Chapter Summaries

Uchiha Jin, a powerful but deliberately inconspicuous student, was made a Genin before he could finish his studies as the Third Great Ninja War drained Leaf Village’s forces. Distrusting both the Hokage faction and the Uchiha Clan, he still hoped to lie low and eventually defect, but the village’s wartime mobilization forced him onto the battlefield.

• Hiruzen's Grandson announced that the fifth-grade students had become Genin, and Uchiha Jin realized he had been drafted as cannon fodder.
• Uchiha Jin recalled that his parents’ deaths had left him isolated from both the Hokage faction and the Uchiha Clan, despite his inheritance and Jonin-level strength.
• Uchiha Jin decided against trying to save the Uchiha Clan and planned to keep developing quietly before defecting when the clan was exterminated.
• Uchiha Jin learned that attacks by Sunagakure, Stone Village, and Cloud Village had stretched Leaf Village so thin that it was conscripting students.

Uchiha Jin received a lazy system that rewarded him for lying flat, including a Six Powers Training Method and automatic experience gains. After graduation, he avoided warning his classmates about the Ninja World’s dangers and went to Ichiraku Ramen, hoping to build a safe connection with Teuchi.

• Uchiha Jin’s system awakened and gave him the Six Powers Training Method as a beginner reward.
• Uchiha Jin learned that the system had no missions and would grant experience and rewards when he slacked off.
• Hiruzen's Grandson announced that team assignments would begin in three days, then dismissed the class.
• Civilian ninja students celebrated their graduation while clan students quietly left, and Uchiha Jin chose not to warn anyone.
• Uchiha Jin went to Ichiraku Ramen and ordered an extra-luxurious seafood ramen from Teuchi.

Uchiha Jin celebrated his graduation at Ichiraku Ramen, where he met Kakashi Hatake but chose not to engage with him. Back at the Uchiha compound, Jin ignored his clansmen’s insults and reflected on the clan’s precarious position.

• Teuchi and Ayame congratulated Uchiha Jin on graduating and treated him warmly at Ichiraku Ramen.
• Kakashi Hatake sat beside Jin, watched him with suspicion, and asked Ayame about him after Jin left.
• Ayame told Kakashi that Jin had been a polite regular at the shop for seven or eight years, easing Kakashi’s doubts that Jin was trying to approach Minato through him.
• Jin returned to his shabby home near Konoha’s Commercial Street while clansmen mocked and provoked him.
• Jin brushed off the insults with self-deprecating agreement and considered his clansmen oblivious to the Uchiha Clan’s danger.

Uchiha Jin relaxed at home and gained strength from the Lying Flat and Slacking System while planning how to survive the Third Great Ninja War without drawing attention. He ruled out defecting from Leaf Village and decided to coast through the war by avoiding danger and hiding his actions.

• Uchiha Jin entered his house, cleared away dust, and lay on the bed as the system increased his attributes.
• Uchiha Jin checked his system panel and saw that his overall evaluation was Jonin, with a Three Tomoe Sharingan.
• Uchiha Jin concluded that his low profile would likely get him assigned to a cannon-fodder unit facing ordinary enemy troops.
• Uchiha Jin planned to avoid fighting until his companions died, then invent an excuse or disappear from the battlefield.
• Uchiha Jin considered defecting but rejected it because he lacked protection and did not want to join the Akatsuki Organization.

Uchiha Jin planned to keep a low profile in Leaf Village and return after the Uchiha Clan’s extermination, then went to Ichiraku Ramen for breakfast. Ayame scolded him for freeloading, but Jin promised to repay Teuchi’s kindness and treat the family as his own.

• Uchiha Jin decided he could leave Leaf Village during the Night of the Clan Extermination and return when Tsunade became Hokage.
• Uchiha Jin ignored his clansmen’s insults on his way to Ichiraku Ramen.
• Uchiha Jin asked Teuchi to make him breakfast, and Ayame came out to accuse him of mooching off her family.
• Uchiha Jin explained that Teuchi had fed him cheaply or for free since he was a child and promised to care for Teuchi in his old age.
• Ayame rejected Jin’s offer and pointed out that she was older than him, prompting Jin to laugh.

