Recaps

Kiyoshi protected Naruto from a dangerous prank and walked home with him, quietly standing up to a villager who showed Naruto hostility. After Naruto parted ways with him, Shisui warned Kiyoshi that people were noticing his friendship with Naruto.

• Kiyoshi watched Iruka catch Naruto after Naruto scattered nails to see whether Kiyoshi would step on them, and Iruka made Naruto stay after school to clean the classroom.
• Naruto waited for Kiyoshi after school and asked why he had warned Iruka; Kiyoshi said he did not want Iruka to step on the nails.
• Kiyoshi stared down an old woman who watched Naruto with fear and disgust, then bought dango for himself and Naruto.
• Naruto said he would tell Kiyoshi about his next trap, and Kiyoshi denied wanting to be an accomplice as they walked home together.
• After Naruto left at an intersection, Shisui warned Kiyoshi that certain people would notice him spending time with Naruto and told him to be careful.

Kiyoshi waited at the Back Mountain, where Shisui arrived to begin teaching him advanced shuriken practice. After Kiyoshi showed an uncanny eye for a shuriken’s construction, he gave Shisui a mysterious explanation for his knowledge, then repeatedly missed a moving target and claimed he was calculating wind drift.

• Kiyoshi waited at the training ground until Shisui arrived in his Anbu uniform with shuriken and kunai.
• Shisui introduced moving-target practice, and Kiyoshi recognized that his shuriken had a sharper bevel and steadier balance than the school ones.
• Kiyoshi told Shisui that a mysterious man he met as a child had given him knowledge of past and future events, and Shisui advised him to keep the story secret.
• Shisui pulled a target from side to side while Kiyoshi threw five shuriken and missed each time.
• Kiyoshi claimed he had been calculating wind drift, and Shisui questioned whether that explained his repeated misses.

Kiyoshi improved his shuriken throwing during one-on-one training with Shisui and admitted that he trained to stay alive. After Shisui left, Kiyoshi landed another bullseye and headed down the mountain, keeping his deeper reasons to himself.

• Shisui demonstrated how to use a wrist twist to guide a shuriken into the bullseye, and Kiyoshi studied his technique.
• Kiyoshi copied Shisui's throw, gradually improved his aim, and hit the bullseye several times despite his sore hand.
• Shisui asked what Kiyoshi was training for, and Kiyoshi answered, "To stay alive."
• Kiyoshi and Shisui agreed to continue training the next day, but Kiyoshi gave no further explanation when Shisui asked what he meant.
• After Shisui vanished into the woods, Kiyoshi threw one last shuriken into the bullseye, collected it, and walked down the mountain.

Kiyoshi impressed the joint first-year Taijutsu test’s Chunin judges and students with clean basics, quick sparring victories, and an unusual self-taught fist routine. As he left for home, an unidentified figure watched him from near the school gate.

• Kiyoshi completed the basic movements cleanly, drawing attention from Teacher Yamanaka and Teacher Kobayashi.
• Kiyoshi defeated Ishikawa in two moves, using a Joint Lock taught by Shisui and then a leg sweep.
• Kiyoshi demonstrated a modified Jiahao Fist Technique, prompting questions from Teacher Kobayashi and whispers from the students.
• Kiyoshi received system rewards for his performance and returned to the classroom, planning to draw somewhere secluded the next day.
• Kiyoshi left school and walked home while an unidentified figure watched him from the shade near the gate.

Kiyoshi used a ten-pull on the Back Mountain and gained a skill slot feature, a chakra refinement boost, a Clone Technique scroll, and several ninja-related items and fragments. An Anbu watched him return home, while Kiyoshi remained unaware and planned his next pulls.

• Kiyoshi left school alone and went to a secluded clearing on the Back Mountain to perform a ten-pull.
• Kiyoshi received an SR Skill Slot feature, a chakra refinement acceleration card, a Clone Technique scroll, a ninja tool pack, and several fragments.
• Kiyoshi activated the refinement card, unlocked two empty skill slots, and stored the scroll, tools, and fragments in his inventory.
• Kiyoshi cleaned the scorched grass, descended the mountain, and returned home without noticing an Anbu watching him.
• Kiyoshi decided to wait before using the Clone Technique scroll and went to bed, unaware that the system displayed his total pulls and next-pull progress.

Kiyoshi discovered that the Chakra Refinement Acceleration Card had made chakra flow more easily and improved his stamina and concentration. At school, he sparred with Izumi again, showing faster reactions but awkward movements as classmates watched.

