Recaps

Hane won Uchiha Retsuyō’s loyalty and began building support to reunite the Uchiha Clan. After dinner, he took Izumi for a flight on his Fire Sword and promised to protect her and the clan.

• Hane healed Uchiha Retsuyō, asked him to unite the clan’s younger generation, and let him keep the honor of his defeat secret.
• Uchiha Retsuyō left with Wada and Zongxuan, treating Hane with deep respect and becoming part of Hane’s power base.
• Fugaku returned and was puzzled by Retsuyō’s deference, while Hane told him to ask Mikoto and left to take Izumi home.
• Hane summoned the Fire Sword, carried Izumi into the sky, and flew with her toward the moon.
• Izumi admired the stars and moon, and Hane promised to shoulder the clan’s responsibilities and protect her and the Uchiha.

After seeing Hane’s warnings about the Elder Council, Fugaku struggled with his lingering hope for peace and his son’s criticism of his indecisive leadership. Hane upgraded his cultivation art and several techniques with his accumulated points, then settled down to cultivate.

• Kiba claimed he had seen someone riding a giant bird across the night sky, but his mother dismissed the story and sent him to bed.
• Fugaku asked Hane whether he intended to oppose the Hokage’s faction, and Hane insisted that the Elder Council threatened the Uchiha and urged his father to take a firm stance.
• Fugaku fell silent under Hane’s criticism, then said he would make a decision and admitted he should trust his son more.
• Hane checked his system panel and spent points to raise his cultivation art to Profound Rank +1 and improve Wind and Water ninjutsu to mastery.
• Hane looked forward to gathering more recruits through Retsuyō and began cultivating.

Hane confronted the village’s Anbu after Konoha canceled the Uchiha Clan’s promised relocation funds, while Itachi remained troubled by his brother’s opposition to the village. The confrontation ended with a sinister voice declaring that the Uchiha could not decide whether to move.

• Hane questioned Itachi about the distance between them, and Itachi privately admitted that he could not agree with his brother’s ideas but still considered him family.
• Hane and Itachi found Uchiha clan members enraged by a notice canceling their relocation funds because of the war.
• An Anbu ninja threatened to arrest the Uchiha for disturbing public order, but Hane challenged him and defended his clansmen.
• Itachi urged Hane to avoid further conflict, but Hane declared that the Uchiha would not move without the promised funds.
• A sinister voice interrupted Hane and said that the Uchiha Clan did not get to decide.

Hane confronted Danzo over the canceled Uchiha relocation funds and led the clan toward the Hokage Building to demand an explanation. Fugaku allowed the march to proceed, while Itachi remained worried that Hane would provoke a major clash with the village.

• Danzo ordered Root ninjas to seize Hane, but Uchiha Retsuyō and armed young clansmen arrived to defend him.
• Hane accused the higher-ups of breaking the Hokage's written agreement and demanded justice for the Uchiha Clan.
• Danzo stepped aside rather than risk turning the confrontation into open conflict, and Hane led hundreds of Uchiha toward the Hokage Building.
• Uchiha Yashiro and Military Police Force clansmen joined the march as the villagers watched in confusion.
• Itachi urged Fugaku to stop Hane, but Fugaku said Hane had done nothing wrong and explained that he would not let the conflict escalate beyond what his strength allowed.

Hane led the Uchiha to the Hokage Building to demand an explanation for the cancellation of their relocation funds, while Danzo turned the confrontation into a standoff with Root. The chapter ended as Danzo attacked Uchiha Yashiro with Wind Release.

• Fugaku told Itachi that he had sent Uchiha Yashiro to support Hane, then hurried to observe the situation at the Hokage Building.
• Itachi realized that Fugaku's trust in the village was changing and worried that Hane would follow a dangerous path.
• Hane led the Uchiha clan members in a peaceful gathering outside the Hokage Building, where civilians kept their distance.
• Utatane Koharu and Danzo confronted the Uchiha, and Yashiro demanded an explanation for the canceled relocation funds.
• Danzo accused the Uchiha of undermining Konoha during its standoff with Hidden Cloud and summoned Root ninja, while Hane stopped Retsuyō from unleashing his Mangekyō.
• Danzo launched Wind Release: Vacuum Wave at Uchiha Yashiro, prompting Utatane Koharu to challenge his actions.

Hane stopped Danzo from attacking Uchiha Yashiro and challenged the village leaders over the Uchiha Clan’s treatment. The Third Hokage offered the clan shops as compensation while insisting they relocate, and Hane returned home with Fugaku and Itachi.

