Recaps

Uchiha Jin used his Death-Tracing Eye to identify Hyūga Seigen as the killer of Miyamoto Nao and prepared to arrest him. When Uchiha Sumitsugu challenged his methods, Jin threatened him and continued with the investigation.

• Uchiha Jin examined Miyamoto Nao's body and saw through his Death-Tracing Eye that Hyūga Seigen had killed her with a palm strike two days earlier.
• Uchiha Jin sent Uchiha Xuan to obtain a search warrant and report the discovery, while Uchiha Xi questioned how he had identified the killer.
• Uchiha Jin joked with Uchiha Xi about her chest, then told her that eating papaya might help it grow.
• Uchiha Xuan returned with a search warrant and Uchiha Sumitsugu, and Uchiha Jin said he was going to arrest the killer.
• Uchiha Sumitsugu rebuked Uchiha Jin for acting recklessly, but Jin told him to stop lecturing and threatened him if he interfered.

Uchiha Jin arrived at the Hyuga compound with an arrest warrant for Hyūga Seigen, who had killed his housekeeper and concealed her body. Hyuga Hiashi challenged the arrest, while Seigen began considering whether to blame his Branch Family brother, Hyūga Kiyomo.

• Hyūga Seigen confessed to his grandfather that he had accidentally killed Miyamoto Nao and sunk her body in a river, while Hyūga Kiyomo had helped keep the secret.
• The Hyuga elder learned that Uchiha Jin was leading the Military Police Force and left to confront him, ordering Seigen and Kiyomo to stay behind.
• Hyūga Seigen considered making Kiyomo take the blame, and Kiyomo silently resented the Main Family's treatment of him.
• Uchiha Jin showed Hyuga Hiashi an arrest warrant for Hyūga Seigen and demanded that Seigen come with them for questioning.
• Hyuga Hiashi questioned whether there had been a misunderstanding and bristled at Uchiha Jin's refusal to defer to him.

Uchiha Jin used an arrest warrant to demand that the Hyuga hand over Hyūga Seigen for questioning, while the Hyuga Main Family decided to frame Branch Family member Hyūga Kiyomo for the killing. Kiyomo began confessing at the clan compound, leaving Seigen's fate unresolved.

• Hizashi Hyuga asked Uchiha Jin to wait while he summoned Hyūga Seigen.
• A Main Family elder challenged Jin's authority, but Jin presented an arrest warrant and insisted the Uchiha had the power to make the arrest.
• The elder returned home and decided to make Hyūga Kiyomo take responsibility for Seigen's accidental killing of the maid.
• Hyūga Kiyomo knelt before the Uchiha Konoha Military Police Force and began confessing to the killing.

Uchiha Jin questioned Hyūga Kiyomo’s confession and accused Hyūga Seigen of being the real killer. Seigen tried to dismiss Jin’s accusation as a joke, but Jin refused to back down.

• Hyūga Kiyomo confessed to accidentally killing the housekeeper, Miyamoto Nao, and dumping her body.
• Uchiha Jin stopped his team from arresting Kiyomo and asked whether he was truly the killer.
• Kiyomo insisted he was guilty rather than risk implicating his older brother, Hyūga Seigen.
• Jin told Kiyomo he believed someone else was the killer and turned to accuse Seigen.
• Seigen denied the accusation and called Jin’s words a joke, but Jin said he never joked.

Uchiha Jin identified Hyūga Seigen as the real killer and exposed the Hyuga elders’ attempt to make Hyūga Kiyomo take the blame. He left the Hyuga compound with both suspects after Hyuga Hiashi and the Main Family elder yielded to avoid a larger clash.

• Uchiha Jin confronted the Hyuga elders and declared that he would not let Seigen escape justice or allow Kiyomo to be falsely blamed.
• Jin criticized Hizashi Hyuga for accepting the clan’s treatment of branch family members and rejected the Hyuga clan’s rules as a reason to protect a criminal.
• Hyuga Hiashi blocked Jin, prompting the Uchiha Military Police to ready themselves and Jin to order Uchiha Xuan to request reinforcements.
• Hiashi and the Main Family elder realized that further resistance could provoke a major armed clash and let the Uchiha take Seigen and Kiyomo away.

