Recaps

Anyo asked Shinku to use Genjutsu Space to help him develop a sword technique that concealed his attacks by disrupting an opponent’s senses. As Anyo studied the illusion, his sword began to vanish from sight, and he cut Shinku’s table in two.

• Anyo brought Kurenai Yuhi home and gave Konan money as a loan, while Kurenai Yuhi gave Konan breakfast.
• Anyo visited Shinku and asked to experience Genjutsu Space again so he could improve his swordsmanship.
• Anyo demonstrated a nearly silent sword slash, and Shinku realized he wanted to combine Genjutsu with swordsmanship to shut out an opponent’s sense of touch.
• Shinku explained how Genjutsu Space controlled an opponent’s chakra and cast Genjutsu: Dream Space on Anyo.
• While immersed in the illusion, Anyo practiced sword techniques, made his blade appear to vanish, and split the table between himself and Shinku.

Anyo took Hayate to Tsunade after noticing that intense training was worsening his condition. Tsunade warned Hayate to stop training until he was older, then grabbed Anyo before he could leave.

• Anyo watched Yugao and Hayate practice, then treated Hayate when he collapsed from exhaustion.
• Anyo told Hayate to stop training and brought him and Yugao to the hospital to seek Tsunade's help.
• Tsunade examined Hayate and explained that his body could not withstand sword training until he was older.
• Hayate left dejected, and Yugao chased after him.
• Tsunade stopped Anyo from leaving and threatened him after he admitted he had noticed Hayate growing weaker.

After a torturous night assisting Tsunade, Anyo decided to bring Shizune to share his burden and asked Tsunade to take her in. Tsunade agreed to let Shizune study under her for a few days, leaving Anyo relieved.

• Anyo endured Tsunade's demands through the night, then learned from Katsuyu that he had to return the next evening.
• Anyo decided to bring Shizune, Dan Katō's niece, to Tsunade's laboratory and waited for her at the Ninja Academy.
• Anyo introduced himself to Shizune as the man Dan had entrusted to care for her, then treated her to a meal.
• Anyo brought Shizune to Tsunade and asked her to take the girl in.
• Tsunade agreed to let Shizune study under her for a couple of days, and Shizune eagerly accepted.

Anyo worked through Tsunade’s poison assignments, then discovered Yugao training alone and recruited her as his first Anbu team member. He began teaching her sword techniques at the Training Ground.

• Tsunade left Anyo alone in the laboratory with a long list of poison tasks, and he summoned Katsuyu to watch over him.
• Anyo studied Tsunade’s notes and completed his first poison task after working until dark.
• Anyo sent a shadow clone to the Training Ground, where he found Yugao practicing sword strikes alone.
• Anyo caught Yugao when she was exhausted, learned she wanted sword techniques so she could teach Hayate, and offered her a place on his future Anbu team.
• Yugao agreed to join Anyo’s team, and he demonstrated the Thirteen Forms before they practiced together beneath the moonlight.

After completing Tsunade’s poison research, Anyo tried to escape her workload by seeking a mission, only to learn the Third Hokage had assigned him to help Tsunade improve the village’s medical system. While accepting his fate, he discovered that a little girl named Rin Nohara could see his soul.

• Anyo finished the two bottles of poison Tsunade had assigned him, but she refused to give him the night off.
• Anyo went to find Sakumo Hatake and learned that his teacher had already left on an urgent mission.
• Anyo asked the Third Hokage for another mission, accepted an envelope, and discovered it ordered him to assist Tsunade with the village’s medical system.
• Anyo imagined developing a poison Tsunade could not counter when a little girl remarked that his smile looked wicked despite his mask.
• Anyo used the Spirit Transformation Technique and confirmed that the girl could see his soul; she introduced herself as Rin Nohara.

Anyo discovered that Rin Nohara could see souls and tried to teach her the Spirit Transformation Technique, but Tsunade burst in and mistook the lesson for something improper. After Anyo cleared up the misunderstanding and persuaded Rin to stay, Rin worried Tsunade might dislike her studying under him, and Anyo insisted he had no romantic interest in Tsunade.

