Recaps

Uzumaki Hane fought Sakai Jiro, whose speed and swordsmanship initially overwhelmed him, and ultimately defeated him with magma attacks. Sakai Jiro burned to ash after the purple meteor he had swallowed caused his body to overheat, and Uzumaki Hane returned to the inn with the meteor as Hyuga Tanaka awoke and Sakai Fuji mourned the deaths of Sakai Ichiro and Sakai Jiro.

• Sakai Jiro repeatedly slashed and outmaneuvered Uzumaki Hane, while Uzumaki Hane used magma to regenerate and counterattack.
• Uzumaki Hane trapped Sakai Jiro with Magma Walls and struck him with a gigantic magma fist, burning away his left arm and melting part of his sword.
• Sakai Jiro charged through Uzumaki Hane's magma attacks until his body shone with heat and turned to ash, leaving the purple meteor he had swallowed behind.
• Uzumaki Hane picked up the meteor, suspected it had caused Sakai Jiro's death, and returned to the inn.
• Hyuga Tanaka had awakened, and Sakai Fuji burst into tears after learning Sakai Ichiro and Sakai Jiro were dead.

After returning to Konoha, Uzumaki Hane investigated the Meteorite and continued his intense training while visiting Tanaka in the hospital. Tsunade sent Mitarashi Anko, Naruto, Ino, and Shino on a dangerous mission in the Land of the Sea, and Hane secured a place on their team.

• Uzumaki Hane reported to Tsunade, visited the recovering Tanaka, and learned that Yamano Koromo had gone to inform Tanaka's parents.
• Uzumaki Hane discovered that the Meteorite glowed and began melting when exposed to his magma, so he put it in a pouch and resumed strengthening his body.
• Uzumaki Hane trained hard, visited Tanaka again, and endured Tsunade's rough instruction in Chakra Enhanced Strength.
• Mitarashi Anko woke from nightmares about Orochimaru's Cursed Seal, then went with Uzumaki Hane to meet Tsunade.
• Tsunade assigned Mitarashi Anko to protect a gold transport ship and eliminate Sea Devils in the Land of the Sea, with Naruto, Ino, and Shino joining her team.
• Uzumaki Hane gave Tsunade pastries and asked to join the mission, and Tsunade agreed before telling Shizune that the mission was dangerous for Mitarashi Anko.

Uzumaki Hane joined Mitarashi Anko’s mission to the Land of the Sea, where Naruto was captured by the Sea Devil and rescued by Isaribi. As the search continued, Hane learned where Isaribi lived and hurried there to find Naruto.

• Uzumaki Hane joined Mitarashi Anko’s team, tested his Magma-Magma Fruit powers in the sea, and followed Anko when she left the group.
• Uzumaki Hane spotted Misumi Tsurugi and another enemy ninja, killed the ninja with a magma attack, then rushed to help when Naruto was dragged underwater.
• Mitarashi Anko, Uzumaki Hane, Ino, and Shino searched for Naruto through the night, then arranged with Amachi to meet again the next morning.
• Isaribi rescued Naruto, but after he thanked her and learned she was the Sea Devil, she drove him away; Naruto then chased off children who were bullying her.
• Uzumaki Hane urged Mitarashi Anko to rest because her Cursed Seal was troubling her, then searched the island and hurried to Isaribi’s house after learning its location.

Naruto, Ino, and Shino followed Isaribi to Orochimaru’s research base, where traps separated them from Mitarashi Anko and they fought Misumi Tsurugi. After Anko led the group out, Uzumaki Hane arrived at the abandoned base, found a mysterious scroll, and fled as it began to collapse.

