Recaps

Little Tsunade helped welcome another group of Uzumaki Clan members to their new homes in Roran, where an elderly man questioned whether Mito had ever sent aid. The chapter ended with more carts approaching and people ready to help the arriving refugees settle in.

• Ryukōshi called Little Tsunade and Jin Zhiyin over to help the elderly Uzumaki Clan members get down from a cart.
• An old man recognized Little Tsunade as Mito’s granddaughter and accused Mito of being a phony because aid from Konoha should have arrived sooner.
• Little Tsunade said she was not anyone’s aid and was simply herself, while Jin Zhiyin explained that she lived and worked in Roran.
• The old man called Mito a phony and said she was not even as good as her granddaughter, while Little Tsunade went to help a child climb down from another cart.
• Jin Zhiyin helped unload an infant, and the Uzumaki Clan members carried their belongings into the houses as more carts approached.

In the Roran resettlement district, Uzumaki Jifang encountered Toyotomi Baien, a doctor whose Three-Tomoe Sharingan came from Uchiha blood, and struggled to reconcile her work with his memories of the Warring States Period. The next day, Baien left wound medicine for an injured child, while Jifang accepted her explanation that she was a Toyotomi clan member with Uchiha blood.

• Uzumaki Jifang visited the medical station and saw Toyotomi Baien's active Three-Tomoe Sharingan.
• Baien told Jifang that she had awakened three tomoe while treating a severely wounded patient and that fewer than ten Uchiha possessed the ability.
• Jifang remarked that each generation was worse than the last and left the medical station.
• The following afternoon, Baien brought Jifang wound medicine and salve for an injured child in his group.
• Baien told Jifang that she was a Toyotomi clan member but had Uchiha blood, and Jifang accepted her explanation.
• Jifang opened the medicine bag, then tied it shut and left it within reach on the wall.

In Rōran, the Uzumaki community learned that Konoha had secretly taken more than twenty Uzumaki clan members to underground facilities, and that Hiruzen Sarutobi had ordered Mito Uzumaki kept in the dark. Jifang and the others blamed Mito for betraying the clan, suspecting that Kushina Uzumaki’s move to Konoha had been part of her arrangement.

• A Toyotomi clan member sent Rōran an encrypted report that Konoha had transferred over twenty Uzumaki clan members to the Vine Division’s underground facilities and that Hiruzen Sarutobi had barred anyone from informing Mito Uzumaki.
• The news spread through the Uzumaki community, and Jifang asked who Orochimaru was before hearing his connections to Mito Uzumaki’s family.
• Jifang called Mito an ungrateful woman, and another clan member accused her of failing to protect her own people.
• Toyotomi Jinsyokuin said Mito had betrayed the Uzumaki Clan and suggested she might have used the clan’s destruction to disguise an arrangement that made Kushina Uzumaki a Jinchūriki in Konoha.
• Jifang wondered whether Mito had also arranged for Kushina to go to Konoha, then went inside without receiving an answer.

Jiefang decided to travel from the Rōran resettlement area to Konoha to see Kushina Uzumaki and the village for himself. He set out with Jin Zhiyin and Ryukōshi, leaving Yōsa behind.

• Jiefang decided to visit Konoha and see Kushina Uzumaki, a fellow clan member.
• Jiefang told Jin Zhiyin he would accompany him, and Jin Zhiyin agreed.
• Yōsa said Ryukōshi should go too, and Ryukōshi agreed to help if Orochimaru caused trouble.
• Jiefang set their departure for that afternoon, with plans to reach Konoha's vicinity before dawn.
• Jin Zhiyin, Jiefang, and Ryukōshi set out toward Konoha, while Yōsa stayed behind.

Jiefang walked through Konoha with Ryukōshi and Jin Zhiyin, observing how the village and its clans had changed. He stopped at the edge of a patch of shade, intending to continue toward land he knew no longer belonged to Konoha.

