The Hero's Bridge!!

Sasuke stirs awake, having merely been dropped into a near-death trance by Haku rather than actually slain. Sakura shares the relief with Naruto, who is grateful that Haku held onto his refusal to take a life. With Gatō now dead, the mercenaries he left behind start weighing whether to loot the Land of Waves to make up for the wages they will never collect. At that moment Inari marches in with the townsfolk, ready at last to stand for their homeland. A few well-timed shadow clones from Naruto and Kakashi tip the balance, and the frightened thugs bolt.

As Zabuza slips away, he asks Kakashi for one thing: to be brought to where Haku lies. Dying, he mourns that he cannot follow his most devoted companion in death. The two are laid to rest side by side on a rise looking out over the country. Two weeks on, once Tazuna finishes the bridge, Team 7 sets off back to Konoha.

Sasuke recovers, having only been placed in a death-like state. The people of the Land of Waves, led by Inari, rise up and drive off Gatō's leaderless thugs with help from Naruto and Kakashi's clones. Zabuza dies after asking to be carried to Haku's body.

Zabuza and Haku are buried together overlooking the country, and Team 7 returns to Konoha once the completed bridge is finished two weeks later.

This chapter caps the Prologue Land of Waves arc and was collected in volume 4. Viz Media titled it The Bridge of the Hero!! It appeared in issue 26 of 2000.