While Naruto and Sasuke train, Sakura watches over Tazuna. During a nice dinner, Sakura notices a man’s face torn from a picture. The man’s name was Kaiza, and he was what the country called…a “hero”. What happened to cause Inari so much pain?

Sakura watches over Tazuna and Tazuna asks her where Sasuke and Naruto is. She says that they are training and Tazuna replies by asking her if the training is too hard for her. She gets mad and tells her that she’s guarding her because she did best during the training. Tazuna works, yet another of his employees asks to stop working on the bridge for fear of Gato.

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In thins episode, Naruto has finally graduated and has submitted his application. Hokage and Iruka are in the middle of lecturing Naruto for his inappropriate picture when they are interrupted by the Hokage’s grandson, Konohamaru.

A photographer stands atop a building looking and Naruto and asking if he really wants to have his picture taken while looking like he does. Naruto tells him not to worry and the photographer sighs a snaps a photo. After the whole ’say cheese’ bit the picture is taken, and we see Naruto painted white from head to toe with red swirls added on while he makes a nasty face.

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