Recaps

After Sasuke, Naruto, and Karin beat older students who had bullied them and Hinata, the bullies’ parents brought the dispute to the school. Uchiha Genya investigated, punished the parents harshly, and left the children with a chance to improve.

• Ōnoki and other leaders gathered small nations and rogue ninja for war, while Konoha refused to join.
• Older students mocked Sasuke and Naruto and bullied Hinata and Karin, so Sasuke, Naruto, and Karin beat them.
• The bullies’ parents made a scene at the school, and the incident escalated as Fugaku prepared to resign.
• The Security Division investigated, publicized recordings, and used Sharingan hypnosis to establish what had happened.
• Uchiha Genya cleared the children of deliberate wrongdoing, gave them disciplinary demerits, and imposed severe fines and restrictions on their parents.
• The parents realized their children’s actions had cost their families their wealth, status, and prospects for generations.

Xuanye’s punishment of the families whose children had bullied others made Konoha’s schools and households take bullying seriously. After Fugaku stepped down from the Security Division, Sasuke and Naruto wrongly blamed themselves and apologized, while Mikoto used their guilt to encourage better behavior.

• Xuanye’s harsh penalties cost the bullying children’s families their jobs and futures, warning parents and schools across Konoha and the Land of Fire to stop bullying.
• Fugaku returned home after stepping down and found Sasuke and Naruto apologizing because they thought he had lost his position for defending them.
• Mikoto scolded Sasuke and Naruto, claiming Fugaku had been reprimanded to protect them, and the boys promised to change.
• Mikoto sent the boys to dinner and bed, then told Fugaku she had used the incident to make the rowdy boys easier to discipline.

After bullying Sasuke and Naruto ended, Xuanye imposed punishing academic and physical training across Konoha, but Sasuke still dismissed his studies. Itachi sought Xuanye’s advice on teaching him and left wary of the Shogun’s habit of using people as puppets.

• Fugaku embraced Mikoto’s idea for keeping the boys in line, and Xuanye punished bullying by removing a department head and reprimanding the Education Department head.
• Xuanye increased students’ lessons, Chakra training, and physical drills, transforming education across the Land of Fire and leaving students exhausted.
• Naruto complained about the workload, while Sasuke questioned the value of academic study and argued with Itachi over his ambition to fight on the battlefield.
• Itachi went to the Hokage Office for advice but heard Nonō inside, so he left and returned an hour later.
• Itachi told Xuanye that Sasuke and Naruto still neglected their academic classes, and Xuanye questioned whether guilt had failed to change their behavior.
• Itachi reflected on Sasuke’s record and suspected that the Shogun liked to prop up puppets.

Xuanye’s policies intensified factional conflict among the ninja clans and pushed Ninja Academy students into fierce competition. Meanwhile, Konoha’s officials gathered at one of Orochimaru’s Secret Laboratories to witness a possible resurrection, a development that could reshape the balance of power.

• Xuanye backed rival clan members and Puppets, deepening divisions within Konoha’s ninja clans and leaving the Ino-Shika-Cho families struggling to control their factions.
• Xuanye ordered Weekly Exam and Monthly Exam rankings posted publicly, driving Naruto, Sasuke, and other students to study under mounting pressure while Karin worried her complaint had prompted the rule.
• Fugaku’s surrender of power calmed the Uchiha Family’s agitation and reinforced its emphasis on pride and education.
• Konoha officials of department-head rank or above hurried to Orochimaru’s Secret Laboratory to witness a possible Resurrection Secret Technique.

Orochimaru demonstrated his resurrection research to Konoha’s High Command and used Impure World Reincarnation to create a body for Nawaki. Nawaki awoke in the cracked reincarnated body, realizing he had died as Orochimaru prepared to complete the resurrection ritual.

• Orochimaru presented his research on overcoming the side effects of the Samsara of Heavenly Life Technique to the assembled Konoha leaders.
• Tsunade, Kakashi, and the others watched as Orochimaru prepared to revive Nawaki using a White Zetsu body.
• Orochimaru forced his prisoner Hiruko to assist with the research, using threats and torture until Hiruko complied.
• Orochimaru formed hand seals and used Impure World Reincarnation to bring Nawaki back in a body covered with cracks.
• Nawaki woke, recognized Orochimaru, and realized from his cold body and absent heartbeat that he had died.

Orochimaru used the Rinnegan’s Samsara of Heavenly Life Technique to resurrect Nawaki, replenishing the life force it consumed with his modified Dragon-Snake Reincarnation technique. Tsunade confirmed that Nawaki had returned to life as Orochimaru retrieved the Rinnegan.

