Recaps

Anyo tried to mediate Tsunade and Kikyo’s dispute over Kikyo becoming a ninja, then joined Tsunade as she took office as the Fifth Hokage. The chapter ended with Tsunade refusing to reconsider her decision about Kikyo.

• Tsunade refused to let Kikyo train as a ninja, leaving mother and daughter in a cold war on their way back to Konoha.
• Anyo explained to Kikyo that Tsunade feared losing her, and promised to persuade Tsunade if Kikyo still wanted to become a ninja the next day.
• Kikyo met Tenten and Neji while they trained in the forest and introduced herself as someone who had come to Konoha with Tsunade.
• Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura discussed Tsunade’s appointment as Fifth Hokage, and Anyo appeared and identified himself as the Anbu Chief.
• Tsunade confirmed Anyo’s identity to the elders, then told him she would not discuss changing her decision about Kikyo.

Anyo reassured Tsunade about trusting their daughter, then helped treat Kakashi and Rock Lee at Konoha Hospital. After successful surgery, Tsunade confirmed Rock Lee’s treatment had worked, leaving Might Guy overwhelmed with joy.

• Anyo comforted Tsunade and promised to protect their daughter, but Naruto interrupted them to summon Tsunade to the hospital.
• Tsunade healed Kakashi, while Anyo recognized that Kakashi had fought an opponent with the Mangekyō Sharingan and urged him to sharpen his instincts and resume training.
• Anyo offered to help Tsunade treat Kakashi, whose injuries would otherwise require major surgery, and they went to their former secret chamber to run tests.
• After the tests went smoothly, Anyo and Tsunade operated on Rock Lee for several hours.
• Tsunade confirmed Rock Lee’s treatment had succeeded, and Might Guy wept with joy.

Anyo examined his weakened body with Tsunade, explained how his senjutsu chakra absorbed hers, and helped her begin learning Shikkotsu Forest Senjutsu. After Tsunade arrived late to her inauguration, she became Konoha’s Fifth Hokage, while Anyo watched proudly as her body began to accommodate senjutsu chakra.

• Tsunade examined Anyo and found that his cells had rare vitality but lacked strength, while his body contained multiple kinds of senjutsu chakra.
• Anyo explained his body reconstruction and how their joined chakra caused his senjutsu chakra to absorb Tsunade’s chakra.
• Anyo proposed teaching Tsunade Sage Mode, and he summoned Katsuyu to protect and heal her as she began refining natural energy.
• Utatane Koharu sent an Anbu member to find the missing Tsunade, and Shizune went to the secret chamber to hurry her along.
• Tsunade arrived at the Hokage Platform and declared herself the Fifth Hokage as the gathered ninja cheered.
• Anyo watched Tsunade’s inauguration and saw that her body could begin accommodating a small amount of senjutsu chakra.

Anyo and Naruto searched for Sasuke and Sakura after they failed to return to Konoha, finding Sasuke badly wounded and Sakura exhausted. Anyo healed Sasuke, identified Kimimaro as his opponent, and prepared to take them back to the village.

• Kikyo accepted her Ninja Academy admission notice, and Kakashi arrived to discuss starting a fight with Anyo.
• Naruto told Kakashi that Sasuke had left Konoha and Sakura had secretly followed him, so Anyo went with Naruto to search for them.
• Anyo used his Soul Division Technique to locate Sasuke and Sakura in a forest while Naruto enjoyed flying on Anyo's device.
• Naruto caught Sakura when she collapsed, and Anyo healed Sasuke's wounds and recognized Kimimaro as the one who had injured him.
• Sasuke woke, rejected Anyo's help, and grew angry about losing to Kimimaro, so Anyo knocked him unconscious and set off with Naruto to return to Konoha.

Anyo took charge of Team 7 and began arranging missions for them while Tsunade warned him to be careful with his limited chakra. Meanwhile, Genno arranged a joint investigation with Konoha, and Anyo learned that Tenten’s squad would soon be sent as peace envoys to Sunagakure.

• Anyo told Kakashi that he would lead Team 7 while Kakashi focused on training, and Kakashi agreed.
• Anyo informed Tsunade of his plan to lead Team 7, and she approved while offering him difficult missions.
• Genno gave Chief Shibuki a scroll and asked him to send its intelligence to Konoha and request a joint investigation.
• Anyo finished a Sailor Moon story and showed it to Tenten at Boss Niannian’s shop.
• Tenten told Anyo that her squad would travel to Sunagakure as Konoha’s peace envoys, and Niannian realized Anyo was involved.

