Sāra

Sāra ( サーラ ) was the former queen of Rōran before it was destroyed.

## Background [ ]

Sāra was born to Sēramu , the Queen of Rōran. When she was a child, her mother was approached by a man called Anrokuzan who convinced her to use the power of the Ryūmyaku, an ancient chakra flow deep underground Rōran, to build huge towers in the kingdom. When Sēramu found out that Anrokuzan was only using her for his own purposes, he murdered her secretly by stabbing her in the back. Sāra became the Queen in her deceased mother's place, unaware that Anrokuzan was using her as a puppet Queen.

## Personality [ ]

Ever since she was a child, Sāra knew she would become Queen and guide her people. When her mother died, Sāra found comfort from Anrokuzan, who kept telling her that her duty was to protect Rōran, the beautiful city that her mother built. As a result, Sāra came to view the kingdom as a treasure from her mother and vowed to protect it with her life. Even after six years, Sāra still mourned her mother's death and constantly sang the song they usually sang together.

Sāra has a stubborn yet brave personality. Even though she refused to believe that Anrokuzan was deceiving her, once she found out the truth, she did everything in her power to protect her people from him to such an extent that in the light novel, even after seeing Naruto beaten and rising up to delay Anrokuzan from pursuing her, Sara longed for the chance to fight as well if she had a weapon that could do any damage upon her treacherous advisor, yet she had restraint to realize this would be fruitless and sought another solution in taking out Anrokuzan's source of power directly with her own abilities. However after Anrokuzan was defeated, a consequence was exacted upon Sāra and her newfound development: as a side effect of Minato's suppression jutsu to preserve history from changing as a result of Anrokuzan's attempt to claim her kingdom, her newfound confidence in herself had vanished with all recollection around the exact details, including all of her memories of Naruto and Anrokuzan.

After twenty years of leading her people in a traveling caravan around Rōran, Sāra had earned the full trust of her people and finally felt confident enough to become Queen just as her mother had. Now an adult and unable to recognize Naruto, Sara displayed the full composure and grace of a humble Queen, apologizing to Team 7 for taking up their time even with just a few minutes' discourse before departing with a courteous bow and a farewell to the strange shinobi upon her former home; a far cry from how her teenage self reacted suspiciously and fretfully to seeing Hidden Leaf Ninja in a time she could no longer recall.

## Appearance [ ]

Sāra has long red hair with spiky bangs on her forehead, violet eyes, and fair skin. She wears purple and pink robes, a golden necklace with a red jewel around her neck, gold bracelets around her wrists and brown sandals. However, after she became determined to save her people from Anrokuzan, she tore her robes apart so she could move easier and put her hair in a ponytail.

Outside of her Queen regalia, Sāra casually wears a light pink jacket, green shorts, long black thigh high stockings with rose-pink sandals and her hair also kept in a ponytail.

As a woman in Naruto's time, Sāra dons an orange robe with a navy blue outline, violet irises, and a tan and green bandanna around her forehead, to better befit her years on the road with the caravan she has led since her memory was suppressed after the fall of Rōran.

## Abilities [ ]

Like her mother before her, Sāra has the power to feel and control the Ryūmyaku , an ability unique to the Queens of Rōran. As a result, Sāra is capable of sealing its flow and preventing anyone from using it.

## Plot Overview [ ]

When Naruto goes back in time along with Mukade and Yamato , he wakes up alone to Sāra's singing. When he asks her where he is, Sāra runs away and goes back to her palace, where she remembers when she used to sing with her mother and cries. Anrokuzan, who has become the Minister of Rōran, tells her that she must show herself to her people, who are there to praise her and her mother for building the city. Sāra agrees and goes to the balcony of her palace, however, as she greets her people, someone pushes her from behind and she falls. Fortunately, she is saved by Naruto, but she slaps his face four times and elbows it before thanking him. Then after, Naruto started to question how she fell. She said that it felt as if someone pushed her from behind. Naruto then claimed that someone might be trying to kill her, and she denied it with the fact of the amount of cheering from the people above her, and said it was probably just her imagination.

When Minato and his team appear, Naruto tries to attack them, thinking they were the ones after Sāra's life. Minato tells them that they are only here to protect the queen's life too. After Minato takes him and the queen to her tower, he explains that Naruto came from the future, and that history could be changed in an ugly way if it is altered in this era. He also explains that another shinobi called Mukade, came six years before Naruto, and he suddenly found himself in that era. Naruto asks Minato if he knows a way they can return back to their own timeline, and Minato says that they have to defeat Mukade, who plans to use the Ryūmyaku's power to build weapons and not only take over the Five Great Shinobi Countries , but the entire universe. Sāra then silences them telling that it wasn't an evil shinobi called Mukade that came to her six years ago, but a good man named Anrokuzan. She also said that Anrokuzan is serving well as her minister, and has tried his best to fulfil her mother's wishes. Minato then talks back and tells her that Anrokuzan has been deceiving her. She refuses to believe them and tells that they're more suspicious and then runs away to prove Anrokuzan's innocence. Minato tells Naruto to follow and protect her.

