Karuna



 Karuna Ametsuchi  (カ ル ナ  あ め つ ち , Ametsuchi Karuna)

''A kunoichi from Sunagakure who becomes one of the Kazekage's assistants under Temari's suggestion as she was good with sorting a lot of documents in a short amount of time and even better at traveling quickly and passing on messeges with little to no mistakes. After the war she grows on Gaara as a maternal figure making him think of all she's done for him that she didn't have to do and thinking maybe this is what it would have been like to have a mother. She later grows ties to Konoha after Team Kakashi and Team Gai rescue him and in the epilogue of the manga, she can be seen walking to Gai while he and Kakashi were talking and soon proposed to as Gai claims it was the only way knew how to repay her for taking care of him, training with him and with his students and especially sacrificing and moving to Konoha to take care of him in his "time of need" while burdened to a wheelchair. He states that his team had their own problems and lives to live and didn't need to be burdened with taking care of an "aging man" and it was very selfless and compassionate of her to do this for him when she certainly didn't have to.''





Background


Personality
Karuna is an over all kind and calm person. She does her best to encourage and influence other people to do their best and be true to themselves. She has a strong compassion to keep an honest personality and do the best she can while out on mission or doing tasks given to her by the Kazekage himself. She also loves to be cheerful and supportive, as well as she prefers calmness over panic, while being very preferrable to upbeat and compassionate people such as Guy. Karuna tends to have a strong desire to protect the people she cares about, and she tends to be careless in some very stressful situations. When she was younger, she was often described as too merciful and forgiving and often got taken advantage of. She got better at standing her ground with age and building self confidence within her team. Although she not immune to annoyance or anger,she still prefers not to yell at people though it's impossible not to have an outburst at some point or another. Karuna's also pretty confusing at times as she has an odd habit of making jokes that many need an explanation to fully understand. To put it briefly, they're mostly jokes she thinks common sense would justify, but others don't tend to get so easily as they don't have her frame of mind.

She dislikes seeing anyone in pain, even strangers, and tries to lift their spirits by first putting a smile on her face when she approaches them. She dislikes not being able to help, but learns early on she cannot please everyone nor can she help everyone. She tends to have to pay for her carelessness and is highly blessed if or when everything turns out alright in the end. Karuna has a high sense of curiosity when it comes to finding out why or how someone ends up hateful or despiteful towards the world. She once asked Gaara about his past since she didn't know him well enough back then to know what had happened to make him so hateful. Thankfully, his eyes had been opened by Naruto and they could bond like she wanted to as he was more open. She seems to become like a mother figure to Gaara as he sees her as how his mother might have treated him when he learns she actually was loved.

When Karuna is deeply upset or "down in the dumps", she tends to seek attention and comfort from people she cares about. Gaara's attention seems to grow into the kind she seeks the most the more they spent time together, as well as he became accustomed to her personality and seek her comforting words and affection as well.

Adding to the info above; Karuna's bad habits often come out to play when she's at her lowest/weakest. She's known to cry herself to the point of exhaustion, ramble stubbornly and passionately about a subject till she forgets what she's even rambling about, and has a sense of stubborn pride that fuels her arguments with people, especially as she gets older. Her stubborn anger filled outbursts often leave her feeling very regretful and apologetic. She's willing to do whatever she can to make up for her behavior, and often makes it a habit to be honest and forgive others instead of hate them since that's how she wishes to be treated in return or in general when she makes mistakes.

Regardless of her strengths and flaws, over all, Karuna tends to naturally show her better personality traits over many of her bads ones, though, things have a way of slipping out. She'll try to stay away from her worst traits such as; her secretive nature, hidden self-esteem issues, how easily she can panic, and a large amount of stubborn pride she inherited from her mother and became more apparent as she got older.

Karuna can actually become pretty selfish and territorial when it comes to her 3 male cousins on her father's side. They tended to do everything possible to spy on her, get on her nerves, and enjoy being complete and total smart asses even as they grew older and SHOULD have grown more mature. She also has to put up with the oldest of the three as one of her teammates. She's very protective of her things and keeps a LOT of her stuff out of reach until she moves to Konoha in the epilogue, but she still deeply cares about her cousins as they're family and she couldn't choose anyone better than those three to have taught her her patience, the ability to listen, and developing empathy and understanding when they actually opened up to her whether emotionally or physically with a simple hug.

