Recaps

Yamashiro Aoba entered the Ninja Academy, concealed his motives while building his skills, and defeated Kakashi in a match after Kakashi graduated early. He then enrolled in a medical ninjutsu course with Kurenai and helped Rin and Shizune prepare for its exam.

• Jason Welton offered Aoba a future Auxiliary Chip as compensation for accidentally killing him, and Aoba chose to transmigrate into the Naruto world.
• The Lord Third arranged Aoba’s supplementary admission to the Ninja Academy, and Yuhi Shinku gave him ninjutsu scrolls and Genjutsu notes.
• Aoba used the Auxiliary Chip to study, impressed his classmates with his fighting and throwing skills, and defeated Asuma in a practical match.
• Aoba met Akimichi Kota in the Forest of Death, shared a meal with him, and began hunting with him on later visits.
• Aoba avoided Guy’s repeated challenges and used Genjutsu to immobilize Kakashi, who later graduated early at five years old.
• Aoba fought Kakashi in the Forest of Death, overcame his clones and attacks, and pinned him with a kunai until Kakashi admitted defeat.
• After Obito failed the early graduation assessments, Aoba applied for the Medical Ninjutsu Experimental Class and Kurenai joined him.
• Yamanaka Hana taught battlefield first aid, and Aoba helped Rin and Shizune study before they took the theory and practical exams.

Aoba advanced through medical training while secretly developing new techniques and helping Minato create the Rasengan. As Konoha’s leaders began investigating his abilities, Aoba dispelled a genjutsu and found a Kumogakure ninja waiting for him.

• Aoba topped the Experimental Class exam, studied under Tsunade, and watched Hatake Sakumo die after the village condemned him for saving his comrades.
• Aoba excelled in dissection and medical practice, earned access to Konoha Hospital’s Archives Room, and became a leading student as Tsunade relied on him to teach the class.
• Aoba defeated Obito with a genjutsu, then developed his medical skills at the hospital and secretly experimented with a Chakra Absorption Technique.
• Aoba watched Minato develop the Rasengan, suggested he stabilize the chakra sphere in his hand, and learned Jiraiya’s hair-based techniques in return.
• Aoba discovered that his cells improved sand’s chakra conductivity, then helped the medical team treat Minato and witnessed Tsunade’s hemophobia during the emergency surgery.
• Danzo ordered Root to keep watching Aoba, while Hiruzen investigated his abilities and found Sakumo’s report that Aoba had defeated Kakashi in a sparring match.
• Hiruzen decided Aoba should leave the Ninja Academy, while Aoba received a new medical scroll and dispelled a genjutsu before confronting a Kumogakure ninja in an alley.

Aoba graduated as a medical ninja, joined Minato’s mission to Rōran, and secretly retained memories and knowledge from the time-traveling encounter. Back in Konoha, he decoded a forbidden technique, summoned Dan Katō, and developed a way to separate his spirit while his body defended itself.

• Aoba passed the special medical graduation assessment, joined Konoha Hospital, and was recruited by Minato for a mission to protect Princess Sara in Rōran.
• Aoba discovered that Anrokuzan had replaced Rōran’s citizens with Puppets and planned to use Sara’s bloodline to control the Dragon Vein, then helped disable the Puppet army.
• Aoba found Yamato beside the Dragon Vein, helped Minato and Naruto defeat Mukade, and secretly restored his memories after Minato erased the team’s recollections.
• Minato taught Aoba Fuinjutsu on the journey home, while Aoba studied the Sand Control Secret Technique and rebuilt his gourd with improved sealing runes.
• Aoba decoded the Dragon Vein data packet and discovered Impure World Reincarnation, then secretly summoned Dan Katō and asked him to teach the Spirit Transformation Technique.
• Dan taught Aoba the technique, and Aoba began experimenting with it while keeping Dan sealed between lessons.
• Aoba refined the technique through repeated simulations and successfully left his body as a spirit while his body independently countered Dan’s attacks.

As war approached, Aoba joined a genin team, passed the Chunin Exams, and led Shinku’s squad through a mission that exposed his lethal strength and brought Root into conflict with him. After returning to Konoha, he anticipated the coming war and arranged an escort mission for his restaurant.

• Aoba sealed Dan Katō in his coffin, then prepared for the looming war while studying White Zetsu Cells and adapting them for medical supplies and scrolls.
• When wartime reforms sent him toward frontline duty, Aoba joined Team 1 with Okamoto Ryuichi and Nishimura Yuta, then formed a temporary Chunin Exam team with Hatake Kakashi and Might Guy.
• Aoba led Kakashi and Guy through the Forest of Death and defeated them in the exam battles, using a Puppet Clone to survive Guy’s Hidden Lotus and earning promotion to Chunin.
• Danzō demanded that Hiruzen hand Aoba over to Root, but Hiruzen refused and promoted Might Duy to Special Jonin after reviewing his record.
• Yuhi Shinku formed a squad with Aoba, Yuhi Kurenai, and Sarutobi Asuma, then led them on a mission to eliminate bandits near Numata Village.
• Aoba uncovered the bandits’ informants and rogue-ninja allies, helped Kurenai and Asuma defeat the bandits, and then killed the rogue ninjas at Iwate Village.
• Root tried to recruit Aoba and attacked him, but he buried their force with sand and killed the fleeing captain before returning to Shinku’s squad.
• After the squad returned to Konoha, Aoba anticipated Danzō’s suspicions and the coming war, then arranged a restaurant escort mission that sent Shinku, Kurenai, and Asuma out with him.