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During Konoha’s Cultural Festival, Team 7 discovers that they have forgotten Sasuke's birthday! To make matters worse, a pointed comment from Neji Hyuuga shatters an unspoken truth: Sasuke's thirteenth birthday was the year his family would have thrown his coming-of-age ritual.
Ash Day, the Uchiha’s sacred coming-of-age ceremony, was forgotten, buried with the rest of his past. What starts as Team 7’s guilt-driven attempt to recreate the ritual soon unearths something deeper—Sasuke’s quiet grief, and his belief that his clan's traditions were lost to time.
As the Konoha 12 scramble to piece together a culture that was never theirs to begin with, Neji takes on the impossible task of breaking through Sasuke’s walls. But between reluctant confessions and uneasy parallels, he realizes his fact-finding mission has become something far more personal.