Recaps

As the war between the Land of Hot Water and the Land of Frost drew the Ninja World's attention, Yayoi focused on Miyamoto Raizo, who awoke after five years in a Hibernation Pod. Raizo discovered that the experiment had restored him to the physical prime of his forties, and he was eager to test his renewed strength.

• Konoha and Yugakure formed a joint force against the Land of Frost, while the Hidden Cloud Village and Hidden Mist Village supported Frost Village and the major villages mostly watched the fighting.
• Yayoi had Komurasaki monitor the situation in the Land of Frost while he went to see Miyamoto Raizo awaken.
• Nene opened Raizo's Hibernation Pod, and Raizo emerged from his long sleep as his memories returned.
• Yayoi told Raizo that he had slept for more than five years, and Raizo examined his rejuvenated body in a mirror.
• Raizo expressed astonishment at his restored strength and wanted to test it with a sword, so Yayoi set aside his plan to give Raizo a full-body examination.

Raizo fought the Seven-Tails with renewed strength, but his body weakened when its chakra ran low. Yayoi and Nene discovered that Raizo’s ageless body constantly consumed chakra to stay active, leaving him able to fight freely only where underground chakra could replenish him.

• Raizo used his lightning-charged sword to battle the Seven-Tails until sudden weakness forced him to stop.
• Yayoi ended the test and took Raizo back to Nightview City for an examination.
• Nene explained that Raizo’s body continuously consumed chakra and would become unable to move if its supply ran out.
• Yayoi said Raizo could fight at full strength in the underground space, where chakra from the earth could replenish him, but could remain active outside for only three to five days without fighting.
• Raizo accepted the limits of his ageless body, while Yayoi retained the ability to shut down the Cursed Seal and reclaim its power.

Yayoi restricted Raizo’s movements to keep his Eternal Life secret, while Raizo asked him to consider Tamaki as a possible match for Doichi. As war between Yugakure and Frost Village intensified, Izayoi discovered that Hidden Cloud Village and Hidden Mist Village were concealing their movements and warned Konoha of a possible major attack.

• Yayoi arranged for Raizo to live secretly underground and maintain the appearance of a frail old man, then agreed to raise Raizo’s wish for Tamaki to marry Doichi.
• Yayoi considered ways to address the Cursed Seal’s constant chakra drain and concluded that the approaching war took priority.
• In mid-December, fighting between Yugakure and Frost Village continued to devastate border settlements and displace civilians.
• Hatake Shinjiro reported to Izayoi that Hidden Cloud Village and Hidden Mist Village had fortified the Land of Frost’s core regions and were difficult to track.
• Izayoi sent Shinjiro to warn Konoha to stay alert while she and the other team leaders waited for instructions from Nightview City.

Yayoi informed the Land of Night’s senior officials that war was imminent and calmed them by sharing a cup of black tea. In the Land of Water, Komurasaki investigated a Hidden Mist Village force, learned that Kumogakure and the Hidden Mist Village had allied, and discovered their forces were targeting the Land of Night’s key territories.

• Yayoi read intelligence from Izayoi and Komurasaki, then ordered Irori to summon the Military Bureau’s senior officials.
• Yayoi told the officials that war was coming, and his calm tea-drinking reassured them.
• Komurasaki attacked a Hidden Mist Village camp on an island, killed several ninja, and forced the force to prepare to depart immediately.
• Komurasaki observed that a white-haired Hidden Mist Village ninja used Ice Release and decided to send her findings to Konoha.
• Komurasaki concluded that Kumogakure and the Hidden Mist Village had allied and were moving forces toward the Land of Frost and the Land of Night’s northern mining base.

Kumogakure’s commanders prepared an island-chain staging base for an invasion of the Land of Night and planned to seize a northern border garrison. Yugito and Tazbi agreed to lead the assault, confident that their power as Jinchūriki would secure a foothold for Kumogakure’s coming raids.

