Recaps

Hinata decided to raise the Ninja Academy’s graduation standards after seeing Boruto’s training and realizing the students needed stronger skills. While Boruto and Sasuke settled into a temporary home and began training, Hinata concluded she could create a new Taijutsu style by combining the Konoha Steel Fist and Gentle Fist.

• Sasuke and Boruto watched their younger selves, while Hinata noticed Boruto’s Taijutsu and judged the Ninja Academy’s training inadequate.
• Hinata decided graduates would need to master one B-rank Ninjutsu, three C-rank Ninjutsu, and enough Taijutsu to shatter a stone with their bare hands.
• Sasuke and Boruto cleaned their temporary residence near Naruto’s home, and Sasuke exchanged a gemstone for money to buy food.
• Sasuke woke Boruto early the next morning and took him to train.
• Hinata worried about finding Taijutsu instructors, then realized she could create a new style combining the Konoha Steel Fist and the Hyuga Clan’s Gentle Fist.

Otsutsuki Isshiki entered Konoha seeking the Nine-Tails’ Chakra, but Hinata ordered an evacuation and a Hyuga clansman wounded him with a powerful black arrow. As Isshiki tried to escape through a black hole, someone attacked him from behind with a sword.

• Sasuke detected Otsutsuki Isshiki outside Konoha, and Isshiki sensed Sasuke and Naruto’s immense Chakra.
• Otsutsuki Isshiki passed through Konoha’s barrier, triggering the alarms, and Hinata ordered civilians evacuated to shelters.
• A Hyuga clansman on Hokage Rock shot Isshiki with a special black arrow, but Isshiki shattered it with his fishing rod.
• The Hyuga clansman fired a more powerful arrow that destroyed Isshiki’s fishing rod, pierced his left arm, and spread a sinister energy through his body.
• Otsutsuki Isshiki switched to the Rinnegan and opened a black hole to flee, but an attacker stabbed toward him from behind and forced him to dodge.

Hinata paired Naruto and Sasuke for the ghost exercise, then helped the class escape when rotting arms attacked their classroom. She left the others taking the corridor and smashed through a window to reach the field directly.

• Hinata told Naruto to team up with Sasuke and declared the pairing decided despite their protests.
• The upperclassmen's barrier failed, the ghost eliminated most of the students, and Neji struggled to track its attacks through the black mist.
• Rotting arms emerged throughout the classroom and dragged several students underground, while Hinata sealed Kiba Inuzuka's and his dog's sense of smell to protect them from the stench.
• Sasuke used Fire Style: Phoenix Sage Fire Technique to clear a path, and the students ran toward the classroom door.
• Hinata smashed through a window and ran toward the field while the others took the corridor.

Hinata captured Otsutsuki Isshiki’s soul after defeating him, then examined Boruto and killed the Momoshiki consciousness inside him before Boruto, Sasuke, and Rin returned to their era. Afterward, Hinata planned Boruto’s education and discussed the village’s research, political disputes, and dwindling funds with Tsunade.

• Otsutsuki Isshiki’s soul tried to reach Uzumaki Naruto but Hinata restrained it, rolled it into a bead, and sealed it inside a gemstone.
• Hinata reflected on the Otsutsuki clan’s arrival and the danger it posed beyond the stars, while Hidden Leaf Village began repairing the battle damage.
• Sasuke brought Boruto to say goodbye, and Hinata examined them and killed the Otsutsuki Momoshiki consciousness inside Boruto.
• Boruto, Sasuke, and Rin used a spacetime tunnel to return to their era, and Hinata began planning Boruto’s education.
• Tsunade told Hinata that Mitokado Homura and Utatane Koharu were protesting the potion and the Rinnegan research, then requested more staff and funding for the laboratories.
• Hinata agreed to ignore the elders, but worried that researching Otsutsuki Isshiki’s corpse would leave the village with less than half its funds, while the Land of Snow also needed money.

Kazahana Koyuki oversaw the Snow Ninja Village’s farming efforts, which Hinata had enabled with specialized ninjutsu and her influence. Back in the Hidden Leaf Village, Hinata learned that Nagato had assassinated a small country’s ruler and become the target of a ten-million-ryō bounty.

