Recaps

Shingetsu shared a sweet moment with Chinatsu at the Orphanage, then joined Hashirama and Madara at the Bakery, where Tobirama arrived with supplies and urgent news. Tobirama summoned the three to the Hokage Building after revealing that Sunagakure had captured the Land of Wind's capital, but its Daimyo had escaped.

• Shingetsu and Madara struggled with Chinatsu's spicy food, so Chinatsu made them milder soup and rice balls, which they enjoyed.
• Chinatsu gave Shingetsu a jar of konpeito to thank her for the kindness she had shown three years earlier, and they shared the sweets.
• Hashirama brought baby supplies to Momoka and Tatsuki at the Bakery and announced that he had chosen Tsunade or Nawaki as the baby's name.
• Tobirama delivered more supplies, money, and pregnancy advice to Momoka and Tatsuki before ordering Hashirama, Madara, and Shingetsu to come with him.
• Tobirama told them that Sunagakure had captured the Capital of the Land of Wind, but the Daimyo had escaped.

Sunagakure asked Konoha to help contain the economic collapse caused by the escaped Daimyō of the Land of Wind and his allies. Konoha deployed troops and Shingetsu imposed Konoha Currency, then secretly prepared a plan to exploit the merchants’ ongoing dumping.

• Sunagakure’s failed coup was traced to its infighting, which let the Daimyō escape with supplies and leave the country’s economy in chaos.
• The Sand shinobi begged Konoha for help, and Tobirama agreed on the condition that Sunagakure follow Konoha’s orders.
• Konoha sent a disciplined force to hunt the Daimyō’s Guardian Ninja while Tobirama used the campaign to train his disciples.
• Shingetsu and Madara went to Sunagakure, where Shingetsu ordered Konoha Currency to become the sole currency in circulation.
• Shamon brought Shingetsu a list of merchants colluding with the Daimyō, but she refused to kill them and revealed she had secretly stockpiled supplies and grain.

Shingetsu dismantled the Land of Wind’s profiteering nobles, stabilized its economy with Konoha supplies and currency, and helped Sunagakure recover. The daimyō escaped and became the target of a worldwide shinobi manhunt, while the Land of Wind fell into deep economic dependence on Konoha.

• Shingetsu ordered shinobi to uncover the speculators’ assets and accomplices, then shut down black markets and required transactions to use Konoha Currency.
• Konoha and Sand shinobi sealed the borders, seized fleeing nobles’ fortunes, and helped bring down prices by selling essential supplies.
• Madara and the Uchiha captured prominent nobles and merchants, exposed their crimes to the public, and watched as the crowds killed them.
• Konoha flooded the market with supplies until speculators lost their investments, and Shingetsu marked every name on the family tree with a red cross.
• Shingetsu learned the Land of Wind’s daimyō had escaped and mobilized the major hidden villages to hunt him.
• Konoha’s currency replaced the Land of Wind’s local money, leaving the country economically dependent on Konoha.

Shingetsu warned Sunagakure to learn from the Land of Wind’s catastrophe as the Daimyo became the target of shinobi across the Five Great Nations. After his capture, Tobirama and Madara recovered the hidden royal treasure and took the Daimyo into Tobirama’s custody.

• Shingetsu told Chiyo that Sunagakure needed to change its ways and could not rely on Konoha to rescue it again.
• The Five Kage agreed to hunt the Daimyo of the Land of Wind, while smaller shinobi villages sought Konoha’s protection and other factions killed powerful nobles and merchants to prevent similar economic attacks.
• Tobirama finalized Sunagakure’s agreements as the Daimyo was captured in disguise as a beggar.
• Tobirama and Madara stopped rival shinobi from fighting over the Daimyo and used Madara’s Sharingan to make him reveal the location of the Land of Wind’s hidden treasure.
• Madara handed the Daimyo to Tobirama after Tobirama said he would extract every secret from him.

After Konoha seized the Land of Wind’s treasure, Tobirama sought skilled bookkeepers to manage the village’s growing wealth. Kakuzu solved his accounting challenge and was ushered into a test, leaving his mission to meet the Hokage on hold.

