Re: Naruto Manga 561 Discussion and 562 Predictions
I have a theory that Madara was Orochimaru's secret recruiter. He seduced him to the dark-side of ninja power, the perfection of personal power, that of the ultimate ninja- So6P. Madara used a young Oro to infiltrate Konoha after his faked-death, set up a lab and used Oro to steal the secret forbidden jutsu of the Senju, the forbidden Scrolls of Konohagakure, do his research and report back to him, exploit the trust the Third Hokage had for Oro and use the most useful on Madara's goal of obtaining the Rinnegan. Orochimaru's goal, as well, was to obtain a 'perfect body', an Uchiha as his vessel, to transform into and to live forever mastering all jutsu. Madara recognized the talents of a younger Orochimaru and showed him some of the Uchiha secrets, the edo tensei, the darker forbidden jutsu that Oro and his protege Kabuto have so successfully practiced. That Madara had the forethought and use to collect Senju dna with his encounter with Hashirama at VoTE, to me hints that Madara was a bit of a Dr. Frankenstien wannabe himself. Another protoge of Madara's must have been Nagato. But how many Nagato's are their? Did Tobi re-boot the plan? Is Tobi the original Nagato, the 'little brat' edo-Madara was referring to? Did it all go terribly wrong for him in his plan to regenerate Madara using 'he was saving that jutsu for me'-line and he found a new Uzumaki to transplant his rejected Rinnegan 'that were his to begin with'? Is that original Nagato, the child of Madara and an Uzumaki woman? Or is Tobi Izuna? His obsession with collecting eyes, being eyeless himself, forcibly or voluntarily, along with his bitterness toward both the Uchiha, for not supporting Madara as well as toward Konoha, his knowledge of Madara's history, his age and his different space-time jutsu.