Recaps

Hyuga Hiashi used the Tenseigan’s power to badly injure the Fourth Raikage, while Might Guy and Might Duy held off Killer B and Yugito Nii. As the Raikage and Killer B launched their combined attack, Hiashi began a more powerful Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion.

• Hyuga Hiashi’s Silver Wheel Reincarnation Explosion shredded the Fourth Raikage’s lightning armor and left him badly wounded, but Hiashi offered him a chance to retreat.
• The Fourth Raikage refused to withdraw and called for Killer B and Yugito Nii to help him.
• Might Guy used the Sixth Gate and Morning Peacock to keep Killer B occupied, while Might Duy fought Yugito Nii to a stalemate.
• Dodai sent twenty Kumogakure ANBU to tie down Might Guy, allowing Killer B to break free and attack Hyuga Hiashi with his tentacles.
• Hyuga Hiashi’s Truth-Seeking Orbs blocked Killer B’s tentacles, and the Fourth Raikage and Killer B then attacked Hiashi together with Lightning Release: Lariat.
• Hyuga Hiashi summoned a silver storm with a golden core and began Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion.

Hyuga Hiashi defeated the Fourth Raikage and helped Konoha rout Kumogakure, leaving Dodai dead as the retreating Raikage, Killer B, and Yugito escaped. After the battle, Hiashi reflected on how much he had enjoyed wielding the power to decide who lived and died.

• Hyuga Hiashi used the Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion to annihilate the Fourth Raikage's left shoulder and force him from the fight.
• Might Duy and Might Guy opened the Seventh Gate and struck Kumogakure's forces with their Daytime Tigers, gravely wounding Yugito Nii and killing many ninja.
• Dodai ordered Kumogakure to retreat, and Hyuga Hiashi commanded Konoha to pursue and leave no one alive.
• Killer B carried the Fourth Raikage and Yugito away while Dodai stayed behind and raised a Lava Release: Rubber Wall to cover the retreat.
• Hyuga Hiashi broke through Dodai's wall and killed him with Eight Trigrams Sixty-Four Palms.
• Konoha routed the remaining Kumogakure forces, and Hiashi let the escaped leaders go before recognizing his growing enjoyment of deciding life and death.

After Konoha defeated Kumogakure, Mei Terumi was appointed Kirigakure’s Fifth Mizukage. Obito Uchiha watched the change from the shadows and renewed his resolve to settle his debt with Kirigakure over Rin Nohara’s death.

• Hyuga Hiashi ordered Konoha to stop pursuing the retreating Kumogakure forces after winning a costly battle and severely wounding the Fourth Raikage.
• Three days later, Genji and Kirigakure’s leaders discussed Konoha’s victory and recognized that Hiashi’s power came from an extraordinary source.
• Genji proposed Mei Terumi as the next Mizukage, and the gathered leaders supported her appointment while Utakata remained silent.
• Genji placed the Mizukage’s hat on Mei Terumi, making her the Fifth Mizukage, and she vowed to lead Kirigakure toward a new future.
• Obito Uchiha observed Genji and Mei Terumi from the shadows, then vanished while vowing to settle his debt with Kirigakure over Rin Nohara’s death.

Sunagakure abandoned its plan to invade the Land of Fire after learning of Konoha’s victory over Kumogakure, then reframed its troop movement as support for an ally. Pain assessed Hyuga Hiashi as a threat and ordered Akatsuki’s recruitment accelerated, while Ōnoki welcomed Roshi and Han back to Iwagakure because it needed powerful fighters.

• Rasa learned that Hyuga Hiashi had crippled the Fourth Raikage and Konoha had decisively defeated Kumogakure, so he ordered Sunagakure’s army to retreat.
• Chiyo suggested presenting the army’s movement as a relief mission, and Rasa redirected it toward Konoha’s border camp in the name of supporting an ally.
• Konan told Pain that Hiashi’s power had reached the level Pain called godhood, but Pain said he could still handle the threat and ordered Akatsuki to accelerate recruitment.
• Pain planned to begin capturing the Tailed Beasts in a few years and build Akatsuki’s strength before then.
• Ōnoki welcomed Roshi and Han back to Iwagakure without holding them accountable because the village lacked high-level combat power.