• Jiefang entered Konoha with Ryukōshi and Jin Zhiyin, then took side streets through a residential area.
• Jiefang mistook Toyotomi clan members for Senju clan members, and Jin Zhiyin corrected him.
• Jin Zhiyin explained how Konoha changed under Hashirama Senju, Tobirama Senju, and Hiruzen Sarutobi, including Danzo's Rebellion and the Vine Division.
• Jiefang asked why the Vine Division had been established, and Ryukōshi replied that a dog would never stop eating shit.
• As evening fell, Jiefang stopped at the edge of a tree's shade, waiting before continuing toward land beyond Konoha's direction.

Jiefang visited Kushina at the Elite School and challenged the account of her rescue by Minato, questioning how Kirigakure Anbu had bypassed Konoha’s safeguards. He enclosed himself with Jin Zhiyin and accused Konoha High Command of staging the rescue, declaring that Uzumaki Fraud had betrayed the Uzumaki Clan and no longer deserved its name.

• Jiefang met Kushina outside the Elite School and sensed an armed Anbu member watching nearby.
• Kushina introduced Minato Namikaze as Jiraiya’s student and the person who had rescued her from three Kirigakure Anbu when she was abducted.
• Jiefang questioned Kushina about how the abduction had happened under Konoha Anbu surveillance and Mito Uzumaki’s watch, then asked Minato how old he had been when he rescued her.
• Jiefang told Jin Zhiyin to protect him, and Jin Zhiyin raised a wooden barrier around them.
• Jiefang accused Konoha High Command of staging Minato’s rescue with Uzumaki Fraud as a participant, then declared that she had betrayed the Uzumaki Clan and did not deserve the name Uzumaki.

Jiefang and the Toyotomi confronted Mito over her failure to defend the Uzumaki Clan and her insistence that Kushina belonged in Konoha. Mito stayed silent when Jiefang demanded she explain herself publicly, leaving her silence to speak for her.

• Kushina asked Jiefang whether she was already the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki, and he told her she would be and that Konoha was not her home.
• Mito arrived and declared that Kushina could not leave Konoha, prompting Jiefang to challenge her absence during the Uzumaki Clan’s crises.
• Jiefang asked whether Mito spoke for the Uzumaki, Konoha, or the Senju, and Mito first cited Konoha’s reasons before claiming to speak for the Senju Clan.
• Jin Zhiyin and Ryukōshi argued that the Toyotomi had earned the name “New Senju” through their Wood Release and service to people across the Shinobi World.
• Ryukōshi questioned whether Mito deserved the name Uzumaki because she had not helped her clan, and Jin Zhiyin suggested calling on Jiefang’s seniority.
• Jiefang demanded that Mito explain herself in front of everyone, but she remained silent.

Jiefang confronted Mito over Konoha’s treatment of the Uzumaki clan and Kushina’s planned fate as a Jinchūriki. He announced that he would take Kushina to the Country of Roran, leaving her to decide whether to go with him.

• Jiefang challenged Mito over her loyalty to Konoha and the Uzumaki clan, and Mito denied ordering what happened with the Vine Division.
• Jiefang pressed Mito to explain why Kushina was going to become a Jinchūriki, but she called it Kushina’s destiny.
• Jiefang rejected Mito’s explanation and said he would take Kushina away, warning that Konoha might use Sealing Jutsu to keep her there.
• Jiefang told Mito to send any message for Kushina to the Country of Roran, then turned to Kushina and waited for her choice.
• Mito remained where she was, while Kushina looked at Jiefang and began to accept what he had told her.

Outside Konoha’s Elite School, Hiruzen Sarutobi led a large force to block Jiefang and Kushina, prompting Jin Zhiyin to summon his Tree-Person Susanoo and challenge them. The Toyotomi clan and other allies arrived to reinforce Jin Zhiyin, leaving a changed opening in the encirclement as Kushina hesitated over whether to follow Jiefang.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi and more than a hundred shinobi surrounded Jiefang and Kushina, and Hiruzen apologized while saying he acted for Konoha.
• Jin Zhiyin summoned his Tree-Person Susanoo and told Hiruzen’s side to move aside or be forced back.
• Jin Zhiyin taunted Uchiha Fushan for lacking the Mangekyō, and Fushan did not respond.
• More than three hundred Toyotomi clan members, thousands of Martial Arts Hall graduates, and other clan forces arrived to cover the flanks.
• Jin Zhiyin summoned a Golden Six-Winged Angel Susanoo and ordered an attack, but neither side struck first; Minato Namikaze took a position between Kushina and Hiruzen.
• Jiefang waited by the barrier as Kushina watched the opening in the encirclement, still undecided about whether to leave with him.

