Recaps

Uchiha Shisui rallied a small group of Konoha-supporting Uchiha and sought Uchiha Fugaku’s backing for a new village security department. Kushina persuaded the Third Hokage to try the proposal, and he appointed himself department head and Shisui deputy head while retaining the Police Force for now.

• Uchiha Shisui told his supporters that Kushina Uzumaki would present their proposal to the Third Hokage and warned them that the Uchiha might brand them rebels.
• Uchiha Shizukiyo and the others affirmed their support for changing the Uchiha’s control of public security, and Shisui set out to ask Uchiha Fugaku for his backing.
• Kushina Uzumaki urged the Third Hokage to support Shisui’s gradual approach to governing the Uchiha Clan.
• After learning Danzo was away, the Third Hokage decided to establish a village security department while keeping the Konoha Police Force in place.
• The Third Hokage appointed himself head of the new department and named Uchiha Shisui its deputy head.

Yuhara introduced Tigo, now a gourd-backed puppet with a humanlike interface, to the Third Hokage, who recognized her as a Konoha Ninja but chose to keep observing her. While arranging Tigo’s new role and home, Yuhara began developing technology for long-distance Chakra transmission and successfully built a working prototype.

• Yuhara watched Tigo practice controlling her puppet body, then took her to meet the Third Hokage.
• The Third Hokage recognized Tigo as a Konoha Ninja after confirming her intelligence seemed intact, but decided to observe her further.
• Tigo began working as a receptionist at the Small Earth Building of the Crimson Crown and settled into a room there.
• Yuhara began developing basic materials and a method for transmitting Chakra over long distances.
• Yuhara built a Chakra transmitter and simple receiver, then was astonished when his test worked.

Konoha established a new security department, prompting fierce opposition from the Uchiha Clan, while Uchiha Shisui revealed that he had proposed the department and urged the clan to integrate with Konoha. The clan’s internal division stalled any rebellion, but some Uchiha members traced Shisui’s choices to a Small Earth Building and set out to confront whoever they believed had influenced him.

• The Third Hokage announced a new security department, reserved thirty of its eighty positions for the Uchiha, and appointed Uchiha Shisui deputy chief.
• Uchiha clan members demanded that Uchiha Fugaku resist the new department, while Fugaku remained silent and Uchiha Itachi watched with his baby brother.
• Uchiha Shisui arrived at the clan meeting and said that he and others had signed up for the new security department.
• Shisui revealed that he had submitted the department proposal and argued that the Uchiha should remain part of Konoha rather than rebel.
• The clan’s disagreement prevented an immediate revolt, while Uchiha Fugaku privately felt relieved that the clan would not act as one.
• Some Uchiha ninjas tracked Shisui’s visits to a Small Earth Building and decided to confront the people there for leading him astray.

Yuhara watched the Uchiha Ninja protest outside the Small Earth Building, where Tigo used the Six Paths Tool Banjō Senshi and accidentally unleashed a huge fire tornado that injured them. After Uchiha Shisui arrived with the new Police Department, Kushina Uzumaki assigned Kakashi to join the Bright Division, leaving him with yet another duty.

• Yuhara stopped Kushina Uzumaki from confronting the protesting Uchiha Ninja and suggested that the new Police Department handle them.
• Tigo faced the Uchiha Ninja outside the Small Earth Building and swung Banjō Senshi three times.
• Banjō Senshi unleashed fire and wind techniques that formed a massive fire tornado and scorched the Uchiha Ninja.
• Kakashi extinguished the fire and rescued the injured Uchiha Ninja before Uchiha Shisui arrived with the new Police Department.
• Kushina Uzumaki told Kakashi to join the Bright Division in support of the Third Hokage's policy and the Uchiha Ninja who could still be saved.

Uchiha Shisui and his allies tried to bring the Uchiha Clan closer to Konoha despite growing hostility within the clan. When investigators following clues about a missing Uchiha were mistaken for enemies, the confrontation ended with Uchiha Shizukiyo dying in Shisui’s arms.

• Uchiha Shisui endured abuse from clan members, while Uchiha Shizukiyo urged him to keep working for the clan’s future.
• Shisui learned that more Uchiha members supported his effort to integrate the clan into Konoha and recorded their names.
• Tsuchimon and Kamakiri found underground clues to the missing Uchiha, including a forehead protector, then emerged inside Uchiha territory.
• Uchiha members surrounded Tsuchimon and Kamakiri, accused them of kidnapping the missing ninja, and attacked despite Uchiha Shizukiyo’s attempt to stop them.
• Uchiha Shizukiyo and two companions shielded the Konoha ninjas, and three Uchiha fell; Shisui arrived as Shizukiyo died, urging him to keep going.

