Chapter Summaries

Minato Namikaze and his squad encountered A and Killer B at the border between the Land of Fire and the Land of Lightning, and their fight nearly turned into a two-on-one attack. Uchiha Jin arrived to support Konoha, and the Kumogakure squad learned he was the powerful ninja known as Konoha's Red Sun.

• A attacked Minato Namikaze with Lightning Release Chakra Mode, but Minato evaded him and nearly struck him with a Wind Release-infused Special Kunai.
• Killer B used an octopus tentacle to help A escape Minato's attack, and Minato's squad considered retreating from A and Killer B.
• A decided to seize the chance to kill Minato, but Uchiha Jin arrived and declared that Konoha now had two fighters against two.
• Uchiha Jin said capturing A and Killer B could force Kumogakure to surrender and bring the war closer to an end.
• A's sensory ninja identified Uchiha Jin as the ninja who defeated Kirigakure's Fourth Mizukage and fought the Seven Ninja Swordsmen, earning the name Konoha's Red Sun.

Uchiha Jin used the Flame-Flame Fruit to blast Ai away and reflected on his plans to change the Uchiha Clan’s fate. As the Third Shinobi War neared its end, he sent Minato Namikaze to capture Killer B and flew after Ai to finish the battle.

• Ai charged Uchiha Jin, who used his Sharingan to meet Ai’s punch head-on with a flaming Fire Fist that sent him crashing through trees.
• Killer B and the Kumogakure ninja reacted in alarm as Uchiha Jin acknowledged Ai’s strength.
• Uchiha Jin recalled that he had transmigrated into the Uchiha Clan, gained the Flame-Flame Fruit, and spent years building power and allies to change the clan’s fate.
• Uchiha Jin told Minato Namikaze to capture Killer B alive, and Minato confidently accepted.
• Uchiha Jin ignited his body with flames and pursued Ai through the air.

Uchiha Jin used his Fire Release Chakra Mode to fight A, burning him with a concentrated flame strike while evading his powerful counterattacks. A identified the limits of Jin’s fire-propelled movement and prepared a strategy to win as he searched for Jin’s position.

• Uchiha Jin activated Fire Release Chakra Mode and clashed with A, who vowed not to give him another opening.
• Uchiha Jin struck A with Wild Bite: Flash, blasting him back and inflicting severe burns on his arm and neck.
• A tore open his blisters, then attacked with Righteous Thunder Angry Thunder Axe and Raikiri, but struck a Fire Clone.
• A recognized that Uchiha Jin’s Fire Instant Body Technique forced him to move in straight lines and that Jin’s physical strength was inferior to his own.
• A gathered chakra, turned toward a spot to his left, and declared that he had found Uchiha Jin.

Uchiha Jin used Elementalization to catch A off guard and capture him with Genjutsu. After returning to Minato Namikaze’s squad, he helped secure the defeated Kumogakure force, bringing the long war close to its end.

• A attacked Uchiha Jin with a lightning-powered chop, but Jin turned into flames and trapped A’s hand with Elementalization.
• Jin revealed his position, caught A’s gaze, and immobilized him with the Demonic Illusion: Shackling Stakes Technique.
• Jin returned with unconscious A to Minato Namikaze, whose squad had defeated the Kumogakure ninjas and sealed Killer B.
• Minato Namikaze used the Five Elements Seal to disrupt A’s Chakra, and the group prepared to return to the village with their captives.

Uchiha Jin advised Minato Namikaze to keep A and Killer B captive so Kumogakure would negotiate an armistice, then told him to claim the operation as his team's achievement. Minato questioned why Jin wanted to be left out of the report.

