Kaiza

Short, spiky black hair sits above dark eyes, and a small white cord is knotted at the right side of his head. A little x-shaped scar marks his chin, while older scars line his arms. He wears a white-trimmed black shirt with plain white trousers.

Kaiza is fearless in a way that echoes Naruto and the Fourth Hokage. His creed is simple: once you set a goal, never surrender, and guard what matters with both your arms. Fiercely devoted to his adopted homeland, he stakes his life to shield its people the moment Gato moves against them.

After pulling a drowning Inari to safety, Kaiza took the boy under his wing, teaching him to defend what he treasured with his own two arms, and married Inari's mother Tsunami to become his stepfather and role model. When floodwaters threatened the village, he swam through a current no ordinary person could survive to shut the gate, earning the town's admiration.

That same defiance made him a target once Gato seized control. Unable to break him, Gato had his men sever Kaiza's arms in a cruel mockery of his motto and put him to death before a crowd, with Inari forced to watch. His stand went unmatched, and the people bowed to Gato's rule for years afterward, valuing their lives over their pride. Only much later, when Inari meets Naruto, does Kaiza's courage pass on through the boy to the rest of the Land of Waves.