He is confronted by Itachi and Sasuke, who attempt to stop the Edo Tensei, and reveals he has surpassed Orochimaru by becoming the Snake Sage.
He then proceeds to resurrect almost every deceased character in the Narutoverse and then some, including the jinchuriki, Akatsuki, and the real Madara.
Several of these new abilities are shown off when he battles the shinobi guarding the two remaining jinchuuriki, managing to nab Yamato in the process. until he shows back up even later with some new Orochimaru-esque powers and allies himself with Tobi. He feels that he needs to prove his strength by overpowering the growth in his body, but appears to be failing. Later, after Orochimaru dies, he has something of an existential crisis and integrates some of Orochimaru's DNA into his body. In Shippuden, he shows up in the second arc. Fortunately, Naruto saves her and is more than willing to demonstrate his new Rasengan on Kabuto, doing more damage than even he can heal and motivating Tsunade to beat the tar out of Orochimaru. Though she has her Super Strength to fall back on, he quickly finds a way around it by exploiting her fear of blood, beating her. He plays a bit of a bigger role in the Search for Tsunade arc, where he engages Tsunade in battle. After this revelation, he (while disguised as an ANBU) heals Hinata's rather severe internal injuries even though he gained absolutely nothing by doing so (and was healing somebody who could literally see right through his mask if she woke up). Later, it's revealed he's spying on Naruto and Sasuke.
Kabuto shows up in the first series during the Chunin Exams at first, he appears to be a good guy, helping Naruto's team make it to the finish. This, combined with his love of torture, makes him an especially dangerous opponent. His main technique is the Ninja Scalpel, which can sever the strongest muscles with great ease. In combat, Kabuto uses medical techniques that he repurposed for combat. Then, when Orochimaru defected from Akatsuki, he broke the memory seal, and Kabuto became Orochimaru's follower. At some point in the past, he started working for Sasori on Orochimaru's orders, who erased part of his memory to make him a sleeper agent. Orochimaru found him and took him in, offering him a new identity in exchange for his allegiance, which Kabuto accepted. He joined Root to supply the orphanage with money but was eventually attacked by and forced to kill Nonō, who Danzo had tricked intending for them to kill each other, causing him to cross the Despair Event Horizon. He was actually taken in by an orphanage run by Nonō Yakushi, a former Root member whom he considered his mother. This is revealed to be a cover given to him by Orochimaru. Konoha's Head of Medical Corps took pity on him, taking him in and teaching him medicine.
In some versions of the story, his five-year-old son was also thrown into the cauldron, but Goemon managed to hold the child above his head until Hideyoshi took pity and had the boy rescued."I am no longer a snake sage power has allowed me to shed that skin and I am a dragon now!!"Īs a young child, Kabuto was orphaned in the Shinobi World War. In 1594, Goemon tried to assassinate Toyotomi Hideyoshi, allegedly to avenge his wife, and was executed by being boiled alive in a cauldron at the gate of the Nanzenji Temple in Kyoto. He may or may not have really shared the spoils with impoverished peasants, Robin Hood-style. The runaway ninja then spent about 15 years robbing daimyo, wealthy merchants, and rich temples.
In that telling, Goemon stole Momochi's favorite sword before he went. Goemon likely fled Iga after Nobunaga's invasion, although a spicier version of the story states that he was having an affair with Momochi's mistress and had to flee from the master's wrath. In folk tales, Ishikawa Goemon is a Japanese Robin Hood, but he likely was a real historical figure and a thief from a samurai family that served the Miyoshi clan of Iga and supposedly trained as a ninja under Momochi Sandayu.