Recaps

Tamura Hiroshi helped turn the battle against the Senju faction by targeting its leaders and securing the Giant Tenseigan’s power, while Hiruzen Sarutobi’s revived army and the Four Great Shinobi Villages overwhelmed the Senju forces. He brought Tsunade, Nawaki, Mikoto Uchiha, and Uchiha Naori to the Senju Clan Land so they could gather clansmen willing to leave for Kumogakure.

• Senju Tobirama summoned more than a thousand revived shinobi, negotiated Kumogakure’s support, and joined the Third Raikage’s forces against Fugaku Uchiha and Senju Chōsu.
• Senju Chōsu and the revived Senju ancestors raised the Wood Release Great Buddha, but the allied Kage-level fighters, Tailed Beast Jinchuriki, and revived army attacked them while Minato Namikaze was persuaded not to intervene.
• Tamura Hiroshi stole Fugaku Uchiha’s Mangekyō Sharingan, and Hyuga Hiashi escaped with Fugaku before Ōtsutsuki Sari trapped them and extracted the Giant Tenseigan.
• Tamura Hiroshi shattered the Giant Tenseigan and absorbed its Dojutsu Power while the Third Raikage held off Ōtsutsuki Sari, allowing Hiashi to escape with Fugaku.
• Tamura Hiroshi told Tsunade that Hiruzen Sarutobi’s revived army had destroyed the Senju shinobi, then brought Tsunade, Nawaki, Mikoto Uchiha, and Uchiha Naori through a Space Tunnel to the Senju Clan Land.
• Tamura Hiroshi asked Tsunade to gather the clan members willing to move to Kumogakure and kept Shadow Clones near her group while maintaining the Space Gate.

Tamura Hiroshi and Uchiha Mikoto visited her dying father, Uchiha Retsuyō, and tried to recruit Uchiha clan members to Kumogakure. Hiroshi also told Uchiha Yue that he had killed Kagami and offered to take her and Shisui away; afterward, he discussed dojutsu with Orochimaru and proposed an experiment.

• Uchiha Retsuyō reunited with Mikoto, learned she had awakened the Mangekyo and Senjutsu, and agreed to choose Uchiha for Kumogakure.
• Hiroshi told Retsuyō that Fugaku had survived but lost both eyes, and that Hiroshi had killed Uchiha Kagami; Retsuyō sent out Shadow Clones to recruit clan members.
• Hiroshi and Uchiha Naori told Uchiha Yue that Kagami was dead, offered to take her and Shisui to Kumogakure, and gave her Naori's training scroll; Yue chose to remain in Konoha.
• Hiroshi and Naori argued over how much he had lied before a tremor from the Senju Clan Land suggested a fight had begun.
• Hiroshi discussed Mangekyo evolution with Orochimaru, then offered an idea for improving Orochimaru's transplanted eyes.

Tamura Hiroshi opened a Space Gate from Konoha to Kumogakure and led a mass departure of Senju, Uchiha, Hyuga, Hatake, and other clan members. The loss of thousands of people and Hatake Sakumo’s departure left Konoha weakened as Hiruzen Sarutobi prepared to negotiate a ceasefire.

• Tamura Hiroshi suggested a way to combine Mangekyo patterns, prompting Orochimaru to leave and pursue experiments.
• Tsunade brought Senju clan members through the Space Gate, while Nawaki’s Wood Golem and the collapse of the Hokage Cliff showed his rejection of Konoha.
• Mikoto Uchiha, Uchiha Naori, and Uchiha Retsuyō led Uchiha members through the gate, and Hyuga Branch Family members entrusted their children to Tamura Hiroshi.
• Sakurako Hatake brought her family and clan members to Kumogakure, and Tamura Hiroshi’s invitation drew more Konoha clans and families through the gate.
• Tamura Hiroshi returned to Kikyō Mountain Castle and reported the gains to the Third Raikage, who sent Yozuki A and Fukai to retrieve Hatake Sakumo.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi allowed Hatake Sakumo to leave for Kumogakure and asked Jiraiya and Minato Namikaze to accompany him to the Land of Iron for ceasefire talks.

Hatake Sakumo joined Kumogakure after learning how its leaders had planned his recruitment, while insisting he would not attack former Konoha comrades unless they struck first. At a summit on the armistice and the next war, the allied villages agreed to acquire a dangerous soul-extraction jutsu and support Hiruzen Sarutobi as Hokage to keep Konoha divided.

