Recaps

Uchiha Yū arranged for Kushina and Naruto to stay safely in Dawn Hidden Village while Minato secretly searched for Killer B. He then ordered Uchiha Obito to mislead and monitor Black and White Zetsu as the tailed-beast collection plan approached its crucial stage.

• Uchiha Yū proposed that Minato Namikaze send ninjas to find Killer B and deceive him into seeking Konoha's help against their supposed enemies.
• Minato Namikaze agreed to search for Killer B, and Uchiha Yū promised to return Naruto to Konoha within two weeks.
• Uchiha Yū brought Kushina and Naruto to Dawn Hidden Village, where he directed Kushina toward the Uzumaki Clan gathering and told her he would take Naruto to meet someone important the next day.
• Uchiha Yū summoned Uchiha Obito and ordered him to watch Black and White Zetsu and direct its attention toward Konoha.
• Uchiha Yū promised Uchiha Obito a gift after the task, while Obito understood that they might also be preparing to trap and kill Black and White Zetsu.

Uchiha Yū and Nagato extracted the Nine-Tails from Naruto and fed it to the Ten-Tails, triggering a violent revival underground. Uchiha Yū restrained the beast as Nagato’s failing body left them needing to act quickly.

• Uchiha Yū led Naruto through the underground passage to Nagato, who warned that his body was failing as they collected the tailed beasts.
• Nagato recognized the Nine-Tails’ chakra inside Naruto and was shocked that Uchiha Yū had brought him out of Konoha.
• Uchiha Yū made Naruto unconscious and weakened the Five Elements Seal, but the Nine-Tails retreated when it sensed the underground space’s suppression.
• Nagato used the Ten-Tails to pull the Nine-Tails from Naruto and return it to its original body.
• The Ten-Tails revived violently and cracked the underground chamber, so Uchiha Yū struck and pinned it while Nagato’s condition worsened.

Uchiha Yū and Nagato contained the awakening Ten-Tails, but its accelerated resurrection threatened Nagato’s life within a year. Uchiha Yū revived Naruto after removing the Nine-Tails, then left Nagato underground while promising to find a way to preserve his Rinnegan and restore his body.

• The Ten-Tails’ struggle broke Nagato’s control rods and damaged the cavern, while Uchiha Yū helped suppress it.
• Nagato said his body could last at most another year because the Nine-Tails had accelerated the Ten-Tails’ resurrection.
• Uchiha Yū revived Naruto after removing the Nine-Tails and promised Nagato that Orochimaru would examine his body and eyes.
• Nagato said the Rinnegan should be destroyed if it could not be preserved, so Uchiha Madara could not reclaim it.
• Uchiha Yū led Naruto out and told him to keep the encounter secret, while Nagato smiled at Naruto’s offer to visit.

Tsunade confronted Minato Namikaze over his refusal to reinforce the front lines and his plan to negotiate peace, then left the meeting with Jiraiya. Jiraiya suspected Minato might be the traitor among Konoha’s leadership and decided to investigate secretly.

• Tsunade barged into the Hokage’s meeting and demanded to know why Minato Namikaze had withheld support from the front lines.
• Minato Namikaze revealed that he wanted to negotiate peace and redeem Hiruzen Sarutobi, splitting the clan heads into peace and hardline factions.
• Jiraiya stopped Tsunade from escalating the dispute, and she agreed to discuss the matter privately before leaving the meeting.
• Tsunade told Jiraiya that Minato had changed since returning and questioned his actions during the rescue operation and his seizure of power.
• Jiraiya connected Minato’s conduct to the Great Toad Sage’s warning about a traitor and said he would investigate in secret.

Uchiha Yū and Tagorihime discussed the White Snake Sage’s plan to poison the Great Toad Sage, and Uchiha Yū proposed using Netherworld Gate to reach Mount Myōboku. He planned to exploit the alliance to destroy both Mount Myōboku and Ryūchi Cave, leaving him to consider whether to rescue Black Snake before the attack.

