Recaps

Rasa rescued the badly injured puppeteer trio and then attacked Kōki, testing whether he was the Konoha ninja Chiyo had described. After Kōki countered his assaults with Earth and Water Release, Rasa confirmed his identity and launched an even stronger attack.

• Rasa used Magnet Release to save Raizo, Nagi, and the third puppeteer from Kōki’s devastating ninjutsu, though they were left severely injured and their Chikamatsu Ten Puppets were nearly destroyed.
• Rasa sent the puppeteer trio to the rear of the battlefield and attacked Kōki with gold dust shuriken to test his identity.
• Kōki countered the shuriken with Earth Release: Earth and Stone Dragon, then dodged the remaining projectiles.
• Rasa attacked Kōki with gold dust claws, whips, and waves, but Kōki used Water Release: Great Exploding Water Shockwave to overwhelm the gold dust.
• Rasa recognized Kōki as the target Chiyo had described and intensified his gold dust assault.

Kōki revealed his Wood Release while defending against Rasa’s gold dust attacks, then overwhelmed Rasa with Deep Forest Emergence. Rasa escaped the forest badly injured and recognized Kōki as a powerful Wood Release successor.

• Rasa unleashed Magnet Release: Super Gold Dust Great Wave, raising Sunagakure’s morale and frightening Konoha’s forces.
• Inoichi Yamanaka questioned Shikaku Nara about Orochimaru’s preparations, and Shikaku assured him that Orochimaru’s backup had already engaged Rasa.
• Kōki used Wood Release: Wood Expulsion Jutsu to withstand Rasa’s gold dust wave and Gold Dust Funeral.
• Kōki created a dense forest with Wood Release: Deep Forest Emergence, and its trees struck Rasa and forced him to fight his way out.
• Rasa escaped the forest after being hit, coughed up blood, and concluded that Kōki’s strength would take several Kage Level fighters to overcome.

Kōki used Wood Release to gain the upper hand against Rasa, but Rasa escaped with a Gold Dust Clone and countered with a concealed attack. Kōki survived by using a Wood Clone, though he was lightly injured, and acknowledged Rasa’s strength.

• Konoha’s ninja, including Inoichi Yamanaka and Shikaku Nara, were astonished when Kōki revealed Wood Release.
• Kōki trapped Rasa with Wood Release: Tree Binding Eternal Burial, but discovered that he had caught only Rasa’s Gold Dust Clone.
• Rasa launched several gold dust spears at Kōki, then changed one into a dense barrage of senbon that pierced him.
• Kōki revealed that the pierced figure was a Wood Clone and appeared nearby with minor injuries after failing to dodge completely.
• Kōki praised Rasa as a powerful opponent.

Kōki overwhelmed Rasa’s gold dust with a modified Wood Release technique and wounded him, forcing Rasa to abandon hopes of winning directly. Rasa took to the air to wear Kōki down, leaving Kōki searching for a way to bring him back within reach.

• Kōki unleashed Wood Release: Deep Forest Emergence - Modified, whose roots shattered Rasa’s gold dust defenses.
• Kōki strengthened the attack, and a sharp root grazed Rasa’s arm, leaving a bleeding wound.
• Rasa decided to stall Kōki until his chakra ran low, reasoning that the young shinobi had already fought several battles.
• Rasa used gold dust to rise into the air, and Kōki failed to stop his ascent.
• Kōki considered using powerful Wood Release techniques to reach Rasa but worried they would exhaust his remaining chakra, so he searched for another way to make Rasa descend.

Kōki tried to provoke Rasa into fighting, but Rasa stayed in the air and used gold dust to keep him from attacking Sunagakure’s ninja. After trading insults about their villages, Kōki remained unable to break through Rasa’s obstruction, leaving them in a stalemate.

