Well, here is the new chapter. I hope you enjoy it.

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The air was tense; Ino could even sense the anger emanating from Naruto as he shouted, "Gaara, what are you doing? Get up!"

But Gaara had not moved at all, nor has he responded to Naruto's voice. Ino watched on in worry for him, because she couldn't sense Gaara's chakra signature anymore.

Naruto shouted again, "Gaara why are you sleeping at a time like this? Get up, Gaar…!"

"Naruto! That's enough; even you should know that it's already too late. Besides, I can't sense Shukaku in him anymore," Kurama said in his mind.

Naruto looked disheartened and he sent a glare towards the pair. Then he shouted, "You give Gaara back!"

He had pulled out a scroll from his back pouch and summoned a large shuriken and threw it at them. But then it got deflected by Sasori; who didn't even look in their direction.

Ino looked surprised as she thought, "No way, he didn't even bother to look in our direction."

"Deidara, you're making me angry; you already captured your jinchūriki," Sasori hissed.

"Well, I'll be going now, Master Sasori, I'll leave the others to you," Deidara said, completely ignoring him.

Deidara then created a clay bird, jumped on it and flew off with Gaara. This caused Naruto to run off after him, shouting, "You bastard, give Gaara back!"

"Naruto!" Kakashi shouted.

Then he told the others, "Naruto and I will take the guy outside, I'll leave him to you three."

"Right, got it," Ino replied.

Then Kakashi took off after Naruto to help him. Ino looked over at Sasori and he stared at the three of them intently. This stare caused Ino to have shivers run down her spine

"This feeling is intense; there is a huge difference in battle experience. I can tell that he has killed so many people," Ino thought in her head.

She swallowed hard and it seemed that felt the same terror form Sasori's stare.

Then Elder Chiyo said to them, "Ino, Sakura, don't be afraid. He only has a great deal more experience than you two. That's why I'm here; I'll fight him myself."

Then Ino and Sakura watched as Elder Chiyo put both of her hands in her sleeves and pulled out kunai, making them float with chakra strings.

Then she shouted, "Sou Shuu Jin!"

The kunai were shot towards Sasori, only for him to deflect them with the tail. But she controlled them enough to rip through the robe he was wearing.

Then they heard him say, "Well, since it's you I'll have no choice."

The robe fell off his body to reveal, a large face on his back where the tail was twitching from it's mouth.

Sasori was on all fours as he hissed, "Will you be added to my collection along with those brats, Grandma Chiyo?"

Ino was surprised to see such a form and asked, "What is that?"

"That is not Sasori's true form," Chiyo answered with a grim expression on her face.

Sakura asked with confusion, "What do you mean?"

Chiyo replied, "That is a puppet; puppet masters have a weakness of close combat since they fight at a distance. That puppet was made to use as an advantage. That puppet is called Hiruko; a person that was previously from our village. I remember it's mechanisms well."

Then Sasori interrupted, "Do you know how I add to my collection? First I tear out the organs. Once I've washed it clean, I drain all the blood. After I've made sure it won't decay I fill it with weapons and traps, and make its addition official. Just as Grandma said, Hiruko is part of my collection. And with you two and Grandma Chiyo, I'll have exactly 301 puppets in my collection! This is my art!"

Elder Chiyo then had an amused look on her face and said, "Art, huh? Sassori has always been considered a genius of creating puppets. But his real interest was transforming humans into puppets. As I have said, Hiruko was once a shinobi of our village. Sasori turned him into what you see before you. Puppets that have maintained their original form are called human puppets."

Sasori positioned himself to attack as Chiyo continued, "Hiruko is a battle-type puppet; we have to separate it from Sasori. Unfortunately, I don't have the physical strength to smash it. But Sakura has Princess Tsunade's infamous brute strength. In order for this to work, both of you must dodge his attacks because the attacks have poison in them. When Sakura gets close enough she'll smash Hiruko. Now lend me your ears both of you."

She had taken off her headband and let her hair loose. Then she whispered to both Ino and Sakura as they listened intently.

Sassori was getting impatient as they finished and he said, "You're finally ready? You know how I hate to wait."

"Relax! Soon we will defeat you!" Chiyo shouted back as she Ino and Sakura dashed towards Sasori.

Ino and Sakura had kunai in their hands, ready to attack. Sasori ripped off the mask Hiruko was wearing and senbons needles shot out of its mouth. Chiyo, Ino and Sakura had dodged all of them; the result was they had been left without a single scratch.

Sasori then thought, "Fine, if they dodged that, let's try this."

Then he launched the left arm with wooden poles protruding out of it. It shot off like a bullet and the wooden poles shot out of it as well and split in two, producing more senbon needles laced with poison. Only for them to dodge them as well and senbon needles wasted.

"They dodged that too? Forget Grandma Chiyo, but these two brats as well?" Sasori thought while thoroughly confused.

Then as Chiyo and Ino stood back, Sakura rushed forward ready to attack.

Then Sasori thought, "Why? Grandma Chiyo and the blonde girl have stopped moving. Now this brat is charging in head first. She is underestimating me, her mistake."

Sakura threw a kunai at Sasori but he simply deflected it with the tail and had shot it towards Sakura only for the tail to stop an inch from Sakura.

"What?! It won't move!"Sasori thought until realization sunk in, "Now I see! Grandma!"

Chiyo then shouted, "Now Sakura! Crush it!"

