Board Thread:Boruto: Naruto the Movie/@comment-6232909-20150811172020/@comment-2120712-20150812195840

BlueLantern1995 wrote: My guess is Orochimaru had a son so he could eventually become his new body. Why have him trained in the Leaf Village? There are people way more powerful than him in the village and people who also know jutsu he doesn't. He can use Mitsuki for this and then when he is done with the need to wait for a new body takes Mitsuki for himself.

Hmm maybe Mitsuki's body has a perfect balance of what Orochimaru has modified himself with over the years. Orochimaru himself being the artificial form he no longer wants while Mitsuki being the natural and therefore perfectly balanced form of what he wants. Maybe he figures he can make stronger bodies by taking the traits he wants and merging them in a birthed body, the process of growing a body makes the modifications more stable and therefore more powerful.