Father and Mother

Because the Third Kazekage was refashioned into a human puppet, his body keeps the chakra it held in life, letting Sasori wield the Kazekage's Magnet Release Iron Sand. When Sasori looses the Iron Sand Drizzle, Chiyo raises the chakra shields built into her Mother and Father puppets, one blocking the metal while the other shoves Sakura to safety. The sand works into the Father puppet's joints and jams it, leaving Chiyo with a single puppet.

Sasori taunts that she can guard either herself or Sakura, not both, and repeats the technique. Chiyo uses the Mother's shield for Sakura and spares herself with a shield hidden in her right arm, which turns out to be a prosthetic puppet limb. Impressed, Sasori remarks that master puppeteers think alike, and Chiyo deduces that his own ageless appearance means he has likewise converted his body into a puppet.

Chiyo recalls how the White Fang of Konoha killed Sasori's parents, leaving her to raise the boy, and how the young Sasori, taught the Puppet Technique, built puppet replicas of his mother and father to feel the affection he had lost. In the present Sasori compresses his Iron Sand into dense forms. Out of puppets, Chiyo urges Sakura to run, but Sakura instead offers her body as a puppet, letting Chiyo steer her with a single arm of chakra threads so she can close in on Sasori with her enhanced strength. The episode adapts chapters 268 and 269.