Recaps

Zou Hyuga exposed Madara’s plan to revive the Ten-Tails and helped Konoha prepare for war while pursuing his own struggle against the hidden Otsutsuki threat. The Third mobilized the shinobi forces for the Five Kage Summit, and Zou led Minato and Kushina into his underground base to begin his operation.

• Tobirama warned the Third Hokage and his allies that Madara’s Successor planned to collect the tailed beasts and cast the Infinite Tsukuyomi, and Zou Hyuga secured Konoha’s secret cooperation against him.
• The Third Hokage rallied Konoha’s clan leaders and sent Kakashi and Guy to propose a Five Kage Summit, while Obito began hunting Killer B and the Eight-Tails.
• Zou and the Fire Squad rescued Killer B, defeated several reanimated Kage, and drove Obito to retreat, though Zou secretly took the Eight-Tails from Killer B.
• Zou warned Hiashi that the coming war could be catastrophic and gave the Hyuga Clan Scientific Ninja Tools and Chakra Armor to strengthen its defenses.
• Oto and Shisui put Itachi through a Limited Tsukuyomi that awakened his Mangekyō Sharingan, and Oto later explained that Obito was carrying out Madara’s Eye of the Moon Plan.
• Zou examined Naruto and Sasuke, obtained chakra from the Nine-Tails and from Indra and Asura, and left after telling Minato he would carry out his orders.
• The Third mobilized twenty thousand ninjas against the Akatsuki and departed for the Five Kage Summit with the Fire Squad, while Zou led Minato and Kushina to his underground base and Chakra Network Hub.

Zou Hyuga brought allies together and maneuvered across the war while the Five Kage, Konoha’s defenders, and Oto fought Madara and Obito. The Ten-Tails was revived, and the Five Kage regrouped with Kisame’s forces as the beast advanced.

• Kushina reunited with Karin at Zou Hyuga’s base, and Zou discovered the Ley Line Consciousness and its connection to the Box of Ultimate Bliss.
• Zou rejected Kura’s offer to change history, moved the Box of Ultimate Bliss near the Land of Water, and summoned Akatsuki members to plan against a hostile Otsutsuki.
• Obito and Madara attacked the Five Kage and allied ninja, while the First Hokage and Oto fought to hold them back.
• Tsunade organized Konoha’s defense as its clans and Jiraiya fought White Zetsu, reanimated ninja, and Pain’s jinchūriki, while Haku and Karin helped defend the Daimyō.
• Black Zetsu sent the reanimated Mito Uzumaki after Naruto and Killer B, but Zou freed Mito from his control and brought her to Naruto and Sasuke.
• Oto confronted Madara with her Senjutsu Susanoo, but Obito rescued him, and Madara later broke Hashirama free as the allied forces struggled against their combined power.
• Zou revealed himself to Naruto and Sasuke, then waited at Nameless Island as Obito revived the incomplete Ten-Tails with the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.
• Oto and the allied ninja attacked the Ten-Tails, while Kisame arrived with a retreat order and led the Five Kage toward the beast.

Zou Hyuga battled Jigen and Isshiki while Oto Uchiha defeated Madara and became the Ten-Tails Jinchuriki. After suppressing the ancient powers within Oto, Zou gathered chakra on the moon and sacrificed his body to make the Miniature Ten-Tails transform into a God Tree.

• Zou Hyuga confronted Jigen in the alternate dimension, discovered the weakened Miniature Ten-Tails, and learned Jigen intended to feed him to it.
• Zou returned to Amegakure with Tobirama, learned more about Kara from Amado, and went to the battlefield as Obito became the Ten-Tails Jinchuriki.
• Oto Uchiha and the Allied Forces extracted Shukaku from Obito, but Madara intervened, defeated the weakened fighters, and arranged for Obito to revive him.
• The Sage of Six Paths granted Oto a Rinnegan, and she defeated Madara before controlling the Ten-Tails and becoming its Jinchuriki.
• Zou and Oto left the battlefield to fight Isshiki, while Kaguya’s consciousness surfaced in Oto and argued with him about their past.
• Zou and Oto traveled to the moon, where Zou gathered tailed beast chakra and used it to grow the Miniature Ten-Tails into a second Ten-Tails.
• Zou revealed that he had split his soul, then let the Ten-Tails swallow his body so it could begin transforming into a God Tree.