Chapter Summaries

Uchiha Gen rewarded the clan with generous year-end dividends, strengthening his standing as acting clan head. The next morning, he overslept and kept Madara and Izuna waiting before offering to cook for them.

• Uchiha Gen awarded fivefold dividends to selected clan members and doubled dividends for everyone else.
• Madara and Izuna waited at the Training Ground to test Uchiha Gen’s abilities, while Madara warned Izuna not to underestimate Tobirama.
• Uchiha Haru woke Uchiha Gen and reminded him that Madara and Izuna were waiting.
• Uchiha Gen hurried to the living room, apologized, and offered to prepare a feast for his brothers.
• Izuna praised Uchiha Gen’s cooking and revealed that he had assumed Madara had already tried it.

Uchiha Gen impressed Madara and Izuna with his cooking, then sparred with Izuna at the training ground. After Gen was overwhelmed in close combat, he used a marked shuriken to appear behind Izuna and win the match.

• Uchiha Gen served Madara and Izuna a lavish meal, and Madara gave him the first bowl of chicken soup.
• Madara supervised a spar between Uchiha Gen and Izuna, who agreed not to use their Mangekyō Sharingan.
• Uchiha Gen overwhelmed Izuna with powerful seal-less Fire Release techniques until they nearly exhausted their Chakra.
• Izuna gained the advantage in close combat and battered Gen, who responded by throwing three shuriken marked with his Chakra.
• Uchiha Gen used the marked shuriken to appear behind Izuna and held a kunai at his neck, declaring that Izuna had lost.

Uchiha Gen taught Madara and Izuna how to develop the Substitution Technique into a marked teleportation ninjutsu, then faced Madara in another sparring match. Madara was fooled by Gen’s clones, but Gen remained outmatched in taijutsu as the fight continued.

• Gen explained the principles behind his modified Substitution Technique, and Izuna asked him to demonstrate it again.
• Madara imprinted a mark on a kunai and switched places with it, while Izuna succeeded after Gen explained how to apply Chakra.
• At home, Haru wondered aloud to the Black Cat about Gen’s future wife and where she would live if she left his household.
• Gen and Madara began another sparring match under the same restrictions, and Gen used the Clone Technique to attack him.
• Madara realized Gen had hidden his real body among the clones, but he continued overpowering Gen’s clones with taijutsu.

Uchiha Gen sparred with Madara, demonstrating his advanced ninjutsu and clever use of clones and substitution before Madara called off the match. Gen then began explaining his experiments with an enhanced Clone Technique to Madara and Izuna.

• Uchiha Gen accelerated his clone attacks, but Madara destroyed the clones with Fire Release: Overblaze Wind.
• Gen used his Breathing Technique and Earth Release against Madara, who escaped the traps and answered with Fire Release: Fire Flow Arrow.
• Gen closed the distance with stones and used the Substitution Technique to keep pace with Madara’s Super Strength.
• Gen surprised Madara with a Rasengan, and Madara praised its power before ending the spar.
• Gen explained how extra Chakra and Yin-nature Chakra let him sense through his clones, while privately recognizing the technique as a form of Shadow Clone Technique.

Uchiha Gen demonstrated powerful ninjutsu to Madara and Izuna, then pondered how to develop his strength further. His search for inspiration led him to discover Madara and Hashirama secretly discussing their plans for peace and unification.

• Uchiha Gen demonstrated the Rasengan and Big Ball Rasengan, impressing Madara and Izuna with their destructive power.
• Uchiha Gen described the Rasengan’s potential advanced forms and outlined ways the Summoning Technique could be developed into Flying Thunder God techniques.
• Uchiha Gen wandered through the snow, weighing different martial arts and considering Ice Release as another path for developing his abilities.
• Uchiha Gen found Madara and Hashirama drinking together on a frozen river and discussing their plans to unite the ninja clans under one regime.
• Uchiha Gen surprised Madara and Hashirama, then jokingly asked what conspiracy they were plotting.

Uchiha Gen confronted Hashirama over access to Uzumaki sealing scrolls, then warned Madara that their plan to unite the clans would force them to settle who would lead. After the New Year, Gen expanded the Uchiha Clan’s mission and production operations and approved the creation of medical shinobi.

