Rest for the night

Team Kakashi finished resting up and got back to pursuing Gaara. Team Kakashi arrives and sees that Team Guy is already there. Lee is ecstatic to see Naruto and John once more, but Naruto, still under the influence of the Nine-Tails' chakra, is too agitated and restless to have a reunion. Guy and Kakashi then decide to work together to find a way inside the base.

Neji uses his Byakugan to see inside the hideout but is unable to locate Gaara, due to Naruto constantly jerking him around. However, he manages to get a glimpse of the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, though he is unable to explain the words what exactly it is. Guy attempts to break the boulder blocking their path but is unable due to the barrier seal on the boulder.

"the Akatsuki must have used a Five-Seal Barrier. there are four other tags in the vicinity and that all five tags must be ripped off at the same time to deactivate the barrier" Kakashi says. Using his Byakugan, Neji locates all the other tags, and using wireless headsets, Team Guy sets off to find the four barrier seals. Meanwhile,

Team Guy locates the four tags. Kakashi rips off the one by the boulder at the same time that Team Guy rips off their seals, causing the barrier to break. Sakura uses her Chakra Enhanced Strength to shatter the boulder. With the entrance now open, the Kazekage Rescue Team use the Button Hook Entry to sneak in, although they are immediately greeted by Deidara and Sasori, who are sitting on Gaara's corpse. This infuriates Naruto to tap into the Nine-Tailed Fox's chakra, causing his eyes to change from blue to red and for his whiskers to be defined more prominently. Sasori and Deidara realize that he is the jinchūriki that they must capture.

Deidara creates a clay bird and throws Gaara in the bird's mouth and jumps on its back before flying off, Naruto chases Deidara, Kakashi and Temari follows, leaving Sakura John and Chiyo to fight Sasori by themselves. Chiyo attacks Sasori and some of the kunai manage to hit Sasori's Akatsuki outfit. He then shows his puppet armor, Hiruko, and begin his battle with Chiyo.

Chiyo explains "the Sasori we see in front of us is not Sasori's actual body but in fact a puppet named Hiruko, since puppet masters are not good at close combat and rely on their puppets to attack, this leaves the puppeteers themselves vulnerable, hence why Sasori created Hiruko, to counteract that weakness. Sasori was once a master puppeteer in Sunagakure, but at some point began to transform human corpses into human puppets, which Sasori considered a form of art. The puppet that we see in front of us, Hiruko, is actually the body of a shinobi from a neighboring village whose corpse Sasori used." Chiyo then says "I joined the Kazekage Rescue Team believing I could stop Sasori, as she knew how Hiruko operated but Sasori has improved and refined the puppet.

Finally ready to start their battle, Chiyo and Sakura rush at Sasori/Hiruko. while John stays behind and grabs a special kunai. Sasori uses Prepared Puppet: Eight Waves of Needles, which causes poison-laced senbon to rapidly fire out of Hiruko's mouth. Both Chiyo and Sakura are able to dodge every single senbon. Sasori resorts to releasing Hiruko's arm and launching it as a projectile, which releases even more poison-laced senbon. Once more, Chiyo and Sakura are able to avoid every single one of them, to Sasori's disbelief. While he is able to understand Chiyo's masterful dodging, as she is an expert puppeteer herself, he is unable to comprehend how Sakura was able to do so as well. While Chiyo stands idly, at that time John throws the kunai behind Sasori back and uses The Flying Thunder God Technique on the kunai to appear behind Sasori, while Sakura rushes towards Hiruko. Sasori attempts to jab her using Hiruko's poison-tipped tail but his attack is blocked by John Grabbing it, leaving Hiruko vulnerable. Using her Chakra Enhanced Strength, Sakura lands a massive blow on Hiruko, destroying the human puppet. Sasori manages to get out of the rubble but keeps his face covered. Chiyo demands that he turn around and face them, claiming she waited 20 years and traveled all this way just to see her grandson's face once more.

Sasori uses Hiruko's head to launch another round of poison-tipped senbon, only for Sakura to dodge them all once more. However, this time he realizes that it is Chiyo who is pulling the strings, using Sakura as her own human puppet. He then summons a new puppet to battle with, revealed to be none other than the Third Kazekage. Sasori uses the Third Kazekage's poison blades and tries to stab Sakura, but the attack is blocked by John holding twin swords, Sasori then uses Thousand Hands Manipulation Force. However, John grabs onto sakura and uses Flying Thunder God Technique again on the Kunai to dodge the attack "ok enough playing games let's end this" John says letting go of Sakura. then raising the swords above his head and started gathering chakra between his twin swords, creating a ball of electrical energy and launch it at the Sasori. When it makes contact with him, it electrocutes him and throws them back into the rock wall

putting his swords away John walks over to Sasori. once there Sasori Says in a low voice "I had a meeting with one of my spies, who works for Orochimaru, next week at the Tenchi Bridge in Kusagakure. I doesn't think I will make it to", but Sasori dies before finishing his sentence. Sakura, John and Chiyo decide it is best to follow Naruto and Kakashi's trail

