Recaps

Tsunade showed Yui the Strength of a Hundred Technique she had developed and gave her a scroll before returning to Konoha. Yui then entered Nai Hyuga’s mind to try to wake her, and found herself in an unfamiliar place.

• Tsunade demonstrated the Strength of a Hundred Technique and explained its healing and youth-preserving effects.
• Tsunade gave Yui a scroll of the technique and left for Konoha.
• Yui returned to the cave, where Shobue explained that she needed to enter Nai Hyuga’s sealed mind to awaken her.
• Yui used mental healing ninjutsu infused with senjutsu chakra on Nai Hyuga while Shobue surrounded them with green mist.
• Yui opened her eyes inside Nai Hyuga’s mental world and heard a middle-aged woman complain that she was blocking the way.

Yui entered Nai Hyuga’s mental space and found the Hyuga Clan Compound in ruins, where Nai was attacking the dead Hyuga Feng. Yui tried to reach Nai, but Nai mistook her for Hyuga Feng’s accomplice and attacked her, draining her chakra as Yui shouted her identity.

• Yui arrived in Konoha and headed to the Hyuga Clan Compound, believing Nai was there.
• Yui found the compound devastated and followed a familiar voice deeper into the ruins.
• Yui saw Nai repeatedly stabbing the already-dead Hyuga Feng while asking where Yui was.
• Yui accidentally collapsed the door, and Nai mistook her for Hyuga Feng’s lackey and threw kunai at her.
• Yui dodged Nai’s attack with the Body Flicker Technique, but Nai drained her chakra and attacked again.
• Yui called out that she was Yui Hyuga.

Yui reached Nai Hyuga inside her mental world and tried to bring her back, but Nai resisted because she feared facing the outside world. After Yui reassured and kissed her, Nai agreed to leave with her.

• Yui called to Nai Hyuga until Nai recognized her, dropped her kunai, and embraced her in tears.
• Nai asked how Yui had entered her mental world, then refused to leave because she saw the outside world as filthy and threatening.
• Nai transformed the surroundings into a Konoha Ninja Academy classroom filled with their childhood classmates, but could not imagine Yui there.
• As Yui began to fade, Nai thanked her and started disappearing, but Yui caught her and asked her to return because she missed and wanted to protect her.
• Yui kissed Nai, and after remembering their childhood and hearing Yui’s promise to face the outside world together, Nai agreed to go with her.

Yui escaped the strange space and found Nai Hyuga awakening on the Ice Bed, then told her that Hyuga Feng and Ikuko Hyuga were dead. Nai chose Ikuko Hyuga’s Byakugan eye, and Yui stopped her from inserting it herself so she could help.

• Yui vanished from the space after Nai Hyuga promised to follow her, and Nai broke the space apart to escape.
• Yui awakened, gathered clothes and jars containing Byakugan eyes, and heard Nai Hyuga call for her.
• Yui caught Nai Hyuga as she toppled from the Ice Bed, and Nai embraced her.
• Yui explained that Hyuga Feng and Ikuko Hyuga were dead, and Nai thanked Yui for avenging her.
• Nai rejected her original Byakugan eyes and chose Ikuko Hyuga’s eye, but Yui caught her hand and offered to help.

Yui used Sage Art: Regenerative Creation to restore Nai Hyuga’s missing eye, though it grew back as an ordinary reddish-brown eye rather than a Byakugan. As night fell, Yui helped Nai leave the cave to meet her friends.

• Yui restored Nai Hyuga’s damaged eye socket with a Byakugan, giving her blurry vision in one eye.
• Nai dressed in a robe and saw Yui’s unfamiliar appearance, including her horns and golden eyes.
• Yui used Sage Art: Regenerative Creation to grow Nai a second eye, which appeared ordinary rather than as a Byakugan.
• Nai thanked Yui and resolved to become stronger, while Yui gathered the crystal bottles and left the inferior Tenseigan behind.
• Yui supported the unsteady Nai out of the cave as Xiao You and Shobue waited outside and speculated about their delay.

