Recaps

Reborn as Uchiha Itachi, Madara tried to steer the Uchiha Clan and Konoha toward peace while growing into a prodigious shinobi. After graduating and forming Team One, he joined a caravan escort mission that ended in a bloody clash with bandits.

• Madara learned that Black Zetsu had manipulated him to resurrect Kaguya, then awoke as a baby named Uchiha Itachi and recognized that war was approaching.
• As the Third Shinobi World War began, Madara trained Shisui, accompanied Fugaku to the battlefield, and witnessed the cruelty of combat firsthand.
• After the war, Madara met Orochimaru, welcomed his newborn brother Sasuke, and resolved to train him as an ally.
• Following the Nine-Tails’ attack and the Uchiha relocation, Madara urged Fugaku to manage clan tensions and began building influence among the Uchiha and in Konoha.
• Madara excelled at the Ninja Academy, graduated early, and persuaded Shisui to question his ANBU service and watch how Konoha treated the Uchiha and Naruto.
• Madara passed Kazuhiko Sarutobi’s bell test with Hayato Hyuga and Sōsuke Aburame, forming Team One while Sōsuke secretly reported on him to Danzō.
• Team One escorted Shizuko’s caravan toward the Land of Rice Fields, where bandits ambushed them and Kazuhiko ordered his students to fight.
• Madara defended Hayato from the bandits, killed several attackers, and helped capture the situation for questioning while Hayato struggled with the bloodshed.

Madara Uchiha led Hayato Hyuga and Sōsuke Aburame through the Chunin Exams in Sunagakure, where Hayato grew stronger under Madara’s guidance and Madara won the tournament. After all three were promoted to chunin, Kazuhiko Sarutobi took Madara to meet Hiruzen Sarutobi outside Konoha.

• Hayato Hyuga killed the surviving bandits before Orochimaru appeared, spared Kazuhiko Sarutobi’s team, and warned them to leave him alone.
• Madara Uchiha challenged young Uchiha clan members to contests, defeated them, and earned their recognition as their leader.
• Hayato Hyuga sought the Chunin Exams to gain Lord Hiashi’s attention, and Kazuhiko Sarutobi eventually registered him, Madara, and Sōsuke Aburame for the exams in Sunagakure.
• Madara, Hayato, and Sōsuke passed the desert survival round, and Hayato defeated Tetsuya Raikō in the preliminaries while Madara killed Sandō Raikō with a fire technique.
• Madara trained Hayato in taijutsu, chakra control, and Eight Trigrams Vacuum Palm, and Hayato defeated Sato Ei and later forfeited rather than fight Madara.
• Madara defeated Takuma Iwakawa and Lingchuan Ling to win the tournament, and the Third Hokage promoted Madara, Hayato, and Sōsuke to chunin.
• Hayato asked Madara to keep training him, and after Madara returned to Konoha, Kazuhiko took him to a secluded clearing where Hiruzen Sarutobi had summoned him.

Madara Uchiha helped bring the Uchiha Clan closer to peaceful cooperation with Konoha, then escorted Shinhiko Kōzuki through a coordinated assassination attempt. The fighting left Hayato Hyuga badly injured, while Sōsuke Aburame unleashed a swarm against Shinhiko and his samurai.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi agreed to trust Fugaku after Uchiha Itachi warned that suspicion could push the clan toward rebellion, and Madara Uchiha later persuaded Fugaku to seek peaceful cooperation with Konoha.
• Madara Uchiha challenged the Uchiha Hardliners, earned Shisui Uchiha’s support, and began training Sasuke Uchiha, Hayato Hyuga, and Neji Hyuga.
• After Raikō Tarō’s attempted abduction of Hinata ended with his death, Madara Uchiha offered Hayato Hyuga a way to escape the Caged Bird Seal’s restrictions, and Hayato agreed to serve him.
• Madara Uchiha joined Kazuhiko Sarutobi’s team to escort Shinhiko Kōzuki, and Shinhiko persuaded Madara to seek the Hokage’s office rather than abandon Konoha.
• Iwagakure and Sunagakure ninja attacked Shinhiko’s procession, and Madara Uchiha killed the four Sunagakure attackers while Shinhiko fought alongside him.
• Madara Uchiha and Shinhiko Kōzuki defeated the Root assassins, while Hayato Hyuga broke through Iwagakure’s earth prison at great cost and was carried to safety.
• After Shinhiko’s samurai gathered, Sōsuke Aburame unleashed Bloodsucking Worms, Bloodsucking Mosquitoes, kikaichū, Poison Scorpions, and flesh-burrowing beetles against the group.

Madara returned to Konoha, helped end the Uchiha Hardliners’ rebellion plans, and earned the village’s trust while rising toward jōnin rank. As he prepared for another assassination mission, political maneuvering continued around the Uchiha, and Danzo ordered Root to kill him.

• Madara escorted Shinhiko Kōzuki safely home and received the Futsu-no-Mitama sword, while Konoha’s leaders debated the Uchiha Clan’s role in the mission.
• Madara rejected the Hardliners’ plans to leave Konoha or unleash the Nine-Tailed Fox, defeated Uchiha Ajin, and persuaded the clan to abandon rebellion.
• The Third Hokage apologized to the Uchiha and restored their central district patrols, while Madara proposed a new Military Police Force headquarters and received a secret Ninjutsu Scroll.
• Madara learned the Flying Thunder God Technique, completed an S-rank mission with Kakashi Hatake, and impressed Konoha’s leaders with his skill.
• Madara’s family and clan gathered at the new headquarters, while Danzo traded information about Madara’s whereabouts and the Third Hokage sent him on further assassinations.
• Shikaku Nara explained that Madara’s promotion assessment had also tested clan support for Uchiha Itachi, and Madara chose Might Guy as his partner for the mission against Tanaka Qinghai.
• Madara and Guy fought to a draw, then prepared to travel to the Land of Lightning as Mikoto arranged a dinner with the Yamanaka, Nara, and Akimichi families.
• Danzo ordered Yamanaka Fū and five elite Root operatives to kill Madara during the mission.