Quote Originally Posted by Kraco
Like I said way back when this whole bounty discussion started, the other reason for bounties could be to collect bodies. Oro showed us that you can create terribly powerful slave zombie warriors (that even sounds cool) by simply having the rotting corpse of a powerful ninja and then sacrificing any nameless minion of yours to power it. So, you can simply place a bounty on some asskicker ninja, have him taken down by an uber powerful bountyhunter like Kakuzu, and you have a weapon to use in some special operation. Nothing personal but extremely efficient compared to devoting 20 years to raise a ninja that still might not turn out well.
Yes that is what I was thinking but I'm not expecting to see any zombie armies. Rather I think this has more to do with something that was mentioned back in the Zabuza arc. That stuff about hunter nins having to destroy the bodies of rogue ninjas to prevent the villages secrets from getting out. Surely the body of Asuma, who was not only the son of the Third and one of the Leaf's top ninjas but one of the twelve ninja guardians, contains a lot of secrets. Secrets that would make his corpse extremely valuable.