Chapter Summaries

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.

After the Land of Gold surrendered, Uchiha Takashi sent Yukimichi Uchiha to the Uzumaki front instead of granting him the medal he wanted. The Senju Clan’s elders admitted they could not withstand the Uchiha’s encirclement for long, leaving Oto Senju to confront their worsening position.

• The Sarutobi Clan surrendered, and Yukimichi Uchiha accepted its letter as the Land of Gold became part of the Land of Light.
• Uchiha Takashi transferred Yukimichi Uchiha to the southeastern border and reassigned Dai Uchiha to the campaign against the Senju Clan.
• Yukimichi Uchiha searched for his promised medal, read that merits would be assessed after the Senju were dealt with, and angrily cursed Uchiha Takashi.
• Uchiha Takashi considered the limits of the Uchiha’s manpower and the strategic encirclement of the Senju Clan.
• Oto Senju asked how long the Senju Clan could hold out, and the elders said they lacked the strength and knowledge of the Uchiha’s finances to resist.
• Oto Senju blamed Fū Senju for the failed scheme that had let the Uchiha seize the wealth the Senju had sought.

Uchiha Takashi considered ways to break the stalemate with the Senju but concluded he needed to grow stronger. When he finally began teaching Uchiha Shin Senjutsu, Shin sensed Indra’s chakra awakening inside him, which started nourishing his Mangekyō Sharingan and set it on the path to becoming Eternal.

• Uchiha Takashi weighed plans to defeat Shura Senju but recognized that he was not yet strong enough to carry them out.
• Uchiha Shin reminded Uchiha Takashi of his promise to teach him Senjutsu, and Takashi agreed after realizing Shin had nearly completed his military academy studies.
• Uchiha Takashi told Uchiha Shin to sense natural energy, without mentioning that the Uchiha camp had too little of it for ordinary people to detect.
• Uchiha Shin returned that night claiming he had sensed a powerful force inside his body, and Uchiha Takashi examined him with his Mangekyō Sharingan.
• Uchiha Takashi discovered that Indra’s chakra was awakening in Uchiha Shin and nourishing his Mangekyō Sharingan, bringing him close to attaining the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan.