Recaps

The Land of Night secretly supplied the Hidden Rain Village with arms, then stationed a five-hundred-strong mixed regiment in the Land of Rain under a garrison agreement. Other nations sought assurances from Doichi, while the Third A chose to keep prioritizing espionage in the Hidden Mist Village and only monitor the Land of Rain.

• After the Land of Night blamed unidentified attackers for stealing weapons bound for Yugakure, it secretly delivered the arms to the Hidden Rain Village and sent Yugakure a replacement shipment.
• Flying Kite led five hundred ninja and samurai into the Land of Rain to build a base, while Zhi Shilang and Aburame Ryoma began establishing an intelligence network.
• Konoha, Iwagakure, and the Hidden Sand Village questioned the Land of Night’s sudden garrison; Doichi told their representatives that the troops would protect civilians and would not interfere in the Land of Rain’s affairs.
• The Third A and Robui discussed whether the Land of Night’s deployment concealed a larger plan, with Robui urging closer attention to the Land of Rain.
• The Third A ordered the Hidden Cloud Village to continue its infiltration of the Hidden Mist Village while maintaining only limited surveillance of the Land of Rain.

Natsuki grew restless with her quiet duties guarding the Black Tower and asked Yayoi for permission to find something else to do. He allowed her to send out a clone while her original body remained on guard, leaving Natsuki to decide what she wanted to pursue.

• Natsuki visited the study and caught Murasame rubbing herself against the desk while Yayoi was away.
• Murasame cleaned the desk after Natsuki told her to, then Yayoi returned and drew her into his arms.
• Natsuki asked Yayoi for permission to go out and find something to do because she felt idle.
• Yayoi granted permission as long as Natsuki kept guarding the Black Tower, and suggested she use her splitting ability to send out a clone.
• After Natsuki left, Yayoi revealed that he knew why Murasame had come, and Murasame stayed with him in the study.

Konoha secretly prepared six-year-old Kushina to become the next Nine-Tails Jinchuriki, while Yayoi began his dormancy preparations at the Heavenly Dao Palace. Before losing contact with the outside world, Yayoi ordered his people to monitor the Land of Whirlpool and the Hidden Cloud Village, suspecting trouble there.

• Hiruzen, Danzo, Homura, and Koharu met in secret and discussed Kushina's arrival and her rare ability to suppress Tailed Beasts.
• Danzo warned that Kushina might be too young to master the necessary Sealing Jutsu before Mito's health failed, but Hiruzen said the village had prepared for the transfer.
• Danzo agreed to have Root guard the transfer and urged Hiruzen to keep the plans secret from the Uchiha Clan.
• The Seven-Tails arrived at the Heavenly Dao Palace to serve as a contingency source of chakra as Yayoi began dormancy.
• Yayoi told Irori and Kicho to leave Kushina alone and have Doichi monitor the Land of Whirlpool, especially the Hidden Cloud Village.
• Yayoi closed his eyes in the cultivation chamber, leaving Irori and Kicho to manage the Heavenly Dao Palace and maintain contact with Nightview City.

A police team raided an abandoned factory and arrested a cloaked dealer, his accomplices, and a young man involved in a prohibited-drug transaction. Back at the Police Department Building, they found Natsuki Nagatsuki delivering a huge chain of criminals, reinforcing the suspicion that she was another General's Choice.

• A Land of Night police team disrupted a deal in an abandoned factory with a smoke pellet and captured the cloaked dealer and his associates.
• The officers discovered that the dealer's case contained highly addictive prohibited substances and ordered the evidence and prisoners taken to the Police Department Building.
• The team arrived to find a nearly hundred-meter line of criminals being escorted to the Detention Center.
• The officers recognized Natsuki Nagatsuki, who had arrested the criminals and risen to deputy director in half a year, and the captain suspected she was another General's Choice.

The Third Raikage learned that the Third Mizukage had captured several Hidden Cloud intelligence operatives and sent Anbu to negotiate their return. The Mizukage proposed a joint attack on the Uzumaki Clan, and the Third Raikage agreed, hoping to seize its sealing techniques before the Land of Night and Konoha could respond.

• The Third Raikage discovered that the Third Mizukage had captured senior Hidden Cloud operatives, while Robui warned that Kirigakure might extract their secrets.
• The Third Raikage sent a Hidden Cloud Anbu Squad to Kirigakure with a letter offering to negotiate the operatives’ release.
• The Third Mizukage replied that the operatives had not yet been interrogated and invited the Hidden Cloud to attack the Uzumaki Clan and take its sealing jutsu.
• Robui speculated that the Third Mizukage wanted an external conflict to ease tensions with Senior Advisor Genji.
• The Third Raikage and Robui agreed to the alliance, hoping to seize the Uzumaki Clan’s techniques and find suitable jinchūriki before Konoha and the Land of Night could intervene.

The Third Raikage secured most of his council’s approval to join the Hidden Mist Village in attacking the Uzumaki Clan, despite Yotsuki Kōmon warning that the Land of Night could make the plan spiral into war. In Uzushiogakure, explosions and strange white creatures ambushed the Land of Night’s embassy guards, leaving them under attack before they could call for help.

