Anzu Sarutobi

Anzu Sarutobi (猿飛あんず, Sarutobi Anzu) is a chūnin-level kunoichi of Konohagakure's Sarutobi clan.

Background
Anzu is the granddaughter of Hiruzen and Biwako Sarutobi as well as the niece of Asuma through her father Aruto Sarutobi. She was born premature, therefore making her a small and fragile infant. This also affected her height, and made her shorter than almost everyone her age. Anzu lost her mother due to the childbirth, as Kotori's body couldn't cope with the stress that came with the premature birth. Before her death, Kotori lovingly held her daughter in her palms while she told Anzu that she loved her, even though she know Anzu wouldn't understand her.

Anzu was close to reaching the age of 2 months when the Nine-Tails attacked Konoha, and her father was called from her side to fight the beast, a battle he never returned from. During this, Anzu was left in the care of a babysitter hired by Aruto. Later, Anzu's grandfather Hiruzen took her in and raised her alongside her cousin Konohamaru, who was born a few years after the event in which she was orphaned.

During her childhood Hiruzen rarely let her out while he taught her the essences of a ninja, and she had a hard time in the academy as she had a short attention span, however it improved a bit under Hiruzen's teachings, but not to the point where she can focus for long.

When she graduated, she was placed on Team Kazuma, alongside Kazuki Sakamoto and Tanaki Matsuda.

Personality
Anzu is a playful girl who lacks a long attention span, and she also has this habit of randomly pointing things out, even if the conversation is about something completely different.

She likes to tease others about anything she can, and she enjoys finding new things out about others. Others often say that she inherited her personality from her mother Kotori, who had the same playful personality Anzu has.

Anzu is often saddened at the fact that most people only see her as the Third Hokage's granddaughter, and so she developed a slightly rebellious personality that sometimes got her into trouble with Hiruzen, who sometimes brushed it off saying "her father's personality is kicking in".

Appearance
Anzu is a little shorter than the average females of her age, due to the fact that she was born prematurely. She has fair skin, light brown hair and blue eyes - a striking resemblance to her mother, even more so with the way she keeps her hair - parted from the left side with a white hair clip, collarbone-length bangs and mid-back length hair put up into a ponytail.

In Part I, Anzu wore a light purple high-collared, mid-thigh length dress that parted on the sides with arm warmers of the same colour, and both of these have blue designs. She also wore black shorts with the standard blue shinobi sandals, and wore her forehead protector on the standard blue cloth around her forehead.

In Part II, her colour scheme haven't changed. She wears a light purple sleeveless top with a skirt in the same colour. Her top is closed on the right side with three white bands, and the metal plate of her forehead protector is placed above her left breast. She wears her arms warmers and black shorts, and she has a fishnet shirt under the top and replaces her typical shinobi sandals for black more revealing ones.

Abilities
After learning the meaning of true determination, Anzu's abilities began to show significant improvement over the timeskip, implying that she may have inherited her grandfather, the Third Hokage's, natural talent. Anzu displayed a high level of speed and evasive skills, able to dodge most attacks of her opponents.

Nature Transformation
Anzu has displayed competent use of nature transformation, being able to use Fire Release techniques such as her uncle's signature technique, Fire Release: Ash Pile Burning. She has also demonstrated aptitude with other high-level techniques such as the Shuriken Shadow Clone Technique as well as with the generic Body Flicker Technique.

Part I
Coming soon.

Part II
Coming soon.

Video Games
Anzu Sarutobi is a playable character in the following video games:

Trivia

 * Anzu's voice actors are the same as Virgo from the Fairy Tailanime.
 * According to the databook(s):
 * Anzu's hobbies are collecting shells.
 * Anzu wishes to fight Hiruzen Sarutobi, Aruto Sarutobi and Kotori Hoshina.
 * Anzu likes ramen and dango, and her least favourite is carrots.
 * Anzu has completed 40 official missions in total: 17 D-rank, 14 C-rank, 9 B-rank, 0 A-rank, 0 S-rank.
 * Anzu's favourite word according to the first, second and third databooks is "friendship" (友情, Yūjō).

Quotes

 * (To Hiruzen) "My dream... my dream is to catch up to my parents' skills and surpass them in anything I can!"

Reference
Anzu Sarutobi is an OC/RPC for the Narutoverse created by BlossomsCherry on deviantART. Naruto and Naruto Shippuden belongs to Masashi Kishimoto.