Recaps

Yemo and Kakashi defeated a powerful White Zetsu in the sealed passage and escaped before the clan elders arrived. The elders worried that others had discovered the hidden place, while the Kekkei Genkai clans gathered outside Uzushiogakure to discuss their alliance amid growing turmoil.

• Kakashi struck White Zetsu with Lightning Release, but the monster recovered and attacked Yemo and Kakashi.
• Yemo burned White Zetsu with a Great Fireball while Kakashi trapped him in a swamp, allowing Yemo to pierce his head with a heated Kunai and kill him with an electric shock.
• Yemo and Kakashi escaped through a spatial passage, leaving the sealed passage behind them.
• The Third and Fourth Clan Elders arrived, and the Second Clan Elder worried that someone else had discovered the hidden place.
• The Kekkei Genkai clans gathered outside Uzushiogakure to discuss their alliance after the red light stirred turmoil within the Uzumaki Clan.

After escaping the Sealing Space, Yemo and Kakashi returned to Uzushiogakure and told Minato and Kosuke about what had happened. The next morning, Kosuke revealed that the Fourth Elder had questioned them about the red light and warned of an intruder, leaving Yemo to realize the elders suspected them.

• Yemo and Kakashi emerged from the Sealing Space in a forest on the Sacred Mountain and guessed that its exit changed location.
• Yemo and Kakashi returned to the village, where they told Minato and Kosuke about their discovery of the strange tree and the red light.
• Yemo spent the sleepless night worrying that the tree might be the God Tree and that a powerful figure was behind events.
• The next morning, Kosuke told Yemo and Kakashi that the Fourth Elder had asked whether they had been out during the red light and reported an intruder at the altar.
• Yemo concluded that the elders suspected him and Kakashi because they were the only outsiders in Uzushiogakure.

Yemo, Minato, Kakashi, and Kosuke decided to remain in Uzushio while they waited for orders from the Third Hokage, though Yemo intended to exploit the turmoil surrounding the ancient Sealing Space. When Yemo answered a knock at their door, he was stunned by the breathtakingly beautiful girl who asked for the Konoha envoys.

• After seeing off the Fourth Elder, Yemo said the clan's leaders would soon be too occupied to focus on him and the others.
• Minato asked whether they should leave the Uzumaki Clan or stay and help, and Yemo said he felt little attachment to the clan and doubted they could save it without reinforcements.
• Kosuke proposed waiting for the Third Hokage's orders, and Minato, Kakashi, and Yemo agreed to stay for the time being.
• Yemo privately decided to use the coming chaos to pursue valuable things in the ancient Sealing Space, which he believed had been left by the Ōtsutsuki Clan.
• When someone knocked, Yemo opened the door and was left speechless by a beautiful red-haired girl who asked whether the Konoha envoys were there.

Chiyuki Uzumaki introduced herself as the first elder’s granddaughter and summoned the Konoha team to discuss an important matter. At their meeting, the elders revealed their trap and surrounded the team, leaving Minato demanding an explanation.

• Chiyuki Uzumaki told Yemo and Kakashi that her grandfather, the Uzumaki Clan’s first elder, had sent her to find the Konoha team.
• Yemo dismissed Chiyuki, and she left in anger; Yemo and Kakashi wondered why the first elder wanted to meet them.
• Yemo told Minato and Kosuke about Chiyuki, and the four agreed to attend the meeting cautiously.
• The first elder told the Konoha team that other clans planned to attack the Uzumaki Clan and asked whether Konoha would send help.
• The four elders sprang into position as more than ten Uzumaki Clan ninja rushed into the room, trapping the Konoha team.
• Minato confronted the first elder and demanded to know why he had turned against the Uzumaki Clan’s friends.

Yemo admitted that he had entered the Uzumaki Clan’s altar, then accused the four elders of hiding the reason for their monthly blood sacrifices. The first elder dismissed his claims and ordered the Uzumaki ninja to capture Yemo and the Konoha envoys.

• The first elder accused Yemo and his companions of breaking into the altar, and the fourth elder called Yemo a traitor based on a witness’s report.
• Yemo admitted that he had entered the altar, despite Minato and Kakashi’s confusion and Kosuke’s advice to wait.
• Yemo questioned why the elders had ordered monthly blood sacrifices for three years and said he had gone to the altar to uncover their secret.
• Yemo revealed that the fourth elder had accompanied him to the altar, prompting the Uzumaki clansmen to eye the elder with suspicion.
• The first and fourth elders called Yemo a liar and ordered the Konoha envoys and Yemo seized; Kosuke warned that attacking Konoha’s envoys could mean war.
• The first elder promised to hold the Konoha group prisoner and ordered the Uzumaki ninja to attack.

