Recaps

Kazan welcomed a tigress named Tiger Girl into his home, practiced his Earth Release techniques, and comforted Kushina about Minato’s time on the battlefield. He also confronted Nine-Tails about grieving for the fallen Four-Tails and Five-Tails, leaving Nine-Tails angrily denying its feelings.

• Hakimi brought a wary tigress to meet Kazan, who calmed her with his chakra, named her Tiger Girl, and invited her to live with him.
• Kazan practiced the Added-Weight Rock Technique and the Light-Weight Rock Technique but found that his Added-Weight Rock Technique was still weaker than Ōnoki’s.
• Kushina visited Kazan, asked about Minato, and heard that the Rock Shinobi and Sand Shinobi had withdrawn from the battlefield.
• Kazan told Kushina that he had killed Four-Tails and Five-Tails, then teased Nine-Tails for secretly mourning them.
• Nine-Tails angrily denied caring about the other tailed beasts while Kazan insisted he could read its true feelings.

Kazan considered the future of Naruto’s birth and continued training while Konoha’s leaders weighed the war on multiple fronts. In the Land of Waves, Jiraiya hoped his former students could achieve peace, but Danzo secretly read their letter and ordered Amegakure watched.

• Kushina went home to practice cooking after hearing Minato might soon return, while Kazan wondered who would carry out Madara’s plans and whether the Nine-Tails’ Attack would still happen.
• Kazan resumed training, and Hiruzen refused to send him to help the Rock Shinobi or confront the Mist Ninja, telling Koharu to ask Kazan herself if she wanted him sent.
• Jiraiya read a letter from Yahiko, Konan, and Nagato about their hopes for peace, then burned it and went out to face the Mist Ninja’s continued attacks in the Land of Waves.
• Danzo read Jiraiya’s intercepted letter, dismissed Yahiko’s ideals, and ordered Root to closely watch Amegakure and Nagato.

Kazan mastered the Added-Weight Rock Technique and decided to seek the Akimichi Clan's Multi-Size Technique to strengthen himself further. After asking Hiruzen Sarutobi to negotiate a trade, he left Hiruzen agreeing to make the request.

• Kazan concluded that his Haki could let him fight at the Six Paths level without a Sage Body or Sage Eye.
• Kazan mastered the Added-Weight Rock Technique and used it to shatter the ground with an enhanced punch.
• Kazan decided he wanted the Akimichi Clan's Multi-Size Technique and went to ask Hiruzen Sarutobi for help.
• Kazan persuaded Hiruzen Sarutobi by explaining that he wanted to become as strong as the First and deter the great shinobi villages.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi agreed to approach the Akimichi Clan about trading for the technique.

Kazan met with Torifu Akimichi to negotiate learning the Multi-Size Technique, and Torifu asked him to explain Life Return. Kazan admitted he could not teach the technique, but agreed to stay with the Akimichi Clan for five days while Torifu studied him.

• Hiruzen summoned Kazan to the Hokage Building, where he introduced him to Torifu Akimichi.
• Torifu agreed to teach Kazan the Multi-Size Technique as long as he never passed it on to anyone else.
• Torifu asked Kazan to teach Life Return so the Akimichi Clan could absorb food energy without becoming overweight.
• Kazan explained that he had learned Life Return instinctively and did not know how to teach or train it.
• Torifu asked Kazan to stay with the Akimichi Clan for a few days, and Kazan agreed to stay for five days.

Kazan traded his experience with Life Return to the Akimichi Clan for the Multi-Size Technique, then mastered the Light-Heavy Rock Technique and learned to fly. After returning to Back Mountain, he found Kakashi waiting to challenge him.

• Kazan demonstrated Life Return to the Akimichi Clan, but his vague explanation left them unsure how to learn it.
• Torifu Akimichi gave Kazan a Scroll containing the clan's Multi-Size Technique, and Kazan promised not to teach Akimichi Clan Ninjutsu to outsiders.
• Kazan trained with Shadow Clones and mastered the Light-Heavy Rock Technique, flying above Konoha and into the sky.
• Kazan returned to the Akimichi Clan on their agreed date, then flew back to Back Mountain.
• Kakashi challenged Kazan, saying he had finished training in Lightning Release Chakra Mode and wanted to test his limits.

Kazan trained Kakashi, easily defeated him, and then learned that the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist had landed in the Land of Waves. He left at once, hoping to reach the battlefield in time.

