Choji's spiked cannonball is ineffective against Kakuzu's special ability, which enables him to harden his skin with an Earth element technique. sakura naruto shippuden learns more about the five elements and their strengths and weaknesses 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.