Minato fought the Uzumaki Clan ninja after they rejected his warning, using the Flying Thunder God Technique to overwhelm them in seconds. More than half the attackers were unconscious, while the survivors and the four elders were left afraid of his speed.

• The Uzumaki Clan ninja advanced on Yemo and his companions, but Minato warned them to stand down and they refused.
• Minato tossed marked kunai into the air, confusing the attackers, while Yemo challenged Kosuke to demonstrate his abilities.
• At the Second Elder's order, the Uzumaki Clan ninja charged, and Minato said he had things to protect too.
• Minato vanished and reappeared among the attackers, striking them down with rapid knife-hand blows.
• Within seconds, Minato had knocked out more than half the Uzumaki Clan ninja, leaving the survivors stunned and Kakashi in awe.

Minato and his companions were trapped by the Uzumaki Clan elders’ Four Holy Seals after Minato’s show of strength failed to secure negotiations. The elders left to defend the village when a messenger reported that the Kekkei Genkai clans had launched an attack.

• Minato’s attack frightened the Uzumaki ninja, and the grand elder ordered them to stand down as Minato proposed talking.
• The four elders formed the Four Holy Seals and trapped Minato, Yemo, Kosuke, and Kakashi inside a barrier that Kosuke could not break.
• Yemo explained that Uzumaki ninja could take over maintaining the seal, allowing the elders to leave the barrier in place.
• A messenger reported that the Kekkei Genkai clans had attacked and that the outer defenses were close to falling.
• The four elders rushed out to help defend the village, leaving Minato and his companions sealed inside.

Yemo and his companions remained trapped in the Uzumaki sealing barrier while the Kekkei Genkai families attacked the village and the Uzumaki evacuated civilians to the Sacred Mountain. The chapter ended when a huge explosion signaled that the defensive line had been breached.

• The clan elders rushed to confront the joint attack, leaving Yemo, Minato, Kosuke, and Kakashi imprisoned in the barrier.
• Kosuke tried to break the barrier with a wind-enhanced sword strike, but Yemo explained that the Uzumaki technique was designed to withstand even Tailed Beasts.
• Yemo and Kakashi went to sleep while Minato and Kosuke calmly drank tea, despite the battle raging outside.
• The four elders reinforced the defensive line as Uzumaki clansmen evacuated toward the Sacred Mountain.
• A massive explosion shook the village, and Yemo, Kakashi, Minato, and Kosuke realized the defensive line had been breached.

After the Uzumaki Clan’s defensive line fell, Yemo and the Konoha ninja tried to escape the barrier holding them, but Chiyuki Uzumaki arrived and ordered their release. She led the guards into battle and left Yemo considering whether to help defend the clan.

• Yemo and the others urged the four Uzumaki guards to release them after hearing that the village was under attack, but the guards refused and strengthened the barrier.
• Yemo, Minato, Kakashi, and Kosuke prepared to attack the barrier together when Chiyuki Uzumaki arrived and told the guards to let them out.
• Chiyuki told the guards that the village’s defensive barrier had fallen and that her grandfather and the clan were fighting the invaders.
• The guards released Yemo and the Konoha ninja, then followed Chiyuki out to join the battle.
• Chiyuki urged Yemo to consider helping the Uzumaki Clan and reminded the Konoha ninja of Minato’s promise; Yemo realized she had released them in hopes they would fight.

Yemo and Minato’s team joined the battle to rescue the Uzumaki Clan after deciding to honor their mission. Yemo killed a Yuki Clan ninja, then confronted a Yuki Clan Jonin after saving an Uzumaki Chunin from his attack.

• Yemo left the room to fight, and Minato, Kosuke, and Kakashi followed him to honor their mission and their word.
• The team emerged into a village consumed by combat, fires, and destruction as the Uzumaki ninja were driven back by the invading clans.
• A Yuki Clan ninja attacked Yemo, but Yemo dodged and killed him with a Kunai strike.
• Minato told the team to fight separately while staying near one another, and warned Yemo and Kakashi to flee if they faced an enemy they could not defeat.
• Yemo headed toward a Yuki Clan Jonin, then used Earth Release to save an Uzumaki Chunin from the Jonin’s Senbon attack and revealed himself behind the enemy.

