Before fusing the Uchiha bloodline through the Chimera Technique, Gen Takuya had done his due diligence.
The Uchiha, in order to preserve "purity," rarely married outsiders.
But in the story, there were a few rare cases that suggested outsiders might have entered the clan through marriage.
Sasuke and Sakura didn't count—by then, Sasuke had been the last unmarried Uchiha alive, and there were no Uchiha women left to speak of.
Still, Gen Takuya didn't want to gamble.
What if the Uchiha corpse he'd chosen was one of those rare mixed-blood cases?
That would be troublesome.
So he checked the archives.
Fortunately, the man hadn't been important within the clan. He'd awakened the Sharingan at death's edge and died before anyone even noticed.
Which meant his file was accessible.
Gen Takuya reviewed it carefully and confirmed that, since the village's founding, the man's ancestors had all been Uchiha.
As for before the founding?
Back then, the Uchiha were even less likely to marry outsiders.
Once he confirmed purity, Gen Takuya finally relaxed.
Awakening the eye itself—
That would be up to him.
And why did he have access to those archives?
Because he wasn't "idle" anymore.
After Minato became the Fourth Hokage, it was only natural for him to elevate his own people.
Gen Takuya was chosen.
He became the captain of the Sealing Unit.
If it had been any other division, he would've refused. Too much hassle.
But the Sealing Unit…
He accepted.
Because the captain of the Sealing Unit could access the village's fuinjutsu.
More importantly—
He could get close to the barrier seal that enveloped Konoha itself.
That was the key to whether he could freely use summoning to come and go.
Now, within the thick mist, Gen Takuya watched the Kaguya stumble and peer around, lost.
He'd already tested it—his Sharingan could see through this fog.
That was why this was Ninja Art: Water Mist Technique, not Kirigakure's Hidden Mist Jutsu.
They were fundamentally different.
Kirigakure's technique filled the fog with chakra, and that chakra interfered with the Sharingan's sight.
Zabuza had used that very principle to suppress Kakashi's three-tomoe Sharingan.
Gen Takuya's Water Mist Technique was much simpler: fog produced through Water Release and Fire Release, a physical mist without chakra mixed into it.
No chakra meant no interference.
There was precedent.
The Second Hokage had once created steam by colliding Water Release and Fire Release—and it hadn't hindered Uchiha Izuna's Sharingan at all.
And why did Gen Takuya have Fire Release now?
Uchiha.
You'd be hard-pressed to find one who didn't possess it.
Gen Takuya soon shut the Sharingan off again.
This time, he wasn't planning to rely on it to kill.
He wanted to rely on something else—
Sensing.
He wanted to temper his perception, to awaken the power hidden in his Uzumaki bloodline—
Kagura's Mind Eye.
His figure moved.
Soundless.
He drifted through the fog toward a Kaguya.
He was right in front of the man before the Kaguya even realized anything was there.
When the Kaguya finally reacted and lunged—
Gen Takuya's kunai had already slit his throat.
He walked on like nothing happened.
His steps made no noise.
His movements disturbed nothing.
In the dense fog, he was an actual ghost.
This was—
Silent Killing.
Gen Takuya didn't know exactly what Momochi Zabuza's silent killing looked like.
But Gen Takuya's method was built on one core—
Wind Release.
He used Wind Release to erase all sound from his movement, to prevent his passage from stirring the mist, to reduce air resistance and add subtle propulsion.
In true combat, it even boosted his speed.
Here?
It was almost overkill.
He wandered casually, kunai harvesting one life after another.
Then his steps paused.
In his sensing—
The Kaguya had begun attacking each other.
They couldn't tell ally from enemy.
So they treated everyone around them as a target—and they didn't hold back.
More than a few died by their own clanmates' hands.
"Insane," Gen Takuya murmured again.
He was almost used to it.
It didn't slow him down.
When the mist finally dispersed, Gen Takuya stood amid a field of corpses.
Blood flowed across the ground.
Yet his clothes remained dry, untouched—like none of the slaughter had ever happened.
He looked toward the buildings of the Kaguya settlement.
In his sensing, there wasn't a single living presence left.
When the battle began, they had all come out on their own to pick a fight.
And now they all lay here, dead.
The Kaguya clan's extinction had come early.
Gen Takuya moved through the settlement, sensing spread to its limit.
He searched for one presence in particular—
Kaguya Kimimaro.
He remembered: the child had been locked in a tiny prison, surrounded by rough stone.
So he looked for that kind of structure.
After a long search, he found a house with a basement and entered.
There was the cell.
Even with torches, it was dim.
But Gen Takuya sensed it clearly—
A faint emptiness in the chakra fluctuations inside.
When he felt it, he paused… then smiled.
That was Kagura's Mind Eye.
Or at least… the beginning of it.
If he kept pushing this way, he would eventually master the full ability.
He stepped up to the bars and looked down at the small figure inside.
This year, Kimimaro was even younger than in the original story.
And yet he was already locked away.
"You… who are you?"
Kimimaro hadn't cared who came down at first, but when he saw Gen Takuya, he froze. The Kaguya didn't dress like this.
"I'm a shinobi who enjoys collecting unusual things," Gen Takuya said. "I'm interested in your bloodline limit. Would you be willing to give it to me?"
Kimimaro blinked, confused. He didn't understand what that meant.
He frowned.
"I don't know what you're saying," he said slowly. "I don't know how to give it to you."
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