• Kōki goaded Rasa to come down and fight, but Rasa justified keeping his distance by praising Kōki’s Wood Release and strength.
• Kōki tried to run toward the Sunagakure ninja, but Rasa stopped him with a claw of gold dust and declared he would keep Kōki contained.
• Kōki mocked Rasa’s conduct as Kazekage, embarrassing the surrounding Sunagakure ninja, while Rasa held back his anger and refused to take the bait.
• Rasa cited Tsunade and Konoha’s White Fang to suggest Kōki’s own village might turn against him, but Kōki countered by boasting about Konoha’s talented ninja.
• Rasa and Kōki ended in a stalemate, as Rasa remained determined to keep Kōki from reaching Sunagakure’s forces and Kōki lacked a way to attack him in the air.

Rasa and Chiyo discussed Sunagakure’s worsening position after Kōki revealed his Wood Release, and Danzo confronted Hiruzen about Kōki. The chapter ended with Danzo defending his secret experiments after Hiruzen presented evidence against him.

• Kōki and Rasa traded minor blows until the exhausted forces below them forced both sides to retreat, with Sunagakure suffering heavy losses.
• Rasa met with Chiyo and the senior officers, and Chiyo warned that Kōki and Orochimaru could overwhelm Sunagakure while Bunpuku was still absent.
• Chiyo told Rasa that Bunpuku was nearly there, and urged him to hold out one more day.
• Danzo learned that Kōki had awakened Wood Release and, envious of Hiruzen’s apparent good fortune, went to confront him.
• Hiruzen challenged Danzo about the Wood Release experiments and showed him a document, leaving Danzo stunned.
• Danzo denied wrongdoing and claimed his experiments had helped Kōki shine on the battlefield.

Hiruzen removed Danzo from Root leadership and warned him to stay away from Kōki as reports of Kōki’s Wood Release spread among the villages. Kumogakure and Iwagakure prepared to attack Konoha, while Madara ordered White Zetsu to watch Kōki and investigate his Wood Release.

• Hiruzen ordered Root missions and its base placed under Anbu supervision, relieved Danzo of leadership, and warned him not to approach Kōki privately.
• After learning that Kōki had defeated the Chikamatsu Three and gained the upper hand against Rasa, Third Raikage A ordered Kumogakure’s frontline troops to attack Konoha.
• Ōnoki ordered Iwagakure to mobilize and appointed Kitsuchi as frontline commander, with Tōshinin, Maji, and other jonin supporting him.
• White Zetsu told Madara Uchiha that Kōki could fight Rasa, and Madara ordered the spore clones to monitor Kōki and investigate his Wood Release.

Orochimaru told Konoha’s Jonin that Iwagakure and Kumogakure had attacked, then ordered an all-out assault to drive Sunagakure back within a week. After the meeting, he kept Kōki behind and began recounting his past, ending by asking Kōki to guess the identity of someone he had recognized on the battlefield.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi ordered Orochimaru to finish the war with Sunagakure quickly and reinforce the other battlefields.
• Orochimaru informed the Jonin that Iwagakure and Kumogakure had attacked Konoha and explained that Konoha needed to end the Sunagakure campaign swiftly.
• Orochimaru dismissed concerns about his one-week deadline and ordered the Jonin to launch an all-out assault starting the next day, with him and Kōki fighting on the battlefield.
• Orochimaru asked Kōki to stay after the meeting and described how his failed bloodline research had left him feeling powerless.
• Orochimaru told Kōki that someone he had seen on the battlefield felt familiar and asked him to guess who that person was.

Kōki weighed whether to cooperate with Orochimaru after Orochimaru hinted at his identity and bloodline, but postponed the decision until after the war. On the battlefield, Kōki and Orochimaru injured Chiyo and Rasa and routed Sunagakure’s forces, until news of the One-Tail Jinchūriki’s approach stopped Konoha’s pursuit.

