Anzu Sarutobi

Anzu Sarutobi
(猿飛あんず, Sarutobi Anzu) Honourable Granddaughter (名誉孫娘, Meiyo magomusume) Shrimp (エビ, Ebi) Midget (ミゼット, Mizetto)
Debut
Manga	Chapter #2
Anime	Naruto Episode #2
Game	Naruto: Ultimate Ninja
OVA	Hidden Leaf Village Grand Sports Festival
Movie	Naruto Shippūden 3: Inheritors of the Will of Fire
Appears in	Anime, Manga, Game and Movie
Voice Actors
Japanese	Miyuki Sawashiro
English	Terri Doty
Personal
Birthdate	August 15
Gender	http://i1184.photobucket.com/albums/z328/orangebox011/18px-Gender_Femalesvg.png Female
Age	Part I: 12-13 Part II: 15-16
Height	Part I: 146.3 cm Part II: 158.8 cm
Weight	Part I: 39.5 kg Part II: 40.9 kg
Blood type	B
Kekkei Genkai	Swift Release
Affiliation	Konohagakure
Clan	Sarutobi Clan
Team	Team Kazuma Konoha 11 (Anime only)
Rank
Ninja Rank	Part I: Genin Part II: Chūnin
Ninja Registration	012610
Academy Grad. Age	12
Chūnin Prom. Age	14
Family Sasuke Sarutobi (Great-Grandfather) Hiruzen Sarutobi (Grandfather) Biwako Sarutobi (Grandmother) Asuma Sarutobi (Uncle) Kurenai's Child (Cousin) Konohamaru Sarutobi (Cousin) Aruto Sarutobi (Father) Kotori Hoshina (Mother)
Nature Type Swift Release Wind Release (Affinity) Fire Release
Jutsu Mystical Palm Technique Summoning Technique Fire Release: Ash Pile Burning Wind Release: Verdant Mountain Gale Shuriken Shadow Clone Technique Body Flicker Technique Transparent Escape Technique Swift Release: Shadowless Flight
Tools Scroll Military Rations Pill (Anime Only) Kunai Shuriken

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

Background

A premature Anzu with her mother Kotori.

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, which earned her two prominent nicknames: Shrimp (エビ, Ebi), and Midget (ミゼット, Mizetto). 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 knew 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 mild rebellious personality that sometimes got her into trouble with Hiruzen, who brushed it off saying "her father's personality genes are kicking in".

She is almost never serious, unless it concerns the safety of her family and friends, and the safety of her village. During those times, Anzu is not afraid to sacrifice her own safety to protect the people close to her. She is kind to others, and she is not easily provoked, unless they insult her short height. When she is angered, Anzu is capable of holding a grudge for a long time, but if this grudge is on someone close to her, like Konohamaru, the grudge is significantly shortened.

Anzu has a big sister personality, like her father Aruto, who had a big brother personality, and this is applied to mostly everyone who she comes into contact with. She is bashful around her teammate Kazuki, since he never really hides his attraction towards her.

Appearance

Anzu's initial appearance in Part I (Left) and Part II (Right).

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. Her speed is most likely because of her kekkei genkai.

Kekkei Genkai

Anzu inherited the Swift Release form her mother Kotori. The Swift Release (迅遁, Jinton; Viz "Quick Style") is an advanced nature kekkei genkai that can be used to move with instantaneous speed, granting the user an advantage over opponents with more strength than speed, such as users of Chakra Enhanced Strength. This nature therefore renders the user invulnerable against most taijutsu, which is an advantage to Anzu as taijutsu isn't her strongest asset.

Ninjutsu

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.

Intelligence

Anzu was shown to be able to analyse her opponents and predict their next moves at a young age. When she does find the will to study, she can memorise a bunch of information with complex key words, even if she got those words wrong a few times. This memorisation ability aids her in her predictions about her opponents.

Other Skills

Teamwork

Anzu was shown to be able to work well with others. Team Kazuma is one of the teams in Konohagakure who has a good teamwork, although it is nowhere near the Ino–Shika–Chō formation.

Status

Databook	Ninjutsu	Taijutsu	Genjutsu	Intelligence	Strength	Speed	Stamina	Hand seals	Total
First	2	1	1.5	2	2	3.5	3	2	17
Second	3	2	2	3	3	4.5	4	2.5	24
Third	3.5	2.5	2.5	3.5	3.5	5	4.5	3	28

Part I

Coming soon.

Part II

Coming soon.

Video Games

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

Game name	Japanese release	English release
Naruto RPG 2: Chidori vs. Rasengan	14 July 2005
Naruto Shippūden: Clash of Ninja Revolution 3		17 November 2009
Naruto Shippūden: Gekitō Ninja Taisen! EX 2	29 November 2007
Naruto Shippūden: Gekitō Ninja Taisen! EX 3	27 November 2008
Naruto Shippūden: Gekitō Ninja Taisen! Special	2 December 2010
Naruto Shippūden: Shinobi Rumble	22 April 2010	8 February 2011
Naruto Shippūden: Ultimate Ninja 4	5 April 2007	24 March 2009
Naruto Shippūden: Ultimate Ninja 5	20 December 2007	27 November 2009
Naruto Shippūden: Ultimate Ninja Heroes 3	10 December 2009	11 May 2010
Naruto Shippūden: Ultimate Ninja Impact	20 October 2011	18 October 2011
Naruto Shippūden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 2	21 October 2010	19 October 2010
Naruto Shippūden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 3	18 April 2013	5 March 2013
Naruto Shippūden: Ultimate Ninja Storm Generations	23 February 2012	13 March 2012
Naruto Shippūden: Ultimate Ninja Storm Revolution
Naruto: Clash of Ninja 2	4 December 2003	24 November 2006
Naruto: Clash of Ninja Revolution 2		21 October 2008
Naruto: Gekitō Ninja Taisen! 3	20 November 2004
Naruto: Gekitō Ninja Taisen! 4	21 November 2005
Naruto: Path of the Ninja 2	13 July 2006	14 October 2008
Naruto: Ultimate Ninja	23 October 2003	26 June 2006
Naruto: Ultimate Ninja 2	30 September 2004	12 June 2007
Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Heroes		28 August 2007
Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Heroes 2: The Phantom Fortress	30 March 2006	24 June 2008
Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm	15 January 2009	4 November 2008
Naruto SD Powerful Shippūden	29 November 2012	5 March 2013
Naruto Shippūden: Kizuna Drive	15 July 2010	22 March 2011
Naruto Shippūden: Dragon Blade Chronicles	26 November 2009	16 November 2010
Naruto Shippūden 3D: The New Era	31 March 2011	24 June 2011

Trivia

• Sarutobi means 'monkey jump': "Saru" (猿) is the character for 'monkey', and "Tobi" (飛) is the character for "jump".
• Anzu literally means 'apricot' (あんず).
• Anzu's voice actors are the same as Virgo from the Fairy Tail anime.
• Anzu Sarutobi scored 12 points on the Mary Sue Test. She is a Non-Sue (Your character is a well-developed, balanced person, and is almost certainly not a Mary Sue).
• Anzu has no love interest at the moment.
• According to the databook(s):
  • Anzu's hobbies are collecting shells, star-gazing and walking.
  • 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!"
• (To her classmates) "Don't say anything about my height! It's not my fault I'm so short!"
• (To herself at Hiruzen's funeral) "Is this a punishment for something I've done? My parents are dead...my grandfather is gone now too...I only have uncle 'Asuma and Konohamaru left...I won't give up, jii-chan! I refuse to!"

Reference

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