Ōnoki ordered Iwagakure to exploit Kumogakure’s losses by advancing toward the Land of Lightning. In Kumogakure, the wounded Fourth Raikage learned the scale of the defeat and heard Yugito Nii warn that Azure Dragon Lin Ze was stronger than Hyuga Hiashi.

• Ōnoki decided Konoha could not intervene after its own battle and ordered Iwagakure’s army toward the Land of Lightning’s border.
• Roshi and Han admitted that the mysterious man who had defeated them had also taken some of their Tailed Beast Chakra, and Roshi said the Shinobi World was about to change.
• Mabui reported that Kumogakure had suffered 2,137 deaths, 845 severe injuries, and the death of Dodai, while Killer B had yet to return.
• Yugito Nii told the Fourth Raikage that Azure Dragon Lin Ze had displayed even more terrifying power than Hyuga Hiashi when the Third Raikage’s forces fought him.
• The Fourth Raikage recalled his desire to avenge his father and wondered whether revenge was still possible as storm clouds gathered over Kumogakure.

On the moon, the last elder of the Moon Ōtsutsuki Clan sensed Hyuga Hiashi using a small Tenseigan and taught young Toneri that their clan would one day cleanse the ninja world. Three days after Kumogakure’s defeat, Killer B encountered Lin Ze’s Genbu Shadow Clone on the road home and prepared to fight.

• The Moon Ōtsutsuki elder used the Giant Tenseigan to observe Hiashi’s Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion and sensed the small Tenseigan and its chakra.
• The elder told Toneri that the Ōtsutsuki Clan would cleanse the surface and create a peaceful world, then led him away while coughing blood.
• Three days after the battle, Killer B ran toward Kumogakure, remembering Hiashi’s attack and the greater power he had sensed from Azure Dragon.
• Lin Ze’s Genbu Shadow Clone blocked Killer B’s route, and Killer B drew his seven swords to challenge him.

Lin Ze used Sage Mode and powerful Ice Release techniques to overwhelm Killer B, who escalated to a complete Tailed Beast Transformation. Lin Ze severed one of the Eight-Tails’ tails, leaving the beast roaring in pain.

• Killer B attacked Lin Ze with seven swords, but Lin Ze blocked them with a wall of ice.
• Killer B entered a three-tailed transformation and charged Lin Ze, who defended himself with an Ice Rock Dome and countered with an ice dragon and Water Severing Wave.
• Lin Ze trapped Killer B with Demonic Mirroring Ice Crystals and slowed him with the Dragon Might Domain.
• Killer B fired a Tailed Beast Bomb against Lin Ze’s Thousand Killing Ice Soaring, but the ice blades battered his tailed beast cloak.
• Killer B fully transformed into the Eight-Tails, and Lin Ze struck with a giant ice saber, severing one of its right-side tails.

Lin Ze hid in Kumogakure while the Fourth Raikage and most of the village’s forces went to face Iwagakure, then targeted Darui to obtain his Storm Release. He ambushed Darui at the training ground, leaving C to react as Darui was hurled backward.

• Killer B fled after Lin Ze severed two of the Eight-Tails’ tails, and Lin Ze sealed both tails in the Sea Dragon Jade shell.
• Lin Ze hid in Kumogakure for three days while the Fourth Raikage and Killer B went to the border and Yugito Nii stayed behind to guard the village.
• Lin Ze observed Darui and C and decided to attack Darui before the Fourth Raikage returned.
• C sensed an intruder at the training ground and tried to warn Darui.
• Lin Ze evaded Darui’s Lightning Release: Electromagnetic Murder and struck his arm, sending him flying backward.