• Orochimaru probed Kōki about a person he resembled, and Kōki denied knowing who he meant.
• Kōki considered the risks and benefits of working with Orochimaru, then set the decision aside to help Rin Takakura treat the wounded and briefly reunite with his former Anbu teammates.
• Kōki and Orochimaru fought Chiyo and Rasa, severely injuring both and forcing Sunagakure’s troops to retreat in disarray.
• Orochimaru halted Konoha’s pursuit after learning that Sunagakure’s One-Tail Jinchūriki was coming to reinforce its forces.
• Orochimaru ordered Konoha’s troops back to camp, saying they would deal with the Jinchūriki when he reached the battlefield.

Rasa learned that Bunpuku and Ebizo were arriving at Sunagakure’s camp, and hoped the One-Tail would turn the war against Konoha. After Bunpuku arrived and asked Rasa to treat Shukaku well after his death, Rasa agreed and began considering how to use Sunagakure’s restored strength.

• Rasa led the retreating Sunagakure ninja back to camp after Konoha stopped pursuing them.
• Rasa learned Bunpuku and Ebizo would arrive soon, and regretted that he had not held Konoha’s forces back for a counterattack.
• Bunpuku and Ebizo arrived at the camp, and Rasa welcomed them and thanked them for helping Sunagakure.
• Bunpuku asked Rasa to treat Shukaku well after his death, and Rasa agreed.
• Bunpuku left to pray for the ninja who might be killed or injured, while Rasa turned to planning how to use Sunagakure’s strengthened fighting force.

Sunagakure's officers doubted they could use Bunpuku and the One-Tail to turn the war against Konoha, until Chiyo reminded them their real objective was to kill Kōki. She proposed that three Kage-level fighters attack him while the others held off Orochimaru, but the officers questioned whether her injuries left her able to fight.

• A Sunagakure ninja proposed using Bunpuku and the One-Tail against Konoha, but Rasa and the other officers warned that Konoha could counter the plan with Wood Release.
• The officers grew frustrated as they rejected plans to use Bunpuku, and Rasa prepared to encourage them.
• Chiyo entered the meeting room despite her injuries and rebuked the officers for losing sight of their purpose.
• Chiyo reminded the officers that Sunagakure's goal was to kill Kōki, not defeat Konoha, and proposed that three Kage-level fighters attack him while the others faced Orochimaru.
• Chiyo revealed that she would be the third attacker, but the officers questioned whether her injuries and damaged Chikamatsu Ten Puppets left her strong enough to fight.

Chiyo revealed her backup Chikamatsu Ten Puppets and her own puppet-body modifications, then planned to help Sunagakure defeat Kōki. Konoha and Sunagakure began a decisive battle, with the war’s outcome resting on Orochimaru’s fight with Ebizo and the combined attack on Kōki.

• Chiyo summoned a second set of Chikamatsu Ten Puppets and revealed that she had replaced part of her injured leg with puppet joints.
• Chiyo arranged for Rasa and Bunpuku to confront Kōki while Ebizo occupied Orochimaru, with Chiyo waiting to join the attack on Kōki.
• Orochimaru told Konoha’s shinobi that Kōki would handle the One-Tail while the others fought Sunagakure’s forces, and warned Kōki to stay cautious.
• Kōki agreed to be careful as both sides prepared for the decisive battle.
• Konoha and Sunagakure resumed fighting, and the exhausted armies watched the contests between Orochimaru and Ebizo and between Kōki, Bunpuku, and Rasa to determine the war’s outcome.

Bunpuku chose to release Shukaku to help Sunagakure, accepting that he would die afterward. Shukaku emerged on the battlefield and spotted Kōki, whom he associated with Hashirama Senju.

• Orochimaru grew suspicious when Ebizo focused on holding him back instead of attacking decisively.
• Bunpuku and Shukaku discussed Bunpuku’s impending death, his willingness to help Sunagakure, and his hope that Shukaku would be free and understood.
• Shukaku agreed to honor Bunpuku’s final wishes and promised he would remember him.
• Shukaku’s chakra transformed Bunpuku into the One-Tail, drawing the attention of everyone on the battlefield.
• Shukaku spotted Kōki fighting Rasa and said Kōki’s scent reminded him of Hashirama Senju.

