Recaps

Tsunade brought Amegakure’s delegation to the Five Kage Summit in the Land of Iron despite not being invited, and Mifune allowed them inside. Ōnoki arrived next and learned that Amegakure’s leader had already entered the summit, leaving him and his guards stunned.

• The Five Kage chose the neutral Land of Iron for their summit and limited each leader to two guards.
• Tsunade arrived with Konan and Dakuu, identifying herself as Amegakure’s leader when Mifune questioned her invitation.
• Mifune let Tsunade and her guards enter after sensing her intimidating aura and deciding not to interfere.
• Third Tsuchikage Ōnoki arrived with two guards and asked Mifune whether the other Kage had arrived.
• Mifune told Ōnoki that Amegakure’s leader had entered without an invitation, and Ōnoki and his guards froze in shock.

Tsunade attended the postwar peace talks as Amegakure’s new leader, surprising the other Kage and Hiruzen Sarutobi. The talks began with the villages seeking the return of their tailed beasts and Jinchūriki, while Hiruzen faced pressure to negotiate favorable terms for Konoha.

• Ōnoki learned that Amegakure had sent a representative to the talks and expected Uya, but found Tsunade seated at the meeting instead.
• The Fourth Mizukage, Fifth Kazekage Rasa, Fourth Raikage, and Third Hokage Hiruzen Sarutobi arrived, each taking note of Tsunade’s presence.
• Hiruzen asked Tsunade why she had come, and she said she was Amegakure’s new leader.
• Hiruzen recalled that Danzo’s actions had wrecked the nearly settled deal to return the villages’ tailed beasts and Jinchūriki in exchange for supplies.
• Mifune opened the peace talks and left the room, after which Rasa asked Hiruzen what it would take to return the tailed beasts and Jinchūriki.

At the Five Kage Summit, Tsunade declared herself Amegakure’s leader and demanded supplies and territory in exchange for the Tailed Beasts. When Rasa and Ōnoki challenged her authority, Uya arrived and forced Rasa down into the floor.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi restated his demands to Rasa, but Tsunade interrupted and said the villages would have to negotiate with Amegakure to reclaim the Tailed Beasts.
• Tsunade declared that she was Amegakure’s leader and demanded supplies and territory from the Land of Wind and the Land of Earth.
• Ōnoki and Rasa challenged Tsunade’s manners and status, and Uya’s voice interrupted them.
• Uya entered the summit with Mifune, then confronted Rasa for claiming higher status than Tsunade.
• Uya shattered Rasa’s chair and used the Power of Tremors to drive him into the floor.

Uya intimidated the Five Kage and their guards, then walked toward Ōnoki while crushing his Dust Release technique with his bare hand. Ōnoki and the others were left stunned as Uya continued approaching him.

• Uya froze Rasa’s guards with a cold look, and they collapsed in fear after he turned away.
• Uya reminded Ōnoki that Tsunade was his teacher and began walking toward the Third Tsuchikage, his growing aura cracking the ground and knocking out samurai outside.
• Ōnoki used Dust Release: Detachment of the Primitive World Technique, hoping to make Uya stop or dodge.
• Uya caught the Dust Release cube, suppressed it, and crushed it in his hand.
• Ōnoki and his guards stared in disbelief as Uya continued toward him as though nothing had happened.

Uya silenced the Five Kage by overpowering Ōnoki and forcing him back into his seat, allowing Tsunade to resume the peace talks. He then left the Land of Iron and reached the desert settlement of Rōran, his true destination.

• Uya crushed Ōnoki’s Dust Release and threw him through the tower and into the sky, frightening the other Kage into silence.
• Uya returned to the sky, pressed Ōnoki down toward the tower, and sent him back through the holes into his chair.
• Tsunade asked the gathered Kage if they could talk properly now.
• Uya left the peace talks and traveled from the snowy Land of Iron toward Rōran.
• Uya arrived at Rōran, a small desert settlement whose energy came from the underground Dragon Vein.

Uya arrived in Rōran and discovered that the Dragon Vein had prevented Mukade from coming from the future, leaving Sara’s mother alive as queen. He entered the palace to speak with the queen, where he stopped the guards by destroying their weapons and armor without harming them.

