Recaps

Yemo and Kakashi uncovered the First Elder’s plan to sacrifice the Uzumaki Clan and use the God Tree to strengthen his bloodline. They destroyed the tree’s connection to the mountain, but the First Elder survived and fought them as Yemo realized a hidden mastermind was waiting to claim the refined power.

• Yemo and Kakashi killed White Zetsu in the Sealing Space, escaped, and reported the strange tree and red light to Minato and Kosuke.
• The First Elder accused Yemo and his companions of breaking into the altar, then trapped them in a barrier as the Kekkei Genkai clans attacked Uzushiogakure.
• Chiyuki Uzumaki freed the Konoha team, and Yemo, Minato, Kosuke, and Kakashi joined the desperate defense of the village.
• Yemo fought a Yuki Clan Jonin, killed him, and escaped an attack by several Jonin with Kosuke’s help before heading toward the Sacred Mountain with Chiyuki.
• Yemo and Kakashi returned to the Sealing Space and saw the First Elder kill the Second Elder, feed his body to the God Tree, and begin a ritual that sent roots bursting through the mountain.
• Yemo and Kakashi set off four hundred Explosive Tags against the God Tree, but its roots had already drained many Uzumaki, and the explosion collapsed the Sacred Mountain.
• The Grand Elder survived the blast and attacked Yemo and Kakashi, while the mountain’s destruction severed Black Zetsu’s connection to the God Tree.
• Yemo and Kakashi fought the Grand Elder, and Yemo realized the First Elder had used sacrifices to refine bloodline power for a nearby mastermind to seize.

Yemo and Kakashi fought Black Zetsu and the Grand Elder over the Uzumaki bloodline power, and Yemo inherited it after the Grand Elder sacrificed his soul. Back in Konoha, Yemo told Kushina of Uzushiogakure’s destruction and tried to register for the Chunin Ninja Exams before the Third Hokage summoned him.

• Yemo rejected the Grand Elder’s offer to return to the Uzumaki Clan, and Black Zetsu appeared, revealed he had manipulated the clan, and attacked the Grand Elder.
• Yemo and Kakashi fought White Zetsu while the Grand Elder battled Black Zetsu, and Minato and Kosuke escaped with two Uzumaki survivors.
• Yemo and Kakashi attacked the flower bud, but its explosion hurled them away and interrupted the battle as the bud’s power was refined.
• The Grand Elder sacrificed his soul to seal half of Black Zetsu’s soul, named Yemo his successor, and died as Yemo entered the blood-filled flower bud.
• Yemo completed his bloodline fusion while Kakashi fought Black Zetsu and was left near death, and Minato and Kosuke arrived, and Yemo emerged to restore Kakashi’s heart.
• Yemo told Minato, Kosuke, and Chiyuki that the Grand Elder was dead and Black Zetsu remained alive, then Chiyuki took the Death God Mask to seek revenge before Yemo buried the Demon Mask Hall.
• Yemo returned to Konoha with Kakashi, Minato, and Kosuke, and told Kushina that Uzushiogakure had been destroyed and fewer than one in ten clansmen had survived.
• Yemo tried to register for the Chunin Ninja Exams but learned he needed a three-person squad, and Kakashi escorted him to the Third Hokage, who praised his recent training.

Yemo trained with Jiraiya, earned Gamabunta’s recognition, and prepared with the Hyuga brothers for the Chunin Ninja Exams. As rival villages gathered in Konoha, the first exam began with a dangerous race designed to eliminate half the participants.

• The Third asked Yemo to represent Konoha in the first joint Chunin Ninja Exams and win the championship.
• Jiraiya taught Yemo the Summoning Technique, and Yemo summoned three enormous toads before winning Gamabunta’s recognition.
• Yemo and Jiraiya repaired the forest after the summons, and Shikaku revealed that Yemo would take the exams with Hiashi and Hizashi.
• Minato trained the new team on a bandit mission, where Yemo and the Hyuga brothers fought through the settlement and killed a defected Konoha Jonin.
• Yemo’s team encountered Nagahiro’s Kirigakure delegation, where Yemo met Hozuki Mangetsu and recognized him as a dangerous rival.
• Killer B attacked Yemo at Konoha’s gate, but the Military Police arrested him after Yemo blocked his Lariat and healed his broken arm with Yin-Yang Release.
• Orochimaru opened the exams and announced an optional one-on-one championship, while Shikaku briefed Konoha’s Genin on powerful rivals including Mangetsu, Mei Terumi, and Yugito Nii.
• Mite Seiun sent the first group of Genin toward a mountain with a thirty-minute limit and a pursuing force, explaining that half the participants had to be eliminated.

Yemo survived the forest exams, uncovered White Zetsu’s infiltration and a possible lead on Chiyuki, then advanced through the tournament. He and Yugito Nii prepared to fight for the championship.

• Shikaku worked out the first exam’s survival rules, and Yemo passed after defeating his examiner, Yūhi Shinku, while three Genin were reported dead.
• For the second exam, Yemo was separated from his teammates, took a scroll from Mei Terumi, and rescued Hiashi and Hizashi from Gari and the Iwagakure ninja.
• Yemo recognized an impostor Grass Ninja as White Zetsu, who claimed his group had found Chiyuki Uzumaki and offered to exchange her for the Death God Mask before abruptly fleeing.
• Yemo, Hiashi, and Hizashi gathered the scrolls they needed and passed the second exam, while only one team each from Konoha, Sunagakure, Kumogakure, and Kirigakure survived.
• The twelve survivors were declared Chunin, and Yemo drew Mei Terumi as his first opponent in the tournament.
• Yemo defeated Mei Terumi with a lightning sword, while Ōnoki and other Kage began to regard him as a threat.
• Hozuki Mangetsu defeated Sasori of the Red Sands but collapsed from his technique’s backlash, and the Five Kage ruled that neither fighter could continue.
• Yemo defeated Toroi, Yugito Nii defeated Hizashi Hyuga, and the Third Hokage named Yemo and Yugito the finalists as they prepared for the championship match.