Chapter Summaries

Uchiha Hane went with Fugaku and Itachi to the Ninja Academy for their first day, reflecting on the family bonds he cherished and the growing hostility toward the Uchiha. He resolved to protect his family and began making Itachi promise to listen to him.

• Hane got ready for the Ninja Academy and joined Fugaku, Mikoto, Itachi, and Young Sasuke for breakfast, helping Mikoto clean up afterward.
• Fugaku took Hane and Itachi toward the Academy, while Mikoto stayed behind with Young Sasuke.
• Hane reassured Itachi when villagers gave them unfriendly looks, and Fugaku said the brothers would have to bridge the divide between the Uchiha Clan and the village.
• Hane rejected the idea that the two children could bear responsibility for the village’s prejudice and recalled the conspiracies he believed were driving the Uchiha toward destruction.
• Hane made Itachi promise to obey his big brother, and Itachi reluctantly agreed.

Hane enrolled at the Ninja Academy, where he was assigned to a different class from Itachi and reunited with Izumi. He explained how his cultivation system worked and worried that his growing spiritual power still had not awakened his eyes.

• Hane and Itachi enrolled at the Ninja Academy but received assignments to different classes, so Hane promised to wait for Itachi after school.
• Hane entered his classroom, attracted the attention of several girls, and discovered Izumi sitting by the window.
• Hane sat beside Izumi, and they agreed to find Itachi after school and eat dumplings together as Izumi's thank-you for their help during the Nine-Tails Rebellion.
• Hane reflected on his Golden Finger, which let him cultivate Dao Arts through Ninjutsu and improve them with Gratitude Points or malice.
• Hane worried that his Azure Nether Art was making him increasingly calm while his spiritual power grew without awakening his eyes.

Uchiha Hane reflected on his cultivation progress and the points he needed to advance, then spent time talking with Izumi before his class began introductions. He declared his ambition to explore the heavens and protect what he cherished, leaving Nomi Ikkaku visibly unsettled.

• Uchiha Hane checked his status and saw that he had 250 Gratitude Points and 5,000 Malice Points, while his Azure Nether Art remained at Profound Rank +2.
• Izumi noticed Hane seemed troubled, and Hane asked her to help persuade Itachi to smile more; she agreed, and he complimented her smile.
• Nomi Ikkaku entered the classroom, introduced himself as the students' future teacher, and asked them to share their names, likes, dislikes, and ambitions.
• Izumi Uchiha introduced herself and said she liked peaceful lives, disliked war, and wanted to become a happy wife.
• Uchiha Hane said he wanted to see the limits of the heavens and earth, witness the endless starry sky, and protect what he cherished, leaving the classroom silent and Nomi Ikkaku uneasy.

During a lesson on the Will of Fire, Hane’s questions about sacrifice and anti-Uchiha prejudice provoked his teacher, Nomi Ikkaku. Nomi sent Hane out to stand in reflection, while Hane gained a large amount of Malice Points and left pleased.

• Hane upgraded his Water and Earth Release, Artifact Refinement, and Alchemy skills using Malice Points during Nomi Ikkaku’s lecture.
• Nomi Ikkaku mistook Hane’s bored expression for hostility toward the village and awarded him more Malice Points.
• When Nomi asked him to explain the Will of Fire, Hane challenged the idea that sacrifice alone could create a peaceful and just village.
• Hane accused Nomi of prejudice against the Uchiha Clan and defended the clan’s service to Konoha, while Nomi blamed the clan’s arrogance for others’ dislike.
• Nomi ordered Hane to stand outside and reflect, and Hane left the classroom reassured Izumi and pleased that Nomi’s anger had earned him a thousand Malice Points.

Sarutobi recruited Shisui into the Anbu and urged him to bridge the growing divide between Konoha and the Uchiha. After school, Hane reassured Itachi that they should not carry the village-clan conflict on their shoulders yet, leaving Itachi moved by his brother’s care.

• Danzo condemned Hane for challenging the Will of Fire, while Sarutobi cautioned against provoking the Uchiha and praised Itachi.
• Sarutobi summoned Shisui, offered him a place in the Anbu, and asked him to help integrate the Uchiha into the village.
• Shisui accepted the assignment and bought Hane and Itachi iron sabers as enrollment gifts.
• On the way home, Izumi worried that Hane had talked back to their teacher, and Hane said the teacher was prejudiced against the Uchiha.
• Itachi said he hoped to serve as a bridge between the Uchiha and the village, but Hane urged him to observe, grow up, and enjoy being a child.
• Hane encouraged Itachi to smile and suggested they act like gluttonous brats, while Itachi remembered how Hane had once opposed their father taking him to battle.

