Chapter Summaries

Itachi, Kisame, and the others encountered Jin and the one-armed Sasuke, whose arrival unsettled both Itachi and Kisame. Hidan mocked the newcomers until Sasuke's rage and killing intent focused on him, and Hidan challenged Sasuke to attack.

• Itachi recognized Jin and felt a strange connection to the one-armed man beside him.
• Kisame recognized Jin, dropped Samehada, and recoiled in fear of the man who had once crushed the Akatsuki.
• Mei urged Jin and Sasuke to flee and report the Akatsuki's attack to Konoha.
• Hidan mocked Jin and Sasuke, insulting Sasuke's missing arm and provoking his fury.
• Sasuke threatened Hidan, who licked blood from his scythe and challenged him to fight.

Hidan attacked Sasuke and Uchiha Jin, but Kisame intercepted him after recognizing Jin. Kisame’s fear of Jin overwhelmed him, and he knelt before the boy.

• Hidan taunted Sasuke and swung his Bloody Reaper at Sasuke and Jin.
• Kisame shouted for Hidan to stop, then charged into him and sent him crashing through a tree and building.
• Hidan emerged from the rubble and angrily berated Kisame for interrupting his attack.
• Kisame saw Jin and remembered the beating he had suffered at Jin’s hands in the Land of Rain.
• Kisame’s fear overtook him, and he dropped to his knees before Jin, shattering the stone slabs beneath him.

Kisame Hoshigaki knelt and begged for mercy before Jin and the young man beside him, astonishing Hidan, Sasori, Mei Terumi, and Ao. Yagura rushed over and ordered the Leaf shinobi to help him take out the intruders.

• Hidan mistook Kisame's kneeling for a plea to him, but Kisame threw him back into the rubble.
• Kisame called Jin and the young man beside him "Boss," smashed his forehead against the paving stones, and begged them to let him leave.
• Hidan and Sasori were stunned by Kisame's submission, while Uchiha Itachi recognized the young man beside Jin and felt his heart ache.
• Mei Terumi realized the Leaf shinobi might save her, Ao, and the Three-Tails, while Ao struggled to believe what he saw through his Byakugan.
• Yagura charged toward Jin and ordered the Leaf shinobi to take out the intruders.

Karatachi Yagura ordered Uchiha Jin and his companion to attack Akatsuki, but Jin and Sasuke instead beat him after Sasuke used Heavenly Guard Power to switch him into Jin’s reach. Mei Terumi secretly enjoyed seeing Yagura punished as he lay swollen and dazed.

• Karatachi Yagura invoked the alliance treaty and threatened the Leaf when Uchiha Jin and his companion did not obey his orders.
• Mei Terumi tried to stop Yagura from antagonizing them, but he knocked her aside with the remnant of his Tailed Beast Cloak.
• Sasuke used Heavenly Guard Power to switch Yagura with a rock, allowing Jin to slap him.
• Jin whipped Yagura with a pitch-black chain until he spun and collapsed, badly swollen.
• Mei Terumi laughed at Yagura’s beating and became fascinated by Jin and his chain.

Uchiha Jin beat and taunted Fourth Mizukage Yagura, who threatened to appeal to the Leaf and claimed Danzo was his best friend. The chapter ended with Jin asking Yagura to confirm that claim while Yagura, badly injured, nodded and insisted they were best friends.

• Yagura threatened to demand an explanation from the Hokage, while Kisame recalled the frightening rumors about Jin and hid underground.
• Mei Terumi stopped Ao from helping Yagura and watched Jin, suspecting his Space-Time Ninjutsu was unusually powerful.
• Jin told Yagura he was acting as the Hokage of the Leaf, then angrily challenged him after discovering they were nearly the same height.
• Yagura mocked Jin and threatened to contact Sarutobi Hiruzen and Danzo, whom he called his best friend.
• Jin used Chakra hammers to break Yagura's legs, then asked whether he really knew Danzo.
• Yagura nodded through the pain and emphatically declared that Danzo was his best friend.

Karatachi Yagura clung to the hope that Danzo would punish Uchiha Jin, but Kisame told him that Danzo and Konoha’s other top leaders were dead. Yagura broke down and began a Complete Body Tailed Beast Transformation.

• Karatachi Yagura threatened Uchiha Jin with Danzo’s power while kneeling in the filthy water, badly injured.
• Kisame mocked Yagura and revealed that Danzo had been dead for a long time, killed by Uchiha Jin.
• Yagura refused to believe Kisame and appealed to Danzo’s allies, including the Third Hokage and Advisors Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura.
• Kisame told Yagura that Danzo, the two advisors, and the Third Hokage were all dead.
• Yagura lost control and transformed into the Three-Tails’ complete tailed beast form.

Yagura lost control as the Three-Tails rampaged through Kirigakure, but Uchiha Jin stopped its attacks with his Three Feet Before Me domain and cracked its claw with one finger. The Three-Tails remained in its true form, facing Jin as he prepared to claim a trait from it.

