Recaps

Yemo discovered powerful techniques and survived a confrontation with the Eight-Tails Jinchuriki, earning Orochimaru as his teacher. The arc ended with Orochimaru testing Yemo’s fundamentals at their first training session.

• Yemo learned the Great Fireball Technique from Shikaku and Inoichi, then discovered a hidden scroll describing Kaguya and Yin-Yang Release.
• Yemo mastered Yin-Yang Release, gathered herbs outside Konoha, and was ambushed by a Kumo Jonin who left him gravely injured.
• Yemo healed himself and tracked the Kumo Ninja camp, where he witnessed Orochimaru fight Blue B, the Eight-Tails Jinchuriki.
• Yemo used Adamantine Sealing Chains to restrain Blue B, but Blue B broke free, and Orochimaru carried the injured Yemo to safety.
• White Fang and Orochimaru found that Blue B had escaped, then Orochimaru identified Yemo as an Uzumaki whose chakra could suppress Tailed Beasts.
• Yemo returned home to Kushina, then met the Third Hokage, who arranged for Orochimaru to take him as a disciple.
• Yemo accepted Orochimaru as his teacher and told Kushina and Minato about the arrangement.
• Orochimaru began Yemo’s training with a bell-catching challenge, exposing his weak fundamentals and countering his attacks.

Yemo trained under Orochimaru, earned Genin status, and joined him at the front as war with Kumogakure intensified. He accepted a dangerous intelligence mission behind enemy lines while Orochimaru drew the enemy into battle, leaving Yemo waiting at a ravine as Orochimaru faced Blue B.

• Yemo escaped Orochimaru’s traps, took the bell, and began training with him, revealing all five elemental affinities and his resolve to pursue Yin-Yang Release.
• Yemo learned the Multiple Shadow Clone Technique and defeated Obito in a training match before making peace with him and encouraging him to confess his feelings to Rin.
• Orochimaru invited Yemo to join him at the border, and the Third Hokage made Yemo a Genin without an exam despite concerns that he might serve as bait.
• Yemo left Konoha with Orochimaru, witnessed the devastation of war, and reached the Konoha base, where he reunited with Jiraiya and met the young ninja training there.
• Orochimaru vouched for Yemo’s skills, and Jiraiya and Shikafumi Nara assigned him to investigate suspected Iwa Ninja and search for a missing Konoha ninja behind Kumogakure’s lines.
• Yemo accepted the dangerous mission and left the base alone as Orochimaru led Konoha’s forces into battle to draw the enemy’s attention.
• Yemo reached a border ravine and waited for nightfall while Orochimaru fought Blue B, whose Aurora Slash broke through two of Orochimaru’s Triple Rashomon gates and cracked the third.

Yemo’s mission in the Land of Lightning revealed Kumogakure’s intentions and brought him face to face with Killer B, while Hatake Sakumo’s death forced Yemo to reconsider his path. The stretch ended with Yemo assigned to an S-Rank intelligence squad investigating the Uzumaki Clan’s plea for help.

• Yemo killed Daruka after escaping the blast that destroyed the forest, but Killer B tracked him down and battled him in a canyon.
• Yemo trapped Killer B with Eight Trigrams Sealing and learned Kumogakure was not allied with Iwagakure, then Minato rescued him before Kumo reinforcements arrived.
• Yemo told Orochimaru and Jiraiya that Kumogakure had targeted him and Kushina, and the leaders realized a hidden actor in Konoha might have provoked the war.
• Yemo returned to Konoha and learned that Hatake Sakumo had died by suicide after villagers condemned him for abandoning a mission to save his teammates.
• The Third Hokage refused Danzō’s request to place Yemo in Root, and Yemo declared that he would protect what mattered to him rather than sacrifice it for the village.
• Yemo received a warning that the Uzumaki Clan was in danger, then learned that Sakumo’s funeral had been followed by a plea for help from the clan.
• The Third assigned Yemo to Minato’s S-Rank intelligence squad, and Yemo recognized Kosuke in the squad files as Konoha’s Eternal Genin.

Yemo and Kakashi investigated the siege of Uzushiogakure and uncovered the elders’ blood-sacrifice plan around the God Tree. A surge of red light exposed the secret, and they fled the shaking Sealing Space while a rapidly healing White Zetsu attacked them.

• Yemo traveled with Minato, Kosuke, and Kakashi to the Land of Whirlpools, where they found a village destroyed and fought the Kaguya Clan ninja Ikeda.
• Yemo and Kakashi recovered at Kana’s home, then helped Kana and her mother return to Uzushiogakure after black-clad intruders attacked them.
• Yemo’s team met the four elders and learned that several Kekkei Genkai clans had besieged Uzushiogakure after the Sacred Mountain emitted red light during a blood sacrifice.
• Yemo and Kakashi secretly climbed Self-Reflection Cliff, found the blood-stained altar, and used Yemo’s Uzumaki heritage to open its Space Seal.
• Yemo and Kakashi discovered a vast sealed chamber containing a giant tree, which drained their Chakra until a strange power from Yemo freed them.
• Yemo and Kakashi overheard the elders discuss using blood sacrifices to make the clan rise, and heard the First Elder order the Fourth Elder to find a pure-blooded clansman for a sacrifice.
• The God Tree reacted to Yemo, released a brilliant red beam through the mountain, and prompted patrolling ninja to announce that the phenomenon had appeared again.
• Yemo and Kakashi escaped through the passage as the Sealing Space shook, but a White Zetsu attacked them and rapidly healed after Yemo wounded it.