Chapter Summaries

On the way home, Minato Namikaze asked Jin about the loneliness of immortality, and the two joked, fought, and discussed who should become Hokage. At home, Jin sent Little White and Little Meow to the Land of Rain through his darkness, then heard Kiyoshi Hyuga’s discovery about the Hyuga Clan’s Byakugan and agreed to consider helping him retrieve them.

• Minato Namikaze asked Jin whether living forever would be lonely, and Jin suggested Minato might also have a chance at immortality.
• Jin and Minato Namikaze fought playfully, laughed together, and Minato asked whether Jin wanted to become Hokage; Jin declined.
• Jin decided that Little White and Little Meow had grown too large for his home and sent them through his darkness to join his clone in the Land of Rain.
• Kiyoshi Hyuga visited Jin and revealed that he had found where the Hyuga Clan stored its Byakugan.
• Kiyoshi Hyuga offered to bring the Byakugan to Jin and asked Jin to lend him his strength.

At a Hyuga Clan gathering, Yufang Hyuga asked Kiyoshi Hyuga to help Hyuga Hiashi connect with Uchiha Jin, hoping to secure the clan’s support and ease tensions between the Main Branch and Branch Family. Kiyoshi refused to claim influence over Jin, then left questioning how long Hizashi Hyuga could believe the clan’s divisions did not define its members.

• Yufang Hyuga assigned Branch Family members to serve or guard the Main Branch as the clan arranged its duties.
• Yufang Hyuga told Kiyoshi Hyuga to find a chance for Hyuga Hiashi to contact Uchiha Jin and build a friendship.
• Kiyoshi Hyuga refused to promise he could influence Jin, and Yufang Hyuga told him to try asking anyway.
• Hyuga Hiashi watched Kiyoshi with unease and reflected on his growing distance from both Kiyoshi and Hizashi Hyuga.
• After the gathering, Hizashi Hyuga asked Kiyoshi to help his brother, but Kiyoshi reiterated that Jin was not under his influence.
• Kiyoshi Hyuga warned Hizashi Hyuga that the distinction between the Main Branch and Branch Family might eventually change how he saw the clan.

Kiyoshi Hyuga and five Branch Family allies broke into a hidden Main Branch building to uncover the truth about missing relatives and Byakugan. They found a basement filled with eyes, then an elderly man caught them inside.

• Kiyoshi Hyuga confirmed that his five allies would flee Konoha after the theft while he stayed behind to face the Main Branch.
• The five Branch Family members explained that their injured relatives had been sent to the Main Branch, where their bodies were never returned.
• Kiyoshi Hyuga led the group to a secluded building using Hyuga Chu’s knowledge of the patrol routes.
• The six entered during a thirty-second gap in the patrols and descended into the building’s basement.
• The group discovered glass containers filled with Byakugan, including eyes they believed belonged to their relatives.
• An elderly man appeared at the exit and confronted the six intruders.

Hyuga Chu and the Branch Family members confronted Hyuga Sōga over the stolen Byakugan and the deaths of their relatives. While Hyuga Chu fought Sōga, the others sealed the Byakugan into scrolls, and they finished collecting them as the confrontation continued.

• Hyuga Sōga admitted that Branch Family members had their eyes removed and their bodies studied before being cremated.
• Hyuga Sōga activated the Caged Bird curse, but it failed to stop Hyuga Chu and the others.
• Hyuga Chu attacked Hyuga Sōga while the other Branch Family members began sealing the Byakugan into scrolls.
• Hyuga Chu used the Six Powers and Tekkai to battle Sōga, then evaded his Eight Trigrams Sixty-Four Palms with Soru.
• A young Hyuga clansman helped Hyuga Chu up and told him that all the Byakugan had been collected.

Kiyoshi Hyuga and five Branch Family members killed Hyuga Sōga after he discovered their secret, then escaped the Hyuga residence with the stolen Byakugan. Uchiha Jin sent the five through a portal toward the Land of Rain while Kiyoshi stayed behind to serve him.

• Hyuga Sōga tried to force the Branch Family members to reveal how they had blocked the Caged Bird Technique, but Kiyoshi Hyuga defeated him with a powerful Revolving Heaven and the five stabbed him with kunai.
• Hyuga Chu and the others agreed there was no turning back because the Main Branch would never spare them, and Kiyoshi ordered them to withdraw.
• The six used Soru to evade patrols and leave the Hyuga residence, but Kiyoshi refused to flee with the others because he needed to keep serving Lord Jin.
• Uchiha Jin met the five at Konoha's barrier and sent them through an oval-shaped darkness toward the Land of Rain with the stolen Byakugan.
• Jin told Kiyoshi he would protect him, and Kiyoshi agreed to remain in his service.

