Recaps

Ryuto protected fleeing villagers, gained the Uzumaki Clan’s help, and trained to resist the Uchiha while remaining neutral. After leaving to grow stronger, he sensed the Uzumaki compound under attack and raced back as the Senju forces approached.

• Ryuto warned the villagers of the fighting, shielded them from attacks, and led them through the mountains before leaving to grow stronger.
• Ryuto reached the Uzumaki Clan with Rena Uzumaki and accepted Mito Uzumaki’s condition to defend the clan’s borders in exchange for Sealing Jutsu knowledge.
• Ryuto fought Uchiha attacks alongside Mito and Rena, learned to resist genjutsu, and drew the Uchiha’s attention to his unusual ki.
• After completing his assignments, Ryuto received gravity-training scrolls and trained while the Uchiha investigated his origins and considered approaching him.
• Izuna offered Ryuto Uchiha training in exchange for joining the clan, but Ryuto refused and fought him before choosing to train harder.
• Ryuto left the Uzumaki Clan with supplies and a map, rescued civilians from bandits, and reached a remote mountain valley to train under heavy weights.
• Ryuto trained beneath a waterfall, developed flight and a piercing ki attack, and expanded his Ki Sense to a thousand li.
• Ryuto sensed Uchiha forces and monstrous chakra attacking the Uzumaki compound, then flew toward it as the Senju main force approached.

Ryuto joined Hashirama’s effort to end the Warring States Era, grew stronger through training, and chose to fight for peace without killing unless necessary. Black Zetsu manipulated several clans into converging on the Senju-Uchiha showdown, where Ryuto badly wounded Izuna and Madara urged his brother to use his hidden move.

• Ryuto rescued Mito and Rena from the Uchiha assault, battled Izuna, and was nearly killed before Hashirama arrived to protect him.
• After recovering, Ryuto considered Hashirama’s offer, trained with Tobirama, and agreed to work toward peace without joining the Senju as a ninja.
• Ryuto tested his limits with Tobirama and Hashirama, gained a major increase in strength, and joined the Senju’s training and battlefield efforts.
• Ryuto fought alongside the Senju, faced Madara, and resolved to become strong enough to stop the fighting while killing only as a last resort.
• Ryuto supported Hashirama’s alliance plans as Black Zetsu secretly marked him as a threat and began plotting to kill him.
• After Madara rejected Hashirama’s alliance, Ryuto proposed a contest between the clans’ strongest fighters and agreed to join the two-on-two deathmatch with Hashirama, Madara, and Izuna.
• Black Zetsu planted false reports and forged evidence that drew the Uzumaki, Hyūga, and Kaguya clans toward the Grand Canyon as the duel began.
• Ryuto resisted Izuna’s genjutsu and blasted him into the canyon wall, while Madara redirected his fire toward Ryuto and told Izuna to use his move.

Ryuto’s golden power and the clans’ search for its unseen enemy lead them into a plot to gather the tailed beasts and revive the Ten-Tails. The group reaches the moon, where Ōtsutsuki Jing explains the danger and Ryuto senses watchers near his room.

• Ryuto transformed after Rena was mortally wounded by Izuna, whom Black Zetsu had taken control of, and Hashirama saved Rena while treating Izuna.
• Hashirama, Madara, Tobirama, Mito, and Izuna investigated a history of clan members being manipulated, but Black Zetsu spread rumors that disrupted their cooperation and encouraged Madara to seek greater power.
• Madara and Izuna gained the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan, then discovered an attempt to steal tailed beasts and joined Hashirama and Ryuto in investigating the scheme.
• The group confronted the rampaging tailed beasts, but Hagoromo Ninja seized them and revealed their clan had followed an ancient book promising power to rule the world.
• Hashirama, Madara, Tobirama, Izuna, and Ryuto traveled to the supposed ruins, fought rival clans at the oasis, and agreed with them to enter the ruins together.
• The clans activated an ancient array with the Nine Tailed Beasts’ chakra and were transported to a city on the moon, where Ōtsutsuki Jing stopped the guardian puppets and explained that his people guarded the Ten-Tails’ husk.
• Ōtsutsuki Jing revealed that a mastermind had manipulated the clans to revive the Ten-Tails and release Kaguya, while Ryuto connected the scheme to earlier cases of control and sensed watchers near his room.

After Hyūga Tenshu stole the Tenseigan and Black Zetsu awakened Kaguya, Ryuto and the allied shinobi fought to stop her from reclaiming the world’s chakra. Ryuto defeated Kaguya with energy gathered from the Shinobi World, but Madara absorbed her power and declared his intent to surpass everyone.

• Hyūga Tenshu betrayed the Ōtsutsuki Main Family, stole the Tenseigan, and used it to pursue a plan to unite the Shinobi World by force, but Ryuto defeated him after Tenshu grievously wounded Madara.
• Black Zetsu possessed Tenshu, split open the moon, and awakened Kaguya, and Ryuto and the others returned to the Shinobi World and warned the clans as the God Tree began draining people.
• Hashirama led the Allied Shinobi Forces against the White Zetsu while Ryuto trained under twenty times normal gravity, but Kaguya arrived and defeated the allied leaders before Ryuto reached the battlefield.
• Ryuto fought Kaguya in Super Saiyan form, resisted her attacks across several dimensions, and became trapped in the Primordial Ball Space until Tobirama used a Flying Thunder God mark and the alliance’s chakra to summon him back.
• Kaguya created an Expansive Truth-Seeking Orb that overwhelmed Ryuto’s attack, so Ryuto gathered vital energy from the allied forces and then from people across the Shinobi World to form a Spirit Bomb.
• Ryuto destroyed Kaguya’s orb and defeated her, while the Spirit Bomb erased Black Zetsu and left Kaguya severely wounded.
• Madara drained Kaguya’s chakra, swallowed her after shrinking her into a pellet, and vowed to become the strongest in the Shinobi World.