• Uchiha Gen told Hashirama and Madara that unification could bring power without guaranteeing peace, and Hashirama invited him to keep the sealing arts scrolls favor in mind.
• Uchiha Gen threatened to expose Hashirama and Madara’s alliance unless Hashirama obtained basic Uzumaki sealing scrolls, and the two clashed with their chakra before Madara ended the confrontation by offering a favor.
• Uchiha Gen told Madara that the favor should belong to the Uzumaki Clan and warned him that the Senju and Uchiha would eventually have to choose a leader.
• After the New Year, Uchiha Gen introduced a mission rank system and ordered the Uchiha to expand their weapons workshops and stockpile medicinal herbs.
• Uchiha Gen signed a proposal to establish medical shinobi as part of the combat forces.

Uchiha Gen expanded the Uchiha Clan’s influence, mastered Sealing Arts, and developed the Flying Thunder God while trying to avert the clan’s future disasters. At Madara’s birthday banquet, Madara began wondering whether Gen had a woman in his life and considered intervening in his marriage.

• Uchiha Gen ordered Little Kuro to tell his agents to seize the Land of Fire market and prepare overseas exports.
• Madara planned to attack several small clans, but Uchiha Gen urged him to target the Hyuga Clan and then fight the Senju; Madara refused.
• Uchiha Gen speculated about how the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan worked and planned to disrupt history by promoting Hashirama as the God of Shinobi and founding Konoha early.
• Over the following years, Uchiha Gen founded the Uchiha Academy, mastered Sealing Arts, developed the Flying Thunder God, and established an underground Bounty Station as the clan grew to more than five thousand registered ninja.
• At Madara’s birthday banquet, Madara asked whether Uchiha Gen wanted to marry, and Gen said he preferred ninjutsu; Madara began suspecting Gen had a woman in his life.

On his twenty-fourth birthday, Uchiha Gen cared for the ill Uchiha Haru and began training her as his subordinate. He then launched a secret project to build a vast underground base, leaving its construction underway near the Land of Fire’s border with the Land of Wind.

• Izuna brought liquor from Uchiha Gen’s house to celebrate Madara’s birthday, and Uchiha Gen returned home with food for Haru and Little Kuro.
• Uchiha Gen examined Haru, discovered that an old internal injury was causing her organs to fail, and assured her that he could save her.
• Uchiha Gen asked Haru to become his subordinate, then began teaching her his Breathing Technique and guided her through her slow progress.
• Uchiha Gen considered pursuing human experimentation and ordered agents to mobilize resources for a secret project.
• Uchiha Gen created a Shadow Clone, left the Clan Land, and visited an underground valley where workers were building a base spanning more than five thousand square meters.

Uchiha Gen visited Skyfeather Heavy Industries to inspect a laboratory, but discovered a scale error had turned its planned compact facility into a 5,000-square-meter complex. He ordered the oversized site converted into a trading market and instructed Uchiha Yimu to build a smaller laboratory nearby.

• Uchiha Gen arrived at Skyfeather Heavy Industries' city branch and slipped past an employee who mistook him for an intruder.
• Uchiha Yimu met Uchiha Gen on the rooftop, where Gen predicted peace in the Land of Fire and called for the next Five-Year Plan to begin quickly.
• Uchiha Gen examined the laboratory blueprint and realized Little Kuro's paw-marked scale notation had caused the design to be built fifty times larger than intended.
• Uchiha Gen ordered the nearly completed 5,000-square-meter facility turned into a trading market near the Land of Wind.
• Uchiha Gen instructed Uchiha Yimu to build a correctly scaled laboratory nearby, and Yimu promised to finish it within a month.

Uchiha Gen saw the misery and lawlessness ordinary people endured in the Land of Fire, then discovered a slave market trafficking people with Chakra. He bought five captive box occupants and carried them away, while several people followed him.

• Uchiha Gen walked through impoverished towns and saw ruined homes, grieving women, and roadside violence.
• Uchiha Gen found a crowded slave market where a trader sold people hidden in boxes as rare merchandise.
• Uchiha Gen sensed Chakra signatures among the trader, the buyers, and the captives, and recognized one captive as a member of the Moonlit Clan.
• Uchiha Gen paid the trader for all five remaining boxes and outbid a powdered man who wanted to compete.
• Uchiha Gen lifted the boxes onto his shoulder and left as onlookers recognized him as a ninja and several people followed.

Uchiha Gen brought five unconscious captives to his home and began interrogating the red-haired Uzumaki clansman. He left the man unconscious again after frightening him with scissors, while Haru resolved to keep training despite her declining abilities.

