Chapter Summaries

Uchiha Gen's shadow clone sounded the alarm as Madara led the Uchiha into a Senju ambush at the mine, while another enemy force attacked the Uchiha Clan Grounds. Madara and Hashirama began a devastating battle with their giant techniques as the fighting spread.

• Uchiha Gen's shadow clone noticed the Clan Grounds were unnaturally quiet, raised a level-one alert, and sent squads to investigate.
• Madara led roughly two thousand Uchiha to the mineral vein and found it emptied before four energy stone pillars trapped them in a barrier.
• Hashirama Senju and Tobirama revealed an ambush backed by the Sarutobi, Shimura, and Hyuga Clans, and Hashirama ordered the attack.
• A force from Ino–Shika–Cho confronted Uchiha Gen's shadow clone near the Clan Grounds, and the two sides clashed.
• Madara and Hashirama summoned Susanoo and the Wood Human, then escalated their fight with powerful Wood Release techniques.

Tobirama and Izuna fought while Wood Release transformed the battlefield, and Uchiha Gen’s Shadow Clone struggled against the clans attacking from several directions. Little Kuro summoned Gen to the Uchiha home, where he found Haru dead and froze the Fūma attacker before sealing her body away.

• Tobirama used Wood Release to raise trees across the battlefield, then fought Izuna, who attacked with Susanoo and learned that other clans were striking the Uchiha home.
• Uchiha Gen’s Shadow Clone fought more than a thousand enemy ninja, summoned Little Kuro, and learned that attackers had appeared at the rear mountain.
• A Fūma ninja broke into Gen’s home and fought Haru while Little Kuro completed a summoning technique.
• Little Kuro summoned Uchiha Gen from his laboratory, and he arrived to find Haru dead and the house wrecked.
• Uchiha Gen caught the Fūma ninja’s blade, froze him into an ice sculpture, sealed Haru’s body in his scroll, and carried the exhausted Little Kuro.

Uchiha Gen used his Mangekyō Sharingan and a rain-based sensory technique to turn the attack on the Uchiha Clan Land around, then joined the wider battle against the clans besieging his people. He reached Izuna’s fight with Tobirama and nearly killed Tobirama with a Storm Rasengan, but someone rescued him.

• Uchiha Gen released his Yin Seal and summoned torrential rain, using it to locate and kill enemy shinobi across the Clan Land.
• Uchiha Gen rallied the Uchiha clansmen, who cleared the Clan Land of 596 unidentified attackers from multiple shinobi clans.
• Uchiha Gen’s Shadow Clone fought enemy forces while the original body charged into nearby battlefields and learned that the Yamanaka, Nara, Akimichi, and Uzumaki clans were involved.
• Uchiha Gen broke through the Four Red Yang Formation and ordered his forces to avoid the central battlefield before rushing to help Izuna.
• Uchiha Gen struck Tobirama with a Storm Rasengan that blasted a huge crater into the battlefield, but Tobirama was rescued before the attack could kill him.

After the Uchiha defeated the Land of Fire ninja coalition, Uchiha Gen helped mourn the dead and manage the clan’s heavy losses. A report about Uchiha Kaminari’s newly awakened Sharingan dōjutsu and the deaths of two clansmen ended with Madara calling for Kaminari’s execution under clan law.

• Uchiha Gen and Izuna joined the battle, helping the Uchiha defeat the Land of Fire ninja coalition in less than ten minutes.
• Uchiha Gen, Madara, and Izuna returned to the clan grounds, where Gen said Haru had died and joined the clansmen in cleaning up the battlefield.
• Uchiha Gen led the mourning ceremony and heard that 2,333 of the 4,556 Uchiha who fought had been killed, with the clan also suffering heavy economic losses.
• Uchiha Gen arranged compensation and restoration efforts, then discussed the clan’s losses and the prospects for peace with Madara and Izuna.
• A clansman reported that Uchiha Kaminari had awakened a new Sharingan dōjutsu and killed Uchiha Naka and Uchiha Baru during an internal conflict, while Uchiha Chiri had used the dōjutsu to stop him.
• Madara declared that Kaminari should be executed under clan law for killing his companions.

Uchiha Gen learned that Uchiha Chiri had likely awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan and secured two dangerous eye techniques, then returned home grieving Haru and considered leaving the clan. Madara and Hashirama secretly discussed peace, while Madara realized Gen was the fighter who had defeated Tobirama.