• Uya sensed that Mukade and his puppets were absent from Rōran and learned that Sara’s mother still ruled as queen.
• Rōran’s residents and guards noticed Uya, but he vanished before they could question him and appeared inside the palace.
• Uya startled the queen, Princess Sara, and the ministers by appearing in the throne room.
• The palace guards attacked Uya, but he froze them and turned their weapons and armor to powder.
• Uya swept the powder out of the palace, leaving the guards unharmed and the court horrified.

Uya met with the Queen of Roran and explained that he wanted the dragon vein, while his display of power left her believing she could not refuse him. Princess Sara challenged him, arguing that taking the dragon vein would doom Roran, and Uya asked whether he could save the nation another way.

• Uya reassured the frightened Queen of Roran that he meant no harm, and she invited him to sit and ordered the ministers and guards to withdraw.
• Two guards who had seen Uya vanish from the street entered the palace, but the Queen of Roran sent them away after saying she already knew what had happened.
• Uya explained his purpose to the Queen of Roran, who feared that giving him the dragon vein would leave her nation helpless in the desert.
• Princess Sara stepped out from behind her mother and accused Uya of wanting to destroy her country.
• Uya asked Sara whether taking the dragon vein would destroy Roran, and she insisted that the nation needed it to withstand the sand and survive.
• Uya asked what if he could help Roran escape its predicament, but Sara said that stopping the sand and securing water without the dragon vein was impossible.

Uya claimed he could solve Rōran’s windblown sand erosion once and for all, and led the Queen of Roran, Sara, and a growing crowd to the edge of the desert. He stopped and made a sudden grasping motion, leaving the crowd waiting to see what he would do.

• Uya challenged Sara’s doubts by claiming he could permanently stop the windblown sand erosion.
• The Queen of Roran and Sara followed Uya out of the palace, while the queen worried he might seize the Dragon Vein if he failed.
• Sara told the ministers that Uya wanted the Dragon Vein’s power in exchange for solving Rōran’s problem, prompting angry protests.
• The Queen of Roran calmed the ministers and urged them to watch Uya, as guards and civilians gathered behind him.
• At the edge of Rōran, Uya faced the desert, reached out as if grasping something invisible, and wrenched downward.

Uya reshaped Rōran’s terrain with Quake Release and Sage Art: Earth Release, enclosing the city behind a rock wall and creating a river around it. Sara and the Queen of Roran, convinced he was a god, apologized to him as he asked whether he had solved the windblown sand problem.

• Uya used Quake Release to raise the entirety of Rōran and reshape the surrounding terrain.
• Uya combined Quake Release with Sage Art: Earth Release to build a rock wall around Rōran.
• Uya sensed the Dragon Vein but left it untouched, then found an underground water source and opened a passage to it.
• Uya caused the underground water to flow around Rōran, forming a river that encircled the city.
• The residents and ministers revered Uya, while Sara and the Queen of Roran bowed and begged his forgiveness.
• Uya asked Sara whether he had solved Rōran’s windblown sand problem.

After reshaping Rōran, Uya claimed its Dragon Vein and entered it to temper his Sage Body before beginning to absorb its immense energy. He left his consciousness in his Soul Space as the Dragon Vein’s power surged toward him.

• Uya teased Sara, then told the Queen of Roran that the Dragon Vein belonged to him before vanishing.
• The Queen of Roran saw how Uya’s changes had protected Rōran from the desert sand and redirected water through the city.
• Uya descended underground and considered the Dragon Vein’s vast Natural Energy, deciding to use it to strengthen himself rather than remove it.
• Uya let the Dragon Vein’s energy scour and temper his Sage Body until his strength and Power of Tremors increased.
• Uya began devouring the Dragon Vein’s power, and a vast surge of energy flooded his Soul Space as his consciousness appeared there.

Uya absorbed the Dragon Vein’s power, strengthening his body and chakra while storing most of its energy in his soul space for a future transformation. Aboveground, the Queen of Roran and Princess Sara faced an elite Sunagakure squad that had damaged the city and injured their guards.

