If you wanted to have an In Character recap you could work it in relatively easily. Have Tsunade breifing somebody on Sakura and Naruto's activities over the last little while, possibly Yamato if you want to bring him into the story for some reason. It would still be an exposition dump, but you could mark it as such and it tends to work better than just a straight expo-dump at the front of the fanfic.
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