Hane challenged Fugaku to keep five-year-old Itachi off the battlefield, then revealed powerful control over fire during their duel. Fugaku conceded the argument, leaving Itachi with a lasting impression of his brother as his protector.

• Hane stood between Itachi and Fugaku, refusing to let their father take Itachi to the battlefield.
• Fugaku took Hane to the backyard training ground to test his strength while Mikoto watched with Itachi.
• Hane surrounded himself with flames, passed through Fugaku's Great Fireball Technique, and reshaped it into a flaming claw that struck the ground.
• Fugaku attacked Hane with a Fire Dragon Technique, but Hane dispersed the dragon into sparks and gathered them into a fireball in his hand.
• Fugaku told Hane to train harder and ended the argument about Itachi, while Hane called him sharp-tongued but soft-hearted.

Hane spent the first day of the Ninja Academy with Itachi and Izumi, sharing dango and building a friendship with Izumi. On the way home, he confronted Shisui about his devotion to Konoha, but Shisui remained steadfast in the Will of Fire.

• Hane, Itachi, and Izumi visited the Three-Color Dango shop, where Hane ordered dango for them and paid for Izumi’s share.
• Hane told Izumi that he wanted them to be real friends, making her blush and run off happily as he gained Gratitude Points.
• Hane and Itachi headed home, and Hane offered to bring Itachi for dango again.
• The brothers met Shisui, who apologized for missing Hane’s first day at the academy because of a mission.
• Hane criticized Shisui for serving the village while both Konoha and the Uchiha clan distrusted him, but Shisui defended his work and reaffirmed his belief in the Will of Fire.

Hane rejected Shisui’s Will of Fire and tried to keep Itachi from being persuaded by it, while Shisui gave the brothers matching katanas. At home, Hane learned that Fugaku had been summoned to discuss the Uchiha Clan’s relocation and suspected a major event was approaching.

• Hane argued with Shisui about the village and pulled Itachi away from his teachings.
• Shisui gave Hane and Itachi two katanas before leaving to report his mission to the Third Hokage.
• Itachi challenged Hane’s opposition to Shisui, and Hane asked him to wait for time to prove his point.
• Hane and Itachi returned home, where Mikoto welcomed them and asked about their new friends.
• Mikoto told Hane that Fugaku had been called away to discuss the Uchiha Clan’s relocation, and Hane thought of the clan cemetery by the Naka River.

Hane upgraded the Azure Nether Art and developed a mysterious red mark between his brows, along with sharper vision and greater physical control. After Fugaku returned from the late-night clan relocation discussion, Hane explained the change as a possible Kekkei Genkai mutation, leaving Fugaku stunned by his eldest son’s unusual bloodline.

• Hane cheered up Mikoto at dinner, then worried about the Hokage’s discussion with Fugaku concerning the clan’s relocation.
• Hane spent Gratitude Points to upgrade the Azure Nether Art, strengthening his body and deepening his understanding of the method.
• Hane found a scarlet mark between his brows and sensed an unknown power gathering there, but his eyes had not awakened the Sharingan.
• Hane cultivated until two in the morning, when Fugaku returned home after the relocation discussion.
• Mikoto noticed Hane’s forehead mark, and Hane said it had appeared during Chakra refinement and might be related to his Kekkei Genkai.
• Fugaku realized Hane’s bloodline had mutated, though he had not previously recognized signs of it.

Hane told Fugaku that his Kekkei Genkai had heightened his vision and let him slow his perception of movement, then asked for Chakra Metal to forge a sword linked to his mind. Fugaku negotiated with Elder Ryuji to obtain the metal, returned home with it, and found Hane ready to begin forging.

• Hane described his new abilities to Fugaku and promised to keep them secret from outsiders.
• Hane asked Fugaku for a hundred jin of Chakra Metal and claimed his flames could link forged weapons to his mind.
• Fugaku visited Elder Ryuji and negotiated seventy jin of Chakra Metal in exchange for two Military Police Force positions for Ryuji's faction.
• Fugaku returned home with the metal, and Hane eagerly agreed to forge his sword that night.

