Recaps

Izuna proposed a Ninja Theme Park, while Hinata explained to the Uchiha elders that love and the will to protect what mattered could awaken the Sharingan. He revealed that Izuna knew of a girl who awakened her eyes through happiness and anticipation, leaving the elders stunned by the possibility of awakening without loss.

• Tobirama returned to the Meeting Room and found Izuna's detailed plans for a Ninja Theme Park displayed on the wall with Hashirama and Madara watching.
• Izuna announced the park idea, left the others to work out how to build it, and went to eat Three-Colored Dango.
• Hinata told the Uchiha elders that fear of losing Ren and Harukawa, along with his determination to protect them, had awakened his Sharingan during a play.
• Hinata relayed Izuna's theory that the Sharingan awakened through profound love and the will to protect, while pain and loss often made people recognize what they loved.
• Hinata added that Izuna had met a girl who awakened her eyes from excitement at the prospect of seeing her father, shocking the elders.

After the turmoil Izuna had caused left his friends swamped with clan duties, they caught him relaxing and chased him through Konoha. The spectacle entertained visiting noble attendants and changed their view of the village, leaving them hopeful about its future.

• Konoha's clans kept Izuna's friends busy with ceremony preparations, business, internal disputes, and questions about Kyoto.
• Izuna's friends met at their usual training ground and joined forces to make him share in their troubles.
• Izuna fled when the group surrounded him, and they pursued him across Konoha while villagers watched.
• Izuna's evasive maneuvers disrupted a tool stall and a child's treat as the chase moved toward the developing open area.
• Noble attendants watched the chase and began to see Konoha as lively and welcoming rather than dull and intimidating.

Izuna blundered into the Hyuga Clan Compound, where Hyuga Sousuke kept him as a guest while probing his intentions amid tensions within the clan. Izuna used questions about the Byakugan’s long-range vision to challenge the Hyuga’s close-combat traditions, leaving Sousuke stunned.

• Izuna arrived in the Hyuga Clan Compound and found Haruhi, who urgently tried to send him away.
• Sousuke and Hyuga Takayuki appeared, and Izuna covered for Haruhi by claiming he had accidentally climbed over the wall.
• Sousuke invited Izuna into a side hall for tea and conversation, while Haruhi and Takayuki went to prepare refreshments.
• Izuna suspected the Hyuga Main Family was reacting to dissent among clan members involved in his Kyoto performance and decided to use his knowledge of the Byakugan to influence events.
• Izuna praised the Hyuga performers, then asked Sousuke why the clan relied on close-range combat despite the Byakugan’s ability to see far away and perceive chakra networks.

Hyuga Sousuke recognized the potential in Izuna's suggestion that the Hyuga develop long-range tactics, but decided the clan must control any reforms itself. After leaving the Hyuga compound, Izuna reflected on his fear of becoming a working Ninja and his lingering sense that he did not belong in this world.

• Sousuke considered how long-range Byakugan tactics and puppets could transform the Hyuga Clan, while threatening to intensify conflict between the Main Family and Branch Family.
• Sousuke thanked Izuna for the conversation, said the Hyuga would consider making fuller use of the Byakugan, and politely ended the meeting.
• Izuna left the Hyuga compound, waved goodbye to Kasuga, and headed home.
• Izuna reflected that he had tried to improve the village without intending to change the Hyuga Clan, and still felt like an outsider despite his ties to Konoha.
• Izuna worried that he might someday have to take dangerous missions and kill, then stood on the road before walking toward the bustling main road.

Hashirama urged Madara to let Izuna make his own choices, while he told Tobirama to stop dwelling on the other-worldly Tobirama who had left the scroll. Tobirama reconsidered his view of Hashirama, then helped him with paperwork; meanwhile, Madara found Izuna entertaining children in the village.

