Recaps

Uchiha Chen trains his allies, helps secure Tsunade’s Medical Ninja program, and leads a mission against the Third Kazekage and Shukaku. After the supply convoy reaches Akihabara, Chen’s squad hunts Sand shinobi and completes its mission by killing a Jonin and three Chunin.

• Uchiha Chen taught Minato the Rasengan’s principles, demonstrated Chidori to Mikoto, and rushed to help Kushina after the Nine-Tails took control of her and exhausted her body.
• At the Jonin Meeting, Uchiha Chen presented evidence for training more Medical Ninja, and the Third Hokage privately approved the program while ordering Chen and Tsunade to keep it confidential.
• Uchiha Chen joined Team Thirteen on a supply mission to Akihabara, where Orochimaru and Tsunade learned that Shukaku had appeared and chose to confront the Third Kazekage.
• Uchiha Chen and Orochimaru attacked the Third Kazekage, and Chen freed Shukaku by breaking its seal, allowing the tailed beast to escape after its attack wounded Orochimaru.
• Tsunade treated Orochimaru and Chen, and the transport convoy delivered its supplies to Akihabara as Konoha prepared to disrupt Sunagakure’s supply routes.
• Uchiha Chen led his squad to ambush an isolated Sand shinobi reconnaissance team, where he and his teammates killed the Jonin and three Chunin.

Uchiha Chen fought Sunagakure’s forces, drew Shukaku away from the sealing squad, and helped Konoha force a truce after Toya and Gin died. As the wider war shifted, Chen rushed to rescue Minato, Nawaki, and Mikoto after a Sand ambush, while Tsunade hurried to their aid.

• Uchiha Chen and Himeji defeated a Sand Jonin, but Sand Shinobi Lu killed Taki Yū and poisoned Chen before Chen killed him with his newly awakened Three-Tomoe Sharingan.
• Uchiha Chen recovered at the base, learned Taki Tōru had quit being a ninja, and promised to help Himeji challenge the Hyuga Clan’s Caged Bird Seal.
• Uchiha Chen joined Hatake Sakumo’s raids on the Sand supply route, reunited with Mikoto, Nawaki, and Minato, and learned that Sunagakure was preparing a major assault.
• Uchiha Chen drew Shukaku away from the Sand sealing squad and persuaded it to give him some Chakra so he could take it to meet Kurama.
• Hatake Sakumo killed Toya in battle, and Gin took her own life, and Sasori blamed the Third Kazekage for sending his parents to war.
• After Toya and Gin’s bodies were returned, Chiyo agreed to a truce, but Uchiha Chen soon learned that Minato, Nawaki, and Mikoto had been ambushed.
• Uchiha Chen found Nawaki unconscious and poisoned, led the others toward Konoha’s camp, then stayed behind to fight through the Sand blockade as Tsunade set out to help.

Uchiha Chen rescued Kushina, then helped Konoha defeat Sunagakure by capturing the Third Kazekage. As the prisoners were handed over to a Konoha escort force, the Kazekage secretly broke his cage seal and prepared to take revenge.

• Uchiha Chen fought through Sunagakure pursuers and returned to camp, where he learned Nawaki was recovering and heard about the pendant offered to Uzumaki Mito.
• Nonō alerted the Third Hokage that Kushina had vanished, and Uchiha Chen tracked her captors with Shukaku and rescued her from Hidden Cloud shinobi.
• The Third Hokage revealed Kushina had been rescued, stripped Danzo of his posts, and kept her at the frontline headquarters while Konoha avoided opening a second war front.
• Uchiha Chen joined Orochimaru, Hatake Sakumo, and Jiraiya in battle, helping them overcome the Third Kazekage and capture him alive.
• Chiyo attacked Konoha after the Kazekage's defeat, but Hatake Sakumo knocked her unconscious, and Sunagakure's forces surrendered.
• As Konoha's army returned home, Uchiha Chen helped Mikoto seek treatment for her injured hand and discussed the village's recovery with his companions.
• An Anbu force took charge of the Third Kazekage and Chiyo, and two days later the Kazekage broke his cage seal and resolved to spill blood.

Konoha forced Sunagakure to accept harsh surrender terms, while the Uchiha escort mission turned into an ambush that left Fugaku using Izanagi to survive. Mikoto’s successful surgery and recovery brought the stretch back to Chen’s personal life, while Madara began watching Fugaku as a possible successor.

• The Third Kazekage resisted Konoha’s forces until Uchiha Chen subdued him with Genjutsu, and Orochimaru later reflected with Chen on war, desire, and mortality.
• Chen reconnected with Kushina and sought Tsunade’s help for Mikoto and Hyuga Tenko, while Tenko warned that the Uchiha planned to attack Sunagakure’s negotiation team.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen and the elders negotiated with Sunagakure, and Masha signed Konoha’s harsh agreement after the Third Kazekage urged him to accept it.
• Chen refused Fugaku’s request to join the escort mission, then spent his Ninja Points to strengthen several abilities and secured Tsunade’s agreement to treat Mikoto.
• Fugaku’s Uchiha escort force ambushed Masha at the border, but Sunagakure’s reinforcements surrounded them and forced the Uchiha to scatter.
• Fugaku’s Sharingan evolved to Three Tomoe, and he used Izanagi to survive after Masha’s troops left him for dead.
• Madara learned that Fugaku had survived through Izanagi and ordered White Zetsu to keep monitoring him as a possible successor.
• Tsunade successfully operated on Mikoto and said she would leave after the Chunin Exams, and Mikoto later woke as Chen stayed by her side.