• Tamura Hiroshi told Hatake Sakumo that Lord Dodai had arranged the plans and gifts meant to make Sakumo stronger and wary of Konoha, and the Third Raikage accepted Sakumo's condition for joining Kumogakure.
• Tamura Hiroshi gave Hatake Sakumo the modified Kusanagi Sword: Lightning Blade and said it would be completed after Sakumo visited Turtle Island.
• The Third Raikage, Ōnoki, Rasa, and Terumi Kyu discussed armistice terms, and Tamura Hiroshi explained the Reaper Death Seal and Kumogakure's Underworld Reincarnation Technique before they agreed to purchase the latter.
• The allied Kage discussed Minato Namikaze's power and agreed that the Four Village Alliance had to remain united against Konoha.
• The Third Raikage proposed that the villages support Hiruzen Sarutobi remaining Hokage, and Ōnoki, Rasa, and Terumi Kyu agreed to ease some armistice terms to preserve Konoha's internal divisions.

Tamura Hiroshi attended the second Five Kage Summit, presented his famed swords and sword techniques to Kusayama Ichiro, and persuaded Minato to distrust Konoha's leaders. Mito Uzumaki decided to go to Kumogakure, while Hiruzen Sarutobi returned to Konoha puzzled by the unexpectedly mild armistice terms and learned Shimura Danzō had not returned.

• Tamura Hiroshi showed Masamune and Zangetsu to Kusayama Ichiro, described his sword techniques, and asked him to arrange an exchange visit for Land of Iron samurai to Kumogakure.
• Tamura Hiroshi warned Minato Namikaze that Hiruzen Sarutobi and Shimura Danzō might have exploited him and Uzumaki Kuhina, and Mito Uzumaki appeared from Minato's seal.
• Mito Uzumaki agreed to accompany Tamura Hiroshi to Kumogakure to guide the Senju clansmen, then told Minato to protect himself and Kuhina.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi, Jiraiya, and Minato left the summit, where Jiraiya and Hiruzen wondered why the Four Great Shinobi Villages had offered such mild armistice terms.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi returned to Konoha, checked that Minato had not marked him with a Flying Thunder God formula, and summoned Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura.
• Utatane Koharu told Hiruzen Sarutobi that Shimura Danzō had not returned, and Hiruzen showed the others the armistice agreement, which contained the Four Great Shinobi Villages' original terms unchanged.

Shimura Danzō survived the Dark Chakra’s erosion by replacing most of his body with a First Hokage clone and began planning a Dark Army. Meanwhile, Orochimaru pursued experiments to create a powerful combined Sharingan and cultivate a perfect Uzumaki vessel.

• Yakushi Nonō warned Shimura Danzō that his arm could no longer withstand Dark Chakra, so Danzō summoned Orochimaru and agreed to let him study his eyes in exchange for a new body.
• Orochimaru used a First Hokage clone to replace most of Shimura Danzō’s body, then helped him gradually assimilate his remaining arm and torso while transplanting his eyes.
• Shimura Danzō learned that Kō had sent intelligence about Hiruzen Sarutobi and that Ōtsutsuki Sari had attacked the third base, then resolved to find the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path and develop the black lotus into a Dark Army.
• Orochimaru confirmed that three related Mangekyō Sharingan might be combined, considered targeting Uchiha Kagami’s child, and studied the Dark Chakra from Shimura Danzō’s finger.
• Orochimaru checked on a red-haired clone grown from Mito Uzumaki’s cells and anticipated using it as a vessel to combine First Hokage cells, Sharingan power, and Tailed Beast Chakra.

After the Great Ninja War, the villages strengthened themselves by transplanting bloodlines and dividing Tailed Beasts among new jinchūriki. Meanwhile, Tamura Hiroshi’s reforms shaped Kumogakure’s schools as Mito Uzumaki visited the academy district and learned how it disciplined students and suppressed clan divisions.

