Recaps

Ryuto arrived at the devastated Uzumaki Clan Grounds and rescued Mito Uzumaki and Rena from Uchiha attackers. He confronted Uchiha Izuna, whose Majestic Destroyer Flame met Ryuto’s fully charged ki attack as their battle began.

• Ryuto landed on the battlefield and blasted away the Uchiha ninja surrounding Mito Uzumaki and Rena.
• Ryuto learned that Mito was nearly out of chakra and saw the Uchiha controlling the Two-Tails, Four-Tails, and Five-Tails.
• Ryuto defeated the Uchiha attackers around Mito and Rena, then told the wounded Uzumaki to retreat while he faced Uchiha Izuna.
• Ryuto fired a compressed ki beam that Izuna dodged, leaving a massive hole through a house and hill.
• Ryuto gathered and compressed his ki as Izuna launched Fire Style: Majestic Destroyer Flame, beginning their battle.

Ryuto unleashed a devastating Kamehameha against Uchiha Izuna, then fought him with ki blasts, flight, and close-range attacks. As Ryuto adapted to Izuna’s techniques, Izuna invoked the Mangekyo Sharingan’s true power, leaving the battle at a lethal turning point.

• Ryuto fired a massive Kamehameha that missed Uchiha Izuna but vaporized part of the forest and knocked away nearby Uchiha ninja.
• Mito Uzumaki sent Rena to treat the wounded and reinforce the defensive line while Ryuto’s attack bought them time.
• Izuna used genjutsu and fire techniques against Ryuto, who resisted the illusion, took to the air, and attacked with ki blasts.
• Ryuto and Izuna exchanged rapid close-range blows, and Ryuto gradually adapted to Izuna’s movements and saw through his shadow clones.
• After Ryuto forced Izuna back, Izuna activated a destructive Mangekyo power and warned that he would show Ryuto the Sharingan’s true strength.

Uchiha Izuna trapped Ryuto with Susanoo, but Ryuto destroyed the giant with a second Kamehameha at the cost of most of his ki. Izuna’s Uchiha forces then summoned five controlled Tailed Beasts, leaving a battered, depleted Ryuto surrounded and facing death.

• Uchiha Izuna manifested Susanoo and attacked Ryuto with its twin blades, forcing him into a narrowing aerial trap.
• Ryuto fired a hurried second Kamehameha, shattered Susanoo’s blades, and blasted through its chest, severely injuring Izuna and damaging his eyes.
• More than thirty Uchiha ninja surrounded Ryuto and summoned Two-Tails Matatabi, Four-Tails Son Goku, Five-Tails Kokuō, a great bird, and a giant stone turtle.
• The five summoned beasts attacked Ryuto while the Uchiha ninja supported them with shuriken and hand seals.
• Four-Tails struck Ryuto into rubble, and he emerged injured as the beasts closed around him and Izuna declared that he would die there.

Ryuto used the last of his ki to unleash a massive golden attack that incapacitated the five tailed beasts and scattered the Uchiha forces. As Izuna ordered a retreat, Madara Uchiha arrived and confronted the exhausted Ryuto.

• Ryuto drew out his remaining ki to fly above the tailed beasts and fired a wide golden blast that devastated the battlefield.
• The blast sent the five tailed beasts and more than thirty Uchiha ninja sprawling, while Ryuto landed and collapsed to one knee, completely drained.
• Izuna used the Body Flicker Technique to escape the blast and ordered the Uchiha to retreat with their wounded.
• A powerful pressure spread across the battlefield, and Madara Uchiha appeared and fixed his gaze on Ryuto.
• Madara stepped toward Ryuto and asked whether he was the kid who used the strange power.

Ryuto fought Madara Uchiha after exhausting his Ki, but Madara overwhelmed him with superior Taijutsu and Sharingan. Hashirama Senju intervened before Madara could kill Ryuto, then escorted him to the Senju camp for treatment.

• Madara confronted Ryuto over Izuna’s injuries and attacked him with Taijutsu, repeatedly overpowering him despite Ryuto’s attempts to defend himself.
• Ryuto briefly gathered a little Ki and fought back, but Madara dislocated his wrist, cracked a rib, and left him unable to stand.
• Madara prepared to kill Ryuto, but Hashirama arrived with Senju ninja and ordered him to stop.
• Hashirama declared Ryuto under his protection because he had defended the Uzumaki Clan members; Madara agreed to leave and warned Ryuto that they would meet again.
• Hashirama helped Ryuto toward the Senju camp, where Ryuto reset his wrist himself, while Mito Uzumaki and Rena watched him depart.

