Chiyo is a supporting character in the Naruto anime and manga series. She is a retired counselor of Sunagakure and also a famed puppeteer, the leader of Sunagakure's Puppet Brigade and a medical-nin. She is the grandmother of Sasori, one of the Akatsuki members. She sacrifice her own life in order to revive the Fifth Kazekage, Gaara. After Itachi Uchiha undone Kabuto Yakushi's Reanimation jutsu, Chiyo entrusted Kankuro for future generation of Puppetry.
She was voiced by Ikuko Tani in the Japanese version of the anime, and in the English dub Barbara Goodson, who also voices Darling in Lady and the Tramp II: Scamp’s Adventure.
Story[]
Chiyo, often called Honoured Grandmother Chiyo by the Sunagakure villagers, was the village's poison, and puppet expert. She was also the Sand Village Elder as well as Sasori's grandmother. An expert on medicine, poison, and puppets as well as a veteran of the Second Shinobi World War, Chiyo holds great contempt for both Tsunade for countering her poisons and Sakumo Hatake (Kakashi's father) for killing her son and daughter-in-law. After Sasori's parents died by Sakumo's hands, she took care of him and taught him of puppetry. She was the one who Gaara's father asked to seal the One-Tailed Tanuki into Gaara before he was born, after which she ceased involvement with the village's affairs.
When Gaara is kidnapped, she decides to accompany Team 7 as they try to retrieve him. She fights together with Sakura against Sasori, and she capitalizes on an opening left from Sakura taking the blow from a poison sword to finish him off. She is able to heal Sakura using an ability that transfers her own Life Energy, but doesn't die because Sakura wasn't quite dead. When she discovers Gaara dying, she transfers what's left of her energy and some of Naruto's into him, reviving him, but dying in the process (considering it an act of redemption).
Kabuto resurrected her with Edo Tensei but thankfully her soul was put to rest before she could do some real damage.
Personality[]
As a veteran, Chiyo and her brother Ebizō possess great wisdom, such that Baki requested their assistance in the village's greatest danger. However, they had little motivation to serve Sunagakure any longer, as they retired and felt that the next generation should look out for themselves. The siblings were rather disappointed when the village was showing to be so reliant on others. Chiyo can be very mischievous, as she enjoys playing dead or acting senile to fool others. Chiyo will often also jump to conclusions as seen when she attacked Kakashi Hatake because she mistook him for his father Sakumo.
Chiyo loves her grandson, Sasori, a great deal despite how much he has fallen, and is fully willing to grant life to the puppets that he created, at the cost of her own; this was said to be her dream. In fact, it was only because of Sasori's involvement with Akatsuki that she was willing to grant Baki's request for assistance. This love also led her to bear a grudge against Sakumo Hatake for killing Sasori's parents, and as such, she initially tried to kill his son Kakashi, mistaking him for his father. However, in the anime, it was shown that Chiyo's love for her family is also split between it as well as her devotion to the village and her views as a ninja being detached. This was seen from her hesitance to take a simple family picture.
Chiyo showed care and respect for Sakura Haruno, despite the latter being a disciple of Chiyo's rival. She also showed regret and remorse for sealing the One-Tailed Shukaku into Gaara and gave her life to revive the latter as a way of repentance.
Abilities[]
Chiyo's an accomplished medic ninja, able to use Mystical Hand to heal the injured, and can create both complex poisons and antidotes. She also developed a jutsu that allows her to restore life to the dead by giving up her own life-force.
In addition to that, she's a puppet master, being able to effectively control up to 10 puppets at a time. Each of the puppets have unique equipment and gadgets installed, making them tricky. She controls them with Chakra Strings, allowing her to control their movements. She can also extend these threads to manipulate other objects in her environment, as well as control the bodies of other people.
Puppet Master[]
Chiyo using White Secret Technique: The Chikamatsu Collection of Ten Puppets.
Chiyo is a renowned master of the Puppet Technique, famous for her abilities in both creating and controlling them, to the point of being an invaluable icon for Sunagakure. She passed such skills on to her grandson, Sasori, claiming that the technique was traditional in their family. She modified 2 normal unarmed puppets to have intense battle capabilities, to the point where they were capable of standing up against the Third Kazekage (known as the strongest Kage in the history of Sunagakure), who was converted into a Human Puppet by Sasori. These puppets are equipped with wire strings that extend from both of the puppets hands. When connected they have the ability to cut through most things, including Sasori's Thousand Hands Manipulation Force. She also can use the Puppet Performance: Skillful Achievement with a Human Body technique, which allows her to effectively control a human if she has no puppets left in her arsenal; this tactic had proven to be highly effective as she is able to fight effectively, without getting sealed until she died again in the release of Impure World Reincarnation, during the Fourth Shinobi War while using only a samurai as a substitute. In the anime, she also shows the ability to control up to ten living people at once with this skill, each of them with only one finger per puppet — a skill which signifies her as a master puppeteer. She has great skill with chakra threads, as she can place them onto other puppets without her opponent noticing and suppressing them to the point that they became invisible, as well as using them to control and fire weapons.
Chiyo using Mechanical Light Shield Block.
Her strongest puppets, however, are the full set of 10 puppets known as the Chikamatsu Collection created by the first Puppet Technique user, her puppets are extremely powerful, using teamwork to perform powerful attacks, and are equipped with powerful techniques such as the Three Jewels Suction Crushing and the Sealing Technique: Lion Closing Roar. With the assistance of Sakura, Chiyo's ten puppets were able to overpower Sasori's one hundred puppets, though in the anime, most of the Chikamatsu Collection was destroyed in the process. Like Sasori, Chiyo modified a part of her body and turned her right arm into a mechanical one. She normally keeps it outfitted with the Mechanical Light Shield Block, and can replace it with any puppet arm if something happens to it. She also installed this shield on the Mother and Father puppets.
Medical Ninjutsu[]
Chiyo is also a highly capable medical-nin, and while having some healing skills, she mainly uses her medical knowledge as a poison expert, which allows her to create powerful poisons that in her entire life have only been countered by Tsunade, who is herself renowned as the world's greatest medical-nin. Likewise, she has stated that she used to fight with Hanzō and his salamander all the time; allowing her to know time it takes for the beast to produce its poison and the antidote ingredient list to counter the poisonous gas released by the salamander. She created a life-giving technique one that would result in her own death if it were used, that she wanted to use for Sasori in order to give life to his puppet parents.
Other Skills[]
While preferring to use puppets in battle, Chiyo demonstrated during her misjudgment towards Kakashi's identity that she is highly skilled in taijutsu from how easily she fought back Naruto and his clone. She possesses advanced knowledge of fūinjutsu as she is the one responsible for sealing Shukaku into Gaara. She has also remarked to have faced Uchiha members in the past and knows how to deal with genjutsu.
External Links[]
- Chiyo on the Naruto Wiki
- Chiyo on the Near Pure Good Wiki
