Chapter Summaries

Uchiha Gen told Tsunade that he had succeeded in forming a contract with the Third Gate, though the attempt left him physically depleted. Tsunade explained how to treat his condition and revealed that Uchiha Hisa had been gravely wounded; she also said Gen would attend the upcoming Jonin Conference and deserved an exceptional promotion.

• Uchiha Gen told Tsunade that he had survived the trial and could summon the Third Gate.
• Tsunade examined Uchiha Gen and warned him to avoid Medical Ninjutsu until his Yin-Yang imbalance improved, prescribing three days of medicine.
• Tsunade told Uchiha Gen that she planned to propose establishing a medical system at the upcoming Jonin Conference.
• Tsunade reported that Uchiha Hisa had been gravely wounded by Blue B and that Konoha and Kumogakure had agreed to a temporary ceasefire after suffering heavy losses.
• Uchiha Gen asked whether he could attend the Jonin Conference, and Tsunade said his military achievements justified an exceptional promotion to Jonin.

Uchiha Gen warned Tsunade that proposing a new medical system at the Jonin Conference without preparation could fail and damage the Senju Clan’s standing. He urged her to involve Orochimaru and seek a limited trial, and Tsunade agreed while insisting that Gen contribute.

• Uchiha Gen asked Tsunade when the Third Hokage would return and what they should prepare for the Jonin Conference.
• Tsunade admitted she had planned only to raise her proposal at the meeting, so Uchiha Gen explained the need to build support in advance.
• Uchiha Gen warned that the other jonin might stay silent over a major proposal during wartime and that a failed first proposal could reflect poorly on the Senju Clan.
• Tsunade dismissed concerns about the Senju Clan’s declining influence and focused on establishing the medical system.
• Uchiha Gen suggested that Tsunade tell Orochimaru what needed to be done and aim for a partial trial, and Tsunade agreed while telling Gen he had to contribute.

Uchiha Gen agreed to help Tsunade supervise medical ninja training when needed, then hired the Genin Might Duy to prepare medicine for his injuries. After recognizing Duy’s exceptional balance and muscle control, Gen praised his taijutsu and encouraged him to pursue it.

• Tsunade asked Uchiha Gen to lend a hand with medical ninja training when she and Sarutobi Biwako were overwhelmed, and he agreed to help when needed.
• Uchiha Gen ordered medicinal herbs from the Nara Clan’s pharmacy and received them from the Genin Might Duy.
• Uchiha Gen asked Duy to brew his medicine and offered him ten thousand ryo for the work.
• Uchiha Gen noticed Duy had carried the medicine bundles while running upside down without securing them and praised his balance and muscle control.
• Uchiha Gen encouraged Duy to reach the pinnacle of taijutsu and invited him inside to learn how to brew the medicine.

Uchiha Gen discovered Might Duy’s potential and learned that he had spent years refining Tobirama Senju’s incomplete Eight Inner Gates Jutsu. After promising to assess and recommend Duy, Gen rested to recover from his injuries and planned to focus on Sharingan genjutsu.

• Might Duy prepared medicinal soup for Uchiha Gen, who paid him ten thousand ryo and asked him to return the next day.
• Uchiha Gen used his Three-Tomoe Sharingan and knowledge of Duy’s physical condition to earn his trust and ask about his taijutsu.
• Might Duy explained that Tobirama Senju had taught the Eight Inner Gates Jutsu to academy students, but he was the only one who kept practicing and refining it.
• Might Duy said he could barely open the Sixth Gate, and Uchiha Gen promised to test him and recommend him to the Third Hokage and Orochimaru-sensei if he proved worthy.
• Uchiha Gen sent Might Duy home and rested, deciding to study Sharingan genjutsu while his injuries healed.

Uchiha Gen and Orochimaru recruited Might Duy into their squad after watching him fight, then helped support his family. As they parted ways in Konoha, Orochimaru asked Gen why he supported Tsunade’s push for Medical Ninjutsu, and Gen wondered if Orochimaru wanted it for his research.

• Uchiha Gen and Orochimaru watched Might Duy fight Special Jonin Iwate Kin, and Gen explained why he believed Duy had great potential.
• After Duy lost, Orochimaru invited him to join the squad and help develop his forbidden technique, while Gen used Medical Ninjutsu to ease his fatigue.
• Uchiha Gen and Orochimaru learned about Duy’s wife and their one-year-old son Might Guy, then gave the family a 100,000 Ryo gift for the baby.
• Uchiha Gen and Orochimaru walked through Konoha, and Orochimaru asked why Gen supported Tsunade’s effort to advance Medical Ninjutsu.
• Uchiha Gen suggested Orochimaru might want Medical Ninjutsu to aid his experiments and forbidden-technique research.

