Recaps

Konoha's clans grew alarmed by the mysterious boy beside Tobirama Senju and identified him as Tsubasa, the recovered child known as the “Gold-Swallowing Beast.” Several clans began plotting to kill him while Tsubasa continued his training, unaware that danger was closing in.

• Rumors about the boy in the Hokage's office spread through Konoha, and clan leaders tried to discover his origins.
• Uchiha Tomioki rejected Uchiha Setsuna's call to kill the child immediately and decided Uchiha Sakai would challenge him instead.
• Tennin Hyuga ordered four Branch Family shinobi to watch the boy and kill him if they got the chance.
• Sarutobi, Shimura, Nara, and allied clan leaders suspected the boy was Tsubasa and planned to test him before arranging an assassination.
• Tsubasa continued his daily training and studies, unaware that dozens of clans were plotting against him.

As Tsubasa prepared to attend the Ninja Academy graduation ceremony, Tobirama Senju explained a plan to lure Konoha’s hostile clans into attacking him and punish the perpetrators. Hashirama Senju reluctantly approved, leaving Tsubasa set to appear weak as bait for the planned crackdown.

• Biwako eagerly urged Tsubasa to hurry so they could attend the Ninja Academy graduation ceremony together.
• Tobirama Senju revealed that hostile clans were watching Tsubasa and that he had assigned eight Elite Jonin to protect him.
• Tsubasa argued that Konoha’s clans remained hostile beneath the surface peace and that decisive punishment could prevent attacks on other clans’ geniuses.
• Tobirama Senju proposed having Tsubasa lose to a graduate, then lure assassins into attacking him so Tobirama could eliminate them and target culpable clans.
• Hashirama Senju agreed to the plan after insisting that Tobirama exercise restraint.

Konoha's first Academy graduation brought Biwako and her brother Tsubasa into the spotlight, and Kagami Uchiha challenged him to a spar after the team assignments. Meanwhile, Sasuke Sarutobi and Dansuke Shimura discussed a hidden suicide squad and their plans against rival clans as they headed to the ceremony.

• Biwako brought Tsubasa to graduation, where classmates and other attendees admired him and questioned whether he was as strong as she claimed.
• Biwako's classmates Eijō Yuhi and Tora Inuzuka hoped to be assigned to her team, while Hiruzen Sarutobi welcomed Tsubasa and offered to help him.
• Kagami Uchiha challenged Tsubasa to a spar, and Biwako objected because Kagami was older, but Tsubasa agreed to fight after the team assignments.
• Sasuke Sarutobi and Dansuke Shimura discussed keeping Kazuo Yamamoto and Kazuo Shinozuka's suicide squad nearby and targeting other clans if the team assignments went against them.
• Sasuke warned Dansuke not to provoke the Uchiha while the Senju conflict remained unresolved, then the two men went to the assembly hall for the ceremony.

Tobirama Senju announced that six graduates would become his personal disciples after passing Ninjutsu, Genjutsu, and Taijutsu exams. The first two exams eliminated many students, and the grueling Taijutsu test began with the final candidates still competing.

• Tobirama Senju announced the three elimination exams and said he would select six personal disciples from the graduates.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi and Shimura Danzō passed the Ninjutsu exam by performing the Three Basic Techniques successfully.
• Biwako and Kagami Uchiha overcame their fears and escaped Reiko Kurama’s Genjutsu, while more than half of the examinees were eliminated.
• Uchiha Tomioki began the Taijutsu exam, sending the remaining students through dangerous obstacle courses where falls meant elimination.

The Ninja Academy students endured a Taijutsu exam of punishing obstacle courses, and only thirty of them passed. Tobirama Senju then began a tournament to choose six disciples, leaving Hiruzen Sarutobi and Hidemune Hatake facing off in the first arena.

