Recaps

Kazan’s acceptance of the Uchiha and the Nine-Tails surprised Kushina and Minato, while Konoha and the Land of Fire negotiated support for the coming war. The daimyo agreed to provide Konoha with resources after Hiruzen promised to defend the Land of Fire.

• Kazan told Kushina and Minato that he treated the Uchiha as comrades and urged Kushina not to reject the Nine-Tails, prompting both to reconsider their impressions of him.
• Kazan said goodbye to Kushina and the Nine-Tails after dinner, and Kushina admitted that she found him interesting despite his irritating behavior.
• The next day, Hiruzen Sarutobi met with the daimyo of the Land of Fire to discuss Konoha’s needs as war approached.
• Mitokado Homura explained the scale and cost of a Shinobi World War as Konoha’s leaders and the daimyo haggled over funding.
• Hiruzen promised that Konoha would not let the Land of Fire lose territory, and the daimyo agreed to provide gunpowder and ore on the condition that Konoha win.

Hiruzen Sarutobi secured supplies from the Land of Fire and formed an alliance with smaller villages, arranging for Konoha’s forces to defend its borders from within their territories if war broke out. Konoha entered a state of war, with Danzo assigned to guard the rear and Hiruzen ordering Tsunade’s return to be sought.

• The Daimyo of the Land of Fire approved Konoha’s requests for war supplies and weapons.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi negotiated with representatives of Hidden Field Village, Kusagakure, and Hidden Cage Village, promising Konoha’s support while postponing discussion of war spoils.
• Konoha and the smaller villages formed an alliance and agreed that Konoha’s forces would enter their territories to keep the fighting away from Konoha and the Land of Fire.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi put Danzo in charge of the rear defenses and ordered Root’s ninja to infiltrate the Land of Water.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi learned that Jiraiya was returning to the village and ordered someone to try to persuade Tsunade to come back.

News of True Kazan’s strength spread among the villages, prompting Iwagakure and Kumogakure to put him on their kill lists. Madara Uchiha also learned of Kazan, but focused on Kumogakure’s jinchūriki-control technique and continued preparing his Eye of the Moon plan.

• Ebizo told Grandma Chiyo that Kumogakure had mastered perfect jinchūriki control and urged her to target True Kazan.
• After reviewing intelligence about Kazan, Ōnoki ordered Iwagakure to put him on its kill list and placed a fifty-million-ryō bounty on him.
• The Third Raikage struck A after learning Yugito Nii had lost to Kazan, then ordered elite Kumogakure ninja to kill Kazan if they encountered him.
• Madara Uchiha learned about Kazan and told Black Zetsu to watch Kumogakure’s jinchūriki-control technique, while directing him to guide Nagato’s growth.

Kazan gained strength after the Chunin Ninja Exams made him famous, then trained his abilities and considered how to develop his Haki and learn Medical Ninjutsu. At the Ninja Academy, his classmates discussed his new reputation, while Jing Uchiha and Asuka Hyuga resolved to train harder and catch up.

• Kazan received a 10% increase in his Monkey D. Garp's Template fusion, bringing it to 30%, and shattered a rock face with his enhanced physical strength.
• Kazan created Shadow Clones to train the Six Powers, improve his Chakra control, and work toward mastering Medical Ninjutsu and Haki.
• Kazan rode Hakimi to the Forest of Death to hunt and thought about awakening Conqueror's Haki.
• Yamanaka Yangwei, his classmates, Anko, and Jing Uchiha discussed Kazan's fight with Yugito Nii and debated whether Iron Fist Kazan or Demon God Kazan suited him better.
• Jing Uchiha vowed to repay Kazan for his punch, while Asuka Hyuga considered early graduation so he could spend more time training.

Kazan asked Hiruzen Sarutobi to teach him Medical Ninjutsu, so Hiruzen assigned him an A-Rank mission to find Tsunade and bring her back, with Jiraiya as his likely companion. When Jiraiya found Kazan at his training ground, the two bonded over their preferences in women, and Jiraiya declared him his junior disciple.

• Kazan smashed his way into the Hokage's Office and asked Hiruzen Sarutobi to help him learn Medical Ninjutsu.
• Hiruzen gave Kazan an A-Rank mission to find Tsunade and bring her back to Konoha, and told him to wait for news and another person to join him.
• Kazan kicked the office door off its hinges after Hiruzen told him to use it, prompting Hiruzen to shout after him.
• Jiraiya arrived at Kazan's training ground, introduced himself as the Toad Sage, and asked Kazan what kind of woman he liked.
• Kazan described his preferences, and Jiraiya embraced him and declared him his junior disciple.