Yui introduced Nai Hyuga to Shobue and Xiao You in Shikkotsu Forest, while Tsunade returned to Konoha without learning Sage Mode. Mito announced that she was going to the Land of Whirlpools to find the next Nine-Tails Jinchuriki because she did not have much time left.

• Yui brought Nai Hyuga out of the cave and introduced her to Shobue and Xiao You.
• Shobue suggested the group return to her house as night fell, and Yui and Nai agreed.
• Tsunade returned to Konoha and told Hiruzen Sarutobi she had failed to learn Sage Mode but had improved her Medical Ninjutsu.
• Tsunade concealed Yui Hyuga’s presence in Shikkotsu Forest and claimed Katsuyu had guided her in developing Ninjutsu.
• Mito Uzumaki arrived at the Hokage’s office and announced she would go to the Land of Whirlpools to find the next Nine-Tails Jinchuriki.

Mito decided to travel to the Land of Whirlpools to choose the next Nine-Tails Jinchuriki, with Tsunade accompanying her and Root assigned to provide protection. Jiraiya told Tsunade he was leaving to investigate a prophecy of world-ending upheaval, and she sent him off with a warning not to die.

• Mito announced she would leave in three days to choose the next Nine-Tails Jinchuriki, and Hiruzen agreed to send ANBU protection.
• Tsunade insisted on accompanying Mito, and Hiruzen approved her request.
• Danzo persuaded Hiruzen to assign Root to protect Mito, while Hiruzen warned him not to scheme against her.
• Jiraiya told Tsunade he planned to travel the Shinobi World after receiving a prophecy that his student would save it from a coming disaster.
• Tsunade told Jiraiya not to die, and he laughed as he promised he would survive.

After recovering in Shikkotsu Forest, Nai Hyuga insisted on accompanying Yui on a trip to the Land of Iron and the Land of Whirlpools. Katsuyu summoned them out of the forest, and Yui carried Nai into the sky, leaving her frightened by the flight.

• Nai Hyuga mourned as Yui cut her waist-length hair to shoulder length.
• Nai insisted on joining Yui, and Yui agreed to take her along to collect a ninja blade in the Land of Iron and seek sealing jutsu in the Land of Whirlpools.
• Yui and Nai left Shikkotsu Forest with Shobue's help, arriving in a grove after Katsuyu summoned them.
• Yui gave Nai a silver mask to conceal her identity.
• Yui swept Nai into a bridal carry and lifted them into the sky, alarming Nai.

Yui and Nai traveled to the Land of Iron so Yui could collect a commissioned Samurai Sword, but they found Iron City barred ninjas from entering. Yui proved her swordsmanship to the gate guard, who mistook her for a Swordmaster.

• Yui apologized to Nai for startling her during their earlier flight, and Nai forgave her.
• Yui explained the Shinobi World's countries and villages to Nai, then carried her through the night toward the Land of Iron.
• Nai woke during the flight, and Yui warmed her as they neared Iron City.
• At the city gate, a samurai guard told Yui and Nai that ninjas were forbidden from entering by the general's orders.
• Yui claimed she was not a ninja and cut down a tree with Wave Breaker, convincing the guard that she was a samurai.
• The guard asked whether Yui was a Swordmaster, and Yui admitted she did not know what that meant.

Yui learned about samurai ranks and the reason Iron City had banned ninja from entering. After entering the city, she headed with Nai Hyuga to register as a samurai and inspect the blade being forged for her.

• The gate guard explained that blade energy marked a Swordmaster, and that Iron City had only twelve Swordmasters and one Sword Saint.
• The guard told Yui that the general had banned ninja from Iron City to protect two Peerless Famous Blades being forged by Master Iinaka and more than fifty swordsmiths.
• Yui realized one of the blades was hers and learned it would take a few more days to finish.
• Yui and Nai Hyuga entered Iron City, and the guard called after them to register at the Samurai Registration Office on 20 Second Street.
• Yui decided to register their samurai ranks, and she and Nai Hyuga headed for 20 Second Street.

Yui and Nai Hyuga reached the Samurai Rank Registration Office, where Yui proved she was a Swordmaster and received official recognition from Iron City. The registrar then asked whether Nai wanted to be tested as well.