• Kazan took Kakashi to a Training Ground, where Kakashi attacked with Chidori and Lightning Release Chakra Mode.
• Kazan praised Kakashi's potential, then overwhelmed him with Earth Release techniques and knocked him down.
• Kazan teased Kakashi about Obito and Rin, while Kakashi asked him about Kurenai.
• An ANBU summoned Kazan to meet Hiruzen Sarutobi, who told him the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist had landed in the Land of Waves two days earlier.
• Kazan refused to wait for Kakashi and the others, then flew toward the battlefield alone.

Kazan raced to the Land of Waves as Might Duy confronted the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist to protect Might Guy and prepared to open the Gate of Death. Kazan arrived and unleashed a powerful attack, forcing Duy to evacuate Guy and his teammates as the strike came down.

• Kazan refused Hiruzen Sarutobi's offer to send Team Kakashi with him and flew toward the Land of Waves.
• Might Guy, Genma Shiranui, and Ebisu encountered the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist and were quickly overwhelmed.
• Might Duy arrived, told Guy to escape and alert Jiraiya, and revealed that he intended to use the Eight Gates Released Formation's Gate of Death.
• Might Guy recalled Duy's lesson about protecting what mattered most and realized his father was willing to sacrifice himself for him.
• Kazan arrived amid Crimson Lightning and launched a red-cross attack, prompting Might Duy to carry Guy, Genma, and Ebisu away from the impact.

Kazan arrived to protect Might Duy and the children, then overwhelmed the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist with his strength and a shattered Kubikiribōchō. He killed or sent several swordsmen flying and continued attacking the survivors, hoping to earn a Hidden Achievement.

• Kazan struck the ground with Fist Bone: Impact, forcing Might Duy to carry the children away from the shockwave.
• The Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist recognized Kazan and decided to kill him rather than abandon their mission.
• Kazan stopped Juzo Biwa’s Kubikiribōchō with Haki, shattered it, and kicked Juzo Biwa away.
• Kazan wielded the broken, reinforced sword to unleash Divine Departure, sending Suikazan Fuguki flying through a line of trees.
• Kazan knocked Raiga Kurosuki away with another strike, while the Kubikiribōchō began repairing itself as it absorbed blood.
• Jinin Akebino and the remaining swordsmen attacked together, but they dodged Kazan’s blows as he vowed to kill them and sought a Hidden Achievement.

Kazan defeated and killed the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist in a battle that lasted less than ten minutes. He kept Kubikiribōchō and joked that Kurenai might use it to cut meat.

• Juzo Biwa concealed the battlefield with the Hidden Mist Technique, but Kazan used Observation Haki to attack through it.
• Kazan overpowered Hozuki Mangetsu and killed him with a Conqueror’s Haki-coated slash that bypassed his Hydrification Technique.
• Kazan drove back Munashi Jinpachi, Jinin Akebino, and Kushimaru Kuriarare, then killed Juzo Biwa after his ninjutsu failed.
• The remaining swordsmen fled, but Kazan pursued and killed Jinin Akebino, Munashi Jinpachi, and Kushimaru Kuriarare.
• Kazan finished off the Seven Ninja Swordsmen and remarked that Kurenai could use Kubikiribōchō to cut meat.

Kazan collected all seven Ninja Blades after defeating the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist, then warned Jiraiya that a Mist attack on Konoha's headquarters was imminent. After leaving Jiraiya to organize the defense, Kazan reunited with Kurenai and carried her into the night sky.

• Kazan completed the Ninja Blade Collector 1 achievement, received a five-percent increase to his Monkey D. Garp template synchronization, and wondered whether the Kusanagi Swords counted toward another achievement.
• Kazan told Might Duy to hurry back with the warning that the Mist Ninja were preparing to attack, then left for Konoha's headquarters with all seven Ninja Blades.
• Kazan arrived at headquarters, where the shinobi recognized the blades and realized he had killed the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist.
• Kazan told Jiraiya that the Seven Ninja Swordsmen had infiltrated close to headquarters and that a Mist attack was imminent; Jiraiya gathered the senior officers to plan the response.
• Kazan declined to attend the meeting, sealed the blades in a Scroll, and found Kurenai training alone beneath a tree.
• Kurenai confessed that she worried about Kazan whenever they were apart, and he draped his cloak over her before carrying her into the sky to show her the night.

Kazan learned that Jing Uchiha had died and rushed to find Jing’s injured sister, while Madara Uchiha prepared to use her to drive Jing into despair and make him his proxy. White Zetsu told Jing that his sister had been implanted with the Three-Tails and sent back to Konoha, and Jing rushed toward the Land of Waves.

