Chapter Summaries

Jin survived the Cloud ninja jonin’s Lightning Domain Net Technique with Six Paths Immortal Thief, then killed him after the jonin exhausted his Chakra. On the other battlefield, White Fang trapped Nekomata with lightning techniques, but the Third Raikage, A, intervened before he could deliver a decisive slash.

• Jin charged into the lightning net and used Six Paths Immortal Thief to survive until the Cloud ninja jonin ran out of Chakra.
• The jonin collapsed, and Jin killed him with Shuriken before the corpse’s explosive trap detonated.
• White Fang evaded Nekomata’s attacks and repeatedly cut into the Two-Tails’ flaming body, which quickly regenerated.
• White Fang paralyzed Nekomata with his Four Pillar and Sixteen Pillar Binding Techniques and prepared a powerful slash.
• The Third Raikage, A, blasted apart the stone pillars and arrived atop Nekomata, forcing White Fang to abandon his slash.

White Fang and Jin faced the Third Raikage A and the Nekomata, forcing White Fang to battle A while Jin struggled to survive the tailed beast’s attacks. After A promised to let White Fang leave if he survived his strongest strike, the two unleashed their final techniques against each other.

• A confronted White Fang and Jin, and Jin resisted A’s killing intent by cutting his own thigh before taking shelter behind White Fang.
• A charged White Fang with Four-Finger Nukite, while the Nekomata attacked Jin with a paw strike and a fireball that Jin escaped by hiding in a rock’s shadow.
• White Fang and A fought at high speed, and White Fang forced A to retreat from a Three-Finger Nukite with a sword slash aimed at his neck.
• A attacked with Two-Finger Nukite, but White Fang blinded him with Jin’s flash grenade and tried to follow up with his inherited short sword.
• A recovered his vision and challenged White Fang to withstand his strongest attack, promising to let him leave if he did.
• A unleashed One-Finger Nukite as White Fang activated the Third Layer of his Basic Inner Cultivation Art, and their techniques collided.

Uchiha Jin fought the Two-Tails, Matatabi, and used the unstable Tailed Beast Bomb to knock Yugito unconscious. He entered her inner world, subdued her with his Sharingan, and approached Matatabi to negotiate.

• Uchiha Jin tried to control the Two-Tails with his Sharingan, but the effort injured his eye and the beast broke free of the Jinchūriki's control.
• Jin trapped the Two-Tails in the Bringer-of-Darkness Technique and struck it with Moon Breathing, but Matatabi wounded him and continued attacking.
• Jin dazed Matatabi with his Sharingan as it formed a Tailed Beast Bomb, causing the bomb to explode and force the beast out of its physical form.
• Jin rushed to Yugito while she was unconscious and entered her inner world, where he found Matatabi restrained in a cage.
• Jin used his Sharingan on Yugito, then told Matatabi he had come to negotiate.

Uchiha Jin pretended to negotiate with the Two-Tails while secretly using Soul Control to take control of it. After the Third Raikage interrupted Jin’s attempt to kill Yugito, White Fang escorted Jin out of the Land of Lightning, unaware that Jin had controlled the beast.

• Jin asked the Two-Tails to become his Tailed Beast, then revealed he had only been stalling while his technique eroded its mind.
• Jin used the Soul Insight Technique and Sharingan to control the Two-Tails, and Yugito awoke from her daze.
• The Third Raikage attacked Jin, but White Fang blocked him and insisted he honor his promise to let them leave.
• The Raikage ordered White Fang and Jin to leave the Land of Lightning, and Yugito questioned why he had not kept White Fang there.
• White Fang asked how Jin had defeated the Two-Tails, and Jin claimed it had blown itself up with its own Tailed Beast Bomb while keeping the truth to himself.

Jin and White Fang returned to a war-weary Konoha, where Hiruzen Sarutobi praised their mission and prepared Jin for the jōnin examination. Hiruzen then tasked White Fang with blocking a much larger Kumogakure force with fewer than fifty non-jōnin, and White Fang agreed.

• Jin and White Fang entered a quiet, bleak Konoha, and Jin asked whether White Fang wanted to become Hokage; White Fang said he only wanted to protect the village.
• At the Hokage's office, Hiruzen Sarutobi credited Jin and White Fang with completing an S-rank mission and told Jin to prepare for the jōnin examination.
• Jin left the office, and Hiruzen Sarutobi asked White Fang what he thought of Jin; White Fang stayed silent.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi described Konoha's strained war effort and asked White Fang to hold back a large Kumogakure force with fewer than fifty ninja, none of them jōnin.
• White Fang agreed to block Kumogakure, even if he had to fight to the death.