On her way, Sāra is captured by a group of women and children who ask her to give them back something. Sāra asks what is it that they want back. She is then taken to a parade that Anrokuzan started to cheer her up when her mother died. When she gets hyped seeing all the happy people, Sarai tells Sāra that everybody makes fun of her and calls her "Puppet Princess" . Masako then explains to Sāra that they have had their family members taken away by Anrokuzan on behalf her orders and that's what they want back. Sāra tells them that she'd never give such orders. Masako then says that there is a rumour that their family members have been taken away to manufacture weapons, and that they had no choice but to make her a direct appeal. She continues denying anything they're with the same fact of the people cheering. Sarai then talks back at her saying that nobody around is literally "happy". After Naruto sees pipes from the ley line of chakra, he throws his Chakra Blade to see if there are any strings. It turned out there were Chakra strings and the people were all puppets. She also got shocked when Anrokuzan made a puppet of even her picture. Sāra stilled refused to believe Anrokuzan went through all of this, and runs away again. When Naruto finds her, she tells him that after her mother's death, Anrokuzan was the only one who was there for her. Naruto tells her that he is an orphan as well but he had a master who, even though is dead, left him his will and that Sāra's mother must have left her something important too and that she should think about what her mother valued and she would know what to do.

Inspired by Naruto's words, Sāra goes with him to the city's underground where they discover that Anrokuzan is using the people he kidnapped as slaves to build his Puppet Ninja Force. Sāra manages to stop the flow of Ryūmyaku directed to the factory, however, Anrokuzan appears and tells them that since the Puppet Army is finished, he doesn't need her to control the Ryūmyaku anymore and attacks them. Naruto is restrained by the puppets, which drain his chakra, while Anrokuzan finally reveals to Sāra that he was the one who killed her mother when she refused to assist him. Overcome with grief, Sāra falls on her knees and cries, but Naruto is able to save her from being killed, using the Nine-Tails 's chakra.

Anrokuzan fuses with his puppets and attacks them. Fortunately, Minato and his team reappear and fight with Anrokuzan while Sāra frees the men he kidnapped and brings them to their families on the surface. However, Anrokuzan follows her, determined to kill her because she's the only one who can stop the flow of Ryūmyaku and prevent Anrokuzan's regeneration. To protect herself, Naruto gives her his Chakra Blade. Since Anrokuzan can't withstand the power of Ryūmyaku in the garden where Sāra and Naruto first met, she takes her people there and opens the door using the Chakra Blade and seals it. While Naruto and Minato fight Anrokuzan, Sāra manages to stop the flow of the Ryūmyaku and Naruto kills Anrokuzan with his and Minato's Supreme Ultimate Rasengan . After Minato seals the Ryūmyaku completely, Naruto and Yamato, who was also sent to the past, start to glow because time is returning to normal. So the future won't be changed, Minato decides to erase everybody's memories. As Naruto disappears, Sāra tells him that she'll do what she has to do for her people even if Rōran is destroyed, because that was what Naruto taught her.

After Naruto departed to his time, Minato followed through with his promised intention of suppressing the memories of the survivors of the time-travel incident caused by Mukade, effectively making the Rōran people forget the event's true cause, then left soon after with Minato leaving the suggestion to the survivors that the then-ongoing Third Shinobi War had seen to a catastrophe that killed Queen Sēramu and destroyed the Rōran Kingdom, yet was stopped with the help of a hero who left the Queen his dagger before giving it to Sāra and absconding to parts unknown.

With this in their mind to cover the missing gap over what had taken place over the last six years, Queen Sāra forgot about Mukade, Naruto, and the other shinobi she encountered, and decided to leave with her people and fresh doubts over how to endure with the loss of her mother, only bearing a memento in the chakra blade that was imparted to her by a sacred hero who helped stop further destruction of the kingdom by sealing the Leyline.

It would take twenty years passing before Sāra would sense a disturbance in the Leyline at the ruins of Rōran and unknowingly reunite with Naruto, who likewise had his memory suppressed, albeit only partially in part to the sudden nature of the temporal chakra drawing him back to the future by twenty years as a consequence for Mukade's time jutsu dissipating. Unlike Sāra, who completely forgot about Naruto and the events of their adventure while regaling a tale about her dead mother Queen Sēramu leaving, Naruto's partially suppressed mind vaguely remembered Sāra's presence, likening her as someone very familiar whom he felt that he had met before, but could not figure out where - on top of not knowing what happened to Mukade and concluding the mission to stop him must have been successful, for there was no trace of Mukade anywhere in the ruins.

After revealing the chakra blade she still bore, Naruto recognized it as a Hidden Leaf weapon and noticed the absence of his own, yet Sāra made no sign of recognising this amidst his sudden growing feelings of familiarity upon Sāra admitting she finally decided to follow her mother Sēramu's will and lead her people. Sāra then bid Team 7 farewell and returned to the traveling caravan of her people, leaving Naruto further confused and remarking aloud about how she was very familiar, before looking back to the ruins of the lost city of Rōran one last time and departing.

## Trivia [ ]

- In Masashi Kishimoto 's artwork of the movie, her eyes are depicted as red while, in the movie, they are violet.
- According to the movie's soundtrack list, the song Sāra and her mother sang is called " To Light " .

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