Recaps

Hoshino’s reforms drove Sunagakure into civil war, where he defeated the Council of Elders’ Senjutsu-powered creation at the cost of devastating part of the village. As the Four Kage Summit approached, the great villages weighed their next moves and Raikage A prepared a Chakra Cannon demonstration.

• Hoshino and Jiraiya confronted Deva Path Pain over peace and the suffering in Falling Rain Town, then arranged a Four Kage Summit while Kumogakure prepared for war.
• Hoshino began modifying his body with Kikaichū and Shikotsumyaku cells, but the dangerous reaction left him unconscious as the Council of Elders plotted against the Reform Society.
• Hino exposed the Council’s abuses in the southern mining district through a livestream, prompting villagers and Reform Society forces to rise against the Council.
• Hoshino returned and deployed two thousand prosthetic ninja as the Reform Society battled the Council’s forces, while Gaara and Rasa cornered the Second Elder.
• Hoshino confronted Garaga and the monstrous creature bearing Hino’s brother’s face, then killed them with a final cannon strike that devastated a third of Sunagakure.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi and Jiraiya rejected an immediate attack on Sunagakure, while Shimura Danzō urged Hiruzen to use the summit to contain it and Raikage A prepared a Chakra Cannon test.
• The Reform Society selected Hoshino to attend the Four Kage Summit, and Raikage A invited the great villages to witness a demonstration at the Land of Rivers border.

Hoshino helped establish the Shinobi World Joint Council as the great nations negotiated strategic weapons and the use of reanimated dead, then the Alliance invaded Kusagakure and destroyed Hozuki Castle. In the Land of Demons, Hoshino studied Moryo and Shion’s Priestess Power, ending with a plan to seek knowledge tied to the Uzumaki Clan.

• Raikage A demonstrated the Chakra Cannon’s destructive power, prompting Jiraiya to urge the leaders to set rules for strategic weapons at the Four Kage Summit.
• At the summit, Hoshino and the other leaders formed the Shinobi World Joint Council, agreed on limits for Akatsuki, and accepted Orochimaru’s Otogakure and his restricted use of Impure World Reincarnation.
• The villages announced the joint conference, while Hoshino’s Reform Society expanded Sunagakure’s reforms and devised trade and currency measures to address shortages and political pressure.
• Hoshino oversaw Kankuro’s cybernetic conversion and helped Gaara survive Shukaku’s extraction, then traveled to the Land of Demons to meet Shion.
• Shion showed Hoshino that Moryo’s seal was weakening and warned that she had foreseen him dying, while Hoshino sought a way to balance Moryo and the priestess rather than destroy either.
• The Shinobi Alliance voted to seize the Box of Ultimate Bliss and reassess the Land of Iron’s neutrality, then invaded Kusagakure and used the Chakra Cannon to vaporize Hozuki Castle.
• Hoshino studied Moryo’s power and ancient priestess records with Shion, then found that Priestess Power drew on Natural Energy and began developing a way to channel it through his mechanical body.
• After his experiments failed to make his machinery resonate with nature, Hoshino planned to contact Pain and visit sites connected to the Uzumaki Clan.

Hoshino uncovered the truth behind Kaguya and the coming invasion, then united the Shinobi World to prepare for it. After Shion defeated Moryo and the Alliance began rebuilding, Hoshino left for a new world while Shion promised to wait for his return.

• Hoshino investigated Hidan’s immortality, but a vision of Jashin triggered a catastrophe that trapped him in a cocoon of decaying bone.
• Hoshino’s Qi, Priestess Power, All-Killing Ash Bones, and Mutant Insects rebuilt and balanced his body, after which he traveled to Roran and learned that otherworldly invaders could arrive within three to five years.
• Hoshino revealed Black Zetsu’s role in Kaguya’s revival and showed the Kage the history of the God Tree, the Ten-Tails, and the Eye of the Moon Plan.
• Hoshino persuaded the Kage to form a united alliance, brought back Madara and Hashirama through Impure World Reincarnation, and convened the leaders in Deliberation City to organize preparations for war.
• Sasuke returned to Konoha and reunited with Naruto, while Shion released Moryo’s spirit and absorbed the power of nine generations of priestesses.
• Madara, Hashirama, Hoshino, and Shion fought Moryo, and Shion used the Pure Moon Eye to accept and purify the resentment in its core.
• Hoshino asked Shion to guard the Dragon Vein while he traveled to a new world, and Shion promised to wait for his return as he vanished into golden motes.

Hoshino returned to the Shinobi World after securing a connection to Blue Star, then led the Shinobi Alliance’s campaign against the Heavenly Martial Empire. By the end, the empire had lost half its territory, and its emperor’s attempt to turn civilians against the Alliance ended with Madara fighting him and the Sword Saint.

• Hoshino left Blue Star after gathering the Eight Extraordinary Skills and obtaining Grand Luo Insight, then returned through the Dragon Vein as the two worlds became connected.
• Hoshino organized a five-front invasion of the Heavenly Martial Empire, and the Shinobi Alliance crossed the sea aboard its airborne fortress and fleet.
• The Alliance destroyed Iron Wall Fortress with Ancor Vantian’s main cannon, while Tieshan warned the emperor and the imperial court prepared for war.
• Naruto and Sasuke stopped imperial conscription in Azure Creek Town, and the Alliance captured provinces while investigating the Red Eyebrow Army.
• Tsunade offered Dragon-Locking Pass a chance to surrender, but Iron Wall’s forces attacked the envoys, prompting the Alliance to launch its puppet army against the pass.
• The Alliance defeated Iron Wall, Heaven Burner, Wind Chaser, and the defenders of Dragon-Locking Pass, while Minato sealed the Fallen Star Sword and the campaign took nearly half the empire’s territory.
• Heavenly Martial XIII burned the capital’s stores, poisoned its wells, and provoked the puppet legion into attacking civilians to discredit the Alliance.
• Hashirama tried to protect the civilians as Madara fought Heavenly Martial XIII and the Sword Saint, breaking the emperor’s shoulder and throwing the Sword Saint into the air.