Recaps

Danzo the Wanderer appeared inside the Demon Tribe’s headquarters, used a strange ability to control Sasuke and a samurai, and escaped after taunting the gathered fighters. Pain the Wanderer and Konan the Wanderer explained that they feared his power, while Danzo wondered how the Demon Tribe had defeated the Black Armor Legion.

• Naruto sensed chakra coming from Danzo the Wanderer’s headless corpse and warned a samurai not to touch it, but the samurai grabbed its shoulder.
• Danzo the Wanderer revived and used a scarlet Sharingan-like flash to take control of the samurai and Sasuke, forcing Sasuke to attack him as his head regenerated.
• Danzo the Wanderer dodged their attacks, threatened to return, and vanished from the headquarters.
• Jiraiya the Wanderer cursed Danzo, while Tobirama the Wanderer suspected his strange ability involved time.
• Pain the Wanderer and Konan the Wanderer emerged and told the others that Danzo the Wanderer was powerful and dangerous.
• Danzo the Wanderer appeared elsewhere and wondered how the Demon Tribe had defeated the Black Armor Legion.

Danzo the Wanderer planned to attack the Demon Tribe after gathering reinforcements, while the tribe’s fighters discussed how to counter his time-based ability. Tobirama the Wanderer said only space or Sealing Jutsu could oppose it, and Sasuke looked toward Naruto with a complicated expression.

• Danzo the Wanderer returned to his camp, considered capturing Sasuke to obtain more Sharingan, and ordered preparations for an attack.
• Danzo the Wanderer learned that Naruto and Sasuke had appeared in the Demon Tribe and that it had seven or eight high-end combatants.
• Danzo the Wanderer called for Akatsuki members on missions to join him before he attacked.
• Pain the Wanderer told the Demon Tribe’s fighters that Danzo the Wanderer would wait for reinforcements before launching an all-out attack.
• Jiraiya the Wanderer asked Tobirama the Wanderer how to counter Danzo the Wanderer, and Tobirama said space or Sealing Jutsu might work.
• Sasuke watched Naruto with a complicated gaze after Tobirama the Wanderer mentioned space and Sealing Jutsu.

Naruto and the others planned to ambush Danzo the Wanderer, but he detected them from more than a kilometer away. Naruto called off the approach and ordered a long-range attack, leaving Danzo facing two incoming blue beams.

• Naruto said sealing techniques could stop Danzo the Wanderer's space ability, and the group suspected his Mangekyō Sharingan came from Itachi the Wanderer and that his bandaged eye might belong to Shisui.
• Sasuke vowed to kill Danzo the Wanderer if he had hurt Itachi, while Naruto calmed him down.
• Naruto, Sasuke, Jiraiya the Wanderer, Tobirama the Wanderer, Konan the Wanderer, and Pain the Wanderer planned to attack Danzo at night; Zabuza the Wanderer and Haku the Wanderer stayed to guard the base.
• Danzo the Wanderer sensed Naruto watching him with the Byakugan from over a kilometer away, and Naruto ordered the group to attack immediately.
• Naruto grew suspicious that Danzo might have used time rewinding, changed the plan to a long-range assault, and Danzo saw two blue beams flying toward him.

Naruto and his allies confronted Danzo the Wanderer, whose Izanagi let him recover from devastating attacks. Naruto and Sasuke struck him together, then used hidden Explosive Tags to send him flying.

• A combined Railgun blast shattered Danzo the Wanderer, but Izanagi restored his body while his subordinates remained injured.
• Naruto saw through his Byakugan that Danzo the Wanderer had survived and led the group toward him.
• Danzo the Wanderer recognized Konan the Wanderer and realized she had deceived him, but Naruto and Sasuke attacked before he could speak.
• Naruto's Rasengan and Sasuke's Chidori struck Danzo the Wanderer, who healed again with Izanagi.
• Sasuke triggered Explosive Tags that Naruto and Sasuke had secretly planted beneath Danzo the Wanderer, blasting him into the air.

