Kiyomi Yuki

Kiyomi Hyūga (日向清美, Hyūga Kiyomi, née Yuki (雪)), is a kunoichi from Konohagakure’s Team Kaori and is a descendant of the Yuki clan. She is the older sister of Mizuko Yuki and twin sister of Raiden Yuki. Inspired by Sakura’s desire to be more useful, she trains under her squad leader, Kaori Senju, and also Tsunade, to get better control over her chakra and learn medical ninjutsu. She later becomes widely known for her beauty and skill which earned her two nicknames "The Queen of Ice and Medics" (氷と薬の女王, Kōri to Kusuri no Joō, English TV: The Legendary Queen of  Ice and Healing Jutsu)" and "The Top Guardian Kunoichi of the Hidden Leaf" (木の葉の守護者くのいち Konoha no Gādian Kunoichi). She marries Kaito Hyūga after the war, having two children with him.

Background
Kiyomi was born and raised in the Land of Water; she grew up in an area that had a rather cold environment. She also grew up without a father as he had died in the war, protecting his family and village. Instead, Kiyomi grew up with her younger sister, Mizuko Yuki, her twin brother, Raiden, and her mother, Mizu Yuki. She also grew up with a close bond with her two older cousins, Aiko, and Haku Yuki. She grew up in the same snowy village as Haku and her land was still suffering from war. She heard many stories about Gato and his large company. This is something Mizu decided to tell the Third Hokage about, and something that contributed to Kiyomi seeing the death of her older cousin. Then, those with Kekkei Genkai were becoming feared and hated all out of the concern that their existence would only bring out more war, suffering, and death. Not long after Kiyomi’s mother realized this would be a problem, she decided to take her son and two daughters and move to Konohagakure; since she was scared her children would trust the wrong people and news that her children had a Kekkei Genkai would spread.

When Kiyomi did live in the leaf village, she was rather social and befriended Hinata Hyuga. When she started the academy, she was bullied for being from another land, and for being rather short. Over time though, Kiyomi's bullies left her alone, since she never let them get to her. Because of this, she became more popular. Through this popularity, she met and befriended Ino Yamanaka and Sakura Haruno. Though in her house, there was trouble brewing as Aiko had moved months after Kiyomi did, yet Haku was still nowhere to be seen. Then Aiko revealed the truth about Haku’s true whereabouts and that he left with one of the Seven Ninja Swordsman of the Mist. This devastated Kiyomi, as not only was she terrified by the power of the Swordsman, she truly thought that she could trust Haku. This caused Kiyomi to want to forget about Haku altogether, but she could never truly get away from her past and constantly worried about Haku and his fate.

Back at the academy, Sasuke Uchiha’s popularity among girls was rapidly increasing. When her two closest friends Sakura and Ino both fell for him, and with the rumor going around that Sasuke liked girls with long hair, she cut her hair down with help from her mother so that it no longer fell to her mid-back but was chin length. She eventually cut off her ties with both of them since she couldn’t relate to them and this started her dislike for Sasuke Uchiha at the beginning of the series.

At some point in time, Sakura approached her and asked her if she had feelings for the young Uchiha, to which Kiyomi angrily declined and she argued with Sakura about her feelings. Kiyomi then harshly told Sakura that she was physically weak, stemming from her terrible temper, and cut off their friendship right there.

She then went to strengthen her bond with Hinata Hyūga and later befriended Nozomi Haruno. Kiyomi graduated from the academy with high grades and near mastery and full understanding of her Kekkei Genkai.

Personality
As a child, Kiyomi was rather stubborn. After hearing about Haku’s fate she became colder. A trait that she was known for was how stubborn and aggressive she was. Kiyomi was never afraid to speak her mind and is very blunt such as telling Itsuki Yamanaka if he ever wanted to get a girlfriend he would have to be much less annoying. Also, she told Kaito Hyuga if he wanted friends he needs to become more social. Both of which were her future teammates. She later passed this down to her daughter, Saki Hyuga.

She was always a feminist when growing up in Konoha, and showed a strong dislike for her male classmates in the academy and especially disliked Kiba Inuzuka and Sasuke Uchiha. She called Naruto Uzumaki annoying once, yet showed him respect later on and became one of his close friends. Because of her attitude, Shino Aburame held a grudge against her and often called her annoying alongside Kiba, much to the distaste of Hinata. When an academy student, she despised every girl in her year besides Sakura, Ino, and Hinata since every other girl loved Sasuke and were more interested in boys than actually being shinobi and Kiyomi found that annoying. She was rather happy when they didn’t graduate since they were ill-prepared for the duties of a shinobi. Sakura and Ino were the only exceptions since those two were the only girls who did not bully Kiyomi and they showed her true kindness. Hinata was the only one not in love with Sasuke besides Kiyomi herself, so they became close as well and Hinata did not bully Kiyomi either and, again, showed her kindness. Many boys in her year disliked her as she disliked them in return and made fun of their gender.

Her own sister was more mature than she was and Kiyomi openly admitted this. Aiko was also shocked at her bravery and boldness yet Kiyomi has never told anyone it was because of Ino and Naruto that she became bolder and more courageous and she also never told anyone that she admired the two greatly. Her mother was also shocked and surprised at how smart-mouthed, out-spoken, and bold her eldest daughter was. Raiden only came to dislike his sister because of this attitude and him, Kiba, and Itsuki always rivaled Kiyomi, Sakura, and Ino but he ended up becoming close to his sister later on and they both truly care for each other. She was also noted to be friendly and kind to people she cares for. She also has a soft side and uses proper honorifics in the right situations. Kiyomi also cares deeply for her comrades and loved ones, caring more about their well-being than her own at times. Kiyomi is also a tomboy and she is rather tough. Jiraiya noted that he was reminded of Kushina Uzumaki when she was younger when he looks at Kiyomi and her friend, Shikamaru, noted her many similarities to her best friend and his wife, Temari.

