Quote Originally Posted by ASSpirine
Well, akatsuki are supposed to be tremendously strong, so jounins won't do I think.
What I do find weird, Sakura and Chiyo defeated Sasori quite easily...
That would be very debatable. It's not like Chiyo planned all along to use Mum and Dad as the killing blow. And should the battle had swayed away from the two puppets, she wouldn't have been able to get the strings back again to make the move.