Recaps

Shinki and Naruto accepted their dark selves at the Waterfall of Truth, then followed Killer B into the hidden ruins behind the waterfall. They reached a huge beast-head relief as Killer B led them toward the place where they could gain the Tailed Beasts’ power.

• Shinki revealed that he had accepted his dark self in less than a minute, and Naruto realized he could do the same.
• Naruto embraced his red-eyed counterpart and succeeded in the Waterfall of Truth training.
• Killer B entered the waterfall, while Might Guy tried the training stone and found that nothing happened to him.
• Shinki, Naruto, and Killer B explored the vast ruins, where Shinki questioned the headless statues and the giant beast paintings.
• Killer B led Shinki and Naruto through a doorway to a huge relief of a beast's head.

Naruto, Shinki, and the others entered the light-filled training room, where Killer B explained how Naruto could take the Nine-Tails’ Chakra. After Shinki opened Naruto’s seal, Naruto stopped him from intervening and prepared to face the Nine-Tails himself.

• Shinki used a Transformation Technique to pretend the beast had bitten off his head, tricking Might Guy before revealing the switch that opened the door.
• Killer B led Naruto, Shinki, and the others into the room of light and explained that it could imprison the Nine-Tails if Naruto failed to take its Chakra.
• Naruto entered his sealed space and greeted the Nine-Tails, who cowered when Shinki appeared.
• Shinki removed the sealing tag and turned the seal on Naruto’s abdomen, opening the gate to the Nine-Tails’ cage.
• Naruto stopped Shinki from helping him take the Nine-Tails’ Chakra and chose to handle the challenge himself.

Naruto fought the Nine-Tails to gain control of its power, but golden chakra chains from his seal restrained the beast and brought him into contact with his mother, Kushina. As Naruto reunited with her, Shinki learned that Kushina had left the chains as a safeguard and wondered why Naruto’s parents had sealed the Nine-Tails inside him.

• Naruto fought the Nine-Tails without Shinki’s help, while Shinki watched and stayed ready to intervene if Naruto was in danger.
• After Sage Mode faded, Naruto struggled against the Nine-Tails, and the beast’s attack caused unstable chakra to erupt from Naruto’s body.
• Golden chakra chains emerged from Naruto and bound the Nine-Tails, and Shinki recognized that the chakra did not belong to Naruto.
• Naruto entered a golden space, where a red-haired woman revealed herself as his mother, Kushina, and embraced him.
• The Nine-Tails told Shinki that Kushina had been its previous Jinchūriki and that she and the Fourth Hokage had split its chakra between Naruto and the late Hokage.
• Kushina listened as Naruto described his life and thanked Shinki for being his friend, then said she had never known a child named Shinki.

Shinki joined Naruto inside the golden space, where Kushina shared her memories of the Nine-Tails’ Attack and explained Minato’s reasons for sealing the beast in Naruto. The memories ended with Kushina telling Naruto she understood why Minato had believed in him.

• Shinki used the Mind Body Switch Technique to enter Naruto’s golden space and meet Kushina.
• Kushina invited Shinki to hear the truth about the Nine-Tails’ Attack and shared her memories with him and Naruto.
• Shinki and Naruto witnessed Kushina’s memories of meeting Minato, their marriage, and Naruto’s birth.
• The memories showed the Masked Man kidnapping newborn Naruto, freeing the Nine-Tails, and using it to attack Konoha.
• Minato freed the Nine-Tails from the Masked Man’s control, then sealed half its chakra inside Naruto and the other half with the Reaper Death Seal.
• Kushina told Naruto she understood Minato’s choice because Naruto had grown into an amazing Ninja.

Kushina said her final words to Naruto before disappearing, and Naruto grieved with Shinki comforting him. Meanwhile, Tsunade learned Yamato had been captured, and the Masked Man showed Kabuto the White Zetsu army he planned to use against the Allied Shinobi Forces.

