Chapter Summaries

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.

Takashi defeated the Uzumaki and Senju forces at the camp, using his Mangekyō Sharingan to neutralize the Uzumaki commander’s suicide seal and erase the attackers’ weapons and techniques. After the battle, he warned Yukimichi Uchiha that awakening the Mangekyō Sharingan required losing the person closest to him, then left the camp.

• Takashi cut down the Uzumaki and Senju clansmen who attacked him, while the Uzumaki commander ordered his comrades to retreat.
• The Uzumaki commander used the Reverse Four Symbols Seal, but Takashi’s Minakanokū erased its chakra and ink before Takashi killed him.
• Takashi froze the remaining attackers and made their ninjutsu, kunai, and blades disappear, then killed them all in under half a minute.
• Takashi restored Yukimichi Uchiha’s awareness and told him to deal with the three great families.
• Yukimichi asked how to awaken the Mangekyō Sharingan, and Takashi warned that it required losing the person closest to him.
• Takashi left the camp, and Yukimichi hurried after him after the other clansmen teased him for lingering.

Uchiha Takashi reported that the Uchiha had eliminated the three great families and demanded their assets from the daimyo of the Land of Fire. The daimyo yielded, leaving the Uchiha with the families’ wealth and himself with their authority.

• Uchiha Takashi’s clansmen silently killed members of the Minamoto, Kimura, and Fujiwara Families in their dreams.
• Uchiha Takashi confirmed the three families had been dealt with and went to report the result to the daimyo of the Land of Fire.
• The daimyo questioned how quickly the Uchiha had acted, then objected when Uchiha Takashi claimed the assets of all three families.
• Uchiha Takashi invoked the contract and threatened the daimyo with his Sharingan, prompting the daimyo to surrender the families’ assets, including those of the Fujiwara branch families.
• Uchiha Takashi left, and the daimyo decided to abandon cooperation with the Senju and return to bed.

Uchiha Takashi emptied the treasuries of the three great families and carried their wealth away with his clansmen. While the Uchiha headed home, the daimyo took control of the City of Fire and consolidated his power.

• Uchiha Takashi collected the Fujiwara Family's treasury, then swept through the other two families' treasuries and found far less money there.
• Uchiha Takashi gave the scrolls containing over ten billion ryo to Yukimichi Uchiha and the other clansmen, then explained that the families' fixed assets would need to be sold.
• With the daimyo's authorization, Uchiha Takashi and his clansmen left the City of Fire at night, carrying the banknotes back to the Uchiha Clan Compound.
• The daimyo took control of his residence and extended his authority across the City of Fire, winning over officials and samurai officers within a single night.

After Uchiha Takashi arranged for the Uchiha to seize the three great clans’ shops and negotiate the resale of salt and iron, the Senju discovered their members in the City of Fire had been killed and suspected the Uchiha. The Uchiha elders celebrated their rival’s loss and discussed making Takashi clan head and choosing successors to their own positions.

• Uchiha Takashi ordered the Uchiha to take over the three great clans’ shops and negotiate with the daimyo to resell salt and iron.
• Fū Senju learned that every Senju member in the City of Fire had died and ordered an investigation into who had stolen their money.
• The second elder told Fū Senju that the Uchiha had taken over the three great clans’ properties, and Fū Senju roared in fury.
• The Uchiha grand elder and second elder laughed over the Senju’s loss and agreed it was time to choose a clan head, with Uchiha Takashi as their preferred candidate.
• Dai Uchiha suggested Homura Uchiha and Yukimichi Uchiha as possible successors for the second elder, while the grand elder considered Fū Uchiha for his own position.

Uchiha Takashi returned to the clan grounds and became the new Uchiha Clan head as the First and Second Elders retired. He vowed to lead the clan to greater strength, while Hen Uchiha was left managing the village in their absence.

• Uchiha Takashi learned that the First Elder wanted him to return and take over as clan head, while Fū Uchiha and Yukimichi Uchiha were asked to succeed the First and Second Elders.
• Uchiha Takashi encouraged Fū Uchiha to accept the First Elder position and reassured Yukimichi Uchiha that the clan was not in danger.
• Uchiha Takashi, Fū Uchiha, and Yukimichi Uchiha left Hen Uchiha in charge of the village and departed for the clan's main base.
• At the ancestral shrine, the First Elder nominated Uchiha Takashi as the new clan head and handed him the Gunbai.
• Uchiha Takashi swore to lead the Uchiha Clan to greater strength, and the gathered clan members joined his vow.