Kōki used Wood Release to fight Shukaku, binding him and absorbing his chakra, while Shukaku countered with powerful Wind Release attacks. Rasa freed Shukaku from Kōki’s trees, and Shukaku declared his grudge against Sunagakure settled before warning Rasa to stay away.

• Shukaku attacked Kōki and Rasa, and Kōki blocked Shukaku’s claw with Wood Release.
• Kōki’s vines bound Shukaku and drained his chakra, but Shukaku broke free and attacked with repeated Drilling Air Bullets.
• Kōki blocked Shukaku’s Wind Release with Tree World Wall, then dodged Shukaku’s Sand Dust Great Breakthrough.
• Kōki’s trees and vines surrounded Shukaku and grew stronger as they absorbed his chakra.
• Rasa cut through the trees with a gold dust blade, allowing Shukaku to escape.
• Shukaku told Rasa that his grudge against Sunagakure was settled and warned him to move away.

Shukaku fired a Tailed Beast Bomb at Kōki while Rasa used gold dust to restrict him, but Kōki survived behind his defenses. Rasa then impaled a wooden decoy, escaped Kōki’s counterattack, and remained alive to continue the fight.

• Rasa and Shukaku coordinated gold dust and Wind Release attacks against Kōki, who endured the pressure.
• Shukaku charged a Tailed Beast Bomb as Rasa intensified his efforts to pin Kōki down.
• Kōki raised five Earth Style Walls and used Wood Expulsion Jutsu, but Shukaku’s bomb blasted through the defenses and detonated.
• Kōki emerged unharmed from the blast, prompting the Konoha ninja to cheer.
• Rasa pierced Kōki with several gold dust spears, but the impaled figure turned out to be a wooden decoy.
• Rasa used the Sand Body Flicker Technique to evade Kōki’s punch, which shattered the ground where he had stood.

Kōki suppressed Rasa after trapping Shukaku, but Sunagakure revealed its real plan and sealed Kōki inside a barrier with four Kage-level enemies. The chapter left Orochimaru fearing Kōki would die, while Kōki confronted the unfair odds.

• Kōki trapped Shukaku with Wood Release and gained the upper hand against Rasa.
• Orochimaru and Kōki noticed Sunagakure’s forces withdrawing from the battlefield around Kōki and Rasa.
• Ebizo rushed toward Kōki, while the Chikamatsu Three appeared with their puppets.
• Chiyo, Ebizo, Rasa, and Shukaku enclosed Kōki and others within the Sandstorm Dharma Realm barrier.
• Orochimaru and the Konoha ninja feared for Kōki, but Nara Yūsuke and his teammates continued to trust him.

Kōki tried to escape the Sandstorm Dharma Realm by exploiting Shukaku’s distrust of Sunagakure, but Chiyo bluffed Shukaku into continuing the fight. The four Kage Level opponents kept Kōki trapped and attacking.

• Chiyo explained that the Sandstorm Dharma Realm could trap Kōki, while Shukaku worried Sunagakure would seal him again after the battle.
• Chiyo promised to free Shukaku if he helped kill Kōki, and Shukaku struggled against Kōki’s Wood Release binding.
• Kōki warned Shukaku that Sunagakure would never let him go, making Shukaku suspicious of Chiyo.
• Chiyo swore she would not allow anyone to capture Shukaku while she remained an advisory elder, and Shukaku believed her.
• Chiyo sent her puppets after Kōki, while Shukaku attacked him and Kōki reminded Shukaku how Sunagakure had treated Bunpuku.
• Chiyo threatened to abandon her oath and seal Shukaku first, prompting Shukaku to ignore Kōki’s warnings and attack him relentlessly.

