Recaps

Hane confronted Sarutobi and the elders after the Uchiha discovered Anbu prisoners had the Tongue Eradication Seal, a forbidden technique from the Book of Seals. As the clans demanded an investigation into who had used it, Hane condemned the Second Hokage’s technique and challenged the village’s ideals.

• Utatane Koharu rebuked Fugaku over the Military Police Force questioning Sarutobi, but Hane defended the investigation and the Uchiha rallied around him.
• Uchiha Retsuyō revealed that the captured Anbu’s tongues bore seals that could make their heads explode if they revealed secrets.
• A Nara ninja identified the mark as the forbidden Tongue Eradication Seal, prompting clan representatives to suspect that Anbu recruits had been controlled and to demand an inquiry.
• Sarutobi called for an investigation into who had stolen the technique from the Book of Seals, while Inoichi warned Shikaku that powerful village officials must be suspects.
• Hane mocked the Second Hokage for creating the technique, angering Koharu, Mitokado Homura, and Sarutobi, then declared that the forbidden technique posed no challenge to the Uchiha.

Hane exposed Danzo’s human experiments by publicly removing the Tongue Eradication Seal and having Uchiha Wada interrogate the captured Anbu. With Sarutobi unable to deny the evidence, Hane declared Danzo a criminal and sent the Military Police Force to arrest him, leaving the Uchiha’s standing in Konoha greatly improved.

• Hane removed the Tongue Eradication Seal from a captured Anbu ninja, allowing the interrogation to proceed publicly.
• Uchiha Wada used his Mangekyō Sharingan to question the Root ninja, who named Danzo as the mastermind behind the laboratory.
• Hane ordered the captured Anbu interrogated one by one, and their testimonies revealed experiments on villagers, clan Kekkei Genkai, and the First Hokage’s corpse.
• Sarutobi acknowledged his failure as Hokage and authorized the Military Police Force to proceed according to protocol.
• Hane stripped Shimura Danzo of his elder status, declared him a criminal, and ordered the Uchiha to arrest him.

Hane led the Uchiha to attack Danzo’s Root base after Sarutobi chose to remain Hokage and pursue the Uchiha over the Nine-Tails Rebellion. Hane confronted Danzo with accusations of his crimes and overwhelmed the battlefield with his spiritual pressure.

• Sarutobi agreed to hold on as Hokage while Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura urged him to use the Nine-Tails Rebellion to make the Uchiha hand over the culprit.
• Hane led the Uchiha through Konoha and confirmed with Uchiha Retsuyō that they had located Danzo’s Root base.
• Danzo grew anxious when his intelligence gatherers failed to return, unaware that Hane had incapacitated them with spiritual assaults.
• Uchiha Retsuyō surrounded Root’s base, and Uchiha clansmen killed two Root ninja who tried to stop them.
• Hane told Danzo he had been dismissed and would be arrested, then accused him of human experiments, stealing kekkei genkai, desecrating the First Hokage’s corpse, and targeting the Senju Clan.
• Hane unleashed his spiritual pressure, leaving Danzo struggling to breathe and forcing nearby ninja to collapse or fight to remain standing.

Hane confronted Danzo over his crimes and destroyed him and the Root members with a colossal Wind Release technique. The Konoha ninjas were left staring at the enormous crater as Hane hovered above the battlefield.

• Hane taunted Danzo and offered to make him a missing-nin if he could withstand one attack, then released his restraint over the gathered ninjas.
• Danzo exposed his modified arm, and Hane accused him of stealing the corpses of Uchiha clansmen; Danzo claimed his actions served Konoha.
• Danzo attacked Hane with Wind Release: Vacuum Bullet, but Hane casually deflected it and summoned a powerful hurricane.
• Torifu Akimichi arrived and watched in horror as Hane formed the towering Wind Ghost from the converging wind.
• The Wind Ghost's giant palm crushed Danzo and the Root members, leaving a vast crater and the surviving Konoha ninjas stunned.

