Karin's Mother

Grey eyes and a tall, pale frame defined her, and like most of Uzumaki descent she carried vivid red hair. Hers fell straight to the chin and split into a parting that curtained each side of her face. In the same way that would later mark Karin, her body was covered in bite scars by the time she died, the residue of countless people drawing on her chakra to heal themselves.

What little the story shows of her centres on devotion to Karin. She uprooted to Kusagakure so the two of them would have somewhere stable to live, and she was ready to spend her own health, and in the end her life, to keep that home intact.

Her Uzumaki heritage gave her an extraordinarily durable life-force, translating into deep vitality, unusual longevity, and potent restorative power. Anyone who bit down on her and pulled at her chakra was healed on the spot, their injuries erased through a transfer of her own energy, and her stamina and reserves ran vast enough to sustain this again and again. The cost was twofold. Every feeding left a permanent scar, and mending a large number of people in one stretch was lethal.

Kept under Zosui's supervision in Kusagakure, she was pressed to use the gift over and over as fighting flared, and healing too many at once is what ended her. With her gone, the village leaders handed the same role to Karin.