Chapter Summaries

Jin established the Research and Development Department and decided to recruit Tsunade to advance inner cultivation research. After Konoha's clans and friends congratulated him, the Uchiha Radical Faction pledged to join his department, while Jin prepared to approach Tsunade.

• Jin told Orochimaru that he planned to recruit Tsunade, though Orochimaru warned that she was unlikely to accept.
• Minato, Kushina, Shikaku, and others visited to congratulate Jin, and Might Duy arrived with his son, Might Guy.
• Shibi and Shikuro Aburame, the Hyuga Clan, Ino–Shika–Cho, and the Uchiha Radical Faction sent congratulations and gifts.
• Huo Jie and the Uchiha Radical Faction agreed to transfer from the Military Police Force into Jin's Research and Development Department.
• Jin told the Uchiha to transfer the next day and decided to invite Tsunade.

Uchiha Jin tried to recruit Tsunade to Konoha’s Research and Development Department by promising to create a jutsu that could fully resurrect the dead. Tsunade did not accept immediately, and the next day Jin found Minato Namikaze and Kushina waiting at the department.

• Jin visited Konoha Hospital and tried to flirt with a medical worker, but Tsunade caught him and punched him with Monster Strength Punch.
• Jin invited Tsunade to join his Research and Development Department, but she refused because she was busy at the hospital and planned to leave Konoha.
• Jin asked whether Tsunade wanted to see the dead again, provoking her into a furious outburst.
• Jin said he could create a jutsu that brought someone fully back to life without consuming life force, and Tsunade considered whether he might succeed.
• Jin left Tsunade time to decide, then found more than twenty Uchiha ninja, Hiruko, Orochimaru, Minato Namikaze, and Kushina at the department the next day.

Jin let Minato Namikaze join the Research and Development Department while directing Kushina to study Fūinjutsu, then welcomed Tsunade as the department continued its work. The story shifted to New City in the Land of Rain, where Jin confronted bound Kusagakure ninja.

• Minato Namikaze asked to join the department, and Jin discovered that he was already developing several techniques, including a wind-attribute Chakra Inner Cultivation.
• Jin rejected Kushina's request to join, kicked her away when she challenged him, and Minato Namikaze stopped her from fighting again.
• Jin showed Minato Namikaze the department's research archive and assigned Kushina to study Fūinjutsu.
• Jin welcomed Tsunade to the department, then turned his attention to the department's affairs beyond its walls.
• In New City in the Land of Rain, Jin examined bound ninja and questioned why Kusagakure was acting so brazenly there.

Jin captured three Kusagakure ninjas who had come to steal Rain Ninja and uncover Hanzō’s techniques, then considered using Kusagakure as a cover for the Land of Rain. After Hanzō rejected the plan as too risky, Jin proposed wiping Kusagakure out entirely.

• Kusagakure ninjas entered the Land of Rain to capture Rain Ninja and steal information about Hanzō’s ninjutsu and poison arts.
• The captured intruders broke free and took Jin hostage, but Jin revealed his identity as the Daimyō and bound them with vines.
• Jin used the Soul Insight Technique to learn the Kusagakure ninjas’ mission, then killed them.
• Jin proposed using Kusagakure’s identity for trade, but Hanzō warned that its ninjas would expose them if given the chance.
• Jin considered taking control of Kusagakure, then asked what would happen if they wiped it out completely.

Jin planned to destroy Kusagakure and assigned Kakuzu to lead the attack while Hanzō guarded the Land of Rain. After Kakuzu and Hanzō argued about Jin, the chapter shifted to Kinoki watching the army train and reflecting on the Land of Rain’s growing hope.

• Jin explained that he wanted to build an army to give ordinary people a chance to become powerful, then planned to seal Kusagakure and destroy it.
• Kakuzu volunteered to attack Kusagakure, Hanzō agreed to guard the Land of Rain, and Jin took responsibility for the daimyō of the Land of Grass.
• Hanzō confronted Kakuzu after the council and questioned his willingness to serve Jin, but Kakuzu said money could persuade him even to kill Uchiha Jin.
• Kakuzu shoved Hanzō aside after warning him to pay for future conversations, and Hanzō left cursing his obsession with money.
• Jin secretly listened from the ceiling and wondered whether Hanzō and Kakuzu had been speaking badly about him.
• Kinoki watched the Rain Army train and felt that the Land of Rain was beginning to find hope, while Kakuzu neglected the Money Army’s training.

