Recaps

Sakura Haruno arrived at the Shikkotsu Forest to begin Senjutsu training with Sage Katsuyu, who explained how Senjutsu Chakra worked and why sensing Natural Energy was difficult. The chapter ended with Katsuyu proposing to help Sakura learn quickly by swallowing her.

• Sakura Haruno met Sage Katsuyu, who had been eating tree bark and had saved a piece for her.
• Sakura declined the bark, ate food packed by her mother, and asked to start training.
• Sage Katsuyu created a clone to introduce Sakura to Senjutsu and explain the need to balance Natural Energy with physical and spiritual energy.
• Sakura described her experience adjusting Chakra proportions, but Katsuyu warned that Natural Energy was harder to control and sense.
• Sage Katsuyu offered to speed up Sakura's training by merging with her, then clarified that she would swallow Sakura.

Sakura Haruno began learning Senjutsu with Katsuyu, who swallowed her to help her sense natural energy. Sakura lost control during her first attempt and nearly became a slug, but Katsuyu removed the excess energy and explained the fatal outcome of failed training.

• Katsuyu explained that she could guide natural energy into Sakura by swallowing her, unlike using the Combination Transformation Technique.
• Sakura agreed, removed her clothes, and entered Katsuyu, where she sensed natural energy for the first time.
• Sakura became entranced by the new sensation and failed to control the natural energy in the required balance with her spiritual and physical energies.
• Katsuyu spat Sakura out before the energy could fully overwhelm her, and Sakura admitted she had lost focus.
• Sakura saw signs of naturalization on her body, which faded as Katsuyu extracted the excess energy.
• Katsuyu warned that failed trainees lost their minds, became part of her main body, and died forever.

Sakura Haruno learned that failed Senjutsu students were absorbed into Sage Katsuyu and analyzed why she had failed her first attempt. With Katsuyu guiding her through repeated attempts, she gradually endured Natural Energy longer and showed fewer signs of its effects, bringing her closer to completing her training.

• Katsuyu explained that those who failed Senjutsu training were absorbed into Sage Katsuyu, and Sakura Haruno suspected that Katsuyu’s clones came from former ninja who had failed.
• Sakura Haruno identified her main difficulty as controlling the large influx of Natural Energy and balancing it with her physical and spiritual energies.
• Katsuyu offered to channel Natural Energy into Sakura Haruno and remove it before it could overwhelm her, while warning that the process would be uncomfortable.
• Sakura Haruno repeated the exercise dozens and then hundreds of times, getting used to being expelled by Katsuyu after each failed attempt.
• Sakura Haruno gradually lasted longer and suffered fewer visible effects from Natural Energy, steadily approaching the end of her training.

Sakura trained to control Senjutsu Chakra in Shikkotsu Forest, gradually improving despite repeated failures and mounting exhaustion. A week later, she faced the final hurdle: enduring a sudden surge of Natural Energy as Katsuyu began the dangerous test.

• Katsuyu counted Sakura's fifty-eighth attempt, which ended when Natural Energy overwhelmed Sakura and began transforming her body, so Katsuyu spat her out and drew the energy away.
• Sakura recognized that she had mastered most of the techniques but needed patient practice to control the shifting balance of Natural Energy and her own energies.
• After resting and reading Naruto's encouraging letter, Sakura regained her motivation and asked Katsuyu to resume training after she ate.
• Sakura continued training through a week of attempts, nearing mastery and eventually lasting more than an hour before facing a sudden, dangerous influx of Natural Energy.
• Katsuyu counted Sakura's one hundred and ninety-fifth attempt as Senjutsu Chakra around Sakura grew violent during the final test.

Sakura Haruno successfully gathered Senjutsu Chakra and completed the first stage of her training, then tested Sage Mode by using powerful Ninjutsu in Shikkotsu Forest. Katsuyu stopped her from damaging a giant tree and began preparing her for the next stage: absorbing Natural Energy without help.

• Sakura Haruno controlled Natural Energy and formed Senjutsu Chakra, achieving a highly complete Sage Mode with markings on her face.
• Sakura tested her new strength by punching through the bark of an ancient tree, but said Sage Mode was less effective than the Monstrous Strength Technique.
• Sakura experimented with several Sage Art techniques and unleashed Mutually Multiplying Ice Clone Explosion, devastating the area around a giant tree and churning the lake into huge waves.
• Sage Katsuyu stopped Sakura's explosions to protect her food supply and praised her progress, then complained that Tsunade had repeatedly avoided learning Senjutsu.
• Sakura returned to the platform eager to discuss a giant Ninjutsu, but Katsuyu directed her to the next training stage: sensing and absorbing Natural Energy without Katsuyu's help.

