Chapter Summaries

After Uchiha Kancang bullied Feng during taijutsu training and insulted his dead father, Feng awakened his Sharingan and defeated him. Feng left the training ground aware that his new power was only a beginning, while a chunin secretly assessed him.

• Uchiha Kancang forced Feng into a taijutsu fight and mocked him about his father's death.
• Feng struck back, but Kancang used chakra-enhanced taijutsu to knock him down and pin his wrist.
• Feng twisted Kancang's ankle, rose, and awakened his Sharingan, gaining heightened perception.
• Feng used his Sharingan to counter Kancang's attacks, disarmed him, and slapped him down when he refused to continue.
• Feng left after saying he had to become strong because no one else would fight back for him, while a chunin watched and made a hidden signal.
• Feng recalled his father's advice about protecting what he cared for and resolved to grow stronger as he thought of the threats surrounding him.

Lin Feng tested his strength, chakra control, and One-Tomoe Sharingan, discovering that activating it drained his mental energy and that turning it off took several seconds. After Uchiha Mikoto told him to join the Security Force patrol that afternoon, he resolved to practice controlling the Sharingan before patrol so its abnormal activation would not expose him.

• Lin Feng tested his physical fitness and climbed a tree with chakra, judging his strength and control to be adequate but noting that maintaining focus in combat could be difficult.
• Lin Feng activated his One-Tomoe Sharingan and found that it caused mental fatigue, lingered for several seconds after deactivation, and gave him a headache.
• A memory triggered the Sharingan passively, leaving Lin Feng unable to shut it off at once and consuming roughly one-tenth of his mental energy.
• Uchiha Mikoto called Lin Feng in for breakfast and told him the clan head had assigned him to a Security Force patrol that afternoon.
• Lin Feng concealed his fatigue from Mikoto and decided to practice proactive Sharingan control before patrol to avoid revealing his abnormality within the Uchiha Clan Grounds.

Lin Feng patrolled Konoha with Jiechuan Uchiha as he witnessed rising hostility toward the Uchiha and received a warning from Itachi. After overhearing that the clan assembly planned to act in one year, Lin Feng decided to secretly contact Itachi and prepare for the coming massacre.

• Lin Feng followed Jiechuan Uchiha through Konoha and noticed villagers avoiding the Uchiha Security Force.
• An Uchiha blacksmith complained that the Hokage's side was cutting patrol funding and that young clan members wanted to make trouble.
• Lin Feng encountered Itachi, who warned him to focus on patrol, avoid clan gatherings, and prioritize staying alive.
• At the shift-change room, Lin Feng overheard an elder say the clan assembly would decide to act in exactly one year.
• Lin Feng resolved to keep his knowledge secret, contact Itachi in secret, and begin planning for the future.

In spring of Konoha Year 53, Lin Feng reviewed Shisui’s impending fate and planned to prevent Danzo from taking his eye. He settled on training and approaching Shisui with a warning, leaving himself ready to begin the plan the next day.

• Lin Feng checked the Uchiha genealogy and patrol records, confirming Shisui was alive and that the clan-village conflict remained quiet for now.
• He studied hidden Anbu rotation notes and reasoned that stopping Danzo from taking Shisui’s eye could prevent Shisui’s suicide and alter Itachi’s path.
• Mikoto brought Lin Feng tea, and he concealed his notes until she left before continuing to plan.
• Lin Feng wrote three goals: stabilize his Sharingan at Two-Tomoe, master Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique, and contact Shisui privately within two months.
• Lin Feng decided to approach Shisui through their shared concern about internal conflict and went to bed, intending to start training the next day.

Lin Feng was provoked into sparring at the training field, where he awakened his One-Tomoe Sharingan and defeated two Uchiha clansmen. Uchiha Shisui offered to help him learn to use it, while the watching hardliners began to take notice of him.

• Two Uchiha clansmen mocked Lin Feng and challenged him to spar, then attacked him together.
• Outmatched and driven against a wooden post, Lin Feng awakened his One-Tomoe Sharingan.
• Lin Feng used the Sharingan to defeat both attackers in a few seconds, surprising the watching clansmen.
• Uchiha Shisui praised Lin Feng's control and offered to answer his questions about using the Sharingan.
• Lin Feng recognized that the hardliners had noticed him, then rested beneath a tree as the Sharingan's strain set in.

