How come nobody stole the uzumaki masks from the temple?

[Gerkak]

plot?

thoughts?

 

[Calpal]

total plot.
because if it wasnt orochimaru would have gone there and got his hands back ages ago

 

[Parrish]

Plot.
All that needs to be said.

 

[Cosman]

Pure plot my friend. Hiruzen might have had security there, but considering how shit a hokage he is, I doubt it.

 

[abhiken]

you dont steal from a temple lol

 

[syed47]

it was guarded bac then and now when every body is on "all out attack", he's got his chance..... probably it's like how i said, but i'm not sure....

 

[Corgi]

People thought the village was destroyed. So, in term, everything in it.

Also, no one probably even knew much about them. This is Orochimaru, of course he knows something about it.

 

[Gerkak]

Danzo must have known
Obito must have known
madara must have known

Why didn't they do anything?

 

[Akemi]

They probably don't know how to use it or its importance...........

 

[Lord Naruto San]

Yeah he wasted all that time to battle both Tsuande and Jiraiya so she can heal him. You might as well challege the Anbu fodders hell Oro survived the 4 tails barely she can risk going for it

 

[DeadManWonderLand]

and do what ?

Your assuming someone is familiar with this now almost entirely extinct clans extremely advanced fuin kinjustu
so,

 

[ismael]

because no one from his generation knew about it. Remember that He did a lot of research. Kabuto and him decoded the stone tablet which maybe had info on the secret grave because oro summoned the edo kages in the place of the stone tablet. So for me it isn't plot, it is just that orochimaru and kabuto did intense research.

 

[AllomnisymbolsparttwoT]

its because if you go and attempt to steal one of them, Japanese mythological beings and tim jamison will eat your souls :I

 

[Sabuto Hayashi]

Probably because either:
a) Not many people were aware they existed
b) They were heavily guarded or hidden, but the destruction revealed them in plain sight
c) No-one had researched how to use them, unlike Orochimaru.

I'm pretty sure most people would have left them alone out of pure respect. It's considered quite rude to take something from a temple in Japanese culture.
Aside from that, anyone who even tried to use a mask would probably become possessed or killed in the process. They might even lack the ability to activate them.