Recaps

Yemo rejected the grand elder’s offer to share the bloodline power and fought to save Kakashi when the grand elder attacked. After Yemo rescued the badly injured Kakashi, Black Zetsu appeared from hiding.

• The grand elder offered Yemo a share of the bloodline power if he returned to the Uzumaki Clan, but Yemo rejected him because the plan had cost more than ten thousand clansmen their lives.
• The grand elder attacked Kakashi, who had been moving toward the glowing flower bud, and struck him hard before trying to stab him.
• Yemo used Lightning Release: Turbulence through their Kunai to paralyze the grand elder briefly, then pulled Kakashi away to safety.
• Yemo checked Kakashi’s injuries and looked for an escape route, while the grand elder warned them that they could not get away.
• Black Zetsu appeared on a nearby pile of rubble, startling Yemo, Kakashi, and the grand elder.

Black Zetsu revealed that he had manipulated the Uzumaki Clan and its Grand Elder, then demonstrated his resistance to their hereditary sealing technique. Yemo discovered that other ninjutsu could injure Black Zetsu, but Black Zetsu regenerated completely, leaving Kakashi wondering what kind of monster he was.

• Black Zetsu appeared and claimed he had set the Grand Elder's plan in motion, planted the God Tree, and used the Uzumaki Clan as pawns.
• The Grand Elder rejected Black Zetsu's explanation and attacked him with eight Adamantine Sealing Chains, but Black Zetsu stopped and cast them aside.
• Yemo struck Black Zetsu with Lightning Release: Senbon Explosion, destroying much of his body.
• Black Zetsu regenerated his shattered limbs and face, astonishing Kakashi.

Yemo and the Grand Elder fought Black Zetsu, whose body regenerated from their attacks. Black Zetsu summoned White Zetsu and merged with one, leaving Yemo worried that the newly empowered Zetsu could overwhelm the Grand Elder.

• Yemo identified Black Zetsu as a bodiless manifestation of will and urged the Grand Elder to attack him.
• The Grand Elder battered Black Zetsu, but Black Zetsu regenerated even after his head was smashed apart.
• Black Zetsu sent black tentacles underground and summoned ten White Zetsu from a buried root.
• Black Zetsu ordered some White Zetsu to attack Yemo and Kakashi while others guarded the flower bud.
• Black Zetsu merged with a White Zetsu to become Zetsu and challenged the Grand Elder, who remained confident he could defeat him.

The Great Clan Elder attacked Black Zetsu but was overwhelmed by a sudden increase in Black Zetsu’s strength. Meanwhile, Yemo and Kakashi raced to defeat White Zetsu for a wager of five hundred Explosive Tags, and Kakashi claimed victory after decapitating his opponent.

• The Great Clan Elder charged Black Zetsu, but Black Zetsu struck him with enough force to send him flying and leave him coughing up blood.
• Yemo and Kakashi agreed to race to kill their respective White Zetsu, wagering five hundred Explosive Tags.
• Yemo cut off his White Zetsu’s arm and knocked it down, but its Wind Release blew apart his flames.
• Kakashi was blasted back by his White Zetsu’s lightning, then drew White Fang and cut off its leg.
• Kakashi vaulted onto the fallen White Zetsu and severed its neck, then declared that he had won the wager.

Kakashi and Yemo defeated their opponents but saw that Black Zetsu was overpowering the great clan elder, so they decided to destroy the flower bud and escape. Meanwhile, Minato and Kosuke fought alongside the few surviving Uzumaki clansmen and prepared to save some of them from the surrounding enemy clans.

• Kakashi discovered that Yemo had beaten him to defeating White Zetsu and agreed to pay him five hundred Explosive Tags or their value in ryo.
• Yemo and Kakashi watched Black Zetsu dominate the great clan elder and decided they needed to leave before the elder was defeated.
• Yemo and Kakashi agreed to destroy the nearly opened flower bud so its stored Uzumaki bloodline power would not fall into enemy hands, then charged its White Zetsu guard.
• Minato and Kosuke helped just over a hundred surviving Uzumaki clansmen resist ninja from several Kekkei Genkai clans who blamed them for the Sacred Mountain explosion.
• Minato told Kosuke that they could not save all the Uzumaki survivors, but he could take a few with him to preserve the clan's bloodline.

