Sasori (RW109)

Sasori
Alive Reanimated
Alias(es)	Sasori of the Red Sand (赤砂のサソリ, Akasuna no Sasori), Genius Modeling Specialist of the Puppet Brigade (傀儡部隊の天才造形師, Kugutsu Butai no Tensai Zōkeishi, English TV: The Legendary Master Craftsman of the Puppet Corps)
Kanji	サソリ
Debut
Novel	Naruto: A Shinobi Story
Appears in	Novel
Character Status
Status	Deceased
Birthdate	November 8
Age	Part II: 35
Gender	Male
Height	Part II: 1.64 m
Weight	Part II: 47.3 kg.
Blood Type	AB
Family	(Father) (Mother) Chiyo (Grandmother) Ebizō (Granduncle)
Affiliation(s)	Akatsuki
Previous Affiliation(s)	Sunagakure
Classification	S-rank Missing-Nin
Ninja Registration	33-001
Academy Grad. Age	7
Chūnin Prom. Age	8
Team	Puppet Brigade Surprise Attack and Diversion Platoon
Partner(s)	Komushi Orochimaru Deidara
Jutsu
Kekkei Genkai Techniques: Iron Sand Drizzle, Iron Sand Gathering Assault, Iron Sand World Method, Iron Sand: Black Iron Wings, Sand Clone Sealing Technique: Memory-Concealing Manipulative Sand Technique Puppet Techniques: Prepared Puppet: Eight Waves of Needles, Puppet Technique, Puppet Technique: Prosthetic Arm Senbon, Red Secret Technique: Performance of a Hundred Puppets, Thousand Hands Manipulation Force
Weaponry
Flamethrower, Hiruko, Iron Sand, Kama, Karasu, Komushi, Kuroari, Mother and Father, Poison, Puppet Buzzsaw, Sand, Sanshōuo, Sasori, Senbon, Sword, Water Stream Shooters

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Sasori (サソリ), renowned as Sasori of the Red Sand (赤砂のサソリ, Akasuna no Sasori), was an S-rank missing-nin from Sunagakure’s Puppet Brigade and a member of Akatsuki, where he was partnered with Orochimaru and later Deidara.

Background

Personality

Appearance

Abilities

Sasori creates a sand clone through his puppet Hiruko.

Sasori was a very powerful shinobi, being able to, with effort, defeat and kill the Third Kazekage, the strongest ninja in Suna’s history. His use of his puppets was greatly feared throughout the Third Shinobi World War as he turned the sand red with blood, giving him the nickname, “Sasori of the Red Blood”. His legacy was such that Kankurō knew of and feared him despite being born after Sasori already left the village. Deidara himself even admitted that Sasori was the stronger of the two of them.

Puppet Mastery

Sasori using Red Secret Technique: Performance of a Hundred Puppets.

Trained by his powerful grandmother, Chiyo, in the art of puppetry, Sasori was an extremely powerful puppeteer and had great skill in creating and controlling his puppets. He created many ingenious ones including the three main puppets that Kankurō uses, which were made in Sunagakure before he fled. At the time of his final battle with Sakura and Chiyo, Sasori had 298 human puppets in his collection. His status as a puppet master offered him a tremendous advantage against other puppeteer shinobi, especially if the puppets they were using happened to be ones that he created, as seen in his battle against Kankurō. As puppets are usually installed with long-range weapons, Sasori was an expert at fighting long distances. He had tremendous skill with chakra threads, suppressing them to the point that they became invisible, and he could control upwards of 100 puppets — a feat thought impossible for ordinary shinobi. His usage of puppets was at such a high level that he made mere techniques appear as an artistic performance, which he called his “Red Secret Technique”.

Human Puppetry

Main article: Human PuppetSasori’s puppets were unique in that they were made from the still-living bodies of humans. These human puppets were more versatile than regular puppets, since, in addition to having many dangerous devices installed within them (as is common with regular puppets), they were also able to use chakra and perform any techniques or kekkei genkai that they possessed during their life. Being the developer of this form of puppets, Sasori is also the only one who knows how to create them.

Hiruko

Main article: Hiruko (Puppet)

Sasori’s puppet armor: Hiruko.