• Kazahana Koyuki inspected the fields and terraces, where Snow Ninja Village ninja used Hinata’s farming ninjutsu to tend crops.
• Kazahana Koyuki reflected that Hinata had hypnotized the village’s ninja and developed techniques to improve farming in the Land of Snow.
• Hinata ended her connection to the white cat puppet and wondered how Nagato was faring as he traveled between towns.
• Hinata received news that a small country’s ruler had placed a ten-million-ryō bounty on Nagato for assassinating him.

Hirajima Gorō fled the Land of Rivers after assassinating its feudal lord and being driven off by three Jonin. Hinata dismissed the Fire Feudal Lord’s order to hunt him and summoned Yamato for a mission to use Wood Release on her farmland in the Land of Snow.

• Hirajima Gorō escaped into the forest after the Land of Rivers’ ninja wounded him and defeated his followers.
• Jiraiya asked Hinata how Hidden Leaf Village would respond to the Fire Feudal Lord’s order to kill Hirajima Gorō, and Hinata told him to leave the rebel alone.
• Hinata reassured Jiraiya that she had plans to address the village’s funding, including using gold mines and turning the Land of Snow into a logistical base.
• Hinata realized Yamato could use Wood Release to accelerate crop growth and summoned him to the Hokage’s office.
• Yamato eagerly accepted Hinata’s important mission, then became dumbfounded when he learned it involved farming in the Land of Snow.

Yamato began farming in the Land of Snow with a crop-growth jutsu created by Hinata, who later refined it after finding the accelerated corn undernourished and poorly pollinated. Meanwhile, Hinata ordered Hirajima Gorō captured in Amegakure, where he survived an Anbu attack by drawing on his Tailed Beast Chakra.

• Kazahana Koyuki assigned Yamato to oversee the fields and gave him a scroll for the Wood Style: Crop Growth Jutsu.
• Yamato learned the technique and grew corn, which Hinata examined and found less nutritious, lower-yielding, and sometimes unpollinated.
• Hinata slowed the crop-growth technique, while the Hidden Leaf Village's new generation of ninja grew stronger from the Body Strengthening Potion.
• Hinata learned that Hirajima Gorō had gone to Amegakure and sent an Anbu squad to capture him.
• An Anbu attacker poisoned Hirajima Gorō and struck at him in an inn, but he dodged, fought back, and used Tailed Beast Chakra to weaken the poison's effects.

Hirajima Gorō awakened corrosive gas and fought four Anbu before Itachi Uchiha subdued him and brought him to the Hidden Leaf Village. Tsunade discovered a strange tailed mark on him, while Hinata failed to bind Urashiki’s Rinnegan gauntlets to the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path and kept the eye that could rewind time.

• Hirajima Gorō used flames and corrosive gas against four Anbu, but they countered his attacks and injured him with a Water Release technique.
• Itachi Uchiha used the Sharingan to hypnotize the weakened Hirajima Gorō, and the Anbu restrained him and took him to the Hidden Leaf Village.
• Tsunade reported that Hirajima Gorō had immense Chakra, powerful recovery, and a strange mark resembling a horned animal with five tails.
• Hinata tried to use Urashiki’s Rinnegan gauntlets to contract with the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, but the statue rejected the attempt and the gauntlets cracked.
• Hinata set aside the Rinnegan that had failed and kept the eye capable of rewinding time.

Hinata used a bird puppet called Crimson Kite to explore beyond the Hidden Leaf Village, where she saved a village from a wild boar and gave its people grain. After the villagers mistook her for a deity, she found a boy and sought to take him away, leaving the village chief thrilled by what he saw as an honor.

• Hinata nearly drained the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path with repeated time reversals and decided to explore through a puppet instead of leaving the Hidden Leaf Village herself.
• Hinata created Crimson Kite, a swift white bird puppet, and flew beyond the range of her farsight.
• Crimson Kite killed a wild boar threatening a village with a fireball, then extinguished the flames around the crops.
• Crimson Kite gave the villagers sacks of grain and ordered them to rise after they knelt in fear and worship.
• The village chief learned that Crimson Kite had chosen a young boy to take away and reacted with excitement, treating it as an honor for the village.

Chi Yuan met with Nagato to confirm that spies had been placed around the daimyo and in Shinobi Villages, then began preparing the next stage of their plan. She sent her six disciples out on their own, while Hinata awaited Naruto and Sasuke’s return after developing the third-generation Body Strengthening Potion.

