Recaps

The Land of Water launched an attack after a tsunami devastated the Konoha and Sunagakure fleets, and Chiyo and Sarutobi struggled to protect their remaining ships. Mei Terumi ordered a massive Hidden Mist Technique that shrouded the battlefield as Zabuza prepared to fight.

• Chiyo blamed Sarutobi for Sunagakure losing most of its ships and Shinobi, while Sarutobi ordered Konoha's crews to patch their damaged vessels.
• Kisame Hoshigaki attacked Sarutobi and Chiyo, but Chiyo's puppets blocked Samehada and forced Kisame to retreat into the sea.
• Sarutobi questioned the Land of Water's strategy as Might Guy shouted for Kakashi and Mei Terumi asked Yugiri? to face Konoha's Ino-Shika-Cho.
• Mei Terumi ordered the Land of Water Shinobi to perform the Hidden Mist Technique, and thousands of Shinobi filled the sea with dense fog.
• Zabuza took up a Land of Water longsword and followed the call to attack.

Mei Terumi used her Six-Tails-enhanced Boil Release to attack Sarutobi’s ship, while Konoha’s ninja struggled to hold back the corrosive mist. Elsewhere, Yugiri? damaged another ship with lightning, and Kisame ambushed the younger generation, prompting Might Guy to counterattack.

• Mei Terumi approached Sarutobi and Chiyo’s ship and released a corrosive Boil Release mist that killed a Konoha ninja and began eating through the vessel.
• Sarutobi and the other Konoha ninja used Wind Release to push the mist back, but they could clear only a narrow space as Mei Terumi intensified her attack.
• Yugiri? unleashed a wide-ranging lightning attack that destroyed much of the deck on Chōza Akimichi and Shikaku’s ship, and Shikaku called for Formation A.
• Kisame attacked the ship carrying Konoha’s younger generation with a Water Shark Bullet Technique, and Might Guy opened the Gate of Limit and kicked at the water shark.

Kisame defeated Might Guy and helped turn the battle in the Land of Water’s favor, while Chiyo cleared the mist and Mei Terumi confronted Sarutobi. After Mei’s Lava Release melted Sarutobi’s water wall and dissolved the warship, Sarutobi charged at her with Enma.

• Kisame knocked Might Guy into the sea with Samehada, splitting Konoha’s warship and forcing its ninja onto the water.
• The Yuki Clan’s ice pillars exploded behind the battlefield, causing heavy casualties among the Konoha and Sand Shinobi forces.
• Chiyo used the Chikamatsu Ten Puppets’ Three Treasures Suction Crush to clear the mist and reveal Mei Terumi.
• Mei Terumi ignored Sarutobi’s questions about Danzo and attacked him with Lava Release.
• Mei’s acid overwhelmed Sarutobi’s Water Flow Wall and dissolved the warship, so Sarutobi charged her with Enma.

Hiruzen Sarutobi fought Mei Terumi, who unleashed the Six-Tails’ chakra and charged back at him. Meanwhile, Danzo watched the battlefield with the Kaguya Clan and sent Zabuza Momochi a weapon through a Root ninja.

• Hiruzen used the Adamantine Staff and a sealing formation to trap and strike Mei Terumi, but she recovered with the Six-Tails’ chakra and attacked him.
• Danzo appeared among the Kaguya Clan and chose to watch the battle rather than join it.
• Zabuza Momochi used the mist and Silent Killing Technique to kill Sand Shinobi fighting him.
• Danzo recognized Zabuza, ordered a Root ninja to identify him, and handed over Kubikiribōchō for Zabuza.

Old Danzo supplied Zabuza with the Kubikiribōchō, then captured Asuma and used him to threaten Konoha’s forces. He left the battle at a tense standoff, demanding that Konoha abandon its war against the Land of Water or watch Asuma die.

• After his sword broke, Zabuza killed a Puppeteer with his teeth, and Old Danzo sent him the Kubikiribōchō.
• Old Danzo ordered the Kaguya Clan to kill Chiyo, then headed toward the battlefield where Kisame was fighting Konoha’s younger generation.
• Old Danzo used his killing intent to drag Asuma underwater and pull him from the sea, leaving him hanging upside down behind him.
• Old Danzo announced that he had captured the Hokage’s son and demanded that Konoha stop fighting and abandon its war against the Land of Water, or Asuma would die.

Old Danzo forced Hiruzen Sarutobi to choose between continuing the battle and saving his son Asuma, then exposed the conflict between Konoha’s Ninja Rules and the Will of Fire. The chapter left Sarutobi shaken as Old Danzo concluded he had broken Konoha’s roots in front of its ninja.