• Hashirama told Madara that Izuna had grown capable and should be free to decide when to leave the village, and Madara left to find him.
• Hashirama told Tobirama that the other-worldly Tobirama was gone and that he should focus on the present instead of becoming trapped in the scroll’s feelings.
• Tobirama reflected on Hashirama’s priorities and saw him as a force that reshaped the world around Konoha, but then watched him collapse into despair over paperwork.
• Tobirama took charge of several documents and assigned Hashirama the open-area budget and supply list.
• Madara found Izuna beside a tea shop, animatedly telling a group of children a story.

Madara watched Izuna lead children through a coin-based roleplaying game, then joined them as their powerful ally. At Izuna’s urging, Madara let him tie his hair into a ponytail, revealing his face to the astonishment of the children and hidden onlookers.

• Izuna used a copper coin to decide whether the children’s characters succeeded or failed as they acted out an adventure.
• Madara watched the children, their parents, and two noble attendants observe Izuna’s game, then accepted Izuna’s invitation to join.
• The children protested that Madara’s guaranteed skill was unfair, and Madara laughed at Izuna’s response.
• Izuna suggested tying back Madara’s hair, and Madara agreed despite recalling that Izuna had once encouraged him to hide his face.
• Izuna tied Madara’s hair into a high ponytail, leaving the children and onlookers amazed by his appearance.
• Madara touched his newly exposed forehead, saw the children’s fear replaced by curiosity, and said the hairstyle felt good.

Izuna walked home with Madara, who urged him to travel beyond Konoha, but Izuna explained that he preferred staying in the village and had too much work to leave. As Madara’s newly revealed appearance drew attention and improved public opinion of him, Izuna agreed to travel after the inauguration and construction work, and the brothers postponed capturing the Tailed Beasts until afterward.

• Madara asked Izuna whether he wanted to leave Konoha and explore the Land of Fire, but Izuna said he had no interest in traveling without a mission and had responsibilities in the village.
• Villagers and ninja recognized Madara after seeing his hair tied back, and they reacted with surprise at his handsome appearance and his warmth toward Izuna.
• Izuna reflected that his efforts to build a friendly reputation had helped improve how people viewed Madara, supporting Madara’s legitimacy as the future Second Hokage.
• Madara continued encouraging Izuna to travel, and Izuna promised to go after the Hokage’s inauguration and the first phase of construction were finished.
• Madara and Izuna agreed to postpone the plan to capture the Tailed Beasts until after those tasks were complete.

Izuna argued that Hashirama and Madara had the power to unify the Five Great Nations, but Hashirama explained that Ninja lacked the skills and institutions to govern a continent. The discussion ended with Izuna suggesting they make friends with the Tailed Beasts instead of capturing them.

• Hashirama asked Izuna whether he had meant his proposal to become kings, and Izuna said he had seriously considered forceful unification if the village had not already brought peace.
• Izuna argued that Hashirama and Madara’s overwhelming power could establish lasting order, while Hashirama warned that Ninja could not govern vast territories and would likely fracture into civil war.
• Hashirama thanked Izuna for proposing a special administrative region that offered Ninja a different future, and Izuna dismissed his contribution modestly.
• Izuna asked whether Hashirama still planned to capture the Tailed Beasts, and Hashirama recalled that the plan had only been shelved.
• Izuna said they should not capture the Tailed Beasts but should go make friends with them instead.

Izuna proposed that Hashirama and Madara eventually befriend the Tailed Beasts, first by subduing them, and claimed he knew their real names. Hashirama told Tobirama about the idea on their walk home, where Tobirama found it intriguing and threatened Hashirama with extra paperwork when he teased him about Izuna.

• Hashirama doubted that the Tailed Beasts could be befriended, but Izuna argued that they could communicate and urged Hashirama and Madara to defeat them first.
• Izuna said he knew the Tailed Beasts’ real names and suggested revisiting the plan after Konoha and the open zone were more established.
• Hashirama told Tobirama about Izuna’s proposal on their walk home, and Tobirama laughed at its audacity.
• Hashirama asked whether Tobirama had fallen for Izuna, and Tobirama denied it, saying he was focused on the village.
• Tobirama said Izuna’s idea might be worth trying later, but threatened to leave Hashirama with extra paperwork when Hashirama teased him about liking Izuna.

