Authors note: Before you read this chapter, There is a lot of "space" crap in this chapter and I don't want any illegitimate son of... Einstein in comments.
While Information about Ren was spreading like wild fire in The Ninja World; But,
for five days, Ren had not found peace. He was constantly sensing white humanoid creatures moving near their position. These creatures possessed no standard chakra, making them invisible to normal sensory methods. Even Satoshi, despite having the Mangekyō Sharingan, could not sense or see them. This left Satoshi and the vegetative Kaori dangerously vulnerable. Ren could not risk leaving them alone to hunt these stalkers, yet he could no longer move his family every few hours.
Ren's body had changed significantly. His Quincy compatibility had reached 76%, and his Hollow branch was unlocked to 27%. The most vital change was his ability to generate Reiatsu internally to fuel his Quincy techniques, rather than relying solely on external Reishi. While he still required his masked state to utilize Sonido or fire a Cero, the Hollow influence provided a significant benefit: his pupil power replenished much faster. This allowed him to keep his Mangekyō active for long periods without the risk of blindness or exhaustion.
Ren spent those five days using his own Mangekyō technique, Onikamne, to analyze Satoshi's right eye. Onikamne was an analytical pupil technique that allowed Ren to perceive the underlying principles and mechanics of any power he observed. Through it, Ren dismantled the logic of Satoshi's space-type abilities:
Teleportation: Satoshi could jump anywhere within his line of sight. To travel beyond his sensing range, he required a pre-placed marker.
Distance Erasure: This was not teleportation; Satoshi could simply delete the physical distance between two objects. Because there was no travel time, the attack was impossible to dodge.
Ren used his accelerated processing power to understand these principles of "folding" and "erasing" space. He intended to apply this spatial logic to create a version of the Quincy's Shadow Realm. Standing in the center of the small, abandoned house they were using as shelter, Ren whispered, "Those white things are getting closer."
Ren crouched on the ground. He began to pour his internal Reiatsu and gathered Reishi into the floor. He utilized the principles learned from Satoshi's eye to "thin" the space within the shadows. Beneath his hands, the darkness began to expand. It was no longer a mere lack of light, but a physical substance. As Ren pushed the limits of the technique, the strain became immense. Blood began to drip from both of his eyes, staining the floor, but he did not stop. He forced the Reiatsu to stabilize the spatial fold.
The shadow grew rapidly, crawling up the walls and across the ceiling. Within seconds, the blackness became a physical void that surged outward. The entire house was swallowed by the expanding shadow, vanishing from the Land of Rain entirely.
The house and everyone inside were pulled into the Schatten Bereich (Shadow Realm). Outside, only a flat, empty patch of mud remained where the structure had stood.
Inside the Shadow Realm, the world was silent and tinted in deep blue. There was no rain, and the white creatures were nowhere to be found. Ren fell to one knee, wiping the blood from his eyes. They were finally in a place where no one could track them.
While it looked like the Quincy Schatten Bereich, it was fundamentally different. Unlike the Soul Society, which was composed entirely of Reishi, the Ninja World had scarcity of Reishi; Ren still struggled to form a stable Reishi bow. To overcome this, Ren's Schatten Bereich functioned on the principle of a Storage Scroll—storing 3D objects within a 2D space.
By analyzing Satoshi's eye and understanding advanced spatial applications, Ren had created a moving 3D pocket dimension where living things could survive on a 2D plane. He used a complex algorithm of Reishi and Chakra to keep the space stable. This realm required a constant supply of Reishi to remain functional, meaning Ren had to stay within it to act as its anchor. Though he could venture out, he could not remain outside for long without the space collapsing.
In Uchiha Clan
The official announcement had struck the clan like a thunderbolt: Uchiha Ren was now an S-rank Missing-Nin with a massive bounty on his head. Alongside him, Satoshi and Kaori were branded as traitors to the village. The specific details of Danzo's treasonous attempt to enslave Ren's parents remained hidden from the general clan. To the rest of the Uchiha, it appeared that their most promising genius had simply snapped, slaughtered two hundred of his own comrades, and abandoned the village.
The "Hawks"—the more aggressive members of the clan—were in a state of near-riot. They did not care for the details of why Ren had defected. They argued that the village had pushed Ren to the edge with constant suspicion and that the S-rank bounty was a calculated move by the Hokage to justify a future purge of the entire Uchiha line. "They fear our eyes," one elder hissed. "seeing Ren's talent, and because they could not control his growth, they labelled him a traitor to turn the world against us." The Hawks used Ren's defection as a rallying cry, blaming the village's systemic oppression for "breaking" their finest shinobi.
In contrast, the "Doves" and neutral members of the clan were paralyzed by a sense of impending doom. They saw the massacre of the two hundred ninjas as a stain that the Uchiha would never be able to wash away. To them, Ren's actions had validated every dark rumor the village had ever whispered about the Uchiha's "Curse of Hatred." They feared for their children, knowing that every Uchiha child in the Academy would now be looked at as a potential mass murderer. The neutral families were praying that the Hokage's would clear the Uchiha name.
Among the younger generation, the shock was most personal for Fugaku and Mikoto. Neither of them knew the truth about Danzo's interference. To Fugaku, Ren was a comrade whose power he had respected, and seeing him fall from grace so violently felt like a betrayal of the clan's honor. He sat in the main hall, his face a mask of stoicism, but his hands were clenched so tight his knuckles were white. He listened to the Hawks' calls for war and the Doves' pleas for peace, feeling the weight of future leadership pressing down on him. He could not understand why Ren, who had saved so many lives, would suddenly choose to end so many.
For Mikoto, the news shattered her world. Ren had been a friend who represented a different, kinder path for the Uchiha. As she stood in the courtyard, listening to the herald read the official decree of Ren's crimes, her mind refused to accept it. The image of the gentle boy she knew clashed violently with the report of the "Black Blur" that left no survivors. The realization that the village—her home—was now officially hunting Ren caused an agonizing shift in her spiritual energy. The grief and the feeling of helplessness toward her friend triggered a violent surge in her optic nerves. Her eyes burned with a searing heat as the two-tomoe patterns in her Sharingan began to spin frantically, a third tomoe appeared. Mikoto had awakened the three-tomoe Sharingan.