Tsunade received Takigakure’s request for help investigating an organization seeking the Seven-Tails Jinchuriki, and Anyo agreed to take the mission to learn about the Akatsuki. He became Team 7’s temporary leader and set out with Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura after Sasuke learned his brother was part of the organization.

• Shizune brought Tsunade urgent intelligence from Takigakure about a mysterious organization asking after the Seven-Tails Jinchuriki and requesting Konoha’s help.
• Shizune suggested Anyo could handle the mission, and Tsunade asked her to seek his opinion.
• Anyo accepted the assignment, hoping to capture Akatsuki members and obtain intelligence about the organization.
• At the Ninja Hospital, Anyo told Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura that he would temporarily replace Kakashi as Team 7’s leader and take them on the investigation.
• Sasuke agreed to leave immediately after Anyo revealed that Sasuke’s brother was in the mysterious organization, and Naruto and Sakura joined them.

Anyo led Naruto, Sakura, and Sasuke toward Takigakure in a luxurious carriage, where he demonstrated his strength and gave them money to restock supplies. He revealed that the shopping money had been a test, and the three had failed by neglecting mission preparations and intelligence gathering.

• Sakura questioned whether they were really on a mission while Naruto enjoyed the carriage’s food and Sasuke impatiently asked when they would arrive.
• Anyo explained that their long-term mission involved gathering intelligence and cooperating with Takigakure, then effortlessly threatened Sasuke with blades at his neck when Sasuke demanded a fight.
• The carriage reached a town, and Anyo gave Naruto, Sakura, and Sasuke money to buy supplies before returning to rest.
• The three went shopping but spent less than half the money, then admitted they could not think of what else to buy.
• Anyo revealed that the money was a test and pointed out that they had failed to buy ninja tools, gather information, or get food for the horses.

Naruto, Sakura, and Sasuke got lost near Takigakure and stumbled into a dangerous poison-filled area, where Anyo rescued them from swarms of venomous creatures. After treating the poison, Anyo left Sasuke and Naruto unconscious, though Naruto quickly woke up and was knocked back down by Sakura.

• Naruto got the team lost in the forest, and Sasuke and Sakura decided not to wake Anyo because they thought the ordeal was a test.
• Sasuke used his Sharingan to discover they were trapped among old barriers and traps near the rumored gold mine, and the team tried to escape.
• Anyo realized the forest was the former birthplace of Zero Organization, where lingering toxins had made the local creatures vicious, but chose to wait before helping.
• Swarms of venomous creatures surrounded the team, Sasuke collapsed after using his Cursed Seal, and Naruto protected Sakura and Sasuke with Multiple Shadow Clones until he began succumbing to the poison.
• Anyo arrived and used the Supreme Edge with Okatana Swordsmanship to destroy the creatures, then scattered a pill that neutralized the poison gas.
• Anyo told Sakura that Naruto and Sasuke would recover, and Naruto briefly woke before Sakura punched him back to the ground.

Anyo taught Sakura the beginnings of medical ninjutsu so she could help Sasuke, then shared stories from his past with her and Naruto. Naruto asked about his parents, and Anyo reacted with anger at what the Third Hokage had told him.

• Anyo caught a large fish and revealed that he wanted Sakura to use her chakra control to learn medical ninjutsu and help Sasuke.
• Sakura healed the fish as a first exercise, exhausted herself, and nearly fell over before Anyo cooked the fish for the group.
• While they ate, Sakura asked Anyo about his youth and his hardest mission, and he recalled being hunted by Kirigakure's Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist.
• Anyo asked whether Zabuza had been accompanied by a boy named Haku, but Naruto and Sakura had no answer.
• Naruto asked if Anyo had ever met his parents and repeated the Third Hokage's response; Anyo's expression turned cold as killing intent flashed in his eyes.

Anyo brought Naruto and Sakura to Takigakure, where Naruto befriended Fū and Anyo went to see Mikoto. After restoring Mikoto’s failing health, he agreed to take her to Sasuke, whose presence awakened her Mangekyō Sharingan.

• Anyo told Naruto that his father was alive and had been protecting him, and Naruto accepted that he would meet him soon.
• Takigakure ninjas escorted Anyo, Naruto, Sakura, and the unconscious ninja into the village, where Naruto befriended Fū.
• Anyo asked Genno to keep others away while he went to visit Mikoto, who had been living alone in a secluded residence.
• Mikoto revealed that she had guessed Anyo controlled the village and said she had felt her heart die after he rescued her.
• Anyo told Mikoto that Sasuke was in the village, and the news awakened her Mangekyō Sharingan.
• Anyo used his senjutsu chakra to restore Mikoto’s health, and she asked him to take her to Sasuke.

