Recaps

Naruto defected to Akatsuki after learning the truth about Kushina’s death, and his battle with Sasuke ended with Naruto’s victory. Genitsu helped defeat Momoshiki in the future, then returned to the past as Madara was resurrected and attacked the Five Kage Summit.

• Naruto defeated the One-Tail, while Izumi and Kazue killed Urashiki and Izumi awakened her Mangekyō Sharingan.
• Naruto won the Chūnin Exam final against Sasuke, then learned from the Nine-Tails that Minato had lied about Kushina’s death.
• Naruto joined Akatsuki, escaped Konoha with Hinata and several others, and fought Sasuke at the Valley of the End, where he defeated him and left him alive.
• Genitsu arrived in the future and joined Naruto and Sasuke against Momoshiki, ultimately defeating and swallowing him before returning to Konoha’s era.
• Genitsu warned Sasuke about Isshiki and left the future, while Minato organized a Five Kage Summit in Iron Country.
• Orochimaru revived Madara using Impure World Reincarnation, and Madara joined him on the way to the summit.
• Madara attacked the summit, fought Minato and the Fourth Raikage, and used Wood Release and Susanoo-equipped clones against the gathered fighters.

Hitomi defeated Madara, while Naruto and Hiruko joined Akatsuki and destroyed Mount Myōboku. Hiruko gained power through a Sage fusion, and Naruto returned to Hinata determined to learn how to free his mother’s soul and obtain the other half of the Nine-Tails.

• Hitomi used his Tenseigan to defeat Madara and force him to escape, while Kazue recovered Orochimaru’s Kusanagi Sword and the villages reconsidered their alliances.
• Madara confronted Naruto in Amegakure, but Nagato, Obito, Void, and the Akatsuki intervened and forced Madara to withdraw when Orochimaru released the reanimation jutsu.
• Setsuna recruited Chino and Mitsurugi En into the Eye Organization, and Hitomi absorbed Mōryō after freeing Shion’s lineage from its duty to contain the monster.
• Naruto rejected Fukasaku’s offer to learn Sage Jutsu, joined Hiruko, and killed Fukasaku before attacking Mount Myōboku.
• Naruto used the Nine-Tails’ chakra and True Several Thousand Hands to devastate Mount Myōboku, while the Great Toad Sage died after investigating Planet Godzilla’s origins.
• Hiruko fused with the Great Toad Sage’s corpse to gain greater Chakra reserves and the ability to absorb Natural Energy, then fought Naruto, Nagato, and Might Duy before Nagato ordered him to stay by his side.
• Genitsu promised to help Hiruko survive another Bloodline Limit fusion in two years but refused his request for the Two-Tails, while Naruto returned to Hinata and sought Uzumaki knowledge about the Dead Demon Consuming Seal.

Naruto searched for Karin while Genitsu fought the Sage of Six Paths in the Pure Land and was sealed beneath a new moon. With Genitsu missing, Kabuto prepared to rescue him and joined forces with Black Zetsu, while Setsuna moved against Sasuke to take his eyes.

• Naruto and Hinata searched the Land of Wind for Karin, while Jiraiya’s team confronted Naruto and Madara arrived to disrupt their fight.
• Isshiki took control of Karin and fought Madara, who eventually fled after failing to extract Isshiki’s soul.
• Kazue received Izumi’s eye and fused their Mangekyō Sharingan into an Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan, while Genitsu entered the Pure Land to stop the Sage of Six Paths from aiding Naruto and Sasuke.
• Genitsu fought Hagoromo, Hamura, Indra, Asura, and Hashirama, then unleashed his Godzilla power and was sealed beneath a newly formed moon by Six Paths: Planetary Devastation.
• Kabuto concluded that Genitsu was trapped in the Pure Land, strengthened himself with Genitsu’s cells and Urashiki’s Byakugan, and formed an alliance with Black Zetsu to rescue Genitsu and release Kaguya.
• Setsuna resolved to take Sasuke’s eyes, while Sasuke fought Gaara and then Setsuna, who revealed that Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan required taking a blood relative’s eyes.

Sasuke awakened the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan while Naruto gained new Nine-Tails power, and their clash helped set the Fourth Shinobi World War in motion. As the Allied Shinobi Forces fought Akatsuki and its resurrected shinobi, Madara revived and moved to become the Ten-Tails’ Jinchuriki, while Genitsu pursued his own plan to reshape life.

• Sasuke defeated Setsuna, took his eyes, and underwent a transplant that awakened his Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan, while Naruto freed the Yin Nine-Tails and sealed it inside himself with Kushina’s help.
• Naruto and Sasuke fought with their new powers, devastated the Land of Fire, and reached a standstill before Naruto escaped as Setsuna fled to reclaim the Box of Bliss.
• Kabuto and Madara set the Tailed Beast hunt in motion, and Akatsuki captured all the beasts except the Two-Tails while Minato declared war and united the villages.
• Genitsu transformed Root with Planet Godzilla’s power and Six Paths Power as the Allied Shinobi Forces faced White Zetsu and Sharingan-equipped Impure World Reincarnation fighters.
• Obito trapped Naruto in Limited Tsukuyomi, but Naruto escaped, attacked Obito, and confronted Madara, who used Rinne Rebirth to return to life.
• Madara revealed his plan for Infinite Tsukuyomi and pursued the Ten-Tails’ power, while the Allied Shinobi Forces advanced toward the Land of Lightning and Naruto challenged him for the Tailed Beasts.
• Kazue and Sasuke continued fighting Hashirama as Orochimaru and Kabuto prepared to join the battlefield, and Shin demanded the Six Paths Ninja Tools.