Yemo fought a Yuki Clan Jonin who had been ordered to exterminate the Uzumaki Clan, surviving the Jonin’s fire and ice attacks despite being wounded and pinned to a wall. Yemo revealed that he could use Ninjutsu without forming Hand Seals with both hands, then launched a surprise attack that sent the Jonin flying.

• The Yuki Clan Jonin threatened Yemo for rescuing an Uzumaki Clan Chunin, and Yemo attacked him with the Great Fireball Technique.
• Yemo and the Jonin’s fireballs collided, and Yemo shielded himself from the blast with an Earth Style Wall.
• Yemo noticed the sudden chill and escaped as the Jonin’s Ice Release froze the wall and nearby house.
• The Jonin unleashed Ice Arrow Kill, and Yemo deflected arrows until some wounded him and pinned him to a broken wall.
• The Jonin declared that Yemo could no longer fight, but Yemo claimed he could use Ninjutsu without forming Hand Seals with both hands.
• Yemo used Yin-Yang Release: Earth Manipulation Technique to make the ground bulge beneath the Jonin and send him flying.

Yemo defeated and killed a Yuki Clan Jonin after turning the ninja’s attack against him with Lightning Release: Senbon Explosion. The Jonin died threatening revenge from his companions, while Yemo declared that he would not die because he still had things to protect.

• Yemo pulled the ice sword from his shoulder and used the time he had secretly spent thawing his arm to prepare a one-handed attack.
• Yemo launched Lightning Release: Senbon Explosion at the airborne Yuki Clan Jonin, whose sword triggered the Senbon and left him badly wounded.
• Yemo charged into the smoke, was blown back by the Jonin’s Wind Release: Great Breakthrough, then threw explosive-tagged Kunai to clear the smoke.
• Yemo rushed the injured Jonin and overpowered him, cutting off his wrist and left arm and wounding both legs.
• The Yuki Clan Jonin threatened that his companions would avenge him, but Yemo slit his throat and said he still had things to protect.

Yemo killed a Yuki Clan Jonin but was cornered by three more Jonin as the Uzumaki Clan battle worsened. Kosuke arrived and killed all three with Konoha-Style Kenjutsu: Willow, leaving Yemo alive and astonished by the Genin’s skill.

• Yemo healed his shoulder and reflected on how his opponent’s inexperience and underestimation had helped him win.
• Several Kekkei Genkai clan Jonin targeted Yemo after he killed the Yuki Clan Jonin, and he fled before being trapped by their explosive attack.
• Three Jonin surrounded Yemo and threatened to kill him for the Yuki Clan’s loss.
• Kosuke rushed in and used Konoha-Style Kenjutsu: Willow to immobilize and kill all three Jonin in a single strike.
• Yemo watched Kosuke’s technique in amazement as the fighting around Uzushiogakure continued.

Kosuke told Yemo to retreat to the Sacred Mountain while he and Minato held back the enemy. On the way, Yemo refused to help the fourth clan elder, then caught the injured Chiyuki Uzumaki, who slapped him after catching him staring through a tear in her armor.

• Kosuke warned Yemo that the Uzumaki Clan was losing and sent him to the foot of the Sacred Mountain while he and Minato delayed the enemy.
• Yemo saw the fourth clan elder struggling against a Kaguya Clan fighter and refused to help, reminding him that he was now a Konoha ninja.
• Yemo continued toward the Sacred Mountain as the fourth clan elder cursed and threatened him.
• A blast sent Chiyuki Uzumaki flying from a house, and Yemo caught her before she hit the ground.
• Chiyuki noticed Yemo staring through a tear in her chest armor, slapped him, and called him a pervert.

Yemo confronted Chiyuki Uzumaki after she accused him of being a pervert, but their argument was interrupted by a giant summoning bear. He protected Chiyuki, restrained the beast with Adamantine Sealing Chains, and killed it with lightning.

• Chiyuki Uzumaki called Yemo a pervert and bastard, and Yemo stopped her from slapping him again by grabbing her wrist.
• A giant gray summoning bear emerged from the ruined wall and charged at Yemo and Chiyuki.
• Yemo stepped in front of Chiyuki, dodged the bear’s paw, and stabbed it with a lightning-covered Kunai, but the bear struck him and wounded him.
• Yemo used Adamantine Sealing Chains to bind the bear, impressing Chiyuki with his strength and skill.
• Yemo sent lightning through the chains and severed the bear’s head.

Yemo carried the injured Chiyuki Uzumaki away from the fighting, and their journey was marked by her anger at his unwanted advances and his eventual apology. He left her near the Uzumaki defensive line and stayed behind to wait for his Konoha teammates to retreat.

