Recaps

Shinsei’s students exposed a cruel lord, defeated his forces, and helped the villagers reclaim their land before Shinsei became Hokage and began challenging the daimyo’s authority. As Konoha and Sunagakure moved toward cooperation, Kakashi’s team arrested Kazuma’s conspirators, and Sasuke confronted the Daimyo over his denial of the assassination plot.

• Shinsei’s students defeated the bandits on Tangerine Mountain, exposed Lord Yamagami Mima’s abuses, and helped the villagers secure a new agreement.
• Shinsei captured Shin and Onihime, recruited Hiruko for his research team, and arranged for Momotaro to administer the village after Mima’s execution.
• Tsunade announced Shinsei’s succession, and Shinsei became the Sixth Hokage after declaring that he would protect Konoha and bring its people peace and happiness.
• Shinsei raised mission payments, expanded the Ninja Academy curriculum, and ordered missions against officials who oppressed common people, prompting the Daimyo of the Land of Fire to approve Kazuma’s plan to arrest him.
• Shinsei and Gaara agreed to improve cooperation between Konoha and Sunagakure, while Shinsei received intelligence that the Fire Daimyo planned to assassinate him.
• Kakashi led Team 7 to stop Kazuma’s plot, and they defeated Kazuma and his allies at the Fire Temple after learning that Sora was headed to Konoha to kill Shinsei.
• Kakashi presented Kazuma and his accomplices to the Daimyo, who denied involvement and condemned the arrests, until Sasuke seized him by the collar and left him shaken before the silent court.

Shinsei dismantled the daimyo’s authority, reorganized the Land of Fire, and prepared Konoha for new political challenges. As Kurenai’s team defended Hinata from Toneri, Shinsei arrived to face him, leaving their battle underway.

• The daimyo sentenced Kazuma and his allies, but Madara killed the daimyo, then fought Shinsei before withdrawing after their clash revealed the risks of Shinsei’s new technique.
• Shinsei rejected preserving the daimyo’s position and set Shikaku to plan its abolition, while Konoha established the Development Committee and sent Isamu Hyūga to reform a border outpost.
• Shinsei hosted Kurotsuchi and Samui, discussed the political barriers to abolishing their own daimyo, and offered to share Konoha’s experience before ordering Shikaku to begin a plan.
• Kurenai Yuhi rescued Hei Dalang and his mother, then helped Dago Village reclaim its grain and land from Kira while lowering taxes and teaching villagers chakra refinement.
• Toneri confronted Kurenai’s team, claiming Hinata must marry him and revealing his plan to destroy and rebuild the world, and Hinata entered Sage Mode and fought back after Toneri injured her companions.
• Hinata broke through Toneri’s defenses but was overwhelmed, refused his offer to spare her companions in exchange for marriage, and summoned Shinsei for help.
• Shinsei evaded Toneri’s Truth-Seeking Orbs and attacks, destroyed his giant statue, and avoided Silver Wheel Reincarnation Explosion with a Shadow Clone as the real Shinsei appeared behind him.

Shinsei defeated Toneri and helped save the world from the moon’s collapse, then pursued the Dragon Vein to stop Madara and was carried into Kaguya’s ancient world. He traveled with Kaguya to Takamagahara, where the gods’ welcome concealed hostility.

• Shinsei drove Toneri from the moon, then returned his injured companions to Konoha and later took Hinata and Little Nine back to confront him.
• Hinata used Nine-Tails Chakra Mode against the moon’s puppets, and she and Shinsei reached Toneri beneath the Tenseigan.
• Shinsei destroyed the Tenseigan with Hinata’s help, and they escaped as the moon split apart while ninja across the nations stopped its falling fragments.
• Shinsei sought Nagato’s advice, helped Tsunade and Orochimaru research immortality, and learned from the Katsuyu Sage that he had to go to Rōran to prevent disaster.
• Madara used the Dragon Vein to travel through time with a new tailed beast, and Shinsei followed him into the past, where he rescued Kaguya from a hostile crowd.
• Shinsei and Kaguya encountered Sarutahiko and Ame no Uzume no Mikoto near the God Tree, and Shinsei defeated them before agreeing to visit Takamagahara.
• Shinsei and Kaguya reached Takamagahara, where Ninigi-no-Mikoto invited Shinsei to stay, and Kaguya warned him that the gods harbored ill will toward him.

Shinsei and Kaguya uncovered Takamagahara’s human sacrifices and confronted the gods over the God Tree, while Shinsei gained control of Kagutsuchi’s flames. Madara joined the battle and killed Susanoo, as Omoikane revealed his plans for the gods and led Kukurihime to Amenominaka.

• Shinsei disrupted Ninigi-no-Mikoto’s altar ritual, but the rescued pair returned and were killed when they offered themselves for sacrifice.
• Kukurihime-no-Kami showed Ninigi-no-Mikoto a vision of Kaguya destroying Takamagahara and explained that Shinsei and another hidden force had obscured the future.
• Shinsei killed the false flame sage and defeated Kagutsuchi-no-Mikoto, absorbing his fire ability as Kaguya remembered her sister and told Shinsei she no longer wanted to be an Ōtsutsuki.
• Shinsei and Kaguya reached the God Tree, where Takemikazuchi-no-Kami and Susanoo confronted them, and Shinsei refused to abandon Kaguya.
• Shinsei fought Takemikazuchi-no-Kami and Susanoo until Madara arrived, declared he would protect the God Tree, and proposed that he and Shinsei kill the gods together.
• Madara used True Several Thousand Hands to destroy Susanoo’s giant and kill him, while Shinsei sealed the Kusanagi Sword and Takemikazuchi-no-Kami fled toward Takamagahara’s blocked gate.
• Omoikane-no-Kami told Kukurihime-no-Kami that Mikata Raijin was also meant to die, then showed her the rift Yomi-tsu and identified an immense head in black rock as Amenominaka.