• The Third Raikage summoned two advisors and four elders in secret to discuss attacking the Uzumaki Clan alongside the Hidden Mist Village.
• Yotsuki Kōmon opposed the plan, citing the Hidden Cloud Village’s previous defeat by the Land of Night, but most of the council voted in favor.
• The Third Raikage ordered Robui to send an Anbu squad to the Hidden Mist Village and gave it one week to act.
• The chapter described Uzushiogakure as a peaceful, industrialized village closely connected to the Land of Night and Konoha.
• Land of Night embassy guards discussed their upcoming rotation and complained about Uzushiogakure’s quiet life.
• Several buildings exploded, and white creatures emerged from the floor and the guards’ bodies, trapping them and draining their chakra.

A Wood Release captain rescued four Land of Night personnel from white creatures at the Uzushiogakure Embassy, while the Uzumaki Clan struggled against an assault by the Hidden Cloud Village and Hidden Mist Village. After learning the village was under attack and the Embassy could not be reached, Doichi and Rikuo set out to aid it as the Military Bureau prepared for war.

• The Wood Release captain used vines and trees to kill or restrain the white creatures, saving four Land of Night ninja and samurai and discovering that the creatures absorbed chakra.
• The captain refused to lead his group into Uzushiogakure’s battle, choosing instead to secure the prisoners and repair communications so they could contact home.
• Rikuo told Doichi that the jump device near Uzushiogakure had been damaged and that contact with the Embassy had failed.
• Oda (Uchiha) Megumi showed Doichi an encrypted message from the Heavenly Dao Palace confirming that the Hidden Cloud Village and Hidden Mist Village were attacking Uzushiogakure.
• Doichi and Rikuo used a mark ten kilometers from Uzushiogakure to head toward the battlefield, while Chihiro and Megumi began mobilizing the Military Bureau for war.

Irori and Kicho learned that the Hidden Mist Village and Hidden Cloud Village had attacked the Uzumaki Clan, and Irori prepared a counterattack in the Land of Lightning. Madara learned that the Land of Night’s reinforcements had arrived, but he focused on moving Nagato toward the Land of Rain so he could eventually implant the Rinnegan in him.

• Kicho and Irori discussed the invasion of the Uzumaki Clan and agreed that the Land of Night had to retaliate to protect its allies.
• Irori left to prepare a counterattack in the Land of Lightning, while Kicho went to check on Hisana and Oboro.
• White Zetsu reported to Madara that Nagato and his mother were being moved toward the Land of Rain, but the Land of Night’s reinforcements had not been stopped.
• Madara ordered White Zetsu to watch the battle in Uzushiogakure and send the others to protect Nagato, while leaving the Third Mizukage alone.
• Madara revealed that he planned to implant his Rinnegan in Nagato once the boy reached the Land of Rain.

Uzushiogakure was devastated as the Hidden Mist and Hidden Cloud forces hunted the Uzumaki Clan, and an elderly Uzumaki sealed himself and nearby Kirigakure Ninja in a desperate final attack. As the Third Mizukage pursued the fleeing survivors, an unknown attacker struck him, killed two Anbu captains, and escaped with four Uzumaki children.

• Floods and fighting destroyed Uzushiogakure, killing civilians and ninja from both sides.
• An elderly Uzumaki used a sealing jutsu to trap nearby Kirigakure Ninja, then sank beneath the flood and died.
• The Third Mizukage rebuked his troops, took stock of their losses and captured Uzumaki children, then ordered a pursuit north.
• A fast-moving attacker appeared and punched the Third Mizukage into the flood.
• The attacker killed two Anbu captains and vanished with four red-haired Uzumaki children.

Rikuo arrived to rescue the Uzumaki Clan hostages and overwhelmed the Third Mizukage with Flying Thunder God and Susanoo, forcing him to sacrifice an arm. The Third Raikage and Oda Doichi joined the battlefield, leaving the Third Mizukage and Third Raikage facing Rikuo and his allies.

• Rikuo killed two Kirigakure Anbu squad captains, rescued the Uzumaki Clan hostages, and marked the Third Mizukage with a cursed seal.
• The Third Mizukage lost his left arm escaping Rikuo’s explosive Susanoo attack, which also killed the Kirigakure Ninja who had approached to treat him.
• Rikuo revealed Susanoo wielding two chakra swords and three rotating chakra spheres, while the wounded Third Mizukage considered retreating.
• The Third Raikage crashed down beside the Third Mizukage after being thrown by Oda Doichi, and the two Kage silently took stock of each other’s condition.
• Oda Doichi arrived carrying two dead Hidden Cloud Anbu Jonin, and the Third Mizukage asked the Third Raikage to join forces against Rikuo and his allies.

Rikuo and Doichi fought the Third Raikage and Third Mizukage on the water, revealing the speed and power of their techniques. After Doichi repelled the Raikage's Two-Finger Nukite, the Raikage charged again with his strongest move, the One-Finger Nukite.

