Chapter Summaries

Uchiha Jin confronted A and Ōnoki after thunder sounded from the Forest of Death, then turned to Konoha’s reconstruction needs. The chapter ended as Killer B led three thousand Cloud Village shinobi in an attack on Konoha.

• Uchiha Jin questioned A and Ōnoki about whether they had protected the brick kiln, and the two Kage bowed nervously before him.
• Temari considered how to protect Sunagakure’s shinobi and began charming Fugaku, while Jin noticed them and joked about Shikamaru’s future wife.
• Nara Shikaku presented Jin with reconstruction ledgers, and Jin suggested that Senju Hashirama handle the administration.
• Killer B led three thousand Cloud Village elite shinobi toward Konoha as their attack began with lightning and earth-style techniques.

Killer B and Kitsuchi led five thousand Kumogakure and Iwagakure ninja into the Forest of Death to rescue their villages’ Kage, who were being held by Konoha. They declared they had come to take their people home, but the workers below ignored them and returned to the assembly line.

• Killer B met Kitsuchi atop a massive earthen wall and proposed joining forces to rescue their imprisoned Kage.
• The captured Kumogakure ninja discussed their comfortable work and said they had no desire to leave, while an Iwagakure worker explained that factory labor had made him feel more relaxed than ever.
• Kitsuchi and Killer B realized the workers had not noticed the rescue force, so they ordered five thousand ninja to shout that they had come to take their people home.
• The workers glanced at the shouting alliance and then resumed their mechanical labor, leaving the rescuers dumbfounded.

Kitsuchi and Killer B led a massive allied force to rescue Ōnoki and A, but the prisoners and workers at the Forest of Death rallied behind Uchiha Jin instead. Convinced that his brother was an illusion, Killer B attacked A as the forces surged toward the worksite.

• Senju Hashirama marveled at Konoha’s recovery and the workers’ calm response while Nara Shikaku warned that the approaching Cloud Village and Iwagakure forces might be attacking.
• Killer B and Kitsuchi realized their chant had failed, spotted A and Ōnoki being carried away, and ordered their forces to charge into the Forest of Death.
• The Konoha workers and captured Cloud and Iwa shinobi shouted their support for Uchiha Jin, leaving Kitsuchi and Killer B bewildered.
• Killer B decided he was trapped in an illusion when A told him to retreat, then attacked A with Eight-Tails-powered lightning.

Killer B slapped the genjutsu-created Fourth Raikage A, and the two fought while Ōnoki tried to stop Iwagakure’s shinobi from intervening. A golden-haired teenager arrived on a flying white bird and eyed the construction site as a target for a bomb.

• Killer B slapped the illusion of Fourth Raikage A and taunted him, provoking A into attacking with Lightning Release.
• A and B clashed, but A’s missing arm made him lose his balance until Uchiha Jin gave him a Tailed Beast Cloak.
• Kitsuchi suspected Ōnoki and the others might be caught in a genjutsu, but Ōnoki blocked the advancing Iwagakure shinobi with a stone arm.
• Ōnoki raised the ground beneath himself and ordered nearly two thousand Iwagakure shinobi to stand down.
• A golden-haired teenager flew in on a white bird, spotted the prepared foundation, and asked whether bombing it would be artistic.

Deidara joined the Iwagakure forces confronting the Leaf and attacked the Forest of Death foundation, prompting Ōnoki to fight his own student. When Deidara launched a giant clay dragon at the base, Uchiha Jin used Kamui to intercept it.

• Deidara appeared above the Iwagakure formation on a giant clay bird and sent two small exploding birds toward the Leaf's foundation.
• Ōnoki contained the explosion with an earthen pillar, while Jin watched the confrontation and gave Ōnoki a Tailed Beast Cloak.
• Ōnoki scolded Deidara for leaving home, and the two began fighting in the air.
• Deidara created a C2 Dragon and sent it diving toward the foundation.
• Jin activated Kamui: Transfer as the clay dragon approached.

Uchiha Jin stopped Deidara’s explosive clay dragon with space-time ninjutsu, then knocked Deidara from the sky and restrained him with a chakra hand. Kitsuchi recognized Jin as a Perfect Jinchuriki and tried to negotiate, but Jin told him to get in line.

