Recaps

After waking from three days of recovery, Tsunade learned that the great nations had surrendered but Konoha was stalled by Hanzo in the Land of Rain. She insisted on going there immediately with Nawaki, leaving Mikoto and Kushina to care for Mito.

• Tsunade woke after three days and reassured Mikoto and Kushina that she had mostly recovered.
• Mikoto reported the surrender of the Land of Water, the Cloud forces, and Ōnoki, then explained that Bunpuku would surrender Sunagakure if Konoha spared the Land of Wind's daimyo.
• Kushina told Tsunade that Hanzo's poison had stalled Konoha's forces in the Land of Rain, with only Jiraiya and Orochimaru able to hold their own against him.
• Nawaki arrived using the Flying Thunder God Technique, and Tsunade ordered him to take her to the Land of Rain despite his concerns about her recovery.
• Tsunade left with Nawaki and told Mikoto and Kushina to stay behind and look after Mito.

Tsunade arrived at the Konoha camp and learned that Jiraiya and Orochimaru had failed to break through Hanzo’s poison-filled defenses. She confronted Hanzo and demanded his submission, leaving the three Sannin poised to fight him.

• Nawaki brought Tsunade to the Konoha camp, where Jiraiya and Orochimaru explained that Ibuse’s poison gas had driven back three assaults.
• Tsunade said she would face Hanzo, and Orochimaru agreed to go with her.
• Tsunade, Jiraiya, and Orochimaru confronted Hanzo at the battlefield’s stone platform.
• Tsunade ordered Hanzo to submit to Konoha and declared that his era was over.
• Hanzo challenged Tsunade as Ibuse released poison gas, and the three Sannin took positions to fight.

Tsunade fought Hanzo after resisting Ibuse’s poison and defeated him with the Eight Gates. She killed Hanzo rather than risk his betrayal, while Jiraiya and Orochimaru watched in shock.

• Tsunade stood in Ibuse’s poisonous mist, and her Hashirama cells neutralized the toxins.
• Hanzo attacked Tsunade with his chain sickle, but she pressed forward and opened the Sixth Gate.
• Tsunade used Morning Peacock to repel Hanzo and kill Ibuse with a single punch.
• Tsunade opened the Seventh Gate, shattered Hanzo’s water techniques, and broke both his arms with a punch.
• Tsunade killed Hanzo by smashing him beneath the collapsing rock face.
• Jiraiya stared in disbelief at Hanzo’s death, while Orochimaru watched Tsunade with interest.

After killing Hanzo, Tsunade ordered Konoha to secure the Land of Rain and aid its civilians. Jiraiya found the orphaned Uzumaki boy Nagato, and Tsunade revealed that she belonged to the same clan.

• Tsunade ordered Jiraiya and Orochimaru to process the surrendering Amegakure forces and search the Land of Rain for Hanzo's remaining troops.
• Tsunade ordered the granaries opened, civilians protected, and villagers given the choice to remain or leave.
• Jiraiya reported finding a red-haired Uzumaki boy hiding in an abandoned temple.
• Tsunade and Jiraiya approached the wary boy, whom Tsunade recognized as Nagato.
• Tsunade told Nagato that she was also from the Uzumaki Clan, and he stared at her in astonishment.

Tsunade offered Nagato, Yahiko, and Konan a chance to become her students and learn how to take revenge on her. After she left the temple, Nagato gathered the rations she had brought, and all three children emerged to follow her.

• Yahiko and Konan returned to the temple and found Tsunade with Nagato.
• Tsunade told the children she had helped cause the war and offered to teach them if they became her students and sought revenge on her.
• Nagato asked Tsunade why she had come, but she left without answering and told them to come with her if they wished.
• Nagato gathered the rations into his arms while Tsunade told Jiraiya that the children needed a reason to keep living, not sympathy.
• Three figures emerged from the temple as Tsunade and Jiraiya stood in the rain.

Yahiko, Konan, and Nagato agreed to learn from Tsunade, who brought Nagato to Orochimaru for an examination. After discovering Nagato’s Rinnegan and severe malnutrition, Tsunade privately told him the eyes did not belong to him.

