Recaps

Obito bought the island’s entire supply of Explosive Tag materials and secured the shopkeeper’s promise to cut off Kirigakure. Kakashi seized a stockpile of Chakra-Conductive Metal in the Land of Lightning and planted false evidence implicating Ōnoki and Iwagakure.

• Obito paid the shopkeeper five times the goods’ value for every Explosive Tag-related material on the island and signed an exclusive supply contract.
• The shopkeeper emptied his warehouse, signed the contract, and promised not to withhold goods or reveal the deal.
• Kakashi inspected over a hundred crates of Chakra-Conductive Metal at a black market money house in the Land of Lightning.
• When the money house boss and his men tried to rob him, Kakashi used a lightning-fast sword strike to sever their blades and subdued the boss with a genjutsu.
• Kakashi implanted a false memory that Land of Earth warlords had sent the metal to Iwagakure, then had Konoha ANBU move the ore.

Ye and his allies used White Zetsu infiltration, stolen supplies, and false intelligence to provoke the Four Great Ninja Villages into attacking Konoha. As the villages’ forces converged on the Land of Fire, Ye ordered Orochimaru to accelerate preparations for the trap.

• Obito’s buying spree emptied the Black Markets of the Land of Water and the Land of Lightning, and the seized materials were sent to Orochimaru’s laboratory to speed Chakra Armor production.
• Ye ordered Tobi to buy up the remaining supplies owned by corrupt officials and turn the materials into weapons to send back against them.
• White Zetsu infiltrators spread false reports and forged evidence across the Four Great Ninja Villages, deepening distrust between them.
• Ōnoki learned Iwagakure’s reserves had been secretly sold off and the Black Market was empty, then ordered his army to invade Konoha for supplies.
• Ye saw the Four Great Ninja Villages’ forces advancing toward the Land of Fire and told Tobi to inform Orochimaru to accelerate preparations.

After reports revealed Konoha's shortages and internal unrest, Iwagakure, Kumogakure, and the Land of Fire's daimyō prepared to exploit the crisis and attack. Beneath Konoha, Ye and Minato watched their plans unfold, with Minato revealing that the other powers were walking into a trap.

• Ōnoki received reports of Konoha's food shortage and unrest, dismissed Kitsuchi's doubts, and ordered Iwagakure's forces to advance on every front.
• Raikage A learned that Konoha was short on food and ordered Darui to lead a thousand troops through the Land of Hot Water toward Konoha's northeastern defenses.
• The Land of Fire's daimyō celebrated the mobilization of four villages, expecting to weaken Konoha and force Minato Namikaze to beg for supplies.
• A pale humanoid creature watched the daimyō's celebration from beneath the palace.
• Ye and Minato watched footage of the enemy leaders' plans in Konoha's underground command room, and Minato said they were standing in a trap.

Minato and Konoha’s leaders staged a public panic to deceive the Land of Fire Daimyō’s spies while secretly preparing for war. When Hidden Cloud’s thousand-man vanguard approached, Minato declared a counteroffensive and prepared to lead the forces into the Land of Lightning.

• Fugaku reported that the Uchiha combat force had mobilized and Minato ordered a lockdown drill to make Konoha appear to be in chaos.
• The Daimyō’s spies witnessed the staged panic and sent a report that Konoha was weakened.
• Kushina oversaw the loading of Konoha’s extensive weapons and supplies as an ANBU delivered word that Hidden Cloud’s vanguard had advanced.
• Tobi reported that Darui was leading a thousand Hidden Cloud shinobi toward Konoha’s northeastern defenses.
• Minato donned his Hokage Haori, ordered a counteroffensive, and said he would lead the force through the Land of Lightning’s defenses using Flying Thunder God.
• The Land of Fire Daimyō celebrated the false report of Konoha’s weakness, unaware that Minato had placed the village on Level One combat readiness.

Darui led a thousand Hidden Cloud shinobi into a supposedly undefended valley, unaware that Ye and Konoha’s Special Defense Force had prepared an ambush. After the traps devastated the vanguard, Darui rallied the survivors to attack the cliffs.