• Tora Inuzuka led the weighted sprint and thorn maze but was eliminated during the underwater challenge.
• Kagami Uchiha navigated the obstacles skillfully, while Mitokado Homura and Utatane Koharu cleared the course through careful planning.
• Uchiha Tomioki announced the results, with Kagami Uchiha first, Hiruzen Sarutobi second, and Shimura Danzō sixth among the thirty who passed.
• Tobirama Senju announced that the thirty qualifiers would compete in elimination matches for six places as his disciples.
• Shimura Danzō challenged the opponent who drew number four, while Hiruzen Sarutobi and Hidemune Hatake prepared to fight in arena one.

The Ninja Academy’s first graduation ranking battle continued with elimination matches between the final thirty students. Hiruzen Sarutobi defeated Hidemune Hatake and advanced, then Torifu Akimichi beat Nozomi Sato.

• Hidemune Hatake attacked Hiruzen Sarutobi with his Wind and Lightning Ninja Sword Technique, but Hiruzen countered with multiple elemental releases.
• Hidemune used Gale Lightning Prison Slash against Hiruzen’s Five Dragon Whirlwind Bullet, and Hiruzen narrowly won after both fighters were left exhausted.
• Hidemune accepted defeat, and Hiruzen advanced to the next round.
• Nozomi Sato trapped Torifu Akimichi in a rock prison, but Torifu broke free using the Secret Multi-Size Technique.
• Nozomi struck at Torifu’s weak point with an Earth Dragon Bullet, but Torifu crushed her rock spear and pinned her to win the match.

Tsubasa cheered for Biwako while clan heads secretly discussed him and ordered a squad to watch for a chance to kill him. Mitakado Homura and Shimura Danzō won their matches against Kai Yamazaki and Tōya Hyuga.

• Dansuke Shimura, Sasuke Sarutobi, and Chozan Akimichi discussed Tsubasa's mysterious lack of Chakra and agreed to treat him as a threat.
• Sasuke Sarutobi ordered Dansuke Shimura to have Yamamoto's suicide squad watch Tsubasa and kill him if an opportunity arose.
• Mitakado Homura used Water Release techniques to exhaust Kai Yamazaki and defeat him with the Water Dragon Biting Explosion Technique.
• Shimura Danzō and Tōya Hyuga fought with Wind Release and Gentle Fist techniques until both were knocked down by their final clash.
• Shimura Danzō stood up first, and the referee declared him the winner.

Kagami Uchiha defeated Biwako in a fierce tournament match, leaving her injured but alive after the medical-nin treated her. Tobirama Senju announced a two-hour rest before the final battle, with the top fifteen contestants decided.

• Utatane Gōgun conceded to Utatane Koharu, while the other arenas announced their winners.
• Kagami Uchiha and Biwako exchanged powerful Ninjutsu attacks, and both were injured as their battle intensified.
• Kagami Uchiha unleashed Great Dragon Fire Lightning Explosion, but Biwako resisted with Earth Release: Super Earth Rock Shield Technique and recovered using advanced Medical Ninjutsu.
• Biwako's Water Release clashed with Kagami's fire-and-lightning dragon, and Kagami struck her with a sword of lightning to win the match.
• Tsubasa rushed to Biwako, then learned she was alive; Biwako teased him and explained she had fought to protect him.
• Tobirama Senju announced a two-hour break after the tournament's top fifteen contestants were determined.

The final round of the Ninja Academy tournament began, with Shimura Danzō, Kagami Uchiha, and Hiruzen Sarutobi winning their opening matches. The remaining fights continued in the other arenas.

• Tobirama Senju had the fifteen students draw lots; Utatane Koharu drew a zero and advanced directly to the next round.
• Shimura Danzō defeated Aoki Kawa in Arena One by using Wind Release to overwhelm his hidden weapons.
• Kagami Uchiha narrowly defeated Zeya Hyuga in a brutal fight, leaving both fighters severely injured.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi defeated Muranzi with a fast sequence of elemental ninjutsu, earning praise from Tobirama Senju and Uchiha Tomioki.

Torifu Akimichi, Mitokado Homura, and Kyūgen Aburame won their matches through resilience, tactical insight, and insect techniques. Nannen Uchiha defeated Koboku Ito with his Sharingan and powerful Fire Style, leaving Koboku badly injured as the tournament’s battles concluded.

