Chapter Summaries

Kakashi's squad encountered Hidden Mist bloodline ninjas while searching for Isobu, the Three-Tails, and a Red Eye ninja disrupted Hyuga Ryo's Byakugan. Meanwhile, Orochimaru approached Uchiha Yuan and asked if he was ready, apparently preparing to involve him in sealing Isobu.

• Kakashi and Mitarashi Anko investigated a Chakra signature, but found no visible enemy and realized the squad was surrounded.
• Kaguya Cang and Hong Yu attacked Kakashi; he used clones and Chidori, but Kaguya Cang's Shikotsumyaku destroyed the decoys as he searched for the real Kakashi.
• Hyuga Ryo explained that the Hidden Mist Village's Red Eye bloodline could counter the Byakugan, while Mitarashi Anko questioned why the squad was fleeing.
• An Ice Release ninja appeared on the squad's route and announced that the Hidden Leaf ninjas would die there.
• Uchiha Yuan awoke after an earthquake and beast's roar, and Orochimaru appeared and asked whether he was ready.

Uchiha Yuan used the Spiritualisation Technique and Phantom Lotus Kill to disrupt Harusame’s attempt to seal Isobu, the Three-Tails, and provoke the exhausted beast into unleashing its power. After Isobu broke free of the genjutsu, Yuan returned to interfere with the sealing again, targeting Isobu directly.

• Orochimaru ordered Kurama Shion and the others to protect Uchiha Yuan during the mission against Isobu.
• Danzo ordered Yuan to use the Spiritualisation Technique to sense the Three-Tails’ Chakra.
• As Harusame began sealing Isobu, Yuan appeared on the beast’s head and used Phantom Lotus Kill to disrupt him and inflict an illusion of pain on Isobu.
• Isobu erupted with storms, waves, and ice, forcing the Hidden Mist Village ninja to retreat while Yuan returned to his body.
• After Harusame helped Isobu break free of the genjutsu, Yuan appeared on Isobu’s head again and directed Phantom Lotus Kill at the beast.

Uchiha Yuan disrupted Harusame’s attempt to seal Isobu, but a sealing formula followed his soul back to the Konoha camp before Danzo’s Root ninjas removed it. When Yuan used genjutsu to create an opening during the next sealing attempt, Orochimaru and Hidden Mist Anbu attacked the Hidden Mist forces, and Isobu swallowed Yuan’s soul.

• Uchiha Yuan escaped Harusame’s sealing technique by returning to his body, while Hong Yu tracked his Chakra and agreed to watch for him.
• A sealing formula spread across Yuan’s arm at the Konoha camp, but Danzo’s Root ninjas removed it with an unsealing technique.
• Harusame’s Kekkai Genkai forces froze Isobu and attacked Konoha’s ninjas as the sealing operation gained control of the battlefield.
• Danzo ordered Uchiha Yuan to disrupt the Hidden Mist forces’ senses, and Orochimaru arrived with Hidden Mist Anbu to attack the stunned Kekkai Genkai ninjas.
• Harusame sent sealing rain toward Isobu’s neck, but Isobu stretched forward and swallowed Uchiha Yuan’s soul before he could complete the Contract Seal.

Orochimaru’s plan to use Isobu to secure his bid for Hokage collapsed when Uchiha Yuan was sealed and swallowed, so he turned to completing the Kirigakure purge. Trapped in Isobu’s spiritual world, Uchiha Yuan offered to help the tailed beast gain freedom in exchange for its Chakra.

• Orochimaru realized Danzo had used him to help the Third Mizukage purge Kirigakure’s Kekkai Genkai Clans, and his hopes of becoming the Fifth Hokage depended on controlling Isobu.
• After Uchiha Yuan was swallowed by Isobu, Orochimaru attacked Harusame, killed Hong Yu, and unleashed a genjutsu and poison attacks as Hidden Mist Anbu joined the assault.
• The Six-Tails Jinchuriki ran wild, and Kirigakure ninja turned on one another amid accusations that the Kekkai Genkai Clans had betrayed the village.
• Uchiha Yuan, whose soul had entered Isobu’s spiritual world, discussed the tailed beast’s hatred of ninja and its desire for freedom.
• Uchiha Yuan offered to help Isobu gain freedom if Isobu traded its Chakra to him.