Hane faced the Third Hokage after Danzo and Root were destroyed, insisting the execution had been necessary to protect Konoha. As the Hokage promised to explain matters at a ninja assembly in three days, Hane persuaded Fugaku to step down and let him lead the Uchiha Clan.

• Inoichi told the Third Hokage that Danzo and Root had been executed, then hurried home to check on his nephew.
• Sarutobi, Utatane Koharu, and Mitokado Homura found Root's ruined headquarters, where Koharu challenged Torifu Akimichi for failing to stop the Uchiha.
• Hane defended Danzo's execution as necessary to protect the village, and Sarutobi announced that he would explain the matter at a ninja assembly in three days.
• Hane privately revealed that Danzo had survived through Izanagi and planned to study the forbidden technique while using the incident to pressure Sarutobi.
• Hane sent the Uchiha home to rest and told them the real show would begin in three days.
• Hane urged Fugaku to step down, and Fugaku agreed to entrust the clan's responsibilities to his son.

After Hane defeated Danzo, Sarutobi sought the Hyuga Clan’s support ahead of the Uchiha assembly three days later, offering to relinquish the Hokage position while serving as acting Hokage until a successor emerged. Hane remained unconcerned with the clans’ political maneuvering and reviewed his cultivation progress.

• Danzo, badly injured and stripped of his identities in Konoha, vowed to seek Sarutobi’s help after Hane warned him he would send an old friend to keep him company.
• Hyuga Hiashi and Hyuga Seigan discussed the Uchiha’s strength and agreed to stay silent at the upcoming gathering rather than help restore the clan’s prestige.
• Sarutobi visited the Hyuga residence, argued that the Uchiha threatened the village, and asked Hiashi to support him as acting Hokage until a successor could be found.
• Hiashi agreed, and Sarutobi visited the other great clans, gaining similar support for his plan.
• Hane dismissed Sarutobi’s efforts as unimportant to the Uchiha’s goal of weakening his authority and checked his panel, which showed most of his skills at Mastery and 1000 Gratitude Points and 110000 Malice Points.

Hane mastered perfect-grade Fire Release and cultivated as the Uchiha prepared for an emergency clan assembly. Fugaku announced that he would step down and name his eldest son, Hane, as the new clan head, then asked who agreed or objected.

• Hane restored the laws of fire, gained powerful fire abilities and elementalized his body, then continued cultivating.
• Fugaku summoned the Uchiha elders and ninjas to a noon meeting at the clan assembly hall near Naka Shrine.
• Uchiha Liehuo and Uchiha Hokuto argued over the clan's changing younger generation and the reason for the meeting.
• Fugaku arrived with Hane and a group of prominent young Uchiha led by Uchiha Retsuyō, unsettling the elders.
• Fugaku announced that he would relinquish the clan head position to Uchiha Hane and asked the assembled clansmen who agreed or objected.

Uchiha Hane took control of the Uchiha Clan after his supporters overwhelmed the elders who opposed his appointment. He accepted the clan seal from Uchiha Fugaku and began his tenure as clan head while the system started a three-day upgrade.

• Uchiha Hokuto objected to seven-year-old Hane becoming clan head, but Uchiha Retsuyō and Uchiha Wada confronted him with their Mangekyō Sharingan.
• Nearly fifty Three-Tomoe Sharingan wielders declared their support for Hane, leaving the elders too intimidated to oppose him.
• Hane stopped Retsuyō and Wada from mistreating Hokuto, then urged Fugaku to continue the assembly.
• Fugaku handed Hane the clan seal and vacated the clan head's seat, and Hane promised to lead the Uchiha Clan to unprecedented heights.
• Hane's system announced a three-day upgrade as his fifty supporters arranged themselves behind him, while Uchiha Liehuo watched with renewed hope for the clan.

