Recaps

Xiao Tian helped Naruto defeat Shukaku, revealed Naruto’s parentage, and secured a promise between Naruto and Sasuke about Konoha’s future. After Meihuizi’s Caged Bird Seal disappeared, Xiao Tian helped force Sunagakure’s surrender and confronted Danzō over Root and the Uchiha Clan Massacre, ending by interrogating two Root ninja.

• Xiao Tian fought Orochimaru’s controlled Hokage and helped break the Four Violet Flames Formation before pursuing Orochimaru and obtaining the Soft Body Modification Technique.
• Xiao Tian and Naruto battled Shukaku, and Xiao Tian revealed that Naruto’s father was Minato Namikaze and urged him to accept the Nine-Tails’ power.
• Naruto used the Nine-Tails’ chakra to defeat Shukaku, while Naruto and Sasuke promised to decide Konoha’s fate in a fight when they turned sixteen.
• Xiao Tian asked the Hyuga Clan to remove Meihuizi’s Caged Bird Seal and rejected Hiruzen’s offer to become the Fifth Hokage, then helped Sasuke form a contract with Ao Kuang.
• After a two-year absence, Xiao Tian gave Meihuizi a pill that removed her Caged Bird Seal and joined Konoha’s stalled war against Sunagakure.
• Xiao Tian defeated Neji in a sparring match, overpowered Granny Chiyo’s puppets, and helped bring about Sunagakure’s surrender before taking Gaara to Konoha.
• Xiao Tian showed evidence implicating Root in helping Baki escape Konoha, leading Hiruzen to disband Root and order Danzō to rest.
• Xiao Tian accused Danzō of involvement in the Uchiha Clan Massacre, then brought Yamamura Ichirō and Kameda Kofuku into the Kamui Dimension and ordered Human Path to read their minds.

Xiao Tian Uchiha became the Fifth Hokage, fought the Akatsuki, captured Isobu, and drew Obito into his Eye of the Moon Plan. At the Five Kage Summit, the other villages turned against him, and his fight with Raikage A escalated as Naruto and Sasuke clashed with Ōnoki.

• Xiao Tian Uchiha destroyed Root, killed Shimura Danzō, and was chosen as Konoha’s Fifth Hokage, then appointed Sasuke Uchiha as Anbu Captain and brought Naruto Uzumaki into Anbu.
• Xiao Tian and Sasuke fought the Akatsuki, and Xiao Tian defeated Sasori before beating Sasuke in the Kamui Dimension and healing him.
• Xiao Tian’s Deva Path Body and Asura Path captured Isobu, drove off Obito Uchiha and Deidara, and led Obito to leave the Akatsuki and join Xiao Tian’s plan.
• Xiao Tian stopped Kurama Yakumo’s painted destruction of Konoha by drawing Ido out of her and destroying it, then recruited Obito to monitor the Akatsuki and proposed a contest to capture the Tailed Beasts.
• Xiao Tian traveled to the Five Kage Summit with Sasuke, Naruto, Kakashi, and Gaara, where the Kage agreed to share intelligence about the Akatsuki and Raikage A later arranged a trap against him.
• Xiao Tian escaped the summit’s ambush with his allies, while Zi Yan fought Raikage A and Xiao Tian battled him as Naruto and Sasuke attacked Ōnoki.
• Raikage A unleashed his sealed chakra and pierced Xiao Tian with Hell Stab: Three-Finger Nukite, but Xiao Tian’s body scattered into golden-flamed crows through Golden Crow Substitute.

Xiao Tian Uchiha negotiated compensation from the Five Great Villages, fought Akatsuki, and recruited Kakuzu while pursuing the threat to the Tailed Beasts. The arc ended with Yugito revived as the Two-Tails, Orochimaru altered by his experiments, and Itachi offering his eyes to Sasuke and Xiao Tian.

• Xiao Tian Uchiha forced the Kage to sign compensation agreements, then returned to Konoha and announced that he would choose a Sixth Hokage and oversee the payments.
• After Akatsuki captured the Two-Tails, Xiao Tian Uchiha joined Naruto and Kakashi on a mission to stop Moryo, defeated Yomi, and helped Shion reinforce the demon’s seal.
• Xiao Tian Uchiha rescued Naruto and Shion from Kakuzu and Hidan, persuaded Kakuzu to leave Akatsuki, and opened a Konoha restaurant with him.
• At the Five Kage Summit, Xiao Tian Uchiha refused to surrender Kakuzu, learned that Jiraiya was fighting Pain, and went to help him at Orochimaru’s base.
• Xiao Tian Uchiha and Jiraiya escaped Pain, searched Orochimaru’s base, and learned that Yugito had returned as the Two-Tails.
• Xiao Tian Uchiha took the revived Yugito from Orochimaru, then discovered that another Two-Tails in his storage had been captured by Akatsuki.
• Orochimaru’s experiments changed his body and increased his chakra, while Naruto and Sasuke defeated Kisame and Sasuke’s resentment toward Konoha eased.
• Itachi stopped Xiao Tian Uchiha from removing his Mangekyō Sharingan and offered one eye each to Xiao Tian Uchiha and Sasuke so they could obtain the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan.

Xiao Tian defeated Nagato, staged his own death, and watched the Akatsuki turn against Madara Uchiha before Kabuto’s Impure World Reincarnation disrupted his plans. As Naruto and Sasuke confronted Obito at Rōran, Xiao Tian absorbed the Dragon Vein and strengthened his powers, while Jiraiya arrived at his hospital seeking answers.

• Xiao Tian awakened the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan in Sasuke, then defended Konoha from Nagato’s attack and announced Tsunade would succeed him as Hokage.
• At the Valley of the End, Xiao Tian defeated Nagato’s Six Paths and used Rinne Rebirth to restore Nagato, then secretly revived himself in the Kamui Dimension.
• Sasuke realized Xiao Tian was alive and kept his apparent death secret, while Tsunade became Sixth Hokage and the Akatsuki pledged to pursue peace against Madara Uchiha.
• Orochi Princess reanimated Xiao Tian, who broke free of her control and helped establish a hospital before Kabuto’s ambitions forced them to flee and rebuild in the Land of Iron.
• Obito attacked Kirigakure, prompting the Shinobi Alliance to form, while Nagato’s Akatsuki gained public support and Kabuto improved Impure World Reincarnation.
• At Rōran, Naruto and Sasuke fought Obito and the reanimated Minato until the past Minato exposed Kabuto, who released the reanimation and fled.
• Zi Yan sealed the Dragon Vein, and Xiao Tian absorbed its chakra, gained Dragon Release, and fused it with Sage Mode to unlock a half-dragon transformation and nine divine dragons.
• Jiraiya and Sasuke arrived at Xiao Tian’s hospital, where Kimimaro challenged Sasuke and Jiraiya privately asked Xiao Tian about Orochimaru’s control and Nagato’s ability to revive him.