Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-3297904-20150406210743/@comment-26275777-20150412185401

Important question: what would this Orochimaru-centric plot actually be? And you can't use anything that was introduced in Part II because practically all of it was designed with the Uchiha Three in mind.

He would maybe get Sasuke's body...and then what? You can't say he wanted the Rinnegan, that was barely hinted at in Part I and by the time it was explained it was an Uchiha thing.

He wanted to destroy Konoha...for what? Does he succeed? And then what? Would we even see any of the other villages in the course of the manga?

How would there even be an Akatsuki and why on earth would they be collecting tailed beasts? Come to think of it, how does Pain/Nagato even have the Rinnegan?

Who then set the Kyuubi on Konoha and why did they do it? Where are they? How did they control it?

Why did Kirigakure go all bloody mist? How did Rin die? Kakashi doesn't have the Mangekyou anymore?

Speaking of the Mangekyou, where is Itachi and what is he doing in this nonexistent Akatsuki? Since there is no "Madara" to keep an eye on, why did he even leave the village and why does he have this elaborate Sasuke-intensive plot - wait, who helped him with the massacre?

Most of all, what plot would Orochimaru actually bring to the table, other than "I want to destroy Konoha, for some reason"?, that would reasonably supersede the Akatsuki/Uchiha Three plotline?