Recaps

Chiyue exposed Hiruzen’s use of the Telescope Technique, then escorted supplies to the front and led Konoha’s defense against Sunagakure. The arc ended with Sunagakure devastating Konoha’s camp, Danzo badly injured, and Chiyue ordering his group back to reinforce the defenses.

• Chiyue refused Fugaku’s appeal to return to the Uchiha Clan, then exposed Hiruzen’s Telescope Technique by posting its instructions around Konoha.
• Tsunade confronted Hiruzen over spying as villagers protested, and Chiyue admitted to Tsunade that he had leaked the technique.
• Danzo assigned Chiyue to lead a supply convoy, and Chiyue used Manda and White to thwart Sunagakure and Amegakure pursuers before reaching the front lines.
• Chiyue led Minato and Nawaki to defend Konoha’s position, where they fought off Sunagakure scouts and prepared for an attack.
• Chiyue killed a Hidden Sand jonin, then used Shadow Clones and Manda to devastate the attacking force and defeat Masa.
• Chiyo and Ebizo launched a night raid on Konoha’s camp, breaching its defenses and sending poisoned puppets into the medical division.
• Danzo fought Chiyo and Ebizo, escaped with Baku, and suffered a poisoned eye and a crippled arm as Sunagakure withdrew.
• Hanzō spared Jiraiya, Orochimaru, and Tsunade and requested peace talks, while Chiyue learned of the camp’s losses and ordered his group back to reinforce it.

Chiyue returned to Konoha, passed his jonin exam, and joined Tsunade’s delegation to negotiate with Hanzō. After forcing Amegakure to the table, he reunited with Yahiko, Nagato, and Konan and gave them guidance before leaving.

• Orochimaru, Tsunade, and Jiraiya left the cave, and Yahiko, Nagato, and Konan ate the food Orochimaru had left behind.
• Chiyue escorted wounded soldiers back to Konoha, where he reunited with Kushina and met the Uzumaki survivors Danzo had brought to the village.
• After a drunken night with Minato and Nawaki led to trouble, Chiyue began training Nawaki and awakened his six-hook Mangekyo Sharingan.
• Chiyue passed his individual jonin exam and received a mission to deliver a scroll to Tsunade in the Land of Rain.
• Chiyue joined Tsunade and Nara Shikaku to negotiate with Hanzō, who refused to admit them until Chiyue blasted through Amegakure’s wall and damaged the village.
• Hanzō agreed to negotiate, and Tsunade accepted his proposal to frame the peace as a joint effort to stop casualties and blame Sunagakure for the war.
• Chiyue found Yahiko, Nagato, and Konan in Amegakure, bought them clothes and food, and listened as Yahiko explained why they had come there.
• Chiyue gave Yahiko a scroll of ninjutsu hand signs and training advice before preparing to leave with Tsunade and Nara Shikaku.

After helping secure peace with Amegakure and defeating a Sunagakure ambush, Chiyue returned to Konoha and was appointed a Jonin Instructor. He began leading an unlikely team while pursuing Sage Mode and helping Kushina negotiate with the Nine-Tails, which agreed to lend her its Chakra in exchange for learning about White.

• Chiyue refused Danzo’s demand to record Lightning Burst in the Scroll of Seals, then escorted wounded Konoha soldiers through a Sunagakure ambush, where White and Manda routed Chiyo’s forces.
• Tsunade protected Chiyue from Danzo, while Hiruzen and the elders kept Chiyue in Konoha as a Jonin Instructor and sent Minato, Nawaki, Jiraiya, and Orochimaru to the Land of Rivers battlefield.
• Chiyue helped Kushina establish a hot pot restaurant, recruited Mikoto’s mother to manage its accounts, and learned that his students would be Hyuga Rinne, Uchiha Ryoi, and Masumi.
• Chiyue completed his Sage Mode training with White and formed his new team, testing the students by making them stand in the sun before assigning them a farmland-clearing mission.
• Masumi, Uchiha Ryoi, and Hyuga Rinne struggled with their team rivalries during the farm mission, but finished the work in time for Chiyue to treat them to hot pot.
• Chiyue proposed that Kushina let the Nine-Tails sense White’s Chakra in exchange for the Nine-Tails’ Chakra, and White’s unfamiliar presence caught the beast’s attention.
• Kushina told the Nine-Tails that White was Chiyue’s nine-tailed Summoned Beast, and the Nine-Tails agreed to lend her Chakra if she explained the unusual presence.

Chiyue trained Masumi, uncovered Danzo’s stolen Chakra Metal shipment, and joined Orochimaru on a mission to retaliate against Kumogakure for targeting Kushina. The two reached the Land of Lightning, where Chiyue slipped into Kumogakure while Orochimaru met Konoha’s spy.

• Kushina tried to enlist the Nine-Tails’ help, but White’s scent distracted it, so Chiyue sent White to provoke it into accepting her as its Jinchuriki.
• Chiyue advised Masumi to grow stronger through chakra-control practice instead of seeking his teammates’ approval, and he tested Tobirama’s Raijin Sword after Tsunade gave it to him.
• White intercepted Root shinobi carrying Chakra Metal and delivered their scroll to Chiyue, while the ensuing investigation exposed Kumogakure and Sunagakure spies inside Konoha.
• Orochimaru returned to Konoha for a mission, and Chiyue rejected the Third Hokage’s request that he negotiate with Hanzō over Amegakure’s attack on the Iron Country.
• Orochimaru told Chiyue that Konoha planned to retaliate against Kumogakure for plotting to abduct Kushina, and Chiyue agreed to join the mission.
• Chiyue warned his squad that the mission was dangerous, told Kushina to stay alert, and left Konoha with Orochimaru in the night.
• Orochimaru briefed Chiyue on Konoha’s intelligence about Kumogakure’s Jinchuriki, while Chiyue decided to target the Eight-Tails and traveled with him through war-torn lands.
• After crossing into the Land of Lightning, Chiyue used a Transformation Technique and White’s help to enter Kumogakure, while Orochimaru met the village spy and told him to return to Konoha.