Hane refined five elemental magical swords from Chakra Metal and tested them against Fugaku, revealing their formidable power. The test ended with Fugaku impressed but disheveled, while he kept his Mangekyō Sharingan hidden from the clan.

• Fugaku and Mikoto watched as Hane purified a hundred jin of Chakra Metal and forged it into five swords.
• Hane recovered his strength, inscribed the swords with Dao Art talismans, and named them the Five Emperor Swords.
• Fugaku nearly burned his hand when he tried to touch a sword, and Hane explained that the weapons would retaliate against anyone but him.
• Hane attacked Fugaku with the five elemental swords, forcing Fugaku to defend himself with Susanoo as the battle’s explosions alarmed the Uchiha clan.
• Hane stopped the attack before Fugaku’s Mangekyō Sharingan could be exposed, and Fugaku praised his son’s strength.

Hane comforted Itachi after discovering he had awakened a two-tomoe Sharingan, while Fugaku and the Uchiha clan dealt with the aftermath of the battle. The clan accepted Fugaku’s cover story that an unknown ninja had infiltrated the grounds and left on alert.

• Itachi protected Mikoto with his kunai and revealed his two-tomoe Sharingan to her.
• Hane realized Itachi’s awakening must have come from a heavy emotional burden and reassured him that his family and clan would support him.
• Itachi cried as Hane comforted him, earning Hane and Mikoto a surge of Gratitude Points.
• Hane asked Fugaku how he would explain the damaged training ground, and Fugaku decided to blame an unfamiliar intruding ninja.
• Uchiha Yashiro, Uchiha Kyudai, and other clan members questioned Fugaku, who told them the enemy had escaped and ordered them to strengthen security.

Hane and Itachi discussed peace and the possibility of conflict between the Uchiha Clan and the village before Hane tended his medicinal garden the next morning. Watching Hane work, Fugaku recalled their strained relationship and reflected with Mikoto on the clan’s troubles and hopes for their sons.

• Hane asked Itachi whether he would choose the clan or the village, and Itachi said he would stop both sides from fighting.
• Hane woke at dawn and carefully tended the medicinal plants in his backyard garden.
• Fugaku watched Hane and remembered how his son’s farming hobby and attitude toward ninja training had widened the distance between them.
• Fugaku and Mikoto discussed the village’s pressure on the Uchiha Clan and worried about Naruto, who had lost his parents.
• Fugaku and Mikoto watched Hane work, then Fugaku went to find Itachi training in the woods.

Hane went about his day before Fugaku’s plan to relocate the Uchiha compound sparked fierce opposition at the clan assembly. As the clan prepared for another meeting that evening, Fugaku summoned Hane to attend and allowed Itachi to listen outside.

• Hane finished tending the herb garden, ate with his family, and walked to school with Itachi and Izumi.
• Sarutobi and Danzo discussed the Uchiha, and Sarutobi assigned Root to increase surveillance while cautioning Danzo to avoid harming the war effort.
• Fugaku’s proposal to move the Uchiha compound to the banks of the Naka River provoked angry protests, and the assembly ended without agreement.
• Hane and Itachi returned home to find Fugaku gloomy and the clan compound tense.
• Fugaku asked Hane to attend the evening assembly and permitted Itachi to listen outside, leaving Itachi determined to prove his strength.

Fugaku brought Hane to the Uchiha clan meeting to weigh in on the village’s relocation plan, but Elder Liehuo challenged Hane’s right to speak. Hane caught and redirected Liehuo’s Fire Dragon Technique, defeating him and asking the clan whether he now had the right to speak.

• Fugaku brought Hane and Itachi to the clan meeting, leaving Itachi at the door to direct the clan members.
• Liehuo and other clan members opposed moving the Uchiha from their ancestral grounds, while Yashiro stayed silent.
• Fugaku asked Hane for his opinion and said Hane had strength close to a Jonin, prompting Liehuo to mock him and attack with Fire Release: Fire Dragon Technique.
• Hane caught the fire dragon with his palm, criticized Liehuo’s technique, and sent the flames back at him.
• Liehuo tried to shelter behind an Earth Wall, but Hane’s fire dragon surrounded it and burned off his beard and hair before Hane dispelled the flames.
• Hane asked the gathered Uchiha whether he now had the right to speak.