Lin Ze incapacitated Darui and took samples of his cells and blood, but Kumogakure forces surrounded him before he could escape. He activated Sage Art and prepared a powerful Ice Release technique against Yugito and the gathered ninja.

• C tried to disrupt Lin Ze with genjutsu, but Lin Ze dispelled it and blocked Darui's Storm Release with an ice mirror.
• Lin Ze knocked Darui unconscious, repelled C, and collected Darui's cells and blood samples.
• Yugito arrived with Kumogakure forces, and the Barrier Team trapped Lin Ze inside a Lightning Prison.
• Lin Ze entered Sage Mode and withstood the ninja's combined lightning attacks inside an ice fortress.
• Yugito transformed and attacked with a barrage of Tailed Beast Bombs, but Lin Ze deliberately shattered his fortress and completed the hand seals for Sage Art: Ice Release: Thousand Killing Ice Soaring.

Lin Ze devastated Kumogakure’s forces, froze and sealed Yugito in her Two-Tails form, then escaped the training ground’s barrier. He attacked a weak point in the village-wide Hexagram Barrier, leaving it covered in cracks.

• Lin Ze unleashed Sage Art: Ice Blades, killing or injuring most of the Kumogakure ninja and leaving Yugito badly wounded.
• Lin Ze forced Yugito to transform fully into the Two-Tails, froze Matatabi with Absolute Zero, and sealed her with the Four Symbols Seal.
• A village-wide Hexagram Barrier activated, and Kumogakure fired a Chakra Cannon at Lin Ze; he deflected its blast with an Ice Dragon Bullet.
• Lin Ze found a weak point in the Hexagram Barrier and struck it with Sage Art: Ice Pillar, spreading cracks across the barrier.

Lin Ze broke Kumogakure’s barrier, killed an Anbu Captain, and escaped with the Two-Tails ice sculpture after identifying himself as Genbu. On the battlefield, Iwagakure forced Kumogakure to retreat to its stronghold, and Ōnoki postponed an assault until the next day.

• Lin Ze destroyed Kumogakure’s Hexagram Barrier, killed the Anbu Captain who tried to stop him, and told C that his name was Genbu.
• Lin Ze escaped into the mountains carrying the Two-Tails ice sculpture, leaving C and the surviving Kumogakure ninja devastated and fearful.
• Kitsuchi and Roshi trapped and killed Kumogakure ninja, while Ōnoki fought the one-armed Fourth Raikage and urged him to surrender.
• Killer B fought Roshi and Han with the Eight-Tails, but his strength was reduced and he struggled against their teamwork.
• As dusk fell, the Fourth Raikage ordered Kumogakure’s forces to retreat to their stronghold, and Ōnoki chose to rest and regroup rather than pursue them.

After learning that Genbu had attacked Kumogakure and abducted Yugito, the Fourth Raikage rallied his shaken troops. The chapter leaves Kumogakure’s soldiers resolved to fight Iwagakure and rescue Yugito.

• Ōnoki watched Kumogakure’s stronghold and hoped to invade the Land of Lightning after another push.
• A Kumogakure ANBU told the Fourth Raikage that Genbu had abducted Yugito and killed more than twenty jōnin during an attack on the village.
• Killer B identified Genbu as the powerful Ice Release user who had cut off two of his tails, and the Fourth Raikage struggled under the news of Kumogakure’s losses.
• The Fourth Raikage admitted his fear to Killer B but urged him to fight back and rescue Yugito.
• The Fourth Raikage addressed the camp, and Kumogakure’s ninja renewed their resolve to resist Iwagakure and Genbu.

Kumogakure rallied under the Fourth Raikage despite the loss of his arm and the abduction of Yugito, then faced Iwagakure’s renewed assault. As the battle intensified, Iwagakure’s Explosion Corps blasted a wide gap in Kumogakure’s left flank.

