Recaps

As Nagato’s Akatsuki began capturing the tailed beasts, Obito exploited the unrest surrounding Tetsuya’s supposed death to turn the villages against one another. Gaara was abducted, Naruto set out to rescue him, and Tsunade braced Konoha for the widening threat.

• Jiraiya offered to train Naruto, while Nagato resolved to rein in Akatsuki members and Obito began plotting against Tetsuya.
• Obito arranged an ambush in the Land of Hot Water, but Tetsuya survived the attack and used Hidan’s blood ritual to make the Akatsuki believe he was dead.
• Tetsuya’s reported death fueled unrest among the nations, while Naruto and several others earned their Jonin ranks and Tsunade’s council prepared for possible war.
• Nagato assigned Akatsuki teams to capture tailed beasts, and Tetsuya recruited Kabuto for a mission as Sasori and Deidara attacked Sunagakure.
• Gaara defended Sunagakure but was captured by Deidara, while Naruto and the Konoha team fought Sasori and learned that the Akatsuki were targeting jinchūriki.
• Naruto asked the Shinobi World Dream Ambassador for Gaara’s location and set out with Chiyo to rescue him as Nagato began extracting the One-Tail.
• Obito accepted Danzo’s offer to frame Tsunade as a warmonger and maneuvered to make other villages believe Konoha controlled the Akatsuki.
• Dodai warned A that the Akatsuki attacks might be linked to Konoha’s visits, while Tsunade strengthened Konoha’s defenses and worried about Naruto’s rescue mission.

As Akatsuki hunted jinchūriki and manipulated the villages, Sasuke challenged and killed Itachi, then learned of Obito’s role in the massacre. Konoha pursued an alliance with Takigakure, but Akatsuki moved to seize its jinchūriki, leaving Jiraiya and Kabuto facing off in Sage Mode.

• Yugito fought Obito and Hidan but was captured, while Akatsuki sealed the One-Tail and Gaara died, and Naruto arrived demanding Gaara back.
• Akatsuki captured Roshi, and Ōnoki suspected Konoha was linked to Akatsuki after a genjutsu-controlled Iwagakure ninja delivered its plans to the Konoha delegation.
• Tetsuya helped the Uchiha survivors agree that Sasuke should confront Itachi, and Sasuke publicly challenged him to a duel in seven days.
• Sasuke fought Itachi at the shrine, defeated him, and rejected his plan to return to Konoha as a mediator before Itachi died.
• Obito tried to recruit Sasuke by offering information about Itachi, but Rin attacked him and used Isobu’s power to drive him off as Konoha forces approached.
• Tsunade warned the other villages about Akatsuki, while Ōnoki proposed a Five Kage Summit and Nagato sent Obito to recruit the wounded Kabuto.
• Takigakure sought Konoha’s protection for Kaede, but Obito planned to capture her and frame Konoha, and Jiraiya confronted the disguised Akatsuki escorts.
• Obito pursued Kaede while Kabuto and Jiraiya entered Sage Mode and began fighting, with Kabuto unleashing Sage Art: White Rage Technique.

Danzo seized the Hokage position as tensions between the villages escalated, but Kabuto and the Uchiha killed him with Tetsuya’s help. Tetsuya then revealed his ties to Yahiko and Jigen, while the supposed death of Jiraiya helped ignite a war that left Konoha, Iwagakure, Kumogakure, and Sunagakure preparing for battle.

• Obito captured Kaede, and Kabuto withdrew after reviving fallen Konoha ninja while Jiraiya prepared to send them back to the Pure Land.
• At the Five Kage Summit, the Raikage and Ōnoki accused Konoha of aiding the Akatsuki, and their fight with Tsunade and Jiraiya deepened the rift between the villages.
• Danzo was appointed Hokage by the Land of Fire’s Daimyo, then plotted against the Chiba Commerce Association as Kumogakure and Iwagakure gathered troops near Konoha’s borders.
• Kabuto attacked Danzo with Tetsuya’s support, but Danzo escaped using Izanagi before the Uchiha pursued and killed him near the Konoha Border Watchtower.
• Tetsuya, Izuna, and Madara met Jigen, learned he wanted allies to survive Kaguya’s resurrection, and accepted his offer of cooperation and the juvenile Ten-Tails.
• Jiraiya infiltrated Amegakure and discovered Yahiko was alive, still allied with Nagato, and leading the Akatsuki, after Yahiko defeated him, Tetsuya revealed his own identity and took Jiraiya to meet Jigen, Madara, and Izuna.
• Tetsuya reported that Yahiko had killed Jiraiya, prompting Tsunade and Naruto to grieve while Ōnoki and Raikage A prepared to attack the Land of Fire.
• The Uchiha blocked Kitsuchi’s army from crossing the Land of Grass without paying a toll, while Kabuto warned Tetsuya of Obito’s plan to use reincarnated Kage against Nagato and Konoha and Sunagakure joined the war.

Tetsuya founded the Shinobi World Federation while the great nations battled, and Obito’s plan escalated into the Ten-Tails’ emergence. The allied forces received reinforcements, but Obito and Madara remained active as the battle continued.

• Tetsuya united the Small Country Alliance into the Shinobi World Federation and prepared its forces to enter the war after the great nations weakened each other.
• Guy and Neji’s clash with Darui’s squad drew Konoha and Kumogakure into a major battle, where Naruto, Kakashi, Gaara, and Neji fought the Raikage, Killer B, and Ōnoki.
• Naruto freed Kurama and joined forces with the tailed beasts, but Obito summoned the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path and Kabuto deployed reanimated Kage and ninjas.
• Tetsuya used the Shinigami Mask and Death Controlling Possessed Blood to summon the Reincarnation Flames, then released Jiraiya to join the fight against Obito.
• Obito’s attack exposed his identity to Kakashi, and Obito killed Rin while extracting Isobu, before Kakashi and Obito disappeared into the Kamui Dimension to fight.
• Jiraiya, Tsunade, and Naruto fought Obito’s Six Paths puppets as Madara arrived and overwhelmed the four Kage, while Jiraiya summoned Hashirama, Hiruzen, and Minato to face Kabuto’s reanimated forces.
• Madara defeated Hashirama in a devastating clash, while Obito returned to the Ten-Tails and commanded it to attack the allied forces.
• Madara regained his Rinnegan and challenged Hashirama again as the major villages sent reinforcements, and Hiruzen organized the fighters to support Naruto’s group and battle the reanimated ninjas.