Kiyomi is rather quick-tempered and can be harsh if she is angered enough, such as telling Sakura she was physically weak and needed to become stronger at a rather young age in the academy. This shows Kiyomi's temper and mouth can cause her to say things she would not mean at all. She showed regret and guilt for what she did to Sakura, and, during their mission to the Land of the Waves, Kiyomi and Sakura rekindled their friendship, after Kiyomi's apology. Kiyomi is also prone to striking people if she becomes angered enough, and has a very intimidating demeanor when angry, which has gotten her rather feared.

While under Tsunade's tutelage, one thing, besides new techniques and medical ninjutsu, that was drilled into her was contempt for loosing and an unbending and undying spirit. Through Tsunade's influence, Kiyomi gained much higher will power and she will gladly lay her life down for those she cares for, regardless if they like her back or not. Kiyomi also highly cares for those she sees as comrades and allies to the point where she will place herself at risk so that others don't need to and to assure her allies' victory. Kiyomi also has faith in the dreams of others and is committed to protecting her loved ones, her village, and Konoha's villagers. Thanks to all the similarities Kiyomi and Sakura bare to Tsunade, the friends are often called "Tsunade Number Two" (綱手二号, Tsunade Nigō).

She can be merciless against those who injure her comrades and cares for her friends deeply to the point where she would use her own body as a shield to protect them. She also gets along very well with the jonins of Konoha and even has a father-daughter bond with Genma Shiranui, whom her sensei is married to. She was noted to be cheerful and Kaori even noted that she was the silly and troublesome one in her group and showed immaturity and friendliness as a child.

As she grew up, she showed more respect to males and started to respect Shino more, yet he never came to stop disliking her any less. Kiba became one of her close friends in adulthood but admits that she is still pretty annoying, this thinking manner and opinion on Kiyomi is very similar to Gaara's. Kankuro, however, is the only one of his siblings who are not friends with Kiyomi and instead sees her as annoying, despite the respect she shows him.

Kiyomi, however, seems to be insecure about gaining recognition and attention. She seemed to be jealous of Sakura's abilities as a medical ninja. She also seemed to think that Sakura was Tsunade's "favorite", and that Lady Tsunade cared about Sakura more than her. She was also desperate for praise and had trust issues. Because of her desperation for praise, Kiyomi would blush whenever someone acknowledged her abilities. She also hated whenever someone compared her to Sakura, positively or negatively, in any way at all.

She has stated that despite what people will think, her self-esteem is noticeably low. At the beginning of Part I, she was shown to be rather confident in herself but, after Haku died in front of her, she became more uneasy. At the beginning of Part II, the main difference in Kiyomi's personality was that she was more soft and sensitive, and her desperation for attention and low esteem were also pretty clear. She was highly self-conscious about her abilities. She also had emotional insecurities and trust issues after she heard about what happened to Haku. She covers this up with her usual sassy and mouthy nature.

Before this, Kiyomi doubted her abilities and wanted to become better, stronger, and smarter not to mention she wanted to protect all her friends from Konoha and from Suna. For this, she dedicated almost three full years of training under Tsunade for strength and Mizu for intelligence and mental training. Finally, Kiyomi becomes more comfortable expressing her feelings and is more impulsive and blunt after the beginning of Part II. She becomes willing to express her thoughts and she has also become more sensitive and emotional. Despite the emotional training she received, however, Kiyomi's self-esteem was still rather low and she more desperate for attention than people would think. She became very protective of her teammates and other friends in Konoha, as well as the Sand Siblings, and swore to herself that she would never lose her friends or anyone she loved again after Haku died.

As Part II continued, Kiyomi's insecurities became more clear and noticeable. Her desperation for acknowledgment and lack of attention made its way to her squad, to which Kaori reassured her that she was strong enough and skilled enough to become a better kunoichi than the Fifth Hokage herself. She later becomes exposed to the realities of the world and realized that war was going to break out soon enough. She ended up being right, and she became slightly disappointed in herself for focusing more on her insecurities as opposed to focusing on her duties as a shinobi, which she quickly got over. During the war, she was shown to have similar thoughts and feelings again by stating that Sakura was doing more than self-pity, but was trying to help save the world and became a great medical-ninja, one of the greatest in the world. Kiyomi got her act together and ended up becoming more in touch with her feelings than ever.

Kiyomi has been in love with Kaito ever since she graduated from the academy, and wanted to see him safe and happy above all else. Kiyomi's infatuation with Kaito made it hard for her to concentrate on her duties as a shinobi and often got in the way of missions as she would drop the task at hand and rush to help the Hyūga. Kiyomi hoped more than anything else that Kaito would love her back, and, during the war, her only desire was to be in his arms, showered in his love. Kiyomi was very desperate for him to notice her and acknowledge her so much that she was willing to die for Kaito just for him to know that she loves him. Her dreams of being in a stable, healthy, and loving relationship with Kaito soon became reality and Kiyomi married him after the war and two children with him, Saki and Hibiki.