• Tobirama brought the Land of Wind’s Daimyo back to Konoha and secured the royal family’s vast treasure.
• Hashirama and Shingetsu rushed into the treasure, but Tobirama teleported Hashirama away and sealed the riches back into the scroll.
• Konoha used its new wealth to support its growth and sought newcomers with bookkeeping skills to manage its accounts.
• Kakuzu arrived as Takigakure’s representative but learned that he might wait months to meet the Hokage.
• Kakuzu solved Tobirama’s posted ledger problem correctly, and the Konoha shinobi eagerly brought him inside.
• Tobirama admired Kakuzu’s calculations and ordered him to take a further test under his supervision.

Kakuzu refused Tobirama’s lucrative job offer out of loyalty to Takigakure, but Takigakure transferred him to Konoha anyway, where he was buried in ledgers and overtime. Meanwhile, Shingetsu and Kazuma introduced Konoha Cards to Hashirama, who became so engrossed in playing that Kazuma had to rush them back to class.

• Tobirama offered Kakuzu a well-paid position after he impressed him by earning a perfect score on an exam, but Kakuzu refused because he was loyal to Takigakure.
• Tobirama arranged for Kakuzu to stay in Konoha, and Kakuzu received word that Takigakure had transferred him to work for Konoha.
• Tobirama gave Kakuzu a towering stack of ledgers to calculate, trapping him in overtime work at the Hokage Building.
• Shingetsu and Kazuma showed Hashirama the Konoha Cards they had designed, and Shingetsu taught him how to play.
• Hashirama lost repeatedly to Shingetsu but loved the game, while Kazuma realized their lunch break was nearly over and tried to hurry them to Madara’s class.

Shingetsu and Kazuma turned their card game into the hugely popular Konoha Cards business, while Madara confiscated their first deck to keep Shingetsu from becoming addicted. The shop thrived amid booster-pack chaos, leaving customers arguing over rare cards and Hōzuki Oborozuki protesting that Kirigakure cards were weak and scarce.

• Shingetsu, Hashirama, and Kazuma skipped Madara's class to play cards, so Madara beat them and confiscated their decks after Hashirama invited him to join in.
• Shingetsu and Kazuma sold Konoha Cards across Konoha, and Kazuma opened a popular toy shop stocked with dolls and randomized booster packs.
• Kazuma exposed a Hyuga shinobi who tried to use his Byakugan to find rare cards and forced him out of the shop.
• Customers fought over the booster pack the Hyuga shinobi had selected, and Uchiha Miki won it, only to find a Tobirama Senju card inside.
• Hōzuki Oborozuki confronted Kazuma over Konoha's strong cards and Kirigakure's small selection, but Kazuma defended the business's focus on what customers bought.

Uchiha Madara ordered Uchiha Yan and two other Uchiha to manage his shogunate in the Land of Grass, while Shingetsu arranged for Cat Granny to oversee its livestock business. Shingetsu prepared to attend Princess Mito’s inauguration in the Land of Whirlpools, but rejected the nobles’ restrictive dress and beauty customs.

• Uchiha elders joked about Shingetsu, card games, and the Uchiha’s hopes of one day producing a Hokage until Madara summoned Uchiha Yan to work in the Land of Grass.
• Madara told Uchiha Yan that Yōta Uchiha and Hayato would accompany him, and Shingetsu later recruited Cat Granny to manage livestock and meat sales there.
• Princess Mito toppled her father and prepared to become the Land of Whirlpools’ Daimyō, prompting Shingetsu to travel there for her inauguration.
• Shingetsu put on a Jūnihitoe for the journey, refused the court lady’s demands for lead makeup, blackened teeth, and plucked eyebrows, and declared that they would make their own rules.

Shingetsu and the Konoha party sailed to the Land of Whirlpools aboard Tobirama’s steamship, turning the diplomatic trip into a lively outing. After arriving, Shingetsu found her future fief impoverished and learned that the Uzumaki supported Princess Mito’s leadership and her claim to the land.

