I like team kabuto mostly because yoroi and misumi are connected to kabuto (who I like a normal amount) but also all the weird shit the story implies for them that is never fully addressed.
Like, Kabuto thinks Yoroi is jealous of his promotion which could just be Kabuto but after he says this and leaves Yoroi thinks about how much he wants to ruin Kabuto's life which isn't confirmation but isn't not conformation. What is his relationship with Orochimaru then? Or Otogakure? Why does he want power in the organization?
Orochimaru also stays to watch Yoroi vs Sasuke and calls Yoroi’s ability "unholy" which, I dont think is generally used to describe abilities. Is Yoroi's chakra steal a kekkei genkai? Something he got through experimentation? Can it be learned like the shadow clones or edo tensei? No one else had comments on this power much less tried to stop the fight so it cant be that forbidden. Also when Yoroi absorbs the chakra does he get it added onto his chakra or....?
Misumi agreed to get surgery on all his bones. Enough said.
The three of them are probably all higher ranking than team Dosu due to proximity to Kabuto and Orochimaru. So did Misumi and Yoroi also know about the invasion? Yoroi was likely there to test Sasuke but what was Misumi’s purpose? We don't see him collect information or do infiltration, Orochimaru never asks him for info like they do with Kabuto.
Have the three of them been a team for every exam? Which would imply Misumi and Yoroi have known Kabuto for 4 years since he was 15. They are, by implication at least, Kabuto's first and only genin team and he never has thoughts about these two again. Or does Kabuto swap teammates every exam in which case why pair with Misumi and Yoroi for the invasion specifically, how much does Orochimaru trust them? What is their roles within Otogakure?
The wiki implies Misumi and Yoroi both left Konoha which is fascinating on its own. Their ages (23 both of them) make me think they probably were kids at the tail end of the last war and defo were old enough to remember the nine tails attack. What's their relationship with the village if they both made the choice to leave for Orochimaru? Was it purely for power? Sadism? Was it like Sasuke and both or one thought they could get stronger outside Konoha?
All three members of the team lost to like. Children. I like to think Misumi and Yoroi both threw their matches because idk what purpose they serve to Orochimaru’s plans making it to the finals but that's just my speculation. Both of them made it to the tower no worse for wear on their own so I'd say they are relatively talented but hard to scale with any degree of accuracy assuming both of them had other reasons to be in the exam beyond beating up children. But it doesn't matter because we never see them again. They might have died in those fights in the manga for all we know. But the point stands, all three are major failboys who talk a big game and get their shit wrecked by people who's voices r still squeaking.
Some of this might be answered in the filler I've never seen. I refuse to see it (beyond looking up what Misumi and Yoroi look like under their masks). I love them as is. The ambiguity around them and their connections to a lot of big important people and things that go nowhere because they're idiot failboys and not Orochimaru’s favorites. Its delightful. I hope they appear in a storm game or Naruto online so I can beat them up, see their victory poses/quotes, and force feed them.