Anyo told Mikoto he could not heal Sasuke because he had exhausted his chakra, and Mikoto spoke with her son through a soul conversation. She then laid out five demands for Anyo, who agreed to fulfill them.

• Mikoto found Sasuke burning with fever and asked Anyo to heal him, but he said he had no chakra left.
• Mikoto questioned Anyo about failing to prevent the Uchiha clan’s deaths and explained that she would not abandon her children to his protection.
• Anyo used the Spirit Control Technique to let Mikoto speak with Sasuke inside his mind, and she returned grateful for the chance to see him.
• Mikoto demanded to return to Konoha, reclaim the Uchiha Clan Grounds, revive the Uchiha Clan, clear Itachi’s name, and receive a great deal of money.
• Anyo agreed to all five demands without hesitation.

Anyo learned that Mikoto’s Mangekyō ability, the Heavenly Eye, had weakened her soul, and agreed to take her back to Konoha and teach Sasuke. After arranging to bring Mikoto home, he reviewed Takigakure’s finances and discovered that Hanzō was draining the Land of Hot Water’s income, but told Genno to leave the matter alone.

• Anyo caught Mikoto as she collapsed and warned her that using the Heavenly Eye had exhausted her soul and body.
• Mikoto explained that her Mangekyō let her see people at any distance, and said she had told Sasuke to follow Anyo and seek power.
• Anyo agreed to take Mikoto back to Konoha and teach Sasuke swordsmanship, and Mikoto fell asleep after expressing her gratitude.
• Anyo told Genno and Shibuki that he would take Mikoto from Takigakure and ordered Genno to keep one billion and give him the rest of the village’s funds.
• Genno showed Anyo accounts suggesting Hanzō was siphoning money from the Land of Hot Water, and Anyo told him to keep the matter quiet.

After returning to Konoha with Mikoto and an unconscious Sasuke, Anyo helped Mikoto reveal that he was an Uchiha and ask Tsunade for the clan grounds. Tsunade agreed to transfer the land, while warning Anyo about the dangers of reclaiming the Uchiha name.

• Naruto and Sakura returned from their mission to Takigakure with Sasuke and Mikoto, and Sakura asked Tsunade to let her care for Sasuke at the hospital.
• After hearing Naruto's mission report, Tsunade learned that Anyo had saved Mikoto during the Uchiha massacre.
• Mikoto told Tsunade that Anyo was an Uchiha who planned to reclaim the surname, and asked for the Uchiha clan grounds.
• Anyo spoke with Tsunade alone and explained that he had agreed to help Mikoto revitalize the clan.
• Tsunade warned Anyo that reclaiming the Uchiha name would bring danger, but agreed to hand over the clan land.
• Anyo said he needed to replenish himself after treating Mikoto, and Tsunade angrily sent him away.

Mikoto returned to the Uchiha clan grounds, and Anyo helped her leave its painful past behind as she planned to make the grounds their home. Anyo reunited with Kikyo, introduced her to Yugao, and began considering what fighting style would best keep his daughter safe.

• Mikoto returned to the deserted clan grounds, and Anyo destroyed the house where she had died so she could start over.
• Mikoto said she would renovate the grounds and make them Anyo's home, while Anyo left to visit the Ninja Academy.
• Anyo watched Kikyo train, met Yugao, and asked her to protect Kikyo and secretly beat boys who flirted with her.
• Anyo took Kikyo and Yugao to a restaurant, where he explained Yugao's protective role and Kikyo asked Yugao to teach her after graduation.
• Anyo rejected swordsmanship, taijutsu, and ninjutsu as training options for Kikyo, then considered developing a new combat system.

Anyo developed an archery-based combat system for Kikyo and taught her the Spirit Transformation Technique, combining it with her Sharingan and Monster Strength. As news spread that Anyo was an Uchiha seeking marriage partners, Tsunade learned of his public matchmaking campaign and demanded that he come to her office.

• Anyo tested Kikyo's archery and discovered that her Monster Strength made an ordinary bow and arrow extremely powerful.
• Kikyo revealed her Three-Tomoe Sharingan, and Anyo began teaching her the Spirit Transformation Technique after learning she could sense his soul.
• Kikyo soon learned to send her soul out for reconnaissance, while Anyo commissioned craftsmen in the Land of Crafts to make her a powerful bow and arrows.
• News spread that Uchiha Anyo had returned to Konoha and was seeking marriage partners to revitalize the Uchiha Clan.
• Niannian spread Anyo's matchmaking flyers throughout the Shinobi World, making him known to the Kage of Each Nation.
• Tsunade smashed her desk after seeing the news and ordered Shizune to bring Anyo to the Hokage Office.