• Tobirama showed Shingetsu the enormous steamship he had commissioned, and the party boarded for the Land of Whirlpools.
• The children played on deck while Madara and Hashirama helped the short-handed crew, then joined the children’s Konoha Cards game.
• Shingetsu asked for seafood, so Tobirama caught fish and prepared a feast for nearly everyone aboard.
• After the long voyage, the party reached the Land of Whirlpools and found its harbor and surrounding country far poorer than expected.
• Uzumaki guides told the visitors that the clan supported Princess Mito as leader and welcomed Shingetsu’s fief, while they resented Uzumaki Ashina for trying to marry Mito to Hashirama.

Shingetsu and Mito completed the ceremony that made the Land of Whirlpools Shingetsu’s fief and ended its isolation. Mito then secured merchants’ support for a new trading port, leaving the Uzumaki clansmen astonished by the wealth and opportunity ahead.

• Shingetsu’s party arrived in Uzushiogakure, where the red-haired Uzumaki clansmen eagerly welcomed Hashirama, Tobirama, Madara, and Shingetsu.
• Mito wore a hunting robe and presided over the inauguration rites alongside Shingetsu, while representatives from Konoha, other nations, and merchant groups attended.
• After the ceremony established the Land of Whirlpools as Shingetsu’s fief, Mito announced that it would open to the shinobi world.
• Mito proposed building a trading port and persuaded Shingetsu, Konoha, Madara, and numerous merchants to support the project.
• The Uzumaki clansmen watched the merchants pledge wealth and wondered whether their clan would become rich.

After Mito’s inauguration, Hōkaku’s drunken antics with Shingetsu amused the gathered guests while Hashirama and Tobirama reflected on family. Later, merchants revealed Kirigakure’s proposed child-killing academy policy, prompting Hashirama, Madara, Tobirama, and Shingetsu to consider stopping it.

• At the celebratory banquet, Hōkaku drunkenly scooped up Shingetsu and demanded kisses, and Tōka joined him in teasing her while Tobirama watched in dismay.
• Hashirama asked Tobirama whether their family’s playful happiness was what a truly happy family looked like, and Tobirama urged him to become a responsible grandfather to Tatsuki’s child.
• Madara approached Shingetsu and carried her away, provoking Hōkaku’s renewed sulking.
• Merchants discussed how Kirigakure’s restrictive policies endangered trade and said they had heard its academy forced children to kill one another.
• Tobirama explained that Kirigakure’s proposed academy system had not yet been fully implemented, and Hashirama and Madara reacted with anger toward Mizukage Byakuren.
• Shingetsu suggested that the villages pressure Kirigakure at the next Five Kage Summit to abandon the policy.

After Konoha’s shogunates stabilized, Shingetsu helped Minazuki Rin discover a possible use for the Yuki Clan’s Ice Release and inspired Tobirama to stage a play about Konoha’s history. The play won over its audience despite its awkward acting and relentless advertisements, and Shingetsu suggested adding Konoha Cards as another sponsor.

• After returning from the Land of Whirlpools, the Konoha group feasted, while Uchiha Yan was sent to the Land of Grass and Madara Uchiha and Hashirama Senju sent people to develop their shogunates.
• On a hot day at the Ninja Academy, Shingetsu asked Minazuki Rin to chill her milk tea with Ice Release and suggested the Yuki Clan could make money selling cold drinks.
• Minazuki Rin made ice for the overheated students and created a huge block of ice to cool the classroom, surprising Madara Uchiha.
• Tobirama took the students to watch a play about Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha’s childhood and battles, staged by a makeshift troupe to teach Konoha’s history.
• Kakuzu arranged for clan businesses to advertise during the play, and Shingetsu urged Tobirama to add Konoha Cards as a sponsor.

Tobirama’s badly rewritten play became a wildly popular, advertisement-filled hit, while Shingetsu completed Konoha’s first draft of a legal code. When Shingetsu suggested explaining why the village needed laws, Tobirama arranged for her to give a public speech, prompting her to attack him in fury.

