Chapter Summaries

After Mitokado Homura and Utatane Koharu failed to stop the plan, Uchiha Jin reassured his allies that preparations for the East Water West Transfer project were already underway. The group agreed that Amegakure and the Hyuga Clan could help speed the work, and Jin offered to coordinate with Amegakure.

• Mitokado Homura and Utatane Koharu left the Hokage Office after failing to achieve their goal, while noticing Nara Shikaku's unusual position.
• Nara Shikaku warned that the enormous East Water West Transfer project required extensive surveys and needed to start soon to stabilize Sunagakure.
• Minato Namikaze insisted that the project's preliminary work had to be thorough, despite the urgency.
• Uchiha Jin revealed that he had already asked Yahiko, Nagato, and Konan to map the Land of Rain and build water conservancy projects.
• Uchiha Jin explained that the Hyuga Clan's Byakugan could assist technical workers with surveys, and Hyuga Hiashi agreed to help.
• Uchiha Jin offered to arrange a detailed discussion with Amegakure.

Uchiha Jin negotiated with Darui over ending the war, pressing Kumogakure to accept responsibility and pay reparations. Darui countered by blaming Shimura Danzō for Kumogakure’s actions, leaving Uchiha Jin speechless.

• Uchiha Xiao questioned whether Darui had enough authority to negotiate, and Darui said he could represent Kumogakure without contacting the Fourth Raikage directly.
• Uchiha Jin accused Kumogakure of breaking its peace treaty and invading the Land of Fire, and Darui offered two hundred million in war reparations to end the war.
• Darui appealed to Kumogakure’s heavy casualties, but Uchiha Jin argued that Kumogakure had started the war and Konoha had also suffered losses.
• Uchiha Jin blamed Kumogakure for past conflicts, including Senju Tobirama’s death, while Darui insisted Kinkaku and Ginkaku had been criminals acting against the village.
• Darui argued that Shimura Danzō had led Kumogakure into breaking the treaty, provided Konoha’s border Deployment Map, and invited its forces into the Land of Fire, leaving Uchiha Jin speechless.

Uchiha Jin negotiated with Darui over Kumogakure’s obligations to Konoha, rejecting Darui’s attempt to separate the village from its past dealings with Shimura Danzō. Darui accepted the remaining ransom demand but balked at the war reparations, so Jin gave him an hour to consult Kumogakure.

• Uchiha Jin argued that Kumogakure’s Militarist Faction remained responsible for its coup and that Konoha would not honor Shimura Danzō’s promises.
• Darui warned that Konoha’s internal changes could make Jin’s promises unreliable, but Jin challenged Kumogakure’s judgment and credibility.
• Uchiha Jin demanded the nearly five hundred million taels still owed in ransom, and Darui agreed on Kumogakure’s behalf.
• Uchiha Jin demanded another five hundred million taels in war reparations, while Darui protested that Kumogakure could not afford the total one billion taels.
• Uchiha Jin insisted that the demands were Konoha’s bottom line, and Darui asked to consult his village before Jin gave him one hour.

Uchiha Jin joined Konoha’s negotiations with Iwagakure after Ōnoki rejected the terms and threatened war. Jin declared that Iwagakure could either surrender or fight until Konoha forced it to surrender.

• Nara Shikaku told Uchiha Jin that Kumogakure was consulting the Fourth Raikage, while negotiations with Iwagakure were tense.
• Ōnoki rejected Mitokado Homura’s demand for ten billion and insisted Iwagakure had come for peace talks, not surrender.
• Utatane Koharu threatened to end the talks, and Ōnoki challenged Konoha to start a war.
• Uchiha Jin entered the meeting and reminded Ōnoki that Iwagakure had started the war and that Roshi had died by Jin’s hand.
• Ōnoki threatened that other villages would unite against Konoha if it attacked Iwagakure.
• Uchiha Jin said Iwagakure had only two choices: surrender or fight until Konoha forced it to surrender.

