Recaps

Yang Xing joined Minato’s team, won the bell test, and grew stronger before helping Kakashi, Obito, and Rin survive an encounter with Iwagakure shinobi. After the team returned to Konoha, they left on a special mission to inspect villages, where Yang Xing followed Anko and witnessed her confrontation with Orochimaru.

• Yang Xing met Minato, Kakashi, Obito, and Rin, then proposed a secret wager to become the team’s Boss.
• Yang Xing won Minato’s bell test by taking a bell and giving it to Rin, earning mission rewards and new abilities.
• With Minato away, Kakashi led Yang Xing, Obito, and Rin on a survey mission, where Land of Earth shinobi captured Rin and attacked the team.
• Yang Xing stayed behind to fight the pursuers, used Water Clones and Great Fireball Techniques to defeat them, and later rejoined the others as Kakashi returned to check on him.
• Minato praised the team for thwarting a possible attack and assigned Kakashi, Obito, Rin, and Yang Xing to defend Konoha as a special squad.
• Yang Xing shared dinner with Rin and her family, then left without answering her question about the five ninja he had fought.
• Yang Xing traveled with Anko, Kakashi, Obito, and their instructor to investigate three villages, where Anko stopped and stared into the woods during the rain.
• Yang Xing followed Anko into the rain and saw her confront Orochimaru, who revealed he had been her former teacher and vanished from her attack.

Yang Xing proved his strength on missions, rejected Minato Namikaze’s offer to pursue the Hokage’s path, and began building support for restructuring the Anbu. He staged a meeting with Danzo’s agent Ta, then joined Shibi Aburame and Fugaku Uchiha in secretly incapacitating Anbu investigators as Minato sent a stronger team to find them.

• Yang Xing rescued Anko from Orochimaru, pursued him into a cave, and severely wounded him before Orochimaru escaped underground.
• Yang Xing and his team traveled through a mist-covered lake, where he killed summoned beasts and Land of Earth shinobi, rescued Rin Nohara and Obito, and later accepted an A-rank mission.
• Yang Xing and Shibi Aburame tracked the Water Flow Clan, then helped defeat its swarm attack and completed the mission by trapping and killing enemy Jonin.
• Minato Namikaze praised Yang Xing’s accomplishments and offered him a path toward becoming Hokage, but Yang Xing refused the special S-rank cultivation mission and the offer.
• Yang Xing visited Fugaku Uchiha with Shibi Aburame and proposed restructuring the Anbu, then won Fugaku’s consideration by defeating him with Chidori Current.
• Yang Xing told Minato Namikaze to search for a supposedly lost keepsake, then met Ta and pretended he might accept Danzo’s offer before Ta killed two Anbu who approached them.
• Yang Xing demanded that Danzo meet him in person, then joined Shibi Aburame and Fugaku Uchiha in ambushing and drugging three Anbu investigators.
• After the three investigators went missing, Minato Namikaze sent another search team that included a jonin.

Yang Xing helped bring down Danzo’s influence and reshape Konoha’s Anbu as the Starlight Group. On the Kannabi Bridge mission, Obito was gravely wounded and gave his eyes to Kakashi, but a masked man took Obito’s body.

• Yang Xing lured Danzo into an Anbu confrontation, exposed Danzo’s secret use of Wood Release, and escaped while Ta died in the ensuing fight.
• Fugaku Uchiha and Shibi Aburame helped expose Danzo’s control of the Anbu, and Hiruzen Sarutobi asked the clans to help rebuild it.
• Yang Xing advised Minato Namikaze to rely on the Aburame Clan, while Minato renamed the Anbu the Starlight Group and appointed Mitarashi Anko captain.
• Yang Xing let Kakashi join the Starlight Group and agreed that Tenzo could seek Kakashi’s approval to join.
• Minato Namikaze sent Yang Xing, Kakashi, Rin Nohara, and Obito to destroy Kannabi Bridge as the Land of Earth invaded the Land of Fire.
• Yang Xing fought Ōnoki and paralyzed him with Chidori Current, then left to find Rin and Kakashi when Obito reported they had disappeared.
• Masked Madara used genjutsu to turn Kakashi against Yang Xing, but Yang Xing rescued Rin and Kakashi stabbed him in the back.
• Obito was gravely wounded and offered his eyes to Yang Xing, who asked him to give them to Kakashi instead.
• A masked man took Obito’s body, and Yang Xing carried the exhausted Kakashi and Rin back to Minato Namikaze, who promised to investigate Obito’s death.

Yang Xing built the Starlight Group, protected Kurenai Yuhi during the war, and forced Ōnoki to negotiate peace. Back in Konoha, clan leaders accused Yang Xing of stealing an Uchiha’s Sharingan and demanded his arrest.

• Yang Xing defeated Kakashi in a serious fight, while Rin Nohara promised to become a medical ninja who could protect him.
• Yang Xing pursued Kurenai Yuhi, joined her squad on a mission, and protected her and Asuma from Danzo’s subordinate Tsuchiya.
• Yang Xing fought Kurotsuchi and the Rock Ninja, then tested Tenzo and recruited him into the Starlight Group.
• Yang Xing set out with Minato Namikaze’s force against the Rock Ninja, while Asuma and Kurenai Yuhi secretly followed toward the battle.
• Yang Xing rescued Kurenai Yuhi from Ōnoki, scolded Asuma for abandoning her, and defeated Ōnoki before allowing him and his troops to retreat.
• Ōnoki signed a nonaggression treaty with Minato Namikaze, ending the war, while Obito visited Yang Xing with Madara and revealed that he bore a Cursed Seal.
• Konoha’s elders and clan leaders questioned Yang Xing about his Three-Tomoe Sharingan, and Fugaku Uchiha’s Genjutsu revealed it to the room.
• Fugaku Uchiha accused Yang Xing of killing an Uchiha for his eyes, and the leaders demanded his arrest despite Minato Namikaze defending him.