• Kiyoshi activated the Chakra Refinement Acceleration Card and found that refining chakra felt smoother and his body had more stamina.
• Nakajima told Kiyoshi that Izumi would coach their taijutsu class that afternoon.
• Izumi greeted Kiyoshi by name, drawing curious stares and raising his Awkwardness value.
• Kiyoshi sparred with Izumi, whose strikes and evasions exposed the gap between their skills.
• Kiyoshi accidentally struck a bizarre pose during the match, prompting classmates to mock him and raising his Awkwardness value.
• Izumi said Kiyoshi had improved but needed more combat experience after their three rounds of sparring.

Kiyoshi reflected on his sparring match with Izumi and tested how the Chakra Refinement Acceleration Card improved his training at the Back Mountain. He ended the day with enough awkwardness value for another ten-pull, which he planned to make somewhere secluded the next day.

• Kiyoshi received water from Izumi, who praised his improved movements and offered to spar with him again; he accepted.
• Kiyoshi went to the Back Mountain and found that the acceleration card made his chakra flow and recover faster as he practiced.
• Kiyoshi checked the system panel and saw that his awkwardness value had reached 1215, enough for a third ten-pull.
• Kiyoshi postponed the draw because it was getting dark and the effects might attract attention, then went home and ate the meal Aunt Mikoto had left.
• Kiyoshi went to bed thinking about Izumi, his training, and drawing from the Awkwardness Pool the next day.

Kiyoshi learned the Clone Technique and used an awkwardness-value draw to obtain a Body Flicker Technique Talisman, whose forced finishing pose complicated its lifesaving use. He returned home unaware that a masked watcher was still monitoring him, and ended the day with the talisman and other rewards stored in his inventory.

• Kiyoshi used a Ninjutsu Scroll to improve his Clone Technique and planned to practice somewhere secluded after school.
• Kiyoshi stalled during throwing practice to calculate wind drift, hit the bull's-eye, and earned thirty awkwardness points as classmates laughed.
• Kiyoshi went to the Back Mountain and spent one thousand awkwardness points on ten draws, receiving two Body Flicker Technique Talismans and several other items.
• Kiyoshi tested a talisman, teleported beside a bush, and was forced into a Jiahao-style finishing pose that startled two tits.
• Kiyoshi stored the rewards, including three of five Silver fragments for the Jiahao Bracelet, and hid the Sharingan Eye Drops beside his pillow.
• A masked figure recorded Kiyoshi's movements and watched his home as Kiyoshi went to sleep.

Kiyoshi encountered Izumi after school and, remembering her death in the Uchiha massacre, resolved to find a way to save her before it happened. He returned home still under surveillance and began planning how to obtain a life-saving item through the system or Shisui.

• Kiyoshi noticed that a rooftop watcher had changed shifts as he left school.
• Kiyoshi met Izumi, who teased him about his training ground and offered to bring him dango.
• Izumi asked what Kiyoshi had meant when he said she would not die this time, but he denied having meant anything by it.
• After Izumi left, Kiyoshi checked his fake Sharingan potion and decided he needed an item or ability that could save or transport her.
• Kiyoshi reviewed his system totals at home and considered saving for more pulls or trying single pulls if time ran short.

Kiyoshi successfully produced a perfect Clone Technique in class, though the clone embarrassed him by shouting about a grudge from his previous life. After testing the Shadow Screen at home, he realized a watcher had traced his secret route to the Back Mountain and decided he could no longer go there.

• Iruka taught the class the Clone Technique, and Kiyoshi created a stable clone that shouted about an old grudge, making the class laugh.
• Iruka praised Kiyoshi’s clone as the first complete one in class, while Kiyoshi dispersed it before it could say more.
• Kiyoshi noticed a new masked watcher following him after school, and Shisui’s crow signaled that Shisui had spotted the watcher too.
• Kiyoshi used the Shadow Screen indoors and watched it replay an embarrassing rejection from his previous life, with the crow witnessing the scene.
• Kiyoshi saw someone watching the wall he used to reach the Back Mountain and resolved to stop going there and practice more instead.

Kiyoshi was questioned at his home by a masked Root operative, while Shisui intervened and warned him that he was being watched. Afterward, Kiyoshi moved the evidence against Danzo and his other valuables into his school things, deciding to keep the evidence with him.

