Recaps

Yemo joined Minato, Kosuke, and Kakashi on a mission to investigate the Uzumaki Clan’s destruction, while asking Minato to keep the matter from Kushina. The team left Konoha and camped near the border, where they shared a roasted boar.

• Yemo read Kosuke’s and Kakashi’s files and was surprised that they had been assigned to Minato’s team.
• Yemo persuaded Minato not to tell Kushina about the Uzumaki Clan’s destruction, and Minato agreed for now.
• Yemo left a note for Kushina and departed Konoha with Minato, Kosuke, and Kakashi.
• Minato explained that the team’s main task was to investigate and, if necessary, help the Uzumaki Clan fend off outsiders.
• The team traveled through the forest and reached a camp near Konoha’s border at midnight.
• Kosuke finished roasting a wild boar, and Yemo eagerly ate a leg.

Yemo, Minato, Kosuke, and Kakashi traveled from the Land of Fire into the Land of Whirlpools and reached a river with Uzushiogakure visible across it. Minato warned the team that enemy ninja could be nearby as they continued toward the village.

• Yemo and the others ate Kosuke's roast boar and divided the night watch between them.
• During the watch, Yemo asked Kakashi about Rin, and Kakashi reflected that their feelings and futures were uncertain.
• The group slept through the night, ate breakfast, and crossed into the Land of Whirlpools.
• Yemo told Minato that they needed to cross one more large river to reach Uzushiogakure.
• The four reached the broad river and saw Uzushiogakure built on a high mountain across the water.
• Minato warned Yemo, Kakashi, and Kosuke that ninja from Uzushiogakure or other forces might be in the area and ordered them to stay alert.

Minato and his companions found a village massacred by unknown ninjas and searched the ruins for clues. Yemo and Kakashi discovered a hidden Explosive Tags trap and prepared to report it to Minato-sensei.

• Yemo, Minato, Kosuke, and Kakashi arrived at a village where hundreds of villagers had been killed and the buildings burned.
• Kosuke examined the bodies, and Minato warned the others not to assume who was responsible without evidence.
• Minato sent Yemo and Kakashi to investigate the ruined streets, where Yemo asked Kakashi about his reaction to the massacre.
• Yemo and Kakashi heard a noise in a ruined house and threw Kunai at what turned out to be a torn garment.
• Kakashi stopped Yemo from stepping on a nearly invisible thread, and they uncovered a pile of Explosive Tags connected to it.
• Yemo severed the thread, and Kakashi said they should report the trap to Minato-sensei; Yemo thanked him for the warning.

Minato and Kosuke were ambushed at the village entrance while Yemo and Kakashi encountered Ikeda on the way back. Yemo survived Ikeda’s strange spike attack, and the two sides remained locked in separate battles.

• Minato and Kosuke found no clues among the burned village ruins before attackers struck them with projectiles and explosive tags.
• Yemo and Kakashi saw the explosion and hurried toward the entrance, but Ikeda raised an earthen wall to block their way.
• Yemo and Kakashi challenged Ikeda, then coordinated an attack as Kakashi threw Kunai and Yemo charged.
• Ikeda knocked away Kakashi’s Kunai and shot a white spike from his palm, sending Yemo crashing into a crater.
• Kakashi rushed to dig Yemo out, but Yemo sat up from the rubble and said Ikeda’s attack could not kill him.

Yemo and Kakashi fought Ikeda, a Kaguya Clan Jonin who could manipulate bones, and learned that his hardened bones made close combat dangerous. Their coordinated attacks forced Ikeda back, but Kakashi’s attempt to finish him left him exposed to Ikeda’s counterattack.

• Ikeda wounded Yemo with a bone spike, and Yemo identified Ikeda as a Kaguya Clan member with a bone-manipulating Kekkei Genkai.
• Yemo explained the Kaguya Clan’s abilities to Kakashi, and they agreed to rely on Ninjutsu and keep their distance.
• Yemo and Kakashi attacked Ikeda with Earth Release, Fire Style, and explosive-tagged Kunai, driving him back.
• Kakashi leaped down with White Fang and forced Ikeda to his knees, but he could not break through Ikeda’s bone weapons.
• Yemo warned Kakashi to retreat as Ikeda launched the Dance of the Willow.

