Recaps

Yūto’s Chunin exam sent candidates into the Forest of Death with many teams lacking scrolls and facing dangerous beasts and traps. As the exam began, Yūto refused to help his students and remained wary of Obito’s disappearance, until an urgent report interrupted him.

• Pakura explained that teams without scrolls had to defeat two other teams to obtain a Heaven Scroll and an Earth Scroll, then sent the candidates into the forest.
• A team withdrew after encountering dangerous Summoning Beasts, while Chino, Izumi, and Itachi prepared to protect their Heaven Scroll and find an Earth Scroll.
• Tsukimi learned that Maki had missed the exam after oversleeping on the first written exam day.
• An examiner told Yūto that all teams had entered the forest, and Yūto declined to arrange special assistance for Chino, Izumi, and Itachi.
• Yūto reflected on Obito’s unexplained absence and suspected he was preparing something, then an urgent report arrived.

After a White Zetsu was exposed during the Chunin Ninja Exams, Yūto kept the discovery secret and investigated the candidates traveling with it. Obito and Orochimaru began the Konoha Crush Plan, and Yūto warned Minato that Obito had appeared.

• An ANBU Ninja reported that a candidate’s corpse had turned into a white, plantlike body after a Summoning Beast killed a patrol member, and Yūto ordered the discovery concealed while the exam continued.
• In a cave outside Konoha, Black Zetsu told Obito and Orochimaru that Konoha had found the White Zetsu corpse; Obito dismissed the discovery and declared that the Konoha Crush Plan would begin.
• Orochimaru told Obito that he had perfected Impure World Reincarnation to reproduce or exceed the dead’s former strength.
• At the Forest of Death, Yūto identified the corpse as White Zetsu and knocked its two teammates unconscious so they could not leave or reveal the incident.
• Yūto went to the Hokage’s Office and quietly told Minato that Obito had appeared.

Yūto learned that a White Zetsu had appeared during the Chunin Ninja Exams and warned Minato that Obito might be targeting Konoha. As the exams continued, Itachi, Chino, and Izumi confronted a disguised enemy and discovered it was a White Zetsu corpse.

• Yūto told Minato that an examinee had died in a Summoning Beast attack and been exposed as a White Zetsu, and Minato agreed to keep the exams running while preparing for an attack.
• Yūto visited Tsunade’s laboratory, received several bottles of eye drops, and learned that Tsunade was ready to join the fight against Obito.
• Tsunade ordered Yíngsháo to alert the key Medical Team personnel and keep them ready to deploy.
• Itachi stopped Chino and Izumi on a secluded path after hearing a noise near some crates, then restrained a disguised examinee with a wire-bound kunai.
• Izumi attacked the figure with Fire Release and Chino struck it with Dynamic Entry, but the girls discovered that the apparent examinee concealed a white corpse.

Itachi, Izumi, and Chino suspected disguised White Zetsu had infiltrated the Chunin Exam and decided to hurry to the central tower so they could report it to Teacher Yūto. After defeating a Land of Water team and taking its Earth Scroll, they continued through the Forest of Death with the required scroll pair.

• Itachi, Izumi, and Chino examined a White Zetsu corpse and realized the creatures might have entered the exam disguised as examinees.
• Chino, Izumi, and Itachi decided to finish the exam quickly rather than break the rules by leaving the Forest of Death early.
• After the trio left, ANBU arrived on Lord Yūto’s orders, removed the corpse, and teased their captain about his connection to Chino.
• Chino, Izumi, and Itachi encountered a Land of Water Genin team, and the Ketsuryūgan genjutsu left all three opponents unable to resist.
• Chino searched the female team leader and took the Earth Scroll, giving the trio the scrolls needed to complete the exam set.

As the third stage of the Chunin Ninja Exams began, Yūto persuaded Minato and Tsunade to continue the matches in hopes of drawing out Obito and White Zetsu. Chino noticed something strange about her opponent, Toki, just as a cloaked intruder appeared in the arena and used Impure World Reincarnation.

• Chino, Izumi, and Itachi told Yūto about the white creature they had killed in the Forest of Death, and Yūto ordered them to keep the matter secret.
• Minato proposed suspending the exams because Obito and White Zetsu remained at large, but Yūto and Tsunade convinced him to proceed.
• Minato arranged security for the third-stage matches, while Chino, Izumi, and Maki waited in the arena and joked together.
• Chino drew Toki of Iwagakure as her first opponent and sensed that his stiff expression and empty eyes seemed familiar.
• A cloaked man ignored a staff member, leapt from the stands, and performed Impure World Reincarnation on the arena grass.

