Recaps

Kagura sealed Shukaku, took Uchiha Setsuna’s Mangekyō Sharingan, and tried to protect the people close to him as the Second Great Ninja War began. After Kagura was lured toward Nawaki by a forged letter, Nara Sora stood between the Genin and their attackers until a mysterious figure intervened.

• Uchiha Setsuna’s Akatsuki team freed Shukaku, but Kagura used Susanoo and the Totsuka Blade to seal the One-Tails back into Ono Shota and took Setsuna’s Mangekyō Sharingan.
• Kagura gave Orochimaru the Mangekyō Sharingan to study and used Kotoamatsukami to make him avoid Danzo, then spent time with Tsunade, Kushina, and Minato.
• The Demonic Statue extracted Shukaku from Ono Shota, and Uchiha Madara put Uchiha Setsuna under his control as the Second Great Ninja War approached.
• As the war began, Kagura captured enemy ninja, advised Konoha’s leaders on dealing with Hanzo’s poison, and received a mission to find the Two-Tails Jinchuriki.
• Kagura protected Nara Sora’s squad from enemy forces and defeated hundreds of soldiers, while Nara Sora resolved to find his own place in the war.
• Kagura learned Nawaki had arrived at the front and went to seek him, while Nawaki joined Nara Sora’s reconnaissance unit.
• Nara Sora tracked a trail with Nawaki and two other Genin into a secluded valley, where five Kirigakure Jonin ambushed them.
• Danzo revealed he had forged Tsunade’s letter and arranged the mission to lure Kagura into a trap, while Nara Sora shielded Nawaki from Munashi Jinpachi until a mysterious figure kicked the attacker away.

Kagura exposed Danzo’s betrayal and helped Hiruzen drive him from Konoha, while Madara’s schemes escalated the war. The arc left Tsunade’s force trapped in Hanzo’s valley, with Kagura teleporting into the ambush to reach her.

• Kagura defeated the Ninja Sword Group, exposed Danzo’s plot to Hiruzen, and helped force Danzo to flee Konoha as a rogue ninja.
• Kagura and Hiruzen confronted Danzo’s alliance with Kumogakure, while Madara’s forces captured the Two-Tails Jinchuriki and revealed a wider threat.
• Hatake Sakumo killed Chiyo’s son and daughter-in-law during a mission, prompting Chiyo to identify him as Konoha’s White Fang.
• Hiruzen accepted a plan to eliminate Hanzo in the valley, and Tsunade, Jiraiya, and Orochimaru led Konoha’s force inside.
• Hanzo activated a barrier that sealed the valley, while Hozuki Gengetsu and Mu attacked the forces of the Land of Wind and Land of Earth.
• Madara-controlled Senju Tobirama crippled Tsunade’s force with Shinra Tensei, and Hanzo filled the battlefield with poison.
• Kagura sensed Tsunade’s Flying Thunder God coordinates, left Hiruzen a marked Kunai, and teleported into the valley ambush.

Kagura was left in a white cat’s body after Madara failed to extract the Tailed Beasts, and he returned to Konoha with Tsunade. Hiruzen eventually began undoing the seal, but Tsunade returned home to find Kagura missing and a note that enraged her.

• Kagura fought Madara’s Six Paths, but Tobirama defeated him and Madara’s forces extracted the Two-Tails and Shukaku from his body.
• Kirin and the two Tailed Beasts broke the weakened barrier, allowing the Three Great Nations’ forces to enter the valley, but Madara’s group escaped with Kagura.
• Hiruzen found Tsunade, Jiraiya, and Orochimaru alive, while Kagura awoke transformed into a white cat and made his way back to Konoha.
• Hiruzen explained that Madara’s Five Elements Seal had changed Kagura’s body and that its added Yin-Yang Release made it impossible to undo for now.
• Tsunade took Kagura home, cared for him, and admitted that she loved him after he comforted her over the fear of losing him.
• Kagura explored Konoha as a cat, defended Tsunade from an unwanted suitor, and confronted Hiruzen about the delay in removing the seal.
• Hiruzen revealed that only a small amount of the seal’s Chakra remained, and Kagura activated the unsealing formation with Chakra from the three Tailed Beasts.
• Tsunade returned home expecting Kagura, found him missing, and erupted with killing intent after reading his note.

Kagura married Tsunade, began training Minato, Kushina, and Hiashi, and steered Orochimaru away from experiments on infants. On Team 7’s first trip beyond Konoha, the students killed three Sunagakure ninja who threatened a mother and child, and Kagura arranged for the pair to travel safely toward Konoha.

• Tsunade mistook Kagura’s proposal preparations for a kidnapping plot, but Kagura found her on the mountain and proposed, and they exchanged vows.
• Kagura and Tsunade married in Konoha, then Hiruzen Sarutobi assigned Kagura to teach Minato, Kushina, and Hiashi.
• Kagura tested Team 7 with a Bell Game, defeated all three students, and taught them to trust their companions.
• Kagura noticed Orochimaru’s research failures and persuaded him to cultivate artificial humans from Hashirama Cells instead of experimenting on infants.
• Kagura trained Team 7, brought the students home for dinner, and later led them toward the Land of Wind to deliver Hiruzen Sarutobi’s letter.
• In a war-damaged village, Minato, Kushina, and Hiashi chose to attack three Sunagakure ninja who were threatening a mother and child, and killed them.
• Kagura ordered Minato and Hiashi to bury the bodies while Kushina comforted Riko, then sent Riko and Shintaro east toward Konoha with food and a golden-furred creature.