• Yui and Nai Hyuga found the registration office closed, but a scrawny samurai opened the door as they turned to leave and invited them inside.
• The scrawny samurai explained that samurai from the Land of Iron usually registered as apprentices, then set up a wooden-post test for the visitors.
• Yui used a wooden sword to cut through dozens of posts with sword energy, leaving the registrar astonished that she was a Swordmaster.
• The registrar filled out Yui's information and gave her a Swordmaster Token recognizing her as a samurai of Iron City.
• The registrar asked Nai Hyuga whether she wanted to have her samurai rank tested.

Yui and Nai Hyuga left the samurai registration building and went to an inn, where Yui remembered a wooden box Shobue had given her and prepared to open it. After Nai began training to improve her strength, Yui opened the box and saw something unexpected inside.

• Yui and Nai Hyuga left the registration building, and the scrawny samurai decided to report the Swordmaster's arrival to the general.
• Yui remembered the wooden box Shobue had given her before she began practicing Senjutsu and took Nai to an inn.
• The inn had only one room available, so Yui booked it for five days and paid one hundred ryo.
• Nai realized she could try developing powerful Ninjutsu to grow stronger and began working on her chakra control while Yui meditated.
• Yui opened the wooden box sealed in her scroll and stared in surprise at its contents.

Yui used Sage Mode and the Byakugan to read the ancient scroll, discovering a Sage Art that could resurrect the dead with the blood of a god. After putting the scroll away, she found Nai Hyuga unconscious and covered in frost, and began warming her with Fire Release chakra.

• Yui discovered that the ancient scroll became weightless inside its Wooden Box and appeared blank until she viewed it with the Byakugan.
• Yui used Sage Mode to read the scroll and found the Sage Art: Rinne Revival Technique, which could restore life to the departed using the blood of a god.
• Yui wondered about the technique’s requirements and why Shobue had described the Senjutsu as offensive, then sealed the scroll away.
• Yui noticed a sudden chill and found Nai Hyuga unconscious in a corner with frost forming on her mask.
• Yui warmed Nai with Fire Release chakra, checked her vital signs, and waited for her to wake up.

Yui discovered that Nai Hyuga had accidentally combined wind and water chakra to develop Ice Release, then offered to teach her the Strength of a Hundred Technique. They began considering how to grow stronger together while staying in the Land of Iron.

• Yui realized the frost and chakra resistance in Nai Hyuga's body indicated that she had awakened Ice Release.
• After waking, Nai Hyuga released chakra and formed a shard of ice in her palm.
• Yui explained kekkei genkai to Nai Hyuga, who said she had mixed wind into her water release while trying to develop a stronger ninjutsu.
• Nai Hyuga admitted she had experimented because she wanted to catch up to Yui, and Yui reassured her that she could ask for help.
• Yui showed Nai Hyuga a scroll for Tsunade's S-rank Strength of a Hundred Technique and described its healing and chakra-enhancing effects.

Yui studied the Yin Seal with Nai and considered whether it could store senjutsu chakra for instant Sage Mode. In Iron City, the general agreed to Rengo’s plot to trap Swordmasters near Iinaka’s blades, while Mifune recalled how the general had publicized their forging; the plan around the blades remained unresolved.

• Yui recognized Tsunade’s strength, agreed to learn the Yin Seal from Yui, and considered storing senjutsu chakra inside it.
• Kota told the general that a Swordmaster had arrived in Iron City to register, and the general dismissed his concerns.
• Rengo urged the general to eliminate the Swordmasters and claim Iinaka’s two Peerless Famous Blades, and the general agreed to set traps when the blades were finished.
• At an inn, Mifune recalled that Iinaka had planned to forge one blade for a friend and one for the general, before the general summoned craftsmen and spread word of the blades.

Mifune and He Liu found a possible lead on the woman wearing the Evil Ghost Mask at their inn. Upstairs, Yui formed her Yin Seal and began storing senjutsu chakra in it.

