Chapter Summaries

Xin permanently crippled Orochimaru after the latter broke their deal, then arranged to return to Konoha while hiding his movements. On the way, he encountered Uchiha Itachi and Kisame Hoshigaki near Konoha.

• Xin severed Orochimaru's arms and left lightning chakra and traces of Amaterasu's flames in the wounds, preventing them from healing.
• Xin sent a Shadow Clone to Konoha, where it deceived Kakashi about a secret investigation in the Land of Snow and asked him to keep Xin's return quiet.
• Several days later, Xin said goodbye to Kazahana Koyuki, who planned to rebuild the Land of Snow and mass-produce Chakra Armor.
• Xin traveled through the Land of Fire toward Konoha and met Uchiha Itachi and Kisame Hoshigaki on a forest path.

Xin confronted Itachi and Kisame, swiftly defeating Kisame before defending his decision to let Orochimaru train Sasuke. He assured Itachi that Sasuke could be retrieved with his space-time dōjutsu if danger arose, then vanished.

• Xin used the Flying Thunder God Technique to strike Kisame and trap him in Tsukuyomi, sending him crashing through trees and leaving him unconscious.
• Itachi accused Xin of failing to protect Sasuke from Orochimaru’s Cursed Seal of Heaven.
• Xin said he had deliberately chosen Orochimaru as Sasuke’s teacher because Orochimaru could provide years of powerful training.
• Xin explained that Orochimaru’s condition and the limits of Living Corpse Reincarnation meant Sasuke would not face mortal danger for three years.
• Xin promised he could locate and bring Sasuke back to Konoha using a hidden chakra mark and a space-time dōjutsu.
• Xin vanished as Itachi reacted with surprise to his abilities.

Uchiha Xin persuaded Itachi that the Totsuka Blade could protect Sasuke from Orochimaru’s Living Corpse Reincarnation, then returned to Konoha and was promoted to Special Jōnin. The Third Hokage praised Xin’s mission in the Land of Snow and asked what urgent matter he had wanted to report privately.

• Xin told Itachi that the Totsuka Blade could seal Orochimaru’s soul and leave Sasuke unharmed, convincing Itachi to stand down.
• Xin ordered Itachi to take Kisame away and warned Kisame not to insult him again; Itachi carried Kisame off as a flock of crows.
• Kisame woke beside a lake and vowed to attack Xin, but Itachi warned him that Xin was extremely dangerous.
• Two Konoha Anbu stopped Xin at the village gate and ordered him to report to the Third Hokage immediately.
• The Third Hokage praised Xin for protecting the film crew and Princess Kazahana Koyuki and ending Kazahana Dōtō’s rebellion, upgraded the mission to S-rank, and promoted Xin to Special Jōnin.
• The Third Hokage asked Xin about the urgent matter he had wanted to discuss in private.

Xin insisted on a private report to the Third Hokage and Jiraiya, then revealed his Mangekyō Sharingan and demonstrated his dōjutsu. The Hokage and Jiraiya learned that Xin could use Amaterasu and an unmarked Space-Time Ninjutsu he called Divine Flash.

• Xin warned the Third Hokage that hidden listeners were in the office and asked to speak privately.
• Jiraiya arrived, sealed the office with Solitary Yang Formation, and joined the discussion.
• Xin revealed his Mangekyō Sharingan, alarming the Third Hokage and Jiraiya, who feared he might possess Kotoamatsukami.
• Xin explained that his dōjutsu were Amaterasu and Divine Flash, then ignited a teacup with Amaterasu and extinguished the flames at will.
• Xin demonstrated Divine Flash by moving around the office without markings, leaving the Third Hokage and Jiraiya amazed at its speed and potential.

Xin told the Third Hokage and Jiraiya that chakra came from the God Tree and that Kaguya, the Sage of Six Paths, Indra, and Asura shaped the Shinobi World. He claimed the Senju and Uchiha descended from the Sage’s sons, then presented a tablet stating that the Sharingan could evolve into the Rinnegan, leaving Jiraiya struggling to accept the revelation.

• Xin asked the Third Hokage and Jiraiya whether chakra had always existed in humans, then recounted how Kaguya ate the God Tree Fruit and became the first person to possess chakra.
• Xin explained that Kaguya used Infinite Tsukuyomi to harvest people’s chakra, until Hagoromo Otsutsuki and Hamura joined forces to seal her.
• Xin said Hagoromo became the Sage of Six Paths and that his sons Indra and Asura were ancestors of the Uchiha and Senju clans.
• Xin summoned an ancient-looking stone tablet and used it to project scenes from his account of chakra’s origins.
• The tablet stated that the Sharingan could evolve into the Rinnegan, and Jiraiya rejected the claim because he believed the Rinnegan were divine eyes.