Naruto, Sasuke, and Tobirama the Wanderer pressured Danzo the Wanderer until repeated uses of Izanagi left him near collapse. As they prepared another attack, Danzo the Wanderer summoned a mysterious being to help him escape.

• Danzo the Wanderer used Izanagi to undo Sasuke's attack, then dodged as Sasuke, Naruto, and Tobirama the Wanderer attacked him together.
• Naruto realized Danzo the Wanderer could not keep using Izanagi indefinitely, and he and Sasuke joined Tobirama the Wanderer in surrounding him.
• Naruto, Sasuke, and Tobirama the Wanderer forced Danzo the Wanderer to rewind time again, leaving him trembling and severely weakened.
• Danzo the Wanderer declared that he would not be defeated and summoned the Walker who devours dreams as white smoke and a dark shape appeared.

Naruto and the others failed to capture Danzo the Wanderer after his Baku swallowed him and carried him away. Back at the Akatsuki hall, Danzo awoke with memories of another life and realized he was no longer in Konoha’s prison.

• Danzo the Wanderer summoned Baku, which swallowed him and vanished before Naruto and the others could stop it.
• Jiraiya the Wanderer suspected Danzo had awakened memories from before his reincarnation, and Naruto warned that this could make his Izanagi far more dangerous.
• Tobirama the Wanderer worried that Danzo’s escape would lead to major trouble, and the group returned to the Demon Tribe.
• Baku spat Danzo out in the Akatsuki hall, where he recovered on his throne as Black Zetsu noticed his changed demeanor.
• Danzo examined his Sharingan-covered arm and wondered why he was no longer in Konoha’s prison.

Danzo the Wanderer absorbed his body's memories, learned about the god of this world, and vowed to kill Naruto Uzumaki and Sasuke Uchiha before returning to the Shinobi World. At the Demon Tribe, the others considered the danger of his escape, while Obito agreed to help Kakashi the Wanderer rescue Obito the Wanderer.

• Danzo the Wanderer recognized familiar faces, absorbed his body's memories, and vowed to kill Naruto Uzumaki and Sasuke Uchiha, slay the world's god, and reclaim Konoha as Hokage.
• At the Demon Tribe, Naruto admitted he did not know where Danzo the Wanderer had gone, and Tobirama the Wanderer outlined the dangers if Danzo had awakened his past memories.
• Pain the Wanderer predicted Danzo would return and warned that Akatsuki members might come after the Demon Tribe, while Zabuza the Wanderer welcomed the prospect of a fight.
• Kakashi the Wanderer told Obito about Obito the Wanderer's past, and Obito grew cold when the conversation turned to friendship and Kakashi.
• Obito left the cave to help Kakashi the Wanderer rescue Obito the Wanderer, and Kakashi thanked him.

Obito joined Kakashi the Wanderer in a Genjutsu world where Obito the Wanderer was trapped and repeatedly slaughtered its inhabitants. After Kakashi the Wanderer shocked him back to his senses, Obito the Wanderer confronted Obito and demanded to know why he was there.

• Obito followed Kakashi the Wanderer through Kamui into a Genjutsu world filled with burning houses and dead inhabitants.
• Kakashi the Wanderer explained that the world reset each full moon, that Obito the Wanderer was dragged back into it, and that he once escaped by killing everyone inside.
• Kakashi the Wanderer tried to warn Obito as Obito the Wanderer attacked, but his hand passed through Obito.
• Obito and Obito the Wanderer fought with Kamui Intangibility, leaving both unable to land an attack.
• Kakashi the Wanderer sent lightning-style Ninjutsu through Kamui to shock Obito the Wanderer back to his senses.
• Obito the Wanderer stopped attacking, noticed Obito and Kakashi the Wanderer, and demanded to know what Obito was doing there.