• The chapter recounted how Kumogakure's shifting attacks and Kirigakure's declaration of war kept Konoha fighting on multiple fronts.
• Minato Namikaze asked Uchiha Jin whether they should take their captives back to Konoha.
• Minato proposed releasing A to help stabilize Kumogakure and negotiate an armistice, with Killer B remaining a hostage.
• Uchiha Jin argued that Kumogakure would exploit A's release to demand Killer B back, so they should keep both captives until negotiations.
• Uchiha Jin said Dodai would restrain Kumogakure's leaders and told Minato not to mention him in the report.
• Minato Namikaze exclaimed that Uchiha Jin had acted under the Third Hokage's orders.

Uchiha Jin met Minato Namikaze and his squad in secret to discuss Konoha’s political future as the war neared its end. He warned that Sarutobi Hiruzen would test Minato’s suitability for Hokage, while Orochimaru had already been abandoned as a candidate.

• Inuzuka Agito warned Uchiha Jin that leaving the front without permission could be treated as desertion, but Jin said allies at the camp were covering for him.
• Uchiha Jin told Minato Namikaze and the others that Konoha’s losses and Sarutobi Hiruzen’s wartime mistakes had fueled rumors that Hiruzen would step down after the war.
• Minato Namikaze said Hiruzen had ordered him back to Konoha and hinted that he would support Minato becoming the Fourth Hokage, but Minato suspected Hiruzen wanted to control him.
• Uchiha Jin argued that Orochimaru was qualified to become Hokage but that Hiruzen had abandoned him because he was too powerful and independent to control.
• Uchiha Jin told Minato to avoid getting too close to Uchiha Clan Members when he returned, since Hiruzen would test him before choosing the next Hokage.

Uchiha Jin told Minato Namikaze and the others that their control of the Land of Waves and Gato’s wealth could bring their reforms forward, then argued that ending war required changing the society and forces behind the ninja system. The group embraced his resolve, and Jin declared that becoming Hokage was only the beginning of their journey.

• Uchiha Jin revealed that his group had taken control of the Land of Waves, Shisui was at the Daimyo Manor, and he had seized Gato and his shipping assets.
• Minato Namikaze realized Gato’s wealth could fund their reforms, while Akamichi Chodo questioned whether attacking an ordinary person violated the rules.
• Uchiha Jin explained that ninjas were only a tiny fraction of the population and that wars would persist unless they changed the root causes beyond the ninja system.
• Uchiha Jin declared that one generation should bear the hardships necessary to build a better future, and Minato Namikaze and Akamichi Chodo resolved to pursue that goal.
• Minato Namikaze said Jin was more suited to become Hokage, but Jin replied that Hokage was only the beginning and their journey would reach the sea of stars.

Uchiha Jin discussed Shisui’s planned trip to the Daimyo Manor and explained why relations between the daimyo and Konoha had deteriorated. He traced the dispute to suspicions surrounding Senju Tobirama’s death and Sarutobi Hiruzen’s rise to Hokage.

• Inuzuka Agito said he wanted to fight for a peaceful future for his young son, and Minato Namikaze encouraged the group to strive for a life beyond being tools of war.
• Uchiha Jin said Gato and the Land of Waves would support them and explained that Shisui had applied to join the Twelve Guardian Ninja as a bridge to the daimyo.
• Minato Namikaze questioned whether the daimyo would accept a Konoha ninja into his private guard, and Uchiha Jin explained the tensions between the Daimyo Manor and Konoha.
• Uchiha Jin said the rift had grown after the daimyo rejected Konoha’s protection and formed the Twelve Guardian Ninja, amid distrust of Sarutobi Hiruzen and Konoha’s leadership.
• Uchiha Jin recounted how Senju Tobirama died while covering his personal guard’s retreat and how Sarutobi Hiruzen claimed Tobirama had entrusted him with the Hokage position.
• Uchiha Jin said Sarutobi Hiruzen’s appointment bypassed the Jonin vote and called his rise to power illegitimate.

Uchiha Jin told Minato Namikaze and the others how Sarutobi Hiruzen secured the Hokage position and allegedly weakened the Senju Clan through battlefield deaths, unexplained disappearances, and renewed experiments on Hashirama’s cells. Minato was left horrified by the revelation that Hiruzen and other Konoha leaders had conducted human experimentation.

