Recaps

Chen and Himeji entered the shrine holding the Tenseigan so Himeji could absorb its ocular power and evolve her Byakugan. They began testing a safe amount, expecting the process to keep them on the moon for months.

• Chen faced the surviving Otsutsuki clansmen, who accepted that he and Himeji could use the Tenseigan after Soki's defeat.
• Himeji led Chen through a secret passage to the giant Tenseigan and prepared to absorb its power.
• Chen explained that Himeji could not use the Sage Body method of awakening the Tenseigan and would instead absorb the power of the fused Byakugan.
• Chen mixed Himeji's Chakra with his own, drew a tiny amount of ocular power from the Tenseigan, and transferred it into Himeji's Byakugan.
• Chen and Himeji began testing how much power Himeji could safely absorb, with the process expected to take seven or eight months.

Shimura Danzo fled the Akatsuki Organization after growing tired of its dangerous missions and Kakuzu’s attacks, intending to build a new ninja village and replenish his Sharingan. Kakuzu and Sasori intercepted him in the forest, and the chapter ended with the two arguing over who would claim him.

• Shimura Danzo recalled how his old friends had betrayed his trust and blamed Hiruzen for sending him to infiltrate the Akatsuki Organization.
• After six months in the organization, Shimura Danzo decided to defect because of its dangerous missions, Kakuzu’s attacks, and his dwindling supply of Sharingan.
• Shimura Danzo planned to meet his former subordinates in the Land of Rice Fields and establish a new ninja village while collecting more Sharingan.
• Kakuzu confronted Shimura Danzo in the forest and said he had come under the leader’s orders to take his head.
• Sasori appeared and said he wanted Shimura Danzo’s body for a Puppet, while Kakuzu objected to the waste of its market value.

Danzo fought Sasori and Kakuzu while using his prepared techniques and apparent ability to return from death to survive their attacks. After trapping Kakuzu with Omoikane, Danzo appeared to Kakuzu in the form of someone he recognized, leaving Kakuzu trembling and shouting that Danzo had died.

• Sasori attacked Danzo with Hiruko’s poisoned tail while Kakuzu joined in with a strike aimed at Danzo’s head.
• Danzo countered with Wind Release and summoned Baku, whose suction cleared Sasori’s magnetic sand and amplified Danzo’s attack against Kakuzu.
• Kakuzu’s tendrils struck Danzo, who was mangled and apparently killed, but Danzo reappeared after using the last Sharingan in his arm.
• Danzo broke free of Kakuzu’s tendrils with Wood Release and used Omoikane to trap Kakuzu in a forest illusion.
• A magnetic voice asked Kakuzu whether he was the Hidden Waterfall Village ninja who had come to assassinate him, and Kakuzu shouted that Danzo had died.

Kakuzu was trapped in Hashirama’s Omoikane genjutsu, repeatedly reliving the day he attacked the First Hokage and dying each time. After enduring many cycles and realizing he could not defeat Hashirama, he tried a new approach by claiming he was the Sage of Six Paths’ son and had come to guide Hashirama toward permanent peace.

• Hashirama recognized Danzo’s name and attacked Kakuzu after believing he had killed Danzo’s mother.
• Kakuzu died in Hashirama’s Wood Release, awoke at the start of the day, and died again after Hashirama mistook his vomiting for an insult.
• By his sixtieth rebirth, Kakuzu had identified Omoikane as a genjutsu that forced its victim to repeat a day until they broke it.
• Kakuzu concluded that breaking the genjutsu required defeating Hashirama, which he considered impossible.
• Kakuzu told Hashirama that he was the Sage of Six Paths’ son and had come to guide him toward permanent peace.

Danzo escaped Kakuzu and Sasori’s attack but was intercepted by Hiruko, who planned to kill him and take his Sharingan. From the moon, Chen watched the ambush unfold and prepared to direct Hiruko’s attack.

• Kakuzu tried to manipulate Hashirama into fighting Madara, but Hashirama used Deep Forest Emergence and trapped him in Genjutsu.
• Danzo used Flame Formation Explosive Tags to stop Sasori’s pursuit, then fled while conserving his strength.
• Fugaku waited by the river, expecting Danzo to arrive weakened and planning to seize his Mangekyo Sharingan.
• Hiruko blocked Danzo’s escape route, and Danzo realized that his former subordinate had come to ambush him.
• Chen monitored the fight from the moon and revealed that Hiruko had implanted a Flying Thunder God formula in Danzo’s arm to track him.

