Recaps

As the Uchiha Clan prepared to stage a coup, Itachi learned that Danzo planned to crush the clan and chose to join forces with the masked Obito to massacre it himself. The operation began, with Itachi accepting that he would join Obito’s Akatsuki afterward.

• Fugaku ordered the Uchiha to capture the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki and use him to spark a riot that night.
• Itachi informed Hiruzen and Danzo that the Uchiha planned a coup, but Hiruzen favored negotiation while Danzo urged an immediate strike.
• Danzo privately gave Itachi the choice of joining the rebellion or helping slaughter the Uchiha to protect Konoha and spare Sasuke.
• Itachi sought out masked Obito and agreed to join the Akatsuki in exchange for Obito’s help.
• Obito and Itachi began the operation to annihilate the Uchiha Clan.

Uchiha Itachi massacred the Uchiha Clan, killed his parents, and forced Sasuke to witness the slaughter through Tsukuyomi before Sasuke awakened a One-Tomoe Sharingan. After the events were shown, Hiruzen Sarutobi detained Danzo and promised the Uchiha Clan it would be safe if it abandoned its coup, while Mei Terumi and Rin wondered whether they recognized the masked man.

• Uchiha Itachi killed Uchiha Clan civilians and confronted a Shadow Clone of Uchiha Fugaku, who showed him the future he had foreseen.
• Uchiha Itachi returned home and killed Uchiha Fugaku and Uchiha Mikoto after Fugaku asked him to protect Sasuke.
• Sasuke found his parents dead, and Uchiha Itachi used Tsukuyomi to make him relive the clan's slaughter and urged him to grow strong enough to kill his brother.
• Sasuke awakened a One-Tomoe Sharingan and collapsed from exhaustion.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi ordered the Anbu to detain Danzo and promised the Uchiha Clan that Konoha would not target them if they abandoned their coup.
• Mei Terumi and Rin both said the masked man looked familiar.

Tsunade returned to Konoha and was welcomed by villagers who admired her reputation and medical corps proposal. When Obito, Kakashi, and Rin came to see her, Obito called her an auntie and earned a painful blow.

• Fugaku decided to stop hiding his Mangekyō and use it to deter the village from acting against the Uchiha Clan.
• Tsunade and Shizune arrived at Konoha, where villagers gathered to welcome Tsunade back.
• Hiruzen learned of Tsunade’s return and hoped she could help shoulder the village’s pressures as he considered stepping down.
• Rin brought Obito and Kakashi to see Tsunade, and Obito blushed when he noticed her figure.
• Kakashi explained that Tsunade’s youthful appearance came from her Ninjutsu, prompting Obito to call her an auntie.
• Tsunade struck Obito for the insult, and he ended up with another large bump on his head.

Tsunade returned to Konoha to gather gold coins for resurrecting Nawaki and borrowed twenty thousand from Orochimaru, then joined him for a meal with Minato, Kushina, and the children. The Shinobi World ranking revealed Jiraiya as the fifteenth Kage-level combatant and introduced him as the Toad Sage and Heroic Sage.

• Tsunade asked Hiruzen Sarutobi for gold coins, but he refused to give her any.
• Tsunade visited Orochimaru and borrowed the twenty thousand gold coins he had left.
• Tsunade took Orochimaru to a grilled meat restaurant, where they ran into Minato Namikaze, Kushina, Obito, Kakashi, and Rin.
• Tsunade joined Kushina and the others for a meal and drinks, bringing Orochimaru along.
• The Shinobi World ranking named Jiraiya as the fifteenth Kage-level combatant and called him the Toad Sage and Heroic Sage.

Jiraiya infiltrated Amegakure to investigate Pain, unaware that Nagato had already detected him. While seeking information at a club, he learned that Hanzō had been killed and that Pain’s rain could reveal anyone’s location and activities.

• Jiraiya entered Amegakure and began looking for information about Pain, not knowing Nagato’s rain had detected his powerful Chakra.
• Nagato noticed that someone had blocked his rain and asked Konan what was happening.
• Jiraiya went to a local club and requested Shukō, a hostess who resembled Tsunade, drawing criticism from Tsunade and others watching the footage.
• Jiraiya asked Shukō about Hanzō, and she warned him not to mention the name because Lord Pain had killed Hanzō and used the rain to monitor the village.