Shisui taught Lin Feng how to steady his breathing and chakra to control the Sharingan, then warned him to avoid the Lineage’s radical activities. Lin Feng left determined to train, watch the upcoming Lineage meeting, and find another chance to approach Shisui.

• Shisui advised Lin Feng that calm breathing and stable chakra flow could prevent his emotions from affecting his Sharingan.
• Shisui warned Lin Feng that tensions within the Lineage were rising and that he should stay out of the radicals’ activities.
• When Lin Feng asked whether a coup was necessary, Shisui avoided answering and warned that something might happen at the Lineage meeting in a few days.
• Lin Feng returned to his Household and decided to improve his Sharingan control, watch the meeting, and seek another chance to approach Shisui.

Lin Feng met with Uchiha Fugaku, who tested his views on the clan’s growing conflict with Konoha’s leadership. After realizing Fugaku was preparing for a future crisis, Lin Feng decided to visit Naka Shrine the next day and examine its stone tablet.

• A clan member summoned Lin Feng to Fugaku’s residence after Lin Feng defeated Sasuke and Kento at the training ground.
• Fugaku asked Lin Feng about the fight and when his three-tomoe Sharingan awakened, and Lin Feng answered honestly.
• Fugaku described the Uchiha’s declining influence in Konoha and asked Lin Feng what the clan should do.
• Lin Feng said the Uchiha should prove their value through strength and missions, and Fugaku told him the clan needed people ready to step forward at critical moments.
• Lin Feng left convinced that the clan’s crisis was approaching and decided to visit Naka Shrine the next day to see the stone tablet.

Lin Feng secretly visited Naka Shrine and read what he could of the Uchiha Stone Stele, learning that the Mangekyo Sharingan awakened through losing someone important. After evading a Root observer, he decided to find Shisui and seek an ally.

• Lin Feng slipped into Naka Shrine, found the sealed entrance beneath the altar, and descended to the Uchiha Stone Stele.
• Lin Feng used his Three-Tomoe Sharingan to read fragments revealing the Mangekyo Sharingan required losing someone important and awakened according to the wielder’s deepest desire.
• Lin Feng sensed a Root observer in the shrine but concealed his purpose and left without confronting them.
• Lin Feng confirmed he was being followed, used the Substitution Technique to escape the observer, and returned to the Uchiha Clan Grounds by another route.
• Lin Feng concluded Root’s surveillance left him little time and decided to find Shisui as a potential ally.

Lin Feng received a midnight meeting note apparently from Shisui and prepared to meet him at the back mountain entrance. He left the Uchiha Clan Grounds under cover, but a person followed him at a distance as he approached the meeting place.

• Lin Feng found a note asking him to meet Shisui alone at midnight and checked its handwriting and materials for signs of forgery.
• Lin Feng decided to go, changed into dark clothes, and armed himself with kunai and smoke bombs.
• Lin Feng slipped out through a rear window and took a concealed route out of the clan grounds.
• Lin Feng noticed a distant pursuer but kept his pace steady as he headed toward the back mountain entrance.
• Lin Feng neared the entrance with the pursuer still following about two hundred meters behind him.

Lin Feng met Uchiha Shisui in a hidden cave and exchanged intelligence about growing divisions in the Uchiha Clan, Root’s surveillance, and the Sharingan’s sacrificial evolution. They agreed to meet again in seven days, while Shisui warned that both Root and clan radicals might be watching Lin Feng.

• Lin Feng evaded possible followers and met Shisui in a hidden cave using their agreed code phrase.
• Shisui told Lin Feng that some Uchiha members had been meeting with the Hokage aide and criticizing Clan Head Fugaku.
• Lin Feng revealed that Root was investigating him after he visited Naka Shrine, and Shisui explained how he learned about the surveillance.
• Lin Feng shared what he had deciphered about the stone tablet’s connection between Sharingan evolution and a sacrifice involving someone close.
• Shisui warned Lin Feng that Root or clan radicals might be watching him, and they arranged to meet again in seven days at the Forest of Death.

Lin Feng fought off an ambush by three Root ninjas sent to capture him under Danzo’s orders, but Shisui’s signal flare forced them to retreat. Lin Feng realized Shisui’s connection to him had been exposed and hurried back to the Uchiha Clan Grounds, knowing Root would now move to capture him directly.

