Recaps

Hiroki’s mental attack disrupted the Seven Ninja Swordsmen’s ambush, but the Six-Tails Jinchuriki, Huaiyao, rallied them and helped them recover. Hiroki’s Muscle Collapse Script inexplicably failed to kill them, and he launched a barrage of attacks as the Mist assassins advanced.

• Kushimaru Kuriarare and Munashi Jinpachi fell into the sea after Hiroki’s jutsu disrupted their thoughts, while Jinin Akebino and Raiga Kurosuki also lost consciousness.
• Suikazan Fuguki warned the group about Hiroki’s mental and sensory abilities, and Huaiyao urged them to close their eyes and fight by hearing.
• Huaiyao transformed into a Six-Tails cloak and used acid to shock Kushimaru Kuriarare and Munashi Jinpachi awake, though strange white patches appeared on their bodies.
• Juzo Biwa and Suikazan Fuguki prepared to use Kirigakure’s Silent Killing Technique as the group closed in on Hiroki.
• Hiroki realized the Muscle Collapse Script had not killed the attackers and struck at them with Water, Wind, and Fire Release techniques and an Unnamed Sonic Blade.

Hiroki and the Konoha squad attacked the Seven Ninja Swordsmen, but the Six-Tails Jinchuriki Huaiyao transformed and revealed signs of White Zetsu and Sharingan control. As Hiroki struggled to evade repeated Tailed Beast Bombs, Suikazan Fuguki suspected that Kirigakure’s leadership had also been compromised.

• Hiroki disrupted the Kirigakure Ninja with a sound-wave attack, then joined the Konoha squad’s assault on the Seven Ninja Swordsmen.
• Hiroki killed the Hiramekarei wielder and injured Juzo Biwa before Huaiyao transformed into the Six-Tails and attacked him.
• Huaiyao’s transformation revealed a spinning Sharingan, while White Zetsu emerged from the dead swordsman’s body and directed attacks toward Hiroki.
• Inuzuka San identified White Zetsu’s scent on Hiroki, but Huaiyao’s acid attack severely injured her and took her arm.
• Suikazan Fuguki noticed White Zetsu spreading across his comrades and suspected that the Third Mizukage and Kirigakure might be under control.

Hiroki struggled to survive the Six-Tails Jinchuriki’s relentless attacks, but Kurama refused to help him. Suikazan Fuguki offered Hiroki Samehada and a chance to escape, and Hiroki seized the sword and charged his opponent.

• Hiroki found that his scripts could not affect the Six-Tails Jinchuriki and that his dwindling chakra left him with few options.
• Kurama refused to help Hiroki, insisting that Hiroki was a greater threat to him than the Jinchuriki was.
• Suikazan Fuguki opened a connection to Hiroki and offered to help him obtain Samehada in exchange for Hiroki exposing the mastermind controlling the Mizukage.
• Hiroki sent Fuguki the name Madara Uchiha, then used Water Body Flicker Technique to take Samehada as a Tailed Beast Bomb exploded behind him.
• Hiroki connected to Samehada and charged the Six-Tails Jinchuriki, binding him with Earth Grudge Fear tendrils as Samehada bit into him.

Hiroki fought the controlled Six-Tails, using Samehada to replenish his chakra and unleashing a rapid series of copied techniques. His attacks failed to harm the beast, and he prepared to try something else as another Tailed Beast Bomb came at him.

• Samehada drained chakra from the Six-Tails, and Hiroki used Rotation to deflect its acid attack.
• White Zetsu realized Hiroki might copy the experience behind techniques and ordered the Six-Tails to kill everyone.
• Hiroki blew the Six-Tails' acid gas back over the sea with four simultaneous Wind Release: Great Breakthrough techniques.
• Hiroki trapped half the Six-Tails in Hanzo's Infinite Poison Swamp and followed with combined fire and wind attacks, but the beast remained unharmed.
• White Zetsu mocked Hiroki and launched another Tailed Beast Bomb as Hiroki checked his chakra and prepared to act.