• Kushina gave Naruto her final advice, told him she loved him, and disappeared as Naruto cried and said he was proud to be her child.
• Shinki comforted Naruto, and the two woke in the sealing space before confirming they had succeeded in controlling the Nine-Tails.
• Might Guy saw Naruto's Chakra cloak vanish, and Naruto told him they had succeeded.
• Tsunade learned Akatsuki had captured Yamato and ordered the Anbu to search for him and the Akatsuki base.
• The Masked Man showed Kabuto a Hashirama Senju grown from living cells and a vast army of White Zetsu beneath the base.

Kabuto Yakushi captured Anko after Tokuma Hyuga discovered the underground White Zetsu army, while the Masked Man ordered Kabuto to use Impure World Reincarnation to keep the base secret. As the Allied Shinobi Forces assembled, Shinki began drawing Chakra from his sealed Tailed Beasts and found that they offered it willingly.

• Tokuma Hyuga used his Byakugan to discover an army of White Zetsu beneath the ruins, and Anko sent him and another Ninja to report back.
• Kabuto Yakushi ambushed Anko, captured her, and persuaded the Masked Man to spare her for research and as a possible Impure World Reincarnation sacrifice.
• The Masked Man suspected Kabuto was using their alliance for his own ends but kept him alive because he needed Impure World Reincarnation.
• Tsunade led Konoha's main force toward Kumogakure as the Five Great Shinobi Villages assembled, while Konohamaru stayed behind to guard the village.
• Shinki began taking Chakra from the three sealed Tailed Beasts, and Naruto learned that they were offering it to him willingly.

Killer B taught Naruto and Shinki to use Tailed Beast Transformation and the Tailed Beast Bomb. Naruto transformed into a tiny fox, while Shinki’s combined transformation became a bizarre patchwork beast; Shinki then fired a Tailed Beast Bomb from his human form and destroyed the training room and the surrounding area.

• Killer B led Naruto and Shinki to a training room and explained how to transform into a Tailed Beast and use a Tailed Beast Bomb.
• Naruto attempted the transformation but became a fox that looked like a mouse, and Killer B said he and the Nine-Tails were not truly united yet.
• Shinki transformed using Chakra from all three Tailed Beasts and became a grotesque patchwork creature before quickly changing back.
• Shinki formed a cloak of intertwined Tailed Beast Chakra and asked Killer B how to make a Tailed Beast Bomb.
• Shinki gathered and compressed Chakra in his mouth, then accidentally released a blast that demolished the room and leveled the nearby forest, earth, and rocks.

Shinki accidentally damaged Turtle Island while testing his Tailed Beast Bomb, then froze the sea and began treating the giant tortoise. Meanwhile, Kabuto and Deidara tried to find Shinki, but a mysterious beam destroyed them, and tensions flared as the five villages reorganized their ninja in Kumogakure.

• Killer B told Shinki that destroying the historic Ruins and part of Turtle Island could cost him five billion, while Kumogakure Ninja arrived to inspect the damage.
• Turtle Island shook as the giant tortoise cried out, and Shinki saw that his blast had damaged the edge of its shell.
• Shinki froze the surrounding sea with Ice Release to restrain the tortoise and began healing it.
• Kabuto told Deidara that Shinki had survived Deidara's explosion and had defeated Pain and flattened Amegakure, but Deidara agreed to help search for him anyway.
• A blazing white beam struck Kabuto and Deidara over the sea, crushing their bodies; Kabuto later wondered whether Shinki had sensed them, while Deidara regenerated and set off to find the beam's user.
• Ninja from the five villages argued over their assignments in Kumogakure, blaming one another for past betrayals and the Akatsuki's origins.

Gaara rallied the Allied Shinobi Forces as the Kage debated their plans and Madara’s threat. On Turtle Island, Shinki completed his Tailed Beast Bomb training, helped Naruto adapt the Rasengan, and began combining three Tailed Beasts’ chakra with both Sage Modes.

