Recaps

Fugaku Uchiha’s accusation against Yang Xing sparked a confrontation in which Minato Namikaze tried to delay judgment, but Yang Xing refused to be detained and severed his ties with Konoha. After Yang Xing escaped, Minato confronted Fugaku about the investigation, and Fugaku offered to show him what had happened.

• Minato Namikaze asked everyone to pause while he investigated, but Fugaku Uchiha ordered Starlight Group ninja to detain Yang Xing.
• Yang Xing used the pressure of his three-tomoe Sharingan to stop the ninja and defied Fugaku, insisting no one could capture or imprison him.
• As the gathered people accused Yang Xing of harming Konoha, Yang Xing declared he wanted nothing more to do with the village and said his debt to Minato Namikaze was paid.
• Yang Xing escaped through the roof with Fire Style: Fireball Technique, leaving Minato Namikaze sorrowful as the Council of Elders demanded he bring Yang Xing back.
• Minato Namikaze questioned Fugaku Uchiha about the claim that Yang Xing had obtained his Sharingan by killing Uchiha Clan members, and Fugaku invited him to come see the evidence.

Yang Xing fled Konoha after Madara framed him for killing two villagers, then found himself caught between clans sent to capture him and clans offering him refuge. The chapter ended with Hyuga Hiashi standing against Choza Akimichi to protect him.

• Yang Xing escaped two Uchiha ninja controlled by Madara's Genjutsu, but Madara killed them with a fireball and made it look as if Yang Xing had done it.
• Yang Xing left Konoha and hid in a grove, where he realized Madara was pursuing an unknown objective.
• Shibi Aburame and Hyuga Hiashi found Yang Xing and offered him a place to hide.
• Choza Akimichi arrived with orders from Minato Namikaze to bring Yang Xing back, while Hiashi declared he would fight to protect his daughter's future tutor.

Minato Namikaze confronted Yang Xing with suspicions about his rapid rise in strength, while Yang Xing revealed that Madara Uchiha was plotting against him. As Konoha’s ninja moved to seize Yang Xing, Obito awakened his Mangekyō and rushed to help, and an unknown intervention interrupted their attack.

• Minato Namikaze arrived with clan ninja and questioned Yang Xing about Danzo, the Third Tsuchikage, and his sudden growth in strength.
• Yang Xing told Minato that Madara Uchiha was plotting against him, but Minato did not believe Madara could still be alive.
• Choza Akimichi urged the group to capture Yang Xing while Madara restrained Obito on a distant mountain.
• Obito awakened his Mangekyō Sharingan and charged toward Yang Xing despite Madara’s warning about the cursed seal.
• Yang Xing prepared to leave Konoha, but the ninja attacked him with their techniques before someone intervened with a Great Fireball Technique.

Obito appeared before Minato Namikaze and the Konoha ninja, claimed responsibility for what had happened in Konoha, and challenged them to accept his claim. He unleashed Tsukuyomi on the gathered group, leaving most of them incapacitated as Minato warned the survivors to avoid his eyes.

• Obito arrived with a Mangekyō Sharingan and told Minato Namikaze that he had caused everything that happened in Konoha.
• When the ninja demanded proof, Obito defended Yang Xing and became furious when they called him a traitor and accused him of putting on an act.
• Yang Xing told Obito not to intervene, but Obito said he owed him and called out to someone he believed was watching.
• Obito unleashed Tsukuyomi on the gathered ninja, causing several Uchiha Clan members and most of the others to collapse in agony.
• Minato recovered quickly and warned the survivors to close their eyes, but only a few escaped Tsukuyomi.

Obito revealed that he had orchestrated the incidents alone as a test, then escaped with Madara after killing three Uchiha Clan ninja with Amaterasu. Back in Konoha, Minato Namikaze acknowledged his mistake in suspecting Yang Xing, but the village believed it had lost Yang Xing’s trust.

• Obito told Minato Namikaze that he had caused the events alone to test the village, while Madara withdrew Tsukuyomi from the Jonin.
• Obito left with Madara and warned Minato that he would return to face him someday.
• When Uchiha Clan ninja pursued them, Obito used Amaterasu to burn three of them to ash.
• The Uchiha Clan investigated the two fugitives but could not identify them or explain their Mangekyō and abilities.
• In the Hokage Building, a Starlight Group ninja argued that Yang Xing had been wrongly suspected, and Minato admitted he owed Yang Xing an apology.
• The Starlight Group ninja concluded that Konoha could no longer persuade Yang Xing because the villagers had betrayed his trust.

