Naruto Shippuden Episode 36-37

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-Pretty long post, read bitches

Wow dude. You really shoudn't be talking about stuff you know nothing about. There is evidence to support everything I've said.

Why don't you try and actually contribute something to the discussion instead of trying to attack me. That is just sad.

Are you purposely trying to start something with me, you're like a damn shadow following me everywhere?

I never thought Kabuto would love Oro. I think he just deeply respects him as an ultimate author of jutsu, many of them related closely to the medical sciences in which Kabuto himself excels. I deem he just wants to learn anything he can from Orochimaru, but in order to do that he needs to to be a more or less useful henchman.

The thing is that Kabuto seems to be operating of his own free will. If you remember that incident when Oro was in the shower and Kabuto was arguing with him, Kabuto was the one who made the prisoners fight so that Orochimaru would take over the body of the survivor.

Kabuto is also the one who sent Kimimaro to get Sasuke and during the early part of the series such as when Kabuto was talking to Baki or when he failed to capture Sasuke and when Oro sent him to eliminate Shizune. It shows that unlike Oro's other subordinates Kabuto has a lot of free will and that Oro trusts him more than anyone else so he isn't really a 'henchman'.

Normally, a person who's unloyal to you doesn't need to act that way unless he has a better person to turn to. Oro is a pretty powerful person to serve, so there wasn't a NEED for Kabuto to do anything suspicious or unloyal. When Oro lost his arms, however, he kept by him. Now that either indicates that he is truely loyal to Orochimaru, or that he just think he's still the best person to serve for the time being. Being by his side at a time like that also deepens whatever trust Oro may have had in him, which is a perfect tactic for a spy. And besides, we only know Sasori wanted to spy on Oro, he hadn't neccessarily told his spy to do anything hostile or destructive, just pass on info.

True if Kabuto intended to betray him or if Sasori had really intended for Kabuto to try and kill Oro there were many chances. If he wanted Orochimaru dead then the situation I mentioned above when Oro was waiting for Sasuke would've been the perfect chance. Oro was helpless and naked in the shower if Kabuto intended to kill him that would've been the perfect chance. He didn't even have to attack him directly all he had to do was to kill the host body that Oro would've used then he would've been dead.

There were also two opportunities during the Sannin battle. The first was when Tsunade attempted to use that medical jutsu to kill Orochimaru or during the battle itself because I would imagine that if Kabuto wasn't there to use the summoning jutsu Oro would've been killed.