• Anyo brought Rin Nohara to the hospital and began explaining the Spirit Transformation Technique after learning she could see souls.
• Anyo tried to demonstrate the technique, but Tsunade kicked open the ward door and attacked him, accusing him of preying on Rin.
• Rin Nohara explained that Anyo had been teaching her ninjutsu, and Tsunade realized she had misunderstood his words about entering Rin's body.
• Tsunade listed the many girls Anyo associated with, leaving Rin wary enough to try to slip away from him.
• Anyo stopped Rin from leaving and explained that he hoped she could help him develop the Spirit Transformation Technique.
• Rin asked about Anyo's relationship with Tsunade and said she feared Tsunade would be unhappy; Anyo denied any chance of romance between them.

Anyo helped Rin Nohara learn to project her soul, then found Tsunade experimenting with poisons. Tsunade absorbed a lethal mixture and gave Anyo five hours to make an antidote, leaving him responsible for her life.

• Anyo taught Rin Nohara to use the Spirit Transformation Technique, and she successfully projected her soul after he supplied chakra.
• Rin Nohara could not repeat the technique on her own, so she resolved to train until she had enough chakra.
• Anyo visited Shizune, who praised Tsunade and said she was conducting an experiment in the laboratory.
• Anyo entered Tsunade's laboratory and narrowly avoided a burst of poison gas while she continued mixing toxins.
• A bottle burst and filled the laboratory with poisonous mist, so Tsunade inhaled it all and told Anyo she had five hours to live and expected him to create an antidote.

Anyo developed an antidote that saved Tsunade, then continued researching toxins while juggling his other duties. As Tsunade prepared to shut herself away with him, Rin Nohara arrived through the Spirit Transformation Technique with news of village rumors about White Fang.

• Anyo worked through repeated failures until he created an antidote, then fed it to Tsunade and saved her from the poison.
• Tsunade struck Anyo after he touched her forehead, and Shizune walked in on them before Tsunade fled the Laboratory.
• Anyo kept up his research and teaching duties until Tsunade told him Uzuki Yugao's Anbu application was approved and that he should stay with her during her research seclusion.
• Anyo and Tsunade continued researching their poison mist, while Anyo's understanding of toxins improved and their working relationship grew closer.
• Rin Nohara used the Spirit Transformation Technique to speak with Anyo and told him that rumors about White Fang were spreading through the village.

Anyo learned that White Fang was condemned for abandoning a mission to save a teammate, and set out to complete the secret mission in his teacher’s place. Danzo then ordered Root to spread the accusation further and prepare Heiye to visit White Fang.

• Anyo learned from Rin Nohara that rumors said White Fang had abandoned a mission to save someone, then confronted Tsunade about it.
• Anyo visited White Fang and promised to resolve the situation, while asking Kakashi to watch over his father.
• Anyo persuaded the Third Hokage to give him the mission intelligence and departed to complete White Fang’s mission.
• Danzo ordered Root to have Heiye memorize a paper, visit White Fang the next day, and intensify the rumors about White Fang abandoning his mission.

Anyo accepted the mission to recover the intelligence White Fang had abandoned to save his teammate and tracked the Kumogakure Anbu to a battlefield. After identifying the attackers as the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist, he resolved to pursue the intelligence into Kirigakure.

• Tsunade met Anyo at the Konoha Gate, offered to accompany him, and gave him her necklace before he departed on the Eagle Puppet.
• Anyo reviewed the mission documents and learned that White Fang had sacrificed the intelligence to save a captured teammate from Kumogakure Anbu.
• Anyo followed the Anbu's trail to a clearing, found their barrier, and slipped inside.
• Anyo discovered all thirty Kumogakure Anbu dead and searched their bodies for the missing intelligence.
• Anyo examined the wounds and concluded that the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist had killed the Anbu, then decided to go to Kirigakure.

Anyo traveled toward Kirigakure and recruited a woman with Ice Release after rescuing her from villagers who turned against her. He named her Haku, and she agreed to follow him.