• Uchiha Jin explained that Uzumaki Mito had suppressed opposition to Sarutobi Hiruzen becoming Hokage after Senju Tobirama’s death.
• Uchiha Jin said Sarutobi Hiruzen targeted the major clans, beginning with the Senju Clan, after consolidating his position.
• Uchiha Jin claimed that many Senju died in battle and that Senju infants, along with children from other clans, disappeared without explanation.
• Uchiha Jin revealed that Konoha leaders had restarted human experiments using Senju Hashirama’s cells, after Senju Tobirama had abandoned his own experiments.
• Minato Namikaze condemned the experiments and was shaken by the darker side of Sarutobi Hiruzen.

Uchiha Jin explained how Konoha’s leadership had corrupted the Will of Fire, and Minato Namikaze resolved to reform the village. They discussed the Uchiha Clan’s potential alliance with the Land of Fire’s Daimyo, leaving that connection as a possible hidden advantage.

• Uchiha Jin argued that Sarutobi Hiruzen and Konoha’s advisors had betrayed the village’s founding purpose through experiments and sending Academy students to war.
• Minato Namikaze, remembering the disciples he had lost, agreed that they needed to clear away the village’s corruption and set things right.
• Uchiha Jin reflected on how people such as Zabuza and Orochimaru had been shaped by a world they could not change, and resolved to give it a new future.
• Uchiha Jin told Minato Namikaze that the Senju Clan and the Third Hokage’s faction had fallen out, creating a possible opening for the Uchiha Clan to align with the Daimyo’s lineage.
• Minato Namikaze said the Daimyo’s support and funding would help him reform Konoha after becoming Hokage, and Uchiha Jin suggested keeping the connection hidden as a trump card.

Uchiha Jin told Minato Namikaze that Shimura Danzō had taken Root shinobi to the Land of Rain to provoke a wider war between Konoha, Iwagakure, and Amegakure. Minato realized Yahiko, Nagato, and Konan’s Akatsuki might obstruct Danzō, leaving him alarmed for his fellow disciples.

• Minato Namikaze noticed Uchiha Jin had come to see him for reasons beyond delivering intelligence, and Jin explained that he was traveling to the Land of Rain.
• Uchiha Jin revealed that Shimura Danzō had taken Root shinobi toward the Land of Rain, prompting Minato to ask whether Yahiko, Nagato, and Konan were in danger.
• Uchiha Jin explained that Yahiko, Nagato, and Konan had founded the Akatsuki Organization, which promoted peace and had been obstructing Danzō’s plans.
• Uchiha Jin said Danzō intended to reignite conflict among Konoha, Iwagakure, and Amegakure to thwart the Third Hokage’s armistice plans.
• Minato Namikaze feared Danzō would target his fellow disciples, while Uchiha Jin explained that the Akatsuki would likely stand in Danzō’s way.

Uchiha Jin explained why he opposed Shimura Danzō’s extreme plans and described his intentions regarding Uchiha Obito, Nohara Rin, Nagato, Yahiko, and Konan. Minato Namikaze agreed that Danzō’s methods were unacceptable, leaving Jin’s plans for the Land of Rain and Obito still ahead.

• Uchiha Jin rejected Shimura Danzō’s plan to provoke a large-scale war because it would delay Minato Namikaze’s rise to Hokage and needlessly harm Konoha.
• Uchiha Jin explained that he had gone to the Land of Rain to stop Shimura Danzō and possibly change the fates of Yahiko, Nagato, and Konan.
• Uchiha Jin said he had let Uchiha Obito’s past unfold so Obito could choose whether to turn back from his mistakes, while revealing that he had made arrangements concerning Nohara Rin.
• Uchiha Jin argued that Nagato’s conflict with Jiraiya came from opposing loyalties and that Nagato might avoid his tragic path if events changed.
• Minato Namikaze condemned Shimura Danzō’s methods and said he would not allow comrades to be treated as tools for Konoha’s interests.