Kiyoshi Hyuga was arrested after five Branch Family members allegedly killed a Main Branch elder and stole a Hyuga Clan treasure. At his hearing, he revealed that the Caged Bird could not affect him, and someone intervened as Yufang Hyuga lunged to kill him.

• Hyuga Clan ninja arrested Kiyoshi Hyuga and accused him of conspiring with five missing accomplices to murder an elder and steal a treasure.
• Yufang Hyuga questioned Kiyoshi Hyuga before the clan, while Hizashi Hyuga pleaded for him to explain himself.
• Kiyoshi Hyuga rebuked Hizashi Hyuga and challenged Yufang Hyuga over the accusation and the unknown treasure.
• Yufang Hyuga activated Kiyoshi Hyuga's Caged Bird, but it failed to affect him.
• Kiyoshi Hyuga announced that he knew how to make the Caged Bird ineffective, and Yufang Hyuga lunged at him before an unseen person intervened.

Uchiha Jin intervened when Yufang Hyuga and the Main Branch attacked Kiyoshi Hyuga, insisting the case be brought before the Hokage if Kiyoshi was accused. Yufang challenged Jin, and their fight began with the Head of the Hyuga Clan striking Jin's darkness-wrapped body with Eight Trigrams Sixty-Four Palms.

• A sphere of darkness engulfed the Hyuga Clan compound and vanished within seconds, drawing the attention of Hiruzen Sarutobi and Danzo.
• Uchiha Jin freed Kiyoshi Hyuga and confronted Yufang Hyuga for attacking his subordinate.
• Jin rejected Yufang's claim that the matter was internal and said he would hand Kiyoshi over to the Hokage if he had committed the crime.
• Yufang hardened his stance and challenged Jin to a fight, while Jin sent Kiyoshi to the Branch Family members.
• Jin and Yufang exchanged blows, then Yufang activated his Byakugan and attacked with Eight Trigrams Sixty-Four Palms.
• Yufang's palms struck the tangible darkness surrounding Jin.

Uchiha Jin defeated Yufang Hyuga, secured Kiyoshi Hyuga’s departure from the clan, and later welcomed a Hyuga group to the Land of Rain, where he was secretly serving as its daimyo. The group delivered sealing scrolls containing Byakugan, giving Jin the experimental materials he wanted.

• Jin trapped Yufang Hyuga in darkness and tortured him with Pseudo-Tsukuyomi after warning him not to threaten his people.
• Yufang Hyuga agreed to let Kiyoshi Hyuga leave but forbade the Hyuga Clan from contacting him and demanded Jin surrender the jutsu that could block the Caged Bird.
• Kiyoshi Hyuga left with Jin, while the Hyuga Branch Family watched without intervening.
• Hyuga Chu and four others arrived in the Land of Rain and entered the city under escort after invoking Lord An’s name.
• Jin revealed himself as the Land of Rain’s daimyo and received the scrolls containing the Hyuga Clan’s Byakugan.

Uchiha Jin negotiated with Hiruzen Sarutobi over the Hyuga Clan’s complaint about his Caged Bird Suppression Technique. He agreed to give the technique to Konoha, leaving Hiruzen and Danzo with control over it while Jin received no extra research funding.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi stopped Uchiha Jin and Shimura Danzō from fighting in his office and raised the Hyuga Clan’s complaint about Jin’s actions.
• Jin defended his intervention and explained that his suppression technique let Branch Family members choose whether to suppress the Caged Bird, which would still activate upon death.
• Hiruzen asked Jin to keep the technique from the Hyuga Branch Family, and Jin agreed to hand it over to the village after Hiruzen rejected his request to double the Research and Development Department’s funding.
• Danzo asked what the Hyuga Clan had lost, but Kiyoshi Hyuga said he knew only that the technique had been exchanged with five people.
• Hiruzen asked Jin about new research, and Jin pointed to the Breathing Technique while dismissing the request for more ninjutsu-type results.

After three years of training, Jiraiya declared Nagato, Yahiko, and Konan qualified ninja and prepared to return to Konoha. The trio enlisted in the Land of Rain’s army as reservists, where the officer registered them as suspected spies.

