Maori KISAWA

Initially, to Orochimaru, Maori was essentially invisible or at least unimportant. He saw her in passing whenever he and Nawaki would go to Amaguriama, but he never gave her as much as anything other than a typical greeting. He did know that Nawaki was pretty sweet on her, but didn't recognize that Maori only had eyes for Orochimaru himself.

Maori had met Orochimaru on her first day working without her grandfather's help on the shop. Customer after customer came to her demanding sweets and soon she found herself overworked. The quality of her sweets were not up to par and many of the customers made it known that they were disappointed in the product. When Orochimaru and his student ordered from her, she found herself, once again, making sub-par sweets despite trying her best. After being berated by a customer, Orochimaru came up to her and kindly thanked her for the sweets and commending her for her hard work. Maori felt deep gratitude for Orochimaru for being so kind and never forgot his kindness. (What she didn't know was that Nawaki, the one who truly felt feelings for her, was the one who noticed her looking down and was too shy to approach her.)

After that, Moari put her all into her products and grew better and better with the hope of appealing to Orochimaru. She would offer he and Nawaki complementary snacks and would linger a tad bit longer when Orochimaru was around. One day after Nawaki confessed his feelings towards him, Maori rejected him and declared her affections towards Orochimaru. Although Nawaki was hurt, he respected her feelings and offered to help her achieve her love - dropping small hints to Orochimaru about Maori.

After Nawaki's death, Orochimaru remembered Nawaki informing him that Maori had romantic feelings for him. No longer having someone of interest to guide and take care of, Orochimaru humored her interest and began pursuing a romantic relationship with her. Maori became a treasured pet-like companion for Orochimaru, Maori none the wiser. Thinking that he was devoted to her, Moari allowed him to place a Cursed Seal of Devotion on her. This seal would influence her mind, forcing her to be devoted to him to matter what. What she thought was a promise of love would prove to be prison bars on her mind and consciousness.

Orochimaru would eventually secretly experiment on Maori after it was discovered that she was barren and could not have children of her own with him. Maori, always incapacitated during his experiments, was not aware that he was running tests and experiments on her. Orochimaru would succeed in creating a genetically modified fetus using her DNA and his own and would plant their child inside of Maori. From then on, he would continue monitoring his two experiments until their child was 2 years of age - when their child grew deadly ill.

Believing that his experiment had failed and having lost interest in Maori and wanting to focus on his own work, Orochimaru abandoned Maori and their sickly child. Moari was left waiting for her lover to return - remaining exclusively devoted to him in the process.

After having her seal suppressed by Anko using the Evil Sealing Method, Moari slowly began seeing that her former lover was not a good person and that he was using her and their child to further his own interest.

Udamae was a regular at Amaguriama when it was under the ownership of Maori's grandfather, Naka. Udamae would often help with repairs on the shop when needed and was a close friend of Naka.

Maori met him briefly after he visited their home after the death of her grandmother. Maori didn't have any overly impressive thoughts about him, but took note that he was rather quiet. Udamae on the other hand, fell in love immediately with Maori when he first met her. He admired her willingness to learn and help her family and aimed to marry her.

None the wiser of his affections, Maori began dating Orochimaru instead, despite her grandfather suggesting that she date someone he would recommend (Udamae). Udamae, like her grandfather, was not a fan of Orochimaru, but out of respect for her relationship and to calm his own feelings, Udamae kept his distance.

After Orochimaru left, Udamae reentered Maori's life to which she was very appreciative. Once again Udamae's feelings ignited and his love for her deepened, but he recognized that she didn't feel the same. Resolving himself to be a close friend, the two maintained an active friendship.

After having her Cursed Devotion Seal mediated, Maori slowly began seeing Udamae in a positive light. The two would go on to spend more time together and Maori slowly began falling in love with him. Their romance was halted after the kidnapping of Maori's daughter. In spite of this, Udamae remained an active and supportive part in Maori's life.

After healing after her daughter left the village, Udamae and Maori choose to get married, adopting Anko as their daughter in the process.

Anko, like many of the young kunoichi of Konohagakure, were fond of Moari's inherited shop - Amaguriama. Anko frequented the shop to eat Maori's dangos. After learning that her sensei, Orochimaru, and the shop owner were in a relationship, she spent more time with Maori. Maori enjoyed spending time with Anko and would go on to view her as a younger sister. After Orochimaru became a missing-nin, Anko continued being by Maori's side - unsure why Maori remained so devoted to the villain.

Anko was very protective of Maori and her pure heart. After learning of Maori's seal, she personally applied the Evil Sealing Method, ridding Maori of her forced feelings of devotion. The two grew increasingly closer, so much so that Maori entrusted the retrieving of her daughter from Team Taka.

After her daughter left Konoha, no longer wanting anything to do with the village, Maori took comfort in Anko who agreed to look after her.