Uchiha Jin used his Mangekyō Sharingan to intimidate Ōnoki and take control of the peace negotiations. Ōnoki accepted that Iwagakure’s war reparations could be negotiated, leaving the amount unsettled.

• Ōnoki argued that Iwagakure still had ten thousand combat troops and would not fear Konoha, while Uchiha Jin challenged him to settle the dispute on the battlefield.
• Uchiha Jin dismissed Iwagakure’s numbers and revealed his Mangekyō Sharingan, reminding Ōnoki that the Uchiha Clan had several other pairs of Mangekyō eyes.
• Ōnoki was shaken by memories of Uchiha Madara, then recovered and remarked that the Sage of Six Paths seemed to favor Konoha’s geniuses.
• Ōnoki offered two hundred million taels in reparations, but Uchiha Jin insisted on Konoha’s five-hundred-million-tael demand.
• Uchiha Jin cited Konoha’s larger demands on Sunagakure and Kumogakure and explained that Kumogakure’s captured Eight-Tails Jinchūriki and elite ninja could compel payment.
• Ōnoki said five hundred million taels was open to discussion.

Uchiha Jin negotiated with Darui over Kumogakure’s ransom and war reparations, insisting that the full one billion ryo be paid within one month. Darui sought time to consult the Raikage, leaving the deadline unresolved but considering how Kumogakure might raise the funds.

• Uchiha Jin left the Sunagakure negotiations to Mitokado Homura and Utatane Koharu, then went to meet Darui and the Kumogakure delegation.
• Darui agreed to pay five hundred million ryo in ransom and five hundred million in war reparations, but asked for more time to collect the money.
• Uchiha Jin rejected Darui’s request for three months, citing Kumogakure’s earlier betrayal after Konoha had granted it time and released the Fourth Raikage.
• Darui argued that Kumogakure needed at least half a year because the war had strained its finances, but Uchiha Jin maintained that Konoha’s one-month deadline was final.
• After Uchiha Jin pointed out that Konoha had earned more than two hundred billion from its operation against Sunagakure, Darui began considering how Kumogakure could raise one billion ryo in a month.
• Darui asked to consult the Raikage, and Uchiha Jin agreed.

Darui and Uchiha Jin negotiated Kumogakure’s acceptance of Konoha’s peace terms and a proposed agreement to let Kumogakure raid the Land of Iron for funds. Uchiha refused to approve the plan as presented, arguing that Kumogakure’s target was too small and warning that Konoha had already angered the nobles by breaking their established rules.

• After Iwagakure’s envoy left with its drafted peace treaty, Darui summoned Uchiha Jin and said Kumogakure would accept Konoha’s conditions, including paying one billion taels within a month.
• Darui proposed a Gentleman's Agreement: Kumogakure would raid the wealthy, neutral Land of Iron and wanted Konoha to ignore its troops passing through three countries with Konoha outposts.
• Uchiha Jin said Konoha would not oppose the operation but called Kumogakure’s plan too petty, arguing that robbing the Land of Iron’s commoners was not worth the effort.
• Darui warned that Konoha’s raid in the Land of Wind had offended the nobles and broken the rules that had long governed their relations.

Uchiha Jin persuaded Darui to cooperate on secretly using Root remnants and bandits to raid countries, including the Land of Lightning, while disguising Kumogakure and Konoha’s involvement. Darui reconsidered his objections after Jin distinguished the Land of Lightning’s other nobles from the Daimyo Manor.

• Uchiha Jin told Darui that covert squads could target small countries without revealing who had sent them.
• Uchiha Jin proposed using escaped Root remnants to gather bandits and stage raids across the Ninja World.
• Darui understood that Kumogakure could profit while blaming the attacks on bandits, but worried about raids in the Land of Fire and the Land of Lightning.
• Uchiha Jin argued that attacks in those lands would bring nobles to Konoha and Kumogakure for help, creating further opportunities to profit.
• Uchiha Jin stressed that the Land of Lightning’s other nobles were separate from the Daimyo Manor, and Darui realized he had wrongly treated them as one target.

