Recaps

Senju Kenya overwhelmed Shimura Danzō by killing him repeatedly, consuming his Izanagi resurrections one after another. After eight Sharingan went blind, Danzō staggered out for the ninth time, trembling and nearly out of lives.

• Uchiha Fugaku identified Danzō's Izanagi and condemned him for using the clan's Sharingan to survive.
• Danzō boasted that his arm gave him eleven chances to resurrect, then attacked Kenya with a storm of wind blades and poisoned kunai.
• Kenya dodged the attack and killed Danzō with a punch, triggering his first resurrection.
• Kenya intercepted Danzō's next resurrection and smashed him again, then attacked the shifting respawn point before Danzō could fully reform.
• Kenya repeatedly killed Danzō across the judgment plaza, using up eight Sharingan in thirty seconds.
• Danzō emerged for the ninth time and collapsed in terror, with only one Sharingan left.

Senju Kenya defeated Shimura Danzō’s final sealing attack and killed him, ending Root’s rule. The surviving Root ninja surrendered in the ruins of Konoha.

• Shimura Danzō used the Reverse Four Symbols Sealing Technique to try to trap Kenya and everything nearby in his corpse.
• Kenya stood his ground and shattered the expanding seal with a Haki-infused Fist Bone Meteor.
• Kenya’s punch vaporized Danzō, his Sharingan, and the Hashirama cells implanted in his arm.
• The surviving Root ninja dropped their weapons, removed their masks, and knelt in submission.

After abolishing Konoha's Council of Advisors and Elders, Tsunade ordered Mitokado Homura and Utatane Koharu to repay their abuses by sweeping the streets. As they began their humiliating work under Zabuza's threat, Senju Kenya reviewed a new five-year strategic plan for Konoha.

• Tsunade abolished the Council of Advisors and Elders and confiscated the Mitokado Homura and Utatane Koharu families' illegally acquired property for their victims.
• Mitokado Homura and Utatane Koharu were assigned to sweep Konoha's main road in sanitation uniforms.
• Mitokado Homura refused to work until Zabuza threatened them with his greatsword and ordered them to clean the road before dark.
• Mitokado Homura and Utatane Koharu swept as civilians and Genin mocked them and celebrated their punishment.
• Kato Yosuke presented Senju Kenya with Konoha's new five-year strategic plan, and Kenya declared it was time to give the village a new engine.

Senju Kenya established Iron Fist Heavy Industries to make Konoha a monopoly supplier of industrial equipment and weapons, assigning the Senju, Uchiha, Akimichi, and Iron Fist Chamber of Commerce distinct roles. Three days later, Konoha’s new factories were operating when Might Guy arrived at the construction site.

• Tsunade and Shikaku asked Kenya how Konoha should develop after its funds and resettlement plans were secured.
• Kenya announced Iron Fist Heavy Industries and assigned the Senju to supply black iron wood, the Uchiha to smelt alloys, the Akimichi to haul and compact materials, and the Iron Fist Chamber of Commerce to sell the products.
• Three days later, expanded Akimichi workers carried steel beams while Uchiha ninja fired the blast furnaces at a sprawling industrial site beside the Naka River.
• Kenya surveyed the new heavy industry beside its first stamping press when Might Guy leaped toward him.

Might Guy challenged Senju Kenya to an all-out Taijutsu showdown, calling him the greatest model for his lifelong pursuit of strength. Kenya accepted, and the two prepared to face each other beside the Naka River as a vast crowd watched.

• Might Guy and Rock Lee arrived at Kenya's construction site after completing a weighted handstand run, then praised Kenya's impact on Taijutsu.
• Might Guy challenged Kenya to a pure Taijutsu showdown in front of the workers and gathered shinobi.
• Kenya accepted Guy's challenge and called for them to fight in the clearing beside the Naka River.
• More than ten thousand spectators gathered around the clearing as Kenya and Guy took their positions.
• Guy closed his eyes, then opened them and unleashed a violent storm of chakra.