• Kiyoshi met a masked man at his gate and answered questions about his routes, the Back Mountain, and his schoolwork.
• Shisui arrived during the encounter, positioned himself between Kiyoshi and the masked man, and saw the man leave.
• Shisui told Kiyoshi the masked man was not Anbu and warned him not to discuss the visit with anyone.
• Shisui told Kiyoshi to avoid his usual route and the old spot on the Back Mountain, promising to show him something elsewhere.
• Kiyoshi hid the evidence against Danzo inside his Clan Studies Primer and placed the Silver Fragment, Teleportation Card, and Soldier Pill in his schoolbag.

Danzo ordered Root to recruit Kiyoshi after Shisui disrupted their questioning, while Kiyoshi noticed Danzo watching him and kept the encounter from Shisui. At the academy, Iruka began handing out midsemester evaluations, and Naruto Uzumaki was called next.

• A Root operative told Danzo that Kiyoshi had answered seven questions and that Shisui had intervened, and Danzo ordered Root to recruit the boy rather than eliminate him.
• Kiyoshi passed a bandage-wrapped, one-eyed man with a cane in an alley and recognized him as Danzo, but did not tell Shisui about the encounter.
• Kiyoshi recounted Root's questions to Shisui, who warned him that he had answered too quickly and advised him to act like nothing had happened during the evaluations.
• Shisui told Kiyoshi to avoid meeting him for a few days and sent him to class for the midsemester evaluations.
• Iruka handed out evaluation sheets, calling Sasuke Uchiha and Hinata Hyuga before calling Naruto Uzumaki.

Kiyoshi handled the embarrassment of his blank guardian signature slip at school, then accepted Mikoto’s invitation to join the Uchiha Family Day dinner. He headed to the river first, carrying a wrapped tin for the evening and still uncertain who would sign his slip.

• Iruka gave Naruto his evaluation sheet and offered to help him catch up, then handed Kiyoshi an evaluation sheet and signature slip.
• When Nakajima drew attention to Kiyoshi’s blank guardian field, Kiyoshi calmly explained that his parents were on duty and would sign it that night.
• Iruka stopped the class from teasing Kiyoshi and made clear that the signature-slip issue was settled.
• At the school gates, Mikoto invited Kiyoshi to dinner for Uchiha Family Day and told him it was fine to leave the signature slip blank.
• Kiyoshi watched Mikoto and Sasuke leave, then took a detour toward the river with a wrapped tin in his bag.

Kiyoshi attended the Uchiha’s Family Day while his parents were on duty, quietly observing the clan and its people. He left with roasted beans and an unsigned form, thinking of those he knew would not survive the future and heading toward the Naka River.

• Kiyoshi arrived at the Uchiha compound, where Sasuke greeted him and criticized his Clone Technique hand seals.
• Mikoto welcomed Kiyoshi, offered him food, and later offered to sign his guardian slip, but he chose to wait for his parents.
• Kiyoshi counted the people at the gathering and recognized Uchiha Itachi, reflecting on the future deaths he remembered.
• As Family Day wound down, Mikoto gave Kiyoshi roasted beans and asked when his parents would return.
• Kiyoshi left the compound and walked toward the Naka River, thinking about someone waiting there with a gift.

Kiyoshi gave Naruto a birthday smoke bomb, and Iruka took the boys to ramen before telling Naruto that he was not to blame for the tragedy on the night he was born. Kiyoshi returned home with his parents’ signed school slip, while an Anbu agent set aside a report about his growing contact with Naruto and Iruka.

• Kiyoshi surprised Naruto by giving him a smoke bomb for his birthday, and Iruka arrived after seeing its colorful smoke over the river.
• Iruka treated Naruto and Kiyoshi to ramen, where Naruto proudly announced his birthday and Kiyoshi’s gift to the shop.
• At the Memorial Stone, Iruka told Naruto that his parents had died the night Naruto was born and reassured him that he was not responsible for the tragedy.
• Iruka walked both boys home, and Naruto asked him to celebrate his birthday with them again next year.
• Kiyoshi found his parents’ signed school slip waiting at home and put it away to hand in the next day.
• An Anbu agent recorded Kiyoshi’s interactions with Naruto and Iruka, then sealed the report separately from routine reports.

Danzo and two Root agents tried to recruit Kiyoshi after school, but Shisui intervened and claimed he would teach him until graduation. Shisui warned Kiyoshi to report any further approaches, while Kiyoshi resolved to protect Shisui from Danzo’s plans.