• Torifu Akimichi endured Hakukei Gekko’s hidden-blade attacks, seized him, and knocked him unconscious before collapsing from blood loss.
• Mitokado Homura broke Mokubon Kurama’s Genjutsu and defeated him with Water Release.
• Kyūgen Aburame used his insects to weaken Tai Chiba’s Lightning Release and overwhelm him.
• Nannen Uchiha pinned Koboku Ito with Kunai and defeated him with a powerful Fire Style attack after reading his movements with the Sharingan.
• A doctor treated Koboku Ito’s severe burns while the spectators and clan representatives reacted to the conclusion of the fights.

A coordinated group of twenty-eight killers ambushed Tsubasa, but Tobirama Senju arrived and slaughtered them with forbidden techniques. Tobirama then ordered the Senju to use the assassination attempt as justification to destroy three suspected clans, while Tsubasa questioned the cost of that retaliation.

• A black-clad leader learned that Tsubasa was traveling toward the Senju Compound and ordered his force to attack him.
• Tsubasa sensed the ambush, and the killers launched a barrage of poisoned projectiles as four Senju Jonin rushed to defend him.
• A Senju team sealed the grove with the Four Violet Flames Formation, and Orochi Senju killed two attackers while Tsubasa evaded the assault.
• Tobirama Senju arrived using the Flying Thunder God Technique, cast Bringer-of-Darkness, and killed the attackers as they tried to flee.
• Tobirama ordered Orochi Squad to seal the corpses and told Tsubasa that the Senju would use the attack to destroy three suspected clans.
• Tsubasa asked whether the Senju had to kill the clans' elderly and weak, and Tobirama told him a clan leader must not show compassion.

Kazuo Shinozuka and Kazuo Yamamoto ordered an ambush on the Gold-Swallowing Beast, but Squad One was wiped out by the Senju Clan. At Konoha Hospital, Tsubasa reunited with his mother and aunts, and Biwako accidentally admitted that she liked him.

• Kazuo Yamamoto approved Squad One's attempt to kill the Gold-Swallowing Beast, while Kazuo Shinozuka urged them to eliminate the Senju men.
• A messenger reported that Squad One had been wiped out in a Senju ambush, so Kazuo Yamamoto ordered the remaining squads to withdraw and erase their tracks.
• Tobirama Senju ordered the doctors to treat the injured students in time for the next day's class assignment ceremony.
• Tsubasa comforted the recovering Biwako, who apologized for costing him the finals and praised Kagami Uchiha's skill.
• Senju Ga and Tsubasa's paternal aunts visited him at the hospital, then warmly welcomed Biwako.
• Dō Senju teased Biwako about whether she liked Tsubasa, and Biwako blurted out that she did.

Tsubasa’s mothers tried to arrange an engagement between him and Biwako, but she rejected his plan to marry seven wives and broke down when he confirmed it was his own choice. After his mothers left the hospital, Tsubasa stayed behind to comfort her.

• In Senju asked Biwako to marry Tsubasa, and Biwako agreed in a daze.
• Dō Senju proposed discussing an engagement with Biwako’s family, but Tsubasa warned that he intended to marry seven wives.
• Dō Senju and the other mothers argued over which household should receive Tsubasa’s first wife, while Biwako declared that Tsubasa could only marry her.
• Tsubasa confirmed that marrying seven wives was his own decision, and Biwako wept and demanded to be left alone.
• Tsubasa told his mothers to stop rushing to find him a wife, then stayed at the hospital to explain things to Biwako as they went home.

Tsubasa explained to Biwako how his family’s losses and sacrifices led him to promise seven marriages to continue its bloodlines, and Biwako offered to bear seven children before insisting he marry only her. Meanwhile, Konoha’s clan leaders feared Tobirama’s retaliation after a failed assassination plot, and Shikaboshi urged vulnerable clans to send their gifted young disciples away.