Hiruzen Sarutobi refused the Hyuga brothers’ request to punish Uchiha Jin, accepting that Hyūga Seigen was likely a murderer. Jin’s investigation led to Seigen’s confession, while Hyūga Kiyomo received a reduced sentence for shielding him.

• Hyuga Hiashi and Hizashi Hyuga accused Uchiha Jin of arresting people without evidence, but Hiruzen Sarutobi noted that Hyūga Seigen had killed someone and declined to punish Jin.
• Shisui Uchiha defended Jin’s unconventional methods, and Hiruzen asked him to find out how Jin identified the murderer and how the Uchiha Clan was doing.
• Hyūga Seigen confessed to the murder after Jin questioned him, leaving Uchiha Sumitsugu astonished that Jin had solved the case from the corpse alone.
• Jin told Hyūga Kiyomo that Seigen had confessed and gave Kiyomo a one-year-and-three-month sentence for shielding an offender.
• Jin explained that Seigen received nine years after the Hyuga Clan’s actions and the victim’s family’s forgiveness reduced his original thirteen-year sentence.

Uchiha Jin returned home, reassured his sister Izumi, and told her to stay away from Uchiha Itachi because he disliked him. Over dinner, Jin said work was going well as his mother worried about his rapid promotion and growing influence in the clan.

• Uchiha Jin came home and asked Izumi whether anyone had bullied her at school.
• Izumi said no one had bullied her, but students from other classes often threw pebbles at Uchiha Itachi.
• Uchiha Jin told Izumi that Itachi deserved the bullying and warned her not to play with him.
• Uchiha Kazuna called the family to dinner and gave the fat cat a little extra food when it begged for more.
• Uchiha Kazuna asked Jin about work, and he said it was going well while she reflected on his promotion and rising standing in the clan.

Uchiha Jin reported six missing civilian Genin to Hiruzen Sarutobi and suspected someone was taking their bodies, but the Hokage assigned the investigation to Anbu. Hiruzen confronted Shimura Danzō, who took the blame while concealing the person he believed was responsible, and privately hoped Danzō was truly the culprit.

• Uchiha Xuan reported six Genin missing within a week, and Uchiha Jin ordered him to question their families.
• Uchiha Jin told Hiruzen Sarutobi that someone might be taking the missing ninja's bodies, but Hiruzen assigned the case to Anbu.
• Uchiha Jin suspected Hiruzen was shielding Shimura Danzō and considered purging the Hokage.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi summoned Shimura Danzō and confronted him with the list of missing Genin.
• Shimura Danzō stayed silent to protect the person he believed was responsible, and Hiruzen warned him not to let it happen again.
• Shimura Danzō asked when Hiruzen would retire, but Hiruzen gave no date and privately hoped Danzō had caused the disappearances.

Shimura Danzō visited Orochimaru’s laboratory, warned him to stop abducting villagers, and planned to recruit Uchiha Jin into Root. When Danzō confronted Jin after work, Jin refused and faced a circle of Root members.

• Shimura Danzō questioned Orochimaru about the disappearances, and Orochimaru admitted abducting Genin for experiments and said he had found a key to his research.
• Shimura Danzō ordered Orochimaru to use spies from other villages as subjects instead, then left the laboratory intending to recruit Uchiha Jin into Root.
• After work, Uchiha Jin noticed he was being watched on a quiet street, while Black Cat ran into Shimura Danzō and fled back to Jin for protection.
• Shimura Danzō offered Uchiha Jin a place in Root, but Jin refused and saw Danzō’s health bar billowing with black smoke.
• Shimura Danzō demanded that Jin join Root anyway, and Root members emerged to surround him as Jin activated his three-tomoe Sharingan and challenged Danzō to try.

Shimura Danzō sent Root ninja to seize Uchiha Jin, but Jin killed all four and confronted Danzō. Jin mocked Danzō’s ambition to become Fourth Hokage and left him furious, vowing that Danzō would never take the position.

• Shimura Danzō ordered four Root ninja to seize Uchiha Jin after Jin refused recruitment.
• Uchiha Jin killed the first Root ninja with a kunai and used Sharingan genjutsu and the Body Flicker Technique to kill the next two.
• Uchiha Jin killed the final Root ninja and turned his blade toward Shimura Danzō.
• Shimura Danzō accused Uchiha Jin of treason, but Jin mocked his authority and his hopes of becoming Hokage.
• Uchiha Jin told Shimura Danzō that he would cut off his head for Danzō to kick around if Danzō became Fourth Hokage.