• Orochimaru transplanted the Rinnegan into his eye socket and used it to perform the Samsara of Heavenly Life Technique on Nawaki.
• Tsunade tried to stop Orochimaru when the resurrection began draining his life force, but Uchiha Genya held her back and reassured her.
• Orochimaru used Dragon-Snake Reincarnation to absorb life force from a White Zetsu body and survive the resurrection.
• Orochimaru shed his skin to return to normal, retrieved the Rinnegan, and let Tsunade approach Nawaki.
• Tsunade touched Nawaki and felt his warmth, flowing blood, and heartbeat, confirming that he was alive.

Orochimaru revived Nawaki, proving that the dead could be brought back to life, and Uchiha Genya explained the technique’s costs and limits. The gathered shinobi turned to Genya to negotiate, while Konan wrestled with whether she could bargain for Yahiko’s resurrection.

• Tsunade embraced Nawaki after he woke, and Minato and Tobirama reacted to the proof that Orochimaru could fully resurrect the dead.
• Konan longed to bring Yahiko back but hesitated because she had already given up the rest of her life to Konoha.
• Orochimaru told the crowd that the Shogun had an important announcement and privately judged that Genya would exploit their desire for resurrection.
• Uchiha Genya announced that each resurrection exhausted Orochimaru, caused irreversible side effects, and required two White Zetsu, making mass resurrections impossible for now.
• Kakuzu and the poorer clans worried over the cost, and Yamanaka Inoichi asked Genya to speak frankly.

Uchiha Genya announced that resurrecting someone would cost one hundred million ryo, while offering land, service, and loans as alternatives. Konoha’s people left weighing the cost, and Kakashi remained unable to decide whom he most wanted to bring back.

• Uchiha Genya set the resurrection price at one hundred million ryo per person and offered land or service as payment alternatives.
• Uchiha Genya said those who had distinguished themselves defending Konoha could negotiate preferential treatment.
• Kakashi realized he could not afford to resurrect the many people he had lost and considered earning merit through service to the Shogun.
• Uchiha Genya announced that the Finance Department would offer loans with repayment periods of up to twenty years.
• Konoha’s clans returned home worried about the cost, while Kakashi stayed silent and Tsunade took Nawaki away to talk.

After Nawaki was resurrected, Xuanye returned to the Castle Keep and planned to profit from selling forbidden technologies while following the Fourth Shinobi World War. Konan came to bargain for Nagato and Yahiko, but Xuanye pressured her until she reluctantly approached him.

• Tsunade teased Nawaki after his resurrection while Orochimaru took a blood sample to study his genes and possible Wood Release.
• Xuanye returned to the Castle Keep and planned to sell kekkei genkai fusions and human modification technology to Konoha’s wealthy.
• Xuanye reviewed Kabuto’s intelligence, learning that Danzo had been resurrected through Impure World Reincarnation and looking forward to seeing how Hiruzen would respond.
• Konan waited in Xuanye’s room and asked what price she had to pay for Nagato’s freedom and Yahiko’s resurrection.
• Xuanye told Konan she had no leverage and reminded her that Nagato was imprisoned under his control.
• Konan reluctantly lay on Xuanye’s bed, insisted he would never win her heart, and finally got up to approach him when he told her to undress him.

The Allied Shinobi Forces adapted to the White Zetsu’s disguises, rallied, and inflicted heavy losses on both the White Zetsu army and Kabuto’s reanimated forces. Obito blamed Kabuto for their setbacks, but Kabuto rejected responsibility and pointed out Obito’s own poor command.

• The Allied Shinobi Forces adopted group travel, rotating code phrases, and strict identity checks, then rooted out White Zetsu infiltrators and began counterattacking by the third day.
• Ōnoki recognized Kabuto’s Impure World Reincarnation and sent the Sealing Squad to the front, where the allied forces sealed more than a dozen reanimated bodies.
• Obito heard Black Zetsu’s report, destroyed a cup and table in anger, and accused Kabuto and the reanimated fighters of being useless.
• Kabuto reminded Obito that they were partners, cited the heavy losses among the White Zetsu, and explained that he had deployed reanimated shinobi against villages and leaders they hated.

As Obito’s poor tactics drove his forces toward defeat, Sarutobi Hiruzen argued that they needed to summon Uchiha Madara to change the course of the war. Obito agreed to let Kabuto proceed, while hiding his Rinnegan in the Kamui Dimension and planning to seize an opportunity later.

