Chapter Summaries

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.

Uchiha Takashi realized that the Uchiha Clan’s past brutality toward Uchiha Hikari had stemmed from the desperate conditions of the original worldline, which he had already changed. After learning that a clan member had exploited Hikari and other orphans, he punished the culprit and ordered an investigation into others like him.

• Uchiha Takashi reconstructed how the Uchiha Clan had imprisoned and weaponized Uchiha Hikari in the original worldline, then resolved that the altered present would not follow that history.
• Uchiha Hikari told Uchiha Takashi that the owner of the orphan house had forced them to work for food, and he explained that the clan had provided the house and her living allowance.
• A Uchiha clansman arrived and argued that orphans should work or fight rather than receive clan support, prompting Uchiha Takashi to strip him of the Uchiha name and sentence him to a lifetime of mining under the same conditions he had imposed on the children.
• Uchiha Takashi ordered an investigation into other clan members who had exploited the orphans and assigned the task to Senior Kyō rather than Senior Tatsu.

After the Uchiha Great Purge uncovered over a thousand civilians and more than a hundred shinobi deemed scum, the clan's leaders split over whether to remove them despite the military and political risks. The debate at Naka Shrine remained unresolved as the leaders weighed the clan's moral standing against its strength and control over other clans.

• Kyō Uchiha joined Uchiha Takashi in launching a clan-wide purge, which became known as the Uchiha Great Purge.
• The purge identified over a thousand civilians and more than a hundred shinobi, including several skilled Mitsudomoe users, shocking the Uchiha leadership.
• Fū Uchiha and Yukimichi Uchiha supported purging the offenders, while Tatsu Uchiha, Kyō Uchiha, and Dai Uchiha hesitated over the cost to the clan's power and position.
• At Naka Shrine, Yukimichi Uchiha urged an immediate purge, but Tatsu Uchiha warned that it would weaken the Uchiha military and invite rebellion from other clans.
• Fū Uchiha argued that other clansmen could serve in battle, while Kyō Uchiha cautioned that the leaders also had to consider public opinion, families, and unrest.

Uchiha Takashi decided to punish clan members who had bullied and mistreated orphans, prioritizing a healthier clan atmosphere over preserving the Uchiha's dominant position. He ordered them stripped of clan status and sent to Fū Uchiha's mines, where they would later be investigated and some reformed.

• Yukimichi Uchiha, Kyō Uchiha, and Fū Uchiha argued over whether the clan should purge members who had mistreated orphans or delay action to protect its strength.
• Uchiha Takashi ended the debate by declaring that the clan must severely punish those responsible and eradicate the harmful atmosphere they had spread.
• Dai Uchiha accepted Uchiha Takashi's decision, and Tatsu Uchiha and Kyō Uchiha agreed to follow it.
• Uchiha Takashi clarified that the offenders would not be slaughtered and asked Fū Uchiha about the labor shortage in his mines.
• Uchiha Takashi ordered the offenders struck from the clan rolls and sent to the mines, along with any family members who caused trouble, for later investigation and reform.

The Uchiha Clan’s expulsion of more than a thousand members sparked reactions among other clans, and Oto Senju warned that the Uchiha’s newfound unity could make them even stronger. Meanwhile, Uchiha Hikari attended a lesson on breaking free of ingrained ways of thinking, taught with materials prepared by the Nara Clan.

• The Uchiha Clan’s punishment of its expelled members caused arguments among clan members and drew attention from other clans.
• Fū Senju asked Oto Senju to assess the purge, and Oto concluded that the Uchiha’s unified thinking could increase their overall strength.
• Oto told Fū that the Senju might need to seek answers from other perspectives to recognize their own problems.
• An Uchiha teacher explained mental confinement to a class that included Uchiha Hikari, who asked whether onlookers could see clearly what those involved could not.
• The teacher said people needed to break through ingrained thinking and used lesson plans written by the Nara Clan.

Uchiha Takashi took responsibility for raising Uchiha Hikari and brought her to live at his home, where Hyuga Yō was already staying. The two girls immediately clashed, leaving Takashi to consider how to prevent conflicts between them.

• Uchiha Takashi told Uchiha Hikari that she would live with him and that he would raise her.
• Uchiha Hikari asked whether this meant she finally had family, and Uchiha Takashi promised she could count on him.
• Uchiha Takashi brought Uchiha Hikari to his residence and introduced her to Hyuga Yō, who was staying there temporarily.
• Uchiha Hikari and Hyuga Yō stared at each other with hostility, and Uchiha Takashi stepped between them and urged them to get along.
• Uchiha Takashi retreated to his room and considered teaching the girls about mental health to prevent conflicts.