• Two Root agents offered Kiyoshi food, lodging, and Ninjutsu training in exchange for joining Root, and Danzo appeared to oversee the recruitment.
• Kiyoshi refused to go with Root and gave the agents a pointed inventory of his personal details.
• Shisui stepped between Kiyoshi and Root, demanded that the clan head approve any recruitment, and said he would walk Kiyoshi home after school.
• Kiyoshi said Shisui had promised to teach him until graduation, and Shisui confirmed it before Danzo and the Root agents withdrew.
• Shisui told Kiyoshi that Danzo knew about his crow and his connections, then instructed him to report any future approaches.
• Kiyoshi took half of Shisui’s bean sprouts home and resolved to keep Danzo from taking Shisui’s eyes and to find a way to keep him alive.

Six months after the white-masked watcher began disappearing, Kiyoshi continued training while Shisui warned him that Root had gone quiet and that the new school year would bring changes. After the crow flew into the clan compound instead of north, Kiyoshi noted that it had moved its nest.

• Kiyoshi spent six months improving his chakra, techniques, and shuriken skills while collecting items from the acceleration card.
• Shisui reduced his meetings with Kiyoshi, and the crow continued visiting him on Wednesdays as Kiyoshi trained with Izumi and spent time with Naruto.
• Kiyoshi hit the bull's-eye from twenty-five meters, and Shisui praised his progress and gave him medicine for his callused hands.
• Shisui told Kiyoshi that Root had made no recent moves, that they would change meeting places, and that changes would come with the new school year.
• Kiyoshi recorded that less than half a year remained until the predicted night, then watched the crow fly south into the clan compound and wrote that it had moved its nest.

Kiyoshi sparred with Hinata and watched her land three valid hits, recognizing how much she had improved. After school, he saw Sasuke training alone by the river and left without approaching him.

• Kiyoshi drew Hinata as his sparring partner and discovered that her Byakugan-guided strikes were more precise and powerful than he expected.
• Hinata adapted her attacks and landed three clean hits on Kiyoshi, passing Iruka's test and drawing cheers from the class.
• Hinata asked Kiyoshi why he was so kind to her, and he told her she deserved it, making her blush as classmates teased them.
• Kiyoshi saw Sasuke practicing shuriken throws alone by the river and decided to leave him undisturbed.

Iruka assigned Sasuke Uchiha, Naruto Uzumaki, and Uchiha Kiyoshi to the same team, but their first teamwork exercise ended in a crash. After school, Kiyoshi noticed someone watching the Uchiha compound and received notice of an upcoming clan meeting, deciding to observe before acting.

• Iruka assigned Sasuke Uchiha, Naruto Uzumaki, and Uchiha Kiyoshi to a team, and the three drew log carrying as their teamwork exercise.
• Naruto and Sasuke failed to coordinate around a flagpole, sending the log and all three of them crashing to the ground as their classmates laughed.
• Kiyoshi accepted responsibility for the failed rhythm, and Iruka told the trio to learn to notice each other.
• Kiyoshi found freshly swept footprints by the clan compound wall and saw a motionless figure watching the compound before it vanished into an alley.
• Kiyoshi recorded the watcher in his notebook, left Shisui's column blank, and chose to watch before acting after finding a note about an upcoming clan meeting.

Kiyoshi attended the Uchiha Clan Meeting as his household’s representative and watched tensions rise between Fugaku’s cautious leadership and Eagle Spring’s faction. After deciding Shisui should know what happened, Kiyoshi left him a concealed message and arranged a meeting.

• Kiyoshi accepted Sasuke’s challenge to compete the following week, and Naruto loudly teased Sasuke that he was trying to make friends.
• Kiyoshi found his parents away and took the Clan Meeting notice to the meeting hall, where he sat alone in the branch-family section.
• Fugaku proposed continued negotiation and clan-wide registration of workers, while Eagle Spring urged the clan to act before losing more authority and territory.
• Fugaku asked Eagle Spring to explain how the clan would survive afterward, then ordered the clan to submit a joint relocation petition and dismissed the meeting.
• Kiyoshi recorded his observations of Eagle Spring and Fugaku, decided Shisui should know about the meeting, and slipped a message into a gap beneath a stone lantern for a crow to carry.

