3rd Kazekage Human-Puppet
In the cave Chiyo was surprised seeing Sasori so young.
"It's impossible, he look as young as he did when he left the sand village," Chiyo thought.
"Now that you made it this far I'll have to use this," Sasori said taking out a scroll and opening it, "It was hard retrieving this one, but that's what it make it my favorite."
"Third," Sakura thought reading the writing on the scroll.
A puff of smoke surround Sasori as a human-puppet appeared with dark long hair and wearing a scroll.
"It can't be," Chiyo said.
"What is it Lady Chiyo?" Sakura asked.
"That's the 3rd Kazekage," Chiyo said.
"3rd Kazekage?" Sakura responded, "How's that possible?"
"It been 10 years since the third Kazekage disappeared without a single trace in the sand village, which was the same time Sasori went rogue," Chiyo said, "Now I see that the Akatsuki is now responsible for the death of the Kazekages for the third time."
"Third time?" Sakura asked.
"True that Orochimaru killed Gaara's father, the 4th Kazekage, but one thing was sure was that he was part of the Akatsuki along with Sasori," Chiyo said, "Now they kidnapped Gaara and removed the Shikaku from him, and now I see he's responsible for the third Kazekage."
"Its true I did worked with Orochimaru, but I wasn't responsible for him killing the 4th Kazekage," Sasori explained.
Sakura paid close attention about Orochimaru.
"So you know something about Orochimaru," Sakura said, "Good because I have some questions regardless to him."
"Let's get going," Sasori said.
Third Kazekage puppet dove strait toward Sakura.
Chiyo used the chakra strings to pull Sakura away from it.
Third Kazekage Puppet's arm became full of weapons soaked with poison.
Chiyo use chakra strings to pull Hiruko's tail in front of the attack.
The puppet broke the tail into pieces, but gave time for Sakura to avoid the attack.
3rd Kazekage puppet's arm slots opened with writing on it.
Hundreds of arms came out of the slot at Sakura.
When it hit the ground Sakura manage to avoid each hit with Chiyo's help.
"With grandmother controlling the girl this will never end," Sasori thought and moved his fingers.
An open pipe appeared in the arms.
"Oh no," Chiyo thought.
A cloud of poisonous gas blew out of the pipe to fast.
"Sakura hold your breath," Chiyo shouted.
"Poison," Sakura thought taking in a huge breath of air before the poisonous gas surrounded her.
Chiyo tried to pull Sakura back but it stopped cold as inside the gas cloud Sakura was tied by a rope connected to the third Kazekage puppet's arms.
"Now the girl is doom," Sasori explained.
Sakura struggled to keep holding her breath.
"I can't give up, Naruto's counting on me," Sakura thought.
Then she remembered Sasuke's headband that I gave her.
"I can't give up right now," Sakura thought taking out a kunai with a paperbomb attach.
Outside the gas cloud Chiyo was trying to go to Sakura, when suddenly there was an explosion that blew away the poison cloud.
Sakura was flying strait to Chiyo from the blast.
Chiyo saved her and hit her on the back as Sakura regain her breath.
"She use the explosion to save herself," Chiyo thought, "That was crazy."
Just then Sasuke's old headband fell out of Sakura's pouch.
"A headband?" Chiyo thought.
"Hey you," Sakura said to Sasori, "I'll take you down with everything I got, and I will get information out of you about Orochimaru."
Multiple Kunais fired from more pipes at them.
Chiyo took out two scolls and summon two puppets that look a lot like a human.
One had red hair like Sasori's representing a man, the other with long black hair representing a woman.
Sakura turned to see Chiyo holding the scrolls.
"So its them," Sasori said.
"That's right, the first two puppets you ever constructed," Chiyo said, "Mother and Father puppets."
"What's the point of summoning them, I know all their secrets?" Sasori asked.
Chiyo remembered when Sasori made mother and father puppets after his parents were killed, to fill in the missing love of his parents.
The two parent-puppets placed their hands together and separate wires were connected with each hand.
The pair puppets jumped at the 3rd Kazekage's puppet and Chiyo used them to use the wires to cut through the arms.
Sasori made the 3rd Kazekage's arm come off and summon more weapons.
Chiyo had Mother and Father puppets summon weapons as well as the three puppets went against each other.
When Sasori and Chiyo pull their puppets back Mother and Father's weapons were useless.
"Alright, let's get serious then," Sasori said making handsigns.
The third Kazekage's mouth opened and black sand came out levitating into the air.
"So the puppet can also use the 3rd's jutsu," Chiyo said.
"It been a while since people saw this jutsu, after all this is the jutsu that made the 3rd Kazekage the strongest of all the kazekages," Sasori said.
"Lady Chiyo, what is he talking about?" Sakura asked.
"Well, just as your 1st hokage was known for his wood style jutsus, and your 4th Hokage known for his flying thunder god technique, the sand's 3rd Kazekage was known for a jutsu he created based off one of the previous Shukaku's Jinchurikis, that made him the strongest of the Kazekages," Chiyo said, "The iron sand."
"Iron sand?" Sakura asked.
"Yes, you see, the 3rd Kazekage had an ability to change chakra to a magnetic force and by adding iron into his own sand he can use his power to change the shape of the sand," Chiyo explained.
"Okay, now I understand how its based off the power of a jinchuriki of the Shukaku," Sakura said, "But how can a puppet has chakra."
"Sasori is the only one who can create a human puppet that can use any jutsu the puppet was able to use when it was alive," Chiyo said.
"That's not all, that's why this puppet is my favorite," Sasori said.
"Sakura, leave here and go find your teammate and sensei," Chiyo said.
"What?" Sakura responded.
Chiyo took out Sasuke's old headband.
"The headband," Sakura said.
