Recaps

Sasuke overwhelmed Kumogakure’s Chunin and held off its Jonin with his unfamiliar Taijutsu, prompting Killer B to warn his students against fighting him at close range. The Jonin shifted to Lightning Release attacks, but Sasuke used a fallen Jonin as a shield and prepared for the next round.

• Kumogakure’s Jonin surrounded Sasuke, but he taunted them and knocked them back whenever they tried to engage him.
• Killer B warned Karui, Samui, and Omoi to flee or avoid close combat with Sasuke, then speculated that Sasuke had invented his Taijutsu.
• The Jonin leader kept Sasuke occupied while the others retreated, but Sasuke knocked the leader down after a fierce exchange.
• Kumogakure’s Jonin launched several Lightning Release techniques at Sasuke, who hurled the fallen leader into the attacks and followed behind him to avoid them.
• Karui called Sasuke despicable, and Omoi pulled her back before Killer B struck Omoi for calling him a coward.

Sasuke defeated dozens of Kumogakure ninja with Lightning Hell to provoke Killer B into fighting him. Killer B agreed, and the two left the others behind to settle their match elsewhere.

• Sasuke used Lightning Hell to incapacitate dozens of Kumogakure ninja, then taunted Killer B and called the defeated ninja his prisoners.
• Killer B realized Sasuke had provoked the group to draw him into a fight, and Sasuke admitted he wanted to test his improved strength against him.
• Killer B agreed to fight Sasuke and left his three disciples to arrange the injured ninja’s return to the village.
• Killer B and Sasuke traveled away from the village, where Sasuke said he trusted Naruto, a fellow Jinchuriki, as a companion.
• Killer B prepared to begin by testing Sasuke’s Taijutsu.

Sasuke fought Killer B, first overpowering him in hand-to-hand combat before Killer B used a tentacle and switched to his Eight-Sword Style. Sasuke struggled on the defensive, then joined his sword and scabbard into a longer weapon to counter Killer B’s short blades.

• Sasuke attacked Killer B with thrown kunai and shuriken, then gained the advantage in a close-range Taijutsu exchange.
• Killer B used an octopus tentacle to knock Sasuke away after the Eight-Tails urged him to stop relying on his fists.
• Killer B drew seven swords and attacked with his Eight-Sword Style, forcing Sasuke to defend with War Soul and its scabbard.
• Sasuke created a spinning barrier with his sword, then joined it to the scabbard to make a longer weapon.

Sasuke fought Killer B and then the Eight-Tails, shifting from swordplay to ninjutsu as the battle escalated. Their clash of water and fire filled the sky with steam, leaving the outcome undecided while Samui, Omoi, and Karui watched from afar.

• Sasuke used his long sword to keep Killer B at a distance, but neither fighter could gain an advantage.
• Killer B summoned eight chakra tentacles to wield his swords, so Sasuke put away his weapon and switched to ninjutsu.
• Sasuke’s Great Fireball and Fire Dragon attacks were countered when the Eight-Tails took control and used Water Release.
• Sasuke attacked with a Rasengan and Thunder Wave, but the Eight-Tails blocked both and launched a torrent of black water.
• Sasuke answered with Great Fire Annihilation, and the water and flames collided in a cloud of steam visible to Samui, Omoi, and Karui.
• Omoi feared Sasuke’s strength, while Karui insisted Killer B would defeat him.

Sasuke sparred with Killer B and the Eight-Tails, pushing them to use complete Tailed Beast Transformation before conceding. He left to continue training, while Killer B returned to drill Samui and the others.

• Sasuke stopped worrying about winning and attacked Killer B with Ice Howl, Lightning Chains, and Chidori while keeping his Sharingan unused.
• The Eight-Tails broke Sasuke’s Thunderclap Seal and unleashed a spinning attack that sent him flying.
• Sasuke surrendered, and Killer B ended the spar and canceled Tailed Beast Transformation.
• Sasuke praised Killer B’s power, declined his offer to share a meal, and left with some Chakra in reserve.
• Killer B and the Eight-Tails agreed Sasuke was a formidable Konoha talent, then returned to train Samui and the others.