After a tense standoff over two Konoha ninjas who entered Uchiha territory, the Uchiha returned them, but three Uchiha were killed and Konoha withdrew its search for the missing clan members. Uchiha Shisui remained committed to changing his clan, though its future stayed uncertain.

• Yuhara learned that the Uchiha had detained two Konoha ninjas, and Konoha surrounded the Uchiha Residential Area with torches before Uchiha Fugaku returned the unharmed prisoners.
• Kakashi explained that three Uchiha had been killed while protecting the two ninjas, and Kushina said further clashes were inevitable while tensions persisted.
• Konoha abandoned the search for the missing Uchiha, while the clan split between those supporting and opposing Konoha and filled its reserved Security Department positions.
• The Uchiha Security Department sentenced one Uchiha to life imprisonment for the deaths, and the missing-ninja case again went unresolved.
• Kakashi told Uchiha Shisui that only the Uchiha could change and save their clan, and Shisui reaffirmed his resolve.

Yuhara tested a two-way Chakra communications system that let Tigo relay sensory information and combat advice to Kakashi and Tenzo, though its Chakra-support function remained slow and limited. The signal disrupted Konoha’s barrier, prompting the monitoring ninjas to warn the Third Hokage that a possible threat was inside the village.

• Yuhara set up a giant antenna and energy signal generator on the Small Earth Building to test long-distance communication with Tigo.
• Kakashi tested the link and received Tigo’s sensory report identifying Tenzo nearby, along with Tenzo’s abilities and combat evaluation.
• Tigo estimated Kakashi’s standard combat power at 750 and advised him to engage Tenzo at close range.
• Tigo sent Kakashi a small Chakra supply after a five-minute delay, while Tenzo’s Chakra aura surged as well.
• Kakashi found Tenzo wearing a matching device and asked what combat advice Tigo had given him.
• Konoha’s barrier monitors detected high-frequency Chakra interference and reported the possible information transmission or enemy guidance to the Third Hokage.

The Third Hokage learned that Yuhara’s Chakra-transmission experiment had interfered with Konoha’s barrier and told him to conduct future tests either inside the village or completely outside it. Yuhara left planning to strengthen himself, and settled on developing a forbidden technique called Simulated White Scale Great Serpent.

• A Barrier Monitoring Unit ninja reported a brief anomaly in Konoha’s barrier, and the Third Hokage assured him it was connected to a village secret.
• The Third Hokage summoned Yuhara and explained that his Chakra-transmission experiment between urban and rural areas had interfered with the barrier.
• Yuhara told the Third Hokage that his experiment was less capable than the Yamanaka clan’s Secret Techniques, while withholding how it truly differed.
• Yuhara concluded that his plans to improve civilian ninjas depended on his own strength, which he believed was limited by his Chakra reserves.
• After Tigo’s rebirth showed him a possible way to gain permanent power, Yuhara planned to develop a forbidden technique based on Living Corpse Reincarnation called Simulated White Scale Great Serpent.

Orochimaru received a request for the Eight Branches Technique and realized that his theft might soon be exposed, while Danzō returned to Konoha and sought to join forces with him over the Uchiha. Meanwhile, Kakashi asked the Third Hokage for Minato’s records, leaving their purpose unclear.

• Orochimaru received a message asking for the Eight Branches Technique, sent the scroll in reply, and concluded that he might have to leave Konoha.
• Shimura Danzō returned from his diplomatic mission and lamented that the Third Hokage had let the Uchiha unrest subside without exploiting it.
• Shimura Danzō deduced that Orochimaru was behind the Uchiha kidnapping and went alone to Orochimaru’s hidden lair.
• Orochimaru and Shimura Danzō discussed the Uchiha incident and joined forces to establish the “Uchiha Research Alliance.”
• Kakashi asked the Third Hokage for Minato’s records of missions and activities, and the Third Hokage agreed.

Yuhara confirmed a mission in the Fourth Hokage's records and devoted himself to developing a new technique as Konoha rebuilt after the war. In Konoha Year 50, Kakashi visited the Three-Tails before it was returned to Kirigakure, while Danzo ordered his people to move against Orochimaru.

• Yuhara used Kushina Uzumaki's permission to find the Fourth Hokage's mission record involving Kakashi, then began researching a new technique.
• Konoha's postwar reconstruction continued as the Uchiha quieted down, and another year passed.
• Kakashi brought a red Kōtanuki to the Three-Tails' cave to replenish his Chakra and told Shiranui Genma he probably would not return.
• The Third Hokage considered replacing himself and continued trying to make Jiraiya or Orochimaru the next Hokage, while Jiraiya refused the position.
• Danzo learned that his subordinates had obtained the required technical information and ordered them to ensure Orochimaru could not remain.

