Uchiha Three Geniuses

News of the attack on the Uchiha Clan Compound quickly spread far and wide.

After hearing the news, Tajima ran back to the clan that very night, pushing himself almost to the point of death.

Once his subordinates had told him what happened, he immediately rushed to the medical clinic without another word.

Kyosuke lay unconscious in the room. Five highly skilled ninja doctors had gathered around him, discussing possible treatments.

After briefly asking about the situation, Tajima issued a blunt order: "Save him at all costs. Take whatever precious medicinal herbs you need from the storehouse."

"If you fail to save him, or he doesn't make a full recovery, find a rope and hang yourselves."

He took a long look at Kyosuke, who looked like a mummy, then turned and left. There was something else he needed to confirm.

In the next room, the Clan Head found his two sons talking.

Without asking how they were feeling, he went straight to the point. "You've both awakened your eyes?"

The brothers exchanged a glance, then gathered Chakra at the same time and activated the Sharingan they had only recently learned to use.

The next second—

"Hahahaha!" Uchiha Tajima's laughter echoed through the entire clinic.

Uchiha Madara had awakened his eyes at ten, while Izuna was even more impressive—he had only just turned seven.

What did that mean?

Izuna had equaled the record Kyosuke had set.

He, Uchiha Tajima, had fathered two children with boundless potential.

He'd heard that Senju Butsuma bragged about his two sons to everyone he met. When they faced each other on the battlefield someday, Tajima would make sure Butsuma knew which of them was the better father.

"The Uchiha—no, my bloodline is far superior to anyone else's!"

Watching his father laugh like a madman, Madara sighed helplessly and shot his brother a look.

Stop him before he embarrasses himself any further.

Izuna understood what his brother was telling him.

"Um, Father." Carefully interrupting him, Izuna swallowed and said softly, "It seems Kyosuke has already awakened the Two Tomoe Sharingan."

In the clinic, Tajima's wild laughter abruptly stopped.

"Mm, an unfamiliar ceiling..." Kyosuke finally woke from his coma.

The strong smell of medicinal herbs in the room made him sneeze, which set off a wave of indescribable soreness.

"Holy crap, does it have to be this bad?" Little Kyosuke nearly cried. He even found himself breathing more slowly.

It felt like sitting on a toilet for two hours, then standing up all at once.

That ache—you had to experience it to understand.

Perhaps they'd heard him cursing, because a group of medical ninja soon came into the room.

"Don't worry. Your recovery is going very well." The white-haired old man smiled warmly at him. "Get some rest, our little hero."

Kyosuke had unquestionably earned the most credit in this battle. No one could erase what he had done.

After going over a few things he needed to keep in mind, the group soon dispersed. With nothing else to do, he opened the system panel and checked what he'd gained earlier.

[System Prompt: Defeated a Nara Clan jonin. Earned 3,600 points.]

He had earned a substantial reward for defeating the enemy.

The points he'd spent on upgrading his ninjutsu had now climbed back to 4,000.

That meant he'd gotten a free level-two Shisui Style Body Flicker Technique.

Of course, speed alone wouldn't have been enough to dodge a jonin's desperate killing blow.

He'd survived because, at the most critical moment, his Sharingan had finally evolved.

It had taken him a year to go from first awakening his eyes to reaching the Two Tomoe stage. Compared with the Uchiha of this era, he was an unparalleled genius, one in ten thousand.

But in a later era, that achievement was only so-so.

In the original story, Sasuke finally learned how to use the Sharingan during the Land of Waves mission.

After completing the mission and returning to Konoha, Team 7 took part in the Chunin Ninja Exams. When they faced Orochimaru in the Forest of Death, Sasuke evolved straight to the Two Tomoe stage.

How many days had passed in between?

Then came the Sound ninja invasion, Sasuke's defection, and his furious awakening of the Three Tomoe at the Valley of the End.

He'd made an unprecedented triple leap in less than half a year.

If that had happened in this era, it would have scared the wits out of a great many clan members.

Kyosuke had taken a whole year to advance. By comparison, he was absurdly weak.

"Indra Chakra really is useful."

Thinking of Indra made him unable to help thinking of another being: Black Zetsu.

Kyosuke was sure that Black Zetsu had started keeping an eye on him.

Awakening the Sharingan at seven—how could that not look like he was the reincarnation of Indra's Chakra?

If Kyosuke didn't know the story, he would have had the same suspicion.

But now that Madara had awakened his eyes, the Otsutsuki genes inside him had begun to gradually awaken.

Even Black Zetsu couldn't be so stupid as to keep watching the wrong target.

With the old schemer's watchful gaze off him, Kyosuke felt light as a feather. His next concern was getting sent to the front lines.

No matter what Tajima thought now, once he learned Kyosuke had awakened the Two Tomoe Sharingan, he would inevitably grow deeply wary of him.

If he couldn't target Kyosuke openly, he could simply send him far away.

In a few years, Uchiha Madara would have built up an unshakable reputation. By then, no one would care whether Kyosuke was allowed to return.

Another ambitious man would naturally hate being exiled in this roundabout way.

But Kyosuke would be more than happy to get as far from the main battlefield as possible.

The three southern clans were certainly strong, and Ino-Shika-Cho worked together with unmatched skill. Still, all of them combined couldn't measure up to even half of the Senju of the Forest.

If he had to go there, he'd at least wait until he was strong enough to be a jonin.

As for the Southern Legion, that was the training ground he had in mind.

As he thought about it, sleepiness washed over Kyosuke. He forced himself to shift despite the soreness, then quickly sank into a deep sleep.

Meanwhile, the Uchiha were being discussed across most of the Shinobi World.

As a famous clan from the Warring States period, the Uchiha had always been the focus of attention.

As the saying went, your enemies knew you best.

Many people understood what it meant for someone to awaken the Sharingan at seven. And on top of that, three such geniuses had suddenly appeared.

With a mysterious force driving events, the name "Uchiha Three Geniuses" spread far and wide.

As their fame grew, so did the bounties on their heads at the underground exchange.

Countless hunters rubbed their hands together, eager to hunt down those few young brats.

Talent that couldn't be put to use could be a terrible disaster in its own right.

The one pulling the strings clearly wanted to use outside forces to eliminate the Uchiha's promising younger generation.

At the same time, this gave Tajima the perfect opportunity to make his move.

Half a month later, Kyosuke had recovered from his serious illness. He hadn't even had a few days to enjoy himself before he received orders to report to the Southern Legion.

Position: Unit Captain.

He could command a ninja squad of up to thirty people.

It wasn't exactly a meteoric rise, but at least he now had real authority.

If he trained them well, he could gain a group of loyal subordinates.

That is, if anyone was willing to serve under an eight-year-old kid.