• Anyo paid a Bounty Station to summon Kakuzu to Kirigakure, then flew toward the village on the Eagle Puppet.
• Anyo used genjutsu on a villager to learn how to reach Kirigakure, but a woman with Ice Release intervened.
• Anyo learned that the woman possessed Ice Release and left, while the villager fled and incited the villagers against her.
• The villagers attacked the woman, and Anyo protected and treated her before offering her a place by his side.
• The woman agreed to follow Anyo, who named her Haku as they left the village.

Anyo used Haku’s Ice Release to draw Kirigakure’s Anbu into an ambush, then took one agent’s identity to infiltrate the village. After promising to take Haku home, he entered Kirigakure alone and began searching for someone he could question.

• Haku killed two Kirigakure gate guards with Ice Needles, and the Anbu tracked her and Anyo to a lake.
• Anyo defeated the ten Anbu with a single Iaido strike, then used Sharingan Genjutsu to learn one agent’s identity and position.
• Anyo killed the agent, took his uniform and mask, and told Haku to hide while promising to take her home after his mission.
• Anyo fooled the guards at the village gate and entered Kirigakure disguised as an Anbu.
• Anyo selected a Jonin who was alone and knocked him unconscious.

Anyo infiltrated Kirigakure's Anbu headquarters to steal records about the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist, but a Cursed Seal exposed his presence. As Anbu closed in, he broke through a corridor wall and escaped amid a flood and collapsing masonry.

• Anyo entered Kirigakure's Anbu headquarters and searched for records about the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist.
• An Anbu's Cursed Seal activated when Anyo used his Sharingan to try to learn the password, alerting Kirigakure's forces to an intruder.
• Anyo loaded unsealed and sealed scrolls from the room into his Wooden Ox puppet before leaving.
• Anyo killed three Anbu with his Illusion Blade Technique when they challenged him for the password.
• Anyo used fire and lightning to crack a corridor wall, then escaped as underground river water and collapsing masonry blocked the pursuing Anbu.

Anyo escaped Kirigakure’s headquarters through an underground river but was swept away by a powerful undercurrent and knocked unconscious by Mei Terumi as he surfaced near her bathing spot. Mei and Genji rescued him, and he woke in a cabin after being unconscious for a day and night.

• Anyo used his Blade-Breaking Technique to carve out air underwater, but the riverbed undercurrent dragged him away and crushed him with water pressure.
• Kirigakure’s Anbu leader ordered every squad to search for Anyo and sealed the village with a barrier.
• Anyo followed the undercurrent until it carried him into another body of water, where Mei Terumi accidentally kicked him unconscious.
• Mei Terumi carried Anyo to Genji, who treated his severe injuries and told her to take him back to the cabin.
• Anyo woke a day and night later, learned Mei Terumi had saved him after kicking him, and realized he had lost valuable time.

Anyo recovered enough to move, discovered that Genji held immense power in Kirigakure, and decided to use Mei Terumi to escape his predicament. After pretending to fall so Mei Terumi would return, he proposed to her, and she agreed to marry him.

• Anyo used Medical Ninjutsu to heal himself and searched the Wooden Ox puppet, but the intelligence he needed was missing.
• Anyo read Kirigakure scrolls and learned that Genji was the village's powerful grand elder, then formed a plan.
• Anyo pretended to fall, prompting Mei Terumi to rush in and help him back to bed.
• Anyo told Mei Terumi his name was Ōbu and claimed he had been gathering medicinal herbs when he fell into the current.
• Anyo confessed his love, kissed Mei Terumi, and asked her to marry him.
• Mei Terumi agreed to marry Anyo.

Mei Terumi told Genji she planned to marry Ōbu, the injured medical ninja she had saved, despite knowing him for less than two days. Genji questioned Anyo about his intentions and past, then agreed to meet Anyo’s sister outside the village.

• Mei Terumi told Genji she was marrying Ōbu and insisted that she loved him.
• Genji warned Mei Terumi that she knew almost nothing about Ōbu, then went to speak with him alone.
• Genji confronted Anyo about whether he truly loved Mei Terumi and asked which country's ninja he was.
• Anyo explained that his sister had awakened Ice Release and that he had learned Medical Ninjutsu to help her.
• Genji agreed to meet Anyo’s sister outside the village and took the address.