As a mother, Kiyomi has become more gentle and appreciates the idea of beauty through development. She also values peace, though her family is still frightened by her temper and the rage that follows. She also loves her family and would not hesitate to fight those who hurt them and showed fierce loyalty to her loved ones when anyone insulted them. However, she can be very strict and has even physically disciplined her son on a few occasions, clearly showing she is not above it. She also can tell exactly what her son and husband are thinking at times. She is, like her best friend, Temari, the matriarch of her family and her daughter, son, and husband fear her wrath and try to avoid it. She does care for her children and her husband, however, and is usually very kind, affectionate, and patient as well as loyal and supportive. She also can be very intimidating and her son fears her for her temper, for he has a knack for trouble and saying things to provoke Kiyomi.

Appearance
Kiyomi has fair skin, straight dark brown hair, and blue eyes. Her hair was chin length when she was a child, then it went down to her shoulder blades in Part I, then to her mid-back in Part II, and down to her waist as an adult. During Boruto, Kiyomi's dark brown hair extends beyond her hips and goes down to the top of her thighs. According to Kakashi Hatake, she bore a slight resemblance to Rin Nohara. As she got older, like Sakura, Hinata, and Ino, Kiyomi is noted to become very attractive and beautiful. During adulthood, it was revealed that she had four piercings around her navel.

In Part I, she wore a blue sweatshirt, with slits on the sides, with an aqua hoodie and black bike shorts as well as a shuriken holster around her right thigh, blue sandals, and the standard Konoha forehead protector around her forehead. In Part II, Kiyomi wears a short-sleeved teal top over a fishnet top. She also wears black shorts underneath and accompanying these are a medical pouch, as well as a tanto strapped to her lower back. The cloth of her forehead protector changes to black. She wears black, high-heeled shinobi sandals and she also wore a wrist-mounted device to launch senbon at her opponents, which she dipped in poison. Overall, in both Parts, I and II, Kiyomi wore rather simple clothing. Around the beginning of the Fourth Shinobi World War, Kiyomi gained Strength of a Hundred Seal in the form of a purple diamond on her forehead. She also wore the standard Konoha infantry flak jacket and the assorted clothing. Kiyomi also wore the Allied Shinobi Forces forehead protector as a hair-band, possibly stemming from her admiration of her best friend, Sakura.

During Naruto and Hinata's wedding, Kiyomi wore a cyan colored, short-sleeved top, alongside a white belt around her waist and a black skirt that went down to her knees. She also wore knee-high, open-toed sandals and purple nail polish with soft pink lipstick. She wore her hair down and also wore a necklace that slightly resembled the First Hokage's Necklace. For her own wedding with Kaito, Kiyomi wore an over-the-shoulders white wedding dress, which went down to her mid-calves and exposed little of her cleavage, and white high-heels as well as a white headband in her hair, which she wore down, and white gloves. She also wore light-colored lipstick.

After rising to the ranks of jonin and during The Last: Naruto the Movie, Kiyomi's attire consisted of a blue sleeveless, high-collared qipao dress, which had a zipper and went down to her mid thigh. She also wore black shorts and she began to stop wearing her forehead protector at all. She also wore similar sandals to the ones she wore in Part II. In adulthood, Kiyomi wears an aqua, sleeveless, high-collared top with a zipper which reveals her navel. Accompanying this is black pants, which go down mid-way down her calves, and high heels as well as a necklace with the Hyūga Clancrest on it. When on duty, she dons the Konoha flak jacket over her clothes. She gained more of a slender and shapely figure. Kiyomi's front hair bangs have also changed and now look like Temari's.

During her free time in both parts, Kiyomi would wear a black, short-sleeved shirt with a fishnet underneath, and navy blue shorts. As a child, Kiyomi wore a mesh tank top, with green trimmings and white bike shorts. She also wore pink nail polish.

Abilities
As a descendant of the Yuki clan and apprentice and student of a Senju, Kiyomi is a very powerful and skilled kunoichi. After undergoing training she adds more variety to her fighting style and becomes much more powerful. She is also widely known for her chakra control and skill in medical ninjutsu. Another thing she is famous for is her skill in being a bodyguard. A while after becoming a chunin, Kiyomi's skill in being a top-notch, elite, personal bodyguard and escort were so high that she earned herself a moniker, "The Top Guardian Kunoichi of the Hidden Leaf". Two years after the war, Kiyomi rises to the ranks of jonin and, within that time, Kiyomi rises to worldwide, international glory and fame. Her main weakness in battle is her noticeably high lack of skill in genjutsu and too many hand seals can also hurt her, yet she is skilled nonetheless.

Physical Prowess and Chakra Control
Trained under Kaori, a relative of the Sannin Tsunade (as well as Tsunade herself), it’s only natural that Kiyomi would be taught how to build up and release the chakra she builds up in her fists, and if she wanted, her feet. When she releases this power on her target, it causes major damage. With this power, she can increase her ability to withstand major attacks. She can also lift things much heavier than she is. Though she was rarely seen fighting with taijutsu in Part I, she used it in Part II after weakening her opponents with Ice Release. This became a major part of her fighting style. When Kiyomi releases her seal, her physical powers become enhanced. Another one of Kiyomi’s strong points is her speed. Her sheer speed alone made her hard for Haku to defeat. She is also very agile and has good reflexes. Kiyomi's speed increases whenever she uses her Demonic Mirroring Ice Crystals. She attacks very fast and without a Kekkei Genkai like the Sharingan of the Uchiha Clan, it becomes basically impossible to see and keep track of her movements. She can travel between her mirrors and make it look like she is in all of them when she is really just traveling between them. However, even in adulthood, Kiyomi has not found a way to release the chakra she builds up in fist fast enough to keep up with her speed.