Sawada Hiroki summoned Ibuse and joined the attack on the Six-Tails, while Madara learned the fight was not going as expected and ordered the Jinchuriki killed. Hiroki’s ninjutsu still failed to damage the beast, and a mysterious connection from the computer world appeared as he considered using Wood Release.

• Hiroki summoned Ibuse, stunning the Konoha ninja and the Seven Ninja Swordsmen who recognized Hanzo’s legendary beast.
• White Zetsu told Madara that Hiroki had not fled, had taken Samehada, and was now fighting the Six-Tails with Ibuse; Madara ordered Hiroki killed and said Karatachi Yagura should join the fight if needed.
• Ibuse charged the Six-Tails as Hiroki used its body for cover, climbed onto the beast, and unleashed a barrage of Fire, Wind, Scorch, and Water Release techniques.
• Hiroki saw that his attacks had done almost no damage and considered trying Wood Release despite never having used it.
• A notification announced a temporary connection to a new human from the computer world, Beautiful World, as Hiroki reacted to the name White Zetsu.

Sawada Hiroki copied Wood Release from White Zetsu and used Deep Forest Emergence to restrain the Six-Tails, but the Three-Tails arrived as a second Tailed Beast Bomb began forming. Hiroki warned everyone to flee, leaving the battlefield in immediate danger.

• Sawada Hiroki discovered White Zetsu attached to him, copied its Wood Release.dll file, and deleted its other files, killing it.
• Sawada Hiroki countered the Six-Tails’ attacks while the Konoha ninja prepared to protect him.
• Sawada Hiroki used Wood Release: Deep Forest Emergence, but the jutsu drained most of his chakra and only began to restrain the Six-Tails.
• Madara Uchiha realized Sawada Hiroki had obtained Wood Release from White Zetsu and learned that the Three-Tails was approaching.
• Sawada Hiroki detected the Three-Tails and shouted for everyone to flee as trees bound the Six-Tails and a Tailed Beast Bomb formed in the distance.

Hiroki’s squad barely survived a Tailed Beast Bomb, leaving him to seek a desperate escape from the two pursuing Tailed Beasts. He decided to absorb chakra with Samehada while copying White Zetsu’s Wood Release: Root Concealment, hoping to reach Konoha and warn the village.

• A Hyuga Branch Family ninja spotted a Tailed Beast Bomb, and Aburame Torune ordered the Konoha Ninja to scatter.
• The Tailed Beast Bomb obliterated the ground and sent the fleeing squad tumbling, leaving several ninja injured.
• Hiroki ordered everyone to flee and said he would replenish his chakra with Samehada, while Aburame Torune questioned his plan.
• Hiroki reasoned that Madara Uchiha had trapped him with pursuing Tailed Beasts and possible White Zetsu ambushes, leaving him few places to escape.
• Hiroki decided to hold White Zetsu for ten minutes and copy Wood Release: Root Concealment while using Samehada and his existing techniques to survive.

Sawada Hiroki escaped two Tailed Beasts by using Wood Release: Root Concealment and returned to Konoha gravely wounded. His arrival went undetected by the village barrier, leaving Sarutobi Hiruzen to suspect a powerful enemy was targeting Hiroki and Konoha.

• Sawada Hiroki downloaded Wood Release: Root Concealment, vanished underground as Karatachi Yagura and the White Zetsu watched, and escaped the battlefield.
• Madara learned Hiroki had used the White Zetsu technique to escape, suspected he was connected to Senju Tobirama, and ordered preparations for his funeral and the plan to cultivate the red-haired boy.
• Sawada Hiroki traveled underground to Konoha, emerged near the Memorial Stone, and collapsed unconscious from his injuries.
• Hyuga Daitokuji found Sawada Hiroki and rushed him to Konoha Hospital, while an Anbu informed Sarutobi Hiruzen that Hiroki had returned seriously injured.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen learned Konoha’s sensory barrier had not detected Hiroki’s arrival and ordered the hospital secured and information about Hiroki sealed.

Hiroki woke in a Konoha hospital, and reports of his battle at the Land of Water border led Ōnoki and the Third Raikage to suspect Madara Uchiha was manipulating Kirigakure. Ōnoki called for a summit to unite the remaining villages against the threat, but he and A realized only three Kage might be available.

