Mirai Sarutobi

is a kunoichi, and a member of Konohagakure's Sarutobi clan.

Background
Before her father Asuma died, Shikamaru Nara promised him that he would look after and train Mirai.

Personality
As a two-year-old toddler, Mirai is outgoing and friendly to her parents' students. She also like to give others nicknames. As a kunoichi, Mirai is cheerful and energetic.

Appearance
Mirai is a young woman with long, unruly black hair and red, ringed irides both of which she inherited from her mother, while for the most part she strongly resembles her father. She wears the standard attire of the Konoha-nin inclusive of a green flack jacket over a black jumper and forehead protector.

As an infant, she was depicted wearing a simple yellow kimono with blue trimmings, held closed by a white sash. Two years after her birth, her hair grew a significant amount and has a short ponytail tied above her head. Mirai wore a tan outfit with lighter tan colour stripe trimmings wrapped around her outfit, in a similar manner of how her mother wore her previous outfit. She also wears pink shinobi sandals.

Abilities
As she was selected to accompany the Sixth Hokage, it is presumable that Mirai is a very capable kunoichi.

Nature Transformation
Like her father, Mirai is able to use Wind Release and is taught different techniques of this nature by Temari.

Shikamaru Hiden: A Cloud Drifting in Silent Darkness
Mirai met Shikamaru at her father's grave with her mother, and affectionately called him. Shikamaru was greatly impressed by her and determined to come back alive after the incoming dangerous mission, in order to be her teacher sometime.

The Last: Naruto the Movie
Mirai makes an appearance in this film, set two years after the Fourth Shinobi World War. She was seen with her mother at Naruto and Hinata's wedding, while handing some flowers to Hinata. In the light novel version, she and her mother was visited by Team Asuma, and later in the crisis, she and her mother were saved by Chōji Akimichi, a member of Team Asuma.

Sakura Hiden: Thoughts of Love, Riding Upon a Spring Breeze
When Sakura sees Mirai's mother holding her, she thinks about the children of Konohagakure and wonders about their situation after the Fourth Shinobi World War.

Konoha Hiden: The Perfect Day for a Wedding
When the other members of Team Kurenai meet up to discuss with Hinata's wedding gift, Mirai is also with her mother Kurenai, and calls Kiba ,, Akamaru,, and Shino, "Uncle Buggy" and , which makes them greatly tangled. She has also pulled Akamaru's ears, with the latter surprisingly tamed. Later, at the wedding, she rides Akamaru around.

Epilogue
Thirteen years later, now a young adult and full-fledged kunoichi, Mirai became committed to making her late-father proud. When her mother, Kurenai, noticed that she hadn't left for her escort mission yet, Kurenai told Mirai that she was running late to meet with the Seventh Hokage. However, Mirai informed her mother that she was actually supposed to follow the predecessor, and that she didn't need to go in early. Mirai also informed her mother that Might Guy would be there as well and she would not be home for three days.

Konoha Shinden: Steam Ninja Scrolls
Mirai makes an appearance in this novel.

Trivia

 * The name means "future", while her family name  means "monkey jump".
 * During a question and answer session held at Tokyo's Jump Festa '09, Masashi Kishimoto stated that he was thinking of making Kurenai and Asuma's child a girl.