Uchiha Jin discussed a profitable alliance against local nobles with Darui, who said he needed the Raikage’s approval. Back in the Hokage Office, Mitokado Homura and Utatane Koharu confronted Jin over the plan and warned that targeting nobles could bring Konoha to ruin, leaving Jin resolved to find another way to pursue his aims.

• Darui said he would seek the Raikage’s instructions before deciding whether Kumogakure would cooperate with Uchiha Jin.
• Uchiha Jin left Darui in the Meeting Room and went to the Hokage Office, where Minato Namikaze, Nara Shikaku, Utatane Koharu, and Mitokado Homura remained.
• Mitokado Homura asked Jin whether he had seriously proposed targeting local nobles, and Jin said he was always serious about making money.
• Mitokado Homura and Utatane Koharu argued that ninja depended on nobles for necessities and warned that opposing them could endanger Konoha.
• Mitokado Homura said the Land of Wind might retaliate for its losses and that Jin’s actions had created a serious danger to Konoha’s future.
• Jin recognized that he and the two elders would never agree and decided he would have to find another way forward.

Uchiha Jin defended his plan to use a puppet organization for a scheme involving Kumogakure, but Utatane Koharu warned that the Black Market Exchange and the nobles behind it would expose and oppose them. Jin proposed taking over an existing outlaw force instead and revealed that he had a target in mind: the Sky Ninja Village.

• Uchiha Jin argued that his plan posed little risk to Konoha because a puppet organization would carry it out and Kumogakure would take the blame.
• Utatane Koharu explained that the Black Market Exchange was the underground world's largest rogue ninja network and was run by the nobles.
• Utatane Koharu warned that the Black Market Exchange would uncover a new puppet force and that the nobles would target Konoha because of its prior actions in the Land of Wind.
• Uchiha Jin acknowledged the risk and suggested taking over an established force rather than building one from scratch.
• Uchiha Jin told Mitokado Homura, Utatane Koharu, Minato Namikaze, and Nara Shikaku that the Sky Ninja Village was his target.

Uchiha Jin proposed using the supposedly destroyed Sky Ninja Village as a pawn in his plan, revealing that its remnants were secretly rebuilding in Konokuni. Mitokado Homura insisted that Konoha must address the threat of their aerial technology.

• Mitokado Homura questioned whether the Sky Ninja Village could serve as a pawn, since it had been destroyed and its unique flight technology was needed to impersonate it.
• Uchiha Jin claimed the Sky Ninja Village had survived in hiding and said he had discovered traces of it.
• Uchiha Jin explained that he had tracked Shinno, a doctor he recognized as the Sky Ninja Village's leader, hoping to exploit the village's technology and disguise his plan.
• Uchiha Jin revealed that the remnants were in an underground fortress in Konokuni, where they were developing a weapon more powerful than a Tailed Beast Ball to attack Konoha.
• Mitokado Homura urged Uchiha Jin to take the Sky Ninja Village seriously, while Uchiha Jin argued that it was an ideal pawn for his plan.

Uchiha Jin argued that Konoha should secretly take control of the Sky Ninja Village, use it to gain resources, and then absorb everything it owned. He convinced Mitokado Homura and Utatane Koharu that Konoha needed money to fund Orochimaru’s powerful new weapons, leaving them conflicted over the research’s cost and importance.

• Mitokado Homura and Utatane Koharu urged Minato Namikaze to act against the Sky Ninja Village, and Uchiha Jin clarified that he wanted to seize and exploit it before eliminating it.
• Mitokado Homura argued Konoha already had enough money, but Uchiha Jin listed the East Water West Transfer project and the Konoha Research Institute as major expenses.
• Minato Namikaze explained that Orochimaru’s new weapon had helped Konoha destroy Sunagakure’s stronghold and defenses in the Land of Wind.
• Uchiha Jin described the weapon as a long-range launcher that fired shells with the power of dozens of Exploding Tags, and said Orochimaru was developing stronger models.
• Mitokado Homura and Utatane Koharu agreed that the Konoha Research Institute should belong to the village, then hesitated when Uchiha Jin warned that its research was consuming funds rapidly.