• Hiroki woke in the hospital, where Sarutobi Hiruzen told him his return had been kept secret and asked what had happened to him and the others.
• Ōnoki learned Hiroki had fought at the Land of Water border and studied a battlefield sketch showing devastation and signs of Wood Release.
• The Third Raikage brought Ōnoki a report from Suikazan Fuguki claiming the Third Mizukage was a puppet and that Madara Uchiha had attacked Hiroki with a Tailed Beast and white monster ninja.
• Ōnoki and the Third Raikage treated the report as a possible threat to the entire Shinobi World, and Ōnoki ordered the invasion of the Land of Rain called off.
• Ōnoki called for a Five Kage Summit, but A pointed out that it would be a Four Kage Summit, and they realized there might be only three Kage left to join them.

At Konoha Hospital, Hiroki used his Bullet Screen Window to secretly copy medical knowledge while an impostor posing as Inuzuka San visited him. When the impostor attacked, Hiroki exposed and captured the White Zetsu, preparing to study it.

• Inuzuka San reported to Sarutobi Hiruzen that the Kirigakure enemy had controlled a Kage and a Tailed Beast, and warned that the villages might need to unite against the mastermind.
• Hiroki used the Bullet Screen Window while pretending to sleep, copying the hospital’s medical knowledge as he recovered.
• A White Zetsu disguised as Inuzuka San entered Hiroki’s room and claimed the rest of her team had died.
• The disguised White Zetsu suddenly attacked Hiroki with a kunai, but Hiroki seized its wrist before it could strike.
• Hiroki broke the White Zetsu’s wrist, forced it out of its disguise, and grabbed it by the throat for further study.

Hiroki captured a White Zetsu assassin disguised as Inuzuka San and uncovered evidence that Madara Uchiha was targeting him. Sarutobi Hiruzen defended Hiroki to his advisers, then received news that Ōnoki had proposed a Five Kage Summit to discuss Madara Uchiha.

• Hiroki subdued White Zetsu in his hospital room, ordered Anbu to report to the Third, and began downloading the creature’s knowledge and techniques.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen learned that White Zetsu had impersonated Inuzuka San and that Hiroki had recognized and captured it.
• Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura accused Hiroki of lying about surviving an encounter with two Tailed Beasts, but Sarutobi Hiruzen defended him and revealed that Madara Uchiha was behind the attacks.
• A messenger reported that Ōnoki had invited Sarutobi Hiruzen and A, the Third Raikage, to a Five Kage Summit about how to deal with Madara Uchiha.

Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura brought Konoha experts to verify Sawada Hiroki’s report, but the White Zetsu’s memories confirmed it was true. As Yamanaka Gōshō uncovered evidence linking Madara Uchiha to the events, Sarutobi Hiruzen returned to the ward.

• Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura went to Konoha Hospital with Yamanaka shinobi and the Torture and Interrogation Force to inspect Hiroki’s captive White Zetsu.
• Hiroki let the group examine the restrained creature while he continued chatting with Kushina through the Bullet Screen Window.
• Koharu accused Hiroki of fabricating his report and ordered Yamanaka Gōshō to probe the White Zetsu’s memories.
• Gōshō confirmed that the Third Mizukage had been controlled and that Madara Uchiha was the mastermind, while also finding that Hiroki had faced two Tailed Beasts.
• Hiroki noticed Sarutobi Hiruzen returning to the ward.

Sarutobi Hiruzen told Hiroki that the Five Kage Summit posed dangers whether he stayed in Konoha or went with him, and offered to take him only if he mastered the Flying Thunder God Technique in three days. Hiroki chose to go, while Namikaze Minato had already learned the technique and planned to place marks around Konoha.

