Otogakure

Otogakure ((音隠れの里, Otogakure no Sato , literally meaning: Village Hidden by Sound) is the personal hidden village of Orochimaru, which was founded for the express purpose of collecting ninja for his experiments and his quest to learn all techniques. In later years, following Orochimaru's new appreciation for natural development of people and making a truce with Konohagakure, Orochimaru reestablished the village as a legitimate shinobi village.

## Background [ ]

Initally, Orochimaru claimed that he founded this village so that skilled ninja would find their purpose in life without being beholden to the fickle and warmongering priotiries of the Five Great Shinobi Countries. In actuality, Otogakure is not really a village but a network of laboratories composed of various hideouts and bases scattred troughout the Land of Sound and various other contries. Otogakure's shinobi use a diverse number of techniques, which are mostly centred around the modifications resulting from Orochimaru's human experimentation.

Team Dosu, under Orochimaru's orders, entered the Chunin Exams with the goal of killing Sasuke Uchiha while unaware their true mission was to be subjected to Sasuke's power after Orochimaru gave him the cursed seal. Later, Orochimaru tricked Sunagakure into helping Otogakure invade Konoha. Based on their map, Hidan and Kazuku visited Otogakure while searching for jinchuriki.

Ten years after the Fourth Shinobi World War , Otogakure is being reconstruted as true shinobi village. Orochimaru's son, Mitsuki , is allowed to enrol in Konoha's Academy as transfer student as a sign of mutual respect between the two villages, and later becomes a Konohagakure genin

## Locations [ ]

Orochimaru set up many bases accross the world during his travels. These bases ranged from usually inconspicuous underground hideoutswith holes for entrances to more grand ones hidden on an island. All these hideouts were outfited with laboratories where he and later Kabuto Yakushi would carry out experiments

### Land of Sound Base [ ]

The former headquarters of Otogakure at least until the Chunin Exams, the stronghold was built below a tree. It has two markings in it reminiscents of a snake and what appears to be a snake's skull on the top-most part. This is where Orochimaru returned to after Hiruzen Sarutobi had sealed his hands and he remained here while he experienced the adverse effects of his rotting hands. This is also where Orochimaru kept the hand with his Akatsuki ring which Itachi Uchiha had severed. In the anime, when Naruto Uzumaki , Sakura Haruno , and Jiraiya infiltrated the hideout, they fought against Arashi, which lead to the hideout being destroyed.