• Ōnoki identified Deidara’s explosive clay dragon as a threat, but Jin swallowed it with a space-time vortex.
• Jin called Deidara down to talk, and Deidara mocked him before Jin blasted apart his clay bird with a Tailed Beast Bomb.
• Deidara used a clay owl to catch himself, but Jin’s chakra hand grabbed the owl and stopped it from flying away.
• Kitsuchi realized Jin was a Perfect Jinchuriki and, encouraged by a subordinate, approached him to negotiate for Vulture’s rescue.
• Jin pulled Deidara and the owl down, then told Kitsuchi to get in line.

Uchiha Jin captured Deidara, copied his traits unsuccessfully, and impressed him with a massive Chakra-powered blast. After Jin freed Deidara and challenged him to a fight, Deidara attacked with explosive clay.

• Killer B learned from Gyūki that the young boy was a Jinchuriki and realized he had not been under genjutsu, but the Raikage kept pressing the fight.
• Jin restrained Deidara and conversed with him long enough to analyze his traits, then used Spore God on him.
• Jin fired a compressed Tailed Beast Bomb Eight Trigrams Vacuum Palm that destroyed Iwagakure's massive earthen wall, leaving Deidara awestruck by the explosion.
• Jin released Deidara's restraints and challenged him to fight in exchange for an explanation of the technique.
• Deidara formed an explosive clay centipede and a clay clone, then sent his attack toward Jin.

Uchiha Jin drained the Chakra from Deidara’s self-destructing Clay Clone, leaving it as a lump of mud and enraging Deidara. Deidara attacked Jin with more explosive clay, but he began to slow down as the allied forces watched him behaving strangely in the clearing.

• Deidara enlarged his Clay Clone and prepared to destroy the Forest of Death foundations, prompting Kitsuchi, Killer B, and the Fourth Raikage A to ready defenses.
• The clone sprouted pale, mushroom-like growths that drained its explosive Chakra until it collapsed into mud at Jin’s feet.
• Senju Hashirama recognized that Jin had planted something like a seed in Deidara, which had also reached the clone and weakened it.
• Deidara blamed Jin for ruining his art and attacked him with Clay Centipedes and a forming C4 Garuda.
• Deidara’s vision turned blood-red and his movements slowed while the five thousand allied shinobi watched him shout and wrap a centipede around himself.

Uchiha Jin defeated Deidara by trapping him in a genjutsu, then copied and upgraded Deidara’s Clay Clone trait into Cultivation Body, which let him create clones and grant them three traits. Jin left Deidara shaken and asked him to join the Leaf, prompting Deidara to protest that Jin was poaching him in front of his teacher.

• Jin’s genjutsu made Deidara believe he was surrounded by crimson and about to detonate the Clay Centipede wrapped around him.
• Kitsuchi, Ōnoki, and Hashirama suspected Deidara was caught in a genjutsu, and Jin released it just before Deidara detonated the centipede.
• Jin absorbed Deidara’s Chakra and copied his Clay Clone trait, then upgraded it into the Cultivation Body trait.
• Jin created a small clone and granted it Instant Tailed Beast Bomb, Power of the Nine-Tails, and Phase Rush.
• Jin asked Deidara to join the Leaf, and Deidara protested that Jin was trying to poach him in front of his teacher.

Kitsuchi ordered the Iwagakure forces to attack while Jin tried to recruit Deidara and demonstrated his explosive Cultivation Body. The clone tore through the Iwagakure formation with Phase Rush and rapid-fire Tailed Beast Bombs, leaving Kitsuchi’s troops in chaos.

• Kitsuchi accepted his subordinate’s advice and ordered the two thousand Iwagakure shinobi to attack the Leaf.
• Ōnoki considered that Jin might keep Deidara from becoming a rogue ninja, while Jin invited Deidara to join the Leaf.
• As the Iwagakure forces charged, Jin threw out his clay Cultivation Body and told Deidara he would show him a different kind of explosion.
• The Cultivation Body used Phase Rush to charge into the Iwagakure formation and unleashed a stream of Instant Tailed Beast Bombs.
• The clone raced through the troops again, smashing Earth Walls and killing or injuring shinobi as Kitsuchi watched the formation collapse into chaos.

Uchiha Jin’s Cultivation Body tore through the Iwagakure forces with relentless Tailed Beast Bombs, forcing Ōnoki to plead for their lives. As the battlefield collapsed, the Cultivation Body formed three enormous Tailed Beast Bombs, leaving the surviving shinobi facing an even greater attack.