• Old Danzo ordered the Land of Water ninja to dispel the Hidden Mist and withdraw, then held Asuma captive while confronting Hiruzen Sarutobi.
• Hiruzen called the invasion a fight for justice, but Old Danzo challenged the Allied Shinobi Forces over civilian deaths and demanded that Hiruzen choose between fighting and Asuma’s life.
• Hiruzen declared that Asuma could be sacrificed for Konoha, invoking the Ninja Rules and prompting Might Guy and other Konoha ninja to protest.
• Old Danzo asked Hiruzen to explain Konoha’s Ninja Rules, and a Konoha ninja recited them, including the saying that those who disobeyed the rules were trash.
• Old Danzo asked Hiruzen to repeat the Will of Fire, leaving him shaken as Old Danzo recognized that the two doctrines conflicted.

Old Danzo exposed Konoha’s painful history and condemned its shinobi for following Hiruzen into war, leaving their convictions shaken. Minato arrived and rallied them with his own vision of the Will of Fire, while Old Danzo angrily prepared to challenge him.

• Old Danzo confronted Hiruzen about the former Second Hokage’s sacrifice, the rules Hiruzen established, and Konoha’s treatment of Hatake Sakumo.
• Hiruzen faltered under Old Danzo’s accusations as Konoha’s shinobi lowered their heads in shame.
• Shikaku Nara used Minato’s kunai to summon him, and Minato arrived between the opposing forces.
• Minato acknowledged Konoha’s flaws and declared that the new generation should learn from past failures and help the village flourish.
• Minato’s speech rekindled the Konoha shinobi’s morale, and Old Danzo resolved to turn his criticism on him.

Old Danzo let Minato and the Konoha forces leave the Land of Water rather than fight them, while Minato used the retreat to consolidate his authority and avoid responsibility for the campaign. In the north, Kakashi exhausted himself fighting A and collapsed, leaving the young Fourth Raikage panicked.

• Old Danzo weighed his choices, then ordered Minato and the Konoha forces to leave the Land of Water, silencing his own ninja when they offered to sacrifice themselves.
• Minato signaled a retreat, and Shikaku Nara released prepared rafts while the Konoha and Sand Shinobi salvaged ships and recovered their dead.
• Minato blamed the campaign on the retired Third Hokage when Chiyo challenged him, and Chiyo chose not to provoke Konoha.
• Minato told Shikaku Nara to notify the Iwagakure and Kumogakure fleets, deciding not to let them fight the Land of Water without warning.
• In the northern Land of Water, Kakashi failed to land a final lightning attack on A, exhausted his chakra, and collapsed; A hurried to check on him.

Orochimaru completed a modification that let him perform Rinne Rebirth consecutively, while Danzo visited the Laboratory with Hashirama and the Land of Rain Trio. Nagato chose ordinary eyes for his upcoming procedure after experiencing renewed vitality without the Rinnegan.

• Orochimaru used a White Zetsu head, Kakuzu’s black threads, and Cursed Seals to prepare for performing Rinne Rebirth consecutively.
• Danzo brought Hashirama to the Laboratory, where a researcher told him Orochimaru was asleep and Hiruko was studying the former Kumogakure’s Chakra Cannon.
• Danzo welcomed Yahiko, Nagato, and Konan, praised Yahiko’s civilian work, and promised him a vote at the Shinobi World Conference.
• Danzo told Nagato he could choose between Original Eyes and Dōjutsu Eyes for the Laboratory’s procedure.
• Nagato chose ordinary eyes, explaining that he felt his vitality return after his Rinnegan was sealed.

Orochimaru prepared to use Rinne Rebirth on Nagato, while Danzo chose a first test subject and ordered Yahiko to summon A and Minato. Yahiko left the Laboratory for Konoha Hospital as Orochimaru began setting up the operation on Nagato.

• Orochimaru warned that the empire could tolerate Nagato dying as long as his Rinnegan remained undamaged, and Danzo cautioned him about using Rinne Rebirth.
• Danzo proposed beginning with a hundred resurrection slots, and Orochimaru agreed to follow Danzo’s list, starting with researchers who had died in the Laboratory.
• Danzo considered Ōnoki and the Third Mizukage as candidates, then told Yahiko to bring A; Yahiko pointed out that A was alive and had recently earned a commendation.
• Danzo told Yahiko to summon A and Minato, and Yahiko left the Laboratory for Konoha Hospital, where Minato had been working.
• Orochimaru activated the Isolation Room’s equipment and prepared to operate on Nagato.