Yemo and Kakashi fought off the White Zetsu while Yemo tried to destroy the flower bud before it fully opened. The bud’s force collided with Yemo’s lightning strike, sending him hurtling through the air as the blast halted the distant battle.

• Yemo killed a White Zetsu with his new Lightning Release technique, and Kakashi offered to teach him Chidori in exchange for learning it.
• Yemo used Multiple Shadow Clone Technique to keep the White Zetsu occupied while he moved to attack the flower bud.
• Yemo formed a lightning sword and plunged into the crater to slash the bud as its last petals opened.
• The lightning strike collided with a force erupting from the bud, creating a massive explosion that hurled Yemo into the air and blasted Kakashi away.
• The shockwave interrupted Black Zetsu and the grand elder, forcing them to stop fighting and brace against it.

Yemo survived the explosion and used Yin-Yang Release to heal his internal injuries, while Black Zetsu discovered that the power of the bloodline had been refined. The grand elder attacked Black Zetsu and claimed the power for himself.

• Minato and Kosuke heard the explosion and realized Yemo and Kakashi were likely still alive.
• Kakashi found Yemo unconscious in a crater and revived him with emergency resuscitation.
• Yemo woke, used Yin-Yang Release: Revival Technique, and healed his internal injuries until he ran out of Chakra.
• Black Zetsu found the damaged flower bud and celebrated that the power of the bloodline had been refined for his plan to become a true living being.
• The grand elder struck Black Zetsu with a boulder and declared that the power of the bloodline belonged to him.

Black Zetsu and the great clan elder unleashed super S-rank Ninjutsu that devastated the battlefield and swept up Yemo and Kakashi. As the explosion drew attention away from the siege of the Uzumaki survivors, Minato and Kosuke escaped with two clan members using the Flying Thunder God Technique.

• Black Zetsu revealed that White Zetsu's body could not be harmed by ordinary injuries and claimed the Uzumaki bloodline as a return of Ōtsutsuki property, but the great clan elder rejected his claim.
• The great clan elder unleashed Wind Release: Wild Whirlwind Breakthrough while Black Zetsu created four Shadow Clones.
• Black Zetsu and his clones combined five elemental dragon techniques into Five Dragon Combo Bullet, and it collided with the elder's tornado in a catastrophic explosion.
• Yemo and Kakashi tried to flee but were caught in the blast and swept into the smoke and gale.
• As the explosion distracted the enemies surrounding the last ten Uzumaki survivors, Minato and Kosuke used the Flying Thunder God Technique to escape with two clan members.

Yemo, Kakashi, and the gravely wounded Grand Elder faced Black Zetsu after their battle devastated the plain. The Grand Elder trapped Black Zetsu long enough to bind and hurl Yemo away, then named him the Uzumaki Clan's leader.

• Yemo emerged from a pit and found Kakashi as Black Zetsu and the Grand Elder continued fighting.
• Black Zetsu approached Yemo, Kakashi, and the wounded Grand Elder, threatening to kill them all.
• The Grand Elder used four clones to cast the Four Holy Seals around Black Zetsu, buying himself time despite the barrier beginning to crack.
• The Grand Elder admitted that his ambition had helped destroy the Uzumaki Clan and said its bloodline power belonged in the clan's hands.
• The Grand Elder bound Yemo with Chakra threads, threw him away, and declared him the Uzumaki Clan's leader.

The grand elder used the Four Holy Seals to give Yemo time to reach the Uzumaki bloodline power, then summoned the Shinigami with the Reaper Death Seal to capture Black Zetsu. As the dying grand elder’s strength failed and Black Zetsu began reclaiming his soul, he hinted that he had prepared another move.

• Yemo cursed the grand elder as he flew toward the flower bud, while Kakashi restored his Chakra from the sidelines.
• The grand elder explained that he wanted Yemo to inherit the Uzumaki bloodline power and avenge the clan against Black Zetsu.
• Black Zetsu shattered the barrier, but the grand elder summoned the Shinigami and seized Black Zetsu’s soul with the Reaper Death Seal.
• Black Zetsu struggled to pull his soul back as the grand elder weakened and spat blood.
• The grand elder admitted he had prepared to lose his soul and asked Black Zetsu whether he was prepared for the same.