• Tsubasa told Biwako how his uncles died in battle, his aunts became the Senju Ghosts, and his family spent its savings caring for him until he recovered.
• Tsubasa explained that he decided to marry seven wives to continue his family’s lines, and Biwako proposed having seven children for the aunts to adopt.
• Biwako agreed to be Tsubasa’s wife but warned him that he could marry only her, then asked what had happened during his mission with Tobirama.
• Kazuo Shinozuka and Kazuo Yamamoto blamed Tobirama for the loss of their special operations team and called for revenge, while Dansuke Shimura and Sasuke Sarutobi feared Senju retaliation.
• Shikaboshi Nara warned the leaders that Tobirama might target their clans, and Kazuo Shinozuka admitted his clansmen had killed four Senju ninja on missions.
• Shikaboshi rejected a direct fight with the Senju and advised any clans at risk of exposure to send their gifted young disciples out of Konoha.

The clan leaders debated how to respond after an assassination attempt on the Gold-Swallowing Beast, with most rejecting a direct confrontation and Shikaboshi Nara urging unity and caution. After Tennin Hyuga reported the plot to Tobirama Senju, Tobirama inferred that more clans were involved and prepared to warn them.

• Momiji Yamanaka, Chozan Akimichi, Natsuki Gekko, and other clan leaders voiced their positions, with most favoring caution and several refusing to fight the Senju Clan directly.
• Hiroto Mito offered to use her clan's ties to sound out Tobirama Senju, while Shigen Koharu criticized the other leaders and warned them to protect their own clans.
• Shikaboshi Nara called on the clans to strengthen their defenses, watch the Senju Clan, and wait for the right moment, while Sasuke Sarutobi ordered the Shinozuka Family to leave the village.
• Tennin Hyuga learned that leaders of the Yamamoto and Shinozuka Clans had led the failed assassination attempt and sent the news to Tobirama Senju.
• Tobirama Senju received the report and concluded that the Sarutobi, Shimura, and Ino-Shika-Cho Clans were likely involved, then resolved to give them a warning.

Tobirama Senju and Senju Yasuhei led the Senju Clan’s revenge operation against the six clans responsible for assassination attempts, beginning with the Ikeda and Yamashita Clans. After both clans were wiped out and their patriarchs captured, Tobirama and Yasuhei moved on to their next targets.

• Tobirama Senju divided seven hundred Senju elites into six teams and launched simultaneous attacks on the targeted clans.
• Tobirama’s forces surrounded the Ikeda Clan with a Four Violet Flames Formation and slaughtered its members, killing its elders and capturing Makoto Ikeda.
• Tobirama’s team exterminated all more than five thousand members of the Ikeda Clan, then Tobirama used the Flying Thunder God Technique to travel to the Ishikawa Clan.
• Senju Yasuhei led an assault on the Yamashita Clan, using hidden weapons to kill its fighters and defeat Goma Yamashita and Sashi Yamashita.
• Yasuhei’s forces killed all four thousand-plus members of the Yamashita Clan, captured Goma, and then headed toward the Shinozuka Family.

Mito Uzumaki led the Senju assault that wiped out the Hashimoto Clan, then moved on as Four Violet Flames Formations appeared over other clan territories. Tobirama Senju led the attack on the Ishikawa Clan, killing its fighters and capturing Kuma Ishikawa for execution.

• Mito Uzumaki used her Adamantine Sealing Chains and the Nine-Tails' chakra to defeat the Hashimoto Clan, while the Senju killed more than 5,800 members without suffering casualties.
• Mito headed toward the Yamamoto family as Four Violet Flames Formations appeared over the Shinozuka and Yamamoto territories, alarming Konoha's clans.
• Hashirama Senju ordered the clans to remain in their territories and said Hokage Tobirama Senju had evidence that six clans had committed crimes; Tennin Hyuga and Uchiha Tomioki demanded an explanation.
• Kuma Ishikawa, Kaichi Ishikawa, and Takaha Ishikawa led the defense against the Senju forces, but the Senju's ten squads drove into Ishikawa territory.
• Tobirama Senju arrived using the Flying Thunder God and killed Takaha and Kaichi as the Ishikawa defense collapsed.
• The Senju captured Kuma Ishikawa after severing his limbs and sealing him, then slaughtered the rest of the Ishikawa Clan.

