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[birds chirping]

[birds chirping]

[gasp]

[cough]

-I'm so close, just a little longer.

-Yes, finally-- been a while since the chunin exam.

Forest of death-- three years have gone by.

-You'd love to get your hands on our earth scroll, wouldn't you?

[gasp]

-Well, when this is all over, one of us

will have both scrolls.

And the other will be dead.

[gasp]

[gagging]

KABUTO: That young genin who once

trembled before you, he's matured a lot, hasn't he?

-I knew the moment the boy turned his immature Sharingan

on me.

He had such magnificent eyes, even then.

[laugh]

-Anyone who's developed a Sharingan

that strong at his age must be someone special.

I knew that he would prove an even greater treasure

than Itachi.

Oh yes, I realized at once he was the perfect choice.

Especially when I saw the pain he carried within him.

I knew he would eventually come seeking me out,

in search of even more power.

-Yes, I remember.

It was for that reason you gave them the curse mark

and stayed to watch the chunin exams to see

if it would bear fruit.

-You mean that business with Anko?

[laugh]

-That was just a coincidence.

You see, I always had every intention

of striking against the Leaf Village, anyway.

I knew that if Yoroi drained him of all his chakra,

Sasuke would be forced to use the power of the curse mark.

Go on, release that delicious forbidden power.

Set it free.

[groan]

-Oh, the Dancing Leaf Shadow-- now take this.

[whoosh]

[scream]

-No, I won't let this thing take over.

No way!

Lions Barrage!

[laugh]

-Magnificent!

What more can be said?

He was perfect, having the strength of will

to fight off the curse mark.

Have the Sharingan, as well as the wisdom

of knowing when to use it.

KABUTO: It's true.

There's nothing like combat for accelerating

a ninja's development.

You were wise to let him continue the chunin exams.

-Hm.

I suppose so.

After all, he did improve, didn't he?

[music playing]

-Chidori!

[music playing]

-Magnificent, but now, there's no more

he can learn from the Leaf.

There is no one else in this world

who can train him as well as I can.

No one who so fully understands the darkness

that consumes his soul.

-And there's no one else who can make him more like you,

is there?

[music playing]

-It's as though the destruction of the Leaf

is merely a side benefit.

It's time I got your next dose of medicine ready.

We have to make sure you're as strong as possible

for the transference ritual.

[groan]

-Yours is an obsession, this need

to drown yourself in jutsu.

And for this transgression, you shall be punished.

I shall take away all the jutsu you hold so dear.

-Impossible!

You wouldn't dare.

-The seal is set!

-My arms--

[music playing]

OROCHIMARU: Cursed old fool-- his interference

robbed me of my jutsu, forced me to delay the reanimation.

But now--

[laugh]

-Everything is ready at last.

The final stage is set.

Oh, the trouble the old man gave me,

it's just a distant memory now.

Finally, I will have the body I need, your body, Sasuke.

[theme music]

[theme music]

[birds chirping]

-Unacceptable!

Why has there been no report from the ANBU

we dispatched to the lake?

We may have beaten back Orochimaru's henchmen,

but the Three-Tails is still out there and still a threat.

[sigh]

-All right then, dispatch another squad.

Make it a priority.

-My lady.

[sigh]

-All I've done, I've done to achieve one goal.

Or rather, to clear away the darkness

that stands between me and that goal.

[music playing]

[music playing]

[hiss]

[cough]

-Huh?

[heavy breathing]

-Lord Orochimaru--

[growl]

[hiss]

-What's the matter with you, Kabuto?

[cough]

-That cough doesn't sound very good.

Are you all right?

-I'm fine, fine.

The goal is in sight.

I will soon be in the perfect host body.

I feel wonderful.

[cough]

[gag]

-You're at your breaking point.

If you don't take the level 10 medicine,

there's no more I can do for you.

[heavy breathing]

-I'll go get the other medicine.

I'll be back in a minute.

[music playing]

[laugh]

-That thirst for blood-- even with his body pushed

beyond the breaking point, he laughs.

[laugh]

-He endures through sheer strength of will.

That's why I'll never leave your side, Lord Orochimaru.

Even when you brought down the Hokage and Kazekage,

even when you were on the brink of achieving

the destruction of the Leaf Village,

even when you battled the sannin, Tsunade and Jiraiya,

both at the same time, I've never

seen you so menacing and full of ambition as you are right now.

Huh, what's frightening is how much you've progressed.

If all goes as planned, not only the five Hokage,

but the whole world, will grovel in the dust at you feet.

That is, once you cast off this body and takes Sasuke's.

[laugh]

[music playing]

[music playing]

-Chidori stream.