Jiraiya and Kazan were caught trying to peep at women bathing, then Hiruzen Sarutobi ordered them to bring Tsunade back to Konoha. Jiraiya agreed to persuade her, while Kazan prepared to approach the difficult sannin for training.

• Jiraiya took Kazan to Konoha bathhouses, where the two rated the women and discussed ways to sneak inside.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi used the Telescope Technique to find Jiraiya and Kazan, then sent an ANBU Ninja to summon them.
• Jiraiya and Kazan planned to enter a bathhouse in disguise and from above, but the ANBU Ninja interrupted them.
• Jiraiya and Kazan met Hiruzen Sarutobi, who told them the ANBU had found Tsunade and ordered them to bring her back to Konoha.
• Jiraiya agreed to persuade Tsunade, and Hiruzen warned Kazan that she would be difficult if he wanted her to teach him.

Kazan and Jiraiya left Konoha to find Tsunade, and Jiraiya taught Kazan the Summoning Technique during their journey. At the Land of Rain border, Kazan detected and defeated a rogue Mist Ninja who ambushed them.

• Kazan packed supplies, said goodbye to Hakimi, and met Jiraiya at the village gate.
• Kazan and Jiraiya traveled toward the Land of Birds, and Jiraiya tested Kazan's Chakra natures, finding lightning and earth.
• Kazan asked how to form a Summoning Contract with Hakimi, so Jiraiya taught him the Summoning Technique.
• After four days, Kazan and Jiraiya left the Land of Fire and entered the rainy Land of Rain.
• A rogue Mist Ninja used the Hidden Mist Technique to ambush them, but Kazan sensed him with Observation Haki and struck him down with Fist Bone: Impact.

Kazan and Jiraiya traveled to the Land of Birds to search for Tsunade, while Jiraiya reflected on his former students in Amegakure. Kazan found Tsunade at a gambling house and used his Observation Haki to win her and Shizune Kato’s money, then followed them as Tsunade angrily demanded to know why.

• Kazan defeated and killed a rogue ninja, then told Jiraiya his Observation Haki could sense everything within two kilometers.
• Jiraiya considered visiting his former students Yahiko, Nagato, and Konan in Amegakure, but declined because Hanzo and the tense situation made it too dangerous.
• After several days of travel and fending off attacks, Kazan and Jiraiya reached the Land of Birds and split up to look for Tsunade.
• Kazan secretly extended his Observation Haki across the capital and found Tsunade gambling with Shizune Kato and her pet pig.
• Kazan bet against Tsunade’s choices and won all their money, then followed Tsunade and Shizune as Tsunade angrily confronted him.

Kazan and Jiraiya confronted Tsunade about returning to Konoha, but Kazan provoked her over her grief and challenged her in a fight. After Tsunade attacked him and damaged the izakaya, Kazan kicked her through its wall and pursued her into the street.

• Tsunade challenged Kazan to another bet, but he revealed he knew her luck turned bad whenever she won, making her suspect him.
• Jiraiya arrived, and Tsunade punched him after Kazan tossed him some of the money he had won from her.
• At an izakaya, Tsunade refused Jiraiya's request to return to Konoha, while Kazan asked for her techniques and training journals.
• Kazan taunted Tsunade about her fear of war and her lingering grief, prompting her to attack him and damage the izakaya.
• Kazan blocked Tsunade's punches, kicked her through the izakaya wall, and used Shave to chase after her.

Kazan fought Tsunade outside the city and demanded that she hand over her Medical Ninjutsu, claiming it was for Konoha’s sake. Tsunade rejected his appeal and continued battling him, leaving their clash unresolved.

• Tsunade and Kazan traded powerful blows in the izakaya, and Kazan drove the fight outside the city to limit the damage.
• Kazan pursued Tsunade through the air, sensed her Medical Ninjutsu healing her injuries, and demanded she teach him the technique.
• Kazan struck Tsunade with a devastating Chakra and Armament Haki attack that sent a storm sweeping across the capital.
• Tsunade recovered and attacked Kazan with Heavenly Foot of Pain and Monster Strength Fist while Jiraiya and Shizune followed them.
• Kazan argued that Konoha had reasons to fight its wars, then kicked the distracted Tsunade dozens of meters away.

