Recaps

Menma trained Naruto and Sasuke while revealing the reincarnation cycle and preparing the Land of Stars for war. As the Kage considered an alliance against Asura, Menma’s reforms shaped life across the Shinobi World, and Deidara helped Kurotsuchi escape Iwagakure.

• Menma revealed that Naruto and Sasuke were the current reincarnations of Asura and Indra, then began training them and helped Naruto reach an agreement with Kurama.
• At the Five Kage Summit, Ōnoki identified Asura as Namikaze Minato, and Tobi offered the Kage help against him.
• Danzō met with Tobi and considered using Impure World Reincarnation to test whether Minato was dead, while Akatsuki planned to exploit the looming war.
• Menma took Naruto, Sasuke, and their friends to help villagers, where they witnessed the Land of Stars’ roadwork, relief efforts, and resettlement programs.
• Menma told Hagoromo that peace required meeting people’s material needs and proposed exploring space and cultivating uninhabited planets to confront the Otsutsuki.
• Hagoromo entrusted the Shinobi World to Menma, while the mountain folk received land and homes after Chino agreed to investigate their case.
• Menma prepared the Land of Stars for war and ordered Hikari to assemble an elite force, while Sasuke began sparring with Sayun.
• Deidara freed Kurotsuchi from her cell in Iwagakure, and she escaped with him as Naruto continued training to control Kurama.

Menma led the Star Ninja Army against Mount Myoboku, defeating its defenders and destroying the Great Toad Sage as the Shinobi Allied Forces mobilized for war. The Allied Forces divided into four attack divisions, while Pain dispatched teams to capture the Two-Tails and Three-Tails Jinchuriki.

• Kimimaro planned a training compound for recipients of Shikotsumyaku transplants, while his friends prepared a farewell feast and Sasuke returned exhausted from special training.
• Menma warned Shikamaru that hidden enemies, not the ninja villages, were the true threat, then Shikamaru and the rookies departed for Ueno City.
• Menma's forces entered Mount Myoboku after he sensed a passage there, and the Great Toad Sage warned that a coming war would involve humans, white creatures, and souls returned from the dead.
• Hizashi presented an investigation order against Mount Myoboku, but the toads resisted as Kakuzu, Kisame, and the Star Ninja fought the Toad Triad and the Great Toad Sage.
• Jiraiya reached the devastated mountain and fought beside the toads, but Hizashi killed Fukasaku, Kisame defeated Jiraiya, and Menma killed the Great Toad Sage before Mount Myoboku's dimension collapsed.
• Jiraiya recovered at a Star Ninja camp and heard injured Genin describe the Land of Stars' policies, while the hidden villages mobilized and Kabuto told Kakashi that Obito was alive.
• Mifune helped the Allied Forces settle their leadership dispute, and the villages drew lots to form four divisions that would attack the Land of Stars.
• Pain ordered teams to capture the Two-Tails and Three-Tails Jinchuriki, while Naruto rushed out after remembering Menma's promised cheat.