Recaps

Uchiha Cheng faced Orochimaru’s schemes, reconciled with Danzo, and joined Naruto’s team on an escort mission to the Land of Waves. The team fought Zabuza and Haku while Gato’s men threatened the villagers, and the stretch ended with Naruto trapped by Haku and Isaka’s family in danger.

• Uchiha Cheng and Naruto escaped Orochimaru’s trapped cave, then Cheng helped defeat Orochimaru and returned to Lady Tsunade.
• Uchiha Cheng taught at Konoha, rescued Haruno Sakura, fought White Fang to a draw, and continued taking missions while Orochimaru repeatedly targeted him.
• Uchiha Cheng rejected Pakura’s confession, defeated Orochimaru alongside Lady Tsunade, and survived Uchiha Itachi’s attempt to kill him before Jiraiya rescued him.
• Naruto uncovered Danzo’s mistaken belief that Uchiha Cheng liked Sakura, and Danzo apologized to Cheng, who accepted his gifts and reconciled with him.
• Orochimaru challenged Uchiha Cheng to fight in seven days, but Kakashi-sensei defeated Cheng, Naruto, Sakura, and their teammate during an examination before assigning them training missions.
• Naruto’s team escorted Tazuna to the Land of Waves, where Kakashi-sensei fought Zabuza and an unknown youth appeared to kill him before the team began preparing for another attack.
• Uchiha Cheng confronted Inari after learning Gato’s men had killed Inari’s adoptive father, then stayed behind to protect Isaka’s family as Gato’s subordinates threatened them.
• Uchiha Cheng fought Haku while Naruto protected Tazuna, but Haku trapped Naruto in a Water Prison and Gato’s subordinates took Isaka’s mother away before a gust of wind split Xiao Ming’s body in two.

Uchiha Cheng and Team 7 fought Haku and Zabuza in the Land of Waves, then returned to Konoha and earned a place in the Chunin Exams. The stretch ends as the candidates gather for the dangerous scroll-seizing second exam.

• Uchiha Cheng joined Naruto’s fight with Haku, and the team struggled against Haku’s Demonic Mirroring Ice Crystals while Zabuza kept Kakashi occupied.
• Uchiha Cheng’s rage unleashed the Nine-Tails’ Chakra, allowing him to shatter Haku’s ice mirrors, but Haku died while protecting Zabuza from Kakashi.
• Gato arrived with his thugs, and Zabuza fought them with Uchiha Cheng’s kunai before Isaka led villagers to help defeat the attackers.
• Zabuza died beside Haku, and Team 7 buried them before returning to Konoha, where Kakashi initially refused Uchiha Cheng’s request for another mission.
• The Hokage approved preliminary exams to determine whether Kakashi’s young students could enter the Chunin Exams, and Uchiha Cheng defeated Rock Lee in a sparring match.
• Uchiha Cheng, Naruto, Sakura, and their teammates qualified for the Chunin Exams, met Yakushi Kabuto, and began Morino Ibiki’s written test.
• Naruto and Uchiha Cheng stayed for Ibiki’s final question, and their group passed the written test despite the examiner’s severe rules.
• The examinees gathered for the second exam, a dangerous contest to seize scrolls.

Team 7 survived the Forest of Death, then faced a series of preliminary matches to qualify for the third exam. The arc ended with Second Pillar hospitalized after injuring himself in training, Kabuto sneaking into his room, and Kakashi assigning Ebisu to train Uchiha Cheng.

• Team 7 entered the second exam, where Orochimaru attacked them, placed a Cursed Seal on Uchiha Cheng, and later left after Anko threatened to intervene.
• Sakura guarded her unconscious teammates against the Sound Ninja Trio until other Leaf genin arrived, and Neji removed the Cursed Seal’s effects so Uchiha Cheng could wake.
• Uchiha Cheng’s team escaped the Rain Ninja’s layered genjutsu, reached the tower, and passed the second exam before the Hokage announced preliminary matches.
• Uchiha Cheng defeated Akagaki Guy despite the Cursed Seal limiting his Chakra, then Kakashi removed the seal while confronting Orochimaru.
• Uchiha Cheng watched Shino, Kankuro, and Sakura win their matches before defeating Fang by using his transformation to confuse him.
• Hinata fought Neji with encouragement from Uchiha Cheng and the others but lost after Neji sealed her Chakra, while Uchiha Cheng vowed to defeat him someday.
• Rock Lee removed his weights and opened the Fifth Gate against Gaara, but Gaara injured him and won after Uchiha Cheng intervened, and Choji then lost to Dosu, ending the preliminaries.
• The Hokage announced the third-exam matchups, Second Pillar injured himself while training and was hospitalized, and Kakashi assigned Ebisu to train Uchiha Cheng as Kabuto slipped into Second Pillar’s room.

Uchiha Cheng defeated Neji, then fought beside his friends as Orochimaru invaded Konoha and Gaara’s power awakened. The Hokage died protecting the village, leaving Cheng and Naruto to face their grief and help Konoha recover.

• Uchiha Cheng agreed to train with Jiraiya, who took him and Naruto as disciples and taught Cheng to summon Toad Boss.
• Uchiha Cheng stopped Gaara from attacking Rock Lee, then fought Neji in the Chunin Exam and won despite having his Chakra points sealed.
• Neji read his father’s scroll and forgave his clan, while Shikamaru withdrew from his match against Temari.
• Sasuke used Chidori against Gaara, but the invasion began as Gaara’s tailed beast started to awaken.
• Orochimaru trapped Uchiha Cheng and Shikamaru in genjutsu, then used Impure World Reincarnation to pit the First Hokage and Second Hokage against the Third Hokage.
• Uchiha Cheng, Sakura, and Second Pillar confronted Gaara, and Cheng summoned Toad Boss to protect his injured companions.
• Uchiha Cheng and Toad Boss transformed into the Nine-Tails and defeated the monsters emerging from Gaara, while the Third Hokage fell to Orochimaru.
• Uchiha Cheng returned to Konoha and learned that the Third Hokage had died protecting the village, then resolved to help Konoha carry on his Will of Fire.