Hane forced the Uchiha factions to disband and persuaded the clan that its struggle was for survival and leadership of Konoha. The Uchiha clansmen rallied behind him and prepared to challenge Sarutobi and his allies at the next day's Shinobi Conference.

• Hane declared that the clan would have one voice under him and ordered the Moderate and Hardline Factions disbanded.
• Hane rebuked Uchiha Xuan, then called Shisui to stand beside him, surprising the assembled clansmen.
• Hane recounted the Uchiha's past concessions and accused Konoha's leaders of excluding the clan and exploiting its members' eyes.
• Hane urged the Uchiha to seek control of Konoha and announced that they would go on the offensive at the Shinobi Conference.
• The clansmen shouted their support for Hane and embraced his call to unite the clan.

After Hane took control of the Uchiha Clan, Fugaku accepted his son’s plan to challenge the Third Hokage, while Shisui resigned from the Hokage Guard. Sarutobi learned that Fugaku had stepped down and demanded to meet him, alarmed by Hane’s appointment as clan head.

• Fugaku asked Hane whether he could strike a blow against the Third, and Hane vowed to make the Third and his allies pay for suppressing the Uchiha.
• Shisui told Uchiha Xuan he had chosen to join Hane, who had ordered him to quit serving as a double agent for the Third.
• Danzo urged Sarutobi to act against the Uchiha, but Sarutobi told him to stay hidden because Konoha considered him dead.
• Shisui went to Sarutobi’s office and submitted his resignation from the Hokage Guard under orders from the new clan head.
• Sarutobi learned that Uchiha Hane had replaced Fugaku and, alarmed, demanded to see Fugaku.

Fugaku stepped down as Uchiha clan head and Military Police Force leader, while Shisui resigned from his village post under the new clan head’s orders. Hane led the Uchiha to a Shinobi Conference where Sarutobi would challenge his appointment, and Hane secretly searched the Hokage Building for the Book of Seals.

• Sarutobi questioned Fugaku’s decision to resign, but Fugaku insisted that Hane had the clan’s support and that the Military Police Force’s leadership was an internal Uchiha matter.
• Sarutobi objected to a seven-year-old taking charge of the Military Police Force and said he would raise the issue at the Shinobi Conference.
• Sarutobi asked Shisui to reconsider his loyalty, but Shisui followed the clan head’s order and submitted his resignation.
• The next day, Hane led the Uchiha to the Hokage Building, where he took the clan’s seat at the conference as Sarutobi, Utatane Koharu, and Mitokado Homura watched.
• While waiting for the conference to begin, Hane used his Divine Sense to search the Hokage Building and tried to record the Ninjutsu in the Book of Seals, but he withdrew it after scanning a secret room.

At the Konoha Shinobi Conference, Sarutobi apologized for Danzo’s human experiments and faced demands for answers about the conspiracy and the Anbu. Yamamura Tsuki challenged Sarutobi over his brother’s death, and Hane backed him by calling for the Anbu to be thoroughly reformed.

• Hane failed to use Divine Sense to breach the barrier protecting the Book of Seals, then watched as the clan representatives gathered for the conference.
• Sarutobi opened the conference, admitted that Danzo had abused his authority to conduct human experiments, and apologized for his negligence.
• Shinobi questioned Sarutobi about Danzo’s accomplices, missing people, the Shimura Clan, and the village’s possible role in funding the experiments.
• Yamamura Tsuki demanded to know whether the Anbu had been purged and why the village had not released the names of those connected to Danzo.
• Sarutobi said he had purged the Anbu shinobi linked to Danzo and promised to release a list, but Yamamura Tsuki condemned the response and demanded that the guilty be punished.
• Utatane Koharu defended the Anbu, and Hane supported Yamamura Tsuki, calling for the Anbu to be thoroughly reformed.

At a Konoha meeting, Hane used the Anbu’s involvement in the killings to challenge the Hokage leadership and demand accountability, winning support from the gathered ninja. Sarutobi demanded that Hane state what the Uchiha intended to do.

