Recaps

Kakuzu defeated Hidan and bound him as a trophy after completing his mission for Hokage-sama. Meanwhile, Jiraiya faced Kisame Hoshigaki and Jūzō Biwa in the rain, and began preparing to fight seriously.

• Hidan charged Kakuzu, but Kakuzu paralyzed him with Lightning Release and overwhelmed him with a combined wind-and-fire attack.
• Kakuzu tore off Hidan’s limbs and bound them to his torso with Earth Grudge Fear tendrils, then silenced him and declared him a trophy.
• Kakuzu picked up Hidan and the money case, saying his old friend was taken care of and Hokage-sama’s mission was complete.
• Kisame taunted Jiraiya while Jūzō warned him not to underestimate one of the Three Sannin.
• Jiraiya stood atop a ruined watchtower, bit his finger, and began forming hand seals to get serious.

Jiraiya completed Sage Mode while fighting Kisame Hoshigaki and Jūzō Biwa, then used Sage Art: Goemon to defeat Jūzō and force Kisame to transform with Samehada. Kisame trapped Jiraiya in a giant water prison, where Jiraiya countered his charge with Sage Art: Frog Kata.

• Jiraiya gathered natural energy while Gamahiro held Kisame back, but Jūzō Biwa and Kisame attacked him from opposite sides.
• Jiraiya evaded Jūzō’s Kubikiribōchō and Kisame’s Water Shark Bullets, completing Sage Mode with Fukasaku and Shima on his shoulders.
• Jiraiya used Sage Art: Goemon to burn through Kisame’s Great Shark Bullet and severely burn Jūzō Biwa.
• Kisame fused with Samehada, took on a half-fishman form, and trapped Jiraiya inside a vast water prison with Water Style: Water Prison Shark Dance Technique.
• Jiraiya used Sage Art: Frog Kata and punched at Kisame as he charged underwater.

Uchiha Yao used the Eight Inner Gates to overwhelm Pain’s Six Paths, leaving only the Deva Path and Naraka Path standing. After witnessing the defeat, Konan began evacuating Nagato to a backup base while the villagers escaped through underground passages.

• Uchiha Yao opened the first five gates and dodged the Asura Path’s missiles with speed that Pain’s shared vision could not follow.
• Uchiha Yao opened the sixth gate and destroyed the Asura Path with a single kick.
• Uchiha Yao opened the seventh gate and used Daytime Tiger to destroy the Preta Path, Animal Path, and Human Path.
• Nagato watched the Six Paths fall and agreed to leave with Konan, who said she had arranged for the villagers to evacuate safely.
• Konan dismantled Nagato’s apparatus and carried him toward a backup base west of Amegakure.

Uchiha Yao unleashed the Eighth Gate and shattered Deva Path Pain’s Planetary Devastation with Evening Elephant. As Pain fled into the sky, Yao began charging another attack.

• Pain led Uchiha Yao to a desolate valley and used Planetary Devastation to draw up the surrounding earth and mountains.
• Kakuzu saw the attack while carrying money and the captive Hidan, then turned to flee.
• Uchiha Yao opened the Eighth Gate and used five Evening Elephant punches to shatter the forming sphere.
• Pain froze in disbelief, then tried to escape after Yao declared the warm-up over.
• Yao assumed a runner’s stance and began gathering power into a red dragon as Pain fled.

Uchiha Yao captured Hidan, Kisame Hoshigaki, and Jūzō Biwa, then led Kakuzu and Jiraiya to Nagato’s hideout. After confronting Nagato, Yao faced Konan, who prepared to fight to the death to protect him.

• Kakuzu delivered Hidan, Kisame Hoshigaki, and Jūzō Biwa to Uchiha Yao, who sealed them away and set out for Nagato’s base with Kakuzu and Jiraiya.
• Uchiha Yao kicked down the hideout’s iron door, revealing Nagato in a wheelchair with a frail, withered body.
• Jiraiya recognized Nagato and apologized, while Nagato blamed his late arrival for Yahiko’s death and his own condition.
• Uchiha Yao told Nagato that he had been blinded by hatred and used as someone else’s pawn, provoking Nagato’s anger.
• Konan stepped between Uchiha Yao and Nagato, formed paper wings laced with Explosive Tags, and vowed that no one would hurt Nagato unless they killed her first.