Yahiko told Minato to bring A to the Laboratory, where they hoped to revive the Third Raikage using DNA from his belongings. A and Rūmoi traveled with Minato, carrying the Third Raikage’s training barbell as a possible source of genetic material.

• Yahiko found Minato buried in paperwork and relayed Danzo’s order to take A to the Laboratory.
• Minato activated his Flying Thunder God mark on A while A drank with Rūmoi and former Kumogakure shinobi.
• Rūmoi confronted A over suspicions that he wanted to restore Kumogakure, and A denied it.
• Yahiko told A and Rūmoi that the Laboratory might be able to revive the Third Raikage if they provided material containing his DNA.
• Rūmoi gave A a scroll holding the Third Raikage’s training barbell, and Minato took A and Yahiko to the Laboratory.

Orochimaru and Danzo revived the Third Raikage, then used Rinne Rebirth to restore his living body. Orochimaru realized the technique could enable repeatable resurrection by combining cloned bodies with methods of controlling souls, and warned Danzo that the Shinobi World would descend into chaos.

• Researchers extracted the Third Raikage’s DNA from dried sweat on a barbell, and Orochimaru used Impure World Reincarnation to summon him in the Laboratory.
• The Third Raikage mistook A’s closeness to Danzo for surrender and attacked his son after A told him Kumogakure was gone.
• After learning what had happened to Kumogakure, the Third Raikage agreed to serve Danzo’s empire and stood by as Orochimaru prepared a White Zetsu body fitted with Hashirama cells and the Rinnegan.
• The White Zetsu used Rinne Rebirth to restore the Third Raikage’s body, and Orochimaru interrupted the jutsu when he saw the Raikage’s life force being overfilled.
• Orochimaru told Danzo that Rinne Rebirth could retrieve souls, repair bodies, and restore life, and he proposed combining it with Konoha’s cloning and soul-control techniques.

Danzo allowed Orochimaru to continue his research under strict reporting rules, then the resurrected Third Raikage reunited with his former Kumogakure comrades in Konoha. After drinking with them, he reflected on how good it felt to be alive and at peace.

• Danzo let Orochimaru pursue his experiments as long as he worked alone and filed a report at every stage, then ordered him to resurrect the people on the list.
• The Third Raikage and A walked through Konoha, where the Third Raikage admired Danzo’s ability to unite people from different lands.
• The Third Raikage scolded A for not challenging Takahashi Yū, but A revealed that the foe he had faced was Madara Uchiha.
• The Third Raikage reunited tearfully with his former followers, including Rūmoi, and led them to an izakaya to drink.
• After drinking, the Third Raikage celebrated being alive and said the moon looked larger to him after his resurrection.

Madara waited in a civilian settlement for Root to find the passage to the moon, reflecting on his ideals and the civilians' lives. After setting out to confront the people on the moon, he left a Root Ninja behind, who was soon recruited by locals to hunt a returning beast called Shouqi.

• Madara watched the rain and thought about the civilians' hardships, his Infinite Tsukuyomi plan, and Hashirama's work in the settlement.
• A Root Ninja reported that Root had found the passage to the moon, and Madara confirmed the people there might want to destroy the Shinobi World.
• Madara took the map and Gunbai, ordered the Root Ninja to guard the settlement, and left to investigate the passage.
• The Root Ninja sent the intelligence to Konoha and received Minato's order to remain at the settlement until relieved.
• Civilians told the Root Ninja that Shouqi, a large lizard Madara had chased away before, had returned, and he agreed to hunt it.

Madara Uchiha followed the map to a cavern on the moon, where a memory-based Genjutsu showed him Izuna’s death and enraged him. He destroyed the creatures and barrier in his path, then summoned Perfect Susanoo and flew toward the sun, intending to confront the Otsutsuki descendants.

• Madara entered the cavern and found a lake that concealed a bubble-like space filled with Genjutsu orbs.
• Madara let the orbs’ Genjutsu affect him, saw Izuna die in a memory, and shattered the orbs in fury.
• Madara used repulsive force to descend through the water and killed a gigantic crab with Susanoo.
• Madara emerged into a Shinobi World-like environment, sensed that he was on the moon, and located his enemies near the sun.
• Madara manifested Perfect Susanoo and flew toward the sun to test the strength of the Otsutsuki descendants.

Madara Uchiha destroyed the moon clan’s Tenseigan with a single Susanoo slash, shattering the barrier and leaving the Ōtsutsuki descendants in shock. As the clan head resisted calls to flee and an elder attempted to restore the Tenseigan, Madara appeared and ordered them to continue, then sat down to wait.