Kiyomi was naturally talented with her chakra control and was able to perform a jutsu without wasting too much chakra. This skill in it might have also come from Kaori training her squad up in this. When Kaori saw that Kiyomi’s skill in chakra control could help her become a skilled medical ninja, she took her to Tsunade to give Kiyomi the training she needed to become one. After all the training Kiyomi went through under Tsunade's tutelage, her chakra control increased amazingly, and she turned it into a vital part of her battle strategy. The main objective of getting Tsunade’s help in Kiyomi’s training was to increase her chakra supply so, like Sakura; she could eventually master Strength of a Hundred Seal. This ended up becoming the first thing Kiyomi taught Saki after she became a genin. Kiyomi has stated multiple times that chakra control is one of the most important skills in a ninja, saying that she would be nowhere if she did not master proper chakra control and that it is not only vital in medical ninjutsu but in many types of jutsu in general.

Medical Ninjutsu
When Kiyomi went to Kaori, her main and only goal was to learn medical ninjutsu to ensure that no one she loved would die again. The advanced medical ninjutsu that Kiyomi and Sakura were taught required incredible chakra control. This amount of skill and proficiency in healing to be found in such young kunoichi or anyone, in general, was exceptionally rare. Whenever Kiyomi releases her seal, she does not have to retreat in battle or worry about her injuries, instead, it seems to only increase her confidence and determination. With such training and help from the Sannin herself, Kiyomi could heal fatal injuries done to her or anyone else. She was taught the basics of poisoning and coated her kunai and shuriken or any weapon with poison after proper training from Shizune. Though not as skilled as Sakura, she came rather close and was a near expert in self-restoration and weapon coating. She is also very skilled in healing others and played a major part in the Fourth Shinobi World War as she played a major part in healing most of the wounded when Sakura and her other medical superiors could not. Kiyomi can also create poisons difficult for others to counter; though people who know much about poisons can easily create antidotes. This is something she went to Ino for, as she did not learn about it when she was trained under Kaori. Despite the help she was given, it’s still not one of her strong points in medical ninjutsu, and she can still be bested by a poison. However, Kiyomi is extremely skilled in making antidotes and can analyze and decipher even the most complex poisons to make an effective antidote, though her skills in creating poisons are very low, especially for a medical ninja.

Kekkei Genkai
Kiyomi’s main weapon in battle is her utilization of wind and water-natured chakra to create the Ice Release, which she is very skilled in doing. Not only could she fight with wind and water style ninjutsu but she could also use Ice Release techniques such as Demonic Mirroring Ice Crystals. Kiyomi can surround her target and attack them even they are in the sky. For defensive purposes, Kiyomi can create a dome of ice which can handle several explosive tags at once. She is just as skilled in using her two chakra natures separately as she is using them together. Combined with her monster strength, medical ninjutsu, and speed she is a deadly and formidable opponent.

Ninjutsu
By the beginning of the Fourth Shinobi World War, around the time Kiyomi mastered Strength of a Hundred Seal, she could use the Summoning Technique and, like Sakura and Tsunade, could summon the giant slug, Katsuyu. By having Katsuyu split apart, Kiyomi can remotely monitor her allies and can replenish and heal their chakra as needed. Also, she can use Yin and Yang chakra natures.

Taijutsu
Kiyomi was shown to have some noteworthy skill in taijutsu. Though by Kaori it was deemed about above average skill, it wasn't anything too special. The main cause of this skill probably comes from one of two sources, or maybe both, Kiyomi's monster strength and her insane speed. These two factors are clearly the main things that Kiyomi's taijutsu so noteworthy. According to Mizu, however, Kiyomi's taijutsu would be plain average if it wasn't for her strength and speed.

Intelligence
Kiyomi’s keen intellect is one of her main weapons. She uses it to get her targets to reveal their weakness or weak point. Also, she sometimes plays dead and tricks her opponents into lowering their guards. Also, her analytical thinking process, something that Kakashi thinks she got from Haku, helps her force her opponents into drawing out their weakness. She can pick up on patterns and guess enemy tactics quicker after training her mind more at the end of Part I. Kiyomi’s IQ helps her greatly with her fighting style of weakening her target with ninjutsu, then finishing them off with taijutsu. She is also good at following directions and has a cunning side to her personality. She was also shown to have high skill in acupuncture, as she can disable an opponent by hitting them at a precise point on the body with a senbon. Because of this, Kiyomi can cause immediate death or a temporary appearance that looks like such. Kiyomi also seems to know quite a bit about herbalism, as she usually collected plants and herbs for her mother, when she was still a genin, for medical purposes. She can also analyze complex information, very quickly.

Main Article: Prologue-Land of Waves Arc
After graduating, Kiyomi was first seen sitting the classroom next to Hinata Hyuga and Nozomi Haruno as the girls talk to each other about anything which comes to mind. Kiyomi growls when she sees Ino and Sakura rushing in the classroom and watches the other girls arguing over Sasuke with a look of distaste. She is then enraged to hear she is with Itsuki Yamanaka but softens and smiles when she learns that she's on a team with Kaito Hyuga, giggling to herself. When meeting Kaori, Kiyomi sets rules for Itsuki to follow. She is later seen with Hinata, walking through the village happily discussing their friendship and Kiyomi continuously giggles and talks about her feelings towards Kaito. It is unknown whether Kiyomi's squad was assigned the bell test, however, it has been hinted that they were. After being summoned to the mission reception area, Kiyomi is assigned a C-rank mission with Team 7: escorting Mr.Tazuna to the Land of the Waves. The only reason that Kiyomi went on this mission instead of one with her actual squad was that of the background knowledge she had of the Land of Waves, hearing many stories and even learning several different routes there as a child in Kirigakure. Soon after leaving Konoha, Sakura and Kiyomi were busy rebuilding their friendship, only to be attacked by the Demon Brothers. Kiyomi and Sakura place themselves in front of Tazuna to protect him until Kakashi is able to capture the brothers and stop them. Being forced to talk, Tazuna admits that the brothers were hired assassins to kill him, but he could not afford the money he needed for proper bodyguard details. Despite the mission now being classified as an A-rank mission, Team 7 and Kiyomi agree to continue after Naruto's oath of pain.