Villages across the shinobi world reacted to Uchiha Anyo’s matchmaking flyers, with some trying to contain their effects and others considering how to respond. At Konoha Hospital, Sasuke woke and angrily rejected Anyo as a fake, accusing him of manipulating his dream.

• Sasori ordered an Anbu to distribute the flyers throughout Sunagakure and send attractive young women to Konoha.
• Ōnoki and Kitsuchi discussed the threat of the Uchiha Clan’s revival, while Kitsuchi felt an unexplained loathing toward the person on the flyer.
• Raikage A learned that women and academy girls in Kumogakure wanted to leave for Konoha, then agreed to hold a beauty pageant and send a selected woman there.
• Genji ordered Kirigakure’s flyers confiscated and forbidden, then burned his own copy while hoping a girl had forgotten Anyo.
• Sasuke woke in the hospital, and Sakura told him Anyo was an Uchiha who planned to revive the clan.
• Sasuke called Anyo a fake and accused him of impersonating his mother and causing his dream, leaving Sakura confused and worried.

Sasuke left the village with Orochimaru’s Sound Ninja after taking an Awakening Heart Pill to force his Cursed Seal to stage two. Anyo faced Tsunade’s anger over Mikoto’s plan to revive the Uchiha Clan, but Sakura’s news that Sasuke had deserted the village stopped their argument.

• Sasuke knocked Sakura unconscious, leaped out the hospital window, and agreed to leave with four Sound Ninja.
• The Sound Ninja gave Sasuke an Awakening Heart Pill and sealed him in a container to manage the Cursed Seal’s deadly effects.
• Shizune brought Anyo to Tsunade’s office, where Tsunade punched him and nearly struck him with a powerful kick.
• Kikyo stopped Tsunade and asked Anyo what they should do about Mikoto’s plan to revive the Uchiha Clan.
• Sakura arrived in tears and announced that Sasuke had left the village.

After Sasuke left Konoha to seek power from Orochimaru, Anyo arranged for Gaara, Temari, and Kankuro to join the mission to bring him back. Anyo returned to the Uchiha Clan Compound to tell Mikoto, but found her screening a line of young women to revitalize the clan.

• Sakura urged Tsunade to send someone after Sasuke, and Tsunade called for Shikamaru to lead a Konoha squad.
• Anyo ruled out Yugao and considered the risks posed by Orochimaru and Kimimaro before deciding to recruit the Sunagakure trio.
• Anyo asked Gaara, Temari, and Kankuro to help bring Sasuke back, and Gaara agreed on behalf of the three of them.
• Anyo returned to the Uchiha Clan Compound and found Mikoto interviewing young women as part of her effort to revitalize the clan.

Anyo gave Mikoto the Moon in the Well seal to prevent her from using her Mangekyō, then told her Sasuke had deserted Konoha to find Orochimaru. After Sasuke’s pursuers failed to bring him back, Anyo treated the injured mission team, while Kakashi returned Naruto alive.

• Anyo placed the Moon in the Well seal on Mikoto’s forehead, restricting her dōjutsu when she tried to use her Mangekyō.
• Anyo told Mikoto that Sasuke had deserted Konoha to seek Orochimaru, and reassured her that he had left a safeguard on Sasuke.
• Shizune told Anyo that Tsunade needed his help with badly injured people, and Mikoto accepted that Sasuke had left.
• Anyo joined Tsunade in the operating room and helped save everyone who had been brought in.
• Shizune reported that Kakashi had brought Naruto back alive, though Naruto was seriously injured.

Kikyo graduated and received a powerful transformable bow made by Sasori, while Anyo prepared to take Naruto and Sakura on missions to train and pursue Sasuke. The chapter ended with the group getting ready to set out.

• Kikyo told Anyo that Tsunade had assigned her to his Team 7, and he warned her he would train her strictly.
• Anyo gave Kikyo Sasori's gift: a metal bow that transformed from a glove, and Kikyo tested it by firing an arrow with tremendous force.
• Kikyo asked Anyo to introduce her to Sasori, and Anyo agreed to take her to meet her teammates.
• At Konoha Hospital, Sakura told Naruto she wanted to work harder, and Anyo invited her to hear his advice before deciding what to do.
• Anyo freed Naruto from his ropes, and Naruto vowed to bring Sasuke back as Anyo prepared missions to train them on the way.

Team 7 began an escort mission to the Land of Snow after Princess Gale was chased by armored warriors. Anyo stopped the pursuers and set out to train Sakura as a Medical Ninja, while Naruto was left with the actress.

