Recaps

Hagoromo traveled with Hiruzen Sarutobi to Kumogakure for its Chunin selection and defeated Killer B in a demonstration match. The visit ended with Konoha and Kumogakure considering an alliance, while Killer B returned to Konoha with the delegation and tried to befriend Hagoromo.

• Naruto defeated Neji, and Hagoromo encouraged Neji to seek goals beyond his resentment of the Main Family.
• Jiraiya told Hiruzen that the Great Toad Sage could no longer see the future clearly, and Hagoromo began studying Sealing Jutsu while preparing to travel to Kumogakure.
• Hagoromo joined Hiruzen Sarutobi and the Konoha delegation on the trip to Kumogakure, where tense encounters with the village’s guards and students revealed the strain between the villages.
• At the Chunin selection, Kitsuchi defeated Baki in the Kage guards’ combat display, and Hagoromo volunteered to fight Killer B.
• Hagoromo battled Killer B, suppressed Gyuki with golden chains, survived their Tailed Beast Bomb collision, and defeated Killer B with Tiger Hunt and a final punch.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi rejected Kumogakure’s offer to trade its goodwill for Konoha’s sealing methods, but considered the Heavenly Transfer Technique in exchange for an alliance.
• Konoha and Kumogakure agreed to consider an alliance, and Killer B traveled back with the delegation while asking Hagoromo to become his friend.

Hagoromo trained Konoha’s students, then joined the war against Sunagakure and helped dismantle its allies and supply routes. The arc ended with Hagoromo facing Roshi while his companions moved to ignite the Sand Shinobi’s provisions.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi arranged Hizashi’s burial by the Memorial Stone, and Neji learned from Hagoromo that his father’s remains would be brought home.
• Pain ordered Akatsuki to target several Jinchūriki and disrupt the nations’ plans as Hagoromo continued training Naruto, Sasuke, and the graduating students.
• After Sunagakure declared war, Hiruzen Sarutobi made Kakashi commander of the Sand front and appointed Hagoromo his deputy.
• Hagoromo and Choza destroyed the Poison Fang Group, then Hagoromo infiltrated the Ibu Clan’s canyon and helped defeat its forces.
• Hagoromo and Choza attacked the Sea Serpent Group’s submarine with fire and water techniques, captured Kizō, and returned him to Konoha.
• Hagoromo ambushed Iron Sand’s force with Yin Release, defeated Iron Sand and two Jonin, and prompted Chiyo to increase patrols.
• Hagoromo, Asuma, Muta, and Yutoshi killed a Sand patrol and infiltrated its logistics base to prepare to burn its provisions.
• Roshi confronted Hagoromo after tracking him with a scrap of clothing, and Hagoromo fought him while his companions escaped to detonate the water oil.

Hagoromo captured Roshi, defeated Kisame and Kakuzu’s attacks, and returned to Konoha, where he trained Neji and took him on missions. At the Land of Grass front, Hagoromo uncovered Black Zetsu’s spying spores and killed Kitsuchi as Iwagakure launched its assault.

• Hagoromo defeated the Four-Tails and captured Roshi, then escorted the Jinchūriki toward Konoha while Chiyo refused Iwagakure’s demand for his return.
• Pain sent Kisame and Kakuzu to retrieve Roshi, but Hagoromo killed Kisame, and Sansan helped protect Yutoshi and Muta from Kakuzu until Hagoromo arrived.
• Hagoromo reported the attacks to Hiruzen, then helped Neji graduate and took him on a B-rank escort mission to the Land of Vegetables.
• Hagoromo and Neji delivered supplies to the Land of Grass, where Jiraiya tasked Hagoromo’s team with hunting Iwagakure infiltrators along Konoha’s logistics routes.
• Akatsuchi ambushed Fugaku and the Uchiha, while Itachi held off pursuing Stone Shinobi and Hagoromo brought aid to the front.
• Hagoromo identified disguised Black Zetsu spores as the source of Iwagakure’s intelligence and destroyed nearly all of them with Yang Release.
• When Iwagakure attacked, Hagoromo and Neji fought through the battlefield, and Hagoromo killed Kitsuchi after ordering Neji to find Yutoshi and the others.

Hagoromo defeated Iwagakure and brought Karin to Konoha, where she joined his students as a disciple. As his students trained and Tsunade settled into teaching, Konoha turned to enforcing its postwar demands on Takigakure.

• Hagoromo defeated Ōnoki, and Iwagakure surrendered after the Five-Tails returned to human form.
• Hagoromo rescued Karin from Kusagakure and brought her to Konoha, where he agreed to take her as his disciple.
• Uchiha Itachi joined the Akatsuki undercover, and Hagoromo urged Sasuke to trust his brother without revealing the mission’s details.
• Naruto, Sasuke, and the others welcomed Karin, while Tsunade challenged Hagoromo and later agreed to teach Medical Ninjutsu at the Ninja Academy.
• Karin settled in with Hagoromo’s students, and Naruto and Sasuke signed the Summoning Scroll and began practicing the Summoning Technique.
• Hagoromo tested his disciples and told Karin to build her foundation before beginning special training.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi signed an alliance treaty with the Fourth Raikage A, then approved Hagoromo’s proposal to restrict Takigakure’s military and station Konoha troops there.
• Jiraiya and Choza received orders to deploy forces and summon Takigakure’s Kage for negotiations, while Tsunade teased Shizune about her admiration for Hagoromo.