Uchiha Yao forced Konan to submit by threatening Nagato, then sealed Nagato in his Heavenly Imperial Space, claiming it would heal him. After defeating Amegakure’s leaders, Yao ordered Kakuzu and Konan to take control of the village as a subsidiary base of Konoha.

• Uchiha Yao threatened Nagato’s life to make Konan choose between submitting and watching Nagato suffer.
• Jiraiya stepped back after Kakuzu warned him that intervening would endanger everyone and could not save Nagato and Konan.
• Konan knelt and agreed to submit, asking Uchiha Yao to spare Nagato.
• Uchiha Yao sealed Nagato and his wheelchair in his Heavenly Imperial Space, saying its origin power would repair Nagato’s damaged body.
• Uchiha Yao declared that Konan belonged to him and ordered Kakuzu to help her take over Amegakure as Konoha’s subsidiary base.

After Uchiha Yao defeated the Akatsuki in Amegakure, Obito and Black Zetsu planned to revive Madara and provoke war to create new chances to capture the tailed beasts. Uchiha Yao then told Jiraiya that Kakuzu and Konan would handle the cleanup, leaving Jiraiya free to go.

• Obito fled Amegakure through the Kamui dimension after witnessing Uchiha Yao defeat the Six Paths of Pain and devastate the Akatsuki.
• Black Zetsu learned from White Zetsu that Nagato had been sealed and raged over the collapse of his plans.
• Black Zetsu urged Obito to have Orochimaru use Impure World Reincarnation on Madara, and Obito reluctantly agreed.
• Obito and Black Zetsu planned to disguise resurrected fighters as Konoha ninja and send them to attack Kumogakure and Iwagakure, hoping to spark war and exploit the chaos.
• Uchiha Yao told Jiraiya that Kakuzu and Konan would handle Amegakure's cleanup, so Jiraiya did not need to remain there.

Uchiha Yao told Tsunade that he had destroyed the Akatsuki Organization and taken control of Amegakure. In the Land of Fields, Obito gave Orochimaru tissue from Uchiha Madara and ordered him to revive Madara while sending Impure World Reincarnation forces to attack Kumogakure and Iwagakure disguised as Konoha's ANBU.

• Uchiha Yao returned to the Hokage's office, signed Shikaku Nara's report, and told Tsunade that the Akatsuki Organization was gone.
• Uchiha Yao told Tsunade that he had taken over Amegakure as a resource transfer hub.
• Obito arrived at Orochimaru's underground base and gave him a scroll containing tissue from Uchiha Madara's corpse.
• Orochimaru recognized the tissue as Madara's and agreed to revive him with Impure World Reincarnation.
• Obito ordered Orochimaru to send his Impure World Reincarnation army against Kumogakure and Iwagakure disguised as Konoha's ANBU.

Obito told Uchiha Madara that Nagato had been defeated and the Rinnegan taken by Uchiha Yao, who had become Konoha’s Fifth Hokage. Madara reacted with surprise and approval, while Orochimaru began to introduce Yao further.

• Orochimaru introduced himself to Uchiha Madara as Obito’s ally, and Madara criticized Obito for mishandling their plan.
• Obito arrived and admitted that Nagato had been defeated and the Rinnegan had been taken.
• Obito named Uchiha Yao as the person who took the Rinnegan and described his rapid rise within the Uchiha Clan.
• Obito explained that Yao had forced Hiruzen Sarutobi from office and become Konoha’s Fifth Hokage.
• Madara laughed and praised Yao for becoming Hokage, and Orochimaru began introducing him further.

Obito told Madara that Uchiha Yao intended to unify the Ninja World and had defeated Nagato despite possessing the Rinnegan. Madara was left stunned by Yao’s power and survival after opening the Gate of Death.

• Obito said Uchiha Yao planned to unify the Ninja World, and Madara dismissed the idea as naive and temporary.
• Madara asked how Nagato had lost, and Obito recounted Yao’s surprise attack on Amegakure and his defeat of the Six Paths of Pain.
• Obito revealed that Uchiha Yao had awakened the Rinnegan, prompting Madara and Orochimaru to react with shock and interest.
• Obito explained that Yao had defeated Nagato using the Eight Inner Gates without using his Rinnegan.
• Madara learned that Yao had opened the Gate of Death without suffering injury and speculated that he possessed a perfect Sage Body or a physique beyond the Sage of Six Paths.