The Senju Clan attacked the Shinozuka Clan for its attempt to assassinate Senju Yasuhei’s grandson, overwhelming its defenders and destroying the clan. Hashirama Senju then forced the gathered clans at the Sarutobi Clan Compound to disperse, leaving them to await the conflict’s outcome.

• Kazuo Shinozuka assembled his fighters, sent more than a hundred young clan members away through a secret passage, and ordered an attack on the Senju force surrounding the compound.
• The Senju repelled the Shinozuka assault with powerful Ninjutsu, and Senju Yasuhei arrived and devastated them with his Shuriken Multiple Shadow Clone Technique.
• Kazuo pleaded with Senju Yasuhei to spare his clan, but Yasuhei refused, and six Senju valkyries charged through the Shinozuka ranks.
• The Senju killed or wounded the Shinozuka fighters, defeated their eight clan-head-level powerhouses, and captured Kazuo after cutting off his limbs.
• Hashirama Senju’s three clones confronted the clans gathered at the Sarutobi Clan Compound, killed attackers with Wood Release, and compelled the remaining clans to withdraw.

Kazuo Yamamoto prepared the Yamamoto Clan to resist the Senju while sending its geniuses away through a secret passage. Mito Uzumaki slaughtered everyone inside the clan grounds, and the arriving Senju forces found only a silent, blood-soaked scene.

• After learning that the Senju were approaching, Kazuo Yamamoto sent three clan-head-level experts to escort the clan’s geniuses through a secret passage.
• Kazuo gathered the Yamamoto Clan’s fighters and waited behind the gates, confident that the 18 Clan Alliance would reinforce them.
• Kazuo learned that Hashirama Senju’s three Shadow Clones had held back the alliance, so he ordered the Yamamoto fighters to attack and break out.
• Mito Uzumaki blocked the gates and used her golden chains to overwhelm the Yamamoto fighters and absorb their Ninjutsu.
• A Four Violet Flames Formation trapped the clan as Mito killed everyone inside the grounds and then departed.
• The Senju unit entered the Yamamoto grounds and witnessed the slaughter, watching Mito leave with awe.

After the Senju Clan wiped out six great clans, leaders across Konoha feared its power and reconsidered provoking it. At the Sarutobi Clan Compound, the allied clan heads agreed to deny responsibility and threaten to leave Konoha, but their future remained uncertain.

• Hashirama Senju grieved over the civilians killed in the fighting and wondered why the clans could not live in peace.
• Tennin Hyuga resolved that the Hyuga Clan must avoid making an enemy of the Senju Clan.
• Uchiha Tomioki vowed to control his clansmen after learning the Senju Clan had defeated nearly fifty thousand enemies without losing anyone.
• Sasuke Sarutobi asked the assembled clan heads how they should respond to the Senju Clan, and most argued they should admit fault and seek forgiveness.
• Shikaboshi Nara proposed denying knowledge of the assassinations, acting weak, and threatening to leave Konoha, and the clan heads agreed to present that story together.

Tsubasa watched the extermination of a clan and struggled to accept the killing of innocents, while Hashirama Senju explained his vision of peace and Konoha’s purpose. Hashirama urged Tsubasa to gain the strength needed to protect that vision, and Tsubasa resolved to train.

• Tsubasa watched a clan extermination and wondered whether the Senju Clan had wiped out other clans absent from the history he knew.
• Hashirama Senju asked Tsubasa what he thought of the massacre, and Tsubasa condemned the slaughter of innocents alongside evildoers.
• Hashirama Senju explained his dream of a peaceful world, the Senju Clan’s role in restraining Konoha, and Tobirama’s reasons for carrying out swift exterminations.
• Hashirama Senju told Tsubasa that a Hokage must seek peace for all people and needs strength to protect that goal.
• Tsubasa accepted Hashirama’s lesson and followed him back to the Senju Clan Compound to devote himself to training.