• The Fourth Raikage reassured Killer B and the Kumogakure forces, vowing to drive back Iwagakure and rescue Yugito.
• Ōnoki learned that the Fourth Raikage had restored Kumogakure’s resolve and ordered his army to attack cautiously.
• The Fourth Raikage assigned Killer B to defend the left flank and ordered the troops to hold the stronghold without retreating.
• Ōnoki launched Iwagakure’s attack, and Roshi and Han struck Kumogakure’s defenses with lava and steam while Killer B fought back.
• After Kitsuchi reported a breach on the left flank, Ōnoki sent in the Explosion Corps, whose blasts opened a twenty-meter gap in Kumogakure’s defenses.

After Iwagakure drove Kumogakure from its stronghold, the Fourth Raikage requested aid from the Daimyo of the Land of Lightning. The Daimyo agreed to pressure the Land of Earth and seek other nations’ intervention, while warning that Kumogakure must change its conduct after the war.

• The Fourth Raikage ordered Kumogakure to retreat from the fallen stronghold, and Iwagakure pursued the withdrawing forces to Kumogakure’s final defensive line.
• The Fourth Raikage learned that Kumogakure had suffered heavy casualties and sent Mabui to request support from the Daimyo of the Land of Lightning.
• The Fourth Raikage revealed that Kumogakure had three charged Chakra Cannons ready for Iwagakure’s next advance.
• Mabui asked the Daimyo to pressure the Land of Earth and seek intervention from other Ninja Villages, and he agreed to contact the Daimyo of the Land of Earth.
• The Daimyo ordered his foreign minister to approach the Daimyos of the Land of Wind, the Land of Water, and the Land of Fire, and allocated fifty million ryō to Kumogakure.

Ōnoki’s Iwagakure forces attacked Kumogakure’s canyon defenses, but Chakra Cannons inflicted heavy casualties and forced them to retreat. After three days of negotiations, the villages signed a peace treaty that spared Kumogakure while imposing reparations and military limits, and the Fourth Raikage vowed to make Kumogakure stronger.

• Ōnoki halted his forces outside Kumogakure’s canyon defenses, but Chakra Cannons struck the Iwagakure camp and caused at least three hundred casualties.
• Ōnoki ordered his forces to retreat, while the Fourth Raikage prepared Kumogakure for a possible night raid and the two sides settled into a stalemate.
• An envoy from the Land of Iron brought the Fourth Raikage and Ōnoki to peace talks, where the Fourth Raikage refused to surrender Land of Lightning territory.
• After three days of negotiations, the villages signed a treaty requiring Kumogakure to pay 3.5 billion ryō, limit its ninja forces to four thousand for ten years, and hand over Small Chakra Cannon blueprints.
• Ōnoki withdrew his army, and the Fourth Raikage told Killer B and the Kumogakure ninja that they had lost the war but would grow strong enough to seek revenge.

Rasa and Chiyo decided Sunagakure should develop quietly after Kumogakure’s defeat, while Mei Terumi set out a recovery plan for Kirigakure. Utakata proposed adding mainland intelligence and trade offices, and the meeting considered his plan.

• Rasa and Chiyo discussed Kumogakure’s losses and agreed to withdraw Ebizo’s forces after another month, then focus Sunagakure on building strength.
• Mei Terumi asked Genji for guidance, and he made clear that she now had to decide Kirigakure’s future herself.
• Mei Terumi proposed reforming ninja training, strengthening ties with the Land of Water’s daimyo, and investing in ninjutsu and kekkei genkai research.
• Ao and Kirigakure’s other senior officials supported Mei Terumi’s proposals and the end of the blood mist policy.
• Utakata proposed establishing Kirigakure intelligence offices and trading posts in neutral mainland countries such as the Land of Hot Water, the Land of Waves, and the Land of Tea.