In the anime, Hiruko is said to have been a human puppet from a once famous Sunagakure shinobi that Sasori converted upon death. Hiruko was Sasori’s eleventh puppet, and used as both a weapon and armour. Having worn the puppet, Hiruko served as a means to eliminate the puppeteer’s weakness of being a separate and exposed target. Never having to leave from within the puppet, Sasori managed to use his techniques through it, such as the Sand Clone and chakra threads. Hiruko had a long mechanical, scorpion-like tail (an allusion to Sasori’s name meaning “scorpion”) extending from the mouth of what appeared to be a demon mask on its back, of which Chiyo said was a recent addition by Sasori to act as an extra defense to a weak point in the puppet. The tail worked as Hiruko’s main offensive weapon and was laced with Sasori’s specialty poison. The tail could also be used defensively by spinning around Hiruko’s body at a rapid speed. Hiruko’s left arm was also rigged with a projectile launcher capable of firing poisoned shrapnel and needles, and its mouth could also be used to serve a similar function of firing poisoned needles.

As Hiruko was one of his favorite puppets, Sasori adorned it in Akatsuki attire for nearly the entirety of his tenure in the organization. Because of this, only certain members like Orochimaru, Deidara, or relatives like Chiyo knew Sasori’s true face while others like Zetsu and Kabuto had no idea that Hiruko was not his actual body. While within Hiruko, Sasori maintains the ability to see through the puppet’s eyes and speak through it in a deeper and hoarser voice.

Third Kazekage

Main article: Third Kazekage (puppet)

The Third Kazekage as Sasori’s puppet.

Sasori’s favorite human puppet was the Third Kazekage, which retained its Magnet Release, which in turn grants Sasori access to the Iron Sand techniques. When mixed with Sasori's poison, the Iron Sand was given a more lethal edge. The Iron Sand could also be used to fill up the joints of other puppets, thus immobilising them. Due to the Iron Sand being derived from the Third’s ability to convert chakra to magnetism, this grants Sasori immunity from metallic weapons. The Third’s puppet’s right arm held several poisoned blades, while the left arm could open up to reveal several summoning seals that summoned thousands of similar arms to attack the target. These arms were capable of crushing an opponent, emitting poisonous gas clouds, and releasing wires that dragged the opponent into the gas cloud. If these arms were cut off, a small buzzsaw took their place.

Puppet Body

Main article: Sasori (puppet)

Sasori’s puppet body.

The only living part left of Sasori: his “core of living flesh”.

Intelligence

Repeatedly, Sasori has demonstrated to be a highly analytical and cunning man, able to handle situations with various traps and misdirection. He is also shown to quickly determine his opponent’s strengths and combat methods. Like his grandmother, Sasori has a great knowledge of the human body, as shown by his brainwashing technique and his mastery over creating different types of poisons. His unique poisons, that he laced nearly every weapon in his arsenal with, took effect instantly, and one such poison could kill the target after three days of suffering; according to Sakura, this poison is refined with heavy metals, which intrude the muscles and destroy healthy cells. This poison was so complex that Sasori himself acknowledged that no one in Sunagakure could counter it and believed its complexity made it incurable altogether; however, to his surprise, Sakura came up with a successful antidote for the poison; Sasori even noted that creating the antidote requires extreme precision, with no room for failure, something difficult even for himself.

Part I

Sasuke Recovery Mission

Main article: Naruto: A Shinobi Story/Sasuke Recovery MissionAt the end of Part I, Sasori made a cameo appearance as a silhouette during the Akatsuki gathering where they discussed Orochimaru’s taking of Sasuke Uchiha, as well as the capturing of the Nine-Tails and the furthering of their plans.

Part II

Kazekage Rescue Mission

Main article: Naruto: A Shinobi Story/Kazekage Rescue Mission

Sasori and Deidara traveling to Suna to capture Gaara.

At the start of Part II, Sasori, hidden in his puppet, Hiruko, returned to his former village, Sunagakure, with Deidara to capture the One-Tailed Shukaku’s jinchūriki, and Fifth Kazekage, Gaara. Both the Akatsuki members easily penetrated Suna’s defenses, as the village was betrayed by one of Sasori’s own subordinates, Yūra. After Deidara captured Gaara, the Kazekage’s elder brother, Kankurō, attempted to stop the Akatsuki duo from fleeing. But Sasori confronted him so that Deidara could go on ahead unopposed and made quick work of Kankurō, poisoning and nearly killing him, and easily destroying his puppets, as he had preexisting knowledge of their secrets. After the Akatsuki members extracted and sealed the One-Tailed Shukaku from Gaara at the Akatsuki hideout, Sasori and Deidara were left in charge by their leader of defeating the pursuing Team 7 and Sasori’s grandmother, Chiyo. As Deidara led Naruto Uzumaki and Kakashi Hatake away using Gaara’s dead body as bait, Sasori was left to face Sakura Haruno and his grandmother Chiyo.