The Toyotomi and Uchiha forces clashed outside the Elite School while Ryukōshi, Hiruzen Sarutobi, Jin Zhiyin, and Orochimaru fought across the street. Toyotomi Chengkong stopped a Nara attack aimed at Jiefang, and Toyotomi Shining Sand arrived as the opposing forces reset their positions.

• The Toyotomi clan used senbon volleys to break the Uchiha formation, while Uchiha Fushan questioned how the Toyotomi had acquired fighting methods resembling the Senju Clan's.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi summoned Enma, who transformed into a staff, and Hiruzen's strike against the Angel Susanoo was blocked by its Holy Sword.
• Orochimaru spread the Myriad Snakes Formation across the street, and Jin Zhiyin's Giant Hardened Wood Balls crushed and scattered the snakes.
• Nara Zhulu ordered his clan members to attack Jiefang, but Kushina stepped in front of him and Toyotomi Chengkong used Time Stop to redirect the projectiles.
• Toyotomi Shining Sand arrived and raised gold dust beside him as Jiefang watched the groups reassess their positions.

Kushina chose to leave Konoha with Jiefang, refusing to trust Minato or the village leadership. The Toyotomi Clan opened a path for them while Ryukōshi, Jin Zhiyin, Chengkong, and Yōsa stayed behind.

• Kushina told Minato that Konoha was hurting the Uzumaki Clan and that she was leaving.
• Jiefang explained that he would not gamble on Minato, Jiraiya, or Hiruzen Sarutobi, and Jin Zhiyin added that Orochimaru was Jiraiya’s fellow disciple.
• Yōsa formed a gold-dust path as the Toyotomi Clan loosened its encirclement and let Kushina and Jiefang pass.
• Ryukōshi told the Toyotomi Clan to remain and let the others leave, while Jin Zhiyin, Chengkong, and Yōsa chose to stay with him.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi, Orochimaru, and Nara Zhulu did not pursue as Kushina and Jiefang walked away along the path.

The Toyotomi Three Hundred Warriors held their formation outside Konohagakure’s Elite School as the Four Heroes fought Hiruzen Sarutobi and the others. Jin Zhiyin’s Tree-Man Susanoo struck back against the attacks, leaving both sides in a standoff with the Toyotomi formation intact.

• Ryukōshi told the Toyotomi clan members to let the elderly and children leave, and they tightened their defensive formation without retreating.
• Jin Zhiyin formed the Sacred Tree Forging Hammer and struck Orochimaru with a shockwave as he dodged, leaving him bleeding.
• Orochimaru summoned Manda, and Jin Zhiyin killed the giant snake with a blow from the hammer.
• Nara Zhulu and Yamanaka Wuhu tried to control Jin Zhiyin’s Tree-Man Susanoo, but both techniques failed to take hold.
• Akimichi Ganglie charged in Human Bullet Tank form, and Jin Zhiyin deflected him into an abandoned house with the hammer.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi and the others reassessed their positions while the Toyotomi Three Hundred Warriors maintained their defensive line and the battle paused.

Toyotomi Chengkong used Time Stop to strike Hiruzen Sarutobi, then displayed his Mangekyō abilities and Susanoo armor. He recreated and multiplied Mito’s Tailed Beast Bomb into platinum fragments that rained across Konoha, leaving the village under attack.

• Toyotomi Chengkong stopped time and landed a rapid series of punches on Hiruzen Sarutobi before time resumed, leaving him injured but standing.
• Mito formed a Tailed Beast Bomb and fired it toward Chengkong, who waited until it was fully formed before evading it.
• Chengkong revealed his platinum gear-patterned Mangekyō and formed close-fitting Susanoo armor, prompting Uchiha Fushan to identify it.
• Chengkong scanned the Tailed Beast Bomb, recreated it as a larger platinum sphere, and sent it into the sky to split into numerous fragments.
• The platinum fragments struck locations across Konoha, spreading damage while Mito shielded herself and others sought cover.