• Three Root ninjas ambushed Lin Feng and ordered him to come with them under Danzo’s orders.
• Lin Feng used his Sharingan genjutsu and a smoke bomb to escape into the forest, but Root pursued and surrounded him.
• A Root ninja wounded Lin Feng’s left arm and trapped him with an Earth Binding Net as the pursuers closed in.
• Shisui’s signal flare rose above the forest, prompting the Root ninjas to retreat.
• Lin Feng recognized that Shisui had exposed his connection to him, bandaged his wound, and hurried toward the Uchiha Clan Grounds.

Lin Feng returned home wounded after a Root ambush and hid the truth from Mikoto, who worried over his injury and told him Itachi had been visiting the Hokage Building and seemed troubled. Suspecting Danzo had begun targeting Itachi, Lin Feng decided to visit the Ninja Academy the next day and investigate.

• Lin Feng came home with a bloodied bandage, and Mikoto anxiously asked how he had been hurt.
• Lin Feng changed the subject to Itachi, and Mikoto said he had been visiting the Hokage Building and returning home in low spirits.
• Mikoto treated Lin Feng's wound and warned him to be careful because the village had seemed unsettled.
• Lin Feng confirmed that the Root ninjas had left no tracking marks, but worried that Shisui's signal flare had exposed their connection.
• Lin Feng decided to visit the Ninja Academy the next day to check on Itachi and determine whether Danzo had begun targeting him.

Lin Feng met Itachi outside the Konoha Ninja Academy and tried to learn his views on the Lineage and the “bigger picture.” Itachi warned him that Root was watching, then left without revealing his position, prompting Lin Feng to reconsider his approach.

• Lin Feng waited outside the Academy and approached Itachi as he left after classroom duty.
• Lin Feng asked Itachi what he thought about the Lineage’s talk of putting the bigger picture first, and Itachi replied that it depended on whose position one took.
• Itachi warned Lin Feng that someone from Root had been watching from a building across from the school.
• When Lin Feng pressed him for what was right, Itachi said Lin Feng would understand his answer one day and left for home.
• Lin Feng noticed a shadow on a rooftop and concluded that Root’s surveillance might be deeper than he had thought, so he decided to approach Itachi more carefully.

At a Uchiha clan assembly, Lin Feng proposed accepting reduced Security Force powers in exchange for safeguards and a review in three years, drawing support from the conservatives and suspicion from the radicals. Fugaku postponed a decision for three days and asked Lin Feng to visit his residence that night.

• Fugaku told the clan that Konoha had proposed reducing the Security Force's patrol jurisdiction and arrest authority, with Anbu coordinating its operations.
• A radical representative urged armed resistance, while conservative elders warned against acting rashly.
• Lin Feng proposed accepting the reductions in exchange for priority investigative authority and a written commitment to reassess the arrangement in three years.
• The radical representative accused Lin Feng of being bought off, but Lin Feng defended his proposal by citing the Hyuga's past losses after resisting Konoha.
• Fugaku adjourned the assembly and scheduled another discussion in three days, then asked Lin Feng to come to his residence that night.

Lin Feng warned Fugaku that the Uchiha clan might face extermination and offered to investigate Danzo’s Sharingan-related drugs. Fugaku gave him covert access to the clan’s intelligence network, leaving Lin Feng with a dangerous assignment and an opportunity to act.

• Fugaku confronted Lin Feng about approaching Shisui and Itachi, then showed him a Root surveillance report that labeled him dangerous.
• Lin Feng told Fugaku that the Uchiha might face extermination, but admitted he had only logical deductions rather than proof.
• Lin Feng claimed Danzo had obtained special drugs connected to the Sharingan and asked Fugaku to support an investigation.
• Fugaku assigned Lin Feng to investigate the drugs as a test of trust and gave him a covert contact method for the clan’s intelligence network.
• Lin Feng left determined to contact the liaison, while Fugaku watched him depart from the residence window.

Lin Feng and Shisui uncovered signs that Danzo was using a drug to weaken Sharingan users and discussed a possible alliance with the Akatsuki. After detecting an Anbu ambush, they planned to infiltrate Root’s archives in three days, leaving Lin Feng prepared to enter Root’s heart.