Jin returned home and let Little Meow stay after it agreed to live with Little White, though the two immediately fought. Winter slowed the war, and Minato Namikaze and Kushina returned to Konoha, where they saw the toll the fighting had taken on their fellow shinobi.

• Jin found his house clean and discovered Little Meow wanted to stay after their cat-treats agreement had expired.
• Little Meow promised to get along with Little White, then attacked the young snake after Jin left.
• Jin watched Little Meow and Little White fight to a standstill and considered finding Little White a ninjutsu to strengthen it.
• Winter reduced battles between the major ninja villages and brought shinobi back from the front, including Minato Namikaze and Kushina.
• Konoha residents welcomed the returning shinobi, then fell silent as they saw the wounded and traumatized survivors.
• Minato Namikaze and Kushina left the crowd and decided to clean up before visiting Jin.

Minato Namikaze and Kushina Uzumaki visited Jin, accidentally destroyed his door, and got into a playful fight with him before asking about White Fang. Jin insulted White Fang without realizing he had arrived behind him, leaving Jin facing the man he had just badmouthed.

• Minato Namikaze and Kushina Uzumaki sneaked into the Uchiha Clan Compound and went to Jin's home.
• Kushina smashed Jin's front door with her Monstrous Strength Technique, and Jin punched her and Minato before they apologized.
• Jin forgave Minato and Kushina, then sparred with Kushina and beat her hands with a folded newspaper.
• Kushina asked Jin about White Fang, and Jin described him as an ugly, filthy, lecherous piece of social trash.
• Minato pointed behind Jin, and White Fang asked Jin if he really thought he was that awful.

Jin hosted White Fang, Minato Namikaze, Kushina, and Might Duy, who gathered at his house and talked while he struggled to join in. After they left, Jin worked on a Chakra cultivation method adapted for animals and prepared to test it on Little White.

• White Fang visited Jin and beat him, then praised Jin’s tea while Minato Namikaze and Kushina joined their conversation.
• Jin hit Kushina after she laughed at him, and she moved beside Minato Namikaze.
• Might Duy arrived recovering from poison and delivered Orochimaru’s notes and a fruit basket to Jin.
• Minato Namikaze praised Might Duy’s battlefield rescues, and the visitors talked together while Jin ate fruit in silence.
• Jin went to his study, finished a Monster Cultivation Technique, and called Little White over to test it.

Little Meow challenged the suddenly enormous Little White at home and was overpowered, while Uchiha Jin and Minato Namikaze discussed Chakra internal techniques and Fūinjutsu at the training ground. The chapter ended with Kushina offering to treat them to a meal.

• Little Meow searched the house for Little White, then found it towering over a person in Uchiha Jin's bedroom.
• Little Meow broke free from Little White's coils and scratched at it, but its claws could not damage the snake's strengthened body.
• Little White remembered Uchiha Jin's Monster Cultivation Sealing Technique, stopped fearing Little Meow, and tightly coiled it as it screamed for help.
• Uchiha Jin and Minato Namikaze discussed how fixed energy could strengthen one Chakra attribute while weakening others, and Jin encouraged Minato to keep studying.
• Minato Namikaze wondered where he could study more Fūinjutsu, and Kushina offered to lend him some.
• Kushina invited Uchiha Jin and Minato Namikaze to eat, saying she would pay.

Jin and his companions shared a meal with Minato Namikaze, Kushina Uzumaki, and their allies while discussing the uncertain war. Afterward, Jin saw Kiyoshi Hyuga being treated like a servant by Main Branch members and resolved to try to undo the Caged Bird seal.

• Choza Akimichi welcomed Jin and his companions to the barbecue restaurant and offered to treat everyone.
• Inoichi Yamanaka and the others discussed Minato Namikaze's reputation and the stalemate on the Sunagakure front.
• Jin, Minato Namikaze, and Kushina Uzumaki left after eating and spotted Kiyoshi Hyuga carrying belongings behind two Main Branch members.
• Kushina Uzumaki wanted to intervene, but Minato Namikaze stopped her to avoid further hurting Kiyoshi Hyuga's pride.
• Jin explained how the Caged Bird seal's protective purpose had become oppression and decided he could try to undo it.

Uchiha Jin sparred with Kushina and Minato Namikaze, then tested their ninjutsu and was surprised by Minato's Rasengan. Afterward, Jin met Kiyoshi Hyuga in the snow and invited him to follow, leaving Kiyoshi to walk with him into the darkness.