• Uchiha Gen suspected that Uchiha Chiri had awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan and had her and Uchiha Kaminari detained while he assessed their new techniques.
• Uchiha Gen, Madara, and Izuna examined the Izanagi and Izanami scrolls, decided to seal them away, and buried them beneath the ancestral monument at Naka Shrine.
• Uchiha Gen returned home with Little Kuro, mourned Haru, and threatened to train the reluctant cat while considering leaving and plotting against Tobirama and Black Zetsu.
• Madara and Hashirama met in secret and discussed the Daimyo's demand, Tobirama's conflict with the Uchiha, and the possibility of uniting their clans.
• Hashirama told Madara that an unknown fighter had defeated Tobirama in one strike, and Madara identified the fighter as Uchiha Gen.
• The Land of Fire's clans remained unusually peaceful after the war left them severely weakened.

Uchiha Gen left the clan to resume his experiments, bringing Hashirama Senju’s blood and genetic samples from the Land of Fire’s clans. While Tobirama searched for answers about his rescue, Madara prepared the Uchiha to strike the Senju by year’s end.

• Uchiha Chiri thanked Uchiha Gen, who offered her the head of the medical department and told her he would not pry into her Mangekyō Sharingan ability.
• Madara gave Uchiha Gen fresh Hashirama Senju blood as Uchiha Gen departed to continue his work.
• Uchiha Gen returned to his laboratory, stunned the card players with a strange gambling dance, and began preparing to fuse new genes.
• Tobirama wondered who had moved him after he passed out on the battlefield and why that person had saved him.
• Madara ordered Hikaku to make the Senju the Uchiha’s first target by the end of the year.

As the Uchiha and Senju prepared for war, Uchiha Gen remained at the clan grounds while Madara led the Uchiha army into a head-on battle against Hashirama. The fight began with devastating losses on both sides, and Hashirama unleashed the World of Trees Advent to slow the Senju’s casualties.

• Uchiha Gen continued injecting himself with gene serum while his proxies expanded their businesses and secretly gathered abandoned clan members and children.
• As the year’s end approached, the Uchiha openly mobilized for war, and Hashirama told Tobirama that peace was close without explaining why.
• Madara led most of the Uchiha forces to the battlefield, leaving Uchiha Gen to guard the clan grounds.
• The Uchiha and Senju armies collided on an open plain, and casualties on both sides exceeded half their forces in less than twenty minutes.
• Madara and Hashirama met in battle and unleashed Susanoo and the Wood Human Technique.
• Hashirama saw Senju clansmen falling and used the World of Trees Advent to stem their losses.

Hashirama and Madara’s battle ended without a victor, while Tobirama wounded Izuna before Madara carried him away. Back at the Uchiha Clan Grounds, Uchiha Gen learned that the Young Clan Head had been injured.

• Hashirama and Madara fought amid the forest, while Izuna and Tobirama clashed separately.
• Tobirama struck Izuna with Flying Thunder God Slash, but Madara stopped him from delivering a finishing blow and left with Izuna.
• Hashirama told Tobirama that Madara had agreed to an alliance, and the two clans collected their dead without claiming victory.
• Uchiha Gen and Little Kuro watched the children train and argued over Kagami Uchiha and Uchiha Seventh Generation.
• A clansman rushed to Uchiha Gen and reported that the Young Clan Head had been injured.

Uchiha Gen failed to save Izuna from his mortal wounds, and Izuna died after warning his brothers about Tobirama and entrusting his eyes to Madara. Madara replaced his failing eyes with Izuna’s and awakened the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan, while Gen held out hope that Izuna might someday be revived.

• Uchiha Gen examined Izuna’s catastrophic injuries and concluded that current medical technology could not save him.
• Izuna briefly regained consciousness, warned Uchiha Gen that Tobirama had mastered the Flying Thunder God, and told Madara to take his eyes.
• Uchiha Gen asked Izuna whether he would accept being revived decades later, and Izuna agreed before dying.
• Madara removed his failing eyes and replaced them with Izuna’s, allowing Uchiha Gen to preserve Izuna’s body.
• Madara awakened the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan and discovered that his vision had returned and his eye power was recovering on its own.

After gaining self-repairing eyes at the cost of Izuna's life, Uchiha Gen vowed to avenge him by challenging Tobirama Senju to a duel in one week. He left Madara and Hashirama with a promise that the duel would not affect their clans' union, confident in his strength.

• Madara discovered that Izuna's removed Mangekyō Sharingan had become ordinary, nearly blind eyes, and Uchiha Gen speculated that this was part of awakening the Eternal Eye.
• Uchiha Gen told Madara he would lead a team into battle in a week and fight Tobirama to the death, while Madara agreed to inform Hashirama.
• Uchiha Gen dined with Little Kuro, then left the Uchiha Clan Land to meet Madara and Hashirama.
• Uchiha Gen challenged Hashirama's vision of peace and declared that his duel with Tobirama would not affect the clans' union.
• Uchiha Gen departed, judging that his strength now rivaled Hashirama's and that he could kill Tobirama within five exchanges.