• Chi Yuan took a child from his village as her disciple and, over three years of traveling, gathered six disciples whose strength reached Jonin levels.
• Chi Yuan met Nagato in a cave, learned that his people had been placed around the daimyo and in most Shinobi Villages, and said their plan would target the daimyo next.
• Chi Yuan found her disciples and sent them away to live independently after years of training them.
• Hinata watched snow fall in Hidden Leaf Village and reflected on how the village had changed while Naruto and Sasuke trained with Jiraiya.
• Hinata prepared for Naruto and Sasuke to return, expecting them to receive the third-generation Body Strengthening Potion, which could greatly increase their strength.

Naruto and Sasuke returned to the Hidden Leaf Village after two years away and met Hinata, who asked how their abilities had improved. She took them to a desert for a spar, where she effortlessly countered their attacks.

• Naruto, Sasuke, and Jiraiya arrived at the newly renovated Hokage Building and met Mami Mizuta, who led them to Hinata.
• Naruto and Sasuke greeted Hinata in her office, and Naruto embarrassed himself by commenting on her chest.
• Hinata transported the group to a desert after Naruto and Sasuke eagerly challenged her to a fight.
• Hinata swept Naruto's shadow clones away with an invisible force and stopped Sasuke's sword with a purple lightning defense.
• Hinata split Naruto's Tailed Beast Ball with an invisible slash, causing its halves to explode.

Hinata easily countered Naruto and Sasuke’s attacks during their spar, even after they entered Sage Mode. She sent everyone back to the Hidden Leaf Village, where Jiraiya tried to console the discouraged pair.

• Jiraiya learned that Hinata had destroyed Naruto’s Tailed Beast Ball with wind compressed to its limit.
• Naruto and Sasuke attacked Hinata together, but she froze Naruto’s Rasengan and Sasuke’s sword before they could hit her.
• Naruto and Sasuke entered Sage Mode and launched a Great Ball Rasengan and a Great Fireball Technique at Hinata.
• Hinata froze both Sage Art attacks with wind and snow, leaving Naruto and Sasuke discouraged by the gap between them.
• Hinata returned everyone to the Hokage’s office, where Jiraiya reassured Naruto and Sasuke and prepared to counsel them.

Hinata gave Jiraiya, Naruto, and Sasuke the third-generation Body Strengthening Potion and warned them to take special pills if they became extremely hungry. After returning home, Sasuke developed an enormous appetite, and his family worried something was wrong.

• Hinata gave Jiraiya, Naruto, and Sasuke the third-generation potion, which would take three days to take effect.
• Hinata gave each of them a bottle of pills developed by Tsunade for the hunger caused by the potion.
• A shinobi noticed the pills’ medicinal scent as Jiraiya left the Hokage Building with Naruto and Sasuke.
• Jiraiya sent Sasuke home and took Naruto to his own home.
• Sasuke reunited with Mikoto, Fugaku, and Itachi, then ate nearly all the lunch because he could not satisfy his sudden hunger.

After taking the third-generation Body Strengthening Potion, Sasuke and Naruto slept for two days as the potion transformed them. They both awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan, though Sasuke’s family noticed his eyes seemed unusual, and Naruto wondered why he had gained an Uchiha eye technique.

• Sasuke became ravenously hungry, remembered the potion caused hunger, and swallowed nearly half again as many pills as Itachi had taken while his family watched.
• Itachi photographed Sasuke with his cheeks stuffed with pills, then carried him to bed after he fell asleep.
• Jiraiya put the sleeping Naruto to bed and kept watch, while Sasuke’s family watched over Sasuke.
• After sleeping for two days and nights, Sasuke woke to find his family staring at his eyes and recognized that he had awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan.
• Naruto woke, saw his blood-red eyes with spinning shuriken-like patterns in the mirror, and feared he was going blind.
• Hinata reassured Naruto that his eyes were the Mangekyō Sharingan and not a sickness, leaving him to wonder why he had gained the Uchiha eye technique.

Naruto learned that his Mangekyō Sharingan was connected to his ancestors, while Sasuke’s family confirmed his Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan. Hinata then assigned Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura to investigate a suspicious corpse and a strange village in the Land of Grass.