The Fourth Raikage questioned Kumogakure’s returning delegation about Konoha’s alliance with the Sand and Mist villages and the strength of Konoha’s young ninja. C reported that Konoha was growing stronger, leaving the Raikage demanding reliable intelligence about its newcomers.

• The Fourth Raikage asked C and the other Kumogakure Jonin whether Konoha had allied with the Sand Ninja and Mist Ninja.
• C confirmed that Konoha appeared to be cooperating with both villages against the Akatsuki, though Konoha had concealed some areas behind barriers.
• C described Konoha’s talented Genin, including Konohamaru and the girl who defeated him with Water Release, and warned that Konoha was recovering quickly from its invasion two years earlier.
• The Kumogakure Jonin praised Sakura Haruno and other Konoha newcomers, angering the Fourth Raikage, who demanded they stop disparaging their own village.
• The Fourth Raikage told C to report only intelligence he had personally sensed, and C agreed to continue.

C reported Konoha’s strength to Raikage A, leading the Kumogakure Ninja to abandon plans for war against Konoha. After learning that the Akatsuki had abducted Yugito Nii, Raikage A decided to contact Tsunade and invite Konoha for a friendly exchange visit, with Killer B also at risk as an Akatsuki target.

• C recalled observing Sakura Haruno and Kakashi during the Chunin Ninja Exams and assessed their formidable chakra and abilities.
• C briefed Raikage A on Konoha’s fighters and young ninja, and Mabui agreed that Konoha had deliberately revealed its strength to deter other villages.
• Raikage A halted preparations for war against Konoha and ordered C to verify the intelligence and develop profiles of Konoha’s younger ninja, especially Sakura Haruno.
• C reported that Yugito Nii had disappeared after a battle and explained that the Akatsuki likely used a concealment and intelligence expert to find her.
• Raikage A ordered Darui to deliver a letter to Tsunade and invite Konoha to Kumogakure for a friendly exchange visit.

The Raikage sent Darui's team to Konoha with a letter and instructions to press for Kumogakure to lead an alliance against the Akatsuki, while secretly investigating Sakura Haruno. After meeting Sakura, the team delivered its message, and the chapter ended with a sparse Akatsuki gathering in the Land of Rain.

• The Raikage argued that Kumogakure deserved to lead an alliance and ordered Darui's team to deliver his demand to Tsunade and investigate Sakura Haruno.
• Darui traveled to Konoha with Samui, Omoi, and Karui, where they met Sakura in the Hokage's office.
• Darui and Sakura shook hands and discreetly assessed each other's fighting abilities before Sakura left to resume her training in Shikkotsu Forest.
• The Akatsuki gathered around the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path in the Land of Rain, with Orochimaru gone and Deidara and Kisame Hoshigaki dead.

Pain gathered Akatsuki to extract the Two-Tails from Yugito Nii, but Sasori and Kakuzu nearly fought over the delay and Deidara’s corpse before Pain stopped them. Pain then announced that Kisame Hoshigaki had been killed during the mission to capture the Seven-Tails Jinchūriki.

• Pain laid Yugito Nii’s corpse down and prepared to begin the extraction, while Sasori complained that Kakuzu’s bounty hunt had delayed its return.
• Hidan blamed Kakuzu for exposing Akatsuki’s movements, and Kakuzu defended the need to earn money for the organization.
• Sasori and Kakuzu threatened to fight over their grievances, including Kakuzu taking Deidara’s heart, until Pain ordered them to stop.
• Sasori reflected on how becoming a puppet had drained his emotions and considered the appeal of a brief, brilliant death in battle.
• Pain sensed something was wrong with Sasori and then told the gathered Akatsuki members that Kisame Hoshigaki had been killed while capturing the Seven-Tails Jinchūriki.

Akatsuki sealed the Seven-Tails after Kisame died fighting Sakura Haruno, then Pain and Obito discussed the threat of the shinobi villages joining forces. Obito offered to sow distrust among them, while Pain remained wary of his partner and Konan encouraged him to rest.

• Itachi told Akatsuki that Sakura Haruno had killed Kisame in a one-on-one fight while Itachi was held up by Sasuke Uchiha.
• Pain ordered Akatsuki to seal the Seven-Tails, Five-Tails, and Two-Tails, and the members began sealing the Seven-Tails Jinchūriki.
• Over half a month later, Obito urged Pain to eliminate Sakura Haruno, but Pain refused to spare resources for her until the Nine-Tails mission.
• Obito warned that the Five Great Shinobi Villages might unite against Akatsuki and proposed staging incidents to make them distrust one another.
• Pain agreed to let Obito handle the plan while privately doubting his partner, then Konan urged Nagato to rest.