When they reach the Land of Waves, Kiyomi and Team 7 are attacked by Zabuza Momochi. Sakura once again puts herself in front of Tazuna, and Kiyomi places herself in front of her friend ready to defend her or help Naruto and Sasuke who were currently fighting him off. After Zabuza is seemingly killed by Haku, Kiyomi starts to feel near depression and raised her suspicions about the boy's true identity. Nevertheless, Kiyomi helps bring Kakashi back to Tazuna's house. There, Kakashi's suspicions are raised as well and question Zabuza's death, only to conclude that he was not dead and was training that very minute. He then has them perform the Tree Climbing Practice to improve their chakra control. Kiyomi easily mastered it due to her being trained this way by her sensei prior to this mission, and Sakura mastered it on her first try as well thus, leaving the girls in charge of protecting and helping Tazuna. A week later, the rest of their friends join them, and they head back to the bridge.

They reach the bridge, only to find that Haku and Zabuza are waiting for them. Kiyomi agrees to fight Haku and help Sasuke, as she told Kakashi about her suspicions the night before they left and he agreed to let her fight. She is soon trapped in Haku's Crystal Ice Mirrors alongside Sasuke and she quickly tried explaining the way that this particular jutsu works, however, despite being the one that protected Sasuke from most of the attacks, she soon passed from exhaustion as she could not simultaneously protect Sasuke and fight off her older cousin. She passed out sometime after Naruto's arrival. Though she was able to regain her consciousness quickly, she woke up just in time to see Sasuke pass out and Naruto lose it. Kiyomi witnessed Naruto unwittingly access the Nine-Tails Chakra and was at first rather scared of his power. That strength allowed Naruto to destroy Haku's mirrors and, to Kiyomi's horror, Haku was truly unmasked proving Kiyomi's fears.

She watched Haku ask Naruto to kill him since he feels of no use to Zabuza and was going to intervene when Haku stopped Naruto and protected Zabuza from Kakashi's Lightning Cutter Technique, sacrificing his own life. He quickly tells Kiyomi he's sorry for what he's done and told her to tell her clansmen about his death. Kiyomi tearfully complies. When Zabuza refuses to appreciate Haku's sacrifice, Naruto scolds him and shouts about Haku giving up his life to protect someone precious to him. Not caring about anything else, Kiyomi ends up breaking down completely after Naruto's speech and started crying all over Haku's corpse, holding it close to her body saying how much she missed him already. She at first didn't notice that Zabuza was dead until Sakura put her hand on her friend's shoulder and informed everyone else about Sasuke's status. Soon after Sasuke's recovery, they returned to Konoha via Tazuna's finished bridge. She then informed her clansmen about Haku's death as he had asked and broke down again.

Main Article: Chunin Exams
To take her mind off of Haku's death and end her depression, Kaori decided to enter Kiyomi and her team into the Chunin Selection Exams. Though this might have been Kaori's main reason to enroll her team into the Exams, the strength, and skill of her students was certainly enough to prove them worthy of taking the Exams. Shortly before the start of the exams, Kiyomi starts to talk to Hinata and Nozomi and they discuss the exams. For the first portion of the exams, they are given a written exam with too high of a difficulty level for the average genin to answer. Despite the fact that Kiyomi had a high IQ at the time, she was too overwhelmed by the questions and was able to answer only one of the questions. Itsuki then used his Mind Body Switch Technique to copy the answers of Ino, since he had seen her do the same thing to Sakura thus knowing that Ino would have the right answers and then transferred the answers to his teammates.

For the second stage of the exams, Team 4 enters the Forest of Death to take part in a 5-day survival exercise. Kiyomi, Kaito, and Itsuki think with a similar mindset to that of Team 10, and try to avoid conflict to not tire themselves out and save their energy for when they really need it.

Kiyomi and her squad passed the second exam and the remaining genin take part in one-on-one combat for the preliminary matches. For her match, Kiyomi is pitted against her brother, Raiden. Both struggle to come up with a strategy to defeat the other as they both have the same Kekkei Genkai and trained with each other in their free time. Kiyomi eventually manages to come up with a strategy to defeat her brother: play dead and make him lower his guard, then one-shot him when his guard was down. Kiyomi admitted that it was not one of her best ideas and that she could have thought of better, but did not have the time to. Her plan barely worked and she was left in a worse condition than before. She knocked her brother out and passed out right after she was declared the winner of the match. After Raiden woke up, Kiyomi hugged him tightly and told him that she was the winner of the match with a smirk on her face. This did irritate Raiden, but he hugged his sister back nonetheless, happy that she had finally smiled after Haku's death. They both admitted that it was the first time they had hugged each other. Kiyomi is later scheduled to fight Itsuki.