Kazan defeated Tsunade in a fight and challenged her to stop clinging to her grief and pass on her techniques. After returning to the city, he spoke with Jiraiya, who was troubled by Kazan’s words and Tsunade’s condition.

• Kazan opened six gates and attacked Tsunade, while Jiraiya arrived and listened to their argument.
• Tsunade raged at Kazan for claiming to understand war and the deaths of her loved ones, and Kazan admitted he had never known his parents before arguing that the living must carry the dead’s will forward.
• Kazan seized Tsunade, slammed her into the ground with Ocean Floor, and triggered her hemophobia when she saw her own blood.
• Kazan ordered Tsunade to write down her techniques and insights before leaving with him the next morning, then walked back to the city as Jiraiya and Shizune stayed with her.
• Later that night, Jiraiya visited Kazan at his window, but their teasing exchange derailed the serious conversation he had hoped to have.

Tsunade regretted relying on others and asked Shizune for paper and a pen, while Kazan told Jiraiya he wanted absolute freedom and the power to be the strongest. The next morning, Tsunade gave Kazan a scroll of medical ninjutsu, leaving him confident he could eventually heal himself without her forbidden techniques.

• Tsunade admitted that Kazan was right about her weakness and asked Shizune for paper and a pen.
• Kazan told Jiraiya that he wanted absolute freedom and planned to become stronger than Hashirama and Madara.
• Jiraiya sensed a powerful, unusual force around Kazan but kept his observation to himself.
• The next morning, Tsunade reluctantly handed Kazan a scroll containing her medical ninjutsu techniques.
• Kazan found that Creation Rebirth and Strength of a Hundred were missing and concluded that his growing healing ability could eventually let him recover without them.

Kazan and Jiraiya prepared to return to Konoha, but Tsunade changed her mind and joined them with Shizune. On the journey, Tsunade began teaching Kazan Medical Ninjutsu, and he used Shadow Clones to train more efficiently.

• Kazan considered how Yin Healing Wound Destruction and the Mystical Palm Technique might work with his abilities, then set out for Konoha with Jiraiya.
• Tsunade announced she would return to the village, deciding to carry on the wishes of the First and Second Hokage, Dan, and Nawaki.
• Tsunade, Shizune, Jiraiya, and Kazan traveled toward Konoha, stopping often because Shizune struggled to keep up.
• Tsunade demonstrated the Mystical Palm Technique on a fish and instructed Kazan to practice, but he accidentally killed his fish with a blow.
• Kazan summoned dozens of Shadow Clones and divided them between practicing Medical Ninjutsu with Tsunade and catching fish.

Kazan, Jiraiya, Tsunade, and Shizune returned to Konoha after witnessing signs that war was approaching. Tsunade reunited with Hiruzen Sarutobi and said she would overcome her hemophobia, while her companions discussed Kazan’s extraordinary potential.

• Jiraiya and Tsunade investigated attacks on villages and found evidence that ninja were raiding them for wartime supplies.
• After a month of travel, Kazan, Jiraiya, Tsunade, and Shizune arrived at Konoha, where the guards and villagers welcomed Tsunade back.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi greeted Tsunade in his office, and Tsunade told him she would overcome her hemophobia and take part in the coming war.
• Jiraiya reported the attacks they had witnessed, and Kazan collected the mission pay before leaving for the Back Mountain.
• Tsunade, Jiraiya, and Hiruzen discussed Kazan’s immense chakra, unusual physical abilities, and mysterious Haki.

Kazan returned to Konoha, bonded with Hakimi as his summoning beast, and reunited with Kurenai. Hiruzen planned to send Kazan with Jiraiya as part of the advance force, while Jiraiya began to suspect that Kazan might be the Child of Prophecy.

• Kazan returned to his cabin, sealed a Summoning Contract with Hakimi, and successfully summoned the tiger from over a kilometer away.
• Kurenai visited Kazan, and they went with Hakimi to hunt and roast meat in the Forest of Death.
• Kurenai told Kazan she had graduated and asked whether he would lead a team of new graduates, but Kazan said Hiruzen had not told him anything.
• Hiruzen told Jiraiya that he planned to send Kazan with him as part of the advance force because of Kazan's strength and the bounty on his head.
• At Minato Namikaze's home, Kazan spoke with the Nine-Tails, prompting Jiraiya to wonder whether Kazan was the Child of Prophecy.