The grand elder used the Reaper Death Seal to trap half of Black Zetsu’s soul, sacrificing his own life and entrusting the Uzumaki Clan’s future to Yemo Uzumaki. Yemo entered the red liquid in the God Tree’s flower bud, and its power began to alter his body.

• The grand elder sealed half of Black Zetsu’s soul with the Reaper Death Seal, and the Shinigami swallowed both Black Zetsu’s severed soul and the grand elder’s soul.
• As he died, the grand elder regretted his role in the Uzumaki Clan’s destruction, named Yemo Uzumaki as his successor, and hoped Yukieru would survive.
• Black Zetsu tried to burn the grand elder’s corpse, but Kakashi stopped him and drew his anger.
• Yemo freed himself from the chakra threads with Minato’s Kunai and landed on a petal of the broken God Tree flower bud.
• Yemo entered the pool of red liquid made from the Uzumaki Clan’s lives and blood, and its mysterious power began to flow into him.

As Yemo underwent a painful bloodline transformation, Kakashi fought Black Zetsu to buy him time. Kakashi was left paralyzed and facing death, while Yemo remained unconscious in the midst of his transformation.

• Yemo’s body was remade as the Uzumaki bloodline power flowed into him, and he lost consciousness from the agony.
• In a dark vision, Yemo fell through scenes of a giant tree becoming a monster and two people joining forces to seal it and another figure.
• Kakashi confronted Black Zetsu and said he would hold him off while Yemo completed the transformation.
• Black Zetsu overwhelmed Kakashi, who used a Shadow Clone to evade a Wood Release attack and countered with Chidori.
• Black Zetsu matched Kakashi’s Lightning Release, leaving the real Kakashi badly injured and unable to move.
• Black Zetsu raised a wooden spear over Kakashi, who feared for Yemo and accepted that he was about to die.

Black Zetsu killed Kakashi and moved to stop Yemo’s bloodline fusion, but Minato and Kosuke arrived in time to confront him. Minato destroyed White Zetsu’s body, though Black Zetsu escaped underground, leaving the group to face the dead grand elder, Kakashi’s uncertain fate, and Yemo’s critical condition.

• Black Zetsu killed Kakashi and approached Yemo, who was nearing the end of his bloodline fusion.
• Minato arrived with Kosuke, Chiyuki, and two Uzumaki Clan shinobi, and Chiyuki mourned her dead grandfather.
• Minato recognized that Black Zetsu was targeting Yemo and scattered Kunai marked with the Flying Thunder God technique around him.
• Kosuke attacked Black Zetsu, who dodged and rushed toward Yemo, but Minato struck him down with a kick and a Rasengan.
• Black Zetsu escaped underground after Minato destroyed White Zetsu’s head, and Minato and Kosuke turned their attention to the injured and dead.

Yemo emerged from the bloodline fusion as Minato and Kosuke struggled to keep the gravely injured Kakashi alive. Yemo realized Kakashi was near death, while the cause of the battle and the changes to Yemo remained to be examined.

• Yemo ran through darkness until he reached a golden gate and stepped through its light.
• Yemo's eyes opened inside the red flower bud as Minato and Kosuke failed to heal Kakashi's shattered heart.
• Minato stopped trying to save Kakashi as Kosuke warned that their remaining Chakra could only sustain him briefly.
• Yemo burst from the flower bud, awakening after the bloodline fusion had succeeded.
• Yemo surveyed the scene, saw Kakashi barely alive, and recognized that his perception had grown stronger.

Yemo used his newly gained power and a sealed flower bud to restore Kakashi’s heart and bring him back from the brink of death. Kakashi’s heartbeat returned, though he remained unconscious while he recovered.

• Yemo strengthened Kakashi’s fading life force and told Minato and Kosuke to place him in the pink flower bud.
• Yemo covered the bud with ancient seals and channeled his immense Chakra into it, activating the remaining restorative liquid.
• The liquid healed Kakashi’s wounds, and red vapor entered his chest as Yemo used Yin-Yang Release and the bloodline power to regenerate his heart.
• After half an hour, Kakashi’s heart beat strongly again, and Yemo, Minato, and Kosuke realized the rescue had succeeded.
• Kakashi remained unconscious as he recovered, while Yemo felt relief that he had survived.