• Danzo sent a wind blade at Uchiha Yashiro, but Hane appeared in front of him and shattered it with his fingers.
• Sarutobi blamed the conflict on a misunderstanding, while Hane demanded that Danzo be judged for attacking a village ninja.
• Fugaku suggested the Uchiha Clan stay in their ancestral home, but Sarutobi, Danzo, and Utatane Koharu objected before Sarutobi offered central Konoha shops as compensation and again urged relocation.
• Fugaku sent the Uchiha clansmen away and agreed to Sarutobi’s offer, while Hane quietly arranged to meet Uchiha Retsuyō that night.
• At home, Itachi insisted on staying for Hane and Fugaku’s discussion, and Hane received 1000 Gratitude Points from him.

Hane agreed to join the Military Police Force as Fugaku’s assistant while remaining at the Ninja Academy. He rebuked Itachi for accepting the village’s Will of Fire without questioning how the Uchiha were treated, leaving Itachi shaken and Mikoto trying to comfort him.

• Fugaku discussed the Third Hokage’s motives with Hane, then asked him to join the Military Police Force; Hane agreed and was appointed Fugaku’s assistant.
• Fugaku teased Hane about his feelings for a girl and told him to report to the Military Police Force the next day.
• Itachi urged Hane to read the Will of Fire and argued that the Uchiha should sacrifice their interests for the village.
• Hane challenged Itachi’s belief, arguing that the village demanded sacrifices from Uchiha families while its leaders and their own families remained protected.
• Mikoto came downstairs and found Itachi in tears; Hane took the book away and told Itachi to reconsider his views, while Mikoto comforted him.

Mikoto helped Itachi understand why Hane was angry and how much responsibility his brother carried. Meanwhile, Hane abandoned the idea of winning Konoha through mutual understanding and began planning to build Uchiha power and loyalty so he could bring the village under his control.

• Itachi cried to Mikoto and asked whether he had been wrong to challenge Hane.
• Mikoto explained that Itachi had failed to trust Hane and that Shisui's dream was a lighter burden than Hane's responsibility to the Uchiha clan.
• Itachi realized the pressure Hane faced as the clan head and regretted that he had not understood his brother.
• After confronting the Third Hokage, Hane concluded that prejudice made peaceful Uchiha integration impossible and resolved to strengthen the entire clan.
• Hane planned to use pill refining and Formation Arts to raise young Uchiha members' spiritual energy, subject them to a Heart-Refining Formation, and imprint loyalty to himself.
• Hane also planned to employ ordinary Uchiha members cultivating herbs and sell pills through his shop while preparing to reshape Konoha by force.

Hane improved his alchemy and Formation Art knowledge and prepared to take a major step for the Uchiha. Meanwhile, Itachi confided in Shisui about his argument with Hane, and Shisui acknowledged Hane’s criticism while urging Itachi to seek the Third Hokage’s trust for the clan.

• Hane added Malice Points to alchemy and Formation Art, gaining new formations and spirit-nourishing pill formulas.
• Itachi left home feeling lonely and went to Shisui’s courtyard to talk about his argument with Hane.
• Shisui listened as Itachi recounted their disagreement and admitted he could not refute Hane’s words about the Sarutobi and Shimura Clans.
• Shisui explained that the Uchiha needed to earn the Third Hokage’s trust to overcome their exclusion from the village.
• Itachi accepted Shisui’s explanation and concluded that the Uchiha could enter Konoha’s upper ranks only by gaining the Hokage’s trust.

Uchiha Hane gathered young clansmen to discuss uniting the Uchiha against Konoha’s leadership and demanded that they follow his authority. Many walked out, leaving twelve loyal youths to hear his plans.

• Uchiha Retsuyō welcomed Hane to a villa he had bought for the gathering and explained that the clansmen admired Hane’s recent strength.
• Hane warned the youths that the Uchiha had to resist Konoha’s leadership and called on them to unite behind a single voice—his own.
• One Uchiha youth challenged Hane’s demand for control and left the gathering.
• More than ten hesitant youths followed, while Hane watched them go, having expected the departures as a way to screen for loyal followers.
• With twelve clansmen remaining, Hane reassured Uchiha Retsuyō and prepared to explain their next steps.

Hane convinced twelve Uchiha youths that he could help the entire clan attain the Mangekyō and assigned them tasks to advance his plan. He left them expecting a brighter future for the Uchiha, with Uchiha Retsuyō escorting him home.