• Madara and Hashirama forced Tobirama to cut the play’s sentimental scenes, but its fight-heavy performances drew packed audiences and spread across the Land of Fire and the Four Great Nations.
• Shingetsu finished a rough first edition of Konoha’s laws, and Tobirama praised her work after reading it.
• Shingetsu suggested explaining to the villagers why Konoha needed laws, and Tobirama agreed to let her try.
• Three days later, Shingetsu discovered that Tobirama’s plan was for her to give a speech in the square, so she angrily choked him.

Tobirama forced Shingetsu to address Konoha about its new laws, and she turned her speech into a challenge to shinobi traditions of death, obedience, and dependence on nobles. Her words left the audience reflecting and cheering, while the speech was still underway.

• Tobirama soothed Shingetsu, then carried her onto the stage and teleported away when she resisted giving a speech.
• Shingetsu nervously faced the crowd until her classmates, clan members, and Hashirama encouraged her.
• Shingetsu asked why Konoha had been founded and explained that laws were meant to help people live better.
• Shingetsu questioned why shinobi glorified death and sent even young children to battle, prompting the audience to reflect.
• Shingetsu condemned shinobi for accepting control by nobles and called on them to use their power responsibly, inspiring cheers from the crowd.

Shingetsu persuaded Konoha’s residents to accept the new laws as protection for their hard-won peace, prompting widespread interest in the Konoha Code and public input on its revision. As Tobirama planned a play about Shingetsu, she hid from embarrassment and cursed him aloud.

• Shingetsu gave a speech arguing that Konoha’s laws would restrain violence and preserve peace, and the crowd agreed to accept them.
• Konoha’s residents eagerly studied the Code and offered scenarios for its revision, while Tobirama sent Nara Clan members to gather opinions.
• Complaints about the Nara Clan’s unhelpful public consultations filled the Hokage Building.
• Shingetsu withdrew in embarrassment, and Uchiha Miki and Inari teased her by imitating her speech.
• Tobirama planned a play about Shingetsu’s achievements and speech, and she cursed him aloud.

Shingetsu confronted Tobirama over casting a brute to impersonate her, while Minazuki Rin, Hōzuki Oborozuki, and Kaguya Utsusemi worried about their clans in Kirigakure. After learning that Byakuren had begun purging their clans, the three considered seeking help from their Konoha teachers.

• Shingetsu discovered Tobirama had cast a bearded brute as her in the play and demanded that he cancel it, while Tobirama tried to appease her with insect-repelling incense and food.
• Minazuki Rin began selling ice in Konoha, but she and her teammates worried that her business would anger Mizukage Byakuren and noticed that messages from their clans were growing scarce.
• Hōzuki Oborozuki, Minazuki Rin, and Kaguya Utsusemi condemned Byakuren's rule and worried about Hozuki Gengetsu's political position.
• The three received news that Hozuki Gengetsu had lost the political struggle and Byakuren had begun secretly purging their clans.
• Hōzuki Oborozuki refused to accept their clans' fate, and Minazuki Rin and Kaguya Utsusemi wondered whether Teacher Madara and Teacher Hashirama would help them.

Hōzuki Oborozuki, Minazuki Rin, and their companion sought Madara Uchiha’s help against Byakuren, and Madara agreed to bring them to the Five Kage Summit. Meanwhile, Kaguya Utsusemi visited the Hyuga Clan Compound for support and witnessed Hinata Kotoma being tormented by the Main Family.

• Hōzuki Oborozuki and his companions told Madara Uchiha about Kirigakure, and Minazuki Rin asked him to help protect its children.
• Madara threatened the trio for openly betraying their village, but Hōzuki Oborozuki defended their actions with Shingetsu’s words.
• Madara withdrew his killing intent and said the three would accompany him to the Five Kage Summit.
• Kaguya Utsusemi sought the Hyuga Clan’s aid and saw Hinata Kotoma enduring a brutal sparring session with a Main Family member.
• Hyuga Hikomasa continued tormenting Kotoma, whose Caged Bird Seal left her trapped under the Main Family’s control.

