Kakuzu's Abilities

Choji's spiked cannonball is ineffective against Kakuzu's special ability, which enables him to harden his skin with an Earth element technique. Naruto struggles to perfect his new technique within the 24-hour time limit and learns about the strengths and weaknesses of the elements in relation to each other. Kakuzu gets struck by Kakashi's Lightning Blade right through the heart, but survives and produces four masked entities from his body, one of which dies, as it had been struck by the Lightning Blade. Kakuzu then uses the masks to attack Team 10 with Kakuzu using powerful wind, lightning and fire jutsu.