Kiyomi is later seen relaxing with Sakura, Ino, and Aiko. At other times, she is seen talking to and training with Hinata. Her mother helped train her up slightly and Ino even decided to give Kiyomi tips about how to defeat the Mind Body Switch Technique and Itsuki himself.

When the finalists gather, Kiyomi watches several battles until her own. When it's time for her fight, Kiyomi quickly goes to the arena and prepares to fight Itsuki Yamanaka, listening to Ino and Sakura cheering her on against him. They exchanged insults and began to spar. It began with Kiyomi using water style ninjutsu against him and him dodging it. He then considered using Mind Body Switch Technique against Kiyomi but knew it was not smart since he did not have anyone to back him up and she would easily be declared the winner by Genma if he tries to and she dodges it. Because of this, he resorts to using ninjutsu and taijutsu against her which proves to challenge her. She skillfully dodged most of his attacks, yet got hit by some of them suffering damage. She enforces chakra into her taijutsu to make it stronger, though it was poorly done and wasn't too much better than before,  and used her ninjutsu to its full power to defeat him. Kiyomi used her Ice Release to weaken him and used her chakra-enforced taijutsu to weaken him more and lower his defenses. She then threw several kunai and shuriken at Itsuki and he dodged them all and ran towards her. He inflicted almost major damage to Kiyomi but she still managed to overpower him by being able to get behind him after she threw the weapons at him and punched his arm from his blind spot after jumping behind him, making him fall over. Then, Kiyomi was able to pin Itsuki to the ground with her fist to his face. The battle strategy used by Kiyomi was a weaker and less effective version of the one she currently uses.

She was then declared the winner by Genma Shiranui and despite the fact that the observing older ninjas were impressed by the strength such a young kunoichi could bring herself to exert in the middle of battle, they were slightly disappointed by the lack of strategy Kiyomi used to defeat Itsuki, which contributes to the fact that she did not become a chunin after Tsunade became the Hokage. She then got off Itsuki and shook hands with him. Then, she hurried off to her friends, Sakura and Ino, to watch the rest of the matches. They congratulated her cheerfully and she happily thanked them. When the match between Gaara and Sasuke began, Kiyomi happily commented to Sakura that she was proud and impressed by Sasuke's development. She also stated that she could see how hard he trained and how much stronger Sasuke had gotten compared to when they were on the mission at the Land of the Waves, protecting Tazuna.

Main Article: Konoha Crush
Kiyomi and the rest of the audience are put to sleep by a genjutsu as the Konoha Crush begins. Several days after the invasion is successfully repelled, Kiyomi attends the Third Hokage's funeral alongside her friends and family.

Main Article: Sasuke Recovery Mission
Kiyomi was seen with her squad, teasing Itsuki for loosing to her as Kaito sat there with a smirk, Kaori a smile. After the failed attempt to stop Sasuke from defecting from Konoha, she was later seen with Aiko, relieved to hear that her friends were safe and promising Aiko they could visit Neji and Naruto together whenever they could. When they did visit Naruto, Kiyomi became inspired by Sakura because she was striving to be useful and powerful to protect others, regardless of the fact that it would not be easy, in fact, it would be very hard, challenging and tiring. Then, Kiyomi asked to be trained in medical ninjutsu under Kaori and asked if she could learn Strength of a Hundred Seal as well as learn how to wield Tsunade's monster strength. Though surprised, Kaori accepted and told her that if she wanted to master the Strength of a Hundred Seal, she would have to go to Tsunade, but Kaori did state that she could certainly help with medical ninjutsu and started to train Kiyomi, giving her work to do every day and night and even pushed her to train every mission and asked Mizu to help train her so she could get to Tsunade faster to train so she could wield the same purple seal and also Tsunade's monstrous strength and so she could catch up to Sakura. Kiyomi noted several times that it was very hard to keep up with the lessons and both Senju women were very strict, allowing little to no room for failure.

Main Article: Mizuki Tracking Mission
In the anime, Kiyomi and Sakura are too busy concentrating on their training to help Naruto on his missions. Once he returns, they happily tell him that they can successfully heal fishes.

Main Article: Sunagakure Support Mission
In the anime, feeling left behind, Ino asks if Sakura and Kioymi can help train her up in medical arts as well. Kiyomi and Sakura agree but Ino is dismayed when she is playfully reminded of the fact that she would be the disciple and student or junior of her friends during the course of their training together.

Main Article: In Naruto's Footsteps: The Friends' Paths
In the anime, about two years after Naruto leaves to train, another chunin exam is held. Kiyomi enters with her squad. During the first exam, Kiyomi, Itsuki, and Kaito are seated in different rooms and are tasked with the objective of getting a combined score of exactly 100 points on their written exam despite the separation. Itsuki does the same thing that Team 10 did: he contacted his teammates telepathically and assigned them the questions to answer. Then, they are given a bonus question: each team must unanimously select a teammate to disqualify. Team 4 chose no one and that was the correct answer. This qualified them to the next phase.

Those who passed the first exam are tasked with a new objective: reach the Demon Dessert within three days in order to participate in the second exam. Kaito, Kiyomi, and Itsuki successfully do so and are given the same exam they were several years ago: obtain a scroll from another team.

Team 4 is eventually found by one of the proctors, who brings them back to where all the other genin are being assembled. They were then told that the Chunin Selection Exams have been canceled; reports on the participants' performances will be sent back to their villages and their promotion is left to their superiors. When they get back to Konoha, Lady Tsunade promotes Kiyomi and her friends to chunin.