• Kurenai told Kazan that Jing had died protecting a Yamanaka ninja and that his body had been lost at sea.
• Kazan realized Madara Uchiha might be involved, asked Kurenai to find Uncle Shinku, and went to look for Jing’s sister.
• Madara Uchiha revealed that the Mist Ninja had implanted the Three-Tails in Jing’s sister to awaken Jing’s Mangekyō Sharingan and recruit him as a human proxy.
• Madara Uchiha learned that Kazan had arrived in the Land of Waves, confirmed that bombs were planted, and sent Black Zetsu and White Zetsu to proceed.
• White Zetsu told Jing that the Mist Ninja had implanted the Three-Tails in his sister and sent her to Konoha’s headquarters, and Jing hurried toward the Land of Waves.

Kazan drove the Three-Tails away from Konoha's Headquarters after it took control of Misa Uchiha, then summoned the Two Great Toad Sages to ask how to remove the Binding Curse Seal Technique. As the battle between Konoha and the Mist Ninja began, Kazan stopped the Three-Tails' attack and prepared to restrain it.

• Jing Uchiha rushed to the Land of Waves, while Jiraiya and Danzo led Konoha's forces against the Mist Ninja's attack by sea.
• Shimura Danzō summoned Baku to clear the Hidden Mist Technique, and the Third Mizukage ordered the Mist Ninja to advance.
• The Mist Ninja awakened the Three-Tails, which took control of Misa Uchiha and transformed at Konoha's Headquarters.
• Kazan struck the Three-Tails away from the Headquarters and chased it, telling the Konoha Ninja to let Jiraiya and Danzo focus on the front line.
• Kazan summoned Sage Fukasaku and Sage Shima to ask how to undo the Binding Curse Seal Technique implanted in Misa Uchiha.
• Kazan stopped the Three-Tails' rolling charge with Armament Haki and used the Added-Weight Rock Technique to make it too heavy to spin.

Kazan defeated the Three-Tails after it took control of Misa Uchiha, and Sage Fukasaku and Sage Shima sealed the beast inside her. As Kazan prepared to take Misa Uchiha to Mount Myōboku, Black Zetsu readied himself to detonate the Binding Talisman.

• Kazan battered the Three-Tails, destroyed its Tailed Beast Bomb, and shattered its shell with a barrage of punches.
• Black Zetsu urged White Zetsu to bring Jing Uchiha to the fight, and Jing Uchiha rushed toward Misa despite his injuries.
• Kazan's final blow forced the Three-Tails back into Misa Uchiha, and he caught her as she fell.
• Sage Fukasaku and Sage Shima used the Five Elements Seal to keep the Three-Tails from breaking free inside Misa Uchiha.
• Kazan planned to take Misa Uchiha to Mount Myōboku, while Black Zetsu prepared to detonate the Binding Talisman.

Kazan tried to break Madara Uchiha’s Binding Talisman inside Misa Uchiha, but his attempt killed her and drove Jing Uchiha to awaken the Mangekyō Sharingan and flee with White Zetsu. Kazan returned to the battlefield and attacked the Mist Ninja, leaving the Third Mizukage ordering a retreat as a towering wave surged toward them.

• Kazan tried to destroy the Binding Talisman in Misa Uchiha’s heart, but his strike burst her heart and killed her as Jing Uchiha arrived.
• Jing Uchiha awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan in grief and rage, then White Zetsu took him underground to escape Kazan.
• Kazan failed to catch Jing Uchiha, retrieved Misa Uchiha’s body, and warned Madara Uchiha that he would answer for her death.
• Kazan entrusted Misa Uchiha’s body to Kurenai and flew to confront the Mist Ninja at Konoha’s Main Camp.
• Kazan struck the sea and sent a massive wave toward the Mist Ninja, prompting the Third Mizukage to order a retreat.

Kazan killed the Third Mizukage with a thousand-meter drop, forcing the Mist Ninja to retreat while Konoha secured victory at sea. Afterward, Danzo and Jiraiya debated whether to pursue the retreating forces, but Kazan was absent from their meeting.

• The Third Mizukage, Mei Terumi, and Karatachi Yagura tried to hold off Kazan, while Mei and Yagura moved to help the Mist Ninja retreat.
• Kazan exposed the submerged Third Mizukage, battered him, and carried him a thousand meters into the sky before hurling him into the sea, killing him.
• The grieving Mist Ninja withdrew beyond the horizon, and Kazan chose not to pursue them.
• Danzo and Jiraiya met to discuss pursuing the Mist Ninja for resources, but Jiraiya warned that fighting at sea would cause heavy losses.
• Jiraiya looked for Kazan, who had returned after the battle but had not come to the meeting.

