Karui

Amber-eyed and dark-skinned, Karui wears her red hair long and spiky. In her youth she pairs a frilly-edged short-sleeved dress with the Cloud Village flak jacket, fishnet leggings, white-soled thigh-high boots, a pair of plain yellow studs, and her forehead protector knotted bandanna-style, with a long sword riding on her back. Maturity brings a fuller figure and still-longer hair, now combed back and tidy; she trades the old outfit for a sleeveless dark dress closed with a white obi, drops the headband, and keeps dangling earrings of the same yellow, though the anime omits them.

Brash, hot-headed, and ruled by her feelings, Karui says exactly what is on her mind. She screams at Team Kakashi for letting Sasuke rampage through the Cloud Village and later hammers Naruto with her fists, an act Omoi says she comes to regret. Her back-and-forth with Omoi is a running comic feud, yet the two strike in flawless unison without a word between them, and she reveres Killer B like the rest of her squad. Motherhood mellows her: devoted to the equally headstrong Chocho, she shrugs at her daughter's teenage grumbling, puzzles over why the fresh Ino-Shika-Cho trio must drill formations in peacetime, and prizes family meals, souring only when Choji fails to share what she has bought.

Ranked chunin and schooled by Killer B, Karui fights chiefly with a long katana and handles it well, once dropping a knot of White Zetsu clones in a lone Cloud-Style beheading sweep, while the anime hands her Lightning Release too. Sent to the Leaf to dig up news on Sasuke and the Akatsuki, she and Omoi corner Naruto after word reaches them that their sensei has been taken; when Naruto refuses to give Sasuke up, she vents her rage by beating him until Sai steps in. Come the Fourth Shinobi World War she joins the Second Division, dismisses the fighting as simple, and mows through the reanimated Zetsu army. She reunites with Omoi beside B and roots her master on as he hurls himself at the Ten-Tails, and once Naruto and Sasuke finally end the war she is freed with everyone else from the Infinite Tsukuyomi. In time she leaves the Cloud for Konoha, marries Choji Akimichi, enters his clan, and the pair raise a girl they call Chocho.