Uchiha Jin spent the morning at Ichiraku Ramen before noticing that someone was watching him on his way home. There, he was visited by Uchiha Shisui, an old childhood acquaintance who apologized for losing touch.

• Uchiha Jin ate with Ayame and Teuchi, then helped them prepare Ichiraku Ramen for its noon opening.
• Uchiha Jin sensed that someone was watching him as he walked home, but decided to ignore it and take a nap.
• Uchiha Shisui arrived at Uchiha Jin’s home and apologized for not visiting during his busy years of missions.
• Uchiha Jin recognized Shisui from their childhood and believed his explanation, though he had previously avoided contact with him.

Uchiha Jin told Shisui that his parents’ loyalty to Kagami Uchiha had left him and other children neglected after Kagami’s death. Shisui erupted in anger, and his Sharingan appeared close to evolving into a Mangekyo, leaving Jin afraid of drawing Konoha’s attention.

• Uchiha Jin invited Shisui inside and explained that he had eaten at Ichiraku Ramen because he could not afford meals after his parents died.
• Uchiha Jin told Shisui that his parents had been loyal to Kagami Uchiha and that the clan had purged Kagami’s former subordinates after his death.
• Uchiha Jin explained that many of those subordinates’ children had suffered even worse than he had.
• Shisui grew furious, activated his Three Tomoe Sharingan, and seemed close to awakening a Mangekyo.
• Uchiha Jin feared that Shisui’s evolution would make the clan and Konoha’s leadership focus on him.

Shisui learned that Uchiha Jin had been mistreated and rushed to confront the clan leadership, despite Jin’s desperate attempt to stop him. Shisui arrived at Uchiha Fugaku’s home and began to raise the matter, leaving Fugaku unaware of what was coming.

• Jin tried to calm Shisui and warned him not to get worked up.
• Shisui apologized to Jin for neglecting him and vowed to get him justice before vanishing.
• Jin worried that Shisui’s anger could bring unwanted attention from powerful figures, then returned to relaxing and gaining strength.
• Shisui went to Fugaku’s home, greeted Itachi, and asked to speak with the Clan Leader.
• Shisui hesitated as he began to speak, and Fugaku encouraged him to continue.

Shisui told Fugaku how Uchiha Jin and Kagami Uchiha’s former subordinates had been mistreated, and Fugaku promised to address the problem. Afterward, Shisui reported the matter to Hiruzen Sarutobi, who expressed regret for failing to intervene earlier.

• Shisui told Fugaku about Jin’s circumstances and how Kagami Uchiha’s former subordinates had been treated after Kagami’s death.
• Fugaku apologized for not knowing about the situation and hurried out to handle it.
• Shisui spent the afternoon with Itachi before a masked ninja summoned him to the Hokage’s office.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi asked Shisui what was troubling him, and Shisui recounted the clan matter.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi said he had mistaken the situation for an internal Uchiha matter and blamed himself for not looking into it.

Hiruzen Sarutobi manipulated Shisui into helping Fugaku handle the Uchiha Radical Faction while promising the village would support Kagami's former followers' descendants. After reviewing Uchiha Jin's file and dismissing him as useless, Hiruzen was interrupted by an elderly, bandaged man entering his office.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi blamed himself for the trouble facing Kagami's former followers and promised village support, winning Shisui's gratitude.
• Shisui condemned the Uchiha Radical Faction, agreed to help Fugaku, and thanked Hiruzen on Jin's behalf.
• Hiruzen dismissed Shisui's mission and sent him back to deal with the Uchiha matter.
• Hiruzen ordered an Anbu to retrieve Uchiha Jin's file, then judged Jin too weak to be useful.
• An elderly, bandaged man entered Hiruzen's office.

Hiruzen Sarutobi refused Danzo’s request to recruit Uchiha Jin into Root, warning him not to interfere with Jin. The next day, Jin led three Uchiha who had been following him to the woods, where Uchiha Yoshio decided to kill him.

