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Template:Ninja-leafTemplate:Ninja-soundTemplate:Ninja-akatsuki Orochimaru is one of the Leaf Village's three legendary ninja or Sannin. He was the student that everyone believed would become the Fourth Hokage, but his hunger for power led him to commit dark experiments and practice forbidden jutsu. After the Third uncovered the truth, Orochimaru left Konoha and formed the Hidden Sound Village in the Land of Rice. He was responsible for countless immoral experiments and collected many ninja with unique abilities in his numerous hidden bases. He wished more than anything to find the ultimate body and improve himself to the state of a god. He attempted to possess Uchiha Itachi, Kaguya Kimimaro, and Uchiha Sasuke's body, but all of the attempts failed for various reasons, with Uchiha Sasuke actually reversing the jutsu and possessing Orochimaru's soul.

Subsequent anime episode appearances: 28-30, 36-39, 40, 50-51, 67-75, 79-81, 88-90, 92-96

Part in the Story

Orochimaru when first met

Orochimaru was originally a student of Sarutobi (the Third Hokage) as a part of a three-man team consisting of himself, Jiraiya, and Tsunade. Team Sarutobi mirrored Team Kakashi in nearly every way. Orochimaru, like Sasuke, was aloof, arrogant, and considered the most talented out of the three. Sarutobi in particular had very high hopes for him, often berating the clumsy Jiraiya and telling him he should be more like Orochimaru. After becoming Hokage, Sarutobi hoped that one day Orochimaru would succeed him.



Realizing that he had hit a dead end in his quest to become the ultimate being and had nothing to gain from staying in Konoha, Orochimaru defected from the village and joined the elite criminal organization Akatsuki. His old teammate, Jiraiya, tried to convince him to reconsider, but to no avail - he betrayed the village and the title of the 'Three Legendary Leaves' was no more, though he is still known as one of the Legendary Three. The role Orochimaru played in Akatsuki is unclear, as are his reasons for leaving sometime later, although it is known that he was partnered with Sasori prior to his defection. He admits that Itachi Uchiha's growing power had made it impossible for him to acquire his body and thus he chose to go after the much weaker Sasuke Uchiha instead. He eventually founded his own village, Otogakure.







It is unknown what Orochimaru had been up to during the two-and-a-half-year timeskip, though logic suggests he had been training Sasuke (and himself) and biding his time until he can transfer his soul into Sasuke. He makes his debut reappearance by spying on the meeting between Kabuto Yakushi and Yamato, who was disguised as the now deceased Sasori. Orochimaru explains that he had long ago undone Sasori's "binding jutsu" on Kabuto, and had intended assassinating his former Akatsuki partner before calling out Naruto, Sakura, and Sai to do battle. He explains that Yamato was the only one out of sixty test subjects that survived one of his genetic experiments to duplicate the First Hokage's Mokuton techniques and his previously unknown ability to "control tailed beasts", though he himself did not recognize this until Yamato revealed the abilities himself.

After antagonizing Naruto to the point where he transforms into a four-tailed state and attacks him, Orochimaru demonstrates a number of new and outright inhuman abilities. As well as modified forms of snake summonings, he can shed his skin like a snake and, by doing so, repair any damage to his body (including lost limbs), summon an enormous number of snakes from his mouth, and can stretch his body to lengths far beyond what he exhibited in Part I. He also demonstrates his immense reserves of chakra when he summons three Rashomon gates to block the black chakra ball that the four-tailed demon fox Naruto spat at him. Though they fail to completely stop the chakra ball, this is nonetheless an impressive feat. Additionally, Orochimaru can create a clone out of snakes that can morph various parts of its body into snake parts. If injured, it can simply regenerate, even if it is sliced in half.

The battle with Naruto comes to an end after Orochimaru attempts to stab Naruto with his Kusanagi sword. Even the sword is unable to pierce the intense chakra shield protecting Naruto. He comments that his body had reached its limit, as his current body does not allow for extended fighting. It is later shown at his lair, however, that the time he must rest for is quite short.


Orochimaru returns again in Chapter 309, just in time to stop Sasuke from performing an unnamed jutsu on his former friends. Kabuto also informs Sasuke to let the Konoha shinobi manage the other Akatsuki to make his revenge a little easier. Although Sasuke is hesitant, the trio disappears in a puff of smoke.


Orochimaru is male, but speaks in a very formal female tone. This is done to make him more sinister, similar to Freeza of Dragon Ball Z. In fact, at the start of the series, he is actually possessing a female body. This cannot be copied in the English dubbed version so he speaks in a masculine but silent and slightly high-pitched tone. Despite the fact that he is able to alter both his body shape and voice, he still speaks with a female tone.

Orochimaru's human appearance borders on inhuman with very pale white skin, slitted eyes, and an extending, snake-like tongue (this tongue is actually a permanent jutsu, which enables the user to extend parts of their body to infinite lengths). Orochimaru also has the unique ability to molt, repairing any damage to his body as easily as someone else repairs their clothes. Even Ibiki Morino, Konoha's veteran torture and interrogation specialist, admits that when he saw Orochimaru for the first time, he was terrified and was convinced that what stood before him was not a man but rather something else which had merely donned human skin.

Orochimaru's true form

Orochimarus true appearance is a giant white snake made up of many smaller snakes with long oily black hair with the normal slitted of of a snake.


Fighting Style

Orochimaru's specialty is forbidden techniques related to souls, departed or otherwise, which he has researched to the point where he can defy death itself and his mind transcends the body it happens to currently inhabit. He is also very talented with techniques related to snakes (hence the name Orochi, a legendary eight-headed snake from Japanese folklore) and can summon snakes of various powers, such as the 'Boss Snake', Manda; the equal to Jiraiya's Gamabunta and Tsunade's Katsuyu. He even keeps the summoning contract on his left arm as a tattoo. In fact, in his introduction he is riding a gigantic snake.



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