• Uya suppressed the Dragon Vein’s energy in his soul space and discovered he had absorbed four-fifths of it, enough to prepare his soul for transformation.
• Uya absorbed the unstable remaining fifth into his body, increasing his chakra and the vitality of his cells.
• Uya used Sage Art: Earth Release to stabilize Rōran’s terrain after the Dragon Vein was depleted, then headed upward.
• The Queen of Roran and Princess Sara confronted Sunagakure ninjas amid damaged streets and injured guards.
• Princess Sara angrily told the Sunagakure ninjas that their altered terrain had been bestowed by a great deity and warned them against offending it.

Sunagakure ninja interrogated Rōran’s Queen about the god who had transformed the city and threatened Princess Sara when she refused to cooperate. Uya appeared and was recognized by the Sand Ninja as the God of the Shinobi World, leaving them frozen in terror.

• Sunagakure ninja demanded that the Queen of Rōran explain how the city’s terrain had changed and whether the dragon vein was involved.
• The Queen said a god had helped them, but the Sand Ninja accused her of hiding information.
• A Sand Ninja seized Princess Sara and threatened her until the Queen agreed to describe Uya.
• Uya appeared behind the Sand Ninja, who swung at him, saw his face, and dropped his kunai as the others stood frozen.
• The Sand Ninja recognized Uya as the God of the Shinobi World and realized he was the nightmare of every Sunagakure ninja.

Uya drove the Sunagakure ninja out of Rōran and returned to Amegakure after absorbing the dragon vein’s power. He discovered that nearly three months had passed during his absence and joined Tsunade, Kushina, Yahiko, and Konan to hear about a serious matter.

• Uya warned the Sunagakure ninja never to send others into Rōran and ordered them to leave.
• Uya told Sara and the Queen of Roran to use his name if more ninja came, then departed for the Land of Rain.
• Uya returned to Amegakure and found Kushina, Tsunade, Yahiko, and Konan gathered in Tsunade’s office.
• Kushina told Uya he had been gone nearly three months despite promising to return within one, and Uya blamed a discrepancy in the dragon vein’s flow of time.
• Tsunade interrupted Uya and Kushina’s reunion and asked everyone to discuss the serious matter.

Uya learned that unidentified attackers had abducted Iwagakure’s Four-Tails and Five-Tails Jinchūriki, leaving Konoha unwilling to risk a confrontation. He chose to wait while Amegakure gathered intelligence, then finished absorbing the meteorite’s energy and prepared to begin absorbing the Dragon Vein.

• Tsunade told Uya that attackers had seized the Four-Tails and Five-Tails Jinchūriki on their way back to Iwagakure, prompting Iwagakure to withhold supplies and territory.
• Uya reasoned that the kidnappers must be exceptionally powerful and suspected they were connected to Nagato and Madara Uchiha.
• Tsunade explained that Konoha was investigating but had sent only a few scouting units, and Uya said Amegakure should wait because the attackers were likely after the Tailed Beasts.
• Konoha and Amegakure dispatched scouts to search for the missing Jinchūriki and gather intelligence while Uya continued cultivating his soul.
• Uya absorbed the rest of the meteorite’s energy, strengthening his soul, and prepared to loosen the restrictions on the Dragon Vein’s energy using a method he had devised.

Uya split the Dragon Vein energy in his soul space and began absorbing it, sensing that his soul was nearing a transformation. Meanwhile, Iwagakure's pressure and Konoha's declining prestige led Hiruzen Sarutobi to step down and Minato Namikaze to become the Fourth Hokage, just before turmoil struck Konoha again.

• Uya used the power of tremors to split the Dragon Vein energy in two and began absorbing one half into his soul.
• Uya sensed that the Dragon Vein's power was bringing his soul closer to transformation and opening the Seventh Gate.
• Tsuchikage Ōnoki pressured Konoha over the abduction of the Four-Tails and Five-Tails Jinchūriki as Konoha's prestige declined.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi stepped down as Hokage, and Yellow Flash Minato Namikaze became the Fourth Hokage.
• Konoha faced another upheaval as Iwagakure's immediate pressure eased after Hiruzen Sarutobi took responsibility and resigned.