• Danzo asked Hiruzen to transfer Uchiha Jin to Root, but Hiruzen refused to protect Shisui’s trust and ordered Danzo not to touch Jin.
• Uchiha Jin noticed Uchiha Isamu, Uchiha Ryō, and Uchiha Yoshio following him and led them to a remote forest near Training Ground 23.
• Uchiha Yoshio accused Jin of disgracing the clan and revealed that he wanted to kill him to hurt Shisui.
• Uchiha Ryō and Uchiha Isamu urged Yoshio to settle for beating Jin, but Yoshio dismissed them and insisted on killing him.

Uchiha Jin revealed his Three Tomoe Sharingan and overwhelmed the three clansmen who had come to kill him. After killing Uchiha Yoshio with a single strike, he faced Uchiha Isamu and Uchiha Ryō as they begged for mercy.

• Uchiha Yoshio attacked Uchiha Jin with kunai and a Great Fireball Technique while Uchiha Isamu and Uchiha Ryō joined the assault.
• Uchiha Jin revealed his Three Tomoe Sharingan and said he had lured the three clansmen to the Forest of Death to kill them.
• Uchiha Jin used Six Powers, Soru to dodge their attacks and appear behind Uchiha Yoshio.
• Uchiha Jin struck Uchiha Yoshio with Six Powers, Yari, killing him instantly.
• Uchiha Isamu and Uchiha Ryō panicked and begged Uchiha Jin to spare them, blaming Uchiha Yoshio.

Uchiha Jin killed three witnesses in the Forest of Death, then ambushed a White Zetsu who had been watching him for Uchiha Madara. He used a frozen Hidden Cloud ninja corpse to cover his actions and returned home to sleep, but someone knocked on his door the next morning.

• Uchiha Jin killed the two surviving witnesses after they begged for mercy, leaving three corpses in the Forest of Death.
• A White Zetsu emerged to inspect the bodies and planned to report Uchiha Jin to Lord Madara, but Jin returned and killed him with Six Powers, Tempest Kick—White Lightning.
• Uchiha Jin pressured the system into issuing storage space and stored White Zetsu's body.
• Uchiha Jin dug up a Hidden Cloud ninja corpse he had frozen two years earlier, then used Fire Release to destroy its brain and restored it to a near-death state.
• Uchiha Jin left the corpse in the forest, returned home, and fell asleep; the next morning, someone knocked on his door.

Uchiha Shisui visited Uchiha Jin to urge him to train and told him that the clan and Hokage would compensate mistreated Uchiha. Jin doubted Shisui’s claims but chose to accept the benefits, asking for forbidden techniques, weapons, and supplies.

• Uchiha Shisui arrived at six in the morning and urged the sleepy Uchiha Jin to work harder before he was assigned to a squad.
• Uchiha Jin dismissed Shisui’s encouragement as he led him into the living room.
• Uchiha Shisui said Fugaku had banned the mistreatment of his grandfather’s former subordinates and offered to repay withheld clan resources and pensions.
• Uchiha Shisui added that the Third Hokage would provide village funds to compensate Jin and other wronged clansmen.
• Uchiha Jin doubted the promises but asked for Izanagi, Izanami, a Tachi, sword techniques, Explosive tags, and Ration pills, leaving Shisui dumbfounded.

Uchiha Jin and Shisui were summoned to the Hokage Building after Uchiha Yoshio and two others disappeared. Jin recounted how the three had cornered him before he fled to the Forest of Death, while Shisui pressed the gathered leaders to explain what had happened.

• Shisui agreed to provide Jin with scrolls, sword techniques, explosive tags, and ration pills.
• An Anbu ninja summoned Jin and Shisui to the Hokage Building by order of the Hokage.
• Jin suspected the village had traced the previous night's incident to him, though he believed he had left no clues.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi questioned Jin about his last contact with Uchiha Yoshio and the other two missing Uchiha.
• Jin said the three had cornered him, so he ran and hid near the Forest of Death before going home that evening.
• Shisui asked Hiruzen what had happened.