• Yahiko, Konan, and Nagato accepted Tsunade’s offer to teach them, and she brought them to the Konoha camp.
• Tsunade took Nagato to Orochimaru, who recognized his Rinnegan as the legendary eyes of the Sage of Six Paths.
• Orochimaru examined Nagato and found severe malnutrition caused by something inside him draining his nutrients.
• Tsunade raised a barrier around the tent and asked Nagato when he had acquired the Rinnegan.
• Nagato asked how Tsunade knew about his eyes, and she told him they did not belong to him.

Tsunade told Nagato that she was the Uzumaki leader and explained that his Rinnegan were draining his life force. Nagato agreed to have them replaced, and Tsunade ordered Orochimaru to prepare for surgery immediately.

• Tsunade told Nagato she was the leader of the Uzumaki and had arranged for Konoha to take in surviving clan members.
• Nagato explained that his eyes had appeared suddenly and left him constantly hungry and increasingly weak.
• Tsunade said the eyes did not belong to Nagato and were consuming his blood and life force.
• Orochimaru warned Nagato that the eyes would kill him and said he had at most ten years to live.
• Nagato agreed to replace the eyes, and Tsunade ordered Orochimaru to begin surgery at once.

Tsunade offered her own eyes to Nagato and underwent surgery to receive his Rinnegan, enduring the immense chakra surge as they merged with her body. The transplant succeeded, and Tsunade prepared to explore the Rinnegan’s abilities while Nagato slept with his new eyes.

• Tsunade told Orochimaru to transplant her eyes into Nagato, explaining that her Senju and Uzumaki bloodlines made her a suitable donor.
• Tsunade reassured Nagato that she was helping him because he was a child of the Uzumaki clan, and Orochimaru anesthetized him.
• Orochimaru removed Nagato’s Rinnegan and transplanted Tsunade’s eyes into him.
• Tsunade refused anesthesia and asked to feel the Rinnegan merge with her body as Orochimaru removed her eyes and implanted Nagato’s Rinnegan.
• The Rinnegan unleashed a massive surge of chakra through Tsunade, but her Hashirama cells helped her endure the pain and the transplant succeeded.
• Tsunade saw through her new Rinnegan, checked on the sleeping Nagato, and decided to explore the eyes’ abilities.

Tsunade explored the Rinnegan’s abilities, testing its chakra nature transformations, Black Rod creation, and gravitational techniques. She left with more powers to investigate and began considering how to create Six Paths Clones.

• Tsunade traveled into a rain-soaked hollow and sensed the five chakra natures and the yin-yang power within her new eyes.
• Tsunade created a Black Rod and confirmed that it could block an enemy’s chakra.
• Tsunade tested Banshō Ten'in to draw rocks toward her and Shinra Tensei to repel rain, gravel, and mud.
• Tsunade sensed that Planetary Devastation was ready but chose not to cast it, while recognizing that other Rinnegan abilities remained unexplored.
• Orochimaru watched Tsunade’s demonstration and asked how many abilities her eyes contained.
• Tsunade told Orochimaru she would explore the powers over time and considered creating Six Paths Clones.

Tsunade and Orochimaru began creating the Six Paths from powerful shinobi’s bodies, activating the Third Raikage A as the Deva Path and the Third Kazekage as the Human Path. After testing their abilities, they prepared to turn the Third Mizukage into the next body.

• Tsunade asked Orochimaru to help construct the Six Paths, and he agreed after seeing the six preserved bodies.
• Tsunade assigned the Third Raikage A to the Deva Path and activated him with the Rinnegan’s power.
• Tsunade ordered Deva Path: Thunder Emperor A to use Shinra Tensei, and he blasted a tunnel through a thick stone wall.
• Tsunade explained that the Third Kazekage’s Human Path would combine Magnet Release: Iron Sand with Mind Reading to gather intelligence.
• Tsunade activated the Third Kazekage as the Human Path, and iron sand formed a protective barrier around him.
• Orochimaru asked who would be next, and Tsunade named the Third Mizukage, Water Asura.

Tsunade awakened the Asura, Animal, Preta, and Naraka Paths, completing her Six Paths of Pain with powerful weapons, autonomous puppets, chakra absorption, and restoration. With all six assembled, she declared that she could unify the shinobi world by choosing where to send them.