Hiruko defeated Danzo, took his right eye, and left him dying, but Danzo used the Reverse Four Symbols Sealing Technique as Fugaku arrived to kill him. The Third Hokage mourned Danzo from afar, while Fugaku learned Hiruko’s identity and set out to hunt him.

• Hiruko triggered the Curse Mark in Danzo’s implanted arm, forcing Danzo to sever it, then removed Danzo’s right eye and sealed it away with Big White’s help.
• Fugaku arrived too late to recover the Mangekyo Sharingan and raised a Kunai to kill the dying Danzo, who activated the Reverse Four Symbols Sealing Technique while thinking of Hiruzen.
• The Third Hokage watched children at the Ninja Academy and reflected on his rivalry with Danzo, wishing he still had him to talk to.
• Fugaku questioned White Zetsu about Hiruko and learned that Hiruko had once worked as a Root researcher under Danzo.
• Fugaku ordered White Zetsu to take him to Hiruko so he could kill him.

Fugaku tried to seize the Mangekyo Sharingan from Hiruko but was outmatched by his five Kekkei Genkai and recruited him into the Akatsuki Organization instead. Hiruko accepted Danzo’s ring, while Fugaku left planning to use him to collect Tailed Beasts and reclaim the Sharingan later.

• Hiruko escaped with the Mangekyo Sharingan, and White Zetsu guided Fugaku to intercept him.
• Hiruko fought Fugaku using Shikotsumyaku, Ice Release, Swift Release, and Wood Release, keeping outside the range of Fugaku’s gravity ability.
• Fugaku realized Hiruko’s coordinated attacks had him on the defensive and attempted to end the fight by flying away.
• Fugaku offered Hiruko Danzo’s place in the Akatsuki Organization, and Hiruko agreed.
• Fugaku gave Hiruko Danzo’s ring and left, intending to have him collect Tailed Beasts and reclaim the Sharingan later.

Chen used his sensory ability to visit Kaguya in her lunar prison and tried to win her trust by telling her stories. Kaguya asked him to gather the Tailed Beasts so she could escape, but Chen asked her to teach him powerful techniques and she said he could not learn them.

• Chen reflected on his new ability to observe the ninja world and decided Hiruko could still join the Akatsuki Organization under a new identity.
• Chen repeatedly sensed Kaguya inside Planetary Devastation and communicated with her through Chakra.
• Chen told Kaguya a heavily altered story about Naruto, Sasuke, Sakura, and Hinata in hopes of gaining benefits from her.
• Kaguya asked Chen to save her and explained her version of the Ten-Tails’ history.
• Kaguya instructed Chen to collect the Tailed Beasts, promising that someone would contact him and that she would make him her godson.
• Chen asked Kaguya to teach him powerful techniques, but she said he would not be able to learn them.

Chen secured Kaguya’s promise to teach him her Kekkei Mōra techniques, then spoke with Kawakui, who asked to leave the moon for the ninja world. He agreed to take her to Konoha under restrictions and planned to introduce her to Hiashi.

• Chen reasoned that his system could let him fuse all seven nature transformations and awaken Kekkei Mōra so he could learn Kaguya’s techniques.
• Kaguya agreed to teach Chen her techniques, hoping he might help free her from her sealed existence.
• Chen returned to the Artificial Sun and met Kawakui at the sunset pavilion.
• Kawakui asked Chen to take her to the ninja world once Himeji awakened the Tenseigan and opened the moon’s sealed passage.
• Chen agreed to bring Kawakui to Konoha but told her she could not wander freely during the coming upheaval.
• Chen teased Kawakui about leaving Yuanren and offered to introduce her to Hiashi.

Himeji absorbed the giant Tenseigan’s ocular power and awakened its abilities, becoming one of the strongest shinobi. After demonstrating Tenseigan Chakra Mode, she sealed Chen’s Chakra and announced she would replenish her own through him.

• Chen considered arranging a marriage between Hiashi and Kawa Aoi while Himeji continued absorbing the giant Tenseigan’s ocular power.
• In the fifth month, Himeji awakened the Tenseigan briefly, and her Chakra surged as her absorption accelerated.
• By the eighth month, Himeji had absorbed nearly all the giant Tenseigan’s power and could switch between the Byakugan and Tenseigan.
• After another month, Himeji completed her adaptation and stabilized her Chakra reserves at roughly Kushina’s level.
• Chen had Himeji activate Tenseigan Chakra Mode, and she demonstrated its power by pulling him toward her and sealing his Chakra.
• Himeji told Chen she intended to use him for “Magic Replenishment,” leaving him unable to move.