• The Cultivation Body used lightning-fast movement and Instant Tailed Beast Bombs to slaughter Iwagakure shinobi and break their defenses.
• Deidara watched the destruction and realized his own explosions seemed small beside the Cultivation Body’s relentless killing power.
• Ōnoki knelt before Uchiha Jin and begged him to spare the Iwagakure forces, offering to pay a ransom.
• Kitsuchi blamed the bespectacled strategist for leading them into the attack as the Iwagakure troops panicked and lost their will to fight.
• The Cultivation Body rose into the air and formed three enormous Tailed Beast Bombs in front of its crossed arms.

The Cultivation Body overwhelmed Killer B’s Eight-Tails with three devastating Tailed Beast Bombs, leaving the Cloud Village forces shaken. After Killer B and the Cloud shinobi attacked in coordination, the Cultivation Body began to swell and prepared to use Self-Destruction.

• Kitsuchi asked Ōnoki and Killer B to protect the Iwagakure forces from the Cultivation Body’s three Tailed Beast Bombs.
• Killer B transformed into the Eight-Tails and attacked, while Gyūki warned him that the enemy wielded Kurama’s power.
• The Cultivation Body’s three Tailed Beast Bombs severed the Eight-Tails’ tails, overwhelmed its own bomb, and blasted it through the forest.
• Killer B ordered three thousand Cloud Village shinobi to use Lightning Binding, then charged the Cultivation Body with a Tailed Beast Cloak-enhanced elbow strike.
• The Cultivation Body began to swell as it activated Ultimate Art—Self-Destruction.

Killer B struck Uchiha Jin’s Cultivation Body, but it self-destructed and devastated the battlefield. Killer B and Gyūki survived barely, while fewer than a thousand of Cloud Village’s three thousand shinobi remained alive, and Uchiha Jin smiled at the prompts appearing before him.

• Killer B used Tailed Beast Rariatto against Uchiha Jin’s Cultivation Body to stop it from attacking the Cloud Village forces.
• Uchiha Jin’s Cultivation Body self-destructed, unleashing a blast that engulfed the battlefield and carved out a massive crater.
• Gyūki repeatedly tried to shield Killer B with chakra as the explosion tore through them.
• The blast left fewer than a thousand Cloud Village shinobi alive and too exhausted to move, while Killer B lay gravely wounded in the crater.
• Killer B asked Gyūki whether he was still alive, and Gyūki said he was barely hanging on.
• Uchiha Jin smiled as prompts appeared before him.

Uchiha Jin celebrated gaining Octopus Tentacle Regeneration after defeating Killer B, while the surviving Cloud Shinobi watched in anger. He gave them a choice: work to pay for the damage or die and be revived through Impure World Reincarnation to work anyway.

• Uchiha Jin laughed after receiving the Octopus Tentacle Regeneration trait, and Senju Hashirama compared his laughter to Madara's.
• Deidara praised Jin's laughter as art and danced along to its rhythm.
• The Fourth Raikage, A, confronted Jin over his ruthlessness, while a Cloud Shinobi Jonin tried to attack and his companion stopped him.
• Orochimaru threatened the remaining Cloud Shinobi and welcomed the chance to collect bodies for Impure World Reincarnation.
• Uchiha Jin combined his copied White traits, then ordered the surviving Cloud Shinobi to work off the damage or die and be revived to work.

Jin threatened the invading Cloud and Stone shinobi with forced labor in life or after death, prompting their survivors to mount a desperate counterattack. As a massive lightning-charged stone monster attacked him, Jin combined Perfect Sage Mode, tailed Chakra, a Lightning Style Cloak, and Susanoo to summon the Giant of Light.

• Jin silenced the battlefield by threatening to make the shinobi work after death if they refused to work while alive.
• A Cloud Jonin and a wounded Stone Chunin rallied the surviving Cloud and Stone forces, who believed Jin had exhausted his Chakra.
• More than a thousand Stone shinobi combined their strength to create a giant stone monster, and the Cloud shinobi covered it in Lightning Armor.
• The lightning-charged stone monster attacked Jin, who activated Perfect Sage Mode, the Power of the Nine-Tails, the Power of the Two-Tails, and his Lightning Style Cloak.
• Jin summoned his Susanoo, the Giant of Light.