• Uchiha Jin fought Kushina and Minato Namikaze in taijutsu and acknowledged how much stronger they had become.
• Uchiha Jin used the Bringer-of-Darkness Technique to overwhelm Kushina and Minato Namikaze, but Minato drove back some of the darkness with a Wind Wall Technique.
• Minato Namikaze struck Uchiha Jin's Shadow Clone with his newly created Rasengan, and Uchiha Jin appeared behind him and declared him defeated.
• Uchiha Jin met Kiyoshi Hyuga on his way home and asked whether he was ready to fulfill what he had once said.
• Kiyoshi Hyuga followed Uchiha Jin into the darkness without hesitation.

Uchiha Jin examined Kiyoshi Hyuga’s Caged Bird seal and found he could not remove it, but he could conceal it and restore the Byakugan’s blind spot. Kiyoshi pledged loyalty and left to find Hyuga members seeking freedom, unaware that Jin had secretly placed a deeper restriction on his soul.

• Jin knocked Kiyoshi unconscious and studied the Caged Bird Technique, discovering that interference with it could trigger its lethal effect.
• Jin used the Deduction Golden Finger and found a ninjutsu to conceal Caged Bird, though he could not find a way to break it.
• Jin offered to hide Kiyoshi’s seal and restore his Byakugan’s blind spot in exchange for lifelong loyalty, warning that he might one day oppose the village.
• Kiyoshi pledged himself to Jin, learned the concealment ninjutsu, and left to find Hyuga members who wanted to escape the clan’s control.
• After Kiyoshi left, Jin revealed that he had embedded a hidden restriction in Kiyoshi’s soul and turned his attention to the Hashirama Cells.

Jin used Madara Uchiha’s research to find a way to safely fuse Hashirama Cells with a three-tomoe Sharingan and the Heavenly Demon Art. After escaping Danzo’s attempt to recruit and capture him, Jin retrieved Hashirama Cells and prepared to test the fusion on himself.

• Jin used his acquired knowledge to deduce a method for safely fusing Hashirama Cells with a three-tomoe Sharingan and the Heavenly Demon Art.
• Shimura Danzō confronted Jin in the laboratory and offered him a place in Root, but Jin refused and accused Danzo of wanting his eyes.
• Danzo’s Root members surrounded Jin, but Jin escaped using darkness and a Snake Concealment Jutsu, leaving Danzo unable to find him or the Hashirama Cells.
• Jin emerged in his hidden underground laboratory with Hashirama Cells stored in a scroll and decided to test the fusion on himself.
• Jin created three Shadow Clones and prepared to transplant the Hashirama Cells.

Uchiha Jin injected himself with a specially prepared Hashirama Cell solution and used the Heavenly Demon Art to contain its Chakra. After his body turned completely to wood, the measurements began improving, and a jade-white hand emerged from the cracking wooden shell.

• Jin lay on the operating table while his Shadow Clones attached monitoring equipment and prepared a Hashirama Cell injection.
• Shadow Clone Number Two weakened the Hashirama Cells nine times and mixed the resulting wood with materials and Chakra to create a syringe.
• Shadow Clone Number Two injected Jin, whose three-tomoe Sharingan slowed the spreading wood as he formed the Heavenly Demon Art seal to absorb the Chakra.
• Jin's body turned entirely to wood while Shadow Clone Number Three reported that his vitality remained present, his mental activity was high, and his Chakra was rapidly rising.
• Cracks spread across Jin's wooden body, and a jade-white hand emerged from it.

Konoha’s leaders argued over the leak of Basic Inner Cultivation, with Hiruzen Sarutobi refusing to blame Uchiha Jin and instead ordering him to share his other inventions. Unaware of the dispute, Jin tested his Hashirama Cells, unlocked Wood Release, and advanced his cultivation and darkness technique.

• Danzo blamed Uchiha Jin for the leak of Basic Inner Cultivation, while Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura opposed holding him responsible.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi accepted responsibility for failing to restrict the technique and ordered Jin to upload his other inventions to offset the village’s losses.
• Danzo argued with Hiruzen, then left the Hokage’s Office with Homura and Koharu.
• Jin tested his Hashirama Cells, grew black wood, and demonstrated a Wood Clone Technique capable of transforming into restraining branches.
• Jin found that his Chakra accumulated three times faster and his cultivation would reach the Third Layer much sooner.
• Jin fused his Heavenly Demon Art with the Bringer-of-Darkness Technique, creating his mobile Dark Walker Technique and attaining Elite Jonin strength.