Yuhara planned to leave Konoha to search for Summoning Beasts as cover for his Ninja Completion Plan. Before he could depart, Orochimaru was declared a traitor, and Yuhara and Tenzo prepared to join the operation while waiting for someone else to weaken him first.

• At Ichiraku Ramen, Yuhara read a book linking the origins of Chakra beasts to tailed beasts and told Tenzo he planned to leave Konoha to search for Summoning Beasts.
• Yuhara left the restaurant without paying for Tenzo's ramen, and Ichiraku confronted Tenzo about the bill.
• That night, Tigo informed Yuhara that Orochimaru had rebelled and that the Crimson Crown had been ordered to capture or kill him.
• Yuhara met Tenzo at Konoha's outer wall and explained that Orochimaru's experiments had forced him to flee the village.
• Yuhara and Tenzo decided to repay Orochimaru's past kindness, but agreed to wait until someone else had fought him because neither could defeat him.

Yuhara and Tenzo pursued the gravely wounded Orochimaru as he fled Konoha, and ambushed him near the village’s border. Orochimaru survived their attack and, after a strange surge of Chakra, spat out an egg.

• Yuhara and Tenzo found Mitaraishi Anko unconscious and suffering from a Cursed Seal, but left her behind to continue pursuing Orochimaru.
• Orochimaru struggled toward the edge of Konoha while reflecting that the people he expected had come after him.
• Yuhara and Tenzo ambushed Orochimaru, trapping him with plants and stabbing him with their swords.
• Orochimaru caught Yuhara’s Mercury Longsword and tried to persuade Yuhara to leave Konoha with him, but Yuhara refused.
• Orochimaru’s body swelled as his Chakra surged, then he stretched out his neck and spat out an egg.

Orochimaru used Wood Style cells and Nature Energy to create a new body and reincarnate, then escaped Yuhara by summoning a massive sea of snakes. Yuhara escaped the swarm while Tenzo remained buried beneath it, and the Third Hokage arrived and ordered the snakes cleared with Fire Style.

• Orochimaru emerged from a giant egg in a new body formed from Wood Style cells and Nature Energy, and Yuhara realized he had completed a new Reincarnation Technique.
• Orochimaru recognized that Yuhara used Nature Energy and proposed a contest, but Yuhara powered up with the Arc Gradual Sevenfold Rhythm: Third Turn.
• Orochimaru summoned the Ten Thousand Snakes Formation, engulfing Yuhara and Tenzo before fleeing and telling Yuhara not to die.
• Yuhara blasted through the snakes and escaped the forest, while Tenzo remained buried beneath the swarm but protected himself with Wood Style.
• The Third Hokage arrived with Anbu, learned Orochimaru had fled naked, and ordered the ninjas to clear the snakes with Fire Style.

Yuhara and Tenzo returned to the forest after Orochimaru escaped, and the Third Hokage ordered Yuhara to handle Orochimaru’s underground laboratory. When they went back for Mitaraishi Anko, they found her apparently dead, and Tenzo collapsed after being bitten by a poisonous snake.

• Yuhara told the Third Hokage that Orochimaru had escaped using a Reincarnation Technique, and the Hokage led ANBU in pursuit.
• The Third Hokage ordered Yuhara to gather ninja and have the Crimson Crown handle Orochimaru’s underground laboratory.
• Yuhara and Tenzo remembered Mitaraishi Anko and returned to where she had been left unconscious.
• Tenzo found that Mitaraishi Anko had no heartbeat or breathing, while the Cursed Seal’s traces had faded from her body.
• Tenzo collapsed after Yuhara found two snakebite marks and purple lips, so Yuhara carried him and Mitaraishi Anko toward Konoha.

Yuhara and Kushina searched Orochimaru’s laboratory, uncovering evidence of his experiments on Sand Village and Uchiha ninjas. Meanwhile, Shimura Danzō ordered the countries notified that Orochimaru had become a missing-nin.

• Yuhara brought Kushina and her subordinates to Orochimaru’s laboratory to carry out the Third Hokage’s order.
• Kushina brushed aside two Anbu guards’ demand for written authorization, and Yuhara led the group inside.
• Kushina found corpses identified as Sand Village ninjas and decided they had to be destroyed to protect Konoha’s alliance.
• Kakashi showed Kushina four Uchiha corpses, including the missing ninja and three who had died in an earlier incident, then sealed them in a scroll.
• Kushina ordered the group to collect the remaining corpses and Orochimaru’s research materials.
• Shimura Danzō ordered Root to notify all countries that Orochimaru had defected from Konoha.

