Uchiha Sora followed Orochimaru through the dim underground passage.
"Orochimaru, I never thought you'd bring me to your research base. Aren't you afraid I'll find out about your experiments?" Uchiha Sora asked with a chuckle.
"Hehe, Sora-kun, you and I are the same kind of person. In this Shinobi World, people as single-minded as us ought to appreciate one another," Orochimaru replied.
"Well, I'm surprised you'd say something like that."
"Consider it my way of being open with you," Orochimaru said.
Uchiha Sora smiled.
The two made their way down the long passage, passing laboratory after laboratory. Some rooms held experimental subjects.
Finally, Orochimaru led Uchiha Sora into a room full of books.
After searching the shelves packed with all sorts of research materials, Orochimaru took out a scroll and turned to hand it to Uchiha Sora. "This contains the information on the Cursed Seal. However, there's another essential requirement: genetic material from a certain boy. That boy isn't here right now."
"Jūgo?" Uchiha Sora asked.
"Hehe, you certainly know a great deal about my affairs, Sora-kun!" Orochimaru said, taken aback.
"I'll take this information. As for Jūgo, I don't need him for now," Uchiha Sora said calmly.
He wanted the Cursed Seal Technique mainly to study Sage Transformation, not necessarily to reproduce the Cursed Seal's use in its entirety.
"Oh, right, Orochimaru, can you still get hold of White Zetsu? I need a large number of them-the more, the better!" Uchiha Sora added after accepting the scroll.
"I've already left the Akatsuki, so getting more White Zetsu won't be that simple. However, I do know where they hide. You can try looking for them yourself. With your abilities, I'm sure capturing them will be easy," Orochimaru said.
Orochimaru then told Uchiha Sora the locations of the White Zetsu hideouts