Chapter Summaries

Two and a half years later, Jin watched Sasuke struggle with the Great Fireball Technique and revealed that Sasuke’s Lightning Release talent clashed with his Fire Style. Jin demonstrated Lightning Release and the Chidori, leaving Sasuke in awe and Fugaku wondering how his son had learned the technique.

• Sasuke failed to produce more than a tiny flame while practicing the Great Fireball Technique, and Fugaku tried to console him.
• Jin told Sasuke that he had copied Fugaku’s demonstration and learned the technique on his first try, then clarified that Fugaku had meant a five-meter-wide fireball.
• Jin examined Sasuke with his Byakugan and explained that Sasuke’s Lightning Chakra interfered with his Fire Style.
• Jin demonstrated Lightning Release and formed a Chidori, stunning Fugaku and making Sasuke desperate to learn it.
• Sasuke compared his hard work with Jin’s effortless mastery and thought of their family as the genius’s older brother, prodigy Jin, and himself as the fool.

After copying the Mangekyō Sharingan trait from Fugaku, Jin discovered that his eyes had changed but had not awakened any special abilities, and using them caused pain and bleeding. He went looking for a way to prevent blindness and arrived at a cliff, where he encountered Shisui.

• Sasuke took Fugaku and Jin's teasing as inspiration to sunbathe, hoping to learn Lightning Release so he could electrocute dogs.
• Fugaku questioned Jin about performing Chidori without hand seals, and Jin casually clapped his hands to demonstrate.
• Jin received the Mangekyō Sharingan trait after talking with Fugaku, but found that his eyes still looked like a Three Tomoe Sharingan.
• Jin activated his Mangekyō and discovered heightened vision, but the effort made his eyes bleed without revealing any unique ability.
• Jin considered finding Wood Release to prevent blindness and went to a cliff where he found Shisui practicing on the water.

Jin noticed Shisui carried a black Death Wish trait and questioned him about the village and Danzo, then challenged him to a fight to try copying his traits. The battle began with Jin using the Flying Thunder God Technique to surprise Shisui, who regrouped as twelve clones, while Jin revealed his Sharingan and Byakugan.

• Jin saw that Shisui's traits had changed and noticed the black Death Wish trait among them.
• Jin asked Shisui what he thought of the village and Danzo, but his attempt to copy traits through conversation failed.
• Jin awakened his Sharingan and challenged Shisui to a fight.
• Shisui attacked with a chakra blade, but Jin used the Flying Thunder God Technique to appear behind him with a shuriken.
• Shisui escaped by turning into water and re-formed as twelve sword-wielding clones, while Jin revealed his Byakugan alongside his Sharingan.

Uchiha Jin and Uchiha Shisui sparred beside the Naka River, where Jin used his marked stones and techniques to defeat Shisui’s clones. Shisui conceded but promised to show Jin and Itachi something amazing in two days, hinting at Susanoo.

• Shisui attacked Jin with shuriken and Explosive Tags, but Jin’s Flying Thunder God marks and intangibility let him evade the barrage.
• Shisui charged Jin with thirty-six Body Flicker clones, but Jin used a Substitution Technique to avoid his sword strike.
• Jin used Lightning Release: Chidori through the river to destroy Shisui’s clones and leave the real Shisui on the cliff.
• Shisui admitted defeat and told Jin he would show him and Itachi something amazing in two days.

Uchiha Jin copied Shisui’s Phantom Body Flicker Technique and warned him to watch out for Danzo. Jin, Shisui, and Itachi escorted Sasuke to his first day at the Ninja Academy, where Naruto joined them and Jin began copying Naruto’s traits.

• Jin obtained Shisui’s Phantom Body Flicker Technique after finally copying the trait.
• Jin asked Shisui what he would do if Jin and Itachi opposed the village, and Shisui vowed to protect them and Sasuke.
• Jin warned Shisui to watch out for Danzo, then joined Shisui in taking Sasuke to the Ninja Academy.
• Naruto greeted Sasuke and linked arms with him, while Jin encouraged Naruto to keep an eye on Sasuke at school.
• Jin analyzed Naruto’s traits and froze after seeing the trait he had copied.

