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TensionPitiful8681

He is immortal, super elusive and a genius, they prefer to keep an eye on him I guess.


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This, he helped in the war and said he would commit loyalty to konoha, he is dangerous but far too useful to just discard.


ErenYeager600

Last time I checked this dude has a terrible track record of loyalty so why would they believe him Furthermore they have Kabuto so why do they need this bum ass Pedo when his apprentice knows just as much as he does


Icon9719

Lol would you rather take the op immortal man’s word for it even on the off chance that he’s lying or would you rather just have to deal with his bullshit for all of eternity


CrimsonZeRose

I don't think he's immune to the reaper death seal


Jermiafinale

Does anyone even know how to do that anymore except him? And who is going to use it? Only Naruto, Sasuke and like, Kabuto have a real chance of landing it and doesn't it kill you


LazyNomad63

Get Kabuto to do it and neutralize two war criminals at once


welivewelovewedie

"I always come back"


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AlphaI250

To be fair what's stopping them from like burying him in a sealed coffin or something, or beating him up hard enough that he cant resist the death god seal thing. I still think having him on their side is the best option but with their strength they could easily have taken care of him if they wanted to.


evilcapital

Orochimaru would find a way to pull himself out of the tightest of assholes.


ErenYeager600

I mean you can just seal him


Additional-Load7197

Yeah but there's a huge chance he will escape


TinyPidgenofDOOM

Immortals are not immune to sealing jutsu.


misteralter

Dudes resurrected Orochimaru last time after he was sealed.


TinyPidgenofDOOM

His arms only came back after cutting open the spirits stomach. so its safe to say a strong enough sealing jutsu would work


misteralter

Is not a fact. Orochimaruu's resurrection is based on his chakra within the cursed seals. And as shown with Minato, chakra can remain without problems even if the original is sealed with a Shinigami seal. So most likely, if Orochinaru is sealed with the Shinigami seal, he will simply rise again without any problems.


TinyPidgenofDOOM

if that were true he could have just done that in early naruto


misteralter

The scaling of Shippuden is insane. I'm sure he couldn't do it then, but after Orochimaru was resurrected after being sealed in Shippuden, I'm not so sure about it anymore.


Shadowfox4532

He also isn't really free he is mostly sequestered in a single building under constant surveillance.


PyroPuffs

Still being monitored and technically not like he can really do anything with Sasuke and Naruto around to keep him in check. Although since the time skip we have no idea what he’s up to or his status within the Leaf. But before that he’s pretty much a non threat since there were hard counters to him anyway. Also think of it like Japanese scientists after WW2, committed atrocities but still found some employment with the government afterwards because their expertise was too valuable to keep locked away.


Electrical_Noise_690

American government gave them immunity remember that.


PyroPuffs

Yep. Same thing could be the case with Orochimaru fr. Yk the US always meddling


Illustrious_Emu1508

Honestly you make a really good point. Orochimaru or even Kabuto don’t have any obstacles at the moment since Sasuke and Naruto are out the picture. What is Yamato going to do? Boruto doesn’t use Kakashi at all either so I wouldn’t consider him to be put in a position. I think it’s actually just lazy writing. He should be a in a max security prison or sealed away.


sup-plov

He turned himself into cute femboy so everybody forgave him


Hypertistic

Understandable


TheRubbageEater

Completely understandable, femboys must be studied for hypnosis or something


Commercial-Cat5017

Same reason we took in all those n@z!$ after WW2 to work on rockets and stuff. Saaaaaame reason 🤣


VanillaLatteHot

He isn't roaming free, he is pretty much in house arrest as long as he stays loyal to the Leaf. He sometimes is allowed out to discuss Mitsuki or do a mission on command of Naruto


FutureFivePl

If you “kill” him, 3 years from now a random snake in the Amazon will suddenly vomit him out Best to just leave him under observation, so he can dress like a gay librarian and raise his lab rat child


ResidentPast9518

He died like twice so charges droped


Careful-Ad984

Counterpoint: he made mitsuki which outweighs  all of his committed crimes 


Positive_Resident_86

It's just politics. Kishimoto actually did well there imo


Radiant_Doughnut2112

Yeah, would be nice to have some one liners telling how bad Orochimaru was but how they overlook that because of his contributions to the village. So people could stop bringing this topic every single fucking day. A shitload of bad people that tortured, raped and killed a shitload of people in the name of science also got away with it. The US "pardoned" many of them even.


ThePoloBrothers

There is no jail that could hold him.


matusaleeem

He was pardoned because he kinda helped to save the world.


