Chapter Summaries

Shisui and Uchiha Ryuko resisted Danzo’s attempt to place the Uchiha under Root’s command, and the two sides agreed to operate independently. Root and the Uchiha set out to confront the Light Organization, leaving Shisui worried that their lack of cooperation would doom the mission.

• Shisui challenged Danzo for arriving late at the Konoha Gate and prevented the Uchiha from lashing out, foiling Danzo’s attempt to damage the clan’s reputation.
• Danzo ordered the Uchiha to follow Root’s commander, Vulture, but Ryuko refused and warned that the clan would not be used as cannon fodder.
• Danzo accepted the Uchiha’s demand for autonomy while threatening them with responsibility for any failure and the loss of promised benefits.
• Danzo left to discuss the Uchiha’s battlefield assignment and duties with Hiruzen Sarutobi, while Vulture led Root toward the forest outside the village.
• Ryuko and Shisui led the Uchiha after Root, and Shisui worried that the two groups’ refusal to cooperate would undermine their mission against the Light Organization.

Vulture assigned the Uchiha to fight the Light Organization’s Ice Release user, hiding Danzo’s plan to use them as a shield. Despite Shisui’s growing unease, Ryuko agreed to the mission, and Shisui resolved to protect the Uchiha if the plan went wrong.

• Vulture told Ryuko and Shisui that the Uchiha would face the Ice Release user while Root handled the other two enemies.
• Vulture provoked the Uchiha by implying they feared Ice Release, and Seika insisted they accept the assignment.
• Ryuko suspected Root’s favorable offer concealed a trap, but Seika and the other Uchiha appealed to clan honor until Ryuko agreed.
• Shisui remained uneasy about Root’s plan and silently vowed to help Ryuko protect the Uchiha and bring them back to Konoha.

Root and Uchiha Clan ninjas prepared a surprise attack on Aizen, Setsugetsu, and Jörmungandr, while Shisui and Vulture sensed signs that something was wrong. Vulture eventually ordered the attack when the three Light Organization members appeared to fall asleep.

• The Root and Uchiha Clan teams found Aizen, Setsugetsu, and Jörmungandr resting beside a stream and waited for an opening to attack.
• Shisui suspected the Light Organization members were acting carelessly on purpose, and Vulture noticed that the Root surveillance ninjas had disappeared.
• As Vulture began signaling, he felt a hand on his shoulder, but his backward strike hit nothing and no one appeared behind him.
• Vulture cautiously sent his signal to the Root ninjas, and the Root and Uchiha Clan members prepared for an attack.
• When Aizen, Setsugetsu, and Jörmungandr appeared to fall asleep against a rock, Vulture ordered the ambush, and countless attacks flew toward them.

The Uchiha and Root ninja mistakenly believed their ambush had killed the Light Organization, only to discover they had attacked Root’s own hidden sentries. Aizen revealed the deception and his plan to draw out the Uchiha, while Uchiha Seika’s humiliation turned into a reckless desire for revenge.

• Uchiha Seika celebrated after the attacks struck the battlefield, but Uchiha Ryuko warned him not to assume the Light Organization’s Ice Release user was dead.
• The Uchiha and Root ninja found severed limbs in the crater, then a Root ninja identified them as the remains of their own sentries, including Kawai.
• Aizen and the other two Light Organization members appeared in a tree and revealed that they had lured the Konoha ninja into attacking their own men.
• Aizen reflected that he had engineered the Uchiha’s arrival to create a chance to obtain an Uchiha body.
• Uchiha Seika grew furious over being deceived and, without waiting for Uchiha Ryuko’s order, began forming hand seals to attack Aizen and his companions.

Uchiha Seika’s impulsive attack ruined the Konoha ambush, and the battle began with Aizen’s group quickly splitting the enemy forces. Jörmungandr overwhelmed the Root ninja in close combat, while Vulture ordered most of his forces to target Aizen.

• Uchiha Seika launched a Great Dragon Fire Jutsu before the ambush plan was ready, drawing angry reprimands from Root’s captain and Uchiha Ryuko.
• Aizen, Jörmungandr, and Setsugetsu dodged the fire dragon and landed before the Konoha forces, who divided their attention according to the original plan.
• Root ninja used Earth Release techniques to separate Setsugetsu from Aizen and Jörmungandr, while Uchiha Ryuko and Vulture moved to surround the groups.
• Vulture and the Root ninja attacked Aizen and Jörmungandr, but Jörmungandr’s taijutsu quickly injured or killed several Root ninja.
• Vulture ordered Squads A, B, and C to hold Jörmungandr back while he led the remaining Root ninja to attack Aizen.