• Darui dismissed Konoha’s defenses and led the Hidden Cloud force toward Kawamachi Akiha Town to loot it.
• Sato Ken and the Special Defense Force hid above the valley in their Chakra Armor as Ye watched the enemy enter the trap.
• Ye ordered his forces to close the trap and set off the explosives.
• Energy-Concentrating Bombs detonated through the valley, killing dozens of Hidden Cloud shinobi and leaving Darui’s force in chaos.
• Darui rallied hundreds of survivors, who combined their Lightning Release attacks against the cliffs.

Three hundred Konoha shinobi in Chakra Armor turned Hidden Cloud’s Lightning Release into energy and devastated Darui’s forces. Darui activated Lightning Release Chakra Mode and launched a final strike at a gap in Sato Ken’s armor.

• The Chakra Armor’s Devouring Matrix absorbed Hidden Cloud’s Lightning Release and amplified the Konoha shinobi’s strength.
• Sato Ken led the armored Konoha force into the Hidden Cloud ranks, where their attacks overwhelmed the enemy’s defenses.
• Sato Ken struck Darui with an amplified punch, breaking his ribs and sending him crashing into the mountainside.
• Darui recovered amid the slaughter, realized Hidden Cloud had been lured into a trap, and activated Lightning Release Chakra Mode.
• Darui raced behind Sato Ken and thrust a lightning spear toward the gap in the back of his armor.

Sato Ken and the Special Defense Force destroyed the Hidden Cloud vanguard, while Kakashi’s ANBU sealed the canyon and eliminated nearly all who fled. Afterward, Konoha’s leaders reviewed the armor’s results, and Kakashi reflected on how it had changed the value of traditional shinobi skills.

• Sato Ken dodged Darui’s Lightning Spear with his armor’s Chakra jets, then shattered Darui’s Lightning Armor and crippled him with one punch.
• The Hidden Cloud troops broke formation and fled, but Kakashi and several hundred ANBU blocked the canyon exit and slaughtered the routed soldiers.
• Ishida Shigeru reported that 996 of the thousand Hidden Cloud troops had been killed, while the Special Defense Force suffered no fatalities and only twelve minor injuries.
• Ye ordered the troops to collect the enemy’s supplies and let four survivors return to the Land of Lightning to deliver a warning.
• Minato, Orochimaru, and Fugaku reviewed the battle report and recognized that mass-produced armor could change the balance of the Shinobi World.
• Obito brought grilled lamb to the survivors, and Kakashi remarked that wearing armor seemed more practical than spending years mastering a single ninjutsu.

Raikage A learned that three hundred Konoha Genin annihilated a thousand Hidden Cloud elites using armor that absorbed Lightning Release, while Rasa discovered Konoha had tricked Sunagakure into buying defective Explosive Tags. Both leaders halted their armies at the borders, leaving Konoha's other enemies to reconsider their planned attack.

• Four Hidden Cloud survivors reported to A that Konoha Genin had wiped out a thousand elites and that one Genin had defeated Darui, whose Lightning Release Chakra Mode was shattered by the armor.
• A ordered the survivors to keep the defeat secret and told Mabui to assemble Hidden Cloud's forces at the border without crossing it.
• Mabui reported that Iwagakure, Sunagakure, and Kirigakure had mobilized after believing Konoha was starving and near collapse.
• Rasa learned that nearly twenty percent of Sunagakure's Explosive Tags bought on the Black Market were defective and ordered a minefield test.
• The test revealed the tags had plant-ash fuses, so Rasa canceled Sunagakure's surprise attack and ordered the army to hold the border.

Kirigakure and Iwagakure halted their advances after Konoha’s sabotage exposed the traps awaiting them. Minato ordered Fugaku and three hundred Uchiha elites to destroy Kitsuchi’s two thousand troops, and the Uchiha set out under orders to kill every trespasser.

