Recaps

Ye’s Chakra Armor and geothermal projects transformed Konoha, while the Land of Fire’s daimyō tried to turn the other villages against it. As the Kage sent ANBU to verify his scheme, Minato’s team departed for Rōran and found a deserted city filled with machinery and Nine-Tails Chakra.

• Ye introduced fair mine wages, then demonstrated the mass-produced Chakra Armor as the Special Defense Force deployed to the border.
• The Special Defense Force defeated allied Iwagakure and Sunagakure elites, and Ōnoki’s footage spread alarm among the great villages.
• Ye’s geothermal system warmed Konoha and its farmland, impressing a daimyō’s envoy and showing that the village no longer needed the mansion’s funding.
• Ye helped Obito confess to Rin, who accepted his feelings after he gave her a repaired wooden carving.
• The Land of Fire’s daimyō secretly urged the four great villages to attack Konoha, and the Kage agreed to send ANBU to verify his letters.
• Minato assigned Ye, Obito, Rin, and Kakashi to the Rōran mission, and Kushina joined them after Ye arranged for Madara to guard Naruto.
• Minato’s team entered deserted Rōran, where Kushina sensed mature Nine-Tails Chakra and Minato ordered the group to investigate along the metal pipes.

Naruto’s journey into the past reunited him with Minato and Kushina, and the group’s fight with Mukade hurled them into a parallel future. They met future Sasuke’s family, reunited Naruto with his parents, and ended the stretch preparing to help with the Hokage’s work.

• Naruto and Sara fled Anrokuzan’s puppets until Minato, Kushina, Kakashi, Obito, Rin, and Ye rescued them, and Naruto revealed he was an Uzumaki from the future.
• Minato and Kushina recognized Naruto as their son, but Kurama showed him a distorted memory of their deaths, causing Naruto’s Nine-Tails Chakra to surge until Ye and Obito subdued it.
• Naruto identified Anrokuzan as Mukade, and the group defeated Mukade in the Underground Core Hub before Mukade’s core fragment tore open a black hole.
• Minato and Kushina sent Naruto and Yamato home, while Ye, Minato, Kushina, Kakashi, Obito, and Rin were swept into a parallel future and met Sasuke in a modern Konoha.
• Sasuke brought the group home, where Sarada and Sakura learned who they were, and Kushina and Minato joined Naruto’s family to celebrate Himawari’s birthday.
• Kushina confronted Naruto for missing the birthday, then Naruto apologized to Himawari and the family shared a belated dinner with stories about their past.
• Kushina and Minato stayed at Naruto’s home, while Sasuke took the others to the Uchiha compound and Minato prepared to help Naruto with official work.

After returning from the future with knowledge of the Otsutsuki threat, Minato abandoned Konoha’s policy of balance and made the village fiscally independent. As the Daimyō and the other villages moved against Konoha, Minato and Ye used hidden resources and deceptive intelligence while preparing to cripple their supply lines.

• Minato reorganized Konoha’s paperwork, while Ye demonstrated his Mangekyō abilities and helped train Sarada and Boruto.
• Ye traveled to Sunagakure, defeated Urashiki, and learned that the Plow was beneath Konoha and that Momoshiki and Kinshiki planned to attack.
• Naruto and the Five Kage confronted Momoshiki and Kinshiki at the Chunin Exams, but Ye and the others joined the fight and defeated them before returning to their own time with the Plow.
• Minato told Fugaku and Orochimaru about the Otsutsuki threat and declared that Konoha would unify the Shinobi World under its command.
• Minato used Konoha’s food reserves and independent income to fund weapons production, while the Daimyō solicited the Four Kage to attack Konoha.
• Minato rejected the Daimyō’s funding cuts and signed Konoha’s Complete Fiscal Independence Act as Ye tracked spies sent to inspect the village.
• Ye and Konoha’s allies captured or deceived the disguised spies, while the Daimyō believed false reports of Konoha’s weakness and withheld food from refugees.
• Minato burned the Daimyō’s Famine Decree as Konoha fed refugees, while Ye and Obito arranged to buy up weapons and materials and weaken the other villages’ supply lines.

Ye and Minato used engineered shortages, counterfeit supplies, and Chakra Armor to defeat the invading villages, then seized the Land of Fire’s capital and abolished the daimyō system. As Isshiki forced a hundred thousand allied troops toward Konoha, the village’s weapons and shinobi shattered their assault, though Isshiki remained a major threat.

• Obito bought up Explosive Tag materials while Kakashi seized Chakra-Conductive Metal, and White Zetsu spread false reports that drove the villages toward war.
• Minato staged Konoha’s weakness as the invading forces advanced, then Ye’s Chakra Armor trap annihilated Darui’s force and Fugaku’s armored Uchiha routed Kitsuchi’s army.
• Ye led Konoha troops into the capital, exposed the daimyō’s corruption, and had Obito blast open the mansion gate before distributing porridge to refugees.
• Minato presented evidence against the daimyō, abolished the daimyō system, and placed the Land of Fire under Konoha’s control, while Ye arranged aid for the people.
• Isshiki subdued the allied Kage, marked them for control, and sent the hundred thousand allied troops toward Konoha to find Ye.
• Ye broadcast the Kage’s surrender, then activated Konoha’s defenses, whose cannons devastated the allied army as Minato, Obito, Kakashi, and Rin fought on the battlefield.
• Orochimaru overloaded the Yamato Cannon Engine to strike Isshiki’s attack, while Fugaku, Hiruzen, and Minato defeated the controlled Ōnoki, Rasa, and Raikage A, prompting the allied army to retreat.