Sasuke went to Ye Chang Village to capture its wanted village chief, then considered finding the Three-Tails as a sparring partner. The chapter ended with Sasuke ambushing the chief in the street as his guards drew their swords.

• Sasuke reached Ye Chang Village and rented a room at an inn to clean up, treat his injuries, and eat.
• While recovering, Sasuke considered how to find a powerful sparring partner and decided the Three-Tails could serve that purpose.
• Sasuke spotted the village chief preparing to leave with four guards and approached him before he could depart.
• Sasuke appeared behind the village chief and pressed a Kunai to his neck, prompting the guards, led by a black-haired woman, to draw their swords.

Sasuke arrested the hidden wanted criminal Disonas in Ye Chang Village and searched his residence while the village and Konoha authorities were notified. Tsunade investigated how Sasuke recognized him and summoned Iruka, Sakura, and Asuma's Team to respond.

• Sasuke identified the village chief as Disonas and removed his headscarf, revealing a scar as he described Disonas's past with Orochimaru and Akatsuki.
• Disonas lost his composure and admitted he had nearly succeeded in hiding, while Cessile ordered the guards to stand down.
• Cessile agreed to report the arrest to the Joint Council, and Sasuke bound Disonas and went to search his residence.
• News reached Tonika Village, the Joint Council, and Konoha; Tonika Village's chief considered whether to scatter the controllers.
• Tsunade reviewed the message, had Shizune check the library records, and ordered Iruka, Sakura, and Asuma's Team to assemble with Disonas's wanted notice.

Tsunade questioned Iruka and Sakura about Sasuke’s studious habits, then explained why he was training outside the village and why his promotion helped protect him. She urged Sakura to grow stronger so she could keep pace with her teammates, while privately worrying that Sasuke resembled Orochimaru.

• Tsunade asked Iruka and Sakura about Sasuke’s Academy performance and habits, and both described him as an exceptional, dedicated student.
• Tsunade sent Asuma’s team to retrieve Disonas, a wanted criminal captured by Sasuke, and investigate the Sanctuary in the Land of the Western Extremities.
• Sakura asked to join the mission, but Tsunade refused and sent Asuma, his team, and Iruka away.
• Tsunade explained Sasuke’s decision to train outside Konoha, his rapid growth, and the protective purpose of his Special Jonin promotion.
• Tsunade urged Sakura to train harder and build her combat strength, and Sakura promised to do so.
• After Sakura left, Tsunade worried that Sasuke’s intelligence and eagerness to learn resembled Orochimaru’s.

Sasuke searched Disonas's house for hidden research materials and uncovered an underground chamber filled with scrolls about summoning. He found no records of Impure World Reincarnation and prepared to search Disonas's office in the village center.

• Sasuke sent four Shadow Clones to clear Disonas's house of traps before entering while another clone guarded Disonas outside.
• Sasuke found a hidden entrance in the fireplace and searched the underground chamber, which contained scrolls and books about Summoning Techniques and Summoning Animals.
• Sasuke collected and sorted the research materials, but he could not find Disonas's records on Impure World Reincarnation.
• Sasuke searched the second floor, then questioned Disonas about where he had hidden the forbidden technique's research materials.

Sasuke captured Disonas and searched for the secret behind his research, while Disonas remained silent. When Asuma arrived to take Disonas to Konoha, Sasuke explained the Sanctuary’s life-energy effects and urged the Joint Council to leave it undisturbed and divide up its controller.

• Sasuke bound Disonas with Lightning Chains and searched his home and the village chief’s office for the hidden information, but found nothing.
• Asuma arrived with a Konoha squad, and the Joint Council’s investigators confirmed Disonas’s identity and agreed to hand him over.
• Sasuke warned the investigators that the Spear of Heaven absorbed life energy and explained how it affected the barren area and the thriving Giant Pit.
• Disonas admitted he had reached the same conclusion through his research.
• Sasuke advised the Joint Council to leave the Sanctuary as it was and divide up its controller.

Sasuke briefed Asuma and the others about capturing Disonas and led them to search Disonas’s house for hidden research. They found two scrolls, and Sasuke rejected the listed Summoning Animals as too weak while offering the information to the village.

