Chiyo

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   The Sand's puppet elderDebut Arc · Kazekage Rescue

   Master of puppet and poison

   Chiyo rises as Sunagakure's foremost puppeteer and poison expert, and a medical-nin whose skill is named a rival to Tsunade's. In her prime, she leads the village's Puppet Brigade.

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   Raising Sasori

   The grandson she taught

   When Sasori is orphaned, Chiyo takes him in. She teaches him puppetry to comfort a grieving child — and finds in him a prodigy beyond anything she had taught before.

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   Sealing Shukaku into Gaara

   A burden placed in a child

   At the Kazekage's request, Chiyo seals the One-Tail into the newborn Gaara. It is a duty done for the village — and a wrong she will carry, quietly, for the rest of her years.

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   Sasori's defection

   The grandson who left

   Sasori leaves Sunagakure as a missing-nin. For Chiyo, it is a grief without an ending — a grandson she raised, gone over to something she cannot follow or forgive.

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   The fight against her grandson

   Facing Sasori at last

   Old now, Chiyo joins the mission to save Gaara, and on it she faces Sasori in battle — fighting beside Sakura against the very grandson she once taught the art.

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   A life given for Gaara

   One wrong, set right

   Gaara lies dead, the One-Tail torn from him. Chiyo uses a life-transfer technique to revive him — spending the last of her own life, in repentance for the seal she placed in him long ago.

Chiyo was a master of three crafts that rarely meet in one shinobi — the puppet, the poison, and the healing art. She could control ten puppets at once, the Father and Mother puppets among them; she was Sunagakure's great authority on poisons and their antidotes; and her skill as a medic was named a rival to Tsunade's. She kept, in reserve, a technique that traded a life to return one.

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• Who is Chiyo?+

  Chiyo is an honoured elder of Sunagakure — a famed puppet master, poison expert, and medical-nin. She is the grandmother of Sasori, and is remembered for giving her life to revive Gaara.
• Was Chiyo Sasori's grandmother?+

  Yes. Chiyo was the grandmother of Sasori. After Sasori's parents were killed, Chiyo took him in and raised him, teaching him the puppetry that would become the centre of his life.
• How did Chiyo revive Gaara?+

  When Gaara was killed by the Akatsuki, Chiyo used a life-transfer technique, One's Own Life Reincarnation. She gave the last of her own energy — with some of Naruto's chakra added — to restore Gaara to life, dying in the process.
• Why did Chiyo sacrifice herself for Gaara?+

  Years earlier, Chiyo had been the one to seal the One-Tail into the newborn Gaara, at the Kazekage's request — a burden that gave Gaara a hard life. Her sacrifice to revive him was an act of repentance for that.
• How strong was Chiyo?+

  Chiyo was a master of three disciplines at once — puppetry, poison, and medical ninjutsu. Even in old age she could control ten puppets together, and her skill as a medic was named a rival to Tsunade's own.
• Has Chiyo been a Narutodle answer?+

  Chiyo is in the daily answer pool of 210 characters. The Previous Narutodle Appearances list on this page shows every date she was the Classic answer, each linking to a replayable archive puzzle.
• How do you guess Chiyo in Narutodle?+

  Chiyo's Attributes column is the standout — Puppeteer and Medical Ninja together. Her Kugutsu jutsu type narrows the board hard, her Sunagakure village trims it, and her Nature column pairs Earth with Water.