Recaps

Sawada Hiroki helped Kushina become the Nine-Tails’ jinchuriki, freed the Hyuga Branch House from the Caged Bird, and gained the Byakugan. As Konoha entered a four-front war, he joined the coastal battlefield and faced the Seven Ninja Swordsmen and a Jinchuriki.

• Sarutobi Hiruzen brought Hiroki to Mito, who transferred the Nine-Tails to Kushina, while Hiroki cleansed its malice and persuaded Kurama to cooperate.
• Hiroki intervened in the Hyuga Clan, incapacitated the Main House elders, uncovered the Caged Bird’s abuses, and gave the Branch House money while promising to remove their seals.
• The Branch House rose against the Main House, and Hiroki defeated Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura when they tried to punish him.
• Hiroki discovered that the Byakugan gifted by the Hyuga Branch House worked through a driver he installed, then gave Kushina a Byakugan Necklace.
• Ōnoki attacked Konoha, and Sarutobi Hiruzen announced that the Land of Lightning and the Land of Earth had declared war as attacks also came from Sunagakure and Kirigakure.
• Hiroki chose the Kirigakure front, where his squad encountered the Seven Ninja Swordsmen and a Jinchuriki approaching over the sea.
• Hiroki ordered his squad to warn the Third and split up, but Aburame Torune and Inuzuka San stayed to cover him as he activated Brain Overload.

Sawada Hiroki escaped Madara’s attack at the Land of Water, exposed the threat to Konoha, and joined the Five Kage Summit with Minato and Hiruzen. Madara shattered the summit with the Six Paths of Pain, Sunagakure surrendered, and Hiruzen prepared for another emergency meeting while warning Hiroki that his abilities could become a bargaining point.

• Hiroki defeated White Zetsu with its own Wood Release, escaped the battlefield using Root Concealment, and returned gravely injured to Konoha.
• Hiroki captured another White Zetsu at the hospital, while its memories confirmed that Madara controlled the Third Mizukage and had sent two Tailed Beasts against him.
• Hiroki installed the Adamantine Attacking Chains and Flying Thunder God Technique, then accepted Hiruzen’s offer to join the summit if he mastered the technique in three days.
• Hiruzen chose Hiroki and Minato for the Shadow Guard Squad, and Hiroki knocked out more than thirty jōnin who challenged their appointments.
• At the summit, Hiruzen and Ōnoki warned the Kage that Madara controlled Tailed Beasts and an army of white monsters, while Hiroki restrained Chiyo when she resisted joining them.
• Madara appeared at the summit and summoned six of the Seven Ninja Swordsmen as the Six Paths of Pain, who overwhelmed the Kage and turned Pakura into a human puppet.
• Hiroki and Minato used Flying Thunder God to escape with Hiruzen, while Ōnoki fled and Chiyo was left facing Pain and Madara’s forces.
• After Sunagakure surrendered, Hiruzen ordered Danzo and Orochimaru to wait at the border and prepared to meet the Raikage and Tsuchikage in the Land of Rain, warning Hiroki that the talks might become a struggle over his abilities.

Hiroki helped defeat Uchiha Madara, then turned to Konoha’s wartime shortages and demonstrated a new way to transport supplies. As Sarutobi Hiruzen named him the next Hokage, time travelers prepared to target Kushina.

• Sarutobi Hiruzen and the allied Kage agreed to invade the Land of Water, where Hiroki coordinated the Allied Shinobi Forces against Madara’s attacks.
• Hiroki resisted Madara’s Genjutsu, negotiated with him, and downloaded his combat knowledge as Madara gave up his Rinnegan and died.
• After the war, Hiroki investigated Konoha’s food shortages, improved livestock production, and confronted Uchiha Fugaku over a patrol’s extortion of a farm.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen announced his retirement and named Hiroki as the next Hokage, while Hiroki promised to fix Konoha’s supply problems within three days.
• Hiroki adapted the Flying Thunder God Technique for mice, and Might Duy used the system to transport produce from the Land of Rain to Konoha.
• Nara Ruzan saw clans seek Hiroki’s favor as he prepared to succeed Hiruzen, while time travelers planned to kill Kushina.
• Minato showed Obito how Hiroki’s reforms had changed farming, education, and wartime logistics, then told him Kushina would leave the tower with Hiroki that night.

Hiroki uncovered a future enemy’s plan, captured future Minato, and began reshaping Konoha and the Land of Fire through agriculture, construction, and political force. After the nobles and daimyo were eliminated, Hiroki turned to Kushina’s plan to take control of the Nine-Tails.

• Hiroki and Kushina were pulled into the Kamui Dimension, where future Minato and Obito killed Kushina and tried to control Hiroki, but he suspected they were protecting the future that brought them back.
• Hiroki declared himself the Fourth Hokage, developed a space-time sealing technique, and captured future Minato, whose deleted memories concealed a warning and a video identifying Kabuto Yakushi as Hiroki’s enemy.
• Hiroki and Kushina confessed their feelings and agreed to pursue their dream together, while Hiroki proposed using ninjutsu-driven agriculture and a Construction Corps to transform Konoha’s economy.
• The nobles resisted Hiroki’s plan to requisition their land, but Fujiwara Kagemitsu saw Konoha’s popular support and chose to join Hiroki’s side.
• As the Construction Corps provided jobs and infrastructure, Hiroki considered how to meet the growing demand for instructors and decided to address the Nine-Tails problem.
• Anbu killed Senju Tokuma, the young daimyo, and their attendants, while a black figure escaped underground and sought someone who could oppose Hiroki.
• Hiroki told Sarutobi Hiruzen and Shimura Danzō that Konoha should recover rather than start a war, and declared that Kushina would take complete control of the Nine-Tails.