Nara Shikaku raised concerns about how Konoha would handle Kumogakure's interest in the Sky Ninja Village's technology, while Uchiha Jin saw the issue as a chance to create a pretext for a later move against Kumogakure. The elders agreed to postpone the wider political dispute and let Jin handle the Sky Ninja Village, after which he said he would deal with Kumogakure first.

• Nara Shikaku asked whether Konoha would share the Sky Ninja Village's technology with Kumogakure, and Uchiha Jin said Kumogakure's pursuit of it could benefit Konoha.
• Mitokado Homura opposed Jin's plan, while Minato Namikaze proposed a vote and Utatane Koharu suggested bringing in Konoha's broader circle of senior officials.
• Jin agreed to postpone the decision about expanding the vote and asked whether the elders accepted dealing with the Sky Ninja Village first.
• Jin said he would send infiltration teams to seize the Sky Ninja Village's research and technical personnel, with Uchiha Obito leading the operation.
• The elders accepted Jin's responsibility for the Sky Ninja Village, and Jin said he would deal with Kumogakure first.

Darui proposed robbing nobles to fund Kumogakure, but the Fourth Raikage A warned him not to target the Land of Lightning’s nobles because they were vital patrons. A approved cooperating with Uchiha Jin against nobles in other countries, provided Kumogakure rescued its captives before breaking with Konoha Village.

• Darui told A that robbing nobles could bring Kumogakure far more money than robbing commoners.
• A explained that Kumogakure depended on the Land of Lightning’s nobles and must not attack them.
• A told Darui that Kumogakure could still cooperate with Uchiha Jin against nobles in the Land of Grass, the Land of Hot Water, and the Land of Iron.
• A instructed Darui to target small countries first and secure the release of Killer B, Dodai, and the other captives before Kumogakure fell out with Konoha Village.
• Darui agreed to discuss cooperation with Uchiha Jin.

Uchiha Jin and Darui resumed negotiations, agreeing to keep Konoha and Kumogakure’s secret cooperation separate from the ransom and prisoner-release terms. They finalized the Peace Treaty, leaving the Kage of both villages to sign it, while Kumogakure prepared an elite squad and storage scrolls for Konoha’s undisclosed operation.

• Uchiha Jin refused Darui’s requests to reduce the one billion ryo payment or relax the conditions for releasing Kumogakure’s captives.
• Darui accepted that the ransom and prisoner release would remain separate from the secret cooperation between the villages.
• Uchiha Jin told Darui to secretly assemble an elite squad of about two hundred people and prepare as many storage scrolls as possible.
• Uchiha Jin said Konoha would provide the operation’s targets and plan later, after the villages completed the Peace Talks.
• Uchiha Jin and Darui finalized the Peace Treaty, leaving it for the two Kage to sign.

Yahiko’s officials reported that Amegakure’s New Policy had improved farming, housing, and public security across the Land of Rain. The meeting turned to the village’s finances, where Kakuzu had discovered the country’s finances were a bottomless pit.

• Yahiko opened a meeting to review the New Policy’s results and plan Amegakure’s future.
• Ametsuyu reported that ninja and citizens had built reservoirs, canals, homes, and farmland, with a large harvest expected in a few months.
• Nagato reported that Amegakure had restored border control and that security teams had resettled most bandits or punished serious offenders.
• Yahiko warned officials to stay vigilant about public safety and asked Konan and Kakuzu to explain the village’s finances.
• Kakuzu, who had become Finance Minister alongside Konan, had realized that the Land of Rain’s finances were a bottomless pit.

