Recaps

Anyo met Mei Terumi to settle their feelings before returning to recuperate with Haku and Kakuzu. He left her with a promise to come for her in the future, while privately planning to grow stronger and return to Kirigakure.

• While treating Haku, Anyo learned from Kakuzu that Mei Terumi had been following them and decided to meet her.
• Anyo borrowed Kakuzu’s flying wind-nature monster and went to see Mei Terumi, who told him she had meant to strangle him with the bandages that saved his life.
• Anyo asked Mei Terumi whether she regretted marrying him, then promised to come take her away in the future and told her he loved her.
• Mei Terumi embraced Anyo, asked whether he loved her, and left after he answered that he did.
• Kakuzu called Anyo a devoted lover, and Anyo clarified that he had spoken as Ōbu, not under his real name.
• Anyo returned to Haku and Kakuzu, resolved to recover quickly, grow stronger, and eventually return to Kirigakure for Mei Terumi.

Mei Terumi committed herself to becoming strong enough to change Kirigakure, while Anyo returned to Konoha with Haku after Kakuzu escorted them out of the Land of Water. Anyo learned that his teacher had died by suicide, leaving him stunned and grief-stricken.

• Mei Terumi asked Genji to train her strictly so she could become strong and bring life to Kirigakure.
• After recovering, Anyo left Kirigakure with Haku, and Kakuzu escorted them safely into the Land of Fire.
• Anyo brought Haku to his house in Konoha, where Konan welcomed him and worried about where he was going.
• Anyo found Kakashi at his teacher's house and learned that his teacher had died by suicide.
• Anyo took the bloodstained White Light Chakra Sabre from Kakashi, and his eyes changed into the Three-Tomoe Sharingan as he grieved.

After learning the details of Sakumo Hatake’s death, Anyo grieved at his teacher’s grave and unleashed dark soul power that spread through the area. The Third Hokage entered the darkness to reach him, while Tsunade feared Anyo might be consumed by it.

• Anyo struck Kakashi in grief and anger, then treated his injuries and demanded to hear everything that happened after he left.
• Anyo went to Sakumo Hatake’s grave, burned the intelligence he had obtained, and sat motionless as his dark soul power engulfed the area.
• The Third Hokage sensed the darkness and arrived with Minato and Tsunade, identifying it as Anyo’s pure soul power.
• The Third Hokage ordered the Anbu to seal the graveyard with the Four Violet Flames Formation, then entered the darkness despite Tsunade’s warning to bring Anyo back safely.
• The Third Hokage felt sorrow and a chill from the White Light Chakra Sabre as he advanced toward Sakumo’s grave.

Anyo reunited with the Third in the darkness surrounding him and rejected the Third’s attempt to ease his grief over Sakumo’s death. After deciding that the world itself was wrong, Anyo burned Sakumo’s sleeve, emerged from the darkness with white hair, and asked to spar with Heiye.

• The Third approached Anyo in the darkness and urged him to remember that Konoha was still his home.
• The Third accepted responsibility for Sakumo Hatake’s death and offered to bear Anyo’s hatred, then recognized Anyo’s newly awakened Mangekyō Sharingan.
• Anyo took Sakumo’s half Hokage Sleeve, burned it, and decided to change the world he believed was wrong.
• The darkness vanished, and Tsunade treated Anyo’s injuries as Minato and the Third saw that his hair had turned white.
• Anyo asked to demonstrate his swordsmanship and named Heiye as his sparring partner.

Anyo challenged Heiye to a duel, driven by his desire to avenge his teacher, while the Third Hokage and Danzo recognized the deadly stakes. Anyo killed Heiye in three slashes, leaving the onlookers stunned.

• The Third Hokage tried to dissuade Anyo from fighting Heiye, but Danzo brought Heiye to the scene.
• Anyo and Heiye signed a Death Warrant before beginning their duel, and Tsunade secretly gave Anyo a pill while Minato prepared to intervene.
• Heiye attacked with Konoha Style: Willow, trapping Anyo in an apparent genjutsu before launching a fatal strike.
• Minato moved to protect Anyo but was frozen in place along with Heiye as Anyo drew the White Light Chakra Sabre.
• Anyo severed Heiye's sword hand, cut out his tongue, and killed him with a slash to the neck.

After Anyo killed Heiye, the Third Hokage had him arrested and debated how to handle his Mangekyō Sharingan and potential threat to Konoha. The High Command sentenced Anyo to three years in prison, while the village suppressed news of White Fang’s death.

