Recaps

After Hiruzen’s death, Yemu joined the Five Kage Summit and became commander of the Allied Shinobi Forces’ campaign against the Akatsuki. The alliance reached Amegakure, where Yemu overwhelmed Pain while Obito and Black Zetsu considered waiting for him to die.

• Yemu destroyed Kumogakure with a colossal golden sword, then helped suppress the Nine-Tails and escaped the Cloud forces with Jiraiya and Qingxue.
• Konoha mourned Hiruzen, appointed Tsunade as Fifth Hokage, and sent Yemu with Tsunade to the Five Kage Summit, where Qingxue’s leadership of the Land of Iron was revealed.
• Sasuke challenged Yemu, lost, and left Konoha to seek power, while Hinata and Qingxue insisted on accompanying Yemu to the summit.
• The Five Kage approved a joint campaign against the Akatsuki, and Yemu became supreme commander as the Allied Shinobi Forces prepared to advance on Amegakure.
• Yemu led the allied forces into battle, kept Konoha’s younger shinobi away from the main fight, and confronted Pain as the Akatsuki attacked the alliance.
• Yemu defeated four of Pain’s bodies and overpowered Deva Path Pain, forcing Nagato to use Chibaku Tensei.
• Yemu shattered Chibaku Tensei with Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion, while Sasuke watched from a distance and Obito and Black Zetsu considered avoiding him.

Yemu defeated the allied shinobi forces and Madara, forcing the nations to surrender, then fell asleep as the Shadow Organization withdrew to the Land of Iron. Three years later, he woke to find his allies nearly defeated and returned to battle against the forces surrounding them.

• Yemu rejected the Kage’s demand to share the tailed beasts, declared the shinobi world needed his rule, and gathered Qingxue Uchiha, Hinata Hyuga, and the Shadow Organization behind him.
• Yemu devastated the allied army with meteors and led the Shadow Organization’s assault, while Orochimaru used Impure World Reincarnation to summon the Third Raikage, other former Kage, and Madara Uchiha.
• Yemu defeated the reanimated Third Raikage and overwhelmed the Fourth Raikage, Mei Terumi, Ōnoki, Mu, and Hozuki Gengetsu before facing Madara.
• Yemu advanced into his God-Slaying Form and destroyed Madara’s Perfect Susanoo, after which Madara escaped Impure World Reincarnation and the Five Kage and allied forces surrendered.
• Yemu postponed the Five Kage Summit and went to the Land of Iron with Qingxue and the Shadow Organization, then remained asleep for three years as war ravaged the country.
• Yemu woke in the Land of Iron, learned that the Shadow Organization had suffered heavy losses, and set out toward the Capital City as Cloud Ninja and Akatsuki forces attacked.
• Yemu defeated Hidan and killed the Cloud Ninja who attacked him, while Darui learned of his return and ordered his army to prepare.

Yemu returned and forced the Five Kage to unite against him, then overwhelmed the Allied Shinobi Forces as Madara and Obito pursued their own plans. The arc left Madara transformed by the Ten-Tails and Naruto newly empowered by the Sage of Six Paths, with Naruto resolved to stop Yemu and reach Sasuke.

• Yemu routed Darui’s forces, destroyed Kumogakure, and drove the Fourth Raikage to seek an alliance with Ōnoki.
• Yemu attended the Five Kage’s conference, declared war, and ordered the Allied Shinobi Forces to gather at the Land of Iron.
• Yemu defeated the Allied Forces and Orochimaru’s resurrected legends, while Naruto struggled to bridge the gulf between them.
• Yemu destroyed Obito’s hundred thousand White Zetsu, and Madara forced Nagato to resurrect him before returning to the battlefield.
• Obito revealed himself to Kakashi and admitted responsibility for the Nine-Tails’ attack, while Kakashi fought him in the Kamui Dimension.
• Madara absorbed Hashirama’s senjutsu chakra and used the Demonic Statue to drain the tailed beasts, while Naruto and the Konoha fighters tried to protect them.
• Madara extracted Naruto’s Nine-Tails chakra, but Minato rescued him and transferred his own chakra to revive him.
• The Ten-Tails attacked Yemu, who wounded it before Madara absorbed it and transformed, while Naruto received the Sage of Six Paths’ power and vowed to stop Yemu and change Sasuke’s mind.

Yemu defeated Madara, Kaguya, Naruto, Sasuke, and Obito, then ended the war and imposed a new empire on the shinobi nations. As the Empire’s tournament began selecting its ten strongest generals, Rock Lee and Neji prepared to fight.

• Yemu rejected Madara Uchiha’s Eye of the Moon plan, defeated him, and used his Tenseigan to dispel Infinite Tsukuyomi before Black Zetsu resurrected Kaguya from Madara.
• Yemu pursued Kaguya across dimensions and killed her and Black Zetsu in space, then freed the people trapped in Infinite Tsukuyomi by splitting the God Tree.
• Naruto and Sasuke challenged Yemu to stop his rule, but he defeated them and the Allied Shinobi Forces surrendered as Yemu announced plans to establish an empire.
• Obito Uchiha became the Ten-Tails Jinchuriki and attacked Yemu, who killed him before telling Jiraiya that unification would begin in a week.
• Yemu established the Yemu Empire, ordered the shinobi system replaced by the Imperial Guard, and sent Naruto and Sasuke to force the Land of Fire’s Daimyo to submit, where Sasuke killed him.
• Yemu instituted sweeping political and financial reforms, recruited Orochimaru and Kabuto Yakushi for research, and announced a tournament to choose ten warriors for his personal training.
• Jiraiya defeated Kakashi in the tournament’s opening match, while Rock Lee opened the Sixth Gate to face Neji Hyuga in the next bout.