• Gaara used sand to stop the allied ninja from fighting and rallied them with a speech as commander of the Allied Shinobi Forces.
• Tsunade proposed sending out the Surprise Attack Division to strike Akatsuki spies while sensory ninja searched for Akatsuki’s headquarters.
• The Kage discussed Madara Uchiha’s strength and whether he could defeat Shinki.
• Shinki healed the giant turtle and gave him a crystal shell, then completed his Tailed Beast Bomb training.
• Shinki told Naruto to form a Rasengan with tailed beast chakra; Naruto’s chakra burst apart, and Killer B identified the need to adjust its yin-to-yang ratio.
• Shinki balanced Mount Myōboku Sage Mode with Ryūchi Cave Sage Mode, then released the chakra of three Tailed Beasts into a red cloak.

Shinki encountered Deidara, who had been revived through Impure World Reincarnation, and tested ways to overcome his regenerative body. He developed the Sealing of No Rebirth, which sent Deidara’s soul into the Death God and left Shinki with a method to defeat the revived Ninja.

• Deidara flew to a crystal-covered island and recognized Shinki, who identified the Impure World Reincarnation and Kabuto’s role in bringing him back.
• Shinki restrained Deidara with Wood Release and stopped the Chakra in his body from flowing before Deidara could blow himself up.
• Shinki repeatedly destroyed and examined Deidara’s regenerating body, then concluded that Sealing Jutsu was the best way to defeat the revived Ninja.
• Shinki developed the Sealing of No Rebirth, summoned the Death God, and sent Deidara’s soul inside it.
• The Death God left with Deidara’s soul and an unfortunate little rabbit.

Kabuto used Impure World Reincarnation to send an army of conscious but controlled Ninja after Tokuma Hyuga and Aburame Muta, who were fleeing with knowledge of the Akatsuki base. Zabuza encountered them and reunited with the reincarnated Haku, while Kakashi’s Third Division approached the scene.

• Shinki reflected on how his improved sealing technique used the Death God and considered finding a way to recover souls trapped in its stomach.
• Kabuto realized Shinki had located the Akatsuki’s hiding place, while the Raikage ordered the allied Ninja divisions to attack Akatsuki forces and search for its headquarters.
• Tokuma Hyuga and Aburame Muta fled from the tireless reincarnated Ninja, among whom Haku discussed being brought back and wondered whether Zabuza had survived.
• Zabuza stopped Tokuma and Aburame, recognized Haku, and learned that Haku could not control his body.
• Kabuto watched the reunion from the Akatsuki base, and Zabuza raised his sword and demanded to know who controlled Haku.
• Kakashi, leading the Third Division several hundred meters away, noticed the group and found them familiar.

Kabuto and the Masked Man discussed the Allied Shinobi Forces and planned their next moves while Zabuza fought reincarnated ninja to protect Tokuma Hyuga and Aburame Muta. Defeated and facing death at Haku’s hands, Zabuza heard a familiar voice telling him to get up and look at Haku one last time.

• Kabuto told the Masked Man that Shinki and Naruto were hidden on a moving island at sea, then proposed attacking the Allied Shinobi Forces from three directions.
• The Masked Man decided to use Kabuto’s reincarnated former Kage to weaken the Allied Shinobi Forces, and Kabuto said he had already sent them out.
• Haku and the other reincarnated ninja attacked Zabuza, Tokuma Hyuga, and Aburame Muta, but Zabuza blocked Haku and urged the two shinobi to escape with their intelligence.
• Zabuza fought the reincarnated ninja alone and was defeated, while Tokuma and Muta escaped.
• Zabuza asked to die by Haku’s hand, and as Haku approached with a kunai, a familiar voice urged Zabuza to get up and look at Haku.

Zabuza and Haku broke free of Impure World Reincarnation through Haku’s will, while Shinki brought the Allied Shinobi Forces a new sealing method for reincarnated Ninja. He introduced Netherworld Sealing, a scroll-based technique that could send their souls to the Netherworld without hand signs, though it had not yet been tested in combat.