Vulture believed Root had eliminated Aizen and Jörmungandr, then took the Light Organization’s Six Paths Secret Record and trained from it for three years. After gaining immense strength, he seized Konoha, conquered the four great ninja villages, and unified the Shinobi World under the Land of Washi.

• Vulture led Root in attacking Aizen, then used a costly tactic to kill Jörmungandr and reported the mission’s success to Danzo.
• Vulture found the Sage of Six Paths’ inheritance scroll among the Light Organization members’ belongings and decided its training method could make him powerful.
• Vulture followed the scroll’s daily exercise regimen for three years, grew bald, and gained tremendous strength.
• Vulture killed Danzo and Hiruzen Sarutobi, took over Konoha as the Fourth Hokage, and forced Konoha’s ninja to accept him.
• Vulture defeated the four great ninja villages, compelled them to merge with the other countries into the Land of Fire, and had the new superstate renamed the Land of Washi.

Vulture realized that Aizen had trapped him in a Genjutsu that made his imagined experiences and injuries affect his real body. After Vulture guessed that Aizen was connected to the Kurama Clan, Aizen remained silent, leaving Vulture increasingly certain of his theory.

• Vulture noticed inconsistencies in a vision of his old age, and the illusion shattered to reveal him surrounding Aizen with Root ninja.
• Vulture recognized that he had been caught in Aizen’s Infinite World Genjutsu, while Aizen explained that its effects carried over to the victims’ real bodies.
• Vulture discovered that his body had aged close to death, and his teammates suffered the varied injuries and deaths they had experienced in the illusion.
• Vulture connected Aizen’s Genjutsu to the Kurama Clan’s ability to make illusionary injuries affect the body.
• Vulture asked whether Aizen was from the Kurama Clan, and Aizen’s surprise led Vulture to grow more certain of his guess.

Aizen killed Vulture after Vulture guessed he belonged to the Kurama Clan, while Jörmungandr eliminated the surrounding Root ninja. Setsugetsu overwhelmed the Uchiha force, and Uchiha Ryuko ordered his surviving clansmen to retreat after realizing Root had gone silent.

• Aizen killed Vulture to conceal his Kurama Clan identity, then reflected that the encounter had tested his ability to control the senses and affect the body.
• Jörmungandr defeated the Root ninja around him, and Aizen said they should wait while Setsugetsu handled the Uchiha.
• Setsugetsu deflected the Uchiha's fire attacks with ice spikes and then struck them with a storm of ice spears.
• Setsugetsu killed seven Uchiha ninja, prompting the survivors to charge her in rage.
• Uchiha Ryuko stopped the survivors and ordered them to return to Konoha, judging Root likely defeated and their mission lost.

Uchiha Ryuko ordered Shisui to lead the surviving Uchiha back to Konoha while he stayed behind to face Setsugetsu. Setsugetsu revealed that the Light Organization had targeted the Uchiha Clan, and Ryuko was defeated after refusing to surrender.

• Uchiha Seika blamed himself for the deaths of his clansmen, and his Sharingan briefly began to change before returning to normal.
• Uchiha Ryuko rebuked Seika for disobeying orders, then chose to hold off Setsugetsu so the survivors could escape.
• Uchiha Ryuko entrusted Shisui with leading Seika and the remaining Uchiha back to Konoha, and Shisui led them away.
• Setsugetsu told Uchiha Ryuko that the Light Organization had come to the Land of Fire for the Uchiha Clan and that companions were waiting ahead for the fleeing survivors.
• Setsugetsu offered to spare Ryuko if he surrendered, but Ryuko chose to fight and was defeated.

Shisui led the remaining Uchiha toward Konoha, but they discovered they had been trapped in a genjutsu and returned to the battlefield. There, they found Aizen and the Light Organization had captured Uchiha Ryuko, while Uchiha Seika was defeated after charging to save his brother.

• Shisui led the Uchiha toward what they believed was Konoha, but the distant village failed to get closer as they ran.
• The Uchiha released the genjutsu and found themselves back at the forest where they had parted from Uchiha Ryuko.
• Aizen and the others appeared with Uchiha Ryuko bloodied beneath Aizen's foot, and Uchiha Seika charged to rescue his brother.
• Uchiha Seika's mysterious chakra pushed him to Elite Jonin, but Jörmungandr knocked him down and seized him by the throat.
• Jörmungandr mocked Uchiha Seika for charging at an enemy far stronger than himself and for squandering the chance his brother had secured.

Jörmungandr forced Uchiha Seika to play a finger-guessing game in which each loss cost a clansman, and Seika lost the first two rounds. Jörmungandr then made Seika’s older brother the stake for the next round, leaving Seika facing another guess as his mysterious chakra grew stronger.

