Chapter Summaries

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.

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.