Ryuto awoke in the Senju camp fully healed and discovered that his ki and strength had greatly increased after recovering from near-fatal injuries. Hashirama offered him a place with the Senju, but Tobirama questioned his origins and power, and Ryuto went to sleep still undecided.

• Ryuto woke from his wounds with a Saiyan-like surge in ki and realized his body had healed completely.
• Hashirama told Ryuto that the Uchiha had withdrawn, the Uzumaki had held their grounds, and Mito and Rena were safe.
• Hashirama invited Ryuto to join the Senju and help end the Warring States Era.
• Tobirama interrogated Ryuto about his unusual power and healing, but Hashirama stopped him when Ryuto refused to explain further.
• Ryuto asked for a few days to consider Hashirama's offer, then lay down to rest without deciding whether to join the Senju.

Ryuto recovered from his injuries as Hashirama invited him to join the Senju and help pursue peace with the Uchiha. Unsure whether taking a side would endanger the people he wanted to protect, Ryuto decided to stay in camp for a few days before choosing.

• Ryuto woke fully healed and spoke with Hashirama about joining the Senju.
• Hashirama explained his plan to unite the Senju, negotiate a ceasefire with the Uchiha, and build a village where shinobi could live and work together.
• Ryuto described the civilians and Uzumaki clanspeople lost to war and worried that joining the Senju would make others see him as an enemy.
• Hashirama told Ryuto he would not force him to stay and left him to consider the offer.
• Ryuto reflected on his choices, went to the edge of camp, and decided to stay a few days before making up his mind.

Ryuto sparred with Tobirama Senju to assess his abilities, then exchanged research cooperation for intelligence about the Warring States factions. After learning how difficult Hashirama Senju’s village-building ambitions would be, Ryuto was left uncertain about whether to join the Senju.

• Tobirama Senju asked to study Ryuto’s energy system, and Ryuto agreed to cooperate after Tobirama sparred with him.
• Ryuto tested his speed, defense, ranged attack, and close-quarters combat against Tobirama, who recorded his observations throughout the spar.
• Tobirama assessed Ryuto as near-Kage level but lacking experience, and Ryuto agreed to follow-up research in exchange for information about the factions.
• Tobirama explained the strength and positions of the Senju, Uchiha, Hyūga, Uzumaki, Hagoromo, and other groups, and described the difficulties facing Hashirama Senju’s village ideal.
• Ryuto returned to his cabin thinking over his abilities and the Warring States, still unsure whether to join the Senju.

Tobirama concluded that Ryuto’s ki could not be replicated through chakra, so he proposed exchanging combat training and information instead. After sparring and receiving a scroll on the Warring States clans, Ryuto considered whether to join the Senju, remain independent, or forge his own path.

• Tobirama told Hashirama that Ryuto’s energy followed a separate system and could not be learned, so Hashirama decided they should win Ryuto’s personal support through cooperation.
• Ryuto practiced concentrating ki at the point of impact and improved his explosive attacks and Kamehameha.
• Tobirama proposed exchanging Senju taijutsu and battlefield intelligence for demonstrations of ki, and Ryuto agreed.
• Ryuto and Tobirama sparred as Tobirama tested his ki-based offense and defense, then coached him on anticipation and counterattacks.
• Tobirama gave Ryuto a scroll about the major clans and their strength, and Ryuto considered his choices as he read it.

Ryuto arranged a controlled fight with Tobirama to test whether near-fatal injuries would trigger a dramatic increase in strength, but Tobirama could not push him close enough to death. Ryuto left with useful data gathered and the realization that he needed a tougher opponent or a more extreme method to test his constitution.

• Ryuto asked Tobirama to simulate a fight to the death so he could test whether recovering from near-fatal damage increased his strength.
• Hashirama approved the test and arranged for medical support while he supervised.
• Tobirama attacked Ryuto with Water Release, Body Flicker, and Water Clone techniques, while Ryuto defended himself with Ki and took several hits.
• Tobirama stopped the fight after Ryuto used about sixty percent of his ki, and Ryuto concluded that Tobirama could not drive him into the lethal danger needed to trigger his constitution.
• Ryuto and Tobirama agreed that the test had produced useful data on Ryuto's endurance and recovery, while Ryuto decided he would need a tougher opponent or a more extreme method.

Ryuto asked Hashirama to push his unusual constitution to the brink of death so he could grow stronger, and Hashirama agreed under strict safety conditions. After recovering from Hashirama’s assault with his Ki greatly increased, Ryuto agreed to work alongside the Senju toward peace without becoming a Senju ninja.

