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In the English dub, during the fight between the Third Hokage Sarutobi and
Orochimaru in the first Naruto series, Sarutobi says that after using the
Reaper Death Seal, the souls trapped in the Reaper are tormented for all
eternity.

Does this mean that the souls of the First through Fourth Hokages were
suffering from the time they were sealed away until they were released in
Naruto Shippuden? Or was this a mistranslation?

When the First through Fourth Hokages were brought back by Orochimaru in
Shippuden, they didn't seem like they were being tormented - or rather - it
appeared that they had no recollection of their time outside of reality.

So which one is it? I did not watch the sub/Japanese episodes or read the
manga from this part of the series.


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Do the trapped souls in the Reaper/Shinigami suffer?


When Lord Third said those words, he meant that instead of the soul going into
its rightful place, it is being trapped inside a demon for eternity. So the
soul is never rested peacefully when it is inside the demon. If that is
torture, I think all the previous hokage have gone through it.


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In the manga chapter 124, Sarutobi tells Orochimaru what happens to the souls
who are sealed by the Shiki Fujin.

> With this jutsu, the one whose soul is sealed will suffer for all eternity
> in the belly of death, never gaining release. The one who is sealed and the
> one who performed the seal, their souls will mingle, **hating each other and
> battling the other for all eternity.**
>
> ![Sarutobi seals Orochimaru using Shiki
> Fujin](https://i.stack.imgur.com/j2lXo.png)

This would happen in the _normal_ case, which is when a shinobi uses the Shiki
Fujin to seal his enemy's soul along with his own. Naturally, their souls
would continue to fight after being sealed inside the Shinigami's stomach.

However, Sarutobi used it to seal his former teachers, Hashirama and Tobirama,
who were only fighting him because they were under Orochimaru's Edo Tensei
control. After being sealed, there was no reason for them to continue
fighting, and hence, when they were released, they don't look like they were
suffering or exhausted from battle.

The Fourth Hokage was sealed with the Yin-Kyuubi, and he presumably ended his
battle long ago, as described
[here](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/21313/99), so he had no reason to be
suffering either.


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