Kinoki, a Rogue Ninja who joined the Money Army, was selected with eight others to learn a Sealing Barrier Jutsu so they could help prevent anyone from escaping during a future operation. Jin reprimanded Kakuzu for neglecting routine training, then went to scout Kusagakure.

• Kinoki recalled how the fall of the Land of Rain led him to enlist in the Money Army, where he exchanged merit for a Substitution Technique despite Kakuzu's harsh and inconsistent leadership.
• Kuma summoned Kinoki and eight other ninjas and ordered them to study a Sealing Barrier Jutsu on the daimyo's orders.
• Jin, Hanzō, and Kakuzu watched the group and discussed using the barrier to seal the area before acting.
• Jin scolded Kakuzu for letting the Money Army neglect its regular training and ordered him to spend half a month in confinement after the mission.
• Jin left to scout Kusagakure and told the others to notify him when the ninjas had finished training.

Jin arrived at Kusagakure disguised as the noble Mr. An, claiming he needed help finding a missing elder. The Grass Ninja admitted him and brought him into the village, while Shimada was left behind and died by his own hand under the Sharingan’s influence.

• Jin traveled toward Kusagakure in a carriage driven by Shimada, a noble’s guard ninja whose eyes concealed the Sharingan.
• Grass Ninja surrounded the carriage and refused to let Shimada enter the village, so Jin told him to wait elsewhere.
• After the carriage left, Shimada walked into a concealed corner and slit his own throat.
• Mui took the reins and asked Jin what help he wanted; Jin claimed an elder from his family had gone missing and said his servants would bring payment in a few days.
• Mui drove Jin into Kusagakure, where Jin remarked that the village seemed small before the carriage arrived at their destination.

Jin stayed in Kusagakure while scouting its medical room, then secretly rescued Shiranoka, a girl from the Uzumaki Clan, from captivity. The next day, Kusagakure discovered that its medical tool had vanished.

• Jin arrived at Kusagakure with Mui, who was assigned to watch over him while he waited to submit his commission.
• Jin asked Mui about Kusagakure's relocation and medical room, then watched injured ninjas emerge from treatment.
• Shiranoka tended to her bite wounds and feared that she would not survive her captivity.
• Jin appeared in Shiranoka's room, told her he would take her away, and used Dark Release! Flying Thunder God! Transfer! to disappear with her.
• The next day, Kusagakure erupted in anger after discovering that its medical tool was gone.

After Uzumaki Shiranoka vanished, Kusagakure suspected Jin, a supposed noble, and moved him to an underground prison under the pretense of protecting him. Once the guards left, Jin summoned eleven figures from his shadow.

• Kusagakure's elders learned that Uzumaki Shiranoka had disappeared and ordered their ninja to detain Jin while they searched for his servant and verified his identity.
• Jin revealed that he had sent Shiranoka to Amegakure and planned for her to become a Medical Ninja serving him.
• Mui and other Kusagakure ninja arrived at Jin's lodging and escorted him to an underground prison, claiming it was the village's safest location.
• Jin pretended to be an offended, timid noble as Kusagakure locked him in a cell.
• After confirming no one was nearby, Jin sat cross-legged and summoned eleven figures from his shadow.

Jin sent Kakuzu to destroy Kusagakure while he went to deal with the Land of Grass daimyo. After Kakuzu began killing Kusagakure ninja, Kuma and the others raised a Sealing Barrier around the village, beginning the attack.

• Jin confirmed that Kuma and nine others had mastered the Barrier Ninjutsu and sent them outside Kusagakure to prepare it.
• Jin told Kakuzu to take Kusagakure while he dealt with the Land of Grass daimyo, then vanished into his shadow.
• Kakuzu killed the Kusagakure ninja who discovered him in the prison and absorbed several of them with the Dead River Technique.
• Kuma’s team ambushed and killed Kusagakure patrols as they cleared the village’s outer perimeter.
• At the three-minute mark, Kuma and the other nine ninja formed the Sealing Barrier, enclosing Kusagakure beneath a vast dome.