After Orochimaru’s defection was publicly announced, Konoha dealt with the fallout as Anko learned he had escaped and resolved to face him herself. At a Jonin Meeting, Jiraiya volunteered to pursue Orochimaru, while Yuhara observed how the departures and betrayal had weakened Konoha and affected the Third Hokage.

• Shimura Danzō reported Orochimaru’s actions to the Hokage and then publicized his defection, making Orochimaru an S-rank Rogue Ninja.
• Kakashi told Tenzo and Mitaraishi Anko that Orochimaru had escaped and warned Anko that her Cursed Seal was dangerous.
• Mitaraishi Anko said she would stay in Konoha and one day deal with Orochimaru herself; Kakashi revealed that Yuhara was one source of the Cursed Seal and described Crimson Crown’s identifying features.
• At the Jonin Meeting, Jiraiya volunteered to pursue Orochimaru alone, and the Third Hokage approved the plan.
• Yuhara watched the dispirited Third Hokage and considered how Orochimaru’s defection and Jiraiya’s departure had weakened Konoha.

Tenzo learned that Kushina could only seal Mitaraishi Anko’s Cursed Seal, while Yuhara left Konoha to pursue his plans. After failing to contact Orochimaru, Yuhara sold valuable Chakra-conducting iron at the Dark Exchange and made extra money by stopping thieves who followed him.

• Kushina told Mitaraishi Anko that Orochimaru’s Cursed Seal could not be removed, but she could seal away most of its power and harmful effects.
• Tenzo learned from Tigo that Yuhara had left Konoha to vacation, investigate Orochimaru, and capture Summoning Beasts.
• Yuhara summoned a white snake and sent Orochimaru a letter asking for his location, but he received no reply.
• Yuhara visited a Dark Exchange and sold a Chakra-conducting iron pillar for seventy million ryo.
• Yuhara flaunted his money, lured thieves into following him, and returned to the Dark Exchange with five captured men for a three-hundred-thousand-ryo public-order reward.

Kakuzu pursued Yuhara after learning he had taken seventy million ryō, but Yuhara had traveled to Rōran instead of the Land of Rain. Beneath Rōran, Yuhara found the Fourth Hokage’s seal and began a risky technique to absorb the Dragon Vein’s chakra.

• Kakuzu collected an eight-million-ryō bounty and learned that Yuhara had left toward the Land of Rain, so he set off to catch him and claim his seventy million ryō.
• Yuhara had changed course across several nations and reached Rōran, where he sensed that only about five hundred people lived in the desert settlement.
• Yuhara found a hollow cavern beneath Rōran’s tallest tower and located the Fourth Hokage’s Flying Thunder God kunai near the sealed Dragon Vein.
• Yuhara decided he could not undo the seal and prepared to destroy it, despite the risk of losing his human form.
• Yuhara used the White Snake Mimicry Technique to become a snake-like chakra creature and bit into the seal to begin absorbing its chakra.

Yuhara drained the Dragon Vein and transformed into a colossal Eight-Headed Serpent, destroying much of Loulan before returning to human form. He woke to find Sarah confronting him, discovered his immense new Chakra, and proposed rescuing the people of the ruined city.

• Sarah sensed that the Dragon Vein had been disturbed, went to its underground node, and found Yuhara draining it in the form of a white snake.
• Yuhara used the Eight Branches Technique to expand his body and extract the Dragon Vein's energy, accidentally wrecking much of Loulan as its frightened civilians fled.
• After draining the Dragon Vein, Yuhara triggered the White Dragon Sheds Scales to Reveal Technique and returned to human form, dazed and motionless.
• Sarah approached Yuhara and attacked him, but he caught her blade with his bare hand and snapped it as his Chakra surged.
• Yuhara retrieved his equipment, dressed, and questioned Sarah; she demanded to know who he was and what he had done to the Dragon Vein.
• Yuhara denied knowing about the Dragon Vein, but Sarah sensed its aura on him, so he suggested they rescue people and address the destruction first.

After destroying Rōran’s central tower and absorbing the Dragon Vein, Yuhara helped Sarah search the ruins for survivors while testing his greatly increased Chakra. He struggled to find a way to expend the energy, unaware that the massive Chakra surge would draw the attention of nearby ninjas.