Uchiha Yuan persuaded Isobu to lend him Chakra by demonstrating how ninjutsu could help the Three-Tails fight human ninja. He used it to attack Danzo from afar, then asked Isobu to make a deal as Orochimaru and the others struggled with Yuan’s apparently lifeless body.

• Isobu mocked Uchiha Yuan’s offer, but Yuan showed him how ninjutsu could let the Three-Tails overpower ninja and avoid being sealed.
• Isobu agreed to lend Yuan Chakra so he could test the technique before they discussed a deal.
• Orochimaru returned to the main force, found Yuan’s body without its soul, and prepared to bring it back to the Uchiha Clan.
• A distant Water Release attack cut Danzo in half, but the medical ninja treated him and his Chakra signature remained.
• Yuan revealed that he had used Isobu’s Chakra to attack Danzo, then asked Isobu whether he wanted to make a deal.

Uchiha Yuan made deals with Isobu and Saiken, teaching them Water Style: Water Severing Wave in exchange for their Chakra and help toward freedom. After returning Isobu’s soul, Yuan raced across the sea to catch up with his body aboard a departing ship, with only an hour left before his soul could no longer survive.

• Isobu considered Yuan’s offer after seeing Water Style: Water Severing Wave precisely kill a distant target, then consulted Saiken about escaping without killing Utakata.
• Yuan appeared in the tailed beasts’ meeting and offered Saiken a deal, explaining that a Jinchuriki could survive extraction if the beast left behind part of its body and Chakra.
• Yuan promised to find sealing help and taught Isobu and Saiken the hand seals and execution method for Water Style: Water Severing Wave in exchange for their Chakra.
• Utakata’s Tailed Beast Cloak dispersed after he confirmed Harusame was unharmed, while Yuan’s soul left the battlefield and sensed that his body and Orochimaru’s group were nearing the harbor.
• Yuan rushed toward his body aboard a departing cargo ship as the sealing formula spread across his left arm and his remaining time ran short.

Uchiha Yuan used the Demonic Statue Fragment to absorb most of the Chakra from Harusame’s sealing formula and discovered that Tailed Beast Chakra had strengthened his abilities and gene fusion potential. After returning to Orochimaru, he learned that the remaining runes on his arm were related to Sage Art, raising questions about why the statue fragment could not absorb them.

• Uchiha Yuan returned to his body and used the Demonic Statue Fragment to absorb the Tailed Beast Chakra he had traded for, along with most of the Chakra in Harusame’s sealing formula.
• Uchiha Yuan found that the remaining runes could not be absorbed and that the Tailed Beast Chakra had strengthened his elemental affinities, abilities, and gene fusion potential.
• Uchiha Yuan planned to pursue the Nine-Tails, learn Madara’s Ninjutsu legacy, gain combat experience, and develop his gene fusion ability and the statue fragment.
• Uchiha Yuan found Orochimaru and showed him the stubborn runes left by Harusame’s Sealing Technique.
• Orochimaru examined the runes and told Uchiha Yuan they were related to Sage Art, leaving Uchiha Yuan wondering why the statue fragment could not absorb Sage Art Chakra.

Uchiha Yuan had the Sage Art runes removed by Orochimaru, though his left arm remained partly petrified and temporarily unable to form Hand Seals. He chose the Dead Demon Consuming Seal as his mission reward, while Orochimaru became curious about whether Yuan’s powerful soul could withstand the technique’s cost.

• Orochimaru explained that the runes on Yuan’s arm used natural Sage Art Chakra to strengthen Sealing Techniques and warned that the chakra would eventually petrify his body.
• Orochimaru removed the runes from Yuan’s left arm, but the remaining Sage Art Chakra left parts of the arm and hand petrified until it dissipated.
• Orochimaru advised Yuan to hide his talents and show loyalty because powerful, gifted shinobi could attract envy from Konoha’s higher-ups.
• Orochimaru offered Yuan a ninjutsu as his mission reward, and Yuan requested the Dead Demon Consuming Seal to study the Uzumaki Clan’s Sealing Techniques.
• Orochimaru gave Yuan the forbidden technique scroll and privately wondered whether Yuan’s powerful soul could resist the Death God’s price.

