Sasori
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| Sasori | |
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| (サソリ) | |
 Sasori, by Masashi Kishimoto |
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| Debut | Manga Chapter 238 Anime Episode 135 |
| Profile | |
| Age | Unknown (deceased) |
| Notable relatives | Father (made into puppet) Mother (made into puppet) Chiyo (Grandmother, deceased) Ebizo (Granduncle) |
| Information | |
| Current rank | Missing-nin |
| Current affiliation | Akatsuki (Ring: 玉 gyoku, Left thumb) |
| Previous affiliation | Sunagakure |
| Current team | Sasori, Deidara |
| Previous team | Sasori, Orochimaru |
| Signature jutsu/Kekkei genkai | |
Sasori (サソリ?) is a fictional character from the manga series Naruto. "Sasori" (蠍) also means scorpion.
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[edit] Background
Sasori is Deidara's former partner from the Akatsuki and a missing-nin from Sunagakure. He is known as Sasori of the Red Sand (赤砂のサソリ Akasuna no Sasori?). He created Kankuro's puppets, among others, and is a genius puppeteer in his own right. Sasori left Sunagakure 20 years before his introduction, but the background on 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 puppets he ever created).
Sasori and Deidara have quite different views of what art is. Deidara holds that art is something that is transient, departing quickly, whereas Sasori believed that fine art is something wonderful that's 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 does not respect Deidara's.
[edit] Appearance
Before his fight with Sakura and Chiyo, Sasori had always worn his favorite normal puppet, Hiruko. This was shown by the fact that Kabuto had no idea what Sasori truly looked like. He adorned it with the regular Akatsuki outfit making him look like a hunchback. He also had a piece of cloth to cover the mouth and hide the fact that it was a puppet. This puppet was made before Sasori started making human puppets and left the village. Hiruko has a mechanical tail extending from the mouth of what appears to be a mask on his back. The mask was a fairly recent addition to add extra defense to a weak point. The left arm is rigged with a projectile launcher capable of firing shrapnel. The clearly artificial mouth opens to reveal another projectile-firing device. It was destroyed by Sakura.
Sasori has the appearance of a boy in his early teens, though in reality he's somewhere above thirty years old. He has red hair and an emotionless face. He wears the normal Akatsuki outfit. Sasori's unnaturally young appearance is a product of his design: most of his body is a puppet. His stomach had been replaced by a thick cable coiled around a pole, allowing it to be used as a stinger and retracted as necessary. He attached a scroll holder to his back, in which he kept four scrolls containing his human puppets for his Red Secret Technique: Performance of a Hundred Puppets. He also attached a pair of arms to his back, each equipped with five large claws. He added flamethrowers to each of his real hands, as well. Finally, he installed a hidden compartment in his right chest that could spin unknown numbers of chakra strings to control puppets. His left chest contained the only part of him that remained human, and thus capable of controlling chakra: his heart. The heart is stored in a cylinder-shaped device with the kanji 蠍 (Sasori, "Scorpion") printed on it. Since his heart is the only living part of him, he can transfer it between puppets.
[edit] Abilities
Sasori is a master of puppetry. His grandmother, Chiyo, taught him from a very early age, and he created many puppets over his lifetime. He is also a master of poisons; his poison would take effect and make the person suffer for three days before they died. It took a very skilled medical ninja to remove the poison and make an antidote.
During regular combat, Sasori wears his puppets like armor and controls them from the inside, thus eliminating the puppeteer's weakness of being a separate and exposed target. His favorite puppet to do this with is named 'Hiruko' (ヒルコ), according to Chiyo.
His puppet suits are not the only tricks Sasori uses, though. His true power lies in his regular puppets, which are made from the still-living bodies of humans. Not only are these puppets more versatile than regular puppets, they are able to use the chakra and jutsu of those they were created from. Sasori claims to have a collection of 298 human puppets (人傀儡 hitokugutsu?).
His favorite human Puppet is the Third Kazekage. This puppet retained its unique Iron Sand ability, making it particularly dangerous. He added poison to the sand to make it even more dangerous. He also added several different traps that often are placed in puppets. One of them was a barrage of arms summoned from scrolls from a main arm. Like with Hiruko, Sakura smashes this puppet into many pieces.
Because Sasori's heart is the only living part of himself, his puppet body is virtually indestructible. When smashed apart, he could simply draw the pieces back together. Additionally, he can transfer his heart to other puppets, allowing him to abandon a body should it be damaged or otherwise incapacitated. How he transfers his facial features, as depicted in the manga, is not explained. Since he only does so once during his Performance of a Hundred Puppets, one can assume that he had an spare version of his puppet body prepared in advance. His body also gives him the ability to use over one hundred puppets at a time, while even the most advanced puppeteer can only use ten (one per finger).
[edit] Rescue Gaara arc
His first appearance is during a mission to Sunagakure where Deidara is to capture Gaara. After Gaara's capture, Kankuro attempts to stop the Akatsuki duo, but to no avail. Sasori battled the enraged brother, nearly killing him and easily destroying Kankuro's puppets, which Sasori mocks by taking credit for designing, in the process. After Gaara is delivered to the Akatsuki lair, it is he and Deidara who fend off Team Kakashi while the others escape. Sasori fights off Sakura and his grandmother Chiyo while Deidara fought Naruto and Kakashi.
At the start of the battle, Sakura is able to smash Hiruko into hundreds of pieces with a single punch with help from Chiyo. Sasori reveals his young appearance to Chiyo's amazement. He then unveils his favorite puppet: the Third Kazekage. The Third Kazekage had been killed many years before, and until this point his death had remained a mystery. This puppet retained its unique Iron Sand ability, making it particularly dangerous. Like with Hiruko, Sakura smashes this puppet into many pieces.
Afterwards, the truly frightening aspect of Sasori is revealed; that his real body is still as young as Chiyo remembered it from when Sasori left the village. The secret of his youth is revealed after the Kazekage puppet is destroyed: he made himself into a puppet.
Sasori's own strength proves to be his ultimate weakness. Because only one part of him remains alive, it only took one sword stab to kill him. Chiyo used his mother's and father's puppets to stab him through this location in a manner similar to the hug that he subconsciously desired. Interestingly, Chiyo seemed to believe that Sasori had allowed himself to be killed – he saw the attack coming and chose not to react, and he died in a way similar to how his parent puppets used to embrace him. At the end of the battle, Chiyo, Sasori, and Sakura are all fatally wounded, but Chiyo uses a jutsu originally developed for puppets to cure Sakura. The jutsu had been developed in the hope of giving life to otherwise lifeless puppets, but Chiyo realized during the research that the only way such a thing was possible was to trade one life for another. In this case, however, Chiyo survived since Sakura was still alive.
As a reward to Sakura for defeating him, Sasori's last words were that he had a spy in Orochimaru's ranks, with whom he was supposed to meet in Kusagakure ten days later. This spy was revealed to be Kabuto Yakushi. However, Orochimaru had long ago undone the jutsu on Kabuto that kept him loyal to Akatsuki, and Kabuto remained loyal to Orochimaru.
At the time of his death, Sasori had not yet captured his host. A short dialogue between himself and Deidara suggests that Sasori did not even know what host he had been assigned to target. After his death, Tobi was the one to take his place and ring.
