The Amagi

A short while ago, we told a story. That story was “What If Minato Came Back to Life?” — and it was about a father given the chance to reunite with his son. It was a beautiful tale, filled with emotion. The story of a father and son can often feel magical, a bond overflowing with love.But few people can love a child more fiercely than a mother.And so, I would like to tell a story about a mother’s love — and how it transcended death itself for the one she cherished most. A story about love so determined that, through sheer force of will, it defied destiny and granted a mother the chance to see her son once more.

Orochimaru was a brilliant scientist and Shinobi with with such promise that he squandered. I find myself thinking about it a lot. Like, why he was evil and stuff. I know a lot of it spawned from the death of his parents and the feelings he got after that. Feeling helpless, feeling like he had no power. That would serve as plenty enough explanation, but it still makes me wonder about it though. After all, he didn’t appear to be evil from the complete start to me. Troubled, but not necessarily evil. I can’t forget when Dan died in Tsunade’s arms, how Orochimaru was crying. That was empathy. That was a form of love. That was a gasp from the goodness inside of Orochimaru. So I can’t help but wonder what changed since then. How was it that Orochimaru could go from crying over the death of a comrade to celebrating the death of his master? To trying to kill the same people he grew up with? Well, today, I wanna look at Orochimaru in a whole new light. I want to see what would happen if Hiruzen took a more proactive step in Orochimaru’s life after the death of his parents, to see if maybe he could help Orochimaru heal from the ordeal in hopes that maybe it’ll alter who he grows up to be…

In the last episode, we saw Itachi driven to make a hard choice. Sasuke was sick and dying of an unknown illness with no known cure. Sniffing out the desperation like the opportunistic bloodhound he was, Danzo appeared and offered a way out. Offering to give him the cure to the illness his little brother possessed in exchange for doing the dirty work of getting rid of the Uchiha and Shisui. Itachi, unable to bear the thought of losing his brother, did as commanded, and killed each of the Uchiha and delivered the Mangekyo Sharingan to Danzo as promised. But Danzo double-crossed Itachi, attempting to kill him along with Sasuke. It became clear all along that there never was a cure, and Itachi had just stained his very soul for nothing. As he fled though, the Masked Man who had helped him offered him a bit of advice, telling him that a brilliant scientist stood among the Akatsuki of the name Orochimaru. Orochimaru could possibly find the cure if such a thing existed. But there would be a steep cost. What would it be? And would Itachi be willing to pay it?

Naruto and Sasuke hhave been two sides of the coin since birth. Considering that they both inherited the will of Hashirama and Madara, who in turn inherited the wills of Asura and Indra, these two were born to be the embodiment of the Will of Fire and the Curse of Hatred. But the thing that bonded the Will of Fire together with the Curse of Hatred is the origin of Chakra itself, the origin of their struggle, and the thing that has always cropped up as the ultimate power for these two since the beginning, and that’s the Tailed Beasts. What started with the Ten-Tails Six Paths Power 1000 years ago, continued into the Tailed Beasts that Madara and Hashirama BOTH began gathering. Like, Hashirama has no clue that he LITERALLY did Madara’s job for him and was an inch away from creating the next Ten-Tails Jinchuriki. But anyway, after that, Naruto is born and takes the Nine-Tails, but throughout the story, Madara’s pawns are still searching for the Tailed Beasts, and in the end, Naruto must battle Sasuke who himself is powering his Susanoo with the power of all Nine-Beasts, essentially becoming a Pseudo-Ten Tails Jinchuriki himself. So to say that Tailed Beasts are the metal that Naruto and Sasuke are stamped on to make the coin in the first place is an understatement. But all the same, only Naruto had one from birth. I wonder what would have happened if Sasuke ALSO had the Nine-Tails. I mean, it’s possible. Minato had half of it. So why not give that half to Sasuke and see what happens? Yeah, that’s what we’ll do. Sit right back and gaze once again into the moon and let my Rinnesharingan cast upon you a dream; a dream of a world where this might have occurred…

Of the many powers within the Naruto universe, I have to say that one of my favorites has got to be Sage Mode. Sage Mode involves the user sitting down and focusing, drawing nature energy in to balance with your own energy to increase your strength and add a new layer of depth to your ninjutsu. While I love dojutsu, I’m a sucker for senjutsu. Not to mention that Sage Mode does grant the user a new appearance in their eye, such as is the case with Toad Style Sage Mode. But what if Naruto himself were born a sage? That is to say, what if the connection to nature itself were so powerful that he were in continual state of perfected Sage Mode? Well, that’s what we’re going to find out.