Uchiha Yuan returned to Konoha after mastering the Dead Demon Consuming Seal and reuniting with his teammates. He saw the villagers’ hostility toward the Uchiha Clan firsthand, then met Jiraiya, who tried to recruit him for a novel interview.

• Uchiha Yuan studied the Dead Demon Consuming Seal and learned to summon the Death God and seal souls through hand seals.
• Mitarashi Anko, Kurama Shion, and Hyuga Ryo visited Uchiha Yuan, and he learned Shion had cried while carrying him back.
• Uchiha Yuan returned to Konoha with Orochimaru’s forces and heard villagers praise Danzo and discuss peace negotiations with Iwagakure.
• Uchiha Shisui greeted Uchiha Yuan, but villagers nearby muttered hostile remarks about the Uchiha Clan and the Police Force.
• Jiraiya walked with Orochimaru, then asked Uchiha Yuan to discuss his romantic history for a role in Jiraiya’s new novel; Yuan declined.

Orochimaru rejected Jiraiya’s warning and hinted at his own plan for Konoha, while Uchiha Yuan defended his mission report before the village leadership. The chapter ended with Danzo leaving after Hiruzen warned him not to act recklessly, as Konoha prepared to monitor Uchiha Yuan.

• Jiraiya warned Orochimaru not to do anything reckless in pursuit of becoming Hokage, but Orochimaru dismissed him and left.
• Uchiha Yuan told the Konoha Higher-Ups that Isobu had swallowed his soul and that he had awakened back in his body three hours later.
• Orochimaru and Danzo defended Uchiha Yuan’s actions during the mission debriefing, and Danzo vouched for his contributions to Konoha.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi and the other leaders confirmed that Kirigakure had begun purging its Kekkai Genkai Clans after recovering Isobu, leaving the village weakened by internal conflict.
• The Konoha leaders discussed Uchiha Yuan’s unusual Spiritualisation Technique and the unresolved suspicion surrounding the Uchiha Clan, then agreed to have ANBU monitor him.
• Danzo left after Hiruzen warned him against doing something he would regret, and Danzo reminded Hiruzen that he was no longer Hokage.

Uchiha Yuan visited Konoha Hospital with Shisui, Itachi, and Sasuke, where they found Guy and Anko confronting a nurse who had nearly strangled Naruto. Meanwhile, Danzo learned that Uchiha clan members had come into contact with the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki, prompting ANBU to act.

• Uchiha Yuan met Shisui and Itachi, who had brought the infant Sasuke to see him, and agreed to visit the hospital with them.
• At the hospital, Guy and Kakashi joked together until a commotion in the corridor drew Guy away.
• Anko discovered the head nurse strangling a baby with whisker-like marks, and Guy took the child from her.
• Uchiha Yuan arrived and recognized the baby as Naruto Uzumaki while Shisui watched without intervening.
• Yamato informed Danzo that Uchiha Yuan, Itachi, Shisui, and the infant Sasuke had encountered the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki, and Danzo learned the ANBU had already acted.

Danzo sent Mu and Root shinobi to prevent Orochimaru from taking the Three-Tails and to keep the Uchiha from producing an uncontrollable genius. At Konoha Hospital, Uchiha Yuan stopped Guy and Anko from retaliating against a nurse who had harmed Naruto, then joined them in visiting the injured Orochimaru Squad, where a prank made Sasuke appear to be a girl.

• Danzo ordered Mu to use the Reverse Four Symbols Seal against Orochimaru if he acted beyond his mission, and assigned Root shinobi to support him before the next morning.
• At Konoha Hospital, Yuan pointed out the bruises on Naruto's neck, and the head nurse admitted she wanted revenge because the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox had killed her family.
• Naruto and Sasuke stopped crying when their hands touched, leading Yuan to recognize the presence of Indra and Asura's reincarnated Chakra in the infants.
• Two ANBU arrived, took Naruto away, and assured Guy they would not return him to the hospital.
• Yuan, Shisui, Itachi, and Sasuke visited the injured Ryo and Shion, where Anko and Shion's prank made Sasuke appear to be a girl.