Obito outlined a plan to provoke the Hidden Cloud and Stone Villages into war with Konoha by staging attacks and capturing their Jinchuriki. Madara refused to take part in the scheme, reserving his strength for a future fight with Uchiha Yao.

• Obito proposed disguising White Zetsu as Konoha ninja and using them to attack Hidden Cloud and Stone Village border outposts, leaving evidence and survivors behind.
• Orochimaru warned that the attacks alone might not push Raikage A and Ōnoki into war, so Obito revealed the second step: capturing Yugito Nii, Killer Bee, Han, and Rōshi.
• Black Zetsu said the captures would make the villages blame Konoha and Uchiha Yao, while Obito expected Killer Bee's capture to drive Raikage A into a desperate fight.
• Obito said the plan would spark the Fourth Great Ninja War, with the villages attacking Konoha while Obito's side joined in with Orochimaru's Impure World Reincarnation army and one hundred thousand White Zetsu.
• Madara rejected involvement in the plan and said he would only appear to fight Uchiha Yao; Obito accepted, insisting Madara not fail when that time came.

Konoha forces launched surprise attacks on Hidden Cloud Village and Iwagakure strongholds, killing their defenders and making the attacks appear to be orders from Konoha. The Hidden Cloud survivors fled to warn the Raikage, while Obito continued his assault on Iwagakure.

• Ida spotted Konoha ANBU attacking a Hidden Cloud Village stronghold, but died as the camp was overwhelmed.
• Suikazan Fuguki and other reanimated fighters joined the assault, and the attackers deliberately let one jonin and three chunin escape to warn the Raikage.
• Obito attacked an Iwagakure mineral stronghold, using his intangibility and Wood Style to kill its ninja.
• Obito impersonated a Konoha ninja and claimed the attack was punishment for the Tsuchikage standing in Hokage-sama's way, then vanished.

Obito attacked Han outside Iwagakure, defeated him with Wood Style, and abducted him using Kamui. Ōnoki arrived afterward and found the canyon devastated, with Konoha kunai left behind.

• Ōnoki ordered an ANBU to warn Han to remain ready to support the front lines.
• Han trained his Steam Armor in a canyon outside Iwagakure.
• Obito appeared and invited Han to Konoha, then phased through Han’s attack.
• Han partially transformed and began forming a Tailed Beast Ball, but Obito pierced and restrained him with Wood Style.
• Obito used genjutsu and Kamui to send Han to another dimension, then left Konoha kunai at the scene.
• Ōnoki arrived with Kurotsuchi, Akatsuchi, and Iwagakure ANBU, and found they were too late.

Ōnoki ordered Iwagakure to its highest alert after learning Uchiha Yao had captured the Five-Tails Jinchuriki. At Cloud Lightning Gorge, the reanimated Third Raikage attacked Killer B, who transformed and clashed with him but failed to move him.

• Ōnoki called the Five-Tails Jinchuriki's capture a provocation and ordered Iwagakure to recall its mission teams and prepare for battle.
• Killer B sensed danger at Cloud Lightning Gorge and found the reanimated Third Raikage and Hozuki Gengetsu entering the training ground.
• The Third Raikage told Killer B that Impure World Reincarnation had left him under orders to capture the Eight-Tails Jinchuriki, then attacked him.
• Killer B blocked the Third Raikage's strike with his seven swords, which were chipped by the impact.
• Killer B entered partial Tailed Beast Transformation and collided with the Third Raikage, but the Third Raikage remained unmoved.

The Third Raikage and Hozuki Gengetsu defeated the Eight-Tails and captured Killer B, while the Raikage regretted being forced to fight his son. In Kumogakure, A’s advisers debated the suspected abduction of Stone Village’s Five-Tails Jinchuriki, and the militant faction blamed Konoha for the attack.

• The Third Raikage survived the Eight-Tails’ Tailed Beast Ball and knocked Gyuki down with a lightning-charged punch.
• Hozuki Gengetsu used Steam Imp while the Third Raikage restrained the Eight-Tails, forcing Killer B out of his transformation and leaving him unconscious.
• The Third Raikage apologized to Killer B, then he and Hozuki Gengetsu took him away.
• A told Kumogakure’s leaders that Stone Village’s Five-Tails Jinchuriki, Han, was suspected of being taken by Konoha, with Wood Release traces and Konoha kunai found at the scene.
• A Dove Faction elder argued that the evidence pointed to a frame-up, but a militant leader insisted Konoha had abducted Han to force Stone Village to submit.