• Uchiha Yū received Tagorihime at Dawn Hidden Village and learned that the White Snake Sage had prepared venom meant to put the Great Toad Sage into a deep sleep.
• Uchiha Yū proposed using Netherworld Gate to bypass Mount Myōboku’s defenses, while admitting that getting close to the Great Toad Sage might depend on luck.
• Uchiha Yū kept the vial of venom despite Tagorihime demanding it back, and she warned him that the White Snake Sage would end their cooperation if he jeopardized the plan.
• After Tagorihime left, Uchiha Yū revealed that he intended to use Mount Myōboku to weaken Ryūchi Cave before eliminating the White Snake Sage as well.
• Uchiha Yū prepared to send one force to attack Mount Myōboku and another to secretly attack Ryūchi Cave, then wondered whether to bring Black Snake out before the encirclement.

Uchiha Yū infiltrated Mount Myōboku to poison the Great Toad Sage while Orochimaru’s forces prepared to attack Ryūchi Cave. After Uchiha Yū contaminated the surrounding land and slipped past investigating toads, a falling stone shattered his poison vial, revealing that the Great Toad Sage was awake.

• Orochimaru agreed to send Uchiha Yū to Mount Myōboku and arranged for Dawn Hidden Village ninja to support him, while another force moved toward Ryūchi Cave.
• Uchiha Yū arrived at Mount Myōboku and spread deadly radioactive contamination through its land and waterways.
• Gamabunta questioned fleeing toads and learned that the contamination had killed creatures and was still spreading.
• Uchiha Yū avoided the toads investigating the destruction and reached the Great Toad Sage with a vial of poison.
• A falling stone smashed the vial before Uchiha Yū could inject the poison, and he confronted the Great Toad Sage for pretending to sleep.

Uchiha Yū confronted the Great Toad Sage over fate and killed him, rejecting his warning that ruling the ninja world would lead to greater war. Sage Fukasaku summoned Jiraiya to Mount Myōboku, where he arrived to find the Great Toad Sage dead and Uchiha Yū standing nearby.

• The Great Toad Sage told Uchiha Yū that his arrival had altered the futures he had seen and warned that ruling the ninja world would bring another, crueler war.
• Uchiha Yū asked what would happen if he did not rule the ninja world, and the Great Toad Sage recalled a prophecy about a blue-eyed boy ending the war.
• Uchiha Yū challenged the Great Toad Sage to wager his life on his prediction that he would survive, then killed him with a purple chakra blade.
• Sage Fukasaku and Shima arrived too late to save the Great Toad Sage, and Sage Fukasaku used Reverse Summoning to bring Jiraiya from Konoha.
• Jiraiya arrived and saw Uchiha Yū radiating chakra beside the Great Toad Sage's body.

Uchiha Yū escaped Mount Myōboku after attacking the Great Toad Sage, believing he had prevented the sage from delivering a prophecy. The Great Toad Sage survived through a hidden token, while Jiraiya and the toad sages prepared for a possible invasion as Uchiha Shisui’s group hurried toward the rendezvous point.

• Jiraiya fought Uchiha Yū with Sage Mode and the toad sages’ help, but Uchiha Yū retreated after completing his mission.
• Sage Fukasaku revealed that the Great Toad Sage’s Sage-Character Token had healed his fatal wounds, though he remained unconscious.
• Jiraiya agreed to protect the Great Toad Sage, and the toad sages chose to defend Mount Myōboku while sending some young toads away.
• Uchiha Yū used a device to send his location to his allies and worried that the toads might evacuate before the attack.
• Uchiha Shisui received the transmitted image and urged his group, accompanied by the White Snake Sage, to hurry to the rendezvous point.

The White Snake Sage joined Uchiha Yū’s forces and offered Ryūchi Cave’s assistance in attacking Mount Myōboku. Uchiha Yū prepared to assault the sacred land despite uncertainty about the Great Toad Sage’s death, and a terrifying vortex began forming overhead.