• Madara Uchiha drove Susanoo into the sky and cut through the Tenseigan’s barrier with a charged slash.
• The Tenseigan shattered, and one Ōtsutsuki elder fainted as the surrounding crescent-shaped rock broke apart.
• The Ōtsutsuki descendants carried the elder to a floating island and realized Madara’s attack had nearly wiped them out.
• The clan head refused to abandon the clan’s thousand-year aspiration, and an elder used a bird puppet to try to gather the scattered Byakugan and restore the Tenseigan.
• Madara appeared on the floating island and ordered the descendants to continue their attempt.
• The clan head restrained a young descendant who wanted to attack Madara, while Madara sat down and said he would wait.

Madara used genjutsu and copied seals to make the Lunar Descendants gather the scattered Byakugan into a new tenseigan, but the Ōtsutsuki Clan Head pushed the moon toward the shinobi world. The Third Raikage raised the alarm, and Minato, Tobirama, and Danzo responded as the crisis began.

• Madara revealed his Rinnegan and made the Lunar Descendants turn into crystalline eyes that drew the scattered Byakugan together.
• The Byakugan formed a net of light and began converging into a new tenseigan, while the Ōtsutsuki Clan Head realized his clan was doomed.
• The Ōtsutsuki Clan Head used his ancestral seals to push the moon toward the shinobi world.
• The Third Raikage noticed the moon’s approach, struck A to alert him, and escaped with him through a window.
• A activated the emergency Flying Thunder God Marks, bringing Minato, Tobirama, and Danzo to the rooftop, where Danzo ordered someone to fetch his brother Takahashi.

An alarm brought Minato to Takahashi Farm to wake Takahashi Yū, who learned that Madara had used the Tenseigan’s energy to send the moon crashing toward the former Land of Earth. At the Laboratory, the group considered ways to stop the disaster, while Madara weighed blowing up the moon and Danzo insisted they preserve an Ōtsutsuki corpse.

• Minato rushed to Takahashi Farm and woke Takahashi Yū by thrusting a Flying Thunder God Kunai toward his face, but Takahashi Yū caught it and Minato escaped with Flying Thunder God.
• Minato told Takahashi Yū that Madara had sent the moon falling, and Takahashi Yū went with him to the Konoha Laboratory.
• Danzo learned from Madara that the Tenseigan’s energy had propelled the moon rather than controlling it, while Madara considered destroying the moon himself.
• Orochimaru and Hiruko estimated that the moon would hit the former Land of Earth in six hours and warned that lunar fragments could also fall.
• Orochimaru suggested using Rinne Rebirth to confront Kaguya Ōtsutsuki, but Danzo refused because the group would lose an Ōtsutsuki corpse if she disappeared with the moon.

Danzo and the Laboratory searched for a way to stop the moon from breaking apart and striking the Shinobi World. Orochimaru proposed combining the Tsuchikage's techniques, Madara's powers, and Flying Thunder God: Guiding Thunder, but his plan appeared to require Takahashi Yū to withstand an enormous force.

• Danzo ordered Kō to suspend Root's mapping mission and prepare to support the Laboratory through the Flying Thunder God Formation.
• Hiruko said the moon would begin shedding meteors in three hours, and the group discussed using Ōnoki's Light-Weight Rock Technique to reduce its weight.
• Orochimaru let slip that the Dragon Vein passage had opened, prompting Takahashi Yū to confront Danzo about hiding it.
• Orochimaru explained that Madara could use the moon's Ōtsutsuki descendants and damaged Tenseigan to control it, while Flying Thunder God: Guiding Thunder could turn it into a fortress.
• Orochimaru ordered Yū and Minato to bring Ōnoki from the Otherworld, then proposed lightening the moon and having Madara use Shinra Tensei to push it away.
• Hiruko questioned where Madara's force would find support, and Orochimaru indicated Takahashi Yū, leaving Yū stunned at the prospect of taking the force head-on.

As fragments began falling from the breaking moon, Danzo dispatched powerful allies to protect the settlements and prepared the Laboratory’s Chakra Cannon to destroy smaller debris. Meanwhile, Takahashi Yū and little Minato raced through another world toward the Land of Earth, where Takahashi Yū asked about the Impure World Reincarnation scroll.