• Hane sympathized with Yamamura Tsuki and criticized the village leadership for the deaths of his younger brothers.
• Hane defended his right to speak as Uchiha clan head and Military Police Force director, and called for justice for the victims’ families.
• Hane argued that the Anbu’s confessed involvement and hidden identities had destroyed trust in the organization, shifting the meeting’s support toward his position.
• Sarutobi apologized for failing to manage the Anbu, but Hane continued condemning the organization as a threat to Konoha’s public order.
• Sarutobi cut Hane off and demanded that he explain what the Uchiha intended to do.

At a village meeting, Hane challenged Sarutobi over the Anbu’s size and purpose, forcing the Hokage to agree to reduce its numbers. Hane returned to his seat after securing the Uchiha’s main objective, leaving other clans to continue the meeting.

• Hane proposed disbanding the Anbu, provoking Sarutobi’s furious rejection.
• Hane questioned the Anbu’s duties, and Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura struggled to justify its overlapping functions.
• Hane argued that the Anbu had grown so large that it drained talent and resources from other departments.
• Sarutobi announced that the Anbu would be reduced to one hundred members organized into five squads and twenty-five teams.
• Hane accepted the compromise and returned to his seat as the meeting continued.

Yamanaka Inoichi challenged the Anbu’s broad authority, demanding clearer limits on its intelligence access and internal powers. Sarutobi tried to justify retaining the Anbu’s authority by pointing toward the village’s clans, and Hane forced him to address the Uchiha directly.

• Yamanaka Inoichi called for authorization before the Anbu accessed the Intelligence Department’s important intelligence and demanded that the Anbu’s duties and powers be clearly defined.
• Inoichi proposed limiting the Anbu mainly to external intelligence and emergencies, with its internal role restricted to protecting the Hokage.
• Utatane Koharu objected, and Sarutobi argued that the village needed preparations against unstable factors within Konoha.
• Hane challenged Sarutobi to speak plainly about those supposed threats, so Sarutobi asked the Uchiha clan head to explain the clan’s Mangekyō and the Sharingan seen in the Nine-Tails during its attack.

Uchiha Hane challenged the Third Hokage’s attempt to blame the Uchiha for the Nine-Tails Rebellion, turning suspicion toward Danzo and the village leadership. The Third remained in office, while Hane held back from forcing his removal until the Uchiha were strong enough to benefit.

• Utatane Koharu accused the Uchiha of hiding a Mangekyō Sharingan capable of controlling the Nine-Tails, stirring anger among the gathered ninja.
• Hane argued that the village had no proof against the Uchiha and pointed out that Danzo possessed Uchiha eyes and that the Third’s orders had stopped the clan from helping the Fourth.
• Hane questioned why the Third, rather than the Fourth, had ordered the Anbu to block the Uchiha, leading Nara Shikaku to demand an explanation.
• The Third said he had acted because the Nine-Tails had a Sharingan in its eyes, but Hane challenged the investigation into who had revealed Kushina’s location and asked whether Danzo had been investigated.
• Hane returned to his seat without demanding the Third’s removal, deciding that keeping him in office would better serve the Uchiha until they gained enough power and prestige.

Hiashi acted as an arbiter in Konoha’s political meeting while Hane challenged the elders’ authority and argued for limits on the Anbu. The meeting reached a series of compromises, and Shikaku began to suspect the Hyuga had a deeper political aim.

• Hiashi stood and urged the assembled ninja to focus on Konoha’s future, then took over as an arbiter.
• Hane challenged the elders’ ability to judge unstable elements and mocked their ties to Danzo.
• Hiashi proposed that the Anbu retain monitoring and reporting authority but lose the power to arrest, interrogate, and detain people.
• Sarutobi reluctantly accepted Hiashi’s proposal, and the meeting continued through further compromises.
• Shikaku noticed the Uchiha had fallen silent and inferred that Hane had opened the way for other clans to pursue their interests.
• Shikaku suspected the Hyuga had a hidden political goal, but he stopped Inoichi from asking about it in front of others.

