Chapter Summaries

Jin rushed to Konoha after the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox rampaged through the village and forced it back inside Naruto using his chakra-draining ability and a threat. After Jin collapsed from exhaustion, the Third Hokage arranged for him and Naruto to be hospitalized, then welcomed Jiraiya and Tsunade back to Konoha.

• Jin left Jiraiya, Tsunade, and the others to investigate the alarm from Konoha, reaching the village in just over ten minutes.
• The Third Hokage explained that Naruto's loosened seal had let him transform into a five-tailed beast, and that approaching him made the beast's power surge.
• Jin used the Kusanagi Sword and Chakra Vortex to drain the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox's chakra and threatened to destroy it if it tried to control Naruto again.
• The Nine-Tailed Demon Fox's force field vanished, Naruto returned to normal, and Jin collapsed from exhaustion.
• The Third Hokage ordered Jin and Naruto taken to the hospital and declared the incident a top secret.
• Jiraiya and Tsunade returned with Jin's team, and the Third Hokage arranged a high-class ward for Hinata while joking about gifts and choosing a Fifth Hokage.

Jin negotiated the release of Yugito Nii and the Kumogakure prisoners for 120 million ryo, then shared the proceeds and rewarded Konoha’s people. The other three great nations joined the Land of Lightning in an alliance against the Land of Fire, beginning the Fourth Shinobi World War.

• Jin demanded compensation and a public apology to Hinata in exchange for releasing Yugito Nii and the Kumogakure prisoners.
• Jin and the Land of Lightning’s envoy agreed on 120 million ryo, and the envoy apologized to Hinata.
• Jin divided the money among the Land of Fire, Konoha, Hinata, himself, and the participating ninja, then ordered bonuses and aid for fallen ninja’s families.
• The Land of Lightning’s envoy told the Raikage to contact the other great nations and organize an attack on the Land of Fire.
• The Kazekage initially refused to join the proposed war, but joined after the Land of Earth and the Land of Water agreed to attack Konoha.
• The four great nations formed an alliance, starting the Fourth Shinobi World War.

After the four great nations declared war on the Land of Fire, Jin chose to lead the Uchiha clan against the Land of Lightning and prepared to mobilize his fighters. The clan assembled for training and discussed their growing abilities before heading to war.

• An ANBU member warned the Third Hokage that the four great nations had allied to attack the Land of Fire, and the Hokage assigned Jiraiya, Tsunade, and Kakashi to defend the other fronts.
• Jin chose to intercept the Land of Lightning, asked for fifty Konoha forehead protectors, and said he would mobilize the entire clan.
• The Third Hokage began a mobilization speech while Jiraiya and Tsunade privately discussed avoiding the Hokage position and Jiraiya slipped away.
• Jin told the fifty Uchiha Clan orphans to prepare to fight and loot the Land of Lightning's ninja, then left White at home to recover.
• Jin revealed that he had kage-level strength and encouraged the others to train, while White and Kimimaro described their new abilities and Hinata silently considered her own strength.

Jin led his small squad toward the Land of Lightning, intending to undermine its economy rather than fight a conventional war. At the Land of Fire’s border, they discovered enemy ninja slaughtering villagers, and Jin ordered his squad to attack as masked opponents prepared to target him.

• Karin explained her healing and sensory abilities, and Jin appointed her the squad’s doctor.
• Jin gave Aunt Meiko ten million ryo to build a fortified village and said he would take the Naruto position for a month before leaving.
• Jin led his squad through Konoha and northeast toward the Land of Lightning while the Third Naruto ordered ANBU to track them.
• Jin told Karin that his squad would weaken the Land of Lightning by destroying its economy and promised they would return rich.
• Jin’s squad reached a burning village near the Land of Fire’s border and found more than a hundred enemy ninja attacking villagers.
• Jin ordered his squad to attack and used clone techniques as a golden-bull-masked ninja sent an ally to help the Cloud ninja and assassinate him.

Jin fought two masked bounty hunters after learning the Raikage had placed a ten-million bounty on him. After defeating the Taurus-masked ninja, he heard Red Rose’s plea for help and returned with her to the ongoing battle.

• A Taurus-masked bounty hunter told Jin that the Raikage had offered ten million for his life, and Jin began fighting him.
• A Red Rose-masked ninja joined the attack, and Jin fought her while using clones to keep the Taurus ninja occupied.
• Jin hid in the mist and battered the Taurus-masked ninja with his clones, leaving him badly injured.
• Red Rose knelt and asked Jin to help rescue her older sister and kill the other eleven Starry Sky Twelve Warriors, explaining that they had forced her to serve them.
• After a scream sounded from the battlefield, Jin and Red Rose rushed back to join the fighting, while Jin kept watch on her.

