Recaps

Akaseki Uchiha awakened his Sharingan through a mysterious immersion platform, trained its abilities, and passed Jiraiya’s bell test alongside Minato and Ranwu. Their first mission brought the team to the Flower Capital, where they pursued a pickpocket and began planning how to draw out the suspects.

• Akashi Uchiha awakened his Sharingan during Hiruzen Sarutobi’s speech after the platform forced him through a painful romance drama, and Jiraiya placed him on a team with Minato Namikaze and Ranwu.
• Akaseki learned that Ranwu was Tobirama Senju’s granddaughter, then met clan leaders Kensho and Ranyu, who investigated his Sharingan and the mysterious platform.
• Kensho and Ranyu found that Akaseki had a One-Tomoe Sharingan with unusual copying and genjutsu-resisting abilities, and Fugaku taught him Uchiha techniques while the platform’s trials helped him train.
• Akaseki, Minato, and Ranwu struggled through Jiraiya’s bell test before working together to take a bell and earn their Konoha headbands.
• Jiraiya taught Akaseki Earth Style, while Fugaku explained how Uchiha emotions and Sharingan power could change Fire Release, and Akaseki used immersion to train those transformations.
• Jiraiya took the team to the Flower Capital for a mission to catch thieves, where Akaseki studied the case files and noticed that thefts had recently declined.
• Minato used a Shadow Clone disguised as Akaseki while the real Akaseki stole purses to provoke a suspected inside man, and Uchiha Yashiro arrived and offered to help Akaseki learn Earth Style.
• Akaseki rejected Yashiro’s criticism of Minato’s approach and proposed drawing the suspects out by visiting a place where stolen goods were fenced.

Akaseki advanced his Sharingan, helped Minato rescue Kushina, and joined a mission that revealed Konoha’s history with the Uzumaki Clan and Kumogakure. When he revived an Uzumaki Ninja Beast at Uzushio, he stayed behind with Ranwu and Minato to care for it while Jiraiya and Torifu went to the Land of Waves.

• Akaseki helped expose Constable Heiji’s theft ring, then earned mission pay and celebrated with Ranwu and Minato.
• Akaseki awakened a Quasi-Two-Tomoe Sharingan during Immersion, and later sparred with Tsume and Kuromaru.
• Akaseki and Minato rescued Kushina from three Kumogakure ninja, after which Danzo warned Sarutobi to watch Akaseki.
• Jiraiya led Akaseki, Ranwu, and Minato on a mission with Torifu Akimichi’s team, and explained the histories of Uzushio, Kumogakure, and the Tailed Beasts.
• Akaseki found and fed a weakened Uzumaki Ninja Beast Tanuki in Uzushio’s Mask Storage Hall, and Torifu and Jiraiya decided the young ninja should stay with it.
• Akaseki trained through Immersion and Temple Run, while the Tanuki freed another mask and Ranwu and Akaseki practiced Genjutsu as Minato trained his sensory skills.

Akaseki, Ranwu, and Minato rescued the Land of Waves merchants and fought Kirigakure shinobi searching for Bloodthirsty Star Iron in the Land of Whirlpools. The mission ended with Team 7 returning to Konoha, Akaseki receiving treatment for his injured eye, and Ranwu asking Tsunade to teach her medical ninjutsu.

• Akaseki tested Wild Survivors, signed a Summoning Contract with Tanuki Treasure, and later completed its nine-mask set as Minato and Ranwu discovered Kirigakure shinobi had landed near the Land of Whirlpools.
• Akaseki, Ranwu, and Minato tracked the enemy to a sealed mine, where Akaseki and Ranwu entered using Tanuki Treasure while Minato watched from outside.
• Akaseki and Ranwu rescued the merchants and fought the Kirigakure squad, using genjutsu, traps, and Akaseki’s Great Dragon Fire Technique before Kaguya Isuke attacked and injured Akaseki’s left eye.
• Ranwu struck Isuke with the Strength of a Hundred, and Akaseki recovered while the team regrouped and learned that Minato had escaped Jinin Akebino and the enemy still had fighters in the area.
• Akaseki and his companions pursued Isuke and Shiokawa, where Akaseki’s explosive trap badly injured Isuke and Ranwu restrained her as Akaseki placed Shiokawa under genjutsu.
• Jiraiya and Torifu Akimichi arrived to stop Akebino, and Akaseki presented Meizawa’s corpse before Kirigakure took its ninja tools and the bloodthirsty star iron.
• Inoichi explained the divisions within the Land of Water and Karatachi Genso’s support for coexistence between commoner and clan ninja, while Jiraiya and Torifu prepared to return to Konoha.
• The Third raised Team 7’s mission to A-rank, Tsunade treated Akaseki’s damaged eye and ordered him not to use his Sharingan for three days, and Ranwu asked her to teach medical ninjutsu.

Akaseki trained for Konoha’s Chunin Exams, survived a plot involving a stolen sealing scroll, and helped Team 7 pass the first test. The arc left Team 7 waiting to ambush the team that had intercepted their intelligence code while Akaseki entered an immersive drama as Hong Yan.

• Akaseki trained in chakra-free taijutsu with Might Duy and developed his skills alongside Ranwu before Team 7 left to recover Uzumaki sealing resources.
• At the former Land of Whirlpools, Akaseki and his companions opened the Mask Storage Hall and searched for seals, while Akaseki nearly drowned in the Whirlpool Sea and Ranwu rescued him.
• Akaseki found a tampered scroll about an Uchiha weapon and was surrounded by Root ninja, but he exposed the framing attempt and the Uchiha confronted Danzo over the accusation.
• Hiruzen rejected Danzo’s efforts to remove Akaseki from Team 7, while Akaseki trained and studied with Ranwu and Minato for the Chunin Exams.
• At the first exam, Akaseki used combination ninjutsu to answer questions that seemed to require sacrificing teammates, and the examiners accepted his solutions after he demonstrated them.
• Santoku announced that the second exam would test coded-message transmission, reception, and interception across three locations, and Team 7 raced to the Valley of the End.
• Akaseki opened the safehouse entrance and discovered that Team 7 had been assigned to deliver a code that another team had already intercepted, so Minato proposed ambushing the thieves.
• Akaseki began an immersive drama as Hong Yan and heard that Princess Ruoxi planned to seek marriage with the Su Family despite being Hong Yan’s wife.