Madara Uchiha was reincarnated into the Chunin Ninja Exams arena, where he confronted Yūto after Chino challenged him. Orochimaru revealed himself as Madara’s summoner and hinted at another attack on Konoha, but Yūto made the Tailed Beast Bomb disappear, leaving Orochimaru stunned.

• Madara Uchiha emerged from a coffin in the arena after Orochimaru summoned him with Impure World Reincarnation.
• Chino demanded that Madara surrender so she could win her exam match, but Yūto arrived and sent her away.
• Yūto faced Madara and sensed that his reanimated body had been specially enhanced.
• Orochimaru revealed himself as the hooded figure who had summoned Madara and announced another guest had made a move.
• A Tailed Beast Bomb appeared above Konoha and vanished immediately, prompting Yūto to taunt the surprised Orochimaru.

Yūto had prepared a Dragon Vein barrier that protected Kushina from Madara’s attempt to summon the Nine-Tails, while Madara renewed his fight against Yūto. In Konoha, Minato confronted Obito and used Flying Thunder God to strike him with a Rasengan.

• Minato diverted Obito’s Tailed Beast Bomb away from Konoha with Flying Thunder God: Guiding Thunder.
• Madara failed to summon the Nine-Tails, which Kushina was safely guarding in Rōran behind a Dragon Vein-powered barrier.
• Yūto’s secret cannon, powered by the Dragon Vein, stood ready as a weapon against Madara or the Ōtsutsuki Clan.
• Madara charged at Yūto, eager to fight with his revived body’s power.
• Minato confronted Obito, who explained that he wanted a war-free world where Rin would approve of his actions.
• Obito charged Minato with a chain, but Minato teleported behind him and struck his back with a Rasengan.

Minato sealed Obito’s Kamui and nearly captured him, but Black Zetsu rescued him and brought him to Madara and Yūto’s battle. Yūto unveiled a Shukaku-powered Susanoo as he realized Magatsu could no longer defeat Madara because Orochimaru had added a backup soul connection to the Impure World Reincarnation technique.

• Minato used a new sealing jutsu to disable Obito’s Kamui, then bound him when Obito refused to surrender.
• Black Zetsu emerged from underground, pulled Obito away from Minato, and took him to Madara and Yūto’s battlefield.
• Madara mocked Obito, who shouted back at him and distracted him during his fight with Yūto.
• Yūto summoned a large Susanoo marked with Shukaku’s sealing runes, which made Madara sense danger.
• Yūto realized Magatsu had failed to send Madara back to the Pure Land because Orochimaru had added a backup soul connection to the reanimated body.

Orochimaru summoned four former Kage with Impure World Reincarnation, enraging the villages whose leaders had been revived. As Yūto continued fighting Madara, Nagato arrived in Konoha to fulfill Amegakure’s promise of support, but Obito attacked him to take his Rinnegan.

• Orochimaru summoned Mu, Gengetsu Hozuki, Third Raikage A, and the Third Kazekage, prompting fury among the ninja from their villages.
• Yugito Nii tried to charge at the Third Raikage, but Killer B stopped her and promised to draw the Raikage’s attention while she prepared sealing jutsu.
• Mei Terumi led the Kirigakure examinees away from the battlefield, while the other villages’ ninja stayed back rather than risk confronting the reanimated Kage.
• Nagato entered Konoha to honor Amegakure’s promise to Yūto, after secretly undergoing an eye operation to keep Madara and Obito from taking his Rinnegan.
• Madara ordered Obito to seize Nagato’s Rinnegan, and Obito appeared before Nagato and struck his right eye.

Obito’s stolen Rinnegan trapped and blinded him, while Minato and Nagato held off the reincarnated Kage. Black Zetsu freed Madara’s power, and after Minato teleported away Madara’s first meteor, a second descended on Konoha.

• Obito implanted the fake Rinnegan Yūto had prepared, triggering sealing marks that blinded him and left him incapacitated.
• Madara ordered Orochimaru to send the reincarnated Kage against Minato and Nagato, but the two held them off with Sealing Jutsu and the Rinnegan.
• Black Zetsu possessed Orochimaru and removed the restraints on Madara’s power, awakening Madara’s Rinnegan.
• Madara summoned a meteor with Tengai Shinsei, and Minato used Flying Thunder God: Guiding Thunder to teleport it away at the cost of nearly all his chakra.
• Madara sent a second meteor toward Konoha and urged the village to despair.

Yūto used Madara’s secretly implanted Rinnegan to repel the second meteor and save Konoha. Madara then took Nagato’s remaining Rinnegan and had Black Zetsu use Rinne Rebirth through Obito.