Jin killed Aries of the Starry Sky Twelve Warriors with his new Ice Crystal Explosion technique, then warned Red Rose that more enemies were nearby. After the Land of Lightning ninjas fell, Jin’s group gathered under attack from a hidden force that had surrounded them.

• Jin left the battle against the Land of Lightning ninjas to confront Aries, who revealed his Wind Release: Wings of Wind.
• Jin fought Aries in the air, then brought him down and trapped him in an ice coffin.
• Jin used Ice Shield: Ice Crystal Explosion to shatter Aries and the Crystal Coffin.
• Jin returned to the battlefield and told Red Rose that Aries was dead and that enemies might be watching them.
• Jin ordered Karin to treat the wounded while his clones searched for enemies, then gathered everyone around him after realizing they were surrounded.

Jin rescued White Rose from the Starry Sky Twelve Warriors’ hideout, then stayed behind to fight the pursuers while Red Rose carried her sister toward camp. Four more enemy ninjas joined the battle as the chapter ended.

• Jin confirmed that Red Rose was telling the truth and agreed to help rescue White Rose before the group continued toward the Land of Lightning.
• Jin and Red Rose reached the town where White Rose was held, and Jin infiltrated the building while invisible and underground.
• Jin knocked White Rose unconscious, took her from the hideout, and escaped through a window after Cancer spotted him.
• Jin sent Red Rose and White Rose toward camp and confronted Cancer and Leo with clones and ninjutsu.
• Libra, Scorpio, Aquarius, and Pisces arrived, and Cancer ordered Libra and Scorpio to pursue Red Rose and White Rose.

Jin battled the six quasi-Kage-level members of the Starry Sky Twelve Warriors and overwhelmed them with his clones and powerful combo ninjutsu. He killed Pisces and left Aquarius and Scorpio facing his next attack.

• Jin sent clones to hold off five opponents while he attacked Cancer with a five-element dragon technique, knocking Cancer down.
• Jin targeted Leo with the same combo, then used a Lightning Cutter to tear through Libra’s waist and a Big Ball Rasengan to blast Leo’s shoulder and arm away.
• Pisces, Scorpio, and Aquarius tried to retreat, but Jin’s clones forced them together and trapped Pisces in an ice coffin before shattering him.
• Scorpio told Aquarius to hold Jin off while he summoned his beast, and Jin fired Straight Thunderclap at Aquarius.

Jin killed the Starry Sky Organization’s attackers, learned that Zetsu wanted the war to continue, and then rushed back after Cloud ninja ambushed his camp. He left his allies facing three hundred enemies as they began the Four Symbols Illusion Technique.

• Jin followed Scorpio to a town, where the Demon King killed the wounded Aquarius and heard Scorpio report that Jin had defeated their group.
• Zetsu persuaded the Demon King to postpone his revenge on Jin so the war could continue, then vanished underground.
• Jin attacked the Demon King with a Fireball Jutsu, escaped, and tracked down Scorpio and the four others, killing them with a Rasengan and elemental Dragon Bullets.
• Jin learned that three hundred Cloud ninja had surrounded his camp and hurried back toward his allies.
• Jin’s physical clone told the fifty Sharingan users to unleash the Four Symbols Illusion Technique, and four blood-red energy masses formed around their formation.

Jin’s group defeated the Cloud ninja and escaped toward XX Gorge, while the Starry Sky Twelve Warriors’ hidden boss pursued White Rose. Jin removed the tracking seed from White Rose, but the boss mistook her disappearance from his senses for her death and turned back.

• Jin’s Four Symbols Illusion Array incapacitated the Cloud ninja, and his group killed them before heading for XX Gorge.
• White Rose and Red Rose pledged to serve as Jin’s guardian ninja, while Kimimaro led the exhausted group’s defenses.
• Land of Lightning ninja found the Cloud corpses, and Lord Suzuki ordered Xiaochun to gather intelligence instead of pursuing Jin’s group.
• The hidden boss realized his five men had been killed and set out to capture White Rose himself.
• White Rose told Jin that a seed in her body let the boss track her, and Jin extracted it from her heart and expelled it through her arm.
• Believing White Rose dead when he could no longer sense her, the hidden boss turned back as Xiaochun reported Jin’s group was approaching XX Gorge.

Jin developed a chakra-draining technique, then buried most of a Land of Lightning camp with an enormous Earth Release attack. After Jin collapsed and awakened days later, the Raikage’s warnings had helped trigger a full war among the nations.