Yang Xing rejected Minato Namikaze’s attempt to reconcile, saying he wanted nothing more to do with Konoha’s affairs and planned to leave for two or three years of training. He continued training Tenzo and asked Kakashi to teach the boy while he was away, leaving Minato Namikaze to accept that Yang Xing did not want to see him.

• Yang Xing easily dodged Tenzo’s Wood Release attacks and taunted him during their training.
• Kakashi arrived and asked why Yang Xing had skipped the Jonin test, then said Minato Namikaze wanted to speak with him.
• Yang Xing refused to meet Minato Namikaze and told Kakashi that he planned to leave and train for two or three years.
• Yang Xing resumed training Tenzo and told Kakashi to teach the boy while he was gone.
• Kakashi told Minato Namikaze that Yang Xing would not come, and Minato Namikaze admitted he had been wrong not to believe his former student.

Yang Xing left Konoha as Team Minato disbanded, despite Rin Nohara’s wish to go with him. Minato Namikaze gave him the Hokage-emblem forehead protector as a farewell gift, and Yang Xing departed promising to return before Rin grew up.

• Yang Xing prepared to leave Konoha, rejected Rin Nohara’s request to join him, and warned Minato Namikaze to watch out for two people.
• Minato Namikaze gave Yang Xing his Hokage-emblem forehead protector and told him he could seek out a powerful Konoha ninja in the Land of Fire.
• Yang Xing promised to return before Rin Nohara grew up, then left without looking back.
• Rin Nohara worried about Yang Xing, Anko blamed Konoha’s clan members for his departure, and Kakashi said he believed Yang Xing would return soon.

Yang Xing rested in a village restaurant and unexpectedly encountered Tsunade arguing with local ninja over their insults toward Konoha’s Hokage. The confrontation left one ninja badly injured after Tsunade punched him through a wall.

• Yang Xing considered where to travel next and overheard local ninja discussing Konoha’s swift end to the war and his departure from the village.
• Tsunade angrily defended Konoha’s Hokage while Shizune tried to calm her and apologize to the other customers.
• The ninja surrounded Tsunade and Shizune, then mocked Tsunade by suggesting she was in love with the Fourth Hokage.
• Tsunade punched one of the men through the restaurant wall, leaving him unable to get up.

Yang Xing tried to win Shizune over and followed her and Tsunade despite Tsunade’s objections, while Kurenai Yuhi and Asuma arrived in a distant village hoping to persuade him to return to Konoha. The chapter left Tsunade resisting Shizune’s suggestion that they find Yang Xing a place to stay.

• Yang Xing tried to make Shizune his big sister, but Tsunade hurried away with her before Shizune could agree.
• When a group of foreign ninjas tried to chase Tsunade, Yang Xing sent one flying through a wall with a kick and left the others terrified.
• Kurenai Yuhi and Asuma reached a distant village after three days of searching, determined to find Yang Xing and convince him to return to Konoha.
• Yang Xing continued trailing Tsunade and Shizune, insisting he would not leave until Tsunade accepted him as her little brother.
• Shizune suggested finding Yang Xing a place to stay, but Tsunade objected to bringing him along.

Yang Xing spent the night at an inn with Tsunade, who made him her servant, then accidentally touched her while they slept and narrowly escaped her fury. Tsunade set out with Shizune for a meeting in a nearby village and brought Yang Xing along.

• Yang Xing teased Tsunade and reluctantly agreed to unpack her luggage after she declared him her servant.
• Asuma spotted Yang Xing with Tsunade from outside the inn and left to find help, telling Kurenai Yuhi to keep watch.
• Tsunade woke to find Yang Xing beside her, and his accidental squeeze provoked her into smashing a huge hole in the floor.
• Shizune arrived and stopped Tsunade from attacking Yang Xing further.
• Tsunade said a summoning beast had arranged a meeting with someone in a nearby village, then hurried off with Shizune and Yang Xing.

Asuma’s attempt to rescue Yang Xing by rallying villagers against supposed kidnappers led to a huge fight with Tsunade and Shizune. Tsunade’s fear of blood left her helpless as enemies prepared a combined Fire Style attack, and Yang Xing rushed in to protect her.