• Hinata explained that Naruto’s eyes were tied to his ancestors and taught him how to control them after telling him Jiraiya was unconscious from the potion.
• Sasuke’s family confirmed that he had awakened the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan, and Itachi began teaching him how to use it.
• Hinata reviewed a report about a corpse discovered in a village in the Land of Grass and decided to send Naruto and Sasuke after an initial intelligence team.
• Naruto and Sasuke arrived at Hinata’s office, where they met Sakura and received the mission documents.
• Sakura recognized the report’s description of the whole village as strange and recalled a research report about creatures like demons.

Sakura explained that a long-lasting Oni Domain could merge with real space, and Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura traveled to investigate a village linked to a suspicious merchant’s detour. They found two scouts waiting in the forest, but the village’s strange presence and the disappearance of a third scout left the mission’s danger unresolved.

• Sakura told Naruto and Sasuke that an unsealed Oni Domain could merge with real space, and Hinata ordered them to leave for the mission immediately.
• Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura followed the merchant’s route and found a marked tree hollow in a forest.
• Sasuke called down a Hyuga scout, who explained that a second scout had gone to the village and had not returned, while a female Chunin had kept watch nearby.
• The Hyuga scout said his Byakugan detected nothing unusual, but the village felt dissonant, as if it should not exist.

Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura investigated Longevity Village after learning that someone had died there, but found a village that appeared ordinary and whose residents denied that anyone had died. They discovered a note from the missing Scout Ninja and were left questioning the village chief’s account of who had visited.

• Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura entered Longevity Village and noticed that its name had recently been carved onto the entrance stone.
• The three searched the village for the missing Scout Ninja and found no signs of his presence or of a recent death.
• An elderly man who identified himself as the village chief invited them to stay at his home.
• Sasuke found the Scout Ninja’s concealed note, which said no one in the village had died and warned that entering might have been a mistake.
• Naruto pointed out that the chief’s claim that few visitors had come conflicted with the traveling merchant’s report and the Scout Ninja’s visit.

Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura investigated Longevity Village for clues about the missing Scout Ninja and the village chief’s absent son and daughter-in-law. Sasuke headed back to the mountain while Naruto and Sakura searched the village, where Naruto secretly activated his Mangekyō Sharingan.

• Sakura questioned how the Scout Ninja could have vanished so quickly without signs of a battle, and stopped Sasuke from hypnotizing a villager.
• Naruto suggested looking for the village chief’s son and daughter-in-law, so the three went to the mountain behind the village.
• A hunter intercepted them and forbade them from entering the mountain, then revealed that he was the village chief’s son.
• The village chief acted surprised that Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura had left the house, while his son explained that he had stopped them from going up the mountain.
• Sasuke returned to the mountain as Naruto and Sakura searched the village for overlooked clues.
• Naruto found nothing unusual and secretly transformed his eyes into the Mangekyō Sharingan.

Naruto, Sakura, and Sasuke realized the villagers were Puppet Corpses controlled by someone and found the Scout Ninja’s hidden mark. They suspected someone had erased the original mark to conceal evidence, leaving them to face a human controller as well as the ghosts.

• Naruto noticed that the villagers walked strangely, but he and Sakura could not identify why.
• Sasuke said the village chief’s son had stopped him from entering the back mountain, appearing in front of him despite having been seen elsewhere.
• Naruto, Sakura, and Sasuke recognized the villagers’ movements from the Puppet Corpses they had encountered in the Hidden Leaf Village.
• The three searched the village and found the Scout Ninja’s mark in a house near the village’s edge.
• Sasuke and Sakura spotted a trace suggesting someone had erased another mark, leading Sakura to suspect a human was controlling the Puppet Corpses.

Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura discovered a warning about human-demon fusion and learned the village chief had taken the Scout Ninja to the back mountain for a baptism. They fought the village chief’s family and a villager, then reached the mountain and found a group of Puppet Corpses blocking their way.

• Naruto dug beneath a marker and found a bloodstained cloth warning of Human-Demon Fusion.
• The village chief revealed that the Scout Ninja was undergoing Lord Deity’s baptism on the back mountain.
• Sasuke, Naruto, and Sakura attacked the village chief, his son, and his daughter-in-law, then sealed their regenerating bodies in scrolls.
• Sasuke killed a villager who tried to summon help, and Sakura sealed him in a scroll.
• Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura reached the back mountain and encountered rotting Puppet Corpses that appeared to be village residents.