• Ryuto asked Hashirama to beat him nearly to death to trigger his constitution, and Tobirama agreed to monitor him while medical support stood by.
• Three days later, Hashirama and his Wood Release clones overwhelmed Ryuto in a deserted valley, and Hashirama escalated the assault with Senjutsu Chakra.
• Ryuto’s Ki ran out and his vital signs reached a critical state, so Tobirama called for Hashirama to stop and begin treatment.
• As Hashirama healed Ryuto, Ryuto’s Ki surged beyond its previous peak, and he awoke feeling at least thirty percent stronger.
• Ryuto accepted Hashirama’s offer to work together toward peace as himself rather than as a ninja of the Senju Clan.

Ryuto studied Senju taijutsu scrolls and adapted their methods of force generation and defense to his ki, then demonstrated the techniques in a spar with three young Senju ninja. Hashirama invited him to join the clan’s daily training so he could learn battlefield tactics, and Ryuto agreed to begin the next morning.

• A messenger delivered two Senju taijutsu scrolls to Ryuto, who used their teachings to improve how he channeled ki for powerful strikes and simultaneous defense.
• Ryuto sparred with Takuma Senju, Ryo Senju, and Kazuya Senju, defeating them with ki-enhanced attacks and defenses guided by his sensing.
• Ryuto explained that he could sense the flow of energy and use ki to release power faster than chakra, and the young ninja asked to train with him again.
• Tobirama Senju observed the spar and recorded Ryuto’s improved energy control while Hashirama praised how well he had learned from the scrolls.
• Hashirama invited Ryuto to join the Senju Clan’s daily training in taijutsu, teamwork, tactics, and battlefield survival, and Ryuto accepted.

Ryuto learned to coordinate with Senju teammates as the Uchiha assembled for a decisive battle. Hashirama assigned Ryuto a squad of twenty, and the Senju force reached the battlefield as the Uchiha appeared across the plain.

• Hashirama and Tobirama discussed the Uchiha buildup and moved the Senju training schedule forward.
• Ryuto practiced team coordination with Takuma Senju, Ryo Senju, and Kazuya Senju, learning to match their pace and create openings together.
• Hashirama told Ryuto that the Uchiha were advancing and assigned him a roaming squad of agile fighters for the coming battle.
• Takuma Senju gave Ryuto ninja weapons and told him that he, Ryo, Kazuya, and seventeen others would serve under Ryuto as captain.
• Hashirama led the Senju force toward the battlefield, where Ryuto saw the Uchiha massed across the plain.

Ryuto led a mobile support squad through the Senju-Uchiha battle, defeating enemy fighters and rescuing Senju troops before facing Madara. Madara withdrew after warning that Ryuto lacked killing intent, leaving Ryuto to consider how he would fight in future battles.

• Ryuto directed his twenty men to reinforce the Senju flanks, rapidly defeating Uchiha squads and turning the tide at several points.
• Madara judged that the Uchiha lines could not advance and charged Ryuto, while Izuna identified Ryuto as stronger than before.
• Ryuto and Madara fought hand to hand until Madara criticized Ryuto for holding back and lacking the intent to kill.
• Hashirama intervened, and Madara ordered the Uchiha forces to retreat after warning that he would kill Ryuto if he had not improved by their next meeting.
• Hashirama told Ryuto that he needed to find his own path, and Ryuto reflected on his reluctance to strike vital spots.

After the battle, Hashirama helped Ryuto understand that he fights to protect people and end the age of chaos, even though he does not want to kill. Ryuto resolved to become strong enough to stop battles, accepting that he might sometimes have to kill to protect others.

• Hashirama told Ryuto that he had not figured out why he fought and recalled how Tobirama killed an Uchiha when Hashirama could not bring himself to do it.
• Hashirama explained that protecting people could require bloodshed, but Ryuto’s strength might let him choose not to kill when he controlled the battlefield.
• Ryuto said he wanted to stop innocent people from dying and end the age of chaos, and Hashirama told him power could make others listen.
• Ryuto decided to grow strong enough to make both sides stop fighting, while accepting that he might have to kill as a last resort to protect people.
• Hashirama praised Ryuto for saving a Senju ninja, and Ryuto overheard wounded Senju praising his actions before returning to his tent.
• Ryuto went to sleep thinking that the next time he faced Madara, he might have to strike to kill—not to conquer, but to protect.

Ryuto visited the rebuilding Uzumaki Clan Grounds, where Mito warned him to stay independent despite joining the Senju. On his return, a mysterious figure who could merge with shadows continued watching him from the woods near the Senju camp.