• Hane promised the Uchiha youths that Formation Arts and pills could help the clan reach the Mangekyō, and urged them to work together.
• Hane placed secret-keeping runes in the minds of the twelve youths, which also gave them powerful mental attacks and brought him Gratitude Points.
• Hane gave Uchiha Retsuyō a list of Cinnabar and Yellow Talismans to obtain for a meeting in three days.
• Hane asked the youths to gather or grow medicinal herbs so he could make pills to sell and provide income for ordinary Uchiha.
• Hane dismissed the youths, then agreed to let Uchiha Retsuyō escort him home after Retsuyō warned that children were going missing in Konoha.

Hane and Uchiha Retsuyō discussed the missing children in Konoha and Retsuyō’s powerful Mangekyō ability as they returned to the Uchiha Clan Grounds. There, Hane reunited with Itachi and challenged Shisui over the Uchiha Clan’s treatment by Konoha, then invited Shisui to talk privately.

• Uchiha Retsuyō told Hane that clues in the missing-children cases kept going cold, and Hane planned to review the files at the Military Police Force.
• Retsuyō revealed that his second Mangekyō technique was Time Reset, which could cost him his eyesight, and said he would use it to protect Hane.
• Hane found Itachi with Shisui, scolded Itachi for being out late, and reminded him that his actions had hurt the clansmen who trusted him.
• Hane argued with Shisui that Konoha’s leaders were rejecting the Uchiha Clan, then invited him to discuss the matter on a nearby rooftop.

Hane challenged Shisui’s belief that the Uchiha Clan could win acceptance by changing its attitude, arguing that Konoha’s leaders’ prejudice left the clan no safe path. He invited Shisui to join him in pursuing peace beyond the clan and the village, leaving Shisui shaken by the broader vision.

• Hane asked Shisui to explain how he had supposedly denied the village, and Shisui argued that the Uchiha Clan should change its behavior to gain Konoha’s acceptance.
• Hane countered that the clan had not earned its hostile reputation through wrongdoing and blamed prejudice among Konoha’s upper ranks, including the Third Hokage and Danzo.
• Hane warned Shisui that the Uchiha Clan was being driven toward a deadly confrontation at the banks of the Naka River.
• Hane invited Shisui to join him, claiming that the clan-village conflict was insignificant beside the wider suffering across the Ninja World.
• Shisui recalled the suffering he had witnessed in the Land of Rain and asked Hane whether this broader outlook was his vision.

Hane persuaded Shisui to consider joining him in challenging Konoha’s leadership, then took Shisui, Itachi, and Uchiha Retsuyō by flying sword to a remote forest. Shisui agreed to test Hane’s strength before trusting his vision for the future, and the two prepared to fight.

• Hane argued that the Uchiha’s conflict with Konoha’s leaders was unavoidable and that the Will of Fire required a new generation to break the cycle of destroyed hopes.
• Shisui said he wanted to try breaking through the darkness but also wanted to test Hane’s strength.
• Hane summoned the Wind Sword, enlarged it, and flew with Shisui, Itachi, and Uchiha Retsuyō to Itachi’s secluded training forest.
• Shisui watched Konoha from the sky and grew less confident about the coming match as he realized how little he knew about Hane.
• Shisui asked Hane to show his strength, and Hane agreed to go all out.

Hane defeated Shisui in a training-ground battle, overpowering his attacks and countering his ninjutsu. Shisui acknowledged that Hane had surpassed him and agreed to follow his lead.

• Shisui revealed his Mangekyō Sharingan, but Hane's spiritual pressure initially kept him from drawing his twin swords.
• Shisui broke through the pressure and attacked with his swords, but Hane evaded him using Earth Release and warned him against using Genjutsu.
• Shisui continued attacking with swordsmanship and Body Flicker, but Hane repeatedly anticipated and avoided his strikes.
• Shisui combined Fire Release and Water Release into Twin Flood Dragons Playing with the Pearl, but Hane scattered the attack with Samadhi Divine Wind and caught Shisui with a sword at his throat.
• Shisui admitted Hane had surpassed him and asked to follow him, and Hane welcomed him aboard as they clasped hands.

After reconciling with Itachi and securing Shisui’s cooperation, Hane returned home, strengthened his cultivation, and reported to the Military Police Force for his first day. He arrived at headquarters and saw the resentment among Uchiha assigned to low-ranking duties.

