Honoka

Long red hair, worn straight and gathered with a white band, falls past Honoka's dark eyes. Her outfit centers on a sleeveless purple kimono blouse trimmed in yellow and closed with a traditional obi whose bow streams down behind her, mesh mail showing underneath and a short white skirt below. She tends to go without footwear.

Glimpsed only as a spirit and unable to speak, Honoka still comes across as a caring soul. She kept her composure even as the Ultimate Summoning Beast tore through the island, showing no visible fear, and a photograph left in her room hints at a bright, cheerful disposition in life.

Honoka had a gift for fūinjutsu, which earned her the job of holding the Ultimate Summoning Beast in check while researchers studied it. Her Beast Sealing Technique spun its formula into chains that bound whatever she targeted. In time, though, the creature outgrew her hold and broke loose, turning on the researchers who begged her to act. One by one they fell until she alone remained, and when her seal gave out she cried for aid that no living person was left to hear, and she was killed.

Her spirit could not rest, so she drifted across the island awaiting the chance to finish what she had started. When Konoha shinobi arrived to rescue Guy, Aoba spotted her, and she drew him toward the records the scientists had left behind before leading him to the still-dormant beast. As the ninja and several of the island's animals joined battle with it, Honoka bound the creature long enough for Naruto Uzumaki to strike with the Wind Release: Rasenshuriken. Her duty at last discharged, her soul was free to move on. Her red hair, her mastery of sealing, and the resemblance of her chains to the Adamantine Sealing Chains led some to suspect she descended from the Uzumaki clan, a theory a book about a surviving clan member seemed to support.