• Tsunade awakened the Third Mizukage as the Asura Path and tested his missiles and laser, which destroyed a small island with force comparable to a Tailed Beast Ball.
• Tsunade used Hashirama cells and artificial Rinnegan eyes to revive Chiyo and give her autonomous control of the Chikamatsu Ten Puppets.
• Tsunade awakened Yagura as the Preta Path, whose body absorbed Orochimaru's probing chakra while retaining Yagura's water abilities and tailed beast chakra.
• Tsunade awakened Hanzo as the Naraka Path and demonstrated the King of Hell Statue repairing a damaged puppet.
• Tsunade presented the six assembled Paths and told Orochimaru that she only needed to choose a direction to unify the shinobi world.

Tsunade and Orochimaru turned six powerful corpses into the Six Paths of Pain, then used them to subdue the shinobi world in three months. With the remaining villages ready to surrender, Tsunade ordered everyone summoned to proclaim the world united.

• Tsunade emerged from Orochimaru's laboratory with six reanimated Kage-level figures, whom Orochimaru identified as the Six Paths of Pain.
• Tsunade told Jiraiya that she had excluded him from the corpse-modification work, then declared that they would unite the shinobi world.
• Over three months, the Six Paths crushed resistance across the Five Great Nations, twenty-seven ninja villages, and hundreds of smaller clans.
• The Six Paths defeated the Land of Iron, Wolfpack Ninja Village, Hoshigakure, and the Land of Waterfalls, prompting their surrender.
• Tsunade stood atop Konoha's tallest building as Jiraiya and Orochimaru brought the last surrender documents, and she ordered them to summon everyone the next day to issue an edict uniting the shinobi world.

Tsunade established the Konoha Shinobi World Alliance, placing the nations’ military and war decisions under Konoha’s authority and claiming the tailed beasts for Konoha. Five-Tails and Six-Tails remained missing, and Tsunade ended the chapter focused on becoming Hokage.

• Tsunade declared the shinobi world united and announced that Konoha would control the alliance’s military, diplomacy, and decisions about war.
• Mifune and several smaller nations’ representatives supported the alliance, while the new Raikage objected to Konoha taking the tailed beasts and then fell silent.
• Within a week, most of the tailed beasts and their Jinchūriki were sent to Konoha, but Iwagakure and the Land of Water claimed the Five-Tails and Six-Tails were missing.
• Tsunade watched the Three-Tails being sealed and told Orochimaru to bring in the beasts they had, leaving the two missing ones for later.
• Tsunade reflected on the conference from the Hokage Building rooftop and decided that becoming Hokage was her next priority.

Tsunade was inaugurated as Konoha’s Fourth Hokage before a cheering crowd, with Hiruzen Sarutobi handing her the ceremonial hat. After the village clans publicly supported her, Danzo silently left, and Tsunade reaffirmed to Hiruzen that she had always intended to become Hokage.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi presented Tsunade with the Hokage hat, and she accepted it before the gathered villagers.
• The Hyuga, Ino-Shika-Cho, and other clan representatives bowed and declared their support for Tsunade’s succession.
• Danzo watched the ceremony in silence, then left for the Root Base.
• Mito Uzumaki, Jiraiya, Orochimaru, Minato Namikaze, Nawaki, and Kushina watched Tsunade’s inauguration.
• Yamanaka Sora and Hoshina Hyuga celebrated Tsunade’s achievement and said her position would help protect Konoha’s women.
• Tsunade told Hiruzen that she had promised to become the Fourth Hokage, then faced the cheering crowd.

Tsunade expanded Konoha's Women's Mutual Aid Association into a shinobi-world organization, drawing influential women from across the nations into its network. As Nagato, Yahiko, and Konan joined her in Konoha, Tsunade began considering benefits for others and thought of the Seven Swords.

• Tsunade proposed expanding the Konoha Women's Mutual Aid Association across the shinobi world, and its core members supported her plan.
• Tsunade established the Shinobi World Women's Mutual Aid Association with its headquarters in Konoha and branches in major villages.
• Women from the Lands of Lightning, Water, Earth, and Wind began joining the association and requesting help with local branches.
• Nagato reported that the Uzumaki household registration was complete and that he had adjusted well to his eyes, while Yahiko said he had joined Team Three of the Hokage's Personal Guard.
• Konan delivered a membership register from women in the Land of Rain, and Tsunade asked her to learn about the association's work.
• Tsunade considered what benefits to offer others and remembered the Seven Swords.

Tsunade held a tournament to award the Seven Ninja Swords to young shinobi and demonstrate Konoha’s next generation. All seven Konoha finalists won their matches, and Tsunade awarded them the swords.