Jin gained the Power of the Nine-Tails and briefly entered Naruto’s sealing space, where he startled the Nine-Tails by calling it Kurama. At the Ninja Academy, Jin spread absurd rumors about Sasuke, leaving Sasuke bewildered as classmates began treating him like an idiot who ate sheep droppings.

• After talking with Naruto, Jin copied Power of the Nine-Tails · Remnant and fused it into Power of the Nine-Tails · Two.
• Jin entered Naruto’s sealing space and called the Nine-Tails Kurama, provoking it to angrily throw him out.
• Itachi helped Jin enter the Ninja Academy, while Shisui realized Jin had beaten him despite not graduating.
• At the academy, Itachi entertained a girl with stories about Sasuke while Jin copied a nimble trait from a passerby.
• Jin told girls fabricated stories that Sasuke was an idiot who ate sheep droppings and had been dropped as a baby.
• Sasuke was confused when girls offered him chocolate beans and assured him they would not judge him for being an idiot.

After collecting traits from his classmates, Jin upgraded his Flying Thunder God Technique and used it to evade Kakashi. Kakashi followed Jin out of the village and discovered he was heading toward a graveyard, where he recognized his teacher’s grave.

• Sasuke returned to the Uchiha Clan furious at Jin for ruining his reputation, while Mikoto and Fugaku discussed having another child.
• Jin gained nearly fifty traits by chatting with his classmates and fused them to raise Flying Thunder God to level seven, increasing its maximum range to 1,000 meters.
• Kakashi saw Jin vanish and used his Sharingan and Pakkun to track the trail out of the village.
• Jin revealed he had used clones, a Transformation Technique, and Flying Thunder God to lure Kakashi away, then headed in the opposite direction.
• Kakashi became curious and followed Jin to a graveyard, where he recognized his teacher’s grave.

Jin visited Minato and Kushina’s graves to use his corpse-touching ability, but found their bodies missing and suspected Orochimaru had taken them. He followed Root to a cliffside ambush targeting Shisui, only to discover Danzo was a clone and the attack had already moved elsewhere.

• Jin visited Minato’s grave, attempted to touch his corpse, and found that both Minato and Kushina’s bodies were missing.
• Kakashi watched Jin at the cemetery and noticed fresh flowers at Rin’s grave, leaving him troubled by the mystery.
• Jin sensed Root operatives passing the cemetery and followed them through the village to the woods atop a cliff.
• Jin realized Danzo’s Root forces appeared to be preparing an ambush for Shisui and prepared to intervene.
• Danzo vanished as a clone, and the Root operatives rushed away; Jin concluded they had already taken Shisui’s eye elsewhere.

Jin followed Root to the forest, where Danzo ambushed Shisui and stole one of his eyes. Jin knocked Danzo unconscious, took the eye, and left Kakashi to guard the scene until Hiruzen arrived, whereupon Danzo accused him of attacking from behind.

• Shisui eagerly met Danzo, who claimed he had a way to resolve the Uchiha conflict, then stole one of Shisui’s eyes.
• Shisui used Body Flicker to flee, but Danzo insisted his men would stop him.
• Jin sneaked up on Danzo, struck him with a powered brick, took Shisui’s eye, and beat Danzo while leaving him alive.
• Kakashi arrived after Jin left, sent a signal to Hiruzen, and guarded the unconscious Danzo.
• Hiruzen arrived with Enma, and Danzo woke up and accused Hiruzen of attacking him from behind.

Jin copied Danzo’s Wood Release Cells trait after defeating him, while Shisui fled Root and chose to fake his death by jumping from a cliff. Itachi awakened his Mangekyo Sharingan over Shisui’s apparent death, but Jin revealed he had rescued Shisui and scolded Itachi for accepting his friend’s wish to die.

• Jin copied Danzo’s Wood Release Cells · Remnant trait and considered upgrading it despite its life-force cost.
• Shisui escaped Root with his Susanoo, then collapsed on the way to his usual refuge.
• Itachi found Shisui, who said Danzo had taken his other eye and asked Itachi to hide his death and care for the village, clan, and children.
• Shisui jumped from the cliff, and Itachi awakened his Mangekyo Sharingan and killed a pursuing Root member with Amaterasu.
• Jin arrived carrying the rescued Shisui and jabbed Itachi in the forehead for taking Shisui’s request seriously.

