Ankorodō Shop Owner

Age shows plainly on this small, stooped woman: a wrinkled face dotted with birthmarks, deep-set eyes that only widen when she is worked up, and a mouth left with just three teeth. Her grey hair is drawn into a bun and wrapped in cloth. She dresses in a brown striped robe beneath a pale apron marked with a leaf and three little circles at the upper left, finished with plain sandals.

Fear of losing her shop governs nearly everything she does, and it curdles into open resentment toward Choji Akimichi, the man who once almost ruined her. Cunning and unscrupulous, she is willing to rig a contest and pull dirty tricks to deny him victory, though her memory fails her in the pinch, as she can no longer recall how to cancel a technique she herself devised. Once her cheating comes to light she is genuinely shaken, repents, and hands over the reward she owed. Sai remarks that being forced to honour that prize is a punishment harsher than jail.

In her younger years she served as a kunoichi, and a past eating contest at her shop offered the winner limitless free sweet sake. Choji Akimichi claimed that prize and drank her nearly into ruin, teaching her to never again promise anything without limit. Her old training left her some ninjutsu, notably an Earth Release secret art that conjures ever-swelling mochi dumplings too sticky for even Rock Lee to escape, though thirty years of disuse cost her the knowledge of how to dispel it.

Ahead of a later gluttony competition she joined a plot among shopkeepers to stop Choji, secretly siding with the Dotonbori pair and handing Choji and Chocho deep bowls to slow them down. When a hungry Boruto Uzumaki stumbled onto the rigging, she flooded the arena with her expanding mochi, only for an enlarged Choji to devour the whole mass. Exposed, she owned her guilt and surrendered a certificate for endless sweet bean jam to the victorious Akimichi family.