• Jörmungandr explained the game and Uchiha Seika agreed to play, hoping to rescue his clansmen and older brother.
• Jörmungandr guessed ten while both men showed five fingers, and a clansman named Ginto was killed after Seika lost.
• Seika tried the same strategy in the second round, but Jörmungandr again guessed ten correctly, and another clansman died.
• Jörmungandr offered Seika’s older brother as the next stake, and Seika accepted as his Sharingan spun and his expression turned resolute and wild.
• Seika kept all five fingers extended after agreeing to begin, surprising Jörmungandr as the next round approached.

Uchiha Seika awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan after Jörmungandr made him believe his brother had died. He broke the genjutsu, realized his brother was missing, and stayed behind to face Jörmungandr and Aizen while Shisui returned to Konoha.

• Uchiha Seika cut off two of his fingers to win the mind game, and Jörmungandr kicked Uchiha Ryuko toward him.
• Uchiha Seika found no pulse and believed Uchiha Ryuko was dead as Jörmungandr taunted him and revealed he had supposedly killed him.
• Overwhelmed by grief and guilt, Uchiha Seika awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan and used its power to break the genjutsu controlling his senses.
• Uchiha Seika discovered the corpse was a stranger's and could not find Uchiha Ryuko, so he suspected the enemy had taken his brother.
• Uchiha Seika freed Shisui from the force restraining him and ordered him to return to Konoha while he held off Jörmungandr and Aizen.
• Shisui ran toward Konoha, and Jörmungandr and Aizen let him go as Uchiha Seika faced them.

Uchiha Seika used his newly awakened Mangekyō Sharingan ability, Chigaeshi no Ōtama no Mikoto, to attack Aizen and Jörmungandr and restore himself to peak condition. Despite his resolve to rescue his brother, his limited use of the ability and the opponents’ combined strength left him on the path to defeat.

• Uchiha Seika attacked Aizen and Jörmungandr with Uchiha Style: Sword Leaping Flame, then used an illusory body to strike Jörmungandr and cut his arm.
• Aizen identified the illusory body as Uchiha Seika’s Mangekyō Sharingan ability, and Uchiha Seika named it Chigaeshi no Ōtama no Mikoto.
• Uchiha Seika used Chigaeshi no Ōtama no Mikoto: Revised to restore his injured body to its peak condition, causing the phantom to disappear.
• Aizen pointed out that the ability must carry a significant cost, and Uchiha Seika realized he could not use it to restore himself again without exhausting his ocular power.
• Determined to save his brother, Uchiha Seika summoned another illusory clone and charged Aizen and Jörmungandr, but their combined strength left him facing defeat.

Uchiha Ryuko was taken to a concealed Root research base, where Aizen began a plan to make him believe Danzo had betrayed the Uchiha. Hearing that his younger brother Uchiha Seika was being tortured, Ryuko was consumed by fury and first considered destroying Konoha.

• Setsugetsu blindfolded Uchiha Ryuko, brought him to a cave, and injected him with a drug that knocked him unconscious.
• Aizen told Setsugetsu and Jörmungandr that he had taken control of the Root research base and planned to let Ryuko discover the staged revelations himself.
• As Ryuko began to regain consciousness, he overheard two voices claim that Danzo had worked with the Light Organization to capture Uchiha and coveted their Sharingan.
• Ryuko heard Uchiha Seika scream and learned that his younger brother was being tortured at the base.
• Ryuko felt betrayed and furious, and he began thinking about destroying Konoha.

Uchiha Ryuko woke in Root’s research base and discovered that his younger brother Seika was being tortured to force him to awaken the Mangekyō Sharingan. As Ryuko’s rage restored his strength, he stayed bound and pretended to be unconscious while he considered how to save Seika and the other Uchiha prisoners.

• Uchiha Ryuko heard two Root ninja check his pulse, then waited until they left before opening his eyes.
• Uchiha Ryuko saw that he was restrained in an operating chair and found Uchiha Ginto nearby with his Sharingan removed.
• Uchiha Ryuko’s anger at Ginto’s condition strengthened his chakra and eased his weakness, giving him hope of escape.
• The Root ninja returned and said Danzo had ordered them to torture Uchiha Seika again, then dispose of him if he failed to awaken the Mangekyō Sharingan.
• Uchiha Ryuko heard the Root ninja describe Seika as a test subject and resolved not to act until he understood how many enemies were nearby.

Uchiha Ryuko escaped his restraints, killed two Root ninja, and rescued his badly injured younger brother, Uchiha Seika. He chose to flee with Seika rather than search for their missing clansmen, and they reached the Root Base exit before an unexpected event interrupted their escape.

