Recaps

Toru Kujyo used the Chunin Exams and the Konoha Crush to defeat Gaara, destroy Root, and seize its hidden resources while Konoha fought Orochimaru’s invasion. After Hiruzen’s death and the village’s memorial, Toru bought a large plot of land to build a new home as news of the attack spread across the Five Great Nations.

• Toru Kujyo gave Karin the Adamantine Sealing Chains scroll, then returned Hanabi to Konoha as the Chunin Exams began.
• Hinata Hyuga defeated Temari with her powerful Gentle Fist techniques, and Toru Kujyo took Gaara’s challenge and shattered his sand defenses with the Radiant Light Cannon.
• White feathers put most spectators to sleep as Orochimaru launched the Konoha Crush, while Toru sent puppets into the fighting and dispatched a clone to Ranmaru.
• Toru Kujyo broke into Root, defeated Shimura Danzō, killed Root’s forces, and stole the base’s scrolls and treasury before an orange-masked Rinnegan intruder destroyed another underground base and abducted Tenzo.
• Toru Kujyo stopped Gaara’s transformation into Shukaku, while Hiruzen Sarutobi used the Reaper Death Seal against Orochimaru and died after the invasion.
• Jiraiya reported the attack on Root, declined to become Fifth Hokage, and recommended Tsunade, while Konoha honored Hiruzen and Danzō at a memorial.
• Toru Kujyo bought the ruined Hot Spring Splendor inn and neighboring plots, and Konoha craftsmen began planning his new lair as news of the Konoha Crush spread across the Five Great Nations.

Toru Kujyo protected Sasuke from Itachi, trained him and others, and uncovered Akatsuki surveillance while developing his Wood Release. After Tsunade became Hokage, Toru and Hinata were promoted to chunin, and he brought Karin back to Konoha as a new comrade.

• Toru Kujyo rescued Sasuke from Itachi and Kisame with Dust Release, then made Sasuke his servant and began training him.
• Toru Kujyo trained Hinata, Hanabi, Sasuke, and Konoha’s young ninja while detecting and capturing White Zetsu spies with his Wood Release.
• Toru Kujyo revealed his Uzumaki and Senju heritage to Tsunade, who promised to protect him and help bring Karin to Konoha.
• Tsunade became the Fifth Hokage and promoted Toru Kujyo and Hinata to chunin.
• Toru Kujyo and Hinata traveled to the Land of Waves, where Karin demonstrated her Rasengan and accepted Toru’s offer to join Konoha.
• Toru Kujyo brought Karin to Konoha, where Tsunade took her as an apprentice, and Karin chose to live with Toru Kujyo.

Toru Kujyo revealed his Wood Release while defeating the Sound Four, then took Sasuke to Orochimaru for a Hashirama cell transplant. Sasuke survived the operation, awakened Mangekyō Sharingan and Wood Release, and Toru stopped Orochimaru from beginning further examinations.

• Toru Kujyo and Hinata completed missions with Shino, while Karin joined Toru and Sasuke at the Uchiha residence and began training with Sasuke.
• Kimimaro and the Sound Four attacked Sasuke, but Toru unleashed Wood Release, defeated Kimimaro, and trapped the attackers in a vast forest.
• Toru ordered Sasuke and Karin to kill the captured Sound Ninja, then Konoha’s leaders and the Hyuga Clan reacted to his newly revealed power.
• Toru gave Sasuke information about Mangekyō Sharingan and Hashirama cells, and Sasuke chose to risk a transplant to pursue revenge.
• Toru took Sasuke to Orochimaru’s hideout, where he secured a promise of surgery in exchange for White Zetsu research and information about breaking the Reaper Death Seal.
• Orochimaru operated on Sasuke at the Northern Base, and Sasuke’s Sharingan became Mangekyō as his body accepted the Hashirama cells.
• Sasuke awakened Wood Release and golden Super Kage Aptitude, while Toru explained his theory about Sasuke’s Indra heritage and ordered Kabuto to delay further examinations.

Toru Kujyo strengthened Sasuke, built a new home, and grew closer to Hinata before using a meteor strike to test Kumogakure’s defenses. The arc ended with Akatsuki’s puppet forces overwhelming the village and Toru’s Wood Clone helping turn the attack into a devastating rout.

• Toru Kujyo exposed Orochimaru’s plan to tamper with Sasuke, healed him, and helped him gain Wood Release before trading information about the Shinigami Mask for senjutsu training and Ryūchi Cave’s Summoning Scroll.
• After Sasuke signed the scroll and received Orochimaru’s Sky Blade, Toru warned Orochimaru that Konoha had found his base, then left with Sasuke.
• Sasuke boasted about his Wood Release but lost to Hinata and Karin, and Toru assigned the three of them to help build and furnish his new home.
• Pain revealed to Jiraiya that Nagato controlled Yahiko’s corpse and spoke of a mysterious man with a second pair of Rinnegan, while Toru watched the Five Great Shinobi Villages’ response through a Wood Clone.
• Toru welcomed Konoha’s young shinobi to his completed estate, where Naruto lost to Sasuke in a spar, and later reassured Hanabi that he would teach her and attend her birthday.
• At Hinata’s birthday banquet, Toru took her to Star Peak, gave her the necklace Marguerite, and heard her explain why she had run away as a child before they confessed their feelings.
• Toru’s meteor attack tested Kumogakure’s defenses, after which Akatsuki forces attacked the exhausted village with human puppets made from missing ninja, including Aburame Torune and Yamanaka Fū.
• Toru’s Wood Clone multiplied the attackers by sending Shadow Clones into the puppets, and the defenders scattered when a golden attacker used the Flying Thunder God Technique, allowing the puppets’ elemental attacks to devastate Kumogakure.