• The White Snake Sage asked Uchiha Shisui to help Ryūchi Cave obtain advanced technology after the war, and he said he would relay her request to Uchiha Yū.
• Uchiha Yū observed Mount Myōboku and concluded that its defenders were confident they could repel the attack.
• Uchiha Shisui brought the modified ninja to Uchiha Yū, who said Mount Myōboku was prepared to fight rather than evacuate.
• The White Snake Sage asked whether Uchiha Yū had used her venom on the Great Toad Sage, and Uchiha Yū said he had killed him with a Chakra Scalpel.
• The White Snake Sage shared a map and suggested poisoning Mount Myōboku’s water, but Uchiha Yū revealed he had already contaminated nearby water sources with radioactive kunai.
• Uchiha Yū prepared to attack Mount Myōboku by force, while a terrifying vortex formed overhead and absorbed natural energy.

Uchiha Yū launched an invasion of Mount Myōboku alongside the White Snake Sage and watched as the battle escalated. The White Snake Sage clashed with Iwasuku the Great Toad, who could hold her off for now despite suffering poison-inflicted wounds.

• The White Snake Sage summoned a serpent of natural energy and led the attack on Mount Myōboku.
• Uchiha Yū vaporized a lake with Atomic Fission, then sent the Dawn Hidden Village's modified ninjas forward with the giant snakes.
• Uchiha Yū held Uchiha Shisui back, intending to test the White Snake Sage's resistance to genjutsu before using their one opening.
• Gamabunta confronted the White Snake Sage, while Iwasuku the Great Toad appeared and swallowed two giant snakes.
• Iwasuku the Great Toad and the White Snake Sage collided in a battle that shook Mount Myōboku, and the White Snake Sage wounded it with natural-energy-infused poison.

Uchiha Yū joined the battle at Mount Myōboku and fought Jiraiya, who suspected him of secretly working with Minato Namikaze. Yū overwhelmed Jiraiya’s combined assault, leaving Jiraiya and the toad sages trying to hold him back from reaching the main battlefield.

• The White Snake Sage called for Uchiha Yū to join the fight, and he decided to move while still wondering whether the Great Toad Sage was truly dead.
• Jiraiya confronted Uchiha Yū and claimed he knew about Yū and Minato Namikaze, but Yū denied they had been working together and worried that Jiraiya’s suspicions could endanger Minato.
• Uchiha Yū and Jiraiya entered Sage Mode and began fighting, with Yū evading Jiraiya’s attacks and using his Mysterious Peacock Method to defend against Hair Needle Senbon.
• Jiraiya and the two toad sages combined to unleash a Toad Oil Flame Bullet, but Uchiha Yū formed an armored Susanoo from the flames and split the attack with a slash.
• Sage Fukasaku recognized Yū’s strength as comparable to Uchiha Madara’s and urged Jiraiya and the toad sages to keep Yū occupied before he reached the battlefield.

Uchiha Yū overwhelmed Jiraiya with his Susanoo and Nuclear Release, leaving him unconscious and badly injured. Sage Fukasaku stayed behind to delay Yū while Sage Shima carried Jiraiya away and Mount Myōboku’s toads withdrew.

• Jiraiya attacked Uchiha Yū with three Sage Art Ultra-Big Ball Rasengan, cracking Susanoo but failing to break through Yū’s body.
• Uchiha Yū used Nuclear Release: Mutually Multiplying Fission to destroy Jiraiya’s Rasengan and unleash a devastating explosion.
• Jiraiya abandoned his attack and tried to escape, but the blast severely injured him and left him unconscious.
• Sage Fukasaku ordered Sage Shima to take Jiraiya away and told the toads on Mount Myōboku to withdraw.
• Sage Fukasaku confronted Uchiha Yū alone, vowing to stop his plan.

Uchiha Yū betrayed the alliance with Ryūchi Cave and attacked Mount Myōboku, while Uchiha Shisui led the Dawn Hidden Village shinobi against the giant snakes. As the toads retreated, Uchiha Yū defeated Sage Fukasaku and pierced his chest with a chakra blade.