Kazan and Jiraiya agreed to end Konoha’s war with the Mist Ninja without seeking reparations, despite Danzo’s objections. Danzo left the meeting fearing the growing strength of Hiruzen Sarutobi’s faction and decided to enlist Orochimaru’s support in the contest for the Fourth Hokage’s position.

• Jiraiya asked Kazan to help investigate Jing Uchiha’s return, but Kazan said he would handle it himself.
• Kazan supported Jiraiya’s plan to sign a ceasefire with the Mist Ninja and let Konoha’s ninja return home.
• Danzo argued that Konoha should pursue the Mist Ninja across the sea and demand reparations, but Kazan and Jiraiya opposed him.
• Kazan and Jiraiya persuaded Konoha’s leaders to end the war without reparations, and Danzo stormed out of the meeting.
• Danzo ordered someone to tell Orochimaru what had happened and considered him a potential ally in the race to become Fourth Hokage.

Jing Uchiha accepted Madara Uchiha’s plan after Miya’s death and was trained to carry on under Madara’s name. Meanwhile, the Mist Ninja withdrew from the Land of Waves, and Konoha’s war ended as Jiraiya and Danzo returned home.

• Madara Uchiha revealed his identity and persuaded Jing Uchiha that hatred could only be escaped through the Eye of the Moon Plan.
• Jing Uchiha joined the plan, and Madara Uchiha trained him and gave him the Summoning Contract for Nine-Tails before dying.
• Jing Uchiha vowed to take revenge on the Mist Ninja and ordered Black and White Zetsu to find someone recorded in Sarutobi and Senju histories.
• Konoha and the Mist Ninja concluded negotiations, and the Mist Ninja withdrew from the Land of Waves.
• Jiraiya and Danzo led their forces back to the Land of Earth as Konoha’s war ended.

Kazan returned to Konoha after the war, and Hiruzen Sarutobi announced that he would step down and choose the Fourth Hokage. As the village and its clans weighed the candidates, the Uchiha Clan decided to seek Kazan's support despite doubting he wanted the position.

• Kazan and Jiraiya returned to Konoha, where families welcomed survivors and mourned those who had died.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi told Jiraiya and Kazan that he planned to retire and asked their views on the next Hokage; both backed Minato Namikaze, with Kazan also naming Tsunade as qualified.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi ordered the village informed of the succession and had his agents monitor the Shinobi Clans as villagers debated candidates including Kazan.
• Uchiha Fugaku convened the Uchiha Clan to discuss whom to support, and its members argued over Orochimaru before voicing their preference for Kazan.
• Uchiha Fugaku and the Uchiha elders resolved to speak with Kazan, hoping he would become Hokage despite believing he had little interest in the position.

Uchiha Fugaku asked Kazan to run for Fifth Hokage, and Kazan agreed to consider it. Hiruzen Sarutobi then sent Kazan to investigate reports that Rōran was making weapons with the Ryumyaku, which Kazan hoped might help him create a Fourth Great Sage Land.

• Uchiha Fugaku asked Kazan to run for Fifth Hokage on behalf of the Uchiha Clan, and Kazan agreed to think it over.
• Kazan gave Uchiha Fugaku the Nuibari as a gift for becoming head of the Uchiha Clan.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi summoned Kazan and ordered him to investigate reports that Rōran was producing weapons of war.
• Kazan recognized Rōran from The Lost Tower and considered whether the Ryumyaku could help create a Fourth Great Sage Land.

Kazan traveled to Rōran to investigate the Ryumyaku and encountered Sara and Naruto Uzumaki, who had been sent back in time. Kazan realized Naruto came from the future, while Naruto learned that the Third Shinobi World War had not yet ended.

• Kazan left Konoha for Rōran and considered seeking out the One-Tail on the way, but decided to postpone it.
• Kazan sensed that Rōran’s streets were filled with puppets and identified Anrokuzan as the rogue ninja behind them.
• Sara fell from Rōran’s central tower, and Kazan caught her before Naruto could reach her.
• Naruto recognized Kazan but mistook him for Kazan’s son, so Kazan knocked him down and asked him to explain what had happened.
• Naruto introduced himself as Naruto Uzumaki and described being swept into the Ryumyaku’s energy, and Kazan concluded that he had traveled back to a time before the Third Shinobi World War ended.