Uchiha Takashi learned that the Land of Fire had imposed a resource blockade on the Uchiha, but the clan’s farms, mines, and smuggling channels left it prepared to withstand the restrictions. He also heard that the Uzumaki Clan might seek independence and ordered the Uchiha to monitor them and secretly delay their plans.

• Uchiha Takashi learned that the Land of Fire had restricted Uchiha imports, especially grain and minerals, and suspected the Senju Clan had pushed for the blockade.
• Uchiha Takashi concluded that the Uchiha could withstand the blockade through local production and private imports, while the Senju Clan showed no signs of attacking.
• An Uchiha clansman reported rumors that the Uzumaki Clan was unhappy with the Senju Clan and might establish an independent nation.
• Uchiha Takashi ordered the Uchiha to watch the Uzumaki Clan closely and secretly put obstacles in the way of its plans.

Uchiha Takashi planned a military exercise to test the Uchiha army’s combat strength and commanders. He devised a way to monitor the battlefield using Hyuga Clan members and posted an announcement promising rewards to the winning side.

• Uchiha Takashi questioned whether the Uchiha army could show its full strength outside the battle against the Hagoromo Clan.
• Uchiha Takashi proposed a red-versus-blue exercise in nearby woodland to test the soldiers and their commanders.
• Uchiha Takashi devised a plan to use the Byakugan for real-time surveillance and unique marks that could signal when a participant was judged killed.
• Uchiha Takashi posted a notice announcing a sixty-kilometer battlefield exercise, with medals and prize money for the winners.
• Nara Clan members posted the notice and wondered whether its closing calls for friendship and unity were actually fanning the flames.

The Uchiha clan prepared for a large exercise, and Uchiha Takashi explained its rules and new gunpowder weapons to Yukimichi Uchiha. Yukimichi chose to command a team and challenged Tatsu Uchiha, eager to prove himself as the clan’s new blade.

• The Uchiha clan members eagerly discussed the exercise, its rewards, and the humiliation awaiting the losing team.
• Uchiha Takashi recalled Yukimichi Uchiha from the front lines and explained the exercise after Yukimichi admitted he had not read the notice.
• Uchiha Takashi showed Yukimichi the Canned Kunai, a first-generation gunpowder weapon intended for the exercise and future battles.
• Uchiha Takashi described a more powerful gunpowder-filled iron ball designed for demolishing walls and warned Yukimichi not to use it against people.
• Yukimichi chose to be a commander and asked to face Tatsu Uchiha, declaring that he would prove himself the Uchiha’s new blade.

Yukimichi Uchiha challenged Tatsu Uchiha to command opposing sides in a military exercise, while Uchiha Takashi hoped the veteran would teach the young commander caution. The exercise began with both sides sending out reconnaissance squads, which clashed without learning anything about the enemy.

• Yukimichi Uchiha asked to command a team and challenged Tatsu Uchiha, who accepted.
• Uchiha Takashi assigned Suke Uchiha to help supervise and used a lottery to divide the clansmen into two equal teams.
• Uchiha Takashi set the exercise rules and objectives: Yukimichi Uchiha had to advance the front line, while Tatsu Uchiha had to stop him for three days or push him back.
• Uchiha Takashi urged Tatsu Uchiha not to go easy on Yukimichi Uchiha, hoping to teach him the cost of recklessness.
• Yukimichi Uchiha and Tatsu Uchiha both sent reconnaissance squads, which met and fought before either side could learn the other's positions.

Yukimichi Uchiha launched an immediate assault against Chen Uchiha, aiming to exploit their lack of intelligence and keep Chen from commanding his troops. Their duel threw the exercise into disorder, and Uchiha Takashi concluded that the battle still tested the army while exposing the danger of commanders fighting on the front line.

• Yukimichi Uchiha chose to attack at once, while Chen Uchiha anticipated the assault and prepared defensive fortifications.
• Uchiha Takashi explained that Yukimichi was advancing with exhausted troops because delaying would give Chen more time to prepare.
• Yukimichi reached Chen’s defensive line, challenged him, and led his clansmen into battle.
• Yukimichi and Chen fought with blades and ninjutsu as their armies clashed around them.
• Yukimichi revealed that he meant to keep Chen occupied so he could not command, leaving the troops to rely on their prior plans and adjutants.
• Uchiha Takashi told Suke Uchiha that the exercise still tested the armies and showed why commanders should not lead from the front.