After Izuna’s Suggestion during the play left Yūki haunted by the imagined loss of his father, he trained obsessively until Hashirama and Mito discovered his fear. Yūki finally explained that he wanted to become strong enough to protect his family, but his parents remained unsure how to help him.

• Hashirama returned home and learned from Mito that Yūki had trained relentlessly since coming back from Kyoto.
• Hashirama found Yūki training with Ichiyo nearby and stopped him after he nearly fell from exhaustion.
• Mito comforted Yūki, who told her Izuna’s Suggestion as Koremori had made him feel that Hashirama was gone and left him afraid of losing his family.
• Yūki said he was training because he felt too weak to protect anyone, and Mito soothed him until he fell asleep.
• Mito told Hashirama what Yūki had revealed, and the two parents discussed how to help him but remained at a loss.

Yamanaka Harukawa, Uchiha Hinata, Uchiha Takuma, Senju Yūki, and Senju Ichiyo grew concerned about the Hyuga Clan’s sudden absence and planned to enter its compound to check on Ren. The chapter ended as Harukawa’s distraction began outside the compound’s main gate.

• Hashirama and Mito decided not to involve Izuna in Yūki’s troubles and watched Yūki leave for training with Ichiyo.
• Harukawa, Hinata, and Takuma noticed that Hyuga clan members had disappeared from the village and learned that Ren was being kept from visitors.
• Hinata, Yūki, and Ichiyo confirmed they had also been turned away from the Hyuga compound and agreed to investigate.
• Harukawa proposed distracting the guards while Hinata and Takuma slipped inside to find Ren; Yūki and Ichiyo would provide backup outside.
• At evening shift change, a commotion broke out near the Hyuga Clan Compound’s main gate.

Senju Yūki and the others planned to check on Ren before deciding whether to rescue her, but Hashirama Senju and Uchiha Izuna unexpectedly arrived at the Hyuga Clan Compound. Unable to warn the infiltrators, Yamanaka Harukawa watched as Uchiha Takuma and Uchiha Hinata entered the compound, unaware of the danger.

• Senju Yūki explained that the group would first check whether Ren was safe, and Uchiha Hinata reluctantly agreed to follow the plan.
• Yamanaka Harukawa possessed a Hyuga Branch Family Ninja to create a disturbance at the compound’s main gate.
• Hashirama Senju and Uchiha Izuna arrived at the gate, putting the guards on alert and making Harukawa realize the infiltration had to be canceled.
• Harukawa returned to his own body but could not reach the others to deliver his warning.
• Uchiha Takuma and Uchiha Hinata mistook the guards’ movement for an opening and slipped over the wall into the compound.
• Senju Yūki and Senju Ichiyo, waiting farther away, assumed the plan was working and silently cheered them on.

Hinata Rei remained under restriction in the Hyuga compound while Hyuga Masayoshi, Hyuga Akari, and their Main Family allies resisted the Elder’s efforts to punish them. As clan leaders debated cautious reform, Uchiha Hinata and Uchiha Takuma infiltrated the compound to find Rei, while Hashirama Senju and Uchiha Izuna arrived openly at the main gate.

• Hyuga Masayoshi gained Hyuga Tetsuya, Hyuga Tennin, and Hyuga Sousuke’s support against the Elder’s faction, leaving Rei temporarily confined for her protection.
• Hinata Rei asked Hyuga Akari whether Masayoshi could succeed, and Akari encouraged her to trust him and the clan head.
• Hyuga Tennin and Hyuga Sousuke discussed reforming the clan, and Tennin resolved to speak to the Elder while keeping Rei and Masayoshi safe.
• Uchiha Hinata and Uchiha Takuma slipped past the compound’s guards and headed toward Rei’s courtyard to check on her.
• Hashirama Senju and Uchiha Izuna arrived at the Hyuga compound and were welcomed into a reception room.