• Sasuke told Asuma that he had recognized and captured Disonas, then reported finding research on the Summoning Technique.
• Asuma and the others inspected Disonas’s house but found nothing until Shikamaru detected a hidden space behind a thick wall.
• Sasuke cut into the wall and found two scrolls, including an incomplete record of Impure World Reincarnation.
• Sasuke discovered that the second scroll listed many ordinary Summoning Animal habitats and gave it to Asuma for the village to investigate.
• Asuma said Sasuke would need to return to the village for an assessment before his next promotion, and Sasuke said training mattered more to him.

Sasuke traveled to the Land of Hot Water to search for information about the Three-Tails and learned that an uninhabited island barred by Kirigakure was home to a dangerous monster. He prepared to join a merchant caravan heading to the island in three days.

• Asuma left Tonika Village with the prisoners, scrolls, and a controller component, while the chief had also sent another component to the Land of Iron.
• Sasuke headed toward the Land of Water, stopping in the Land of Hot Water to ask about the Three-Tails.
• After hearing nothing useful in the hot spring, Sasuke learned from merchants that caravans secretly visited a forbidden island with a monster near its central lake.
• Sasuke memorized the merchants' appearances and planned to travel with their caravan when it departed in three days.
• Sasuke stocked up on food and water, bought weights totaling three thousand kilograms, and used Chakra to manage their strain while training.

Sasuke secretly traveled to an uninhabited island to find the Three-Tails and train there. After drawing the beast out of the lake, he introduced himself and asked it to become his sparring partner.

• Sasuke hid aboard a ship and spent five days studying a Summoning Technique scroll as it sailed toward the island.
• Sasuke secretly left the ship, crossed the island, and camped beside its central freshwater lake.
• A crewman told a newcomer that a huge three-tailed monster lived in the lake and warned him to stay away.
• Sasuke searched the lake, then used Water Release: Water Dragon Whirlwind to create a whirlpool and draw out the Three-Tails.
• Sasuke greeted the Three-Tails and asked it to spar with him while he trained on the island.

Sasuke negotiated with Isobu to train together in exchange for news about the other Tailed Beasts, while explaining why he wanted to rely on his own strength. He left to establish a base, with five days of sparring with Isobu agreed for each piece of news.

• Sasuke told Isobu he did not want to become his Jinchuriki because he believed true strength had to come from his own efforts.
• Sasuke persuaded Isobu to spar with him for five days in exchange for each piece of news about another Tailed Beast.
• Sasuke told Isobu that Gaara and the One-Tail seemed to be getting along better, and mentioned that he had recently sparred with the Eight-Tails.
• Sasuke introduced himself as Second Pillar, and Isobu reacted strongly when he learned Sasuke was an Uchiha.
• Sasuke explained that he had stopped relying on his eyes and valued Taijutsu, Genjutsu, Ninjutsu, spiritual strength, and physical training.
• Sasuke postponed the sparring until he had adapted to his new weights and left to find a place to set up a base.

After six months of training and fighting with the Three-Tails, Sasuke said goodbye and entered an Alternate Dimension using the Reverse Summoning Technique to seek Summoning Animals. There, he discovered an unknown energy within him was protecting him as he faced the dimension’s deadly conditions.

• Sasuke told the Three-Tails he had reached a bottleneck and was leaving to find Summoning Animals and learn sage techniques.
• The Three-Tails offered to become Sasuke’s Jinchuriki, but Sasuke refused and promised to return and save it someday.
• Sasuke revealed his Seven Tomoe Sharingan and its Kotoamatsukami ability to the Three-Tails, who was astonished.
• Sasuke packed his camp, used the Reverse Summoning Technique, and jumped into a black hole leading to an Alternate Dimension.
• Sasuke sensed spatial energy stirring inside him and saw that an unknown energy was shielding him from the dangerous dimension.

Sasuke discovered that he could move through the Alternate Dimension by swimming, then traveled through stable spaces in search of powerful Summoning Animals. After passing Mount Myoboku, Ryūchi Cave, and Shikkotsu Forest, he reached a vast mountain habitat and spotted a crowned eagle asleep on a boulder.

