Chapter Summaries

Jin led the Uchiha to confront the Third Hokage and the village leadership, accusing Danzo and the Hokage advisors of stealing Uchiha eyes and embezzling village funds. As Jin attacked Danzo and revealed his powerful dojutsu, Hiruzen prepared to call on Enma.

• Jin confronted Hiruzen, Utatane Koharu, and the others, accusing Danzo of stealing Uchiha kekkei genkai and using clan members' eyes as Revival Coins.
• Jin charged through the Root encirclement and planted his foot on Danzo's supposedly unconscious body.
• Koharu ordered an attack, but Jin's dojutsu stopped the shuriken in midair and reflected them at the Anbu.
• Hiruzen urged Jin to negotiate and defended Danzo, but Jin threatened to crush Danzo's skull.
• Danzo sprang up and attacked Jin with Wind Style: Vacuum Sphere, but the blasts failed to harm him.
• Hiruzen began forming hand seals and prepared to rely on Enma.

Jin effortlessly defeated Danzo and tore off his bandaged arm, prompting Hiruzen to summon Enma and attack. Enma’s transformed staff went limp when it touched Jin, leaving Hiruzen confused and Enma in pain.

• Danzo’s ninjutsu and Chakra-coated shuriken vanished or broke before they could harm Jin.
• Jin tore Danzo’s bandaged arm off, and Danzo desperately urged Hiruzen to kill Jin.
• Hiruzen summoned Enma and transformed him into the Adamantine Staff before charging at Jin.
• The Adamantine Staff went limp as soon as it touched Jin, and Enma cried out in pain.

Jin exposed Shimura Danzō’s arm, which was embedded with stolen Sharingan, before Konoha’s leaders and clans, turning the gathered crowd against him. Jin then used Three Feet Before Me to force Danzō to confess to stealing the eyes and his other crimes.

• Jin mocked Sarutobi Hiruzen and tore the bandages from Danzō’s arm, revealing numerous Sharingan embedded in it.
• The Uchiha clan members cried out in grief and fury, while Fugaku formed Susanoo and the other clan leaders and advisors reacted with shock and fear.
• Jin held Danzō up and condemned him before the crowd for stealing his comrades’ power and plotting the Uchiha clan’s destruction.
• Jin used Three Feet Before Me to control Danzō’s will as Danzō tried to activate his right eye.
• Danzō began confessing that the Sharingan belonged to Kagami Uchiha and Uchiha Ryushou, then admitted to his crimes over several decades.

Danzo confessed to stealing from the dead and exploiting Konoha’s orphans, implicating Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura. Jin killed the two Advisors and declared that he would purge Konoha’s corruption, setting the village on the brink of upheaval.

• Danzo confessed that he and the Advisors had stolen inheritance and support payments from orphans and used Root to silence them.
• Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura attacked Danzo, but Jin protected him and accused the Advisors of being corrupt parasites.
• Jin crushed Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura with his Chakra, killing them before Konoha’s leaders and clan heads.
• Jin fused the traits he copied from the two Advisors and threw the helpless Danzo to the ground.
• Jin stood over Danzo and vowed to expose the stolen eyes and cut the rot from Konoha, declaring that restoring order began that night.

After Danzo and his allies were defeated, Jin confronted Sarutobi Hiruzen while the Uchiha and other clans demanded justice and concessions. The chapter ended with Jin declaring that he was taking on the Hokage.

• The crowd condemned Danzo as Jin copied his Wood Release Cells trait and upgraded his own cells through stacking.
• Fugaku and the Second Elder prepared to act against the Third Hokage, but Sarutobi Hiruzen admitted negligence and thanked the Uchiha.
• Jin demanded more than thanks, while the Ino-Shika-Cho leaders and other clan heads rallied around Sarutobi Hiruzen.
• Hyuga Hiashi urged Jin to name the Uchiha's demands, saying Sarutobi Hiruzen would agree to reasonable terms.
• Jin's Empty Palm struck a clan head after Sarutobi Hiruzen dodged the attack, and Jin told the Hokage he was taking him on.

Jin forced the clan heads and Sarutobi Hiruzen to hand Konoha’s finances to the Uchiha, then fought the Anbu who rushed to defend the Hokage. He overwhelmed them with the Nine-Tails’ power and began collecting traits from those he defeated.