Xin used a mysterious stone tablet and his explanation of Nagato’s Rinnegan to convince the Third Hokage and Jiraiya that his eternal Mangekyō Sharingan was genuine. He left them reeling by naming Madara Uchiha as the likeliest person to have evolved the Rinnegan.

• Xin claimed that a chakra-activated stone tablet described how to evolve the Sharingan into the eternal Mangekyō Sharingan.
• The Third Hokage tested the tablet with a chakra-coated kunai, but could not scratch its surface.
• Jiraiya revealed that Nagato, one of his students in the Land of Rain, possessed the Rinnegan and argued that it disproved Xin’s explanation.
• Xin suggested that Nagato’s weakness and memory loss showed the Rinnegan had been transplanted into him, comparing its burden to Kakashi’s transplanted Sharingan.
• Jiraiya demanded to know who owned Nagato’s eyes, and Xin named Madara Uchiha as the person most likely to have evolved the Rinnegan.

Xin used a fabricated account of the Uchiha tablet to convince the Third Hokage and Jiraiya that Madara Uchiha might have manipulated Nagato, then had Kakashi verify the tablet’s contents. The chapter ended with Xin claiming the tablet revealed the Ten-Tails’ connection to the Tailed Beasts, Black Zetsu, and Infinite Tsukuyomi.

• Jiraiya challenged Xin’s claim that Madara Uchiha was still alive, but Xin said an ancient tablet beneath Naka Shrine supported his account.
• The Third Hokage ordered Jiraiya to retrieve the Naka Shrine tablet and bring Kakashi to examine it.
• Kakashi used his Three-Tomoe Sharingan and Mangekyō Sharingan to read the tablet, confirming that it matched Xin’s stone tablet.
• Jiraiya was shaken by the matching records and wondered whether someone had transplanted the Rinnegan into Nagato.
• Xin activated his Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan and claimed the tablet identified the God Tree as the Ten-Tails, said the Sage of Six Paths had split its chakra into the Tailed Beasts, and mentioned Black Zetsu and Infinite Tsukuyomi.

After revealing the Akatsuki’s plan to revive the Ten-Tails, Xin was ordered to bring Tsunade back to Konoha. He left early and began searching casinos for her, but his winnings drew the attention of a gang.

• Jiraiya identified the Akatsuki as the group collecting Tailed Beasts, and Xin warned that its leader might possess the Rinnegan.
• The Third Hokage ordered Jiraiya to investigate Nagato and the Akatsuki, sent Kakashi to recover, and tasked Xin with bringing Tsunade back to Konoha.
• Xin agreed to the mission, learned Hinata was away on a mission, and left Konoha that afternoon without saying goodbye.
• Xin used his Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan to win at casinos, hoping to fund Kazahana Koyuki’s Chakra Armor research in the Land of Snow.
• After Xin won thirty million ryō at a casino, armed thugs blocked his way and demanded his money and a hand.

Xin robbed casinos to fund Koyuki’s research and keep her company, then encountered Tsunade in Tanzaku Town and paid off her gambling debts while trying to persuade her to return to Konoha as Hokage. Tsunade refused the offer, so Xin challenged her to gamble for the debt, and her first roll came up three ones.

• Xin defeated the casino thugs, looted the vault, and brought the money to Koyuki in the Land of Snow.
• For half a month, Xin robbed casinos by day and returned to Koyuki at night.
• In Tanzaku Town, Xin found Tsunade and Shizune fleeing creditors and paid off Tsunade’s thirty-five million ryo gambling debt.
• Xin told Tsunade that the Third Hokage wanted her to return to Konoha and become the Fifth Hokage, but she refused.
• When Tsunade refused to repay the debt, Xin proposed a one-round dice gamble, and Tsunade rolled three ones.

Xin beat Tsunade in seven escalating dice rounds, leaving her owing 4.48 billion ryo and forcing her to agree to return to Konoha. After Tsunade and Shizune left the tavern, Xin confronted Orochimaru and Kabuto Yakushi, who had been watching from the shadows.

• Xin won seven consecutive dice rounds against Tsunade, doubling the stakes until she owed him 4.48 billion ryo.
• Tsunade tried to bargain down the debt, then attacked Xin and failed to land a blow when he vanished from his chair.
• Tsunade agreed to return to Konoha the next morning, then hurried away with Shizune.
• Xin went outside the tavern and called out Orochimaru and Kabuto Yakushi, who emerged from hiding.
• Xin told Orochimaru his arms were ruined and Tsunade could not save him, prompting Orochimaru to regard Xin with killing intent.