• Yagura sent three Kirigakure vanguard ships fitted with counterfeit alloy ahead of the fleet, and they sank when their hulls broke apart in the sea.
• Kitsuchi’s Iwagakure demolition unit found that its counterfeit Explosive Clay was useless, so he withdrew his troops from the trapped canyon and formed a defensive circle.
• The Land of Fire’s Daimyō celebrated the invading armies and drafted an edict stripping Minato of the Hokage title, while Zetsu listened from beneath the mansion.
• In Konoha’s strategic command room, Minato ordered Fugaku to destroy Kitsuchi’s two thousand Iwagakure shinobi, and Ye told Tobi to bring Orochimaru’s Large Explosive Tags.
• Fugaku assembled three hundred Uchiha elites equipped with Chakra Armor, drew their swords, and led them into the night to kill every trespasser.

Kitsuchi led Iwagakure’s two-thousand-strong force across the Land of Grass after finding its Explosive Clay and Explosive Tags had been sabotaged. Uchiha Fugaku’s three hundred warriors used Orochimaru’s Ninjutsu Amplifiers to overwhelm them with amplified Fire Release, and Kitsuchi’s Earth Release: Sandwich Technique closed in on Fugaku.

• Kitsuchi discovered that Iwagakure’s Explosive Clay and Explosive Tags were useless and ordered his troops to advance behind Earth-Style Walls.
• Kitsuchi spotted three hundred Uchiha led by Uchiha Fugaku and ordered Iwagakure to reinforce its defenses.
• Fugaku and the Uchiha revealed six hundred Sharingan and used their Ninjutsu Amplifiers to launch a barrage of enormous Fire Ball Jutsu.
• The amplified flames melted Iwagakure’s defenses and killed dozens of Shinobi as the Uchiha charged into the collapsing lines.
• Kitsuchi used Earth Release: Sandwich Technique to trap Fugaku between two massive mountains.

Fugaku’s armored Susanoo routed Iwagakure’s forces, while the other major villages withdrew after learning of Konoha’s strength. As the Land of Fire’s Daimyō prepared to abolish Minato and disband Uchiha forces, a minister burst in with news of defeat.

• Fugaku used his chakra-metal exoskeleton with Susanoo to destroy two mountains and drive Kitsuchi’s Iwagakure army into retreat.
• Ye and Tobi watched the battle footage and planned to make the Land of Fire’s Daimyō a puppet.
• Rasa ordered Sunagakure’s vanguard troops back to the border, and Yagura recalled Kirigakure’s fleet.
• The Four Great Ninja Villages halted their advance toward the Land of Fire after the battle reports spread.
• The Daimyō drafted an order to abolish the Fourth Hokage and disband half of the Uchiha combat units.
• A trusted minister burst into the Daimyō’s banquet and announced that the front lines had been completely defeated.

The daimyō learned that Konoha had crushed the invading forces and manipulated the evidence that led him to back the attack. As the Capital City’s food supply collapsed and the Palace Guard refused to act, he fled to a secret chamber and begged the other villages for help, but Ōnoki rejected him and destroyed the Water Mirror.

• The minister reported that Hidden Cloud’s thousand-strong vanguard had been wiped out, Iwagakure’s forces routed, and Sunagakure and Kirigakure had withdrawn.
• The minister revealed that Konoha’s apparent food shortage and internal conflict had been staged, and that three hundred armored Genin had broken through the enemy lines.
• The daimyō ordered the city sealed, but learned that the Palace Guard had no food, the government reserves were empty, and citizens and refugees were surrounding the palace.
• As nobles fled the banquet, the daimyō escaped to a secret chamber and used Communication Water Mirrors to beg the other villages to send troops.
• Ōnoki accused the daimyō of misleading him about Konoha’s food shortage and destroyed their Water Mirror; the daimyō then crawled toward the mirror showing A.

After the four ninja villages abandoned the daimyō, Minato Namikaze appointed Uchiha Ye commander of the operation to take control of the Daimyō Mansion. Ye led six hundred ninja through a long-range teleportation array toward the capital, where refugees were besieging the palace gates.

