Quote Originally Posted by isso
I've been thinking and i would like to know what you think of this thought I got..

What if, the leader of Akatsuki is...... the third Kazekage, he was immensly strong and his corpse was never found thus the villagers beleived him to be dead, perhaps he knows the way of eternal life or just how to prolong his own..

my theory:
Orocimaru used the mind transfering tehnic on third kazekage, thats how he got the sand armys rebelling in chuunin exams... it also explain that when one of the konoha jounin asked one of the sand jounins " is orochimaru behind this?", the sand jounin didn't know who was behind it...
The leader of Akatsuki is Kabuto(IMO)