• Yuhara gave Sarah a Flying Thunder God kunai and explained that he had safely ended the Dragon Vein’s danger.
• Yuhara sensed that three people were trapped and learned from Sarah that Rōran’s people lived away from the Dragon Vein because its power could not reach them there.
• Yuhara lifted the collapsed buildings with iron sand and uncovered a family of three, leaving the injured father for Sarah’s people to treat.
• Sarah’s people arrived, and she told them Yuhara was a Konoha Ninja who had defeated the snake monster.
• Yuhara tried to expend his new tailed-beast-level Chakra by lifting the ruins, but barely used any and considered changing his fighting style.

Yuhara took the Dragon Vein and offered to move Sarah and Rōran’s people to the Land of Fire in return. After killing a Sunagakure shinobi who discovered him, he escorted the group to safety and left to continue his own mission.

• Yuhara offered to help Sarah and the roughly five hundred residents of Rōran relocate to the Land of Fire after the Dragon Vein disappeared.
• A Sunagakure shinobi approached to investigate the Chakra disturbance, then fled when Yuhara recognized him as a possible witness.
• Yuhara seized and destroyed the shinobi’s puppet, killed him with iron sand, and caused Rōran’s towers to collapse again.
• Yuhara warned Sarah that Sunagakure might target the residents, prompting her to gather everyone and leave immediately.
• Yuhara escorted the group through the Land of Rivers into the Land of Fire and gave Sarah a metal plate and code phrases to contact Konoha.
• Sarah asked Yuhara to keep escorting them, but he left to pursue his mission to capture a Summoning Beast.

Sarah’s people contacted Konoha while migrating out of Loulan, and Yuhara searched the borderlands for Summoning Beasts. He forcibly contracted a Grey Eagle and a Green Snake, then named them and the Mottled Tiger Gan Wen Cui.

• Sarah’s people traveled through the Land of Fire, and Sarah used a communicator to contact Konoha and explain what had happened and what Yuhara had promised.
• Yuhara searched areas where tailed beasts had once been active and contracted a Mottled Tiger as a Summoning Beast.
• After finding little else, Yuhara sensed a Grey Eagle fighting a Green Snake in the Land of Earth.
• Yuhara used iron sand to capture the Grey Eagle and Green Snake and forcibly signed them to Summoning Contracts.
• Yuhara considered names for his three Summoning Beasts and named them Gan Wen Cui.

Nagato and Konan discussed Danzo and Hanzo’s secret meeting, Akatsuki’s intelligence, and the Three-Tails and Orochimaru. As Nagato began monitoring the Land of Rain, he sensed visitors in Amegakure, where Yuhara and Kakuzu were arriving for separate reasons.

• Konan told Nagato that Hanzo had secretly met with Danzo to discuss a joint Chunin Ninja Exam.
• Nagato dismissed the exam as meaningless, while Konan warned that Konoha was too powerful to attack directly.
• Zetsu reported that Konoha controlled the resurrected Three-Tails and that Orochimaru had defected from Konoha.
• Nagato decided to strengthen surveillance over the Land of Rain and used the Rain Tiger Justu to monitor it.
• Nagato sensed guests in Amegakure as Yuhara crossed the Land of Rain on a bird and Kakuzu searched for a seventy-million bounty.

Yuhara descended into the Land of Rain and encountered Black Zetsu and Konan while investigating the area. He struck Konan with a lightning-fast attack, but she reformed her body and prepared to fight from the air as he readied a Chakra shuriken.

• Yuhara used Grey Eagle to descend into the rainy forest, where Nagato's Chakra disrupted his senses.
• Yuhara cut down a tree and exposed Black Zetsu, who recognized him as a Konoha Ninja.
• Konan arrived and confronted Yuhara, while Black Zetsu urged her not to let him escape.
• Yuhara suddenly severed Konan at the waist with a lightning-fast attack, but she reformed her body using the Dance of the Shikigami.
• Konan kept her distance in midair as Yuhara prepared a high-density Chakra shuriken.

Yuhara attacked Konan but was interrupted by Yahiko’s Deva Path, forcing him to defend against their joint assault. The Deva Path also captured Kakuzu, who had come to the Land of Rain in search of the seventy million.

• Konan used a paper clone to intercept Yuhara’s Rasenshuriken, but the attack’s sensations left her briefly vulnerable.
• Yuhara kicked Konan and prepared to kill her, but Yahiko’s Deva Path pulled him away with Banshō Ten'in.
• Yuhara armored himself with thorns, survived the Deva Path’s Shinra Tensei, and blocked the ensuing attacks with iron sand.
• The Deva Path checked on Konan, who said her injuries were not serious.
• The Deva Path threw the unconscious Kakuzu into the mud and identified him as an intruder in the Land of Rain.