Recaps

Menma claimed the Giant Tenseigan and convinced Toneri to help him protect the moon, while Obito manipulated Kirigakure into war with the Village of Light. As fighting spread and the major villages mobilized, Menma reinforced the front and prepared to confront the threats around him.

• Yugito returned to Kumogakure alive after Menma extracted the Two-Tails, and the Fourth Raikage ordered her to recover before assigning her to Killer B under tighter security.
• Menma, Muku, and Suigetsu traveled to the moon, where Hamura revealed Toneri’s plan to destroy the planet and entrusted Menma with the power to stop him.
• Menma defeated Toneri, absorbed the Giant Tenseigan’s power, and persuaded Toneri to live and help restore the moon’s defenses.
• Obito used White Zetsu to make Kirigakure prepare for war, prompting Konoha, Iwagakure, and Kumogakure to investigate and strengthen their defenses.
• Menma identified Obito’s control of Kirigakure and readied the Village of Light’s forces, while giving Toneri transplanted Byakugan and waiting for his enemies to reveal their plans.
• Kirigakure attacked the Village of Light’s bases, but Suigetsu and Utakata helped the Light Ninja inflict heavy casualties as Obito publicized a claimed Mist victory.
• Menma sent the Air Combat Unit to reinforce the Land of Grass front and ordered Muku to tighten control over the capitals, while Ōnoki mobilized Iwagakure’s forces against the Village of Light.

Menma defeated Kirigakure’s invasion and confronted Akatsuki, while Jiraiya infiltrated the Village of Light to retrieve Naruto. Menma caught them as they fled and killed Jiraiya and Fukasaku, leaving Naruto to face him.

• Gamamaru named Naruto the Child of Prophecy and warned Jiraiya that Menma might destroy the world, so Jiraiya resolved to bring Naruto back.
• The Village of Light routed Kirigakure’s forces, while Obito sent Akatsuki members after the Three-Tails and Six-Tails Jinchuriki.
• Menma rescued the Light Ninja from Akatsuki and killed Hidan, Kakuzu, and Deidara, while Sasori escaped.
• Iwagakure invaded the Village of Light, and Jiraiya slipped into the East District to search for Naruto.
• Naruto escaped his guards and saved Jiraiya from Toneri and Karin, then fled with Jiraiya as Menma defeated Kirigakure.
• Menma intercepted Jiraiya and Naruto, overwhelmed them with his Chakra and Golden Chains, and killed Jiraiya and Fukasaku.
• Menma ordered Toneri to release Naruto and challenged Naruto to defeat and kill him.

Menma defeated Iwagakure, took Roshi and Han alive, and built the Village of Light’s strength as the other great nations formed an alliance against him. The allied army met Menma’s forces in battle, where devastating attacks divided the fighting into separate fronts and Danzo advanced to confront Menma.

• Menma killed Ōnoki and Kitsuchi, captured Roshi and Han, and forced thousands of Stone Ninja to surrender or die.
• Tsunade and Danzo prepared Konoha for war as the major villages formed an alliance, while Nagato rejected Obito’s proposal and Obito revived Madara Uchiha.
• Menma extracted the Four-Tails and Five-Tails from Roshi and Han, sealed them inside Mui and Shibuki, and ordered the Village of Light to prepare for the allied forces.
• Naruto resolved to face Menma with his friends, while Sasuke defeated Orochimaru, took control of his forces, and left to find Itachi.
• Danzo secured command of the allied army and declared that he would defeat Menma himself, while Menma led more than six thousand Light Ninja toward the alliance.
• Menma used Flying Thunder God marks to send four giant attacks into the allied army, killing more than a thousand ninja as Killer B transformed into Gyūki.
• The Light Ninja’s Tailed Beast Bombs battered the advancing alliance, and Menma intercepted Killer B’s attack with Golden Chains and an Earth Style defense.
• The Light Ninja deployed the Two-Tails, Five-Tails, Seven-Tails, and Aerial Fortress as the allied forces attacked on separate fronts, and Danzo summoned Baku before advancing toward Menma.

Menma defeated the Allied Forces and the Sand Ninja while Madara revived himself and began preparing to confront him. As Menma prepared to attack Konoha, Tsunade summoned the previous Hokage and several others to face the village’s crisis.

• Menma killed Danzō, Asuma, Kurenai, Yamato, Raidō, and Kakashi, then defeated Might Guy and the Allied Forces before forcing the survivors to surrender.
• Madara defeated Nagato and Konan, forced Nagato to revive him, took back the Rinnegan, and summoned the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.
• Madara gathered Itachi, Kisame, and Sasori, declared control of the Akatsuki Organization, and assigned Obito to command its Tailed Beasts plan.
• After learning Menma had defeated the Allied Forces, Baki ordered the Sand Ninja to retreat, but Menma took Shukaku’s Chakra, killed Baki, and forced Sunagakure to surrender.
• Menma took the unconscious Gaara to headquarters and planned an attack on Konohagakure as Tsunade and the village elders debated surrender or resistance.
• Tsunade agreed to use Impure World Reincarnation after Gen released the souls sealed by the Reaper Death Seal, though Gen was secretly a White Zetsu.
• Tsunade summoned Hashirama, Tobirama, Hiruzen, Minato, Sakumo, Jiraiya, and Kushina, and Tobirama demanded an explanation for the village’s crisis.