• Ryuto left the Senju camp to check on Mito and Rena at the Uzumaki Clan Grounds, while an unseen figure secretly followed him.
• Ryuto found the grounds being rebuilt, reunited with Rena and Mito, and learned that the Uchiha had not attacked again.
• Ryuto told Mito he had joined the Senju, and she cautioned him that his unusual power might make him a target of their interest as well as the Uchiha's.
• Ryuto sensed someone watching him on the way back, but his Ki Sense and ki blades revealed no one; the shadowy figure later emerged from a tree and wondered whether his energy posed a threat.
• Hashirama assured Ryuto that the Senju considered him a partner rather than a tool, while the hidden watcher later opened its eyes near the camp and looked toward Ryuto's tent.

Hashirama explained his plan for an alliance that would share resources and establish noncombat zones, and Ryuto agreed to support his vision of peace. Black Zetsu overheard them and decided Ryuto threatened his plans, then began plotting to accelerate the conflict and eliminate him.

• Hashirama showed Ryuto how the Senju, Nara, Yamanaka, Akimichi, and Sarutobi could share resources, defend one another, and expand peaceful territory through an alliance.
• Ryuto supported Hashirama’s plan and offered to help, while Hashirama described a future where clans remained independent under shared rules.
• Black Zetsu secretly listened from a tree’s shadow and recognized that Ryuto had sided with Hashirama’s peace efforts.
• Black Zetsu decided Ryuto must be eliminated and considered using Madara’s interest in Ryuto to provoke a deadly conflict.
• Hashirama allowed Ryuto to travel beyond camp, and Ryuto headed to his tent while sensing that trouble might lie ahead.
• Black Zetsu returned to his cave, marked a third figure beside Madara and Hashirama, and vowed to accelerate his plan.

Hashirama met Madara alone to propose an alliance, but Madara rejected it and insisted that peace could only come through absolute power. Back at camp, Ryuto proposed settling the conflict with a showdown between the strongest fighters, while Black Zetsu secretly considered how to turn the idea against them.

• Tobirama urged Hashirama to launch a decisive battle against the Uchiha, but Hashirama said he wanted to speak with Madara first.
• Hashirama met Madara at their childhood riverside spot and proposed an alliance between their clans and other willing clans.
• Madara burned Hashirama's alliance scroll and declared that only absolute power could bring peace, then left with a promise that their next meeting would be on the battlefield.
• Ryuto suggested that Hashirama and Madara settle the war's outcome through a showdown between their strongest fighters to reduce casualties.
• Black Zetsu secretly overheard Ryuto's plan and considered making Madara view Ryuto as another opponent to conquer.

Ryuto delivered Hashirama’s challenge to Madara, who accepted a decisive showdown and insisted Ryuto participate. After Ryuto returned to the Senju camp, Madara began writing his reply and looked forward to the fight.

• Hashirama proposed a contest between each clan’s strongest fighters, and Ryuto volunteered to deliver the challenge to Madara.
• Ryuto flew to the Uchiha compound, where Madara read Hashirama’s challenge and said Ryuto must take part in the showdown.
• Izuna attacked Ryuto, but Ryuto caught his punch and threw him to the ground before Madara ordered Izuna to stop.
• Ryuto agreed to join the showdown, and Madara accepted the challenge, promising to send the time and place later.
• Ryuto returned to the Senju camp and told Hashirama what had happened; that night, Madara began writing a reply and welcomed the coming fight.

Hashirama accepted Madara’s revised challenge: a two-on-two fight to the death in one month at the great canyon, with Ryuto and Hashirama facing Madara and Izuna. Both sides began planning intensive training, while Black Zetsu saw the duel as a chance to deepen the Senju-Uchiha hatred.

• Hashirama and Ryuto predicted Madara’s conditions, then read his challenge naming the fighters, date, location, and fight-to-the-death rules.
• Hashirama accepted the challenge after discussing with Ryuto whether Madara’s force-based path could create lasting peace.
• Madara told Izuna that Ryuto had grown stronger than him and ordered Izuna to train relentlessly so he could kill Ryuto or hold him off during the duel.
• Black Zetsu secretly listened to Madara and Izuna, concluding that the deadly match could intensify the Senju-Uchiha conflict and advance his plans.
• Hashirama and Ryuto planned to train together, using Hashirama’s battlefield control and Ryuto’s speed while aiming to separate the brothers and take out Izuna first.

Ryuto and Hashirama accepted Madara’s two-on-two deathmatch challenge and left to train together, while Black Zetsu began plotting to turn the coming fight into a multi-clan ambush. As Madara pushed Izuna through punishing preparations, rumors spread across the warring lands, setting the stage for Black Zetsu’s planned chaos.