Kaguya Utsusemi sought the Hyuga Clan’s help, but Hyuga Toki refused to intervene in a conflict between villages. That night, Hyuga Yu decided to join the Branch Family’s secret effort to report the Main Family to Lord Hokage, while his wife feared the consequences for their family.

• Hyuga Toki welcomed Kaguya Utsusemi with praise and talk of their clans’ history, then refused to send troops to help the Kaguya Clan and offered only a scroll of assistance in Konoha.
• Hinata Kotoma returned home after a day of abuse, and Hyuga Yu told her she must obey the Main Family.
• Kotoma tore up her hidden pages from the Code after despairing over its promise that no one could enslave another person.
• Hyuga Yu told Hyuga Rong he had decided to join the Branch Family’s secret plan to report the Main Family to Lord Hokage.
• Hyuga Yu urged Rong to report him if he failed to return, and apologized to her and Kotoma as the family wept together.

The Hyuga Main Family crushed the Branch Family’s planned rebellion, killing its members with the Caged Bird Seal and keeping Hyuga Yu alive to control his daughter, Qin Zhen. At the Ninja Academy, Qin Zhen began to hope Shingetsu might help her, but a Main Family messenger’s arrival reminded her that she remained under surveillance.

• Hyuga Toki and the Main Family elder uncovered the Branch Family rebellion and secretly executed its members with the Caged Bird Seal.
• Hyuga Toki stopped the elder from killing Hyuga Yu, intending to use him to intimidate Qin Zhen, whose place in Madara Uchiha’s class protected her from harsher punishment.
• The elder forced Qin Zhen to watch Hyuga Yu suffer, then spared his life in exchange for her obedience and warned her to follow Lord Madara’s teachings.
• Qin Zhen returned to the Ninja Academy with her injuries healed and her spirits broken, while Uchiha Inari noticed her distress and invited her to join Shingetsu for cake.
• Qin Zhen recalled Shingetsu’s offer to help remove her mark and began to reveal the Hyuga’s treatment of her, but Yan Hyuga arrived with a package from the elder and renewed her fear of Main Family surveillance.

After the Hyuga Main Family executed rebellious Branch Family members, Uchiha officers uncovered the disappearances and brought the evidence to Shingetsu and the Senju brothers. Konoha mobilized to arrest Hyuga Toki, while Toki gathered the Branch Family as hostages and realized the Hyuga were trapped inside the village.

• Qin Zhen refused Shingetsu and Inari's invitation under Hyuga Hikomasa's watch, and Shingetsu left after telling her not to refuse next time.
• Konoha villagers searched for the missing Hyuga Branch Family members, and Uchiha Military Police officers found that more than twenty had disappeared.
• Shingetsu showed the missing-person list to Hashirama and Tobirama, who realized the Hyuga Main Family had likely killed their own Branch Family members.
• Hashirama ordered punishment, and Anbu and Konoha's combat shinobi mobilized to investigate and arrest Hyuga Toki and the Main Family.
• Tobirama deduced the Caged Bird Seal's limited range, while Madara set out to find Toki and Shingetsu went to find Qin Zhen.
• Hyuga Toki gathered the Main Family in a concealed dungeon and ordered the Branch Family assembled as hostages, then recognized that Konoha's barrier left them trapped.

Hashirama and Madara confronted the Hyuga Main Family but could not attack freely while Hyuga Toki held the Branch Family hostage with the Caged Bird Seal. Shingetsu removed Qin Zhen’s seal, proving the curse could be severed and leaving the Hyuga watching in shock.

• Hashirama captured the Branch Family defenders with Wood Release, but a Main Family elder invoked the hostages and Hyuga Toki’s power to stop him and Madara from advancing.
• Uchiha Ran demanded to know where Hyuga Peng was, and the Branch Family grieved when they learned he was dead.
• Shingetsu brought Qin Zhen to the compound, where Qin urged her clanspeople to trust the village and help free them.
• Shingetsu told Qin that the Caged Bird Seal could be removed, and Qin agreed to let her try.
• Shingetsu used Futsunomitama and her Mystic Eyes of Death Perception to cut the seal’s death lines from Qin’s forehead, leaving no wound or curse behind.

