The Land of a Hero

Inari, Tazuna's small grandson, watches Naruto train past collapse and finally explodes: heroes don't exist; Gato kills them. The episode unpacks why — flashbacks of Kaiza, the fisherman who became Inari's father and the town's hero, executed in the village square as a public lesson. Naruto, who has never had a father to lose, refuses the boy's despair to his face and goes back to climbing trees until he bleeds. The Land of Waves arc reveals its real subject: what a hero costs.