Orochimaru showed Uchiha Gen his secret experiments on feigned-death Sunagakure captives and explained his pursuit of immortality. He recruited Gen to help with life research and offered him the Body Activation Technique, which immediately caught his interest.

• Orochimaru led Uchiha Gen to a basement where captured Sunagakure ninja were held, and explained that a Ryūchi Cave snake's venom had made them appear dead.
• Orochimaru reflected on the shortness of human life and told Gen that he sought eternal life so he could pursue all knowledge.
• Uchiha Gen agreed that a long lifespan was tempting, and Orochimaru asked him to assist with experiments requiring advanced Medical Ninjutsu for one hour each night after the Jonin Conference.
• Orochimaru offered Gen a Ninjutsu Scroll taken from Sky Ninja Village, and Gen read the Forbidden Technique: Body Activation Technique, which gradually strengthened the body by nourishing its cells with chakra.

Uchiha Gen accepted Orochimaru’s Scroll describing the Sky Ninja Village’s Body Activation Technique and reflected on its potential medical applications. Afterward, a bowl of ramen and Teuchi’s advice helped him realize he was exhausted and decide to rest that afternoon before the jonin meeting.

• Orochimaru explained the Sky Ninja Village’s combat methods and the merits of its Body Activation Technique, which Uchiha Gen accepted.
• Uchiha Gen considered how the technique related to Body Reincarnation and future advances in Medical Ninjutsu.
• Uchiha Gen left Orochimaru’s home with the Scroll and stopped at Teuchi’s newly opened ramen shop.
• Teuchi told Uchiha Gen that pursuing what he enjoyed made hard work worthwhile and advised him to rest when tired.
• Uchiha Gen decided to take the afternoon off before the jonin meeting.

Uchiha Gen treated the gravely injured Uchiha Clan Head, Uchiha Hisa, and discovered that he was paralyzed from the waist down. Uchiha Fugaku and the Great Elder planned to conceal the injury while they considered how to preserve the clan’s stability.

• Uchiha Gen spent the previous afternoon relaxing and later taught an open class at the Ninja Academy at Muna’s invitation.
• Uchiha Fugaku and several Uchiha members came to Uchiha Gen’s home, asking him to save his father, Uchiha Hisa.
• Uchiha Gen examined Uchiha Hisa at the Clan Head Residence and said he could treat the internal injuries but not restore the shattered spinal cord with current medical methods.
• Uchiha Gen explained that a technique envisioned by Tsunade might eventually repair Uchiha Hisa’s spine, but it required multiple high-level Medical Ninja.
• The Great Elder advised keeping Uchiha Hisa’s paralysis secret and having him appear after waking to calm the clan; Uchiha Fugaku entrusted his father’s treatment to Uchiha Gen.

Uchiha Gen stabilized Uchiha Hisa and told the clan’s leaders that the Clan Head might recover after a long period of treatment. With Hisa unconscious, the elders managed the waiting clan members while Gen used the opportunity to request advanced medical equipment.

• Uchiha Gen told Uchiha Fugaku and the Great Elder that Uchiha Hisa had survived surgery and would likely wake the next day.
• The Great Elder instructed Fugaku to stay with Hisa while he and Gen went outside to calm the clan members.
• Uchiha Gen informed the gathered elders and jonin that Hisa was out of immediate danger, then requested medicines and advanced medical equipment.
• The Great Elder announced that the clan members could visit Hisa the next day and dismissed them to rest.
• The Uchiha elites left in small groups, considering the power vacuum during Hisa’s recovery and Uchiha Gen’s rising influence.

Uchiha Gen reunited with Uchiha Mikoto before being summoned to the Hokage Building, where Hiruzen Sarutobi promoted him to jonin. Gen became the youngest jonin in Konoha’s history.

• The Great Elder told Uchiha Gen he had used Mikoto as an excuse to pull him away from clan members seeking his attention.
• Uchiha Mikoto met Uchiha Gen and the Great Elder, and Gen said he had missed her.
• An Anbu notification summoned Uchiha Gen to the Hokage Building after Hiruzen Sarutobi returned from the front lines.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi praised Gen’s achievements and gave him a certificate naming him a jonin.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi congratulated Uchiha Gen as the youngest jonin in Konoha’s history.

