Recaps

Uchiha Yao strengthened Konoha’s position, expanded Heavenly Dominion, and arranged early graduation for Naruto, Hinata, Gaara, and Temari. After Sasuke confronted Naruto and experienced Naruto’s childhood through genjutsu, Yao formed the four graduates into a squad and began training them in Heavenly Dominion.

• Obito offered Orochimaru a partnership against Uchiha Yao, and Orochimaru agreed after receiving White Zetsu bodies for reviving powerful shinobi.
• Uchiha Yao ordered Mist shinobi to scout against Stone Village, while Uchiha Shunichi’s forces seized the Land of Water’s daimyo and Cloud and Stone forces withdrew from their front lines.
• Uchiha Yao discovered that Heavenly Dominion could grow by absorbing the energy of prisoners and willing residents, then brought Naruto and Hinata inside and arranged their early graduation.
• Naruto and Hinata graduated with Gaara and Temari after passing their assessments, but Sasuke attacked Naruto during the test and Gaara nearly killed him before Naruto stopped the fight.
• Uchiha Yao showed Sasuke Naruto’s childhood through the Cycle of Life and Death genjutsu, then approved Sasuke’s special graduation examination and ordered two weeks of confinement.
• Uchiha Yao brought Naruto, Hinata, Gaara, and Temari into Heavenly Dominion and tested Naruto and Gaara before challenging the whole group himself.
• Uchiha Yao defeated the four graduates and gave them guidance on controlling the Nine-Tails’ and Shukaku’s power, improving Wind Release, and developing the Byakugan.

Uchiha Yao confronted the reanimated Hokage, defeated Hashirama Senju, and sealed the three Hokage into Heavenly Imperial Space. As Yao prepared to relocate people and build Konoha’s strength, Sasuke graduated and began leading a squad that captured criminals and rogue ninja.

• Naruto lost control after drawing on the Nine-Tails’ chakra, and Gaara and Temari restrained him until he recovered.
• Uchiha Yao made Gaara his disciple and weakened the seal on Shukaku so Gaara could use its power.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi, Tobirama Senju, and Hashirama Senju returned through Impure World Reincarnation and entered Konoha, where Hiruzen found his clan compound gone.
• Uchiha Yao brought the reanimated Hokage to his created world, where Naruto confronted Hiruzen over his childhood neglect and then fought him alongside Gaara.
• Naruto and Gaara gained power from the Nine-Tails and Shukaku, while Uchiha Yao defeated Tobirama Senju and then beat Hashirama Senju in battle.
• Uchiha Yao sealed Hashirama Senju, Tobirama Senju, and Hiruzen Sarutobi in Heavenly Imperial Space, whose expansion accelerated as their souls strengthened it.
• Sasuke passed his graduation exam, chose to lead a squad hunting rogue ninja, and later captured Kurokawa with his team.
• Uchiha Yao prepared to move five hundred people into Heavenly Imperial Space as his elite squads brought more than two hundred prisoners to Konoha for judgment.

Uchiha Yao rescued Rōran from Mukade, claimed its people and Dragon Vein, and added Sara to Heavenly Imperial Space. He then confronted the Akatsuki in Amegakure, where the gathering ended with both sides preparing to fight.

• Uchiha Yao traveled through the Dragon Vein to past Rōran, saved Sara, and revealed to Minato and Naruto Uzumaki that he came from a parallel world.
• Uchiha Yao exposed Mukade’s abduction and forced labor of Rōran’s citizens, then led Naruto, Tianyu Naruto, and their allies in rescuing them.
• Mukade returned in a Dragon Vein-powered puppet, but Uchiha Yao erased him with Susanoo and claimed Rōran and its people.
• Uchiha Yao brought Sara and hundreds of Rōran survivors into Heavenly Imperial Space, where Sara became queen and helped merge its Dragon Vein with his own.
• After learning that Akatsuki had gathered in Amegakure, Uchiha Yao recruited Jiraiya to accompany him and revealed that Nagato and Konan were alive and Yahiko was dead.
• At Akatsuki’s meeting, Obito defended the Moon Eye Plan while Pain proposed provoking several nations into war before collecting the tailed beasts.
• Konan attacked Uchiha Yao and Jiraiya, then Pain and the Akatsuki arrived as Uchiha Yao revealed his Rinnegan and demanded Nagato’s submission.
• Pain ordered the Akatsuki to fight Uchiha Yao’s group, while Kakuzu warned his comrades to flee and the first attacks began.

Uchiha Yao defeated Pain and took control of Amegakure, while Obito and Orochimaru framed Konoha for attacks on Hidden Cloud and Stone to ignite a war. As the Allied Forces prepared to invade, Naruto completed the Rasenshuriken, though using it badly damaged his hand.

• Kakuzu defeated Hidan and brought him, Kisame, and Jūzō to Uchiha Yao, who sealed them away before confronting Nagato and persuading Konan to surrender.
• Uchiha Yao sealed Nagato in Heavenly Imperial Space for treatment and ordered Konan and Kakuzu to make Amegakure a Konoha subsidiary base.
• Obito and Orochimaru revived Uchiha Madara and arranged attacks and jinchūriki captures that made Konoha appear responsible to Hidden Cloud and Stone.
• After Han, Killer B, and Rōshi were captured, Raikage A and Ōnoki agreed to form an alliance against Konoha, while Uchiha Yao ordered the village to full combat readiness.
• Obito confronted Kakashi over Rin and learned that Uchiha Yao had destroyed the Sharingan he had given Kakashi, then ordered the war forces launched.
• Konan visited Uchiha Yao, reunited with the recovered Nagato, and reported that the Allied Forces planned to advance together with over eighty thousand troops.
• Naruto used Shadow Clones and Kurama’s chakra to create Wind Release: Rasenshuriken, then collapsed with his right hand purplish-black after unleashing it.