• Shizune led Tsunade and Yang Xing through a bamboo grove, where a group accused Tsunade and Shizune of kidnapping Yang Xing.
• Tsunade struck down the group’s leader, but more than two hundred people surrounded them, having been rallied by Asuma and Kurenai Yuhi.
• Asuma revealed that he had told nearby villages human traffickers had abducted a Konoha ninja, hoping Yang Xing could escape while Tsunade and Shizune were held back.
• Tsunade fought the attackers but became paralyzed by her fear of blood after being struck by Fire Style, while Shizune was overwhelmed by the crowd.
• As enemies prepared a combined Fire Style attack against Tsunade, Yang Xing suddenly rushed in, prompting Tsunade to fear for his safety.

Yang Xing bet Tsunade that Jiraiya would not be suitable to teach him, wagering that he would become her sworn little brother if he was right. The chapter ended with Jiraiya learning the terms of the bet after Yang Xing kicked him for trying to hug Tsunade.

• Yang Xing proposed the bet, and Tsunade agreed, confident that Jiraiya's strength would prove him wrong.
• Tsunade, Yang Xing, Shizune, and Asuma reached the meeting place, but Jiraiya was initially absent.
• Jiraiya arrived and tried to hug Tsunade, so Yang Xing kicked him and sent him flying.
• Jiraiya joked that Yang Xing was Tsunade's young boyfriend, and Tsunade struck him hard enough to leave a furrow in the grass.
• Tsunade explained that she wanted Jiraiya to take Yang Xing as a student and told him the bet's terms.

Tsunade asked Jiraiya to prove he was qualified to teach Yang Xing, and the two began sparring. Jiraiya recognized Yang Xing’s strength only after facing his attacks, and the chapter ended as Yang Xing charged with a powerful two-handed Chidori.

• Tsunade demanded that Jiraiya show whether he was qualified to teach Yang Xing, and Jiraiya agreed to test him.
• Yang Xing surprised Jiraiya with his speed and taijutsu, then launched a huge Fire Style: Great Fireball Technique.
• Jiraiya used his summoned toad to shield himself from the fireball, prompting Yang Xing to accuse him of making the fight unfair.
• While Jiraiya tried to defend using his summoning beast, Yang Xing distracted him and charged with Lightning Release: Two-Handed Chidori Technique.
• Jiraiya sensed that Yang Xing’s chakra had increased severalfold and realized he could not take the attack head-on.

Yang Xing fought Jiraiya and Gamabunta until Asuma revealed that Yang Xing had defeated the Tsuchikage. Jiraiya recognized Yang Xing after seeing him use the Rasengan, and the chapter ended with Jiraiya facing him at full speed.

• Jiraiya summoned Gamabunta to test Yang Xing, who dodged their attacks with his Body Replacement Technique and held his own in the fight.
• Asuma blurted out that Yang Xing had defeated the Tsuchikage, stopping the battle and drawing Tsunade's attention.
• Asuma told Tsunade that Yang Xing had defeated the Tsuchikage during the Third Shinobi World War.
• Jiraiya recognized Yang Xing when he used the Rasengan and realized he was the famous Konoha genius.
• Jiraiya rushed at Yang Xing with a Rasengan, and Yang Xing used the Water Clone Technique.

After Yang Xing revealed the Fourth Hokage’s forehead protector, Tsunade accepted him as her little brother, and Jiraiya began explaining Yang Xing’s history and abilities to her. The chapter ended with Tsunade wondering why Konoha had let such a powerful genius leave the village.

• Yang Xing’s forehead protector revealed that the Fourth Hokage had entrusted it to him, and Tsunade realized he was no ordinary Konoha youth.
• Jiraiya ended the fight and praised Yang Xing, who brushed off his offer of help and pressed Tsunade to honor their bet.
• Tsunade reluctantly agreed to make Yang Xing her little brother, while Jiraiya took Kurenai Yuhi and Asuma back to Konoha.
• Jiraiya told Tsunade that Yang Xing had changed much in Konoha but left after the village’s higher-ups misunderstood him.
• Jiraiya said Minato Namikaze had confirmed Yang Xing defeated the Third Tsuchikage, created S-rank Ninjutsu, and developed a beyond-S-rank Lightning Release technique that defeated the Uchiha Clan’s leader.
• Tsunade questioned why Konoha had let Yang Xing leave if he was so powerful.

Yang Xing learned that Minato had a son named Naruto and immediately rushed back to Konoha, prompting Tsunade, Shizune, and Jiraiya to follow him. Tsunade tried to stop him, but Yang Xing awakened an enhanced Mangekyō Sharingan and sped past her.