Jiraiya brought Kazan into the Advance Force as war approached, hoping to learn whether Kazan’s ability to understand others could help bring peace. After finding a burned village at the border, the force began tracking the attackers, and Jiraiya assigned clan trackers to move ahead overnight.

• Jiraiya wondered whether Kazan’s ability to understand the Nine-Tails made him capable of building bridges between people.
• At a banquet, Jiraiya told Kazan that they would join the Advance Force and head to the border in half a month, while Orochimaru had other assignments.
• Kurenai worried that Kazan was pulling ahead of her, and Kazan encouraged her to keep training with Shinku.
• Jiraiya and Kazan arrived at a burned village with their force of several hundred and found no clear traces identifying the attackers.
• Jiraiya and the clan shinobi discussed whether the enemy was testing Konoha or seeking its bases and supply routes.
• Jiraiya sent twenty Inuzuka, Hyuga, and Aburame shinobi to track the enemy overnight, then told Kazan to accompany him the next day.

Kazan continued training at the frontline and reunited with Jing Uchiha, who had awakened his Sharingan. When Konoha’s Advance Force encountered a Sand Shinobi force led by Gaara, Kazan stepped in and used one punch to halt their combined Fire Release attack.

• Kazan trained through the night, and Jing Uchiha visited him and revealed that he had awakened his Sharingan.
• Jing Uchiha avoided challenging Kazan and later went to read his clan’s history before resting.
• Jiraiya led the Konoha Advance Force along the reconnaissance markers, and Kazan sensed approaching enemies before the Hyuga clan confirmed they were Sand Shinobi.
• Gaara ordered the Sand Shinobi to attack, and their Fire Release squad launched a combined wave of flames at Konoha’s force.
• Kazan told the Water Release squad to stand down and used Fist Bone: Impact to stop the flames with a single punch.

Kazan struck the Sand Ninja forces with explosive iron fists before charging Gaara and battling his puppets. He shattered one puppet and blew away Gaara’s poison mist as Gaara ordered his troops to retreat.

• Kazan stopped the Sand Ninja’s combined fire technique with a punch and hurled nearly a hundred explosive iron fists into their formation, killing ten troops.
• Kazan charged Gaara, and Jiraiya led Konoha’s forces into battle while protecting Kazan from ambushes.
• Gaara sent two puppets to attack Kazan, but Kazan endured their senbon and fought them head-on with Armament Haki.
• Kazan shattered Gaara’s tiger-shaped puppet with a powerful punch.
• Gaara summoned a scorpion puppet, released poison mist, and ordered his troops to retreat, but Kazan blew the mist away with a punch.

Kazan killed Gaara and routed the Sand Shinobi, then helped Konoha pursue the retreating survivors. After the battle, Jiraiya praised him and Jing Uchiha came to thank him for saving his life.

• Kazan killed Gaara with a punch that destroyed his heart, then slaughtered Sand Shinobi across the battlefield.
• Kazan saved Jing Uchiha from an enemy attack, and Jing returned to battle after overcoming his fear.
• The Sand Shinobi retreated, and Jiraiya ordered Konoha's forces to pursue them and report the end of the alliance.
• Jiraiya told Kazan that Konoha had lost twenty-five dead and many wounded, and promised to seek a reward for him.
• Kazan trained with shadow clones that night, and Jing, whose Sharingan had evolved to two tomoe, came to thank him for saving his life.

Konoha's leaders learned that the Sand Shinobi had invaded the Land of Fire and that Kazan had killed Gaara and dozens of enemies. Hiruzen promoted Kazan to Special Jōnin, while Asuma's squad realized that the looming war could send them to the Frontline.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi and Konoha's leaders discussed Rasa's appointment as Fourth Kazekage, the Sand Shinobi's interest in Jinchūriki, and their motives for blaming Konoha for the Third Kazekage's death.
• The Intelligence Department delivered a battle report confirming that the Sand Shinobi had entered the Land of Fire and that Kazan had killed Gaara and thirty-eight enemies.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi promoted Kazan to Special Jōnin, and news spread that he had risen from Genin in just one year.
• Asuma heard about Kazan's promotion and demanded that Shinku Yuhi stop assigning his squad low-level missions.
• Shinku Yuhi recognized that war was approaching, while Kurenai Yuhi silently drifted into her thoughts.

