Pathetic. People are still defending Sasuke's pardon and Orochimaru's. The entire Naruto fandom belongs in a mental institution.
Sasuke’s pardon made no sense to me. Neither did his journey of “atonement”.
He clearly leaves on his own terms.. to achieve his own (poorly explained) goals. That’s not atonement.. that’s taking a holiday..
The worst part about it was when he refused Sakura’s request to go with him and told her something like “this is a journey of redemption for me…. my sins have nothing to do with you”. Umm yeah they do.. He tried to kill her a few times and tried to destroy her village/kill everyone she cares about.. There is no contrition.. his apology is very far from being emotionally convincing.
His being away and alone just seems like an excuse to avoid actually facing those he hurt and to maintain his faux cool-rogue image.
Naruto doesn’t realise that Orochimaru is young because he has stolen another body. I wouldn’t be surprised if that body came from the leaf village…
So Orochimaru casually explains how he performed more human experiments on more children. These experiments involved removing the eyes from most of these kids.. and then grafting them to a guy with stolen Uchiha DNA.
Naruto’s response is basically: “b.. but.. you can’t do that Orochimaru.. It’s bad!”
Then Orochimaru just brushes it off and Naruto is left standing there, in front of the cloning tank, looking impotent. He’s let these sick experiments continue for years and he is still not going to do anything about it.
The only way this scene could be more messed up is if Konohamaru was there to see it.
“..i used to look up to you seventh! Is this your ninja way now!? I thought you were a hero!” - (Konohamaru runs off crying)