John, Sakura, and Chiyo arrives, where they announce that Sasori has been dealt with. Deidara attempts to slither out of the bush he is hiding in and to escape, only for his path to be blocked by Team Guy, who had used Neji's Byakugan to locate him. Deidara is impressed with the Hyūga Clan's Kekkei Genkai, wondering how it compares against the Uchiha Clan's Sharingan, but adds that he does not have the time to stick around and find out. Team Guy attempts to stop his escape; despite having no arms, Deidara swiftly dodges Tenten, Guy, and Lee. Neji, however, manages to hit with his Eight Trigrams Vacuum Palm.

Deidara survives the attack and heads towards the body of his giant clay bird, using his teeth to bite off a chunk of the clay and converting it to explosive clay using his mouth. Deidara then swells up and seemingly self-detonates; Team Guy attempts to escape the blast radius, but the range of the explosion is too big. However, the explosion is countered by Kakashi Kamui, which is able to warp it to a different dimension just in time, although the usage of his Mangekyō Sharingan causes Kakashi to collapse.

Naruto's shadow clones, carrying Gaara's body, regroup with the others. Naruto asks Sakura "is there anything she could do to save Gaara," still clinging on to the hope that he may be resuscitated. Sakura attempts to do so but fails. Naruto cries out in anger over Gaara having being killed despite just recently reaching his dream of being Kazekage. He begins to weep, claiming "I was not able to save Sasuke and despite training for three years, I was unable to save Gaara". Chiyo tries to calm Naruto down, but he lashes out of her, "if it wasn't for you and the rest of Sunagakure for sealing Shukaku inside Gaara. you had no right to alter that person's life or fate in anyway whatsoever. Naruto's words cut deep wounds for Chiyo, as she was the one who sealed Shukaku inside of Gaara. Wanting to atone for her past, she decides to resurrect Gaara at the cost of her own life.

Chiyo begins using her reincarnation ninjutsu on Gaara, to make amends for her past. Naruto attempts to interfere, but is stopped by Sakura, who tells him "she is bringing him back from the dead". Chiyo is unable to successfully resurrect Gaara, due to her low chakra levels. John and Naruto, however, offers their own chakra. Using their chakra to supplement her technique, she says "that your two powers to make friends with anyone will result in you being the greatest ninjas the world has yet to see the likes of. and Sakura one day you will surpass Tsunade. I hope for a brighter future for both Sunagakure and Konohagakure, a future where John, Naruto and Gaara will make sure that the world is not like how it was in my time. everything I have done for Suna my whole life has been wrong, and that resurrecting Gaara is the only thing I have done right"

Gaara's opens his eyes, he is shocked to find himself in the real world with Naruto and John holding his shoulder and smiling at him, the latter glad to see Gaara once more. Gaara notices that nearly every member of Suna's military are also there, all of them cheering and crying out of happiness. Kankurō thanks Naruto for saving Gaara, but Naruto says "thank Chiyo", who he believes simply passed out from resurrecting Gaara. John however, explains to him and everyone else "Chiyo is dead, having given up her life in exchange for Gaara's", Sakura is crying so John walks over to console her, Gaara, managing to stand up on his feet, calls a prayer to commemorate Chiyo's actions and bid her farewell.

The citizens of Suna cheerfully celebrate the successful recovery of their leader. Gaara decides to let Chiyo's corpse be carried into the village first, as a sign of respect. As Gaara resumes office, Baki, and Temari attempt to persuade the Leaf ninja to stay in the village for a day or two, in order to recover and recuperate from their wounds. Kakashi says"we must return and report to Tsunade regarding the completion of their mission". A report is sent in advance by Takamaru to Konoha, however, the fates of Deidara and Sasori are omitted by Kakashi, who wishes to discuss it in person instead. With that, the Konoha shinobi depart back home, although not before stopping and paying their respects at Chiyo's grave. During their walk back to the village, Tenten Says

"Guy hurry up your lagging behind" Guy is supporting Kakashi. Not wanting the others to wait for him, he tosses Kakashi in the air, placing his own backpack on his front and catching Kakashi in a piggyback fashion, which the others, especially Naruto and Sakura, find uncomfortable. Carrying Kakashi on his back, Guy uses his speed to run past them, telling them to catch up. Lee attempts to do the same with Neji, but he flat-out refuses and Lee runs after Guy

"what about you Tenten" John asked kneeling down in front of Tenten. Tenten smiles and gets on John back and holds on tight to John as he runs after Guy and Lee