• Haku regained control of his body, stabbed himself instead of Zabuza, and vanished as Zabuza returned to battle.
• Kabuto learned that the Third Division was fighting Impure World Reincarnation Ninja and concluded that only a few could break the technique through willpower.
• Ao and Inoichi Yamanaka reported the Third Division’s battle to the Allied Shinobi Forces leaders, who discussed restraining and sealing the immortal Ninja.
• Shinki arrived at Kumogakure’s headquarters and told the leaders that Akatsuki had found Turtle Island and that he had encountered Deidara there.
• Shinki revealed Netherworld Sealing, a scroll technique that dragged an Impure World Reincarnation Ninja’s soul into the Netherworld when its inscriptions made contact, and said he had developed it in about half a day.

Shinki's Netherworld Sealing Jutsu successfully sealed an Impure World Reincarnation Ninja, and he explained why each scroll burned after use. He then agreed to teach the technique to Allied Shinobi Forces sealing Ninja, though his students struggled to follow his complex instructions.

• The Raikage ordered Mabui to use her Heavenly Transfer Technique to send Shinki's sealing scroll to Kakashi's battlefield.
• Kakashi used the scroll to seal an Explosion Release Ninja's soul, and the scroll caught fire after the sealing was complete.
• Shinki explained that the scroll's unique Curse Mark prevented the sealed Ninja from being summoned again and that the scroll burned to keep it from being reused.
• Shinki offered to teach Netherworld Sealing to the sealing Ninja at headquarters, and the Raikage summoned the Fourth Division's specialists.
• After half a day of instruction, Shinki grew frustrated as the sealing Ninja struggled with the Curse Mark formulas, then began explaining the lesson again.

Shinki left the sealing ninja to learn Netherworld Sealing and returned to Turtle Island, where he discovered Naruto’s training lapses were connected to visions of people with Nine-Tails Chakra. Killer B’s account of Kinkaku and Ginkaku led Shinki to suspect they had been revived, leaving him and Killer B concerned about the Allied Shinobi Forces facing the brothers and their Sage of Six Paths tools.

• Shinki returned to his vacation after instructing the sealing ninja, and Tsunade found the formulas on the classroom blackboard far beyond what they could readily understand.
• Shinki learned that Naruto kept losing focus while forming a Tailed Beast Bomb Rasengan and heard Naruto describe sensing someone borrowing his Chakra and seeing flashes of people with Nine-Tails Chakra.
• Killer B told Shinki that Kinkaku and Ginkaku had survived inside the Nine-Tails by eating its flesh and gained its Chakra.
• Killer B explained that Kinkaku and Ginkaku had killed Kumogakure’s Second Raikage during peace talks and later died fighting Konoha’s Second Hokage.
• Shinki suspected Kinkaku and Ginkaku had been revived with Impure World Reincarnation Jutsu, and Killer B warned that they possessed the Sage of Six Paths’ treasured tools.

The Allied Forces received reports of Akatsuki attacks on three fronts and planned reinforcements while keeping the Fourth Battle Division at headquarters. On Turtle Island, Naruto learned that its location had been exposed, but Killer B still did not know how to move it.

• The Allied Forces leaders agreed to move Turtle Island to the coast near headquarters, then learned that white creatures and two enormous Chakra signatures were attacking the Land of Lightning’s border.
• Inoichi Yamanaka reported that the Fourth Kazekage, Second Mizukage, Third Raikage, Danzo, and likely the Second Tsuchikage had been revived at the Land of Iron; the Tsuchikage flew there to assist.
• Ao and Inoichi reported further activity at the Land of Rain, including Tokuma Hyuga and Aburame Muta finding Akatsuki’s base, as Tsunade outlined the three battlefronts.
• The Raikage kept the Fourth Battle Division at headquarters, sent the Fifth Battle Division to aid the Third, and ordered the Surprise Attack Division to target Akatsuki’s headquarters.
• A Kumogakure ninja told Naruto and Killer B that Turtle Island’s location had been exposed and headquarters wanted it moved off Kumogakure; Killer B asked how they were supposed to move it.