• The Raikage severed his connection after blaming the daimyō for the destruction of a thousand-man vanguard, while Rasa condemned counterfeit supplies and withdrew Sunagakure; Yagura walked away without a word.
• Minato Namikaze appointed Uchiha Ye special commander with full authority over the capital and ordered him not to involve civilians.
• Ye assembled three hundred recruits and three hundred Uchiha elites, telling them to empty the Daimyō Mansion's treasury and reclaim Konoha's losses.
• Kushina Uzumaki charged the improved Flying Thunder God array, and Ye led all six hundred ninja into its blue light.
• As refugees battered the Daimyō Mansion's gate and hungry guards struggled to hold their posts, a column of dark blue light appeared three kilometers from the palace.

Ye and hundreds of Konoha shinobi surrounded the Capital City and challenged the Daimyō’s rule. After exposing the Daimyō’s corruption, Ye ordered Konoha’s new Chakra Siege Cannon aimed at the city gate as the Daimyō protested.

• Ye arrived with hundreds of Konoha shinobi, and Obito joined him with a stolen imperial horse for his entrance.
• Ye mounted the horse and faced the Daimyō, who accused him of rebellion and invoked the rules governing shinobi villages.
• Ye revealed the Daimyō’s banknotes and a ledger documenting feasts, deaths among the poor, and the Palace Guard commander’s sale of military grain.
• Ye declared the Daimyō’s rules abolished and signaled for Konoha soldiers to bring forward Orochimaru’s upgraded Chakra Siege Cannon.
• The cannon aimed at the gate, and the Daimyō protested that firing on it would violate the rules and dishonor the Land of Fire.

Ye’s cannon breached the Daimyō Mansion, allowing Konoha’s forces to take control of the city without a fight. Ye then used the daimyō’s rice stores to feed thousands of refugees, while spies watched and wondered what upheaval he would bring to the Shinobi World.

• Ye ordered Obito to fire Orochimaru’s tuned cannon, which blasted through the vermilion gate and destroyed much of the Daimyō Mansion’s front hall.
• Obito, Kakashi, and Konoha’s troops entered the city; the Palace Guard surrendered, and ANBU seized the gates, treasury, and mansion’s vital property.
• Ye ordered the daimyō’s private rice stores brought out and had Obito produce seven large iron pots to cook porridge for the refugees.
• Ye served the first bowl to a hungry little girl, prompting the refugees to line up as Konoha troops distributed porridge and extra bowls for children and family members.
• Spies from various factions watched the daimyō’s banner burn while Ye sat eating an apple, leaving them to wonder what changes he would bring to the Shinobi World.

Ye confronted the captured Daimyō in the ruined main hall and showed him how badly the other ninja villages had been defeated. The Daimyō abandoned his threats and begged Ye to spare him, offering the throne to Minato Namikaze.

• Ye entered the ruined hall, saw the captured Daimyō threaten to exterminate the Uchiha and Konoha, and mocked his claim about Kakashi's nonexistent relatives.
• Ye sat on the Daimyō's fox-fur couch, burned the Daimyō's decree, and rejected his argument that royal authority made the takeover rebellion.
• Ye told the Daimyō that strength decided who people followed and had Obito bring in a screen.
• Obito showed footage of Raikage A, Ōnoki, Sunagakure, and Kirigakure suffering defeats at the hands of Konoha's forces.
• The Daimyō dismissed the footage as Genjutsu, then collapsed and begged Ye to spare him, offering the royal seal and proposing Minato Namikaze as Daimyō.

Ye exposed the daimyō’s embezzlement and learned that Minato had set out with Hiruzen Sarutobi. The next morning, Hiruzen arrived at the ruined capital and watched Minato prepare to address the Land of Fire, while reconsidering his past compromises with the nobles.

