Recaps

Uchiha Yū secured forbidden underworld techniques, helped Ryūchi Cave defeat Katsuyu, and revealed himself as Dawn Hidden Village’s leader. As Konoha faced growing pressure, Yū set a trap around Jiraiya’s imprisonment while Orochimaru confronted his former friend.

• Uchiha Yū and Minato Namikaze obtained forbidden techniques from Haze Hidden Village’s stone wall, and Yū sent the wall to Dawn Hidden Village for containment.
• Orochimaru and Muichiro Tokito studied underworld creatures and chakra tools while Uchiha Yū discussed his plans for the war and warned that it would not end easily.
• Uchiha Yū negotiated Ryūchi Cave’s support and led its forces and Orochimaru’s black behemoths against Shikkotsu Forest, where he destroyed Katsuyu and claimed the forest for Tagorihime.
• Tsunade realized Katsuyu’s destruction had crippled Konoha’s healing, while Minato Namikaze and Nawaki discovered that Uchiha Yū’s grave held a White Zetsu substitute.
• Uchiha Yū shattered his mask, revealed himself as Dawn Hidden Village’s leader, and declared his intent to bring nightmares to Konoha.
• Uchiha Yū directed his forces toward Iwagakure and planned a trap involving Kirigakure, while Tsunade considered Black and White Zetsu’s offer to help Konoha.
• Uchiha Yū arranged a false execution notice for Jiraiya, drawing Konoha into a rescue plan as Yū prepared to meet the rescue force.
• Orochimaru visited the imprisoned Jiraiya, who accused him of betraying Konoha, and Orochimaru replied that he was cooperating with a partner Jiraiya knew.

Uchiha Yū defeated Iwagakure’s resistance and secured Minato Namikaze’s secret cooperation while consolidating his control over the war. He revived Kushina, reunited her with Minato, and took Naruto and the Nine-Tails under his protection as he pursued his plan to end resistance across the ninja world.

• Uchiha Yū used Jiraiya as bait to draw Minato Namikaze and Konoha’s forces into a battle at sea, where his attacks devastated Iwagakure and he secretly persuaded Minato to cooperate.
• Minato Namikaze rescued Jiraiya but failed to save the Third Hokage, then shifted Konoha’s defenses and entrusted new duties to Nawaki and Hyuga Reiko.
• Uchiha Yū forced Ōnoki to retire and installed Deidara as the next Tsuchikage, then learned that Itachi Uchiha’s illness could not be cured by medical ninjutsu.
• Uchiha Yū and Orochimaru explored the Netherworld Gate as Konoha retreated, while Uchiha Yū ordered his forces to consolidate territory and gradually encircle Konoha.
• Jiraiya reported a prophecy about a traitor in Konoha’s upper ranks, and Minato Namikaze concealed his secret contact with Uchiha Yū.
• Uchiha Yū tested Life Transfer Reincarnation successfully, then used the technique and Izanagi to revive Kushina.
• Minato Namikaze met Kushina and Naruto at the border, and Uchiha Yū strengthened the seal on Naruto’s Nine-Tails before telling him about his birth and promising to remove the beast without pain.
• Minato Namikaze allowed Uchiha Yū to take Naruto and the Nine-Tails, and Uchiha Yū revealed that the supposed Yugito Nii was a White Zetsu impostor.

Uchiha Yū killed the Great Toad Sage and White Snake Sage, then used Nagato and the Ten-Tails to defeat Konoha and end the war. Konoha surrendered, Minato admitted his secret ties to Yū, and Yū began planning reforms while demanding Jiraiya’s cooperation.

• Uchiha Yū removed the Nine-Tails from Naruto and returned it to the Ten-Tails, whose revival worsened Nagato’s failing condition.
• Uchiha Yū contaminated Mount Myōboku, killed the Great Toad Sage, and defeated Jiraiya and the toad sages before attacking the White Snake Sage.
• Uchiha Yū killed the White Snake Sage, evacuated his forces from the radioactive Mount Myōboku, and gave her corpse to Sasori for factory research.
• Uchiha Yū and Minato Namikaze maneuvered Konoha and Killer B toward the final battle while Tsunade grew suspicious of Minato and organized opposition to his orders.
• Uchiha Yū’s forces overwhelmed Konoha’s front lines, and Nagato summoned the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path to recover the Eight-Tails.
• Nagato restrained the Ten-Tails as Uchiha Yū absorbed it, transforming into a Six Paths figure while Konoha’s defenders failed to stop them.
• Uchiha Yū erased Black and White Zetsu, and Tsunade surrendered Konoha as the winner of the Fourth Shinobi World War.
• Uchiha Yū confronted Jiraiya and Minato in the Hokage’s office, demanded their support for his rule and reforms, and ordered Jiraiya to relocate the toads from Mount Myōboku.

After conquering Konoha, Uchiha Yū unified the villages and prepared them for an approaching Ōtsutsuki threat. He obtained the Tenseigan, awakened new powers, revived Hashirama and Uchiha Madara, and ended the stretch by heading to the Uchiha shrine with Shisui and Itachi to search for hidden Hashirama cells.

• Uchiha Yū told the Hyuga Clan that Konoha had been defeated, then apologized to Anko Mitarashi for leaving and explained why he had started the war.
• Uchiha Yū convened the Kage, warned them that the Ōtsutsuki would come, and showed them scientific ninja tools as he brought the villages under his administration.
• Uchiha Yū went to the moon, defeated its Ōtsutsuki Clan, took the Tenseigan, and brought the sleeping Ōtsutsuki Toneri back to Orochimaru.
• Uchiha Yū warned Hyuga Reiko and Nawaki of the coming threat, then used a White Zetsu to revive Hashirama Senju, who cleared the forest for a railway.
• Uchiha Yū survived Shisui and Orochimaru’s dangerous illusion, awakened his Mangekyō Sharingan, and revealed a new golden eye with the power to break down and reassemble matter.
• Uchiha Yū and Nagato revived Uchiha Madara, who challenged Uchiha Yū before agreeing to reveal the location of Hashirama’s cells.
• Uchiha Madara died after Uchiha Yū defeated him and explained that Black and White Zetsu had manipulated him to break Kaguya’s seal.
• Uchiha Yū sent Madara’s body to Orochimaru and led Shisui and Itachi to the abandoned Uchiha shrine, where Itachi said he wanted to see Sasuke.