Recaps

Takahashi Yū warned Konoha that Madara Uchiha was alive, leading Danzo to gather the village’s forces and confront him at the Mountain Graveyard. The fight left Madara badly pressured but still dangerous, while Minato began training with the Baku summoning scroll.

• Hiruko’s research led Danzo to approve his work under Orochimaru, while Danzo recruited help for Konoha’s duties and ordered Sakumo to capture Bloodline Ninja.
• Kakuzu attacked Kusagakure for its leader’s bounty, but Sakumo defeated him and brought him to Konoha’s laboratory for Hiruko’s experiments.
• Takahashi Yū warned Konoha’s leaders that Madara was alive and commanded a vast force of White Zetsu, prompting them to prepare for war.
• Orochimaru summoned Ichikishimahime, whose natural energy revealed White Zetsu spies hidden among the Jonin, and Danzo organized a mission to retrieve Nagato.
• Danzo captured Nagato, Yahiko, Konan, and Jiraiya, then explained how Madara had manipulated Nagato and offered to teach Yahiko to pursue peace in the Land of Rain.
• Danzo’s forces found the passage to the Mountain Graveyard, and Fugaku’s Mangekyō abilities helped the Jonin charge Madara’s position.
• Danzo and his allies fought through the White Zetsu while Sakumo and Takahashi Yū attacked Madara, who survived their assault with Izanagi and continued battling with Susanoo.
• Madara’s attacks buried Fugaku and Sakumo in rubble, but Danzo used Baku and Wind Release to strike back as Minato began experimenting with Baku’s summoning scroll at home.

Takahashi Yū helped Konoha seize the Kaguya clan and led them through the desert, where Rasa’s attempt to use Rōran’s Dragon Vein displaced them. Yū woke in an unfamiliar place with no connection to his Wave Seed, while Danzo prepared Konoha for war and searched for him.

• Baku wrecked the Shimura Compound before Orochimaru sent him away, and Danzo captured Tobi after Sakumo and Jiraiya stopped his attempt to take Madara’s body.
• Danzo began a covert campaign in the Land of Water, and Sakumo’s squad captured Kaguya children while the Kaguya clan fought among itself.
• Orochimaru sent Takahashi Yū to the Land of Water, where Yū subdued the Kaguya clan and appointed Danzo their clan head before leading them toward Konoha.
• After Yū’s group lost its ship and crossed into the Land of Wind, they seized a desert outpost and forced Rasa to guide them to Rōran.
• Rasa tried to activate the Dragon Vein, but its light transported Takahashi Yū, the Kaguya clan, and Rōran’s people away from the city.
• Danzo declared Konoha on wartime footing after Yū went missing, while the Third Kazekage ordered Sunagakure to prepare for war and contact Iwagakure.
• Takahashi Yū woke among the displaced people, found no connection to his Wave Seed, and discovered the broken Flying Thunder God Kunai at the Dragon Vein platform.
• Takahashi Yū sent Wave Seeds into the Kaguya clan members and called for volunteers to find the escaped prisoner.

Takahashi Yū reunited with Danzo and began shaping a new plan around the Kaguya Clan and the Land of Water, while Konoha negotiated peace with Iwagakure and Kumogakure. Danzo’s massacre of prisoners brought him into direct conflict with Fugaku, whose Mangekyō Sharingan awakened as Danzo declared his ambition to become the Black Sun.

• Takahashi Yū and the Kaguya Clan joined the Third Raikage’s battle against Iwagakure, then fought Ōnoki, the Third Raikage, and Rasa before Yū killed Rasa.
• Takahashi Yū revealed to Minato that he came from another world, then traveled with Minato to rescue Obito and told Kakashi to find Shimura Danzō using the message about Root number 000, Shimura Masato.
• Danzo learned of Takahashi Yū’s message from Kakashi, recalled his Root operatives, and went to meet Yū, who proved his identity and told him about their world.
• Takahashi Yū gave Danzo a scarlet Wave Seed, and Danzo recalled Root and agreed to work with Yū on taking control of the Land of Water.
• Sarutobi negotiated with Ōnoki and the Third Raikage, securing prisoner releases, Konoha’s declaration of victory, and a ten-year peace treaty.
• Danzo massacred the prisoners at Konoha Prison, and Fugaku arrested him before Danzo demanded loyal genjutsu experts and revealed a red eye in his empty socket.
• Danzo promised to shield the Uchiha from political pressure if Fugaku possessed the Mangekyō Sharingan, and Fugaku’s Sharingan transformed as Danzo declared he would become the Black Sun.

Takahashi Yū led the Kaguya clans into battle against Kirigakure, defeating its forces and tailed beasts as his body began to fade. He returned to Rōran, then made his way back to Konoha, where Uzumaki Shui Ling revealed that she had grown old and might not have much longer.

• Danzo recalled Root agents and sent Yakushi Nonō and Uchiha Yashiro’s team to the Land of Water to build an intelligence network and manipulate its nobles.
• Takahashi Yū’s Kaguya followers fought the Yuki and Takeori clans, then joined him in marching directly on Kirigakure.
• Takahashi Yū’s attack devastated Kirigakure, and he killed the Third Mizukage before turning the Mist Ninja’s resistance against them.
• Takahashi Yū defeated the Six-Tails and Three-Tails, annihilated Three-Tails with Instant Strikes, and began to fade as Danzo arrived too late to fight.
• Takahashi Yū woke in Rōran two months later, learned that the Land of Wind had become a deadly wasteland, and discussed the other Shinobi World with Brother Danzo.
• Danzo took control of Kirigakure with help from the Yuki and Kaguya clans, while Nonō reported finding Mei Terumi.
• Black Zetsu posed as Dan Katō, learned about Konoha’s poison-based weapons, and left intelligence for Iwa Shinobi to discover.
• Takahashi Yū returned to Konoha and reunited with Mizuki and the others at the Farm, where Uzumaki Shui Ling told him she had grown old and might not have much longer.