Recaps

Uzumaki Hane and Jiraiya failed to save Yugito from the Akatsuki, then returned to Konoha as Kazuma launched an invasion using resurrected ninja and Sora’s Nine-Tails chakra. Naruto helped Sora break free, Kazuma was defeated, and the story left Naruto training Rasenshuriken while Orochimaru advanced his plan to take Sasuke’s body.

• Kakashi began training Naruto in Wind Release, while Itachi and Kisame captured Yugito and Hane and Jiraiya joined Samui, Omoi, and Karui to search for her.
• Hane, Jiraiya, Samui, Omoi, and Karui fought Tobi, Zetsu, Itachi, and Kisame, but they found Yugito dead after the Akatsuki extracted Matatabi.
• After returning to Konoha, Hane warned Tsunade that Naruto might be an Akatsuki target, then was assigned to train and protect Naruto as Tobi attacked Team Kakashi.
• Hane identified Kazuma as the leader behind the attacks on villages, but Kazuma escaped with Sora and began an assault on Konoha using resurrected Guardian Ninja and corpses.
• Naruto, Sakura, Yamato, Asuma, and Hane fought the invaders as Kazuma revealed that he had sealed Nine-Tails chakra inside Sora to destroy Konoha.
• Hane restrained Sora, but Naruto rejected the Nine-Tails’ offer and reached Sora, who broke free of the chakra, and Asuma defeated Kazuma, and Sora left to travel.
• During the following month, Hane trained Naruto as Konoha rebuilt, while Orochimaru ordered Kabuto to begin the plan to take Sasuke’s body.
• Jiraiya returned to Konoha, where Naruto demonstrated a Wind Release: Rasenshuriken that faded before hitting its target.

Uzumaki Hane and Kakashi’s team clashed with Guren’s group while Orochimaru’s plans brought Yukimaru into contact with the Three-Tails. After Yukimaru was repeatedly taken and rescued, Kabuto and Rinji fled with him, leaving Kakashi’s team to regroup and divide its pursuit.

• Uzumaki Hane found Guren and her test subjects, defeated them, and followed Guren’s group while Kakashi’s team was dispatched to search for Orochimaru’s missing base.
• Guren trapped Kakashi’s team in a crystal barrier, but Uzumaki Hane and Naruto broke through it as the group fought Guren’s subordinates.
• Guren and Kabuto used Yukimaru to summon the Three-Tails, but the beast broke free, and Uzumaki Hane and Kakashi rescued Yukimaru from the water.
• Kakashi’s team agreed to protect Yukimaru and capture the Three-Tails, but Kabuto and Guren attacked their shelter and escaped with him.
• Uzumaki Hane fought Tobi and the Three-Tails while Kakashi’s team battled Guren’s clones, but Kabuto got away with Yukimaru.
• Kakashi split the pursuit, and Yamato’s team found Kabuto, Guren, Rinji, and two unknown ninja waiting near Yukimaru.
• Naruto and Yamato’s team fought the ambushers, but Rinji fled with Yukimaru while Guren held off Yamato.
• Kakashi’s team rejoined Yamato’s group and continued after Yukimaru, then an explosive-tag trap exhausted Kakashi, and the team stopped to regroup and divide its search.

The search for the Three-Tails ended with Tobi capturing it, while Sasuke killed Orochimaru and rejected Naruto’s pleas to return. The story left Naruto’s team fighting Sasuke as Uzumaki Hane and Jiraiya battled Pain in Amegakure.

• Kabuto Yakushi gave Yukimaru pills to awaken the Three-Tails, and Guren rescued the boy as the beast wrecked their boat.
• Kakashi and Might Guy fought the Three-Tails, while Sasuke defeated Orochimaru and Uzumaki Hane found his body in the hideout.
• Tobi captured the Three-Tails, and Sasuke left to pursue revenge after freeing Suigetsu from Orochimaru’s laboratory.
• Uzumaki Hane told Naruto and Sakura that Sasuke had killed Orochimaru and would not return, so they set out to find Tobi.
• Tsunade sent Uzumaki Hane to support Jiraiya in Amegakure, while Kakashi led a team to search for Uchiha Itachi.
• Kabuto revealed his Orochimaru-merged body and gave Naruto intelligence on the Akatsuki before escaping.
• Jiraiya and Uzumaki Hane confronted Pain and Konan in Amegakure, where Pain’s Rinnegan-wielding bodies and giant summons attacked them.
• Sasuke fought Naruto’s team, broke free of their restraints with his Cursed Seal, and stabbed Yamato as Naruto charged with Shadow Clones and a Rasengan.