Recaps

Yubi infiltrated the Akatsuki, earned Yahiko and Nagato’s trust while covertly advancing Sunagakure’s interests, and arranged support for Akatsuki against Amegakure. After discovering Obito’s plans, Yubi killed him and took Black Zetsu prisoner, leaving the future of the shinobi world open to his intervention.

• Yubi appeared as Yoru, offered the Akatsuki medicine, and fought Yahiko, Nagato, and Konan before earning their cooperation by treating their wounded.
• As Amegakure intensified its attacks, Yubi helped the Akatsuki survive and warned Nagato that Hanzō could plot against Yahiko after Yahiko refused his offer.
• Konan traveled to Sunagakure to seek the Fourth Kazekage’s help, and she agreed to exchange intelligence and accept Yubi’s Cursed Seal as part of their arrangement.
• Yubi identified Danzō as the force behind Amegakure’s apparent weakness and prepared to act against him while Obito infiltrated the Akatsuki and tried to influence its leaders.
• Yubi drew Obito into a prepared battlefield, revealed that he knew Obito’s identity and plans, and fought him while Black Zetsu and White Zetsu intervened.
• After Obito used up Izanagi’s protection, Yubi revived with the Yin Seal released and killed him, then captured Black Zetsu and demanded to be taken to Madara’s corpse.
• Konan and Nagato found Yoru’s broken mask as Yubi traveled toward the Land of Grass with Black Zetsu, considering how Obito’s death could let him shape events for Sunagakure.

Yubi defeated Hanzō, brought the Land of Rain under Sunagakure’s control, and strengthened the village through new alliances, research, and plans for economic development. After investigating the Chimera Technique and gaining the Queen of Roran’s bloodline, he turned to rebuilding the Land of Rain and transforming the Land of Wind.

• Yubi recovered Madara’s corpse and Sharingan, then led Sunagakure into the Land of Rain and killed Hanzō with Sasori and Rasa.
• Yubi forced Akatsuki to accept Sunagakure’s control of the Land of Rain, took Nagato’s Rinnegan, and removed Konan’s cursed seal.
• Yubi directed Sunagakure’s occupation of Amegakure and appointed Sasori and Rasa to manage the village while Danzo and other villages opposed Sunagakure’s expansion.
• Yubi welcomed the Fuma Clan into Sunagakure, assessed its members, and ordered Fuma Hayato to replace Masahide as clan head.
• Yubi declined to exploit Kirigakure’s leadership crisis, welcomed Kimimaro, the Sound Four, Jugo, and Mizuki Uzumaki, and continued developing Sunagakure’s research and forces.
• Yubi killed Hiruko and took his Chimera Technique for Sunagakure’s researchers, then traveled through the dragon vein to meet the Queen of Roran and obtain her bloodline and training methods.
• Yubi transplanted the Queen of Roran’s cells and proposed developing the Land of Rain while redirecting water and altering terrain to reduce desertification in the Land of Wind.
• Yubi proposed funding Sunagakure’s development through physical-enhancement serums, pharmaceutical factories, and sales of access to the village’s research.

Yubi secured foreign partnerships to fund the Land of Wind’s transformation, rebuilt the Land of Rain, and recontained Shukaku while considering Gaara as a possible Jinchūriki. At Konoha’s exchange meet, Sunagakure’s fighters demonstrated their growing strength, and Yubi left after warning Konoha’s leaders about the Uchiha Clan.

• Yubi gained neighboring countries’ support for Sunagakure’s pharmaceutical industry and environmental projects, while Shimizu arranged for Akatsuki to help rebuild the Land of Rain.
• Yubi made pharmaceutical deals with Iwagakure and Kirigakure, while Konoha’s leaders realized Sunagakure’s research release threatened their medicine market.
• Yubi chose not to interfere in the Nine-Tails Incident, then helped Shukaku emerge after Bunpuku’s death and sealed the One-Tail inside a kettle.
• Yubi visited Konoha with a Sunagakure delegation, operated successfully on Kakashi’s brain, and discussed paid medical cooperation with Tsunade.
• Konoha won most of the children’s matches, while Sunagakure’s Sakamoto defeated Asuma and Konoha’s other fighters scored victories in the genin and chunin divisions.
• Guy defeated Kazuki and Shisui swiftly beat Fuma Uesugi, while Yubi resolved to protect Shisui from Danzo’s plans for his eyes.
• Pakura defeated Kakashi and several other Konoha opponents before losing to an Aburame jonin, and a Sunagakure special jonin drew the final match to secure a dominant jonin division result.
• As Yubi’s party departed, he warned Hiruzen about the Uchiha Clan, and Minato recognized how far Yubi’s strength exceeded his own.

Yubi strengthened Sunagakure through trade, medical advances, and exchanges with other villages, while Black Zetsu secretly recruited Orochimaru against him. He began a relationship with Pakura and married her, then turned his attention to raising Sunagakure’s young generation as Deidara’s outburst hinted at trouble ahead.

• Yubi sent Chiyo and Arai to lead Sunagakure’s exchange with Iwagakure, whose specialized fighters won the Chunin division despite losing most others.
• Yubi sealed Shukaku inside the infant Gaara and marked his forehead with “love,” then welcomed Yagura and Kirigakure’s delegation to Sunagakure for an exchange that ended with Pakura winning the Jonin division.
• After learning that Orochimaru had defected from Konoha, Yubi discovered that Black Zetsu had approached him with a plan to attack Sunagakure and kill the Fourth Kazekage.
• Yubi launched Sunagakure’s genetic serums, began a relationship with Pakura, and welcomed Tsunade and Konoha students to study in the village.
• Sasori told Yubi that Orochimaru had attacked him, then left to hunt the rogue ninja while Yubi inspected Sunagakure’s serum program and married Pakura.
• Yubi and Yura visited the Ninja Academy, where Yubi learned that forty Uchiha lived in Sunagakure and watched Temari, Kimimaro, Haku, Jugo, and other children train.
• Yubi trained the Academy children and walked toward the orphanage with Kimimaro and Jugo, but Deidara ran through the street shouting that he wanted to return to Iwagakure.