• The shinobi nations sent contestants to Konoha after Tsunade announced the tournament, and 112 entrants were narrowed down to fourteen finalists.
• Tsunade explained that the fourteen finalists would fight in pairs, with the seven winners receiving the Seven Ninja Swords.
• Minato Namikaze defeated Akatsuchi by appearing behind him in three steps and holding a kunai to his neck.
• Nawaki, Kushina Uzumaki, Uchiha Fugaku, Hyuga Hiashi, and Shikaku Nara each defeated their opponents with their respective techniques.
• Might Duy opened the fifth gate and knocked his Land of Iron opponent out of bounds with a punch.
• All seven Konoha finalists won, and Tsunade declared that they would receive the Seven Ninja Swords.

Tsunade assigned the Seven Ninja Swords to Konoha’s next generation, then decided to reforge Kiba into short blades for Minato Namikaze and Nawaki. She locked away the Exploding Blade for a future owner and turned her attention to the next matter.

• Tsunade gave Kiba to Minato Namikaze, the Exploding Blade to Nawaki, Samehada to Kushina Uzumaki, Hiramekarei to Hyuga Hiashi, Kabutowari to Might Duy, Nuibari to Shikaku Nara, and Broken Blade: Executioner to Uchiha Fugaku.
• Tsunade declared the sword holders Konoha’s next generation, and representatives from the foreign nations bowed to them.
• At the Hokage Building, Tsunade took the Exploding Blade back from Nawaki, explaining that its heavy, momentum-based fighting style did not suit his speed and Flying Thunder God techniques.
• Minato Namikaze returned Kiba, and Tsunade planned to reforge it into two short lightning blades for Minato Namikaze and Nawaki.
• Tsunade ordered the sword holders to train with their weapons, then hid the Exploding Blade, intending it for Konan when she became worthy of it.
• Tsunade settled the matter of the swords and went to the window, preparing to deal with something else.

Tsunade chose to become the Nine-Tails’ jinchuriki instead of transferring it to Kushina, and sealed the beast inside herself. Mito died peacefully after entrusting Tsunade with her sealing research, while the Nine-Tails remained trapped within its new host.

• Tsunade told Mito to cancel the plan to transfer the Nine-Tails to Kushina and said she would take it herself.
• Mito gave Tsunade a scroll of sealing formulas and helped her begin releasing the Nine-Tails.
• The Nine-Tails attacked Tsunade, but she repelled its chakra and overpowered it with her Rinnegan and prepared sealing formula.
• Tsunade sealed the Nine-Tails inside herself, where it struggled briefly before falling quiet.
• Mito reassured Tsunade that the Nine-Tails was safer inside her, then died as Tsunade held her hand.

After Mito died, Tsunade sealed her body in a scroll and entered her mindscape to confront the Nine-Tails. She released its restraints and beat it into submission, leaving it alive and promising it a place to use its abilities once it had thought things through.

• Tsunade sealed Mito's body in a scroll, hoping she might revive her someday with the power of her Rinnegan.
• Tsunade entered her mindscape and found the Nine-Tails bound by chains behind a stone gate.
• Tsunade released the Nine-Tails from its restraints and invited it to attack her.
• Tsunade caught the Nine-Tails' paw and repeatedly slammed its enormous body into the ground until it could no longer fight.
• Tsunade told the Nine-Tails to behave and said it could put its abilities to use once it had thought things through.

Tsunade summoned Shukaku from Bunpuku and announced that she would extract nine-tenths of his chakra while sparing their lives. She then demonstrated a Rinnegan technique by summoning the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, the husk of Ten-Tails, leaving Orochimaru, Jiraiya, and Shukaku stunned.

• Tsunade told Bunpuku she would extract nine-tenths of Shukaku's chakra, and he agreed to cooperate if Shukaku's consciousness and his own life were spared.
• Bunpuku transformed into Shukaku, who recognized Tsunade's Rinnegan and argued with the Nine-Tails inside her.
• Shukaku chose to comply after Tsunade warned him and the Nine-Tails mocked his ability to resist.
• Tsunade told Orochimaru and Jiraiya to watch as she used a Rinnegan technique, then summoned a colossal figure from a fissure.
• Tsunade identified the summoned figure as the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, the husk of Ten-Tails.