Uchiha Gen received his jonin identification, and Hiruzen Sarutobi invited him to spar so he could assess his abilities and offer guidance. Their match ended with Gen realizing how overwhelming the Third Hokage’s ninjutsu was, even though Hiruzen had not used his full strength.

• Uchiha Gen received his jonin identification as Konoha’s youngest jonin and spoke with Hiruzen Sarutobi about Kagami Uchiha.
• Hiruzen invited Gen to a training ground to test his abilities and determine what he could teach him.
• Gen attacked with Fire Release, but Hiruzen countered with Water Release and destroyed Gen’s Earth-Style Wall with a Water Dragon.
• Hiruzen used lightning through the water to force Gen out from underground before Gen could circle behind him.
• Gen realized he could not find an opening against Hiruzen’s superior ninjutsu and judged that a full-strength Hiruzen would have posed a far greater threat than Kakuzu.

Uchiha Gen sparred with Hiruzen Sarutobi, demonstrating his weapons, summoning, and ninjutsu while struggling against the Hokage’s superior power. The fight ended with Enma praising Gen’s Rasengan after their clash forced them both back.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi overwhelmed Uchiha Gen with shuriken and combined ninjutsu, but Gen used Triple Rashomon Gate to withstand the attack.
• Uchiha Gen countered with the Great Fire Gale Technique, and Hiruzen Sarutobi’s Shadow Clones drove the flames back until Gen survived behind an Earth Style Wall.
• Uchiha Gen attacked Hiruzen Sarutobi with Shadow Clones and Chidori, but Enma blocked his strike and transformed into the Adamantine Ruyi Staff.
• Uchiha Gen combined his Sengoku Ninja Sword and Rasengan in a close-range attack, forcing Enma back and earning the Monkey King’s praise.

Uchiha Gen sparred with Hiruzen Sarutobi, who pushed him to his limits and assessed his swordsmanship. Hiruzen then began teaching Gen about nature transformations and Combination Ninjutsu.

• Uchiha Gen used Phantom Clones and his Sharingan to fight Hiruzen Sarutobi and Enma, but could not keep up once Hiruzen became more serious.
• After more than ten minutes of sparring, Uchiha Gen collapsed from exhaustion and admitted he had not trained much in swordsmanship.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi praised Gen's ninjutsu talent, criticized his swordsmanship foundation, and acknowledged the hardships faced by young shinobi sent to war.
• Uchiha Gen praised Hiruzen's leadership, and Hiruzen encouraged him to help shoulder Konoha's future alongside Orochimaru.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi began instructing Uchiha Gen in the five nature transformations and Combination Ninjutsu.

After Hiruzen Sarutobi trained Uchiha Gen, Gen moved into a larger house near the Great Elder and recorded what he had learned. Hiruzen’s advice helped Gen understand and improve the Phantom Body Flicker Technique, bringing him closer to mastering it.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi spent nearly an hour training Uchiha Gen and gave him advice on elemental ninjutsu, Combination Ninjutsu, and the Phantom Body Flicker Technique.
• Uchiha Gen moved into a rented house near the Great Elder with help from Mika and Uchiha Mikoto.
• Uchiha Gen wrote down Hiruzen’s guidance and reconsidered Phantom Clones as a mutated form of Shadow Clone created through Sharingan genjutsu.
• Uchiha Gen created a Phantom Clone with less than half the dojutsu power he had previously needed and estimated that he could produce six or seven at once.
• Uchiha Gen concluded that mastering Phantom Clones would make the Body Flicker portion of the technique easier to complete.

At the clan meeting, Uchiha Gen argued that the Uchiha should seek influence in the Medical Department Tsunade planned to propose at the Jonin Conference. He left the clan considering a major new opportunity if the department was established.

• With Uchiha Hisa bedridden, Uchiha Gen presided over the clan meeting as Great Elder and reviewed the clan’s affairs and finances.
• Uchiha Kai recommended that the clan focus on securing fair recognition of its wartime merits and compensation at the Jonin Conference.
• Uchiha Gen said Tsunade would propose a professional Medical Department to train Medical Ninjas and reduce casualties.
• Uchiha Gen told the elders that the department would likely be established and could rank alongside the Konoha Military Police Force and Anbu.
• Uchiha Gen’s proposal prompted the elders and clan members to consider what role the Uchiha could claim in the new department.

