Recaps

Saiki Yuu subdued the Nine-Tails, separated it from Kushina, and turned the tailed beasts into performers for Konoha’s new arena. The arena became a profitable attraction, while Black Zetsu survived Yuu’s attack and withdrew to protect his plans.

• Saiki Yuu repeatedly cut down the Nine-Tails, revived it, and forced it to submit before separating it from Kushina with Six Paths Power.
• Yuu ordered the tailed beasts to perform for the arena and threatened them if their battles failed to earn enough, and Hiruzen Sarutobi organized the arena’s construction and promotion.
• Konoha completed the arena and welcomed wealthy visitors, while Yuu warned the tailed beasts that he controlled their staged fights and outcomes.
• The arena opened with the Two-Tails and Four-Tails battling for the audience, and Black Zetsu watched in disbelief as the beasts entertained the crowd.
• Black Zetsu tried to scout near the arena, but Yuu sensed and slashed him before he could escape underground.
• Badly injured, Black Zetsu fled into the forest and decided to avoid Konoha until his plan succeeded, while the arena’s fame spread across the Shinobi World.
• Konoha introduced weekly fights and a point system for prizes, prompting nobles to send fine wine and caravans to the village.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi told Yuu that the arena had brought Konoha enormous profits and raised property prices, and Yuu predicted Konoha’s land would one day be worth more than the entire Land of Fire.

As Konoha prospered through Yuu’s plans, Danzo chose to cooperate with him and Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura were killed after plotting against him. The Uchiha Clan returned its wartime gains to Yuu, and Fugaku visited with treasured wine while preparing to reveal his true purpose.

• Yuu’s arena profits and wine storage plans drove Konoha’s renovation, while Danzo recognized that the village had grown wealthier than the Land of Fire’s capital.
• Danzo rejected Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura’s invitation to poison Yuu, informed Hiruzen Sarutobi, and continued working on the Wine Storage Room project.
• After learning of their poison plot, Yuu and Hiruzen Sarutobi arranged for the Fire Daimyo to send the Twelve Guardian Shinobi to execute Koharu and Homura.
• Mitokado Homura killed Utatane Koharu and accepted his own death, and their bodies were brought to Konoha.
• Yuu left the aftermath to Hiruzen Sarutobi, while Konoha’s clans worried that their arena profits and wartime rewards might provoke Yuu.
• Fugaku Uchiha agreed to return the Uchiha Clan’s gains and treasures to Yuu as an apology for the Kakashi Hatake dispute.
• Fugaku visited Yuu with wine preserved since the Warring States period, and Yuu accepted the gifts and asked what else he wanted.
• Fugaku hesitated over his undisclosed personal decision until Yuu urged him to speak.

Fugaku placed the Uchiha Clan in Saiki Yuu’s hands and prepared to purge its hardliners while Konoha’s leaders watched the clan’s crisis unfold. As Yuu meddled with newborn Naruto and Sasuke, Fugaku revealed his Mangekyō Sharingan and confronted the rebellious clansmen.

• Fugaku Uchiha decided the Uchiha Clan could not oppose Yuu and pledged its loyalty, then agreed to resolve its internal problems in exchange for a future task.
• Yuu told Hiruzen Sarutobi and Danzo that Fugaku intended to purge the Uchiha Clan, and revealed that he wanted its Sharingan users to brew wine.
• Black Zetsu urged Uchiha Madara to begin the resurrection plan, but Madara died and Obito took up the name Uchiha Madara.
• Konoha’s clans prospered through Yuu’s businesses, while the Tailed Beast Arena expanded its reach and Naruto was born.
• Yuu gave newborn Naruto alcohol, then later made Naruto and Sasuke drink while their families watched and arranged for Jiraiya and Orochimaru to train them.
• Fugaku resolved to purge the Uchiha hardliners without help from Hiruzen or Danzo and awakened his Mangekyō Sharingan after killing a close comrade.
• An Anbu told Yuu that the purge had begun, and Yuu took Itachi to the sealed Uchiha compound, where Fugaku confronted rebellious clansmen with his Mangekyō.

Fugaku Uchiha crushed Shu Uchiha’s rebellion under Saiki Yuu’s watch, and the Uchiha Clan regained Konoha’s trust. Yuu then left Naruto and Sasuke in Hiruzen Sarutobi’s care after Jiraiya and Orochimaru were injured fighting over the babies.

• Fugaku Uchiha used his Susanoo to defeat Shu Uchiha’s rebels, while Yuu arrived and killed Shu and the remaining conspirators.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi announced that Fugaku and the Uchiha Clan had suppressed the rebellion, and Danzo handed Yuu a valuable plot of land to settle his debt.
• Konoha’s prosperity and the Tailed Beast Arena alarmed rival villages, while Fugaku welcomed signs that the Uchiha Clan had regained Konoha’s trust.
• Yuu assigned Orochimaru to look after Sasuke and repeatedly got Sasuke and Itachi drunk, leading Orochimaru to train Itachi harshly and Fugaku to beat him after finding Yuu’s message on his collar.
• Yuu sent Jiraiya and Orochimaru away with Naruto and Sasuke, and the two men fought over their caregiving duties and ended up hospitalized.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi scolded Jiraiya and Orochimaru, then agreed to care for Naruto and Sasuke after Yuu threatened to reveal his IOUs.
• Yuu left the babies with Hiruzen and confronted Jiraiya and Orochimaru for skipping work at the hospital.