Might Guy challenged Senju Kenya with the Eight Gates Released Formation, but Kenya stood firm against his Morning Peacock barrage using only Armament Haki. Guy opened the Seventh Gate and formed an enormous air-made white tiger, leaving the clash poised to escalate.

• Might Guy opened the first six gates and launched Morning Peacock at Senju Kenya.
• Kenya blocked the flaming barrage with Armament Haki without moving or being injured.
• Guy landed, saw Kenya was unharmed, and opened the Seventh Gate.
• Guy’s blue vapor shook the land and drove back the Naka River as he formed an enormous white tiger from compressed air.

Might Guy unleashed the Seventh Gate’s Daytime Tiger against Senju Kenya, who answered with Fist Bone: Shockwave and smashed through the attack. Kenya caught the exhausted Guy, who stared up at him in stunned silence.

• Might Guy opened the Seventh Gate and fired the enormous Daytime Tiger at Kenya.
• Kenya compressed the air with his Haki-coated fist and unleashed Fist Bone: Shockwave.
• Kenya’s shockwave shattered the Daytime Tiger and forced Guy’s Seventh Gate closed.
• Guy spat blood and flew backward, but Kenya caught him with Geppo before he struck the rubble.
• Guy looked up at Kenya and froze in astonishment.

Kenya effortlessly endured Might Guy’s Seventh Gate and Daytime Tiger, then fed and advised the injured Guy while Konoha celebrated their Taijutsu battle. Watching from a distant cliff, Kakashi accepted Kenya’s overwhelming strength and quietly returned to reading Icha Icha Paradise.

• Might Guy collapsed after opening the Seventh Gate and was astonished that Kenya had taken his Daytime Tiger without injury or even sweating.
• Rock Lee rushed to Guy, but Kenya stopped their emotional reunion by stuffing a roasted sea beast leg into Guy’s mouth.
• Kenya told Guy to strengthen his body rather than rely on the Eight Gates, while the meat’s life energy rapidly repaired Guy’s muscles.
• Tens of thousands of Konoha spectators cheered Kenya and Guy along the banks of the Naka River.
• Kakashi watched Kenya from a distant cliff, put away his doubts, and began reading Icha Icha Paradise.

Kakashi tried to quietly read Icha Icha Paradise while Guy’s battle stirred excitement below, but Kenya caught him and forced him to train. The clifftop’s joking mood ended when Kato Yosuke arrived with an urgent report of trouble at the daimyo’s residence.

• Kakashi ignored Asuma, Kurenai, and Genma’s criticism as he read Icha Icha Paradise and defended his refusal to compete.
• Kenya slapped Kakashi, confiscated his signed first edition, and ordered him to complete two thousand weighted squats under Asuma’s supervision.
• Kakashi began squatting with a hundred-kilogram dumbbell while Asuma counted and mocked him.
• Kato Yosuke arrived with an urgent sealed document and told Kenya that serious trouble had arisen at the daimyo’s residence.

Senju Kenya received a decree from the Land of Fire's daimyo accusing him of treason, demanding Iron Fist Heavy Industries, freezing Konoha's funding, and ordering him to kneel and beg forgiveness. Rejecting Shikaku Nara's advice to compromise, Kenya set out for the daimyo's court to confront the daimyo.

• Kato Yosuke told Senju Kenya that nobles had accused him of ruling Konoha and threatening the daimyo's authority.
• Senju Kenya read the daimyo's decree demanding control of Iron Fist Heavy Industries, freezing Konoha's funding, and ordering him to appear at court within three days.
• Tsunade crushed the decree and angrily condemned the daimyo for ignoring Konoha's sacrifices and withholding its military funding.
• Shikaku Nara warned that defying the daimyo could isolate Konoha and suggested a political compromise.
• Senju Kenya rejected compromise, challenged the daimyo's claim to rule, and ordered everyone to go to the daimyo's court.

