Takeo led Naruto and Sasuke down to the library. Sure enough Sakura was there checking out some books. She quickly gasped and looked up when she saw them running towards her. "Naruto?" she questioned widening her eyes. "What are you guys doing here?" she asked when suddenly Takeo barked. "No dogs in the library." The librarian said but Naruto wasn't paying attention to her. "Listen sis I need to talk to you!" Naruto exclaimed as someone hushed him loudly from behind. "I'm sorry he's been acting like this all morning." Sasuke apologized. "Listen your children are in danger." Naruto told her.
"I know." Sakura answered looking down at the carpet trying to hide the fact that she had never been more frightened in her life. "What do you mean? You're not saying that Naruto's actually right are you?" her husband questioned her before she took a deep breath. "Yes he is. Why else would I be in the library checking out books about Orochimaru's family?" she asked him. "Wait a minute, I thought that Akuma and Hebi were his only children." He said. "That's because they are." She began. "The girl that has been robbing the graves in the hidden sand village is their cousin Mari." She explained. "And if she gets ahold of the kids she'll take them back to them and they'll kill them." She added.
"Wait does Konohamaru know about this and how did you guys find out about it?" Sasuke asked. "Well Naruto is the hokage so it's probably because he's required to know about stuff like this. As for me, well since the triplets are so highly valuable and powerful I made a promise to myself to research about every mission that they're scheduled to go on." She told him. "Listen Sakura, you have to stop worrying yourself sick about them. I'm sure that Konohamaru wouldn't take them on any mission that he thought that they couldn't handle. And besides their Uchiha they aren't going to let a simple mortal like Mari to catch them." Sasuke said.
"Just tell me one thing, if Mari is their cousin then why does she live in the hidden sand village?" he asked. "Cause she was banished there with the rest of her family, which is another reason she would want to try and capture the triplets, to redeem herself." She said. "Well what did she do that was so bad?" Naruto asked her. "Well you see Orochimaru was abandoned when he was a baby, somebody had just left him behind on top of somebody's doorstep. So they took him in and his adopted older brother Kou became his guardian after his parents died." She explained.
"I never knew that Orochimaru was adopted like me." Naruto said. "Or that he had a brother." Sasuke added. "But what does any of that have to do with Mari?" he asked his wife. "Well you see Orochimaru and Kou were sort of like you and Itachi were when you were both younger. That is until Orochimaru started becoming evil and started on his quest to becoming immortal. After that Kou didn't want anything to do with him, so he moved away to the hidden sand village with the rest of his family. That's when years later Ororchimaru married and had children of his own so he could produce heirs to his thrown in case someday he would fail his quest. Luckily for him, one was born immortal anyway." She explained.
"Hebi." Naruto realized. "And she looked up to her older brother more than anyone else. That's when their own parents did to them what their grandparents did to their father. They abandoned them. Then Orochimaru murdered his own wife because he thought that she got in the way of his plans for immortality, even though that Sasuke and Itachi eventually killed him anyway." She said. "I don't understand how somebody can just abandon their own children and kill their own wife when they're supposed to love them forever." Naruto said. "I know, but unfortunately not everybody thinks like us. I mean there was a time when I would be willing to hurt and even kill the ones I cared about just so I could keep my lust for revenge." Sasuke told him.
"Yeah but at least you aren't like that anymore." Naruto began. "I know you wouldn't hurt anybody now." He said. "Unless they tried to threaten you or Sakura or the kids." Sasuke said. "So anyway, what happened next?" Naruto asked his sister. "Well you see Kou had a daughter and named her Mari. When she was old enough he told her all about his relationship that he used to have with his brother, until he betrayed him and went behind his back falling in love with the girl that he was about to marry. Even though Mari loved her mother, she also loved her father and decided then and there that she would find a way to seek out her revenge on her evil uncle." She said when suddenly silence fell over top of them. "And that's when she met Akuma."
Next Time On Naruto The Next Generation; We Finally Discover Why Akuma Wears A Red Mask On The Side Of His Face.