Sasori using the Third Kazekage, Sōta, and his ability, the Iron Sand.

Soon after the battle began, with Chiyo assisting Sakura with the Mother and Father, Sakura was able to destroy Sasori’s puppet, Hiruko. As Sasori emerged from Hiruko’s remains and revealed his true self, Chiyo and Sakura were shocked to see his youthful face, considering that he had left Sunagakure over twenty years ago, yet looked so young. Not wasting any time, however, Sasori brought out his Third Kazekage puppet, who he revealed to be his favorite, as the Kazekage puppet was hardest to kill and add to his collection. Since the Third Kazekage was a human puppet, Sasori was able use its various Iron Sand abilities to attack and overwhelm Chiyo and Sakura. To try and combat the Kazekage, Chiyo brought out the first puppets Sasori ever created Mother and Father. Although Chiyo had since equipped them with extra weapons and defenses, Sōta’s puppet’s Iron Sand quickly disabled the two puppets, and Chiyo’s as well. Acting on her own, Sakura demolished the Kazekage puppet after picking up on its movements and using herself as bait to lower Sasori’s guard.

Sasori attacking Sakura and Chiyo.

With the loss of the Kazekage puppet, Sasori revealed the reason behind his young look: his own human puppet body, which itself was fitted with numerous weapons and traps laced with poison. Sakura eventually managed to break apart his puppet body, but missed his core, allowing him to reassemble himself. Chiyo then brought out her own ten puppets in an attempt to level the playing field. Sasori used his Red Secret Technique: Performance of a Hundred Puppets, allowing him to control ten times as many puppets as Chiyo. Since Chiyo’s puppets were designed to work together, a trait lacking with all of Sasori's puppets, her puppets fared far better than his, although they were eventually overwhelmed by Sasori’s sheer numbers. During the battle, Chiyo attempted to seal Sasori’s chakra with a special orb from one of her puppets but missed his core — the only living part of his body and the source of his chakra — and only trapped his puppet body. As Chiyo and Sakura were distracted by his summoned puppets, Sasori was revealed to have transferred the cylindrical container housing his core, into another one of his own puppets, possessing his face’s likeness, before the seal nailed his original body to a wall.

Sasori dying in the embrace of his “parents”.

Using the seal as a distraction, Sasori, in his new puppet body, attempted a sneak attack on Chiyo; however, Sakura took the sword's attack from Sasori for Chiyo. Sasori’s katana pierced Sakura’s abdomen, and since the blade itself was coated in poison, Sasori stated that she would either succumb to the poison or bleed to death. As Sasori prepared to attack again, it gave Chiyo a chance to use Mother and Father to stab him through his core in the form of an embrace. As Chiyo ran to Sakura’s almost lifeless body, she began to try and heal her, to which Sasori, even in his dying state, laughed in amusement at her seemingly senile attempt to save Sakura, stating that it was far too late for any form of medical ninjutsu. When Chiyo revealed the true nature of her technique, Sasori believed it impossible until Sakura awoke.

Before dying, as a reward to Sakura for defeating him, Sasori informed her of a spy that he had within his former Akatsuki partner, Orochimaru’s, ranks, and told her to meet him ten days from then at noon at the Tenchi Bridge. When Sasori died, Chiyo implied that Sasori could have avoided her last attack, but for some reason he chose not to.

Fourth Shinobi World War (Arc)

Main article: Naruto: A Shinobi Story/Fourth Shinobi World War (Arc)

Sasori reincarnated, alongside other Akatsuki members.

Assigned to the Surprise Attack and Diversion Platoon, Sasori was tasked with disrupting the Allied Shinobi Forces by raiding the enemy, as the Fourth Shinobi World War commenced. After discerning that Akatsuki had fallen with only Zetsu, and his replacement, Tobi remaining, their group mobilized atop Deidara’s clay birds, where they pursue the three remaining members of the Infiltration and Reconnaissance Party.