Chen and Himeji finished their training on the moon, where Himeji had mastered her new Tenseigan power and overpowered Chen in their sparring. With the Akatsuki Organization's Eye of the Moon Plan already more than halfway complete, they prepared to return to Konoha after ten months away.

• Himeji used Gentle Fist, repulsive force, and her Tenseigan abilities to defeat Chen in their sparring, while he fought without his hidden trump cards.
• Himeji bandaged Chen after the fight, and he recognized that she had adapted to her new power and developed her own combat style.
• Chen told Himeji they needed to return home because the Akatsuki Organization's Eye of the Moon Plan was more than halfway complete.
• Himeji agreed to leave the moon after Chen promised they could return every year, and she carried him toward the Artificial Sun.
• Himeji asked about Kawa Aoi, and Chen explained that he wanted to introduce her to Hiashi so Hiashi would stop watching him so closely.

Chen returned from the moon to Konoha with Himeji and Kawa Aoi, reunited with Mikoto, and settled Kawa Aoi in the village. He then checked on Konoha’s affairs and learned that Danzo’s death and the disappearance of the Tailed Beasts had left the Shinobi World increasingly tense.

• Himeji and Chen left the remaining Otsutsuki Clan members on the moon and brought Kawa Aoi back to the Land of Snow.
• Chen used the Flying Thunder God Technique to take Himeji and Kawa Aoi to his courtyard, where he reunited with Mikoto.
• Himeji brought Kawa Aoi to the Hyuga Clan Grounds, where Hiashi attempted to hug her and was knocked out by one punch.
• Chen went to the Hokage Office, dispelled his Wood Clone, and reviewed the memories it had gathered while working with Minato and Nawaki.
• Chen learned that Danzo had died, the ailing Third Hokage had withdrawn from village affairs, and the disappearance of the Tailed Beasts had heightened tensions among the major nations.

The chapter explained how Akatsuki’s attacks had cost four of the Five Great Nations their Tailed Beasts, while the villages struggled to conceal their losses and tensions escalated. It ended with Hidden Stone Village losing both the Four-Tails and Five-Tails after Fugaku escaped Ōnoki.

• Konoha learned of Akatsuki’s movements through Hiruko, and Chen, Minato, and the others concluded that the villages could no longer hide their lost Tailed Beasts.
• Danzo defected rather than risk another attack on Hidden Cloud Village, and Deva Path sent the Third Hokage and Fourth Mizukage to steal the Three-Tails and redirect suspicion toward Hidden Mist Village.
• Konan and Zetsu disguised themselves as Hidden Cloud ninja and attacked the Six-Tails Jinchuriki, while Hiruko and Kakuzu went after the Seven-Tails.
• Roshi left Hidden Stone Village after his relationship with Ōnoki deteriorated, and Fugaku and Juzo captured him.
• Fugaku and Juzo lured Iwagakure ninja into a trap and captured the Five-Tails Jinchuriki; Ōnoki killed Juzo, but Fugaku escaped, leaving Hidden Stone Village without the Four-Tails and Five-Tails.

Fugaku moved the Akatsuki Organization toward collecting the Tailed Beasts quickly, unlike Obito, whose long delay had cost the organization its members. After Hidden Cloud Village was attacked, the Fourth Raikage called for another Five Kage Summit to demand an explanation and compensation from Hidden Mist Village.

• The chapter contrasted the Akatsuki Organization's original long-term mercenary strategy with its rapid Tailed Beast campaign under Fugaku.
• It argued that Obito had wasted years and opportunities, while Fugaku would not wait because Chen posed an immediate threat.
• Dodai questioned why the Fourth Raikage wanted to reconvene the Five Kage Summit so soon after the Third Great Ninja War.
• The Fourth Raikage said Hidden Cloud needed years to recover from three attacks and wanted Hidden Mist Village to answer for its role.
• The Fourth Raikage ordered ninja sent to notify the other villages that he was convening the Five Kage Summit.

The Fourth Raikage blamed Konoha for the attacks on Hidden Cloud and convened a Five Kage Summit, while keeping Killer B on Turtle Island for his safety. Motoi arrived on the island with a group of Cloud Ninja to help counsel his childhood friend.

• Dodai asked the Fourth Raikage what Hidden Cloud would do about Danzo and Kakuzu, but A insisted the attacks were connected to Konoha and ordered a Five Kage Summit.
• Dodai suggested sending Motoi to keep Killer B company, and A issued the transfer order after Dodai left.
• Motoi and the Cloud Ninja followed Turtle Island’s secret route and passed through its protective barrier.
• Nagasawa welcomed the group and warned them that Killer B had been demanding to leave the island.
• The chapter explained that Motoi had come to counsel Killer B and help him become a perfect Jinchuriki.

