Karura

Indigo eyes and sandy-brown hair worn to the shoulders lend Karura a gentle face. Her outfit is plain, set off by a long scarf of pale yellow that hangs loosely at her throat.

A gentle, kindhearted woman, Karura holds her family closest of all.

Temari and Kankuro come to Karura and Rasa before she carries their third child. Seemingly over her husband's objections, she is compelled to let Shukaku, one of the tailed beasts, be sealed away inside the baby she still carries. The toll is cruel: Gaara arrives too early and Karura dies in the same hour. As her physicians run out of options and her heartbeat gives out, she begs to hold her boy, and looking on the tiny, fragile newborn she swears to shield him whatever comes before she slips away. That fierce resolve lets her thread her own chakra through Gaara's sand, which then stirs by itself to guard him from every threat, his own recklessness included, rising into a barrier shaped like her when it stands complete. For much of his childhood Gaara believes a falsehood, since Yashamaru is pushed into telling him his mother despises him and wants him made into her weapon of vengeance against Sunagakure, a lie that warps how the boy understands love. Not until the Fourth Shinobi World War does Gaara uncover the truth of how she died, and afterward both Rasa and Yashamaru hold that it is her devotion, not the chakra of Shukaku, that lingers in the sand protecting him.