Kazan exposed Anrokuzan’s deception to Queen Sara and learned that Anrokuzan had gained the Ryumyaku’s power. As Anrokuzan’s puppet army surrounded them, Kazan unleashed a devastating attack, leaving Sara to witness his overwhelming strength.

• Kazan took Sara to see that Rōran’s supposed citizens were puppets, and Sara realized Anrokuzan had deceived her.
• A giant puppet attacked Kazan and Sara, but Kazan destroyed it with a flick of his finger.
• Sara accepted Kazan’s account, discarded her royal garments, and agreed to confront Anrokuzan at the Ryumyaku Source.
• Anrokuzan arrived with a vast puppet army and boasted that the Ryumyaku’s power made him unstoppable.
• Jing Uchiha and another uninvited guest watched from hiding as Kazan entered Sage Mode and prepared to attack.
• Kazan unleashed Conqueror’s Haki and struck the puppet army with Fist Bone: Impact despite Sara’s warning.

Kazan fought Anrokuzan, who used the Ryumyaku to regenerate and control a gigantic puppet, by summoning an enormous Rock Giant. As Kazan’s battle devastated Rōran, Sara ran to the Ryumyaku Source while Naruto followed, and Kazan battered Anrokuzan’s puppet into pieces.

• Anrokuzan regenerated with the Ryumyaku’s power and sent a swarm of puppets to attack Kazan.
• Kazan smashed the puppets, but Anrokuzan absorbed their fragments and formed a gigantic puppet.
• Kazan summoned a massive Rock Giant and struck Anrokuzan’s puppet, sending it crashing through Rōran’s buildings.
• Kazan urged Sara to lead Rōran’s people toward rebuilding, and Sara ran toward the Ryumyaku Source while Naruto followed to protect her.
• Anrokuzan attacked the Rock Giant with purple flames, but Kazan advanced through them and repeatedly punched Anrokuzan’s puppet apart.

Kazan defeated Anrokuzan despite the power of the Ryumyaku, then destroyed Rōran’s puppet factories and freed the people forced to work in them. After the Ryumyaku thanked him, Kazan asked the young entity for help.

• Kazan used his Haki-infused attacks to overwhelm Anrokuzan’s regeneration and killed him before he could recover.
• Kazan showed Rōran’s citizens his Konoha forehead protector and agreed to help them, then broke through the ground to reach Anrokuzan’s puppet workshop.
• Kazan destroyed the workshop and rescued the abducted workers, who reunited with their families.
• Kazan followed the Ryumyaku’s energy and destroyed the other puppet factories across Rōran.
• The Ryumyaku thanked Kazan, and he told it he needed its help.

Kazan saved Rōran from Anrokuzan and asked the Ryumyaku for help establishing a Fourth Sacred Land in the Forest of Death. He left with a Ryumyaku clone, while Sara returned to her people and discovered the devastation Kazan had caused.

• Kazan told Sara that Anrokuzan was dead and that he had rescued the people Anrokuzan had captured.
• Kazan spoke with the Ryumyaku, which gave him a purple gem that could help strengthen natural energy in the Forest of Death.
• Kazan said goodbye to Sara and left, promising she could contact him through the Ryumyaku.
• Sara returned to the surface and found much of Rōran destroyed by Kazan and Anrokuzan's battle.
• Sara called Kazan a bastard, then resolved to lead her people as they rebuilt Rōran.

Kazan returned from Rōran and began transforming Konoha’s Forest of Death into the Fourth Great Sage Land by planting a Ryumyaku core and ordering its beasts to learn Senjutsu. Hiruzen Sarutobi backed the plan despite Danzo’s objections, leaving the project underway and tensions with Danzo unresolved.

• Jing Uchiha used Sara to carve instructions into the Ryumyaku, then explained that Kazan could hear all things and that the Ryumyaku would distrust outsiders.
• Kazan returned to Konoha the day he left, reported his mission to Hiruzen Sarutobi, and told him not to disturb him while he worked on something important.
• Kazan brought Kurenai, Hakimi, and Tiger Girl to the Forest of Death and buried a Ryumyaku core there, causing Natural Energy to gather throughout the forest.
• Kazan ordered the Forest of Death’s subdued animal overlords to practice Senjutsu and told Kurenai he had already discussed the plan with the Third Hokage.
• Danzo, Mitokado Homura, and Utatane Koharu urged Hiruzen Sarutobi to stop Kazan, but Hiruzen supported the plan as a future force for Konoha.
• Danzo stormed out after Hiruzen Sarutobi refused to change his decision.