• Tsunade warmed to Yang Xing after he promised to protect her and Shizune, while Shizune wondered why the village had abandoned him.
• Over the next week, Tsunade repeatedly caught Yang Xing trying to sneak into her room, and he flirted with Shizune before Tsunade pulled him away.
• Jiraiya returned and told Tsunade that Minato had a son named Naruto, a name he had chosen.
• Yang Xing's playful manner vanished when he heard about Naruto, and he declared that he was going back to Konoha.
• Tsunade blocked Yang Xing, but he consumed an Evolution Fruit, evolved his Sharingan into an enhanced Mangekyō, and rushed past her.
• Tsunade realized how important Yang Xing had become to her and called after him, saying she could help because she was his big sister.

Konoha came under attack by the Nine-Tails while Minato Namikaze fought Masked Obito and Danzo allied with Madara. Yang Xing returned at dawn to find the Nine-Tails still rampaging and realized something had prevented Minato and Kushina from sealing it.

• The Nine-Tails rampaged through Konoha as Minato Namikaze rushed to confront it.
• Masked Obito intercepted Minato, and the two fought while Obito declared that he wanted to restructure Konoha and change the world.
• Danzo secretly allied with Madara and identified both Minato and Kushina as threats to Konoha.
• Kushina headed toward the Nine-Tails as the attack continued through the night.
• Yang Xing reached Konoha at dawn, found the Nine-Tails still alive, and used his Mangekyō to search for what had gone wrong.

Yang Xing found Minato Namikaze and Kushina badly injured after Konoha insiders ambushed them, and Minato entrusted him with capturing the Nine-Tails and sealing it inside a newborn in Konoha’s hospital—his son. Yang Xing headed to the village as Minato passed out, arriving to find Konoha’s exhausted defenders close to collapse before the Nine-Tails.

• Yang Xing broke through a barrier and found Minato Namikaze and Kushina trapped by genjutsu and severely injured.
• Kushina told Yang Xing that former Konoha Anbu had ambushed them with help from a traitor among Konoha’s higher-ups.
• Minato asked Yang Xing to capture the Nine-Tails rather than kill it and seal it inside a newborn baby at Konoha’s hospital, whom Yang Xing could identify with his Sharingan.
• Yang Xing agreed to carry out Minato’s plan, showed him his Mangekyō, and left as Minato smiled and lost consciousness.
• Yang Xing reached Konoha, where the exhausted defenders were despairing over the Nine-Tails’ attack and the disappearance of Minato and Kushina.
• The defenders recognized Yang Xing as he approached, cheered his arrival, and drew the Nine-Tails’ attention.

Yang Xing fought the Nine-Tails and overwhelmed it with his enhanced Mangekyō techniques. After the Nine-Tails surrendered, Yang Xing stood on its head and asked whether it was dead yet.

• The Nine-Tails attacked Yang Xing with a Tailed Beast Bomb, but he remained unharmed.
• The Nine-Tails fired another Tailed Beast Bomb, and Yang Xing used Kamui to absorb its energy.
• Yang Xing used Tsukuyomi to trap the Nine-Tails in repeated deaths until it broke down and surrendered.
• Yang Xing stopped the mental attack, and the exhausted Nine-Tails collapsed and admitted defeat.
• Yang Xing leaped onto the Nine-Tails' head and asked whether it was dead yet.

After defeating the Nine-Tails, Yang Xing chose to seal it rather than kill it, using his Mangekyō to bind its soul before trapping it in a scroll. He planned to seal it into Minato-sensei's son, and the Third Hokage reacted with concern about the consequences.

• Konoha's ninja celebrated Yang Xing's victory and urged him to kill the Demon Fox, but Yang Xing said he would spare it.
• Yang Xing asked the Third Hokage for a sealing scroll and announced he would seal the Demon Fox.
• Yang Xing used his Mangekyō to perform Soul Seal, trapping the Demon Fox's soul and warning it that release depended on its future host.
• Yang Xing sealed the sleeping Demon Fox into the scroll, then told the Third Hokage he would make Minato-sensei's son its vessel.
• The Third Hokage warned Yang Xing about the dangers of making someone a Jinchūriki, but Yang Xing urged him to take him to the boy.

Tsunade returned to Konoha, learned that the Fourth Hokage and his wife had died, and rushed to check on Yang Xing. At the hospital, Yang Xing began sealing the Nine-Tails into an infant and demonstrated chakra control powerful enough to suppress the beast without leakage.