Shinki moved Turtle Island to its assigned location while the Allied Shinobi Forces confronted White Zetsu and revived dead shinobi across several fronts. Mifune faced Hanzo of the Salamander in the Land of Rain.

• Shinki agreed to move Turtle Island, lifted it with the Ultra-Light-Weight Rock Technique, and carried it across the Land of Lightning's waters.
• Darui led the First Combat Division to a battle against White Zetsu and revived shinobi, including Kakuzu and other familiar figures.
• Mu, Gengetsu Hozuki, Danzo, and Rasa discussed their revival as the Second Combat Division approached, and the Third Raikage charged at the Allied forces under the summoner's control.
• Mifune led the Fifth Combat Division toward the Third Combat Division's position, but Hanzo blocked their route.
• Mifune drew his sword and identified the revived opponent as Hanzo of the Salamander.

The Akatsuki planned to force Shinki out of hiding by attacking with the White Zetsu army, while the Allied Shinobi Forces struggled against the Impure World Reincarnation forces. At the coastal battlefield, Darui and other Kumogakure Ninja faced Kinkaku and Ginkaku, who revealed four of the Sage of Six Paths' treasured tools and attacked with the Banana Palm Fan.

• The Masked Man learned that the Allied Shinobi Forces had developed a Sealing Jutsu for Impure World Reincarnation and ordered Kisame and Konan to set out as the White Zetsu army prepared to fight.
• At Allied Shinobi Forces headquarters, the Raikage and Tsunade argued over the war and Shinki's absence, while Inoichi Yamanaka reported that the Daimyo were safe.
• On the coastal battlefield, Dan Katō met Akimichi Chōza and regretted being resurrected as an enemy of the Allied Shinobi Forces.
• Darui and other Kumogakure Ninja encountered Kinkaku and Ginkaku, who produced the Kohaku no Jōhei, Seven Star Sword, Benihisago, and Banana Palm Fan.
• Kinkaku and Ginkaku attacked, and Ginkaku used the Banana Palm Fan to unleash a powerful burst of flame.

While Shinki studied how to free Minato’s soul from the Death God, Kisame attacked Konoha during the war. Shinki arrived in time to protect Konohamaru, as Konohamaru prepared a Rasenshuriken against Kisame.

• Shinki told Naruto he was trying to find a way to free Naruto’s father from the Death God without sacrificing a life, and Naruto thanked him.
• Kisame entered Konoha while its main forces were away and demanded that Konohamaru take him to the person controlling the giant steel fortress.
• Konohamaru attacked Kisame with a Rasengan, but Samehada swallowed it and Kisame sent him crashing through a wall.
• Shinki appeared beside the injured Konohamaru and blocked Kisame’s strike with a Crystal Shield.
• Konohamaru formed a Wind Release: Rasenshuriken and warned everyone to get out of the way.

Shinki captured Kisame after Konohamaru’s Rasenshuriken destroyed Teuchi’s noodle shop, then began using the Reverse Dead Demon Consuming Seal to retrieve the Fourth Hokage. The Death God appeared, and Shinki offered it the prepared animals in exchange for the Fourth’s soul.

• Shinki teleported Udon, Teuchi, and the others away before Konohamaru’s Rasenshuriken struck Kisame and reduced the restaurant to a crater.
• Shinki scolded Konohamaru, kept the unconscious Kisame alive for questioning, and rebuilt Teuchi’s shop with Wood Release.
• Shinki made Konohamaru accept money as a loan to cover the shop’s other losses, then took Kisame to a secret chamber.
• Shinki prepared sacrifices and the Fourth Hokage’s bodily tissue, then performed the Reverse Dead Demon Consuming Seal.
• The Death God appeared, and Shinki offered it the animals in exchange for the Fourth Hokage.

Shinki forced the Shinigami to release the Fourth Hokage’s soul, then considered using Kisame for Impure World Reincarnation. At the Daimyo Palace, Konan and Zetsu attacked the guarded residence, where Jiraiya and allied ninja stood in their way.

