Recaps

Araki tried to keep a low profile while Kushina settled into Konoha and became the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki, but he secretly killed Sora Hyuga after Sora threatened to expose him. The investigation failed to implicate Araki, and Ibuki-sensei arranged an interview for him with the Medical Team.

• Biwako brought Kushina Uzumaki to Araki’s house, where Kushina introduced herself as his new roommate and promised they would be friends.
• Araki asked Kushina to keep their living arrangement private and avoid drawing attention, while she promised to protect him and befriended her classmates at the Ninja Academy.
• After Danzo took Kushina away, she returned distraught over becoming the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki, and Araki told her they would remain friends even if she became a monster.
• When Sora Hyuga demanded a rematch and threatened to expose Araki’s nighttime outings, Araki lured him into the mist and killed him, then destroyed and concealed his body.
• The Hyuga Clan and Konoha Military Police investigated Sora’s disappearance, but Araki denied knowing what happened and the Uchiha investigators accepted his account.
• Araki found Kushina back at home after her transformation and resolved to grow strong enough to protect himself from Konoha.
• Ibuki-sensei told Araki he had arranged an interview with the Medical Team, and Araki saw the opportunity as a way to explain recovering his normal speech.

Araki became Tsunade’s disciple and used the First Hokage’s Necklace to convince Tsunade and Nawaki that he had foreseen Nawaki’s death. He helped keep Nawaki off the battlefield, began Taijutsu training with Might Duy, and started studying medical theory with Tsunade.

• Teacher Ibuki told Araki that Sora Hyuga had been missing for days and that the Hyuga Clan had barely reacted, then brought Araki to Konoha Hospital for the Medical Team interview.
• Araki impressed Tsunade by keeping a summoned fish alive in a Water Prison, and after the First Hokage’s Necklace glowed in his hands, Tsunade accepted him as her disciple.
• Araki told Tsunade and Nawaki that he had seen Nawaki die in an Explosive Tag trap, and Tsunade agreed to keep Nawaki in Konoha and have him study Medical Ninjutsu instead of going on missions.
• Tsunade taught Araki and Nawaki the medical-nin rules, but Araki declined to learn Creation Rebirth-Strength of a Hundred Technique and sought Taijutsu training from Might Duy.
• Araki trained through the night with Might Duy, using the necklace’s restorative chakra to recover from exhaustion, and asked to keep the training private until he improved.
• Araki told Teacher Ibuki that Tsunade had taken him as a disciple and arranged to attend her lessons each afternoon while continuing his Academy studies.
• Tsunade began Araki’s medical education with theory and her handwritten poison and antidote notes, then asked him to use the necklace to check whether Nawaki was out of danger.

Araki rescued Kushina from Kumogakure ninja, then investigated their presence outside Konoha and prepared for further attacks. He began studying Sealing Jutsu and passed Tsunade’s medical theory assessment, earning the chance to start Medical Ninjutsu training.

• Araki agreed to Tsunade’s restriction keeping Nawaki at home, then discovered Kushina and Uchiha Mikoto changing clothes and fled as they teased each other.
• Araki interrupted three men tying up Kushina, recognized them as Kumogakure ninja, and killed them after outmaneuvering their leader with a Wood Clone.
• Araki disposed of the intruders’ bodies, found a map leading him to twelve more Kumogakure ninja outside Konoha, and killed them after incapacitating them with poison.
• Araki returned home to Kushina, prepared for a possible attack, and learned that Kushina could make Explosive Tags and came from Uzushiogakure.
• Kushina gave Araki a scroll on basic Sealing Jutsu, and Araki studied it while keeping watch, and the next day, he repaired their home and attended a mock exam at the Academy.
• Araki asked Kushina to trade Explosive Tags for tag-making supplies, while Minato Namikaze noticed his jealousy over Kushina’s closeness with Araki and Uchiha Mikoto resolved to investigate him.
• Araki completed Tsunade’s medical theory assessment, and Tsunade praised his mastery of the subject and invited him inside to begin Medical Ninjutsu training.

Araki advanced his medical training and explosive-tag production while helping Might Duy recover and proving his strength at the Academy. As the students finished their exams, Mikoto began drawing closer to Araki through Kushina while continuing to suspect him in Sora Hyuga’s disappearance, and an unseen watcher followed him.

• Tsunade taught Araki medical techniques and assigned him to practice the Healing Technique, while Kushina welcomed him home and gave him the supplies for making Explosive Tags.
• Araki learned that Might Duy’s overtraining had caused serious injuries, brought Tsunade to the hospital, and was entrusted with operating on Duy after six months of preparation.
• Araki trained through the night, made his first Explosive Tag, and then deliberately lost his mock duel to Kushina so she could qualify for sixth grade.
• When Maemoto Takashi insulted Might Duy and challenged him, Araki defeated him with a single kick and demanded that he apologize to Duy.
• Araki improved his Healing Technique under Tsunade and overheard Mikoto, Fugaku, and Ueki investigating Sora Hyuga’s disappearance, but their inquiry yielded no answers.
• Araki completed thirty-nine Explosive Tags and asked Kushina to exchange them for money and blank tags, while Mikoto used her friendship with Kushina to arrange more time with him.
• Araki and the other students took their graduation exams, while Dan Katō told Karen Kaede that he was interested in Tsunade and chose not to meet Araki.
• Mikoto proposed spending the break with Kushina, and Araki sensed an unseen watcher following him as he practiced the Mystical Palm Technique at Tsunade’s home and walked back.