• The Third Hokage ordered the Anbu to arrest Anyo, who surrendered and asked Minato to return White Fang’s blade to Kakashi and watch over him.
• The Third Hokage questioned Tsunade about her feelings for Anyo and warned her that Anyo’s Mangekyō Sharingan could make him a threat to the village.
• The Third Hokage learned from Minato that Anyo’s ability had seemingly paused time around him during their fight.
• The Konoha High Command sentenced Anyo to three years in prison for torturing a fellow village ninja to death.
• The village suppressed news of White Fang’s death, and Anyo disappeared from public attention in prison.

After killing Heiye, Anyo escaped prison with Orochimaru’s help and spent his three-year sentence working with him in an underground laboratory. More than half a year later, Anyo had recovered from his injuries, gained new skills, and grown close enough to call Orochimaru “uncle.”

• Anyo escaped prison through a tunnel made by an enormous snake and met Orochimaru at an underground base.
• Anyo agreed to work with Orochimaru on experiments during his three-year sentence, and Orochimaru showed him the laboratory.
• Anyo and Orochimaru discussed the limits of learning every ninjutsu, and Anyo offered to teach him the Spirit Transformation Technique.
• Anyo and Orochimaru created a clone to serve his prison sentence and began working together in the laboratory.
• Anyo gave Orochimaru a copy of the Scroll of Seals, and Orochimaru prepared him a Summoning Scroll for Rashomon.
• After more than half a year, Anyo’s injuries had mostly healed, his swordsmanship had improved, and he had begun calling Orochimaru “uncle.”

Anyo continued researching soul techniques with Orochimaru while serving his prison sentence, and learned that Shinku had helped reduce it to three years. Kurenai Yuhi and Shinku visited him, believing he had suffered badly, while Anyo concealed how comfortable his life had really been.

• Anyo refused Orochimaru's offer to resurrect White Fang with Impure World Reincarnation and considered sending Konan back to seek the Rinnegan.
• Orochimaru developed Living Corpse Reincarnation, while Anyo worked on dividing his soul so part of it could remain in his body.
• Anyo learned that Haku had tried to break him out of prison but had been stopped before getting arrested.
• Orochimaru warned Anyo that visitors were approaching, so Anyo made himself look filthy and switched places with his clone.
• Kurenai Yuhi and Shinku visited Anyo, and Kurenai embraced him while he tried to reassure them that he was well.
• Shinku explained that he had accepted some responsibility for Anyo's actions, helping reduce the sentence from five years to three.

Uchiha Mikoto visited Anyo in prison and offered to have the Uchiha Clan bail him out, but he refused and persuaded her to help him clean his cell instead. Uchiha Fugaku secretly watched them, then checked the clan genealogy and found a record suggesting Anyo had died as a child.

• After Kurenai Yuhi and Shinku left, Anyo drank Shinku's strong wine and began coughing when Uchiha Mikoto arrived.
• Uchiha Mikoto offered to reveal Anyo's identity and ask the Uchiha Clan to bail him out, but Anyo refused because he did not want to become tied to the clan.
• Anyo convinced Mikoto that he could manage prison and life afterward as a confidential Anbu member, and she cleaned his cell while he entertained her with jokes.
• Uchiha Fugaku watched Anyo and Mikoto together from hiding, then asked a guard about Anyo and returned to the Uchiha Clan.
• Fugaku searched the clan genealogy and found an entry stating that Uchiha Anyo, age eleven, had died after his parents' deaths, reported by Uchiha Mikoto.

Fugaku discovered Anyo's identity in the Uchiha Clan Genealogy and confronted Mikoto, mistaking her visits to the prison for an affair. He went to question Anyo, whose Mangekyō Sharingan repelled Fugaku's genjutsu and revealed their conflicting assumptions.

• Fugaku found Anyo's name in the Clan Genealogy and confronted Mikoto about visiting him in the Heavy Punishment Cell.
• Fugaku ordered Mikoto confined to the house while he went to visit Anyo, and Uchiha clansmen blocked her from leaving.
• Anyo returned to the Heavy Punishment Cell after working with Orochimaru and learned that Fugaku had arrived.
• Fugaku demanded to know what had happened between Mikoto and Anyo, then used his Mangekyō Sharingan to probe Anyo's memories.
• Anyo awakened his Mangekyō Sharingan to resist Fugaku's genjutsu, making Fugaku bleed from his eye and retreat.
• Anyo questioned whether Fugaku believed he had been having an affair with Mikoto.

