Recaps

Akaseki joined Orochimaru’s campaign to secure Konoha’s supply lines, then led the assault on Kannabi Bridge against Iwagakure’s Jinchuriki. Konoha captured the stronghold and consolidated its position, easing pressure on the countermeasure force.

• Akaseki learned that Iwagakure and Amegakure had attacked Konoha’s positions, and Orochimaru sent him to reinforce Cloud-Breaking Pass, where he rescued the surviving troops and drove off the Rain Ninja.
• Orochimaru chose to intensify the campaign against Sunagakure while a countermeasure force protected the supply routes, assigning Torifu Akimichi to take Kannabi Bridge with Akaseki and three Uchiha.
• Akaseki recruited Ranwu, Hizashi, and Minato for the Kannabi Bridge assault, while Nawaki escaped Madara, only to be captured by Root and taken for Hashirama cell tests.
• Akaseki led the underground attack on Kannabi Bridge, where he and the Uchiha confronted Roshi as Torifu and the other forces engaged the Stone Ninja and their sealing technique.
• The destroyed seal summoned Han in his fully transformed Five-Tails form, and Yangyong and Gongzhi Jiu helped disrupt Han’s control while Torifu fought him and Akaseki battled Roshi.
• Akaseki flooded the battlefield with his Giant Exploding Water Colliding Wave, cooling Roshi’s magma and forcing him to expend chakra, while Torifu and the Uchiha weakened Han’s resistance.
• Han signaled Roshi to retreat, and the Konoha Jonin pursued both Jinchuriki before returning to Kannabi Bridge, where Minato and a sealing specialist secured the stronghold.
• Dan Katō arrived with reinforcements, and Konoha used his Spirit Transformation Technique to clear nearby strongholds, consolidate Kannabi Bridge, and cut Stone Ninja routes into the Land of Rain.

Akaseki helped Konoha take control of Kusagakure, fought off Roshi’s Stone Ninja assault at Kannabi Bridge, and then met Yahiko, Nagato, and Konan in the Land of Rain. The arc left Jiraiya staying to protect the children while Akaseki suspected Madara Uchiha had a scheme involving Nagato.

• Dan Katō announced Konoha’s war against Kusagakure, and Akaseki’s force entered the village to suppress Grass Fruit and rescue an Uzumaki orphan from Mui’s attempt to activate the Box of Bliss.
• Akaseki and Ranwu defeated Wu and restored the Box of Bliss’s seal, and the Sage of Six Paths enhanced Ranwu while entrusting Akaseki with investigating Black Zetsu’s claims about Indra.
• Akaseki helped Kusagakure surrender and established Konoha’s subcontracting arrangement, which improved relations between the villages as Akaseki advanced his Yin Style Eight Gates.
• After Iwagakure and Amegakure broke Konoha’s blockade, Akaseki took command at Kannabi Bridge and fought Roshi’s force until the Stone Ninja retreated.
• Akaseki infiltrated the Stone Ninja camp and killed their medical ninja, then held the outpost until Konoha reinforcements arrived and later transferred to the Land of Rain.
• Akaseki met Yahiko, Nagato, and Konan, learned that Nagato’s parents had been killed by Konoha shinobi, and heard the children refuse Jiraiya’s offer to take them to Konoha.
• Akaseki apologized to Nagato and warned the children about anyone with ringed eyes, then returned to the outpost while Jiraiya and Nonō stayed to care for them.
• Akaseki suspected Madara Uchiha had a hidden scheme involving Nagato, and Orochimaru explained that Akaseki’s focus on conversion had caused him to overlook Wood Release’s essential vitality.

Akaseki and Orochimaru mastered Ryūchi Cave’s Sage Mode before leaving to strike the giant salamanders guarding Amegakure. Their assault drew Hanzō into battle, where Akaseki and Garaga confronted him as the snakes and salamanders fought around them.

• Akaseki transplanted Uchiha Nanfeng’s blind eye, visited Jiraiya’s group in the Land of Rain, and later returned to Konoha with Nonō, Orochimaru, and Tsunade.
• Akaseki helped push Konoha to train more battlefield medical ninja, while Orochimaru and the Uchiha pressured the Hyuga and Yamanaka clans to contribute.
• Akaseki and Tsunade rescued Dan Katō after Sunagakure’s ambush, but his injuries left him unable to return to battle.
• Akaseki and Orochimaru entered Ryūchi Cave, where Akaseki survived its final Sage Mode trial through an Immersion scenario and Orochimaru completed his transformation with the Heavenly Cloud Sword.
• The White Snake Sage made Akaseki a Ryūchi Cave elder and gave him a scale to summon giant snakes before new orders sent him and Orochimaru toward the Land of Wind.
• Akaseki reunited with Jiraiya and planned an assault on Amegakure’s giant salamanders, leaving Yahiko, Nagato, and Konan behind with supplies and instructions.
• Akaseki used the White Snake Sage’s Scale to unleash snakes on Amegakure, and the Great Salamander King summoned Hanzō back to the village.
• Garaga confronted Hanzō, who wounded him, while Akaseki struck Hanzō with Susanoo’s Thunderflame Greatsword and tried to draw his anger as the battle continued.

Akaseki helped expose the Third Mizukage’s scheme in the Land of Water, then escaped the Sand Ninja with Hikari, an ancient Uchiha sealed for over three hundred years. He brought Hikari to Konoha and reported the conflict to Hiruzen Sarutobi, while the village considered its next move.

• Akaseki and Jiraiya defeated Hanzō’s forces, and Akaseki sank Amegakure before returning to Konoha.
• Akaseki enrolled Guy alongside Kakashi and Obito, then remained in Konoha to develop Swamp Release as Orochimaru took command of the campaign against Sunagakure.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi sent Akaseki, Ranwu, and Shinnosuke to help Kirigakure capture the Six-Tails, but Akaseki discovered the Third Mizukage had allied with Sunagakure against the Karatachi family.
• Akaseki fought the Third Mizukage while Ranwu and Shinnosuke helped the Karatachi faction, then held off Luo Yan, Chiyo, and Ebizo as they pursued Yagura and him.
• Akaseki fled to the former Land of Whirlpools and freed Hikari, who used her Mangekyō Sharingan and black flames to kill Luo Yan while Akaseki killed Ebizo.
• Hikari told Akaseki she wanted to explore the modern shinobi world rather than join his plan for the Uchiha, then agreed to accompany him to Konoha.
• Akaseki brought Hikari to Konoha, where Grandma Chizuru registered her as an honorary granddaughter and Hiruzen Sarutobi approved her as a Konoha Ninja.
• Akaseki reported the Mizukage’s scheme and the Sand Ninja leaders’ deaths to Hiruzen Sarutobi, then arranged for Hikari to meet Ranwu, Shinnosuke, and Minato.