• Ōnoki received transplanted Sharingan, Byakugan, a heart, and First Hokage's cells, then arranged for Kitsuchi to receive his removed heart.
• Rasa divided the One-Tail among ten loyal ninja, while Terumi Kyu sealed part of the Six-Tails inside himself and transplanted Uzumaki organs.
• Uchiha Hikari explained that she had chosen Tamura Hiroshi for his strength and delayed their marriage to avoid alienating the other women.
• Mito Uzumaki and Uzumaki Tamayou visited Kumogakure’s school district, where Tamayou described its expanded education system and compulsory schooling.
• Tamayou explained that students could not use surnames or clan crests at school, and that serious troublemakers were sent to Socratic Academy for reform.

Mito Uzumaki’s Shadow Clone toured Kumogakure with Uzumaki Tamayou, witnessing the brutal training at the Elite Academy before joining the effort to settle the Senju clan members. Tamura Hiroshi reported that the Senju who remained in Konoha had been taken as experimental subjects, while the group discussed Fugaku’s return and why Konoha’s power struggles had devastated its founding clans.

• Mito Uzumaki and Uzumaki Tamayou visited the Elite Academy, where Yozuki Hagane and other students endured extreme training and Nawaki taught with the Konoha technique Thousand Years of Death.
• Mito Uzumaki returned to the Senju clan members, learned their resettlement was progressing, and let Tamura Hiroshi send her chakra to Little Ten-Tails.
• Tamura Hiroshi told Tsunade that the Senju who had stayed in their clan lands were likely captured by ANBU, Root, and Orochimaru’s people for experiments.
• Uchiha Retsuyō asked about Fugaku, and Tamura Hiroshi said Fugaku had returned to Konoha with Hyuga Hiashi but could not awaken the Mangekyō Sharingan a third time.
• Tamura Hiroshi argued that Hiruzen Sarutobi’s weakness and Konoha’s unresolved conflict between the village and ninja clans had led to the Senju and Uchiha being crushed, while Kumogakure’s reforms had unified its village.

After five years of training in the Summoning Realm, Tamura Hiroshi perfected the first stage of his Sage Body and decided to leave seclusion. He learned that Natsuhi's boyfriend had been secretly investigating Kumogakure and arranged for Natsuhi to return, then reunited with his family as signs suggested another war might be near.

• The Four Great Shinobi Villages cooperated in rebuilding after the war, while Konoha struggled with the Land of Fire's devastation and the loss of public trust.
• Tamura Hiroshi spent five years training, married Hikari, Karura, Kushina, Kousou, Mikoto, Pakura, and Izumi, and perfected his Sage Body's ability to absorb and refine Natural Energy.
• Tamura Hiroshi and Izumi Shimura discussed rumors of another war, which Tamura Hiroshi believed would begin once someone made a move.
• Kousou told Tamura Hiroshi that Natsuhi's boyfriend had been living in Kumogakure under a merchant's disguise and investigating the Star Meteorite theft and Natsuhi's past.
• Tamura Hiroshi asked Kousou to call Natsuhi back from Turtle Island after learning that her boyfriend had a new girlfriend, and he decided to take a break from training.
• Tamura Hiroshi returned to his villa, where Yashamaru struggled to care for the children and Hatake Kakashi reported that Hatake Sakumo and his wife were expecting another child.

Tamura Hiroshi refused Kakashi’s request to join the coming Great Ninja War and explained that he needed knowledge, not an early battlefield, to develop his talent. As the war approached, Hiroshi traveled with Black Zetsu’s Raijin Clone to Rōran to investigate its ancient Dragon Vein, where he discovered Minato Namikaze’s Flying Thunder God formulas scattered throughout the town.

• Tamura Hiroshi learned that Kimimaro and Haku were recovering from Body Shattering training and told Kakashi he could not participate in the war because he was under eighteen.
• Tamura Hiroshi advised Kakashi to build his knowledge and use his intelligence to develop his all-attribute talent.
• Tsunade and the other women discussed the coming war, the virtual world’s final testing, and the plan to unify the Ninja World.
• Tamura Hiroshi told Karura that he would leave the war to the Raijin Clone and focus on stronger opponents and deeper plans.
• Tamura Hiroshi traveled with Black Zetsu’s Raijin Clone to Rōran and explained that the clone’s body had been built from powerful bloodlines.
• Tamura Hiroshi detected more than a thousand of Minato Namikaze’s Flying Thunder God formulas around Rōran and suspected Konoha had taken an interest in the Dragon Vein.

