Kazekage Rescue Team

The Kazekage Rescue Team is the primary response team assigned to rescue the Fifth Kazekage from Akatsuki.

History
Konoha sends the members of Team Kakashi to Sunagakure to lend assistance in rescuing the Kazekage, but they will need help navigating through the Land of Wind and beyond. Temari and Baki originally offer to guide them, but Chiyo volunteers instead because one of the Kazekage's kidnappers is her grandson, Sasori. After being delayed by Akatsuki member Itachi Uchiha, they and Konoha's Team Guy track the Kazekage to an Akatsuki lair in the Land of Rivers. Sasori dies in combat with Chiyo and Sakura and Sasori's partner, Deidara, is forced to forfeit the Kazekage to Naruto and Kakashi so that he can escape. The Kazekage, however, has died as a result of Akatsuki removing Shukaku from his body. Chiyo resuscitates him, exchanging his life for her own. Chiyo is buried in Suna and the members of Team Kakashi return home after the funeral.