Recaps

Jingyi built a friendship with Kushina and earned Mito Uzumaki’s trust while Danzō tried and failed to control their association. He began making animal puppets with materials gathered by Orochimaru and continued working alongside Tsunade at the hospital.

• Jingyi joined Konoha Hospital as Tsunade’s assistant, mastered medical techniques quickly, and passed the medical ninja assessment.
• Tsunade brought Kushina to Jingyi’s home, where his cooking and advice helped ease Kushina’s loneliness.
• Mito Uzumaki arranged for Kushina to visit Jingyi and move around Konoha more freely, while Danzō warned Jingyi to stay away from her.
• The Third Hokage barred Danzō and the Elder Council from interfering with Kushina, and later suspended Danzō from his Hokage Advisor position.
• Kushina started at the Ninja Academy, fought students who mocked her red hair, and received support from Jingyi and Tsunade.
• Mito Uzumaki welcomed Jingyi to dinner at the Senju residence and invited him to visit again.
• Jingyi commissioned animal materials for puppets, and Orochimaru delivered the first batch, which Jingyi bought and began processing.
• After warning Tsunade against making Orochimaru Nawaki’s teacher, Jingyi assisted Tsunade in a successful surgery despite his exhaustion.

Jingyi survived Shimura Danzō’s attempt to have him killed while the conflict in the Land of Rain escalated and the Tenseigan removed his Caged Bird Seal. After Mito Uzumaki died, Jingyi returned to a home rebuilt by Kushina and reunited with Tsunade and the children.

• Jingyi joined the Border Camp rotation, secretly created living puppets, and sent Tsunade intelligence that led her to warn Mito Uzumaki about Shimura Danzō’s plot against him.
• Tsunade visited Jingyi at the camp, and he reasoned that Danzō might use Hanzō to target him while Sarutobi Mishima secretly protected him.
• As the Tenseigan stirred and temporarily impaired Jingyi’s vision, Danzō tried to enlist Hanzō to kill him, but Hanzō learned of Danzō’s betrayal and exposed it to Konoha.
• Hiruzen arrested Danzō after learning he had leaked village intelligence, and Jingyi recovered his sight more than a month later as the Tenseigan’s stirring ended.
• Mito Uzumaki transferred the Nine-Tails to Kushina, secured Torifu Akimichi’s control of the Medical System, and died afterward.
• Orochimaru inspected Jingyi’s Puppet Crow, then joined Konoha’s research base and developed a refrigerator, while Tsunade told Jingyi that his Caged Bird Seal had vanished as his eyes evolved.
• Konoha, Sunagakure, and Iwagakure sent forces into the Land of Rain, where small battles gave way to a tense standoff before Jingyi returned to Konoha.
• Kushina told Jingyi that Mito had died, then revealed that she had rebuilt his house and planned to live there with Tsunade and the children.

Jingyi joined Konoha’s campaign in the Land of Rain, balancing medical work and puppet research with Senjutsu training. As Hanzō widened the conflict and Sunagakure devastated settlements, Konoha’s leaders debated how to answer Amegakure’s declaration of war.

• The Slug Sage tested Jingyi, confirmed his talent for Shikkotsu Forest Senjutsu, and began training him with Little Slugs.
• Jingyi welcomed Kushina’s friends, including Mikoto Uchiha, Minato Namikaze, and Hyuga Mie, and later accepted Minato as his student.
• Hanzō’s attacks on patrols escalated the clashes among Konoha, Sunagakure, and Iwagakure, and Jingyi agreed to take Tsunade’s place on the front lines.
• Jingyi traveled to the Land of Rain with Orochimaru and Jiraiya, took charge of medical care, and arranged for Orochimaru to help analyze poisons and make puppets from enemy corpses.
• Jingyi secretly demonstrated that he could animate puppets with chakra, while his Senjutsu training repeatedly petrified him before the Little Slugs corrected the imbalance.
• Jingyi treated the wounded Hatake Sakumo, then learned that Chiyo had led Sunagakure in devastating settlements across the Land of Rain.
• Hanzō declared war on Konoha, Iwagakure, and Sunagakure, and Amegakure attacked their occupied territories.
• Jiraiya returned with an erotic novel that angered Orochimaru, while the Third Hokage’s leaders debated how Konoha should respond to Hanzō.

As the Second Shinobi World War began, Jingyi mastered Shikkotsu Forest Senjutsu and used his puppets to rescue Konoha’s wounded elite unit. The Third Hokage and the Hyuga clan tried to seize Jingyi’s puppets, but Tsunade blocked them, while Jingyi later brought Jiraiya, Orochimaru, and Hatake Sakumo to meet the Slug Sage.

• The Third Hokage gave Tsunade control of the Anbu while she retained the Pharmaceutical Department, and he transferred Shimura Danzō to Konoha Prison as the Second Shinobi World War began.
• Jingyi mastered Shikkotsu Forest Senjutsu, then told Shikaku Nara that Konoha should seek an alliance with Amegakure, but the Third Hokage and the Elder Council rejected the proposal.
• After Iwagakure ambushed the elite unit, Jingyi used his puppets to rescue Orochimaru, Jiraiya, Hatake Sakumo, and surviving Konoha ninja.
• The Third Hokage demanded Jingyi surrender his puppets, but Jingyi refused, and Tsunade blocked attempts to make him hand them over.
• Jingyi killed Xing Shi Hyuga and the Branch House guards when they came to seize his puppets, while Shikaku Nara concealed their disappearance from the investigation.
• Tsunade detained Hyuga elders to deter the clan from pursuing Jingyi, while Jingyi urged Hatake Sakumo to recover and avenge the fallen elite unit.
• Jingyi took Jiraiya, Orochimaru, and Hatake Sakumo to Shikkotsu Forest, where the Slug Sage assessed their Senjutsu talent and refused to train Orochimaru.