• Sasuke failed to use Fire Release and Water Release to move, but found that swimming carried him through the Alternate Dimension.
• Sasuke followed the wind and encountered a stable space inhabited by small, seemingly weak tigers.
• Sasuke traveled through increasingly harsh regions and found Mount Myoboku, but rejected its toads as his potential Summoning Animals.
• Sasuke passed Ryūchi Cave, Shikkotsu Forest, and several unfamiliar or mixed-species habitats as stable spaces became rarer.
• Sasuke reached a vast stable space centered on a towering mountain and spotted an enormous crowned eagle sleeping atop a hollowed-out boulder.

Sasuke reached the Eagle Clan’s territory and learned he could seek a summoning contract by climbing the mountain to meet the Eagle King. He began the climb, only to discover that Chakra would rebound from the mountainside.

• Sasuke fell into the Eagle Clan’s territory, used Kamui to slow his descent, and landed safely in the treetops.
• A young eagle told Sasuke that the Eagle Clan were Summoning Animals and that he had to climb the mountain with his bare hands to meet His Majesty the Eagle King.
• Sasuke ran for three days before finally reaching the mountain’s foot, while the young eagle checked on him and mocked his pace.
• Sasuke started climbing but found that Chakra could not stick to the mountain and instead produced a rebounding force.

Sasuke climbed Eagle Nest Mountain, earned the Eagle Clan’s respect, and signed a summoning contract. He began the journey to train in Sage Art aboard a giant war eagle.

• Sasuke climbed the mountain for a month, enduring steep cliffs and a gale-force wind near the summit.
• The Eagle King praised Sasuke’s strength and perseverance, then kept him listening to stories for three days before agreeing to the contract.
• Sasuke checked the Eagle Clan’s oath, signed the contract, and summoned a giant war eagle.
• The giant war eagle carried Sasuke away to begin Sage Art training.

Sasuke reached Eagle Nest Mountain to learn the Eagle Clan’s Sage Arts, but struggled to calm his restless thoughts enough to sense natural energy. Eagle Quick explained the origins of the Summoning Animals and their elemental techniques, leaving Sasuke with new questions about the history of the world.

• Eagle Fury brought Sasuke to the lake and explained that the Eagle Clan had no training aid for sensing natural energy, though Eagle Nest Mountain was rich in it.
• Eagle Quick arrived, introduced himself, and told Sasuke to sit calmly by the lake and sense natural energy while the other eagles watched over him.
• Sasuke tried meditating but found he could not quiet his thoughts, and he asked why the Eagle Clan lacked a tool like the toads’ Toad Oil.
• Eagle Quick said Toad Oil could cause a user to turn into a toad and claimed that other Summoning Animals had once been the eagles’ food.
• Eagle Quick explained that Summoning Animals once lived in the human world before their habitats became independent spaces, and that eagles and toads were born able to use elemental techniques.

Sasuke learned that the Eagle Clan’s Free Sage Art let practitioners replenish natural energy continuously, then began sensing nature through water. After several days of training and learning about the eagles, he planned to keep exploring different natural energies before returning to Konoha.

• Sasuke learned from the Eagle Clan how giant eagles discovered natural energy and developed Free Sage Art, which linked absorbed energy with the energy around them.
• Sasuke decided to calm his mind by sensing water and set up camp beside a lake, where Eagle Quick caught fish for him.
• Sasuke meditated in the lake overnight and began absorbing natural energy, but scales appeared on his face as fish gathered around him.
• Sasuke continued training in the water over the following days and resolved to seek other places where he could sense different forms of natural energy.
• Sasuke learned about the Eagle Clan and found that the passage between Eagle Nest Mountain and the outside world lay in the sky, while signing a contract required climbing the mountain.

After completing three years of sage training on Eagle Nest Mountain, Sasuke returned toward Konoha with Eagle Fury’s help and learned he had only three days left on his leave. As Sasuke neared home, Sakura worried over his absence, while Jiraiya and Naruto also approached the village, with Naruto eager to fight Sasuke again.

