Recaps

As Konoha prepared to confront Menma, revived leaders and family members tried to negotiate while Menma defended his plan to unify the shinobi world by force. Sasuke confronted Itachi about the Uchiha massacre and chose to keep his brother alive, as the coming war drew near.

• Tsunade told the revived Hokage about Menma’s rise, while Kushina and Minato refused to intervene in the affairs of the living and Hashirama and Tobirama promised to seek peace.
• Menma returned to the Village of Light with Gaara, ordered preparations to destroy Konoha, and told Sasuke the truth about the Uchiha massacre and Itachi’s role.
• Tobirama lifted Konoha’s general mobilization, invited Menma to peace talks at the Valley of the End, and organized the village clans for a possible battle.
• Minato reunited with Naruto at Mount Myōboku, but Naruto insisted he would stop Menma without killing him, while Itachi left to meet Sasuke.
• Menma secured Shikaku’s cooperation and accepted Konoha’s invitation, while Sasuke and Toneri traveled to the Uchiha clan’s secret ground to find Itachi.
• Minato, Kushina, and Naruto visited Menma, who welcomed his parents and Karin before arguing with Naruto that unification and overwhelming strength could end the cycle of war.
• Menma bound Naruto and placed him under Minato and Kushina’s guard before leaving to prepare for war against the Five Great Shinobi Villages.
• Sasuke defeated Itachi without killing him, learned that Itachi accepted responsibility for the massacre but would not reveal Konoha’s role, and knocked him unconscious before leaving with Toneri.

Menma led the Village of Light against Konohagakure, defeated Hashirama and Madara, and secured Konoha’s surrender. He rejected Madara’s Moon Eye Plan, and Hashirama entrusted the Shinobi World’s future to him.

• Toneri brought Sasuke and the unconscious Itachi to the Village of Light, where Itachi accepted responsibility for his past and gave Sasuke his eyes.
• Menma identified Madara Uchiha as the force behind Obito and the Akatsuki Organization, then departed with Toneri to confront Konoha at the Valley of the End.
• Menma rejected Hashirama’s offer and demanded Konoha’s unconditional surrender, while Toneri fought Tobirama and Hiruzen and Menma battled Hashirama.
• Menma defeated Hashirama, who ordered Konoha to surrender, and then confronted Madara as he tried to retreat.
• Madara refused to abandon the Moon Eye Plan, so Menma and Toneri fought him and suppressed the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.
• Menma and Toneri overcame Madara’s Susanoo, Limbo shadows, and other attacks, then bound him as Muku reported Konoha’s surrender.
• Madara urged Menma to carry out the Infinite Tsukuyomi, but Menma, Hashirama, and Tobirama rejected the plan in favor of a free future.

Menma defeated Madara, Obito, Black Zetsu, and the White Zetsu army, then brought the shinobi villages under the Village of Light. The story left Menma overseeing the new order and preparing to eliminate the remaining White Zetsu.

• Menma defeated Madara, learned that Black Zetsu served Kaguya, and killed Madara after Madara wished him success in creating a peaceful world.
• Obito led Sasori, Kisame, and a vast White Zetsu army in an assault on the Village of Light, but Minato defeated Sasori and Itachi persuaded Kisame to surrender.
• Minato broke Obito’s mask and injured him, while Menma captured and killed Black Zetsu, and Minato then defeated Obito, and Menma killed him.
• Menma returned to the Village of Light and joined its defenders in wiping out the attacking White Zetsu, then organized a campaign to find the tens of thousands still hidden across the world.
• After Konohagakure surrendered, Chiyo ordered Sunagakure to submit as well, and Menma began integrating the great villages into the Village of Light.
• Menma reorganized Konohagakure, accepted the clans’ proposed settlements, and watched Minato, Kushina, and the other reincarnated souls depart, and Naruto promised to oppose him if the new order became brutal.
• Menma approved an Uchiha compound in the Village of Light, where Sasuke ordered Itachi to help rebuild the clan, and declared Konohagakure a branch village.
• Menma led more than thirty thousand shinobi against the White Zetsu Army and annihilated all one hundred thousand within hours.

Menma brought Mount Myōboku and the other Sage Regions under the Village of Light, then helped establish a unified political order while pursuing Mōryō and Ōtsutsuki Isshiki. A Dragon Vein surge sent him to another time-space, where he watched the Fourth Shinobi World War unfold and Obito become the Ten-Tails’ Jinchūriki.

• Menma forced Gamamaru to make Mount Myōboku submit, then persuaded Hagoromo to support his plans and help Naruto and Sasuke awaken Six Paths powers.
• Menma secured the cooperation of Ryūchi Cave and Shikkotsu Forest, as former ninjas joined the Village of Light and the Five Great Nations’ daimyo accepted a federation.
• Menma traveled to the Land of Demons and absorbed Mōryō’s soul and body, then headed for Rōran to draw on the Dragon Vein.
• Menma released Minato’s seal at Rōran, but the Dragon Vein engulfed him and sent him to another time-space, where he met Minato, Sasuke, Orochimaru, and the reanimated Hokage.
• Menma told the group about his Village of Light and warned that the Ten-Tails was about to be revived, then left to find a way back to his own time.
• Menma returned to the Dragon Vein altar and encountered Hagoromo, while Hashirama fought Madara at the battlefield and Menma chose to observe.
• Obito absorbed the Ten-Tails and attacked Naruto, Minato, Tobirama, Sasuke, and the others, while Menma assessed Obito’s power and sensed Hagoromo revealing his Chakra.