• Hane told Shisui to keep the Third’s trust while passing information to him, and Shisui accepted the role as a bridge between the village and the clan.
• Hane and Itachi returned home, where Mikoto welcomed them, Sasuke greeted them, and the family shared a peaceful dinner.
• Fugaku questioned Hane about his late return, and Hane admitted he had fought Shisui over his influence on Itachi before Fugaku reminded him to report to the Military Police Force.
• Hane spent his Gratitude Points on cultivation and advanced the Azure Nether Art from Yellow Rank +2 to Earth Realm.
• Hane went to the Military Police Force with Fugaku while his incarnations handled other tasks, then observed the Uchiha’s dissatisfaction with their assignments at headquarters.

Hane began work at the Military Police Force and challenged Uchiha Zhengnan’s doubts about his appointment. He proposed limiting the Force to criminal cases and enforcing Konoha’s laws impartially, leaving Fugaku and Zhengnan reconsidering his approach.

• Hane registered with the Military Police Force, where Uchiha Zhengnan accused him of gaining his position through his father and criticized his narrow-mindedness.
• Hane finished his assigned paperwork quickly and began meditating, prompting Fugaku to question how he had handled routine complaints.
• Hane explained that the Military Police Force should send noncriminal matters to the Mission Department and punish false reports that wasted police resources.
• Hane argued that impartial law enforcement and distance from trivial village disputes would restore the Uchiha’s authority and standing.
• Fugaku began to understand Hane’s proposal, while Zhengnan reconsidered his earlier opposition.

Hane persuaded Fugaku to reform the Military Police Force and recruited clerical staff, while the Uchiha began advancing their Sharingan through Hane’s Heart-Refining Formation. The chapter left the village’s leaders misreading the Uchiha’s plans as isolation, as Hane prepared the youths to attempt Mangekyō breakthroughs.

• Hane convinced Fugaku to restrict the Military Police Force to serious crimes and hire clerical staff to study Konoha’s laws and handle cases.
• Fugaku announced the reforms, civilians protested and dispersed, and Sarutobi approved the proposal after considering its effects on missions and funding.
• Danzo and the other elders concluded that the Uchiha were separating themselves from Konoha and welcomed the prospect of isolating the clan.
• Hane watched twelve Uchiha youths train in his Heart-Refining Formation, and one of them stabilized his third tomoe.
• Hane told Uchiha Retsuyō that the formation could later help the youths attempt Mangekyō breakthroughs and ordered him to keep the site secret and guarded.

Hane directed the Uchiha youths to expand herb cultivation and recruit clan members while the clan’s influence and prosperity grew over the next half year. By the New Year, the Military Police Force had earned public respect, and Uchiha businesses were thriving as the clan grew less dependent on Konoha.

• Hane gave twelve young Uchiha herb guides and Spirit Energy Formation Discs, ordering them to organize cultivation and bring suitable clan members to him.
• Over the following half year, Sasuke turned three and became more attached to Itachi, while the war on the Land of Lightning border neared its end.
• The Military Police Force and its Legal Affairs Department enforced laws through evidence and formal proceedings, gradually changing civilians’ view of the Uchiha.
• Hane’s father kept the clan’s four central Konoha shops, and Hane prepared clan members to produce medicines from cultivated herbs.
• The Uchiha restaurant, milk tea shop, and general store prospered, providing clan members with jobs and reducing their dependence on the village.

Hane strengthened the Uchiha Clan and celebrated New Year with Izumi, Sasuke, and Itachi, while Itachi recalled Sarutobi’s earlier attempt to recruit him. Sarutobi worried that the Uchiha’s growing prosperity and independence were making them harder for Konoha to control.

• Hane’s Heart-Refining Formation helped twenty Uchiha Clan members awaken the Three-Tomoe Sharingan, while the twelve young clan members close to Hane awakened the Mangekyo Sharingan.
• Hane gave Izumi a purple scarf, Sasuke a small tachi, and Itachi a Heart-Link Ring that could block three S-Rank Ninjutsu strikes and let Hane sense his location.
• Itachi remembered Sarutobi meeting with him before winter break and praising him as an outstanding ninja.
• Sarutobi recalled how the Uchiha turned four storefronts into thriving businesses despite his effort to undermine them and later exchange them for training grounds.
• Sarutobi worried that the Uchiha’s improved lives and growing self-sufficiency were loosening Konoha’s control over the clan.

The Third urged Itachi to graduate early and serve as a bridge between the Uchiha and the village, promising him a place in the Anbu. Itachi told Hane he wanted to graduate, but Hane suspected the Third had influenced him and left without demanding an answer, leaving Itachi to face his choice.