• Uchiha Gen opened the five crates, identified captives from the Yuki and Uzumaki Clans, and speculated about the others.
• Uchiha Gen defeated the men who followed him, gathered the captives into one crate, and returned to the Uchiha Clan Grounds.
• Uchiha Gen chained the five captives in his basement and told Haru that he would leave a Shadow Clone to guide her training.
• Haru worried that she was no longer useful to Uchiha Gen, then decided to practice the Breathing Technique despite his warning.
• Uchiha Gen woke the red-haired Uzumaki clansman and demanded information, but the man refused to cooperate.
• Uchiha Gen threatened the Uzumaki clansman with scissors, and the terrified captive fainted.

Uchiha Gen questioned five captives from different ninja clans, fed them, and ordered Uchiha Setsuna to arrange their lodging and investigate their capture. He then went to find his two older brothers after learning that someone had delivered a letter to Madara.

• Uchiha Gen interrogated Uzumaki Shibaki and Yuki Kiyoshi, then questioned Tenbin Heiyan, Hoshigaki Kuroto, and Sabaku Meigetsu.
• Uchiha Gen told the five captives they were at the Uchiha Clan Grounds in the Land of Fire and warned them they could not leave.
• Uchiha Gen gave the captives clothes and noodles, then brought Yuki Kiyoshi and Sabaku Meigetsu upstairs first.
• Uchiha Gen ordered Uchiha Setsuna to house and guard the five captives and send capable men to investigate them.
• Uchiha Gen searched for his two older brothers and found them training at the waterfall after learning someone had delivered a letter to Madara.

Uchiha Gen learned that Konoha’s founding was only about five years away and hurried to prepare for the coming changes. He entered the Land of Wind to collect chakra from the Tailed Beasts and found Shukaku, who woke and confronted him.

• Madara questioned Gen about the plan to create a new era, and Gen said he would support it while it benefited the Uchiha Clan.
• Gen delivered the Sarutobi Clan head’s invitation to Madara and realized Hiruzen Sarutobi’s birth meant Konoha would be founded in about five years.
• Gen ordered Kuro to have the tool man notify him when the laboratory was ready, then left carrying a sealing scroll intended for Izuna’s body.
• Gen crossed into the Land of Wind after three days of travel, intending to collect chakra from every Tailed Beast.
• Gen found the sleeping Shukaku in the desert, but Shukaku sensed him and demanded to know why he had entered its territory.

Uchiha Gen stole Chakra from Shukaku and later found the Nine-Tails in a cave, where he endured its attack and used his Mangekyō Sharingan to take a sample of its Chakra. He escaped with the sealed fox fur while the Nine-Tails remained immobilized.

• Uchiha Gen used his Mangekyō Sharingan to incapacitate Shukaku, sealed a small amount of its Chakra in a scroll, and fled.
• Uchiha Gen's Shadow Clone Technique told Madara that Gen had left on important business and explained why the Uchiha did not need other shinobi clans' support.
• A month later, Uchiha Gen followed the Nine-Tails' Chakra scent to a cave near the Land of Lightning.
• The Nine-Tails emerged from the cave and attacked Uchiha Gen with a Tailed Beast Bomb, but he dodged and counterattacked with three jutsu.
• Uchiha Gen used Mangekyō Sharingan illusions to immobilize the Nine-Tails, sealed away a clump of its fur, and fled.

Uchiha Gen brought five recovered captives to his hidden laboratory and began preparing for his experiments. Meanwhile, Madara and Izuna discussed a summons from the Land of Fire’s Daimyo, and Madara decided Izuna could not accompany him.

• Uchiha Gen released his Mangekyō Sharingan’s control of the Nine-Tails after reaching a safe distance, then returned to the Uchiha Clan with a scroll.
• Uchiha Gen showed the five-person group the busy underground market before taking them to his concealed laboratory and ordering them to stay there and call him Lord Yuan.
• Uchiha Gen inspected the expensive laboratory, set its calendar to the current date, and reflected on the experiments he planned to conduct.
• Madara and Izuna ate together and discussed Izuna’s progress training in Lightning Release Chakra Mode.
• Madara told Izuna that the Daimyo had requested a meeting with the Uchiha Clan and that Gen had suggested he might need to go.
• Izuna offered to accompany Madara, but Madara told him he had to stay home.

Uchiha Gen struggled to combine Water and Wind Chakra until he suspected that Kekkei Genkai depended on inherited genes, then began examining cells and chromosomes. After a week of experiments, he emerged from the laboratory looking bloodshot and exhilarated, while the five subjects had grown comfortable waiting together.