Kusagakure was sealed behind an impenetrable barrier while its elders struggled to understand the attack and suspected the Box of Ultimate Bliss was the enemy’s target. The chapter left Kakuzu attacking the prison and standing before the enormous box, wondering whether he had gotten lost.

• Ten pillars of light sealed Kusagakure, and Kinoki watched from outside as the village ninja failed to break the barrier.
• Kusagakure ninja tried ninjutsu, weapons, and the Earth Submergence Technique, but the barrier and underground seals stopped them.
• The seven elders urged Kusagakure’s rival factions to unite and speculated that the enemy was targeting the Box of Ultimate Bliss hidden in the prison.
• Kakuzu attacked the prison guards with black threads, killed and absorbed them, then stared at the enormous box and wondered if he had gotten lost.

Kakuzu searched Kusagakure’s prison, destroyed its hidden survivors, and emerged to face a force of Kusagakure ninja. After surviving their attacks and consuming several of them, he prepared to unleash another technique as they ran low on Chakra.

• Kakuzu searched the prison with his Blood River Technique and found hidden Kusagakure ninja in the surveillance room.
• Kakuzu blasted open the prison wall with Chakra Cannon and emerged to find Kusagakure ninja surrounding him.
• Kakuzu attacked the gathered ninja, who fought back with Earth and Lightning Style techniques and forced him to lose one life.
• The Kusagakure ninja exhausted themselves bombarding Kakuzu, but he reappeared behind their high-ranking jōnin and consumed him.
• Kakuzu revealed the many masks beneath his robe and began Death River: Standard Release.

Kakuzu annihilated Kusagakure with devastating Fire and Lightning Release attacks, then reflected on how much stronger he had become. At the Land of Grass daimyo’s palace, Jin confronted the daimyo while a captive girl lay unconscious nearby.

• Kakuzu unleashed Fire Release across Kusagakure, killing most of its ninja and setting the village ablaze.
• Kusagakure’s surviving elders and jonin attacked Kakuzu, binding him and striking his masked monster with lightning, but he escaped and killed them with Earth and Lightning Release techniques.
• Kakuzu searched the ruins for survivors, concluded his strength had increased, and judged that he still could not defeat Hashirama Senju.
• At the Land of Grass daimyo’s palace, the daimyo entered his bedroom and found Jin seated beside a tied-up, unconscious girl.
• Jin greeted the daimyo with his Sharingan spinning.

Jin returned to Kusagakure and found it destroyed, then rebuilt it and assigned Kakuzu to establish a ninjutsu-selling business there. After returning to the Land of Rain, Jin told Hanzō that Kusagakure had ceased to exist.

• Jin found Kusagakure reduced to ruins and learned from Kakuzu about a strange box beneath the prison.
• Jin buried the ruins and used Wood Release to rebuild Kusagakure, then set prices for selling ninjutsu to Rogue Ninja and other villages.
• Jin instructed Kakuzu to run the business, ordered him into confinement, and said Hanzō would bring over the Money Army.
• Jin returned to the Land of Rain, checked on Shiranoka, and told Hanzō that Kusagakure had been destroyed.

Jin examined the Box of Ultimate Bliss, absorbed the memories of a clone that had destroyed Kusagakure, and created another clone to continue working. Back in Konoha, he encountered Uchiha Liuche and Uchiha Fei in the laboratory before Tsunade confronted him about his soul-manipulating technique.

• Jin tried to examine the Box of Ultimate Bliss but found that it consumed any Chakra he sent into it.
• Jin summoned his true body, whose clone disappeared and transferred memories confirming that it had wiped out Kusagakure.
• Jin decided to leave the box sealed and created a flesh clone using the Thousand Blade Demonic Sword technique.
• Jin returned to Konoha and found Uchiha Liuche attempting to put an instrument pad into Uchiha Fei's eye.
• Tsunade accused Jin's Soul Insight Technique of manipulating souls, but Jin pointed out that the technique had not yet been completed, and Tsunade left.