After the Toyotomi clan’s attack ended, Ryukōshi and Yōsa confronted Mito over how much of her status and strength had come from her connections. The Toyotomi clan withdrew, leaving Mito in Konoha to face the lasting damage and the doubts their accusations had raised.

• Ryukōshi withdrew his Angel Susanoo and accused Mito of coasting on her position in the Land of Whirlpools and Konoha.
• Yōsa reminded Mito that the Land of Whirlpools had supported her, then challenged her claims to have earned her strength independently.
• Mito realized her sealing techniques, chakra training, and Tailed Beast had all come through her clan or Hashirama Senju, and wondered whether her achievements came from her surname rather than herself.
• Yōsa told Mito that her connections had resolved most of her difficulties and left without waiting for her answer.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi did not pursue the Toyotomi clan, while Orochimaru silently observed Mito and recorded the battle’s implications.
• The Toyotomi clan departed through Yōsa’s Gold Dust passage, leaving Tailed Beast Bomb damage in Konoha as Mito remained behind.

Yōsa organized the Toyotomi clan’s resettlement in Rōran and assigned plots for allied clans, while Tsugikuni En'eki asked who would lead the Toyotomi Clan in the future. Meanwhile, Jiefang recounted Mito’s actions to the gathered Uzumaki clan, who accepted the account as confirmed history.

• Toyotomi Shining Sand checked the Resettlement Zone’s boundaries, and Yōsa arranged housing, integrated the Martial Arts Hall into Rōran’s education system, and promised teachers double pay and students tuition refunds.
• Yōsa marked plots for the Inuzaki Clan, the Tsugikuni clan, the Kurama Clan, and other clans.
• Tsugikuni En'eki asked Yōsa who would lead the Toyotomi Clan, and Yōsa replied that his father was only thirty and that the future did not need to be decided now.
• Yōsa inspected the completed foundations and boundaries, including the plot reserved for the Inuzuka Clan.
• Jiefang recounted Mito’s actions and statements to the gathered Uzumaki clan, and Uzumaki Dōyin and Uzumaki Báidū condemned her.
• The Uzumaki clan members accepted Jiefang’s account as consistent with what they had heard and confirmed it as something to remember.

Minato questioned whether his life had been arranged for him after realizing the Kirigakure Anbu’s ambush seemed deliberately timed and positioned. Jiraiya urged him to keep examining Konoha’s power structure, leaving Minato uncertain whether his future decisions were truly his own.

• Minato sat with Jiraiya at the Training Ground and asked why his life felt laid out for him.
• Minato told Jiraiya that the Kirigakure Anbu’s locations, timing, and escape route had seemed calculated around his mission with Kushina.
• Jiraiya said he did not know what would have happened if Minato had not gone, but the person standing there might not have been Minato.
• Jiraiya explained that Konoha’s power structure followed a system and told Minato he could choose whether to keep tracing its thread.
• Minato returned to his lodgings, wondering whether he or someone else was making his decisions.

Jin Zhiyin told Kushina that the Uzumaki clanspeople had turned against Konoha and stripped Mito Uzumaki of her surname. He also revealed that another Kushina had been rescued from Rōran and would not become a Jinchūriki, leaving Kushina to absorb the news and find some peace in it.

• Jin Zhiyin told Kushina that the rescued Uzumaki clanspeople had turned against Konoha and had stripped Mito Uzumaki of her surname for betraying the clan.
• Kushina struggled to reconcile this Mito with the gentle elder who had guided and sheltered her in Shinobi World No. 1.
• Jin Zhiyin revealed that they had rescued the Kushina from this world from Rōran and that she would not become a Jinchūriki.
• Kushina asked whether the other Kushina had worries, and Jin Zhiyin replied that safety came before other worries.
• Kushina accepted that the other Kushina was not her, but said it was good that she could live safely, then sat quietly with Jin Zhiyin.