After Killer B disappeared and evidence pointed to Konoha, A decided that Hidden Cloud Village had to fight, whether the incident was a frame-up or not. Ōnoki agreed to join forces against Uchiha Yao and ordered Akatsuchi to bring out something from the storehouse.

• An ANBU reported that Killer B had disappeared and that the scene bore traces of Water Release and Lightning Release resembling the Third Raikage’s.
• A blamed Konoha and Uchiha Yao, and Hidden Cloud Village’s leaders rallied to rescue Killer B and prepare for war.
• Darui argued that Hidden Cloud Village faced the same outcome whether the attack was a frame-up or Konoha’s doing, and A ordered a full mobilization and called on Ōnoki to attack Konoha with him.
• Ōnoki accepted that Iwagakure had to ally with Hidden Cloud Village against Uchiha Yao and told Akatsuchi to bring out the things from the storehouse.

Uchiha Yao and Shikaku concluded that Hidden Cloud and Stone would use the attacks blamed on Konoha as a pretext for war, with Orochimaru and Uchiha Obito also expected to join the conflict. Yao ordered Konoha to enter full combat readiness and declared that he would crush their enemies.

• Shikaku told Uchiha Yao that Hidden Cloud and Stone blamed Konoha for the attacks and that Raikage A and Ōnoki had called for a campaign against it.
• Uchiha Yao identified Uchiha Obito and Orochimaru as the likely culprits and dismissed Shikaku's suggestion that Konoha issue a statement.
• Uchiha Yao predicted a Fourth Great Ninja War involving Hidden Cloud, Stone, Orochimaru's Impure World Reincarnation army, and Obito's White Zetsu.
• Shikaku reported that Konoha's medical reforms and supply lines had raised ninja survival rates by at least thirty percent.
• Uchiha Yao ordered the entire village to enter the highest combat readiness and reinforce its borders.

Rōshi fought Mu and Rasa as they tried to capture him, but their Dust Release and Gold Dust overwhelmed him. He called on Son Goku and broke free in a complete Tailed Beast Transformation, facing the two Kage-level opponents as they prepared to attack again.

• Mu and Rasa attacked Rōshi with Dust Release and Gold Dust, forcing him to dodge Mu’s disintegration beam.
• Rōshi partially transformed and tried to strike Mu, but Mu vanished with Dustless Bewilderment.
• Rasa trapped Rōshi inside a massive Gold Dust pyramid and began crushing him.
• Rōshi called on Son Goku, who agreed they had to fight back and burst out of the pyramid in complete Tailed Beast Transformation.
• Mu remarked that Son Goku’s larger body made him an easier target while Rasa rapidly formed hand seals.

Mu and Rasa captured Rōshi, prompting the Raikage and Ōnoki to blame Konoha and push for a united invasion. The chapter ended as A laid out a two-pronged attack on the Land of Fire.

• Mu's Dust Release and Rasa's gold dust overwhelmed Rōshi, and Obito transported him away, declaring the Four-Tails, Five-Tails, and Eight-Tails captured.
• Two days later, Mifune opened a meeting in the Land of Iron to discuss a United Anti-Konoha proposal.
• A Stone Village ANBU reported that Rōshi had been captured, with traces of gold dust and Dust Release found at the scene.
• Ōnoki and A concluded that Konoha was behind the attacks, and Ōnoki called them a declaration of war against the ninja world.
• A proposed sending Hidden Cloud forces through the Land of Hot Water and Stone Village forces through the Land of Grass to attack the Land of Fire from two directions.

Raikage A and Ōnoki clashed over whether to combine their forces, but Mifune stopped their argument and proposed concentrating the allied armies to face Uchiha Yao. He began outlining a strategy that would exploit Konoha’s stretched defensive lines.

