Sasuke Shinden: Book of Sunrise

Drawn from the Sasuke Shinden: Book of Sunrise novel, this Naruto: Shippuden arc runs from episode 484 to 488. It focuses on Sasuke's wandering years after the Fourth Shinobi World War as he works to protect the peace from a distance. The anime places it after the Childhood arc, with the Shikamaru Hiden storyline arriving next.

Two years past the great war, a former Konoha Anbu named Tadaichi is caught in a red-eyed stranger's genjutsu. Soon after, unresponsive attackers detonate at Konoha's gate, and the shinobi realize these Exploding Humans are being manipulated by an unknown bloodline. Kakashi decides to summon Sasuke back to help. Out in the wilds, Sasuke answers Sai's message and stumbles onto a similar blast at a bamboo settlement, where he meets Chino and Nowaki. Chasing a culprit named Fushin, he seeks intelligence from Orochimaru, who directs him to a collector called En Oyashiro.

At a coliseum where the wealthy pit captured shinobi against one another, En reveals that red eyes trace back to the Chinoike clan, once banished by the Uchiha. Sasuke pieces together that both he and Konoha are being targeted. The trail leads him to expose Nowaki as the true Fushin and to a reckoning with Chino, the last Chinoike survivor, whose Ketsuryugan can turn victims into living bombs. His Sharingan foils the technique, and instead of killing her he speaks of the friend who once saved him, which moves Chino and Fushin to surrender.

Konoha detains Chino and her allies, and the Mizukage later offers them a chance to atone by serving Kirigakure, which they accept. Sasuke returns to the coliseum, wins every bout, and hands the operation over to Kumogakure, reconciling with the Fourth Raikage in the process. It emerges that En is Chino's father, who had slaughtered his own clan to shield her and then steered Sasuke toward saving her from vengeance. Reading a letter from Naruto that likens his methods to the old Military Police Force, Sasuke recalls a boyhood ambition and decides to return home.