• Jin demanded that Mitokado Homura and Utatane Koharu surrender their account books, seals, and authority to the Uchiha, and he struck down a clan head who objected.
• Nara Shikaku held back Akimichi Choza and Yamanaka Inoichi, while Hyuga Hiashi approved of the elders being challenged.
• An Anbu Captain ordered the Anbu to attack Jin, and Sarutobi Hiruzen tried to stop them from risking Konoha’s fighting force.
• Jin fired an Air Cannon past Sarutobi Hiruzen, then charged alone as more than a hundred Anbu attacked with ninjutsu.
• Jin battered the Anbu with his red chakra hand and received traits from those he defeated, including the Rare Trait Street Dog.

Jin overwhelmed the elite Anbu and Root shinobi, used their traits to raise the Flying Thunder God Technique to a limitless teleportation range, and forced Sarutobi Hiruzen to surrender control of the Leaf’s finances to the Uchiha. As the clans began moving to support the Uchiha, a thunderous challenge from the Azure Beast interrupted the gathering.

• Jin swept aside elite Anbu and Root shinobi, collected their traits, and fused them into the Flying Thunder God Technique, raising it to level 10 with unlimited range.
• Jin used his remaining traits on Three Feet Before Me, but noticed no apparent change.
• Nara Shikaku urged Sarutobi Hiruzen to accept the loss, and Hiruzen agreed to hand the Leaf’s financial authority to the Uchiha.
• Jin insisted the Uchiha should control the finances and have the final say, and Hiruzen ordered the finance ledgers, seals, and keys brought to him.
• Several clans began moving forward to show their loyalty to the Uchiha before the Azure Beast shouted from outside the village, challenging anyone who disrespected the Hokage.

Might Guy intervened in the clash at the Leaf Hokage Building, but Jin kept him talking long enough to copy the Eight Gates. Guy remained between the sides as the confrontation continued.

• Kakashi stayed behind to guard Naruto, then hurried after Guy when he saw him heading toward the fighting.
• Might Guy arrived at the Hokage Building and confronted the Uchiha, reassuring the Third Hokage that he was safe.
• Fugaku warned Jin about Guy’s taijutsu, but Jin stepped forward and told his father to leave the opponent to him.
• Jin asked Guy whether he had ever risked his life for himself, making Guy hesitate instead of attacking.
• Jin talked with Guy for ten minutes and successfully copied the Eight Gates trait.

Jin learned that the Trait System could copy incomplete traits, then challenged Might Guy and used his Three Feet Before Me domain to withstand Guy’s attacks. Guy opened the Sixth Gate and broke through the domain with Morning Peacock, but Jin revealed he had not been standing still to take the blows.

• Jin learned that his incomplete traits could come from the system’s ellipses and asked Guy to fight him.
• Guy charged Jin with Great Leaf Whirlwind, but Jin’s Three Feet Before Me domain stopped the kick short of his body.
• Guy opened the Eight Gates up to the Sixth Gate, alarming Sarutobi Hiruzen, Nara Shikaku, and Hyuga Hiashi with his power.
• Guy unleashed Morning Peacock, striking Jin’s domain with a barrage of flaming punches until it broke.
• Guy drove his fists toward Jin, who grinned and pointed out that he had no reason to stand still and let himself be hit.

Jin withstood Guy’s Seventh Gate attack with Three Feet Before Me and Repulsion Force, destroying the Hokage Building as Guy was thrown into its ruins. Guy rose again and began opening the Eighth Gate, while Kakashi arrived and realized Guy had meant to save the move for him.

• Guy unleashed Morning Peacock against Jin’s barrier, but Jin remained unharmed as Guy exhausted himself.
• Guy opened the Seventh Gate and struck Jin with Day Tiger, cracking Three Feet Before Me.
• Jin used Repulsion Force to send Guy crashing into the Hokage Building, which collapsed under the impact.
• The Third Hokage prepared to hand over his position, but a heartbeat from the rubble revealed that Guy had survived.
• Guy emerged from the ruins surrounded by crimson flames and began opening the Eighth Gate as Kakashi arrived and wondered if Guy meant him.