Jiraiya infiltrated Amegakure to investigate Pain and fought Konan, discovering that Pain was likely either Yahiko or Nagato. Konan defended her choices and Akatsuki’s actions, and an unfamiliar man appeared as Jiraiya tried to persuade her.

• Tsunade feared that Jiraiya would die while investigating Pain in Amegakure.
• Jiraiya disguised himself to infiltrate Amegakure’s tallest building, where Konan attacked him.
• Jiraiya used oil and his white hair to restrain Konan, then deduced that Pain was probably Yahiko or Nagato.
• Konan told Jiraiya that she and the others had chosen to follow Pain’s ideas, while Jiraiya insisted that Akatsuki’s actions were wrong.
• An unfamiliar man appeared and told Jiraiya that Akatsuki had arrived at its answer on its own.

Jiraiya confronted Pain in Amegakure, believing him to be Nagato, and tried to learn what had changed his former student. The Animal Path explained that Akatsuki planned to use the Tailed Beasts to create a weapon capable of destroying a great nation, while the others reacted to the revelation.

• Jiraiya questioned Nagato about his past and asked where Yahiko was, while the Animal Path dismissed Yahiko as someone who had died long ago.
• The Animal Path summoned a giant crab that washed the Toad Oil off Konan, allowing her to escape Jiraiya’s restraints.
• Jiraiya bound the crab with his Wild Lion's Mane Technique, then restrained the Animal Path and pressed him for answers.
• The Animal Path claimed that pain had made him a god and that he intended to end war by creating a forbidden weapon from the sealed Tailed Beasts.
• The Fourth Raikage warned against harming Killer B, while Yahiko and Obito questioned Akatsuki’s plan and Obito was struck for mentioning the Sharingan.

Jiraiya clashed with Nagato’s Animal Path, summoning Gamaken and preparing to enter Sage Mode while Nagato used a chameleon summon to hide. Jiraiya spread a detection barrier to locate the invisible opponent, leaving the fight poised to continue.

• Nagato escaped Jiraiya’s Wild Lion’s Mane Technique on a summoned beast, and Jiraiya summoned Gamaken in response.
• Jiraiya began entering Sage Mode and asked Gamaken to hold off Nagato while he summoned the two great sages.
• The Animal Path vanished with its chameleon summon, whose camouflage made it difficult to see but did not prevent it from being sensed.
• Jiraiya formed hand seals and spread a large barrier that could detect anyone caught within it.

Jiraiya and Gamaken fought Nagato’s endlessly splitting summoning hounds, but the battle exhausted Gamaken and left him unable to continue. Jiraiya was still surrounded by the hounds as the chapter ended.

• Nagato summoned a three-headed hound to attack Jiraiya, and Gamaken pinned it against a wall with his weapon.
• The hound split into multiple dogs that regenerated and multiplied whenever Gamaken struck them.
• Gamaken led the hounds toward a narrow alley, where Jiraiya trapped them and detected an attack from above.
• Jiraiya and Gamaken tried to escape the swarm, but the relentless hounds wore Gamaken down until he collapsed.

Jiraiya used the Rock Lodging Toad to swallow Nagato’s summoned dogs and lure Nagato into revealing himself, then fought him with summons and Shadow Clones. The battle ended with Nagato’s summoned rhinoceros charging at what proved to be another clone, while Jiraiya’s true position remained unknown.

• Jiraiya summoned the Rock Lodging Toad, which swallowed Nagato’s summoned dogs and hid Jiraiya inside its stomach.
• Jiraiya drew Nagato out of hiding and attacked the Animal Path, but Nagato used a Shadow Clone and another summoning to counter him.
• Gamaken blocked an attack for Jiraiya as Nagato’s summoned bird dropped explosive eggs, forcing Jiraiya to flee into a pipe.
• Jiraiya’s apparent escape turned out to be a Shadow Clone, and his Fire Style destroyed the summoned bird.
• Nagato sent a giant rhinoceros charging at Jiraiya, but that target also vanished as a Shadow Clone, prompting others to debate the tactic.

Jiraiya entered Sage Mode and summoned Sage Fukasaku and Sage Shima to help him locate the invisible Nagato. The sages learned that Nagato was Jiraiya’s former disciple and the Child of Prophecy, while Nagato and Obito considered how Jiraiya’s Sage Mode changed the odds of battle.