Sasori prepares to confront the Surprise Attack Division.

Sasori is freed from the Impure World Reincarnation.

Legacy

The symbol Sasori placed on the puppets he created.

At the time of his death, Sasori had not yet captured his assigned tailed beast. A short dialogue between himself and Deidara suggested that Sasori did not even know what beast he had been assigned to target; however, after his death, Tobi took his place as Deidara’s new partner and his ring in Akatsuki, and, later, he captured the Three-Tails, thereby suggesting that the beast was Sasori’s target.
Due to the preservation of his body, however, Sasori’s influence on future events was not over with his death. Prior to the events at the Five Kage Summit, Kankurō recovered Sasori’s body, to replace his usual puppets. It seems that some modifications have been made to his body since Sasori’s death, although it is unknown if certain mechanisms were previously installed but were not shown prior to Sasori’s death. Using the Sasori puppet to fight the reincarnated Sasori, Kankurō manages to give Sasori closure by stating he achieved his immortality through all the puppets he made.

Trivia

• The name “Sasori” (蠍) means “scorpion”.
• Sasori had the same birth date as Masashi Kishimoto.
• Additionally, his birth date, November 8, makes Sasori’s Western astrological sign Scorpio, the scorpion. His alias of the Red Sand may carry connotations towards the planet Mars, the traditional ruler of the sign.
• Studio Pierrot’s Settei sheets of Sasori show that he was 147.5 cm when his friend Komushi died.
• According to the databook(s):
  • His hobby was remodeling his puppet collection.
  • Sasori wished to fight Monzaemon Chikamatsu.
  • Sasori does not need food.
  • Sasori had completed 72 official missions: 5 D-rank, 12 C-rank, 16 B-rank, 29 A-rank, 10 S-rank.
  • Sasori’s favorite phrase was “Eternal beauty” (永久の美, Eikyū no Utsukushī).
• Sasori had one of the longest battle times in the anime — spanning approximately 8 episodes — giving him roughly three hours of battle screen time.
• In the first poll he was in (the 6th overall poll), he placed 6th on the list. In the second poll, he placed 8th.
• Sasori made a brief appearance in the Naruto: Shippūden episode 129 omake, walking past Sakura Haruno and Naruto Uzumaki in a festival, glancing at the latter.
• Sasori and his former partners Orochimaru and Deidara all had a role in the deaths of three of the Kazekage. Sasori killed the Third, Orochimaru killed the Fourth, and Deidara was responsible for the Fifth. Chiyo noted this when she confronted Sasori's attack on the Kazekage.

Quote

• (To Kankurō) “Since I don’t like to wait or make people wait…I’ll end this quickly.”
• (To Kankurō) “For my name to be known all the way down to a kid like you…is an honor.”
• (To Deidara) "What? You call those explosions fine art? Fine art is something wonderful that’s left long into the future…eternal beauty."
• (About Chiyo) “Great puppet masters think alike, I suppose.”
• (To Chiyo) “That is a considerable amount of puppets. But… [Proceeds to summon one hundred puppets of his own] With these, I took down a whole nation!”
• (To Chiyo and Sakura) “How’ll I explain this… How long it took me to take down a little girl and an old hag… That I even had to use my last trick…”
• (To Sakura) “Women like to do useless things don’t they… Even connected by blood ties as we are, I won’t feel a thing if Grandma dies here. My heart…is just like this body…”
• (To Sakura) “Want to try to become like this too? If you do then you’ll probably get what I’m saying. A body that does not decay…a puppet body can be rebuilt over and over…unfettered by a mortal lifespan.”
• (To Sakura) “I would describe myself as a human being who could not become a complete puppet, I am an unfinished puppet, whose lifeless frame still contains a beating heart at its core. I am neither dead, nor am I alive.”
• (Upon seeing Kankurō using his puppet body) “My old puppet body…Suddenly it all seems so pointless. I now have the body I’ve always desired, one that will never rot or decay. I’ve truly become a puppet in every sense of the word.”
• (To Kankurō)“Kankurō…I want you to have my “Mother” and “Father” puppets as well…and when you die, pass them both on… to the next generation.”

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