Motoi arrived on Turtle Island and met Killer B, who was living there under the Fourth Raikage’s orders. After learning that the village had been attacked again, B struggled with guilt and his strained bond with the Eight-Tails, while Motoi urged him to train so he could help the Raikage.

• A giant gorilla charged at the group, but Nagasawa reassured Motoi before Killer B revealed himself atop it.
• Killer B took Motoi through Turtle Island’s forest and explained that the village kept giant beasts for summoning and training.
• Killer B asked whether the Fourth Raikage would let him leave, and Motoi told him that the Two-Tails Jinchuriki and the scroll holding the Three-Tails had been taken.
• Killer B blamed himself for being unable to protect the village, while Motoi comforted him and urged him to train harder.
• Killer B brought Motoi to his home, then discussed the village’s recovery and his increasingly strained relationship with the Eight-Tails.

Killer B struggled to trust Eight-Tails after the beast’s rampage, while Motoi recalled their childhood and confessed that he had once tried to kill him. Motoi urged Killer B to treat Eight-Tails with the same understanding he showed his friends, especially as another war threatened.

• Killer B worried that Eight-Tails might rampage like its third brother, leaving him unable to become a perfect Jinchuriki.
• Motoi reminded Killer B of their childhood friendship and how he had protected him from bullies.
• After Killer B became Eight-Tails’ Jinchuriki, Motoi’s grief over his father’s death turned into hatred, and he once tried to assassinate Killer B.
• Killer B calmly bumped fists with Motoi after hearing his confession.
• Motoi urged Killer B to keep trying to get along with Eight-Tails and revealed that the Fourth Raikage planned to convene the Five Kage Summit.

Killer B confronted and defeated his dark self at the Waterfall of Truth, then removed the seal restraining the Eight-Tails. He transformed into the beast and set off for the Land of Iron to find his brother at the Five Kage Summit.

• Killer B entered the Waterfall of Truth and faced Dark Killer B, who urged him to embrace his resentment toward the village and the people close to him.
• Killer B and Dark Killer B fought with short swords, and Killer B’s skill improved as the battle continued.
• Killer B defeated Dark Killer B but stopped his final strike and made peace with him.
• Killer B entered his consciousness and removed the seal restraining the Eight-Tails.
• Killer B transformed into the Eight-Tails’ jinchuriki and headed to the Land of Iron to find his brother.

News of the Hidden Cloud Village’s attacks and the apparent involvement of the long-missing Mizukage fueled suspicion and rumors across the Shinobi World ahead of the Five Kage Summit. Chen secured the Hidden Mist and Sand Villages’ attendance, and Ōnoki reluctantly agreed to go despite fearing his past connection to the Akatsuki.

• Spies spread news that the Hidden Cloud Village had been attacked twice, with cloud ninja identifying the long-missing Third and Fourth Mizukage as attackers.
• Rumors blamed the Hidden Mist Village for a wider conspiracy, while the Five Great Nations fell into a tense calm as they awaited the summit.
• Chen persuaded the newly appointed Fifth Mizukage to attend, and the Hidden Mist Village agreed to confront the Hidden Cloud Village over its own losses.
• Rasa reluctantly agreed to attend after Konoha pressed the Hidden Sand Village to join.
• Ōnoki decided to attend the summit but feared that the Akatsuki mission he had commissioned had ordered an attack on the Hidden Cloud Village.

Ōnoki worried that Akatsuki had taken his money to attack the Hidden Cloud Village and stolen its Tailed Beast as well, so he decided to attend the Five Kage Summit. Meanwhile, Chen trained Kushina in her new Nine-Tails power, prepared for a possible Akatsuki attack at the summit, and planned to awaken the Rinnegan afterward.

• Ōnoki recalled hiring Akatsuki to attack the Hidden Cloud Village and feared that the organization’s theft of a Tailed Beast would expose his role.
• Ōnoki decided to attend the Five Kage Summit and seek answers from the Hidden Mist Village about its attack on Iwagakure.
• Chen trained Kushina, who had become a perfect Jinchuriki after breaking the Nine-Tails’ Seal, to help her adapt to her new power.
• Chen told Kushina he expected Akatsuki might attack the Five Kage Summit and said she should stay in Konoha to protect the village.
• Chen chose Minato and Nawaki as his guards for the summit and said he would seek to awaken the Rinnegan afterward.

After three months spent undoing the Seven-Tails Jinchuriki’s elaborate Seals, the Akatsuki sealed her into the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path and argued over the ordeal. White Zetsu then reported that the Fourth Raikage had called a Five Kage Summit, leaving the Akatsuki to face a possible response to their recent activities.