• Kumogakure ninja built a fortified supply and command base across an archipelago in the sea between the Land of Night and the Land of Lightning.
• The black-haired commander told the Jonin that the base would be finished soon and would support an advance into the Land of Night.
• Kumogakure’s commanders discussed attacking the Land of Night and plundering its resources, confident that their roughly fifteen hundred elite ninja would prevail.
• The black-haired commander ordered Yugito and Tazbi to lead an elite squad in capturing a northern border garrison two days later.
• Yugito claimed the Seven-Tails Jinchūriki for himself if the Land of Night deployed them, and Tazbi agreed to the plan.

Yotsuki Kōmon and the Hidden Cloud commanders plotted to use a fabricated missing-ninja story as an excuse to attack the Land of Night. Yayoi, Kicho, Irori, and Yaya then arrived at their island command base on Tsuchigumo, and Yayoi demanded that Hidden Cloud return a missing Land of Night ninja.

• A Hidden Cloud Jonin suggested claiming that one of their ninjas had gone missing in the Land of Night as a pretext for war, and Kōmon prepared to end the meeting.
• A huge blast shook the command center, and the Hidden Cloud commanders rushed outside amid alarms and cries from injured ninja.
• Kōmon and the commanders saw Tsuchigumo, summoned by Yayoi, crushing the base, with Yayoi, Kicho, Irori, and Yaya atop its head.
• Kōmon recognized the Land of Night's leaders and tried to question Yayoi while seeking grounds for a counterattack.
• Yayoi dismissed Kōmon's probing and demanded that Hidden Cloud hand over the Land of Night ninja who had disappeared while patrolling two days earlier.

Yayoi and his allies fought Kōmon’s Hidden Cloud forces, with Irori freezing their attacks and Yaya and Kicho shattering the ice that trapped the commanders. Yayoi absorbed Tazbi’s Tailed-Beast Bomb to protect the archipelago, intending to use it as a forward base against the Land of Lightning.

• Kōmon ordered the Hidden Cloud ninja to attack Tsuchigumo with combined Water and Lightning Release techniques, but Irori froze the assault into towering icebergs.
• Tsuchigumo leaped over the ice and landed among the Hidden Cloud ninja, while Kōmon, Yugito, Tazbi, and a young lightning-wielding ninja charged toward Yayoi’s group.
• Irori froze the four advancing ninja in a massive block of ice, which fell with Tsuchigumo and devastated the Hidden Cloud defenses and nearby base facilities.
• Yaya and Kicho shattered the iceberg and blasted Kōmon’s group back, while Irori unleashed a barrage of ice weapons from above.
• Tazbi formed and fired a Tailed-Beast Bomb, but Yayoi’s Netherworld Orb swallowed it and contained its chakra.
• Yayoi said he had intercepted the bomb to protect the archipelago, which he planned to use as a forward base against the Land of Lightning.

Yayoi and his allies overwhelmed the Hidden Cloud Village vanguard, forcing Kōmon to order a retreat. After claiming the surviving supplies, Yayoi chose to press into the Land of Lightning before its forces could regroup.

• Yaya struck Tazbi and drove him out over the sea while Irori's ice weapons kept Yugito pinned down.
• Kicho used her Byakugan Chakra Mode and Kumokiri to wound A, disrupting the Chakra flow through his right arm and sending him crashing into the sea.
• Tsuchigumo chased Kōmon through the storm as Yayoi helped prevent the Hidden Cloud Village ninja from supporting one another.
• Kōmon fired a retreat signal, and Yugito, Tazbi, A, and the other Hidden Cloud Village ninja withdrew toward the Land of Lightning.
• Yayoi regrouped with Kicho, Yaya, and Irori, noted that most of the supplies remained intact, and decided to continue the advance into the Land of Lightning.

After Yayoi’s battle with the Hidden Cloud Village, Uchiha Hokuto’s force secured the devastated archipelago and began recovering bodies, prisoners, and supplies. Doichi struggled with the horrors of the battlefield as he learned what war meant firsthand.

