Sāra

Fair-skinned and violet-eyed, Sāra wears her red hair long with spiky bangs across her brow. Her royal attire runs to robes of purple and pink, a gold necklace bearing a red jewel at her throat, gold bracelets, and brown sandals. Once she resolves to shield her people against Anrokuzan, she tears the robes apart for easier movement and pulls the hair back into a ponytail. In casual dress, away from the crown, she pairs rose-pink sandals with thigh-high stockings in black, green shorts, and a jacket of pale pink, her hair once more tied back. Twenty years on, in Naruto's era, she takes to an orange robe edged in navy blue, her irises still violet, and a bandanna of tan and green tied at her brow, fitting for the years spent traveling with her caravan.

From her earliest years Sāra understands that the throne and the care of her people will fall to her. Her mother's death leaves her leaning on Anrokuzan, who repeatedly assures her that guarding Rōran, the lovely city her mother raised, is her sacred charge. She grows to treasure the kingdom as a gift from her mother and pledges her very life to it, and six years later she still grieves, singing alone the tune the two of them once shared. Stubbornness and courage sit side by side in her. For a long time she will not accept that Anrokuzan is lying to her, but the instant she can no longer deny it she pours everything into guarding her people from him. That resolve costs her dearly: when Minato suppresses memories to keep history on course, her hard-won confidence vanishes along with every trace of Naruto and Anrokuzan.

Two decades later, having steered her people through a wandering caravan and won their full faith, she feels ready at last to reign as her mother once did. Now grown and blind to who Naruto is, she greets Team 7 with a humble ruler's composure, apologising for the minutes she has cost them before taking her leave with a gracious bow, a far cry from the anxious, suspicious teenager she used to be.

Sāra is the daughter of Sēramu, Rōran's queen. In her childhood, a man called Anrokuzan talks her mother into drawing on the Ryūmyaku, an old chakra current flowing far below the city, to build towering structures. Once Sēramu grasps that she is merely a tool to him, he quietly stabs her to death, and Sāra inherits the crown without realising she rules only as his puppet. From her mother she inherits as well the queens' singular power to sense and steer the Ryūmyaku, and even to seal it shut.

Long afterward, Naruto is hurled into the past and stirs awake to the sound of Sāra singing. He rescues her from a fall arranged during a public appearance, and Minato lays out the truth: Naruto hails from the future, meddling in this age could distort history, and a ninja named Mukade slipped back six years prior. Sāra will not hear it, certain her minister Anrokuzan is a decent man rather than the schemer they name, and she runs off to clear him. Villagers who lost relatives to his plots confront her, and Naruto reveals the adoring crowds to be nothing but puppets, yet still she resists the truth. He presses her to remember what her mother held dear.

Trailing Naruto beneath the city, Sāra uncovers Anrokuzan enslaving the abducted citizens to assemble his Puppet Ninja Force. She chokes off the Ryūmyaku powering the factory, but Anrokuzan, done needing her now that his army stands ready, admits to murdering her mother and turns on the pair. The Nine-Tails' chakra lets Naruto shield her, and as Minato's squad takes on Anrokuzan she frees the prisoners and reunites them with their kin. Guiding her people into the garden of her first meeting with Naruto, she seals it using the Konoha Chakra Blade he hands her and shuts down the Ryūmyaku for good while Naruto and Minato end Anrokuzan with the Supreme Ultimate Rasengan. Minato then wipes everyone's memories so the future holds, and Sāra swears to serve her people whatever befalls Rōran. Twenty years later she feels the leyline stir among the ruins and unknowingly meets Naruto once more, the blade still with her, before parting from Team 7 and rejoining her caravan while he puzzles over a face he cannot place.