Recaps

Soji defeated Otsutsuki Genji, mastered the Reincarnation Mirror, and awakened the Tenseigan before returning to the Land of Snow with three new disciples. Back in Konoha, he used Minato’s body as the Night Duke to stop Danzo’s plots against Naruto and prepared to meet the lonely boy.

• Soji opened the ancient temple beneath Asuka Residence and fought the eight endlessly reviving Hyuga ancestor puppets before entering the Reincarnation Mirror.
• Soji defeated the Blood Dragon in the Moon Ancient Battlefield, learned the Mirror’s history from the ancestors’ souls, and confronted Otsutsuki Genji.
• Soji resisted Genji’s attempt to steal his body, helped free the ancestors, and awakened the Tenseigan by taking in the power of the last Moon Otsutsuki Main Family descendants.
• Otsutsuki Hamura released the trapped souls and taught Soji how to cultivate Truth-Seeking Orbs, while Genji agreed to serve as the Mirror’s artifact spirit.
• Soji bought Yota from the Weather Merchants, reunited him with Haku and Kimimaro in the Land of Snow, and made all three children his disciples before bringing them to Konoha.
• Soji enrolled the children in the Ninja Academy and learned that Danzo planned to spread rumors about Naruto, so he awakened Minato and used him as the Night Duke.
• The Night Duke killed Danzo’s Root operatives before they could target Naruto and later confronted Danzo at the former Root base, warning that Danzo kept crossing his line of fire.
• After monitoring Danzo for three days, Soji decided to train Naruto secretly and visited him as the Night Duke, frightening the boy awake.

Soji secretly trained Naruto while arranging reforms within the Hyuga and Uchiha clans and setting a trap for Danzo. After rescuing Naruto and his friends from bears, Soji left Konoha as Mizuki Ember to meet Sasori in Roran, where he discovered Sasori’s close ties to Queen Sara.

• Soji began secretly teaching Naruto Chakra and ninjutsu, and Naruto impressed him by sensing Chakra quickly and later scoring 97 on his year-end exam.
• Neji awakened his Byakugan while defending Hinata, and Soji made him heir to the Third Branch of the Main House and became his godfather.
• Soji revealed himself to Naruto as the Night Duke, controlled Nine-Tails when it surfaced, and told Naruto he was the Fourth Hokage while asking him to keep the secret.
• Soji and Fugaku planned to turn Danzo against Uchiha extremists by using Shisui as a trusted informant, and they agreed to reform the Police Force and appoint Shisui Academy principal.
• Soji and Fugaku helped arrange for the Hyuga to take a quarter of the Police Force and opened another quarter to outsiders, replacing the Uchiha emblem with Konoha’s.
• Naruto and eight other children entered a bear den, and Soji and Uchiha Homura rescued Naruto and Sasuke after they held off two bears.
• Soji animated Otsutsuki Genji’s corpse as a puppet, named him Mizuki Ember, and traveled to Roran to meet Sasori and seek Queen Sara’s cooperation.
• Soji found Sasori helping Roran adopt puppet defenses and learned that Queen Sara had recruited Sasori and his parents, while Sara and Sasori showed signs of romantic closeness.

Soji revived Kushina and reunited her with Naruto while Akatsuki expanded and Konoha’s clans were drawn into a conflict manipulated by Danzo and Obito. Soji and Uchiha Homura staged a duel to deceive Danzo, but Shisui was led into Danzo’s influence as the clan tensions continued.

• Queen Sara traded the Dragon Vein to Soji, who used it to revive Kushina Uzumaki and promised to help Rōran and protect Sasori.
• Kushina learned that Soji had cared for Naruto, then hid outside Konoha, where she reunited with Naruto and promised to teach him Sealing Technique.
• Nagato recruited Orochimaru into Akatsuki, while Soji trained Naruto and Sasuke and Naruto began at the Ninja Academy.
• Soji and Uchiha Homura staged a falling-out to mislead Danzo as tensions between the Uchiha and Hyuga Clans worsened and Obito attacked Hyuga Aoki’s squad.
• Soji and Homura arranged a public duel, and Soji revealed that an unknown Uchiha had killed Minato and Kushina during Nine-Tails Night.
• Homura fought Soji with his golden Susanoo, while Soji used Sage Mode and ultimately broke the Susanoo before taking Homura’s golden slash and pretending to be unconscious.
• After Soji and Homura were taken to Konoha Hospital, Danzo pursued Shisui’s loyalty by offering to reveal a solution to the clan conflict after Shisui served him for a year.

Shisui and Obito used Danzo’s coup plot to expose his schemes, while the Uchiha and Konoha’s forces clashed and Shisui escaped with Obito. Soji pursued Danzo beyond the village and repeatedly forced him to use Izanagi until his Sharingan ran out and Hashirama’s cells turned him into a tree.

• Obito drew the Third Hokage and his Anbu into a confrontation while Shisui and Danzo staged a coup, and Itachi awakened his Mangekyō Sharingan after Shisui killed Uchiha Homura.
• Fugaku fought Danzo and survived his Izanagi, while Shisui exposed his own role in the scheme and challenged the Third Hokage over the Uchiha’s treatment.
• Danzo’s forces fought Konoha’s defenders as Night Duke battled Obito, then Danzo and Shisui fled and were declared S-rank rogue ninja.
• Uchiha Homura revealed to Itachi that his death had been staged, while Soji and Night Duke pursued Danzo as he escaped with his followers.
• Soji used the Tenseigan to devastate Danzo’s forces and repeatedly killed Danzo, who kept reviving through Izanagi and fleeing.
• Soji pursued Danzo through the desert with successive Tenseigan techniques, while Danzo used up his remaining Izanagi revivals.
• Night Duke struck Danzo with a Rasengan, and Danzo’s exhausted Sharingan could no longer suppress Hashirama Senju’s cells, which transformed him into a great tree.