Uchiha Takashi made Yukimichi Uchiha and Fū Uchiha elders, but clansmen disputed Yukimichi’s appointment and called for a match against Homura Uchiha to decide the second elder. Their fight began with Homura launching a planned fire-dragon attack at Yukimichi, who was trapped in midair.

• The grand elder appointed Fū Uchiha as the new grand elder and Yukimichi Uchiha as the second elder, while he and the former elders retired to the main stronghold.
• Clansmen argued that Homura Uchiha should be second elder instead, so Uchiha Takashi ordered Homura and Yukimichi to settle the appointment with a match.
• Homura and Yukimichi accepted the rules and began fighting on the platform.
• Homura opened with a Great Fireball, but Yukimichi used the Body Flicker Technique to appear beside him and attack.
• Homura blocked Yukimichi’s surprise strike, then used Fire Stream Arrows to make Yukimichi leap into the air before launching a Fire Dragon Technique at him.

Homura Uchiha and Yukimichi Uchiha fought for the position of second elder and supreme commander of the front lines. Yukimichi won despite Homura’s powerful final attack, and Uchiha Takashi announced Homura would be assigned to the Konoha Military Police Force.

• Homura Uchiha used a substitution to evade Yukimichi Uchiha’s fire dragon, and the two exchanged sword strikes and ninjutsu.
• Homura unleashed Majestic Destroyer Arrow, but Yukimichi escaped the blast and staggered back to his feet after Homura collapsed from exhaustion.
• Uchiha Takashi declared Yukimichi Uchiha the winner and named him the new second elder and supreme commander of the front lines.
• Uchiha Takashi decided to assign Homura Uchiha as captain of the Konoha Military Police Force after he recovered.

Uchiha Takashi planned a clan school to train the Uchiha’s younger generation and develop members with administrative skills. He assigned Yukimichi Uchiha to begin establishing it, while the clan’s reforms moved forward.

• After becoming clan leader, Uchiha Takashi planned a Guard Force and a clan school for the Uchiha.
• Uchiha Takashi drafted a school plan with three years of study, a genin exam, team assignments, and an Inspection Squad to monitor teaching.
• Uchiha Takashi called Yukimichi Uchiha and gave him the proposals, instructing him to find a site and recruit teachers from retired or recovering clan members.
• When Yukimichi Uchiha struggled to understand the plan, Uchiha Takashi used genjutsu to explain it, and Yukimichi Uchiha agreed to begin work.

Uchiha Takashi planned to grow the Uchiha Clan by supporting families’ children and establishing a school, but Yukimichi Uchiha’s construction plans forced Takashi to intervene. The chapter ended with Takashi asking three former elders to teach at the school.

• Uchiha Takashi decided the clan would pay 80% of children’s basic living expenses to improve their chances of survival.
• Yukimichi Uchiha began clearing the proposed school site by demolishing houses, prompting Uchiha Takashi to stop him.
• Yukimichi Uchiha agreed to compensate the homeowners and rebuild their houses, while Takashi told him to arrange both projects at once.
• Uchiha Takashi visited Tatsu Uchiha and found Dai Uchiha and Kyō Uchiha with him.
• Uchiha Takashi asked the three former elders to serve as teachers at the clan’s planned school.

Uchiha Takashi proposed a school for the younger generation and a three-person squad system for training and battle. The three elders agreed to teach, and Takashi asked Tatsu Uchiha to come out of retirement and help the overwhelmed administrative center.

• Uchiha Takashi explained his plan to establish a school and asked the three former elders to become its first teachers.
• Tatsu Uchiha noted that the school system would work in peacetime, while Uchiha Takashi proposed adapting three-person squads into a battlefield organization.
• Dai Uchiha praised the three-three system, but Tatsu Uchiha warned that the Uchiha lacked the administrative capacity to organize squads effectively.
• Uchiha Takashi argued that squads would let the Uchiha coordinate their strong individual fighters and insisted the system suited the clan.
• The three elders agreed to teach the younger generation, and Uchiha Takashi asked Tatsu Uchiha to leave retirement and help the understaffed administrative center.