• Jin developed Secret Technique! Infinite Radiance! and used it to drain enemy ninja while searching for the Land of Lightning camp.
• Jin unleashed SSS-rank Earth Release! Intense Earth Pulse! and buried nearly the entire Land of Lightning advance force, though fewer than ten ninja escaped.
• The escaped ninja reported Jin’s attack to the Raikage, who sent secret letters to the other nations and leaders.
• Jin returned to his companions and collapsed unconscious in White’s arms.
• The Land of Water and the Land of Earth declared war on the Land of Fire, the Land of Wind sided with the Land of Fire, and the Land of Earth also declared war on the Land of Wind.
• Kakashi’s army moved to reinforce the Land of Wind, and Jin awakened as the war fully erupted.

After waking from nine days unconscious, Uchiha Jin learned that the Land of Water and the Land of Earth had declared war on the Land of Fire, and he planned to disrupt the Raikage’s thirty-thousand-man army by attacking its supply routes. He sent his team out under Kimimaro with escape scrolls while keeping an important task for himself.

• White told Jin that the Land of Water and the Land of Earth had declared war on the Land of Fire, the Land of Wind had allied with them, and the Raikage had entered the border region with thirty thousand troops.
• Red Rose reported the Raikage’s three supply routes, and Jin ordered her to hire Otogakure and Akatsuki to destroy them, offering one million ryo per route per day.
• Jin gave Red Rose five million ryo and asked her to contact Orochimaru and Itachi Uchiha, whose Akatsuki codename was Suzaku.
• Jin ordered his assembled forces to cut off the enemy supply routes under Kimimaro, with White as deputy commander and White Rose and Karin focused on protecting the team.
• Jin gave Kimimaro, White, and White Rose scrolls containing the Spatial Transfer jutsu and told the team to retreat with everyone if they faced danger.
• When White asked why Jin was not joining them, Jin said he had something important to do.

Jin ambushed the Land of Lightning’s army, killing and wounding its ninjas while taunting the Raikage and forcing him to retreat. Jin then spotted the army’s military funds and attacked their guards as the Raikage rushed to stop him.

• Jin used Tornado Cannon to ambush the Land of Lightning’s army, killing over a hundred ninjas and taunting the Raikage.
• Jin struck the army again with Death Ripple, burning more of its elite ninjas before disappearing to replenish his chakra.
• The Raikage’s commanders discussed ways to detect Jin’s invisibility and sent orders to search other nations for someone with the Byakugan.
• Jin resumed his attacks with Tornado Cannon, prompting the Raikage to order a retreat to the Land of Lightning.
• Jin noticed two guarded chests and attacked their guards after learning they held the army’s military funds.
• The Raikage charged toward Jin as he fought his way toward the chests.

Jin stole the Raikage’s military funds, while White Rose and his subordinates sabotaged a grain route and helped force the Land of Lightning’s army to retreat. After celebrating, Jin led his group toward the Land of Lightning’s capital as the Raikage sought a way to counter Jin’s invisibility.

• Jin evaded the Raikage, stole two chests of military funds, and taunted him as the army withdrew toward the Land of Lightning.
• A soldier reported that White Rose had incapacitated nearly a thousand guards and burned a grain supply route, so the Raikage ordered more scouts and trackers to pursue Jin’s subordinates.
• White Rose returned with the group, and Jin revealed that he had stolen the military funds and planned to infiltrate the Land of Lightning to take its wealth.
• Jin asked Red Rose to arrange continued grain-route sabotage and organize missions with Otogakure and Akatsuki, then the group held a bonfire celebration.
• The next morning, Jin led everyone toward the Land of Lightning’s capital and sent Naruto a routine report through Konoha’s secret channels.
• The Land of Lightning searched for a ninja with the Byakugan who could counter Jin’s invisibility and found one from the Land of Water.

Jin teleported his team into the Land of Lightning, evaded the Raikage, and ordered them to rob a town for money while sparing ordinary people’s lives. The Raikage learned Jin was inside the country and set out to stop him, but Jin’s team began their robbery as the pursuit closed in.

• Naruto read reports of Jin’s victories and worried that the young ninja’s strength far surpassed his expectations.
• Red Rose told Jin that Itachi was near the border and explained how she and White Rose had gained their light and darkness chakra natures from strange fruits.
• Jin planned to teleport his team into the Land of Lightning and joked that they would carry away so much gold they would grow tired of it.
• After scouts detected Jin, the Raikage rushed toward his reported location, but Jin teleported his team away and crossed into the Land of Lightning.
• The Raikage learned Jin had crossed his army and headed toward the capital, so he canceled the attack on the Land of Fire and went to pursue him.
• Jin ordered his team to rob a wealthy town, injure or cripple anyone who resisted, and spare ordinary people’s lives; scouts then located him.