• Tsunade arrived in ruined Konoha and learned from a Medical Division ninja that the Fourth Hokage and his wife had died.
• Tsunade learned that Yang Xing was at Konoha's hospital and hurried there, leaving the injured to wait for Shizune.
• In a guarded neonatal ward, Yang Xing prepared to seal the Nine-Tails into the infant while Hiruzen Sarutobi left him to handle other matters.
• Tsunade barged into the ward and questioned Yang Xing, but he opened the sealing scroll and continued with the procedure.
• Yang Xing used his Mangekyō to suppress the Nine-Tails' chakra without any leakage, stunning Tsunade with the scale of his power.

Yang Xing and Tsunade sealed the Nine-Tails inside Minato’s baby son, and Yang Xing arranged to leave an image that would teach the child the Soul Sealing Jutsu. After Konoha mourned its dead, Yang Xing announced he would go to the Land of Rain to uncover the truth behind Minato’s death, and Tsunade agreed to accompany him.

• Yang Xing transferred the Nine-Tails into the baby, and Tsunade completed the Five Elements Seal Jutsu.
• Yang Xing asked Tsunade to help place an image inside the child that would teach him the Soul Sealing Jutsu, and she used her Strength of a Hundred Seal to sustain it.
• Konoha held a funeral for the Fourth Hokage, his wife, and the many ninja killed during the Nine-Tails’ attack.
• Yang Xing told Jiraiya and Tsunade he planned to go to the Land of Rain to find answers about Minato’s death.
• Tsunade agreed to travel with Yang Xing despite Jiraiya’s objections.

Yang Xing traveled with Tsunade and Jiraiya to the Land of Rain, determined to find Obito and establish his own intelligence organization. They arrived to find the country transformed by the Akatsuki, and Yang Xing hurried ahead as Tsunade called after him.

• Tsunade supported Yang Xing's decision to go to the Land of Rain, and Jiraiya joined them to help.
• Yang Xing and his companions left Konoha before the Third Hokage could stop them; the Third Hokage decided to remain in office and keep the Hokage's seat open for Yang Xing.
• On the journey, Yang Xing asked Jiraiya about the Akatsuki, and Jiraiya explained that his former students, including a Rinnegan wielder, were members.
• Yang Xing revealed that he intended to find Obito, question him, and recruit people from outside Konoha for an intelligence organization of his own.
• The group reached the Land of Rain and saw that the Akatsuki had brought the war-torn country new hope and prosperity.
• Yang Xing rushed ahead, and Tsunade hurried after him while Jiraiya watched them go.

Yang Xing asked the Akatsuki to help build an intelligence organization, but Nagato and Konan questioned his intentions. Jiraiya introduced Yang Xing’s claimed achievements, which the Akatsuki doubted, before Nagato invited the group to the Akatsuki base.

• Yang Xing asked a passing ninja where Amegakure’s leader was, and Tsunade punched the man after he insulted Yang Xing.
• Amegakure’s residents reported the disturbance, and Nagato, Konan, and other Akatsuki members arrived.
• Jiraiya greeted Nagato and Konan, while Yang Xing took Konan’s hands and asked her to be his girlfriend.
• Yang Xing asked the Akatsuki to lend their strength to building an intelligence organization, prompting Konan to question why they should help him and Nagato to confront Jiraiya.
• Jiraiya introduced Yang Xing as a Konoha ninja who had defeated the Tsuchikage and sealed the Nine-Tails, but Nagato did not believe the claims.
• Nagato invited Jiraiya, Yang Xing, and Tsunade to the Akatsuki base, and they went with him.

Yang Xing met Nagato and Konan at the Akatsuki headquarters and said he wanted their help establishing an intelligence department, but he kept his reasons secret. After Tsunade doubted he could persuade Nagato, Yang Xing challenged her to a bet and told her to watch what happened over the next few days.

• Jiraiya praised Nagato for building the Akatsuki, while Konan credited Nagato’s Rinnegan and Yang Xing dismissed it.
• Jiraiya revealed that Yang Xing possessed a special Mangekyō, making Nagato look at him more seriously.
• Yang Xing clarified to Tsunade that he wanted an intelligence department, not the Akatsuki itself, but refused to explain why.
• Nagato invited Jiraiya and the others to stay until Yahiko returned, and Jiraiya disappeared after learning the Akatsuki would cover their expenses.
• Tsunade confronted Yang Xing about his plan, and he insisted she watch the next few days before challenging her to a bet.