Kabuto's true intentions

[Alterno]

Ok as Kabuto reappears in ch.512, we find out that he just know a lot of what's going on. Probably bu now he knows everything that there's to know about Tobi: His idenity, his plans and how he will try to achieve them. However Kabuto is really hard to read, you don't really know what is going on in his mind, this have been like this since his introduction into the manga.

Kabuto is a variable, things can go so well or horribly wrong with him. So I have three theories:

1. He wants to obtain Rikodou's power or knowledge.
Ok, I know everything in the manga have been going around Rikodou and Hashirama, but let's take a look to this picture:

My interest lies solely with learning the pure, unaltered true about ninjutsu.

But what does this means?, Maybe the next picture could give us an insight?

If we put this 2 pictures together, it might be clear that Kabuto wants something is that could be related with Rikodou or maybe "that's is what he want us to believe", if he is honest about his goals, then he might be looking for the powers or knowledge of Rikodou or knowledge.

2. He is a good guy
This is the second possibility, he could have changed. If we look back to naruhina + yamato chapter (evil laugh), we might remember that he was in an existential quest, he was looking for answer of who or what he was.

3. He is somewhat neutral.
He don't care about who lives or dies and he will help or kill, depending if that's benefits him or not in reaching his goals sooner.

[LnDRash]

If i remember right he left a trail of random shinobi corpses on the whole way to Madara's hideout to lure Anko & Co there on purpose...

So at least I doubt his loyalty to Madara.

[Sannom]

I have a completely crazy theory for my part : as far as Madara knows, it seems obvious that Kabuto wants to know more about the Rikudô, since he specifically targets people with Uchiwa and Hasharima's genes. He wants power and knowledge.

But since Kabuto has such a peculiar fixation on Naruto and his potential, hinted at in the Forest of the Death and confirmed in their last meeting, I wonder if Kabuto doesn't have plans for Naruto. Specifically, to make him a messiah and then oppose him. I think that Kabuto will brew up some crazy ninja science and use the Uchiwa, Hasharima and Uzumaki's genes to create a new Rinnegan in Naruto, and make him the fourth Rikudô, able to take on Madara and become the new Jinchûruki for the Ten Tails. And then Kabuto will fight him, opposing his smarts, ruthlessness and scientific mind to the raw power of the new messiah and the devotion he can inspire in people.

[Jorge D. Dragon]

Even if he has some plans to oppose Madara, I can't see him having victory on him. Madara is way smarter and is too hax with his Izanagi.
But I'm thinking he wants some secrets of Rikudo. It's really interesting if he can summon Rikudo with Edo Tensei.

[Smokes]

Well, Kabuto opened a whole new can of worms by assimilating Oro. So I would think that he's probably interested in getting his hands on more "material" to assimilate. He was probably planning on getting his revenge on Sasuke and then adding a little Uchiha DNA and set his sights on Madara too when he uncovered some titillating info on him and Zetsu.

So I think he just wants to create a mess for Madara. Leading the ninja alliance to his front door, maybe spilling the beans when he goes looking for the island, probably telling Sasuke something that sends him after Madara immediately, and possibly some direct sabotage via messing with his stockpile of eyes or using Itachi to set his army of clones on fire while they are all packed in that room like sardines.

If I was Madara, I'd be hell bent on killing Kabuto. He knows entirely too much, he's obviously not really an ally, and Madara has to know that at some point Kabuto will be aiming to kill him.

If I was Kabuto, I'd be looking to foster a three party battle royal between Madra, Sasuke, and the alliance so I could profit from their losses with even more zombie super ninjas and a weakened Sasuke or Madara that I could go after or lead the villages to and keep them on the defensive. I think Kabuto wants every great power that he knows exists, including the RS powers and that's what he'll be working on.

It's just unlucky for Madara that it seems becoming a new RS boils down to doing the one thing that Kabuto is peerless at doing.

[Eprst]

I think he is a good guy! Revenge is what driving him - he wants to get Sasuke. And probably get into his body like Oro did - we see Oros will of fire in kabuto.
He knows he is no match for Sasuke, thats why he needs to investigate Hashiramas power - thats the only way to oppose EMS!

[Cyven]

I'm fairly certain that like Orochimaru, Kabuto is a neutral force in the shinobi world. By this, I mean neutral in that his only allegiance is to himself. Already he's spinning an elaborate web of semi-alliances that allows him to do as he pleases, while creating the impression on nearly every faction that he is a potential ally to them:

Madara:
Kabuto is clearest in his setup here. He never states directly that he supports Madara, which Madara is aware of, but he has shown his usefulness to him.

Naruto:
On more than one occasion he had a chance to kill him, but chose not to. Regardless of his motivations for that choice, he did go out of his way to help him against Akatsuki by providing him with a databook (tbh I find it a shame that it never really gets mentioned again since then)

Konoha:
Knowing Naruto would share the info, Kabuto went a step further by leaving a trail of corpses to Madara's lair. While I doubt he truly wants to ally himself with Konoha, it is my prediction that he hopes Konoha can eliminate Madara for him, which would suggest that Kabuto knows he cannot kill Madara by himself at this point (or he would have, already).

Sasuke:
The only one Kabuto is truly showing animosity towards, it's still unclear why he is so interested in Sasuke. If Kabuto is in control, it might be to avenge Orochimaru. If it's Orochimaru, then he might want to corpse hop again, using Sasuke as a vessel, as he had intended.

I'm certain that over time Kabuto's true intentions will be revealed to us, but for now he seems preoccupied with setting himself up as a big player in the shinobi world, much like Orochimaru was before him.