Sakura Haruno struggled to sense Natural Energy during the second stage of Senjutsu training, so she devised another approach instead of relying on Ice Release. After briefly returning to Konoha, she brought a pale body to Shikkotsu Forest, revealing her unconventional plan to Katsuyu.

• Sakura Haruno failed her 182nd attempt to sense Natural Energy, despite having mastered the first stage of Senjutsu training.
• Katsuyu explained that sensing Natural Energy required Sakura Haruno to become still and minimize her bodily activity, as the slugs, toads, and snakes did when resting or hibernating.
• Katsuyu suggested that Sakura Haruno use Ice Release to help achieve stillness, but Sakura Haruno decided she had a better way.
• Sakura Haruno returned to Konoha, restocked supplies, met four Kumogakure Ninja envoys at the Hokage's office, and retrieved a scroll from her secret base.
• Sakura Haruno opened the scroll at Shikkotsu Forest, revealing a pale body and prompting Katsuyu to recognize her plan as thinking outside the box.

Sakura Haruno completed the second stage of her Senjutsu training by using a lifeless Clone Duplicate to achieve perfect stillness and enter Sage Mode. Katsuyu explained that Sakura needed to learn a technique that would let her gather Natural Energy safely in battle, and Sakura returned to Konoha to continue her training.

• Sakura Haruno projected her mind into a lifeless Clone Duplicate and used its total stillness to absorb Natural Energy and enter Sage Mode.
• Sakura dispelled the clone and transferred its Senjutsu Chakra into her original body, successfully completing the second stage of her Sage Mode training.
• Katsuyu gave Sakura scrolls and explained that she needed to learn Senjutsu techniques and a way for Katsuyu to gather Natural Energy while attached to her.
• Sakura decided to leave Shikkotsu Forest because she had been away for over a month and wanted to return to Konoha.
• Sakura Haruno left Shikkotsu Forest and returned to Konoha the next day.

After returning to Konoha, Sakura checked on Sasuke and invited him to travel with her. She brought him to the ruins of Rōran, where she planned to attempt time travel with him.

• Sakura returned to Konoha and told her parents and others she was safe.
• Tsunade explained that Sasuke's recent conflict stemmed from the unresolved history of the Uchiha Clan Massacre.
• Sakura found Sasuke sparring with Hinata and apologized for the short letter she had sent him; Sasuke said it had helped and that he had moved on.
• Sakura invited Sasuke to go somewhere with her, and they traveled from the Land of Fire into the Land of Wind.
• Sakura and Sasuke arrived at the ruins of Rōran, where Sakura planned to try traveling into the past with him.

Sakura Haruno explained to Sasuke how she had traveled to a parallel world and brought him to the ruins of Rōran to experience the Uchiha Clan Massacre night firsthand. They arrived in another world, where Sasuke tried to identify the time period from his summoned Ninja Cats.

• Sakura Haruno told Sasuke she had visited a nearby world during the previous year's Chunin Exams and later traveled back to the night of the Uchiha Clan Massacre.
• Sasuke agreed to follow Sakura Haruno into the central hall of the ruins so he could see what had happened for himself.
• Sakura Haruno drew energy from Rōran's ley lines, and Sasuke panicked at the unfamiliar Natural Energy and used Lightning Release: Chidori Demon Body Form.
• Sakura Haruno and Sasuke arrived in another world's dusty ruins, where Sasuke accidentally pressed down on Yoru Uo while getting up.
• Sasuke suggested that their arrival might predate his contract with the cat clan, but Sakura Haruno said that was not necessarily true.

Sakura Haruno and Sasuke learned they had arrived in another world’s Konoha Year 6, where Pain had recently destroyed Konoha and Sasuke Uchiha had defected. They decided to rest and set out the next morning to find their counterparts and learn what had happened.

• Sakura summoned Katsuyu, who doubted Sakura and Sasuke’s claim that they came from another world until Sakura revealed secrets about Shikkotsu Forest.
• Katsuyu told them it was Konoha Year 6 and that Pain had destroyed Konoha before reviving those he killed with the Samsara of Heavenly Life Technique.
• Sasuke learned that his counterpart had defected from Konoha and said he needed to find out why.
• Sakura and Sasuke agreed they wanted to meet their counterparts, Naruto, and each other in this world, and Sakura suggested they rest before setting out in the morning.