• Obito reported that the daimyō’s accounts claimed three billion ryō in the treasury, but only half that amount remained because the rest had been spent on luxuries.
• Ye confronted the daimyō over neglecting the common people, and ANBU dragged the screaming ruler away.
• Kakashi told Ye that Minato had set out with Hiruzen Sarutobi, prompting Ye to recognize Hiruzen as a keeper of the old rules.
• The next morning, Hiruzen entered the ruined capital with Fugaku and saw the former officials kneeling under Uchiha guard.
• Hiruzen recalled how the nobles had cut Konoha’s funding and resolved that compromise had gained the village nothing.
• Minato stood on a platform before the mansion as projection devices and amplification arrays prepared to broadcast his address, while Ye greeted Hiruzen.

Minato exposed the Daimyō Mansion’s abuses and abolished the daimyo system, placing the Land of Fire’s military and civil affairs under Konoha. The shinobi world reeled at the change, while Hiruzen admitted he should have acted sooner.

• Minato presented evidence of the former daimyo’s neglect and secret efforts to invite foreign villages against Konoha, and Fugaku killed a noble who challenged him.
• Minato crushed the Land of Fire Mandate Seal and declared the daimyo system abolished, with Konoha taking over the country’s affairs.
• Rasa, Ōnoki, and Fourth Raikage A reacted with alarm, while the Land of Fire’s people celebrated Minato and the Uchiha Police Force seized the Daimyō Mansion.
• Ye watched his system points surge from the upheaval as Minato approached Hiruzen and asked whether breaking the old order troubled him.
• Hiruzen said he should have woken up the day Danzo died.

Ye ordered a nighttime raid on the Four Great Ninja Villages, then distributed the wealth seized from the Daimyō’s nobles to refugees and declared their land part of the Konoha Federation. As Konoha won the Land of Fire’s loyalty, Black Zetsu told Ōtsutsuki Isshiki that Uchiha Ye could be the perfect vessel.

• Hiruzen urged Minato to move forward, while Ye ordered Konoha’s forces to rest before raiding the Four Great Ninja Villages after dark.
• ANBU seized the wealth and land deeds of twenty-seven noble families, and Ye arranged for the spoils to be distributed among the people.
• Obito dropped banknotes and land deeds over the Capital City as Ye announced food, money, and land for city residents and refugees.
• Refugees rushed to register for aid, rejected the nobles’ loyalists, and a disguised intelligence officer reported Konoha’s success to the Four Great Ninja Villages.
• Black Zetsu approached Ōtsutsuki Isshiki and identified Uchiha Ye as a possible perfect vessel.

Isshiki crushed Black Zetsu, then attacked the Allied Forces after they formed an alliance against Konoha. He effortlessly defeated the Fourth Raikage, and the allied shinobi began a mass assault against him.

• Isshiki used Sukunahikona and enlarged Black Rods to tear apart Black Zetsu, then left through a portal to seek the Vessel.
• Minato told Ye that the Four Great Ninja Villages had allied and sent a hundred thousand troops to Konoha’s borders, then appointed Ye commander-in-chief of the defenses.
• Ye ordered the Research Department to expand production and sent prototype heavy-caliber weapons to the border.
• Isshiki tore open the Allied Forces’ Chakra barrier and entered their camp, where he killed Kumogakure’s guards.
• The Fourth Raikage A attacked Isshiki, but Isshiki crushed him into a crater with a Black Cube.
• Ōnoki called for the allied shinobi to form ranks, and Rasa helped lead tens of thousands in an attack on Isshiki.

Isshiki crushed the Allied Forces, forced all four Kage to accept his control, and ordered their army to march on Konoha. In New Konoha, Uchiha Ye saw the army’s arrival as an opportunity, while Orochimaru announced that the Yamato Cannon Engine was ready.

• Isshiki erased the Allied Forces’ attacks with Sukunahikona, then killed thousands with a rain of enlarged Black Rods.
• Black Zetsu offered the surviving Kage submission or annihilation, and Ōnoki, Rasa, and Yagura knelt before Isshiki placed control marks on them and the Raikage.
• Isshiki ordered the hundred thousand soldiers to advance on Konoha and find Uchiha Ye, whom he called a Perfect Vessel.
• Minato warned Ye that Isshiki and the Allied Forces threatened New Konoha, but Ye welcomed the concentrated army as an easy target.
• Orochimaru brought the Core Matrix to the war table and told Ye that the Yamato Cannon Engine had finished calibration.

