Recaps

Jiraiya fought four Pain bodies until Uzumaki Hane intervened, while Naruto and Sasuke clashed with Rasengan and Chidori. The chapter left Naruto wounded after Sasuke stabbed him in the chest.

• Animal Path Pain and Asura Path Pain struck Jiraiya, who counterattacked with help from Fukasaku and Shima.
• Jiraiya battled the four Pain bodies with Sage Art techniques but was surrounded.
• Uzumaki Hane destroyed a summoned centipede with Great Eruption and rushed to help Jiraiya.
• Uzumaki Hane and Jiraiya attacked Human Path Pain from opposite sides.
• Naruto sent Shadow Clones and a Big Ball Rasengan at Sasuke, who countered with Chidori.
• Sasuke evaded Naruto's next Rasengan and stabbed him in the chest with his sword.

Sasuke stabbed Naruto and injured Hinata before Shino and Sai forced him to retreat while Sakura treated Naruto. Elsewhere, Uzumaki Hane and Jiraiya battled the six Pains, learning that they were collectively called Pain, and were caught in an explosion after the Pains survived Hane’s lava attack.

• Sasuke stabbed Naruto and kicked Hinata into a tree when she charged at him.
• Shino and Sai intervened, and Sakura began treating Naruto as Sasuke escaped without attacking again.
• Uzumaki Hane and Jiraiya attacked Human Path Pain, but Deva Path and the other Pains countered them.
• Jiraiya recognized Deva Path as Yahiko and learned that the six bodies together were Pain.
• Uzumaki Hane blasted the charging Pains with Great Eruption, but they escaped overhead and fired missiles at him and Jiraiya.

Uzumaki Hane and Jiraiya fought the six Pains, quickly taking down several with surprise attacks. As Naraka Path tried to restore Asura Path, Hane struck at him despite Deva Path’s attempt to repel him.

• Asura Path fired missiles at Hane and Jiraiya, but Jiraiya evaded the blasts and attacked from above, burning Asura Path with a fire blast.
• Jiraiya pierced Human Path with Fukasaku’s Tongue War Slash and smashed Animal Path into the ground with a Big Ball Rasengan, before Deva Path hurled him into a crater.
• Asura Path revealed his six arms and bladed tail, but Hane endured his attacks and pierced his chest with Hell Hound.
• Deva Path slammed Hane into a crater, and Asura Path’s fallen body fired a missile that exploded around him.
• Naraka Path summoned the King of Hell to repair Asura Path, but Hane emerged from the explosion and attacked Naraka Path with Hell Hound as Deva Path tried to repel him.

Uzumaki Hane battled Deva Path Pain and Pain’s summoned beasts, using lava attacks to destroy the rhinoceros and the two-headed dog. He then turned his assault on Animal Path Pain, knocking him backward and pursuing him.

• Uzumaki Hane exchanged attacks with Deva Path Pain, who blasted him away with a powerful force.
• Uzumaki Hane struck Deva Path Pain with a lava hound, but Pain repelled him and tried to stab him with a black rod.
• Uzumaki Hane burned out the three-headed dog’s eye and impaled its head with a lava javelin.
• A summoned rhinoceros charged through the dog, splitting it into two, but Uzumaki Hane destroyed the rhinoceros with Great Eruption.
• Uzumaki Hane pulled the two giant dogs into a lava pit and buried them in magma.
• Uzumaki Hane dodged Animal Path Pain’s black rod, kicked him flying, and charged after him.

Jiraiya fought the Human Path and Preta Path, trapping the Human Path in a summoned frog before battling the Preta Path. After Jiraiya struck the Preta Path with a massive Rasengan, the Asura Path appeared behind him and pierced his chest; elsewhere, Uzumaki Hane clashed with the Deva Path and was blasted backward.

• Jiraiya landed a Rasengan on the Human Path, but the Human Path grabbed his foot and pierced his shoulder with a black rod, disrupting his Chakra.
• Fukasaku blasted the Human Path away while Shima removed the broken rod, and Jiraiya tore apart the Preta Path's arm and trapped him in a swamp.
• The Human Path rescued the Preta Path, but Jiraiya's summoned frog swallowed the Human Path and returned to Mount Myōboku.
• Jiraiya used Frog Kata and Sage Art: Goemon before smashing the Preta Path with an Ultra-Big Ball Rasengan, but the Asura Path pierced Jiraiya's chest from behind.
• Uzumaki Hane attacked the Naraka Path and threw lava javelins at the Deva Path and Animal Path, but the Deva Path repelled the attack and blasted him backward.