Recaps

After Konoha’s leaders wrongly accused Yang Xing, he left the village and traveled with Tsunade, Shizune, and Jiraiya. When the Nine-Tails attacked Konoha, Yang Xing saved the village and sealed the beast into Naruto, then set out for the Land of Rain to investigate Minato’s death and seek allies for an intelligence organization.

• Yang Xing escaped Konoha after Fugaku Uchiha ordered his arrest, and Minato Namikaze failed to persuade the village to trust him, and Yang Xing later refused Minato’s apology and left, promising Rin Nohara he would return.
• Yang Xing followed Tsunade and Shizune, fought alongside them when Asuma and Kurenai Yuhi rallied villagers against them, and then challenged Jiraiya to prove he could teach him.
• After Jiraiya recognized Yang Xing’s strength and explained how Konoha’s leaders had misunderstood him, Yang Xing learned Minato had a son named Naruto and rushed back to Konoha.
• Yang Xing found Minato Namikaze and Kushina injured after the Nine-Tails attack, learned a traitor among Konoha’s higher-ups had helped ambush them, and agreed to capture the beast and seal it into their newborn son.
• Yang Xing defeated the Nine-Tails with Tsukuyomi, sealed it into a scroll, and transferred it into Naruto at the hospital with Tsunade’s help.
• After Konoha buried Minato, Kushina, and the other victims, Yang Xing left for the Land of Rain with Tsunade and Jiraiya to investigate Minato’s death and find Obito.
• Yang Xing asked Nagato and the Akatsuki to help build an intelligence organization, while Jiraiya vouched for his strength and Nagato invited the group to stay until Yahiko returned.

Yang Xing rescued Guren, helped Konan and Nagato after Yahiko’s death, then built a group to gather information on tailed beasts. In Iwagakure, he recruited Deidara and released Han’s Five-Tails, leaving Ōnoki facing the rampaging Kokuō.

• Tsunade bet Yang Xing would return to Konoha and become Hokage if he lost, while she would kiss him if she lost, and she sent Shizune to watch over him as Orochimaru sought to recruit him.
• Tsunade confronted Orochimaru, but his revived former leader of the Land of Rain overwhelmed Nagato until Yang Xing arrived and destroyed the corpse in three seconds.
• Yang Xing rescued Guren, shattered Orochimaru’s Fivefold Rashomon with Chidori Current, and let Orochimaru flee after claiming Guren as his subordinate.
• Yang Xing’s group set out to find Yahiko and Nagato, then fought through an ambush and reached a destroyed village where Hanzō revealed Konoha’s involvement in the conflict.
• Nagato summoned the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path after Yahiko died, and Yang Xing fought the statue before destroying it with Chidori Current Slash and rescuing Nagato and Yahiko’s body.
• After Nagato fled with Yahiko’s body, Yang Xing planned to build an intelligence organization, brought Konan into his group, and traveled with Tsunade and Guren to the Land of Earth.
• Yang Xing asked Ōnoki to establish the Sunshine Group to locate Jinchūriki, subdued Deidara and Rōshi, and warned Ōnoki he could destroy Iwagakure if he refused.
• Han asked Yang Xing to release the Five-Tails, and Yang Xing freed Kokuō despite Ōnoki and the others rushing to stop him.
• Kokuō emerged and attacked Ōnoki, declaring that it intended to eat him.

Yang Xing subdued the Five-Tails, founded the Sunshine Group, and traveled to Sunagakure seeking the One-Tail Jinchūriki. He began training Gaara, but Rasa moved to keep them apart as Gaara went missing.

• Yang Xing rescued Kurotsuchi from becoming the Five-Tails’ vessel, defeated Kokuō, and contracted it as his summoning beast while sealing its soul as collateral.
• Yang Xing secured the Land of Earth’s funding for the Sunshine Group, recruited Deidara to attack Orochimaru’s bases, and sent Tsunade back to Konoha.
• Yang Xing traveled to Sunagakure with Konan and Guren, met Temari and Kankuro, and learned that Gaara was the One-Tail Jinchūriki.
• Yang Xing offered to stay in the Land of Wind for three years to train the One-Tail’s host, while Rasa tried to keep Gaara away from him.
• Yang Xing demonstrated his abilities to Gaara, who admired him and asked to be taught, then secretly met Yang Xing and took him to a hill at dawn.
• Yang Xing began training Gaara to use Sand Release gently, but Gaara killed many birds and animals before Yang Xing stopped the One-Tail from emerging.
• Yang Xing ordered Gaara to catch a live bird by sunset and left Guren and Konan to watch him, but Gaara did not return by nightfall.
• Rasa ordered Yang Xing to leave and confined Gaara in a guarded basement, while Yang Xing promised Temari he would act because Gaara was his student.