Recaps

Son Goten helped pursue Sasuke and the Sound Four, defeating several enemies while Sasuke escaped with Orochimaru. After returning to Konoha, Goten comforted Sakura and stayed behind while Naruto trained with Jiraiya, then easily beat Naruto’s first post-training challenge.

• Tsunade returned to Konoha as Hokage, and Son Goten sensed sinister chakra signatures near the group before they reached the village.
• Son Goten confronted Sasuke and the Sound Four, but let Sasuke leave with them after Sasuke chose Orochimaru’s offer of power.
• Son Goten joined Shikamaru’s pursuit squad, broke Jirobo’s Earth Prison, and helped the others press on after Sasuke.
• Son Goten coached Neji through sensing chakra fluctuations and air currents, then defeated Tayuya’s summoned monsters and dispelled her cursed seal.
• Son Goten fought Kimimaro, destroyed his bone forest with a Kamehameha, and subdued him while keeping him alive.
• At the Valley of the End, Son Goten kicked Sasuke into the river after Naruto’s defeat, then brought Sasuke’s scratched forehead protector back to Konoha.
• Son Goten comforted Sakura, who promised to give him her heart, while Naruto left with Jiraiya to train against the Akatsuki threat.
• After Naruto returned from three years of training and challenged him at Ichiraku, Son Goten sent him flying through the shop and dismissed his strength.

Goten trained Naruto, helped rescue Gaara from the Akatsuki, and gained Sakura and Temari as wives. Back in Konoha, he investigated the crystal chip and took charge of a new squad as Team 7 prepared to pursue Orochimaru’s agent and Sasuke.

• Goten put Naruto through two years of punishing training, teaching him to sense and use ki.
• Tsunade sent Kakashi, Naruto, Sakura, and Goten to Sunagakure after Sasori and Deidara captured Gaara, and Goten healed the poisoned Kankuro along the way.
• Sakura was poisoned by Sasori’s trap, but Goten expelled the poison and declared her his wife after she recovered.
• Goten defeated Sasori, rescued Gaara, and stopped Granny Chiyo from sacrificing herself, then Temari chose to marry him and return to Konoha.
• Goten brought Temari to Ichiraku and discovered that Sasori’s core fragment and an old document pointed toward a sealed area beneath Konoha.
• Ino pursued Goten and became his woman, leading Sakura and Ino to argue after Sakura found them together the next morning.
• Tsunade appointed Yamato to lead Team 7 and named Goten captain of the independent Special Reinforcement Squad, then assigned Team 7 to investigate Orochimaru’s agent at Tenchi Bridge and possibly retrieve Sasuke.

Goten intervened in Team 7’s mission, returned to Konoha with Trunks, and pursued the mysteries of the Chip Fragments and ancient stone gates. He also deepened his relationships with Hinata and Ayame, while the presence beneath Hokage Rock grew stronger.

• Goten trained Team 7, then sensed an ancient presence beneath Konoha and discovered a sealed chamber with Temari.
• Goten removed Orochimaru’s Cursed Seal from Anko, then rushed to Tenchi Bridge when Naruto’s Nine-Tails transformation threatened Sakura and the others.
• Goten subdued Orochimaru and Naruto, followed the snake to Orochimaru’s hideout, and rescued Sai while confronting Sasuke.
• Goten returned to Konoha, pursued Hinata despite Hiashi’s tests, and learned from Neji that a prophecy linked him to an ancient scroll and a guardian from the sky.
• Goten traveled east, found Trunks under attack by the Watchers, and learned that Trunks had gathered three Chip Fragments near a stone gate.
• Goten and Trunks combined their five fragments and returned to Konoha, where they found that the gate beneath Hokage Rock responded to the Chips.
• Goten welcomed Trunks into the ramen shop and began a relationship with Ayame, declaring her his first wife after the others confronted him.
• Trunks identified symbols on Tsunade’s scroll as markings from the underwater gate, and the five Chips pulsed in response to a stronger presence beneath Hokage Rock.

Goten and Trunks dismantled Danzo’s Root operation, defeated Pain, and uncovered a network of gates tied to the five Chips and Yamato’s altered cells. The gate beneath Ichiraku remained under pressure, and a black liquid eyeball began squeezing through its narrow opening.

• Goten sensed a strange chakra rushing toward Konoha, then learned from Jiraiya that Akatsuki was targeting the tailed beasts and reasoned that it wanted to open the Stone Gate.
• Goten restrained Danzo’s Root agents near the Stone Gate and heard a voice behind it call him kin and ask for the key.
• Goten rescued Jiraiya in Amegakure, defeated the Six Paths of Pain, and left Nagato alive as Jiraiya’s injuries were treated in Konoha.
• As the Stone Gate’s patterns lit up, Goten and Trunks found that Danzo’s Root had been surveilling Ichiraku and excavating beneath Hokage Rock, so they destroyed Root’s base and captured Danzo.
• Goten discovered that Orochimaru had mixed a blue fragment into Yamato’s Hashirama cells, while matching gate patterns and synchronized pulses appeared at Tenchi Bridge, beneath Ichiraku, and at the Undersea Door.
• At Tenchi Bridge, Goten’s five Chips fused into a crystal that destroyed a phantom gate and its platform, but shifted pressure toward the gate beneath Konoha.
• Goten used the crystal to stop the force beneath Ichiraku and stabilize Yamato, then pledged to guard the threat sealed below the shop.
• Trunks reported that the gates were pulsing in sync, and Tsunade saw a black, liquid eyeball squeeze through the Stone Gate’s narrow gap.