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Diary of a Madman: Memoirs of a Nukenin, Chapter 21Sasuke was physically very powerful, but completely lacked the ability to think in the abstract; everything was black and white, everything was linear. And this moron was supposed to be his 'perfect body'? The vaunted Uchiha bloodline that he had desired, lusted after, hungered for…was base mimicry? Nothing but a clan of well-trained monkeys!
Even after this depressing revelation, Orochimaru had still considered using him as a vessel for his soul. The problems of the doujutsu might not even have been insurmountable, if it weren't for one key fly in the ointment:
When Orochimaru took over a body, his thought processes would be dominant, but still constrained by the limitations of the body he'd inhabited. In layman's terms, if he possessed an idiot, he'd become an idiot. If Orochimaru possessed Sasuke Uchiha, he'd likely lose his ability to dissect and engineer jutsu! In a very personal sense, he would cease to be Orochimaru.
Unacceptable!
His teeth ground together in hopeless frustration. If only he'd been able to possess Uchiha Itachi! Now, there was a fine mind! Orochimaru detested his failure with the older Uchiha, but had laid his hopes on the younger, more malleable brother. Unfortunately, he had not counted on the reason for said malleability being softness in the head.
As it was, he was endeavouring, though without much success, to replace Kabuto with Sasuke. Kabuto, despite his sudden treachery and disappearance, had been a brilliant subordinate, and had been trained to perfection – a master of all graces, social or not, and a truly worthy successor to the Snake Sennin's twisted legacy in all respects. Sasuke, though, was proving difficult. Orochimaru truly, honestly regretted having wasted five excellent ninja in his successful bid to spirit the boy away from Konoha. With time and much effort, Sasuke might become a well-trained, though headstrong weapon.
But he'd never be a tenth of the shinobi that Itachi was. The best Orochimaru could hope to do was to use him as much as possible before the arrogant little shit went to confront his brother and got himself killed.
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