Minato Namikaze and Konoha learned that Tamura Hiroshi had discovered the Rōran Dragon Vein, and both sides rushed to the Land of Wind. At Rōran, Hiroshi confronted Minato Namikaze and Orochimaru, then Raijin revealed a powerful Magnet Release Kekkei Tōta as the battle began.

• Minato Namikaze sensed that Tamura Hiroshi had detected his Flying Thunder God Technique Formula in Rōran, and Jiraiya warned Hiruzen Sarutobi that Kumogakure was targeting the Dragon Vein.
• Shimura Danzō ignored the Rōran intelligence and prioritized hunting Hanzō and seizing the eyes of an Uzumaki youth in Amegakure.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi ordered Orochimaru to lead a team to stop Kumogakure from obtaining the Dragon Vein, and Minato Namikaze transported the team to the Land of Wind.
• Tamura Hiroshi sent Rōran's people to the Summoning Realm and confronted Minato Namikaze, while Sara learned that Konoha might have been responsible for her mother's disappearance.
• Orochimaru, Jiraiya, and the Konoha team faced Tamura Hiroshi and Raijin, who used Magnet Release Kekkei Tōta to draw in wind and sand and build a sandstorm.
• Jiraiya attacked with Senpo: Jinton — Genkai Hakuri no Jutsu, but Orochimaru stopped him when Raijin and Tamura Hiroshi resisted its decomposition power.

Minato and Kuuhina fought Tamura Hiroshi and Nawaki’s Wood Release as they tried to stop Kumogakure from claiming the Dragon Vein. Meanwhile, Orochimaru reunited with his former student Nawaki, who revealed more about Wood Release and the chakra powering the forest.

• Minato tried to reach the Dragon Vein, but Nawaki’s Wood Release covered Rōran and sealed its entrance.
• Tamura Hiroshi intercepted Minato and protected Sara, while Nawaki left to find Orochimaru.
• Kuuhina attacked the forest near the Dragon Vein as Minato resumed fighting Tamura Hiroshi.
• Nawaki reunited with Orochimaru and discussed his Wood Release, awakened Sharingan, and Orochimaru’s body made with Mito Uzumaki’s cells.
• Nawaki explained that he was expanding the forest with chakra supplied by someone else, and Orochimaru suspected the World Tree was the source.

The Kumogakure group’s mission to seize the Dragon Vein failed, and Orochimaru learned that Shimura Danzō had attacked Amegakure over Nagato Uzumaki’s Rinnegan. Danzō’s forces cornered Nagato, Konan, and Hanzō, and the chapter ended with Yahiko dying in an explosion to thwart Danzō’s attempt to take Nagato’s eyes.

• Minato Namikaze retreated with his team after Jiraiya lost an arm, and Nawaki told Jiraiya that he intended to take revenge on Hiruzen Sarutobi.
• Orochimaru treated the wounded, discussed grafting Steel Release onto Jiraiya, and later learned that Root had found the Rinnegan in Amegakure.
• Tamura Hiroshi and Black Zetsu traveled to the Land of Rain to watch the attack and planned to frame Ōtsutsuki Isshiki while waiting for Madara Uchiha and Ōtsutsuki Sari.
• Shimura Danzō’s forces devastated Amegakure, leaving Hanzō gravely wounded and surrounding him, Nagato Uzumaki, and Konan with more than a thousand black-robed shinobi.
• Nagato Uzumaki used Shinra Tensei to destroy the first attacking force, but Shimura Danzō arrived with the captured Yahiko and demanded Nagato’s eyes.
• Yahiko detonated an Explosive Tag sealed inside his body, dying before Shimura Danzō could use him as leverage, and Nagato Uzumaki erupted in rage.

Nagato Uzumaki summoned the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, survived a battle among Shimura Danzō, Madara Uchiha, and Otsutsuki Sari, and became the statue’s Jinchuriki. He left to master his new power and resolved to become a god who could force peace on the world, while distancing himself from Konan.