Ikeda overwhelmed Kakashi in close combat, leaving Yemo to defend them and stall for Minato-sensei and the others. Yemo trapped Ikeda in a relentless assault of earthen hands, but Ikeda kept destroying them as the battle continued.

• Ikeda slashed Kakashi's cheek, then pierced his shoulder and kicked him more than ten meters; Yemo caught him.
• Kakashi warned Yemo that Ikeda's Kekkei Genkai let him control his hard bones and advised using Ninjutsu to stall for Minato-sensei and the others.
• Yemo raised an Earth Style Wall to block Ikeda's Ten-Finger Drilling Bullets, then unleashed Yin-Yang Release: Earth Roar and Hands of the Earth.
• Ikeda used sword energy to damage the earthen hands, then grew hard bones over his arms and used the Strongest Spear to destroy them.
• Yemo kept creating more earthen hands, forcing Ikeda to fight until he was panting heavily.

Yemo and Kakashi believed they had defeated Ikeda, but Ikeda transformed into a bone-covered monster and overwhelmed Yemo. As Ikeda closed in to kill the injured Yemo, he formed a bone spear and leaped at him.

• Yemo struck Ikeda with Lightning Release: Lightning Strike, and the attack left a scorched crater with no sign of him.
• Bones erupted from underground, broke Yemo’s giant hands, and knocked him back as Ikeda emerged from the smoke transformed into a monster.
• Ikeda attacked Yemo with his bone weapons and tail, breaking his ribs and injuring his internal organs.
• Yemo fired Lightning Release: Senbon Explosion, but Ikeda blocked the needles with a bone shield and advanced.
• Ikeda detached the shield, formed a bone spear around his right hand, and leaped toward Yemo, shouting, "Die, brat!"

Kakashi saved Yemo from Ikeda with White Fang, but collapsed after using its power. Yemo then killed Ikeda in a final exchange, only to fall unconscious from his own fatal-looking wound as two figures approached.

• Ikeda overwhelmed Yemo and prepared to kill him, but the injured Kakashi rushed in to protect his comrade.
• Kakashi poured his Chakra into White Fang and shattered Ikeda's bone spear, sending Ikeda flying and costing him his left arm.
• Kakashi collapsed unconscious from Chakra exhaustion, while Yemo recovered enough to pick up White Fang and face Ikeda.
• Yemo and Ikeda charged each other, and Ikeda pierced Yemo's chest as Yemo drove White Fang through Ikeda's forehead.
• Ikeda died, and Yemo fell unconscious beside Kakashi as two dark figures sped toward them.

Yemo woke from severe injuries in a girl's room and learned that Minato and Kosuke had brought him and Kakashi to a home near Uzushiogakure. After hearing that his Uzumaki Clan vitality had saved him, Yemo wondered why the relatives living there had left their village.

• Yemo awoke in a tidy girl's room, and a red-haired girl ran out to tell her mother he was awake.
• Minato and Kosuke entered, reassured Yemo that he and Kakashi had survived, and explained that Kakashi was recovering from using too much Chakra.
• Kosuke recalled how near death Yemo had been and marveled at his rapid recovery, while Minato credited the Uzumaki Clan's strong vitality.
• Minato scolded Yemo for risking his life to kill Ikeda, and Yemo promised not to fight that way again.
• Minato told Yemo that they were staying with members of his Uzumaki Clan near Uzushiogakure, leaving Yemo wondering why they had left the village.

Yemo recovered overnight using Yin-Yang Release and healed Kakashi before Minato and Kosuke planned their trip to Uzushiogakure. At dinner, Yemo and Uzumaki Kana’s mother hinted that they had left the village because of troubling changes there, prompting Minato and Kosuke to suspect the clan’s secrets were tied to their mission.

• Kosuke and Minato were astonished when Yemo revealed he had completely recovered, and Yemo used Yin-Yang Release to heal Kakashi.
• Minato and Kosuke decided to set out for Uzushiogakure the following morning to investigate the threat facing the Uzumaki Clan.
• At dinner, Uzumaki Kana teased Yemo by calling him her little brother, and Yemo insisted she use his name.
• Yemo asked Kana’s mother why she had left Uzushiogakure, and she said the village had changed and they were better off living elsewhere.
• Yemo and Kana’s mother implied they had left because of what was happening in the village, and Minato and Kosuke decided to ask Yemo about it later.