• Mifune remembered Master Iinaka’s instruction to find a woman wearing the Evil Ghost Mask, while He Liu paid for their sake.
• He Liu asked the innkeeper about the masked woman, and she said two women wearing masks had visited but refused to reveal where her guests were.
• Mifune concluded the masked woman might still be staying at the inn, so he and He Liu decided to wait for her.
• Yui and Nai Hyuga sat upstairs and began forming their Yin Seals.
• Yui completed her Yin Seal, entered Sage Mode, and successfully began channeling senjutsu chakra into it.

Yui stored senjutsu chakra in her Yin Seal and helped Nai Hyuga form hers before the two went downstairs to gather information in Iron City. There, Mifune approached them with questions, and Yui recognized him as they sat down to talk.

• Yui filled her Yin Seal with senjutsu chakra and realized it could help her enter Sage Mode quickly.
• Nai Hyuga successfully formed her Yin Seal, and Yui gave her the Strength of a Hundred Technique scroll to practice alone.
• Yui promised to practice Sage Mode with Nai Hyuga and suggested they eat and look for information about Iron City.
• Mifune and He Liu, who had waited all night for a woman mentioned by Master Iinaka, noticed Yui and Nai Hyuga and approached them.
• Mifune offered to pay for their meal and asked Yui questions; she agreed and recognized him when he sat across from her.

Yui learned that Master Iinaka had sent Mifune to find a woman wearing an Evil Ghost Mask, and she concealed her identity by claiming the woman was her friend. She arranged a meeting at the inn that night in exchange for Mifune and He Liu’s money, then dismissed He Liu’s attempt to intimidate her with his Swordmaster token.

• Mifune asked Yui whether she knew the swordsmith Iinaka and a woman who wore an Evil Ghost Mask.
• Yui hid her identity and offered to pass a message to the masked woman, whom she claimed was her friend.
• Mifune insisted on meeting the woman in person, and Yui agreed to arrange it in return for money.
• Mifune handed Yui his 150,000-ryo bankbook, and He Liu added another 100,000 ryo.
• Yui promised the woman would meet Mifune at the inn that night, and He Liu showed his Swordmaster token to warn her not to deceive them.
• Yui remained unfazed by He Liu’s threat and thought that she had a Swordmaster token too.

Yui revealed her Swordmaster Token to Mifune and He Liu, then explained that she knew no sword techniques. After befriending Mifune and sharing a meal with Nai Hyuga, Yui decided to explore Iron City and learn what had been happening.

• Yui showed Mifune and He Liu her Swordmaster Token, surprising them with her rank and young age.
• Yui said she had no sword techniques and had become a Swordmaster by luck, prompting Mifune to admire her talent and He Liu to doubt her.
• Yui introduced herself to Mifune, who offered his friendship, and He Liu insisted she appear that night before leaving with Mifune.
• Yui showed Nai Hyuga the Evil Ghost Mask, revealing that she was the masked woman Mifune and He Liu had discussed.
• Yui concealed her horns and changed her appearance, then ate ramen with Nai Hyuga.
• Yui proposed walking through Iron City to find out what had been happening there.

He Liu told Rengo that Yui was the person Iinaka sought, and Rengo ordered him to remain undercover while he arranged to seize the two swords. Meanwhile, Yui and Nai Hyuga visited a shop that claimed its sword techniques were only storybooks, where a young boy tried to pull them outside.

• He Liu reported to Rengo what had happened at the inn, and Rengo promised to reward him after taking power in the Land of Iron.
• Rengo ordered He Liu to stay undercover with Mifune and said he would send someone to capture the person Iinaka wanted and obtain the two swords.
• Yui found Master Iinaka's shop empty and took Nai Hyuga sightseeing around Iron City.
• Yui and Nai Hyuga entered the Samurai Sword Technique Pavilion to look for sword techniques, but the shopkeeper said she sold only storybooks.
• A young boy tugged at Yui and Nai Hyuga's clothes and tried to drag them outside, leaving Yui unsure whether to follow him.

Yui and Nai Hyuga investigated a sword shop in Iron City, then prepared for Yui’s meeting with Mifune. Yui revealed a Sage Mode technique that created another original body, leaving Nai Hyuga stunned and curious.