Sakura Haruno and Sasuke searched for their counterparts and sensed the other Sasuke fighting several Kage near the Land of Iron, but his Chakra soon disappeared. Yoru Uo smelled Naruto nearby, so Sasuke went to find him while Sakura set out to investigate the other Sasuke and the Chakra she recognized as Madara Uchiha's.

• Sakura Haruno entered Sage Mode and searched for her and Naruto's counterparts, but could not sense them near Konoha.
• Sakura detected the other Sasuke battling Gaara, Mei Terumi, and two unidentified powerful ninjas, and she and Sasuke raced toward the Land of Iron.
• Near the Land of Iron, Sakura lost the other Sasuke's Chakra and worried that he might be dead.
• Yoru Uo smelled Naruto nearby, so Sakura sent Sasuke to find him while she continued searching for the other Sasuke.
• Sakura warned Sasuke to hide his identity from Naruto, then sensed the Chakra of the man calling himself Madara Uchiha and turned toward it with killing intent.

Sakura Haruno searched the Land of Iron for Sasuke and discovered him confronting Danzo and Obito. She arrived at the battlefield, where Sasuke rejected her, and then challenged Obito for pushing him toward darkness.

• Sakura Haruno found the wreckage of the Kage meeting and used Sage Mode to sense events across the Land of Iron.
• Sakura Haruno sensed Sasuke facing Danzo and hurried to the battlefield using an ice mirror.
• Sakura Haruno arrived as Sasuke fought Danzo, with Obito and an unfamiliar girl nearby.
• Sasuke recognized Sakura Haruno, demanded to know why she had come, and threatened to kill her if she stood in his way.
• Obito urged Sasuke not to go soft on his former companions, and Sakura Haruno accused Obito of goading Sasuke into darkness.

Sakura Haruno rejected Sasuke and Danzo’s attempts to recruit her, then attacked both of them after Sasuke declared his revenge on Konoha. She shattered Sasuke’s Susanoo and appeared to kill Danzo, but Danzo’s survival technique left him speaking from another location.

• Danzo tried to enlist Sakura Haruno against Sasuke, while Sasuke challenged her to kill Danzo as proof she could bring him back to the village.
• Sasuke admitted he wanted revenge on Konoha and crushed Danzo with Susanoo after Danzo confessed his role in ordering the Uchiha Clan massacre.
• Sasuke declared Sakura Haruno, Naruto, Kakashi, and every other Konoha ninja targets of his revenge, and Sakura refused to join Danzo or spare Sasuke.
• Sakura Haruno used an ice spear and a Serious Punch to shatter Sasuke’s Susanoo, then attacked Danzo with a barrage of icicles.
• Danzo spoke from another location after Sakura Haruno appeared to leave his corpse riddled with icicles.

Sakura Haruno battled Danzo, using Ice Release to overwhelm him and repeatedly kill him, while Sasuke and Karin recognized how her ice-based Body Flicker worked. After Danzo destroyed the ice to block that technique, Sakura revealed that Water Release was what she was best at.

• Sakura Haruno froze the battlefield, cut down Danzo, and shattered Sasuke’s Susanoo with a punch, leaving Sasuke injured and Karin healing him.
• Sakura confronted Danzo over his actions during Pain’s invasion and Tsunade’s coma, then pierced his heart using her Ice Body Flicker Technique.
• Danzo revived for the fourth time, while Karin identified Sakura’s ice-based movement technique and Sasuke recognized it as a version of Demonic Mirroring Ice Crystals.
• Sakura’s ice clone warned Karin not to interfere, but Danzo overheard Karin’s explanation and blasted the battlefield’s ice apart with Wind Release.
• Sakura stood on the river after Danzo destroyed the ice and said she would use the moves she relied on this year, revealing that Water Release was her specialty.

Sasuke secretly watched Naruto and the others in the Land of Iron, where Sakura confessed that she liked Naruto. His surprise exposed him, and after fleeing, he headed off to meet his own Sakura while the others prepared to pursue him and verify his identity.

• Sasuke used Yoru Uo to locate Naruto and hid nearby rather than reveal himself to the group.
• Sasuke watched Sakura confess her feelings to Naruto and embrace him.
• Akamaru detected Sasuke after his surprise disrupted his concealment, and Naruto and Kakashi recognized him.
• Sasuke escaped the pursuing ninjas with Lightning Release: Chidori Demon Body Form.
• Kakashi questioned whether the fugitive was truly Sasuke, while Naruto insisted they pursue him and confirm his identity.
• Sasuke stopped after losing the group and continued toward a meeting with his Sakura.

Sakura Haruno overwhelmed Danzo with Water Release and close-combat skills, while Obito watched and decided she could serve as Sasuke’s whetstone. Danzo then paralyzed Sakura with a cursed seal and approached her, but her amused reaction left the outcome uncertain.

