Recaps

Uchiha Cheng rose through the Academy, defeated Konoha and Cloud Village challengers, and grew close to Kushina Uzumaki. After rescuing her from a Kumogakure kidnapping attempt, he and his companions were surrounded by Shimura Danzō’s forces, who accused them of treason.

• Uchiha Cheng bullied Shibi Aburame, defended Kushina Uzumaki from classmates, and defeated Hyuga Hiashi and Nawaki Senju in a one-against-two match.
• Uchiha Cheng used a Shadow Clone to trick his class during a race, then hosted a barbecue at Shin River Reservoir for the students who reached him.
• Uchiha Cheng defeated Cloud Village fighters including Yotsuki Ai, then challenged all the students at once and won with a combined Fire and Wind technique.
• Uchiha Cheng declined the Third Hokage’s offer to join Anbu and promised to train Kushina after she ate an enormous roasted lamb leg.
• Uchiha Cheng found evidence that Kushina had been kidnapped and pursued her, while Matsudaira Kazuto led the Cloud Shinobi who planned to make her an Eight-Tails Jinchuriki vessel.
• Uchiha Cheng and Kushina fought the kidnappers, escaped Matsudaira Kazuto’s attacks with deception and clones, and killed him.
• Minato Namikaze and Uchiha Yuto joined Cheng and Kushina, but Shimura Danzō’s masked forces surrounded them and ordered their arrest or death.

Uchiha Cheng rose through the Military Police Force, clashed with Root and Uchiha Dai Boku, and eventually joined Hatake Sakumo’s team. As war spread across the surrounding lands, Cheng defeated a Stone Ninja squad alone, while Sakumo pursued the enemy who had taken Nawaki’s organs.

• Uchiha Yuto stayed behind to cover Cheng, Minato, and Kushina’s retreat until Hatake Sakumo arrived with Anbu and stopped Root’s attack.
• Cheng became deputy captain of the Military Police Force, challenged Danzo’s influence, and earned public support through his policing and new mission system.
• Cheng published Magic Brush Ma Liang and investigated a suspected spy with Rinne, eventually exposing Uchiha Dai Boku and fighting him alongside Yuto and Suzune.
• Cheng killed Dai Boku and two Root members, then led Anbu to Danzo’s hidden human experimentation base, and Hiruzen punished Danzo with exile and Cheng with confinement.
• After his confinement, Cheng rejected Orochimaru as his mentor, demonstrated his strength, and chose Sakumo as his swordsmanship teacher and team leader.
• Sakumo trained Cheng, Mikoto, and Anna, then took them on a mission to wipe out a bandit stronghold as the war began spreading across the region.
• Cheng used a series of disguises to expose Stone Ninja attacking a caravan, then lured them into traps and killed their squad alone.
• Sakumo’s team found the battlefield where Nawaki lay badly wounded, and Sakumo pursued the Stone Ninja who had taken his internal organs.

Uchiha Cheng revived Nawaki, helped Konoha defeat Iwagakure in the Land of Grass, and then went to the front against Sunagakure and Hanzo’s forces. After facing Shukaku alone, Cheng persuaded the tailed beast to turn its power against the Sand Ninja.

• Uchiha Cheng revived Nawaki with the Revival Pill, and Tsunade thanked him and promised him a favor.
• Uchiha Cheng helped Konoha rout the Stone Ninja in the Land of Grass, earning the title Konoha Little Asura and a public promotion to Jonin.
• Uchiha Cheng defeated Uchiha Fugaku in a duel, winning the clan’s acceptance of his decision to go to the front lines.
• Uchiha Cheng left Konoha after Mikoto Uchiha gave him an engraved waist token, while Kushina received his promise of protection in a genjutsu.
• Uchiha Cheng detected and defeated Fūno Musho’s Rain Ninja ambush, allowing Konoha’s reinforcements to cross the swamp and join Mitokado Homura’s forces.
• Uchiha Cheng took command of two hundred soldiers to guard Konoha’s rear as Ebizo and Bunpuku approached with four hundred Sunagakure troops.
• Uchiha Cheng defeated Bunpuku and faced Shukaku alone, then offered the tailed beast its freedom in exchange for attacking the Sand Ninja.

Uchiha Cheng rescued Tsunade after Hanzo’s flood devastated Konoha’s forces, then joined her in disrupting the Rain Ninja and training Yahiko, Nagato, and Konan. After Tsunade developed an antidote, they returned to the front as Konoha advanced into the Land of Rain, and she invited Cheng to help intercept Hanzo.

• Uchiha Cheng freed Shukaku to disrupt the Sand Ninja while Yuji Senju’s troops joined Konoha’s main force, and Hanzo confronted the assembled Konoha army.
• Hanzo’s flood devastated the Konoha forces and the surrounding region, scattering the survivors as Tsunade treated wounded ninja and Rain Ninja pursued them.
• Uchiha Cheng rescued Tsunade from Kitagawa Takashi’s Rain Ninja, then used shadow clones to cover their escape from Hanzo and treated her in a cave.
• Uchiha Cheng and Tsunade posed as a couple in a Rain town, defeated its Rain Ninja, and earned the name Divine Crow Couple while helping refugees and meeting Yahiko, Nagato, and Konan.
• Uchiha Cheng began training Yahiko, Nagato, and Konan while he and Tsunade continued attacking towns, and Tsunade used a wild salamander’s poison to develop an antidote.
• After nearly three months, Tsunade completed hundreds of antidote vials, and she and Uchiha Cheng fought through Fūno Musho’s Rain Ninja force and defeated the Rock Golem Tonpa.
• Uchiha Cheng and Tsunade returned to Konoha’s camp, where Tsunade treated the poisoned ninja and helped the army resume its advance into the Land of Rain.
• Hanzo allied with Sunagakure against Konoha, and Tsunade invited Uchiha Cheng to join her, Jiraiya, and Orochimaru in intercepting him.