After being promoted to special jōnin, Kazan secured permission to take Hakimi to Mount Myōboku and signed a summoning contract so he could travel there himself. He arrived at the sacred land, where Gamabunta challenged him and brought a palm down toward him.

• Obito urged Minato to take Team Minato to the front lines, while Kakashi fell silent after hearing that Kazan had surpassed him.
• Kazan received a system reward that raised his Garp template fusion to 40%, then learned the Third Hokage had appointed him a special jōnin.
• Kazan asked Jiraiya to arrange training for Hakimi at Mount Myōboku, and a messenger toad delivered the request.
• Mount Myōboku granted permission on the condition that Kazan sign a summoning contract, which he completed before using Reverse Summoning to travel there.
• Gamabunta confronted Kazan over arriving at Mount Myōboku and swung his palm down toward him.

Kazan battled Gamabunta at Mount Myōboku, impressing the toad with his immense strength before Sage Fukasaku intervened. Fukasaku stopped the fight and told Kazan to summon his companion, leaving Hakimi at Mount Myōboku to train.

• Kazan blocked Gamabunta’s palm and challenged him to a fight.
• Kazan punched apart Gamabunta’s Iron Cannonball, spun and slammed the toad into the ground, then continued attacking him.
• Sage Fukasaku and Sage Shima arrived and watched Kazan overpower Gamabunta.
• Sage Fukasaku stopped Kazan and Gamabunta’s clash and explained that his power was senjutsu.
• Kazan summoned Hakimi and told the tiger to train at Mount Myōboku.

Kazan returned from Mount Myōboku after agreeing to sign a Summoning Contract with Gamabunta, then resumed his duties during the war. He mastered the basics of Medical Ninjutsu by repeatedly injuring and healing a fish, and left the carp fearing it might be cooked.

• Gamabunta offered Kazan a Summoning Contract, and Kazan accepted while insisting his bond with Hakimi would remain unchanged.
• Kazan left Hakimi at Mount Myōboku to train with Sage Fukasaku and returned to Jiraiya's tent with Kōsuke.
• Jiraiya told Kazan that the pursuit force had failed and that Konoha was preparing a stronghold in the Land of Rivers because Rasa threatened war.
• Kazan practiced Medical Ninjutsu and finally learned its basics by healing a half-dead fish.
• Kazan injured the carp again and warned that he would cook it if his experiment failed.

Kazan continued experimenting with medical ninjutsu and Life Return while Konoha’s forces gathered at the front. In Sunagakure, newly appointed Fourth Kazekage Rasa prepared to invade the Land of Rivers, and his arrival alarmed Jiraiya’s camp as Kazan recalled Rasa’s ruthless ambitions.

• Kazan practiced speeding up digestion to learn Life Return, then repeatedly wounded himself with Shigan while trying to heal with medical ninjutsu.
• Jing Uchiha and arriving Konoha reinforcements watched Kazan’s self-injury training with bewilderment and admiration.
• Rasa ordered the Sand Shinobi to seize the Land of Rivers and establish outposts beside Konoha’s border, hoping for a decisive victory to strengthen his authority.
• Jiraiya learned that Rasa had arrived at the front, and Kazan considered the Fourth Kazekage’s ambition and willingness to sacrifice others for power.

Rasa ordered the Sand Shinobi to invade the Land of Rivers, prompting Jiraiya to lead Konoha’s forces across the border to drive them out. The armies clashed, and Kazan fought through the Sand Shinobi while they targeted him for killing Gaara.

• Jiraiya sought the Land of Rivers daimyo’s permission to enter, but the daimyo forbade both Konoha and the Sand Shinobi from crossing his borders.
• Rasa tore up the daimyo’s warning and ordered the Sand Shinobi to invade the Land of Rivers overnight, seizing several towns and establishing a foothold.
• Jiraiya led nearly two thousand Konoha Ninja into the Land of Rivers and ordered a frontal assault on the Sand Shinobi stronghold.
• Rasa learned that Jiraiya and Kazan were leading Konoha’s forces and ordered the Sand Shinobi to prepare for battle.
• Kazan charged into the Sand Shinobi forces, using Observation Haki and Armament Haki as they converged on him to avenge Gaara.