Flame-Flame Fruit!

"Red Sun? That's quite a boast!"

"Take one of my punches!"

Ai was not intimidated by Uchiha Jin's reputation or record. Instead, his fighting spirit burned even brighter. With a flash of movement, he threw a punch at Uchiha Jin!

Uchiha Jin's expression did not change. His pupils turned crimson, and three black tomoe appeared within them, allowing him to see Ai's movements with perfect clarity!

The Sharinga—the Uchiha Clan's Kekkei Genkai, and one of the Three Great Dōjutsu in this world!

Uchiha Jin's powerful ocular prowess pushed the Sharinga's dynamic vision to its limits!

Even at Ai's current speed, he could not escape Uchiha Jin's eyes!

Uchiha Jin drew one leg back and lowered his center of gravity, throwing a punch of his own to meet Ai's incoming fist!

"A head-on clash? Just what I wanted!"

Although Ai's Lightning Release Chakra Mode was not as well-rounded as his father, the Third Raikage's, and was more focused on boosting speed, his strength and defense in that mode were still far beyond those of ordinary ninja!

When it came to a direct clash of strength, Ai had never feared anyone!

Ai sneered inwardly, putting even more force behind his punch!

As the two fists met, Uchiha Jin's fist looked several sizes smaller beside Ai's lightning-wreathed fist, appearing especially delicate!

But just as the two fists were about to collide, Uchiha Jin's fist erupted with blazing flames!

"Fire Fist!"

Uchiha Jin shouted softly. The ground beneath his feet cracked inch by inch as scorching flames burst from his fist and instantly engulfed Ai!

The orange-yellow flames formed a gigantic fist, carrying Ai's body dozens of meters away, toppling tree after tree and leaving a Charred Black trench in the ground!

"Big Brother!"

"Lord Ai!"

Killer B and the several ninja from the Kumogakure Squad cried out in alarm, unable to believe that Ai had actually been pushed back in a head-on clash!

"There's nothing surprising about it. Flames are defined by explosive force and heat!"

Uchiha Jin shook his faintly aching hand. Though his words remained sharp, he had grown a little more wary of Ai, the Ninja World's long-renowned number one brute.

Uchiha Jin had not originally belonged to this world. Due to an accident, he had transmigrated here and become an ordinary Jonin of the Uchiha Clan, whose parents had both died.

There was no need to dwell on the past.

According to the original plot of Naruto, being reborn as a member of the Uchiha Clan was practically a doomed beginning!

Outside, they faced suppression from the Hokage Faction led by the Third Hokage, Sarutobi Hiruzen, and Five-and-a-half-generation Pot Kage Shimura Danzō. Inside, they had a group of arrogant clansmen who could not see the bigger picture and were determined to court disaster.

On top of that, several paranoid, hidden lunatics within the clan could snap at any time!

Uchiha Jin's situation could not possibly be summed up with a single word like "difficult"!

Fortunately, Uchiha Jin had transmigrated early enough. There was still a long time before the Night of the Uchiha Massacre!

Uchiha Jin still had a chance to change the Uchiha Clan's original fate!

And the Golden Finger every transmigrator was supposed to have gave Uchiha Jin the confidence to change his destiny!

Though compared to other transmigrators, Uchiha Jin's Golden Finger was rather shabby: just a Devil Fruit from another world—the Flame-Flame Fruit!

That's right, the Logia-type Flame-Flame Fruit that A Group of One Piece fans derided as something even dogs would not eat!

But Uchiha Jin himself was quite satisfied with this Flame-Flame Fruit!

In short, the Flame-Flame Fruit allowed its user to possess the power of flames!

Control flames, become flames!

Because the Flame-Flame Fruit's previous user, Portgas D. Ace, had failed to make satisfactory use of it and ultimately died at the hands of Akainu, wielder of the Magma-Magma Fruit—

And because many people in the One Piece World could launch fire-based attacks, with seemingly everyone able to wield the power of flames, the Flame-Flame Fruit had been branded as something "even dogs wouldn't eat"!

But was the Flame-Flame Fruit really weak? Or rather, was the ability to control flames really weak?

Uchiha Jin did not think so!

Although the One Piece setting treated the Magma-Magma Fruit as the superior fruit to the Flame-Flame Fruit, Uchiha Jin believed that the Flame-Flame Fruit was not actually inferior to the Magma-Magma Fruit!

Both magma and flames were defined by explosive force and heat!

Since magma was a tangible substance, flames were indeed inferior to it in terms of explosive force!

But when it came to temperature, flames held an overwhelming advantage over magma!

Magma's maximum temperature was only around 1,400 degrees, while flames could continuously increase in temperature through the accumulation of heat!

There was practically no upper limit to that increase!

In the world of Uchiha Jin's Previous Life, special methods could heat flames to over 500 million degrees—thirty times the sun's maximum temperature!

The gap was self-evident!

The Flame-Flame Fruit possessed nearly limitless potential!

Fire had never been weak!

Just like the Old Man next door, who also possessed flame abilities and was known as the strongest Shinigami in two thousand years! Nearly every time he appeared in battle, his flame-controlling Zanpakuto would be specifically sealed away!

So it was never the Flame-Flame Fruit that was weak—only Portgas D. Ace!

Having lived through the information explosion, Uchiha Jin believed his understanding of the Flame-Flame Fruit far surpassed Portgas D. Ace's!

Combined with this world's native powers, Uchiha Jin would absolutely not disgrace the Flame-Flame Fruit again!

And this Flame-Flame Fruit had given Uchiha Jin the confidence to change everything!

After lying low for several years, Uchiha Jin had secretly strengthened himself, cultivated his own forces, built up his connections, and continuously amassed the power needed to change this world!

Now, the Third Shinobi War was nearing its end, and Uchiha Jin had completed his arrangements!

Uchiha Jin could no longer wait to end the war as soon as possible and make his mark upon this world!

"Minato, leave the Eight-Tails Jinchuriki to you! Try to capture him alive!"

Uchiha Jin slowly exhaled a breath of turbid air and looked at Minato Namikaze beside him.

Not only was Minato Namikaze fast, but thanks to his girlfriend, Uzumaki Kushina, he was also exceptionally skilled in sealing techniques. He was their best choice for dealing with Killer B!

Although Minato Namikaze had died sealing the Nine-Tails in the original story, the Eight-Tails was not the Nine-Tails!

In a real fight, the Eight-Tails could not even defeat half of the Nine-Tails!

And the reason Minato Namikaze had died while sealing the Nine-Tails was more likely because he had chosen to die for love!

After all, Minato and Kushina had basically already subdued the Nine-Tails at the time, and Konoha's reinforcements had nearly arrived at the scene!

Even villages that were not particularly proficient in sealing techniques could handle rampaging Tailed Beasts. How bad could Konoha's Sealing Squad, which had inherited the legacy of the Land of Whirlpools, possibly be?

Could they really have been unable to deal with a Nine-Tails that had already been subdued?

In the end, Minato Namikaze had simply chosen to bear everything alone!

"Understood! Leave that guy to me!"

Minato Namikaze flashed a brilliant smile, his tone brimming with confidence.

"Then let's end this quickly!"

As he spoke, raging flames ignited all over Uchiha Jin's body. He shot into the air and pursued Ai's position!