• Sasuke thanked the Eagle King, then left Eagle Nest Mountain with Eagle Fury and asked to be taken to the coastline.
• Sasuke reached the Land of Waves, learned that his leave ended in three days, and had Eagle Fury carry him toward Konoha.
• After Eagle Fury dropped him near the village, Sasuke rested and continued on foot, drawing closer to Konoha.
• Sakura worried that Sasuke had not returned or sent word, while she maintained his home and checked on the Barbecue Restaurant.
• Jiraiya and Naruto traveled toward Konoha, and Naruto said he looked forward to fighting Sasuke again.

Naruto, Jiraiya, and Sasuke returned to Konoha after years away, and Sasuke registered at the village gates before visiting a tailor for new clothes. Sakura and Naruto learned that Sasuke had returned and rushed to find him.

• Naruto and Jiraiya entered Konoha, and Izumo and Kotetsu noted that Sasuke had been missing for over a year.
• Sasuke arrived the next day, registered his return with Izumo and Kotetsu, and learned that Naruto and Jiraiya had also come back.
• Sasuke went to a tailor to have new clothes made and planned to add the Uchiha clan emblem.
• Naruto reunited with Konohamaru and Sakura, then asked whether Sasuke had returned.
• Izumo told Jiraiya, Naruto, and Sakura that Sasuke had returned, and Sakura and Naruto hurried to look for him.

Sasuke returned to Konoha and reunited with Sakura and Naruto after first stopping to buy new clothes. Tsunade arranged for Kakashi to test the three young ninja, while Sasuke privately considered how to protect Itachi’s intelligence and prevent Jiraiya’s death.

• Sakura and Naruto searched Sasuke’s house, the Barbecue Restaurant, and Ichiraku Ramen before heading to the Hokage Tower.
• Sasuke bought new clothes, then went to the Hokage Tower to cancel his leave and apologized to Sakura for making her worry.
• Tsunade asked about Naruto and Sasuke’s training and arranged for Kakashi to assess them, with Sakura included in the test.
• Temari and Shikamaru arrived at the Hokage Tower, and Kakashi came in to face Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura.

Sasuke, Naruto, and Sakura reunited with Kakashi and prepared to test Team 7’s strength against him, with Sasuke warning Sakura that Akatsuki threatened Naruto because he was a Jinchuriki. The next morning, Team 7 met Kakashi at the Third Training Ground, where the long-awaited test was about to begin.

• Tsunade announced that Kakashi’s test would determine Team 7’s future, and Kakashi scheduled their battle for the next morning.
• Shikamaru told Naruto that his former classmates had advanced in rank, while Gaara had become Kazekage; Naruto renewed his resolve to become Hokage.
• Sasuke, Naruto, and Sakura celebrated their reunion over barbecue, then Sasuke warned Sakura that Akatsuki would target Naruto and that Kakashi’s test would assess their ability to resist an attack.
• Sasuke and Sakura spent the evening together, and Sakura brought breakfast to Sasuke the next morning before they headed to the Third Training Ground.
• Sasuke and Naruto trained while waiting for Kakashi, who arrived late and led Team 7 to the three wooden posts used in their earlier test.

Kakashi tested Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura’s individual strength at the Third Training Ground, and the three Genin quickly coordinated their attacks against him. Sasuke used Water Release to control the battlefield and launched another technique after Kakashi disappeared, leaving his whereabouts unknown.

• Kakashi revealed his Three-Tomoe Sharingan and began the test, challenging the three Genin to take one bell each.
• Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura coordinated attacks, with Sakura breaking open the ground and Sasuke redirecting Naruto toward Kakashi.
• Naruto and his Shadow Clones formed a Rasengan while Sasuke and Sakura continued pressuring Kakashi.
• Kakashi retreated to the river and used Great Fireball Technique against Naruto and Sakura.
• Sasuke countered with Great Waterfall Technique, extinguishing Kakashi’s fire and sending a torrent toward him, but Kakashi vanished.
• Sasuke used Water Dragon Whirlwind to target Kakashi’s presumed hiding place underground.