Recaps

Uchiha Chisen purged the Grass Ninja and gained new power, while the great nations assembled an alliance to stop him. As Chisen prepared to face the invading force alone, Toneri approached the Great Tenseigan and the Akatsuki’s plans continued to unfold.

• Uchiha Chisen destroyed Gō with Shine Release, then collapsed under the overwhelming voices of people whose emotions began replenishing his chakra.
• Uchiha Chisen recovered and returned to the Land of Grass to continue his purges, while the Daimyo of the Lands of Earth, Wind, and Lightning rallied more than thirty thousand ninja against him.
• Yakushi Kabuto reanimated Ōnoki and sent him to attack Iwagakure, but Rōshi and Han destroyed his body with Tailed Beast Bombs.
• Otsutsuki Toneri entered the Akatsuki base, activated Tenseigan Chakra Mode, and told Obito and Black Zetsu that he would claim the Great Tenseigan.
• Black Zetsu offered Toneri the Uchiha Clan’s help with rebuilding the Shinobi World while secretly considering him as a vessel for Kaguya Otsutsuki.
• Uchiha Chisen told Tsunade he would face the allied force alone and revealed that Yahiko was dead and Nagato had made him a Rinnegan puppet.
• Tsunade left for the Five Kage Summit as the three daimyo ordered their thirty-thousand-ninja force to march on the Land of Fire in one month.

Chisen led Konoha’s preparations against the allied invasion, destroying enemy supplies and turning Osmanthus Village into a trap. After uncovering Helian’s plans, Chisen and his team intercepted enemy squads near Konoha and left Cloud Falcon wounded.

• Kimimaro gave his Byakugan to Toneri in exchange for treatment, then left Black Zetsu and Obito’s organization with Hozuki Gengetsu as Toneri set out to awaken the Tenseigan.
• As the allied forces prepared to invade, Chisen persuaded Tsunade to authorize covert strikes and led a team that destroyed a major supply depot, delaying the enemy’s advance.
• Chisen and Konoha specialists developed Chain Explosive Tags, then evacuated and rigged Osmanthus Village, where the explosions and a forest fire inflicted heavy losses on the allied forces.
• Chisen and Shino infiltrated Osmanthus Village, discovered Helian’s defenses and plans, and reported that the enemy was mapping routes and tracking records toward Konoha.
• Tsunade sent Chisen, Shikamaru, Tenzo, and Kiba to intercept enemy detachments near the broken ravine, where they ambushed the Wind Priest’s squad.
• When the Wind Priest revealed that Cloud Falcon had slipped past with another squad, Chisen and Shikamaru pursued them and forced them to retreat after a landslide alerted Konoha’s defenses.
• Chisen and Shikamaru pinned Cloud Falcon with coordinated attacks, and Chisen stabbed him in the abdomen as Konoha’s sentries signaled from behind the ridge.

Chisen uncovered Helian’s plan to exploit his bloodlines, then lured the Allied Forces into a devastating trap and killed Helian at Raincrack Basin. As the nations signed a peace treaty, Chisen and Kiba began delivering surrendered weapons reforged as farming tools.

• Chisen survived Hamura Jaku’s ambush, and Konoha discovered a tracking Brand that Helian had used to follow him.
• Chisen revealed that he had learned to control the Brand and helped mislead Helian, while Hisai and Kagura investigated its connection to the Flowing Water bloodline.
• Chisen escaped the Medical Department, freed twenty-three hostages from the Allied Forces, and proposed collapsing Raincrack Basin around their main force to end the war and draw Helian out.
• At Raincrack Basin, Chisen’s plan trapped the Allied Forces, but Helian’s sabotage prevented Chisen from escaping, and Helian revealed his intent to awaken Chisen’s Hamura and Suigetsu bloodlines.
• Chisen resisted the Ebb Tide formation and killed Helian, then Kiba, Shikamaru, and Huomen carried him from the basin as the Allied Forces began searching for survivors.
• Tsunade negotiated a treaty requiring reparations, disarmament, and the conversion of military equipment into farming tools, which the Lands of Lightning, Wind, and Earth signed.
• Chisen and Kiba delivered the forged tools to Lower and Upper Hiiragi Village, where villagers cautiously accepted them.

Chisen and his team infiltrated Kabuto’s operation and destroyed the God Tree root sustaining the White Zetsu in the Bamboo Forest. They returned to Konoha injured, and Chisen began recovering while planning to retrieve Kabuto’s remaining research records.

• Chisen discovered awakened God Tree roots beneath Pheasant Feather Valley, then learned Kabuto was directing White Zetsu attacks and had taken Lee.
• Chisen led Guy, Neji, and Tenten through an underground river to evade Kabuto’s prepared route and reach the Bamboo Forest.
• The team found hundreds of White Zetsu receiving chakra through the forest’s shared root system, while Neji traced its main root underground.
• Chisen used the Black Blade’s vibration and Guy’s punches to expose the main root as Neji and Tenten held back the White Zetsu.
• Chisen cut the exposed root and set off a blast that severed it, causing the Bamboo Forest and its White Zetsu to die.
• The injured team returned to Konoha, where Chisen, Guy, Neji, and Tenten received treatment and began recovering from their wounds and chakra loss.
• After leaving the hospital, Chisen planned to return to Pheasant Feather Valley in eight to twelve weeks for Kabuto’s remaining research records and began Guy’s rib rehabilitation.