I just thought of something. Either we have greatly underestimated Chiyo or Kishimoto has greatly dampered Sasori's strength in this fight. Sasori is considered a legendary puppet master thoughout the whole Sand village, has almost 300 hundred puppets under his belt, and defeated Sandaime the strongest sand leader in history without anyone noticing it. He took out a jounin Kankuro with his tail alone but here we are now seeing this fight and he is being pushed to go all out...the f#$% is going on Kishimoto??

His opponents are Sakura... who we all have to respect now because she has really shown what three years worth of training can do for someone who was considered a useless loser a couple of years back. Charaka control, movement, intelligence, and strength have all sky rocketed. She has smashed two of Sasori's highly valued puppets and is starting to be able to predict Sasori's movements on her own.

Chiyo is a more refined puppet master than Sasori seeing that she has seen through most of Sasori's attacks and can dodge just about everything he throws at her but lacks youth and stamina. Now She has'nt seen Sasori in 20 years but can still read his attack patterns and not only dodge herself but control Sakura's movements at the same time. This fight should have been over by now. Before this fight started WE were all like Sasori's gonna own these two regardless but know it almost seems like he might just be DEFEATED. If he is killed by a 15yr old with no field exp and an 85 yr old who is almost dead...we have a problem : ((