Recaps

Tsunade prepared for the coming war by training, learning sealing and medical techniques, and building alliances as she pursued a plan to restore her bloodline. The stretch ended with her facing a risky treatment for Fuga’s parasites.

• Tsunade sought Might Duy’s Eight Gates notes, began studying sealing techniques with Mito, and resolved to protect Nawaki from the coming war.
• Tsunade injured Jiraiya while stopping his peeping at the bathhouse, then healed him and created a Menstrual Seal to manage her period.
• Tsunade partnered with Orochimaru to investigate her Senju and Uzumaki blood, tested the first four Eight Gates, and accepted Hiruzen Sarutobi’s task of organizing and training Konoha’s women.
• Tsunade saved Hoshina Hyuga and her unborn daughter by sealing the fetus inside the womb, then helped Hoshina give birth to Hiyomi Hyuga.
• Tsunade and Orochimaru discovered that Danzo had taken Hashirama Senju’s remains to a hidden laboratory, and Tsunade secured Orochimaru’s promise to report on her Bloodline Reversion Plan within three months.
• Tsunade built ties with Yamanaka Sora, Lola Akimichi, and Ria Nara by treating their postpartum ailments, then went to examine Fuga at the Inuzuka compound.
• Tsunade explained that surgery or poison could treat Fuga’s medicine-resistant parasites, and Fuga chose the dangerous poison treatment.

Tsunade strengthened her ties across Konoha, trained new disciples, and prepared for threats to the Land of Whirlpools. After securing access to the Book of Seals, she arranged a battle between Jiraiya and Orochimaru, which ended with Jiraiya beginning to reveal his Senjutsu.

• Tsunade cured Fuga of the parasites, earning Yuri Inuzuka and the Inuzuka clan’s support.
• After Tsunade’s serum experiment left Jiraiya hospitalized, Mikoto became her apprentice and Tsunade founded the Konoha Women's Mutual Aid Association.
• Tsunade completed the Strength of a Hundred Seal, entered Hashirama State, opened the Eight Gates, and told Hiruzen Sarutobi she would become the Fourth Hokage.
• Tsunade welcomed Kushina Uzumaki and her daughter Kushina, promised to protect the girl, and began preparing to respond to danger in the Land of Whirlpools.
• Tsunade helped Minato Namikaze and Nawaki learn the Flying Thunder God Technique, then made Minato and Kushina her disciples.
• Tsunade established a Special Training Class for the children of Konoha’s clans and recruited Jiraiya and Orochimaru to teach alongside her.
• Tsunade persuaded Hiruzen Sarutobi to let her, Jiraiya, and Orochimaru each choose a jutsu from the Book of Seals, and Jiraiya chose Dragon Flame Song.
• Tsunade started a training match between Jiraiya and Orochimaru, and Jiraiya summoned two toads as he began to reveal his Senjutsu.

Tsunade brought her students and allies to the Land of Whirlpools, defeated the Third Kazekage, and led the surviving Uzumaki to Konoha as war broke out. She then confronted the Cloud army and defeated Blue B after he transformed into the Eight-Tails, leaving Third Raikage A and his demoralized forces facing her challenge.

• Jiraiya entered Sage Mode and defeated Orochimaru’s Yamata no Orochi, then Tsunade treated both of them and recruited Hatake Sakumo and Chen to teach her Special Training Class.
• Tsunade took Minato, Nawaki, and Kushina to the Land of Whirlpools, where they met Yui and Tsunade inspected the Uzumaki Shinigami Mask.
• After Tsunade sensed the Land of Whirlpools was under attack, Minato and Nawaki transported her forces there, and Tsunade killed the Third Kazekage while Orochimaru and Jiraiya fought the Third Mizukage’s forces.
• Tsunade helped Yui lead the surviving Uzumaki to Konoha, where she learned that the Land of Wind and the Land of Water had declared war and blamed Konoha for the Third Kazekage’s death.
• Tsunade rejected Danzo’s accusations, organized Konoha’s forces across three fronts, and led Minato and a large force north to meet the Cloud army.
• Tsunade fought Third Raikage A with the Eight Gates and her Yin Seal, injuring him badly before turning to face Blue B as well.
• Tsunade attacked Blue B before his Tailed Beast transformation was complete, battered his transformed body with Morning Peacock, and forced him to become the Eight-Tails.
• Tsunade used the Great Peacock King to break the Eight-Tails’ left horn and collapse its chakra form, then challenged A and the demoralized Cloud army.

Tsunade led Konoha to decisive victories over Sunagakure, Kirigakure, and the Land of Lightning, then defeated Ōnoki at Kannabi Bridge. She collapsed from her injuries after Minato teleported her away, while a black-and-white figure searched the place she had fallen.

• Tsunade killed Chiyo and helped Konoha defeat Sunagakure, then sent Hatake Sakumo into the Land of Wind while she, Jiraiya, and Minato moved to the Kirigakure front.
• Tsunade and Jiraiya killed the Third Mizukage, defeated the Seven Ninja Swordsmen and Yagura, and helped rout Kirigakure, and Orochimaru subdued the Three-Tails jinchūriki.
• Tsunade survived Orochimaru’s Cell Enhancement Serum 2.0 and returned to Konoha, where she assigned forces to the Land of Rain and Kannabi Bridge before preparing to face Cloud.
• Tsunade and Hiruzen Sarutobi battled A and the Cloud forces with Mito Uzumaki’s help, and Tsunade killed A before the remaining Cloud shinobi surrendered.
• Tsunade arrived at Kannabi Bridge, revealed A’s corpse to Ōnoki, and challenged him to surrender if she won their fight.
• Tsunade defeated Ōnoki, who ordered Iwagakure’s forces to stop fighting, but she collapsed after Minato teleported her away from the battlefield.