• Yemo forced Chiyuki Uzumaki onto his back and carried her away from the approaching battle despite her protests.
• Yemo grabbed Chiyuki Uzumaki's buttocks, and she screamed and beat him until he threatened to do it again.
• Chiyuki Uzumaki cried quietly, and Yemo apologized after he felt her tears land on his back.
• Yemo set Chiyuki Uzumaki down near the Uzumaki defensive line and explained that he would wait for his Konoha teammates.
• Chiyuki Uzumaki asked whether Yemo would stay after his teammates returned, then limped away after he said he had to follow his captain's orders.

Yemo and Kakashi realized the Uzumaki Clan and the attacking Kekkei Genkai clans were being manipulated by a powerful mastermind, whom Yemo described as a legend who should have died. The Sacred Mountain then trembled and released a red beam that sent shinobi’s Chakra surging out of control, like when Yemo and Kakashi’s Chakra had been absorbed before.

• Kakashi returned and told Yemo that he had followed the grand elder to the altar but could not enter the Sealing Space.
• Yemo explained that the grand elder and the attacking clans were pawns of a hidden mastermind who might sacrifice the Uzumaki Clan.
• Yemo described the mastermind as a legend who should have died but clung to life because of his ambition.
• Yemo sensed an immense surge of Chakra from the Sacred Mountain, which shook before becoming still.
• A beam of red light shot from the mountaintop, causing shinobi throughout the area to lose control of their Chakra.
• Kakashi asked Yemo if he felt the same Chakra absorption they had experienced the previous day.

Yemo and Kakashi realized the red light was not causing their Chakra to run wild; a broken seal and the strange light from within the Sacred Mountain were responsible. As they prepared to enter the mountain, it began to shake, leaving Chiyuki Uzumaki struggling to control the panicked clan while Grandpa remained missing.

• Yemo insisted on returning to the Sealing Space, and Kakashi agreed to go with him rather than let him enter danger alone.
• Yemo and Kakashi found the crowd around the Sacred Mountain too dense to sneak past, but Kakashi noticed the red light had stirred their Chakra only this time.
• Yemo deduced that the seal inside the Sacred Mountain had broken and that the strange light from the great tree was causing the Chakra disturbance.
• Yemo and Kakashi planned to use an Earth Release Technique to enter the ruins as the Sacred Mountain began to tremble and boulders rolled down its slopes.
• Uzumaki Clan ninja blocked the falling boulders while Chiyuki Uzumaki ordered the panicking clansmen knocked unconscious to prevent the crowd from breaking into disorder.
• Chiyuki Uzumaki learned that Grandpa was still missing despite the search.

Yemo and Kakashi watched from above as the First Elder revealed his plan to save the Uzumaki Clan by sacrificing most of its people. When the Second Elder refused to help, the First Elder killed him and declared that no one could stop the clan’s rise.

• Yemo and Kakashi entered the Sacred Mountain’s hidden Sealing Space and listened as the First Elder argued with the Second Elder about his plan.
• The Second Elder rejected sacrificing the clan’s people, saying some had escaped and the Uzumaki Clan would survive through them.
• The First Elder insisted that only his plan could preserve and strengthen the clan, then punched through the Second Elder’s chest and killed him.
• The First Elder laughed and proclaimed that no one could stop his plan, while Yemo called him mad.

Yemo and Kakashi prepared to destroy the giant tree with Explosive Tags, but the grand elder used the second elder’s bloodline to activate it. Yemo realized the tree’s roots might threaten the Uzumaki defenders and rushed outside, where he saw the burning village and the allied clans advancing on the Sacred Mountain.

• Yemo asked Kakashi how many Explosive Tags he carried, and they agreed to combine them to destroy the giant tree.
• The grand elder fed the second elder’s body to the tree, which drained him into a corpse.
• The grand elder performed a ritual that made the tree shake and sent enormous roots bursting from its base.
• Yemo told Kakashi to finish assembling the Explosive Tags and detonate them, then ran through a tunnel to the mountain’s summit.
• Yemo saw Uzushiogakure burning, the allied Kekkei Genkai clans advancing, and the surviving Uzumaki ninja holding a fragile defensive line.

Kosuke and Minato realized Yemo and Kakashi had gone to the altar, but a mysterious attack of roots and vines devastated Uzushiogakure’s civilians and ninja. Black Zetsu watched the carnage, while Madara Uchiha learned of his plans and dismissed the value of the Uzumaki Clan’s bloodline.