• Obito watched from above as Sakura Haruno challenged Danzo, who believed her Ice Release technique had been countered.
• Sakura Haruno defeated Danzo’s Wind Release with a powerful Water Release and then struck him with a Monstrous Strength Technique kick that collapsed the bridge.
• Obito recognized Sakura Haruno’s speed, Water Release, and close-combat ability, and resolved to use her to deepen Sasuke’s hatred.
• Danzo emerged from the ruins and placed a Body Paralysis Jutsu Cursed Seal on Sakura Haruno, immobilizing her.
• Danzo drew his sword and declared that Sakura Haruno had lost, but she looked at the seal and chuckled, “Oh?”

Sakura Haruno broke Danzo’s paralysis seal by entering Sage Mode and overwhelmed him with her enhanced strength and water-blade technique. After Danzo revived for the sixth time, he summoned a giant beast to stall her while waiting for Kotoamatsukami to recover, and Sakura began forming an ice giant to meet it.

• Danzo immobilized Sakura Haruno with a Cursed Seal and raised his sword to kill her, but she activated Sage Mode and shattered the seal.
• Sakura Haruno punched through Danzo’s Wind Release and sent him flying, then pursued him despite his attempts to escape.
• Sakura Haruno used Water Release: Wind Blade Torrent to slice Danzo apart, and he revived for the sixth time.
• Danzo recognized Sakura Haruno’s Sage Mode and considered using Shisui’s Mangekyō Sharingan, but its Kotoamatsukami technique had not yet recovered.
• Danzo summoned a giant beast to buy time, while Sakura Haruno began constructing an ice giant with ice and non-Newtonian fluid.

Sakura Haruno unveiled her Giant God Warrior and used it to overpower Danzo, whose repeated recoveries came at the cost of his Sharingan. As Obito realized Sakura had chosen the technique to face him next, the battle shifted toward their coming confrontation.

• Sakura Haruno formed a towering Giant God Warrior and dismissed Danzo's claim that it was an empty shell.
• Sakura's giant trapped and crushed Danzo's summoned tapir, then relentlessly attacked Danzo as he dodged with growing exhaustion.
• Danzo survived another crushing blow by using a Sharingan, and Sakura asked how many times he could keep returning.
• Karin sensed that Sakura had spent only part of her Chakra, while Sakura's technique relied on a non-Newtonian fluid that hardened under force.
• Obito studied the giant and realized Sakura had chosen the technique specifically to deal with him, while defeating Danzo was only a warm-up.

Gaara and Temari told Kakashi’s group that Madara Uchiha had declared war, while the group revealed they had seen a Sasuke lookalike with clean Chakra. Meanwhile, Sakura Haruno exhausted Danzo’s Izanagi revivals, but Danzo sprang a last-minute attack and froze when he saw her black eyes.

• Temari and Gaara explained the Five Kage Summit’s events and Madara Uchiha’s declaration of war, and Gaara said the allied ninja army needed to protect Naruto and the Eight-Tails.
• Sakura Haruno and Kakashi told Gaara’s group they had seen someone resembling Sasuke, but his Chakra was clean rather than dark, and Kakashi summoned Pakkun to track him.
• Sasuke traveled slowly with Yoru Uo and hoped Kakashi’s group would catch up so he could speak with Sakura.
• Karin observed Sakura Haruno repeatedly batter Danzo and worked out that each Izanagi revival consumed one Sharingan.
• Sakura Haruno identified Danzo’s Izanagi and used a water attack to kill him, closing his final Sharingan and leaving him apparently defeated.
• Danzo transformed his arm into a tree, escaped the ice giant, and confronted Sakura Haruno with his Mangekyō Sharingan, but froze when he noticed her black eyes.

Sakura Haruno defeated and killed Shimura Danzō, then transplanted his Shisui Sharingan into her left eye and awakened the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan. Obito confronted her afterward, and Sakura challenged him to trade his life for her eyes.

• Danzo charged Sakura Haruno and tried to use Kotoamatsukami, but she revealed Shisui’s Mangekyō Sharingan and struck him with her infrasonic Genjutsu.
• Sakura Haruno paralyzed Danzo with the attack and killed him with an ice sword, decapitating him in a single pass.
• Sakura Haruno retrieved Shisui’s Sharingan from Danzo and transplanted it into her left eye, gaining the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan.
• Obito and Sasuke watched without attacking while Sakura Haruno buried Danzo beside the battlefield.
• Obito confronted Sakura Haruno and demanded Shisui’s other Sharingan, but she told him to trade his life for them.