Hane pushed for the Uchiha to take on village security, and Hiashi proposed a shared Military Police Force led by the Uchiha, drawing the Hyuga and Uchiha into a quiet alliance. Sarutobi struggled to control the meeting as Hane and Hiashi blocked his attempt to shift discussion to the front lines, and the chapter ended with two people interrupting him as he tried to adjourn.

• Hane offered for the Uchiha to assume village security, and Hiashi proposed a new Military Police Force staffed by the clans and led by the Uchiha.
• Hiashi and Hane exchanged signals, while Shikaku concluded that the Uchiha and Hyuga had effectively formed an alliance.
• Sarutobi told Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura that the Uchiha did not seek the Hokage position but aimed to weaken its authority.
• Sarutobi tried to shift the meeting to Kumogakure's movements, but Hane and Hiashi insisted that the village settle the aftermath of Danzo's actions first.
• After the meeting addressed compensation, residents, and Danzo's alleged dealings, Sarutobi attempted to end it, but two voices stopped him.

Hiashi and Hane challenged unchecked authority in Konoha and proposed creating a Hokage assistant position to oversee major decisions. Sarutobi agreed to one new position and scheduled an elder selection for the following week, while the Uchiha and Hyuga quietly aligned behind the proposal.

• Hiashi and Hane criticized the Hokage leadership for past abuses of power, including the deaths of the Fourth and Hatake Sakumo.
• Sarutobi offered to resign, but Hane urged him to remain Hokage because Konoha still needed him during the war.
• Hiashi proposed adding a Hokage assistant position, and Sarutobi agreed to create one position with his approval.
• Sarutobi scheduled a vote among the village's elite ninjas for the following week and adjourned the meeting.
• The Uchiha and Hyuga left separately, while both clans understood that the Uchiha would support a Hyuga candidate for the new position.
• Sarutobi, angered by the Hokage Faction's losses, decided to bring Tsunade back.

After the council meeting, Hane outlined plans to expand and reorganize the Military Police Force into a political base for the Uchiha Clan, while assigning new duties to Retsuyō and Fugaku. Sarutobi and his allies argued over the Uchiha Clan’s growing influence, and Danzo left the Hokage Building vowing revenge.

• Hane told the Uchiha leaders he would open Military Police Force positions to other clans to win allies and build support for the Uchiha Clan’s future bid for Hokage.
• Hane proposed new police ranks and training, declined to pursue an elder’s seat, and reserved a squad captain position for the Hyuga Clan.
• Hane appointed Retsuyō as a branch chief and ordered Fugaku to train the clan’s outstanding young members as Clan Guards.
• Sarutobi, Mitokado Homura, and Utatane Koharu discussed the meeting and blamed Danzo for their loss of influence.
• Danzo left the Hokage Building in disgrace and vowed to take revenge on Sarutobi and Hane.

Sarutobi planned to weaken the Uchiha by recalling Tsunade and sending Uchiha Hane back to the front lines, while the Uchiha expanded their influence through Military Police recruitment and opened Hundred Generations Medical Hall. The chapter ended with Konoha’s ninja clamoring for the new medicines and Yuna and Nonako hoping Tsunade could help the Medical Institute compete.

• Sarutobi decided to recall Tsunade, promote Uchiha Hane to Special Jonin, and send him with Uchiha reinforcements to the front after the New Year.
• The Uchiha announced six Military Police captain openings, prompting major clans to send promising young ninja to apply.
• Hundred Generations Medical Hall opened in central Konoha and demonstrated that its Hemostatic Pills could rapidly heal wounds.
• Ninja bought up Hemostatic Pills, Detoxifying Heart-Clearing Pills, and Chakra-Recovery Oral Liquid, while the million-ryo Beauty-Preserving Pills stunned Yuna and Nonako.
• Uchiha Tomoya credited the medicines to the clan head, and Yuna reassured Nonako that Tsunade’s return could help the Konoha Medical Institute keep pace.