Then Sakura punched Hiruko with all her strength and it was smashed to pieces. As it broke, a cloaked figure jumped out of the way, jumping a good distance away.

"So you finally come out Sasori," Chiyo said.

Ino asked from behind her, "Is that Sasori's true form?"

"I've come all this way to see my little grandson's face. It's been about twenty years since I've seen you," Chiyo continued.

Ino watched the cloaked figure twitch his fingers causing Hiruko's head to move which activated another round of senbon needles to be shot out of the head towards Sakura. Chiyo moved her hands at the same time as Sakura dodged the needles.

"As I thought, just what I'd expect from my Grandma. No wonder those two girls dodged my attacks so easily. You were controlling the two of them with chakra strings so you could make them dodge them. Also, you secretly put some on Hiruko's tail. But for me not to have noticed until I was unable to move the tail, you must have done it when you first attacked with those kunai. You transferred the chakra strings connected to the kunai onto the tail as I blocked them," Sasori said but not in the deep raspy voice but a deep clear voice.

"Impressive, considering that I suppressed the chakra flow to the point of making the threads invisible," Chiyo praised.

Sasori replied, "It wasn't hard. After all, you're the one who taught me how to play with puppets."

Chiyo retorted, "But the games end today."

Sasori reached for the cloak over his head and started to pull it off, "That's the plan, but do you think it will be that simple, Grandma Chiyo?"

When he pulled off the cloak, he revealed himself to have red hair, half-lidded brown eyes and tan skin but he looked about Ino and Sakura's age, about fifteen.

Chiyo was shocked; she exclaimed, "He looks the same, he hasn't aged at all."

Ino thought to herself, "What's going on? Elder Chiyo said he left the village twenty years ago. How is he so young?"

Outside of the cave, Deidara was still hovering over them and Naruto was angrier than ever.

Kakashi thought, "They have begun fighting, I wish I knew what was going on, but…"

Naruto shouted, "Give Gaara back, you bastard!"

"Naruto calm down, he only wants to rile you up. If he flies away, chase after him and use the new jutsu you worked on. But you need to get closer," Kurama explained in his head.

Naruto calmed down a little but he was still angry enough for it to be not a façade.

Deidara replied to Naruto, "It's only a matter of time before Master Sasori defeats the three inside."

Then he took off, leaving Naruto to shout, "You son of a bitch, you're dead!"

"Naruto stop!" Kakashi shouted.

"Kakashi-Sensei, Kurama and I have an idea; you take care of Ino and Sakura-chan!"

Kakashi then ran after Naruto and contacted Guy, "Guy what is happening on your end?"

With Guy and his team,

They were each fighting clones of themselves but they were having difficulties.

He replied, "Sorry Kakashi, I'm having a bit of trouble. Give us more time,"

Kakashi then thought, "Then we won't have backup for a while. Ino, Sakura, Elder Chiyo, hold on a bit longer."

So as they were chasing after Deidara, Ino, Elder Chiyo and Sakura were up against Sasori's next puppet. He revealed that the puppet was The Third Kazekage and Chiyo was outraged.

"That is unforgiveable, you turned the Third Kazekage into a human puppet. You have also attacked the Kazekage Gaara as well that Orochimaru killed Gaara's father the Fourth Kazekage," Chiyo said in contempt.

Sasori calmly stated, "It is true that Orochimaru was my original Akatsuki partner and we have accomplished a lot together but that doesn't mean I was involved in his schemes."

Ino gasped but then her lips formed a frown and then she walked forward, she spoke to him, "You must know a lot about Orochimaru then. My friend and I have a lot of questions for you and you will answer them."

She stopped right by Sakura's side and they both looked fiercely at him

But he brushed off their glares and replied, "Sorry little girl, I don't have time to answer questions, not when I have to catch that jinchūriki. So let's do this."

He sent in the Third Kazekage to attack but Chiyo pulled Ino and Sakura away but it was coming up fast with blades and Chiyo defended the both of them with Hiruko's tail. But then he tried to trap them with hundreds of puppet hands only it didn't work; Ino and Sakura dodged those too.

"Then I'll use my best attacks to kill you two first," Sasori said with venom.

"You can try all you want, we will defeat you and you will answer our questions!" Ino shouted.

In answer to that, Sasori simply attacked them but then both were protected from the attack. Suddenly, they were pulled back behind two figures.

"A man should listen quietly when a woman speaks to him," Chiyo said as she held two scrolls with smoke coming from the inside of them.

"Oh, it's those two huh?" Sasori asked.

Chiyo replied, "Yes, these are the very first puppets you had created, The Father and The Mother."

The two puppets that protected Ino and Sakura stood together blocking any other attack that may come. One was built to look like a man with red hair and was tall, the other was a woman with long brown hair and a short stature.

"Are those… Sasori's parents?" Ino questioned to herself.

"What do you plan to do with those two? I created them; so I know what they can do and what mechanisms they have. You can't expect to win, Grandma," Sasori stated.

"Maybe not, but I've made a lot of mistakes in the past and I regret a lot of decisions. But I'm here to correct the one thing I regret most; letting my grandson become a criminal," Chiyo declared.

She continued, "Ino, Sakura stay back, I'll handle him."

Ino and Sakura got behind Chiyo and watched as the two puppet masters got ready for battle, wondering who will be victorious in the end.

AN: I kind of changed a little bit of the battle sequence, and I know they are little changes. Ino will be able to participate in this fight but in her own way in the next part.

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