Recaps

Chiyue led Konoha to victory over Sunagakure, while Kushina gained confidence in battle and Pakura joined Konoha. The Third Hokage began peace talks with Chiyo as tensions with other villages and Konoha’s troubled leadership remained unresolved.

• Chiyue split Konoha’s forces and sent Kushina against Rasa, where she fought through his Gold Dust until the Nine-Tails took over and devastated Sunagakure’s forces.
• The Nine-Tails defeated Rasa and killed many reinforcements, after which Konoha celebrated its victory and Chiyo requested peace talks.
• Tsunade confronted the Third Hokage and the elders over missing funds and questionable Anbu appointments, then took charge of Konoha while the Third Hokage went to negotiate.
• Chiyue took Kushina and Pakura back to Konoha before the Third Hokage arrived, and Tsunade arranged Pakura’s papers after she pledged loyalty to Konoha.
• Chiyue brought Pakura to the academy, where she tested Kakashi’s fighting ability, and Chiyue accepted him as his disciple.
• Chiyue told Pakura he had once considered leaving Konoha with Kushina, while Shikaku found Hatake Sakumo avoiding the peace talks at the front.
• Chiyo demanded Rasa’s release and cancellation of Sunagakure’s war reparations, then offered troops and help investigating Iwagakure in exchange for Konoha covering their supplies.
• Shikaku urged the Third Hokage to delay his decision, and the Third Hokage acknowledged that Konoha was too weakened by war to face several enemies easily.

Konoha ended its war with Sunagakure on costly terms, then prepared to cooperate with Yagura after he asked for help investigating the Third Mizukage. The leaders agreed to the investigation, and Yagura hinted that Konoha’s team would need to put on an act.

• Shikaku Nara warned Hatake Sakumo that the Third Hokage would likely accept Sunagakure’s harsh demands, while Chiyue continued training Kakashi in swordsmanship.
• The Third Hokage accepted Chiyo’s peace terms, returning Rasa without reparations in exchange for Sunagakure’s alliance, reinforcements against Kirigakure, and surveillance of Iwagakure.
• Tsunade confronted the Third Hokage over the concessions, and he made the agreement public while naming her as his successor after the war.
• Chiyue monitored Danzo at his residence, later capturing two hidden subordinates whose Cursed Tongue Eradication Seals gave Tsunade evidence against Danzo.
• Minato trained Kakashi and searched for little white bugs as Chiyue had ordered, while Sunagakure’s forces joined Konoha’s campaign against Kirigakure.
• After Chiyo and Konoha’s leaders suspected the Third Mizukage was controlled or replaced, Yagura came near Konoha to request a joint investigation.
• Yagura offered a non-aggression pact and the opening of Kirigakure’s maritime trade routes, and the Third Hokage agreed to cooperate.
• Yagura asked Konoha to send people to Kirigakure and put on an act, prompting Tsunade to ask what he meant.

Chiyue helped Yagura expose the controlled Third Mizukage, then returned to Konoha amid shifting alliances and the threat of renewed war. The arc ended with Uchiha Obito missing and Chiyue urging Uchiha Fugaku to secure his clan’s future.

• Tsunade arranged Danzo’s imprisonment and sent Chiyue, Hatake Sakumo, and Minato to assist Yagura in exposing the Third Mizukage.
• Chiyue and his companions destroyed the Mizukage’s warship and forced him to reveal that he was a controlled impostor who could use Wood Release, but he escaped.
• Chiyue traded Samehada for a promise that Kirigakure would provide two Snow Clan members with awakened Kekkei Genkai, then told Orochimaru about the impostor and negotiated for research materials and evidence against Danzo.
• After Kirigakure withdrew and began peace talks with Konoha, Tsunade sent Chiyue, Minato, and Pakura to escort Maruboshi Kosuke home with intelligence on Iwagakure.
• Pakura held off pursuing Iwagakure shinobi, and Chiyue’s group returned Kosuke safely to Konoha while warning Tsunade that Kusagakure seemed aligned with Iwagakure.
• Uchiha Mikoto told Chiyue that Uchiha Obito and his grandmother’s body had disappeared, and Chiyue suspected Black Zetsu had taken them.
• Chiyue urged Mikoto to have Uchiha Fugaku restrain the clan’s hawks and secure its future, then told Tsunade that Fugaku might be won over, and Mikoto relayed his words to Fugaku, who reacted with fear.

As Konoha prepared for Tsunade’s inauguration, Danzo escaped and the village’s political tensions grew. Chiyue hosted visiting delegations, sparked a challenge with A, and turned White’s match into a sold-out public event.

• Danzo escaped Konoha Prison with help from a jonin squad, and Orochimaru later gave him a map to his possessions before cutting ties with him.
• The Uchiha Clan sought Tsunade’s support, while Chiyue advised her to use the clan’s isolation and dependence to secure its loyalty.
• Konoha’s leaders exposed Danzo’s crimes as news spread to other villages, and Tsunade took charge of the wartime preparations while the Third Hokage prepared to step down.
• Chiyue injured Kakashi during a spar, and Hatake Sakumo arranged for Kakashi to get a Chakra Metal weapon forged in the Land of Craft.
• Chiyue hosted Hanzō’s delegation and reunited with Yahiko, Nagato, and Konan, who told him how they had survived and secured the daimyo’s backing for the Akatsuki Organization.
• Chiyue provoked A by pretending his eyesight was failing, and A accepted a fight at Training Ground Four the next morning.
• Chiyue told Tsunade and the others that White replenished his ocular power, then arranged for White to fight A in his place.
• Nawaki proposed selling tickets to the match, and Konoha prepared an arena as the tickets quickly sold out.