• Shino caught the transformed Isaribi with a silk cord, but she broke free and escaped into the sea after Naruto recognized her.
• Mitarashi Anko collapsed from pain caused by her Cursed Seal, then told Naruto, Ino, and Shino that Orochimaru had modified the Sea Devil, and they set out for his research base.
• A trap opened beneath Naruto, Ino, and Shino at the base, while Isaribi escaped Mitarashi Anko after triggering another trap.
• Naruto, Ino, and Shino defeated Misumi Tsurugi and reunited with Mitarashi Anko, who summoned a giant python to carry them after Amachi and Isaribi.
• Uzumaki Hane reached the abandoned base after the others had left, found a scroll that shocked him, and escaped as the base began to collapse.

Amachi attacked a gold transport ship with Isaribi, but Uzumaki Hane exposed his plan and defeated him, allowing Isaribi to choose Naruto over her captor. After returning to Konoha and recovering a memory that eased her pain, Mitarashi Anko reunited with the others, while Uzumaki Hane decided to seek a volcano to strengthen his magma power.

• Amachi and Isaribi attacked the gold transport ship, but Mitarashi Anko and the others intervened and fought them.
• Amachi summoned Umibozu and tried to lure Isaribi back by promising to restore her body, while Naruto urged her to resist.
• Uzumaki Hane revealed that Amachi wanted to dissect Isaribi, then used Great Eruption to destroy Umibozu and knocked Amachi into the sea.
• Mitarashi Anko visited Dungeon Island, remembered that she had rejected Orochimaru rather than been abandoned by him, and felt the Cursed Seal's pain subside.
• After the group returned to Konoha Ninja Village, Uzumaki Hane read Uzumaki Shingan's research on training with volcanoes and decided to find one.

Uzumaki Hane left Konoha to train and keep watch for information about the Akatsuki. On the road, he effortlessly killed a band of mountain bandits who were attacking merchants, then continued on his way.

• Tsunade approved Uzumaki Hane's journey and gave him intelligence Jiraiya had gathered on the Akatsuki, asking him to keep an eye out for them.
• Uzumaki Hane said goodbye to Yamano Koromo and Tanaka and set off alone, reflecting on his training and resolve to grow stronger.
• Uzumaki Hane came across mountain bandits attacking merchants and agreed to help after the lead merchant asked for his protection.
• Uzumaki Hane killed the bandit leader with magma and defeated the charging bandits with Magma Senbon.
• The lead merchant thanked Uzumaki Hane, who waved him off and disappeared to continue his journey.

Uzumaki Hane encountered the masked ninjas Uesugi I and Sōma fighting in the forest, then faced Sōma after the two turned on each other. Hane overwhelmed Sōma’s Earth Release techniques and ended the fight by engulfing him in lava.

• Uzumaki Hane discovered Uesugi I and Sōma fighting and learned that Sōma had a million bounty on his head.
• Sōma attacked Uzumaki Hane with an Earth Clone while using a boulder to kill Uesugi I, then revealed he had planned to kill both of them.
• Uzumaki Hane destroyed Sōma’s Earth Clone and survived a Kunai strike before punching through another clone with his lava arm.
• Sōma trapped Uzumaki Hane between rocks and attacked with earthen spears, but Hane shielded himself with a lava sphere and emerged unharmed.
• Uzumaki Hane broke through Sōma’s Earth Style Wall and struck him with a giant lava arm, but Sōma escaped underground as a clone.
• Uzumaki Hane spread lava across the ground to force Sōma out, then engulfed him with Great Eruption.

Uzumaki Hane visited the underground black market with Uesugi I, where the notorious elite Jonin Kizōmori targeted him. Hane killed Kizōmori, then found a figure in a black cloak embroidered with red clouds standing in his path.

• Uzumaki Hane asked Uesugi I to take him to the black market, and Uesugi I led him into a hidden bounty exchange.
• Kizōmori followed Uzumaki Hane and Uesugi I after leaving the exchange, and Uesugi I warned Hane that Kizōmori was a powerful Jonin who hunted newcomers.
• Uesugi I fled as Kizōmori attacked Uzumaki Hane, but Hane dodged his strikes and drove him back with powerful kicks.
• Kizōmori used Water Release techniques against Hane, but Hane shattered his water dragon with Great Eruption.
• Uzumaki Hane caught Kizōmori as he tried to escape and burned through his chest, killing him.
• Uzumaki Hane turned to leave and saw a figure wearing a black cloak embroidered with red clouds standing ahead.