After Orochimaru defected, Uya sensed Indra and Asura’s chakra stirring and wondered whether their next reincarnations would still be Naruto and Sasuke. Meanwhile, Four-Tails and Five-Tails rampaged through Konoha as Minato confronted a vine-faced man who attacked the baby in his arms.

• Uya considered how Orochimaru’s defection and Minato Namikaze becoming Fourth Hokage affected Konoha, then sensed Indra and Asura’s chakra beginning to reincarnate.
• Uya wondered whether Indra and Asura’s chakra would still end up in Sasuke and Naruto, and felt driven to complete his transformation and open the Seventh Gate.
• Four-Tails and Five-Tails rampaged through Konoha while Hiruzen Sarutobi led the village’s ninja, including Kakashi Hatake, Might Guy, and Kurenai Yuhi, against them.
• Minato Namikaze confronted a vine-faced man with the Mangekyō Sharingan while holding a baby, and the man lunged at the child with a kunai.
• Minato Namikaze vanished and reappeared above the attacker, avoiding the thrust.

Minato Namikaze pursued the masked, vine-faced attacker while protecting Naruto, and discovered that the man was secretly Obito Uchiha. As Minato and Obito remained locked in combat, the Four-Tails and Five-Tails rampaged through Konoha, and both fighters were suddenly astonished by something unseen.

• Minato Namikaze chased the attacker into a deserted laboratory beneath Konoha while holding Naruto, and recognized Obito Uchiha beneath his strange appearance.
• Kakashi Hatake, Might Guy, Anko, Might Duy, and Hiruzen Sarutobi struggled to hold back the rampaging Four-Tails and Five-Tails.
• The Four-Tails praised Might Duy's strength but declared him inferior to another fighter, provoking Duy as the beast attacked.
• Minato Namikaze kept Obito Uchiha occupied despite carrying Naruto, while Obito tried to break away to pursue another objective.
• Minato Namikaze and Obito Uchiha both looked astonished at an unexpected development.

Obito Uchiha used his powers to summon the Nine-Tails after Minato Namikaze’s allies subdued Four-Tails and Five-Tails, forcing Minato to use the Reaper Death Seal. Uya confronted Obito outside Konoha and discovered Black Zetsu had taken over his body, but Black Zetsu refused to explain his attack.

• Uya subdued Four-Tails and Five-Tails, but Obito Uchiha escaped Minato Namikaze and summoned the Nine-Tails.
• Minato Namikaze teleported the Nine-Tails outside Konoha and prepared to use the Reaper Death Seal as the village’s ninja fought to hold it back.
• Uya appeared behind Obito Uchiha and recognized Black Zetsu beneath the vines covering his face.
• Black Zetsu questioned how Uya knew of him, then sneered when Uya asked why he had attacked Konoha.
• Uya demanded an explanation, but Black Zetsu did not answer.

Uya fought Black Zetsu, who controlled Obito Uchiha’s body and relied on Kamui to evade attacks. Uya’s ability to distort space let him strike through Kamui, leaving Black Zetsu badly wounded and unable to escape safely.

• Black Zetsu taunted Uya and used Kamui’s intangibility to avoid his first punch.
• Uya distorted space and struck Black Zetsu through the connection between the ninja world and Kamui’s other dimension.
• Black Zetsu tried to escape with a Kamui vortex, but Uya’s attack hit him again before he could get away.
• Black Zetsu redirected Kamui at Uya, but Uya swiftly dodged the vortex.
• Black Zetsu realized that neither Kamui’s attacks, escape, nor intangibility could reliably protect him from Uya.

Minato Namikaze sealed most of the Nine-Tails into Naruto and sacrificed himself to seal away the rest. Uya arrived and defeated Black Zetsu, who vanished into a massive crater, though Uya regretted losing the enemy’s eyes.

• Minato Namikaze used the Reaper Death Seal to restrain the Nine-Tails, sealed most of its chakra into Naruto with the Eight Trigrams Seal, and sealed a smaller portion into himself.
• Uya arrived and fought Black Zetsu while the Konoha ninjas watched in relief.
• The Shinigami severed and devoured Minato Namikaze’s soul and the small portion of the Nine-Tails sealed within him, and the Konoha ninjas did not notice his death.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi realized Minato Namikaze had used the Reaper Death Seal in his place and felt guilt and regret.
• Uya unleashed a powerful attack that shattered the ground and left Black Zetsu missing from the enormous crater.
• Uya lamented that Black Zetsu’s eyes had been lost.