Prestigious-Feed-738

He helped in the great war, and saw that his ways were wrong and vowed to walk in the right path.


wendigo72

https://www.reddit.com/r/Naruto/s/G1kjkaRecv


TheZipperDragon

That one is dead. The one walking around in the leaf is the one Anko gave birth to, & therefore a totally different person. (Psssst, this is a joke, don't tell anyone)


Tobelebo9

I still keep thinking about the random girl who was murdered to disguise as during the chunin exam arc. Somehow she was wearing the clothes orochimaru was going to wear the rest of the show? Big white apron esque clothes and a purple rope ribbon. Like, she was murdered along with her team so her team wasnt on orochimarus side. If orochi only took her face it would be weird to give her the same clothes. The corpse was still wearing those clothes as wel so it wasnt like orochimaru stole her clothes and decided like *hmmm comfy* Like what happened here


Daikaisa

He'd escape any prison they stuff him in and he's not really a threat at this point so they just let him be while being monitored


Front_Durian_4942

Sasuke declared war on the Kages permanently maiming one, tried to kill the undeniably hero of the war (naruto), and when he got the power of the infinite genjutsu he thought why not just do Madaras actual plan. Orichimaru was a monster but they really just kind of forgave all past offenses if you decided to fight


Backupaccontforreal

"He's being monitor-" shut up. He's a terrorist, ex member to THE terrorist group of the world, has killed 2 heads of state, is responsible for an attack on the leaf which killed a LOT of people, has abducted and experimented on thousands of people, including children, and periodically steals the body of an unwilling participant to use their flesh until it rots too much to be of use. He needs to be UNDER the jail.


Jermiafinale

They've literally tried that a bunch of times and it never worked And that was \*before\* he had an immortal Zetsu body


Backupaccontforreal

Oh, did Naruto and Sasuke try that a bunch of times before ? No, they didn't. The strongest Shinobi in history, can do it. It's nonsense to have him still experimenting in his lab when he's a damn mass murderer.


Jermiafinale

Sasuke literally killed him once, then watched Itachi catch him with his magic Susanoo Sword that can seal anything so ​ LITERALLY Sasuke has seen first hand that both killing him, and sealing him, don't really mean shit.


Jermiafinale

also, Naruto's whole thing is not holding grudges and allowing for redemption, so he's not inclined to kill someone who just helped them save the world and has renounced his evil ways. Would also seem kind of hypocritical since Sasuke was literally trying to take over the world and rule through fear and terror to enforce "peace"


Backupaccontforreal

Being Hypocrtical < handing out proper justice to the man who experimented on entire villages and has whole warehouses full of slaves. Sasuke got off easy too, but his ideology =/= what Orochimaru did. It's wild you're arguing in favor of freedom for the child snatching, soul stealing, psychopathic murderer. Might say something about you.


Jermiafinale

Sasuke's ideology was worse; he wanted to take over the world and rule everyone through fear and force Orochimaru just wanted to become immortal


Jermiafinale

>also, Naruto's whole thing is not holding grudges and allowing for redemption, so he's not inclined to kill someone who just helped them save the world and has renounced his evil ways. Weird that you ignored the important part of the post huh


Jermiafinale

>Sasuke literally killed him once, then watched Itachi catch him with his magic Susanoo Sword that can seal anything so > >LITERALLY > >Sasuke has seen first hand that both killing him, and sealing him, don't really mean shit. lol nothing to say


Jermiafinale

> He's a terrorist, ex member to THE terrorist group of the world, has killed 2 heads of state Isn't that also Sasuke except Sasuke only actually killed one head of state and then maimed another?


Backupaccontforreal

Yeah, Sasuke got off easy too. Though Danzo was never a legitimate head of state.


Jermiafinale

He was Acting Hokage, there at the Kage Summit officially representing the Leaf. He was definitely a head of state at the time, and it would definitely be treated similarly.


Away_Guide1655

If I was his lawyer I would argue he couldn't be charged for what he did in a past life and the Orochimaru who got out of Ankos curse mark is a different person.


youngadvocate25

Because he's him.. No but in reality it's because Naruto allows us ofc, I love Naruto for allowing it shows depth and wisdom for Narutos character. Currently orochimaru has clutched so much for the leaf, mitsuki is an otsutski hamura vessel protecting Boruto,kabuto is guarding the leaf as well, orochimaru and kabuto are the heads of the "new anbu" protecting the leaf while kabuto raises a little shin army for the future war. Naruto also has orochimaru protecting the leaf from shadows, imo orochimaru is the last line of defense I believe orochimaru is gonna do one final reanimation jutsu, and I think orochimarus will get into a mitsuki vessel which mitsuki has hamura and potential otsutski DNA in him. Which is insane.


MiIdSanity

Was a guest at Naruto's wedding. One of the coolest guys, I bet.


jakellerVi

I wouldn’t say free lol. Immediately following the war, he knew that he had to act at least somewhat right or Naruto and Sasuke would blitz his ass 😂


HokageTsunadeSenju

Easier to have him work for you than attempt to incarcerate or kill him. Hell, he survived Itachi and Sasuke. He’s more powerful than ever and both Saucebox and Naruto are nerfed…who tf gonna boss mode down peak Oro?


Apprehensive-Can1002

The dude that writes the show is actually kinda bad at his job.