• Doichi arrived at the battlefield and saw wrecked ships, frozen islands, corpses, and wounded Hidden Cloud Village ninja.
• Uchiha Hokuto assigned his companies to recover bodies and wounded, salvage supplies, and fortify the area.
• Uchiha Kazuya tasked Squad Seven with collecting intact corpses under Shiraishi Aotori’s direction.
• A wounded Hidden Cloud Village ninja attacked a samurai with a kunai and was killed, while the other prisoners accepted their capture.
• Doichi found bloodied fingers and bones among the corpses and fought nausea as he confronted the reality of war.

The Land of Night and Konoha struggled to hold the Land of Hot Water front against the Hidden Cloud and Hidden Mist allied forces, while Izayoi fought a separate covert battle. Kakuzu ended the commanders’ meeting planning to coordinate an advance with Konoha, even as Tobirama’s use of Impure World Reincarnation unnerved allies and enemies alike.

• Tobirama Senju took command of Konoha’s forces and joined the battle against the Hidden Cloud, Hidden Mist, and Frost villages.
• Kakuzu and Yuroketsu discussed the heavy fighting, their losses, and their mission to defend the Land of Hot Water rather than defeat the enemy outright.
• Yuroketsu reported that Izayoi’s Special Assault Department was occupied fighting a Hidden Cloud ninja with Storm Release.
• The commanders recalled Tobirama using Impure World Reincarnation to make dead enemy ninjas attack and repeatedly detonate among their former allies.
• Kakuzu ended the meeting and planned to discuss an advance with Konoha to reduce pressure on Yayoi’s forces.

Yotsuki Kōmon and the remnants of Hidden Cloud Village’s vanguard faced Yayoi’s exhausted forces after three days of relentless pursuit. Just as Yayoi’s Netherworld Orb nearly captured Yugito, reinforcements arrived, prompting Yayoi to withdraw.

• Yotsuki Kōmon realized Yayoi had pursued the retreating Hidden Cloud forces for three days, reducing the vanguard of fifteen hundred to fewer than three hundred fighters.
• Kōmon ordered the survivors to stand their ground, and A, Yugito, and Tazbi joined him as Tsuchigumo charged.
• Tazbi and Yugito blocked Tsuchigumo’s charge, while Yayoi launched the Netherworld Orb at them.
• Yugito’s injuries slowed his escape, and the Netherworld Orb swallowed one of his arms before Hidden Cloud ninja pulled him free with Water Release: Water Dragon Whip.
• More than two thousand Hidden Cloud reinforcements arrived, and Yayoi ordered his group to retreat on Tsuchigumo, which left behind a gigantic pit.

Yayoi organized the Land of Night’s occupation of Maple City while Komurasaki began the planned attack on the Hidden Cloud Village camp. Using Dreamwalker Jutsu, she unleashed the Two-Tails, leaving it rampaging near the camp.

• Yayoi oversaw the repair and defense of Maple City as the Land of Night’s forces gathered resources and waited for delayed reinforcements.
• Irori told Yayoi that the Third and Fourth Divisions would arrive the day after tomorrow because of a storm at sea, and that Komurasaki had begun her mission.
• Hidden Cloud Village seal specialists failed to remove the sealing formulae on Yugito’s right arm but expected them to wear off by the following afternoon.
• Komurasaki found Yayoi’s signal outside the Hidden Cloud Village camp and used Dreamwalker Jutsu to send a purple phantom toward it.
• Komurasaki’s technique summoned the Two-Tails, which erupted into a massive, roaring beast as she urged it to cause chaos.

Komurasaki’s interference with Yugito’s seal triggered the Two-Tails’ rampage, and Yotsuki Kōmon led the Hidden Cloud ninja in trying to contain it. As the Two-Tails’ attacks devastated the camp, Komurasaki was discovered and repelled an ambush with a powerful chakra-fueled gust.

• The Two-Tails emerged in a rampage, and Yotsuki Kōmon ordered the Hidden Cloud ninja to evacuate weaker fighters and investigate a purple light from the west.
• Kōmon and the Jonin used coordinated Lightning, Water, and Earth Release techniques to blind, restrain, and attack the Two-Tails.
• The Two-Tails broke free, crushed two ninja, and unleashed a sweeping barrage of fireballs that set the forest and camp ablaze.
• A fireball struck near Komurasaki, who dodged it and realized her Dreamwalker Jutsu had triggered the rampage without giving her precise control.
• Hidden Cloud ninja surrounded Komurasaki and attacked with shuriken and kunai, but she blew them back with a chakra-powered gale, killing or injuring many.