Uya reflected on Black Zetsu’s escape and returned to Konoha, where he trained Might Guy after Might Duy’s death. The training reached its limit, and a young boy emerged from hiding as Uya noticed him.

• Uya realized Black Zetsu had escaped into another dimension after abandoning Obito’s body and Mangekyō Sharingan, then accepted that he might still have a way out.
• Black Zetsu emerged from a prepared White Zetsu body and wondered how Uya could grow so powerful without sensing the chakra of the Sage’s descendants.
• Uya visited Konoha and trained Might Guy, helping him complete the first two stages of the Sage Body and reduce the side effects of opening the Sixth Gate.
• Uya explained that Might Guy could not advance to the third Sage Body stage, then watched him train with the Earth Release: Added-Weight Rock Technique.
• Uya called out to someone hiding behind a tree, and a five- or six-year-old boy stepped out and apologized for watching.

Uchiha Itachi encountered Uya and Might Guy while they trained, then told Uchiha Fugaku about them at dinner. Uchiha Fugaku recognized Uya and warned Itachi never to offend or speak about him.

• Uchiha Itachi visited the training ground, where Might Guy questioned him and Uya recognized him as a member of the Uchiha Clan.
• Uya used Earth Release: Added-Weight Rock Technique on Might Guy, who continued his training with five hundred push-ups.
• Uchiha Itachi practiced throwing kunai and shuriken, then wondered whether to ask Might Guy and Uya for taijutsu advice.
• At dinner, Uchiha Itachi told Uchiha Fugaku about meeting Might Guy and Uya.
• Uchiha Fugaku reacted gravely to Uya's description and ordered Uchiha Itachi to show him respect and keep their encounter secret.

Uchiha Fugaku told Uchiha Itachi that Uya stood above all other ninja and represented an era. In Amegakure, Uya found Tsunade gambling with Kushina, then talked with Kushina about her Sage Body training and his own slow progress.

• Uchiha Itachi asked Uchiha Fugaku who Uya was, and Fugaku described him as the strongest ninja in the Shinobi World and an unsurpassable peak.
• Tsunade kept losing at dice while Kushina watched, until Uya entered and Tsunade hurriedly packed up and left.
• Uya told Kushina he would spend more time with her after Guy's training ended, and he recognized that she had completed the third stage of her training.
• Uya explained that Tsunade and Konan had completed the first two stages of Sage Body training, while Yahiko had only completed the first.
• Kushina asked about Uya's training, and he admitted that his progress felt slow.

Nearly three years after Amegakure’s growth, Uya learned that Nagato was hiding in the Land of Water and set out to find him. As Uya searched the country, he also waited for his soul’s final transformation.

• Uya spent most of the past three years in Amegakure, slowing his absorption of the Dragon Vein as his soul grew full and strained.
• Konan reported that Amegakure’s intelligence network had traced the Akatsuki’s base to the Land of Water, though it had not found the exact location.
• Uya decided to search for Nagato himself, saying that only he could handle Nagato’s Rinnegan.
• Uya crossed the sea to the Land of Water and used Shockwave Sensing while walking inland.
• Uya chose to head straight for Kirigakure as he continued his search and awaited his soul’s transformation.

While traveling through the snowy Land of Water, Uya encountered the orphaned Haku and recognized his Ice Release Kekkei Genkai. After giving Haku food, Uya asked him to come along, and Haku chased after him into the snow.

• Uya entered a snowy region of the Land of Water and sensed a small town nearby.
• Haku, a hungry orphan unaffected by the cold, begged in the street until Uya dropped bread into his bowl.
• Uya recognized Haku as a young Yuki Clan member with Ice Release and recalled how fear of Kekkei Genkai had left him orphaned and adrift.
• Uya asked Haku his name, and Haku answered that he was Haku.
• Uya told Haku to come with him and walked toward the outskirts of town.
• Haku hurried after Uya, drawn by the hope that someone needed him.