Jin agreed to help Orochimaru study Hashirama Cells, but their visit to Danzo’s laboratory revealed that the new test subjects were infants. Jin confronted Orochimaru and threatened to kill him.

• Orochimaru asked Jin to help research Hashirama Cells using test subjects Danzo had provided, and Jin agreed.
• Jin and Orochimaru ate ramen at Ichiraku before heading to Danzo’s laboratory.
• Jin teased White Fang by offering Kakashi a photograph, prompting White Fang to warn his son that Jin was Konoha’s most dangerous person.
• At the laboratory, Jin heard infants crying and found them laid in cradles as test subjects.
• Jin threatened to kill Orochimaru over the infant experiments.

Jin confronted Orochimaru over experiments on infants, taking the children away after warning his teacher not to abandon his humanity. Meanwhile, Hiruzen Sarutobi's advisers proposed using Jin to intervene in the Land of Rain, and Jin appeared before them with the cradles.

• Jin threatened to kill Orochimaru if he continued harming infants and said he would preserve the humanity Orochimaru still had.
• Jin used tangible darkness to put the infants to sleep and take them out of Orochimaru's laboratory.
• Danzo told Hiruzen Sarutobi that Hanzō had installed a new daimyō in the Land of Rain and that the former daimyō wanted Konoha's help reclaiming the country.
• Mitokado Homura and Utatane Koharu proposed having Jin persuade the new daimyō to abdicate, while Hiruzen Sarutobi objected to forcing him into the mission.
• Jin appeared in Hiruzen Sarutobi's office with the cradles, alarming Hiruzen Sarutobi and Shimura Danzō.

Uchiha Jin confronted Danzo after finding infants in his laboratory and forced Hiruzen Sarutobi to address the experiments. Later, Minato Namikaze challenged Jin to a no-holds-barred spar, leaving their disagreement unresolved.

• Jin threatened Danzo and nearly attacked Utatane Koharu before Hiruzen Sarutobi stopped him.
• Jin revealed that he had found the sleeping infants in Danzo's laboratory and threatened to kill Danzo if it happened again.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi reprimanded Danzo and ordered restrictions on Root, while the infants were sent to an orphanage.
• An Anbu reported the Hokage's decision to Jin, who dismissed the messenger.
• Minato Namikaze questioned Jin about the village's darker side, then challenged him to a no-holds-barred match.

Jin and Minato Namikaze sparred, with Minato revealing a new wind-powered form but still losing to Jin. The chapter left Minato acknowledging Jin's overwhelming strength.

• Shikaku Nara, Choza Akimichi, and Inoichi Yamanaka watched as Jin and Minato Namikaze began their spar.
• Jin and Minato exchanged rapid attacks, and Minato asked Jin to use his full strength.
• Minato activated Chakra Inner Cultivation: Wind God Mode, gaining greater speed, cutting power, and the ability to fly.
• Jin used Dark Release: Spear of Destruction to fill the sky with darkness, then appeared beside Minato and declared him defeated.
• Minato's Wind God Mode dispersed as he accepted his loss, while Shikaku Nara marveled at Jin's strength.

Jin and his friends relaxed in a hot spring and shared their dreams. The conversation ended with Jin declaring that he wanted to live eternally, convinced ninjutsu could make it possible.

• Shikaku Nara treated Jin and the others to a hot spring after Jin teased him about being afraid to fight back.
• Minato Namikaze realized Jin had predicted where he would appear during their battle and suspected Jin had learned the Flying Thunder God Technique.
• At the hot spring, Shikaku Nara dreamed of a beautiful wife and clever son, Choza Akimichi wanted endless food, and Inoichi Yamanaka hoped to become a ninja like White Fang.
• Minato Namikaze said he wanted to become Hokage, while Shikaku Nara judged that Jin and other powerful candidates made Minato's path difficult.
• Jin said his dream was to live for thousands of years or forever, and he believed ninjutsu could achieve immortality.