Karui Akimichi (秋道カルイ, Akimichi Karui) is a kunoichi from Konohagakure's Akimichi Clan and a former member of Kumogakure's Team Samui. She is Chōchō Akimichi's mother and Chōji Akimichi's wife.
Personality[]
Karui seems to have a somewhat comedic negative relationship with her teammate, Omoi. During their debut, they argued over the possible reasons that they could have been called by the Raikage. She assumed that he wanted them to get him more protein shakes. However, the argument started with Omoi implying that she is flat-chested in comparison to their other teammate, Samui. Like the rest of her team, she highly respects Killer B and was unfaltering in her pursuit for revenge against Sasuke.
Karui is also quite outspoken, stubborn, and impulsive, allowing her emotions to come out, as she angrily yelled at Team Kakashi for allowing the renegade Sasuke to run loose. She came to a violent point when she took out her rage on Naruto Uzumaki and beat him without hesitation, though Omoi later said she felt remorse for doing so.
As a mother, Karui seems more laid-back when it comes to her daughter Chōchō's training, questioning if it was necessary for her to learn techniques in times of peace.
Appearance[]
Karui is a dark-skinned kunoichi with long spiky red hair and amber eyes. As noted by Omoi in Part II, she was flat-chested. She wears a long, short-sleeved dress with frilly edges complete with the Kumogakure flak jacket, two simple yellow earrings, fishnet stockings, thigh-high boots with white soles and a forehead protector which she wears like a bandanna. She also carries a long sword on her back.
As an adult, Karui figure has a fuller figure and her hair has grown fairly longer. Her attire now consists of a long sleeveless dark dress held closed by a white obi. She also no longer wears her forehead protector, and sets her hair in a more neat, back-comb style. Karui changes her earrings to dangling earrings in the same colour.
Abilities[]
As a chūnin, Karui can be considered a very skilled kunoichi as she was trained by Killer B, and was personally summoned by the Raikage to gather information about her mentor's abductor. She has shown to have great teamwork skills, able to coordinate attacks with her partner Omoi without having to communicate with each other[1]. In terms of fighting style, Karui relies mainly on kenjutsu, wielding a long katana in battle, which probably stems from being a subordinate of Killer B. She has demonstrated the use of the Cloud-Style Front Beheading technique, which is a simple frontal slash, but effective in defeating several White Zetsu clones[2]. In the anime, she uses Lightning Release[3].
New Era[]
Karui and the others waiting for their children.
At some point Karui moved to Konoha where she married Chōji and together had a daughter named Chōchō. While she and the other parents help their children train to become the new Ino–Shika–Chō, Karui openly expressed her questioning of there even being the need to learn such techniques in such a peaceful time.
Sarada Uchiha Arc[]
Main article: Naruto Gaiden: The Seventh Hokage and the Scarlet Spring
On the day of the Five Kage Summit, Karui and her husband meet with Ino Yamanaka and Sai to begin the training of the secret techniques to the new generation of the Ino-Shika-Chō trio. She expresses if it's really necessary to teach such techniques to the children is peaceful times.
With graduation exams nearing for her daughter's class, Karui met with her family to eat out. While Chōchō began complaining again about how different she was from her parents, Karui took it in stride.
Naruto Shinden: Parent and Child Day[]
Main article: Naruto Shiden: Parent and Child Day (novel)
During the new holiday of Parent and Child Day, Karui is annoyed that Chōji ate all the sweets she had bought to celebrate the day in family and how lazy he was behaving, so she kicked him out of the house to reconsider his mannerisms. She later saw the eating competition where her husband and daughter participate. When the dumplings began growing in size, Karui joined her family to fight them to no avail. Chōji decided to enlarge his body to fix the problem by eating all the dumplings, later apologizing to his wife for eating the sweets all by himself and not sharing with his family. At the end of the day, Karui watched her family enjoying a meal.
Versus Momoshiki Arc[]
Karui watched Chōchō's match against Shinki.
Chōchō Arc[]
Karui appeared in this arc.
Ao Arc[]
In the anime, Karui attended the memorial service for the fallen people of the Fourth Shinobi World War.
Trivia[]
- "Karui" (軽い) means "light" or "non-serious" in Japanese, as a contrast to Omoi's name.
- Karui bears a slight resemblance to Yukai, another shinobi from Kumogakure.
Quotes[]
- (To Omoi) "Shut up! I don't want to hear your pessimism! This is our master we are talking about! This is Killer B! No one can beat him!"
- (To Sakura) "What are you crying for? I'm the one who wants to cry! Your crying won't bring Yugito or Killer B back! If you got time to cry, then tell me what you know about Sasuke!"
- (To Ino about training children) "We don't need to force them to learn combinations, don't we? I mean, nowadays it's not like it used to be anymore… Our kid isn't exactly this type…"
- (To Chōchō on her comment about Chōji) "There's nothing wrong with him eating what he wants. People die when the time comes anyway. I think the proper question is why we're eating this sort of thing so early in the morning."