Uzumaki Hane fought Kakuzu and used his Magma-Magma Fruit to withstand powerful fire, wind, and water techniques. After destroying one of Kakuzu’s hearts, Hane escaped and reflected that he was still no match for a Kage Level opponent.

• Uzumaki Hane attacked Kakuzu with Magma Heavy Fist, but Kakuzu dodged and knocked him back before the two exchanged blows.
• Kakuzu burned his hand when Hane turned his neck into magma, then unleashed Fire Style: Searing Migraine, which Hane absorbed in Magma Mode.
• Kakuzu’s Wind Release: Pressure Damage destroyed Hane’s Magma Walls, and their combined water-and-wind attack overwhelmed Hane’s Great Eruption and swept him away.
• Kakuzu approached the apparently defeated Hane, but Hane sprang up and pierced a masked monster with a surprise lava fist, destroying one of Kakuzu’s hearts.
• Uzumaki Hane launched another Great Eruption, fled before seeing its result, and rested at an inn after concluding that he had to be careful around Kage Level fighters.

Uzumaki Hane encountered a series of hostile ninjas and learned that the black market had placed a large bounty on his head. After killing the thin ninja, he fought the fat ninja, who withstood Hane’s Hell Hound attack with an Earth Release technique.

• Uzumaki Hane killed a blood-scented ninja who ambushed him on a forest path.
• Two bounty hunters confronted Uzumaki Hane and revealed that the black market had placed a large bounty on him.
• The thin ninja attacked Uzumaki Hane with a Water Clone, but Hane destroyed it and pierced the man through an Earth Style Wall, killing him.
• The fat ninja attacked Uzumaki Hane with a massive rock, but Hane smashed it and struck him with a series of punches.
• Uzumaki Hane used Hell Hound against the fat ninja, who hardened his body with Earth Release: Hardening Technique and endured the attack.

Uzumaki Hane learned that a large bounty had been placed on him and went to the black market to find out more. After revealing his identity, he was caught in a fight among the bounty hunters, and the chapter left his fate unclear as multiple ninjutsu struck him and two Jonin.

• Uzumaki Hane survived the fat ninja’s earth attacks and killed him with Great Eruption after learning the ninja would not explain the bounty.
• Uzumaki Hane traveled to the black market in disguise to investigate the bounty on his head.
• A stranger exposed Uzumaki Hane’s identity, and Hane struck him with a lava fist, only for the man to vanish as a clone.
• Shimada and Ishikawa argued over Uzumaki Hane, then worked together to wall off the other bounty hunters and claim him.
• Ten Chunin’s ninjutsu destroyed the wall and engulfed Uzumaki Hane, Shimada, and Ishikawa, who vanished in clouds of smoke.

Uzumaki Hane lured Ishikawa and Shimada out of the black market and killed them, then faced the pursuing Chunin and three Jonin. After killing one Chunin and enduring a barrage from the remaining nine, he remained hidden inside a sphere of magma as they assumed he was dead.

• Ishikawa and Shimada chased Uzumaki Hane outside the black market, where he killed Ishikawa with a punch through the chest and Shimada with Hell Hound.
• The Chunin and three Jonin arrived, and the Chunin charged Uzumaki Hane after one of them urged the others to attack.
• Uzumaki Hane used a magma clone to evade Earth Release: Rock Pillar Spear, then killed the Chunin who had cast it.
• The remaining nine Chunin sent clones forward and launched Water, Wind, and Fire Ninjutsu at Uzumaki Hane.
• Uzumaki Hane formed a sphere of magma around himself to withstand the attacks, while the Chunin discussed whether he was dead and worried about the bounty.