Uchiha Yuan trained Shisui in a new shuriken technique, then faced an ambush by seven masked ninja resembling the Land of Woods Hannya Group. He fought off six attackers while Shisui battled the seventh, and the chapter ended as Yuan prepared to counter their retreat.

• Uchiha Yuan and Shisui left Ichiraku Ramen for a training ground, where Yuan demonstrated precise shuriken throws and a new technique using runes on ninja tools.
• Shisui practiced infusing kunai with Chakra and discovered tiny runes on a shuriken before an incoming weapon extinguished a torch.
• Shisui spotted seven masked ninja and drove them back with Fire Style: Phoenix Sage Flower Claw Crimson.
• The seven ninja surrounded Uchiha Yuan and Shisui, with one attacking Shisui while the other six targeted Yuan.
• Uchiha Yuan blocked the six attackers’ weapons for five minutes and pretended to be exhausted as they ran low on ninja tools.
• Uchiha Yuan smiled as the six ninja stopped throwing and retreated.

Uchiha Yuan killed a squad of mysterious ninjas and joined Shisui after the battle, then encouraged him to question the village’s treatment of the Uchiha Clan. The chapter ended with Shisui wondering why the village had not cleared the clan’s name after finding no evidence against them.

• Uchiha Yuan used his controlled ninja tools to kill six fleeing ninjas as their companion’s Reverse Four Symbols Sealing Technique activated.
• Uchiha Yuan joined Shisui’s fight and killed the tall ninja, then sealed his corpse in a scroll.
• Shisui recognized the principle behind Uchiha Yuan’s shuriken technique, which used Chakra sealed into ninja tools to control them.
• Uchiha Yuan and Shisui discussed the dead ninjas and their apparent connection to the mastermind behind them.
• Shisui told Uchiha Yuan that the village’s suspicion of the Uchiha Clan seemed unfair after ANBU found no evidence linking them to the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox’s attack.

Uchiha Yuan and Shisui returned to the Uchiha grounds with the body of a ninja who had attacked them, and Fugaku investigated the incident. Yuan told Fugaku that Orochimaru would not pursue the Fifth Hokage position and declared that he intended to reclaim the Police Force’s authority.

• Uchiha Yuan questioned Shisui about the village’s attitude toward the Uchiha, and Shisui reconsidered his loyalties to the village and clan.
• Uchiha Yuan warned Shisui to be cautious about the village’s and clan’s secrets, then they returned to the clan grounds with the corpse.
• Uchiha Fugaku brought Uchiha Yuan and Shisui to the Police Force basement and examined the corpse, which bore signs of the Reverse Four Symbols Sealing Technique.
• Shisui told Fugaku that seven ninjas had attacked them and that ANBU had failed to respond; Fugaku ordered Shisui to notify ANBU.
• Uchiha Yuan confirmed that the attacker had targeted him, then told Fugaku that Orochimaru no longer intended to become the Fifth Hokage.
• Uchiha Yuan told Fugaku that he planned to take back the Police Force’s authority.

Uchiha Yuan persuaded Fugaku that the clan should actively reclaim its authority, proposing to use the Impure World Reincarnation technique to frame an encounter as a defense of the village. After the Uchiha reported an attack and produced two enemy corpses, Hiruzen moved to restore their authority, while Danzo suspected his operatives had failed.

• Fugaku doubted that the Uchiha Clan could reclaim its power, but Yuan showed him the bodies of two attackers who had ambushed him and Shisui.
• Yuan reminded Fugaku that Orochimaru had mastered the Impure World Reincarnation technique and suggested presenting the incident as a dispute resolved to protect the village.
• Fugaku accepted Yuan’s proposal and agreed that the Uchiha should take back their authority themselves.
• At the Hokage Building, Hiruzen and the advisers debated candidates for Fifth Hokage, and Hiruzen mentioned Fugaku as a possible choice before the Nine-Tails Attack.
• An ANBU reported that unknown ninja had attacked the Uchiha at the training grounds and that the clan had obtained two intact corpses.
• Hiruzen proposed returning the Uchiha’s public-order authority, while Danzo realized that his men had likely failed.

