Recaps

Uchiha Jin established New Konoha under the daimyo’s authorization and began building a village with Tsunade’s reforms. As Old Konoha faltered during a crisis with Kumogakure, Hyuga Hiashi decided to lead his clan toward New Konoha.

• Tsunade defended the Uchiha’s restraint to Jiraiya, while Uchiha Jin organized the clans’ withdrawal and explained his plans for New Konoha’s leadership and ninja welfare.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen arranged for Jiraiya to become Fifth Hokage, but the major clans skipped the Jonin Council and Uchiha Jin established New Konoha during Jiraiya’s inauguration.
• Uchiha Jin showed Sarutobi Hiruzen the daimyo’s authorization and invoked the founding covenant, then Tsunade presented New Konoha’s policies and welfare system to an approving crowd.
• Tsunade secured funding and calculated unpaid compensation for the clans, while Uchiha Jin explained that he wanted New Konoha’s success to expose Old Konoha’s failures and eventually enable the villages to merge.
• Kakashi reported the rescue of Ketsuryūgan Clan members and Karin, and Uchiha Jin later persuaded Shisui and Itachi to support him and join Kakashi in the Anbu.
• Uchiha Jin activated the Pagoda Pendant, which became the Hongmeng Tower and revealed a hidden seal on his power, then he chose to focus on growing his strength and Fortune.
• After Kumogakure’s envoy was killed during an attempted abduction of Hinata, Old Konoha hesitated to protect the Hyuga Clan, while Kumogakure demanded Hiashi’s life and corpse.
• Hyuga Hiashi declared that the Hyuga Clan would join New Konoha and ordered its withdrawal, while sending Hizashi to delay Jiraiya and Sarutobi Hiruzen until morning.

Hyuga Hiashi led his clan out of Old Konoha and into New Konoha, while Uchiha Jin prepared to absorb the collapsing village. As refugees fled and the two sides fought, Sarutobi Hiruzen turned to Orochimaru for reanimated fighters, but their power and the future of Old Konoha remained uncertain.

• Hyuga Hiashi led his clan toward New Konoha, fought off Old Konoha's forces, and left with the survivors after Jiraiya ordered a retreat.
• Uchiha Jin welcomed the Hyuga and proposed removing the Caged Bird's control formulas while letting each clan member choose whether to bear the seal.
• Uchiha Jin and New Konoha's leaders planned Old Konoha's takeover as Kumogakure accepted compensation and backed away from war.
• Yano Ryoichi's conspirators sparked a mass uprising, and Jiraiya abandoned the collapsing village to search for Uzumaki Naruto.
• Uchiha Fugaku and Nara Shikaichi screened refugees as Uchiha Jin ordered Kakashi to surround Old Konoha and New Konoha's shinobi to prepare for annexation.
• Kakashi fought Root and faced Danzo, while Shisui and Fugaku helped defeat Danzo and secure Root's base.
• Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura found Sarutobi Hiruzen unconscious, and Orochimaru confronted him as the village fell apart.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen and Orochimaru used clan members as sacrifices to revive powerful figures, but Namikaze Minato's revival failed and Orochimaru warned that the reanimated Hokage could not stop New Konoha.

Uchiha Jin led New Konoha to defeat Old Konoha’s reanimated fighters and force its leaders into surrender, then put Sarutobi Hiruzen’s rule on public trial. The trial exposed deep fractures among the former leaders but ended this stretch with Minato’s death still unexplained.

• Uchiha Jin prepared New Konoha for Orochimaru’s Impure World Reincarnation attack, while Kakashi took Naruto into his care and New Konoha demanded Old Konoha’s surrender.
• Orochimaru summoned reanimated Hashirama, Tobirama, Sakumo, Mito, and Kushina, but Jin’s forces sealed them as Tsunade healed the wounded.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen surrendered, and Jin had the captured leaders’ Chakra sealed before they were escorted to New Konoha.
• Orochimaru gave Jin the Impure World Reincarnation technique, its control Cursed Seals, and his Hashirama Cell research, then agreed to join New Konoha.
• Jin, Tsunade, Shikaichi, Fugaku, and Kakashi held a public trial for Hiruzen and the former leaders, with the reanimated predecessors summoned as witnesses.
• Kushina accused Hiruzen of leaking the date of her delivery, while Hiruzen blamed Danzo for the Nine-Tails attack and Jin presented Danzo’s modified Wood Release arm as evidence.
• Tsunade and Orochimaru summoned Danzo, who denied arranging Minato’s death and said he had been monitoring the Uchiha that night.
• Hiruzen accepted that Danzo was unlikely to have killed Minato and ruled out Kakashi, leaving the cause of Minato’s death unresolved.

Uchiha Jin consolidated New Konoha’s control and exposed the political plans behind the old order while Akatsuki adjusted to his rise. Obito confronted Jin, who summoned Nohara Rin and drew Obito out, then sought a way to capture him alive.

• Danzo accused Sarutobi Hiruzen of arranging Minato’s death, but Uchiha Jin argued that Sarutobi had benefited most and helped convince the gathered shinobi that he was responsible.
• Nara Shikaichi announced labor-reform sentences for Sarutobi Hiruzen and the other condemned leaders, and Kakashi killed them before Orochimaru revived them with Impure World Reincarnation.
• Tsunade and Shikaichi assigned the condemned clans to labor, while Senju Tobirama warned that the point system would divide them and strengthen Uchiha Jin’s rule.
• Obito learned that Uchiha Jin had established New Konoha and decided to investigate, while Pain postponed an attack and focused Akatsuki on collecting Tailed Beasts.
• Senju Tobirama rescued Senju descendants from the Daimyo’s Mansion and explained to Tsunade that Uchiha Jin planned to target the nobles of all Five Great Shinobi Nations.
• Obito confronted Uchiha Jin, who identified him and summoned Nohara Rin with Impure World Reincarnation to provoke him.
• Uchiha Jin destroyed Obito’s body with Susanoo, explained that Obito had arranged Rin’s death, and warned that Obito could return using Izanagi.
• Obito emerged again and removed his mask after Rin and Kakashi called to him, but rejected their appeals, so Uchiha Jin asked Kakashi to help create an opening to capture Obito alive.