• Obito confronted Kabuto over the failed tactics, but Sarutobi Hiruzen intervened and demanded command of the White Zetsu army.
• Shimura Danzō warned that the group’s infighting and lack of overwhelming force would doom them.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen proposed summoning Uchiha Madara, arguing they had nothing left to lose and needed someone powerful enough to turn the war around.
• Kabuto cautioned that a sufficiently powerful person could break free of Impure World Reincarnation, but Sarutobi Hiruzen insisted they had no better option.
• Black Zetsu urged Obito to agree, and Obito asked Kabuto to decide whether to summon Uchiha Madara.
• Obito agreed and hid his Rinnegan in the Kamui Dimension, intending to wait for a chance to claim victory after Uchiha Madara gathered the tailed beasts.

Kabuto used Impure World Reincarnation to summon Uchiha Madara, who was displeased to find himself reanimated and demanded an explanation from Obito. Obito began explaining that a powerful Uchiha had become Konoha’s Fifth Hokage, leaving Madara to hear how the world had changed.

• Kabuto controlled Mu to summon Uchiha Madara into a prepared White Zetsu body, then withdrew underground to avoid facing him.
• Madara emerged from the coffin, and Sarutobi Hiruzen shrank back under his oppressive presence.
• Madara mistook Hiruzen’s presence and rogue-ninja forehead protector as evidence that Tobirama’s chosen Hokage had defected, which pleased him.
• Madara questioned Obito about why he had been summoned through Impure World Reincarnation rather than revived with the Outer Path - Samsara of Heavenly Life Technique.
• Obito told Madara that a powerful Uchiha had emerged in Konoha, suppressed opposition, and become the Fifth Hokage.

Uchiha Madara learned that Obito had failed to capture the tailed beasts, lost the Rinnegan, and allowed the Allied Shinobi Forces to drive back their armies. Furious at Obito, Madara unleashed his chakra and demanded to know what use he had for him.

• Madara asked Obito how many tailed beasts he had captured, and Obito admitted they had captured none.
• Obito blamed Uchiha Genya for foiling his efforts, taking the Three-Tails, and helping defeat the Akatsuki's attack on Konoha.
• Obito told Madara that Nagato had been captured, the Rinnegan was lost, and most Akatsuki members were missing.
• Kabuto explained that the Allied Shinobi Forces had assembled fifty thousand troops and were pushing back their armies.
• Madara dismissed Kabuto's claims about modifying his reanimated body, then confronted Obito and erupted with chakra.

Uchiha Madara seized Obito and nullified his Kamui, threatening to kill him for failing to carry out the Eye of the Moon Plan. Black Zetsu convinced Madara to spare Obito after he explained how much the Ninja World had changed, while Mu warned that the allied forces were closing in on their last base.

• Madara appeared before Obito, grabbed him by the throat, and used his Mangekyō ability to stop Obito's Kamui from working.
• Madara threatened to kill Obito, who pleaded that the Ninja World had changed and described its powerful fighters and modern technology.
• Black Zetsu confirmed Obito's account and urged Madara to keep him alive because Obito had experience fighting Uchiha Genya.
• Madara threw Obito aside but insulted him for lacking the courage to betray him, while Obito silently resented Madara and clung to his Rinnegan as protection.
• Mu warned Madara that the allied forces were nearing their last base and asked him to show the strength he had possessed at his peak.

Obito reluctantly transported Madara toward the Allied Shinobi Forces while planning to let Madara and Konoha weaken each other. At the alliance camp, the Five Kage Alliance prepared a final assault, but an unknown attacker suddenly began killing shinobi and neared the command camp.

• Obito used Kamui to take Madara toward the Allied Shinobi Forces, while resolving to stay hidden and exploit the conflict.
• Ōnoki and A led the Five Kage Alliance as its commanders planned to crush the White Zetsu forces in a final battle.
• Mei Terumi, A, and Rasa discussed targeting their enemies and dividing the spoils, while Mifune remained silent.
• Ōnoki announced that the alliance would launch its all-out assault the next day.
• An Iwagakure jōnin reported that an unknown attacker was killing shinobi and had nearly reached the central command camp.

Uchiha Madara reclaimed his Gunbai and attacked the Allied Shinobi Forces alone, killing shinobi as he searched for their commander. After the forces slowed him with a coordinated Earth Release technique, they unleashed a joint Fire Release attack.