Komurasaki fought off the Hidden Cloud Village ninja until A arrived and wounded her with Four-Finger Nukite, but her body rapidly healed and she escaped. Back at the ruined camp, Kōmon ordered a withdrawal and then collapsed from exhaustion.

• Komurasaki resisted the Hidden Cloud Village Jonin's blade and used her speed and powerful kicks to overwhelm the surrounding ninja.
• A arrived and struck Komurasaki with Four-Finger Nukite, piercing her shoulder, but her wound healed as blue chakra flames revealed her inhuman body.
• Komurasaki judged that the Two-Tails' rampage had reached its limit and escaped after A tried to stop her.
• A returned to the devastated camp, told Kōmon that the attackers were from the Land of Night, and followed Kōmon's order to prepare a retreat.
• Kōmon concluded that the Land of Night general had exploited their exhaustion and the Two-Tails' rampage, then collapsed unconscious.

Kakuzu led his forces through a brutal battle, where he was challenged by Kaguya Seishiro, while Kinkaku and Ginkaku pursued Senju Tobirama. The brothers’ rage intensified as Tobirama’s Impure World Reincarnation forced their dead comrades to attack them.

• Kakuzu’s four elemental creatures combined their attacks to devastate Cloud and Kirigakure forces.
• Kakuzu charged into the enemy ranks and fought off shinobi until Kaguya Seishiro confronted him.
• Kaguya Seishiro identified himself as a Kaguya Clan shinobi with Shikotsumyaku, and he and Kakuzu began fighting.
• Kinkaku and Ginkaku pursued Senju Tobirama while Cloud shinobi repeatedly attacked them with suicidal explosions.
• The brothers recognized the attacking Cloud shinobi as their dead comrades, who had been revived by Tobirama’s Impure World Reincarnation Jutsu, and their Nine-Tails Chakra grew more violent.

Kakuzu and Yuroketsu assessed the difficult war against Kumogakure and Hidden Mist Village as Konoha faced attacks from Hidden Sand Village and new uncertainty over Iwagakure. The chapter ended with Yayoi’s army deep in the Land of Lightning, plundering occupied territory while continuing to advance.

• Kakuzu and Yuroketsu returned from fighting the Second Raikage and discussed their strained position, Kumogakure’s internal divisions, and the threat posed by Kinkaku and Ginkaku.
• Yuroketsu reported that Hidden Sand Village had attacked the Land of Fire, forcing Konoha to divert reinforcements from the front against Kumogakure and Hidden Mist Village.
• Tobirama and Konoha’s Jonin discussed a counteroffensive before an Anbu ninja reported that about one thousand Iwagakure ninja were active in the Land of Grass.
• Tobirama explained that General Oda had warned him Iwagakure would hold combat exercises in the Land of Grass, and said he had stationed forces in the northwest as a precaution.
• Yayoi’s three-thousand-strong army captured territory in the Land of Lightning, seized resources, dismantled local administration, and gathered supplies for the Land of Night.

Yayoi used the winter weather and a network of chakra-powered puppet forces to secure the Land of Lightning while monitoring the difficult allied campaign against the Hidden Cloud Village. After reading Tobirama's request for Explosive Tags and complaints about Sunagakure's puppet attacks, Yayoi weighed how much aid Konoha needed and concluded that the Hidden Cloud Village's forces might be divided.