"It dropped out of your pouch," Chiyo said, "If you die here, what's the point of having that headband."
"Thanks but I'm staying here," Sakura said putting the headband in her pouch, "Besides I have some questions to ask Sasori about Orochimaru, whom the owner of this headband is with."
The iron sand took shape into multiple small balls.
"Iron Sand drizzle," Sasori shouted as the sand balls fired at them.
Chiyo use the mother puppet to get Sakura out of the way as the father puppet's arm slots opened.
Chakra shield formed from the slot.
"You upgraded them I see, even add a chakra shield," Sasori said, "However…"
When Chiyo tried to closed father's puppet's slots they couldn't closed due to the iron sand.
"The iron sand renders it useless now, and you were just concern with getting the little girl out of the way," Sasori said, "Now I'll aim at both of you."
The iron sand formed weapons and came right at Sakura and Chiyo.
The sand spikes struck down.
The mother puppet opened it's arm slots and summon a chakra shield for Sakura.
At the same time Chiyo apparently had a puppet arm as it opened up slots for the same chakra shield.
"We puppeteers think the same apparently," Sasori said.
Chiyo tried to close her puppet arm but it was render useless with the iron sand.
It was the same case with the mother puppet.
Chiyo was left with no other choice but remove her puppet arm.
"A puppeteer with no puppet is just a normal person," Sasori said as he used the 3rd Kazekage puppet to summon more iron sand.
The sand took form of a cube and pyramid shape weapons.
"Chiyo use me as a puppet," Sakura said.
"With only one arm, I can't support you as much as I did before, are you sure?" Chiyo asked.
"I may not have as many weapons as a puppet, but I do have the teachings of Lady Tsunade, and the experience of working with Naruto," Sakura said, "Plus, I have secret that Sasori isn't aware of."
"Very well," Chiyo said.
She use her only good arm to attach chakra strings to Sakura.
"I have to agree, having Tsunade's teachings, and experience working with a son of a former tail beast, would help, but I wander what kind of secret Sakura has," Chiyo thought.
Sakura went strait forward toward the puppet.
Sasori use the pyramid weapon to go after Sakura.
Sakura dodge every attack coming at her, but barely as the attacks hit the ceiling causing the cave to collapsed..
Just then the cube shape weapon came down on top of Sakura.
Sakura barely dodge the attack.
She got up and focused chakra into her fist as she ran forward and punch the weapon with force that send it into the wall.
"This girl," Sasori thought.
"I'm not done yet," Sakura said.
Far from Sakura's battle Kakashi and I kept going after Deidara.
"Kakashi-sensei, I hope you have a way to stop this guy without harming Gaara, because at this rate I won't be able to hit him with the Rasengan, even with the teleportation Jutsu," I said.
"I do, but it requires a jutsu that I created during the time you were with Master Jiriaya," Kakashi said.
"I'm listening," I responded.
Back at what was left of the hide out Sakura caught her breath.
"Incredible, in a short amount of time this girl is already reading Sasori's movements," Chiyo thought.
Sakura remembered something from Tsunade's training.
(A/N: Just for this flashback it'll be 100% in normal POV)
…Flashback…
Tsunade and Sakura were having the private lesson Tsunade promised.
"Sakura, we're going to work on reading my movements, incase you're in a dangerous battle, you know why?" Tsunade asked.
"Because it's part of having to be able to defend myself as well as others, so that I can help heal my comrades, without worrying about being harm myself," Sakura said.
"That's right," Tsunade said, "Lets say if your opponent is Naruto, who can use a plain teleportation jutsu, and you need to help a comrade, unless you can tell where Naruto would teleport to, you'll be struck down before you can reach anyone injured."
"Right," Sakura understood.
"Now, I'll be coming at you with multiple attacks, and you must read my attacks," Tsunade explained.
…End of Flashback…
"I spend so much time learning how to read movements, and now its finally paying off," Sakura thought, "And this is simple considering a puppeteer's weakness is that they move their fingers before attacking."
Sasori moved his fingers and made the sand become an endless web of spikes going everywhere.
Chiyo tried to help and Sakura manage to evade fatal attacks but she still came out of it with cuts from the attack.
"Sakura are you alright?" Chiyo asked.
Sakura swayed alittle which confirmed her fear.
"Of course, you poisoned the iron sand," Chiyo said,
"Here's my chance," Sakura thought collapsing.
"The poison paralyzes the body, she would have had three days to live," Sasori said, "Ashame I won't allow it."
Sasori had the 3rd Kazekage puppet attack Sakura as he said that with a blade from its arm.
Suddenly Sakura got up and punch the 3rd Kazekage puppet into pieces with a chakra charge punch, surprising Sasori and Chiyo.
Sakura headed toward Chiyo.
"Are you okay?" Sakura asked.
"Yes, but how is it the poison isn't affecting you?" Chiyo asked.
"Because of this," Sakura said taking out the remaining antidotes in injection form.
"Is that?" Chiyo asked.
"The same antidote I made for Kankaro," Sakura said, "I was able to make three extra, knowing we might have to fight Sasori and deal with his poison, and made them in injection form."
"Then you used one of the three on yourself," Chiyo said, "So that means, this was the secret you were talking about?"
"Yeah, and it gives whoever it injects into a temporary immunity to the poison for three minutes," Sakura said, "You can use it now for that immunity, or save it in case you get poisoned as well, either way it'll leave us with one left."
"Right, I'll save mine then," Chiyo said taking one, "Lets take the three minutes we have to win this."
Next Time: Sasori reveal himself as a self human partner and summons 100 puppets that he can control with his puppet body. Chiyo summons 10 of her puppets and Sakura with her to help. But with only 3 minutes of immunity, can they win this battle? Read to Find Out...