• Ōnoki, Mei Terumi, and A heard that a lone man was attacking the Allied Shinobi Forces and went to confront him.
• Uchiha Madara reclaimed his Uchiha Gunbai after beating Obito, and Mu carried him toward the Allied Shinobi Forces' camp.
• Uchiha Madara threatened Kabuto, broke free of Mu's technique, and crashed into the center of the Allied Shinobi Forces.
• Uchiha Madara asked who commanded the forces, then killed and scattered shinobi who attacked him.
• After suffering over a hundred casualties, the Allied Shinobi Forces trapped Uchiha Madara briefly with Swamp of the Underworld and launched a joint Great Fireball at him.

Uchiha Madara slaughtered the Allied Shinobi Forces until the Five Kage confronted him, and he revealed Susanoo to counter Rasa’s attack. A pierced Susanoo with his One-Finger Nukite, giving Ōnoki an opening to strike with Dust Release.

• Uchiha Madara overwhelmed the shinobi’s combined Fire Release attack and continued killing Allied Shinobi Forces while Kabuto watched from the sky.
• Rasa’s gold dust separated Uchiha Madara from the ordinary shinobi as the Five Kage assembled above him.
• Ōnoki recognized Uchiha Madara and warned the others not to look into his eyes, but Rasa attacked with gold dust anyway.
• Uchiha Madara formed Susanoo, scattered Rasa’s gold dust, and ordered the Kage to fight him on the ground.
• A charged Uchiha Madara with One-Finger Nukite and pierced Susanoo, while Ōnoki fired Dust Release at him.

The four Kage coordinated an attack that pierced Uchiha Madara’s Susanoo and sealed him in gold dust, but Madara broke free using his Rinnegan. He repaired his armor and lost interest in the fight, while the Kage stared in horror at the face on his chest.

• Ōnoki struck Uchiha Madara’s Susanoo with Dust Release while A drew his attention.
• Rasa used Magnet Release: Sandstorm Funeral to seal Madara in a pyramid of gold dust.
• Madara tore through the seal with Susanoo, mocked the four Kage, and revealed that his Rinnegan could absorb ninjutsu.
• Ōnoki recognized Madara’s Rinnegan, while Madara blamed Obito for losing it and wondered about Uchiha Genya.
• The four Kage saw a human face appear on Madara’s chest and reacted with horror.

Uchiha Madara overwhelmed the four Kage with Tengai Shinsei, forcing them to work together to destroy the first meteor. As a second meteor fell, he ordered them to tell Uchiha Genya to bring him all the tailed beasts, leaving the Kage facing another desperate struggle.

• Uchiha Madara revealed that he had implanted Hashirama's cells and said he had mastered Wood Release.
• Uchiha Madara summoned a meteor and threatened to pursue the Kage's subordinates if they fled.
• Ōnoki, Rasa, A, and Mei Terumi combined their abilities to break apart the first meteor.
• Uchiha Madara summoned a second meteor and told the Kage to tell Uchiha Genya to surrender all the tailed beasts.

Kabuto’s forces routed the leaderless Allied Shinobi Forces, and he sent a report to Konoha. Xuanye took Konan to visit Nagato in the Prison, where Nagato realized she had become Xuanye’s partner and raged as they left.

• Kabuto used Obito, Sarutobi Hiruzen, and reanimated fighters to crush the Allied Shinobi Forces, abducting senior officers and Mifune before reporting the victory to Konoha.
• Xuanye brought Konan to the Prison to visit Nagato, who had begun submitting to his confinement and treatment.
• Konan saw Nagato during his exercise and was embarrassed, while Xuanye reassured her that Nagato was being cared for.
• Nagato realized Konan had given herself to Xuanye and demanded to know what he had done to her.
• Xuanye told Nagato he would look after Konan and promised to resurrect Yahiko if she had a child for him.
• Xuanye left with Konan as Nagato shouted insults and pleaded from behind the Prison bars.

Uchiha Genya prepared Konoha’s reanimated shinobi to seize the small countries surrounding the Land of Fire during the Fourth Shinobi World War. He left them with a plan to blame the Impure World Reincarnation on the Akatsuki Organization and the defected Sarutobi Hiruzen.