Obito concluded that Obito the Wanderer’s unusable Rinnegan was connected to the Genjutsu world trapping him, and explained the eye’s powers to him and Kakashi the Wanderer. The group still lacked a way to escape without killing everyone, and Obito remembered that Black Zetsu was missing.

• Kakashi the Wanderer stopped Obito and Obito the Wanderer from fighting and explained that he had called Obito to help rescue his friend.
• Obito suspected that Obito the Wanderer’s Rinnegan was connected to the Genjutsu world, and Obito the Wanderer admitted he could not use its powers.
• Obito learned that neither Obito the Wanderer nor Kakashi the Wanderer knew how they had obtained their eyes, so he explained the Sharingan, Mangekyō Sharingan, and Rinnegan.
• Obito the Wanderer guessed that he could not use his Rinnegan until he cleared the Genjutsu world, and Obito agreed that the theory made sense.
• Obito told Obito the Wanderer to stop killing indiscriminately, but the group could not figure out how to dispel the world after past attempts to help either side had failed.
• Obito asked Black Zetsu for advice, then remembered that Black Zetsu had been kicked away during Kakashi the Wanderer’s rescue.

Obito tried to use the dormant pieces of Black Zetsu inside him to locate the creature, but Black Zetsu could not sense or contact him across worlds. Kakashi the Wanderer realized his earlier kick had driven Black Zetsu away, while Danzo the Wanderer noticed something strange about the being attached to his cane.

• Obito admitted he had no immediate solution to the Rinnegan problem and said they needed to find Black Zetsu.
• Kakashi the Wanderer revealed that he had kicked Black Zetsu away, mistaking him for something unclean.
• Obito explained that Black Zetsu could sense him through pieces of his body stored inside him, then used chakra to signal those pieces.
• Black Zetsu woke in Akatsuki's great hall and tried to sense Obito, but their presence in different worlds prevented contact.
• Danzo the Wanderer noticed something odd about Black Zetsu on his cane, then resumed refining his chakra without dispelling the unknown genjutsu in his Mangekyō Sharingan.
• Kakashi the Wanderer asked Obito whether the signal had worked.

Obito the Wanderer sent Kakashi the Wanderer and Obito to search for Black Zetsu and investigate Danzo the Wanderer, while he remained in the genjutsu world seeking a way out and hoping to save Rin the Wanderer. The search found no trace of Black Zetsu, and the chapter ended with Naruto and Sasuke learning that the Akatsuki had a reserve member called Deidara the Wanderer.

• Obito the Wanderer told Kakashi the Wanderer and Obito to search for Black Zetsu, then check on the Akatsuki and avoid fighting if they were spotted.
• Obito the Wanderer stayed behind in the genjutsu world, wondering whether solving its mystery could help him unlock the Rinnegan and rescue Rin the Wanderer.
• Kakashi the Wanderer and Obito emerged in a forest, searched the place where Black Zetsu had disappeared, and found no trace of him.
• Kakashi the Wanderer and Obito left the search to investigate Danzo the Wanderer and the Akatsuki.
• The Demon Tribe rebuilt its defenses after Danzo the Wanderer’s attack, while Naruto and Sasuke discussed which Akatsuki member might arrive first.
• Pain the Wanderer told Naruto and Sasuke that Deidara the Wanderer was among the Akatsuki’s reserve members.

Deidara the Wanderer arrived at the Demon Tribe and attacked it with explosive clay creations. As Naruto and Sasuke watched the peaceful gathering turn into chaos, Deidara unleashed a swarm of giant clay spiders against the tribe’s defenders.

• Sasuke eagerly promised to defeat Deidara the Wanderer, while Naruto dragged him away from the watching crowd.
• Deidara the Wanderer arrived at the Demon Tribe and sent a clay centipede up the wall, where it exploded after a samurai struck it.
• Deidara the Wanderer fed clay into the mouth on his hand and formed a swarm of white spiders.
• The old samurai ordered the defenders to retreat, but Deidara’s spiders reached the gates and walls and exploded among them.