• A boy told Yui and Nai Hyuga that his family had stopped selling sword techniques after his grandfather died and the shop was robbed, then hurried back inside.
• Yui doubted the boy’s claim about his grandmother’s mental trauma, but she and Nai Hyuga left the shop without learning what he wanted.
• Yui and Nai Hyuga found no suitable clothes or other purchases in Iron City and returned to their inn.
• Nai Hyuga insisted on joining Yui for the dangerous meeting with Mifune, and Yui agreed on the condition that she stay behind her.
• Yui released her Yin Seal, entered Shikkotsu Forest’s Sage Mode, and used Sage Art, Splitting Technique to create another original body.
• Nai Hyuga examined the newly split Yui by touch and cried out.

Yui and Nai Hyuga arranged for Yui to meet Mifune and He Liu at the inn, while Yui used the name Xiao You and wore the Evil Ghost Mask. When He Liu accused Xiao You of being the woman they had met that morning in disguise, Xiao You told him to look behind him, where Yui appeared.

• Nai Hyuga teased the bronze-masked Yui, and the other Yui named herself Xiao You to distinguish them.
• Xiao You went downstairs to wait at the inn and told the other two to follow later.
• Mifune and He Liu arrived at the inn for their secret meeting and found Xiao You waiting.
• He Liu questioned whether Xiao You was the woman from that morning in disguise.
• Xiao You told He Liu to look behind him, and Yui greeted him.

Mifune revealed that Master Iinaka had completed Xiao You’s sword a year earlier, but an ambush interrupted his explanation and exposed Taiichirō, the Swift Sword Saint, as the attacker. Taiichirō ordered his samurai to capture Xiao You, while Mifune prepared to defend her.

• Yui, Nai Hyuga, and Xiao You met Mifune, who apologized for the misunderstanding and led them to a dark alley to talk.
• Mifune explained that Master Iinaka had finished forging Xiao You’s sword a year earlier and had been taken away by the General, then gave her Iinaka’s letter.
• A hidden attacker detonated an explosion in the alley, and Xiao You pulled Yui and Nai Hyuga out while Mifune and He Liu were blasted outside.
• Nai Hyuga detected six attackers, and Taiichirō emerged from the smoke, identified himself as the Swift Sword Saint, and demanded that Xiao You come with him.
• Taiichirō sent five samurai to capture Xiao You, and Mifune moved to cover her escape.

Xiao You challenged Taiichirō, a Sword Saint, and used her Byakugan and ninjutsu to counter his sword techniques. After she wounded him, Taiichirō unleashed a secret technique, leaving her facing a sudden danger.

• Mifune urged Xiao You to flee, but she charged Taiichirō with her short blade, Wave Breaker.
• Taiichirō attacked with blade energy and Flash Slash, but Xiao You used her Byakugan to spot an opening and dodge.
• Yui defended Nai Hyuga while Nai used Eight Trigrams Vacuum Palm to knock a samurai away.
• Xiao You surprised Taiichirō with Wind Release: Gale Palm, then used her Byakugan to identify his real position among the afterimages of Flash Slash, second form.
• Xiao You threw Wave Breaker into Taiichirō's chest, but he pulled it free and prepared to attack with Secret Technique: Iaido.

Xiao You used her Byakugan to evade Taiichirō’s swift sword attacks, then countered with a water-infused sword technique that wounded him. As Taiichirō prepared the secret art behind his title, Mifune warned Xiao You while struggling against two Swordmasters.

• Taiichirō’s sword cut Xiao You’s clothes, but she dodged the blade and wounded his shoulder with Water Release: Swift Water Arrow.
• Taiichirō unleashed a relentless series of sword strikes, but Xiao You read his movements with her Byakugan and evaded them.
• Xiao You retrieved Wave Breaker, parried Taiichirō’s attacks, and knocked him back.
• Xiao You coated her sword energy with water release and used Water Release: Fang-Coating Slash to slice Taiichirō’s blade and wound him.
• Taiichirō announced he would use the secret art that made him famous, and Mifune warned Xiao You while fighting two samurai he recognized as Swordmasters.