Kenya dismissed Tsunade and Shikaku’s plans for a military coup and prepared to visit the daimyo with a colossal black ironwood beam as his “gift.” He carried the thousand-ton pillar toward the capital, leaving Konoha’s workers and ninja stunned.

• Tsunade and Shikaku began planning an armed takeover of the daimyo’s estate, but Kenya told them he meant to reason with the daimyo without an army.
• Kenya led Tsunade, Shikaku, Kakashi, and others to Iron Fist Heavy Industries’ storage base and revealed a hundred-meter black ironwood beam.
• Kenya lifted the thousand-ton beam onto his shoulder using Armament Haki and immense strength.
• Kenya called for Zabuza and Haku to follow him, then set off toward the Land of Fire’s capital to visit the daimyo’s estate.

Senju Kenya charged into the Land of Fire’s capital carrying a hundred-meter blackwood pillar and demolished the daimyo’s palace defenses. He entered the throne hall and demonstrated his strength by snapping a pillar apart before the terrified daimyo.

• Kenya raced toward the daimyo’s palace with Zabuza Momochi and Haku struggling to keep up behind him.
• The palace guards fired heavy crossbow bolts at Kenya, but he crushed them with the blackwood beam and smashed through the White Tiger Gate.
• Kenya bulldozed through the palace grounds, scattering the samurai and destroying the structures in his path.
• Kenya planted the pillar in the plaza outside the throne hall, frightening the daimyo into falling from his throne.
• Kenya stepped into the hall and demonstrated snapping a pillar apart with his bare hands before the daimyo.

Kenya confronted the Land of Fire's daimyo over his decrees against Konoha and Iron Fist Heavy Industries. He snapped a massive black iron wood pillar with his bare hands, leaving the terrified daimyo to concede that Kenya would call the shots in Konoha.

• Kenya knocked out the daimyo's two retainer Jonin with Conqueror's Haki and rescued the daimyo from choking on a grape.
• Kenya questioned the daimyo about decrees accusing him of crimes and withholding Konoha's military funding, and the daimyo blamed the nobles who had fled Konoha.
• Kenya led the daimyo outside to inspect a hundred-meter black iron wood beam he had brought as a product test.
• Kenya used his strength and Armament Haki to snap the five-meter-thick beam in two, then smashed its upper half into the audience hall's marble steps.
• The daimyo wet himself and told Kenya that he would call the shots in Konoha.

Kenya forced the Land of Fire’s daimyo to accept a treaty granting the Senju Empire control over Konoha, tripling Konoha’s military funding, and directing infrastructure contracts to Iron Fist Heavy Industries. After the daimyo signed, Kenya eyed the imperial storehouses, suggesting he planned to claim more supplies.

• The daimyo blamed the pro-war officials for the decree against Konoha and begged Kenya to spare him.
• Kenya presented the daimyo with a treaty recognizing Senju rule over Konoha, tripling its military funding, and requiring the daimyo’s office to buy black iron wood from Iron Fist Heavy Industries.
• Kenya crushed granite to demonstrate his strength, and the frightened daimyo signed the treaty in blood and stamped it with the Nine Dragons Seal of State.
• The daimyo declared that Kenya would call the shots in Konoha, and Kenya took the treaty.
• Kenya looked toward the imperial household storehouses in the rear gardens as he prepared to claim more building materials.

Senju Kenya extorted the Land of Fire daimyo for treasures, five hundred million ryo, and doubled military funding, then returned to Konoha to celebrate. Meanwhile, Kakuzu and Hidan emerged near the border, setting the next threat in motion.

• Kenya invoked the treaty with the daimyo to demand sponsorship for Iron Fist Heavy Industries.
• The daimyo took Kenya into the imperial treasury, where Kenya claimed five hundred million ryo in gold certificates and selected rare treasures and medicinal herbs.
• Zabuza Momochi and Haku escorted the loaded treasure carriages out of the daimyo’s estate while the daimyo and his officials saw Kenya off.
• Tsunade and Konoha’s leaders prepared for the possibility that Kenya had killed the daimyo, but Kenya returned with the treasures and announced the daimyo had doubled military funding.
• Kakuzu and Hidan emerged from the shadows near the border between the Land of Fire and the Land of Rivers.