• Sarutobi Hiruzen arrived at the hospital and told Hiroki that the Tsuchikage and Raikage had proposed a ceasefire and a Five Kage Summit about Madara Uchiha.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen explained the risks of Hiroki staying in Konoha or traveling to the summit, including the possibility that Ōnoki and the Third Raikage would target him.
• Mitokado Homura defended Hiroki and urged him to remain in the village, having changed his mind about the boy's importance.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen said Hiroki could come to the summit if he mastered the Flying Thunder God Technique within three days.
• Hiroki immediately chose to go, while Namikaze Minato revealed that he had learned the Flying Thunder God Technique on his first attempt and planned to leave marks in the hospital and elsewhere.

Hiroki chose to learn the Flying Thunder God Technique within three days, alarming the Third and the advisors as they questioned his growing abilities. While the Third investigated Hiroki’s knowledge of the technique and grew wary of his ambitions, Hiroki installed both the Flying Thunder God Technique and Kushina’s Adamantine Attacking Chains.

• Hiroki rejected the advisors’ doubts and agreed to meet the Third again in three days after claiming he could master the Flying Thunder God Technique.
• Hiroki messaged Kushina, who gave him permission to copy her Adamantine Attacking Chains.
• The Third left the hospital and ordered Anbu to investigate who had accessed the Scroll of Seals and who had chosen the Flying Thunder God.
• Anbu reported that Namikaze Minato had only just learned the Flying Thunder God and had told no one, leading the Third to suspect Hiroki had discovered it by reading minds.
• The Third considered Hiroki’s growing power and ambitions, then decided to visit Namikaze Minato about the danger posed by the Third Tsuchikage and Third Raikage.
• Hiroki installed the Adamantine Attacking Chains and Flying Thunder God Technique files.

Hiroki studied Adamantine Attacking Chains, understood how it could suppress a Tailed Beast by compressing its chakra, and used it to seal Kurama in his mental world. After overcoming Kurama’s attempt to hide by searching for its chakra’s file size, Hiroki left Kurama trapped in a secure archive and turned his attention to Flying Thunder God.

• Hiroki examined Adamantine Attacking Chains and learned that its sealing process compressed a target’s chakra, though its Uzumaki bloodline enhancement could not activate for him.
• Hiroki launched nine golden chains at Kurama, but Kurama escaped into the My Documents folder and caused the initial seal to fail.
• Hiroki used Kurama’s scanned chakra size to search every folder, locating it disguised as a video file in the Videos folder.
• Hiroki locked onto Kurama’s new handle and compressed it into a sealed Kurama.zip archive despite its pleas and offers to help.
• Hiroki questioned why Kurama had tried to kill him, then looked toward the code for Flying Thunder God.

Kushina learned that Hiroki had subdued Kurama’s other half, while Minato successfully used the Flying Thunder God Technique and was recruited to guard the Five Kage Summit. In Iwagakure, Ōnoki and A prepared for the summit while worrying about Uchiha Madara and Hiroki, then learned that the Land of Wind would send a representative.

• Kushina told Kurama that Hiroki had used stronger Adamantine Attacking Chains to restrain its other half, then returned to studying the Four Symbols Seal.
• Minato successfully used the Flying Thunder God Technique in training, and Sarutobi Hiruzen recruited him as a guard for the Five Kage Summit.
• Minato reported the technique’s limits to Hiruzen, who warned that another guard might also be able to use the Flying Thunder God Technique and began testing him.
• Ōnoki and the Third Raikage discussed the threat posed by Uchiha Madara and Sawada Hiroki and considered killing Hiruzen and Hiroki if negotiations failed.
• An Iwa Ninja reported that the Land of Wind would send a representative, and Ōnoki and the Third Raikage demanded to know who it was.

Namikaze Minato passed Sarutobi Hiruzen’s evaluation and was selected for the Shadow Guard Squad, then told Nawaki and Uchiha Yoshihiro about his appointment. Sawada Hiroki arrived and asked Minato to discuss the Flying Thunder God.

• Namikaze Minato defeated Sarutobi Hiruzen’s Shadow Clone and passed the evaluation for the Shadow Guard Squad.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen told Minato to gather at the village gates in three days for the mission.
• Nawaki questioned Minato about his evaluation, and Minato revealed that Lord Third had chosen him for the Shadow Guard Squad.
• Uchiha Yoshihiro doubted Minato’s appointment, while Nawaki defended him.
• Minato explained that he had passed Lord Hokage’s test because he learned the Flying Thunder God.
• Sawada Hiroki approached Minato and asked to discuss the Flying Thunder God.