• Yayoi accelerated the Land of Night's sweep through the Land of Lightning, taking advantage of the winter conditions that favored its samurai.
• Yayoi converted Maple City into an operational center and used chakra extracted from Hidden Cloud prisoners to control fifteen hundred Mass-Produced Ghost Puppets across the surrounding region.
• Yayoi reviewed reports that the allied forces were struggling against the Hidden Cloud Village in the Hot Water and Frost Countries, while Konoha also faced attacks from the Hidden Sand Village in the Land of Rain and the Land of Rivers.
• A Special Assault Department messenger delivered Tobirama's scroll, which greeted Yayoi, requested a large supply of Explosive Tags, and complained about Sunagakure's self-destructing puppets that had killed Konoha ninja.
• Yayoi dismissed Tobirama's blame over the puppet attacks and considered how many Explosive Tags the Land of Night could spare for Konoha.
• Yayoi inferred that the Hidden Cloud Village's war faction could not fully unite and considered making bolder moves in the Land of Lightning.

Yotsuki Kōmon’s officers assessed the Land of Night’s forces and planned further reconnaissance, while Izayoi received Konoha reinforcements led by Sarutobi Hiruzen. After several days of preparation, Izayoi’s team set out to stop Hidden Cloud and Hidden Mist Anbu from attacking another supply line, but a Storm Release ninja blocked their route.

• Hidden Cloud jonin reported that more than two thousand Land of Night troops had entered the Land of Lightning and discussed Komurasaki’s abilities and the growing numbers of Puppet Samurai.
• Yotsuki Kōmon urged the scouting squads to search for chakra convergence points that might control the puppets remotely.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen, Shimura Danzō, and Kagami Uchiha arrived to support Izayoi’s Special Assault Department, and Izayoi assigned them to Hatake Shinjiro’s squad.
• After several days of training, Izayoi led a team of eleven jonin to stop Hidden Cloud and Hidden Mist Anbu from further damaging a supply line.
• A Storm Release ninja and more than a dozen Hidden Cloud Anbu ambushed Izayoi’s team, and Izayoi’s Earth and Water Release barriers weakened the incoming blue rays before the team evaded them.

Izayoi and the others attacked Kapui’s Hidden Cloud Anbu, while Izayoi fought Kapui through the steam and Smoke. Kapui unleashed a close-range Storm Release attack, but the chapter ended with Izayoi protected by a square crimson barrier.

• Hatake Shinjiro warned Hiruzen and the others not to underestimate Kapui and assigned them opponents while Izayoi engaged him.
• Izayoi opened the battle with Great Fire Annihilation, and Kapui’s Anbu countered it with Water Release before both sides charged through the steam and Smoke.
• Izayoi and Kapui exchanged sword strikes, with her Sharingan and Wind Release helping her withstand his attacks.
• Kapui retreated and fired Laser Circus, but Izayoi read the beams’ paths and dodged them as they exploded around her.
• Kapui unleashed Thunderclap Flash at close range, and the blast struck Izayoi before its dust cleared to reveal a square crimson barrier in front of her.

Izayoi’s forces drove back the Hidden Cloud Anbu, while the wider war continued to devastate smaller countries and fuel the Land of Night’s resource seizure in the Land of Lightning. Doichi patrolled the sea with his newly assembled team, and the chapter ended by hinting that a well-connected noblewoman had arranged Uchiha Megumi’s assignment.

• Izayoi blocked Kapui’s Storm Release attack with the Uchiha Flame Formation, and Konoha reinforcements joined her as the Hidden Cloud Anbu regrouped.
• Kapui withdrew with the surviving Hidden Cloud Anbu, and Izayoi ordered her allies to pursue them.
• The chapter described the stalled front-line battles, the assassination of Amegakure’s leader, and the great villages’ continued exploitation of smaller countries.
• The Land of Night reinforced its captured island base and shipped resources from the Land of Lightning back home.
• Doichi, newly promoted to Jonin, patrolled the sea with Mifune, Shiraishi Aotori, Uchiha Megumi, and Aburame Jūjirō.
• The chapter revealed that a well-connected noblewoman from the Land of Night had arranged Uchiha Megumi’s assignment.

Doichi’s patrol squad encountered a Hidden Cloud force led by A, and Doichi’s devastating Gentle Fist attacks reduced the enemy ranks before he met A head-on. The chapter ended with both fighters injured after their techniques collided and began destroying the island.

