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Puppet Master
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Orochimaru worships power as Divine.
Power is control. For power begets fear and fear begets loyalty.
Power is Real. Truth. Not at all like the empty, foolish values touted by his home country.
He has it.
He is God.
He looks down into the training chamber at his adopted children, pawns readily and willingly sacrificed at his whim.
And he watches Kabuto: useful, talented to a fault. Even that boy is at his beck and call.
Kabuto feels the tingle of being watched and looks over to that unmistakable smirk of oblivious satisfaction. He smiles back.
Just another measured tug at invisible strings.
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Posted 3.6.2007 (Pre-Hebi arc)