Chapter Summaries

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.

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.