Uchiha Jin fought the allied Iwagakure and Cloud Village forces with his Armored Susanoo, while Iwagakure's officials celebrated their expected victory. After exhausting the alliance, Jin gave the shinobi one last choice between serving him alive or being forced into labor after death.

• Iwagakure officials gloated over the alliance's attack on Konoha until a sensory ninja reported that the Iwagakure and Cloud Village forces had been utterly defeated.
• Uchiha Jin armored the Six-Tails with his white Susanoo, impressing the First Hokage, Fugaku, Shisui, and Sai.
• Jin battled the stone giant formed by the allied shinobi and realized he could withstand two villages and over four thousand troops through sheer strength.
• After the battle drained much of the alliance's chakra and shrank the stone giant, Jin offered the remaining shinobi one final chance to submit.
• Jin summoned the Law Chain of Conferring Gods: Endless Lock and released Spore God across the battlefield, declaring that the defeated could live as black mercenaries or die as black laborers.

Uchiha Jin trapped more than four thousand allied shinobi from Cloud Village and Iwagakure inside a barrier and captured them with chakra-sealing chains. He declared them Black Laborers for Konoha’s work zone, while Shikaku and the others looked forward to putting them to work.

• Nara Shikaku, Akimichi Choza, Kakashi, Might Guy, and the Black Laborers watched as Uchiha Jin enclosed the allied forces in a vast red barrier.
• Iwagakure’s Barrier Team failed to break through, and a Cloud Village shinobi injured himself charging the barrier before Amaterasu set his armor ablaze.
• Kitsuchi and Killer B tried to negotiate, but Uchiha Jin ignored them and unleashed chains that pierced and sealed the trapped shinobi’s chakra.
• After half an hour, the chains had hoisted the captured shinobi into human balls, and Uchiha Jin asked whether anyone objected to becoming a Black Laborer.
• When the captives could only make muffled sounds, Uchiha Jin treated their silence as agreement and welcomed them to Konoha’s work zone.

Uchiha Jin enslaved captured Shinobi Alliance forces to rebuild the Leaf and gave Orochimaru more than a thousand elite corpses for his research. After learning Jin had visited the Akatsuki and seen its eyes, Orochimaru asked him to help capture an enemy.

• Jin shackled and counted 486 captured ninjas, then sent them to work on the Leaf's reconstruction.
• Jin assigned the others to organize the rebuilding effort and offered Orochimaru nearly a thousand corpses for Impure World Reincarnation and Shinigami-arm experiments.
• Jin gave Orochimaru sealed White Zetsu spores that could use Wood Release.
• Orochimaru learned Jin had visited the Akatsuki and seen its eyes, then asked Jin to help capture an enemy.

Orochimaru asked Jin to help capture Uchiha Itachi for his Mangekyō Sharingan, but Killer B interrupted and attacked Orochimaru. After Killer B tried to use the Leaf’s agreement against defiling the dead to pressure Jin, Jin sent him away with Double Kamui.

• Orochimaru asked Jin to help him capture Itachi and study his Mangekyō Sharingan.
• Killer B charged at Orochimaru, blaming him for enslaving Cloud Village shinobi and intending to defile their dead.
• Orochimaru dodged Killer B’s eight swords, and Jin agreed to deal with the intruder.
• Killer B invoked the Five Great Shinobi Villages’ agreement against defiling the dead, hoping the Leaf’s leaders would intervene.
• Jin used Double Kamui to pull Killer B into a space-time vortex, then vanished the vortex.

The Leaf forced captured Cloud and Iwagakure shinobi to build a park while Orochimaru experimented on Jin with White Zetsu tissue. After learning that thousands of Cloud shinobi were trapped in the Leaf, Darui’s village leaders decided to threaten a war between nations unless their people were released.

• Captured Iwagakure and Cloud shinobi labored under each other’s whips to clear and level the new Leaf Village park as Senju Hashirama and the Ino-Shika-Cho clan heads watched.
• Orochimaru fused White Zetsu tissue with Jin’s body and injected another corpse with diluted First Hokage cells to test a possible Impure World Reincarnation experiment.
• Darui received news that three thousand elite shinobi and two thousand Iwagakure veterans were trapped in the Leaf, then summoned Cloud Village leaders to discuss a response.
• Several Cloud leaders demanded an attack, but a bald elder ordered them to pressure the Land of Fire’s Daimyo and threaten war between nations unless the Leaf released their people.