Sasori

The puppet master of the Sand

Sasori, known as Sasori of the Red Sand, is one of Akatsuki’s deadliest members and a legend of Sunagakure’s puppet brigade. Cold and impatient, he abandoned his own humanity in pursuit of an art he insists must last forever.

The human puppet

Sasori converted his own body into a puppet, halting his aging and hiding his living heart within a lacquered shell. He commands an army of a hundred human puppets and his prized creation, the puppet made from the corpse of the Third Kazekage, whose iron sand he turns against any opponent.

Poison and patience

Every blade and needle in Sasori’s arsenal is laced with a poison for which almost no antidote exists — a slow, agonising death that made him nearly unbeatable in prolonged fights. His artistry is inseparable from cruelty.

Undone by his own blood

Sasori falls to an unlikely pair: Sakura Haruno and the elder Chiyo, his own grandmother. Reading his attacks and enduring his poison, they exploit the one vulnerability his puppet body could not remove — the living heart at its core — and Sasori, in his final moments, allows it.