Recaps

Hagoromo trained Naruto, Sasuke, Hinata, and the others while advancing plans to guide Konoha’s graduating students. After battling Might Guy and agreeing to seek Jonin promotion, Hagoromo received the Mirage Vapor Pearls and summoned a powerful white creature who called himself Madara.

• Jiraiya fought Orochimaru, who escaped after stabbing him, while Hagoromo began training his students in Inch Power Eight Gates and Crescent Moon Breathing.
• Hagoromo developed the Konoha New Buds Cultivation Plan with Hiruzen Sarutobi, and the Academy began preparing students for internship assessments.
• Hagoromo and his students surprised Naruto with a birthday celebration, and Naruto told Kurama he wanted to help him confront his hatred and defeat the person who controlled him.
• Sasuke learned Lightning Release under Hagoromo’s guidance, and Hagoromo accepted Hinata as his disciple while seeking a way to create realistic training illusions for Shikamaru.
• Naruto and Sasuke fought using their growing abilities, and Hagoromo stopped the match before Sasuke could overuse his enhanced form.
• Hagoromo fought Might Guy, who opened the Sixth Gate, and their Morning Peacock and Tiger Hunt collision wrecked the training ground.
• Hiruzen gave Hagoromo the Mirage Vapor Pearls, and Hagoromo agreed to seek Jonin promotion within a month after his fight with Guy changed his outlook.
• Hagoromo summoned a white catlike creature named Madara, suppressed his Yokai Power, and learned the Summoning Scroll’s bond prevented Madara from returning.

Hagoromo trained in Senjutsu, guided his students, and passed a dramatic Jonin promotion test that established him as a rising political force in Konoha. The arc ended with Hiruzen assigning him to lead a covert mission to investigate an ancient cult in Yugakure.

• Hagoromo befriended Sansan, entered Muku Shrine’s trials, and gained Hazy Moon Sage Mode with new abilities.
• Hagoromo enlisted Shisui to help create an immersive training Genjutsu, and Sansan trained Naruto and the other students.
• Naruto defeated Hinata in a Taijutsu match, then fought Neji before Hagoromo encouraged Neji to choose his own path.
• Hagoromo announced the class results, recommended Iruka as faculty head, and became the Ninja Academy’s vice principal.
• Hiruzen’s Jonin promotion proposal for Hagoromo passed, and Hagoromo prepared to face Kakashi and Jonin from the Uchiha and Hyuga clans.
• Hagoromo overwhelmed the three Jonin with powerful Ninjutsu and used Lightning Release: Kirin to destroy the examination grounds, passing his test.
• Hagoromo reviewed the battle with his students and advised Sasuke and Naruto on improving their techniques.
• Hagoromo warned Hiruzen against Konoha’s dependence on Land of Fire funding, then accepted command of a covert mission to investigate an ancient cult in Yugakure.

Hagoromo stopped Takase’s blood-sacrifice plot in Yugakure, then trained his students in new techniques and helped Neji confront the Caged Bird Seal. As Konoha prepared a border exercise amid rising tensions with Kumogakure, Hagoromo and Might Guy faced the missing Killer B at Moon Wheel Gorge.

• Hagoromo led his team to Yugakure, uncovered evidence of a dangerous substance and found Elder Izumi, who revealed that Takase’s Orthodox Cult planned a mass blood sacrifice.
• Hagoromo and his teammates fought the cult and its Blood Beasts, while Hidan killed Takase and Hagoromo sealed Hidan after defeating him.
• Hagoromo destroyed the altar and blood pool, reported the S-rank mission to Hiruzen Sarutobi, and confirmed that he had destroyed Takase’s texts.
• Hagoromo trained Naruto and Choji in Yang Release Armament and taught Sasuke Chidori, while his students practiced their new skills and discussed their weaknesses.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi organized a joint defense plan with Yugakure after Kumogakure threatened the alliance, and Hagoromo joined Kakashi and Might Guy to lead Konoha’s border exercise force.
• Hagoromo encouraged Neji to challenge the Caged Bird Seal’s hold over him, agreed to become his master, and left Konoha for Moon Wheel Gorge.
• Killer B charged into Moon Wheel Gorge, where Hagoromo and Might Guy kicked him and then joined the fight after he attacked Might Guy.

After defeating Killer B and preventing war with Kumogakure, Hagoromo trained Neji and his students while developing techniques based on Yang Release and Tailed Beast Chakra. His experiments produced a dangerous new mode and drew the attention of Obito, Zetsu, and the Three Great Sage Regions.

• Hagoromo and Might Guy defeated Killer B, and Konoha took the wounded Eight-Tails Jinchuriki into custody while Kakashi and Samui arranged negotiations with Kumogakure.
• Hiruzen demanded reparations and restrictions from the Fourth Raikage A, then used Hagoromo’s victory to bolster his reputation in Konoha.
• Hagoromo gave Hamura’s Blessing to Neji with Hinata’s agreement, awakening Neji’s ancestral Byakugan traits and beginning his training.
• Naruto and Sasuke fought, and Sasuke’s Sharingan advanced to Two-Tomoe before he defeated Naruto, and Hagoromo advised Naruto to strengthen his own techniques rather than imitate Sasuke.
• Hagoromo trained Naruto, Sasuke, Choji, and the others, and his students competed in a flag battle before the new school year began.
• Hagoromo discovered that Yang God Binding could suppress and refine Sansan’s Yokai Power, then used the chains to draw Chakra from Kurama and enter Nine-Tails Chakra Mode.
• Hagoromo developed a blazing white Chakra cloak and tested its regeneration and power with Sansan, but his compressed energy attacks split the sea and flooded a coastline.
• Obito and Zetsu investigated the coastline’s unusual vitality, while Gamamaru sensed a shrouded future, and Hagoromo returned to Konoha and made his students train harder.