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Akasuna no Sasori




Sasori, known as Sasori of the Red Sand(Akasuna no Sasori), is an S-class missing-nin from Sunagakure. Sasori left Sunagakure twenty years before his introduction, but the background to his crimes is unknown. Flashbacks seem to indicate that his descent into darkness started when his parents died, and he attempted to simulate being with them by turning their corpses into puppets (the first human puppets he ever created). Sometime after leaving the village, Sasori joined Akatsuki and was eventually paired with Orochimaru.



After Orochimaru left Akatsuki, Sasori was teamed up with Deidara, though he always carried a grudge against his former partner.

Sasori is a master of puppetry. His grandmother, Chiyo, taught him from a very early age, and he created many puppets over his lifetime. Prior to his leaving the village, Sasori created the puppets Kankuro uses throughout the series. Sasori is also a master of poisons; his poisons take effect instantly and kill the target after three days of suffering. Additionally, his poisons are practically incurable, even by Chiyo, who is herself a master of poisons. Sasori added this poison to virtually every weapon in his arsenal, making each blow potentially lethal for his opponents.



Sasori and Deidara both portray conflicting views of art, and argue frequently to that effect. Deidara holds that art is something transient that departs quickly, where as Sasori believes that fine art is something wonderful that is left long into the future. This reflects their individual natures (Deidara makes clay sculptures that explode, Sasori makes long-lasting puppets out of humans). Deidara outwardly seems to respect Sasori's beliefs, but Sasori doesn't respect Deidara's.

At the time of his death, Sasori had not yet captured his tailed beast. A short dialogue between himself and Deidara suggests that Sasori did not even know what beast he had been assigned to target. After his death, Tobi takes his place and ring in Akatsuki.




After the one-tailed Shukaku is extracted from Gaara at the Akatsuki hideout, Sasori and Deidara are left in charge of defeating the pursuing Team Kakashi. As Deidara leads half of Team Kakashi away, Sasori is left to face Sakura Haruno and Chiyo, his grandmother.


Sasori and the Third Kazekage puppetSoon after the battle begins, Sakura is able to destroy Sasori's Hiruko puppet with Chiyo's help (Chiyo controls Sakura like a puppet, having more experience in such matters). After Sasori emerges from Hiruko's remains and reveals his true self, he brings out his Third Kazekage puppet. In doing so, Chiyo realizes that Sasori was responsible for the Kazekage's disappearance years earlier, the fate of whom had remained a mystery until now. Since the Third Kazekage is a human puppet, Sasori is able to use its various Iron Sand abilities to attack and overwhelm Chiyo and Sakura. To try and combat the Kazekage, Chiyo brings out Sasori's parents, converted into puppets years earlier by Sasori. Although Chiyo has since equipped them with extra weapons, the Kazekage's abilities quickly disable the two puppets. Sakura demolishes this puppet by pretending to pass out and smashing it to pieces when it goes in for the kill.

With the loss of the Kazekage puppet, Sasori begins attacking with his own body, its puppet additions allowing him many advantages over Chiyo and Sakura. When Chiyo brings out her own ten puppets in an attempt to level the playing field, Sasori uses his Performance of a Hundred Puppets, allowing him to control ten times as many puppets as Chiyo. Since Chiyo's puppets are designed to work together, a trait lacking with all of Sasori's puppets, her puppets fare far better than his, though are eventually overwhelmed by attrition. During the battle, Sakura attempts to seal away Sasori's chakra with a special orb from one of Chiyo's puppets, but misses his heart and only catches his body.





Using the seal as a distraction, Sasori makes it appear as if she succeeded and attempts a sneak attack on Chiyo. Sakura takes the attack for Chiyo, giving Chiyo the chance to use Sasori's parent puppets to stab him through the heart in the form of a hug. As a reward to Sakura for defeating him, Sasori informs her of a spy that he has within Orochimaru's ranks (later revealed to be Kabuto Yakushi), and tells her of when and where she can meet this spy. As Sasori dies, Chiyo implies that she and Sakura did not defeat Sasori, but that he allowed himself to be defeated, choosing to die in the loving embrace of his parents



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