[Rurik]

Originally Posted by astayanax

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Biggest blow yeah; but I think it would be a mistake from Kishimoto for many reasons. Orochimaru still has alot to offer the series. We never really saw him fighting without some sort of handicap going on; and for most part he was always in the shadows.

If Orochimaru in fact still have his arms decomposing because of Shiki Fujin; it opens up alot of questions:

- How was he able to use his jutsus in his fight against 4 tailed Naruto? This is important because when Orochimaru lost his spiritual arms in the fight against the 3rd, he was unable to perform any jutsu that required seals.

- Why is he focusing so much energy in training Sasuke to become strong? Orochimaru should known instantly on a body switch if his arms is still decomposing and if he knows he is going to lose whatever body he switches to in a few short years; why go into so much effort getting elites?

- Why so much focus on the host body 'rejecting' him if at the end it is really his arms decomposing? (although there could be a chance the body is rejecting him because his arms is decomposing). Orochimaru and Kabuto were making a big issue of this.

I think Sasuke killing Orochimaru would be boring and to an extent expected. What I really would like to see is Kabuto killing Orochimaru. Even now, it is still hard to guess where Kabuto's loyalties really lies.

Spoiler:

Those questions have simple answer if you think about them:

-Maybe it could be that after 3 Years the soul of the Container completely dies, And Orochimaru’s Soul takes over, this could even explain why Oro needs 3 year to pass from one body to another, and because Oro soul doesn’t have arms, when it reaches the 3 Years his Arms become to discompose because of the lack of either the Container Soul, or Oros Soul.

-Because Maybe Oro didn’t know about this until the 3 Years were almost up, and either way, for Oro, even 3 Years per Body, wont stop him from Looking for new excellent containers, even if he knows these will only last 3 Years.

-Because Maybe as you said the body rejecting him was referring to the fact about the Seal starting to take effect.

I really doubt Kabuto is doing any more Betrayals, it would be repetitive, and boring, he is the generic, Bad Guy right hand.