• Lin Feng showed Shisui medicinal residue that could paralyze Sharingan users and suspected Danzo planned to exploit unrest in the Uchiha clan.
• Lin Feng spotted a camouflaged bird and Shisui detected at least three Anbu squads lying in ambush.
• Lin Feng and Shisui agreed to meet in three days and infiltrate Root’s archives through an abandoned sewage pipe, using a beacon to confirm Shisui’s identity.
• Lin Feng warned that the mysterious man in black might be from the Akatsuki, and Shisui said he would bring Sharingan-related trump cards.
• Lin Feng evaded two groups of pursuers, planted counter-tracking markers, and organized the evidence for the planned infiltration.

Lin Feng met Shisui at Naka Shrine, where they discussed the Uchiha’s growing danger and arranged secret combat training. After Shisui warned him that Danzo’s Root was watching them, Lin Feng found evidence that Root had tracked him and took another route through the Forest of Death.

• Lin Feng received Shisui’s invitation and carefully checked the route to Naka Shrine for surveillance.
• Shisui invited Lin Feng into the woods and asked about his call for the Uchiha to retreat in order to advance.
• Lin Feng and Shisui shared concerns about the villagers’ fear of the Uchiha and the clan’s possible destruction.
• Shisui arranged to teach Lin Feng practical combat every Wednesday at midnight and warned that Danzo’s Root had targeted him.
• Lin Feng spotted a Root agent watching him, then found signs that someone had inspected his counter-tracking marker near the Forest of Death.
• Lin Feng studied the pursuer’s tracks and disappeared into the forest by another route.

Lin Feng discovered that Root had searched all three of his hidden markers in the Forest of Death and suspected the organization knew his movements. He abandoned his meeting with Shisui and headed for an unregistered backup contact point to pursue information about Fugaku’s drug intelligence, while a masked figure watched him from the forest.

• Lin Feng found that Root had tampered with his first two markers and sensed someone watching as he approached the third.
• Lin Feng rigged an Explosive Tag at the third marker, then waited nearby, but no one triggered the trap.
• Lin Feng found no fresh tracks and suspected Root knew his arrangements, possibly with Shisui’s invitation falling within the search window.
• Lin Feng skipped his meeting with Shisui and headed northwest to an unregistered backup contact point to seek the informant’s drug intelligence.
• A figure wearing an animal mask emerged near the third marker, touched the coded markings on the mask, and vanished.

Lin Feng and Shisui trained in the Forest of Death, then captured a Root sentry and learned about Danzo’s plan to forcibly awaken Sharingan genes. They planned to infiltrate an abandoned shrine in three days to investigate the experiment.

• Lin Feng used his Sharingan to study Shisui’s Body Flicker and began predicting his movements during their sparring.
• Lin Feng detected a Root sentry nearby, and he and Shisui coordinated to capture and interrogate him.
• The sentry revealed that Danzo’s Awakening Project targeted Uchiha eyes, with a base beneath an abandoned shrine and captures scheduled to begin in three days.
• Shisui erased the sentry’s memories and arranged to meet Lin Feng outside the shrine late at night in three days.
• Lin Feng reviewed the intelligence and prepared himself for the upcoming infiltration.

Lin Feng suffered a painful Sharingan flare-up that Shisui suspected was caused by drug interference, possibly from tea Lin Feng drank at the Gathering Hall. After Itachi secretly observed them, Lin Feng and Shisui planned separate investigations into the drug and the effort to accelerate Sharingan evolution.

• Lin Feng's left Sharingan activated uncontrollably, and Shisui used chakra to suppress the pain and restore his vision.
• Shisui judged that the flare-up was more likely caused by drug residue than imminent evolution, and Lin Feng recalled drinking bitter communal tea at the Gathering Hall.
• Itachi landed near the tree hollow, saw Lin Feng and Shisui, then left without exposing them.
• Lin Feng planned to search the Ninja Academy Library and investigate who prepared tea at the Gathering Hall, while Shisui continued monitoring Root.
• Shisui gave Lin Feng a map of the Gathering Hall and arranged their next training session for three days later.
• Lin Feng left the tree hollow and headed toward the Ninja Academy to investigate the drug and who wanted to catalyze his Sharingan.