Yemo transferred the remaining bloodline power into Kakashi, whose body gained greater recovery and Chakra, then explained that the Uzumaki Clan's grand elder had died using the Reaper Death Seal. Chiyuki learned the mastermind behind the clan's destruction was still alive and turned toward her grandfather's body, while Kakashi began to wake.

• Yemo poured the remaining bloodline power from the flower bud into Kakashi, then moved him somewhere comfortable after the bud shattered.
• Yemo told Kosuke and Minato that the grand elder and the Uzumaki Clan had been pawns, while the black monster was the mastermind seeking bloodline power.
• Chiyuki asked Yemo to revive her grandfather, but he explained that the grand elder was dead and his soul had been sealed by the Reaper Death Seal.
• Yemo told Chiyuki that the grand elder had failed to seal the mastermind's soul completely, so the culprit was still alive.
• Chiyuki turned toward her grandfather's body with hatred and killing intent, and Kosuke stopped Yemo from trying to advise her.
• Kakashi slowly opened his eyes.

Yemo reflected on how merging with the bloodline had transformed his Sage Body and awakened knowledge of Yin-Yang Release and the Ōtsutsuki Clan. After discussing the Uzumaki Clan’s destruction, the group left with Black Zetsu identified as a major threat now known to Konoha’s High Command.

• Yemo considered his increased Chakra, rapid healing, physical strength, and newly awakened knowledge after his Sage Body became complete.
• Kakashi asked Yemo whether he had anything to add about the Uzumaki Clan’s fate, and Yemo said Kakashi already knew what he did.
• Kosuke remarked that Black Zetsu had manipulated the Uzumaki Clan and several Kekkei Genkai clans, while Yemo and Kakashi had unexpectedly gained the bloodline’s power.
• Minato and Kosuke agreed that Black Zetsu was dangerous, and the group concluded that their mission concerning the Uzumaki Clan was resolved.
• Black Zetsu’s appearance became a matter for Konoha’s High Command.

Chiyuki Uzumaki went to Demon Mask Hall to retrieve her grandfather’s Demon Mask and release his sealed soul, but Yemo Uzumaki confronted her and challenged her plan. Their fight ended with Chiyuki accusing Yemo of exploiting the Uzumaki Clan’s destruction to claim leadership.

• Chiyuki Uzumaki searched Demon Mask Hall for her grandfather’s Demon Mask and discovered that a stone had been transformed to look like it.
• Yemo Uzumaki appeared with the real Demon Mask and admitted that he had taken it, arguing that Chiyuki had no right to it.
• Yemo warned Chiyuki that releasing her grandfather’s soul would require paying the cost of undoing the Reaper Death Seal.
• Chiyuki attacked Yemo after he called himself the Uzumaki Clan’s leader, and they fought among the Demon Masks.
• Yemo caught Chiyuki’s hands and asked why she had attacked him, and she condemned him for claiming leadership after her grandfather died and the clan was destroyed.

Yemo and Chiyuki Uzumaki discussed his appointment as Uzumaki Clan leader, then argued over the Demon Mask that could help free Black Zetsu. Chiyuki used her grandfather’s knockout drug to incapacitate Yemo and take the mask.

• Yemo admired Chiyuki’s beauty, and the two blushed and fell into an awkward silence.
• Yemo explained that he had no desire to lead the Uzumaki Clan and offered the position to Chiyuki, but she refused because her grandfather had chosen him.
• Chiyuki demanded the Demon Mask, but Yemo refused, warning that it could release Black Zetsu and put her in danger.
• Chiyuki secretly used a knockout drug to weaken Yemo, then picked up the Demon Mask.
• Yemo asked how Chiyuki had incapacitated him, and she showed him the small bottle her grandfather had made.

Chiyuki took the Death God Mask and left to pursue revenge against Black Zetsu, despite Yemo urging her to live and rebuild the Uzumaki Clan. After finding Chiyuki's lost earring, Yemo hid the Demon Mask Hall and its masks underground, then left carrying another Death God Mask.