Deidara the Wanderer attacked the Demon Tribe, but Haku the Wanderer and Naruto intervened before Uchiha Sasuke confronted him. Sasuke neutralized Deidara the Wanderer’s buried Clay Bombs, leaving Deidara’s attempt to detonate them unanswered.

• Deidara the Wanderer sent explosive clay birds at the Demon Tribe, and Haku the Wanderer cut them down before confronting him.
• Deidara the Wanderer provoked Haku the Wanderer, then survived being cleaved in two by turning into explosive clay and detonating.
• Haku the Wanderer raised Demonic Mirroring Ice Crystals to shield himself, but the blast shattered them and sent him flying.
• Naruto caught Haku the Wanderer and healed him with the Mystical Palm Technique as Uchiha Sasuke arrived to face Deidara the Wanderer.
• Uchiha Sasuke used his Sharingan and Lightning Release: Chidori Senbon to clear the nearby Clay Bombs, then watched Deidara the Wanderer fail to detonate them.

Sasuke toyed with Deidara the Wanderer, nullifying his explosive clay and using the Sharingan to terrify him. Naruto told Sasuke to finish, and Deidara came out of the encounter trapped in Genjutsu.

• Sasuke noticed Deidara the Wanderer did not understand why his explosive clay had stopped responding.
• Deidara attacked with Clay Birds and more explosive clay, but Sasuke disabled each attempt with Lightning Release while taunting him.
• Deidara used a Clay Clone to escape, but Sasuke appeared to him underground and unnerved him with his Sharingan.
• Sasuke mocked Deidara’s body and his claim that his art justified it, while onlookers joined in.
• Naruto told Sasuke to deal with Deidara, who then found himself back where he started and realized he had fallen into Genjutsu.

Sasuke defeated Deidara the Wanderer with genjutsu, and Naruto sealed him before handing him over to Haku the Wanderer. After testing Naruto’s Fire Prison on Sasuke, Naruto warned Haku that killing the captive could bring even more trouble.

• Sasuke trapped Deidara the Wanderer in a genjutsu, leaving him motionless and defeated.
• Naruto used several sealing techniques and other jutsu on Deidara the Wanderer, then passed him to Haku the Wanderer to restrain.
• Naruto hit Sasuke with Fire Style: Fire Prison, and Sasuke escaped the burning effect by stopping his chakra circulation and entering Sage Mode.
• Naruto released the technique, but Sasuke refused to learn it because he did not think it looked cool.
• Naruto warned Haku the Wanderer that killing Deidara the Wanderer could invite further trouble, possibly from another enemy.

Naruto and Sasuke discussed the dangerous power sealed inside Deidara the Wanderer, while Sasori the Wanderer used a tiny white spider to contact his captive. Deidara the Wanderer realized Sasori had reached him, but the spider’s emergence and return caused him intense pain.

• Sasuke admitted he had secretly beaten Deidara the Wanderer, and Naruto warned him not to loosen the seals.
• Sasuke told Naruto he sensed terrifying power beneath the seals on Deidara the Wanderer’s body, and they agreed to keep it quiet and consider sealing him completely.
• Sasori the Wanderer noticed Deidara the Wanderer had not moved and used a tiny scroll marked “Dei” to send something to him.
• A small white spider marked with “Dei” emerged from a sealed mouth on Deidara the Wanderer’s abdomen and woke him with stabbing pain.
• The spider spoke in Sasori the Wanderer’s hoarse voice, mocked Deidara the Wanderer, then crawled back through the torn seal and caused him another wave of pain.

Sasori the Wanderer used a white puppet hidden inside Deidara the Wanderer to send a signal and monitor the Demon Tribe, while strange puppet-controlled figures emerged across the land. Naruto and Sasuke discovered and removed the puppet, briefly meeting Sasori's gaze through its eyes before he destroyed it.