• Uchiha Ryuko overheard Root ninja discussing Danzo’s plans and realized he had to act immediately to save Uchiha Seika.
• Uchiha Ryuko freed himself, found Seika bound and badly wounded, killed two Root ninja, and treated his brother’s injuries.
• Uchiha Seika urged Ryuko to escape and warn the clan leader that Danzo had plotted against them.
• Uchiha Ryuko told Seika their clansmen were dead and insisted on taking him out of the base.
• Uchiha Ryuko and Uchiha Seika reached the cave exit, but something unexpected happened just as they neared escape.

Uchiha Ryuko awakened his Mangekyō Sharingan after Uchiha Seika appeared to die, then used Susanoo to kill the Root ninja. When Ryuko discovered a genjutsu on Seika’s body, he was incapacitated and learned that Aizen of the Light Organization had orchestrated the events.

• Root ninja ambushed Uchiha Ryuko and Uchiha Seika, and Seika appeared to die while saving Ryuko.
• Ryuko awakened his Mangekyō Sharingan and reached Kage Level.
• Ryuko summoned Susanoo and destroyed the Root base and the Root ninja surrounding him.
• Ryuko found signs of genjutsu in Seika’s body, then suffered intense pain and lost the ability to use chakra.
• Seika revealed himself as Aizen of the Light Organization, healed his wounds, and told Ryuko that the events had been arranged.

Uchiha Ryuko realized that the Light Organization had engineered his suffering to awaken his Mangekyō Sharingan, and Aizen confirmed their goal. Aizen then revealed that Mangekyō use leads to blindness and that Madara Uchiha overcame it by taking his brother’s eyes, leaving Ryuko astonished and more afraid of the organization.

• Uchiha Ryuko pieced together how his capture, his brother’s death, and his own despair had been arranged to awaken his Mangekyō Sharingan.
• Aizen and two white-clad figures appeared, and Aizen confirmed that the Light Organization sought the Uchiha Clan’s Mangekyō Sharingan.
• Aizen told Uchiha Ryuko that Madara Uchiha and Uchiha Izuna had awakened the Mangekyō by killing those most important to them.
• Aizen explained that using the Mangekyō Sharingan gradually drives its wielder toward blindness, and Uchiha Ryuko challenged his claim.
• Aizen revealed that Madara Uchiha went blind and took Uchiha Izuna’s eyes, restoring his sight and gaining greater power.

Aizen’s group escaped the destroyed Root Base after manipulating Uchiha Ryuko and Uchiha Seika into awakening their Mangekyō Sharingan. In Konoha, Hiruzen Sarutobi temporarily took Root from Danzo and assigned the Uchiha Clan to guard the coast, while Uchiha Fugaku concluded that the Light Organization knew the Mangekyō secret and threatened the clan.

• Aizen’s group left the Root Base with Uchiha Ryuko unconscious and valuable supplies, while Aizen explained how his Genjutsu had orchestrated both brothers’ awakenings.
• Shisui arrived with Konoha reinforcements and found the Root Base devastated; Hiruzen Sarutobi, Danzo, and Uchiha Fugaku then received the report of the losses.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi ordered Danzo to relinquish Root temporarily, while Danzo blamed the Uchiha and Fugaku argued that Root’s faulty intelligence had caused the disaster.
• Fugaku accused Root of colluding with the Light Organization because it knew the hidden base’s location, prompting Hiruzen to restrict Danzo to Konoha and order the Uchiha to guard against Kirigakure.
• Fugaku questioned Shisui, who confirmed that Seika had awakened the Mangekyō and sacrificed himself; Shisui also reported that the Light Organization had erased all traces of the dead.
• Fugaku suspected the Light Organization coveted the Uchiha’s abilities and knew the Mangekyō secret, but refused to reveal the clan’s secrets to Konoha’s leadership.

Aizen prepared Uchiha Ryuko and Uchiha Seika for an experiment to fuse their Mangekyō Sharingan, while using Seika’s life to pressure Ryuko into cooperating. After seeing that Seika was alive, Ryuko allowed the examinations to continue more smoothly.

• Aizen conducted detailed examinations on Uchiha Ryuko and Uchiha Seika before the Mangekyō fusion and requested help from Kōki.
• Uchiha Ryuko deduced that Seika had awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan, and Aizen confirmed it.
• Aizen threatened that neither brother would survive if Ryuko refused to cooperate, but promised to let Seika return to Konoha if the experiment went well.
• Uchiha Ryuko asked to see Seika in person, and Aizen agreed while warning him not to reveal anything.
• Jörmungandr brought the injured Uchiha Seika before Ryuko, who saw that he was alive and then cooperated with the examinations.