Anyo deceived Genji into believing Haku was his sister and that she had a Kekkei Genkai, while Genji agreed to support Anyo and Mei Terumi’s marriage. After warning Haku to stay away from danger, Anyo gathered medicinal herbs and set the wedding for the day after tomorrow.

• Genji agreed to meet Mei Terumi’s older sister and discuss her marriage to Anyo, while Mei Terumi embraced Anyo as he pretended to fall asleep.
• Anyo used Spirit Transformation Technique to follow Genji out of Kirigakure and enter Haku’s body.
• At Anyo’s direction, Haku met Genji, demonstrated Ice Release, and convinced him she was Anyo’s younger sister.
• Genji invited Haku to the wedding and promised to arrange a new identity for her, while Anyo told her to leave for Konoha; Haku refused but agreed to keep farther away.
• Anyo returned to his body, gathered medicinal herbs from Genji’s courtyard, and told Genji he would recover in one day and wanted the wedding the day after tomorrow.

Anyo arranged to marry Mei Terumi in Kirigakure, using the wedding celebration to conceal his plan. After the ceremony, he put Mei Terumi under a Genjutsu and left her asleep, beginning the action he had been preparing for.

• Anyo asked Genji to hold the wedding the day after tomorrow and invite every Ninja in the village, while privately planning to act during the celebration.
• Anyo told Mei Terumi the wedding date, and she agreed to marry him two days later.
• Genji arranged a village-wide celebration, and Anyo and Mei Terumi were married before Kirigakure's Ninja.
• Anyo secretly used Katsuyu and medicinal herbs to strengthen the drinks, ensuring Genji and the guests would get drunk.
• In the bridal chamber, Anyo apologized to Mei Terumi and placed her under a Genjutsu, sending her into a deep sleep.

Anyo used Genji’s Snake-Shaped Wooden Staff to enter Kirigakure’s underground chamber and steal the scroll marked with White Fang’s insignia. As the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist surrounded him, Anyo drew his sword and prepared to fight them.

• Anyo stole Genji’s Snake-Shaped Wooden Staff and used a disguise to reach Anbu headquarters, where it carried him through a space-time barrier into a sealed underground chamber.
• Anyo killed a guard with his Illusion Blade Technique, while Genji woke, discovered the deception, and freed Mei Terumi from the genjutsu.
• Anyo used the staff to break the seals around the platform and took the scroll bearing White Fang’s mark.
• The supposedly dead guard revived, attacked Anyo with Hiramekarei, and survived Anyo’s counterattack by turning into water.
• The Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist revealed themselves, and Anyo activated his Three-Tomoe Sharingan and challenged them to fight.

Anyo fought the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist, using his Sharingan and swordsmanship to seize the advantage with a powerful strike. Hozuki Chizuki realized Anyo had spent much of his stamina, and the wounded swordsmen surrounded him again as he prepared to stake everything on one final attack.

• Juzo Biwa charged Anyo, but Anyo wounded him with the Illusion Blade Technique before Hozuki Chizuki's Hydrification Technique saved him from a fatal blow.
• Anyo interrupted the swordsmen as they prepared ninjutsu and forced all seven into a close-range sword fight.
• Anyo used the Dancing Blade Technique to control the fight's rhythm and overwhelm the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist.
• Hozuki Chizuki shielded the others with his Hydrification Technique when Anyo unleashed a devastating sword strike, leaving six swordsmen wounded.
• Genji and Mei Terumi watched the fight through the Water Mirror Technique and were shocked by Anyo's strength.
• Hozuki Chizuki recognized that Anyo was exhausted, and the wounded swordsmen surrounded him again as Anyo prepared one final desperate strike.

Anyo fought the Seven Ninja Swordsmen and wounded Suikazan Fuguki while trying to escape, but the swordsmen pursued him through the mist. After the battle, Genji appeared in the chamber with Mei Terumi and asked her whether it had been worth it.