Main Article: Kazekage Rescue Mission
Tsunade informs Sakura and Kiyomi of Naruto's return after two-and-a-half years of training. Both girls happily go to greet him but are disappointed when he gets into competition with Konohamaru Sarutobi on Sexy Techniques, Sakura rather violently. She then chatters with her old friend, happy he's back and then leaves after bidding farewell to her friends and leaving to inform Aiko of Naruto's return to Konohagakure.

Main Article: Tenchi Bridge Reconnaissance Mission
Kiyomi is later seen with Aiko going to greet Naruto but ran into Sai attacking Naruto, Choji, and Shikamaru instead. She then talks to Ino after she arrives and then leaves with her cousin. When Team 7 returns from their failed attempt to retrieve Sasuke, Kiyomi and Aiko agree to go with Ino and her team to visit them in the hospital. She talks to Sakura and Ino about Sai and they converse lightly about the topic of Sai and Sasuke Uchiha's similarities. Later, the group of friends goes to lunch at Yakiniku Q. In an attempt to make friends with them, Sai gives them nicknames and Kiyomi laughs at Ino's nickname "beautiful", but soon gets her own, "runt".

Main Article: Twelve Guardian Ninja
In the anime, when Furido's 4- man team invades Konoha, Kiyomi joins the other ninja fighting of Fudo 's zombie ninja army. She then becomes shocked when she hears from her friend, Ino, that the enemies are members of the Kohaku Clan and she also serves medical support for her teammates and allies. When the zombies are defeated, Kiyomi leaves with other members of the Konoha 11 to handle Sora's jinchuriki transformation and provide assistance to Team 7.

Main Article: Akatsuki Suppression Mission
Whenever she is not on a mission, Kiyomi is seen alongside Aiko, Sakura, and Sai as they watch Naruto Uzumaki train to develop a new jutsu. She is later seen requesting for permission to aid Shikamaru, Ino and the other shinobi and units after the Akatsuki. Tsunade allows Kiyomi and Aiko to go and they are given specific instructions for Aiko to aid Ino and Choji's unit, and Kiyomi to aid Shikamaru's. She is then seen ready to aid in Shikamaru, Asuma, Izumo, and Kotetsuand their battle against Akatsuki members Hidan and Kakuzu. She is also impressed by Shikamaru's intelligence, as he was able to figure out how Hidan's Jashin Curse Ritual worked in mere seconds and was also able to force Hidan out of the Jashin symbol he drew on the ground. She then told the three men, Izumo, Kotetsu, and Shikamaru, that she was ready to aid them in any way possible, which included self-sacrificial moves which she made sure to tell them and make note of.

After Asuma seemingly killed Hidan, Kiyomi healed Shikamaru as he was tired having to trap the Jashinistic Akatsuki member in his Shadow Strangle Jutsu long and he had to wait for his injured sensei to "kill" Hidan. She then praised Shikamaru for his intelligence. Like her comrades, she expressed her shock at Hidan staying alive despite having his head severed, and at Kakuzu's powers, mentally relating them to her own, and listened to Shikamaru urge her to fight the rogue ninja. Kiyomi then tried to help Izumo and Kotetsu fight Kakuzu and, while he was holding Izumo and Kotetsu by their throats, tried to attack him with her monstrous strength from behind, however, got too distracted by Hidan walking back to his ritual circle to finish off Asuma Sarutobi and was too torn between the two options she had, but saw Asuma get up and quickly scolded herself mentally, and rushed to help Izumo and Kotetsu being strangled by Kakuzu's threads. She didn't realize that Hidan's three-bladed scythe had swung at Asuma from behind, and only turned around when she heard Shikamaru shout. She at first played at ease, but then realized what Hidan was standing in and let few tears of fear spill out of her eyes and she was, again, torn between Asuma and the two chunin being strangled. After Shikamaru started to run towards the jonin, Kiyomi quickly followed and tried to heal him, but was too slow and wasn't able to reach him in time. She still tried to heal him, but too much damage was done and one of Asuma's most vital organs was hit. She was crying too and tried her best, but she wasn't able to heal him enough to ensure his survival and eventually got too shocked and upset too continue and dropped her hands to her side, collapsing and breaking down completely. When reinforcements arrived, Kiyomi tearfully tried to explain the situation, but kept choking on her tears and couldn't.

Then she helped Aoba fight off Kakuzu with her monster strength, but not for very long as he had to leave for the two-tails sealing yet not before Kakuzu made comment about how he was impressed by Shikamaru's high intelligence and Kiyomi strength and speed. The comment about Kiyomi's strength was not too different from that of Sasori 's regarding Sakura's physical prowess. Then, her and Ino started to perform medical ninjutsu on Asuma to try and heal him or at least stabilize his condition but stopped on Shikamaru's orders. Though she was not given a breath of Asuma's last words, she still broke down and her Ino hugged each other and kept crying.

She is later seen attending Asuma Sarutobi's funeral, mourning his loss.

Kiyomi was later asking permission from Lady Tsunade to help Shikamaru fight Hidan and Kakuzu after Asuma's funeral, but her mentor denied, stating that too many were already at the same place and she already planned to send a backup team. Tsunade also stated that too many people could drag down the team. After returning from the mission, Kiyomi was surprised to hear from Ino that Kakuzu seemed disappointed that she was not there. Ino stated that he mentioned this after attacking Choji Akimichi after he charged at Hidan for insulting Asuma. Also, according to her (Ino), Kakuzu would have rather fought someone with the physical strength and speed as Kiyomi to see how well she could do against him and to see her true power.