• Uchiha Yū declared that he would destroy the sages, and Uchiha Shisui ordered the Dawn Hidden Village shinobi to attack Ryūchi Cave's giant snakes.
• The White Snake Sage confronted Uchiha Yū over his betrayal, and he sent shinobi to pursue the weakened Jiraiya.
• Uchiha Shisui held off the White Snake Sage while Gamabunta escorted a group of toads away from the battlefield.
• Sage Fukasaku attacked Uchiha Yū with Water Slash and a sound-based genjutsu, but Uchiha Yū's radioactive energy weakened him.
• Uchiha Yū recovered from the genjutsu and drove his chakra blade through Sage Fukasaku's chest.

Uchiha Yū killed Sage Fukasaku and joined Uchiha Shisui in confronting the White Snake Sage, rejecting her offer to honor their alliance. After the White Snake Sage revealed her petrification powers and attacked with poison, Uchiha Yū broke her scales with a powerful punch and brought her crashing to the ground.

• Uchiha Yū killed Sage Fukasaku and sealed his corpse in a scroll.
• Uchiha Yū rescued Uchiha Shisui from the White Snake Sage, who had resisted Shisui's genjutsu.
• The White Snake Sage offered not to interfere in the ninja world, but Uchiha Yū rejected her and declared that it belonged to ninjas.
• The White Snake Sage used petrifying energy against Uchiha Yū, but his life force and chakra armor resisted it.
• The White Snake Sage expanded her body and released poisonous mist, which Uchiha Yū tore apart with his Dragon Flame Song Technique.
• Uchiha Yū struck the White Snake Sage with Monstrous Strength Fist, cracking her scales and slamming her to the ground.

Uchiha Yū and Uchiha Shisui fought White Snake Sage, using genjutsu and Susanoo to isolate and wound her. White Snake Sage survived Uchiha Yū’s Atomic Fission, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Uchiha Shisui controlled the Three Divine Princesses with genjutsu and turned them against White Snake Sage.
• White Snake Sage turned the Three Divine Princesses to stone, while Uchiha Yū warned Uchiha Shisui to withdraw and control nearby snakes from a distance.
• Uchiha Yū formed Susanoo and restrained White Snake Sage after she lunged at him.
• Uchiha Yū poisoned White Snake Sage with Radiation Element through her exposed mouth, then struck her with Nuclear Release: Atomic Fission.
• White Snake Sage survived the attack but suffered extensive wounds, and Uchiha Yū realized she had endured it with her body alone.

Uchiha Yū killed the White Snake Sage and completed the invasion of the three great sacred lands, while Jiraiya escaped and remained a threat to Minato Namikaze’s plans. In Konoha, Tsunade discovered that the necklace she had given Uchiha Yū was hanging around Naruto’s neck.

• Uchiha Yū pursued and killed the weakened White Snake Sage, then prepared to exploit her powerful corpse.
• Uchiha Yū ordered Shisui to warn Minato Namikaze that Jiraiya suspected him and told Hizashi Hyuga to delay any forceful action if needed.
• Uchiha Yū evacuated his ninjas from Mount Myōboku, which had become a radioactive dead zone after the battle.
• Dawn Hidden Village’s destruction of Mount Myōboku spread fear throughout the shinobi world, while Tsunade worried about the missing Jiraiya.
• Tsunade picked up Naruto and recognized the necklace around his neck as the one she had once given Uchiha Yū.

Uchiha Yū gave Sasori the White Snake Sage’s corpse and asked him to improve the village’s factory, prompting Sasori to envision autonomous combat puppets. After Sasori left with the corpse, Obito reported that Black and White Zetsu knew the Eight-Tails’ jinchuriki and offered to lead a capture.

• Uchiha Yū gave the White Snake Sage’s corpse to Sasori and asked him to address the factory’s production bottleneck.
• Uchiha Yū proposed fully automating the factory, inspiring Sasori to consider puppets that could move and fight without direct control.
• Sasori revealed his human body and explained that he had delayed modifying it because he hoped to become stronger, then resolved to draft a plan for researching autonomous puppets.
• Sasori took the White Snake Sage’s corpse and collided with Uchiha Obito, threatening to turn him into a Human Puppet before leaving.
• Uchiha Obito told Uchiha Yū that Black and White Zetsu knew the Eight-Tails’ jinchuriki and said he knew where to find him.

