Recaps

Tejima Shinichi exposed Orochimaru’s disguise and defeated him during the attack on Konoha, while the revived First and Second Hokage and Orochimaru’s summons failed to stop him. Konoha celebrated its victory, but Danzo’s hostility and the other villages’ preparations left new dangers ahead.

• Tejima Shinichi warned Konoha’s command center that Orochimaru had impersonated the Fourth Kazekage, then defeated Rock Lee in the Chunin Exam’s official matches.
• After the Great Toad Sage’s vision identified Shinichi as a boy with Wood Release, Shinichi accepted Jiraiya’s invitation to Mount Myōboku and declared he would take the Hokage position.
• As Sasuke fought Gaara, Konoha’s hidden forces launched their counterattack, exposing Orochimaru’s disguise and beginning the Konoha Crush.
• Gaara refused to release Shukaku because the tailed beast feared Shinichi, who confronted Orochimaru and summoned a Magnetic Wood Dragon against him.
• Shinichi summoned Katsuyu to heal Konoha’s wounded and used his Wooden Man against Manda, then faced Orochimaru’s revived Hashirama Senju and Senju Tobirama.
• Shinichi entered Sage Mode and unleashed True Several Thousand Hands, then pinned Orochimaru’s Eight-Headed Serpent and sealed the Edo Hokage’s Chakra with crimson Gates of the Great God.
• Shinichi sealed Orochimaru, and Sarutobi Hiruzen announced that Konoha had defeated the Sand Village and Otogakure assault.
• Danzo abandoned his plans against Shinichi, who vowed to retaliate, while Iwagakure prepared for war and Chiyo went to lead Sunagakure after learning Rasa had died.

Tejima Shinichi exposed the truth behind the Uchiha massacre, defeated Kisame, and helped prepare Tsunade to become Hokage. As Akatsuki began capturing Tailed Beasts and Konoha uncovered its plans, Shinichi and Tsunade moved against Shimura Danzō, leaving him cornered at his ruined laboratory.

• Pain sent Uchiha Itachi and Kisame Hoshigaki to Konoha after learning Orochimaru had been captured, while Akatsuki began covert Tailed Beast captures and assigned Kakuzu and Hidan to pursue the Seven-Tails.
• Tejima Shinichi recommended Tsunade as Sarutobi Hiruzen’s successor, and Jiraiya left with Naruto to find her as Shinichi prepared to tell Sasuke the truth about Itachi.
• Tejima Shinichi revealed that Itachi had massacred the Uchiha to protect Sasuke after Shimura Danzō helped drive the clan toward a coup, then confronted Itachi and Kisame when they infiltrated Konoha.
• Tejima Shinichi defeated and killed Kisame, while Itachi used Tsukuyomi on Sasuke and learned that Shinichi had told him the truth about the massacre.
• Itachi thanked Shinichi for steering Sasuke away from hatred, warned him that Akatsuki was targeting the Seven-Tails, and challenged Sasuke to meet him in three years as Sasuke vowed to become Shinichi’s Shadow Guard.
• Kisame’s memories revealed Akatsuki’s Eye of the Moon Plan and a Sharingan-wielding figure claiming to be Uchiha Madara, while Shinichi argued that the figure was an impostor and Tsunade returned to become the Fifth Hokage.
• Tsunade and Shinichi planned to move against Danzo, with Tsunade ordering a search of Shimura Residence and Shinichi attacking Root’s laboratory outside the village.
• Danzo found Shinichi waiting in the ruined laboratory beside the unconscious Shinro Rii, and Shinichi demanded the right to place a Cursed Seal on Danzo and put a collar on him.

After killing Shimura Danzō, Tejima Shinichi left Konoha to pursue the Tailed Beasts, defeating Kakuzu and Hidan and capturing Fū. He sent Fū to Tsunade and continued toward the Six-Tails, but a wrong turn brought him to the Tsuchigumo Clan, where he learned that Roshi had gone west toward the Land of Wind.

• Tejima Shinichi killed Shimura Danzō and seventeen Root members, after which Sarutobi Hiruzen relinquished the Hokage position to Tsunade and Shinichi left for Mount Myōboku.
• The Great Toad Sage prophesied that Shinichi would unite with the Child of Prophecy against the Otsutsuki, and Shinichi decided to pursue Tailed Beasts while disguising his intentions within the Akatsuki Organization's hunt.
• Shinichi followed Kakuzu and Hidan to the Land of Waterfalls, where they attacked Fū and killed her escorts, Huaguang and Yangle.
• Shinichi rescued Fū, fought Uchiha Obito, and defeated Chōmei with Wood Release, gaining a portion of the Seven-Tails' power and abilities.
• Shinichi sent the unconscious Fū to Tsunade with Katsuyu and set out on his Wood Dragon toward the Country of Rivers to find the Six-Tails.
• At Katsurayama Castle, Shinichi mistakenly confronted the Tsuchigumo Clan, then learned from En no Gyōja that Roshi had passed through three days earlier and headed west toward the Land of Wind.

Tejima Shinichi captured Roshi, learned from his memories that his future self had gathered the Tailed Beasts’ Chakra to create a God Tree, then turned his power against Iwagakure. After devastating the village and forcing Ōnoki to surrender, Shinichi left Konoha preparing to formalize Iwagakure’s submission.

• Tejima Shinichi defeated Roshi, drained the Four-Tails’ Chakra, and used Memory Reading to witness his future self defeat Roshi and Han before attempting to create a God Tree.
• Shinichi sent Roshi to Tsunade with Katsuyu and announced that he would capture Utakata before attacking Iwagakure alone.
• Katsuyu delivered Roshi to Konoha, where Tsunade, Jiraiya, and Sarutobi Hiruzen discussed Shinichi’s planned attack and the danger it posed.
• Shinichi invaded Iwagakure, overwhelmed its forces, and declared that the old era was over as Ōnoki and thousands of Iwa Ninja confronted him.
• Shinichi unleashed Sage Art Wood Release: True Several Thousand Hands, killing thousands and flattening the battlefield until Ōnoki surrendered Iwagakure.
• Shinichi demanded that Ōnoki find the missing Han and go to Konoha to formalize Iwagakure’s submission, while Kurotsuchi realized he would target other villages.
• An Anbu shinobi reported Shinichi’s victory to Tsunade and Hiruzen, who learned that Ōnoki was bringing a delegation to sign a Subsidiary agreement with Konoha.