Anyo used his Mangekyō Sharingan to stop Fugaku's Susanoo and defeat him in the Heavy Punishment Cell. After healing Fugaku and sending him away, Anyo reflected on the strain of his new abilities and decided to wait for the Third Shinobi World War.

• Fugaku erupted in anger and began forming Susanoo, so Anyo used both Mangekyō Sharingan to rewind him to before its activation.
• Anyo cut Fugaku's joints with his Chakra Scalpel, then explained that he had never stolen Mikoto from him.
• Guards arrived, and Anyo healed Fugaku so he could leave without revealing his defeat to the Uchiha clansmen.
• Fugaku left the prison, reconsidered his suspicions about Anyo and Mikoto, and resolved to apologize to her.
• Anyo decided to await the Third Shinobi World War and study his Sharingan, since using both Mangekyō abilities had strained him.

Tsunade arranged for Anyo to leave the Heavy Punishment Cell and work under her in the medical department, while remaining responsible for guarding him. Anyo accepted the arrangement and arrived at a lavish new prison that felt more like a mansion than a cell.

• Tsunade asked Anyo where the Necklace she had given him was, and he claimed it had been lost during a mission.
• Tsunade showed Anyo documents assigning him to her medical department and revoking his serious-offender status.
• Anyo tried to refuse transfer from the Heavy Punishment Cell, but learned his new prison would be specially built and guarded by Tsunade.
• Tsunade confronted Anyo when he seemed unhappy about leaving, and he appeased her by agreeing to call her his big sister.
• Anyo followed Tsunade to his new prison and found a luxurious mansion with extensive facilities, including a hot spring pool.

Anyo settled into the luxurious prison Tsunade had arranged, where he continued his toxin research and helped with her medical work. During a visit, Minato showed him his newly developed chakra technique, and Anyo persuaded him to name it the Rasengan.

• Tsunade brought Anyo to his new prison, assigned him research tasks, and moved her laboratory there to work alongside him.
• Anyo resumed his toxin experiments, using the knowledge of the human body he had gained while working with Orochimaru.
• Tsunade sensed someone at the prison barrier, opened it, and let Anyo meet his visitor, Minato.
• Minato demonstrated his new technique, which compressed and rapidly spun chakra in his palm, and explained that he had been inspired by the Tailed Beast Bomb.
• Minato proposed the name Uzumaki Hayate Spiral Light Arrow Zero Style, but Anyo suggested calling it the Rasengan instead.

Anyo asked Tsunade to let him use the Spirit Transformation Technique to visit Konan and discuss their agreement about her returning to Amegakure. He found Konan training, and after she hesitated about leaving Konoha, he told her Orochimaru would be her new teacher.

• Anyo persuaded Tsunade to let him leave his body and visit Konan, promising to respect her choice about returning to Amegakure.
• Danzo confronted the Third Hokage about Anyo’s lenient confinement, but Hiruzen dismissed him and left Anyo’s affairs to Tsunade.
• The Third Hokage considered Tsunade and Minato to be bonds that would keep Anyo loyal to Konoha.
• Anyo found Konan training with Paper Shuriken and praised her rapid improvement.
• Anyo asked Konan what she wanted, and she hesitated over whether to return to Yahiko and Nagato.
• Anyo told Konan that Orochimaru would be her new teacher.

Anyo persuaded Konan to seek Orochimaru's instruction and visited Haku, who confessed how deeply she wanted to stay by his side. Konan defeated Mitaraishi Anko, earning Orochimaru's agreement to teach her.

• Anyo explained Orochimaru's expertise to Konan, and she agreed to go to him for training.
• Konan asked Anyo to visit Haku, who embraced him and told him she wanted to remain by his side.
• Anyo warned Haku not to lose herself chasing him, then left her spiritual world.
• Konan followed Anyo's directions to Orochimaru and told him her teacher had asked him to teach her.
• Orochimaru told Konan to defeat his student, Mitaraishi Anko, before returning.
• Konan returned the next day after defeating Mitaraishi Anko, and Orochimaru agreed to teach her.

Anyo resumed his research and sword training with Tsunade while receiving visits from Minato and Kushina. When Fugaku and Mikoto brought their young son Uchiha Itachi to see him, Anyo declined to return to the Uchiha Clan, and Mikoto asked him to become Itachi’s godfather.

