Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-3297904-20150406210743/@comment-3297904-20150412214723

@Chaosattractor

Eh...Kabuto was still nonetheless creepy. Moreover, he was following Oro's goal of all jutsu in the world and cooperating with Madara. It still had the same tone as when Itachi entered the story in part one. There was more plot importance to Itachi than Orochimaru. Pretty much everything Sasuke was doing was to reach Itachi's level and Orochimaru was just a troublemaker who was a threat to Konoha and wanted Sasuke.

Sasuke wasn't going to him however unless the gap in strength between him and Itachi was shown. When it was then does Sasuke leave Konoha to go to Orochimaru. Sasuke's confidence in gaining strength before assimilation was more or less proven correct seeing as how the delay from Sasuke retrieval team made Oro do transfer with another person. As result Sasuke uses time-skip for training.

Like with part 1 third arc in part 2 third arc Orochimaru (when Oro loses to Hiruzen) loses due to overestimating himself and Sasuke assimilates him during ritual.

More on Kabuto: Kabuto had pretty much always been somewhat of a follower and praised everything about Orochimaru. Orochimaru's ending made it clear he just wanted immortality for some unknown undisclosed reason and his flashback implies he wanted to see reincarnation of his parents. The flashback of chapter 620 it invalidates his whole invasion for lulz.

As the fourth databook says he's lost his interest in immortality and belief in leaving it to next-generation in exchange of seeing next-generation's new wind. Here a excerpt of the fourth databook:

In front of Orochimaru, a chance meeting was accomplished, a new decision had been lurking in his chest, (in) meeting with Sasuke (’s figure). Feeling (that he was) beginning (to be) born out of/from new “wind”, In order for Orochimaru to witness/ascertain the instant of that raging wind, he participated in doing (the war in order to observe) Sasuke’s conduct.

Proceeding to the war ground, he (went) in order to directly feel the “wind” that Sasuke caused.

Translation by Organic Dinosaur On Itachi sealing Orochimaru: that was going to happen no matter which way you slice it. Sasuke points out in the chapter "The Snake" that Orochimaru targeted him because he couldn't beat Itachi.