Jin stopped Might Guy’s Eighth Gate attack with Adamantine Sealing Chains, then used Three Feet Before Me and Wood Release Cells to heal him. He demanded that the Third Hokage hand over his Financial Authority or die.

• As Guy prepared to unleash the Eighth Gate’s final attack, Jin’s Adamantine Sealing Chains pierced and restrained him, extinguishing his chakra flames.
• The Third Hokage, Fugaku, and Kakashi recognized the chains as an Uzumaki sealing technique and wondered how Jin had learned it.
• Guy collapsed into the crater, gravely injured after opening the Gate of Death, and Jin received notice that he had defeated Might Guy and was copying his trait.
• Jin approached Guy, repelled the Third Hokage, and healed Guy with Three Feet Before Me and Wood Release Cells.
• Jin confronted the Third Hokage and demanded his Financial Authority, threatening to kill him if he refused.

Jin secured the Uchiha Clan’s control of Konoha’s finances and laid out reforms to rebuild the village after the night’s upheaval. As Fugaku organized the clan’s response, Jin received an incomplete, one-time trial version of the Eight Gates: Gate of Death trait.

• Sarutobi Hiruzen handed over Konoha’s financial ledgers, seals, and key, and Jin asked the clan leaders to witness the Uchiha Clan taking control of the village’s finances.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen withdrew from the scene after Jin mocked him, while the clan leaders accepted the new balance of power.
• Fugaku warned Jin that Konoha’s accounts were in disarray and that investigating them could provoke unrest.
• Jin ordered compensation for injured villagers, immediate rebuilding of the Hokage Building, an investigation into orphan-related spending, and a Konoha Management Committee.
• Fugaku and the elders agreed to carry out Jin’s plans, and Jin later received the incomplete Eight Gates: Gate of Death trait.

Uchiha Jin considered how to use the Gate of Death’s secrets and fell asleep, but Aburame Torune and Yamanaka Fu soon attacked him to avenge Danzo. Jin evaded their ambush and confronted them while hovering in the air.

• Jin considered combining the Gate of Death’s life-burning power with Wood Release before going to sleep.
• Torune and Fu returned to Leaf after learning Danzo had died and tracked Jin to the Uchiha District to seek revenge.
• Torune spread poisonous Nanoscale Poison Insects toward Jin while Fu used the Mind Body Switch Technique, but Fu failed to enter Jin’s mind.
• Torune and Fu discovered Jin had vanished from the courtyard wall and tried to retreat.
• Jin appeared behind them, hovering in midair, and called them country bumpkins.

Jin repelled Danzo's agents Aburame Torune and Yamanaka Fu, then copied Torune's Nanoscale Insect Control trait and took command of his poisonous insects. Torune's own insects turned on him as he raged at Jin.

• Nara Shikaku urged the gathered clans to cooperate with the Uchiha investigation, but most clan heads decided to stall rather than return embezzled funds.
• Jin discovered that Three Feet Before Me could form steps beneath his feet, allowing him to float.
• Torune's poisonous insects failed to breach Jin's barrier, while Fu's Mind Body Switch Technique failed and left him badly injured.
• Jin used Shinra Tensei to hurl Torune and Fu into a tree, then copied Nanoscale Insect Control and Perception from them.
• Jin took control of Torune's nanoscale insects, and one crawled up Torune's ankle and began devouring him.

After killing Yamanaka Fu and Aburame Torune, Jin gained new traits and found a scroll pointing to the Root Organization’s base. He urged Fugaku to use the attempted assassination as grounds to seize the Yamanaka and Aburame clans, then set off for Root’s base.

• Jin killed Yamanaka Fu and Aburame Torune, plundered their traits, and fused Poison Resistance with Perception to gain Perception Domain.
• Jin considered the Mind Body Switch Technique and his need to strengthen his body, then found a Root scroll naming him as Danzo’s killer and marking Root’s base.
• Fugaku learned that several clans were offering only trivial financial contributions, and asked Jin how the Uchiha should respond.
• Jin forged a Cloud Village mark on the scroll and claimed the Yamanaka and Aburame clans had colluded with the Cloud Village to assassinate him.
• Fugaku ordered Uchiha forces to take control of the Yamanaka and Aburame clans, while Jin vanished and headed toward Root’s base.