• Jiraiya sent Gamaken away and knocked Nagato’s yak summoning beast flying after completing Sage Mode.
• Jiraiya summoned Sage Fukasaku and Sage Shima, who asked about the Rinnegan and searched for the hidden Nagato.
• Jiraiya explained that Nagato was concealed inside a transparent summoning animal, and Sage Fukasaku sensed someone nearby.
• Jiraiya recalled the Great Toad Sage’s prophecy, and Sage Fukasaku concluded that they would have to kill Nagato if he had chosen the wrong path.
• Nagato doubted he could defeat Sage Mode Jiraiya, while Obito weighed whether his Kamui and Uchiha Gunbai could protect him from Jiraiya’s senjutsu.

Jiraiya fought Nagato’s Six Paths in Sage Mode and discovered that their shared vision made his attacks easy to evade. The chapter left him realizing the three Rinnegan users could see through one another’s eyes.

• Sage Shima exposed Nagato, and the Animal Path summoned the Human Path and Preta Path, revealing three Rinnegan users on the battlefield.
• Rasa and Ōnoki were shocked by the Rinnegan, while Orochimaru grew curious about Nagato’s eyes and learned from Obito that Yahiko had invited him to join the Akatsuki.
• Jiraiya attacked the Human Path and Preta Path, but the Preta Path absorbed his Ninjutsu, including Sage Art: Goemon and Ultra-Big Ball Rasengan.
• Sage Fukasaku helped Jiraiya use smoke and a toad to create openings, but the Human Path caught Jiraiya’s attack and the Paths dodged his strikes.
• Jiraiya noticed that the three Paths shared the same eyes and realized they could share what each of them saw.

Jiraiya tried to learn Pain’s weaknesses and escape Amegakure, while Tsunade worried about his mission in Konoha. He trapped three of Pain’s bodies with sound-based Genjutsu, but another Pain ambushed him, tearing off his right arm and revealing that six bodies were involved.

• Jiraiya retreated from the three Pains and searched for a way to defeat them while gathering information for Konoha.
• Tsunade watched the rain in the Hokage’s office and feared Jiraiya would not return from Amegakure.
• Jiraiya realized Sage Shima and Sage Fukasaku could use sound-based Genjutsu to counter the Rinnegan’s defenses.
• Sage Shima and Sage Fukasaku trapped the Animal Path, Human Path, and Preta Path in a Genjutsu, and Jiraiya struck the Animal Path with a sword.
• Another Pain ambushed Jiraiya from behind, tore off his right arm, and revealed that the Six Paths of Pain had arrived.

Jiraiya fought the six Pains, discovered that their bodies were not Nagato, and returned to confront them despite his injuries. The Pains overwhelmed him, leaving him dying with the knowledge of their identities still unrevealed to Konoha.

• Nagato explained that Pain was the collective name for the six bodies, and Jiraiya fought them while questioning why Yahiko had Nagato’s eyes.
• Jiraiya lured the Animal Path into a barrier and defeated him with Sage Shima’s help, realizing that Pain’s bodies were not Nagato.
• Jiraiya insisted on returning to identify the remaining Pains and sent Sage Fukasaku and Sage Shima away with the corpse and his intelligence.
• The remaining Pains surrounded Jiraiya, and the Asura Path seized him by the throat before the others stabbed him with iron rods.
• Jiraiya lost Sage Mode and consciousness while struggling to send Pain’s identity back to Konoha, as Tsunade reflected on her feelings for him.

Jiraiya reflected on his failures as he sank beneath the sea, but Minato’s memories of Jiraiya’s novel led him to recognize Naruto as the Child of Prophecy. Jiraiya accepted his fate and named his next story Naruto Uzumaki’s Tale.

• Jiraiya lamented that he had failed to protect his loved ones, stop the Akatsuki, and fulfill the Great Toad Sage’s prophecy.
• Yahiko and Nagato expressed their respect for Jiraiya, while Jiraiya blamed himself for failing to guide Nagato.
• Minato recalled asking Jiraiya to use the name Naruto for his future child, and Kushina and the others realized Naruto was Minato and Kushina’s son.
• Obito told Kushina that he had met Naruto in the instance, and Orochimaru described Naruto’s poor condition and blamed Hiruzen Sarutobi for it.
• Jiraiya remembered Naruto and declared him the Child of Prophecy before sinking into the sea and deciding to title his new story Naruto Uzumaki’s Tale.

