Recaps

Yuu joined Tsunade’s campaign against Iwagakure, where his drinking and unconventional swordsmanship advice shaped the front-line effort. Ōnoki’s trap meant for Yuu instead drew Kakashi into repeated attacks on Iwagakure’s supply lines, leaving Ōnoki puzzled.

• Yuu spent the night with Tsunade, and the next morning she remembered getting drunk and confessing her feelings before acting on them.
• At Konoha’s prewar meeting, Yuu disrupted Hiruzen Sarutobi’s speech before accepting the assignment to fight Iwagakure alongside Tsunade.
• Yuu reached the front with a large supply of wine and told Kakashi that drinking and cutting down enemies forged powerful swordsmanship.
• Ōnoki planned to lure Yuu into an ambush by sending supply convoys along a chosen route, but Yuu refused Tsunade’s mission when he learned the convoy carried no wine.
• Kakashi led the attack on the Iwagakure convoy while Higashi and the others waited for Yuu, and Kakashi’s team destroyed the supplies and killed the escort force.
• Kakashi and other jōnin continued striking Iwagakure’s supply lines, making Kakashi famous as the Shinobi World credited Yuu’s instruction for his swordsmanship.
• Ōnoki revealed that he had used a cartload of Explosive Tags as bait for Yuu and wondered why Kakashi had taken the bait instead.

Saiki Yuu rescued Kakashi from Iwagakure’s ambush, killed its attackers, and provoked Ōnoki into mobilizing for a decisive battle. Konoha prepared for the confrontation, with Minato joining Yuu as he planned to raid Iwagakure’s camps.

• Ōnoki approved a plan to kill Kakashi, but Yuu arrived as Mazhī and Daishi cornered him and cut down the two Elite Jonin.
• Yuu destroyed the remaining Stone Ninja and sent a survivor back to Ōnoki with an insulting message, prompting Ōnoki to order Iwagakure to fight Konoha to the death.
• Tsunade and Hiruzen learned that Iwagakure had mobilized its full strength and issued a Kill Order against Yuu, while Hiruzen sent reinforcements to the Stone Battlefield.
• Hiruzen refused Yuu’s request to transfer to the Cloud Battlefield and privately promised him rare wine, while Yuu admitted he had only used the request to extort the Hokage.
• Ōnoki assembled more than ten thousand troops and assigned Roshi and Han to fight Yuu as Iwagakure prepared for a decisive battle.
• The Third Raikage postponed plans against Konoha after hearing that Yuu had told Ōnoki to learn from Kumogakure, and Minato arrived at Konoha’s front line camp.
• Tsunade told Yuu and Minato that Iwagakure’s Four-Tails and Five-Tails Jinchuriki had reached the front, and she and Shikaku considered how to draw them away from the main force.
• Yuu proposed raiding several Iwagakure camps for their liquor, and Tsunade agreed on the condition that Minato accompany him.

Yuu’s attacks on Iwagakure camps drew Roshi and Han away from the front, despite Minato’s efforts to keep him to Konoha’s plan. Yuu defeated Roshi’s attacks and broke through his Tailed Beast chakra, leaving their fight ongoing.

• Yuu ignored Minato’s infiltration plan and attacked an Iwagakure camp barehanded, killing its defenders and demanding its wine.
• Ōnoki learned that Yuu had destroyed multiple camps and sent Roshi and Han to hunt him as Konoha advanced elsewhere.
• Yuu wiped out most of Iwagakure’s Surprise Attack Force, left a survivor to summon the Jinchuriki, and told Minato he wanted to fight them for constitution points.
• Roshi and Han confronted Yuu, who taunted them before cutting through Roshi’s lava attacks and shattering his armor with a sword strike.
• Roshi transformed into his four-tailed Form Two, but Yuu’s Armament Haki kept his wound from healing and Roshi launched a Tailed Beast Bomb.
• Yuu’s Asura slash met Roshi’s Tailed Beast Bomb and shattered it, then continued toward Roshi.
• Roshi tried to overpower Yuu’s slash with Tailed Beast chakra, but Yuu added three more sword strikes and broke through it.

Yuu defeated and captured Roshi and the Four-Tails, then returned to Konoha’s front with the balance of power shifted in Konoha’s favor. With the Five-Tails escaped and Iwagakure weakened, Yuu ordered Konoha to launch a decisive battle.

• Yuu defeated Roshi, forced him to release the Four-Tails, and battered the beast with his sword and scabbard.
• After drinking Nectar, Yuu unleashed Light Slash and Grave, piercing the Four-Tails and earning new rewards, including one ninth of Six Paths Power.
• Yuu found the wounded Four-Tails beneath the rubble and frightened it into agreeing to return to Konoha and set off fireworks.
• Ōnoki learned that Roshi had been severely wounded and the Four-Tails suppressed, then collapsed in the war room.
• Roshi awoke captured, and Yuu stopped him from using Tailed Beast chakra before the Four-Tails returned to its seal and locked itself inside him.
• Minato explained what had happened, while Tsunade and Konoha’s shinobi marveled at Yuu’s victory and celebrated the shift in Konoha’s favor.
• Yuu assigned Shikaku Nara and the strategists to plan what supplies the Third Hokage should pay him, while Minato brought him rare game.
• Shikaku Nara advised that Iwagakure’s losses made the moment ideal for a decisive battle, and Yuu ordered Konoha to attack.