Recaps

Tsubasa recovered from his mysterious condition, developed a powerful Sage Body, and became Hashirama Senju’s disciple and designated successor to the Senju Clan. As Hashirama named Tobirama Senju the Second Hokage, Tobirama began teaching Tsubasa the politics and strategy he would need to lead the clan.

• Senju Ga gave birth to Little Tsubasa as the Senju Clan prepared to dissolve, and Tsubasa began absorbing strange energies that caused his body to swell.
• Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju identified Tsubasa’s ability to absorb Natural Energy, and he spent years refining his body with costly medicine while the Senju supported his training.
• After recovering with extraordinary strength, Tsubasa reunited with his family, promised to avoid becoming a ninja, and privately resolved to grow stronger.
• Hashirama recognized Tsubasa’s Sage Body, took him as his disciple, and named him his successor as head of the Senju Clan while Tsubasa declared his goal was immortality.
• Tsubasa chose the Pure Yang Art, developed Wood Release, and endured a dangerous cultivation breakthrough before awakening to continue his training.
• Tsubasa trained in combat and Ninjutsu with Hashirama and Biwako, discovered that his water- and earth-attribute Chakra could absorb Natural Energy, and began strengthening it as Spiritual Qi.
• Hashirama announced Tobirama as the Second Hokage after the Elite Jonin vote, then Tobirama offered to train Tsubasa in politics, strategy, and clan management.

Tobirama used an assassination attempt on Tsubasa to justify wiping out six clans and forcing Konoha’s leaders to confront their crimes. As the village reorganized, Tsubasa hid his strength from Kagami Uchiha and began cultivating Spiritual Qi.

• Tobirama Senju and Hashirama Senju arranged for Tsubasa to appear vulnerable so hostile clans would attack him, while Tsubasa attended the Ninja Academy graduation and entered its elimination exams.
• Tsubasa watched Biwako and the other graduates compete, while Hiruzen Sarutobi, Shimura Danzō, Kagami Uchiha, and others advanced through the tournament.
• A squad ambushed Tsubasa on his way to the Senju Compound, but Tobirama and the Senju guards killed the attackers, prompting Tobirama to target clans implicated in the plot.
• Biwako confessed that she liked Tsubasa, and after his family proposed marriage, Tsubasa explained his plan to have seven wives while Biwako insisted that he marry only her.
• Tobirama’s forces attacked and exterminated the Ikeda, Yamashita, Hashimoto, Ishikawa, Shinozuka, and Yamamoto Clans, while Hashirama’s clones held back the other clan leaders.
• Tobirama presented evidence of the six clans’ crimes, warned other implicated clans, and led Konoha through reforms that established a criminal code and Anbu, expanded ninja registration, and strengthened the village barrier.
• Tsubasa pretended to lose his match against Kagami Uchiha so Konoha’s clans would underestimate him, then began cultivating Spiritual Qi on the mountain and opened a full circuit through his meridians.

Tsubasa helped the Senju family transform its businesses into Konoha’s leading enterprises, while powerful clans competed to secure marriages with him. He left for Shikkotsu Forest to cultivate, returned briefly with valuable ore, and departed again after promising to visit his family regularly.

• Tobirama Senju confronted the clan heads over the attack on Tsubasa, learned the clans had acted on Master Shoryu’s prophecy, and made them sign a pledge against further plots.
• Teacher Yamaki formed the young ninja teams, while Tobirama Senju trained six disciples who grew into powerful heirs to the Will of Fire.
• Hashirama Senju trained Tsubasa in Ninjutsu, and Tsubasa studied Sealing Jutsu, developed his spiritual qi, built a palace, and turned his family’s struggling businesses around.
• Tsubasa’s new shops and entertainment complexes brought the Senju family great wealth, and Senju Yasuhei hosted a banquet where he urged the gathered clans to put past grudges aside.
• Clan leaders arranged marriages between Tsubasa and five girls, while other clans resented the Senju family’s growing influence and its success in business.
• Hashirama Senju sent Tsubasa to Shikkotsu Forest, where Tsubasa cultivated under the Katsuyu Sage’s pressure and built a villa near her enormous main body.
• Tsubasa returned to Konoha with high-grade chakra metal, learned about herbs from Senju Yasuhei, and promised his family he would visit every three months before returning to Shikkotsu Forest.

After Hashirama Senju’s death, the great nations invaded, and Tsubasa left for seclusion while the Senju fought across several fronts. Tsubasa returned after breaking through to the Foundation Establishment Realm, found his father among the war’s survivors, and set out to confront the Land of Lightning’s leaders.

• Tsubasa grew close to the Katsuyu Sage, developed medicines and weapons, and became Senju clan head when Hashirama Senju died, but he yielded the position to Akira Senju after a council vote.
• Tsubasa departed for Shikkotsu Forest as the four great nations mobilized, and Tobirama Senju organized Konoha’s forces to defend the Land of Fire and aid its allies.
• Konoha’s armies fought across the Land of Grass, Land of Wind, Land of Water, and Land of Lightning, suffering heavy losses as Tennin Hyuga, Mumei Senju, and many others died.
• Tsubasa swallowed the blood-red pearl in Shikkotsu Forest and reached the Foundation Establishment Realm, then returned home and learned that his father had gone to the front.
• Tsubasa traveled to the Land of Lightning and found Senju Tenpuku after Senju Might and Orochi Senju sacrificed themselves to help him escape.
• Senju Tenpuku gave Tsubasa a letter, arranged his betrothal to Mai Shiranui, and asked him to care for the children of fallen comrades.
• Tsubasa flew toward the Land of Lightning’s army, intending to kill Raikage A and other leaders to end the war.