Hiroki asked Minato about the Flying Thunder God and discovered that his own use of the technique caused motion sickness, unlike Minato’s. After receiving notifications that two techniques had finished installing, Hiroki left Minato’s question about the Shadow Guard Squad unanswered.

• Hiroki invited Minato to discuss the Flying Thunder God and allowed Nawaki and Uchiha Yoshihiro to listen.
• At the training ground, Hiroki asked Minato what using the Flying Thunder God felt like.
• Minato said the technique felt smooth and natural, with no dizziness or nausea.
• Hiroki told Minato that using the technique made him feel dizzy and sick, and suspected he had Flying Thunder God sickness.
• Hiroki received notifications that Insect Manipulation Secret Technique and Expansion Technique had finished installing.
• Minato quietly asked Hiroki whether he had joined the Shadow Guard Squad too.

Uchiha Yoshihiro told his father that Namikaze Minato and Sawada Hiroki had joined the Shadow Guard Squad, but Uchiha Togashi doubted him until he heard both children knew the Flying Thunder God Technique. As doubts spread among Konoha’s jonin, Sarutobi Hiruzen agreed to explain his choice of the two ten-year-olds before the team departed.

• Uchiha Togashi angrily dismissed Yoshihiro’s claim that two ten-year-olds had joined the Shadow Guard Squad.
• Yoshihiro told Togashi that Sawada Hiroki had confirmed Minato’s membership and that both children knew the Flying Thunder God Technique.
• News of the Third’s choices spread through Konoha’s jonin circles, where many doubted the children’s suitability.
• Aburame Shima, Yamashiro Aosuke, and other jonin questioned Sarutobi Hiruzen about the Shadow Guard Squad appointments.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen said he would summon the two children and the doubting jonin before departure to explain his decision.

Sarutobi Hiruzen took Sawada Hiroki and Namikaze Minato to the Five Kage Summit after Hiroki incapacitated the jōnin who challenged their appointment to the Shadow Guard Squad. In Sunagakure, the newly appointed Fourth Kazekage Sasori insisted on attending the summit despite the elders’ objections, while the village’s missing leaders left its future uncertain.

• Sarutobi Hiruzen asked Sawada Hiroki to demonstrate his abilities, and Hiroki knocked out more than thirty jōnin who had questioned the appointment of him and Namikaze Minato to the Shadow Guard Squad.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen had Anbu remove the unconscious jōnin, then set out for the Five Kage Summit with Sawada Hiroki and Namikaze Minato.
• Kushina contacted Sawada Hiroki through the Byakugan he had given her, worried about his departure, and urged him to return safely.
• In Sunagakure, elders and a defense captain objected to ten-year-old Sasori attending the summit as Fourth Kazekage while the Third Kazekage remained missing.
• Sasori dismissed their objections, said Chiyo and Pakura could protect him, and offered to turn the recovered corpses of the Third Kazekage and Rasa into puppets.

Hiroki attended the Five Kage Summit in the Land of Iron, where the Kage debated whether Uchiha Madara was alive and whether to oppose him. After Sarutobi Hiruzen secretly signaled Hiroki to silence Chiyo, Hiroki immobilized her with Shadow Possession Jutsu.

• Hiroki surveyed the assembled Kage and their guards, blocked Killer B’s noisy comment channel, and began downloading the young A’s Lightning Release Chakra Mode.
• Mifune stopped the Kage’s bickering and asked Ōnoki to explain the threat that had prompted the summit.
• Ōnoki identified Uchiha Madara as the common enemy, and Sarutobi Hiruzen cited evidence of controlled Tailed Beasts and an army of white monsters.
• Chiyo doubted Konoha’s intelligence and refused to commit Sunagakure to a war, arguing that her village was too weakened to join.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen sent Hiroki a hidden message to silence Chiyo, and Hiroki froze her in place with Shadow Possession Jutsu.

