Recaps

Naruto brought Tsunade back to Konoha as the village struggled with debt and damage, while Danzo tried to manage the crisis. Sasuke and Boruto arrived from a parallel future, and their arrival led to a confrontation with Urashiki that ended with Naruto preparing to take his eyes.

• Sasuke and Kakashi were hospitalized after Itachi defeated Sasuke and escaped Konoha with Kisame, while Sasuke told Naruto he had rescued Karin during the Chunin Exams.
• Jiraiya took Naruto to find Tsunade, and Naruto’s fight with her cured her hemophobia and persuaded her to return to Konoha as Hokage.
• Tsunade faced Konoha’s debts and reconstruction, assigned Kakashi and Sakura a mission to Snow Country, and Naruto settled Tsunade’s creditors.
• Sasuke and Boruto arrived from a parallel future, where Naruto mistook them for strangers and fought them alongside Uchiha Xiao Yan.
• Zhongdeng Sasuke explained the visitors’ origins and warned Naruto about Urashiki, while Naruto healed Sasuke’s missing arm and the group battled Konohamaru and Jiraiya.
• Urashiki attacked Naruto, but Naruto escaped his restraints and struck him with his Tailed Beast Cloak and Blood Burst Technique.
• Urashiki transformed after gouging out and swallowing his eyes, and Kurama took control of Naruto before relinquishing it so Naruto could beat Urashiki with a door slab.
• Naruto gave Boruto a Red Potion and told him to feed it to Urashiki after Naruto gouged out his eyes.

Naruto’s mission to reform Sunagakure turned him into its Fifth Kazekage and sparked a church that spread underground. When Orochimaru’s chakra-consuming monsters threatened Grass Country, the Five Kage formed the Shinobi Alliance to stop them, while Naruto and Sasuke secretly went ahead.

• Naruto and Jiraiya went to Sunagakure, where Naruto tried to curb the Puppet Masters’ bizarre training and discovered that Gaara wanted to build door panels so villagers could sleep well.
• Gaara named Naruto the Fifth Kazekage, and Naruto accepted while Sunagakure embraced mechanical modifications and the Church of the Mechanical God.
• Team 10 arrived in New Sand Village, and Jiraiya later learned how radically Sunagakure had changed before urging Naruto to return home.
• Tsunade took Naruto and Hinata back to Konoha, while Sunagakure suppressed the church and Gaara and Kankuro moved it underground, and Sasuke and Naruto’s clone also learned that Hoshigakure used the Mysterious Peacock Method.
• Orochimaru’s experiment produced chakra-consuming monsters that spread through Grass Country, and Sasuke warned Naruto that they would grow stronger as they devoured chakra.
• Tsunade gathered the Five Kage at the Land of Iron after Jiraiya reported the outbreak, while Obito and Pain ordered Akatsuki to confront the monsters.
• Sasori and Deidara reached Grass Country and found the church and the Scientific Truth Society fighting amid the destruction.
• The Five Kage agreed to form the Shinobi Alliance, while Naruto and Sasuke secretly used a Light Gate to travel to Grass Country ahead of the response.

Naruto and his allies stopped Hyde and the Gelel Stone from destroying the world, while the Akatsuki received credit for resolving the crisis. Naruto then pursued Orochimaru’s research and tried to push Jiraiya toward confessing to Tsunade, as Obito confronted Toneri on the moon.

• Naruto and Sasuke escaped the Grass Country battle after Nagato used Planetary Devastation, and Naruto later returned to the Land of Iron with Sasuke.
• Naruto began Sage Art training at Mount Myōboku, while Orochimaru returned to his base and revealed that Uchiha Tsuki had been created from his and Sasuke’s cells.
• Sasuke, Karin, and Mitsuki reached the Pure Land, where Mitsuki called Sasuke his father, and Naruto revived the fallen group with Undying Totems.
• Naruto joined Shikamaru and Sakura-ge on a mission involving the Gelel Stone, then infiltrated the Land Fortress and discovered that Hyde had transformed people into Black Fatty soldiers.
• Naruto fought Hyde near the mineral vein as the Gelel Stone’s energy unleashed a hurricane, and Kurama absorbed the Spirit Vein to calm the disaster.
• Gaara told the Five Kage the crisis was over, while Naruto later learned Orochimaru was researching ways to fuse Kekkei Genkai and helped restore Orochimaru’s arms.
• Naruto had Orochimaru summon the Third Hokage, gave Whirlpool Stark the Impure World Reincarnation scroll, and took Hinata to Mount Myōboku for training.
• Naruto pushed Jiraiya to confess to Tsunade, while Obito traveled to the moon and began fighting Toneri, who said the planet would be destroyed in an hour.

Naruto infiltrated Akatsuki as Kurosaki Ichigo, helped capture Shukaku without killing Gaara, and returned to Konoha as Akatsuki pursued its plans. Hiruko then declared war, but Naruto and Sasuke stopped him while uncovering a strange connection between Boruto and Hidan; the arc ended with Obito abandoning his attempt to kill Kakashi after seeing him in a qipao.

• Naruto mastered Sage Art, created the Nine Revolutions Mysterious Technique, and gained new powers from the Black Coffin’s Golden Rinnegan.
• Naruto and Sasuke’s friends got caught in Sasuke’s cross-dressing wager, and Tsunade punished the group with street cleaning and lengthy self-criticisms.
• Naruto joined Akatsuki under the name Kurosaki Ichigo after bribing Kakuzu, then convinced Sasori and Deidara to help him capture Gaara without killing him.
• Naruto used Minato’s help and the Undying Totem to seal Shukaku inside himself, restore Gaara, and deliver a small portion of Shukaku’s chakra to Akatsuki.
• At Akatsuki’s meeting, Naruto and his allies hid their deception while Pain sealed the One-Tail Chakra into the Demonic Statue, and Black Zetsu used Yang Power to heal Obito.
• Hiruko threatened the villages and declared the Fourth Shinobi World War, while Pain assigned Naruto and Hidan to retrieve Hiruko’s head.
• Naruto confronted Boruto, who possessed Hidan and described hearing strange voices, while Sasuke killed Hiruko and rescued Mitsuki.
• Obito entered Kakashi’s home to confront him but fled after finding him posing in a qipao, while Naruto discovered Whirlpool Stark and the Third Hokage arguing over Impure World Reincarnation.