Naruto 345

[Skaw]

BUT.......

In every host body that oro takes over, one visual characteristic is always visually predominant....his eyes!

Sasuke doesn't have the oro eyes....therefore oro can't be controlling his body.

I'm thinking thats more of a willful thing. Remember back during the fight with Sandaime, he peeled off "his" face to show the true face of his current hosts body, and she had fairly normal eyes. I mean, I could be completely wrong and showing her normal eyes was the willful act. But when he took over the last guy, he couldn't completely disguise his face to resemble his own because it was mostly bandaged for a long time(or rather, didn't waste the time to.). So he could have just made the image of his original eyes since that was the only area really exposed.

It could be more of a fail-safe, so that Kabuto and the Sound-Nin can realize it's actually Orochimaru, and not the attempted Vessel just walking freely after defeating Orochimaru.

Hell I don't think even Naruto cares that Oro exists, he only cares about getting Sasuke back regardless of his company

I agree. I think the only reason Naruto even bothers to fight Orochimaru is simply because he has forcibly stood in Naruto's way. If he could bring Sasuke back without even engaging Orochimaru in another face-off, he would most likely take the option to ignore Orochimaru. That's not to say he doesn't hate him and wouldn't kill him given the chance, just that securing Sasuke from Orochimaru is his primary objective rather than defeat him.

[Everon]

Of course there are a million things that could be done in the next chapter, but its probably either Sasuke has survived, or Sasuke and Orochi are struggling for power inside his body.

Sasuke is too much of an established character to kill off now.

[Idealistic]

Oh oh I know!! Sasuke is going to fight off Oro out of his body and then Kabuto gladly sacrifices himself for Oro to take over his body!!!!!!

Sasuke is then weak from all his genjutsu stuff and then runs away.

lol.. I don't know..

Careful now....Id3aLiStiC is on the look out for people being "smart" with others...and that kinda constitutes as NONSENSE! NONSENSE I SAY!!! Not a bad chapter....still not sure what to think though. Love this manga!!! -dg-

I love you too. =)

[dimitris127]

another fact that sasuke can't have died is what kabuto said...''is the ritual over already?''...so normaly it would take longer to achieve the transfer to another body but as we know sasuke is neither weak nor stupid ninja to be taken over so quickly and without a fight(i mean more than killing the snake appearance of orochimaru)at least that's what i am thinking

[Assertn]

The itachi flashback had some weird moments in it....
Like the one with the two arms coming out of the mid-section of an akatsuki cloak and then there's blood splattering and stuff.

I think I understand the part with the hand though....
Itachi cuts off oro's hand, which is the same hand you later see in skeletal form with the ring sitting next to oro's jar collection.

[Death BOO Z]

honestly, I don't really care about this Oro-Sasuke ordeal, we probably won't be seeing them (Sasuke, as far as i'm concerned) for a while. Maybe Kabuto will tell the good folks about this, and then we could say he's lying about the victor (if he says Oro won, we could figure Sasuke wants Naruto as a bait for Itachi, if he says Sasuke won, we might decide Oro wishs to take Naruto out while posing as Sasuke).
the best thing that could happen next chapter will be flashbacks of Zetsu, Aoba or of the leader.

[chet_chetty]

The itachi flashback had some weird moments in it....
Like the one with the two arms coming out of the mid-section of an akatsuki cloak and then there's blood splattering and stuff.

i thought the hands were orochimaru making a handseal to unbind himself from Itachi's paralysis jutsu (as if he thought Itachi was finished fucking with him) only for Itachi to cut off Oro's left hand.

Cutting off Oro's hand was Itachi's way of saying bluntly "I'm stronger than you" and now I dont think we can really question it anymore. The scene also indirectly served as Oro's getting the boot from Akatsuki because Itachi [intentionally] cut off Oro's ring hand.

long story short, i think this is the specific event that "traumatized" Orochimaru and gave him the inferiority complex [that's been discussed oh so many times].

[Genma]

Man, what a relatively boring chapter.

I'm still standing by my theory that Oro is actually a tailed beast; that his bodies are merely shells that he controls, unlike how the Kyuubi and other beasts are sealed inside a body and don't entirely control it. I mean, seriously... the eighth beast in the story is an eight headed snake. Oro is the only character that resembles a snake and does snake jutsus (well, Anko can do some, but that doesn't count much.)

My guess is that Itachi had to try to kill Orochimaru because he's one of the tailed beasts.

To top that off, I mean, if you think about it, Sasuke with the 8-tails in him and Naruto with the 9-tails would be the ultimate battle.

(*waits for another neg rep for saying "that idiotic theory" again*)