uchiha could keep other clans subordinate through conquest.
• The Nara Clan Head predicted that other clans would imitate the Uchiha and fracture the Land of Fire, giving the Uchiha an advantage in claiming territory.
• The First Elder and Second Elder asked whether the Nara Clan should accept the Uchiha invitation, and the Nara Clan Head said either accepting or waiting could work.
• The Nara Clan Head preferred negotiating for benefits, while the others suggested he was simply being lazy.

During a year of uneasy peace with the Senju Clan, Uchiha Takashi kept the Uchiha from starting conflicts and turned the dueling arena into the clan’s favorite pastime. When Fū Uchiha and Yukimichi Uchiha met for a spar, clansmen gathered to watch and began betting on the outcome.

• The Uchiha Clan spent a year strengthening its forces while Uchiha Takashi forbade clansmen from provoking outside conflicts.
• Uchiha Takashi challenged anyone who wanted an attack ordered to defeat him in the dueling arena, and he easily beat the many clansmen who challenged him.
• Uchiha Takashi’s ranking system made the arena popular, and Uchiha clansmen began competing to earn points and climb the ranks.
• Yukimichi Uchiha brought his returning friend Fū Uchiha to the arena for a spar, drawing a large crowd of clansmen.
• The spectators debated which elder would win, and an Uchiha civilian opened a betting pool as clansmen placed wagers.

Fū Uchiha and Yukimichi Uchiha fought an increasingly intense match, trading sword strikes and ninjutsu until both ran low on chakra. They unleashed Majestic Destroyer Flame at the same time, and the flames exploded, engulfing both fighters while the barrier held.

• Fū Uchiha and Yukimichi Uchiha opened the match with sword strikes and exchanged taunts about each other’s skill.
• Yukimichi Uchiha gained the upper hand with flaming shuriken and a series of lightning and wind attacks, while Fū Uchiha defended himself with Earth Release.
• Fū Uchiha sent a tornado toward Yukimichi Uchiha, who countered with a Great Fire Dragon Technique; the two attacks collided and spread heat through the arena.
• The two Uchiha continued trading taijutsu, genjutsu, and ninjutsu until both were exhausted and low on chakra.
• Fū Uchiha and Yukimichi Uchiha simultaneously unleashed Majestic Destroyer Flame and kept feeding chakra into their flames.
• Their flames intertwined and exploded, swallowing both fighters and striking the barrier without breaking it.

Uchiha Takashi gathered the Uchiha’s senior leaders to introduce a new system for governing the Land of Light, separating national administration from clan affairs. He explained the Three Administrations and Six Bureaus and left the group with the structure and responsibilities of the new government laid out.

• Uchiha Takashi arrived after Fū Uchiha and Yukimichi Uchiha’s fight, stopped them from continuing, and declared their bet void.
• Uchiha Takashi caught the Uchiha clansman who had organized the unauthorized betting pool and ordered him to report to the Guard Force.
• Uchiha Takashi summoned Fū Uchiha, Yukimichi Uchiha, Tatsu Uchiha, and Kyō Uchiha to explain that the Land of Light would adopt a new national governance system involving educated civilians.
• Uchiha Takashi clarified that the Uchiha Clan would retain a separate management system, with clan and national powers kept distinct.
• Uchiha Takashi outlined the Inner Council, Inspection Bureau, and General Administration, then explained the roles of the Personnel, Household, Punishments, Works, Military, and Rites Bureaus.

Uchiha Takashi organized the new government, assigning clan members to key administrative, military, and oversight roles while planning nationwide examinations to recruit capable officials. He insisted that the Uchiha retain control of the Inner Council and Inspection Bureau, then asked whether the Nara Clan had answered his message.

• Tatsu Uchiha asked how the Uchiha could efficiently select educated commoners, and Uchiha Takashi proposed nationwide examinations.
• Uchiha Takashi appointed Tatsu Uchiha chief administrator, Kyō Uchiha director of the Household Bureau and chief inspector, Fū Uchiha head of the Personnel Bureau, and Yukimichi Uchiha director of the Military Bureau and marshal.
• Uchiha Takashi said other appointments would wait until they examined retainers from the Hyuga Clan, Shimura Clan, and Fujiwara Family, while Hen Uchiha and others filled essential posts temporarily.
• Uchiha Takashi ordered Uchiha members placed in important Inspection Bureau and Inner Council positions so the clan could retain control of officials and the government.
• Uchiha Takashi ended the meeting and told everyone to prepare for nationwide examinations, then asked whether the Nara Clan had replied to his message.

Uchiha Takashi negotiated with the Nara Clan Head, offering the clan land, protection, and a large share of government posts in the Land of Light. Impressed by the offer, the Nara Clan Head agreed to join the Land of Light and reject the Land of Fire.

• The Nara Clan Head demanded land, protection, and fair treatment in exchange for joining the Land of Light.
• Uchiha Takashi promised the Nara Clan high status, business rights, and many government positions.
• The Nara Clan Head explained that the clan needed power to guard against the Hyuga and Shimura clans.
• Uchiha Takashi offered the Nara Clan three bureau chief posts, ten deputy chief posts, two Inner Council seats, and a General Administration post.
• The Nara Clan Head accepted Uchiha Takashi's offer and declared that the Nara Clan belonged to the Land of Light.

Uchiha Takashi established a government-run orphanage after the Nara Clan identified problems with orphan support and management. He tried to appoint Kyō Uchiha as its director, but Kyō argued that Takashi himself had the time, experience, and responsibility to oversee it.

• Uchiha Takashi welcomed the Nara Clan and handed them many government positions, while Uchiha clansmen were glad to return to frontline duties.
• A Nara clansman proposed gathering the country's scattered orphans in one place to improve management, education, and funding.
• Uchiha Takashi approved a government-funded orphanage, and the Nara Clan quickly secured its funding and location.
• Uchiha Takashi summoned Kyō Uchiha and asked him to leave retirement to direct the orphanage.
• Kyō Uchiha pointed out that Takashi was the most suitable person to oversee the orphans and challenged his claims of being too busy.

Uchiha Takashi began investigating the clan’s orphans after agreeing to take responsibility for the younger generation, then learned a seven-year-old orphan had awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan. He met the girl, Uchiha Hikari, and recognized her name with astonishment.

• Uchiha Takashi sent a clansman to investigate the number of orphans across the country.
• The clansman reported that a seven-year-old orphan possessed the Mangekyō Sharingan, and Uchiha Takashi went to meet her.
• Uchiha Takashi found Uchiha Hikari living in a room the clan had assigned to orphans and noticed her signs of malnutrition.
• Uchiha Hikari introduced herself as a seven-year-old, and Uchiha Takashi realized who she was.

Uchiha Takashi learned that Uchiha Hikari had been denied adequate food and forced to work, and he resolved to find and punish whoever was mistreating her. As he investigated, he wondered how her tragic fate from the original plot could have happened under the elders he knew.

• Uchiha Takashi reacted with shock to learning Uchiha Hikari had been sealed from the Warring States Period until the Boruto era without aging.
• Uchiha Hikari told Uchiha Takashi that she ate only two small meals of rice and vegetables each day.
• Uchiha Takashi asked whether she had been kept hungry, and Uchiha Hikari hesitantly confirmed that she did not know if she got enough to eat.
• Uchiha Takashi told Uchiha Hikari to stop working for the day and declared that he would uncover the clan member harming her.
• Uchiha Takashi recalled how Uchiha Hikari had been imprisoned and turned into Uchiha Nanashi, then questioned which elder could have caused her suffering.