Uzumaki Hane slaughtered the Chunin with his Lava Release and faced three Jonin who joined forces to fight him. After their mudslide swallowed him, the battle’s outcome remained unknown.

• Uzumaki Hane emerged unharmed from his lava sphere and killed the Chunin who had attacked him.
• Uzumaki Hane formed a lava fire dragon that swallowed the seven remaining Chunin and continued toward the three Jonin.
• Nakamura, Tsuruta, and Kimura agreed to work together and sent clones to test Uzumaki Hane.
• Tsuruta attacked Uzumaki Hane with Earth Release techniques, but Uzumaki Hane broke through his defenses and escaped the Mountain Earth Technique.
• Uzumaki Hane’s Great Eruption shattered the Jonin’s three defensive walls, but their combined Water and Earth Release formed a mudslide that swallowed him.

Uzumaki Hane survived the three Jonin’s mudslide and defeated all three after emerging from a lake of lava. He escaped with his Chakra exhausted, and arriving ninjas found Tsuruta’s body amid the ruined battlefield.

• Nakamura noticed the mudslide’s debris melting into lava, and the three Jonin fought off the lava hounds that emerged from the lake.
• The Jonin prepared to attack Uzumaki Hane, but he burst from the lava and shattered Tsuruta’s hardened body with a lava fist.
• Uzumaki Hane engulfed Kimura and Nakamura with a gigantic lava fist, killing them before collapsing from Chakra exhaustion.
• Uzumaki Hane left the battlefield, and arriving ninjas found Tsuruta’s body and debated the power of the destruction.

After learning that the black market had placed a 35-million-ryo bounty on him because he was listed as a Chunin, Uzumaki Hane tracked down the nearest black market. There, he encountered Uesugii disguised as him and revealed himself after Uesugii pointed him out, leaving the ninja gathering to surround him.

• Uzumaki Hane learned from a defeated ninja that the black market had offered 35 million ryo for him because his bounty listing identified him as a Chunin, then killed the ninja after learning where the nearest black market was.
• Uzumaki Hane disguised himself in a black robe and headed for the black market, where he found a crowd chasing someone who looked like him.
• The disguised man revealed himself as Uesugii, and the ninja recognized him as a fugitive worth five million ryo and prepared to attack.
• Uesugii spotted Uzumaki Hane in the crowd and pointed him out, correctly guessing his identity.
• Uzumaki Hane removed his robe and mask, and the ninja turned toward him and began surrounding him.

Uzumaki Hane fought off a group of bounty hunters while protecting Uesugi I, then encountered Kakuzu, who had come for his heart and thirty-five million ryo. Kakuzu attacked the hunters, leaving only a few Jonin alive.

• Uzumaki Hane confronted Uesugii about abandoning him before and dismissed the surrounding bounty hunters as no threat.
• Uzumaki Hane killed a Chunin instantly, then shielded Uesugi I inside a lava sphere from the hunters' combined attack.
• Uesugi I fled while the hunters watched Uzumaki Hane emerge unharmed from the lava.
• Uzumaki Hane sent lava hounds against the Chunin, burning two of them alive before the others destroyed the hounds.
• Kakuzu arrived seeking Uzumaki Hane's heart and bounty, then killed most of the hunters with Fire Style: Searing Migraine.

Kakuzu killed the four Jonin who attacked him, leaving Uesugii terrified and Uzumaki Hane preparing to flee. Hane challenged Kakuzu with five Great Eruptions, and the chapter ended as his lava fists broke through Kakuzu’s combined water-and-wind defense.

• Uzumaki Hane told Uesugii that Kakuzu was a powerful ninja from the First Hokage’s era who hunted bounties.
• The four Jonin attacked Kakuzu with Earth Release techniques, but he survived their assault and killed each of them.
• Uesugii urged Uzumaki Hane to run, and Hane agreed before stepping forward to test his limits against Kakuzu.
• Uzumaki Hane fired five Great Eruptions at Kakuzu, who combined Water Release and Wind Release to form a massive wave.
• The wave swallowed the first three lava fists, broke apart against the fourth and fifth, and was finally shattered by the fifth.