• Shinki persuaded the Death God to release the Fourth Hokage’s soul, and the Death God vanished after threatening him with a glare.
• Shinki considered sacrificing Kisame to test whether he could revive the Fourth Hokage, then decided to send Kisame to headquarters instead.
• The daimyo played games inside the Land of Fire’s palace while Jiraiya’s attendant assured them that Jiraiya had stopped an attack.
• The Daimyo of the Land of Fire told the other daimyo that he trusted Shinki, Jiraiya’s disciple.
• Jiraiya confronted Konan and Zetsu outside the residence, and Konan refused to let her former master stop the Akatsuki.
• Konan took to the air as Zetsu sank into the ground and unleashed Wood Release vines against Jiraiya and the allied ninja.

While treating wounded shinobi on the Land of Lightning battlefield, Ino met Yugito Nii, who confessed that she liked Shinki, and later turned down a Kumogakure shinobi who asked her out. Ino reaffirmed her feelings for Shinki as he prepared to leave Konoha with Kisame and wondered who was thinking of him.

• Ino and Sakura Haruno treated the wounded, and Yugito Nii revealed that she liked Shinki and asked Ino to pass along her message.
• That night, Sakura Haruno comforted Ino about her feelings for Shinki and admitted that she was still waiting for Sasuke.
• A Kumogakure shinobi brought Ino a love letter, but she rejected him because her heart belonged to someone else.
• Ino privately declared that she would always like Shinki, who sneezed repeatedly while preparing to leave Konoha with Kisame.

Shinki brought Kisame, whom he had captured in Konoha, to Allied Shinobi Forces headquarters and revealed that he had freed the Fourth Hokage’s soul from the Shinigami. After returning to Turtle Island, he asked Naruto to help him find a place to forge a weapon with special properties.

• Shinki delivered Kisame to Tsunade at headquarters and explained that Konoha was safe.
• Shinki told the Raikage and Tsunade that he had retrieved the Fourth Hokage’s soul by trading animal souls with the Shinigami.
• Inoichi Yamanaka reported Akatsuki’s attempted attack on the Daimyo and the First Combat Division’s request for the Amber Purifying Pot.
• Shinki inspected the Amber Purifying Pot, found it disappointing, and returned to Turtle Island.
• Shinki told Naruto that he had freed the Fourth Hokage’s soul, then asked him to find a place to forge a weapon.
• Naruto went to gather Shinki’s requested materials while Shinki considered storing Chakra in the weapon or inscribing it with a Sealing Formula.

Kitsuchi and the Second Division used Shinki’s Netherworld Sealing Scroll to defeat the resurrected Kage and Danzo on the desert battlefield in the Land of Iron. Only Second Tsuchikage Mu remained, facing Ōnoki in the sky.

• Kitsuchi used the Netherworld Sealing Scroll to pull the Third Raikage’s soul from his Reanimated Body, destroying it.
• Kitsuchi distributed the remaining scrolls, and the Second Division sealed the Second Mizukage and Fourth Kazekage.
• A Konoha Ninja explained to Danzo that Shinki had developed the scroll, then sealed Danzo with one.
• Ōnoki told Mu that the Shinobi World would keep improving before preparing to send his former master back to the Underworld.

Ōnoki and the Allied Shinobi Forces battled the Second Tsuchikage, while Kabuto summoned Madara Uchiha to the battlefield. Madara overwhelmed the Second Division with his attacks and left them facing a massive meteorite overhead.

• Ōnoki and Kitsuchi trapped one half of Mu with Earth Release, and nearby Ninja sealed it while the other half escaped.
• Kabuto released the Impure World Reincarnation coffin, and the Second Tsuchikage summoned Madara Uchiha.
• Madara learned that Hashirama had not been resurrected and charged into battle against the Allied Shinobi Forces.
• Madara attacked thousands of Ninja with taijutsu and Fire Style: Majestic Destroyer Flame, forcing the Allied forces to counter with Water Release.
• A Ninja spotted a meteorite covering almost the entire battlefield above the Second Division.