Hashirama and Izuna visited the Hyuga compound to ask about the clan’s recent withdrawal from village affairs, but Hashirama’s blunt concern strained the conversation until Izuna clarified their intentions. The meeting ended abruptly when two Uchiha boys were reported to have infiltrated the compound and headed for Ren and Akari’s courtyard, prompting the leaders to rush there.

• Hashirama asked Tennin and Sousuke why the Hyuga Clan had reduced its patrols and other activities, and Tennin gave an official explanation about internal study sessions.
• Hashirama asked after Ren’s recovery, making Tennin and Sousuke uncomfortable, while Izuna redirected the discussion toward Konoha’s stability and the need to notify the Hokage Building about clan affairs.
• A Hyuga ninja reported that two Uchiha boys had entered the compound and gone toward Ren and Akari’s courtyard.
• Hashirama denied that the Uchiha intended to provoke the Hyuga, and Izuna urged everyone to focus on protecting Ren and Akari and restraining the intruders.
• Tennin sent Sousuke ahead to secure the courtyard and ordered him to take the intruders alive, then set off with Hashirama and Izuna.

The Hyuga Elder ordered his men to abduct Ren and Akari so he could use them against Hyuga Masayoshi and the clan leadership. Uchiha Hinata and Uchiha Takuma intervened, and after Akari revealed her mastery of Rotation, Tennin and Sousuke arrived and arrested the attackers.

• The Hyuga Elder sent Hyuga Ikkan and other loyalists to seize Ren and Akari and take them to the Detention Room on the Rear Mountain.
• Uchiha Hinata and Uchiha Takuma entered Ren's courtyard and fought the masked attackers as they tried to abduct the girls.
• Akari used Rotation to shield herself and Ren, then told Hinata and Takuma that the attackers planned to take them hostage.
• The attackers tried to flee, but Hinata, Takuma, and Akari held them off until Hashirama, Izuna, Tennin, and Sousuke arrived.
• Tennin confronted Hyuga Ikkan, and Sousuke ordered the attackers seized and detained.
• Hinata and Takuma apologized for entering the Hyuga compound, and Tennin forgave them with a warning not to do it again.

The Hyuga Elder defended Ikkan’s attempt to seize Ren and Akari, blaming Hinata and Takuma for entering the compound and demanding that the Branch Family obey the Main Family. As Tennin weighed the risk of confronting him, Izuna challenged the entire Hyuga clan to fight him using only Taijutsu.

• The Hyuga Elder arrived with Ikkan and claimed he had sent the men to move Ren and Akari somewhere safer, while accusing Hinata and Takuma of trespassing.
• Akari and Ren protested that Ikkan’s men had tried to take them by force, but the Elder silenced them and ordered Ren to obey the Main Family.
• Tennin hesitated to punish Ikkan, fearing the Elder would turn the incident into a dispute over Uchiha interference in Hyuga affairs.
• Izuna interrupted the argument, told the Elder he could not beat him, and accused Tennin and Sousuke of dragging matters out.
• Izuna challenged the entire Hyuga clan to fight him alone, using only Taijutsu, and dared them to defeat him with their own style.

Uchiha Izuna challenged the Hyuga Clan to a Taijutsu spar and defeated five of its elite fighters with precise counters that disrupted their Gentle Fist Chakra. The clan was left stunned as Izuna invited the next Hyuga to fight.

• Izuna provoked the Hyuga Clan into accepting his challenge, while privately telling Hashirama he wanted to push them into action.
• Tennin selected Hyuga Ao, Hyuga Ryosuke, and three other elites to spar with Izuna, and Izuna told them to attack together.
• Izuna evaded and redirected the five fighters' opening attacks, then recognized the rhythm of their combined Eight Trigrams Palm formation.
• Izuna used rapid double strikes to scatter the Hyuga fighters' Chakra and defeat all five within a dozen breaths.
• The Hyuga Clan stood stunned as Izuna faced Tennin and called for the next opponent.

