Gato



Name: Gatō, ガトー
Age: 48 (deceased)1
Height: 162.5 cm1
Weight: 69.0 kg1
Birthday: April 30
Blood Type: A
Signature Ability: Hiring Shinobi

Gatō is a powerful ship magnate whose shipping company is actually a front for much shadier activity, such as smuggling illegal goods and dealing drugs. He takes control of Nami no Kuni's shipping routes and created a monopoly by isolating the country from the outside world, preventing free import and export and turning it into an impoverished, hunger-stricken country in the process. He is a cruel, greedy] man, also responsible for humiliating and killing Kaiza for being the country's hero, traumatising Inari, who saw Kaiza as a father figure, in the process. Gatō is protected by two bodyguards, Zouri and Waraji.

Gatō hires Missing-nins from the Kirigakure — including Momochi Zabuza, Haku and the Onikyōdai — to assassinate Tazuna and stop him from finishing to build the bridge which would connect Nami no Kuni (Land of Waves) to the outside world and allow its economy to recover; however, after Zabuza's arms were broken in battle with Hatake Kakashi (who was hired to defend Tazuna, along with Uzumaki Naruto, Haruno Sakura and Uchiha Sasuke), Gatō assumed that Zabuza would be able to do no damage with broken arms and informs him of his plan to dispose of him since, in his own words, "No one cares what I do to your kind once the job is done." Therefore, he calls a swarm of thugs to finish the job. Since Zabuza was still able to wield a kunai in his mouth, this mistake cost Gatō his life. In the manga, Zabuza chopped off Gatō's head with the knife after being struck by several of his cronies. In the anime, Gatō was stabbed several times, then thrown off the bridge. Zabuza died, and the renegades were driven away by Kakashi and Naruto. The bridge, dubbed by Kakashi "The land's hope", was completed and named the "Great Naruto Bridge" by Tazuna.

His name is spelled with and without a circumflex in the English manga. The Revised Hepburn romanization is Gatō.

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