• Chiyuki Uzumaki told Kosuke and Minato that Yemo and Kakashi had disappeared, and they suspected the pair had gone to the altar on the Sacred Mountain.
• Chiyuki ordered the altar guards to arrest Yemo and Kakashi, but Kosuke warned her that the enemy army was approaching.
• Enormous roots and draining vines erupted among the Uzumaki crowd, incapacitating and withering victims despite the ninja’s attacks.
• Minato identified that the vines drained blood and Chakra, while Chiyuki’s attempts to counter them failed and panic spread.
• Black Zetsu watched the attack from the mountain and said the plan was finally bearing fruit.
• Madara Uchiha learned that Black Zetsu was in Uzushiogakure, dismissed the Uzumaki bloodline’s value, and tore apart the White Zetsu who reported to him.

Yemo returned to the Sealing Space with the Uzumaki Clan being overwhelmed by the giant tree’s roots and joined Kakashi in preparing to destroy it. They attached Kakashi’s super bomb to the tree and fled the passage as its fuse burned.

• The giant roots restrained and drained most of the Uzumaki Clan, then surged toward the allied Kekkei Genkai clans, whose fighters struggled to break free.
• Kosuke saved Chiyuki Uzumaki from a root, while Minato and Kosuke prepared to defend themselves against its attacks.
• Yemo returned to the Sealing Space and told Kakashi that the roots were draining the Uzumaki Clan, so they needed to destroy the giant tree quickly.
• Kakashi explained that he had combined four hundred Explosive Tags with lightning release Chakra into a bomb powerful enough to collapse the Sacred Mountain.
• Yemo fastened the bomb to the giant tree, and he and Kakashi lit it before racing out through the passage.

Yemo and Kakashi survived the destruction of the Sacred Mountain, but discovered that the Grand Elder had also lived and confronted him over his crimes against the Uzumaki Clan. The Grand Elder attacked them and used the Mind’s Eye of the Kagura to locate Kakashi in the fog, leaving both men down.

• Yemo crawled from the rubble, called for Kakashi, and found him alive beneath a pile of stones.
• Yemo explained that the giant tree’s roots had already trapped and drained most of the Uzumaki Clan before the explosion.
• The Grand Elder burst from the rubble alive, protected by roots around the giant tree’s flower bud.
• The Grand Elder accused Yemo of betraying the Uzumaki Clan, and Yemo blamed him for sacrificing and killing clan members.
• The Grand Elder struck Yemo and then knocked Kakashi down after sensing him through the fog with the Mind’s Eye of the Kagura.

Kosuke and Minato fought a regenerating root until Minato forced it to retreat, while Yemo and Kakashi accidentally destroyed the Sacred Mountain as they tried to blow up a giant tree. Black Zetsu lost his connection to the God Tree and vowed to find whoever had ruined his plan.

• Kosuke lured the root toward Minato, who used Flying Thunder God: Guiding Thunder to split it but stopped the technique when its Chakra cost proved too high.
• The Sacred Mountain exploded and collapsed, scattering rocks that killed some members of the Kekkei Genkai family alliance and leaving the surviving Uzumaki clansmen in shock.
• Minato noticed the root thrashing after the explosion and watched it retreat toward the Sacred Mountain.
• Yemo and Kakashi fled through the collapsing mountainside after their attempt to destroy the giant tree triggered the mountain's destruction.
• Black Zetsu realized the explosion had severed his connection to the God Tree and angrily swore to kill whoever had ruined his plan.

Yemo and Kakashi fought the Grand Elder, who revealed his plan to refine the Uzumaki Clan’s bloodlines through the God Tree and use the power for himself. Yemo realized the Grand Elder was only a pawn and suspected the hidden mastermind was nearby, waiting to claim the power.

• Yemo and Kakashi attacked the Grand Elder together, but his Adamantine Sealing Chains and powerful defenses repeatedly drove them back.
• Kakashi wounded the Grand Elder with White Fang, then revealed that Konoha's White Fang was his father.
• The Grand Elder vowed to kill Yemo and Kakashi and claimed his plan would make the Uzumaki Clan’s bloodline stronger than the Senju Clan’s.
• Yemo deduced that the Grand Elder had gathered clan members’ blood through sacrifices and absorbed their blood and Chakra to strengthen his own bloodline.
• The Grand Elder revealed that the God Tree was refining bloodline power, and Yemo realized the plan sought power comparable to their ancestor Asura Ōtsutsuki’s.
• Yemo concluded that the Grand Elder was being used and that the mastermind was nearby, waiting to seize the refined power.