Uchiha Fugaku brought two corpses to a jonin meeting and called for an investigation into rogue ninja who had used a forbidden sealing technique inside Konoha. Orochimaru revealed that Uchiha Yuan had brought him an intact brain, hinting that the incident concealed a larger conspiracy.

• Fugaku attended the jonin meeting with two bodies, prompting the clan heads to watch closely amid tensions over the Nine-Tails Attack.
• Fugaku explained that Uchiha Yuan and Uchiha Shisui had confronted seven supposed rogue ninja at the training grounds.
• Fugaku uncovered a corpse bearing the Reverse Four Symbols Sealing Technique and proposed investigating the attackers' origins.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi acknowledged ANBU's failure, but Fugaku interrupted him to press for an investigation and won some clan heads' support.
• Orochimaru said Uchiha Yuan had visited him with an intact brain, drawing the jonin's attention to the second corpse.

At a jonin meeting, the Uchiha regained responsibility for village security as the village prepared to vote on a Hokage candidate. Uchiha Yuan returned home, then accepted a nominal position in the Police Force while planning to focus on improving his strength.

• Orochimaru proposed using Impure World Reincarnation to question the Rogue Ninja, but Hiruzen assigned Fugaku to handle the matter, restoring the Uchiha's security authority.
• Hyuga Hiashi worried that the village's higher-ups would continue to burden and distrust the ninja clans.
• Uchiha Yuan woke at Obito's grandmother's home, shared a meal with her, and heard that she was considering adopting a girl.
• Shisui and Itachi escorted Uchiha Yuan to the Police Force, where Fugaku dismissed them and spoke with Yuan privately.
• Uchiha Yuan declined active Police Force duties because of his injured left hand, but accepted a nominal position as cover for his plan to obtain the Yin Nine-Tails.

Uchiha Yuan spent a quiet month training and secretly mastering stolen ninjutsu while remaining under surveillance. Orochimaru announced he would relocate to Sea Country, left his students gifts, and departed with his followers and experimental materials.

• Uchiha Yuan learned from Shisui about unrest and political developments among the Five Great Ninja Villages while continuing ordinary training in public and secretly studying captured techniques at night.
• Scale Pill told Uchiha Yuan that Orochimaru planned to travel to Sea Country, prompting Yuan to notify Fugaku and prepare for the summons.
• Orochimaru gathered his four students at Hokage Rock and asked whether they wanted to carry out missions in Sea Country.
• Orochimaru said it was safer for his students to remain in the village, gave each of them a wooden box, and left using the Body Flicker Technique.
• Hyuga Ryo saw Orochimaru's supply-laden carriages heading out through the eastern gate and realized he was taking his experimental materials and followers with him.

After Orochimaru left the village, Uchiha Yuan and his teammates opened the gifts he had prepared, which revealed research materials tied to each student’s abilities and origins. Yuan studied the Hashirama Cells and the Demonic Statue Fragment before Scale Pill arrived with an invitation to Laboratory No. 4.

• Uchiha Yuan reasoned that Orochimaru had abandoned his bid for Hokage and left to pursue his own research after losing faith in the village’s leadership.
• Uchiha Yuan, Kurama Shion, Hyuga Ryo, and Anko opened Orochimaru’s gifts, finding Hashirama Cells, research scrolls, a laboratory key, and a portrait with a map linked to Anko.
• The four students played together in the snow before Uchiha Yuan returned home that evening.
• Uchiha Yuan studied Orochimaru’s Hashirama Cell methods and found that the Demonic Statue Fragment could be cultivated further.
• Scale Pill arrived and told Uchiha Yuan that Shion had invited him to Laboratory No. 4, reminding him to bring jerky.