Recaps

As Hiko drove Iwagakure back, Nagato’s Six Paths of Pain captured the Seven-Tails and devastated Sunagakure to seize the One-Tail. Hiko chose not to interfere with Akatsuki’s sealing plans, leaving the group to turn next toward Kumogakure and the Two-Tails.

• After Yahiko and many Akatsuki members died in Hanzo’s attack, Nagato vowed to fulfill Yahiko’s dream, while Hiko warned Jiraiya that his disciples’ fate could make them enemies.
• Sunagakure persuaded Iwagakure to join its war against Konoha, and Ōnoki declared war, forcing Konoha to fight on two fronts.
• Hiko and Hatake Sakumo stopped Iwagakure’s advance with the Nine-Tails, and Ōnoki withdrew while Konoha’s forces prepared for a prolonged conflict.
• Black Zetsu directed Nagato’s Six Paths of Pain to capture the Seven-Tails, then sent them with Sasori to seize the One-Tail from Sunagakure.
• The Six Paths devastated Sunagakure and took Shukaku, prompting Rasa to withdraw his forces as Hiko ordered Konoha to stay out of the crisis.
• Black Zetsu recruited Kakuzu and Jyuuzou Biwa, while Hiko left Hatake Sakumo in charge of the Iwagakure front.
• Akatsuki began sealing the One-Tail with the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, but Hiko refused to interfere, and Nagato’s forces prepared to pursue the Two-Tails and Yugito Nii.

Hiko exposed Danzo’s crimes and forced Konoha into a crisis over the Uchiha and Shimura clans, then helped unite the Five Great Shinobi Villages against Akatsuki. The villages prepared an assault on the Land of Rain while Black Zetsu continued the Infinite Tsukuyomi Plan.

• Sasori and Kakuzu abducted Yugito Nii, while the Six Paths of Pain captured Roshi, spreading alarm about Akatsuki’s attacks.
• Hiruzen discovered Danzo and Orochimaru’s experiments, and Hiko confronted Danzo over stolen Uchiha Sharingan and his use of Hashirama’s cells.
• Danzo escaped Hiko using Izanagi, and Hiko demanded the Shimura Clan’s destruction or the Uchiha Clan’s departure from Konoha.
• Hiruzen announced that Hiko would succeed him as Hokage, but Hiko kept watch on fleeing Shimura clan members and postponed the transfer to address Akatsuki.
• Jyuuzou Biwa helped Akatsuki abduct Kirigakure’s Three-Tails and Six-Tails Jinchuriki, prompting the villages to seek a coalition.
• Hiko identified Nagato as Akatsuki’s leader and warned the Kage that the organization threatened the Five Great Shinobi Villages.
• The Kage agreed that four villages would attack Akatsuki while Konoha supplied them, and each village committed one thousand shinobi.
• Black Zetsu learned of the planned assault on the Land of Rain and resolved to proceed with the Infinite Tsukuyomi Plan if Hiko would not cooperate.

The Five Great Shinobi Villages invaded the Land of Rain, where Akatsuki’s Six Paths of Pain devastated their forces and declared war. Hiko stayed out of the fighting as the villages formed an alliance, and the Allied Shinobi Forces entered the Land of Rain only to face Akatsuki’s White Zetsu army.

• Nagato ordered Kakuzu and Jyuuzou Biwa to capture Ban, the Five-Tails Jinchuriki, while he and Konan prepared to defend the Land of Rain from the invading villages.
• Hiko kept Konoha’s forces on supply duty as the other four villages invaded, then dumped their supplies into the mud after their leaders excluded him from a strategy meeting.
• Akatsuki captured Ban, and the Four Kage learned that only two Akatsuki members had overcome Iwagakure’s guards to seize him.
• Nagato sent the Six Paths of Pain against the allied camps, killing more than half the forces and forcing the Four Kage to recognize Akatsuki’s strength.
• The Deva Path declared war on the Five Great Shinobi Villages, while Hiko refused to join the fighting and warned Konoha’s leaders about Nagato, the Rinnegan, and the need for sealing shinobi.
• Danzo defected to Akatsuki after Yamato went missing, while the villages assembled more than one hundred thousand fighters in Konoha and named the Third Hokage commander-in-chief.
• The Kage organized the Allied Shinobi Forces into five legions, and Akatsuki prepared seventy thousand White Zetsu under its rogue ninja leaders.
• The Allied Shinobi Forces entered the Land of Rain, where the White Zetsu army attacked every legion and Akatsuki’s fighters appeared as allied casualties mounted.

The Allied Shinobi Forces exposed White Zetsu infiltrators and attacked the Six Paths of Pain, but Nagato’s devastating Shinra Tensei destroyed Amegakure. As Akatsuki captured Killer B and pursued the Nine-Tails, Jyuuzou Biwa revived powerful dead shinobi to attack the Allied forces, leaving the Third and Ōnoki to face a new crisis.

• Hiko proposed a way to expose White Zetsu by having shinobi stop circulating Chakra, and the Allied Shinobi Forces used it to identify and eliminate infiltrators.
• After Konan’s Explosive Tags devastated the Allied Shinobi Forces in Amegakure, Minato Namikaze, the Third Raikage, Hatake Sakumo, Rasa, the Third Mizukage, and Mifune organized an assault on the Six Paths of Pain.
• The commanders destroyed the Naraka Path and Animal Path, but Nagato gathered power in the Deva Path and unleashed a massive Shinra Tensei that flattened Amegakure.
• Hiko warned Minato Namikaze and Hatake Sakumo that Uchiha Madara could still return, while the Allied Shinobi Forces searched the ruins and Akatsuki disappeared.
• Akatsuki captured Killer B after he escaped Turtle Island, and Nagato and Konan set out to pursue the Nine-Tails while Hiko went to meet it outside Konoha.
• Jyuuzou Biwa used the Impure World Reincarnation Jutsu to revive Senju Hashirama, Tobirama Senju, and other powerful shinobi, who attacked the Allied Shinobi Forces camp.
• Senju Hashirama trapped allied troops with Wood Style and drained their Chakra as revived Jinchuriki and other shinobi slaughtered the forces, prompting the Third and Ōnoki to recognize the technique.