Jiraiya returned to Konoha as the inventory revealed the Third Raikage’s legendary strength and his death fighting Iwagakure. The screen then showed a future joint army of the Five Great Shinobi Villages, leaving the villages wondering what enemy had united them.

• Jiraiya returned to Konoha, and Hiruzen Sarutobi hoped he would help handle village affairs and persuade Minato and Kushina.
• The inventory named the Third Raikage A as a top Kage-level fighter, prompting the Fourth Raikage and Ōnoki to discuss his death after holding off Iwagakure’s forces.
• The inventory showed that Kabuto Yakushi later revived the Third Raikage with Impure World Reincarnation, angering the Fourth Raikage and other village leaders.
• The screen displayed a future joint army assembled from the Five Great Shinobi Villages, with Darui, Kitsuchi, Kakashi Hatake, Gaara, and Mifune commanding divisions.
• Hanzō identified Mifune as a samurai, and Kakuzu mocked Hanzō before he could boast.

The chapter recalled how Hanzō once spared Mifune after their duel, then showed the Allied Shinobi Forces’ division captains assembling under commander-in-chief Gaara. The gathered ninja marveled at the united villages, while Obito wondered why he was absent from the lineup.

• Hanzō recalled defeating Mifune, admiring his conviction, and giving him an antidote in exchange for sparing his comrades.
• The chapter described how Hanzō later lost his conviction after Nagato defeated him and he became afraid of death.
• Shikamaru introduced Darui, Kitsuchi, Kakashi, and Mifune as division captains of the Allied Shinobi Forces.
• Gaara appeared as commander-in-chief and captain of the Third Division, prompting Obito and Yahiko to question how someone so young had become a Kage.
• Obito praised the united shinobi forces and wondered why Kakashi was a captain while he himself was nowhere to be seen.

Gaara and Ōnoki faced an Impure World Reincarnation vanguard led by the Third Raikage, Second Tsuchikage Mu, Second Mizukage Hozuki Gengetsu, and Rasa. Rasa clashed with Gaara’s sand using Gold Dust, and the chapter left them evenly matched as Rasa insisted he would defeat the young Kazekage.

• Gaara led the Allied Shinobi Forces across the desert while Ōnoki proposed confronting the approaching enemy from a distance.
• The Third Raikage, Mu, Hozuki Gengetsu, and Rasa discussed their reluctance to fight shinobi from their own villages, though the Third Raikage trusted that his village’s younger generation had surpassed him.
• Mu spotted two opponents approaching, and the Kage saw a huge wave of sand surging toward them.
• Rasa summoned Gold Dust to collide with Gaara’s sand, and the attacks initially matched each other.
• Rasa explained that Gold Dust’s weight had slowed Gaara’s sand, then boasted that he would capture the Fifth Kazekage.

Gaara confronted his reanimated father, Rasa, while Ōnoki faced his former master Mū and the Allied Shinobi Forces prepared to attack. After Gaara and Rasa discussed their past, Gaara trapped the Kage in a sealing jutsu as the battle resumed.

• Gaara restrained Mū with sand, but Mū and Ōnoki countered each other with Dust Release while Rasa freed the Kage from the sand.
• Temari stopped the Third Division from rushing into the fight, and Ōnoki struggled with his age as Akatsuchi supported him.
• Gaara told Rasa that Shukaku had been extracted, that he had died and been revived, and that he no longer hated his father.
• The Second Mizukage criticized Rasa as a father, while the Third Raikage praised Gaara as a capable ninja.
• Kabuto ordered Mū to attack, and Gaara trapped the Kage with sand mixed with sealing tags.

Temari’s squad used a massive collective Wind Release attack against the Third Raikage, but he recovered instantly and defeated the sealing team. Dodai recognized his former partner and explained the limits of Wind Release against him, leaving Temari to consider how the Third Raikage had died.

• Temari ordered more than a hundred Wind Release shinobi to attack the Third Raikage with a collective technique.
• The Third Raikage survived the attack without lasting injury and knocked away two shinobi from the Sealing Squad.
• Dodai stepped forward, and the Third Raikage recognized his former partner.
• Dodai explained that only Wind Release could hit the Third Raikage, but that ordinary attacks lacked the power to kill him.
• Temari wondered how the Third Raikage had died, and Dodai recalled that he had fought ten thousand Land of Earth shinobi for three days and nights before dying of exhaustion.