Tobirama Senju arrested Hyuga Toki and the Hyuga Main Family while the Branch Family escaped, and he put Hyuga Toki on trial for their abuses. Hashirama Senju rejected clan immunity and declared that everyone who remained in Konoha after three days would accept the village’s new order.

• Tobirama Senju took Hyuga Toki to Konoha’s underground prison as Hashirama Senju and the others subdued the Main Family and helped the Branch Family escape.
• Konoha arrested Hyuga Toki and the Main Family, and Tobirama Senju began the village’s first public trial.
• Hyuga witnesses described the Branch Family’s enslavement, and Tobirama Senju sentenced Hyuga Toki to death.
• Hyuga Toki accused Hashirama Senju of breaking his promise not to interfere in clan rules and warned other clans they could be targeted next.
• Hashirama Senju admitted he had broken that promise, declared the village would protect its people from abuse, and gave anyone who rejected Konoha’s new order three days to leave.

After the Hyuga Main Family’s trial, Hashirama apologized to the Branch Family and vowed to prevent another tragedy, while Tobirama executed Hyuga Toki and several elders using a version of their own Caged Bird Seal. The village’s clans and police changed in the aftermath, and Shingetsu, troubled by her increasingly uncontrollable mystic eyes of death perception, decided to ask Tobirama for an examination.

• Hashirama apologized at the memorial ceremony, and the Hyuga Branch Family members insisted that the village had helped them escape the Caged Bird Seal.
• Tobirama killed Hyuga Toki and several Main Family elders with a cursed seal like the Caged Bird Seal and took their Byakugan and clan techniques for study.
• The clans stayed in Konoha, and villagers began bringing their problems to the Konoha Military Police Force, leaving its officers—especially the Nara Clan members—overworked.
• The released Hyuga Main Family members faced contempt and hardship, while Qin Zhen, also called Hinata Kotoma, became happier after escaping the seal and the Branch Family formed a loyal alliance with the Uchiha Clan.
• Shingetsu remained indoors as the death lines in her eyes grew harder to control, then decided to seek Tobirama’s help.

Tobirama examined Shingetsu, secretly drew her blood, and discovered that her cells had powerful but fleeting regenerative properties. Shingetsu demonstrated that her Sharingan let her see and cut death lines, then fell asleep after Hashirama gave her chakra while Tobirama questioned Madara about her eyes.

• Shingetsu hid in the Uchiha Clan Compound, but Tobirama came to fetch her for an examination, and Madara accompanied her to the laboratory.
• Tobirama examined Shingetsu and used candy to distract her while drawing her blood, prompting Madara to beat him.
• Tobirama explained that Shingetsu's cells briefly granted powerful regenerative abilities, and Madara and Hashirama confronted him about taking her blood.
• Shingetsu demonstrated how she saw death lines and cut through a chakra-metal operating table along one of them.
• Tobirama noticed Shingetsu's chakra imbalance, and Hashirama gave her chakra until she fell asleep.
• Tobirama asked Madara and Hashirama what they knew about Shingetsu's eyes.

Tobirama and Hashirama tried to understand Shingetsu’s strange eyes, but Madara could offer no clear explanation for how she awakened them. Madara’s drawings revealed that Shingetsu saw death lines covering everything when her eyes activated, leaving the others worried about what she endured.

• Tobirama questioned Madara about how Shingetsu awakened her Sharingan, and Madara said it happened during a nightmare.
• Madara suggested Hashirama might have triggered the Senju power in Shingetsu when they first met, but the Uchiha clan tablet that might explain her abilities had been destroyed.
• Tobirama deduced Madara had broken the tablet, and the account revealed that Madara had smashed it in anger after Shingetsu was born weak and sickly.
• Madara showed Tobirama drawings of Shingetsu’s room, people, and streets covered in death lines that she saw whenever her eyes activated.
• Hashirama, Tobirama, and Madara watched the sleeping Shingetsu with concern as they realized the disturbing nature of her vision.