Kushina reflected on Mito Uzumaki and asked Jilan how he would respond to discovering that someone he admired had done wrong. Their conversation turned to Jilan’s view of the Nara Clan, which he criticized for relying on allies and strategy instead of developing independent combat strength.

• Kushina sat alone after Jin Zhiyin left, thinking about Mito Uzumaki and the replacement she needed for a framework she had established.
• Jilan joined Kushina in the garden pavilion, and she asked what he would do if someone he admired proved flawed.
• Jilan said he agreed with his father and corrected Kushina’s suggestion that his father might sacrifice the Toyotomi Clan’s interests for Konoha.
• Kushina concluded that Jilan had a higher IQ than the Nara Clan, and he replied that the Nara were outsmarted by their own cleverness.
• Jilan argued that the Nara depended on the Ino-Shika-Cho alliance, had limited independent combat ability, and refused to expand their Shadow Technique because they prized stability.
• Kushina listened, questioned Jilan’s claim that the Nara lacked virtue, and moved the cold tea aside as a crack spread across its edge.

Chengkong explained the abilities and side effects of his Mangekyō Dōjutsu to Sakura Haruno and Toyotomi Yinglang. After both called him invincible, he completed the verification of his abilities and prepared to move forward.

• Chengkong told Sakura Haruno that Temporal Replication could permanently copy techniques and increase his attributes, but could clutter his thoughts with other people’s techniques.
• Chengkong explained that Temporal Extremum could push mastered abilities to their theoretical maximum and grow stronger with use, but could make him forget his past.
• Sakura Haruno recorded the abilities, summed them up as infinite growth and limit-breaking, and called Chengkong invincible.
• Chengkong acknowledged that the Dōjutsu’s side effects could not be ignored.
• Chengkong repeated his ability descriptions to Toyotomi Yinglang, who also called him invincible and noted the side effects.
• Chengkong completed the verification of his abilities and continued along his established path.

At the Imperial Palace training ground, Toyotomi Chengkong demonstrated his compact platinum armor and immense striking power to Sakura Haruno and Toyotomi Yinglang. The armor remained intact after the test, and Chengkong confirmed he could keep it on but had no need to.

• Toyotomi Yinglang examined Chengkong’s platinum armor and told him to throw a punch.
• Chengkong’s punch sent fine cracks across the edge of the stone paving, impressing Sakura Haruno.
• Toyotomi Yinglang said Chengkong had greater strength and growth potential than Sasuke Uchiha, and Sakura called him “invincibility with a face.”
• Chengkong struck an upright steel pillar without denting it, while a symmetrical crack appeared in the ground behind it.
• Toyotomi Yinglang ended the test, and Chengkong told Sakura Haruno he could wear the armor continuously but did not need to.

Toyotomi Yinglang showed Kushina and Jilan an alternate timeline in which Naruto’s postwar failures let the Shinobi World grow vulnerable to Kara and the Ōtsutsuki. They concluded that Naruto had missed the brief chance after the Fourth Shinobi World War to unite the Five Great Nations and reform the shinobi system, and that the opportunity was now gone.

• Kushina asked Toyotomi Yinglang to show her the Shinobi World’s future, and he let her witness Naruto’s life in a timeline where he never existed.
• Kushina questioned why peace after the Fourth Shinobi World War gave way to greater chaos, and Toyotomi Yinglang traced Naruto’s success to allies, inherited advantages, and his ability to persuade people within the shinobi system.
• Toyotomi Yinglang showed Jilan the same timeline, and Jilan identified the days after the Fourth Shinobi World War as Naruto’s chance to unite the Five Great Nations and abolish the Shinobi Villages.
• Jilan explained that the Allied Shinobi Forces would soon disband and that Naruto instead wasted the opportunity by fighting Sasuke and crippling their strength.
• Kushina accepted that the window had closed and could no longer be reopened.

Kushina questioned Jilan about why she had failed to recognize Konoha’s chances to unify and heard how Minato could have used the Nine-Tails’ Attack to seize power. She accepted that those opportunities had passed and that Konoha’s later course had been rearranged around the choices Minato did not make.