• Nagato summoned the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path and used it against Shimura Danzō and Root, while Otsutsuki Sari sensed the statue and traveled to the Ninja World.
• Nagato sent Konan away with Ayu, and Hanzō sacrificed himself to transfer his Sage Jutsu Curse Mark and Senjutsu Chakra to Nagato.
• Madara Uchiha and Otsutsuki Sari joined the battle; Otsutsuki Sari cut apart the Demonic Statue, while Tamura Hiroshi stole its lower half and Shimura Danzō took one of its arms.
• Nagato absorbed the remaining Demonic Statue and became its Jinchuriki, then blocked Otsutsuki Sari’s attack and trapped him in a massive stone sphere before Otsutsuki Sari fled to protect Toneri.
• Nagato followed Ibuse to safety and decided to become a god to end the world’s wars, while keeping away from Konan and taking time to master his power.

Orochimaru used the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path’s arm to transform his bloodline, gaining evolved Yin-Yang Release, stronger sealing chains, and First Hokage-level Wood Release. As war loomed over Konoha, Shimura Danzo began using the World-Destroying Black Lotus to strengthen his own power and prepare a risky Chimera Technique fusion.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi read Orochimaru’s mission report, learned Danzo had destroyed Amegakure, and ordered preparations for war.
• Orochimaru told Hiruzen that Root had stopped contacting him five years earlier and estimated that Jiraiya’s recovery would take a month.
• Orochimaru agreed to help Inoichi Yamanaka and Nara Shikaku reach Kage Level in exchange for access to their clans’ secret techniques.
• Orochimaru fed cultivated flesh from all nine Tailed Beasts to the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path’s arm, then sealed the resulting monster inside himself and awakened stronger bloodline powers.
• Shimura Danzo used the World-Destroying Black Lotus to devour Zero-Tails, then prepared to fuse five specimens through the Chimera Technique despite Yakushi Nonō’s warning about its flaws.

Shimura Danzō used the World-Destroying Black Lotus to fuse the bloodlines in his body and ordered his forces to wait until the Great Ninja War weakened the villages. Meanwhile, Tamura Hiroshi and Black Zetsu removed Rōran into the Initial Sphere Space and began planning further transformations, but Black Zetsu’s mother suddenly came through Tamura Hiroshi’s Space Gate.

• Shimura Danzō sealed the World-Destroying Black Lotus and the Box of Paradise inside himself, using the lotus to fuse the bloodlines in his body into a more advanced form.
• Shimura Danzō ordered his forces to recall their operatives and avoid the Great Ninja War until the Five Great Ninja Villages had been weakened.
• Tamura Hiroshi and Black Zetsu used the Dragon Vein and the Little Ten-Tails to move Rōran into the Initial Sphere Space, while Sara calmed the Dragon Vein.
• Black Zetsu proposed making Sara the Dragon Vein’s Jinchuriki and discussed using its Earth Release Natural Energy for Tamura Hiroshi’s cultivation.
• Tamura Hiroshi and Black Zetsu discussed Shimura Danzō’s transformation and Orochimaru’s potential as their final sacrifice, then prepared to take Sara for food and a bath.
• Black Zetsu’s mother suddenly dashed through Tamura Hiroshi’s Space Gate, startling him.

Tamura Hiroshi brought Sara and Red Moon to Kumogakure, pressured Natsuhi Star to sever her ties with Fire Fly, and visited Konan, who mourned her lost companions and asked him to save Nagato. After hearing Konan’s account of Nagato’s Rinnegan, Tamura warned that the eyes might belong to Madara Uchiha and that Nagato was in danger.

• Tamura Hiroshi introduced Sara, queen of Rōran, and Red Moon, then stopped Sara from overeating while the others questioned him.
• Tamura told Natsuhi Star to win Fire Fly back so he could use their relationship to threaten her, and secretly watched her meet and fight Fire Fly on a television feed.
• Natsuhi attacked Tamura after he mocked her and proposed sending Fire Fly a deceptive letter, but Tamura subdued her and Karura offered to speak with her.
• Tamura and Pakura visited Konan, who broke down and told Tamura that Yahiko and their teacher were dead, Nagato was missing, and Amegakure had fallen.
• Konan asked Tamura to save Nagato, and he promised to do his utmost before asking how Nagato had awakened the Rinnegan.
• Tamura explained that Nagato could not have awakened the Rinnegan through his Uzumaki heritage alone and suggested Madara Uchiha might have transplanted the eyes into him.

Tamura Hiroshi analyzed the dangers surrounding Nagato, prompting Konan to join Kumogakure and train under Tsunade so she could protect him. Tsunade then challenged Tamura Hiroshi, unveiling her new Kekkei Tōta and Mangekyō Sharingan as their fierce battle began.