Uchiha Jin confronted Shimura Danzō after Danzō’s men attacked him, while Orochimaru and Anbu arrived to intervene. Jin refrained from fighting Danzō but publicly mocked him until Danzō spat blood in rage.

• Uchiha Jin taunted Shimura Danzō, who prepared to attack him with Wind Release.
• Uchiha Jin sensed Orochimaru and several Anbu watching from the shadows.
• Orochimaru emerged and warned Uchiha Jin that attacking a village higher-up was unwise.
• Uchiha Jin accused Shimura Danzō of attempted murder and lamented that Konoha’s skies had gone dark.
• Uchiha Jin mocked Shimura Danzō’s appearance and Hokage ambitions until Danzō trembled and spat blood.

Uchiha Jin confronted Hiruzen Sarutobi over Shimura Danzō's attempt to have him killed, citing village laws and demanding punishment. Hiruzen refused to prosecute Danzō as Jin demanded, but stripped him of his advisor position and reduced Root's recruitment, while Danzō continued to believe he would become the Fourth Hokage.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi questioned Jin about injuring Danzō, but Jin denied attacking him and said he had killed the disguised assassins who ambushed him.
• Orochimaru confirmed Jin had not attacked Danzō and explained that Danzō had been angered into coughing up blood.
• Jin listed Danzō's alleged crimes and demanded his authority be removed, Root dissolved, and Danzō publicly tried and executed.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi defended Danzō and promised to handle the matter, while Jin and Orochimaru left the office.
• Hiruzen removed Danzō as Hokage Advisor and cut Root's annual shinobi recruitment in half, but Danzō still expected to become the Fourth Hokage.

Uchiha Jin discussed the Fourth Hokage succession with Orochimaru, then told Uchiha Fugaku that Shimura Danzō had tried to assassinate him and that Hiruzen Sarutobi had protected Danzō. Fugaku resolved to demand justice, while Jin mocked Uchiha Itachi before leaving.

• Orochimaru asked Uchiha Jin who might become the Fourth Hokage, and Jin said Orochimaru had a good chance if no incidents arose.
• Uchiha Jin returned to the Uchiha compound and visited Uchiha Fugaku, where Uchiha Itachi followed them into the study.
• Uchiha Jin told Fugaku that Shimura Danzō had tried to assassinate him and that Hiruzen Sarutobi had favored Danzō.
• Uchiha Fugaku became furious and decided to demand justice at the Hokage's Office the next day, while Uchiha Itachi worried that this would worsen the clan's standing.
• Uchiha Jin mocked Itachi for prioritizing the village and left, prompting Fugaku to ask his son whether he had provoked Jin.

Uchiha Jin rejected Shisui Uchiha’s defense of the village leadership after Shimura Danzō’s attempted murder and the Third Hokage’s lenient punishment. Shisui remained determined to change the clan’s relationship with the village and went to the clan leader’s residence with the ruling.

• Shisui Uchiha confronted Uchiha Jin after he left the clan leader’s residence and told him the Third Hokage had punished Shimura Danzō.
• Shisui argued that Danzō’s actions did not represent the whole village leadership and urged Jin to trust the Hokage’s decision.
• Uchiha Jin condemned the punishment as favoritism, dropped the ruling, and told Shisui to seek a like-minded companion in Uchiha Itachi.
• Shisui picked up the ruling and resolved to change the clan’s views, briefly revealing his Mangekyō before his eyes returned to normal.
• Shisui insisted that he was not a traitor to the clan and headed to the clan leader’s residence.

Uchiha Jin decided his younger sister needed a stricter teacher, then encountered Might Guy training in the street. The chapter ended with Guy recognizing Jin as his benefactor.

• Uchiha Fugaku listened as the elders argued over the Hokage's punishment of Shimura Danzō, while the Pro-Peace Faction urged restraint and the Hawk Faction's elders left in anger.
• Uchiha Jin trained Uchiha Izumi at home, but she pleaded to stop and went back to her room with Fat Cat.
• Uchiha Jin decided to find Uchiha Izumi a teacher and thought of someone in a green jumpsuit.
• Might Guy performed handstand walking exercises through Konoha Shopping Street while villagers watched and hurried out of Uchiha Jin's way.
• Might Guy looked up at Uchiha Jin and greeted him as his benefactor.