Fugaku quelled the Uchiha clan’s growing calls for a coup after Shisui returned with his eyes gouged out, while Itachi concealed that Shisui had done it himself. As the clan settled down, Itachi spotted a masked figure he suspected was from Root and pursued him.

• Uchiha clansmen complained to Fugaku about their mistreatment and urged him to lead a coup with Shisui and Itachi’s help.
• Shisui returned to the Uchiha compound with his eyes gouged out, and the clan blamed the Leaf.
• A Hawk Faction Elder produced a robe marked “Fifth Hokage” and called for the Uchiha to seize power.
• Fugaku asked Itachi what had happened, and Itachi claimed Shisui had gouged out his own eyes.
• Fugaku promised to speak with the Hokage and sent the clansmen home, while Itachi privately regarded the elders’ defiance of the Hokage as intolerable.
• Itachi noticed a masked man outside the compound whom he suspected was from Root, then chased after him.

Danzo left the Hokage's Office believing Hiruzen had urged him to keep serving the village as its Nameless Shadow. At the cliff, Jin pushed Kakashi to confront Danzo and the Hokage's inaction, while Kakashi vowed to protect the Uchiha despite Jin knowing their clan's fate.

• Hiruzen confronted Danzo about his repeated accusations and told him the village needed a Nameless Shadow as well as a Hokage.
• Danzo took the Hokage's Cloak and left, convinced that further service might eventually earn him the Hokage's position.
• Hiruzen waited for Itachi and told him that his younger brother had taken Shisui's eye.
• Jin watched Danzo return without attacking Hiruzen, then met Kakashi beneath the moon.
• Kakashi concluded that Danzo might have targeted Shisui's eye and wondered how Minato would have handled the conflict between the village and the Uchiha.
• Jin's words stirred Kakashi's anger at Danzo and the Hokage, and Kakashi vowed to protect the Uchiha while Jin recalled that the clan would be wiped out.

Uchiha Jin copied Kakashi’s Kamui Eye and tested its power by draining the Naka River. Elsewhere, the masked man approached Itachi again and demonstrated Kamui.

• Jin failed to copy a trait from Kakashi, then obtained Kakashi’s Kamui Eye after beating him.
• Jin estimated his Chakra reserves at about 1.8 million and left Kakashi to test his new ability.
• At the Naka River, Jin opened a Kamui vortex and used it to remove the entire river in thirty seconds.
• The masked man confronted Itachi in the Uchiha’s Back Mountain and activated Kamui after Itachi attacked him with shuriken.

Jin’s excessive use of Kamui caused severe eye pain and sent a flood through the dimension, which Obito passed off to Itachi as his own Water Release. Jin returned to the Uchiha District, where he discovered Sasuke had filled his room with destructive dogs and took revenge on him.

• A torrent of water burst from the Kamui Dimension, and Obito angrily blamed Kakashi for dumping it there.
• Itachi mistook the flood for Obito’s Water Release, and Obito introduced himself as Uchiha Madara.
• Jin tested Kamui at the Naka River, reached about one hundred meters, and suffered bleeding eye pain from overusing his Mangekyō Sharingan.
• Jin found the Dry Ditch flooded, rescued a Shiba Inu, and cursed whoever had used Water Release nearby.
• Jin returned home to find dogs had wrecked his room and dirtied it, recognized Sasuke’s prank, and punished the sleeping Sasuke until he screamed.

Jin defeated Sasuke in a physical duel and accidentally acquired the Great Fireball Technique trait. After Sasuke asked him to teach Lightning Release, Jin demonstrated Chidori and wondered whether Kakashi had invented it to pair with Thousand Years of Death.

• Mikoto worried about the boys fighting, but Fugaku refused to intervene and said Sasuke deserved the beating.
• Jin released Sasuke from the courtyard wall and challenged him to a fight without jutsu.
• Sasuke charged Jin, who flipped him over his shoulder with a Uchiha Body Slam and knocked him senseless.
• Jin copied Sasuke's Great Fireball Technique trait and worried that the slam had left Sasuke emotionally unstable.
• Sasuke asked Jin to teach him Lightning Release, and Jin demonstrated Chidori while telling him to sense lightning in nature.
• Jin noticed his Thousand Years of Death trait and imagined Kakashi combining it with Chidori.