Izuna challenged the Hyuga Clan to fight him using only Taijutsu, and as the clan members swarmed him, he effortlessly neutralized their attacks. Outside the compound, Yūki, Ichiyo, and Harukawa learned that Hinata and Takuma had become involved in the dispute and followed Raisuke inside as Madara and Tobirama rushed toward the compound.

• Hashirama watched Izuna fight and felt an intense desire to battle him.
• More than a dozen furious Hyuga clansmen attacked Izuna, who slipped through their assault and toppled them with precise, nonlethal strikes.
• Yūki, Ichiyo, and Harukawa learned from Raisuke that Hinata and Takuma had intervened when the Elder's faction tried to take Hinata Rei and Hyuga Akari away, prompting Izuna to challenge the entire Hyuga Clan.
• Raisuke said Hinata, Takuma, Rei, and Akari were with Hashirama, but the ongoing fight prevented them from leaving.
• Yūki, Ichiyo, and Harukawa asked Raisuke to take them inside, and he led them through the compound gate as Madara Uchiha and Tobirama Senju approached.

Izuna fought the Hyuga Clan’s Taijutsu experts using Taijutsu alone and defeated every attacker without activating his Sharingan or using Ninjutsu. His overwhelming victory left the Hyuga Clan facing the need to reform, while Izuna ended the battle by awkwardly apologizing for being too strong.

• Madara and Tobirama rushed to the Hyuga Clan Compound after learning Izuna planned to challenge the entire clan with Taijutsu alone.
• Hashirama told Madara and Tobirama to watch as Izuna dodged and countered the Hyuga fighters’ attacks with precise movements.
• Yūki, Ichiyo, Harukawa, Hinata, Takuma, Ren, and Akari watched as Izuna fought the Hyuga through the day and into the night.
• Izuna defeated the last standing Hyuga fighter, asked for the next opponent, and learned from Hashirama that no one else could fight.
• Izuna apologized for getting carried away, then squatted on the ground and called himself too strong, leaving the Hyuga stunned and irritated.
• Hyuga Tennin, Sōsuke, and the Hyuga Elder confronted the clan’s defeat, and the Elder realized the Hyuga would have to change.

After Uchiha Izuna defeated the Hyuga Clan in a Taijutsu fight, Konoha’s public opinion largely blamed the loss on Izuna’s extraordinary strength rather than the Hyuga’s weakness. The chapter ended with Madara embracing Izuna at home and noticing that his younger brother reacted with unexpected stiffness and embarrassment.

• Uchiha Izuna left the Hyuga Compound with Madara after Hashirama awkwardly tried to smooth things over, while the shaken Hyuga clan members began tending to the injured and clearing the training ground.
• Rumors of Izuna’s victory spread through Konoha, where most villagers and clan members sympathized with the Hyuga and praised Izuna as an overwhelming opponent.
• Hyuga Tennin, Sousuke, and other clan members heard the public’s reaction and recognized that their defeat had exposed the need for change despite preserving some of their dignity.
• Back at the Uchiha Compound, Madara repeatedly checked that Izuna was unharmed, and Izuna explained that he had dodged the Hyuga’s dangerous Gentle Fist strikes and avoided causing friendly fire.
• Madara ruffled Izuna’s hair and pulled him into an embrace, and Izuna stiffened and blushed as Madara wondered why his younger brother seemed uncomfortable with the gesture.

Madara embraced Izuna and worried that his younger brother’s discomfort with affection meant he had been alone for a long time. Izuna resolved to get used to Madara’s closeness, while Madara remained troubled by the past Izuna kept hidden and remembered to have him remove his eyes before bed.