Kakuzu and Hidan discovered that Senju Kenya had become the target of a record-breaking bounty and set out for the Land of Fire. In Konoha, Kenya learned about the bounty and reacted with a sneer.

• Kakuzu and Hidan reached an underground bounty exchange, where Kakuzu collected five million ryō for a missing-nin’s head.
• The exchange manager showed Kakuzu a new bounty notice offering seven hundred million ryō for Senju Kenya and an intact body with a mutated Wood Release sample.
• Hidan wanted to sacrifice Kenya to Lord Jashin, but Kakuzu insisted the target had to remain unharmed and claimed the bounty as his own.
• Kakuzu and Hidan left for the Land of Fire to capture Kenya.
• Kato Yosuke told Kenya about the bounty while Kenya ate oden in Konoha, and Kenya sneered at the news.

Senju Kenya learned that Danzo and the fleeing nobles had funded a 700-million-ryo bounty on his head, drawing assassins—including Akatsuki’s Kakuzu and Hidan—toward the Land of Fire. Instead of ordering Konoha to prepare defenses, Kenya decided to raid the Underground Exchange’s vault and take its cash reserves.

• Kato Yosuke showed Kenya a black-market bounty notice offering 700 million ryo for his death and Wood Release samples.
• Tsunade and Shikaku Nara warned Kenya that assassination forces were entering the Land of Fire, including Akatsuki’s Kakuzu and Hidan, and urged Konoha to go on high alert.
• Kenya realized that the Underground Exchange required employers to deposit the bounty money and kept billions of ryo in its central vault.
• Kenya announced that he would attack the Underground Exchange, smash its vault, and take all its money.

Senju Kenya learned that the Underground Exchange held billions of ryo and the bounty money placed on his head, so he decided to raid its central treasury. He ordered his allies and the Iron Fist Chamber of Commerce to prepare for the expedition.

• Tsunade confronted Senju Kenya after he mapped the underground banks and Bounty Stations across the Land of Fire.
• Kato Yosuke explained that the Underground Exchange was a vast financial network whose central treasury held at least five billion ryo.
• Yosuke revealed that the Exchange had already received the seven-hundred-million-ryo bounty on Kenya in cash.
• Kenya declared the bounty money his property and the rest of the treasury compensation, while Shikaku Nara and Tsunade accepted the plan.
• Kenya ordered Zabuza Momochi, Haku, and the chamber of commerce to prepare transport and sacks before setting out to raid the Bounty Station.

Senju Kenya led a heavily equipped convoy to rob the Bounty Station’s secret headquarters on the Fire-Rivers border. After Zabuza Momochi and Haku destroyed a bounty hunter ambush, Kenya blasted open the hidden cavern entrance and entered with his crew.

• Kato Yosuke assembled thirty iron wagons, empty chests, sacks, and a crew of enforcers for Kenya’s expedition.
• Kenya led the convoy out of Konoha as villagers cheered them on to bring back gold for subsidies.
• Dozens of bounty hunters ambushed the convoy, but Zabuza Momochi smashed the attackers ahead of the wagons and Haku killed the survivors with ice senbon.
• Kato Yosuke identified the Bounty Station’s hidden headquarters behind a waterfall in Beheading Valley.
• Kenya punched through the waterfall, concealed entrance, and barriers, then walked into the cavern with his crew as the manager pleaded to talk.

Senju Kenya stormed the Bounty Station and seized its vast treasury after demanding payment for his own bounty. As his convoy left, Kakuzu and Hidan blocked the road between the Land of Rivers and the Land of Fire.

