Recaps

Hyuga Kei captured the Five-Tails, seized the Tenseigan on the moon, and reshaped the nations’ response to the Akatsuki Organization while concealing his plans for Kaguya. As the Twilight Squad formed and Jiraiya investigated the Federation, Sasuke began his final battle with Itachi.

• Hyuga Kei helped revive Gaara, reconciled with him, and left Sunagakure after Temari thanked him.
• Neji left Konoha with Tenten, and Hyuga Kei ordered White Zetsu to protect them.
• Hyuga Kei and Deidara joined the battle over the Three-Tails, where Kei fought Hinata’s allies and captured the Five-Tails with sealing chains.
• Hyuga Kei arranged for Sasuke to receive a Sage Mode organ, then traveled to the moon and took the purple Tenseigan from its seal.
• Hyuga Kei defeated Toneri, took the Golden Tenseigan, and shattered the moon before gathering its fragments into a smaller new moon.
• Hyuga Kei exposed Black Zetsu’s connection to Kaguya, then used fabricated evidence at the Six Nations Summit to spread his account of an alien threat.
• Pain demanded the remaining Tailed Beasts at the summit, and Hyuga Kei led the Five Kage to establish a joint unit called the Twilight Squad.
• Jiraiya investigated warnings about Chiba Kishu and Orochimaru while Naruto joined the Twilight Squad, and Sasuke began his battle with Itachi at the Uchiha hideout.

Sasuke learned the truth about Itachi, awakened his Mangekyō Sharingan, and chose revenge with Hyuga Kei’s help. Meanwhile, the Twilight Squad confronted Akatsuki over the Six-Tails, but Hyuga Kei ultimately captured Utakata and took the beast and Hotaru’s secret technique.

• Sasuke defeated Itachi with a massive lightning strike, and Itachi died after touching his forehead and apologizing.
• Hyuga Kei revealed how Konoha’s leaders drove Itachi to slaughter the Uchiha, and Sasuke swore revenge on Konoha and awakened his Mangekyō Sharingan.
• Hyuga Kei trained Sasuke, who awakened the Mirror of Outer Clouds, and later introduced him to the Twilight Squad in disguise as Suzuyue Furing.
• Hyuga Kei manipulated Utakata into unleashing the Six-Tails, while the Twilight Squad found him injured and helped him escape the Akatsuki Organization.
• Utakata learned the truth about his former teacher’s failed Tailed Beast extraction, apologized, and agreed to return to Kirigakure and fight the Akatsuki Organization.
• Shikamaru told the Twilight Squad that Asuma had been killed, then led the team in defeating Hidan and Kakuzu before Pain arrived demanding the Six-Tails.
• Hyuga Kei intercepted Utakata and Hotaru, seized the Six-Tails and Wrathful Hair Heaven, and returned to Pain, leaving Kakashi’s squad to recover and report Akatsuki’s remaining targets.

Hyuga Kei exposed the conflict behind his identity and allied with Nagato to attack Konoha and Kumogakure, while Jiraiya and Obito brought Konoha intelligence and uneasy support. The allied forces faced devastating losses, and Naruto fought Minato after Hyuga Kei turned him into a perfect Jinchuriki.

• Hyuga Kei revealed himself to Nagato as both Hyuga Kei and Chiba Kishu, persuaded Nagato to pursue peace through the Ten-Tails, and rejected Jiraiya’s appeal to abandon their plan.
• Obito rescued Jiraiya and revealed Madara Uchiha’s role in the Akatsuki’s origins, while Jiraiya returned to Konoha and helped organize resistance against Hyuga Kei and Pain.
• Konoha joined forces with other villages, and Hinata, Hanabi, and Temari agreed to try to awaken Chiba Kishu’s personality within Hyuga Kei.
• Pain launched simultaneous attacks on Konoha and Kumogakure as Hyuga Kei summoned four former Kage with Impure World Reincarnation and the allied forces met them in battle.
• The Allied Forces defeated Human Path and Naraka Path, but Deva Path Pain unleashed Planetary Devastation, and Might Guy opened the Eighth Gate to protect his comrades.
• Might Guy destroyed the Attraction Sphere’s core and severely injured Hyuga Kei with Night Guy, but Hyuga Kei healed himself and prepared to kill the unconscious Guy.
• Naruto joined forces with Kurama and entered Sage Fox Mode as the allied forces sealed the revived Kage, but Hyuga Kei freed and controlled Minato, turning him into a perfect Jinchuriki.
• Naruto fought Minato in their Nine-Tails forms and pleaded with his father, whose resistance to Hyuga Kei’s control began to show.

Hyuga Kei joined the Five Great Nations against Obito, Kabuto, and Sasuke, then became commander of the Ninja Allied Forces. The allied army mobilized and met the first attacks, while Madara Uchiha and Nagato remained in reserve.

• Naruto and Jiraiya persuaded Nagato to revive the dead at the cost of his own life, but Obito took Nagato’s corpse and escaped.
• Hyuga Kei joined forces with the Five Great Nations and pursued Obito, while Sasuke and Kisame attacked Kumogakure and Sasuke escaped with a chakra clone of Killer B.
• Hyuga Kei revived Obito and Rin, then Kabuto Yakushi reunited with Yakushi Nonō and agreed to support the plan.
• At the Six Nations Summit, Hyuga Kei warned the Five Kage about Obito, Kabuto, the Ten-Tails, and the threat of reanimated shinobi, and Orochimaru agreed to investigate the Impure World Reincarnation Jutsu.
• Sasuke entered the summit, rejected Hyuga Kei’s attempts to change his mind, attacked the assembled leaders, and left with Obito after killing Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura.
• The Five Kage agreed to form the Ninja Allied Forces and appointed Hyuga Kei commander, while Kabuto transplanted Madara Uchiha’s Rinnegan into Sasuke and Obito.
• Hyuga Kei revealed his ten-thousand-puppet army, organized the allied defenses, and rallied the forces before the first attacks began.
• The Raikage, Mei Terumi, Ōnoki, and Gaara led the four fronts against White Zetsu and reanimated shinobi as Hyuga Kei sent reinforcements, and Madara Uchiha and Nagato stayed in reserve.