Recaps

Kakashi and the Public Security Department elites trained to fight through White Zetsu Puppet bodies, then faced their seniors in a graduation exam. Kakashi reunited with Rin, and Senju Chen recruited Kabuto into the dangerous research into the God Masks.

• Kakashi entered a White Zetsu Puppet body and learned to control its unusual energy network as the trainees began their deep-dive training.
• Senju Chen unleashed waves of armed White Zetsu Puppets against the trainees, who adapted their bodies and tactics before completing months of advanced combat training.
• Senju Chen set a graduation exam against senior fighters, and the examiners defeated the student teams with strategies involving puppet duplicates, mist, ice mirrors, bones, and Hidan’s curse.
• Kakashi and Hatake Sakumo fought Kisame Hoshigaki and Rin, but Rin’s hesitation to harm Kakashi ended the match in the examiners’ favor.
• Rin removed her mask and told Kakashi that Kirigakure had made her Isobu’s host, while Senju Chen and Tsunade helped her escape and remove the curse, and she refused to return to Konoha until she could protect herself.
• Senju Chen sent the graduates to escort Amado and his equipment to Konoha, then offered Kabuto a fourth stage of training focused on the God Masks.
• Senju Chen revealed that he and his colleagues sought to control or surpass the gods, and Kabuto joined the research after learning that Senju Chen and one Orochimaru were independent clones.
• Kabuto watched researchers summon a wind god with the Takehaya Susanoo-no-Mikoto Mask while White Zetsu Clones were sacrificed and instruments analyzed the entity.

Senju Chen established the Hive, introduced limb regeneration and Scientific Ninja Tools, and secured funding and support for their use in Konoha. After curing Kurama Yakumo and restoring disabled ninjas, he began building support for reforming the Ninja Academy, leaving Naruto and Sasuke curious about a device he gave Naruto.

• Kakashi thanked Senju Chen for saving his father and Rin, then accepted Chen’s request to protect Naruto instead of joining the Public Security Department.
• Senju Chen replaced his Transformation Technique talent with Soul Mutation, planned a public Medical Department and secret research base, and welcomed Amado and his equipment to the underground Hive.
• Amado demonstrated a mechanical prosthesis and restored Sarutobi Hazuki’s arm, while Senju Chen explained that the new medical technology would make Konoha dependent on his team.
• Senju Chen demonstrated Scientific Ninja Tools, secured thirty percent of Konoha’s military expenditure and independent equipment authority for the Public Security Department, and offered fifty Anbu training slots.
• After Kakashi defeated Might Guy in their 216th match, Guy demanded special training from Senju Chen, who saw a chance to study the Eight Gates.
• Senju Chen rejected Amado’s proposal to turn Kurama Yakumo into a god and instead used Ido to help rebuild her body, curing her illness while leaving her to regain strength through rehabilitation.
• The Medical Department began restoring disabled ninjas’ limbs, and Senju Chen won Tsunade’s support for reforming the Ninja Academy to teach science and Scientific Ninja Tools.
• Senju Chen gained Fugaku’s support for the Academy reforms, then gave Naruto a palm-sized black device as Sasuke watched.

Senju Chen pushed Konoha toward scientific training while reassuring Naruto about his parents and expanding his hidden base. After Hanzo’s attack left Yahiko near death, Chen brought him to the laboratory and began transferring his soul into a White Zetsu Puppet while his body was repaired.

• Senju Chen taught Naruto and Sasuke through a game console, then told Naruto about Minato and Kushina and promised to teach him the Flying Thunder God Technique after graduation.
• Senju Chen secured approval for a one-year science class, gained support from several clans, and defeated Tatekura Gento’s protest with an alloy plate that withstood fire and a hammer.
• Senju Chen welcomed Might Guy’s training group to the waterfall base, where Orochimaru agreed to enhance Kurama Yakumo and Sasori volunteered to design puppets using the Eight Gates Released Formation.
• The Masked Man offered Hanzo a deal, then Hanzo’s forces attacked the Akatsuki, Yahiko was mortally wounded, and Hatake Sakumo intervened before Black Zetsu killed Hanzo.
• Senju Chen identified the Masked Man as Obito and Black Zetsu, then traveled to the Land of Rain and used White Zetsu-cell serum to stabilize Yahiko.
• Senju Chen took Yahiko, Nagato, and Konan to his research base, where he warned that repairing Yahiko’s body could destroy his failing soul.
• Senju Chen and Orochimaru prepared a Soul Conversion Device, and Chen began moving Yahiko’s soul into a White Zetsu Puppet while his body was repaired.

Senju Chen organized a coordinated assault on Kirigakure, freed Yagura from Obito’s control, and turned the village’s forces toward a new order. The arc ended with Kirigakure’s defenders surrendering and the elders’ role in the clan massacres exposed.

• Senju Chen transferred Yahiko’s soul into a White Zetsu Puppet, and Yahiko struggled to reshape its featureless body before agreeing that Akatsuki would cooperate with Chen’s plans.
• Kirisame Ryo purged Yagura’s loyalists in Kirigakure while Senju Chen gathered 262 fighters and deployed them from 37 Food Is Heaven branches across the Land of Water.
• Senju Chen used Kuga to feed Obito a misleading report, then launched attacks on Kirigakure’s strongholds as Zabuza, Yukimura Ryota, Mei Terumi, Hidan, and Kimimaro fought the village’s forces.
• Kirigakure’s elders mistook the assault for Genji’s revenge, while Senju Chen’s forces cut off support routes, surrounded the headquarters, and assembled outside the village barrier.
• Senju Chen showed Yahiko, Nagato, and Konan his facilities and military resources, and Yahiko accepted cooperation after Nagato recognized Chen wanted Akatsuki to serve as a public voice for peace.
• Senju Chen found Yagura under Obito’s control, read his memories, and severed the control formula, freeing Yagura before he died and asked Chen to care for Kirigakure.
• Hozuki Anyue and the Special Assassination Squad rallied behind Senju Chen, seized the elders, and attacked Kirigakure’s defenders from behind as Yukimura Shigure led the invading forces into the village.
• Kirigakure’s defenders surrendered, and Senju Chen showed the elders records bearing their signatures on orders to exterminate the Yuki and Kaguya Clans.