Jin encouraged Sasuke to seek the power of lightning, while Fugaku interrupted their morning with a blow that failed to dampen Sasuke’s ambition. As Jin gained a powerful new trait from two Anbu observers, Sasuke appeared to draw lightning from the sky.

• Jin asked Sasuke whether he wanted to become the Lightning King, but Fugaku threw a bamboo pole that struck Sasuke on the butt and shouted at him.
• Sasuke decided to sense lightning in nature and climbed a tree, where he startled two Anbu watching him.
• Jin greeted the Anbu and spent ten minutes talking with them, copying two green Light as a Swallow traits.
• Jin merged the traits into Swift Shadow and gained the purple Phantom Trace trait, which boosted his flexibility and speed and let him create an explosive afterimage.
• A thunderous crash sounded as Sasuke spread his arms beneath the sky, and a bolt of lightning began forming above him.

Jin left the Ninja Academy to investigate Danzo’s surveillance, hoping to find First Generation Cells that could stabilize his dangerous, incomplete Wood Release. A Root Ninja with Wood Release captured him, and Jin immediately asked to talk so he could copy the technique.

• Fugaku caught Sasuke after lightning struck him and threatened to make him king when he woke up.
• Sasuke rushed to the Ninja Academy, where he learned Itachi had told girls that he wet the bed, then Naruto slapped him before he could blame Jin.
• Jin left a clone at school and slipped outside, worrying that his immature Wood Release was damaging his body and considering taking Danzo’s First Generation Cells.
• Jin sensed a Root Ninja watching him, identified the watcher as Danzo’s subordinate, and approached him.
• The Root Ninja, marked Kinoe, used Wood Release: Silent Killing Bind to capture Jin, who asked him to chat for ten minutes.

Uchiha Jin confronted Root operative Kinoe, later known as Yamato, and drew him outside the village to discuss and copy his Wood Release. After Kinoe trapped Jin in a wooden compound, Jin kept talking until prompts revealed his copyable traits.

• Jin crushed Kinoe's Wood Release, appeared behind him with a blade at his neck, and led him outside the village.
• At the Naka River, Kinoe attacked Jin with Wood Release techniques while Jin dodged and tried to talk.
• Kinoe trapped Jin in a wooden prison and built a sealed compound around it to suppress his Chakra.
• Jin joked that Kinoe should work in real estate and praised his house-building techniques.
• After they talked, Jin saw prompts listing Kinoe's copyable traits, including Wood Release Kekkei Genkai and First Generation Cells.

Jin defeated Root operative Kinoe after breaking free of his Wood Release restraints and overwhelming him with the Nine-Tails’ power. He successfully copied Kinoe’s Wood Locking Wall and began fusing it with his Wood Release Cells trait.

• Jin inspected Kinoe’s wooden cabin and suggested several improvements before his attempt to copy a trait from Kinoe failed.
• Kinoe sealed Jin inside a wooden egg and prepared to take him to Danzo, but Jin broke out and unleashed a giant crimson Chakra hand.
• Kinoe used Wood Release defenses to withstand Jin’s attacks, but Jin struck him into a crater and defeated him.
• Jin successfully copied the Wood Locking Wall trait from Kinoe and ordered it fused with his Wood Release Cells trait.

Uchiha Jin tested the improved Wood Release cells and waited for his Seven-Year Itch trait to evolve while keeping Yamato unconscious. When Kakashi intervened to protect Yamato, Jin crushed Kakashi’s Chidori and seized him by the throat with a giant crimson hand.

• Jin discovered that his Wood Release cells now divided at half their previous rate and saw his Seven-Year Itch trait begin evolving into Six-Year Cycle.
• Jin kept knocking Yamato unconscious as he waited for the trait to evolve, then considered whether changing the Uchiha massacre’s fate was necessary.
• Kakashi emerged from the forest and asked Jin to stop hurting Yamato, whom he considered a good person.
• Jin drove Yamato into the pit with another strike, badly injuring him.
• Kakashi attacked Jin with Chidori and his Sharingan, but Jin crushed the lightning and grabbed Kakashi by the throat with a giant crimson hand.