Orochimaru ordered Kabuto to send Sakon and the other three to Konoha to retrieve Sasuke, while Xin kept Tsunade from escaping Tanzaku Town and forced her to travel back with him. Tsunade agreed to return after their fight, though she remained unwilling to become Hokage and began looking for ways to stall.

• Orochimaru ordered Kabuto to send Sakon and the other three to Konoha to bring Sasuke back as his vessel.
• Xin watched the inn and caught Tsunade and Shizune sneaking out at night, then made them return to their room.
• The next morning, Tsunade tried to ditch Xin in the woods, but he blocked her path.
• Tsunade attacked Xin with her monstrous strength, and he matched her using the Eight Gates Released Formation.
• After several hundred exchanges, Tsunade admitted defeat and agreed to return to Konoha with Xin and Shizune.
• On the road to Konoha, Tsunade remained reluctant to become Hokage and began trying to delay the journey.

Xin returned to Konoha with Tsunade, learned that her hemophobia was a pretense to escape grief, and was promoted to jonin. When Aburame Torune tried to force him to meet Danzo, Xin destroyed Torune’s venomous insects with Amaterasu and walked away.

• During their delayed journey, Tsunade paid back part of her gambling debt, leaving four billion ryo unpaid.
• After Tsunade refused Xin’s offer to treat her hemophobia, Shizune told him she had invented it to flee Konoha after Nawaki and Dan died.
• The group reached Konoha, where the Third Hokage promoted Xin to jonin and discussed the Hokage handover with Tsunade.
• Xin left the Hokage building and encountered Aburame Torune, who demanded that he come to the Root Base to meet Danzo.
• When Torune attacked with venomous insects, Xin used Amaterasu to burn them, then continued on while Torune let him go.

Shimura Danzō grew suspicious of Uchiha Xin after Xin returned Tsunade to Konoha and was promoted to jonin, so he ordered Root to bring him in. Xin was taken to Root headquarters, where he refused to submit and threatened to kill Danzo.

• Aburame Torune reported that Xin had refused Danzo's invitation and displayed a mysterious black-flame technique.
• Danzo learned that Xin had brought Tsunade back to Konoha and been promoted to jonin, and suspected Hiruzen had trained him as a weapon against Root.
• Three Root ninja appeared at Xin's home and ordered him to attend Danzo, but Xin insulted Danzo and refused to go willingly.
• The Root ninja attacked Xin and used the Flying Thunder God Formation to transport him to Root headquarters.
• Danzo demanded that Xin submit to Root, but Xin refused and threatened to kill him, prompting Danzo to order his men to attack.

Uchiha Xin overwhelmed Danzo’s Root forces with a devastating Fire Style attack, then shattered their lightning barrier by manifesting Susanoo. Danzo recognized Xin’s Mangekyō Sharingan and ordered his subordinates to retreat as he prepared to fight personally.

• Xin incinerated the Root ninja at the front with Fire Style: Majestic Destroyer Flame, and the survivors eventually extinguished the blaze with a coordinated Water Release.
• Danzo accused Xin of killing Kawaguchi and Kunihito, and Xin admitted it before threatening Danzo.
• Root ninja trapped Xin inside a sixteen-pillar Lightning Release barrier, but Xin’s chakra shattered the pillars and blasted the surrounding ninja away.
• Xin manifested Susanoo, and Danzo recognized the Mangekyō Sharingan.
• Danzo ordered the surviving Root ninja to retreat and attacked Xin with Wind Release: Vacuum Serial Waves.

Xin fought Danzo in Root's underground headquarters, destroyed him with Susanoo and black flames, and exposed the Sharingan implanted in Danzo's arm. Danzo revived through Izanagi, then Xin blasted through the headquarters with a massive fire technique as the Third Hokage and Tsunade arrived.

• Danzo used Hashirama's cells to attack Xin's Susanoo with Wood Release techniques, but Xin's Susanoo shattered the roots and wooden spears.
• Xin advanced Susanoo, formed a Lightning Blade, coated it with Amaterasu, and split Danzo and the Violent Spear Tree in two.
• Xin knocked away the Root members who rushed him, then confronted Danzo after Danzo revived with Izanagi and revealed eleven Sharingan embedded in his right arm.
• Danzo admitted that he had taken Sharingan to control their power and claimed it was necessary to protect Konoha.
• Xin unleashed Great Fire Extinction, blasting through the hundred-meter rock ceiling and sending a pillar of fire into Konoha's night sky.
• The Third Hokage and Tsunade arrived at the ruined Root headquarters with Anbu, and Danzo gave the Third a calculating look.