• Anyo visited Kakashi, saw that Might Guy’s company had improved his condition, and returned to Tsunade, who warned him there would not be another exception to the barrier rules.
• Anyo and Tsunade resumed their medical and toxin research, but Tsunade rejected his idea of replicating Hanzō’s poison-based abilities because it depended on a rare bodily compatibility.
• Tsunade made time for Anyo to practice swordsmanship, while Minato visited with Kushina and the two argued over Anyo’s new nickname, White Hair.
• Fugaku apologized to Anyo, and Anyo accepted while telling Fugaku and Mikoto he would join Tsunade’s medical department rather than return to the Uchiha Clan.
• Anyo played with Uchiha Itachi and decided against harming him, and Mikoto asked Anyo to become the child’s godfather.

Anyo became Itachi’s godfather and continued researching toxins while Tsunade’s medical reforms advanced. Meanwhile, Orochimaru gave a boy with Transparent Release a lethal medicine to aid his revenge, and Anyo’s sealed puppet began to stir.

• Mikoto asked Anyo to become Itachi’s godfather, and Fugaku reluctantly agreed as Itachi formally acknowledged Anyo.
• Anyo reflected on the Uchiha massacre and resolved to save Mikoto, then resumed his toxin research as Tsunade’s medical reforms progressed.
• Konan detected a boy following her to Orochimaru’s base and attacked him with Paper Release.
• The boy revealed his Transparent Release kekkei genkai and accepted Orochimaru’s medicine, despite learning that using it would cost him his life.
• Anyo summoned the Wooden Ox after sensing movement in his sealed puppet, and a small bird marked with a scorpion flew out.

Anyo realized the activated mark on Sasori’s puppet might mean Sasori was in danger, but Tsunade refused to let him leave the Prison Mansion. He got Tsunade drunk, put her to sleep with a Sharingan genjutsu, disguised himself as her, and escaped Konoha to follow the puppet’s signal.

• Anyo followed Sasori’s little bird puppet to the barrier and told Tsunade he needed to leave, but she refused and reminded him that sixty-two days remained on his sentence.
• Anyo tried to persuade Tsunade that his friend was in danger, then devised a plan when she remained unmoved.
• Anyo set out dice, cards, mahjong, and liquor, luring Tsunade into gambling and drinking with him.
• After Tsunade became drunk, Anyo used his Three-Tomoe Sharingan to put her to sleep and left an apologetic note.
• Anyo used the Transformation Technique to disguise himself as Tsunade, opened the barrier, and passed Konoha’s gate by claiming he was gathering medicinal herbs.
• Anyo dropped his disguise, activated the puppet’s mark, summoned the Eagle Puppet, and flew off after the little bird.

Anyo reunited with Sasori, learned he planned to assassinate the Third Kazekage, and persuaded him to let Anyo help. After Anyo showed Sasori his preserved parents’ remains, the two began planning to use poison against the Kazekage.

• Anyo met Sasori and told him he was now a Konoha ninja, prompting Sasori to ask about the Konoha White Fang.
• Sasori revealed he planned to assassinate the Third Kazekage, and Anyo offered to help despite the risk of war between their villages.
• Anyo showed Sasori his parents’ preserved bodies in Crystal Coffins, and Sasori wept before thanking him.
• Anyo urged Sasori to control his hatred and plan carefully, and Sasori agreed to proceed with him.
• Anyo and Sasori agreed that poison offered their best chance, since the Third Kazekage did not suspect Sasori.

Anyo helped Sasori refine a subtle, addictive poison intended to kill the Third Kazekage, then hid in Sasori’s puppet as they entered Sunagakure. Sasori secretly served the poison to the Kazekage, whose sudden reaction left Sasori fearing he had been discovered.

• Anyo accepted money from Sasori and learned that Sasori planned to poison the Kazekage with a toxin that caused dependence and eventually became fatal.
• Anyo tasted Sasori’s toxin, proposed improving it, and followed him into Sunagakure concealed inside his puppet.
• Sasori brought Anyo to Grandmother Chiyo’s neglected laboratory, where they combined the toxin with other poisons to make it harder to detect and more lethal.
• Anyo gave Sasori the finished toxin and estimated that it would kill the Third Kazekage within a week.
• Sasori mixed the toxin into food and served it to the Third Kazekage, who jolted and stared at Sasori after taking a bite.