Jin stalled the Raikage while Fragmented Dance looted a border town, then continued toward the Land of Lightning's capital. The daimyo learned that a Byakugan could detect Jin and ordered Killer B to seek more, while Jin prepared to confront the Raikage again.

• Jin approached the Raikage and waited him out until Fragmented Dance finished looting and withdrew.
• Jin taunted the Raikage, who started back toward the capital after a subordinate reminded him that the daimyo was in danger.
• The Raikage found the looted border town and saw its smoke, corpses, and stripped valuables.
• Killer B introduced a Land of Water ninja with a Byakugan to the Land of Lightning's daimyo, who ordered Killer B to tell the Raikage to buy as many Byakugan as possible.
• Jin's team traveled toward the capital, and Jin told Kimimaro and the Roses that he planned to fight the Raikage while they looted the next town.

Jin fought the Raikage while teaching his troops how to stay composed and exploit an opponent’s weaknesses. After injuring the Raikage and driving him away, Jin revealed that he planned to lure the Raikage away from Kumogakure before launching a surprise attack there.

• Jin told his troops to loot quickly and study his coming fight with the Raikage, then greeted the Raikage and provoked him into a battle.
• Jin used his Sharingan and copied techniques to counter the Raikage, explaining combat lessons to his troops as they exchanged blows.
• Jin injured the Raikage in a chakra contest, and the Raikage retreated after Jin’s troops applauded him.
• Jin announced a supposed attack on the Land of Lightning’s capital, then told his group that he would teleport them to Kumogakure for a surprise attack.
• Red Rose recognized Jin’s plan to lure the Raikage away, and Kimimaro looked forward to a real battle.

Jin led his forces to Kumogakure to raid its treasury, then confronted the Two-Tails jinchūriki Yugito Nii. As their battle began, Yugito revealed that she and the Eight-Tails jinchūriki had grown stronger since their last encounter.

• Kimimaro and Yakumo argued with Jin about robbing bandits, and Jin ordered his fifty-six followers to assemble.
• Jin teleported his forces near Kumogakure, split them into four squads, and sent them to attack from different directions while his clones guarded their return point.
• Jin entered Kumogakure and surprised Yugito Nii in the Raikage's office, prompting her to raise the alarm and order the village to protect its treasury.
• Jin revealed he had come for Kumogakure's military funds and challenged Yugito, who fled to a training ground and warned the villagers to evacuate.
• Yugito transformed into the Two-Tails and repelled Jin's attacks, then charged him after he taunted her about their previous encounter.
• Jin drew his Kusanagi Sword as a ball of blue light hurtled toward him.

Jin fought Yugito in her Matatabi form, using powerful techniques and summoned Firebird while dealing with Yugito’s summoned dead souls and Cloud ninja. The chapter ended with Jin sending an Ancient Fire Dragon toward Firebird as Yugito wondered what he intended.

• Jin blasted Matatabi back and struck it with Three Thousand Dead Water, but Yugito summoned the souls of the dead to attack him.
• Jin sent Phantom Clones to fight the souls and Cloud ninja, then flew into the air with Five-Colored Wings to evade their attacks.
• Jin summoned Firebird to hold off Matatabi while he used Super Stealth to drain chakra from a Cloud chunin.
• Firebird trapped Matatabi’s blue fireball in a net of flames and hurled it back, then Matatabi fired three more blue fireballs at Firebird.
• Jin cast Ancient Fire Dragon toward Firebird, leaving Yugito confused about his plan.

Jin attacked the Cloud Village treasury while Firebird fought Yugito Nii and Matatabi, but the Cloud ninja trapped him in a sealed encirclement. Firebird defeated Matatabi and left, leaving Jin with no clear way to escape.

• Firebird absorbed Jin’s Ancient Fire Dragon attacks, grew to a forty-meter wingspan, and challenged Yugito Nii and Matatabi.
• Jin followed a Cloud special jonin to the treasury cave, then attacked the guards with Death Ripple and other ninjutsu.
• Jin failed to break through the massive iron treasury door and fought more than a hundred Cloud ninja surrounding him.
• Firebird suppressed Matatabi but ran out of flame energy, told Jin she was leaving, and refused to return for two weeks.
• Jin’s attempts to escape the tightening encirclement failed as the Cloud ninja destroyed his Shadow Clones and blocked his Spatial Teleportation.