Yemo told Minato, Kosuke, and Kakashi that the Uzumaki Clan held a monthly blood sacrifice using blood from members with pure bloodlines, though he did not know its purpose. While the group slept at Kana's house, masked intruders broke in and attacked Kana and her mother, but someone lying beneath their quilt ambushed them.

• Yemo explained that the Uzumaki Clan's monthly ritual was a blood sacrifice and said only the four clan elders knew its purpose.
• Minato ended the conversation, and the group went to sleep at Kana's house before their planned journey to Uzushiogakure.
• Yemo lay awake recalling his conversation with Kana's mother, then eventually fell asleep.
• Four black-clad intruders entered the house, and two went upstairs to Kana and her mother's room.
• The intruders tried to stab Kana and her mother with needles, but the quilt flew up and covered them.
• The intruders threw off the quilt and were struck by powerful fists, which sent them crashing into the wall.

Kakashi, Kosuke, Minato, and Yemo foiled an attempt by four men in black to abduct Kana and her mother, but Minato stopped Yemo from pursuing them. After the women decided to return to their village for safety, the group set out with them the next morning.

• Kakashi and Kosuke confronted two men in black outside while Minato and Yemo surprised two more inside Kana's house.
• Yemo fought one of the intruders, and the four men in black joined forces to break away and flee.
• Minato stopped Yemo from chasing the men, and Kana and her mother said they did not know who the attackers were.
• Kana and her mother decided to return to their village rather than remain alone in fear of another attack.
• The next morning, Yemo and the others packed their necessities and left with Kana and her mother.

Yemo and the Konoha team reached Uzushiogakure, where they saw signs of heavy fighting and learned how strained the village’s defenses were. They reunited Kana and her mother with Uzumaki Himaru, whose fierce reaction to their recent attack revealed his strength.

• Yemo and the others followed Kana’s mother to Uzushiogakure and found its walls damaged, its gates shut, and its defenses on alert.
• Minato told the team to investigate the crisis and avoid joining any battle unless necessary.
• Uzumaki Himaru welcomed the Konoha ninjas, then was surprised to see his sister Komi and niece Kana with them.
• Komi told Himaru that four men in black had attacked them the previous night, but the Konoha ninjas had driven the attackers away.
• Himaru erupted in anger over the attack, then calmed when Kana said he looked scary and thanked Yemo and the others for protecting his family.
• Yemo recognized Himaru by name and shouted in surprise, drawing everyone’s attention.

Yemo and his three companions arrived in Uzushiogakure, where they learned about Uzumaki Himaru’s legendary Sealing Taijutsu and faced villagers’ doubts about Konoha’s support. The group entered the council chamber to meet the four clan elders, who ruled in place of a patriarch.

• Kakashi asked Yemo about Uzumaki Himaru, and Yemo explained Himaru’s reputation and the clan’s powerful Sealing Taijutsu.
• Yemo described the Uzumaki Clan’s bonds with Konoha, and Himaru realized that Yemo was an Uzumaki clansman who had left for Konoha.
• Yemo told Himaru that his parents had died on a mission and that he had asked the clan elders to let him go to Konoha.
• Villagers gathered to watch the Konoha team and complained that its four members were too few to save the Uzumaki Clan.
• Yemo explained that the clan had no patriarch and was governed by four great clan elders.
• Minato led Yemo, Kakashi, and Kosuke into the council chamber to meet the waiting elders.

Minato’s Konoha squad met with the four Uzumaki elders to discuss Uzushiogakure’s crisis, but the meeting nearly turned violent after the fourth elder insulted Yemo and Kakashi retaliated. The first elder restored order, and Minato presented a letter from the head of the Senju Clan.

• Minato explained that the squad had arrived late because they fought three Kaguya Clan ninja, and said their injured teammates had recovered.
• The fourth elder mocked Kakashi and Kosuke, then questioned Yemo’s talent and his reputation in Konoha.
• Kakashi defended Yemo by listing his achievements and insulting Uzushiogakure, enraging the fourth elder until the first elder intervened.
• Minato and the first elder returned the discussion to Uzushiogakure’s danger and Konoha’s investigation and promised aid.
• Minato gave the first elder a letter from the head of the Senju Clan, leaving the four elders puzzled about its contents.