Naruto joined the Allied Shinobi Forces and used a Wind Release: Rasengan to knock the Third Raikage down, but the reanimated Raikage rose again and attacked with Hell Stab: Four-Finger Nukite. Dodai and Naruto escaped the attack, while the shinobi who charged the Raikage were killed.

• Naruto arrived on the battlefield in Nine-Tails Chakra Mode and struck the Third Raikage with a Wind Release: Rasengan.
• Temari ordered the Sealing Squad to seal the fallen Raikage, but he tore free and stood back up.
• Dodai warned that the Third Raikage was being controlled and ordered the shinobi to defend themselves behind layered Earth Release walls.
• Dodai explained that the Raikage was using Hell Stab: Four-Finger Nukite as the Raikage broke through the walls.
• Temari ordered the shinobi to follow Dodai's retreat command, but several charged the Raikage instead.
• Dodai pulled Naruto to safety as the Third Raikage broke through the rubber barrier and killed every shinobi who had charged him.

Naruto tried to create a Tailed Beast Bomb to exploit the scar on the Third Raikage, who had once been wounded by the Eight-Tails, but he could not form it in time. As the Third Raikage pressed his attack, Naruto remained in danger, while Nagato reflected on his ties to Yahiko and their upcoming peace talks with Hanzō.

• Dodai explained that the Third Raikage's Three-Finger Nukite concentrated his power, and Naruto noticed a scar on his chest that Ōnoki said came from the Eight-Tails.
• Naruto realized that, as the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki, he might be able to wound the Third Raikage with a Tailed Beast Bomb and began gathering Chakra.
• Temari sent Maki and Yukata back to the rear, while the Allied Shinobi Forces surrounded the Third Raikage to keep him occupied.
• The Third Raikage knocked away the front-line shinobi with Three-Finger Nukite before Naruto could finish forming the Tailed Beast Bomb.
• Nagato considered seeking forgiveness from Jiraiya and planned to attend Hanzō's peace talks with Yahiko, leaving Konan to look after the Akatsuki.

Naruto learned the Third Raikage’s weakness and helped the Allied Shinobi Forces seal him. In Konoha, Jiraiya gave Tsunade his savings to help revive Nawaki, and Tsunade kissed him after accepting his feelings.

• Dodai used a rubber ball to distract the Third Raikage while Naruto contacted Killer B and learned the Raikage’s weakness from the Eight-Tails.
• Naruto used Sage Mode and a Rasengan to turn the Third Raikage’s Three-Finger Nukite against the scar on his chest, destabilizing his body.
• Temari called in Maki and Yukata, who sealed the Third Raikage with Sunagakure’s sealing technique.
• Jiraiya found Tsunade drinking at a tavern and offered to lend her money for her plans to revive Nawaki.
• Tsunade accepted Jiraiya’s hundred thousand gold coins, thanked him, and kissed him.

Obito and Rin met the newly resurrected Nawaki while shopping and took him to Ichiraku Ramen. There, Teuchi recognized Nawaki, who had been dead for more than ten years.

• Rin and Obito met Nawaki at a mask shop, where Obito bought three fox masks after Nawaki challenged him to a duel.
• Nawaki introduced himself as a Senju and revealed he had been resurrected by Tsunade the day before.
• Obito and Rin took Nawaki to Ichiraku Ramen, where he was surprised by how much the shop had changed.
• Teuchi recognized Nawaki, and Nawaki greeted him as the old friend he remembered.

The ranking screen showed Tobirama Senju and his guard squad surrounded by Kumogakure forces, prompting Hiruzen and Danzo to volunteer as bait. Tobirama instead named Hiruzen the next Hokage and entrusted Konoha to him.

• Teuchi prepared ramen for Obito and the others as the ranking revealed Tobirama Senju in thirteenth place among Kage-level combatants.
• Tobirama and his six companions were surrounded by more than twenty Kumogakure elite Jonin, including Kinkaku and Ginkaku.
• Hiruzen volunteered to act as bait, and Danzo then insisted that he would take the role instead.
• Tobirama rebuked Danzo for hesitating and told his students to protect their lives and their comrades.
• Tobirama declared Hiruzen the next Hokage and entrusted Konoha to him.