Margo

Margo originally lived in Redaku's capital city, working as a maid in the royal palace. She initially lacked any specific role within the palace, instead broadly serving the royal family or their guests as needed. A few years prior to the events of Sasuke Retsuden, Redaku's Prime Minister assigned Margo to be the personal maid of Jiji, a shinobi from Sunagakure temporarily living within the palace. In time, Jiji fell in love with Margo and lost interest in returning to Suna, much less continuing as a shinobi. Jiji and Margo tried to keep their relationship a secret, but the Prime Minister nevertheless found out. Rather than punish either of them, the Prime Minister offered to allow their relationship to continue on the condition that Jiji spend a year helping one of the Prime Minister's allies, Zansūru. Jiji agreed and, without going into detail about what he would be doing with Zansūru, promised Margo he would return to her as soon as the year was up. Just as his year with Zansūru was nearly completed, Jiji was informed that Margo had died, the victim of an epidemic ravaging the capital city; the Prime Minister even sent Jiji a copy of her death certificate. In truth, Margo was fine, and was unaware of the lies Jiji was being told. Around the same time, the Prime Minister assigned Margo to accompany prince Nanara to the remote Nagare Village. During the year living in Nagare, Margo cooked and cleaned for Nanara and arranged for new tutors whenever his pranks inevitably drove off his previous tutor.