Karuna's facial expressions don't seem to be as expressive as others', regardless of her mood. However, when she laughs, she has a bright beaming smile on her face as well as her laugh is quite.. goofy. Her laughter is usually quite contagious because she tends to accidentally snort when she's laughing really hard. The accidental snorting makes her blush and it really embarrass her, but she just can't help it when she hears a funny joke. Naruto has a way with making her laugh, as does some of the things Gaara does when he's embarrassed. As a result, her smile and laughter has a habit of lifting people's moods and often puts a smile on their face. For Gaara, her giggling just makes him blush more when he's embarrassed. Gai seems to enjoy her giggling and her laugh which makes him later strive to make her happy.

As she got older she also became strong willed, very intellectual, brave, and accepting of reality as she goes through the war as well as she learns to force her gentle and merciful nature aside from influence of people around her. For example she's seen Gaara when he fights and the more she saw his courage and desire to protect, she obtains that desire to do whatever it takes to defend her family, her friends, her village, and especially Gai when he ended up in trouble becoming hospitalized and requiring a wheelchair in the Epilogue. This becomes her reasoning to move to Konoha as Lee has his own son and family to take care of.

Karuna lets her friends know if they have any problems, that they can find her and talk to her, even if she's busy. Eventually it seemed like the words "Talk to me. I'll Listen." somehow got written atop her forehead in bold black letters as a few complete and total strangers would occasionally approach her and openly express their problems. She's been known to be a gentle loving pair of arms, person of deep empathy and understanding as well as compassion, and considerate when described by someone who('s) knows her/met her. She's also described as selfless, though, she's FAR from perfection. Karuna highly believes that a beautiful personality can beat even the prettiest of faces and disliked most of her mother's superficial customs and choose her own path. Although, she still follows some of them in her memory after her mother passes away. 

Appearance
Karuna wears a simple low tied ponytail with two look bangs at the top and the rest of her bangs pulled to either side as well as her two parts of hair that hang down behind her ears. She wears azure pearl studded earrings and charms on a forehead tiara based on eastern culture. At the center of her tiara, she wears an azure diamond. Her hair is similat to Karura's hair color, her eyes are a deeper blue than Naruto's, her skin is rather fair since she's mostly inside the Kazekage's office while still hinting a tan from being in the desert sun and orange rose colored cheeks, as well as she wears an azure colored flower which gave her the moniker "Merciful Azure Flower". She wears a scarf that's a very greyish tan color along with a waist length kimono with the Ametsuchi clan's clan symbol on each sleeve and the center which it cut off by the silk lining that seperates the kimono. Her cleavage is visible, however, due to her large breast size she covers most of them up with a support bra type tube top to take some stress off her lower back. She wears a greyish tan pouch and band around her waist, a blue slit skirt, and underneath, fishnet shorts which also match the fishnet over her cleavage.which is just see through enough to give appeal but not expose the enough to see it underneathe. Karuna also wears thigh high black leggings that connect into boots with a slight heel no higher than Sakura's which shows her toes that are painted with light blue nail polish. She has one more set of fishnets staarting just below her elbows, ending at the first knuckle on her fingers and two small bands with a silver bell dangling from each.

Flower Ninja Art
This is a ninja art tied to flowers which is only used as a secret technique in the Land of Vegetables to one particular, unnamed, clan. Karuna is related by her grandmother to this clan and Karuna has developed it into two other secret techniques unique only to her; Fragrant Ninja Art, which relies heavily on water release to make a fragrant mist or perfume that can give status ailments such as extreme drowziness, puts the target in a daze, can cause confusion, or even mask the foul odor of a knock out gas made with the fragrance of flowers mixed with a heavy sleep enducing gas. Karuna also created a ninja art called Petal Ninja Art which relies heavily on singular flower petals and uses them in ways like susbstitution, transformation into other substances and weapons, and cloning. Karuna can even turn her body into petals and back to human form which she discovered in her chunin years.

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Part II
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 * <p style="margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em;font-size:14.4444446563721px;">Karuna is originally a Chinese term referring to its literal translation "mercy" or in Japanese "Jihi ;Mercy". This ties into Karuna's moniker Jihi no Hana or Merciful Flower. The blue flower in her hair is what ties Azure into the original moniker.

<p style="font-size:14.4444446563721px;">Karuna tends to be a popular eastern name for females, as well as, it's an Indian term and form of eastern practice. In india the term means "compassion" or "great compassion" while the practice is described to be "the desire to remove pain and suffer" or "the desire to remove harm or pain". <p style="font-size:14.4444446563721px;">

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