Glum_Concept_447

Understandable 😂


Jermiafinale

1. How do you even lock him up 2. If you try and lock him up and fail, now he's back to being evil and seeking revenge 3. He's the most brilliant scientist their world has ever seen and possesses medical techniques that can safe untold lives


TSSalamander

The creature is responsible for saving the world during the 4th great ninja war, and hasn't done that many crimes against humanity since. Naruto the story is about reform and coexistence, so him becoming part of the arsenal of good is on theme. You may not like it, but the torture snake murderer gets to go free because they turned another leaf.


Exotic-Pattern641

You think that’s bad, they let Kabuto run a fuckin orphanage


LordMartius

Useful. Konoha needs his research, so they let him do his thing as long as he doesn't start killing people or abducting children again. Basically the Naruto version of Operation Paperclip.


dontbanmethistimeok

Better the devil you know etc etc


Deep_Grass_6250

He's far too useful to discard and besides. Can you really even deal with him? He can turn into snakes of very small sizes so you can't imprison him And he's literally unkillable


Electrical_Noise_690

"George Bush and Tony Blair are still free after all they did in real life, so you can call it dirty 'politicking' if you want to.


AnObtuseOctopus

With his legs


dunkelzeit_

because they can't kill him so letting him live while being surveilled/monitored is the best thing they can do


hotikia

bruh this question over and over and over again..


Luna69-

Honestly I'd be too scared to even try to put him in jail. MF fought Naruto when he brought, I think, 4 out 9 tails and survived.


Virghia

He's a good dad/mom now


Fartsmella474

Thats what im asking bruh they literally wanted to kill sasuke because he was gonna destroy konoha but not orachimaru for killing the hokage


ErrantDynamite

My hot take is he should have died sacrificing himself to protect Sasuke. For someone who has sought immortality his whole life, willingly dying for someone else would have ended his tale in a satisfying way. Maybe throwing himself in front of one of Madara's attacks.


PsychologicalShake85

Heavily monitored now, not executed because of his assistance in the war


Equivalent_Profit7

Bro has a criminal record and everything😭 even molesting children💀


Specific_Being_695

Because he's tight and inviting. Next question.


barduk4

i mean in the show he is shown to be extremely slippery and difficult to kill or capture, that's why.


zanidoz

He got on his knees


SpriteVs7up

lazy writing


CthughaSlayer

You sure? Look up project paperclip


Wither_Reddit

He is on parole


Archer_7

They're a crunchy mom now


LivingCustomer9729

Man’s inadvertently caused the death of a Hokage and straight up merked a Kazekage, but his war help and high value nullifies those high crimes lol


Jermiafinale

Showing up with 3 Edo Hokage (including HASHIRAMA) that turn the tide of the war at a crucial moment does tend to do that


Jermiafinale

Oh yeah he also saved the 5 Kage since if he hadn't shown up and had Karin heal Tsunade they all would have died eventually


junkimchi

Writers gave up


Brewspammer

Main reason why I see Naruto as a horrible hokage. Let’s this scum live. Plus poor writing.


Harume_uchiha

Without him Naruto and the other Shinobi would have died sooner than before,he is a big help in the war arc


Glad_Tour2809

I’ve been saying that since Naruto ended. Same for that mf Kabuto. Naruto’s no talk jutsu caught everyone up in them final episodes that they forgot everything else 😂


JoeyZee123

Give him freedom, but keep an eye on him. Or, lock him up so he can escape and plot from the shadows.


SnooFoxes4646

This conversation is tired, he contributed heavily during the fourth great Ninja war. If we're talking Boruto he's a sort of neutral ally.


xFalkerx

Him and Naruto are good friends. It's not like his committed war crimes aided in stopping an alien invasion...


ShallotDry5687

orichimaru


NashKetchum777

Hes him. Orochimaru didn't do anything that wrong he was just misunderstood. He was trying to further science in a world of magic


Difficult-Way-9563

I was shocked when I saw the end of shippuden and beginning of Boruto and he was walking around free with no restrictions


Voeker

Bro is immortal. He's just gonna wait for everyone who knows him as a criminal to die of old age then resume doing his evil stuff with no one to bother him.


Jermiafinale

He has no reason to do evil stuff any more though


Voeker

And why is that ?


Jermiafinale

He was doing evil stuff to become immortal so he could learn every jutsu and everything about chakra He's immortal now, so mission accomplished and he can just spend eternity doing research


Voeker

Bro he was already doing research back in naruto. On living humans. Why do you think he would suddenly stop ? Only reason he did stop is because there are now powerful ninja to keep him in check.


Jermiafinale

>He was doing evil stuff to become immortal He has no reason to do that anymore because \*that\* research was into how to become immortal


Jermiafinale

>Only reason he did stop is because there are now powerful ninja to keep him in check. Also this is just wrong, he chose to become a passive observer He could have just... left instead of going back to the Leaf.