Recaps

Uchiha Mai defeated Kirigakure’s forces, killed Yagura, and brought the village under Konoha’s control after overcoming the revived Third Mizukage. As Konoha’s elders argued over his authority, Mai recruited Kakuzu to help relieve pressure on the Sand Front, but Kakuzu refused to serve him.

• Uchiha Mai slaughtered Kirigakure’s forces, defeated Yagura, and sent Kakashi and Hyuuga Kagetora back to Konoha with Yagura’s body while he stayed behind.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen made the Void Division an independent force under Mai, while Ōnoki and the Third Raikage reconsidered their war plans after hearing of Mai’s victory.
• Mai captured Mei Terumi, confronted the revived Mizunashi Yukikaze, and destroyed much of Kirigakure before surviving Yukikaze’s Maha Padma technique.
• Mai rejected Kirigakure’s unconditional surrender and demanded that a Konoha garrison control the village’s leadership and military, then used the Shinsengumi to suppress resistance.
• Tsunade appointed Mai director of the Mist Garrison Headquarters and ordered him to support the Sand Front, despite objections from Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura.
• Mai told Mei Terumi he would recruit Kakuzu to help Konoha, and Mei offered Kakuzu a ten-million-yen deposit toward a commission worth at least four hundred million.
• Kakuzu met Mai in Kirigakure, heard his offer to pay him for fighting Sunagakure, and refused to serve him.

Uchiha Mai recruited Kakuzu, returned to Konoha, and led the campaign that killed the Third Kazekage and pushed Sunagakure and Iwagakure out of the war. After peace reshaped the villages, Mai promoted the Uchiha through a concert tour and prepared for a politically charged dinner as the Hokage succession loomed.

• Uchiha Mai defeated Kakuzu in a staged sofa test and a series of battles, then hired him at a sixty percent discount and sent him to fight at the Sand Front.
• Mai told Mei Terumi and Kakuzu that he wanted to become Fourth Hokage, then ordered Kakuzu to earn military honors by defeating Sunagakure while limiting genin casualties.
• Mai returned to Konoha, reunited with Tsunade, and traveled back to the Sand Front, where he asserted command and challenged the Third Kazekage to a decisive battle.
• The Third Kazekage enlisted Ōnoki to help kill Mai, but Mai brought Hatake Sakumo to the Stone Tower, turning the planned duel into a two-on-two fight.
• Mai used Sword Twenty-Three to kill the Third Kazekage, then forced Ōnoki to withdraw and let Sunagakure’s forces believe Konoha had lowered its guard.
• Rasa became Fourth Kazekage and withdrew Sunagakure, while Ōnoki signed a thirty-year accord with Sarutobi Hiruzen and the villages ended the war, and Hiruzen resumed the Hokage position without giving Mai a new title.
• Mai launched an idol group called Boyhood and toured the Ninja World, changing the Uchiha Clan’s public image, while Obito became popular and Killer B’s concert failed.
• Mai mastered the First Consciousness, restored his Mangekyō Sharingan, and agreed to attend Hiruzen’s anniversary dinner after Tsunade warned him that it included potential Hokage candidates.

Uchiha Mai secured power in Konoha and Kirigakure, rescued Neji from Kumogakure, and defeated the Third Raikage. When Uchiha Madara attacked during Kushina’s delivery and unleashed the Nine-Tails on Konoha, the village sealed the beast while Mai faced Madara in a fight that remained unresolved.

• At Sarutobi Hiruzen and Biwako’s anniversary banquet, Uchiha Mai declared his candidacy for Fourth Hokage alongside Orochimaru and Minato, and Hiruzen set the election for two months later.
• Uchiha Mai campaigned by courting the clans and promoting his vision for Konoha, while Hiruzen tried to persuade him to withdraw and Mai demanded a place in Konoha’s leadership.
• During the anonymous vote, Mai saw Hiruzen divert votes to Minato, but Minato was declared the winner, and Hiruzen named Mai Hokage Successor and Advisor, and Minato became Fourth Hokage.
• Uchiha Mai left Konoha for Kirigakure, where he became Fifth Mizukage, while Fugaku took charge of the Void Division in Konoha under Mai’s guidance.
• Prince A and Daisuke arranged Neji’s abduction for Kumogakure, and Minato’s attempt to recover him stalled after the Hyuga discovered the decoys and Hiruzen refused to attack.
• Uchiha Mai agreed to help the Hyuga after Hiashi pledged the clan’s support, then defeated the Third Raikage and forced Kumogakure to surrender Neji.
• Uchiha Mai let A raise Neji as his adopted son and future Raikage, and Hizashi accepted that his son might flourish in Kumogakure.
• Uchiha Madara attacked during Kushina’s delivery and unleashed the Nine-Tails on Konoha, and Shisui helped draw the beast away before Hiruzen, Orochimaru, and Danzo sealed it, while Mai and Madara began a second clash with their third-stage Susanoo.

Uchiha Mai defeated Madara’s return, helped unite the great villages into the Ninja Empire, and pursued a stronger Madara into another Ninja World. After Madara’s final defeat, Mai returned to Konoha and reunited with the pregnant Tsunade and Mei Terumi.

• Uchiha Mai killed Madara, dispersed the Nine-Tails, and helped expose Danzo’s experiments before Madara survived with Izanagi and joined forces with Orochimaru.
• Madara reclaimed the Rinnegan from Nagato and attacked other villages for their Tailed Beasts, while Uchiha Mai refused to intervene until the Kage gathered to negotiate.
• Uchiha Mai proposed the Ninja Empire, defeated Madara with his Phoenix Cloth, and imprisoned Black Zetsu before the five great villages united under his rule.
• Two years later, another Madara arrived with Susanoo copies and revealed that he had crossed from a different Ninja World after becoming its Ten-Tails Jinchuriki.
• Uchiha Mai led the Stardust Expeditionary Force through the Dragon Vein into Madara’s ruined world, where they found its people trapped by the God Tree and Infinite Tsukuyomi.
• Uchiha Mai fought Six Paths Madara, survived his attempts to kill him and the transformation that let Madara absorb Kaguya Ōtsutsuki, then revived in God Cloth after being reduced to ash.
• Uchiha Mai killed Madara with hundreds of millions of light-speed punches, sent his companions home across the planes, and returned to Konoha to reunite with Tsunade and Mei Terumi.