Uchiha Gen challenged Senju Tobirama to a duel, claiming that victory would end the Uchiha and Senju clans’ grudges. The fight began with Gen using the Eight Gates to overwhelm Tobirama, leaving Tobirama under a barrage of powerful blows.

• Uchiha Gen decided to wait several more months before fusing Izuna's genes and planned to postpone using Hashirama's cells for years.
• Uchiha Gen and Madara discussed the duel and its consequences before Gen led over two thousand Uchiha, including many children, to the battlefield.
• Uchiha Gen declared that he represented the entire Uchiha Clan and challenged Senju Tobirama, promising to wipe away both clans’ grudges regardless of the duel’s outcome.
• Senju Tobirama accepted, and he and Uchiha Gen clashed with their swords before Gen forced him back with superior strength.
• Uchiha Gen opened seven gates, blasted Tobirama’s Shadow Clones apart, and pummeled Tobirama with punches that left him spitting blood.

Uchiha Gen defeated Senju Tobirama until Hashirama intervened and the Senju conceded, leading to the Uchiha-Senju alliance and plans to establish a village. The village was named Konoha, and Uchiha Gen and Tobirama began arguing over how to allocate its land.

• Uchiha Gen overwhelmed Tobirama with her Five Release Rasengan and later pinned him down with the Super-Weighted Rock Technique after he opened the Eight Gates.
• Hashirama blocked Uchiha Gen's sword from killing Tobirama and declared that the Senju conceded.
• Hashirama announced the Senju-Uchiha reconciliation and invited the Land of Fire's ninja clans to join their new force.
• Hashirama proposed building a village at the place where he and Madara had met, and named it Konoha.
• Hashirama assigned Tobirama and Uchiha Gen to plan the village, and Uchiha Gen demanded plots for the Uchiha in both the center and outskirts.

Uchiha Gen and the other founders established Konoha, while Hashirama used Wood Release to build the village’s framework. As ninja clans settled in, Gen planned an independent Uchiha academy and prepared to fuse Izuna’s genes.

• Uchiha Gen explained the Uchiha Clan’s need for its own facilities, and Hashirama proposed building a centralized school for Konoha.
• Hashirama used Wood Release to construct Konoha’s framework as the surrounding ninja clans watched.
• Uchiha Gen settled the Uchiha Clan in the village, sent Madara back to oversee the shrine, and began planning land for an Uchiha academy.
• Uchiha Gen encountered the arriving Hatake Clan and startled young Sakumo’s father, who warned the boy to avoid the White-Clad Grim Reaper.
• A week later, most ninja clans in the Land of Fire had arrived, and Uchiha Gen decided it was time to fuse Izuna’s genes.

Uchiha Gen disrupted Konoha’s meeting to choose its first leader, but Madara later admitted that the political infighting made him question whether this was the peace he had wanted. Madara rejected becoming village chief, while Gen promised to seek benefits for the Uchiha and asked what kind of peace his brother envisioned.

• Hashirama called a meeting to decide who would lead Konoha, and Uchiha Gen took his seat among the gathered clan heads.
• Gen proposed Uchiha Madara as the first leader, but Senju Tobirama objected and demanded an anonymous vote.
• Gen and Tobirama argued, and the meeting ended without choosing a leader after a day of contention.
• Madara visited Gen at night and said watching him argue had made him uncomfortable.
• Madara said he did not want to become village chief, and Gen said he would stop blocking the Senju and work to secure benefits for the Uchiha Clan.
• Madara told Gen that this kind of peace was not what he wanted, and Gen asked what he had in mind.

Uchiha Gen secured Root for the Uchiha and helped establish Konoha’s Hokage Advisor positions, then left to pursue his own power. After returning to Konoha for a clan meeting about handing over Uchiha ninjutsu, he moved to replace the clan head’s exclusive authority with an elected council of elders.

• Uchiha Gen rejected control of the Military Police Force and persuaded Tobirama to give Root to the Uchiha Clan.
• Hashirama created Hokage Advisor positions to handle Konoha’s administration, but Uchiha Gen ignored his appointment.
• After establishing Root’s framework, Uchiha Gen left Konoha to train and found that Izuna’s genes were increasing and restoring his ocular power.
• Uchiha elders summoned Uchiha Gen to discuss Hashirama’s demand for Uchiha ninjutsu, and he refused to hand over an S-rank technique.
• Uchiha Gen announced that the clan would replace the clan head’s exclusive authority with a council of ten elected elders.