• Madara held Izuna close, reflecting on how different this Izuna was from the younger brother he remembered and wondering why he was so unused to hugs.
• Madara told Izuna to rest and offered to have the Medical Corps check his sore muscles, leaving Izuna flustered by his gentle attention.
• Izuna retreated to his room and decided to accept Madara’s affection more naturally because he wanted to keep his older brother from being lonely.
• Madara sat alone beneath the eaves, troubled by Izuna’s habit of hiding his burdens and wondering when he would share his past.
• Madara remembered that Izuna needed to take his eyes out before sleeping.

Izuna used the public’s admiration of his victory over the Hyuga to propose offering the clan help rather than pressuring it. He outlined ways to address the Caged Bird Seal’s flaws and criticized the Hyuga’s reliance on close-range attacks, leaving Tobirama asking what better method Izuna had in mind.

• Izuna overheard Uchiha discussing his strength after his fight with the Hyuga and hurried to the Hokage Building with a plan.
• Izuna told Hashirama, Tobirama, and Madara that he wanted to visit the Hyuga Clan again to offer help, not interfere in its internal affairs.
• Izuna revealed that the Caged Bird Seal left Branch Family members with a one-degree blind spot at the back of the neck, startling the others with his knowledge.
• Izuna suggested addressing the seal’s blind spot and coercive functions while leaving any changes to the Hyuga Clan’s own specialists.
• Izuna argued that the Hyuga should rethink their reliance on close-range Gentle Fist and criticized Eight Trigrams Vacuum Palm’s limitations.
• Tobirama asked whether Izuna had a better attack method, and Izuna confidently said that he did.

Izuna proposed teaching archery to the Hyuga through the Ninja Academy, and Hashirama and Tobirama persuaded him to teach there so the clans would trust the school and Uchiha Setsuna could later become its Kyudo instructor. Izuna agreed, and eager children rushed into the office to ask whether he would really teach.

• Izuna suggested using the Byakugan and bows for long-range combat, but Tobirama doubted the Hyuga could adopt archery quickly and Hashirama warned that sending Uchiha Setsuna would create political tensions.
• Izuna proposed using the Ninja Academy to train the Hyuga, and Hashirama explained that most major clans and many civilian families still hesitated to send their children there.
• Tobirama suggested Izuna become a teacher, and Hashirama argued that Izuna's popularity and reputation could draw students from the clans and make it possible for Setsuna to teach Kyudo.
• After considering Hashirama's appeal, Izuna reluctantly agreed to teach at the Academy.
• Senju Yūki burst into the office with Uchiha Hinata, Uchiha Takuma, Yamanaka Harukawa, Senju Ichiyo, and other children, excitedly asking whether Izuna was really going to teach.

On February tenth, Madara celebrated Izuna’s birthday with a homemade bowl of noodles and a pair of specially made tactical gloves. Izuna cherished the gifts and promised to worry Madara less.

• Izuna came home from the cold and found Madara waiting with hot noodles.
• Madara reminded Izuna that February tenth was his birthday, a date that also matched his birthday in his former life.
• Izuna ate the noodles and learned Madara had practiced making them with the Third Elder’s help.
• Madara gave Izuna tactical gloves embroidered with the Uchiha clan fan and a wish for good fortune in battle.
• Izuna tried on the gloves and celebrated their fit, while Madara asked him to do fewer things that made people worry.

Senju Yūki recalled how Izuna had drawn him into the play and encouraged him to consider what he truly wanted. After the Kyoto celebration, Izuna vanished, and Yūki learned the next day that he had smashed up an entire street.

• Yūki first met Izuna and reluctantly joined the play as Taira no Koremori.
• Izuna gave Yūki dango, persuaded him to call him Uncle Izuna, and brought him into the children's games.
• Izuna told Yūki that he resembled Koremori and asked him to think about what he truly wanted.
• At the Kyoto banquet, Yūki reflected on Izuna's question and noticed Izuna was missing.
• The Konoha group did not leave the next morning, and Yūki learned that Izuna had smashed up an entire street.