After escaping Kakuzu, Uzumaki Hane learned why Uesugii had impersonated him and decided to investigate who had placed the bounty on his head. As they traveled to a distant black market, four attackers ambushed them and dropped them into a hollow beneath the ground.

• Uesugii carried the exhausted Uzumaki Hane away from Kakuzu, then explained that he had impersonated Hane while searching for bounty information and fled after seeing Hane’s thirty-five-million-ryo bounty.
• Uzumaki Hane asked Uesugii to take him to a black market so he could learn who had placed the bounty on him, despite Uesugii’s warning that the market’s hidden power might include a Kage Level expert.
• The next day, Uzumaki Hane and Uesugii traveled toward a distant black market to avoid Kakuzu.
• Attackers threw explosive-tag kunai at the pair, then four figures used Earth Release: Tearing Earth Turning Palm to split the ground beneath them.
• Uzumaki Hane and Uesugii fell through the broken ground and landed safely below.

Uzumaki Hane and Uesugi I fought off the ninja who trapped them in a hole, with Uesugi I defeating his attackers and Uzumaki Hane killing the ambushers with lava. Uzumaki Hane confronted the mysterious ninja who had exposed his identity, but the man revealed that he had planted Explosive Tags in the cave before Uzumaki Hane pierced his chest.

• Uzumaki Hane threw Uesugi I out of the swamp, but shifting earth separated them as Uesugi I fought off the ninja below.
• Uesugi I used his sensory skills and Ninjutsu to defeat several attackers, then burned the stone-armored ninja alive with Fire Dragon Flame Bullet.
• Uzumaki Hane let the swamp swallow him until he erupted from it in lava and killed the ninja waiting above.
• Uzumaki Hane melted the ground to kill two ninja who fled underground, then faced the mysterious ninja who had exposed his identity.
• The mysterious ninja said he had planted Explosive Tags in the cave, and Uzumaki Hane drove his hand through the man's chest.

Uzumaki Hane survived a devastating explosion and returned the next day with Uesugi I to the black market, where he confronted its manager over the bounty on his life. The manager triggered a trap and sent five ninja after him, but Uzumaki Hane’s counterattack destroyed the outpost.

• Uzumaki Hane survived a five-minute barrage of explosions by turning into magma, then emerged from the crater and apologized to Uesugi I for dragging him into danger.
• Uzumaki Hane and Uesugi I postponed their trip to the black market until the next day, then reached the outpost without incident.
• Uzumaki Hane seized the black market manager and demanded to know who had placed the bounty on him, but the manager claimed he did not know.
• The manager offered the five ninja an additional thirty-five million to kill Uzumaki Hane, then triggered a poisoned hidden-weapon trap and escaped through a floor opening.
• Uzumaki Hane turned into magma and destroyed the black market outpost, leaving Uesugii outside to watch the devastation.

Uzumaki Hane and Uesugi I headed for another black-market hideout but were ambushed by Hidan. Uzumaki Hane avoided Hidan’s ritual and struck him with a massive magma fist, leaving Hidan sprawled on the ground.

• Uzumaki Hane persuaded Uesugi I to continue toward another black-market hideout, warning him that they were both implicated.
• Hidan ambushed Uzumaki Hane and Uesugi I with his Bloody Triple-Bladed Scythe and announced his plan to offer Uzumaki Hane to Jashin.
• Uzumaki Hane fought Hidan, dodging and blocking his attacks while keeping out of reach of the scythe’s ritual bloodletting.
• Hidan managed to splash liquid from Uzumaki Hane’s arm onto the scythe, but Uzumaki Hane charged before Hidan could begin the ritual.
• Uzumaki Hane revealed the liquid was not blood, transformed his right hand into magma, and punched Hidan ten meters away.