• Uchiha Gen examined Yuki Kiyoshi and learned that the Yuki Clan sold members who lacked Ice Release and talent for ninjutsu.
• Uchiha Gen failed to fuse Water and Wind Chakra and theorized that Kekkei Genkai were tied to genes passed through bloodlines.
• Uchiha Gen used microscopes to examine cells and chromosomes, working for a week without eating or sleeping properly.
• Uzumaki Shibaki suggested that the five subjects escape and search the laboratory, but the others ignored him and talked about food instead.
• Uchiha Gen emerged from the laboratory with bloodshot eyes and a deranged smile.

Uchiha Gen anesthetized Uzumaki Shibaki to study the Uzumaki constitution and discovered Shibaki had awakened the Mind’s Eye of the Kagura. Meanwhile, Hashirama learned that Tobirama might be plotting against the Uchiha, while Madara’s failed meeting with the Daimyo set an unseen political storm in motion.

• Uchiha Gen sent everyone else to gather ingredients and had Uzumaki Shibaki lie down for an examination of his bloodline.
• Hashirama worried that Tobirama was planning something against the Uchiha, and Uzumaki Mito suggested that nearby clans could help counter them.
• Uzumaki Mito recalled that Uchiha Madara had met with the Daimyo, giving Hashirama a possible reason for Tobirama’s plans.
• Uchiha Madara rejected the Daimyo’s proposal that the Uchiha serve directly under him and left after frightening him with his battlefield aura.
• Uchiha Gen discovered that the unconscious Uzumaki Shibaki had recently awakened the Mind’s Eye of the Kagura.

Uchiha Gen returned to the Uchiha Clan Land after six months of experiments and discovered that Uzumaki and Yuki bloodlines had changed his vitality and appearance. He reunited with Madara and Izuna, explained his activities, and claimed he had learned the Yuki Clan’s Ice Release.

• Uchiha Gen gave his five bloodline donors a month off and returned to the Clan Land, where his Shadow Clone’s memories revealed that the Uzumaki and Yuki genes had begun to fuse.
• Uchiha Gen reviewed clan affairs and noted the birth of Kagami Uchiha and the Land of Fire Daimyo’s summons to Madara.
• Uchiha Gen visited Madara and Izuna, who were surprised by his smooth skin, feminine appearance, and changed voice.
• Uchiha Gen told Madara and Izuna that he had studied in a remote valley, developed Uzumaki sealing arts, and gathered secret techniques in the Land of Water.
• Uchiha Gen explained that the Yuki Clan’s bloodline had changed his appearance and said he had learned Ice Release, astonishing Madara and Izuna.

Uchiha Gen revealed to Madara and Izuna that he could learn bloodline abilities, then prepared for the clan meeting in a new outfit made by Haru. As Gen led the meeting, Haru secretly faced a dwindling lifespan and chose not to burden him with the news.

• Uchiha Gen demonstrated that he could create ice, and Madara warned him to keep the ability secret while asking what samples he needed to learn other bloodlines.
• Uchiha Gen returned home, praised Haru's new outfit bearing the Uchiha fan crest, and decided to wear it to the clan meeting.
• Haru rejected Gen's offer to move into clerical work and avoided letting him examine her, while Little Kuro urged her to tell him about her condition.
• Haru reflected that her hidden injuries and years of strain left her with at most three years to live, but she resolved not to become a burden to Gen.
• Uchiha Gen promised the clan new benefits once its population reached ten thousand, and the gathered Uchiha cheered him.

Uchiha Gen returned to the laboratory, extracted more genes, and developed a working Yin Seal, though filling it would take years. Meanwhile, the Senju moved against the contested mining area, prompting Madara and Izuna to prepare to confront them while Gen’s Shadow Clone tried to summon the original back.

• Uchiha Gen asked the Ninja Cats to deliver batches of a hundred death-row prisoners and then began another round of gene extraction with five test subjects.
• Uchiha Gen deduced the Yin Seal’s internal Chakra circuit and formed a red mark on his forehead, but estimated it would take three years to fill.
• Hoshigaki Kuroto told Uchiha Gen that a merchant with a group of bound people was waiting outside the laboratory.
• Uchiha Gen’s Shadow Clone learned that the Senju had taken the gold mine and confirmed that the Uchiha had retreated with few injuries.
• Uchiha Gen informed Madara and Izuna, and they decided to head to the mining area with half the clan while ordering the original Gen to return.