• Rain fell over Kirigakure as the Three-Tails' chakra erupted around Yagura and devastated the village center.
• Mei Terumi sent Ao to fetch Lord Genji while she stayed to confront the rampage.
• Yagura's body split apart as the Three-Tails emerged and brought its claw down on Uchiha Jin.
• Jin used Three Feet Before Me to stop the Three-Tails' claw and repel its second strike.
• Jin flicked the claw with one finger, spreading cracks across it.

The Three-Tails, Isobu, burst free from the Chakra storm and rampaged through Kirigakure, destroying buildings as the shinobi watched in terror. Mei Terumi headed toward Uchiha Jin, hoping he could stop the beast.

• Uchiha Jin severed the Three-Tails’ Chakra paw, and the burning Chakra crumbled into powder.
• The enraged Three-Tails condensed the Chakra hurricane and emerged above Kirigakure.
• Hidan welcomed the chance to offer Isobu to Lord Jashin, while Kisame and Scorpion reacted to the beast’s power.
• Mei Terumi saw Isobu destroy a watchtower and decided Uchiha Jin might be able to stop it.
• Kirigakure shinobi gathered outside the central district, recognized the rampaging Three-Tails, and feared for the village.

Genji and Kirigakure’s elders watched Isobu rampage while debating whether to let the disaster weaken Yagura’s faction, until Ao reported that Akatsuki and Leaf shinobi had arrived. As the elders prepared to help Mei Terumi, they saw her kneel before a young Leaf ninja in front of Isobu.

• Genji argued that Isobu’s rampage might let the elders eliminate Yagura’s faction, even if Kirigakure had to be rebuilt.
• Ao arrived at the cabin and reported that Akatsuki members and two Leaf shinobi had entered the village, Yagura had been injured, and Mei Terumi was trying to stop them.
• Ao recounted how Yagura had regained his senses and how Kisame Hoshigaki had knelt and begged for mercy after hearing the young Leaf ninja’s name.
• Genji and the elders decided to respond, but Isobu turned its gaze toward the people below.
• Mei Terumi walked up to the young Leaf ninja and dropped to her knees before him.

Mei Terumi knelt before Uchiha Jin and offered herself in exchange for his help saving Kirigakure from the Three-Tails. Sasuke watched in disbelief and wondered whether Kirigakure needed a Child Protection Law.

• Mei Terumi approached Jin despite the Three-Tails threatening to destroy Kirigakure's center.
• Mei knelt before Jin and begged him to save Kirigakure and its innocent villagers.
• Jin asked why Kirigakure's crisis had anything to do with him.
• Mei offered to do anything and declared that she belonged to Jin in every way.
• Sasuke looked away, questioned why Mei had chosen his child-sized brother, and thought of discussing a Child Protection Law with Naruto.

Uchiha Jin offered to save Kirigakure in exchange for Mei Terumi giving up everything and obeying his orders. He began listing his demands, leaving Mei stunned that he knew about Genji.

• Itachi noticed Mei Terumi kneeling before Jin and suspected she might become Jin's future wife, then glared at Kisame for having beaten her.
• Kisame realized Mei might become Jin's woman and panicked over nearly cutting her to pieces.
• Jin brushed Mei's bangs aside, patted her forehead, and said saving Kirigakure was possible, but it would cost her everything, including herself.
• Mei agreed to do whatever Jin asked if he saved her village.
• Jin told Mei to obey his orders instead of Genji, then announced that his second demand was the most important.

Uchiha Jin demanded that Mei Terumi place the Mist Village under his command in exchange for saving it from the rampaging Three-Tails. Mei agreed, and Jin covered her with a cloak before walking away, leaving Mei confused by his lack of interest and newly determined to win him over.

• Uchiha Jin demanded that Mei Terumi obey his orders, even if that meant attacking the other Shinobi Villages.
• Mei Terumi agreed to follow Jin's commands if he saved Mugen Village, the Three-Tails, and the people there.
• Mei Terumi bowed before Jin, offering herself and the Mist Village's allegiance.
• Jin dropped a black cloak over Mei Terumi and walked away without accepting her implied offer.
• Mei Terumi wondered why Jin had rejected her advances, then decided to make him recognize her appeal.
• Jin regarded Mei Terumi as a useful tool and wondered why she was staring at him so intensely.

Hidan mocked Mei Terumi for kneeling before Uchiha Jin, then attacked Jin despite Kisame's attempts to stop him. Kisame ended up wounded by Hidan and knelt before Jin to demand justice, leaving Hidan stunned.

• Hidan laughed at Mei Terumi's submission to Uchiha Jin and insulted Jin, provoking Kisame's alarm.
• Hidan charged at Jin with his Bloody Reaper, and Kisame rushed to stop him.
• Kisame and Hidan fought until Jin's glance made Kisame freeze and lower his weapon.
• Hidan stabbed Kisame in the waist with his scythe and demanded that he kneel or have his blood swallowed.
• Kisame knelt before Jin, asked him to deliver justice, and sat down wailing when Hidan's eyes widened in disbelief.

Uchiha Jin revealed that he knew the secrets behind Hidan’s immortality and blood ritual, then overwhelmed Hidan with a flurry of slaps. The chapter left Hidan stunned beneath Jin’s attack while the onlookers wondered how Jin knew so much.