Uchiha Yū arranged to monitor Black and White Zetsu and draw Killer B toward Konoha, while Minato Namikaze prepared for the possibility that Jiraiya would expose him. As Konoha’s position weakened, Tsunade accepted Black and White Zetsu’s proposal to bring Killer B into the conflict and personally persuade him to join Konoha.

• Uchiha Yū told Uchiha Obito to secretly monitor Black and White Zetsu, lure Killer B toward Konoha, and meet someone waiting in the underground laboratory.
• Minato Namikaze reviewed Hyuga Reiko’s intelligence, and Hizashi Hyuga offered to take the blame and asked Minato and Reiko to protect Neji.
• Minato Namikaze reassured Hizashi Hyuga that Jiraiya lacked evidence and promised that Hizashi’s life would be protected if the truth emerged.
• Tsunade considered the threat posed by Dawn Hidden Village and listened as Black and White Zetsu proposed using Konoha’s tailed beasts to reverse the war.
• Tsunade said she would personally persuade Killer B to join Konoha, and Black and White Zetsu recognized that their plan was nearing its final stage.

Uchiha Yū prepared Dawn Hidden Village for the final stage of the war and brought Nagato out of the underground to retrieve the Eight-Tails, knowing Nagato would die in the process and be revived afterward. He sent forces toward the battlefield and tasked Hiruko with commanding the decisive offensive against Konoha.

• Uchiha Yū mobilized Orochimaru's modified shinobi and took Konan underground to meet Nagato.
• Uchiha Yū told Nagato that the Eight-Tails was heading to Konoha and that Nagato would die while restraining it for the final retrieval plan.
• Konan helped Nagato leave the underground, while Uchiha Yū arranged secret protection to keep Black and White Zetsu from discovering his plans.
• Uchiha Yū gathered Dawn Hidden Village's powerhouses, announced that the war was nearing its end, and ordered them to restrain Killer B when the tailed beasts appeared.
• Uchiha Yū reached the frontline camp and told Hiruko to command the next offensive while he pressured Konoha ahead of the decisive battle.

As Dawn Hidden Village prepared for a final battle, Tsunade suspected Minato Namikaze of secretly cooperating with Uchiha Yū but feared exposing him would destabilize Konoha. She joined forces with the Hokage advisors and Nawaki to reclaim decision-making authority and block Minato’s orders.

• News that Hiruko had appeared on the battlefield reached Konoha’s rear, and the frontline commander sent word to the Fourth Hokage while holding a defensive position.
• Black and White Zetsu warned Tsunade that the Eight-Tails’ presence had been exposed, leading her to suspect Minato Namikaze had leaked the information.
• Tsunade told the two former Hokage advisors and Nawaki about her suspicions, and they became convinced Minato had secretly contacted Uchiha Yū after seeing the necklace and considering his unexplained absences.
• Tsunade said she would not seek Minato’s removal yet, but asked the advisors and Nawaki to help her retake a role in decision-making and block Minato’s orders.
• The advisors and Nawaki agreed to stand with Tsunade, and the four went to the Hokage’s office to discuss Konoha’s response.

As Tsunade took control of Konoha and prepared to send its tailed-beast jinchūriki to the battlefield, Minato Namikaze and Hyuga Reiko waited for Uchiha Yū to complete their plan. Uchiha Yū ordered the offensive intensified and headed to the front lines himself.

• Minato Namikaze rejected Hyuga Reiko's offer to activate their backup plan and handed authority to Tsunade, saying their mission was complete and the rest depended on Uchiha Yū.
• Tsunade learned that Dawn Hidden Village's shinobi had begun encircling Konoha and ordered Nawaki to persuade Yugito Nii to help while she took Killer B to the battlefield.
• Tsunade and Nawaki did not know that Uchiha Yū had already taken the real Yugito Nii away.
• Kakuzu urged Uchiha Yū to intensify the offensive, but Uchiha Yū ordered the forces to pressure the front lines and said they would go there themselves.
• Uchiha Yū ordered Hiruko to unleash his full strength without showing mercy.