[Plyr88]

http://www.mangafox.com/manga/naruto/v43/c397/11.html

Itachi implanted his own techniques into Sasuke's eyes. That means Sasuke should have access to the gourd + Sword of Totsuka within Itachi's Susanoo. Kabuto knows this and wants access to these two things. Besides getting access to the Sword of Totsuka, he wants access to what remains of Orochimaru. Seeing him use Anko to take remnants of Orochimaru's chakra, I believe he'd want to take all of Oro's chakra if he had the chance. Oro is still in existence...in Sasuke's eye.

I don't see any other reason why he'd want Sasuke. He doesn't want to do the body transfer. That was Oro's plan. Kabuto seems to be doing something different. Besides, what would be the point? I don't think Kabuto wants to learn every jutsu in existence through the Sharingan. No, he wants to go to the source: the Sage of Six Paths. I assume he wants to find out how he came to create ninjutsu and do all that he did.

[En Yang Ji]

I was thinking he wanted Sasuke because he wanted to become a sage. He has yamamoto now all he needs is Sasuke.

[xXan]

First off there is no indication that those 2 "weapons" are a sharingan ability.
Now ignoring some huge asumtions the only things i can think off as to why Kabuto whants Sasuke are:

-To kill him for killing Oro.
-To get his hands on sharingan. How he will use the sharingan i got no idea. He could also know that Sasuke now has EMS. EMS would be really something if Kabuto can get his hands on it.
-He does not whants Sasuke and it using him as a motive to be there.

[Rikudou King]

I really doubt Kabuto wants Sasuke just to kill him. If that was the case, Kabuto wouldn't need all this running around. He had the means to challenge Madara directly and considering the sheer amount of Edo summons he has, Kabuto could have simply overwhelmed Madara and went straight for Sasuke. There has to be more to everything then Kabuto simply wanting Sasuke.

[Suzaku]

Kabuto already said (or had a thought bubble, anyway) that he wants to become a Sage of Six Paths. We've already gotten a ton of hints that this requires Senju and Uchiha DNA.

Going back even further, looking at it realistically, Orochimaru probably wasn't REALLY even after just the sharingan. He was probably trying to get what he needed to get the Rinnegan, which would allow him to master all kinds of nature transformation and use any ninjutsu, which was his actual desire. Keep in mind his experiments on Yamato.

[gnut]

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after thinking about kabuto and oro's relationship...could kabuto have been the body that oro wanted to implant the sharigan eyes from itachi.maybe darn if i say it...maybe kabuto is uzumaki.his story and make up kind of fits...lone survivor of a devastated village...found/friended by the leaf...and has healing abilities.this healing ability could have something to do with the uzumaki longevity.after all,nagato's hair turned white in the end...like i said...maybe.but,why else would he want sasuke...for his sharigan
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[DementedKirby]

after thinking about kabuto and oro's relationship...could kabuto have been the body that oro wanted to implant the sharigan eyes from itachi.maybe darn if i say it...maybe kabuto is uzumaki.his story and make up kind of fits...lone survivor of a devastated village...found/friended by the leaf...and has healing abilities.this healing ability could have something to do with the uzumaki longevity.after all,nagato's hair turned white in the end...like i said...maybe.but,why else would he want sasuke...for his sharigan

Nice theory.

However, I believe Kabuto's quest is more simple. Sure, Itachi's weapons aren't a Sharingan's powers, but he wasn't their wielder. His Susano'o was. Never did Itachi hand those mythical weapons to his Susano'o. His Susano'o had them. In any case, summoning Itachi's Susano'o should grant access at least to the gourd kept by it, thus being able to release Orochimaru in some way.

As for Orochimaru wanting to become the Sage of the Six Paths, it's a possibility. His life's quest is learning every jutsu imaginable. However, if that was the case, why just target Itachi in Akatsuki and not Pein? Also, Orochimaru experimented with someone by placing not just Sharingans in them, but the First's DNA, too. If that was what he wanted, why not keep some Sharingans for himself when he helped Danzou?

Now, I'm not saying those are some serious loopholes. I think that Orochimaru was much smarter. He implanted the First's cells in Danzou so that their power would allow Danzou to control so many Sharingans. Orochimaru doesn't want to merely implant Sharingans in him (like Kakashi and Danzou), for having an Uchiha body is much more desireable. Even Kakashi said that having an Uchiha's eye is not enough, because it's too much strain on a non-Uchiha body. Also, Orochimaru doesn't have use for a jutsu like Izanagi, when he can instantaneously regenerate with his snake jutsu.

I think that Kabuto and Orochimaru learned later on about the truth of the Sage of the Six Paths by trying to fuck up Madara's plans. Maybe Kabuto figured that it's easier to become a Sage himself in order to accomplish any new unknown goal he might have.

[xXan]

I really doubt Kabuto wants Sasuke just to kill him. If that was the case, Kabuto wouldn't need all this running around. He had the means to challenge Madara directly and considering the sheer amount of Edo summons he has, Kabuto could have simply overwhelmed Madara and went straight for Sasuke. There has to be more to everything then Kabuto simply wanting Sasuke.

Say what? Kabuto has no chanse in hell to direcly attack Madara. He said so himself. After Madara had the rinnegan Kabuto was shaking in his boots and told Madara all the info on Edo's.
Madara can just warp in and put Kabuto in a nice place for the rest of his life ... Not even the 4'th hokage was fast enough to dodge this(he had to teleport away) and you realy think kabuto is fast enough? Madara can stomp all over Kabuto if he wants to.