• A rejected Ōnoki’s plan to mix their forces, accusing him of using Hidden Cloud troops as expendable soldiers.
• Ōnoki and A nearly came to blows as the smaller villages’ representatives watched, while Konan dismissed the Kage as no match for Uchiha Yao.
• Mifune drew his sword to remind A and Ōnoki that they were on neutral ground and urged them to compromise rather than dissolve the alliance.
• Mifune argued that Uchiha Yao could use Space-Time Ninjutsu to defeat scattered troops, so the allied forces should gather together in an Iron Wall formation.
• Mifune noted that Konoha’s expanded territory had stretched its defensive lines and pointed toward the heartland of the Land of Fire.

Obito let Black Zetsu persuade him to take back the Sharingan he had given Kakashi, believing it would help him defeat Uchiha Yao and complete the Moon Eye Plan. He traveled to the Land of Grass and confronted Kakashi, who asked who Obito had become.

• Black Zetsu urged Obito to reclaim his eye from Kakashi and gain the power to complete Kamui and Perfect Susanoo.
• Obito agreed to take back the eye and headed for the Land of Grass, where Kakashi was stationed.
• Kakashi and the Konoha ANBU eliminated Stone Village spies at the border between the Land of Fire and the Land of Grass.
• Obito appeared before Kakashi through a spatial vortex, and the two acknowledged each other after a long separation.
• Obito rejected the name Uchiha Obito and blamed Kakashi for Rin's death, while Kakashi asked whether he was Uchiha Madara or a madman seeking to destroy the world.

Kakashi fought Obito and revealed that his Sharingan had been taken and destroyed by Uchiha Yao. Obito broke down over losing the eye he viewed as his last bond with Rin and Kakashi, then turned his rage toward Uchiha Yao.

• Obito attacked Kakashi with Kamui and Wood Style, but Kakashi countered with Sakumo's footwork, a Lightning Clone, and his Hatake Style: White Light Blade.
• Obito caught Kakashi by the throat and tore away his eye patch, expecting to find his Mangekyō Sharingan.
• Kakashi revealed that Uchiha Yao had taken the Sharingan the day after Obito attacked the Uchiha and claimed that Yao had destroyed it.
• Obito staggered back in shock, then laughed as he realized Uchiha Yao had treated the eye he treasured as garbage.
• Obito raised his head with bloody tears and began condemning Uchiha Yao for destroying his final gift to Kakashi and last bond with Rin.

Obito learned that Uchiha Yao had taken his eye and declared war, while Jiraiya sent word of the threat to Konoha. Later, Konan arrived secretly in the village and came to meet Uchiha Yao.

• Kakashi escaped Obito and returned to the command headquarters, where he told Jiraiya that Obito had lost his eye and threatened to turn the ninja world into hell.
• Obito told Black Zetsu to notify Orochimaru and launch the Impure World Reincarnation army, along with the tailed beasts and White Zetsu forces.
• Jiraiya sent the warning to Konoha, and Uchiha Yao received the report and said Obito's desperation was part of his plan.
• An ANBU captain told Uchiha Yao that Konan had arrived secretly from Amegakure and requested an audience.
• Uchiha Yao allowed Konan into his office, and she entered and removed her hood.

Uchiha Yao let Konan reunite with Nagato, then returned Nagato to his spatial prison after the two exchanged words. Konan thanked Yao and revealed the Allied Forces’ plan to attack him with an army of over eighty thousand.

• Uchiha Yao pulled Nagato from Heavenly Imperial Space, and Konan rushed to help him.
• Nagato woke and tried to attack Yao, but Konan stopped him and assured him that she and Amegakure were safe after surrendering to Konoha.
• Nagato accepted Amegakure’s surrender and told Konan to live before Yao pulled him back into the spatial rift.
• Konan thanked Yao for keeping Nagato alive, then described the Allied Forces’ Iron Wall plan to gather over eighty thousand troops for a direct advance.

Naruto developed Wind Release: Rasenshuriken by combining the efforts of Shadow Clones with Kurama’s chakra. His first use of the unstable technique devastated the training ground and left him unconscious with a badly injured right hand.

• Naruto repeatedly failed to combine wind nature transformation with the Rasengan and pushed himself to keep training.
• Naruto used two Shadow Clones to divide the work of forming the Rasengan and adding wind chakra.
• Naruto asked Kurama for chakra, which stabilized the technique and allowed him to create Wind Release: Rasenshuriken.
• Naruto used the Rasenshuriken in close combat, unleashing a massive blast that carved out a crater hundreds of meters wide.
• Naruto collapsed face-down after the blast, his right hand purplish-black.