Recaps

Kagura led Team 7 through its first missions while secretly building his strength and changing events around him. After killing Kinkaku and recovering in Konoha, he faced Danzo as Hiruzen became the Third Hokage and Team 7 gained a new leader.

• Kagura passed Hiruzen Sarutobi’s bell test, used Kotoamatsukami to redirect Danzo’s surveillance, and joined Team 7 on a B-Rank escort mission to the Land of Whirlpools.
• Kagura led Team 7 through a battle with rogue ninja, then demonstrated the Summoning Technique and summoned a mysterious glowing egg during the journey.
• Kagura met Uzumaki Fusou in Hidden Whirlpool Village and promised to protect her and her child, angering Tsunade when she mistook his warning for a confession.
• Kinkaku ambushed the group, and Kagura protected Tsunade before carrying her, Orochimaru, and Jiraiya away from the battle while Hiruzen fought Kinkaku.
• Kagura returned to face the weakened Kinkaku, used genjutsu and clones to hold him in place, and killed him with Chidori.
• Kagura woke in Konoha’s hospital, where Tsunade explained that the village was negotiating with Kumogakure over Kinkaku’s corpse, and Hiruzen later shielded Kagura from questions about the fight.
• After recovering, Kagura attended Hiruzen’s inauguration as the Third Hokage and learned Danzo would lead Team 7.
• Kagura admitted to Orochimaru that he had ambushed Kinkaku, urged him to find his own path, and asked whether he had considered human experimentation.

Kagura’s team pursued a dangerous mission under Danzo, where Kagura defied him to save Jiraiya and then faced Hiruzen Sarutobi’s questions. At the joint Chunin Exam, Tsunade was injured fighting the Seven Ninja Swordsmen, and Kagura confronted them to protect her.

• Kagura proposed controlled testing of Orochimaru’s experiments, celebrated his birthday with Tsunade, Jiraiya, and Orochimaru, then joined Danzo’s team to pursue Shota Futa into the Land of Rain.
• Hanzo defeated Kagura and his companions, but Danzo attacked Shota Futa, and Kagura awakened his Three Tomoe Sharingan to stop Danzo from killing Jiraiya and then trapped Danzo in Tsukuyomi.
• Kagura returned to Konohagakure after Danzo’s mission and insisted to Hiruzen Sarutobi that Teacher Danzo had saved them.
• Kagura and Team 7 rescued a red-haired girl in the Land of Whirlpools, returned to Konoha, and registered for the joint Chunin Exam hosted by Konoha, Kirigakure, and Kumogakure.
• Kagura exposed the genjutsu hiding the examiners, passed the first trial, and cleared the written assessment as the examinees advanced to the dangerous forest trial.
• Kagura entered the forest alone while Orochimaru and Jiraiya defeated examinees and took their forehead protectors, and Tsunade encountered the Seven Ninja Swordsmen.
• Tsunade fought Juzō Biwa and the other swordsmen after demanding they hand over a wounded Konoha examinee, but they injured her with their weapons and techniques.
• Kagura rescued Tsunade from Juzō’s attack, told her to heal, kicked Kushimaru Kuriarare away, and demanded that the swordsmen leave one person behind in exchange for letting the others go.

Kagura advanced through the Chunin Exam and faced Uchiha Madara’s plot to seize the Three-Tails and manipulate Karatachi Yagura. The arc left Kagura inside Yagura’s consciousness, working to free him from Madara’s control.

• Kagura drove the Seven Ninja Swordsmen into retreat, then reunited with Tsunade and reached the White Building, where thirty examinees passed the assessment.
• Kagura teamed up with Dodai and Uchiha Shizuka, while Tsunade and Orochimaru won their bouts to qualify Team 7 for the next stage.
• Kagura defeated a three-person Konohagakure team and noticed Dodai’s suspicions about Uchiha Shizuka as the examinees prepared to travel to Kirigakure.
• At the Final Exam, Uchiha Shizuka revealed himself as Obito, who killed a Kirigakure Genin and confronted Kagura over his eyes.
• Uchiha Madara appeared and announced his plan to take the Three-Tails, while Kakuzu trapped the Kage inside the Four Violet Flames Formation.
• Kagura and his allies fought Obito’s Giant Buddha, but Madara arrived after the Three-Tails roared, restrained Kagura, and took Obito away.
• Kagura warned Hiruzen Sarutobi that Karatachi Yagura was controlled by Madara, then joined the fight to subdue Yagura as A held off the Kirigakure Jonin.
• Kagura entered Karatachi Yagura’s consciousness and told him he had come to free him, then shattered the space around them.

Kagura rescued Uchiha Shizuka from Kakuzu and Obito, then learned that Akatsuki was plotting against Sunagakure. After welcoming Uzumaki Fusou and Kushina to Konoha, he and Tsunade infiltrated Sunagakure to investigate Shukaku.

• Kagura recovered from the battle in Takigakure, where he and his companions had failed to capture Kakuzu and Obito but rescued Uchiha Shizuka.
• Kagura attended Hatake Sakumo’s wedding, reunited with Might Dai, and warned Sakumo that war was drawing near.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi sent Kagura and Tsunade to the Land of Wind to monitor Akatsuki and stop its plans against Sunagakure.
• Kagura and Tsunade met Uzumaki Fusou, Nagato, and Kushina, then brought Fusou and her family to Uzumaki Mito.
• Kagura and Tsunade shared a candlelit dinner and kissed before setting out on their mission.
• Uchiha Madara and Black Zetsu watched the body prepared for Madara’s transfer and hoped to advance their plan by seizing the One-Tails.
• Kagura and Tsunade entered Sunagakure in disguise and opened a ramen shop to gather information.
• Tsunade told Kagura that Shukaku had been sighted in a cave north of Sunagakure.