[crackles]

[drum]

[sizzle]

-Are you sure of the report's accuracy?

-Yes ma'am.

The second squad you dispatched made a complete survey

of the lake.

The ANBU Black Ops stationed there

have vanished without a trace.

The Three-Tails is gone too.

-Hm.

-It's my fault.

It's all because I failed to seal the Three-Tails.

Still, I wonder who could have done it.

-Exactly.

Who would be capable of taming the Three-Tails,

and in so short a time?

The Akatsuki--

[birds chirping]

[squeak]

[squeaks]

[hiss]

[laugh]

[gasp]

-This pain is the price of reanimation.

But it's nothing, less than nothing,

when weighed against the greatness that is to come.

[laugh]

[cough]

[gag]

[gasp]

[gasp]

-This chakra nature-- this is a change in chakra

form I have never seen.

Who is it?

[music playing]

[music playing]

-Of course it's you.

I knew you'd come for me.

-There's nothing more you have to teach me, Orochimaru.

Now you'll see I can be heartless, even to you.

[music playing]

OROCHIMARU: You defeated them all without one fatal blow.

You are still naive.

-They're not the ones I want to kill.

-You must learn to be heartless, or you'll never defeat Itachi.

-When I come face to face with him,

I'll be heartless, all right.

[music playing]

[music playing]

[groans]

-Orochimaru, I'm stronger than you now.

So at this point, I don't see a reason

to just hand over my body.

-A bold statement from a nursling Uchiha.

-Hm yes, a nursling was the only kind of Uchiha

you could handle.

You were there in the Forest of Death during the chunin exams,

to see if this nursling showed promise, right?

Ah, you've got to move, move.

[music playing]

-Fire style, dragon flame jutsu!

[music playing]

-Yes, you'll do nicely.

-So you thought you'd lay claim to me.

You thought you could bind me to you with this curse mark.

-You're acting like a fool.

You should come with us.

Lord Orochimaru offers you power.

-Are you in, or out?

[scream]

-This runt makes me wait any longer,

and I'm going to wring his little neck.

-Come and try it.

[yell]

-Ooh, uh.

-Come on now, you didn't really think

you were Lord Orochimaru's only pet, did you?

-In exchange for the curse's power,

you will be tethered to Lord Orochimaru.

All semblance of freedom will be lost to you.

To gain one thing, another must be left behind.

What is your purpose in this life?

-Remember your purpose!

-I'm an avenger.

I want revenge.

I wanted it so badly, I was willing to give up

my body to get it.

What you wanted was the Sharingan, right?

But how to get it?

Itachi was out of the question.

So you come after me, the baby of the clan.

Isn't that so?

And they say you're the genius out of the legendary sannin.

But it turns out, you're just another run of the mill ninja,

and you know it.

You're not even in the same league as the Uchiha.

In fact, next to the Uchiha, genius like yours

looks pretty ordinary.

The way you covet the power of the Uchiha,

the way you fill yourself up with medicines

and go leaping from body to body, it's disgusting.

As an Uchiha, all I see when I look at you

is a miserable wretch.

And on top of that, I don't like your style.

[music playing]

SASUKE: What do you hope to accomplish?

[music playing]

SASUKE: Scurrying from one hideout to the next,

conducting your pathetic experiments,

using up people's lives, one after the other--

[music playing]

[groans]

SASUKE: Trying to unlock the mysteries of nature-- you

toy with people's lives for the sake

of this vain and ridiculous cause of yours.

-Why?

Why did you do this?

-To test the limits of my ability.

-To test your ability?

That's why you did this?

You're telling me that that was the reason that you butchered

every single member of our clan?

-It is of great importance.

-You disgust me.

[music playing]

-The giant white scaled snake- never

would have recognized you.

So, that's your true form.

In order to keep switching from body to body,

you experimented endlessly.

And this is what you've become.

-Now Sasuke, you are mine.

Give me your body!

[music playing]

[music playing]

-A snake that crawled on the earth dreamt of soaring

through the sky, knowing full well it was impossible.

Still hoping beyond hope, it kept it's eye on a baby bird

that it nurtured in its own nest.

Never realizing that--

[hiss]

[music playing]

-The snake is now the prey because that bird

is a hawk, ready to take to the sky.

[hiss]

[screech]

[screech]

-Sasuke!

[growl]

[theme music]

[theme music]

KABUTO: No medicine will help Lord Orochimaru now.

Tomorrow, or even better today-- the sooner we

perform the ritual, the better.

I can't imagine Sasuke will go along without a fuss.

Still, he can try to resist all he wants.

It's not like he can do anything about it, not

against that ritual.

Next time, "Eye of the Hawk."