Tsunade revealed her plan to restore the Ten-Tails by reclaiming the Tailed Beasts’ chakra, then persuaded Shukaku to surrender nine-tenths of his chakra. With Jiraiya and Orochimaru assisting, she began extracting it through the Nine Dragons Sealing jutsu, and Shukaku’s chakra started flowing into the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.

• Tsunade explained that the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path was the Ten-Tails’ shell and that she intended to become the Ten-Tails Jinchuriki.
• Tsunade told Shukaku to surrender nine-tenths of his chakra, and Shukaku agreed after Jiraiya vouched for her promise to spare his life.
• Tsunade taught Jiraiya and Orochimaru the Nine Dragons Sealing jutsu and positioned them with her on the statue’s fingers.
• Tsunade, Jiraiya, and Orochimaru performed the sealing jutsu, sending nine chakra dragons to draw Shukaku’s chakra into the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.
• Shukaku let the dragons drain his chakra without resisting as his body began to shrink.

Tsunade drained most of Shukaku’s and Matatabi’s chakra while preserving their consciousnesses, then revealed to Nine-Tails that she planned for it to become Ten-Tails’ sole consciousness. After Nine-Tails submitted, Tsunade prepared to capture and drain Three-Tails next.

• Tsunade extracted ninety percent of Shukaku’s energy, preserved his consciousness, and returned him to Bunpuku’s body.
• Orochimaru brought the captured Sachi to Tsunade, who used Nine Dragons Sealing to extract ninety percent of Matatabi’s chakra while preserving her consciousness.
• Tsunade told Nine-Tails that she wanted it to become Ten-Tails’ consciousness without losing its identity.
• Nine-Tails understood her plan and submitted to Tsunade.
• Tsunade turned to Jiraiya and Orochimaru and told them to prepare for Three-Tails.

Tsunade sensed the Five-Tails and Six-Tails in the Land of Earth and the Land of Water, then used Minato Namikaze’s Flying Thunder God to seize the Five-Tails Jinchuriki from Ōnoki. After extracting most of the Five-Tails’ chakra, she returned the still-living but weakened jinchūriki to Ōnoki and warned him not to deceive her again.

• Tsunade sensed the Five-Tails in the Land of Earth and the Six-Tails in the Land of Water through the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.
• Tsunade found Minato Namikaze and traveled with him to the Tsuchikage Building, where she forced Ōnoki to reveal the Five-Tails Jinchuriki’s location.
• Tsunade took the Five-Tails Jinchuriki to Konoha, where Jiraiya and Orochimaru used Nine Dragons Sealing to extract the Five-Tails’ chakra.
• Tsunade confirmed the Five-Tails Jinchuriki was still alive and had Minato return him to the Land of Earth.
• Tsunade kicked in the newly repaired Tsuchikage Building door and warned Ōnoki before leaving with Minato.

Tsunade captured the Six-Tails and fed its chakra to the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, leaving only the Nine-Tails to complete the revival. After the Nine-Tails willingly transferred its chakra and consciousness, the statue awakened and the Ten-Tails revived.

• Tsunade found the Six-Tails in a swamp in the Land of Water, knocked it unconscious, and brought it back to Konoha.
• The Demonic Statue of the Outer Path drained the Six-Tails' chakra, and Tsunade placed the surviving creature in a jar of culture fluid to recover.
• Tsunade spoke with the Nine-Tails, which agreed to transfer its chakra and consciousness into the statue while remaining itself.
• Tsunade released the Nine-Tails from her seal, and its chakra and consciousness flowed into the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.
• The statue opened its nine eyes, shed its shell, and rose as the Ten-Tails revived.

Tsunade absorbed the Ten-Tails and transformed into a Six Paths Mode wielder with a Nine-Tomoe Rinnegan. She discovered her new abilities and ended by splitting Konoha's Back Mountain with a single punch.

• Tsunade absorbed the Ten-Tails as Jiraiya and Orochimaru watched.
• Tsunade emerged with silver-white hair, a red tomoe Yin Seal, and a Nine-Tomoe Rinnegan, and she demonstrated Six Paths Mode abilities including a Truth-Seeking Orb, flight, and a Black Rod.
• Tsunade sensed that she had not awakened Limbo: Border Jail or Amenotejikara, but had gained two upgraded abilities.
• Tsunade used Myriad Divine Attraction to pull a distant boulder toward her and stop it in midair.
• Tsunade tested Great Strength with a punch that split Konoha's Back Mountain in two.