Chapter Summaries

Uchiha Takashi and the Uchiha Clan took control of a neglected village, imposed their authority, and set up the village chief’s house as their base. With Fū Uchiha’s report in hand, Takashi gained the figures he needed to plan the clan’s rule.

• Uchiha Takashi and his clansmen entered the village, where a thug demanded protection money and attacked them; the Uchiha killed the thug and his lackeys.
• Takashi stopped a clansman from threatening the villagers and announced new laws and a Guard Force to enforce them.
• Takashi designated the village chief’s lavish house as the Uchiha Clan’s gathering place, with living quarters downstairs and offices upstairs.
• Takashi ordered Fū Uchiha to compile information about the village’s population and production, and Fū soon delivered the report.

Uchiha Takashi reviewed the impoverished village’s population and farmland and planned to rebuild it by bringing in Uchiha civilians. He formally became village chief and renamed it Uchiha Village, then prepared for the incoming settlers and the work ahead.

• Uchiha Takashi discovered that the village’s small population and abandoned farmland left its people close to starvation.
• Uchiha Takashi decided to transfer five hundred civilian households from the Uchiha Clan and sent Yukimichi to ask the First Elder to select and dispatch them in batches.
• Fū Uchiha told Uchiha Takashi that the villagers had assembled.
• Uchiha Takashi announced that he was the village chief and renamed the settlement Uchiha Village, prompting the villagers to cheer.
• Uchiha Takashi dismissed the villagers and began planning farmland surveys, tool distribution, land reclamation, and housing for the incoming civilians.

Uchiha Takashi settled the first group of Uchiha commoners in the village and planned for their future integration. After considering concerns about recruiting outsiders into the Guard Force, he decided that non-Uchiha members should not exercise authority over Uchiha commoners, reasoning that the Warring States period made such privileges acceptable.

• The grand elder sent over 100 Uchiha workers from about 25 households, and Uchiha Takashi housed them in prepared homes.
• Uchiha Takashi considered keeping the arrivals in a clan compound while gradually allowing some Uchiha commoners to mix with ordinary villagers.
• Fū Uchiha reported that the grand elder had supplied 50 sets of farming tools, with 600 sets promised in total.
• Uchiha Takashi planned to recruit refugees from other countries to help clear land, while ordering that dangerous criminals be killed.
• Yukimichi Uchiha warned that villagers in the Guard Force might provoke resentment if they enforced rules against Uchiha commoners.
• Uchiha Takashi decided that non-Uchiha members of the Guard Force would not have authority over Uchiha commoners, and concluded that the rule would become irrelevant as the populations blended.

After a Senju raid killed many Uchiha at their clan grounds, Uchiha Takashi identified the Hyuga Clan as the key to breaking the enemy encirclement and arranged to approach them. He also directed Fū Uchiha to focus on expanding the village's population and Guard Force, leaving the alliance effort unresolved.

• Uchiha Takashi decided that the Guard Force could recruit Uchiha civilians instead of ordinary civilians.
• Yukimichi Uchiha woke Uchiha Takashi with news that the Sarutobi Clan had attacked the front line while the Senju Clan raided the clan grounds, killing many Uchiha.
• Uchiha Takashi studied the enemy's pincer formation and ordered Yukimichi Uchiha to ask the first elder to send a diplomatic letter to the Hyuga Clan.
• Fū Uchiha reported that land reclamation and Guard Force preparations were underway, and Uchiha Takashi told him not to recruit ordinary civilians for now.
• Uchiha Takashi instructed Fū Uchiha to recruit willing people from nearby impoverished villages to increase the clan's population.

Uchiha Takashi met with the Hyuga Clan to seek an alliance against the Senju and other attackers. The Hyuga elder recognized that the Uchiha’s defeat could leave the Hyuga as the Senju’s next target, but the chapter ended before the Hyuga decided whether to ally.

• The Grand Elder approved the Hyuga Clan’s offer to hold talks, and Uchiha Takashi traveled to the meeting with a few guards.
• The Hyuga representatives were surprised that the Uchiha had requested diplomacy, then questioned why Takashi was their representative.
• Takashi calmly defended his authority to represent the Uchiha, earning the Hyuga elder’s attention.
• Takashi proposed an alliance against the clans attacking the Uchiha, and the Hyuga representatives laughed at the request.
• Takashi warned that the Senju would likely target the Hyuga after defeating the Uchiha, and the Hyuga elder recognized the danger.

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.