Yemo and the Konoha team questioned why Uzushiogakure’s elders seemed unconcerned despite claiming the village faced a dire crisis. As Yemo revisited the village, he spoke with locals and uncovered useful information about its situation.

• Minato, Kosuke, Kakashi, and Yemo noticed that the elders had not acted urgently or asked Konoha’s team to investigate immediately.
• Yemo described the four elders’ personalities, and Minato concluded they were hiding a secret.
• Kosuke warned Minato that they might not be the only ones being kept in the dark.
• Kakashi asked Yemo why the fourth elder had singled him out, and Yemo explained that he had broken the elder’s grandson’s arms after disapproving of his behavior.
• Yemo told village shopkeepers that the team was scouting and Konoha would send reinforcements after receiving their report, then asked locals questions and uncovered useful information.

Yemo and Kakashi gathered information in Uzushiogakure, and the team discovered that several Kekkei Genkai clans were besieging the Uzumaki Clan. They suspected the siege was connected to the clan’s blood sacrifice, and Minato planned to report their findings to Konoha.

• Yemo escaped a crowd of Uzumaki clanspeople who questioned him about Konoha’s aid, and Kakashi caught up with him in an alley.
• Yemo told Minato and Kosuke that the clans had surrounded Uzushiogakure half a month earlier and begun their attack about seven days ago.
• Yemo named the Kaguya Clan, the Yuki Clan, the Yō Clan, and other attackers, and Minato and Kosuke recognized them as Kekkei Genkai clans.
• Kakashi revealed that the Sacred Mountain had shaken and emitted a red light on the night of a blood sacrifice, shortly before the siege began.
• Yemo proposed that the blood sacrifice had triggered something that threatened the Kekkei Genkai clans, and the others agreed the events were likely connected.
• Minato decided to send a detailed report to Konoha by ninja pigeon overnight, then dismissed the team to rest.

Yemo and Kakashi secretly left the village to investigate the Uzumaki Clan’s hidden secret and found a vast altar atop the Sacred Mountain. They began examining the site, where Kakashi recognized the place he had been searching for.

• Yemo slipped out at night, and Kakashi followed after admitting Minato had ordered him to keep watch.
• Minato revealed to Kosuke that he had deliberately allowed Yemo and Kakashi to investigate the Uzumaki Clan’s secret for him.
• Yemo and Kakashi crossed Uzushiogakure and climbed the sheer cliff known as Self-Reflection Cliff to reach the mountain summit.
• Yemo explained the mountain’s legends and its significance to the Uzumaki Clan as a place of reflection.
• Yemo and Kakashi discovered an enormous altar with eight carved pillars and a central platform, and Kakashi realized he had found the altar he had been seeking.

Yemo and Kakashi investigated the Uzumaki Clan altar and discovered that the fourth clan elder used a Space Seal hidden behind it to enter a sealed space. Yemo explained the seal and considered whether he could undo it, leaving the pair poised to investigate the altar’s secret.

• Yemo and Kakashi inspected the altar and found that its stones were stained with the blood of Uzumaki Clan members.
• Yemo sensed someone approaching and hid with Kakashi on top of the altar.
• The fourth clan elder drew runes with his blood, opened a black hole behind the altar, and entered it.
• Yemo recognized the hidden mechanism as a Space Seal and explained its purpose to Kakashi.
• Kakashi asked whether Yemo could undo the seal, and Yemo paused to think.

Yemo and Kakashi entered a sealed space after Yemo used his Uzumaki bloodline power to open the passage. They emerged in a vast enclosed place and discovered a towering tree topped by a giant purple flower bud, leaving them wondering where they were.

• Yemo failed on his first attempt to break the Space Seal, but identified a problem with the final rune and decided to try again.
• Yemo completed the runes on his second attempt, opening a spatial entrance, and explained to Kakashi that only someone from the Uzumaki Clan could break the seal.
• Yemo entered the passage, and Kakashi followed before the entrance vanished behind them.
• Yemo and Kakashi walked through a dark man-made passage for over a quarter of an hour and reached its exit.
• Yemo and Kakashi found a huge sealed space containing a tree over a hundred meters tall, with a giant purple flower bud at its top.

Yemo and Kakashi explored ancient ruins and found inscriptions they could not read. When Yemo touched the enormous tree, it drew in their Chakra, but a strange force from Yemo freed them, leaving them to wonder what the tree was.