Uchiha Gen persuaded the Uchiha clan to support Tsunade’s proposed Medical Department, gaining the clan jonin’s votes and goodwill. The Great Elder watched the agreement unfold, seeing it as a chance to build Uchiha Gen’s influence within the clan.

• Uchiha Gen told the Great Elder that Tsunade, Orochimaru, and Sarutobi Biwako would lead the Medical Department, and that Uchiha clan members could join it.
• The Second Elder said the clan should support the proposal with votes, while the Third Elder warned that the Third Hokage might ask them to fund it.
• The Great Elder argued that the clan could refuse to pay and that the Senju would also contribute if money was needed.
• The clan jonin agreed to vote for the Medical Department, citing the need for medical ninja and the chance to build rapport with Uchiha Gen.
• Uchiha Gen thanked the clansmen and promised to repay their favor, while the Great Elder recognized that the proposal had helped him strengthen Gen’s ties within the clan.

After the clan meeting, the Great Elder told Uchiha Gen that he intended to build Gen’s standing and prepare him to become Clan Head. Gen accepted that Fugaku lacked the ability to lead the clan, while the Great Elder promised to use his influence to secure Gen time to grow and compete.

• The Great Elder asked Uchiha Gen who could take over as Clan Head, and Gen named the Second Elder, the Third Elder, and Fugaku as the likely candidates.
• The Great Elder said the elders’ capabilities were limited and that Fugaku was no longer the choice he wanted to support.
• The Great Elder explained that he intended to promote Uchiha Gen, whose strength and achievements made him a viable candidate despite his lack of seniority and political influence.
• Uchiha Gen felt the pressure of being considered for Clan Head but listened as the Great Elder offered him a choice and promised a gradual transition.
• Uchiha Gen said Fugaku could not become Clan Head because he lacked the talent and breadth of mind to carry the clan’s legacy.
• The Great Elder approved of Gen’s judgment and promised to use his connections and authority to delay the succession while Gen continued to grow.

Uchiha Gen agreed to help the Great Elder manage clan affairs while focusing on mastering the Phantom Body Flicker Technique, and the Great Elder proposed making him a clan elder. At Konoha’s Jonin Conference, Tsunade’s proposal for a Medical Department was rejected, but Orochimaru and Uchiha Gen rallied more than half the attending jonin behind a trial training program, drawing Hiruzen Sarutobi’s attention to Gen’s influence.

• Uchiha Gen told the Great Elder he would handle clan duties when needed while training to master the Phantom Body Flicker Technique.
• The Great Elder asked Uchiha Gen whether he wanted to become a clan elder before becoming Clan Head.
• At the Jonin Conference, the Third Hokage rejected Tsunade’s proposal to establish a Medical Department because Konoha lacked time and resources during the war.
• Orochimaru proposed a smaller trial program to train medical ninja, and Dan Katō, Uchiha Gen, and more than fifty jonin stood to support it.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi noticed Uchiha Gen among the supporters and wondered how he had mobilized so many Uchiha jonin.

Third Hokage approved a preliminary medical-ninja program with limited funding and strict screening, while Uchiha Gen and the Great Elder discussed investing in the new Medical Department. Gen then brought the Great Elder to an orphanage to meet Yakushi Nonō, whom he wanted to recommend as a teacher.

• Third Hokage approved a trial program to train medical ninjas, offering up to thirty million ryo and requiring medical and political vetting.
• The Great Elder asked Uchiha Gen how much the clan should invest in the Medical Department.
• Uchiha Gen advised the clan to make a modest early investment and increase it once Uchiha medical talents secured positions in the department.
• Uchiha Gen led the Great Elder to a small orphanage where Yakushi Nonō was handing out candy to children.

Uchiha Gen recruited Yakushi Nonō to train Uchiha clan members in medical ninjutsu, offering generous pay to support her orphanage. After arranging the teaching plan, he went to the training ground to begin training with a Training Acceleration Card.

• Uchiha Gen visited the orphanage with the Great Elder and greeted Yakushi Nonō and the children.
• Uchiha Gen told Yakushi Nonō that he wanted her to teach beginners in the Uchiha Clan’s new Medical Ninja program.
• The Great Elder offered Yakushi Nonō 10,000 Ryo per teaching day, bonuses for successful students, and an advance payment.
• Yakushi Nonō accepted the assignment and promised not to disappoint Uchiha Gen and the Great Elder.
• Uchiha Gen parted from the Great Elder, went to the training ground, and activated a Training Acceleration Card.