Minato Namikaze
Became close after being assigned to the same Genin Team.
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Part of Team Jiraiya and Minato's Genin teammate.
She's a tall, muscular woman with short, silky black hair in a jaw-length bob cut and long bangs parted to the right. She has almond-shaped emerald green eyes and tan olive skin with a beauty mark under one of her eyes. She favors the color purple.
Tall, athletic
Emerald green
Blue-black
| Era | Height | Weight | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kakashi Gaiden | 178 cm (5'10") | — | Alive |
| Part I | 178 cm (5'10") | — | Alive |
| Part II | 178 cm (5'10") | — | Alive |
| Blank Period | 178 cm (5'10") | — | Alive |
She's a "rules are guidelines" kind of person most of the time.
| Positive traits | Negative traits |
|---|---|
| Likes | Dislikes |
|---|---|
Teasing. She likes playing pranks on her team too.
Chaotic Neutral
Massive
Carefully honed. Can perform certain ninjutsu without any hand seals.
She's quite pysically strong because she enjoys training
Her speed is appropiate for her rank. Her reaction speed is incredibly high
She was constantly bored at the Academy and didn't put in much work.
A master at analyzing other's abilities, strengths and weaknesses, both in combat and in social situations.
Extremely adaptable. A bit of a bulldozer, sometimes, due to her ninjutsu prowess.
Good at leading from behind. A reliable leader when the situation calls from it.
All ranges.
Elemental ninjutsu (all ranges).
She expertly makes use of her massive chakra reserves and the flexibility of controlling all five nature transformations to turn the battlefield in her favor. However, she's also very physically strong and has solid taijutsu skills.
| Era | Ninjutsu | Taijutsu | Genjutsu | Fuinjutsu | Intelligence | Strength | Speed | Stamina | Hand Seals | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gaiden | 5 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 39 |
| Part I | 5 | 4.5 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 39.5 |
| Part II | 5 | 4.5 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 39.5 |
| Blank Period | 5 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 39 |
Sayaka was born Goshiki Sayaka to two civilian parents, but enrolled in Konoha’s academy as a child regardless. When Uzumaki Kushina transferred, they immediately struck a rivalry, as their similarly hot-headed personalities crashed a lot. However, Sayaka considered her a friend from the start, and was surprised Kushina thought they weren’t friends. She got along well enough with Minato, but shared Kushina’s opinion that he seemed “undependable.”
When they graduated, Sayaka was placed in the same team as Minato and another classmate called Dekai, and they were the “Rookie of the year/Dead last” team of their generation, with Jiraiya as their Jonin sensei.
As teammates, Sayaka got to know Minato better and also realized his feelings for Kushina, so she tried to set them up a million times (to no success. Kushina was absolutely oblivious.) Soon after, the Second Shinobi World War broke out, and Kushina was kidnapped by Kumo nins in the midst of it.
Growing up, she was quite tomboy-ish, to the point that most people struggled to tell whether she was a girl or a boy. Additionally, since she was Kushina’s friend, she also defended her when others badmouthed her, often ending in physical altercations. As a result, she received the nickname “Demon” from her classmates.
When she hit puberty, her body started developing with startling speed, and suddenly all those boys who disliked her for her "unfeminine" and “violent” personality were interested in her, to the point where there were several bets going on to see who would be the one to finally “tame” the demon. Naturally, she beat up those boys, too. Since she’s always favored purple, her nickname morphed into “the Purple Demon of Konoha,” which then spread outside of Konoha.
Several years after the end of the Second Shinobi World War, and as a Jonin already, she’d already garnered international recognition for her mastery of the five basic chakra natures, receiving the nickname “Sayaka of the Five Elements.”
As Minato started to train the Hiraishin no jutsu, she started to develop her own Kekkei Tota, Crystal Release, which she completed during the Third War. Sayaka was stationed in the northernmost battlefield during the war, right on the border with the Land of Lightning, and was the main reason why the Kumo forces had minimal interference in Konoha’s territory. She received the moniker “Sayaka of the Crystal Release” during this time, and even to this day many Kumo nins are intimidated just by hearing her name.
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