• Tamura Hiroshi explained that Nagato remained alive but faced uncertain threats from Madara Uchiha and others.
• Konan decided to become stronger, joined Kumogakure, and accepted Tsunade as her teacher.
• Tsunade challenged Tamura Hiroshi to their annual sparring match, and he agreed to fight her at their usual clearing.
• Tsunade revealed her fused Steel, Lava, and Explosion Release abilities, along with her Mangekyō Sharingan and its spatial technique.
• Tsunade and Tamura Hiroshi exchanged powerful blows, while Uchiha Hikari shielded the spectators with her Susanoo.

Tamura Hiroshi defeated Tsunade in their fierce duel and confirmed he would fuse Earth Release into his Light Release soon. As the Four Village Alliance prepared to attack Konoha, Uchiha Retsuyō learned Kumogakure’s unification plan and helped refine it over several days.

• The Third Raikage and Dodai discussed Tsunade’s growing strength while Tamura Hiroshi fought her, gradually breaking her armor and cutting off her hair after she tried to end the duel.
• Tsunade admitted defeat, and Tamura Hiroshi advised her to balance speed with strength; she then asked whether he planned to fuse a four-element bloodline, and he said he would do so in a few days.
• Tsunade went home with Karura to prepare a feast, while Tamura Hiroshi returned with the Third Raikage and others to review intelligence about the coming war and the Four Village Alliance’s plans against Konoha.
• Uchiha Retsuyō argued that Hiruzen Sarutobi would avoid a devastating surprise attack, and the Third Raikage invited him to learn about Kumogakure’s unification plan.
• Dodai explained the plan, including its firearms initiative and corps, and Uchiha Retsuyō helped Tamura Hiroshi and the others refine its strategy toward Konoha and the Daimyo of the Land of Fire over four days.

Tamura Hiroshi and the Third Raikage showed Uchiha Retsuyō the million children being gestated through the World Tree and explained their plans for raising them, expanding beyond the world, and integrating their bloodlines. The group then visited a weapons base, where Retsuyō examined the latest firearms and saw how Dojutsu could enhance their use.

• Tamura Hiroshi took Uchiha Retsuyō and the others to a kindergarten in the Summoning Realm, where Dodai explained that ten kindergartens held roughly a million children.
• Tamura Hiroshi explained that the children were produced from recorded shinobi genes and gestated by the World Tree, and that they could choose their own careers rather than being raised solely as soldiers.
• The group inspected the World Tree’s gestation lake, and Dodai said the system could now produce about one million children per year, limited mainly by the supply of Water of Life.
• Tamura Hiroshi proposed that the children would be told the World Tree was their parent and described plans to colonize other planets; the Third Raikage said Kumogakure would integrate the children’s Sage bloodlines.
• Uchiha Retsuyō went with the group to a firearms testing base, where Yozuki A tried a twelve-barrel machine gun and Retsuyō tested a rifle.
• Uchiha Retsuyō concluded that Sharingan and Byakugan abilities could make firearms, especially rifles and sniper rifles, more effective.

Tamura Hiroshi strolled through Kumogakure with Kaguya while discussing how to help her evolve, then encountered Kakuzu working for the Food Entertainment Company and dealt with Natsuhi Star at a restaurant. He left Natsuhi in the Summoning Realm and continued his outing with Kaguya, while an ANBU shinobi wondered how Hiroshi knew he was single.

• Tamura Hiroshi agreed to forge Kaguya a large scythe and discussed with Black Zetsu the true Otsutsuki sacrifice needed to evolve the Little Ten-Tails into the Jade Rabbit form.
• Tamura Hiroshi and Black Zetsu speculated about Hamura's descendants, the delayed reincarnations of Indra and Asura, and Madara Uchiha's search for a successor.
• Tamura Hiroshi spotted Kakuzu inspecting Food Entertainment City and learned that the bounty hunter had become a well-paid company inspector.
• Natsuhi Star accused Tamura Hiroshi of bullying her and demanded to know why he had done it; Hiroshi argued that she had brought it on herself and knocked her unconscious when she tried to leave.
• Tamura Hiroshi learned that Natsuhi Star had released the foreign energy damaging Fire Fly's body and that the couple had left without resentment, then sent the ANBU shinobi on vacation.
• Tamura Hiroshi resumed his stroll with Kaguya, while the ANBU shinobi wondered how Hiroshi had known he was single.