Uzumaki Hane and Uesugi I fought Hidan, whose immortality let him survive being stabbed and decapitated, while Hane prevented him from completing his ritual. Kakuzu arrived and rescued Hidan from Hane’s magma attack, leaving both enemies ready to continue the fight.

• Uesugi I stabbed Hidan through the heart, but Hidan survived, cut Uesugi I, and began a blood ritual to curse him.
• Uzumaki Hane stopped Hidan from stabbing himself with a spear and hurled him out of the ritual circle before attacking him with magma techniques.
• Uesugi I trapped Hidan in a swamp, and Uzumaki Hane cut off his head.
• Kakuzu emerged, and his black threads pulled Hidan’s head and body away as Uzumaki Hane launched Great Eruption at them.
• Kakuzu appeared with Hidan intact after surviving the magma attack, and Hidan declared he would use Uzumaki Hane for the ritual.

Uzumaki Hane fought Kakuzu and Hidan, then collapsed after unleashing a barrage of magma fists, and Uesugii carried him to safety. When they learned Hidan might still be alive, they hurried back, but Hidan began his ritual and stabbed himself through the heart, causing Uesugii to collapse in pain.

• Kakuzu and Hidan attacked Uzumaki Hane and Uesugi I, with Kakuzu summoning four masked monsters and Hidan trying to draw Uesugi into his blood circle.
• Uzumaki Hane drove Hidan away from Uesugi, then unleashed nine enormous magma fists before passing out.
• Uesugii carried Uzumaki Hane away from the burning battlefield, and Hane woke after dark and warned that Hidan’s forbidden technique could still endanger Uesugii.
• Uzumaki Hane and Uesugii returned toward the battlefield as Hane explained Hidan’s ability, while Kakuzu and Hidan survived the attack.
• Hidan drew his ritual circle, stabbed himself through the heart, and caused Uesugii to feel a sharp pain in his own heart and fall from a tree trunk.

After Uesugii died, Uzumaki Hane vowed to avenge him and spent three months hunting for Kakuzu and Hidan through the black market. He learned that Hidan had recently visited Samura’s casino, then killed Samura after questioning him.

• Uesugii died after warning Uzumaki Hane not to search for the others, and Uzumaki Hane vowed to avenge him.
• Uzumaki Hane returned to the battlefield, found Kakuzu and Hidan gone, and began searching for them through the black market.
• Over the next three months, Uzumaki Hane killed ninja who attacked him and gained a fearsome reputation in the black market.
• Uzumaki Hane went to the White Chrysanthemum Casino to find Samura, a Jonin who had seen someone with an immortal body.
• Samura told Uzumaki Hane that Hidan and a masked companion had visited three days earlier, and that Hidan had killed a Jonin and taken his body.
• After Samura begged for his life, Uzumaki Hane pierced his chest and killed him.

Uzumaki Hane lured Hidan and Kakuzu into a prepared battlefield and fought them using lava, traps, and explosive tags. He trapped Hidan in lava again and drew him into the woods, while Kakuzu repaired his damaged limbs and pursued them.

• Uzumaki Hane delivered his latest bounty to the black market and learned that Hidan and Kakuzu had recently passed through the next town.
• Uzumaki Hane prepared a battlefield, and Hidan and Kakuzu followed a lead about his whereabouts to a barren forest.
• Hidan charged at Uzumaki Hane, who trapped him between walls of lava before attacking Kakuzu.
• Kakuzu fought back with Earth Release and Lightning Release, but Uzumaki Hane used lava streams and explosive tags to injure him and blast off his right hand and left foot.
• Hidan escaped the lava and attacked again, but Uzumaki Hane surrounded him with more lava and lured him into the woods.
• Kakuzu reattached his severed limbs with black threads and charged into the woods after them.