Sasori and Anyo poisoned the Kazekage with food before the Kazekage discovered their assassination plot. Anyo trapped him in darkness and killed him with a Chakra Scalpel, leaving the two conspirators facing the consequences of the attack.

• For three days, Sasori brought the Kazekage food laced with a flower, and the Kazekage eagerly ate it.
• On the fourth day, the suspicious Kazekage searched for Sasori and overheard him and Anyo discussing their plan to kill him.
• The Kazekage burst into Chiyo's laboratory and accused Sasori of conspiring with an outsider to assassinate him.
• Anyo used the Bringer-of-Darkness Technique to trap the Kazekage, who realized Sasori had poisoned his food.
• The Kazekage's Magnet Release deflected Anyo's Blade-Breaking Technique and attacked him with iron sand needles.
• Anyo awakened his Mangekyō Sharingan, used accelerated time to reach the Kazekage, and killed him with a Chakra Scalpel.

Anyo killed the Third Kazekage and concealed the death with Sasori’s help before the two escaped Sunagakure. After rejecting Sasori’s plan to become a puppet, Anyo took him toward another village, and Sasori remembered how Anyo had restored his happiness.

• Anyo carried the Third Kazekage’s body inside, erased the signs of their battle, and sent Sasori to discreetly check whether anyone knew where the Kazekage had gone.
• Sasori reported that no one knew the Kazekage’s whereabouts, then revealed he had accepted a mission so he could leave Sunagakure and follow Anyo.
• Anyo and Sasori left the leaderless village, rested at the Aima Room, and discussed Sasori’s idea of turning himself into a puppet.
• Anyo persuaded Sasori not to become a puppet and said they were going to another village rather than Konoha.
• Anyo summoned the Eagle Puppet and flew with Sasori, who recalled how Anyo had brought warmth and happiness back into his life.

Anyo arrived at Takigakure with Sasori, reassured Genno that the village would remain safe, and declined to become its Kage. He then told Genno he planned to form an organization to recruit people with special abilities, revealing that he wanted to change the ninja-dominated world.

• Anyo stopped Sasori from attacking Takigakure’s barrier and greeted Genno, who opened the barrier and introduced his granddaughter Fū.
• Genno offered Anyo the position of Kage, but Anyo refused because he was still a Konoha ninja and had no interest in managing a village.
• Anyo promised Genno he would not bring war to Takigakure, and Genno agreed to call him Young Master.
• Anyo explained to Genno that he planned to establish an organization in Takigakure to recruit people with special abilities.
• Anyo said he wanted to change the ninja-dominated world, and Sasori suggested building a world of Transformers.

Anyo prepared to build his organization while Genno remained uneasy about his ambitions and Sasori began turning the Third Kazekage’s corpse into a puppet. After developing a coercive poison, Anyo met Kakuzu and repaid the debt for Tsunade’s necklace, leaving him with the necklace back in his possession.

• Genno warned Anyo against starting a war, but Anyo predicted the Third Shinobi World War would begin soon and sent Genno to find Kakuzu at the Bounty Station.
• Anyo gave Sasori the Third Kazekage’s corpse, and Sasori planned to make it into a puppet named Ironhide.
• Anyo considered recruiting outlaws through the Bounty Station and spent about a dozen days developing a poison that required regular antidotes.
• Genno announced Kakuzu’s arrival, and the battered Kakuzu returned the necklace and demanded sixty million.
• Anyo checked the necklace and handed Kakuzu the sixty million he had prepared.

Anyo persuaded Kakuzu to join his planned bounty-hunting organization by promising him access to teammates he could use as cannon fodder and replaceable hearts. After Kakuzu agreed to help recruit members, rumors of a gold mine near Takigakure drew a crowd of desperadoes.

• Kakuzu told Anyo that the necklace had coincided with the loss of five hearts in three years, so Anyo put it away inside the Puppet.
• Anyo convinced Kakuzu to stay and offered to replace his two missing hearts, then pitched his organization as a more efficient way to complete missions.
• Kakuzu agreed to join after Anyo said members could serve as cannon fodder and hearts, and Anyo explained that only three people were currently in the organization.
• Anyo whispered his recruitment plan to Kakuzu, who approved it but warned that he would kill Anyo if anything went wrong.
• A few days later, rumors spread that a gold mine had been spotted in a valley near Takigakure, drawing desperadoes toward the area.