Minato became Gekko Hayate’s instructor and took him to Orochimaru for treatment of the Hayate clan’s Bloodline Disease. After Orochimaru transplanted several abilities into Hayate, he urged Minato to challenge Hiruzen Sarutobi, but Minato declined and learned that Orochimaru had severed his bond with the Third Hokage.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi assigned Minato to guide Gekko Hayate, a young early graduate whose hatred and relentless training worried him.
• Minato visited Hayate and discovered that he had awakened the Transparent Release and suffered from the clan’s Bloodline Disease.
• Hayate’s uncle consented to treatment, and Minato took him to Orochimaru, who transplanted a First Hokage’s cells heart, Shikotsumyaku bone, and weakened Byakugan eyes into him.
• Orochimaru asked Minato to help him with a future task that would not harm them or the village, and Minato and Hayate agreed.
• Orochimaru urged Minato to move against Hiruzen Sarutobi, but Minato said he had no such plans and learned that Orochimaru had severed his master-disciple bond with the Third Hokage.

Tamura Hiroshi fused Earth Release with his Light Release chakra and endured severe bodily damage to complete his four-attribute bloodline transformation. While he recovered under Tsunade’s care, Karura explained to Natsuhi Star why Hiroshi was pushing himself to face powerful threats hidden in the Ninja World.

• Tamura Hiroshi returned from Kumogakure and began fusing Earth Release with Light Release, after preventing Tsunade from giving him her prepared treatments.
• Tamura Hiroshi’s body suffered massive cell damage as Black Zetsu used Yin-Yang Release to help him complete the bloodline transformation over nearly a day.
• Tamura Hiroshi confirmed the fusion had succeeded, and Tsunade took him to her laboratory to treat him with drips and a catheter.
• Tamura Hiroshi and Black Zetsu discussed using natural energy to develop Lightning Power and transform other chakra attributes into greater powers.
• Karura told Natsuhi Star that hidden powers far exceeded Hiroshi’s strength and explained that he was training to protect their village and its people.

Karura and Uzumaki Tamayou plotted ways to draw Natsuhi Star and Tsunade closer to Hiroshi, while Uchiha Naori decided to move in with them. After recovering from his bloodline fusion, Tamura Hiroshi returned home as Tsunade used Nawaki’s staged declaration of devotion to resolve to pursue him herself.

• Karura urged Natsuhi Star to accept Kumogakure as her home and suggested visiting Hoshigakure with Hiroshi to help her let go of the past.
• Uchiha Naori told Karura about her symptoms, decided to move in, and admitted she had feelings for Hiroshi.
• Karura and Uzumaki Tamayou planned to use Nawaki’s marriage prospects to influence Tsunade, while Karura worried about Hiroshi’s recovery.
• Tsunade confirmed Tamura Hiroshi had recovered, fled before he could tease her, and was later confronted by Uzumaki Tamayou about Nawaki remaining unmarried.
• Nawaki told Tsunade he had delayed marriage to protect her reputation, and Tsunade resolved to pursue Hiroshi and ordered Nawaki to find a girlfriend.

Tsunade impulsively took Tamura Hiroshi as her husband, and he told her she was pregnant after using medical ninjutsu to advance conception. Later, he explained that the Sage of Six Paths was likely still alive and posed a grave threat, leaving the group to consider how they might survive his attention.

• Tsunade entered the hot spring, declared that Tamura Hiroshi would marry into the Senju clan, and spent the night with him; he eventually subdued her.
• After Tsunade woke, Tamura Hiroshi announced that she was pregnant, and she realized he had used medical ninjutsu to induce the change.
• Tsunade and Uchiha Naori discussed marriage with Tamura Hiroshi, while he agreed to hold the weddings quietly.
• Uchiha Naori asked about Tamura Hiroshi’s newly fused Light Release, and he described how gravity-based Earth Release could help increase his speed.
• Tsunade suspected the Sage of Six Paths was their feared enemy, and Tamura Hiroshi confirmed that the Sage was likely alive and harvesting chakra from the Ninja World.
• Tamura Hiroshi warned that the Sage had created the moon and might eliminate him and Kumogakure as unpredictable threats.