Saya

Saya ( サヤ ) is a kunoichi from Sunagakure and a teammate of Sana and Mamushi .

## Personality [ ]

Saya is a very arrogant and sadistic kunoichi, revelling in finding new prey; this also extends to her teammates if they displease her. She is also very domineering, making her teammates refer to her as "Lady" ( お嬢さま , Ojō-sama ) and follow all her orders. She has a strong superiority-complex, believing herself superior to her enemies and refuses to believe herself capable of ever losing. When people challenge that view, she enters a hysterical state, compelled to make the person pay. Saya is also shown to have a very strong attachment to her ninja-puppet and all things she deems cute, her attachment to her puppet extends to the point of masquerading like it for a prolonged period of time.

## Appearance [ ]

Saya has light blue hair in two pony-tails with bangs framing on both cheeks and wearing a red and purple kimono with her hem shredded, a light grey corset, a pair of separate, furisode-like sleeves in the same colour. She also has a Suna forehead protector backwards and uses it as a ribbon tied at the middle in a bow, pointing straight up. Her fingernails are polished in black. Her most striking feature, however, is the makeup she puts around her yellow-pupiled eyes and has light violet lipstick. Red in colour, it gives a vague appearance of the Toad 's Perfect Sage Mode .

## Abilities [ ]

### Ninjutsu [ ]

Saya uses a unique style of the Puppet Technique . Her puppet is a very simple and small doll. While controlling her puppet in the traditional sense through Chakra Threads , her tactic is not to attack her enemies with her doll, but to gather a sample of the enemies' hair, allowing her to then link her mind with the target with her Puppet Imitation Technique and thereby remotely control the target similar to the Yamanaka clan 's secret techniques . Saya is also capable of travelling through the ground and creating sand dolls out of pre-existing sand . Similarly to Kankurō , Saya can switch places with her puppet using the Body Replacement Technique .

## Interlude [ ]

### In Naruto's Footsteps: The Friends' Paths [ ]

Saya, alongside her team, participated in the joint Chūnin Exams . She and her team were one of the few who managed to qualify for the second round. The next day, the second exam proctor — Temari , announced the start of the second round taken place within Demon Desert . On the third day of the second exam, with the goal of having to pass by obtaining an Earth and Heaven scroll from an enemy team, Saya and her team found Team Asuma . Finding a liking in Sakura Haruno and Ino Yamanaka 's appearances, she decided to take them on personally while leaving the less-desirable Chōji Akimichi to her teammates. She quickly obtained a hair sample from Ino and used her technique to attack Sakura through her own teammate. As Chōji began overwhelming Saya's teammates with his size , Saya broke her hold on Ino and turned her technique on Chōji. As Ino realised the nature of Saya's technique, she entered Chōji's mind to face Saya, during which, Saya had Chōji attack Sakura.

Ultimately, Ino succeeds in expelling Saya from Chōji's mind, much to Saya's horror. Refusing to believe she lost to anyone, Saya went hysterical and clutched her doll as Chōji regained himself and attacked her. At the last second, Saya substituted herself with her puppet and retreated like her team. Once she regrouped with her team, determined to make Ino pay for humiliating her, Saya planned to hypnotise the Konoha-nin team into being her slaves. Her team soon found and attacked the exhausted Team Asuma, having Sana and Mamushi strike in unison with her. Despite this, Sakura defeated Saya and her team with a single punch to the ground, sending Saya's team spiralling away, with her still denying she lost.

Later, Saya's team arrived at the main building for the conclusion of the second exam. However, the Chūnin Exams were ended early before starting the finals due to controversy happening in the second exam. Instead, it was decided by Gaara that a report on each participant would be sent to their respective village leader for them to decide if they would be promoted.

## Trivia [ ]

- Sana addresses to Saya as "Elder Sister" ( お姉さま , Onē-sama ), but whether she does it out of respect or to signify a family relationship is unknown.
- Studio Pierrot's Settei sheets refer to Saya's doll-like puppet as Saya's Traditional Japanese Doll ( サヤの市松人形 , Saya no Ichimaningyō ). It also uses a slip joint knife as a weapon.

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