Naruto Episodes 21 - 25
Episode 21"Sasori's Real Face" With his puppet destroyed, Sasori reveals himself to Chiyo and Sakura, looking no older than when he left his village twenty years ago.
As a further bit of nostalgia, he produces a summoning scroll and calls forth the Third Kazekage, whom Sasori has made into a puppet.
Using its weapons, which are even more dangerous than Hiruko's, Sasori is able to catch Sakura in a poison gas cloud.
Meanwhile, Kankuro, Temari's team, and Ebizo make their way towards the Akatsuki hideout.
Episode 22"Chiyo's Secret Skills" Sakura manages to escape the poison gas cloud by using an explosive scroll near herself.
Chiyo calls forth the "Mother" and "Father" puppets that Sasori created to fight him and the Third.
They manage to hold down the Third for a while until Sasori releases the Third's secret technique: Iron Sand.
Meanwhile, Team Guy are having trouble fighting the clones and showing exhaustion from the battle.
Naruto and Kakashi manage to avoid Deidara's clay bombs and keep up with him.
Episode 23"Father and Mother" The magnetic Iron Sand stops both puppets from moving.
Chiyo's right arm, which she had turned into a puppet arm, gets clogged as well.
Chiyo thinks back to the past and remembers how Sasori created and controlled his first puppets, Father and Mother.
Sakura urges Chiyo to use her again as a puppet.
With Chiyo's help, Sakura avoids the columns formed by the Iron Sand to attack her.
Episode 24"The Third Kazekage" Sakura and Chiyo continue their battle with Sasori, while Naruto and Kakashi follow Deidara, and Team Guy fights their clones.
Sakura remembers her training with Tsunade when she was taught to observe enemies' weaknesses and dodge their attacks.
Sasori attacks with an Iron Sand pyramid and prism, but Sakura is able to fend them off, causing a cave in.
Sasori then uses a new technique to attack with randomly-growing iron spikes, landing a hit imbued with a poison that quickly paralyzes its victims.
With a final attack of the Third Kazekage's puppet, Sasori attempts to kill the seemingly helpless Sakura, only to discover at the last second that it was a ruse.
Somehow immune to the effects of the poison, Sakura destroys his puppet with a single punch at the last second.
Episode 25"Three Minutes of Life and Death" Sakura reveals that she took an antidote against Sasori's poison which will make her immune to it for three minutes, forcing herself and Chiyo to end the battle quickly.
Meanwhile, Naruto and Kakashi continue their pursuit of Deidara.
Deidara attempts to split up Naruto and Kakashi by creating a swarm of explosive jumping crickets out of his clay and has them pursue Kakashi.
Kakashi makes a shadow clone as a decoy and the crickets, mistaking the shadow clone for the real Kakashi, detonate harmlessly.
Kakashi then catches back up with Naruto and reveals a plan.
Sakura and Chiyo ready themselves for the battle with Sasori, who reveals that he made himself into a human puppet.
As a further bit of nostalgia, he produces a summoning scroll and calls forth the Third Kazekage, whom Sasori has made into a puppet.
Using its weapons, which are even more dangerous than Hiruko's, Sasori is able to catch Sakura in a poison gas cloud.
Meanwhile, Kankuro, Temari's team, and Ebizo make their way towards the Akatsuki hideout.
Episode 22"Chiyo's Secret Skills" Sakura manages to escape the poison gas cloud by using an explosive scroll near herself.
Chiyo calls forth the "Mother" and "Father" puppets that Sasori created to fight him and the Third.
They manage to hold down the Third for a while until Sasori releases the Third's secret technique: Iron Sand.
Meanwhile, Team Guy are having trouble fighting the clones and showing exhaustion from the battle.
Naruto and Kakashi manage to avoid Deidara's clay bombs and keep up with him.
Episode 23"Father and Mother" The magnetic Iron Sand stops both puppets from moving.
Chiyo's right arm, which she had turned into a puppet arm, gets clogged as well.
Chiyo thinks back to the past and remembers how Sasori created and controlled his first puppets, Father and Mother.
Sakura urges Chiyo to use her again as a puppet.
With Chiyo's help, Sakura avoids the columns formed by the Iron Sand to attack her.
Episode 24"The Third Kazekage" Sakura and Chiyo continue their battle with Sasori, while Naruto and Kakashi follow Deidara, and Team Guy fights their clones.
Sakura remembers her training with Tsunade when she was taught to observe enemies' weaknesses and dodge their attacks.
Sasori attacks with an Iron Sand pyramid and prism, but Sakura is able to fend them off, causing a cave in.
Sasori then uses a new technique to attack with randomly-growing iron spikes, landing a hit imbued with a poison that quickly paralyzes its victims.
With a final attack of the Third Kazekage's puppet, Sasori attempts to kill the seemingly helpless Sakura, only to discover at the last second that it was a ruse.
Somehow immune to the effects of the poison, Sakura destroys his puppet with a single punch at the last second.
Episode 25"Three Minutes of Life and Death" Sakura reveals that she took an antidote against Sasori's poison which will make her immune to it for three minutes, forcing herself and Chiyo to end the battle quickly.
Meanwhile, Naruto and Kakashi continue their pursuit of Deidara.
Deidara attempts to split up Naruto and Kakashi by creating a swarm of explosive jumping crickets out of his clay and has them pursue Kakashi.
Kakashi makes a shadow clone as a decoy and the crickets, mistaking the shadow clone for the real Kakashi, detonate harmlessly.
Kakashi then catches back up with Naruto and reveals a plan.
Sakura and Chiyo ready themselves for the battle with Sasori, who reveals that he made himself into a human puppet.
