Recaps

Yubi proved himself as a battlefield medic and fighter while raiding Amegakure with Sasori and Arai, then used his inventions and hospital reforms to earn Sunagakure’s attention. The arc left the village investing in his medical knowledge as the war became a contest of endurance.

• Rasa sent Yubi, Sasori, and newly graduated Genin to a canyon outpost, where Yubi treated an infected wound and soon faced Amegakure attackers alongside Endo and Sasori.
• As Amegakure forces pushed into the canyon, Yubi treated the wounded, killed pursuing enemies, and tended Sasori after an Amegakure Jonin injured him.
• Granny Chiyo arrived with reinforcements, and the Third Kazekage later praised Yubi and Sasori for defending the rear before assigning them to Arai.
• Arai trained Yubi in combat and led him and Sasori on raids into the Land of Rain, where Yubi developed Blade Intent Manipulation and the team repeatedly struck Amegakure outposts.
• After Yubi demonstrated his original ninjutsu to Sunagakure’s leaders, the Third Kazekage ordered its details kept secret, while Yubi recognized that the village might try to use him as an asset.
• Chiyo asked Yubi to spend time with Sasori and offered to teach him medical ninjutsu or puppetry, while Yubi also resolved to save Sasori and Pakura from their fates.
• Yubi trained Sunagakure’s hospital staff and improved treatment for wounded shinobi, earning a reputation as a miracle doctor and gaining leverage to seek a position in the village.
• Chiyo arranged for Yubi’s medical knowledge to be taught at the Ninja Academy, and the Third Kazekage declared that the war would depend on which village endured longer.

Yubi survived a Root assassination attempt, then joined Sasori and Arai on a campaign against Konoha forces in the Land of Grass, where he awakened and used Blood Manipulation. After returning to Sunagakure, he passed the Third Kazekage’s combat assessment, while the village prepared him and Sasori to lead in a future war.

• Yubi fought off two impostors sent to kill him, and Sunagakure’s leaders launched an investigation while he kept his suspicions about Danzo and Root to himself.
• Yubi joined Sasori and Arai on a mission in the Land of Grass, where they ambushed Konoha supply squads and killed Inuzuka Kuri, Hisamaru, and other pursuers.
• When Konoha Jonin Otani nearly killed him, Yubi spent negative experience points to acquire Blood Manipulation, stabilized himself, and helped kill Otani with Sasori and Arai.
• Arai reported Yubi’s bloodline ability to the Third Kazekage, and Yubi demonstrated it to the village leaders, who offered to help him develop it.
• Yubi and Sasori agreed that Sunagakure’s problems required removing corrupt leaders, then spent six months ambushing Konoha forces and experimenting with human puppet cores.
• Yubi and Sasori returned to Sunagakure, where the Third Kazekage told them the war was nearing its end and urged them to prepare to lead the village in a future conflict.
• Yubi tested himself against the Third Kazekage, used Blood Release: Deliberate Bombardment Ball, and passed the assessment despite being trapped and defeated by iron sand.

Yubi and Sasori served on Sunagakure’s front against Iwagakure, where Yubi’s battlefield medicine and Military Music helped turn the war in Sunagakure’s favor. After the ceasefire, they resumed their separate plans, while Yubi was assigned to lead rookie Genin against Kirigakure and recognized the order as a test of obedience.

• Yubi and Sasori planned to poison the Third Kazekage slowly, keep Rasa from becoming Kazekage, and seek the Land of Wind daimyo’s support, while promising to run away together if their plans failed.
• Karura welcomed Yubi into her home and introduced him to Yashamaru, while Yubi received a ribbon-decorated kunai from Pakura and later joined Sasori and Arai on an intelligence mission.
• Yubi and Sasori killed Aoba Yamashiro and Namiashi Raidō during a clash with Konoha, then returned to Sunagakure and were assigned to the Iwagakure front.
• Yubi led a medical squad alongside Sasori’s puppet master corps, rescued wounded Sunagakure ninja during battles, and became a target after his patients returned to the fight.
• Yubi acquired March of the Dead and used it to disrupt Iwagakure forces, killing nearly a hundred pursuers before returning to camp and demonstrating the flute to Shimizu and the officers.
• Yubi played March of the Dead during Iwagakure’s offensives, helping Sunagakure win successive battles until Kitsuchi and Rasa officially ended the fighting at the border.
• After returning home, Yubi celebrated with Pakura and their friends, then advised Sasori on his Puppet Core plans and agreed that they should work separately so Sasori could approach the Third Kazekage.
• Sasori left on a mission, while Yubi was ordered to lead rookie Genin against Kirigakure on the coast and understood that the Third Kazekage was testing his obedience.

Yubi returned from the coastal mission and used his new position to pursue medical reform and influence Sunagakure’s politics. While Sasori helped engineer a purge of officials, Yubi developed medicines and left Arai to decide whether he could be trusted.

• Yubi led Pakura, Yashamaru, Sakamoto, and Fukushima Taki through months of fighting Kirigakure infiltrators, then defeated Yagura’s attack and returned to Sunagakure.
• Yubi asked the Third Kazekage for a place on the Council of Advisors and began investigating Sunagakure’s economic troubles while taking over the hospital.
• Yubi recruited Fukushima Oka and Nohara Murashi as allies, established a medicinal research department, and borrowed money to support his projects.
• Yubi traveled abroad to earn money through bounty work, killed Uchiyama and several Takigakure ninja, and continued monitoring Sunagakure’s political tensions.
• The Third Kazekage’s support for Rasa intensified conflict with Murashi and Fukushima Oka, while Sasori secretly killed officials under Yubi’s plan and made the deaths appear connected to factional disputes.
• Yubi completed his research and drug testing, then returned to begin mass production and distribution of medicines.
• Arai followed Sasori to meet Yubi and began suspecting that Yubi had shaped the political turmoil, but he found no evidence.
• Yubi showed Arai the new medicines and asked whether he could trust him.