• Chiyuki took the Death God Mask and told Yemo she would avenge the Uzumaki Clan, then walked away.
• Yemo recovered from Chiyuki's knockout drug and found a crystal earring beneath a Death God Mask, which he recognized as hers and kept.
• Yemo decided the Demon Mask Hall and its stored masks were unsafe to leave exposed.
• Yemo used Earth Release: Moving Earth Core to bury the Demon Mask Hall and rearranged trees and plants to conceal the clearing.
• Yemo left the forest carrying a Death God Mask.

Yemo and his companions returned to Konoha, where he learned that Uchiha Fugaku and Uchiha Mikoto were getting married. After Kushina came home from the wedding, Yemo shared a freshly cooked meal with her.

• Yemo, Kakashi, Minato, and Kosuke reached Konoha after a tiring journey and registered at the village gates.
• Yemo learned from a gate guard that Uchiha Fugaku and Uchiha Mikoto were marrying, while Minato and Kosuke were summoned to report to the Hokage.
• Yemo went home and found Kushina was out, then realized she had likely gone to congratulate her friend Uchiha Mikoto.
• Kushina returned and cooked dinner, and Yemo eagerly ate with her.

Yemo told Kushina that Uzushiogakure had been destroyed and most of the Uzumaki Clan had been killed, leaving her devastated. He withheld the full truth about the clan’s downfall and went to bed after Kushina withdrew upstairs to grieve.

• While eating with Kushina, Yemo explained that he had learned she attended Mikoto’s wedding from the guards at the village gate.
• Kushina pressed Yemo about what he and Minato had hidden from her, and Yemo revealed that their mission involved the Uzumaki Clan.
• Yemo told Kushina that Uzushiogakure had been destroyed in an attack by several Kekkei Genkai clans and fewer than one in ten clansmen had survived.
• Kushina cried and asked why the clans had attacked, and Yemo blamed Black Zetsu for stirring them up while concealing what he knew about the clan elder and his own role.
• Kushina went upstairs to be alone, and Yemo cleaned up before going to bed exhausted.

After a quiet morning at home, Yemo learned that the annual Chunin Ninja Exams were approaching and decided to enter. He told Obito and Rin that he had completed an S-rank mission, leaving Obito stunned and newly aware of the gap between himself and Kakashi.

• Yemo woke refreshed, found that his sister had left on a mission, and spent the morning at home before going out for ramen.
• Yemo ran into Obito and Rin, who were carrying supplies to prepare the Ninja Academy exam site.
• Rin explained that the Academy was preparing for the annual Chunin Ninja Exams, and Yemo asked Obito whether he could sign up.
• Obito and Rin warned Yemo that the exams were dangerous, but Yemo said he was ready and had enough strength and mission experience.
• Yemo revealed that he and Kakashi had completed an S-rank mission with Minato-sensei, shocking Rin and leaving Obito gripping his fists in frustration.

Yemo went to the Hokage's office to register for the Chunin Ninja Exams, where his solo application and connection to Orochimaru drew attention. The clerk then told him he could not register, leaving him demanding an explanation.

• Yemo reached the Hokage's office and found an unusually large crowd of Genin registering for the Chunin Ninja Exams.
• After waiting more than an hour, Yemo filled out the registration form but listed no teammates.
• The clerk noticed that Yemo had named Orochimaru as his instructor and recognized him as Orochimaru's disciple, Yemo Uzumaki.
• Genin in the hall reacted to Yemo's age, reputation, and unusual advancement while he waited to be registered.
• The clerk apologized and told Yemo he still could not register, and Yemo shouted in confusion.

Yemo learned that this year’s Chunin Ninja Exams required participants to enter in three-person squads, then Kakashi took him to meet the Third Hokage. The Third praised Yemo’s talent and rapid mastery of difficult ninjutsu, leaving Yemo to wonder why he had been summoned.

• Yemo was told he could not register for the Chunin Ninja Exams without joining a three-person squad.
• Kakashi pulled Yemo from the registration hall and explained that he had been assigned to maintain order there.
• Kakashi told Yemo that the Third Hokage had summoned him and escorted him to the Hokage’s office.
• Yemo waited while the Third finished a document and tried to prepare for questions about his recent mission and the Uzumaki Clan.
• The Third praised Yemo for learning the A-rank Multiple Shadow Clone Technique in one afternoon and mastering Senbon Explosion in two days.