Hibari Kamakura

is an actress in Konohagakure.

Background
Hibari and Gongorō are longtime friends of Neon Asakusa's parents, leading to their respective children being friends. When work on movies began piling up, Hibari asked Neon, as Osuka's only friend, to help keep her company.

Personality
At times, Hibari can come off as a workaholic, often doing projects to the point of not spending enough time with her family. Despite this, Hibari at heart loves and cherishes her family, caring for their happiness and safety. She will even exhaust herself with projects to ensure it.

Appearance
Hibari is a beautiful woman of slender frame. She has long, flowing purple hair and brown eyes. She wears a brown-grey dress with gold bracelets on both of her wrists.

Abilities
Hibari is an actress of great renown. She is also apparently adept in scientific research, having helped the Scientific Ninja Weapons Team in upgrading drones with sensory capacities.

Kawaki & Himawari Academy Arc
As Hibari's movie career continued to strain her relationship with her daughter, Osuka's bitterness reached its limit when Hibari threw out her favorite pudding. Later, Hibari was kidnapped along with Himawari Uzumaki. After the two girls were rescued by Neon and Kawaki, Hibari frantically arrived to hug her daughter in tearful joy. While Osuka was shocked by this reaction, Hibari insisted that a mother's first concern is always their child. She also revealed the reason she has been gone so much lately was because she was helping in designing a sensory system for the new drones, which is what Neon used to find Osuka and Himawari. Hibari also revealed that she threw out Osuka's pudding because it expired from her storing it for so long. As the mother and daughter tearfully reconsiled, they invited everyone out to enjoy some pudding together.

Trivia

 * As written, her name means "skylark". Written as 火針 or 火鍼, it refers to heated acupuncture needles.
 * Despite being mentioned by name in Episode #261, Hibari is only referred to as "Osuka's mother" in the credits of Episode #266.