• With the second meteor bearing down on Konoha, Minato and the other ninja pleaded with Yūto to stop it.
• Yūto revealed that he had secretly implanted Madara’s Rinnegan in his eye and repelled the meteor with Super Shinra Tensei.
• Madara became furious when Yūto taunted him about using his Rinnegan to counter the attack.
• Madara tore Nagato’s remaining Rinnegan from his eye and threw it to Black Zetsu.
• Black Zetsu possessed the weakened Obito and performed the Outer Path: Samsara of Heavenly Life Technique.

Yūto’s plan to revive and kill Madara succeeded when the Dragon Vein Cannon devastated him and Yūto finished him with a kunai. With Black Zetsu sealed and Orochimaru surrendering, the battle ended with Orochimaru asking Yūto to make peace.

• Yūto secretly obtained Nagato’s Rinnegan with Tsunade’s help and arranged for it to bait Obito into triggering its seal.
• Black Zetsu used Rinne Rebirth to revive Madara, who took the Rinnegan and invited Yūto to join the Eye of the Moon Plan.
• Yūto waited as the Dragon Vein Cannon fired six pillars of light, which broke Madara’s defenses and left him mortally wounded.
• Yūto killed Madara with a kunai through the heart, ending the Eye of the Moon Plan’s leader.
• Black Zetsu lunged for Madara’s corpse, but Yūto sealed him with Majestic Attire: Shukaku.
• Orochimaru surrendered and released the other Kage from Impure World Reincarnation, then asked Yūto if they could make peace.

After Madara Uchiha fell and Black Zetsu was sealed away, Yūto helped restore order and resumed the Chunin Ninja Exams. When Tsukimi became sick, Yūto carried her away from the arena, leaving the matches behind.

• Konoha's ANBU arrested Orochimaru, while the representatives of the other villages abandoned their plans to demand compensation from Konoha.
• Minato agreed with Yūto to continue the Chunin Ninja Exams, then left to rest; Nagato refused to take back the Rinnegan and accepted Yūto's offer of ordinary Sharingan instead.
• Yūto asked the village representatives whether anyone wanted to withdraw, and none dared to object.
• Chino defeated Mei Terumi by forcing her out of bounds, though Yūto noticed Mei had fought conservatively.
• Tsukimi retched after announcing the match result, and Yūto carried her out of the arena to take her home.

Yūto assigned Chino to babysit Eri while Tsukimi was away, and Chino spent the day taking the child around Konoha. As they left Ichiraku Ramen, Chino saw lightning and smoke erupt near the Uchiha Clan Compound.

• Yūto summoned Chino under the pretense of an important mission, then told her to look after Eri while Tsukimi was away.
• Chino carried Eri through Konoha, greeting Naruto and Hinata, then encountering Tsunade and Yíngsháo.
• Tsunade held Eri and declared she was determined to have a child of her own before heading to the Laboratory with Yíngsháo.
• Chino took Eri to Ichiraku Ramen, where Eri cried at the sight of Kisame but calmed down in Kisame's wife's arms.
• Chino left the ramen shop with Eri and saw lightning flash and black smoke rise near the Uchiha Clan Compound.

Chino took Eri on an outing with Ringo, whose teasing and feud with Maki got them all thrown out of a movie theater. The chapter ended with Maki asking whether Yūto was about to become Hokage.

• Chino hurried to the Uchiha Clan Compound with Eri and found Ringo showing off her Lightning Release to the children.
• Ringo admitted she preferred staying in Konoha to returning to Kirigakure, then frightened Eri by baring her sharp teeth.
• Chino and Ringo saw a poster for Princess Gale, learned about the mobile phone featured in it, and went to watch the film with Eri.
• During the movie, Maki explained that the phone's repeated appearances were advertising, while Ringo tried to steal Maki's dried fish.
• Ringo and Maki's scuffle woke Eri and angered the audience, so the theater staff threw Chino, Ringo, and Maki out.
• Maki asked Chino and Ringo whether Yūto was about to become Hokage.

News spread through Konoha that Yūto would succeed Minato as the Fifth Hokage, and Yūto confirmed the transition to Chino. A few days later, he was inaugurated as Hokage.

• Maki told Chino and Ringo that Pakura had heard of Yūto’s succession through a chain of people leading back to Minato.
• News of Yūto becoming the Fifth Hokage spread through Konoha, while the Military Police Force answered dissenting villagers with visits and explanations.
• Tsunade gave Yūto her family pendant before leaving to continue her experiments.
• Yūto gave the pendant to Chino and confirmed that Minato was preparing to step down and he would become the Fifth Hokage.
• Yūto’s face was carved onto Hokage Rock, and he took the Hokage Hat and succeeded as the Fifth Hokage.