Utakata influenced Kirigakure’s policy, while Pain considered hiring Genbu and Konoha’s leaders discussed the aftermath of the war. Acting Hokage Hyuga Hiashi realized he was becoming reluctant to give up power or die.

• Utakata urged Kirigakure to develop Lava Release and Boil Release, and Mei Terumi accepted his recommendations.
• Pain and Konan discussed Iwagakure’s paid missions and decided to raise prices by thirty percent and consider recruiting Genbu.
• Konoha’s High Command discussed Sunagakure’s lingering presence and Iwagakure’s 3.5 billion ryō in reparations.
• Hyuga Hiashi learned that Tsunade was reluctant to return and said she could take more time to decide.
• Alone in the Hokage Office, Hyuga Hiashi realized he did not want Tsunade to return or himself to die, then tried to suppress the thought.

Lin Ze entered Kirigakure intending to take some of the Six-Tails’ chakra from Utakata, but discovered that Obito had planted a Mangekyō genjutsu imprint in the Jinchūriki’s mind. He decided to leave the mission to Itachi and Ryōta, who were already preparing to deal with the Seven-Tails.

• Lin Ze reflected on Kumogakure’s losses to Iwagakure and noted that the captured Two-Tails would delay Obito and Black Zetsu’s plans.
• Lin Ze traveled to Kirigakure to find Utakata and take some of the Six-Tails’ chakra before Utakata defected.
• Lin Ze sensed a concealed Mangekyō genjutsu imprint in Utakata’s mind and identified Obito as the likely caster.
• Lin Ze reasoned that Obito intended to use Utakata as a replacement Mizukage under his control.
• Lin Ze decided to have Itachi and Ryōta handle Utakata and the Six-Tails instead.

Lin Ze attended an Akatsuki meeting where Nagato ordered the members to take more missions and seek recruits. Meanwhile, Hiruko chose Sasuke Uchiha as his next target for the Sharingan and prepared to scout Dragon Release Village.

• Lin Ze left Kirigakure, joined the Akatsuki meeting through his ring, and saw Shinnō among the members.
• Deva Path Pain told the Akatsuki to focus on missions, build strength, and scout powerful unaffiliated ninja for recruitment.
• Lin Ze noticed Hiruko had fused three Kekkei Genkai and considered obtaining research on the Chimera Technique.
• Hiruko realized Kakashi Hatake's Sharingan had been stolen and rejected asking the Akatsuki for help finding another one.
• Hiruko selected six-year-old Sasuke Uchiha as his target and prepared concealment tools to scout Dragon Release Village from outside.

Lin Ze and Kabuto tested whether Lin Ze’s cells could fuse with Hashirama Senju’s, finding that they were unusually compatible. Lin Ze left the laboratory wearing the White Tiger Mask to undertake Akatsuki missions, using them for training and income while keeping Nagato and Obito unsuspecting.

• Kabuto showed Lin Ze that his cells resisted Hashirama cells’ usual aggression and began fusing with them.
• Kabuto estimated a ninety-eight percent chance that Lin Ze’s body could fuse with Hashirama cells, while his Soul Clone Technique still needed at least two months of work.
• Lin Ze authorized Kabuto to draw on Ryūchi Cave and Dragon Release Village resources, and Tagitsuhime offered to help capture test subjects.
• Lin Ze put on the White Tiger Mask and left to complete Akatsuki missions, hoping to train his clone and earn money.

Lin Ze headed into the Gobi to eliminate Sunagakure missing-nin while the White Snake Sage detected and defeated Hiruko near Dragon Release Village. Sasuke missed Naruto and vowed to bring him back, ending the chapter at home with Mikoto and Izumi as they hoped their family could be reunited.