Minato Namikaze gave Uchiha Jin special kunai so he could summon help while Jin went to confront Shimura Danzō’s threat in the Land of Rain. Meanwhile, Uchiha Shisui infiltrated the Land of Fire Daimyo’s palace and revealed his identity to the Daimyo, who reacted with interest.

• Minato Namikaze handed Uchiha Jin special kunai and offered to come to his aid, despite the risks to his Hokage campaign.
• Uchiha Jin accepted the kunai, left Minato Namikaze and the others, and entrusted them with A and the Eight-Tails Jinchuriki.
• Minato Namikaze reassured himself about Jin’s strength, then ordered his group to dispose of the Cloud Ninja corpses and return to camp.
• A cloaked person infiltrated the Land of Fire Daimyo’s palace, evaded its guards, and waited inside the Daimyo’s bedchamber.
• The Daimyo ordered Kazuma and Chiriku to stand down, and Uchiha Shisui removed his mask and revealed his Three-Tomoe Sharingan.

Uchiha Shisui approached the Daimyo on behalf of Uchiha Jin to seek protection from the Uchiha Clan’s persecution within Konoha. The Daimyo agreed that helping them was possible, leaving Shisui’s request for the Uchiha to join Daimyo Manor under consideration.

• Kazuma accused Uchiha Shisui of sneaking into the Royal Palace to threaten the Daimyo, while Shisui clarified that he came as a representative of the Uchiha Clan, not Konoha.
• Chiriku questioned whether the Uchiha planned to defect, and Shisui said they sought a way out and a chance to survive without betraying Konoha.
• The Daimyo recognized Shisui as Kagami Uchiha’s descendant but asked whether he had the authority to represent the clan.
• Shisui said he acted as Uchiha Jin’s messenger and announced that Jin intended to become the Uchiha Clan Head after the war, not Hokage.
• Shisui asked to join the Daimyo’s Twelve Guardian Ninja and explained that sixty-eight Uchiha had died in the war while twenty-nine others had vanished without explanation.
• The Daimyo told Shisui to rise and said that helping the Uchiha was possible.

Uchiha Jin reflected on the Land of Rain’s suffering and the competing ideas of peace held by Hanzō, Nagato, Naruto, Madara, and Obito, then resolved to bring change to the world. He assessed the factions in the war-torn country and decided to go to Amegakure to draw out Shimura Danzō.

• Uchiha Jin considered how the great nations’ wars had repeatedly turned the Land of Rain into a battlefield and examined Hanzō and Nagato’s attempts to secure peace.
• Uchiha Jin rejected the paths of Madara and Obito and resolved to shine like the sun and bring light to the world.
• Uchiha Jin checked his map and noted that Konoha, Iwagakure, Amegakure, and the Akatsuki Organization were active amid fighting and disorder in the Land of Rain.
• Uchiha Jin identified Shimura Danzō’s secret operation as the most urgent threat, but could not determine his exact movements.
• Uchiha Jin decided to go to Amegakure and wait for Shimura Danzō to appear.

Uchiha Jin infiltrated Amegakure to find Hanzō the Salamander, using a Ninja Crow and his Crimson Eyes to locate the leader. He emerged in a secluded courtyard, where Hanzō confronted him and questioned whether he was a Konoha Uchiha or trying to frame someone.

• Uchiha Jin recalled how Shimura Danzō manipulated Hanzō into turning against the Akatsuki and set out for Amegakure.
• Uchiha Jin summoned a black Ninja Crow and hid inside it with the Crow Concealment Technique.
• The Ninja Crow entered Amegakure and used Uchiha Jin’s Crimson Eyes to locate a powerful concentration of Chakra at Hanzō’s estate.
• After scouting the guarded estate, the Ninja Crow landed in an unguarded courtyard and let Uchiha Jin emerge.
• Hanzō appeared before Uchiha Jin, recognized his Konoha and Uchiha insignia, and asked if he was attempting to frame someone.