• Hiruko reported that the moon was shedding fragments, and Danzo assigned allies to protect the settlements threatened by the largest meteorites.
• Danzo ordered Hiruko to use the Chakra Cannon against smaller fragments once the larger meteorites were dealt with.
• Danzo sent Ōnoki to the moon and ordered a researcher to revive Second Tsuchikage Mu with Impure World Reincarnation.
• Takahashi Yū and little Minato raced through the wind and sand toward the Land of Earth, but Minato had exhausted his chakra after using Flying Thunder God.
• Takahashi Yū asked little Minato which pocket held the Impure World Reincarnation scroll.

Takahashi Yū and Young Minato traveled to Iwagakure and brought Ōnoki back to their world for the crisis facing the Shinobi World. Ōnoki arrived at Orochimaru's laboratory, where he asked whether Orochimaru would accept a recruitment offer from him.

• Young Minato questioned Takahashi Yū's confidence that outsiders could use Impure World Reincarnation, then flew with him toward Iwagakure.
• Takahashi Yū used his murderous intent to draw Ōnoki out and insisted that he travel to another world; Ōnoki agreed after asking for time to leave instructions.
• Young Minato brought Takahashi Yū and Ōnoki through the Dragon Vein Passage and used Flying Thunder God to reach Rōran's teleportation array.
• Ōnoki met Head of State Danzo, then went with him to Orochimaru's laboratory to undergo the procedure that would return him from the dead.
• As Orochimaru injected him with a sedative, Ōnoki asked whether Orochimaru would join him if he were a rogue shinobi from Konoha, and Orochimaru said it depended on the price.

Ōnoki, Tobirama, and Madara prepared to move Madara into position for a plan to repel the moon away from the Shinobi World. Orochimaru coordinated with Takahashi Yū, who waited high above the Land of Earth for the signal to leap and counter Madara’s force.

• Old Ōnoki and Ōnoki used their weight-reduction techniques together to speed the moon toward the Shinobi World.
• Tobirama transported both Ōnokis to Madara, and they used Earth Release: Moving Earth Core to raise him beyond the moon’s bounds.
• Madara wrapped himself in chakra as he rose on the stone pillar, while Orochimaru monitored his position from the Konoha Laboratory.
• Takahashi Yū steadied himself on a platform of killing intent high above the Land of Earth as the Undying Squad prepared to bear the force of his leap.
• Orochimaru gave Takahashi Yū the signal to go.

Takahashi Yū launched himself skyward and met Madara’s Super Shinra Tensei with his own strength, stopping its downward force as Orochimaru watched. Madara was reincarnated again, and he warned Orochimaru not to covet Yū while Orochimaru insisted they were close friends.

• Takahashi Yū leaped from the Killing Intent Platform, shattering it and cracking the ground below.
• Takahashi Yū rocketed into the sky as Madara gathered his chakra and unleashed Super Shinra Tensei.
• Madara’s reanimated body broke down from the strain, and Orochimaru ordered him reincarnated again after losing contact with him.
• Takahashi Yū used the killing intent behind him as thrust and braced against Shinra Tensei, halting its descent.
• Madara arrived after being reincarnated and warned Orochimaru not to covet Yū, while Orochimaru called Yū his close friend and brother.

Old Danzo weighed how to oppose the good man in the other world while struggling to find new targets for upheaval in the Land of Water. A diplomatic request from Konoha revealed that Obito Uchiha might be infiltrating his territory, prompting Danzo to order a full alert.

• Old Danzo asked Kisame and Zabuza whether he was a good or bad man, then declared he had to be bad because someone else was already being good.
• Old Danzo ordered Zabuza to check whether Ōnoki had returned and told Kisame to become the Three-Tails’ Jinchūriki when it revived.
• Old Danzo sent Kisame to bring Zabuza and Yakushi Nonō to discuss the investigation into missing Uchiha.
• A Root ninja delivered Konoha’s request to spare Obito Uchiha in exchange for supplies, but admitted the Land of Water had not found him.
• Old Danzo ordered a Level One Alert to find Obito and sent Kakashi Hatake to Zabuza’s house under watch.

Obito infiltrated the Land of Water’s capital while disguised by his Mangekyō Dōjutsu, but a man he had pickpocketed recognized him and triggered the pursuit. Obito fled toward the former Mizukage Building, now facing an alert across the capital.

• Land of Water ninja received a level-one alert and searched for Obito using a photograph and orders from Old Danzo.
• Obito slipped through the capital, stole Terumi Taki’s identification document, and changed his appearance with his Dōjutsu.
• Obito headed toward the former Mizukage Building, hoping to find news about Kakashi.
• Terumi Taki recognized Obito after the disguise change, and patrol officers fired signal flares and began evacuating nearby residents.
• Obito fled as Terumi Taki charged him, fearing that the Land of Water’s forces would capture him.