• Lin Ze read a mission to eliminate Sunagakure missing-nin and sped into the Gobi.
• Hiruko approached Dragon Release Village under a Stealth Talisman, but the White Snake Sage sensed him and attacked.
• Sasuke walked home thinking of Naruto, remembering the massacre and promising to bring him back.
• The White Snake Sage overpowered Hiruko after his Dark Release nearly failed to absorb her senjutsu chakra.
• Sasuke joined Uchiha Mikoto and Uchiha Izumi for dinner and asked when Itachi would return.
• Mikoto reassured Sasuke that Itachi would succeed and softly included Naruto in her hope for the family’s reunion.

Naruto Uzumaki endured a lonely evening in Konoha, haunted by fragments of memories he could not recall. A month later, Acting Hokage Hyuga Hiashi rejected his growing attachment to power and sent Tsunade a blood-written plea to return, then went to visit Hizashi.

• Naruto walked home through villagers’ insults and ate expired instant noodles alone in his dilapidated house.
• Naruto felt a deep loneliness and glimpsed hazy memories of a lively meal and people who had once called him by name.
• Naruto forced himself to stop crying, declared that he would become Hokage, and went to bed alone.
• Hiashi struggled with his desire to retain power as Acting Hokage, then resolved not to become the person he despised.
• Hiashi wrote Tsunade a blood-written letter asking her to return and requesting that she guide Hinata and Neji.
• Hiashi sent an ANBU to deliver the sealed letter to Night Owl for Tsunade, then headed to Hizashi’s residence.

Hiashi dismantled the Hyuga Clan’s Main and Branch Family system, made the Caged Bird Seal common to all clan members, and passed leadership and the Tenseigan records to Hizashi. After asking the clan to unite, he died by poison, leaving Hizashi and the clan to begin a new era.

• Hiashi summoned every Hyuga Clan member to the ancestral hall and revealed that he had placed the Caged Bird Seal on himself.
• Hiashi declared that there would be no more Main or Branch Family and used the Tenseigan to alter Hizashi’s seal.
• Hiashi named Hizashi the new clan head, established leadership based on ability and contribution, and gave him the Tenseigan records.
• Hiashi admitted to purging the Main Family and killing dozens, then asked the clan to unite and live freely.
• Hiashi took poison and died as Hizashi and the gathered clan members mourned him.

Night Owl delivered Hyuga Hiashi’s blood-written final letter to Tsunade, prompting her to return to Konoha. She became the Seventh Hokage after setting conditions for the village’s leadership and ordered Hiashi recognized as the Sixth Hokage.

• Night Owl received a sealed letter from the Hokage to pass to Tsunade and traveled with Mountain Lord to the casino where she was staying.
• Tsunade read Hiashi’s blood-written letter, including his account of Konoha’s upheaval and his request that she look after Hinata and Neji, then decided to return to Konoha.
• Tsunade arrived in Konoha and agreed to become Hokage on the conditions that Hiashi be recognized as the Sixth Hokage, she serve only until the next generation was ready, and major decisions require a Jonin Commander vote.
• Tsunade took office as the Seventh Hokage and ordered Hiashi’s face carved into Hokage Rock.
• Artisans carved Hiashi’s likeness and the Clear Sky Seal into Hokage Rock, honoring him as Konoha’s Sixth Hokage.

Naruto comforted Hinata after her father's death and learned that Jiraiya wanted to become his teacher. Jiraiya took Naruto out for ramen, while Hinata watched them go and resolved to keep being a source of warmth for him.

• Naruto greeted his classmates, then encouraged a grieving Hinata and listened as she recalled him defending her when they were children.
• Hinata mentioned Sasuke, which triggered a headache and fleeting memories in Naruto; Iruka began class as an ANBU observer decided the Yamanaka Clan would need to examine him again.
• Naruto walked Hinata home and told her he wanted to become Hokage; she said he made her home feel less cold and gave him a lunchbox.
• Jiraiya introduced himself as Naruto's future teacher and said he had faith in him because someone had asked him to look after Naruto.
• Naruto agreed to learn from Jiraiya, who took him to Ichiraku Ramen, while Hinata watched them leave and vowed to remain Naruto's light.