Uchiha Jin reunited with Might Guy and asked him to teach his five-year-old sister, Izumi. Guy accepted the role and gave Jin a kunai as thanks for helping him at the Ninja Academy, leaving Jin amused by the gift.

• Uchiha Jin shared dango with Might Guy and Black Cat at a dessert shop.
• Might Guy recalled how Uchiha Jin had once stopped other students from bullying him at the Ninja Academy.
• Uchiha Jin asked Might Guy to become Izumi's teacher, and Guy enthusiastically agreed to train her.
• Might Guy returned with a kunai in a gift box and offered it to Uchiha Jin as thanks.
• Uchiha Jin joked that Guy was bribing him, then accepted the kunai as a token of gratitude.

Uchiha Jin arranged for Might Guy to train his sister Izumi after school, while Uchiha Itachi wrongly concluded that Jin disliked him out of jealousy over Shisui. The chapter ended with Izumi rejecting Guy’s green training outfit.

• Uchiha Jin met Izumi outside the Ninja Academy and told her that Might Guy would be her new teacher.
• Izumi reluctantly agreed to train with Might Guy after school because she wanted to make her brother proud.
• Uchiha Itachi greeted Jin, then decided Jin’s hostility came from feeling that Itachi had taken Shisui away from him.
• Jin warned Itachi to stop staring, and Itachi hurried off, planning to tell Shisui about his theory.
• Might Guy gave Izumi a green bodysuit for training, but she refused to wear it.

Hiruzen Sarutobi forced Shimura Danzō to apologize to Uchiha Jin for attacking him and attempting to recruit him into Root. With the Uchiha Clan leadership witnessing the apology, Jin questioned whether Danzō’s actions had been premeditated, leaving Danzō furious.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi told Shimura Danzō that he had to apologize to Uchiha Jin in person.
• Shimura Danzō refused, but Hiruzen invoked his authority as Hokage and insisted.
• Shimura Danzō reluctantly agreed to apologize for the sake of the village, while secretly vowing revenge.
• Uchiha Fugaku and the Uchiha Clan elders arrived as witnesses while Shimura Danzō apologized to Uchiha Jin.
• Uchiha Jin asked Shimura Danzō whether his attack had been premeditated, provoking Danzō’s anger.

Uchiha Jin confronted Shimura Danzō after Danzō apologized for attempting to assassinate him, and Danzō grew furious at Jin’s taunts. After the Uchiha left, Hiruzen Sarutobi blamed Danzō for provoking Jin and reflected on the mistrust and rumors surrounding the Uchiha Clan.

• Uchiha Jin mocked Shimura Danzō by calling him a former Hokage Advisor and vowed to kill him someday.
• Uchiha Fugaku led Jin and the clan elders out of Hiruzen Sarutobi’s office, treating Danzō’s apology as the end of the dispute.
• Shimura Danzō smashed a cup and accused Hiruzen of letting Jin humiliate him.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi asked Danzō why he had provoked Jin and said Danzō was exaggerating the Uchiha Clan’s threat.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi considered how Danzō’s rumors and his own surveillance had fueled Uchiha resentment, while planning to reduce surveillance with Shisui Uchiha’s help.
• Shimura Danzō warned Hiruzen that he would regret his stance, then left, and Hiruzen called him too extreme.

Uchiha Jin rejected Fugaku’s plea to act more cautiously toward the village leadership, while Shisui decided he understood why Jin had turned against him. Shisui approached Jin on Konoha Shopping Street, convinced they could reconcile, but Jin recoiled at his expression.

• Uchiha Fugaku asked Jin to keep a lower profile around the Hokage, but Jin called him cowardly and insisted the clan should not yield when it had done nothing wrong.
• The elders disagreed over whether the Uchiha Clan should resist the village or preserve the status quo, while Fugaku hoped Jin would avoid further trouble.
• Uchiha Itachi guessed that Jin resented him because Shisui had made a new friend, and Shisui accepted the explanation as the reason Jin had ended their friendship.
• Shisui used the Body Flicker Technique to leave Itachi and find Jin on Konoha Shopping Street.
• Shisui approached Jin expecting to make up, but Jin told him not to look at him with a disgusting expression.