Ye broadcast footage of the Four Kage kneeling across the Allied Forces, shaking the army's confidence as Isshiki forced them onward. The soldiers reached Konoha's border defenses, where Ishida Shigeru triggered the trap.

• Ye ordered the footage of the Four Kage kneeling broadcast on a loop across the Allied Forces' communications arrays.
• Ōnoki tried to justify his surrender to Rasa as a way to save the Shinobi World while Isshiki ordered the Allied Forces to march.
• Ye's broadcast exposed the Kage's surrender to the soldiers, sparking panic and despair among the Iwagakure and Sunagakure troops.
• Isshiki threatened the army and Black Zetsu's enforcers killed soldiers who resisted, forcing the troops to continue toward Konoha.
• Ye asked Ishida Shigeru whether the enemy was in position, and Ishida confirmed they were before activating the defense trap.

Konoha’s advanced weapons annihilated thousands of Allied Forces troops, while Ye saw Isshiki as a source of Points and ordered the defenses to keep fighting. As Isshiki prepared to attack the main barrier, Minato shattered the Hidden Cloud’s Iron Turtle Formation with explosive Flying Thunder God strikes, and Obito appeared on the battlefield.

• Konoha’s Chakra Rapid-Fire Cannons and Heavy Chakra Supercannons erased thousands of Allied Forces troops, terrifying Ōnoki, Rasa, and the army.
• Ye gained over a hundred million Points and decided to keep Isshiki alive as a continuing source of Points.
• Black Zetsu drove elite Allied Forces troops forward, and Minato left the command room with ANBU to defend the front line.
• The Allied Forces cracked Konoha’s main barrier, and Isshiki summoned a massive Black Cube to attack it.
• Minato used explosive Flying Thunder God strikes to split apart the Hidden Cloud’s Iron Turtle Formation.
• Obito emerged through a portal over the battlefield and announced that it was his turn.

Obito, Kakashi, and Rin overwhelmed the coalition forces, earning Ye a huge haul of points, until Isshiki unleashed Divine Punishment from the sky. Ye ordered Orochimaru to fire the overloaded Yamato Cannon Engine, whose violet beam met Isshiki’s iron pillars and black flames as Isshiki watched with a furrowed brow.

• Obito’s Susanoo crushed Iwagakure soldiers while Kakashi killed a group of coalition assassins, and the two argued over who had stolen the kills.
• Rin used Isobu’s power to flood Sunagakure’s western formation, while Obito and Kakashi attacked the commanders’ shelter and killed the Iwagakure and Hidden Cloud commanders.
• Ōnoki and Rasa watched Konoha’s fighters rout the coalition, and Ye gained millions of points from the enemy’s despair and fear.
• Isshiki opened a rift in the sky and sent thousands of flaming iron pillars toward the battlefield.
• Ye ordered Orochimaru to overload the Yamato Cannon Engine, and its violet beam struck Isshiki’s Divine Punishment as Isshiki frowned.

Fugaku and Hiruzen defeated the mind-controlled Ōnoki and Rasa, while Minato killed Raikage A after he charged in a final, self-destructive attack. The Allied Army watched A fall and began retreating in fear.

• Isshiki ordered the controlled Kage to attack Konoha and sent them after the blond shinobi.
• Fugaku stopped Ōnoki's Dust Release and defeated him with three sword strikes.
• Hiruzen smashed through Rasa's Gold Dust defense and struck him unconscious with the Ruyi Jingu Bang.
• Raikage A charged Minato with his remaining life force, but Minato evaded him with Flying Thunder God and killed him with a Sage Art: Big Ball Rasengan.
• The Allied Army trembled and began retreating after witnessing Raikage A's death.