After Tobirama Senju exterminated six clans, he presented the other clan heads with evidence of their crimes and demanded accountability from clans implicated in an attack on the First Hokage’s heir. The meeting left Uchiha Tomioki publicly supporting the exterminations and vowing to help purge future threats.

• The clan heads gathered in the Hokage Building and discussed the slaughter of six great clans and their fears for their own clans’ futures.
• Tobirama Senju confirmed that he had led the Hokage’s Shadow Guard in wiping out the Ikeda, Yamashita, Takahashi, Ishikawa, Yamamoto, and Shinozuka Clans, then distributed evidence of their crimes.
• Tobirama Senju accused the clans of murdering talented ninja, trafficking women and children of bloodline clans, fomenting conflict, and collaborating with enemy nations.
• Tobirama Senju said the Yamamoto and Shinozuka Clans had attacked the First Hokage’s heir and warned more than a dozen implicated clans, including the Sarutobi, Ino-Shika-Cho, and Shimura Clans, to explain themselves to the First Hokage.
• Uchiha Tomioki condemned the Ikeda and Yamashita Clans for trafficking Uchiha bloodline members, endorsed their extermination, and pledged the Uchiha Clan’s support against future wrongdoing.

After evidence exposed the Shinozuka and Yamamoto Clans’ crimes, Tobirama Senju confronted the implicated clan heads and set out reforms to strengthen Konoha. Following seven days of debate, the village adopted new laws and institutions and reorganized the clans as it prepared for future threats.

• Tennin Hyuga pledged the Hyuga Clan’s support to Tobirama Senju after learning that traitors had stolen and sold a child.
• Sasuke Sarutobi, Dansuke Shimura, and other clan heads denied involvement in the Shinozuka and Yamamoto Clans’ crimes, and Tobirama ordered them to explain themselves after the meeting.
• Tobirama outlined around a hundred issues for Konoha to address, including a criminal code, foreign threats, espionage, ninja registration, and the village barrier.
• Over seven days, Shikaboshi Nara led the ninja census, Momiji Yamanaka helped develop spy interrogations, and other clans contributed to reforms and barrier repairs.
• Konoha established a criminal code and Anbu, reinforced its barriers, expanded ninja registration, and replaced clan self-governance with a system integrating the clans into the village.

Tsubasa deliberately lost his match against Kagami Uchiha to conceal his strength and encourage Konoha’s clans to underestimate him. After the duel, Biwako checked on him, and the match’s result spread throughout Konoha.

• Biwako worriedly urged Tsubasa to reconsider fighting Kagami Uchiha, but Tsubasa reassured her that he was only putting on an act.
• Kagami Uchiha attacked with fire, lightning, and Genjutsu, while Tsubasa defended himself and deliberately pretended to fall under the Genjutsu.
• Kagami Uchiha struck Tsubasa with a fire technique, and the crowd declared Tsubasa defeated as Konoha’s clan elders mocked the Senju Clan.
• Students praised Tsubasa’s composure and bearing despite his loss, while Tsubasa decided to let the clans underestimate him.
• Kagami Uchiha apologized and left, and Tsubasa asked Biwako to carry him back as news of the match spread through Konoha.

Tsubasa developed his Qi Refining method by absorbing natural energy, refining it into his own Spiritual Qi, and circulating it through his meridians. After opening a complete internal cycle, he committed himself to growing stronger and eventually reaching Foundation Establishment.

• Tsubasa sought a quiet place on the mountain to cultivate and drew in the surrounding water and earth Spiritual Qi.
• He fused the natural energy with his physical and spiritual power, enduring pain as it transformed into his own Spiritual Qi.
• Tsubasa filled his qi sea and circulated Spiritual Qi through his meridians, opening the full circuit in seven days.
• He studied a cultivation-realm chart and decided to increase his Spiritual Qi until he could condense it into liquid and reach Foundation Establishment.
• Tsubasa cultivated three times a day, growing stronger as his qi sea filled and his meridians toughened.