Uchiha Gen wandered Konoha, bought an overpriced flower bouquet from the Flowers of the Yamanaka Clan, and advised Hashirama on delegating Hokage work. He then challenged the ninjutsu contribution quota, but Hashirama showed him the Senju Clan’s extensive list.

• Uchiha Gen visited Hashirama, found Uzumaki Mito there, and left to return later.
• Uchiha Gen explored Konoha’s shops and bought a bouquet from a young woman at the Flowers of the Yamanaka Clan for 1,500 ryo.
• Uchiha Gen advised Hashirama to have the Hokage Advisors sort administrative matters before sending useful ones to him.
• Uchiha Gen questioned the demand for one hundred D-rank ninjutsu from the Uchiha Clan.
• Hashirama showed Uchiha Gen the Senju Clan’s thick ninjutsu document, leaving him stunned.

Uchiha Gen handed over ninjutsu to Hashirama, helped establish a new Uchiha elder system, and left Konoha for his laboratory as the village marked Konoha Year One. There, he prepared New Year dumplings with his experimental subjects.

• Uchiha Gen agreed to provide the Uchiha Clan's promised ninjutsu, but planned to substitute the S-rank techniques with sealing arts.
• A month later, Uchiha Gen announced the first Uchiha elders and said their positions would rotate every three years.
• Uchiha Gen relinquished his leadership role, while Uchiha Madara reflected alone in the spiritual tombs beneath Naka Shrine.
• Konoha celebrated the New Year and designated the year as Konoha Year One.
• Uchiha Gen assigned Heiyan, Kuroto, Kiyoshi, and Meigetsu to prepare dumplings, then told Uzumaki Shibaki to play with Little Kuro.

Uchiha Gen set out to gather materials and train his companions while continuing to seek a safer way to use Hashirama Cells. Meanwhile, Madara left Konoha after Hashirama rejected his plan to unify the Shinobi World, but his former Uchiha followers refused to join him, leaving him to depart alone.

• Uchiha Gen judged that Hashirama Cells were still too dangerous to inject, sealed his laboratory, and set out with Uzumaki Shibaki and four others to gather materials and train them.
• Uchiha Gen removed the Chakra blockages from his companions and began their journey, planning to visit several lands before returning through Rōran.
• Madara urged Hashirama to unify the Shinobi World, but Hashirama rejected the plan because it would cause widespread suffering among civilians.
• Madara decided to leave Konoha and recruit his former followers, but Hikaku and the other Uchiha refused to take up arms again.
• Madara accepted that the Uchiha would remain in the village and departed alone as the clan and its former leader went their separate ways.

Madara fought Mu and Ōnoki on their way to Konoha, causing Iwagakure’s first diplomatic mission to fail. A month later, Uchiha Gen’s group was still struggling along a shortcut that he had chosen.

• Madara challenged Mu to a fight and overwhelmed him with his powerful Fire Release and Susanoo.
• Mu used Dust Release: Particle Style: Atomic Dismantling Jutsu, but Madara deflected it with his war fan and revealed Uchiha—Reflection.
• Mu explained that he and Ōnoki came from Iwagakure on a diplomatic mission, and Madara ordered them to leave.
• Ōnoki suffered a lasting lower-back injury as Mu carried him away, and Iwagakure’s first diplomatic mission failed before reaching Konoha.
• A month later, Uchiha Gen led Uzumaki Shibaki and four others along a rugged, unmapped shortcut, then decided they should camp.

Uchiha Gen traveled toward the Land of Hot Water with his companions, while a Shadow Clone discussed Root and Madara with Hashirama in Konoha. Hashirama saw a chance to use Root to shift responsibility for the Military Police Force, and Gen ended the chapter soaking in a hot spring.

• Uchiha Gen hunted a bear, prepared a feast for the group, and led them onward toward the Land of Hot Water.
• Hashirama reviewed reports about other ninja villages, then summoned Uchiha Gen, who appeared as a Shadow Clone.
• Hashirama asked which side Gen would take if Madara tried to destroy Konoha, and the clone said he could simply take his clansmen away.
• The clone criticized the Will of Fire and argued that Konoha had to provide for its people, then explained that Root had established four departments.
• Hashirama decided to select future Anbu personnel from Root and considered using the clone as an opportunity to transfer the Military Police Force.
• Uchiha Gen soaked in a hot spring while Uzumaki Shibaki complained that they had been separated.