Shisui Uchiha mistakenly believed Uchiha Jin was jealous of his friendship with Uchiha Itachi and tried to apologize, while Jin remained baffled and angry. After reflecting on their split over their opposing paths, Jin encountered Kurenai and a group of boys.

• Shisui Uchiha grabbed Uchiha Jin and insisted that Jin was still his best friend, apologizing for spending time with Uchiha Itachi.
• Uchiha Jin demanded to know what Shisui thought he needed forgiveness for, then angrily told him that Itachi had nothing to do with their falling-out.
• Shisui Uchiha decided Jin was jealous and resolved to win back his forgiveness, while Jin left the shopping street cursing him.
• Uchiha Jin recalled how he and Shisui had argued over Shisui joining the Anbu, with Jin reporting to the Konoha Military Police Force Troops and Shisui to the Hokage's Office the next day.
• Kurenai greeted Uchiha Jin, and a wheat-skinned boy rebuked Jin for ignoring her.

Uchiha Jin dismissed Asuma Sarutobi and Kakashi Hatake before declining an invitation to eat with Kurenai Yuhi and Might Guy. Meanwhile, members of the Uchiha Konoha Military Police Force clashed with villagers, who began shouting that the Uchiha had killed someone.

• Asuma Sarutobi confronted Uchiha Jin, but Kurenai Yuhi urged them to stop arguing.
• Jin mocked Kakashi Hatake about his Sharingan draining his chakra, and Kakashi insisted on keeping Obito's gift.
• Might Guy and Kurenai Yuhi invited Jin to eat with them, but he declined because he had to patrol.
• Asuma resolved to train until he surpassed Jin, while Kakashi remembered Obito and Rin.
• Members of the Uchiha Konoha Military Police Force argued with villagers on the shopping street, and bystanders gathered as someone shouted that the Uchiha had killed someone.

Uchiha Jin intervened when a battered woman tried to stop the Konoha Military Police Force from arresting her abusive husband, then ordered that she be taken in as well for slandering the force. Rumors of arbitrary arrests damaged the Uchiha Clan’s reputation, and Hiruzen Sarutobi publicly declared them false.

• Uchiha Jin arrived as a woman accused the Uchiha Konoha Military Police Force of killing people, and Uchiha Clan Kawa explained that they had come to arrest her abusive husband.
• Uchiha Jin accused the woman of slandering the force and ordered the trainees to take both her and her husband into custody.
• Rumors spread that the Uchiha had beaten villagers and made arbitrary arrests, worsening Uchiha Jin’s and the force’s reputations.
• Ninja clans submitted petitions demanding Uchiha Jin’s punishment, while Hiruzen Sarutobi suspected Danzo was behind the rumors.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi issued a statement calling the claims rumors and promised to find and punish those responsible.

Uchiha Jin’s fishing day turned around when Shisui Uchiha arrived, caught a pile of fish, and offered to teach him. The two grew unexpectedly close as Shisui guided Jin, leaving Fat Cat puzzled by their friendly behavior.

• Uchiha Jin waited all morning to hook a large fish, but Shisui Uchiha startled him and the fish escaped.
• Shisui Uchiha caught more than a dozen fish in ten minutes while Fat Cat eagerly ate them.
• Uchiha Jin asked Shisui how he caught fish so quickly, and Shisui offered to teach him.
• Shisui Uchiha sat close to guide Uchiha Jin, who protested his touching even as they fished together.
• Fat Cat watched the two act harmoniously and wondered when they had become so close.

Uchiha Jin learned to fish under Shisui Uchiha's instruction, and the two shared a meal before clashing over rumors about the Uchiha Clan and the village. Shisui vowed to use his Mangekyō Sharingan to resolve the conflict, but Jin remained unconvinced.

• Uchiha Jin mastered fishing with Shisui Uchiha's help and caught fish rapidly with his Three-Tomoe Sharingan.
• Uchiha Jin asked Shisui to clean the fish, and they prepared and ate grilled fish together.
• Uchiha Jin asked who had spread rumors damaging his reputation and the Uchiha Clan's image, while Shisui said he believed the Hokage would find the culprit.
• Uchiha Jin accused Shisui of being naive and argued that the clan could rely only on itself, while Shisui insisted the clan and village needed to understand each other.
• Shisui activated his Mangekyō Sharingan and promised to use his eyes to resolve the conflict, but Uchiha Jin dismissed his promise.