Recaps

Yuhara survived the front-line mission, collected the Six Paths Tools and remains Orochimaru wanted, and learned Shadow Clone Jutsu. After Minato became Hokage, Yuhara’s depleted squad entered the Land of Rain and found itself surrounded by pursuing enemies.

• Orochimaru tested Yuhara with a lethal injection, and Yuhara survived as his Magnet Release encased him in iron.
• Konoha took control of the dungeon, and Yuhara joined Rindou’s squad for a mission against the Cloud Hidden Jonin Koto.
• After Rindou died and Koto wounded Yuhara, Yuhara drew on Nature Energy to incapacitate Koto, but the squad lost most of its members and Xinliang later died in a Cloud Hidden attack.
• Yuhara trained his Magnet Release, developed new jutsu, and returned to the front lines, where Orochimaru sent him alone to retrieve the Second Hokage and the Kinkaku and Ginkaku brothers’ corpses.
• Yuhara impersonated Minato to cross Cloud Hidden territory, collected several Six Paths Tools, and killed two pursuing Cloud Hidden Ninjas before escaping.
• Yuhara gave Orochimaru the sealed remains and received the Shuriken Shadow Clone Jutsu and Shadow Clone Jutsu in return.
• Minato became the Fourth Hokage, and Yuhara’s squad entered the Land of Rain to scout an Amegakure camp.
• After the squad’s operation was exposed, enemy teams converged on them, and Yuhara warned that they might have to fight.

After losing Jian Dong and his squad, Yuhara pursued greater strength, developed a Nature Energy technique, and survived a disastrous encounter with the Mist. He returned to Konoha, challenged the shinobi system, and entered the Chunin Exam, where his final match against Shisui drew the Fourth Hokage’s intervention.

• Jian Dong led the surrounded team toward the Land of Rivers while Yuhara fought off Rain ninja, but she died after her abdominal wound was treated too late.
• After returning to Konoha with Jian Dong’s ashes, Yuhara explored Orochimaru’s abandoned facility, recovered research materials, and killed a masked ninja who confronted him.
• Yuhara developed the Six Rulers Technique and Arc Gradual Sevenfold Rhythm to channel Nature Energy, then joined a new squad under Hayasegawa.
• When Karatachi Yagura and other Mist ninja ambushed the squad, Yuhara killed Juzo Biwa, escaped Mei Terumi’s acid mist, and found his teammates dead or gravely wounded.
• Yuhara attempted Living Corpse Reincarnation on Tigo, returned to Konoha, and testified that Hayasegawa’s decisions had caused the squad’s destruction.
• After the investigation cleared him, Yuhara registered for the Chunin Exam, passed the written test, and captured numerous examinees and disguised Konoha ninja to pass the forest stage.
• At the final exam, Yuhara fought Uchiha Shisui, repelled his Great Fireball, and struck him into a wall before attacking an Uchiha ninja who entered the arena.
• Yuhara threw a False Sage Art: True Wind Release: Spiraling Shuriken at the intruding Uchiha ninja as he ran out of Chakra, prompting the Fourth Hokage to intervene.

Yuhara joined the Anbu, exposed a covert attempt to capture Uchiha Tetsu, and took part in missions that heightened Konoha’s tensions. During Obito’s attack and the Nine-Tails’ rampage, Yuhara rescued Biwako and fought the beast, then woke to the Fourth Hokage’s death and began piecing together how the attack happened.

• Yuhara became an Anbu under the codename Lu Yu and helped expose Gojo’s forged mission to capture Uchiha Tetsu, but the Hokage could not identify who had ordered it.
• Yuhara rejected Danzō’s offer to join Root, while Konoha’s surveillance of the Uchiha ended after the clan made a symbolic gesture of submission.
• Yuhara joined an Anbu operation to kill Pakura, and the squad recovered a sealed letter that contained only a blank sheet.
• When Obito attacked Kushina during Naruto’s birth, Yuhara broke into the delivery room and kicked Obito away, but his Nature Energy left him berserk and out of control.
• Yuhara rescued the wounded Biwako Sarutobi, then fought the Nine-Tails with a Rasenshuriken and a mercury weapon before it knocked him through buildings.
• Kushina restrained the Nine-Tails, and Minato and Kushina died after the beast was split and sealed, and Yuhara later suspected someone was blaming Kumogakure to redirect Konoha’s anger.
• Yuhara told Kakashi that the attacker may have overheard the Hokage’s wife’s due date at a cemetery and explained how the Mangekyō Sharingan could awaken before leaving to meet the Third Hokage.

Yuhara’s mission to Sunagakure ended with Rasa’s death and the village’s surrender, while Konoha credited Kakashi and prepared for the war’s northern front. Yuhara then fought alongside Jiraiya against the Cloud Hidden forces, helping Konoha break through their defenses and capture their forward camp.

• The Third Hokage sent Yuhara to Sunagakure to negotiate peace, and Yuhara chose Kou from Root as his companion before Kakashi and Tenzo joined the mission.
• The Fourth Kazekage rejected Konoha’s terms and surrounded the envoys, so Yuhara, Kakashi, and Tenzo fought back and killed Rasa and Ebizo before escaping Sunagakure.
• Orochimaru led Konoha forces in an assault on Sunagakure, and Chiyo later surrendered the village as Konoha’s subordinate while Yuhara returned Rasa’s remains to her.
• Yuhara proposed crediting Kakashi with defeating Rasa, and the Third Hokage accepted as Konoha publicly celebrated Kakashi’s victory.
• Yuhara told Uchiha Shisui that an Uchiha had controlled the Nine-Tails during the attack, then helped Kushina establish the Konoha Ninja Mutual-Aid Group and improve his Six Dimensions Seal.
• Yuhara’s squad joined Jiraiya’s forces against the Fourth Raikage and Killer B, and Yuhara’s metal and mercury techniques helped counter the Eight-Tails.
• Jiraiya entered Sage Mode and led Konoha’s assault after Yuhara and Jiraiya wounded the Raikage and Killer B, breaking the Cloud Hidden defensive line.
• Konoha captured the Cloud Hidden forward camp, and Shibi ordered Yuhara’s squad to rest after Tenzo restrained two resisting Cloud Hidden Ninjas.