• The Third Raikage recognized Rikuo's Flying Thunder God Technique and decided to avoid direct contact while keeping his distance.
• Rikuo charged with his Susanoo at unexpected speed, and the Third Mizukage raised Water Formation Walls as he and the Raikage retreated from the waves.
• Doichi leaped at the Third Mizukage, shattered his Water Dragon Bullet Technique, and faced the Third Raikage's Two-Finger Nukite.
• Doichi used an invisible force to slow the Raikage, then expelled dense chakra in an explosive burst that sent him flying backward.
• The Third Raikage powered up his Lightning Release Armor, formed the One-Finger Nukite, and charged Doichi to test whose Nintaijutsu was stronger.

Doichi and the Third Raikage clashed while Rikuo fought the Third Mizukage, who tried to stall and escape. After the Third Raikage fled and Rikuo seriously injured the Mizukage, Doichi summoned Tsuchigumo to pursue the fleeing Cloud ninja, and the Raikage recognized the giant spider closing in.

• Doichi and the Third Raikage unleashed a massive clash that sent waves and winds battering the battlefield while Rikuo attacked the Third Mizukage with Susanoo.
• Rikuo drove the Third Mizukage back with spinning chakra spheres and Susanoo's swords, but the Mizukage avoided fighting head-on and claimed he was ready to use his full strength.
• The Third Raikage pretended to prepare an ultimate attack, then fled backward, leaving the Third Mizukage exposed to Rikuo's surprise strike, which seriously injured him.
• Doichi pursued the Third Raikage with Tsuchigumo after summoning the giant spider and pointing out the fleeing ninja's direction.
• The Third Raikage escaped with Hidden Cloud Village ninja, stolen Uzumaki scrolls, and three Uzumaki hostages, then saw Doichi and Tsuchigumo rapidly approaching.

Rikuo battled the Third Mizukage, who revealed his Boil Release kekkei genkai and trapped Susanoo inside a corrosive steam barrier. As the Third Mizukage tried to escape, a sudden beastly roar interrupted him.

• Rikuo recognized the Third Mizukage's Boil Release and realized he had hidden the kekkei genkai until then.
• The Third Mizukage unleashed Boil Release: Boiling Steam Dragon, but Rikuo charged Susanoo straight into it and kept repairing the dissolving armor with chakra.
• The Third Mizukage followed with Boil Release: Steam Cage, enclosing Rikuo and Susanoo in a sphere of concentrated corrosive steam.
• Believing the barrier would buy him time to flee, the Third Mizukage turned to escape, but a furious beast's roar cut him off.

Rikuo and Kurono broke through the Third Mizukage’s Boil Release barrier and killed him with a combination technique. In Konoha, Hiruzen learned that Wu and his Anbu squad had vanished, then hurried to the Land of Whirlpool with reinforcements after receiving an urgent dispatch.

• Kurono tore through the Third Mizukage’s acid mist barrier while Rikuo reinforced her with Susanoo armor.
• Rikuo and Kurono unleashed the Great Black Calamity, and the Third Mizukage collapsed from exhaustion before the black flames consumed him.
• Hiruzen ordered the Anbu to keep searching for the missing Wu and his squad, directing them to investigate Hidden Cloud Village.
• Hiruzen received an urgent dispatch from the Southern Border Garrison and ordered every available Anbu and Konoha jonin to mobilize for the Land of Whirlpool.
• Hiruzen left with the assembled ninja, while Homura and Koharu stayed behind to prepare a high-level meeting.

Rikuo helped the Uzumaki Clan defeat the remaining Hidden Cloud and Hidden Mist forces after Uzushiogakure was devastated by flooding. Konoha reinforcements arrived only after the battle had ended, leaving their Jonin stunned to find Rikuo there.

• Rikuo sealed the Third Mizukage’s corpse in a scroll and joined the Uzumaki Clan’s counterattack against the remaining Kirigakure Ninja.
• Rikuo used his Sharingan and Flying Thunder God-marked shuriken to strike Kirigakure Ninja while the Uzumaki Clan fought them.
• As the floodwaters receded and the battle ended, Rikuo urged Uzumaki Teruaki to assess the casualties and look for survivors.
• A Konoha force led by a Jonin arrived and learned from Uzumaki Teruaki that the fighting was over.
• The Konoha Jonin recognized Rikuo and wondered how someone from the Land of Night had reached Uzushiogakure so quickly, but set aside his questions.

Irori and Murasame devastated cities in the Land of Lightning while Doichi fought his way to the border and was trapped with the Hidden Cloud forces. The Third Raikage prepared to face Doichi, believing his overwhelming numerical advantage would secure victory.

• Irori and Murasame destroyed industrial facilities, roads, and grain warehouses in several cities, then killed the Hidden Cloud ninja who tried to stop them.
• Irori marked the next town on her map, and Murasame followed her as they continued their operation.
• After more than thirty hours of battle, Doichi reached the Land of Lightning and faced about 2,700 Hidden Cloud ninja.
• Hidden Cloud Jonin raised a large Barrier that enclosed Doichi and the assembled forces.
• The Third Raikage revealed that he had been leading Doichi toward the trap and prepared to fight him, confident that three thousand Hidden Cloud ninja had the advantage.