• Kenya entered the Bounty Station with Zabuza Momochi and fifty enforcers, then demanded the seven hundred million ryo posted for his head.
• Zabuza Momochi crushed the guards who charged at Kenya, and the one-eyed manager begged for mercy and blamed Danzo's death soldiers and the old nobility.
• Kenya ordered Kato Yosuke and the enforcers to audit the accounts and loot the Bounty Station's vaults.
• The enforcers loaded the stolen wealth onto thirty wagons, and Kenya led the convoy away from the emptied headquarters.
• Kakuzu and Hidan intercepted Kenya's convoy on a muddy border road.

Kakuzu and Hidan blocked Senju Kenya’s convoy on a muddy mountain road, hoping to claim his bounty and the Bounty Station’s treasury. Kenya mocked the Akatsuki pair, and Hidan threatened him in Jashin’s name.

• A guard halted the convoy when Kakuzu and Hidan appeared in the narrow pass.
• Kakuzu recognized the convoy’s gold and bearer notes and calculated that the bounty and treasury were worth four billion ryo.
• Hidan declared the convoy’s people sacrifices for Jashin and singled out Senju Kenya.
• Zabuza Momochi identified the attackers as Akatsuki and warned Kenya about their danger.
• Kenya stepped between the two sides and ridiculed Kakuzu and Hidan.
• Hidan flew into a rage, raised his scythe, and threatened that Lord Jashin would punish Kenya.

Hidan attacked Senju Kenya after Kenya insulted the Jashin Cult, but Kenya stood still and let the scythe strike his neck. The blow shattered Hidan’s weapon, leaving the fight unresolved.

• Hidan raged at Kenya for insulting the Jashin Cult and prayed for the chance to offer Kenya’s blood to Lord Jashin.
• Hidan charged Kenya with his Triple-Bladed Scythe while Kakuzu warned him not to damage the bounty target’s corpse.
• Zabuza prepared to intervene, but Kenya told everyone to stand back and ordered Haku to keep the gold bars dry.
• Hidan swung his scythe at Kenya’s exposed throat, but Kenya’s skin turned black-gold and the weapon broke on impact.

Senju Kenya took Hidan’s scythe strike on his neck without injury, shattering the weapon and injuring Hidan. Kakuzu recognized Kenya as a terrifying physical monster, and Kenya mocked Hidan’s technique.

• Hidan slashed Senju Kenya’s neck, but the impact broke the scythe without leaving a mark.
• The recoil tore open Hidan’s hands and wrists and hurled him into the muddy path.
• Hidan stared in disbelief at his broken weapon and uninjured target.
• Kakuzu realized Kenya had stopped the strike with sheer bodily strength, without using a technique.
• Kenya brushed iron filings from his neck and told Hidan that his scraping technique was inadequate.

Senju Kenya mocked Hidan and effortlessly endured his desperate attacks, while Kakuzu realized the bounty job was beyond them. Kenya then unleashed his power and shattered Hidan with one punch.

• Kenya taunted Hidan and insulted Lord Jashin after breaking Hidan’s scythe.
• Hidan attacked Kenya with a ritual spike, but Kenya’s hardened body blunted and bent it while the strikes tore Hidan’s hands apart.
• Kakuzu watched in terror and understood that the mission was effectively a death warrant.
• Kenya ended the fight by unleashing his Haki and smashing Hidan’s body to pieces with one punch.

Senju Kenya shattered Hidan’s body with one punch, leaving Hidan’s still-living head to curse him from the mud. Kenya then silenced Hidan and turned his attention to the horrified Kakuzu.

• Senju Kenya struck Hidan with a single punch that blasted his body into scattered pieces.
• Hidan’s severed head continued screaming curses and threats, while his detached hand raised a middle finger.
• Zabuza Momochi and Haku watched in shock as Kakuzu froze in terror at the sight of Hidan’s dismantled body.
• Kenya planted a foot on Hidan’s head and ground his face into the mud, telling him to shut up.
• Kenya stared coldly at Kakuzu, who reconsidered pursuing the bounty.