Recaps

Ruri and Kakashi led a smaller Konoha force in a planned assault, drawing enemy soldiers away before Ruri infiltrated their headquarters and killed many of them. The force attacked the remaining enemies, and Ruri faced two opponents as the larger battle continued.

• Ruri and the others prepared for the final assault, and Hizashi Hyuga led one group to draw more than a hundred enemies away from the camp.
• Kakashi ordered Ruri and his teammates to attack the remaining enemies at headquarters, where Ruri infiltrated the camp and killed more than twenty before setting a tent on fire.
• Ruri returned to Kakashi, and the group planned an attack on the enemy headquarters after learning that about seventy enemies remained.
• Kakashi led more than thirty teammates inside the headquarters, where they cleared the patrols and regrouped near the command building.
• The enemy captain sent his forces outside, and Kakashi identified the attackers as Konoha ninja before both sides charged into battle.
• Several enemies targeted Ruri, but he cut off one opponent’s forearm and challenged the other to attack.
• The injured enemy joined his teammate against Ruri while Kakashi and the others continued fighting elsewhere.

Ruri cleared enemy fighters from the battlefield, then faced a foe who took two banned drugs and overpowered him. After using a pill from Ring Butler Zero to boost his strength, Ruri fought back and resumed the clash with the enemy.

• Ruri defeated two enemies, killing one with the Lightning Blade and finishing the other after his Shadow Clone stabbed him.
• Ruri joined Uzuki Yugao against five enemies, killing their captain and two more before she helped him defeat another.
• One remaining enemy took two Banned Drugs, grew stronger than Ruri, and battered him while Uzuki Yugao defeated her own opponent.
• Uzuki Yugao fought the drug-enhanced enemy but could not hurt him, so Ruri entered the Ring and obtained a temporary strength-boosting pill from Ring Butler Zero.
• Ruri swallowed the pill, recovered from his injuries, and took over the fight from a wounded Uzuki Yugao.
• Ruri’s boosted strength let him knock the enemy away and slam a Rasengan into his back, leaving him burned and disrupting his chakra.
• The enemy restored his chakra flow and formed an earth shield over his arms as Ruri charged with his enlarged cleaver.

Ruri fought a powerful enemy whose banned drugs made him nearly impossible to defeat, while Kakashi and the others stalled for time. After recovering and leveling up, Ruri returned to the battle as the enemy’s drug began to wear off, leaving their final clash underway.

• Ruri fought the enemy through a barrage of stone attacks, but chakra-coated pebbles pierced his barrier and wounded him.
• The exhausted Ruri suffered a deep abdominal wound, and Uzuki Yugao treated him as Kakashi, Uchiha Itachi, and Yamato arrived to take over.
• The enemy trapped Kakashi and Yamato in earth, while Ring Butler Zero told Ruri that the enemy’s two banned drugs would kill him when their effects wore off.
• Ruri rested and recovered inside the Ring as Kakashi, Uchiha Itachi, Uzuki Yugao, and Yamato tried to hold off the drug-enhanced enemy.
• After leveling up and returning to the battlefield, Ruri took over from Kakashi and struck the enemy with a huge Rasengan.
• Ruri used his new strength to injure the enemy with Lightning Blade-infused Kunai as the drug’s remaining time dwindled.
• Uzuki Yugao urged Ruri to stall rather than clash directly, while the enemy accepted that he would soon die and resolved to take Ruri down with him.

Ruri and his team defeated the remaining enemies, then reunited with Hizashi Hyuga’s forces and began the journey home. The stretch ended with everyone sharing a relaxed breakfast before setting off, eager to reach Konoha that night.

• Ruri and his Shadow Clones overwhelmed the drug-enhanced enemy, but he grabbed Ruri and exploded when the drug wore off.
• Ruri revealed he had switched places with a Shadow Clone, and Kakashi confirmed that their team had defeated all its enemies.
• Ruri and Kakashi joined Hizashi Hyuga in the valley, where Hizashi’s forces finished off the remaining enemies.
• Hizashi confirmed that more than two hundred enemies had been counted, and Kakashi’s team prepared to return home with him.
• The group camped for the night, shared their saved rations, and rested before continuing toward Konoha.
• Ruri’s team packed up the next morning and joked together as they joined Hizashi Hyuga’s troops for breakfast.
• Hizashi supplied extra meat for the journey, and the group ate together, relieved that they no longer had to watch for enemies.