Trivia

 * Whenever Ino cannot, Kiyomi fills in for her at the Yamanaka Flower Shop.
 * "Kiyomi" literally means "pure beauty" (清美). Aiko sometimes jokes around by saying that though she is pretty, Kiyomi is not as innocent or as clueless about the hardships of the shinobi world as people think she is at first glance. Her family name "Yuki" means snow (雪).
 * In return for the joke about her name, Kiyomi will say that "Aiko" (愛子) was a fitting name for her older cousin as it means "love child" since Aiko grew up to be very kind and loving.
 * Kiyomi shares the title of "Heiress of the Yuki Clan" with Aiko
 * Despite the bashing she gave Sakura when they were younger, Kiyomi and her creator highly respect Sakura. Sakura Haruno is also a favorite character of Kiyomi's creator for the Naruto series
 * Kiyomi is supposed to be based on Ino Yamanaka, Sakura Haruno, and Temari
 * The way in which Kiyomi shouted at Gato not to touch Haku mirrored the way that Haku told the same man not to touch Zabuza.
 * Aiko and Niko got married on Kiyomi's birthday, April 17.
 * Kiyomi and Kaito got married on Aiko's birthday, December 21.
 * Kiyomi scored 13 points on The Mary Sue Test. This makes her a non-sue.
 * Kaito revealed that Kiyomi is a somewhat picky eater, but a seemed to be a very good cook.
 * Kiyomi likes escort missions the least, but is very skilled in being a bodyguard and is very popular for her skill in being an elite bodyguard.
 * The sandals Kiyomi wears in Part II add 1 centimeter onto her height.
 * According to the databook(s):
 * Kiyomi’s hobbies are training, shopping, and playing.
 * Kiyomi's desired opponent is Sakura Haruno, though when a genin, Kiyomi wanted to see how she could do against Hinata.
 * Kiyomi’s favorite foods are dango, and other Japanese sweets, while her least favorite are pickled plums, squid, and octopus.
 * Kiyomi has completed 46 official missions in total: 14 D-Rank, 10 C-Rank, 53 B-Rank, 7 A-Rank, 0 S-Rank
 * Kiyomi’s favorite word is"Trust" (信頼, Shinrai)

Quotes

 * (To Sakura) "Well, bill-board brow lets be friends again, and I'm sorry for what I've said to you before."
 * (To Gato) "Don't touch Haku, you freak!" 
 * (About Haku's Death) " He died the death of a shinobi, he deserved better and I can't believe he's freaking dead! I don't want him to be dead, please, Kakashi-sensei, tell me there's something or anything we can do to save him! Please!" 
 * (To Sakura, when they were children) "What!? No, I don't like Sasuke Uchiha and if he means that much to you, to the point where you wouldn't want to be my friend over him, then I don't think we should even be friends! I hate Uchiha though, he tore you and Ino apart and can't stand seeing that happen to my two best friends! (Later) Really? Well, when you're a shinobi, all you're going to be is dead weight! you really are pretty weak, Sakura! You can't just hide behind those stupid books anymore! We're going to graduate soon and you really think that you can just hide behind your intellect, huh? Well, I've got news, bill-board brow, you can't do that! You need to become stronger than that, you need to build up physical strength and attack power, not just your freaking intelligence matters out there, you know, but wait, all you'll ever do is drag your poor team down, you're just weak!"  
 * (To Sakura, about Naruto and Sasuke) "Yeah, Sakura, Ino's right! You've sure got some powerful teammates. It really makes me proud and happy to see how much they've grown after that 'great' mission protecting Tazuna. Their growth would make Haku proud too, so continue to look after them for me, Ino, and all your our friends, okay?"
 * (To Shikamaru, Izumo, Kotetsu, and Asuma) "I'm willing to do anything to help, I'll help kill the Akatsuki. I'll provide medical support, of course, but I'm ready to risk my life to help you know! (Later) Shikamaru, Izumo, Kotetsu, it might help but, even though I might have the strength and speed to defeat mister immortal's partner, I doubt I have the intelligence to. I'm not stupid like the immortal, in fact, I guess I'm pretty smart but, this guy... he seems just like you, Shikamaru. He likes to think through thinks before attacking, doesn't he? With you at your limit, I don't think that it's wise to make you think for me. I don't think I can win but, I'll try. Maybe my physical prowess can help, or maybe I'll just look like a dumbass and then he can laugh himself to death." 
 * (To herself) "I've always said that I was going to be a strong kunoichi, that I was going to be the greatest medical ninja ever. But look were my "dream" has gotten me: nowhere! I can't even compete with Sakura, she's just so much better than me. Look at her, I mean she never gave up on Sasuke Uchiha, she became a powerful kunoichi, she's one of the greatest medical ninjas in the world but, look at me! I'm useless compared to her! I've barely done anything, and I consider myself to be powerful. She's saving the world and she's becoming famous but, I'm doing nothing but cry and feel bad for myself! I need to surpass her! I need to help with something, even if it means giving up my own life! 
 * (To Kaito, after his confession) "Listen, I love you too, Kaito, but there are three things I want from you, okay? First, lips that don't lie. Second, eyes that won't cry. Third, love that never dies" 
 * (To Temari, about Shikadai and Shikamaru) "Well, Temari, you've not really done that good of a job of whipping Shikamaru if this boy is the result of it. Shikadai Nara was his name, right? It's not just the "Shika'" in his name, but also his personality. And he's got Shikamaru's looks and everything! He really is the son of Shikamaru Nara, now isn't he, Temari?"