• Anyo used a genjutsu on Juzo Biwa, then turned his attack toward Suikazan Fuguki, who was guarding the chamber’s exit.
• Anyo’s Blade-Breaking Technique tore through Samehada, but Suikazan Fuguki fed it chakra and stopped the blade from reaching his heart.
• Anyo drove his blade into Suikazan Fuguki’s shoulder, then Raiga used Lightning Release to force Anyo back into the swordsmen’s encirclement.
• Anyo prepared to fight with Chakra Scalpels, but thick mist filled the chamber and let him escape.
• The Seven Ninja Swordsmen followed Samehada’s scent to pursue Anyo, while Suikazan Fuguki hid that fear had kept him from stopping the escape.
• Genji appeared with Mei Terumi in the silent chamber, picked up the Snake-Shaped Wooden Staff, and asked whether it had been worth it.

Anyo fought his way out of Kirigakure, but the pursuit continued beyond the village gate. Haku shielded him from the traps with Ice Release and was left gravely wounded as the Seven closed in.

• Anyo escaped the ruins of headquarters and fled toward Kirigakure's gate while the Seven pursued him.
• Anyo released a potent poison mist to slow the pursuers, and Genji contained it while ordering the others to continue after him.
• Anyo used his Sharingan to make the gate guards open the barrier, and Mei Terumi stopped Genji from raising another barrier as Anyo escaped.
• Suikazan Fuguki revealed that he had activated traps outside the village, and Anyo found himself surrounded by explosive-tagged cords.
• Haku protected Anyo from the explosions with Demonic Mirroring Ice Crystals, but she was gravely wounded, and the Seven approached them.

Anyo was about to sacrifice himself against the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist when Kakuzu arrived and saved him and Haku. Kakuzu carried them away after driving the swordsmen back, while Chigetsu Hōzuki revealed that the intelligence had been a decoy.

• Anyo saved Haku with Medical Ninjutsu, then prepared to use the Spirit Transformation Technique as the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist closed in.
• Mei Terumi arrived, but Genji stopped her from intervening, and Anyo resigned himself to dying while trying to take his enemies with him.
• Kakuzu arrived, shielded Anyo, and unleashed powerful combination ninjutsu that forced the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist to retreat.
• Kakuzu carried Anyo and Haku away, and Chigetsu Hōzuki disclosed that he had destroyed the real intelligence and left a replica as bait.
• Anyo passed out on Kakuzu's back, and Kakuzu summoned his four masked creatures to carry Haku.

The Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist returned to Kirigakure and were reprimanded by Genji for failing to capture the intruder. After waking from his injuries, Anyo treated himself and tried to bargain down Kakuzu’s payment for saving him, leaving Kakuzu furious.

• Chigetsu Hōzuki questioned Genji about the barrier, but Genji blamed the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist for failing to fight seriously and warned them not to repeat their mistake.
• Juzo Biwa asked why they had not reported the traitor who helped the intruder escape, and Suikazan Fuguki vowed revenge on Konoha and the Uchiha.
• Anyo woke with Haku caring for him and learned that a girl had treated and bandaged him while he was unconscious.
• Anyo cut away the tangled bandages, used Medical Ninjutsu to treat himself, and got dressed as Kakuzu watched.
• Kakuzu demanded payment for saving Anyo, and Anyo offered five hundred thousand, prompting Kakuzu to smash the furnishings in anger.

Anyo negotiated with Kakuzu over payment for saving him and Haku, using Tsunade’s necklace as collateral after Kakuzu confirmed it carried Hashirama Senju’s power. Anyo then asked about Kakuzu’s fight with the First Hokage, and Kakuzu revealed that the target he had struggled to kill was only a clone.

• Kakuzu demanded five million from Anyo for rescuing him, then lowered the price to four million when Anyo protested.
• Anyo offered Kakuzu thirty million for saving him and Haku, presenting Tsunade’s necklace as collateral.
• Kakuzu sensed Hashirama Senju’s chakra in the necklace, accepted it as genuine collateral, and agreed to Anyo’s offer of ten million in annual interest.
• Anyo asked Kakuzu whether the Konoha ninja he had once fought was the First Hokage, and Kakuzu confirmed it.
• Kakuzu said the battle had changed his life and explained that he had discovered his hard-won target was only a clone.