Recaps

Yuka helped Sakura after Gaara’s death, then reunited with Hinata’s group as they searched the desert for Rōran. The group found Mukade at the ruins and pursued him, while Orochimaru’s faction prepared to support the Sound Four’s mission.

• Yuka revealed herself to Might Guy’s team, then helped Sakura recover from Sasori’s poison after Tenten removed her sealing talisman.
• Naruto and the others returned with Gaara’s body, and Grandma Chiyo chose not to sacrifice her life to revive him.
• Temari and Kankuro grieved for Gaara as Baki reflected on Sunagakure’s leaders abandoning their Kazekage.
• Yuka went ahead to meet Hinata, told her about Gaara’s death, and joined the search for Rōran and its scattered refugees.
• After days in the desert, Hinata found a damaged map beneath a skeleton and led the group to the Rōran Ruins.
• The group fought swarms of scorpions and found Mukade near a cavern, where he admitted he had defected from Sunagakure and stolen the Dragon Vein map.
• Hinata explained that she already knew Mukade’s story and that the Dragon Vein could reverse time and space, then sent Winter Rain after him as he fled.
• Orochimaru waited in pain for the Sound Four’s return, and Kimimaro volunteered to support them despite Kabuto’s warning about his frail body.

Hinata and her companions reached the Dragon Vein, extracted some of its Chakra, and were swept into a time-space journey. They emerged in an abandoned house, while Rock Lee’s group met Granny Sansho and learned Karashi had left with a group of bad people.

• Kimimaro left Orochimaru to do one last thing for him, while Jirobo stayed behind to confront the Konoha rookies tracking the Sound Four.
• Hinata led her companions into Rōran’s underground ruins, where they fought through a vast puppet army and reached the Dragon Vein’s hidden core.
• Tsunade found a top-secret document titled "Loulan Destruction Plan" among the Hokage Building’s records.
• Hinata removed Minato Namikaze’s Kunai, revealed the Dragon Vein, and worked with Winter Rain to contain part of its Chakra.
• The Dragon Vein erupted into a purple dragon head, which Hinata restrained before a time-space surge pulled her and her companions away.
• Hinata, Tenten, Rock Lee, and Rokosuke traveled to Life Curry House, where Granny Sansho welcomed them and told Rock Lee that Karashi had left with bad people.
• Hinata explored the basement where the group had arrived, broke the locked door’s outside latch, and found they were in an abandoned house beside a busy street.

Hinata and her companions learned that Rōran had allied with Sunagakure, while Jiraiya and Orochimaru planned to attack the city to deter other small nations. As Minato’s team approached Rōran and Naruto’s team explored its underground ruins, the groups moved toward a confrontation over the Dragon Vein.

• Winter Rain confirmed he had sealed the Dragon Vein Chakra, and Hinata’s group realized they had arrived in the early Third Great Ninja War, when Rōran’s Queen was still alive.
• Queen of Rōran accepted Sunagakure’s request for support, reasoning that the isolated city could not safely remain neutral.
• Hinata’s group explored Rōran and learned that the city had become peaceful and prosperous, while Hinata remembered that sealing the Dragon Vein would return them to their own era.
• Jiraiya told Orochimaru that Rōran had sided with Sunagakure and proposed attacking it to discourage other small nations from helping Sunagakure.
• Hinata and her companions planned to kidnap Queen of Roran during her speech and use the opportunity to reach the underground Dragon Vein space.
• Minato Namikaze, Shibi Aburame, and Choza Akimichi traveled toward Rōran as Minato considered how Mukade’s actions had changed the mission and timeline.
• Naruto, Sakura, Sai, and Yamato reached an underground shelter near the Rōran Ruins while pursuing a Sunagakure Rogue Ninja and the ruins’ hidden power.
• Naruto, Sakura, and Sai explored a dark passage and encountered purple light and an unfamiliar sound ahead.

Naruto joined Minato Namikaze in Rōran, where Hinata and her allies tried to seize the Dragon Vein and gain control over space and time. As the battle reached the underground passage, Hinata stopped Naruto just as he began releasing the Nine-Tails.

• Naruto appeared during the Queen of Roran’s ceremony, and Minato Namikaze recognized him as a Konoha ninja from another time.
• After Hinata seized the Queen and escaped into the underground passage, Naruto and Minato Namikaze led their allies in pursuit.
• Naruto confronted Hinata, who condemned Konoha and revealed that her group planned to use the Dragon Vein to control space and time.
• Minato Namikaze and the others fought Hinata’s companions, while Hinata’s Tenseigan Chakra Mode and Truth-Seeking Orbs resisted Minato’s attacks.
• Hinata sent Winter Rain toward the Dragon Vein as her allies tried to hold back Minato Namikaze, Shibi Aburame, and Choza Akimichi.
• Hinata swallowed Naruto’s Great Ball Rasengan with a smaller Planet-Devastator, then struck Choza Akimichi and sent him flying.
• Hinata challenged Naruto, who entered a vision and began turning the Nine-Tails’ seal after the Nine-Tails offered him power.
• Hinata slashed the Nine-Tails’ emerging claw with a Ziyuan and grabbed Naruto by the ankle, stopping him.