• Hidan abandoned his ritual and challenged Jin after Jin mocked his confidence in his immortality.
• Jin said Hidan’s immortality came from the Evil God inheritance, surprising Hidan and impressing Itachi and Future Sasuke with his knowledge.
• Jin vanished and struck Hidan with a slap that sent him tumbling across the ground.
• Jin repeatedly slapped Hidan before explaining that Hidan’s scythe used a victim’s blood to offer them to its master.
• Jin brought his foot down on Hidan’s head, and Sasori, Itachi, and Future Sasuke were shocked that Jin knew Hidan’s hidden blood-based secret.

Jin knocked the Three-Tails down with a single slap, provoking it into charging a Tailed Beast Bomb. As Itachi rushed to protect Jin, Kisame mistakenly assumed Itachi was saving him and carried him away.

• Mei Terumi watched Jin effortlessly kill the guards and decided she had chosen correctly by supporting him.
• Jin silenced Isobu by striking it with Eight Trigrams Vacuum Palm, knocking the Three-Tails over and damaging nearby buildings.
• Hidan recovered from Jin's slap, which had forcibly interrupted his Evil God ritual, and threatened Jin.
• Isobu gathered Chakra in its mouth to form a Tailed Beast Bomb and glared at Jin.
• Itachi ran toward Jin, intending to protect him with his Mangekyō Sharingan, but Kisame scooped Itachi up and fled, believing he was rescuing him.

Uchiha Jin absorbed the Three-Tails’ Tailed Beast Bomb with Kamui and used Hidan as a shield against its attacks. The Three-Tails pounded Hidan into minced meat while the village and its people watched.

• Kisame carried Itachi away from the Three-Tails’ Tailed Beast Bomb as Itachi struggled to break free.
• Mei Terumi despaired as the Tailed Beast Bomb struck Kirigakure’s central area and tore through the village.
• Uchiha Jin used Kamui to transfer the Tailed Beast Bomb, shocking the onlookers and Sasuke from the future.
• The Three-Tails attacked Jin with its tails, and Jin grabbed Hidan and put him in the way of the blows.
• The Three-Tails repeatedly struck Hidan until his body was reduced to minced meat, leaving only his mouth moving.

After stopping the Three-Tails’ attack on the village, Jin copied Hidan’s Bloodcurtse trait and considered how to exploit its damage-reflection effect. The Three-Tails charged again, and Jin pierced its head with Endless Lock before beginning to draw out its Chakra.

• Jin defeated Hidan, examined his traits, and copied Bloodcurtse instead of the Immortal Body.
• Jin wondered whether he could use Bloodcurtse with the Golden Body of Light and considered testing the trait on Sasori.
• The Three-Tails charged at Jin, and he pierced its head through the mouth with Endless Lock.
• Jin began extracting the Three-Tails’ Chakra into his palm to refine a pill.

Uchiha Jin tested his fused Wood Release against the Three-Tails, crushing it with a gigantic wooden hand before refining its chakra into a rare pill. He tossed the pill to Mei Terumi, while the Three-Tails was left drained and bound.

• Uchiha Jin used the Endless Lock chains to suppress the Three-Tails and drain its chakra.
• Uchiha Jin formed a gigantic black wooden hand with his fused Wood Release and crushed the Three-Tails into the ground.
• Uchiha Jin increased the vortex’s suction and refined the weakened Three-Tails into a blue Chakra Essence Pill.
• Uchiha Jin tossed the pill toward Mei Terumi and told her to eat it.

Jin gave Mei Terumi a pill made from the Three-Tails’ chakra, and she swallowed it to protect Kirigakure despite fearing it was a curse. The pill instead greatly increased her chakra, leaving Kisame and Sasori astonished by Jin’s power.

• Jin tossed Mei Terumi a blue pill containing the Three-Tails’ chakra and called it her reward.
• Mei Terumi feared the pill would control or poison her, but chose to swallow it to give Kirigakure hope.
• The pill released a vast surge of chakra that replenished and greatly strengthened Mei Terumi.
• Kisame sensed Mei Terumi’s new power and Samehada’s hunger for her chakra, then warned the sword away from Jin’s woman.
• Kisame’s movement broke a piece of Sasori’s puppet tail as Sasori stared in shock at Jin’s technique.

Itachi recognized the one-armed stranger as a future Sasuke, who blamed him for killing Jin during the Uchiha Clan Massacre. Jin subdued Yagura and implanted Spore Gods in him, while the battlefield remained tense until an angry voice calling for Mei Terumi approached Kirigakure’s inner district.

• Itachi examined the stranger’s eyes, arm, chakra, and soul, then concluded he was Sasuke from the future.
• Future Sasuke accused Itachi of killing Jin with his own hands, leaving Itachi stunned and confused.
• Jin entered the crater, subdued Yagura with Spore God, and made him tremble in fear and submission.
• Sasori and Kisame awkwardly looked for something to do as Mei Terumi’s Chakra continued to surge.
• An angry old voice called for Mei Terumi from outside Kirigakure’s inner district, and Kisame welcomed the arrival of someone to confront.