• Sasori the Wanderer learned that Deidara the Wanderer was sealed and unable to use chakra, then settled down in the cave as puppet-controlled figures began emerging in the night.
• Naruto and Sasuke visited Deidara the Wanderer in prison and demanded to know what was sealed inside him.
• Sasuke spotted a chakra source in Deidara the Wanderer's abdomen and used Chidori to pull out a small white spider puppet.
• Naruto healed Deidara the Wanderer while the spider puppet revealed its many eyes and let Naruto and Sasuke see Sasori the Wanderer through them.
• Sasori the Wanderer severed his connection to the spider and made it self-destruct.

Naruto used genjutsu to strike Sasori the Wanderer, who escaped by switching bodies after his original body disintegrated. Back in the Demon Tribe, Sasuke beat Deidara the Wanderer while Naruto questioned whether Sasori would come, and Deidara remained confident in his master.

• Sasori the Wanderer saw Naruto’s scarlet eyes in his mind and suffered a devastating headache after Naruto warned him to hide.
• Sasori the Wanderer destroyed his body and emerged from the cave in a different body, realizing he had escaped Naruto’s attack.
• Naruto told Sasuke what had happened, and Sasuke wondered whether Sasori the Wanderer had died.
• Deidara the Wanderer declared that Sasori was immortal, so Sasuke punched him twice while Naruto’s seal prevented him from cushioning the blows.
• Naruto asked whether Sasori would come, and Deidara boasted that Sasori had destroyed a tribe and turned its members into clones.

Naruto and Sasuke left Deidara the Wanderer imprisoned after securing him, while Sasori the Wanderer led an eerie procession toward the Demon Tribe to investigate Sasuke’s eyes and rescue Deidara. The Demon Tribe sounded an alarm before Sasori’s procession arrived, leaving him bewildered.

• Sasuke used the great memory technique to make Deidara the Wanderer behave, and Naruto reinforced Deidara’s seal and checked him for more puppet spiders.
• Naruto doubted Sasori the Wanderer would risk coming to the Demon Tribe, while Sasuke suspected he would attempt a rescue.
• Sasori the Wanderer advanced toward the Demon Tribe with a strange procession of people moving in perfect unison, including people who had disappeared along the way.
• Deidara the Wanderer panicked in his cell, worried that Sasori would abandon him, and fell asleep fearing he would remain imprisoned forever.
• As Sasori’s procession neared the Demon Tribe, an alarm rang out, and Sasori wondered how the tribe had detected them.

Sasori the Wanderer came to rescue Deidara the Wanderer, forcing the Demon Tribe to confront him outside its borders. Naruto and the others discovered Sasori was controlling puppets remotely, and the chapter ended as Sasuke challenged him after his puppets attacked.

• A late-night alarm woke the Demon Tribe, and the council decided to keep Sasori the Wanderer outside the tribe and send fighters to meet him.
• Naruto, Sasuke, Tobirama the Wanderer, and Pain the Wanderer found Sasori's puppets outside the Demon Tribe, and Naruto used his Byakugan to identify them.
• Sasori spoke through the puppets, revealed that his real body was elsewhere, and mocked Tobirama the Wanderer when he destroyed one of them.
• Sasori accused Pain the Wanderer of betraying the organization and announced that he would make everyone present his new bodies before sending the puppets to attack.
• Sasuke fought off a puppet and warned Sasori that he would not leave if that was all the strength he had.

Naruto and his allies fought Sasori the Wanderer’s specialized puppets and destroyed them after revealing they had been holding back. Sasori the Wanderer escaped the battle’s immediate grasp but lost all of his deployed puppets and vowed to return.

• Sasori the Wanderer abandoned his weaker puppets and sent five specialized creations—Kinoe, Kinoto, Hinoe, Hinoto, and Tsuchinoe—to fight Naruto, Sasuke, and the others.
• Tobirama the Wanderer found that his chakra-enhanced blades could not cut through the puppets, while Naruto recognized their unusual ability to use ninjutsu and share vision.
• Naruto ordered everyone to stop holding back, and he and Sasuke destroyed nearby puppets with attacks and Fire Release.
• Sasori the Wanderer tried to retreat his remaining puppets, but the group burned and wrecked them all.
• Sasori the Wanderer roared that he would return while Tobirama the Wanderer stayed behind to watch the flames consume the puppets.