Hiruzen Sarutobi dismissed Uchiha Jin after ordering him to keep the questioning secret, then heard Shin'nosuke Sarutobi explain the deaths of three Uchiha and a missing Cloud ninja. The leaders turned their attention from Jin to the possibility of Cloud Village involvement, leaving Shisui relieved that Jin was no longer under suspicion.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi dismissed Uchiha Jin and ordered him not to reveal what had happened.
• Shin'nosuke Sarutobi told Hiruzen Sarutobi and the others that three Uchiha and a Cloud ninja had been found dead, their brains destroyed, and that the Cloud ninja was the one who had vanished two years earlier.
• Shisui and Uchiha Fugaku argued that Jin could not have killed the three Uchiha, while Inoichi Yamanaka described the killings as the work of a powerful taijutsu expert.
• Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura questioned what Cloud Village could gain from the killings, and the discussion shifted away from Jin.
• Shisui listened to the discussion and felt relieved that suspicion of Jin had faded.

Shikaku Nara argued that Cloud Village had staged the Uchiha incident to provoke internal conflict in Leaf Village, and the leaders accepted his explanation. Hiruzen Sarutobi ended the investigation and ordered Leaf Village to publicize the accusation, leaving the truth unresolved.

• Shikaku Nara speculated that a captured Cloud ninja had been used to stir suspicion and turmoil within Leaf Village, especially among the Uchiha clan.
• The gathered leaders accepted Shikaku Nara's theory and condemned Cloud Village for trying to exploit Leaf Village's wartime situation.
• Uchiha Fugaku vowed that the Uchiha clan would not cause trouble during the war.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi halted further investigation and ordered Leaf Village to announce Cloud Village's alleged conspiracy to the Ninja World.

Hiruzen Sarutobi blamed Kumogakure for the Uchiha deaths, and Shikaku Nara spread the accusation across the Ninja World, damaging Cloud Village’s reputation and raising Leaf Village’s morale. At the Uchiha compound, Uchiha Jin questioned Shisui about the investigation and asked what Shikaku had concluded.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi declared the Uchiha deaths a Cloud Village conspiracy and ordered the accusation publicized.
• Shikaku Nara spread the story, and Leaf Village presented evidence of a past Cloud Village mission to steal a Kekkei Genkai.
• The Third Raikage denied responsibility, but the Ninja World and even Iwagakure distrusted Cloud Village.
• Leaf Village’s soldiers grew eager to fight Cloud Village, while Uchiha Jin hosted Shisui at the Uchiha compound.
• Shisui told Uchiha Jin that the investigation blamed Cloud Village, and Jin asked him to explain Shikaku Nara’s findings in detail.

Uchiha Jin questioned Shikaku Nara’s explanation of the Kumogakure incident but decided to focus on growing stronger rather than speculate about Shikaku’s motives. Shisui brought Jin compensation from the Uchiha Clan, including valuable supplies, an ancient sword and sword style, and the forbidden techniques Izanagi and Izanami, leaving Jin stunned by the clan’s wealth.

• Shisui told Uchiha Jin Shikaku Nara’s judgment, and Jin concluded that Shikaku’s explanation about Kumogakure was nonsense.
• Jin wondered whether Shikaku had noticed something or was avoiding conflict, then decided to keep developing his strength.
• Jin said he felt relieved that Uchiha Yoshio and the others were dead, while Shisui struggled with Jin’s attitude.
• Shisui gave Jin three scrolls containing supplies worth about 5,000,000 Ryo, an ancient sword and the Uchiha Clan Sword Style, and the forbidden techniques Izanagi and Izanami.
• Jin was stunned by the value of the Uchiha Clan’s compensation and treasures.

Shisui offered Uchiha Jin extra training before the battlefield, but Jin chose to rest and conserve his strength. Shisui taught him the Summoning Jutsu and arranged a Ninja Crow contract so Jin could call for help, then left to attend to his other duties.

• Shisui invited Uchiha Jin to train, but Jin declined so he could rest before being sent to the battlefield.
• Shisui taught Uchiha Jin the Summoning Jutsu and had him make a contract with his Ninja Crow.
• Shisui told Uchiha Jin to use the crow to summon him if he faced a life-or-death crisis.
• Shisui said goodbye to Uchiha Jin and returned to his clan and village responsibilities.