Uchiha Jin celebrated reaching Elite Jonin strength as Konoha’s ninjas developed ranks based on Basic Inner Cultivation, while the village struggled against Cloud and Iwagakure forces. Remembering Sunagakure’s imprisoned Jinchūriki, Jin realized Bunpuku could reach the transformative Third Layer, but Bunpuku refused to risk Shukaku’s life.

• Jin discussed his new Elite Jonin strength with Minato Namikaze and Kushina as they ate Rasengan and watched the snow.
• Jin explained the emerging ranks tied to Basic Inner Cultivation and noted that reaching the Third Layer could change the war.
• Jin remembered Bunpuku, the imprisoned One-Tails Jinchūriki in Sunagakure, and the power he might unlock.
• Shukaku urged Bunpuku to use its power to reach the Third Layer, but Bunpuku refused because doing so might kill Shukaku.
• Bunpuku told Shukaku to urge him to break through if his life was in danger, though he did not clearly promise to do so.

Uchiha Jin was summoned to the Hokage’s office, where Hiruzen Sarutobi challenged him over Basic Inner Cultivation. Jin rejected the criticism and openly insulted Hiruzen and the Hokage Advisors, leaving Hiruzen visibly wounded by his words.

• An Anbu summoned Uchiha Jin to the Hokage, and Jin checked the written summons before going alone.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi raised the village’s front-line losses and blamed the situation on Jin’s Basic Inner Cultivation.
• Jin challenged Hiruzen to destroy the manuals and threatened to tell the village he was being punished for strengthening Konoha.
• Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura tried to rebuke Jin, but he mocked them and challenged Homura to fight.
• Hiruzen invoked the Will of Fire, and Jin called him useless and denied his contributions to Konoha.
• Shimura Danzō laughed at Jin’s insults while Hiruzen hid his hurt expression beneath his Hokage hat.

After Uchiha Jin rejected the Hokage’s request to surrender his ninjutsu, Hiruzen Sarutobi sent Fugaku Uchiha to persuade him. Jin returned to training and later confronted Fugaku, who challenged him to learn his place.

• Uchiha Jin left the Hokage’s office after cursing the elders, and Hiruzen Sarutobi asked Fugaku Uchiha to try to obtain Jin’s ninjutsu.
• Fugaku agreed to approach Jin, while Hiruzen considered the possibility that Jin’s conflict with the Uchiha Clan could weaken it.
• Jin returned to the training ground, dismissed Minato Namikaze’s concern about his disrespect toward the Hokage, and trained with Minato and Kushina.
• Jin went home late and reflected that his physical age and limited Chakra had stalled his growth.
• Fugaku confronted Jin on a utility pole and rebuked him for disrespecting Hiruzen Sarutobi.
• Jin insulted Fugaku, who spun his Sharingan and threatened to teach him about superiority and inferiority.

Uchiha Jin defeated Fugaku Uchiha in a Sharingan genjutsu battle, then restrained him with darkness when Fugaku tried to awaken his Mangekyō Sharingan. Fugaku offered Jin the clan head position, but Jin rejected the offer and said he would take what he wanted himself.

• Fugaku Uchiha challenged Jin, and their Sharingan genjutsu clash ended with Jin overwhelming him.
• Jin’s genjutsu made Fugaku fall from a utility pole, and Fugaku accused Jin of possessing the Mangekyō Sharingan.
• Jin denied having awakened the Mangekyō, and Fugaku attempted to awaken his own.
• Jin trapped Fugaku in darkness that immobilized him and absorbed his Chakra, forcing Fugaku to admit defeat rather than reveal Susanoo.
• Fugaku offered Jin the clan head position, but Jin called him unfit to lead and refused to accept the position as a gift.

Uchiha Jin spent a leisurely day at home, trained with his companions, and gave Kiyoshi Hyuga a new technique to practice. The next morning, White Fang told Jin that the village had ordered him to go to Kumogakure to prepare defenses.

• Jin ate breakfast while Little Meow and Little White fought, then made them clean the bathroom.
• Jin reviewed the memories of five Shadow Clones researching ninjutsu and sent another five to continue their work.
• Kiyoshi Hyuga told Jin he had deliberately revealed his killing intent toward Hyuga Hiashi to leave his guard post and serve Jin more freely.
• Jin and Kiyoshi trained with Kushina and Minato Namikaze, whose reunion with Kiyoshi felt strained, before Jin gave him a scroll for the Six Meridian Sword.
• The next morning, White Fang told Jin that the village had ordered him to go to Kumogakure and prepare the defenses.