• Doichi led Mifune, Aburame Jūjirō, Shiraishi Aotori, and Uchiha Megumi farther north on patrol and detected a Hidden Cloud squad nearby.
• Doichi’s squad reached an island and found four enemies charging through its forest, including a sensory ninja.
• Doichi unleashed Gentle Fist: Eight Trigrams Sixty-Four Divine Air Echoes, destroying the forest and leaving six Hidden Cloud ninja standing.
• A revealed himself as the enemy leader, activated Lightning Release Chakra Mode, and charged Doichi with a finger-thrust attack.
• Doichi met A’s attack with Gentle Fist: Sky-Rending Divine Light Cannon, and their collision shattered the island and left both men bleeding and badly shaken.

Doichi drove off 'A' after their clash left both unable to secure a decisive victory. As Doichi’s team resumed its patrol, he explained how he had developed the unfinished Sky-Rending Divine Light Cannon and vowed to perfect it for their next encounter.

• Doichi and 'A' exchanged powerful attacks, leaving 'A' with chakra-disrupting injuries and Doichi’s right arm numb.
• 'A' abandoned the fight and retreated with the Hidden Cloud Village ninja, promising to settle the score another time.
• Shiraishi Aotori treated Doichi’s arm, and Mifune and the others discussed the strength of the next Third Raikage.
• Doichi said he would perfect the Sky-Rending Divine Light Cannon and defeat 'A' in their next battle.
• As Doichi led the team onward, he explained that the technique grew from an unfinished Ninjutsu in Yayoi’s collection and inspiration from Uncle Seven-Tails’s Tailed-Beast Bomb.

A returned to the Hidden Cloud Village camp and told Tazbi that Oda Doichi, the Land of Night general’s young heir, had fought him alone and injured him with Gentle Fist. Tazbi questioned whether Hidden Cloud Village could win the war, and A admitted he did not know.

• A reflected on how the Hyuga Clan’s Variant Gentle Fist had overcome his Lightning Release Chakra Mode and resolved to improve his Hell Stab and internal defenses.
• A met the injured Tazbi, who said Yaya had wounded him while he scouted the Land of Night’s forces.
• A told Tazbi that he had encountered a hidden expert during his mission.
• A identified the expert as Oda Doichi, the Land of Night general’s eldest legitimate son and heir.
• A said Doichi had fought him alone, blocked his Lightning Release assault, and injured him with Gentle Fist.
• Tazbi asked whether Hidden Cloud Village would win the war, and A replied that he did not know.

Aoi and Rinko maintained the General's Residence while Yayoi and Irori were away, weighing whether to send reinforcements to the Land of Hot Water front. Meanwhile, the war settled into a stalemate, and Kumogakure struggled against the Land of Night's fortified forces and effective guerrilla units.

• Aoi and Rinko finished their government work and discussed the pressure on the Land of Hot Water front, deciding not to send help without an explicit request.
• Small countries secretly supported the Land of Night after Kumogakure retreated into the Land of Lightning and began its campaign there.
• Yotsuki Kōmon and Kumogakure's other leaders hesitated to counterattack because they lacked accurate intelligence about the Land of Night's forces.
• Kumogakure discovered that its small guerrilla units gained almost no advantage against the Land of Night's ninja and samurai.

Hidden Cloud Village's leaders discussed the Land of Night's forbidden drugs, Komurasaki's attacks, and Yayoi's ability to heal wounded fighters, while A warned that their losses were becoming dangerous. Yayoi suspected Hidden Cloud was hiding its intentions and decided to bring Chōmei to the front as he continued preparing for a decisive strike.

• Hidden Cloud jonin argued that the Land of Night used forbidden drugs and Komurasaki's invisible assaults to inflict heavy losses on their squads.
• A warned the conference that the Land of Night's casualty rate was low because Yayoi could heal gravely wounded fighters and return them to battle.
• A Hidden Cloud jonin proposed an idea for countering the Land of Night, though the chapter did not reveal his plan.
• Yayoi studied reports showing Hidden Cloud had maintained its guerrilla tactics despite its casualties and considered whether it was preparing to counterattack or withdraw.
• Yayoi decided to bring Chōmei to the front and continued keeping forces in reserve to guard against possible betrayal by allied villages.