Sasori snuck into the Kazekage's room and saw it was everything the rumours said it would be. It was absolutely huge. Sasori couldn't believe how many hiding spots were available for him and his weapons. It wouldn't be long now; he needed to set up as many preparations as possible. He found just the right place for himself. It was hidden from sight, but it wasn't an obvious hiding spot. He hoped that because he was a puppet user, the Kazekage might assume he was far away. He got in, the spot was even better than he imagined. He could blend himself in with his surroundings and see the whole battlefield so he could use any of his puppets at any given time. Sasori waited for a long time, it seemed longer than what it actually was before finally the doors to the room opened. Sasori watched as the Kazekage entered the room, unaware that he was very close to being assassinated. Sasori could feel the excitement within him, he felt like jumping up and attacking now and in that moment of excitement he wasn't concentrating and the Kazekage sensed his presence. He didn't turn around, but remained where he was, "For an assassin trying to kill the best ninja in this village, you are not masking your intent to kill very well at all. I am sure you are already aware of the risk of what you are doing right now as to how many have tried to kill me. I am the Kazekage of Sunakagure for a reason." Finally after waiting and planning, their match had finally begun.

Sasori sent Hiruko out first, hoping to maybe soften the Kazekage's guard. The Kazekage could only see a figure in front of him and he began getting black sand swirling up and circling his body. It truly was an intimidating sight. It wasn't until Hiruko got closer that the Kazekage recognised him. "Hiruko old friend. Surely it is not you that wishes to kill me?" When Hiruko didn't say anything, the Kazekage knew it wasn't him. "So there is an impostor in here?"

Hiruko was standing in front of the Kazekage and Sasori had began controlling his bladed puppet which was sneaking up from behind the Kazekage. He didn't know whether the Kazekage had done it on purpose to give him a false sense of security, or if it was unintentional-but it looked like it was going to end there and then. The bladed puppet swung the sword connected to its hand at the head of the Kazekage who was only just able to duck underneath it. It had forced him to the floor and left him no chance of evading from both sides and the puppet swung the sword down in a chopping action with as much force as Sasori could put into it. There was however still a defence it couldn't penetrate. The Kazekage gathered as much Iron Sand as possible to create a blanket of protection from the sword which it couldn't penetrate. Sasori made his puppet retreat and wasn't disappointed as this attack was about data gathering and seeing how well the Kazekage could use his techniques for offence and defence. Now that he had gathered a little, he could begin to use combinations. Before he could begin though, he heard the Kazekage say something, "Sasori!" It was enough to stop him for a second, he had figured out rather quickly it was him. "There are not many puppet users left in Sunakagure and Chiyo would never do something like this. That leaves you, her grandson and the heir to the puppet techniques. It has been you that has been killing your own kinsmen. I will not try and reason with you as you have made your choice, but I must admit you are showing some talents I haven't heard of yet. It is a shame they will not get a chance to develop."

This only spurred Sasori on more as he waited for a moment and manipulated one of his other puppets to come out. It wasn't his best craftwork, but this puppet had a purpose. The Kazekage looked at it and Sasori could have sworn there was a trace of a smile on his lips. The puppet leant forward and opened its mouth and started blowing purple gas towards the Kazekage. As the gas came towards the opponent, he backed off knowing very well what it was. He knew before he could do anything, he had to get out of the way of the gas and as he backtracked he just noticed some darts coming towards him. He was able to avoid them and noticed that the darts also had poison dripping off the end of them. Opponents like this were troublesome, every single weapon was poisonous and meant he had to completely avoid them otherwise he was done for.

Sasori was only beginning to show his planning and chain attacks and mixing gas with long distant techniques were quite effective in troubling an opponent. It was only since the Kazekage thought this that he realised there would be one more thing to make this a perfect plan which enabled him to be ready for it. Gas attack, with long distant attacks followed up by a close range attack was what he thought of and he knew the bladed puppet would once again be used to come in close and try to finish him off. Such complicated movements being shown, the Kazekage was forced to use his iron sand to hold off the bladed puppet-but found himself almost swamped by the poisonous gas. The gas enveloped over the Kazekage and was so thick it temporarily blocked him from view. Sasori looked down and marvelled over his plan even though he knew it wasn't enough. The plan in the beginning was for the gas to be the proper weapon. The other attacks were only distractions so he couldn't use the iron sand as protection from the gas until it was too late.

From out of the gas, iron sand came sweeping out, knocking down his bladed puppet and his gas puppet to the ground. It was his escape plan and because he couldn't see outside the gas, it was his way of ensuring his escape route and making sure it was safe to come out. Soon enough he came back into view, and looked unaffected by the gas. "Your gas cannot hurt me; I have a no fail strategy when you use it." The Kazekage was in an area untouched by the gas and knew that it was very possible; Sasori was very close to him right now. The Kazekage hadn't been in a battle like this for sometime and his opponent was very skilled. He knew very well Chiyo didn't know his full talent otherwise she would have expressed her concern sooner. He had planned this thoroughly and was starting to really recognise him as a ninja. However, it was time to begin using some of his own techniques. He swelled up as much iron sand as he could. It circled him and moved around him in a prime position to be used for defence or offence. He raised both hands in the air, "You are hiding Sasori and I will find you." The sand moved out from him and swept across the room. It was the Kazekage's way of clean sweeping the entire place looking for the puppeteer. Sasori made his long range puppet begin firing once again at the Kazekage who could easily block them while still using his attack, "This only means I am getting closer to you Sasori and you are becoming desperate." Sasori made his bladed puppet and gas puppet come out again and the Kazekage already had a way to mobilise them. "Don't you think you are relying too much on these same puppets of yours Sasori?" All puppet users were not good in close combat, which was why the Kazekage had to make it one quickly. He used his iron sand to take the form of the Kazekage as a sand clone. It was fast, and incredibly strong. It was directly able to take the attacks of the bladed puppet and be hit with poisonous darts of the long range puppet. Sasori made his gas puppet spit out more gas towards the Kazekage who didn't move. Sasori watched to see how come he wasn't affected by it. When the gas cleared, the Kazekage was standing there with an iron sand face mask covering his mouth and nose. This is why he could easily stand within the gas; none was getting through at all. Indeed he was a formidable enemy and Sasori found himself wanting to end things even though he was having a lot of fun in this fight.

Sasori wanted to try this chain attack to see if it would work. He used his long range puppet to fire some kunai at the real Kazekage, which the sand clone was able to stand in front of. Sasori charged his bladed puppet at the Kazekage which was also met by the sand clone. The final distraction had been set, the Kazekage had felt no need to defend any more from the gas puppet because of the face mask and he charged his gas puppet in, which was now beginning to leak red fumes from all the joints in the body. Sasori set off the special acid poison which was lying dormant in the body of the puppet to take out the enemy. This acid gas was so strong it didn't even need to be breathed in; it would burn his skin severely to the point of death. The puppet melted under the extreme amount of acid coursing through it and a red cloud puffed out around the Kazekage. Sasori bought his bladed puppet back out of the way of the gas so it wouldn't be destroyed-it still had use. Sasori couldn't see the Kazekage and wondered if he had any way of avoiding this technique at all.