• The Akatsuki members finished undoing the Seven-Tails Jinchuriki’s Seals and sealed her into the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, which opened another eye.
• Kakuzu complained about losing three months of bounty work and said he would refuse to help with another Tailed Beast like this one.
• Sasori mocked Kakuzu over Danzo’s Genjutsu, while Pakura demanded to know why the Seven-Tails Jinchuriki had so many Seals.
• Hiruko blamed Kakuzu for the Seals, but Kakuzu denied knowing anything about them, and Fugaku agreed the Hidden Waterfall Village could not have made them.
• Sasori accused Fugaku of getting Juzo killed, and Fugaku denied it.
• White Zetsu returned with news that the Fourth Raikage had called a Five Kage Summit in the Land of Iron and that the other Kage had agreed to attend.

Akatsuki debated the threat of the Five Kage Summit, and Nagato decided to attack the Five Kage while sending a separate team after the Nine-Tails. Konan insisted on staying with Nagato, who mourned Yahiko and blamed himself for failing to protect them.

• Konan, Sasori, Fugaku, Pakura, and Kakuzu discussed whether the Five Great Nations could uncover Akatsuki's operations, while White Zetsu suggested relocating.
• Nagato asked White Zetsu for Killer B's location, then announced that Akatsuki would attack the Five Kage Summit.
• Nagato assigned Sasori, Kakuzu, and Pakura to capture the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki while the others accompanied him to the Land of Iron.
• Konan voiced concern about the attack, but refused to stay behind and said she wanted to remain with Nagato's real body.
• Nagato's hands trembled and tears fell as he blamed himself for failing to take care of Yahiko and Konan.

Chen, Minato, and Nawaki traveled to the Land of Iron for the Five Kage Summit, where Chen arrived last and assessed the other leaders. The summit began with old hostilities and political tensions hanging over the assembled Kage.

• Chen, Minato, and Nawaki traveled on foot for three days to reach the Land of Iron, since none of them had left Flying Thunder God Technique Formulas there.
• The Land of Iron's samurai admitted Chen and his companions into the fortress and escorted them to the summit room.
• Chen arrived after the Fourth Raikage, Third Tsuchikage, Fourth Kazekage, and Fifth Mizukage, then took his seat and placed his Hokage hat on the table.
• Chen noted that the Fourth Raikage A looked at him with hatred over the Third Raikage's death and Chen's attack on the Hidden Cloud Village.
• Chen assessed Ōnoki's composure, Rasa's silence, and the nervous Fifth Mizukage Hozuki Chijin, who had risen to the position with the Hozuki Clan's support.

At the Five Kage Summit, the Kage discussed their dwindling successors before Mifune opened the meeting over the Hidden Cloud Village’s lost Tailed Beast. Hozuki Chijin denied responsibility and counteraccused the Hidden Cloud of abducting the Six-Tails Jinchuriki, while Ōnoki joined A in demanding answers from the Hidden Mist Village.

• Ōnoki reflected on the Kage who had died or vanished since the last summit and envied Konoha’s abundance of talented successors, while A glared at the Hokage and Tsuchikage over his father’s death.
• Mifune officially opened the summit and explained that A had called it because the Hidden Cloud Village had been attacked and lost a Tailed Beast, allegedly to the former Mizukage.
• Hozuki Chijin denied that the former Mizukage had attacked the Hidden Cloud Village and challenged A to provide evidence.
• Hozuki Chijin accused the Hidden Cloud Village of sending disguised ninjas to capture the Six-Tails Jinchuriki, and A called the charge slander.
• Ōnoki backed A, arguing that the Third and Fourth Mizukage had been seen attacking other villages and insisting that the Hidden Mist Village explain their actions.

At the Five Kage Summit, Chen rejected the claim that Hidden Mist Village was responsible for the attacks and argued that the Mizukage may have been controlled after death. As tensions with the Fourth Raikage eased, Orochimaru revived Danzo in a Root laboratory.

• Chen challenged the Fourth Raikage’s accusations and provoked him until the Raikage smashed the table and prepared to fight.
• Mifune and Ōnoki intervened, and the Fourth Raikage sat back down under the summit’s rules against violence.
• Chen suggested that someone had controlled the dead Third and Fourth Mizukage, and Ōnoki explained the Impure World Reincarnation technique.
• Chen offered to arrange a meeting between the Fourth Raikage and his father, then denied that anyone in Konoha used Impure World Reincarnation.
• Orochimaru welcomed the newly revived Danzo back to Konoha in a Root laboratory.