• Kushina asked Jilan why she had not seen the opportunity for unification, and he told her that most people were mediocrities who could not recognize what was becoming possible.
• Kushina asked whether Minato had also been a mediocrity, and Jilan argued that Minato’s death during the Nine-Tails’ Attack had squandered a chance to reshape Konoha.
• Jilan explained that Minato could have framed Danzo as the Masked Man by pointing to Danzo’s Sharingan and Wood Release, then used the public’s anger to justify killing him.
• Jilan said Minato could have followed Danzo’s death with a purge of Root’s old forces, the Elder Council, and conservatives, consolidating power in the name of ending Konoha’s unrest.
• Kushina stopped questioning Jilan and concluded that Konoha’s opportunities had closed and that Minato’s choices had permanently rearranged the paths that followed.

In Roran, Toyotomi Shining Sand advanced a marriage alliance with the Uzumaki Clan as the Resettlement Zone continued to receive new residents. In Konoha, Uchiha Fushan realized the alliance could strengthen the Toyotomi with Uzumaki blood, widening their advantage over the Uchiha.

• Toyotomi Shining Sand told Karura that anyone willing could register for the marriage alliance, while those who were not ready did not need to hurry.
• Uzumaki elders and a Toyotomi liaison recorded the first batch of volunteers, their preferences, and initial contacts, then filed the completed dossier.
• Uchiha Taiken reported the Toyotomi-Uzumaki marriage alliance to Uchiha Fushan and warned that it could make the Toyotomi resemble the Senju in strength.
• Uchiha Fushan concluded that the Toyotomi would combine the Uzumaki physique with the Sharingan and lamented that even the heavens seemed to help them.

Toyotomi Yinglang used Jin Zhiyin’s cells to design the Aoki Eternal Life Body, a mass-producible bloodline with vegetation-based healing, longevity, and wood manipulation. Tsunade learned its limitations and how Yinglang planned to explain the source of Wood Release, then left the laboratory with Jin Zhiyin.

• Tsunade entered the underground laboratory and found Jin Zhiyin collecting dead skin from his heel as a sample for Toyotomi Yinglang.
• Toyotomi Yinglang analyzed the sample and combined Jin Zhiyin’s gene traits with the Forest-Forest Fruit’s ability characteristics to create the Aoki Eternal Life Body.
• Toyotomi Yinglang showed Tsunade the bloodline’s healing, longevity, and vegetation-control abilities, along with its advanced techniques and vulnerabilities to sustained high heat and vitality overuse.
• Tsunade asked how they would explain their clansmen’s Wood Release, and Toyotomi Yinglang said they would claim the clansmen had been injected with Jin Zhiyin Cells.
• Toyotomi Yinglang said his method could be mass-produced and that combining the Aoki Eternal Life Body with the Uzumaki Constitution through marriage alliances would yield better results.
• Tsunade recognized the Aoki Eternal Life Body as a weakened version of the Divine Tree and immortality; Toyotomi Yinglang agreed, and she left with Jin Zhiyin.

Toyotomi Yinglang, Tsunade, and Jin Zhiyin discussed the completed Aoki Eternal Life Gene and how it would be introduced to the Toyotomi clan. After Jin Zhiyin left the laboratory, Toyotomi Yinglang asked Tsunade to wait for him that night.

• Toyotomi Yinglang confirmed that the Aoki Eternal Life Gene had been verified and explained that it derived from Jin Zhiyin’s Forest-Forest Fruit-altered genes.
• Toyotomi Yinglang said the gene would pass down through generations, contrasting the Toyotomi’s genetic modification with Konoha’s use of Hashirama Cells.
• Toyotomi Yinglang planned to modify clan members in the Great British Empire first, followed by those in the Country of Roran, while concealing the method behind a story about Jin Zhiyin’s cells.
• Tsunade noted that outsiders would view Jin Zhiyin’s cells as the Toyotomi version of Hashirama Cells.
• Toyotomi Yinglang drew Tsunade close, and she told him not to because Jin Zhiyin was still present.
• Jin Zhiyin left the laboratory, and Toyotomi Yinglang told Tsunade to wait for him that night.