Hane healed Elder Flame and persuaded the Uchiha clan to unite in demanding compensation for relocating their grounds. The clan backed his proposal, leaving Fugaku to report their decision to the Hokage.

• Hane healed Elder Flame's burned arm, and the clan members were impressed by his medical ninjutsu.
• Hane argued that the Uchiha should accept relocation only if Konoha compensated them for the unfair move.
• Uchiha Yashiro and the other elders supported Hane's proposal, including Elder Flame.
• Fugaku agreed to report the clan assembly's decision to the Hokage and await his response.

After the clan meeting, Hane spent his newly earned Gratitude Points to strengthen his cultivation, triggering a painful bloodline awakening. The golden mark on his forehead became the Eye of Truth, granting him powerful abilities, though he still needed to develop them.

• Fugaku praised Hane, left him and Itachi to go to the Hokage Office, and privately celebrated Hane's performance at the clan meeting.
• Hane and Itachi returned home, where Mikoto welcomed them; Hane then went to his room to check his system panel.
• Hane spent all 35,000 Gratitude Points on his cultivation method, forming a sky-blue sea of spiritual energy in his dantian and experiencing a surge of enlightenment.
• A half hour of agony followed as Hane's blood gathered at his brow and a golden vertical mark emerged on his forehead.
• Hane learned that the mark was the Eye of Truth, which could see through Genjutsu, attack spiritual origins, perceive spatial layers, and look three seconds into the future.

After reaching Refining Qi into Spirit, Hane gained Divine Sense and created five External Incarnations using the Five Emperor Swords. Meanwhile, Fugaku presented the Uchiha Clan’s relocation demands to Sarutobi, and Danzo angrily opposed their request for market-rate compensation.

• Hane sensed his connection to the world, discovered his Divine Sense, and reviewed his improved cultivation panel.
• Hane learned how External Incarnations worked and raised the skill to Ordinary.
• Hane branded the Five Emperor Swords with his Divine Sense and created five incarnations linked to his consciousness.
• Hane considered seeking Konoha’s Book of Seals before setting aside his plans and cultivating.
• Fugaku presented the Uchiha Clan’s relocation demands to Sarutobi, who said he would consult the Elder Council.
• Danzo, Utatane Koharu, and Mitakado Homura reviewed the demands, and Danzo condemned the request for market-rate relocation compensation.

Fugaku secured an official document from Sarutobi approving the Uchiha Clan's relocation plan, while Sarutobi and Danzo learned that Hane had driven the clan's demands. That night, Root shinobi ambushed Hane, Itachi, and Izumi, and Hane unleashed devastating flames that left only the Root captain alive to flee and report to Danzo.

• Sarutobi and Danzo argued over how to respond to the Uchiha Clan's relocation demands, and Koharu suggested agreeing before breaking their word later.
• Fugaku asked Sarutobi for an official document confirming the relocation plan, and Sarutobi stamped and handed one to him.
• Danzo told Sarutobi that Hane had proposed the compensation and defeated an elder at the clan meeting, then urged him to test Hane's strength.
• Hane sensed four masked Root shinobi watching him as he walked with Itachi and Izumi, warned them of the ambush, and shielded them with his fire clones.
• Hane's violet flames overwhelmed the attackers, killing three Root shinobi while the Root captain escaped to report Hane's strength to Danzo.

Hane killed a Root captain after defeating the attackers who ambushed him, Itachi, and Izumi, while the Third Hokage and Danzo discussed targeting him and manipulating Itachi. At home, Hane confronted Fugaku about the Uchiha clan’s growing danger and persuaded him to see Konoha’s leadership as the clan’s enemy rather than the entire village.

• Hane burned the Root captain to ash after the captain tried to leave, and Itachi and Izumi watched in shock.
• The Third Hokage refused Danzo’s demand to kill Hane immediately, but Danzo proposed arranging an early graduation and dangerous mission for Hane or Itachi.
• Hane told Fugaku that Anbu had attacked him, and Fugaku prepared to confront the Third Hokage before Hane warned him against it.
• Hane compared the Uchiha clan’s situation to a frog slowly boiled in warm water and argued that their new clan grounds could become a trap during war.
• Fugaku reconsidered the clan’s history and began to recognize the Third Hokage’s council as the Uchiha’s true adversary.