At the Five Kage Summit, Hiroki restrained Chiyo with the Shadow Possession Jutsu while the Kage discussed Uchiha Madara’s threat and debated uniting against him. Madara then appeared in a white humanoid body and summoned the Six Paths of Pain.

• Hiroki used the Shadow Possession Jutsu to restrain Chiyo, prompting Ōnoki and the Third Raikage to accuse Konoha of using underhanded tactics.
• Hiroki released Chiyo, and she withdrew from the exchange without speaking further.
• The Third Raikage revealed that Suikazan Fuguki had reported Madara’s control of Kirigakure, the Kaguya Clan, two Tailed Beasts, and possibly the Third Mizukage.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen urged the Kage to set aside their conflicts and unite against Madara’s threat.
• Madara spoke from within the summit, emerged in a white humanoid body, and used Summoning: Six Paths of Pain.

Uchiha Madara attacked the gathered Kage with six reanimated members of the Seven Ninja Swordsmen, now called the Six Paths of Pain, and Pakura was cut in half. As the battle erupted, Sasori and Chiyo repaired Pakura as a human puppet and summoned other dead fighters, leaving the leaders facing a fight alongside the dead.

• Uchiha Madara summoned six of the Seven Ninja Swordsmen as the Six Paths of Pain, and Hiroki realized his abilities could not connect to or reliably analyze them.
• Pain Juzo Biwa used Banshō Ten'in to pull Pakura in, and another Pain absorbed her Scorch Release fireballs before cutting her in half with Hiramekarei.
• Pakura attacked Madara again as he escaped underground, but her fireball only scorched the ground.
• Sasori and Chiyo pulled Pakura back and reassembled her, revealing that she had been transformed into a human puppet.
• Sasori and Chiyo summoned the human puppets of the Third Kazekage and Rasa as the Six Paths of Pain launched their attacks.

The Five Kage and their guards fought Pain’s forces at the summit while a weakened Uchiha Madara directed the attack from hiding. Hiroki and the others escaped to Konoha with Flying Thunder God, leaving Ōnoki and Chiyo facing the enemy as Madara ordered his final plan and sought Impure World Reincarnation.

• Hiruzen, Ōnoki, Mifune, Chiyo, and the others struggled against Pain’s forces as their ninjutsu was absorbed, the battlefield was obscured by fog, and summoned attackers pressed them.
• Uchiha Madara told White Zetsu to prioritize killing Hiroki, but delayed summoning the Third Mizukage and the two Jinchuriki until he recovered more chakra.
• The Third Raikage charged through Shinra Tensei and vanished from the battlefield, while Hiruzen used his staff to clear the fog and reveal the approaching White Zetsu and Juzo Biwa.
• Minato and Hiroki used Flying Thunder God to escape with Hiruzen to Konoha, while Ōnoki fled and left Chiyo facing Pain, the Three-Tails, the Six-Tails Jinchuriki, and the Third Mizukage.
• Madara accepted that Hiroki was difficult to kill after mastering Flying Thunder God and ordered the final plan, directing White Zetsu to obtain the Second Hokage’s Impure World Reincarnation technique if needed.

After learning that Sunagakure had surrendered and joined Uchiha Madara’s sphere of control, Sarutobi Hiruzen prepared Konoha for an urgent alliance meeting with Iwagakure and Cloud Village. He ordered the delegation to hurry to the Land of Rain, where Hiroki would face a political struggle as well as the threat of war.

• Sarutobi Hiruzen read the news that Sunagakure had surrendered, leaving Uchiha Madara with influence over two great nations and three Tailed Beasts.
• Hiroki and Minato discussed the danger, and Sarutobi Hiruzen received word that the Tsuchikage and Raikage had called for a second emergency meeting in the Land of Rain.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen explained that the other villages had to unite or risk being defeated one by one by Uchiha Madara.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen ordered Danzo and Orochimaru to wait at the border and told Minato to travel with him to the Land of Rain ahead of the Raikage and Tsuchikage.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen warned Hiroki that the meeting could turn into a political struggle over his abilities and bloodline limits, and Hiroki agreed to reveal information if it secured suitable concessions.