Kōki released the Yin Seal and summoned the Wood Human Technique to break Sunagakure’s encirclement. The Wood Human overwhelmed Shukaku and blasted apart half his head, leaving the battle decisively in Kōki’s favor.

• Chiyo, Rasa, Ebizo, and Shukaku coordinated their attacks against Kōki, who realized he needed overwhelming force to break their formation.
• Kōki released the Yin Seal, shocking Rasa and the others with his vast chakra and reminding Shukaku of Hashirama Senju.
• Kōki summoned the Wood Human, which blocked the incoming attacks and charged at Rasa, Chiyo, Ebizo, and Shukaku.
• Shukaku blocked the Wood Human’s first punch, but the giant gradually overpowered him despite Rasa and the others’ attempts to help.
• The Wood Human seized Shukaku and pinned his head to the ground, where a close-range Tailed Beast Bomb explosion blasted half of it apart.

Kōki’s wooden figure battled the injured Shukaku, while Rasa, Chiyo, and Ebizo tried to withstand Kōki’s temporary surge of strength. Rasa restrained the wooden figure just before it struck Shukaku, leaving him urging Shukaku to attack before the gold dust gave way.

• Chiyo judged that Kōki’s enhanced strength was temporary, and Rasa and Ebizo also wondered whether they could outlast it.
• Shukaku shook off the wooden figure and charged it, but Kōki’s figure pushed him backward.
• Shukaku fired a weakened Tailed Beast Bomb, but Kōki made the wooden figure dodge, sending the blast into the Sandstorm Dharma Realm’s wall.
• Kōki’s wooden figure broke free and swung at Shukaku, but Rasa bound its arm with gold dust just before the fist landed.
• Shukaku canceled his Tailed Beast Bomb in fright, and Rasa urged him to attack before the gold dust restraints failed.

Kōki used Wood Release to restrain Shukaku and trapped Chiyo and Ebizo before the wooden golem battered Shukaku into the Sandstorm Dharma Realm and shattered it. Chiyo and Ebizo escaped the vines, but both were injured and Chiyo had lost five puppets.

• Kōki summoned a Wood Dragon that bit Shukaku and rapidly drained his chakra, making the Tailed Beast Bomb in his mouth disappear.
• Rasa tried to free Shukaku with Gold Dust, while Chiyo told him to carry her and Ebizo to Kōki so they could interrupt his Wood Release.
• Kōki sent a mass of wooden vines against Chiyo and Ebizo, trapping them in midair and preventing them from reaching him.
• Kōki broke Rasa’s Gold Dust restraint and had the wooden golem punch Shukaku repeatedly into the Sandstorm Dharma Realm until the barrier shattered.
• Kōki struck the injured Sunagakure ninja maintaining the barrier with wooden spikes, killing them.
• Chiyo and Ebizo escaped the vines with injuries, and five of Chiyo’s Chikamatsu Ten Puppets were destroyed.

Chiyo surrendered Sunagakure to Konoha after realizing her forces could no longer defeat Kōki and risked being wiped out. Konoha celebrated its victory as the Sunagakure ninja laid down their weapons, while Chiyo and Orochimaru deferred reparations and alliance talks to Konoha’s negotiating team.

• Chiyo ordered the Sunagakure ninja to stop fighting and declared their surrender and withdrawal from the Land of Rivers.
• Orochimaru confirmed Chiyo’s decision, and Konoha’s ninja cheered as the Sunagakure forces laid down their weapons.
• Kōki released Shukaku and dispelled the wooden giant and Wood Dragon Technique, while Shukaku fled the battlefield.
• Chiyo asked Rasa to lead the Sunagakure forces home and told Orochimaru she wanted to discuss reparations and an alliance.
• Orochimaru said Konoha would send a negotiating team, and Chiyo left after agreeing to await word from the village.