Sasuke, Naruto, and Sakura fought through the Puppet Corpses and entered a cave, where they encountered a grotesque creature that called itself a messenger of God. The creature revealed its tentacles and rapid healing, leaving the team facing a dangerous enemy they hoped to capture and study.

• Sasuke used Great Fireball Technique to destroy most of the Puppet Corpses blocking the way, and the team hurried toward the back mountain to find the missing Scout Ninja.
• Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura entered an illuminated cave and met a figure with a twisted neck and writhing shapes beneath its clothing.
• The figure called itself a messenger of God, but Naruto attacked it with a Rasengan before it could finish speaking.
• Naruto's Rasengan struck the creature, and the team realized it was wounded when they heard blood dripping.
• The creature tore free of its clothing, revealing more than a dozen black tentacles, and attacked the team.
• Sasuke burned one tentacle with Great Fireball Technique, but its small wound quickly healed.

Sasuke and Naruto fought the human-demon fused monster in the cave, then dragged it outside and bombarded it. The ruined monster triggered a massive earthquake before a crack swallowed it, and Sasuke and Naruto reunited safely with Sakura, who had rescued the missing Scout Ninja.

• Sasuke recognized the tentacle monster as the human-demon fused enemy who had defeated the Scout Ninja, while he and Naruto attacked it in the cave.
• Sasuke and Naruto restrained the monster and fought off the Puppet Corpses as they worked to drag it out of the cave.
• Naruto's clones sealed the Puppet Corpses, and Sasuke and Naruto bombarded the monster outside until its head and tentacles were badly damaged.
• The monster roared that it wanted them dead, triggering violent tremors that collapsed buildings and sent rocks and trees crashing through the forest.
• A crack opened beneath the monster and swallowed it, and Sasuke and Naruto reunited with Sakura, who had rescued the unconscious Scout Ninja.

Sasuke and Naruto battled the enormous stone-bodied monster and exposed its vulnerable true body. They wounded it and left it temporarily unable to control its tentacles, as Sasuke prepared to attack again.

• Sasuke told Sakura to leave with the injured ninja while he and Naruto stayed behind to face the monster.
• The monster emerged from the fissure in a huge stone shell and attacked Naruto and Sasuke.
• Naruto's Shadow Clones blasted the monster's tentacle knot with Tailed Beast Balls, destroying its tentacles and forcing it to absorb stones to repair itself.
• Sasuke split open the monster's head and found its true body inside, then Naruto struck it with a Tailed Beast Ball.
• The monster's wound began healing, but its tentacles shriveled and became unusable, so Sasuke drew his sword and faced one of them.

Sakura escaped the village while Naruto and Sasuke pursued the monster into a fissure. Sasuke used Amaterasu to force the monster to shed its tentacles, but when they began regenerating, he set the monster's body and head ablaze.

• Sakura blasted apart the two Puppet Corpses guarding the village boundary and escaped.
• Naruto jumped into the fissure after the monster, and Sasuke followed him.
• Sasuke used Amaterasu to burn the rocks covering the monster while Naruto attacked it and sealed more tentacles.
• The monster shed its burning tentacles, and Naruto and Sasuke caught and sealed them.
• When the monster's tentacles began to regenerate, Sasuke covered its body and head with Amaterasu.

Sasuke, Naruto, and Sakura sealed the monster and explored the collapsed cave, where they found a vast interior filled with the Oni Domain’s strange energy. Two days later, they returned to Hidden Leaf Village with the rescued Scout Ninjas, and Hinata checked on one survivor before discussing the Puppet Corpses with Tsunade.

• Sasuke sealed the defeated monster in a scroll and stored it in his tool pouch.
• Sakura insisted that the team investigate the collapsed cave, and Sasuke used Susanoo to open a way inside.
• The team found that the cave was much larger than expected and that the Oni Domain’s foreign energy poured from its entrance.
• Two days later, Naruto and the others returned to Hidden Leaf Village with three Scout Ninjas, including the badly injured survivor Sakura had rescued.
• Hinata visited the survivor in the hospital, and Tsunade confirmed that Sasuke had awakened Mangekyo.
• Hinata told Tsunade that the Puppet Corpses held only fragments of human memories and personalities.