Jin infiltrated Danzo's hidden Root laboratory and found Sai and Shin imprisoned among grotesque experiments. He offered to take the brothers in under the Uchiha, but a creature in a Cultivation Tank suddenly stirred.

• Jin slipped past the ravine's Chakra barriers and entered Root's hidden base.
• Jin evaded Explosive Tags and poisoned Senbon by sending them into Kamui, then opened the sealed Metal Gate.
• Jin discovered Sharingan, Byakugan, and cultivated flesh in the laboratory's tanks, along with Sai and Shin locked in cages.
• Sai gave his name and said he wanted to live, while Shin stirred at the sound of Sai's plea.
• Jin broke open the cages with Adamantine Chains and used his healing field on the boys, but a creature suddenly erupted inside a Culture Tank.

Jin defeated Experiment Zero in the Laboratory and discovered highly pure Wood Release Cells hidden beneath a Culture Tank. He suspected the cells came from Hashirama and turned his attention toward the other tanks.

• Experiment Zero broke out of its Culture Tank and attacked Jin while Sai and Shin stayed inside their cages.
• Jin used Kamui to tear off Experiment Zero’s massive arm, then repelled the monster into another Culture Tank.
• Experiment Zero fired a Sharingan beam at Jin, who redirected it into the monster and defeated it.
• Jin found drops of highly pure Wood Release Cells beneath the shattered tank, and the system began analyzing them.
• Jin wondered whether the cells came from Hashirama and looked toward the other Culture Tanks with a chilling gleam.

Jin collected High Purity Wood Release Cells from the collapsing Laboratory, triggering a painful surge of life force in his body. He rescued Sai and Shin from the ruins, brought them outside into the sunlight, and left to gather Root’s remnants in Konoha.

• Jin used his Nine-Tails power to pull apart the culture dishes and uncover the Wood Release Cells.
• The Stitched Monster erupted in a destructive self-detonation, shaking the Laboratory and bringing down its ceiling.
• Jin touched the First Generation Cells, reached 30% analysis progress, and endured the cells’ painful effects as they strengthened his body.
• Shin rushed back to Sai, but Jin rescued both brothers from a falling boulder and carried them outside.
• Sai and Shin saw the morning sun and rejoiced, while Jin left to gather Root’s remnants in the village.

Jin arrived at the Yamanaka clan house using the Flying Thunder God Technique and forced Yamanaka Inoichi to agree to cooperate with the Uchiha. He then accused the Yamanaka Clan of trying to assassinate him, just as a kunai flew from inside the house.

• Yamanaka Inoichi presented Fugaku with a chest of decaying financial records and tried to send the Uchiha away.
• Fugaku stayed silent as the Uchiha waited for his decision and Yamanaka Inoichi prepared to leave.
• Jin appeared using the Flying Thunder God Technique, astonishing Fugaku and the gathered Uchiha.
• Jin used Banshō Ten'in to seize Yamanaka Inoichi by the throat until Inoichi promised to cooperate.
• Jin confronted Inoichi about an alleged assassination attempt, and a yellow-haired girl rushed out of the house as a kunai flew toward him.

Jin left the Yamanaka Clan after failing to copy traits from Ino and Inoichi, then forced his way into the Aburame Clan compound to investigate its mission accounts. He neutralized the clan’s insect swarm and unleashed Nanoscale Poison Insects, leaving the Aburame Clan stunned and afraid.

• Ino attacked Jin to defend Inoichi, but Jin knocked her down and reminded Inoichi that he was a child too.
• Jin failed to copy traits from Ino and Inoichi, then left the Yamanaka compound.
• Aburame Shibi ordered his clan to stall the Uchiha Clan while it demanded ten years of mission-reward and compensation records.
• Jin and the Uchiha Clan broke through the Aburame compound’s gate, and Jin demanded that Shibi cooperate with the investigation.
• Shibi unleashed his Kikaichū, but Jin’s Perception Domain lowered their poison resistance and caused the insects to die from one another’s poison.
• Jin sent his Nanoscale Poison Insects against the weakened swarm, devastating the Aburame Clan’s insects and leaving its members stunned.