• Jiraiya celebrated the trio’s graduation and told them he was leaving for Konoha.
• Jiraiya left before the trio could say goodbye, and Yahiko proposed that they enlist to protect the Land of Rain.
• An enlistment officer questioned their age and abilities, then asked them to demonstrate their ninja techniques.
• The officer accepted the three as reservists and explained that forming a new army required the strength of an Elite Jonin.
• Yahiko, Nagato, and Konan gave their names, and the officer recorded each as a suspected spy.

Yahiko, Nagato, and Konan joined the Land of Rain’s Reserve Forces, where they met their instructor and began with cleaning duty. Jin recognized Nagato’s Rinnegan and warned Hanzō that the children were pawns of a powerful figure, while considering how they might become useful to the army.

• Yahiko, Nagato, and Konan received new uniforms, cultivation scrolls, and furnished rooms at the Land of Rain military camp.
• Hyuga Taki introduced the Reserve Forces’ duties and ordered the newcomers, along with Shiranoka, to clean the training ground.
• Jin watched the four recruits work and told Hanzō that Nagato, Konan, and Yahiko would become powerful.
• Jin identified Nagato’s Rinnegan as belonging to Madara Uchiha and warned Hanzō that Madara was powerful enough to kill him instantly.
• Jin decided not to give the three special treatment, noting that they were Madara’s pawns and could become combat assets if properly raised.

Jiraiya reunited with Team 7 and agreed to help Jin find researchers for the Research and Development Department. There, he encountered Tsunade, who showed him and Jin her progress on a resurrection technique.

• At a barbecue restaurant, Jiraiya discovered he had no money, so Jin paid for the meal while his former students criticized Jiraiya for neglecting them.
• Jin asked Jiraiya to recommend research-oriented ninja and invited him to tour the Research and Development Department.
• Jin and Jiraiya ran into Tsunade at the department, and Tsunade punched both of them after Jin asked her on a date.
• Tsunade showed Jin and Jiraiya a scroll for the Life-Death Reincarnation Technique and said she had recently made progress toward resurrection.

Tsunade revealed her unfinished Life-Death Reincarnation Technique to Jiraiya and Jin, then decided to seal it away. Madara Uchiha obtained the technique and considered waiting until it was perfected, while Jin completed a new version of the Heavenly Demon Art by integrating several techniques.

• Tsunade explained that the Life-Death Reincarnation Technique required tailed-beast-level Chakra and Fūinjutsu skill, had a low success rate, and could restore a body to its peak after years of Chakra depletion.
• Jiraiya marveled at the technique, and Tsunade told him and Jin that only the three of them knew about it.
• Jin declined to decide the technique's fate, so Tsunade chose to seal it away rather than risk causing chaos in the ninja world.
• Madara Uchiha obtained the technique and decided to wait until it was perfected before considering its use.
• Jin dismissed his research Shadow Clones and integrated the Shadow Imitation Jutsu, Flying Thunder God Technique, Six Paths Immortal Thief, and Soul Insight Technique into his Dark Walker Technique.
• Jin endured the clashing Yin and Yang natures and completed the Heavenly Demon Art, gaining a Yin-Yang dual-nature Kekkei Genkai.

Jin reached the peak of Kage-level strength while his Flesh Clone completed a fusion of Byakugan that could see and analyze objects across vast distances. After Kakuzu reported that Iwagakure wanted to buy ninjutsu and might try to seize it, Jin decided to meet them himself.

• Jin assessed his strength and concluded that completing the Third Layer of Chakra Inner Cultivation was the only way to advance further.
• Jin's Flesh Clone fused multiple Byakugan into a Super Byakugan that revealed the Box of Ultimate Bliss's design and let him see across the Land of Rain.
• Jin's Flesh Clone discovered that the Box of Ultimate Bliss had been created through failed research into Chakra based on four emotions, producing Satori.
• Kakuzu returned from Kusagakure and told Jin that Iwagakure wanted to negotiate for ninjutsu and seemed intent on taking it by force.
• Jin decided to receive Iwagakure himself, relying on his clone's Chakra and the Super Byakugan.

Jin visited Kusagakure and found that Kakuzu had turned it into a thriving but corrupt black-market city. After Kinoki killed an insulting merchant, Jin decided Kakuzu needed someone to keep him in check, but he had not yet chosen who.

• Kinoki lamented the Money Army’s low pay and dangerous work in Kusagakure before Jin and Kakuzu arrived through his black Chakra passage.
• Jin praised Kusagakure’s development, learned that merchants had helped Kakuzu profit from selling ninja techniques, and warned Kakuzu about trusting them.
• Jin arranged for Kinoki to return to the Land of Rain later so his merits could be reviewed.
• Jin saw Money Army members accepting dirty money from local factions and learned that Kakuzu protected the merchants who funded him.
• When a merchant insulted Jin, Kinoki cut off the man’s head, and Jin learned that merchants held high status in Kusagakure.
• Jin resolved to speak with Kakuzu and find someone to keep him in check.