Uchiha Yū’s forces overwhelmed Konoha and captured Killer B, while Nagato summoned the Ten-Tails onto the battlefield. Black and White Zetsu was stunned by its revival, and Nawaki demanded to know how the guarded Yugito Nii had become a White Zetsu.

• Uchiha Yū arrived at the front lines, and Dawn Hidden Village’s assault drove Konoha’s forces back.
• Tsunade sent Killer B into battle, but Uchiha Yū confronted him and revealed that he had been waiting for the Eight-Tails.
• Uchiha Yū’s modified ninja, Sasori, and a giant white snake helped restrain Killer B while Kakuzu and Hiruko blocked Tsunade.
• Nagato arrived with Konan and summoned the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, overwhelming the battlefield with the Ten-Tails’ chakra.
• Black and White Zetsu was stunned that the Ten-Tails had revived, and Nawaki confronted him over Yugito Nii’s transformation into a White Zetsu.

Uchiha Yū absorbed the Ten-Tails with Nagato’s help while their allies fought to keep Konoha’s ninja away. The mist cleared to reveal Uchiha Yū transformed, with a golden eye at his brow.

• Black and White Zetsu realized the Ten-Tails had been resurrected early and warned Nawaki to flee and preserve his strength to stop Uchiha Yū.
• The Ten-Tails bound the Eight-Tails with a chain and dragged it into its mouth, completing its recovery of the tailed beasts.
• Nagato used his remaining life force and the Rinnegan to restrain the Ten-Tails while Uchiha Yū extended Adamantine Sealing Chains and began absorbing it.
• Tsunade attacked the defenders, but Kakuzu, Hiruko, Sasori, Pakura, Kisame Hoshigaki, Uchiha Shisui, and Uchiha Obito fought to protect Uchiha Yū.
• The Ten-Tails entered Uchiha Yū as his body cracked under its power, and Nagato’s final effort left the Six Paths of Pain collapsed.
• The mist cleared to reveal Uchiha Yū with snow-white skin, golden markings, and a golden eye on his brow.

Uchiha Yū used his Six Paths power to destroy Black and White Zetsu, force Konoha to surrender the Fourth Shinobi World War, and then flew to Konoha. There, Jiraiya confronted Minato Namikaze about his ties to Uchiha Yū, and Minato admitted them.

• Uchiha Yū demonstrated his overwhelming Six Paths power and demanded that the Konoha ninja surrender or be destroyed.
• Uchiha Yū revealed that he knew about Ōtsutsuki Kaguya, then erased Black and White Zetsu and checked the area for contingencies.
• Tsunade surrendered Konoha and acknowledged Uchiha Yū's victory in the Fourth Shinobi World War.
• Uchiha Yū flew to Konoha, where Jiraiya confronted Minato Namikaze about secretly contacting Uchiha Yū.
• Minato Namikaze admitted that his relationship with Uchiha Yū was as Jiraiya suspected and insisted he had protected Konoha.

Uchiha Yū revealed that Konoha had surrendered and ordered reforms and control over Mount Myōboku, while Minato Namikaze agreed to help manage the village. After leaving Jiraiya to consult the Great Toad Sage, Uchiha Yū departed to visit old friends and prepare for the wider threats ahead.

• Jiraiya urged Minato Namikaze to keep fighting, but Minato explained that Dawn Hidden Village’s strength and resurrection research made Konoha’s defeat unavoidable.
• Uchiha Yū entered the Hokage’s office with unconscious shinobi behind him, and Jiraiya was stunned by his immense chakra and transformed appearance.
• Uchiha Yū told Jiraiya that Konoha had surrendered and required him to support Minato Namikaze and suppress resistance while reforms took hold.
• Uchiha Yū discussed reforms with Minato Namikaze, including expanding railways and communications, and ordered Jiraiya to make the toads leave Mount Myōboku for a designated area.
• Jiraiya agreed to consult the Great Toad Sage, and Uchiha Yū left the office to visit friends as his body returned to its original appearance.