Recaps

Uchiha Chisen destroyed the Bloody Mist regime and forced Kirigakure to confront the powerful figures who had profited from it. Mei Terumi sought Genji’s backing to become the Fifth Mizukage, but the surviving ninja split into rival factions.

• Tsunade blocked Jiraiya from taking Naruto to Mount Myōboku and announced that she would challenge Sarutobi Hiruzen in the coming Hokage election.
• Uchiha Chisen and his companions fought Kirigakure’s Anbu, and Chisen defeated Karatachi Yagura and Isobu with his Perfect Susanoo.
• Mei Terumi led Chisen into Kirigakure, where he killed prominent supporters of the Bloody Mist Policy and annihilated thousands of ninja who refused to abandon it.
• Juzo Biwa killed Momochi Zabuza after Zabuza accepted that he had no reason to live, while Mei Terumi warned Chisen that profiteering merchants, nobles, and the Daimyo remained.
• Chisen tasked Mei with enforcing Absolute Justice and sent Izumi, Juzo, and Kijiro to identify targets and sever the roots of evil.
• Mei chose to seek Genji’s support to become the Fifth Mizukage, while Ao struggled to unite the surviving Kirigakure ninja and Kukulin rallied conservatives.
• Genji backed Mei and gave her his prayer beads, but Kukulin’s and Ao’s factions drew weapons against each other before Mei arrived to separate them.

Uchiha Chisen purged the Land of Water’s corrupt factions and established a new police force as the other nations and Konoha reacted to his growing influence. The arc leaves Chisen facing Pain and the Akatsuki Organization in an ambush.

• Mei Terumi became Fifth Mizukage, and Uchiha Chisen punished Kirigakure’s guilty survivors while allowing Ringo Ameyuri to take revenge on Kukulin.
• Uchiha Chisen and his followers investigated Water Gull City, destroyed the Funaya Family’s black market, freed its captives, and distributed grain to the people.
• Uchiha Chisen killed the Land of Water’s Daimyo and thousands of evildoers across the capital, then left Mei Terumi to restore order under absolute justice.
• Uchiha Chisen completed his purge of the Land of Water and began building a police force, while the Uchiha Clan opened its ranks to righteous recruits and Konoha’s political crisis deepened.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen allowed more than a hundred Konoha ninja to leave for the Land of Water and agreed to accept Tsunade as Fifth Hokage as Uchiha Chisen returned toward Konoha.
• Obito and the Akatsuki Organization prepared to confront Uchiha Chisen, while Obito also sought Orochimaru’s research and Kabuto to revive Uchiha Madara.
• Pain led the Akatsuki Organization in an ambush against Uchiha Chisen, who shielded Uchiha Izumi and Kijiro with Susanoo and struck at the group.
• Pain redirected Uchiha Chisen’s Susanoo slash into a mountain with Shinra Tensei and declared that Chisen could not understand a god’s power.

Uchiha Chisen defeated Hyuga Hiashi after the Hyuga Main Family sacrificed their clan to awaken the Great Tenseigan. Chisen absorbed its power as Black Zetsu withdrew, leaving Konoha’s leaders to examine the eye.

• Uchiha Chisen and Pain fought, and Chisen drove the Akatsuki Organization to retreat after destroying most of the Six Paths.
• Uchiha Obito attacked Uchiha Izumi and Kijiro, but Chisen’s arrival forced him to escape into the Kamui Dimension.
• Black Zetsu recruited Yakushi Kabuto by offering to help him resurrect Yakushi Nonō through Uchiha Madara and Rinne Rebirth.
• Hyuga Hiashi told Hyuga Neji that the Caged Bird Seal protected the clan from its moon relatives, and Neji accepted the duty to protect Hinata.
• Hyuga Hiashi and the Main Family Elders killed Utatane Koharu and sacrificed Hyuga clansmen and their own eyes to awaken the Great Tenseigan.
• Hyuga Hiashi used the Tenseigan against Uchiha Chisen at the Valley of the End, but Chisen’s Susanoo-armored Wood Human shattered his Rotation and mortally wounded him.
• Uchiha Chisen let magma engulf Hyuga Hiashi, whose surviving Main Family Elders killed themselves after sensing his death.
• Uchiha Chisen gained incomplete Tenseigan power as Black Zetsu and White Zetsu withdrew, and Sarutobi Hiruzen, Tsunade, Jiraiya, and Sage Fukasaku approached the Great Tenseigan.

Uchiha Chisen’s new powers changed Konoha’s leadership and drew the Akatsuki Organization into conflict with Iwagakure, while Obito stole the Great Tenseigan. As Chisen learned the Flying Thunder God Technique, he began carrying his campaign for justice into the Land of Grass.

• Uchiha Chisen developed Dust Release and Shine Release, while Tsunade accepted the appointment as Fifth Hokage and Hinata awakened the Great Tenseigan.
• Black Zetsu and Obito targeted the Great Tenseigan, and Obito stole it from Hinata before Chisen could stop him.
• Pain’s Akatsuki Organization attacked Iwagakure, where Ōnoki fought to protect the village and died after Pain unleashed Super Shinra Tensei.
• Obito and Black Zetsu sought a Shikotsumyaku clansman to activate the Great Tenseigan, while Kabuto took Kimimaro toward the Akatsuki Organization and planned to test Impure World Reincarnation on Ōnoki.
• Uchiha Chisen learned the Flying Thunder God Technique and agreed to represent the Land of Water at Ōnoki’s funeral.
• Uchiha Chisen intervened in the Land of Grass, rescued a civilian from a magma pit, and began a campaign against the people he judged wicked.
• Uchiha Chisen reached the Land of Grass’s capital, where nobles were flogging skeletal civilians for amusement.