Ōnoki, Kitsuchi, and a woman entered Kusagakure to investigate its sale of ninjutsu, while Kitsuchi planned to destroy and plunder the village. Jin and Kakuzu spotted the delegation and recognized Ōnoki as a major threat.

• Ōnoki scolded Kitsuchi for underestimating Kusagakure and Kakuzu as the three approached the village.
• The three explored Kusagakure and were surprised by its gangs, ordinary civilians, and extensive market of legal and illegal goods.
• Kitsuchi discussed destroying Kusagakure and taking its valuables, while Ōnoki warned that the fight might not be easy.
• Jin and Kakuzu watched the visitors from a nearby building, and Jin recognized Ōnoki as Iwagakure's Tsuchikage.

Jin and Ōnoki clashed over Iwagakure’s accusation that Kusagakure had copied its ninjutsu, then fought to assess whether they could do business together. Jin revealed Wood Release and Space-Time Ninjutsu, and the chapter ended with him asking Ōnoki to show his true strength.

• Ōnoki confronted Jin in Kusagakure’s meeting room and questioned how he had obtained Iwagakure’s ninjutsu.
• Jin and Ōnoki agreed to test each other’s strength on a nearby mountain, while Kakuzu stayed behind with Kitsuchi and the female ninja.
• Ōnoki trapped Jin with Earth Release attacks, but Jin countered with Wood Release and used Space-Time Ninjutsu to evade him.
• Ōnoki drove Jin into a crater with a Stone Dragon, but Jin vanished and reappeared beneath a tree.
• Jin told Ōnoki the test was over and asked to see his true strength, and Ōnoki agreed.

Jin fought Ōnoki using a wooden golem and several of Konoha’s abilities, but his attacks failed to overcome the Tsuchikage. Jin’s final Rasengan was stopped by Dust Release, and as his clone died, someone caught the Byakugan that fell from his body.

• Jin created a wooden golem, revealed its Byakugan, and attacked Ōnoki with Wood Release while Ōnoki countered with Dust Release.
• Jin caught Ōnoki in Pseudo-Tsukuyomi, but Ōnoki broke free with his Four-Handed Technique and Genjutsu Release.
• Ōnoki crushed Jin’s wooden golem with a Super Added-Weight Rock Technique and destroyed it with Dust Release, while Jin escaped using Flying Thunder God Technique.
• Jin appeared behind Ōnoki with a Rasengan, but Ōnoki’s Dust Release destroyed Jin’s body.
• Jin’s Byakugan fell from the blood left behind, and an unseen hand caught it.

Jin arrived to rescue his Byakugan-bearing clone and battled Ōnoki with Wood Release, Susanoo, and his Heavenly Demon techniques. After both fighters spent much of their strength, Jin’s Wood Dragon struck Ōnoki and drove him into the ground.

• Jin arrived after sensing that his clone was in danger and recovered the Byakugan it had been holding.
• Ōnoki attacked Jin with Dust Release, but Jin dodged and summoned a massive Wood Golem reinforced with Susanoo.
• Jin’s Wood Golem clashed with Ōnoki’s Dust Release, and Ōnoki destroyed it after emerging beneath it and trapping it in a cube.
• Jin survived Ōnoki’s expanded Dust Release attack with Heavenly Demon Golden Body, then evaded another with Heavenly Demon Samsara.
• Jin summoned a Wood Dragon and drove it through Ōnoki’s weakened Dust Release, slamming Ōnoki into the ground.

Jin defeated Ōnoki and oversaw a trade between Iwagakure and Kusagakure. After Ōnoki tried to leave, Jin blocked his party and demanded compensation for the clone and mountain lost in their battle.

• Jin captured Ōnoki after their battle and drained his Chakra until Ōnoki surrendered.
• Jin brought Ōnoki to the meeting room, where Kitsuchi asked for his father back and Ōnoki kicked his son.
• Kakuzu negotiated a trade with Ōnoki, who paid for the requested goods and asked Jin to obtain Konoha's Book of Forbidden Techniques.
• Jin refused to provide the Book of Forbidden Techniques, and Ōnoki's party inspected the goods they had purchased.
• As Ōnoki tried to leave, Jin had the Money Army block the way and demanded compensation for his lost clone and destroyed mountain.