Recaps

Hinata strengthened the village and its young shinobi before sending Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura to investigate a vanished scout and a strange village. The team rescued the surviving scouts and defeated a human-demon creature, but the Oni Domain remained open and its foreign energy continued to seep into the world.

• Hinata sealed Isshiki’s soul in a gemstone, killed Momoshiki’s consciousness inside Boruto, and sent Boruto, Sasuke, and Rin back to their era.
• Hinata expanded her plans for the Land of Snow and village funding, while Nagato faced a bounty and Hirajima Gorō was captured and brought to the Hidden Leaf Village.
• Hinata trained Naruto and Sasuke, then gave them and Jiraiya the third-generation potion, which awakened Naruto’s Mangekyō Sharingan and Sasuke’s Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan.
• Hinata sent Naruto and Sasuke, joined by Sakura, to investigate a corpse report in the Land of Grass after Sakura warned that an unsealed Oni Domain could merge with real space.
• Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura discovered that Longevity Village’s residents were Puppet Corpses and that the village chief’s family was connected to the missing scout’s disappearance.
• The team fought a tentacled human-demon creature, rescued an unconscious scout, and drove the monster into a fissure before it emerged encased in stone.
• Naruto and Sasuke sealed the monster’s tentacles and Sasuke defeated it with Amaterasu, then the team entered the collapsed cave and found a much larger Oni Domain opening.
• Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura returned to the Hidden Leaf Village with three Scout Ninjas, and Hinata learned from Tsunade that the Puppet Corpses retained only fragments of their former memories and personalities.

Hinata defeated the Evil God, developed mutation experiments, and revived the Ten-Tails while the great nations faced growing upheaval. In the Land of Water, Kirigakure battled its daimyo’s forces as a Demon Weapon escaped and the daimyo was assassinated.

• Hinata killed the Evil God’s soul with the Void Sword God, then began experimenting with its power and created shadow-manipulating mutated beasts.
• Neji awakened the Jōgan and demonstrated that his eyes could create and control Space Rifts.
• Hinata summoned the Shinigami, sealed the Third Hokage’s soul, and used the Yin Nine-Tails and other tailed beasts to revive the Ten-Tails.
• Hinata subdued the Ten-Tails and began preparing a refined Mutation Potion as the Land of Water’s daimyo cut Kirigakure’s funding and moved against the village.
• The daimyo’s forces besieged Kirigakure, while Kusaka Naoto took a Demon Weapon and unleashed a demon that raced toward the village.
• Nagato sealed several ghosts and trapped Puppet Corpses beneath the capital, while Che Fengzi found strange ruins and an object on the seafloor.
• Kirigakure ninja followed the daimyo through a secret passage, and one killed him with a poisoned kunai before escaping.

As the great nations’ feudal lords prepared for war, Hinata strengthened the Hidden Leaf Village and rejected the Land of Fire Daimyo’s order to attack Kirigakure. The Daimyo turned to a mysterious man’s Modified Humans while Hinata learned of the deal and kept the Ten-Tails confined in her Alternate Dimension.

• The Land of Water’s daimyo was assassinated, prompting the great nations’ feudal lords to fear their own Shinobi Villages and begin recruiting soldiers.
• Hinata completed the third-generation Mutation Potion and used it on three Hidden Leaf Anbu ninja, who transformed more easily than earlier subjects.
• Sasuke, Naruto, and Neji fought in a public duel that showcased their powerful techniques, until Neji defeated Naruto and Hinata pulled the injured Sasuke from the arena.
• Hinata planned higher Ninja Academy standards and new training facilities as the village expanded, while the Nara Clan Leader explained how the Body Strengthening Potion had improved the children’s physiques and chakra reserves.
• A mysterious man warned the Land of Fire’s Daimyo that the Hidden Leaf Village might rebel, and the Daimyo ordered Hinata’s village to attack Kirigakure and kill Mei Terumi.
• Hinata told Sasuke that she intended to end war by uniting every country and ninja village under a single will, then sent a transformed ninja to investigate the Daimyo.
• Kumogakure, Iwagakure, and Sunagakure sent forces toward the Land of Water as Orochimaru studied a crimson mark and the Daimyo bought eight Modified Humans from the mysterious man.
• A shadow reported the Daimyo’s purchase to Hinata, who recalled White Zetsu’s help in the laboratory and considered the Ten-Tails, still confined in her Alternate Dimension.

Hinata and the Leaf investigated the Mysterious Organization while Kirigakure and Kumogakure fought a costly war. The Hidden Leaf then moved against the weakened villages, and Sasuke challenged Raikage A to decide Kumogakure’s fate.

• Hinata developed the Third-Generation Mutation Potion and studied a dangerous Black Slime while Kirigakure and Kumogakure escalated their fighting.
• Keita Otake destroyed a Mysterious Organization base, but Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura later encountered its Modified Humans and captured one with Che Fengzi’s help.
• The Mysterious Organization’s surviving members regrouped and searched the Land of Fire for the person who had destroyed their base, while the Fire Daimyo continued seeking Modified Humans.
• Yamato captured an Earth envoy in the Land of Snow, and Kumogakure defeated Kirigakure in a major battle before asking the Hidden Leaf for an alliance.
• The Hidden Leaf chose to move against the weakened great villages, and Naruto and Sasuke left with the force sent to the Land of Lightning.
• Naruto and Sasuke entered Raikage A’s office and offered him a chance to surrender, but A challenged Sasuke to a fight.
• A agreed to surrender Kumogakure if Sasuke defeated him, and Sasuke struck A with Sage Art: Lightning Release: Chidori.