Kiyoshi and Shisui coordinated a secret operation to move two households out of the clan grounds, then discovered Eagle Spring’s people escorting nine captives toward an abandoned warehouse. The chapter ended as Kiyoshi and Shisui followed the group to the warehouse, suspecting the transfer was not a rescue.

• Shisui told Kiyoshi that unrest was growing within the clan and divided their work: Kiyoshi would learn the people and routes inside, while Shisui watched the perimeter.
• Kiyoshi led two households, five people in total, along a stream route to a safe meeting place, with Shisui following behind them.
• After recording the transfer as smooth, Kiyoshi and Shisui took a higher path and spotted nine people bound together and guarded by six escorts.
• Kiyoshi recognized one escort as a member of the half-row that had stood with Eagle Spring at the Clan Meeting.
• Kiyoshi and Shisui followed the captives to a fork and saw them head toward the abandoned Old Warehouse outside the clan grounds.

Kiyoshi and Shisui infiltrated a warehouse and discovered that Eagle Spring was holding eleven captives and using clan school textbooks to force children toward awakening their eyes through pain. They escaped without raising an alarm, but a captive recognized Shisui as they were leaving.

• Kiyoshi and Shisui waited two days before sneaking through a gap in the perimeter wall to inspect the warehouse.
• They found seven children and four young adults held captive, with rope marks on their wrists and little food or water.
• Eagle Spring arrived with an accomplice and ordered the children to memorize clan textbooks, explaining that he intended to force their eyes to awaken through pain.
• Kiyoshi and Shisui recorded the warehouse's layout and guards, then withdrew through the wall opening.
• A captive whispered, "Lord Shisui?" as Shisui was halfway through the opening, and he froze while the sentry and captives shifted nearby.

Shisui gave Kiyoshi evidence of the hardliners' crimes and asked him to deliver it to the clan leader. Kiyoshi passed the information to Mikoto in a cookbook, and the clan leader's study lamp remained lit until dawn.

• Shisui told the oldest child inside the wall to sleep and promised to rescue him, while Kiyoshi noted that the child knew Shisui's name.
• Shisui told Kiyoshi that the hardliners were creating Mangekyo Sharingan to prepare for a coup and explained their new crow-and-letter message channel.
• Shisui gave Kiyoshi a packet of evidence and asked him to have the clan leader's wife show it to the clan leader.
• Kiyoshi borrowed a cookbook from Mikoto and concealed a copy of the evidence inside it.
• Kiyoshi returned the cookbook to Mikoto and told her to show its information about the hardliners' crimes to the clan leader.
• Kiyoshi saw the study lamp at the clan leader's house stay lit until dawn.

Kiyoshi and Shisui rescued seven children and four young adults from the storehouse, killing Eagle Spring and hiding the escape. Kiyoshi recorded and erased the operation’s defenses, but left a blank line for the unresolved trail behind Eagle Spring’s collected eyes.

• Kiyoshi and Shisui finalized their plan to enter the storehouse and lead eleven captives out through its west-side door.
• Kiyoshi watched from the slope as Shisui killed Eagle Spring and dragged him back inside without alerting the guards.
• Shisui guided seven children and four young adults out of the storehouse, and Kiyoshi led them to an abandoned building.
• Shisui said he had subdued the two guards and erased the tracks, then reported that Eagle Spring had kept watching the north wall until he died.
• Kiyoshi wrote down the four defenses in his ledger, crossed them out, and left a blank line for the unresolved source of Eagle Spring’s collected eyes.

Kiyoshi showed Shisui evidence that Shimura Danzō had been buying the eyes Eagle Spring collected, then they planned to expose and trap him before he could target the Uchiha clan. The chapter ended with Kiyoshi preparing to make Shisui appear to die in front of the village.

• Shisui told Kiyoshi that Eagle Spring’s collected eyes had all been sold through a supply chain.
• Kiyoshi showed Shisui images of Shimura Danzō, jars of red-tinted eyes, and a ledger recording their sources and destinations.
• Shisui said he believed most of Kiyoshi’s claims but doubted that Itachi would help carry out the clan massacre and that the Hokage would act against Root.
• Shisui and Kiyoshi planned to lure Danzō into taking Shisui’s eye, evacuate vulnerable people, and use the resulting records to trap him.
• Shisui planned to let Itachi witness the opening so the Hokage could pressure Itachi to take up the blade and infiltrate the operation.
• Kiyoshi left the hollow knowing the plan was settled and that Shisui had to die in the eyes of the village.