• Yemo noticed broken stone steles at the bottom of the cliffs, and Kakashi identified their writing as more than a thousand years old.
• Yemo and Kakashi decided to copy the inscriptions and show them to Minato-sensei and Lord Kosuke.
• Yemo touched the huge tree, which began pulling his Chakra into its trunk and made his body convulse.
• Kakashi tried to free Yemo but was also trapped by the tree and drained of Chakra.
• A strange force erupted from Yemo and threw Kakashi clear, after which Yemo broke free of the tree.
• Yemo and Kakashi recovered on the ground and discussed how their Chakra had surged toward the tree as if drawn by its own will.

After the strange tree nearly drained Yemo and Kakashi, Yemo recognized its resemblance to a miniature God Tree and began questioning its origins and connection to the Uzumaki Clan. He kept his suspicions to himself while Kakashi resumed copying the stone tablet, leaving Yemo to investigate the mystery from a safe distance.

• Kakashi asked Yemo what had happened when the tree drew him in, and Yemo described losing control and consciousness without revealing that his bloodline power had saved them.
• Yemo recalled his bloodline awakening and suspected his Uzumaki heritage had caused the power that suppressed the tree.
• Yemo realized the tree resembled the God Tree, and its response to his Chakra deepened his suspicion despite the God Tree supposedly no longer existing in the world.
• Yemo wondered how the tree was connected to the four clan elders and asked Kakashi how long the site had existed; Kakashi estimated at least a thousand years.
• Yemo withheld his rough theories and told Kakashi to finish rubbing the tablet's writing, while he stayed ten paces from the tree and pondered what it was hiding.

Yemo and Kakashi overheard the four Uzumaki elders discussing a blood-sacrifice plan tied to the God Tree and their ambition to surpass Konoha. The elders suspected a traitor within the clan had exposed their plans, leaving Yemo and Kakashi with more questions about the conspiracy.

• Yemo and Kakashi prepared to leave the underground chamber but stopped when they heard footsteps below.
• Yemo and Kakashi watched as all four Uzumaki elders gathered and heard them connect the clan’s blood sacrifices to a plan for its rise.
• The First Elder warned the Fourth Elder to avoid disrupting the plan, then ordered him to find a clansman with a pure bloodline for a sacrifice scheduled for the day after tomorrow.
• The Third Elder explained that the God Tree’s strange phenomenon stemmed from the Uzumaki Clan’s weakened bloodline.
• The Second Elder warned that the Kekkei Genkai clans attacking the Uzumaki Clan might join forces, while the elders suspected a hidden clan member had betrayed them.
• Yemo and Kakashi exchanged shocked looks as they realized the elders’ account pointed to a traitor within the Uzumaki Clan.

The God Tree’s sudden red radiance triggered a mysterious reaction in Yemo, leaving Kakashi and the four elders unable to explain what was happening. After Yemo saw a brief vision of a devastated world, the tree sent a beam through the Sealing Space’s dome, and a pillar of red light appeared above Uzushiogakure’s Sacred Mountain.

• The God Tree began emitting red rays, and Yemo instinctively drew a kunai as the four elders stared in alarm.
• Red light rose from Yemo, his blood heated and raced, and Kakashi burned his palm when he grabbed Yemo’s shoulder.
• The God Tree’s light intensified, and Yemo saw a ruined landscape beneath falling meteors before his body returned to normal.
• A brilliant beam shot from the God Tree through the dome of the Sealing Space.
• A pillar of blood-red light rose from the Sacred Mountain above Uzushiogakure, and patrolling ninja cried, “It’s appeared again!”

A red light and tremors spread from the Sacred Mountain as Yemo and Kakashi tried to escape the Sealing Space. They were attacked by a White Zetsu, and Yemo recognized the creature as they began fighting.

• Minato and Kosuke saw the red light and decided to stay in the courtyard rather than leave to search for Yemo and Kakashi.
• A white-haired old man ordered other clan heads to gather, saying the Uzumaki Clan seemed close to succeeding.
• Yemo and Kakashi set out through the passage as the Sealing Space began to shake violently.
• A White Zetsu attacked them, and Yemo recognized it while Kakashi lit the passage with flames.
• Yemo dodged White Zetsu's punch and slashed its foot with two Kunai, but its wounds began healing rapidly.