• Ryuto and Hashirama planned to target Izuna and agreed to travel the next morning to practice teamwork near terrain like the Grand Canyon.
• Black Zetsu overheard their plans and devised a scheme to involve the Senju, Uchiha, Uzumaki, Hyuga, and Kaguya clans, intending to kill Ryuto amid the resulting chaos.
• Hashirama and Ryuto departed for special training, while Hashirama told Tobirama to guard the Senju camp and not interfere in the deathmatch without urgent cause.
• Madara began training Izuna under simulated triple gravity, demanding relentless genjutsu practice and five hundred precise shuriken throws.
• False reports about the clans and Ryuto spread through the warring lands as Black Zetsu waited for his planned accident at the deathmatch.

Black Zetsu planted false intelligence about the Grand Canyon duel to draw the Uzumaki, Hyūga, and Kaguya clans into the conflict between the Senju and Uchiha. Rena uncovered signs that the Uzumaki evidence was forged, but Black Zetsu believed he had already sown enough suspicion to make the coming duel chaotic.

• Black Zetsu staged an apparent Uchiha skirmish near the Uzumaki Clan Grounds and left a forged scroll hinting at trouble at the Grand Canyon.
• Mito ordered stronger patrols and sent Rena to investigate, while a fabricated letter led Hyūga Tenshu to plan a secret surveillance mission for the duel.
• Black Zetsu tricked a Kaguya patrol into believing Madara and Hashirama would be badly injured at the Grand Canyon, prompting them to report the opportunity to their clan head.
• Rena identified uniform kunai marks and deliberately scorched scroll edges, concluding that someone had faked the Uzumaki scene to lure them toward the Grand Canyon.
• Black Zetsu observed Rena's discovery and decided that suspicion had already been planted well enough to help create a five-way clash.

Ryuto and Hashirama met Madara and Izuna at the Grand Canyon for their planned two-on-two deathmatch, while hidden clans gathered to watch. Black Zetsu revealed he had engineered the gathering to create an opportunity to kill Ryuto, and the four fighters began their battle.

• Ryuto sensed several groups encircling the canyon, and Madara dismissed them as opportunists who could watch the fight.
• Hashirama and Madara agreed to rest for fifteen minutes before a two-on-two deathmatch, while Izuna and Ryuto exchanged remarks about their training.
• Black Zetsu observed the Hyuga, Uzumaki, and Kaguya clans hiding nearby and anticipated that they would join the conflict after the fighters weakened.
• Black Zetsu planned to use the chaos to have Ryuto killed and push Hashirama and Madara further along their destined conflict.
• After resting, Hashirama and Madara renewed their argument over whether strength was the only path, then the four fighters moved into position and began preparing to fight.

Ryuto struggled against Izuna’s Sharingan genjutsu, then adapted by using ki to filter its effects and shutting off his hearing to counter sound-based interference. As Ryuto and Izuna and Hashirama and Madara prepared to fight in earnest, Black Zetsu waited for them to become exhausted so he could stage an “accident.”

• Madara and Hashirama charged into battle while Izuna attacked Ryuto with genjutsu and struck him when it disrupted his balance.
• Ryuto endured Izuna’s illusions and attacks, gradually learning to divide his attention and use ki to weaken the genjutsu.
• Izuna used sound-based genjutsu to disorient Ryuto, who blocked part of his auditory nerves with ki and charged again in silence.
• Ryuto used his heightened combat instincts to press Izuna back, forcing Madara to tell Izuna to stop playing around.
• Izuna’s Sharingan flared as he prepared a Mangekyō technique, while Hashirama and Madara paused their fight and Black Zetsu waited for the four men to exhaust themselves.

Hashirama and Madara escalated their fight with powerful Wood and Fire Release techniques while Ryuto and Izuna battled across the canyon. Ryuto wounded Izuna with repeated ki blasts, but Madara’s attack gave Izuna cover and left him poised to use a stronger move.

• Hashirama unleashed Deep Forest Emergence, and Madara countered with Majestic Destroyer Flame before Hashirama’s wooden figure and Wood Dragon drove Madara back.
• Izuna used sound-based Sharingan genjutsu and fire techniques against Ryuto, but Ryuto blocked the attacks and retaliated with Ki Blast Rapid Fire.
• Ryuto tracked Izuna’s shadow clones with Ki Sense and blasted through Izuna’s Uchiha Flame Formation, hurling him into the canyon wall and leaving him badly wounded.
• Madara fought off Hashirama’s wooden attacks, then redirected Majestic Destroyer Flame toward Ryuto to create an opening for Izuna to hide and recover.
• Madara called to Izuna and told him to stop holding back and use his move.