After Sunagakure’s defeat, Rasa learned that Chiyo had surrendered to protect his reputation, and the village’s leaders faced the difficult negotiations ahead. News of Kōki defeating Sunagakure’s Kage Level fighters spread through the Shinobi World, prompting a blonde woman to leave a tavern in search of answers.

• Ebizo explained that Chiyo had surrendered in Rasa’s place to preserve his standing as Kazekage, and Rasa regretted misunderstanding her.
• Chiyo and Rasa turned to negotiating the surrender terms and reparations while planning how to persuade the Daimyo of the Land of Wind to keep supporting Sunagakure.
• In a tavern in the Land of Hot Water, Ōkawa told Yugakure shinobi that Kōki had defeated the One-Tail and the Kage Level fighters with a giant Wood Release construct and Wood Dragon.
• The shinobi reacted with disbelief, then recognized that Kōki was not even ten years old and feared Konoha would dominate the world as he grew stronger.
• A blonde woman listening nearby left the tavern with the little girl who had been dining with her.

Tsunade learned that Kōki Itō had used Wood Release to defeat powerful opponents and decided to send him something to help him survive. Madara Uchiha, stirred by the news, ordered White Zetsu to push Obito toward despair so he could become Madara’s successor and rival Kōki.

• Tsunade confirmed that Kōki had used the Wood Golem and Wood Dragon Technique against Chiyo and others alongside the One-Tail, then decided to mail him something as compensation for not being on the battlefield.
• Madara Uchiha heard White Zetsu’s account of Kōki’s battle and reconsidered him as a worthy successor to Hashirama’s power.
• Madara asked White Zetsu about Obito and learned that Obito was still following Minato, arguing with Kakashi, and pursuing Rin’s favor.
• Madara ordered White Zetsu to lead Iwagakure’s forces to Obito so war would teach him weakness and prepare him to despair when a greater crisis arrived.
• White Zetsu accepted the order and left, while Madara regretted that he could no longer fight Hashirama himself.

After Kōki’s victory over Sunagakure’s forces alarmed the other villages, he met Aizen and Jörmungandr to examine Setsugetsu, whose revived body had fused two Kekkei Genkai. Setsugetsu awakened a power that was far more than Ice Release, leaving the group to discover she possessed the Ice-Ice Fruit’s Logia abilities.

• Ōnoki learned that Kōki had defeated Rasa, Chiyo, two others, and a Tailed Beast, and pressed Kumogakure to join forces against Konoha.
• The Third Raikage sent Killer B, his son, and Yugito to the front and told his people to stall Iwagakure until after the fighting with Konoha.
• Konoha ordered Orochimaru to reinforce the Kumogakure front while Kōki headed alone toward the Iwagakure battlefield.
• Kōki examined Setsugetsu and found that Aizen had fused two of her Kekkei Genkai after reviving and growing her body.
• Setsugetsu formed an ice senbon, then transformed her body into ice and revealed that her power was the Ice-Ice Fruit’s Logia ability, not ordinary Ice Release.

Kōki tested Setsugetsu’s fused Ice Release and Hydrification abilities in a fight, discovering that Setsugetsu could elementalize and freeze Kōki’s Wood Release with ease. Kōki ended the spar after concluding that Setsugetsu had formidable Kage Level strength.

• Setsugetsu explained that his Ice Release could elementalize without Hydrification’s weaknesses, and Kōki asked to test his strength.
• Aizen and Jörmungandr moved away to watch as Kōki and Setsugetsu began fighting.
• Kōki’s punch shattered Setsugetsu’s arm into ice, and Setsugetsu invited him to attack without holding back.
• Kōki’s taijutsu attacks passed through Setsugetsu, so he used Wood Release: Deep Forest Emergence.
• Setsugetsu froze Kōki’s advancing trees into ice sculptures, and Kōki ended the fight after recognizing Setsugetsu’s Kage Level strength.