• The Third encouraged Itachi to graduate early, telling him the village needed him to mend its worsening relationship with the Uchiha.
• Itachi said Hane would be a better bridge, but the Third insisted Hane was too prejudiced and persuaded Itachi to consider joining the Anbu.
• Hane scolded Itachi for spacing out, then questioned him when Itachi announced that he wanted to graduate early.
• Itachi struggled to hide his conversation with the Third, and Hane warned that he hoped Itachi would not regret his choice before leaving with Izumi.
• Sasuke silently watched Hane dominate the family, while Itachi felt relieved that Hane had left without pressing him further.

Hane left his family home angry that Fugaku had agreed to Itachi joining the Anbu, then redirected his attention toward the Uchiha clan’s investigation into missing children. The Military Police Force began arresting suspected traffickers in Konoha, and its first target was revealed to be dangerous.

• Hane left with Izumi after learning Fugaku had agreed to Itachi’s request, but Mikoto’s invitation to dinner eased his anger.
• Hane decided that if Itachi pursued his plan, he would expose the village’s darkness and let him face the consequences.
• At the secret meeting place, Uchiha Retsuyō reported that the missing children cases led to a guarded base outside the village, and Hane ordered the clan to find the suspects’ contacts and prepare an operation.
• The Uchiha Military Police Force surrounded a pork seller in Konoha and announced his arrest on suspicion of involvement in child trafficking.
• The pork seller attacked with a butcher’s blade, but the Uchiha captain used his Three-Tomoe Sharingan to freeze him before he reached the crowd.

The Uchiha Military Police Force rescued ten abducted children from a pig merchant’s hidden room and prepared to return the suspect to headquarters. An Anbu squad tried to seize him as a suspected spy, but the Uchiha stood their ground, backed by villagers who trusted their enforcement, and continued on their way.

• The Uchiha arrested the pig merchant and discovered ten sleeping children locked in cages inside a concealed room.
• The Military Police Force captain ordered the children taken to headquarters so their families could prove their identities and claim them through proper procedures.
• An Anbu squad blocked the Uchiha and demanded custody of the merchant, claiming he was a spy from another village.
• The Uchiha captain refused, arguing that the Force was lawfully handling the arrest, while dozens of Uchiha revealed their Sharingan and drew their swords.
• Villagers and gathered ninja sided with the Military Police Force, and the pressured Anbu captain ordered his squad to stand aside.
• The Uchiha team carried the rescued children and the bound merchant toward the Military Police Force, dismissing the Anbu captain’s warning about the Third.

Hane ordered the Uchiha to expose the evidence against Konoha’s leadership and prepare to open a clinic. As the Military Police Force uncovered Danzo’s child-trafficking and experiment network, Uchiha Retsuyō led other ninja into its secret base, where they found the bodies of more than a hundred children.

• Hane told Uchiha Retsuyō to interrogate the captured suspects and confirm the evidence, then discussed opening the clinic under Sosuke’s supervision.
• Danzo learned that Uchiha enforcers with Three-Tomoe Sharingan had blocked Root and hurried to confront Sarutobi about the Uchiha’s actions.
• Sarutobi accused Danzo of using village children in human experiments and showed him documents bearing the Military Police Force’s seal.
• The Uchiha announced evidence of a child-trafficking network tied to Konoha’s upper echelon and used confessions to locate a secret base near the Forest of Death.
• Uchiha Retsuyō led Uchiha and allied ninja into the base, where they found the remains of more than a hundred children, including Hyuga Hiashi’s niece.

The Uchiha exposed a hidden human experimentation base and confronted Sarutobi over the village’s role in it. Sarutobi struggled to contain the fallout as Uchiha Retsuyō demanded answers about the Anbu found at the scene.

• Wada used Genjutsu to incapacitate Root ninja guarding the base, and Uchiha Retsuyō ordered them restrained.
• An Anbu reported that the Uchiha had entered Root’s Secret Base Number Fourteen, prompting Sarutobi and Danzo to rush into action.
• Sarutobi arrived to find about a thousand bodies and faced questions from civilian ninja about the experimentation base.
• Uchiha Retsuyō said the Military Police Force had raided the base after the Hokage Building delayed its arrest warrant, citing evidence gathered by its Criminal Investigation Squad.
• Sarutobi asked the Uchiha to suppress the case, but Retsuyō said the public deserved the truth and questioned Sarutobi about Anbu who had implicated Konoha’s leaders.
• Utatane Koharu accused Retsuyō of questioning the Hokage.