Sasori the Wanderer failed to rescue Deidara the Wanderer and recovered memories that made him suspect Naruto was the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki. Meanwhile, Naruto grew closer to Jiraiya the Wanderer, and Obito recovered Black Zetsu from Danzo the Wanderer, giving him a way to address Obito the Wanderer's Rinnegan.

• Sasori the Wanderer escaped after his failed rescue attempt, then regained his memories and wondered whether Naruto resembled the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki.
• Jiraiya the Wanderer offered to teach Naruto to use Nine-Tails chakra, and Naruto demonstrated Nine-Tails Chakra Mode before walking on with him.
• After Sasori the Wanderer's attack failed and Deidara the Wanderer was captured, the Akatsuki members stayed away from the Demon Tribe.
• Danzo the Wanderer told Obito that an important mission was coming and handed him Black Zetsu, whom he had found outside the base.
• Obito took Black Zetsu to find Kakashi the Wanderer so they could address Obito the Wanderer's Rinnegan.

Obito and Kakashi the Wanderer woke Black Zetsu and explained the problem with Obito the Wanderer's Rinnegan. Black Zetsu connected it to Jashin and began revealing the truth about the Sage of Six Paths.

• Obito showed Kakashi the Wanderer the unresponsive Black Zetsu, and Kakashi woke him by threatening that his mommy would stop wanting him.
• Obito and Kakashi the Wanderer explained Obito the Wanderer's Rinnegan problem to Black Zetsu.
• Black Zetsu asked whether there were gods in Kakashi the Wanderer's world, then identified Jashin as the god who granted Hidan his immortality.
• Black Zetsu told Obito that the Sage of Six Paths had originally been only flesh and blood.

Black Zetsu concluded that Obito the Wanderer’s unusable Rinnegan might be part of a god’s trial, while Kakashi the Wanderer secretly received instructions from that god. Obito the Wanderer emerged from meditation with an idea and prepared to explain it to Black Zetsu.

• Black Zetsu suggested that a god had made Obito the Wanderer’s Rinnegan a trial and that someone had interfered with Kakashi the Wanderer’s memories of Obito’s eyes.
• Black Zetsu led the group back into the Genjutsu World and judged it to be a small, self-contained realm connected to the trial.
• A god secretly spoke to Kakashi the Wanderer, warned him not to reveal its existence, and described two possible paths for resolving the Genjutsu World’s conflict.
• The group found Obito the Wanderer meditating beside his katana as violent energy rippled around him.
• Obito the Wanderer opened his eyes, saw that Black Zetsu had arrived, and said he had come up with an idea to share.

Obito the Wanderer learned that a god may have influenced his Rinnegan and offered him two paths, each leading to different abilities. He recalled Danzo the Wanderer’s claim that the God Tree could revive Rin the Wanderer and asked Black Zetsu whether his choice would shape his awakened Rinnegan.

• Kakashi the Wanderer told Obito the Wanderer about two possible paths: ruling through nonaction or dominating through force, while hiding that a god had given him the choices.
• Obito the Wanderer pressed Kakashi the Wanderer to explain who had revealed the choices, but Kakashi the Wanderer refused to tell him.
• Black Zetsu speculated that a god existed in the Wanderer World and might have granted Obito the Wanderer his Rinnegan as a test of his ability to rule.
• Obito the Wanderer recalled Danzo the Wanderer telling him that making the God Tree bloom would revive Rin the Wanderer, and wondered whose claims to trust.
• Obito the Wanderer asked Black Zetsu whether the two choices would lead to different Rinnegan abilities, and Black Zetsu confirmed that the abilities depended on the choice.