Konan explained that the Land of Rain was deeply in debt despite its New Policy, while Yahiko argued that opening a sea route was essential for trade and future growth. Kakuzu refused to fund the project, leaving the plan stalled because Amegakure had only thirty million taels in emergency funds.

• Konan explained that the Land of Rain had borrowed fifteen billion taels from Gato Shipping Company and three hundred million taels from Kakuzu, bringing its total debt to eighteen hundred million liang.
• Kakuzu corrected Konan, insisting that his three hundred million taels were a loan that Amegakure had to repay with interest, and Yahiko confirmed the village had signed an I.O.U.
• Konan said the harvest and tax revenue expected in a few months would improve Amegakure's finances and allow it to begin more projects.
• Yahiko proposed opening a sea route so Gato Shipping Company's cargo ships could reach the Land of Rain and its crops could be exported.
• Kakuzu refused to fund the sea route, explaining that the project would cost at least a hundred million taels while the Finance Department had only thirty million taels in emergency funds.

Yahiko told Amegakure’s leaders that the village was nearly out of money and proposed borrowing another two hundred million taels from Gato Shipping Company. He revealed that Konoha was behind the company’s previous fifteen-billion-tael loan and declared that Konoha would become Amegakure’s closest partner and greatest support.

• Kakuzu told Yahiko that Amegakure had only thirty million taels left, which would last little more than a month.
• Yahiko ruled out raising taxes and proposed borrowing two hundred million taels from Gato Shipping Company.
• Kakuzu and the other leaders doubted that the company would lend such a large sum, but Yahiko pointed out that it had already lent Amegakure fifteen billion.
• Yahiko revealed that Gato Shipping Company’s investment had been made because of Konoha, not confidence in Amegakure’s prospects.
• Yahiko silenced the angry leaders and declared that Konoha would be Amegakure’s best partner and greatest support.

Yahiko defended peaceful cooperation with Konoha by revealing his bond with Minato Namikaze and explaining the purpose behind Konoha’s loan to Amegakure. He left the meeting room with the leaders stunned by plans for a massive water-transfer project that could benefit the Land of Rain.

• Ametsuyu argued that Amegakure could not trust Konoha, but Yahiko said Konoha had changed under Minato Namikaze and pointed to Shimura Danzō’s execution as evidence.
• Yahiko revealed that Jiraiya had trained him, Nagato, and Konan, making Minato his senior fellow disciple.
• Ametsuyu warned that Konoha’s loan of fifteen hundred million taels likely came with a hidden scheme, and Yahiko acknowledged that Konoha expected something in return.
• Yahiko described a large cooperative project spanning the Lands of Fire, Rain, Wind, and River, then named it East Water West Transfer.
• Yahiko explained that the project would carry surplus water from the Lands of Rain and River to the water-scarce Land of Wind, potentially improving the Land of Rain’s environment.

Yahiko persuaded Amegakure’s leaders to join Konoha and Sunagakure’s proposed East Water West Transfer project, promising benefits for the Land of Rain. He prepared to travel to Konoha with Konan while Nagato stayed behind to guard the village, leaving Ametsuyu in charge during their absence.

• Yahiko explained that the East Water West Transfer project would bring the Land of Rain water, work, and mission rewards, and said Konoha and Sunagakure would provide funding and manpower.
• Yahiko assured Ametsuyu that Minato Namikaze and Konoha elders Uchiha and Hyuga Hiashi could be trusted, and Ametsuyu agreed to the project.
• Yahiko said he and Konan would travel to Konoha the day after tomorrow to meet Sunagakure’s representatives, while Nagato remained in Amegakure to watch over Hanzō the Salamander.
• Yahiko asked Ametsuyu to manage Amegakure’s projects and plan the Shipping Route, and told Kakuzu not to withhold funding.
• Yahiko urged the meeting attendees to set aside their hatred of Konoha and Sunagakure for the future of Amegakure and the Land of Rain.