• Naruto, Kikyo, and Sakura watched a movie while waiting for Anyo, then fled the theater after the audience pelted them with bottles and cans.
• Anyo arrived late, and Princess Gale galloped past on a white horse with armored warriors pursuing her.
• Naruto rushed after Princess Gale, while Anyo halted the warriors by raising an earthen wall.
• Sandayu introduced himself as the lead actress's manager and explained that the crew would travel with Team 7 to the Land of Snow.
• Sakura questioned why the mission took priority over finding Sasuke, and Anyo explained that she needed strength and training to bring him back.
• Anyo taught Sakura the basics of the Mystical Palm Technique, and Sakura resolved to become a strong Medical Ninja.

Anyo, Naruto, Sakura, and Kikyo accompanied Princess Gale and her cast to the Land of Snow, where three Ninja attacked them. Kikyo fought their leader and defeated him with an arrow, while Naruto and the other Ninja engaged the remaining opponents.

• Naruto rejoined the mission, and Anyo reminded him that protecting Princess Gale was the purpose of their A-rank assignment.
• Kikyo revealed her connection to Anyo and Tsunade, then teased Anyo about his reputation with women.
• The cast landed on an iceberg after it blocked their ship, and Kikyo revealed a weapon Sasori had given her and confronted a Ninja emerging from the ice.
• Anyo assigned the three enemy Ninja to Naruto and Kikyo while he protected Princess Gale; Naruto charged one opponent, and Kikyo faced their leader.
• Kikyo copied the leader’s Ice Release with her Sharingan and learned that his Chakra Armor enhanced his techniques and resisted chakra attacks.
• Kikyo used archery against the leader’s ice wall, and her arrow pierced through it and struck him into the snow.

Anyo, Kikyo, and Sakura pursued the kidnappers after they abducted Princess Gale, whose real identity was Koyuki, and learned that she held the key to a mysterious treasure called the Snow Queen. Anyo revealed he had secretly marked Koyuki with his soul and sent the team after the kidnappers’ headquarters.

• Kikyo, Naruto, and Sakura fought the Land of Snow ninja, but the enemy captured the actress playing Princess Gale and took her aboard an airship.
• Naruto leaped onto the departing airship, while Anyo rescued the frozen Sakura and stopped Kikyo from shooting at it.
• Anyo told Kikyo he had marked the actress with his soul and had let the kidnappers escape so they could track them to their headquarters.
• Sandayu revealed that Princess Gale was actually Koyuki, daughter of the former king, and that she carried the key to a secret vault containing the Snow Queen treasure.
• Anyo equipped himself, Kikyo, and Sakura with flying devices, and the three pursued the airship.

Anyo, Kikyo, and Sakura reached Dotō’s castle to rescue Naruto and Princess Koyuki, while Anyo confronted Dotō over the Queen of Ice and Snow. When Dotō opened the seal, Anyo recognized the woman inside the ice as Haku.

• Kikyo revealed her Three-Tomoe Sharingan to Sakura during their flight to Dotō’s castle.
• Anyo sensed that Naruto and Princess Koyuki were inside the castle and sent Kikyo and Sakura to rescue them while he confronted Dotō.
• Dotō discovered that the necklace he had first obtained was fake, and Anyo handed him the genuine necklace.
• Dotō placed the necklace in the altar’s iron door, releasing the Goddess of Ice and Snow from a giant ice crystal.
• Anyo’s senjutsu chakra shattered the Snow ninja’s armor and immobilized everyone as he approached the woman in the ice.
• Anyo recognized the sealed woman as Haku and called her his beloved.

Anyo used Senjutsu and his Mangekyō to find a way through Absolute Zero and revive Haku, whom he had finally found after more than a decade. The chapter ended with Anyo embracing and kissing Haku while his companions watched and Kikyo called him her scumbag dad.

• Anyo discovered Haku had survived in Absolute Zero, but the ice had frozen her body and soul so thoroughly that his Spirit Transformation Technique could not reach her.
• Anyo used Sage Art: Inorganic Reincarnation and allowed himself to experience the Absolute Zero, then used Time Reversal after the ice overcame him.
• Anyo expanded the ice with Ryūchi Cave Senjutsu until he could touch Haku, then used Senjutsu and his blood to restore her body and vitality.
• Haku opened her eyes, and Anyo pulled her into his arms after the ice crystal shattered.
• Dotō accused Anyo of profaning a deity, so Anyo kissed Haku in front of him and the other onlookers.
• Sakura and Naruto commented on Anyo's behavior, and Kikyo called him her scumbag dad.