Uchiha Jin infiltrated Hanzō the Salamander’s residence to wait for Shimura Danzō, but Hanzō detected him because poison around the residence kept birds and insects away. Hanzō attacked and pursued Jin, while Amegakure’s Elite Ninjas followed them from a distance.

• Uchiha Jin asked Hanzō the Salamander how he had discovered the infiltration, and Hanzō explained that poison seeping into the soil kept wildlife away.
• Hanzō used his Body Flicker Technique to attack Jin, who blocked the Kusarigama with a Kunai and revealed his Sharingan.
• Hanzō questioned why Jin had infiltrated openly, and Jin said he had come to wait for Konoha’s Hokage Assistant, Shimura Danzō.
• Jin asked Hanzō to speak somewhere quiet, but Hanzō mistook the request and tried to take him to Amegakure’s Torture Chamber.
• Jin used the Substitution Technique to escape Hanzō’s slash and fled over a wall as Hanzō chased him.
• Amegakure’s Elite Ninjas found traces of the fight and pursued Jin and Hanzō from a distance to avoid Hanzō’s poison.

Uchiha Jin fought Hanzō the Salamander beyond Amegakure to prove he deserved to speak with him as an equal. After Hanzō revealed that his water techniques had spread poison through the air, he taunted Jin and asked whether he could still use Chakra.

• Hanzō the Salamander attacked Uchiha Jin with a Water Flow Whip after they left Amegakure.
• Uchiha Jin countered with powerful Fire Style techniques, and Hanzō raised a Water Prison Wall to stop the flames.
• Hanzō used the mist to close in and severed Jin's arm, but Jin struck back with Fire Fist and re-formed his limb.
• Hanzō recognized Jin's Fire Transformation Technique and dismissed his claim to equal standing, citing Jin's lack of experience.
• Hanzō revealed that his water techniques had carried Compound Toxin into the vapor, poisoning Jin, and challenged him to use Chakra.

Uchiha Jin revealed to Hanzō the Salamander that Konoha was considering peace talks with Iwagakure, prompting Hanzō to infer Shimura Danzō’s plan to reignite the war. Hanzō weighed whether to help Jin stop Danzō, aware that Amegakure risked Konoha’s retaliation if it tried to exploit the situation.

• Hanzō the Salamander’s chakra-restricting poison failed to stop Uchiha Jin, who had turned his body into flames and punched Hanzō away.
• Uchiha Jin and Hanzō lowered their weapons and discussed the war’s nearing end.
• Uchiha Jin told Hanzō that the Third Hokage was considering peace talks with Iwagakure, despite Shimura Danzō’s opposition.
• Hanzō correctly inferred that Shimura Danzō had gone to the Land of Rain to provoke conflict and derail peace talks.
• Uchiha Jin asked what Hanzō would do if Jin intended to stop Shimura Danzō, and Hanzō considered the danger of Konoha retaliating against Amegakure.

Uchiha Jin confronted Hanzō the Salamander after realizing he planned to cooperate with Shimura Danzō, and the two began fighting. Hanzō bound Jin and criticized his use of the Sharingan, but Jin revealed that Hanzō had already fallen under his Genjutsu.

• Uchiha Jin recognized that Hanzō the Salamander had agreed to cooperate with Shimura Danzō for Amegakure's benefit.
• Jin told Hanzō he intended to kill Shimura Danzō, and Hanzō summoned Salamander Ibuse to attack him with poison.
• Jin blocked Ibuse's poison with flames and counterattacked, but Ibuse burrowed underground while Hanzō struck with his kusarigama.
• Ibuse and Hanzō trapped Jin with a bite and chains, and Hanzō criticized his lack of Genjutsu and Dynamic Vision.
• Jin smiled while bound and told Hanzō that he had already used Genjutsu.