Sasori's Mother

She wore her dark brown hair long, above a pair of brown eyes. Her civilian dress was a lengthy, loose-fitting green garment with a poncho-like layer draped over it. In her role as a kunoichi she instead put on a sleeveless, collared black shirt, with bandages wound about her waist.

The narrative gives almost no account of her character, framing her instead through the void she left. She and her husband departed on a wartime mission and never came home, and it is the ache of that loss, and Sasori's craving for the love they could no longer offer, that defines their role in the story.

She and her husband both fell to Sakumo Hatake amid a war, leaving young Sasori to be raised by his grandmother Chiyo. After Sasori took up puppetry, he built puppets modelled on his parents in the hope of feeling loved once more. The attempt came to nothing, since the figures were only puppets, and he discarded them when he abandoned Sunagakure. They afterward came into Chiyo's possession, who once used them in battle against Sasori, before they ultimately reached Kankuro.