Recaps

Masahiko returned to Konoha, took Sara in as his daughter, and watched Obito graduate before commissioning transforming toys from Sunagakure. After Minato was gravely wounded by a Jashin Cult member, Masahiko investigated the cult’s hidden base and discovered a new ability after destroying its altar.

• Masahiko returned to Konoha after Uzumaki Jinshuan became the second Daimyo of the Land of Whirlpools, then investigated the Dragon Vein incident at Rōran alongside Minato’s team.
• Masahiko helped Future Masahiko fight the Sage of Six Paths, then took Sara in and raised her as his daughter in Konoha.
• Masahiko taught Sara basic skills and helped her learn ramen-making while Obito and Rin graduated from the Ninja Academy and joined Minato’s squad with Kakashi.
• Masahiko commissioned Sasori to make transforming toys for Nawaki and Mikoto’s unborn child, then escaped Sunagakure after Sasori attacked him.
• Masahiko learned that Akatsuki had left Minato gravely wounded, healed him, and flew to Hidden Hot Water Village after hearing that the attacker had called Minato “Big Brother Minato.”
• Masahiko joined Jiraiya and Orochimaru in exploring the Jashin Cult’s hidden base, where they found dead followers and a bloodstained altar.
• Masahiko discovered that the altar’s power tried to bind the soul to the body, shattered it, and gained the Curse Breaking ability.

Masahiko mastered a strange space linked to the Gate of Wonder, intervened in the war, and negotiated with the Hyuga Clan while the conflict spread. He traveled to Kirigakure to investigate its selection of the Fourth Mizukage and entered the competition venue with Fat Cat.

• Masahiko welcomed the birth of Senju Itachi, then helped Mito spend her last days with her great-grandson before she died and was buried beside Hashirama.
• Masahiko sealed the Nine-Tails’ chakra inside Kushina and renamed it Uzumaki Kurama, then received news of Sasori’s defection and rising tensions among the villages.
• Masahiko discovered Eight Trigrams Space through the Gate of Wonder, learned to travel through its nodes, and later stole supplies from Sunagakure’s camp for Konoha.
• Masahiko negotiated with Hiashi and Hizashi to exchange his spatial-node diagram for the Hyuga Clan’s secret techniques, urging the clan to send fighters to the Land of Rain.
• Masahiko trained Nagato in Dust Release, checked on Senju Itachi, and promised Obito he could visit the battlefield if the war continued.
• Masahiko traveled to Kirigakure in disguise and learned that matches to select the Fourth Mizukage would begin in three days.
• Masahiko heard about Kirigakure’s persecution of Kekkei Genkai clans, then entered the sealed competition venue with Fat Cat and spotted an acquaintance near Suikazan Fuguki.

Masahiko altered events in Kirigakure, helped Konoha through the Third Shinobi War’s aftermath, and witnessed Minato become Fourth Hokage. After years away caring for Nanako, he returned to find his name on a gravestone and the Fourth Great Ninja War underway.

• Masahiko disrupted Kirigakure’s matches, captured several ninja in his space, and left after Ao mistook him for Roshi.
• Masahiko found Sakumo gravely injured and brought him back to camp, where Tsunade mourned Kenji and Nawaki mourned his father.
• Masahiko returned to Konoha with the Senju survivors, buried Kenji, and tried to improve the clan’s declining birth rate.
• Masahiko recruited Ringo Ameyuri to infiltrate Akatsuki, then helped turn the dispute over Orochimaru’s mission into a public debate that favored rescuing comrades.
• Minato became Fourth Hokage, married Kushina, and later welcomed a son while Masahiko stayed in the Land of Whirlpools to care for the aging Nanako.
• Masahiko sealed the Two-Tails’ Chakra into Fat Cat and spent years training in his space before finding Nanako, Iko, and Hitomi buried beside a grave bearing his own name.
• Masahiko returned to the Land of Whirlpools and learned from Sara that the other villages had attacked Konoha, Minato and Kushina were fighting Kirigakure, and the Fourth Great Ninja War had begun.

Masahiko returned to the shinobi world, intervened in Orochimaru and Danzo’s schemes, and uncovered turmoil in Kirigakure while bringing Kimimaro, Haku, Zabuza, and Kisame into the Land of Whirlpools. The arc left him training Kimimaro, Haku, and Karin as Zabuza defended the Kubikiribōchō from challengers.

• Masahiko returned to Konoha, stopped Orochimaru’s Impure World Reincarnation, defeated Madara, and learned that Minato had left the Hokage position to aid the Land of Whirlpools.
• Masahiko confronted Danzo, fought Madara again near Kumogakure, and later found Danzo’s letter explaining his choices during the war.
• Masahiko returned to the Land of Whirlpools, taught Naruto about the village’s history, and recognized a troubling connection between Hitomi and the Eight Gates Released Formation.
• Masahiko investigated unrest in Kirigakure, found Kimimaro among the Kaguya clan, and witnessed the clan’s defeat before Orochimaru took Kimimaro under his protection.
• Masahiko watched Kirigakure’s factions clash, met Kisame, and refused to sell the village’s ninja swords as he proposed forming the Land of Whirlpools Seven Ninja Swordsmen.
• Masahiko recruited Zabuza and Kisame, assigned Zabuza the Kubikiribōchō, and brought Kimimaro and Haku to the Land of Whirlpools for training.
• Masahiko recruited Karin to train with Kimimaro and Haku, then limited challenges for Zabuza’s sword as Zabuza defeated a challenger in the arena.