Sarutobi learned that the Uchiha had developed powerful pills and summoned Uchiha Hane for a meeting. Meanwhile, Hane bound the Uchiha clan to his upgraded system, gained Fortune Value, and used it to improve his cultivation.

• Utatane Koharu showed Sarutobi pills developed by the Uchiha and explained their tested effects.
• Sarutobi sent Utatane Koharu to fetch Mitokado Homura and dispatched Kakashi to invite Uchiha Hane to the Hokage Building.
• Hane learned that the upgraded system offered Family Mode and bound the Uchiha clan, making clan Fortune the basis of his rewards.
• The system awarded Hane 30,000 Fortune Value and three Destiny Coins for changing the clan’s fate through the Danzo incident.
• Hane saw that the Uchiha clan had only had 3,000 Fortune before the incident and spent his three points on cultivation, raising his technique to Heaven Rank +2.

Hane confronted Kakashi for entering his residence unannounced, then rejected the Third Hokage and the elders’ demand for the Uchiha’s pill formula. He offered discounted supplies instead and left the village leaders considering how to undermine the Uchiha while Sarutobi suspected Hane knew Danzo was alive.

• Hane caught Kakashi sneaking into his residence and threatened him before leaving with him to meet the Third Hokage.
• Hane reassured Izumi, then went to the Hokage Building with Kakashi.
• Sarutobi asked Hane to give the village the formula for the Uchiha’s healing pills and Chakra-restoring oral liquid, but Hane refused.
• Hane rebuked Sarutobi, Utatane Koharu, and Mitokado Homura for demanding Uchiha sacrifices while withholding their own clans’ techniques.
• Hane offered to sell the pills and oral liquid to the village at a thirty percent discount and left without revealing the formula.
• Sarutobi suspected the Uchiha knew Danzo was alive and privately blamed Danzo for appearing in his office.

Hane asked Shisui to lead the Uchiha merchant caravan to the Capital of the Land of Fire and seek a place among the Twelve Guardian Ninja, giving the clan influence beyond Konoha. Shisui accepted, while Hane insisted he would keep Itachi from taking the wrong path.

• Hane told Shisui he wanted the Uchiha to expand their business into the Capital of the Land of Fire and asked him to pass the Twelve Guardian Ninja trials.
• Hane explained that the Uchiha could use the daimyo’s authority to protect their trade and loosen their dependence on Konoha.
• Shisui agreed to lead the caravan and said he understood Hane’s decision to stand with the clan.
• Shisui worried that Itachi’s faith in the Will of Fire could lead him astray, and Hane said he would watch over his younger brother.
• Shisui praised Hane’s leadership, and the two parted to handle their respective duties.

Shisui led Uchiha members to expand their business in the capital, while Hane defied Sarutobi’s objections and the Military Police Force prepared a public execution for criminals involved in Case 414. As the execution gathered Konoha’s leaders and residents, the Uchiha-led force displayed its growing influence and reforms.

• Shisui led more than a dozen Three-Tomoe Uchiha and other clan members out of the village to develop business in the capital.
• Hane rejected Sarutobi’s objections to the Uchiha’s expansion, and Sarutobi learned that Tsunade would return before the New Year.
• The Military Police Force announced that the surviving criminals in Case 414 had been caught and would be publicly executed after refusing to confess.
• The Military Police Force’s benefits and reforms attracted officers from across Konoha, while the Uchiha Clan Grounds grew busier with clans seeking Qi-Gathering Pills.
• Konoha residents and leaders gathered at the execution ground, where Hyuga Hiashi approved of cooperation with the Uchiha and Sarutobi looked uncomfortable seeing his former subordinates face execution.