• Xuanye sent Konan back to the Explosive Tag factory after receiving confidential intelligence from Kabuto.
• Kakashi reported that Kabuto had summoned Uchiha Madara and that the Allied Shinobi Forces had suffered heavy losses in the Land of Rivers.
• Orochimaru used Impure World Reincarnation to summon powerful Konoha shinobi, including Senju Tobirama, Namikaze Minato, and Hatake Sakumo.
• Xuanye assigned the reanimated shinobi to eliminate leaders and rulers in the small countries surrounding the Land of Fire so Konoha could take control.
• Hatake Sakumo worried that the killings would ruin Konoha’s reputation, and Xuanye explained that the reanimated bodies could be blamed on the Akatsuki Organization and Sarutobi Hiruzen.

Xuanye organized reanimated shinobi to exploit the war, seize small nations, and blame their destruction on Sarutobi Hiruzen and the Akatsuki Organization. He assigned missions to Minato and Tobirama, while Tobirama stayed behind to speak with him privately.

• Xuanye explained that Konoha would condemn the Akatsuki Organization and Sarutobi Hiruzen, then occupy the small nations devastated by the reanimated shinobi.
• Kakashi questioned the plan to expand Konoha's territory, and Orochimaru argued that the other major nations would be too weakened after the war to stop them.
• Xuanye distributed mission scrolls and explosive tags to the reanimated shinobi.
• Xuanye ordered Minato to cripple Takigakure's main fighting force and bring back the Seven-Tails Jinchuriki intact.
• Xuanye ordered Tobirama to deal with Kusagakure and recover the Box of Ultimate Bliss.
• The other shinobi departed, but Tobirama remained behind with his scroll, prompting Xuanye to realize he wanted a private conversation.

Xuanye defended his rule to Tobirama by arguing that Konoha’s prosperity and the Land of Fire’s expansion proved he served the bigger picture. Tobirama acknowledged Xuanye’s achievements but was left fuming at his shameless claim that he had no selfish motives.

• Xuanye insisted that his expansion of the Land of Fire was for Konoha and that Tobirama should set aside their personal differences.
• Tobirama reflected on how Xuanye had strengthened Konoha, absorbed bloodline clans, reclaimed tailed beasts, and brought the village’s shinobi under his authority.
• Tobirama judged Xuanye an exceptionally effective Hokage despite his personal misconduct and Tobirama’s prejudice against the Uchiha.
• Tobirama asked whether Xuanye had acted without any selfish intent, and Xuanye declared that the Land of Fire and Konoha belonged to him, so he could not be selfish.
• Tobirama nearly exploded with rage at Xuanye’s answer and concluded that this Uchiha was especially evil.

Tobirama confronted Xuanye over his role in Danzō and Hiruzen’s downfalls, then demanded to know whether he was inferior to Madara. Xuanye argued that Hashirama had been the better Hokage because his strength had kept the Ninja World in check, leaving Tobirama to object that Madara’s extremism made him dangerous.

• Tobirama asked whether Xuanye had orchestrated what happened to Shimura Danzō and Sarutobi Hiruzen, and Xuanye admitted that he had driven one to his death and the other to defect.
• Xuanye said Konoha’s elders knew enough about his actions, while Tobirama accepted that the benefits to Konoha outweighed the deaths of Danzō and Hiruzen.
• Tobirama demanded an answer about whether he was inferior to Uchiha Madara, refusing to yield on a question tied to his claim to the Second Hokage’s position.
• Xuanye asked whether Hashirama or Tobirama had been better suited to lead Konoha, and Tobirama answered that Hashirama had been.
• Xuanye said Tobirama had surpassed Hashirama in many respects but lacked his combat strength, which had helped keep the Ninja World from erupting into war.
• Tobirama objected that Madara might have started a war as Hokage, and Xuanye characterized Madara as an extremist pacifist.

Xuanye explained to Tobirama why Hashirama should have let Uchiha Madara become Hokage, then said he would deal with Madara himself. He took Kakashi to the Land of Demons to bring Miroku and confront Moryo, while also seeking to incorporate the country into Konoha.

• Xuanye argued that Hashirama could have kept peace by giving Uchiha Madara the Hokage title while retaining real authority, and Tobirama admitted Xuanye had a broader perspective.
• Tobirama asked whether they would need to summon Hashirama to face Uchiha Madara in the Land of Rivers, but Xuanye said he would handle Madara himself.
• Tobirama used Flying Thunder God to leave, and Xuanye ordered Kakashi to accompany him to the Land of Demons.
• Xuanye told Kakashi that he planned to bring Miroku, the Miko, back to Konoha because she and the sealed monster Moryo were closely connected.
• Kakashi suspected Xuanye had ulterior motives, but went along with his order.