Uchiha Xin exposed Danzo’s stolen Sharingan and accused him of desecrating the First Hokage’s grave and helping Orochimaru obtain the previous Hokage’s remains. Danzo resisted arrest and fled amid a battle between Root and Konoha’s ninja, while Xin watched the smoke.

• Danzo accused Uchiha Xin of betraying Konoha and ordered the ninja to seize him, but the Third Hokage told everyone to stand down.
• Xin used Divine Flash to reach Danzo and tear away the clothing on his right arm, revealing ten Sharingan and another closed eye embedded in it.
• Xin accused Danzo of stealing Uchiha eyes, using the First Hokage’s remains to gain Wood Release, and supplying Orochimaru with the First and Second Hokage’s remains.
• Tsunade erupted in fury over the desecration of her grandfather’s grave, and the Third Hokage urged Danzo to surrender and face the village’s judgment.
• Danzo used Fire Style: Dust Concealment Technique to cover his escape, while Root ninja attacked Konoha’s forces and fighting broke out.
• Danzo disappeared into the smoke, and Xin stayed in place, watching it with his Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan.

Xin used his Flying Thunder God mark to bring Tsunade after Danzo, and they cornered him outside Konoha. Danzo repeatedly revived with Izanagi before Xin finally killed him after his Kotoamatsukami failed.

• Tsunade demanded that Xin take her after Danzo, and Xin agreed after she called him Big Brother Xin in exchange for a debt reduction.
• Xin and Tsunade appeared in front of Danzo, where Tsunade attacked and Xin cut him in half with a lightning blade.
• Danzo revived with Izanagi, and Xin explained that Danzo had more Sharingan remaining while Tsunade crushed him into the ground.
• Danzo revived again and tried to flee, but Xin blocked his escape.
• Danzo used Kotoamatsukami on Xin and ordered him to kill Tsunade, but Xin's afterimage vanished and he struck Danzo from behind with lightning.

Uchiha Xin outmaneuvered Danzo, who died after unleashing the Reverse Four Symbols Seal, and Tsunade concealed Xin’s role from the Third Hokage. Konoha destroyed Root, and the Third Hokage discovered Danzo’s secret human-experimentation laboratories.

• Xin revealed that he had used genjutsu to make Aburame Torune pose as him, causing Danzo to waste Kotoamatsukami on Torune’s corpse.
• Xin pierced Danzo’s heart with Lightning Blade, but Danzo revived and activated the Reverse Four Symbols Seal.
• Xin teleported himself and Tsunade to safety as Danzo’s seal detonated, destroying him and leaving a vast crater.
• Tsunade told the Third Hokage that she had killed Danzo, and the Third ordered the Anbu to seal Root’s bases and arrest or kill its members.
• The Anbu dismantled Root, and the Third Hokage nearly collapsed after finding Danzo’s underground laboratories filled with evidence of human experimentation.

After Danzo’s crimes were uncovered, Hiruzen ordered the Shimura Clan’s assets confiscated, and Tsunade became the Fifth Hokage. Tsunade then proposed that Uchiha Xin marry Hinata, and Xin affirmed his desire to marry her before the Hyuga Clan’s leaders.

• Anbu discovered stolen bodies and Danzo’s experiments, including the mutilated corpse of Hiruzen’s eldest son, prompting Hiruzen to order the Shimura Clan surrounded and its assets confiscated.
• Tsunade took charge of the purge, and Konoha prepared for her inauguration as the Fifth Hokage.
• Jiraiya returned to Konoha with Naruto Uzumaki, accepted him as his student, and began training him.
• Tsunade became Hokage, reduced the advisers’ authority, and formally proposed to the Hyuga Clan that Hinata marry Uchiha Xin.
• At a meeting with the Hyuga Clan’s head and elders, Xin firmly said that he wanted to marry Hinata.

Xin countered the Hyuga elders’ rejection of his marriage to Hinata by revealing that the Uchiha and Hyuga shared a common ancestor. After the first elder confirmed the ancient tablet’s account, the second elder still rejected the match because Xin was the last Uchiha.

• The second elder angrily rejected Xin’s proposal to marry Hinata, and Xin revealed that the Uchiha and Hyuga shared a common ancestor.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi vouched for Xin’s claim, and Tsunade summoned the stone tablet Xin had found in an ancient ruin.
• The first elder examined the tablet with his Byakugan and read that Hagoromo Otsutsuki was the ancestor of the Uchiha and Senju, while Hamura Otsutsuki was the ancestor of the Hyuga.
• The first elder confirmed that Hyuga oral tradition named Hamura Otsutsuki as their ancestor, stunning Hiashi and the other Hyuga present.
• The second elder dismissed the shared ancestry as irrelevant and insisted that Xin could not marry Hinata because he was the last Uchiha.