why did obito stay hidden for so long?

[KING KISAME]

I feel like obito was afraid of itachi and that itachi would have easily defeated him

 

['Nāpalm]

because he was making his plans....

 

[Unbiased]

Hiruzen would of kicked his ass..and he made a pact with Itachi

 

[kibainuzuka]

because...because he...um he...what was the question again?

 

[jordan1]

Seriously?

 

[Rin Chan]

Because masks is the new style, you should try it out -wears mask- I'm so amazing right now. c:

 

[SageoftheoneWay]

Well for one he wanted the right time to get attention with Kyuubi to mask as "Madara" then he needed a group powerful enough to subjugate all the Bijuu's and needed Nagato, who had the rinnegan, to do it. So he manipulated him, and at the right time, when sasuke finally disposed of Itachi, who would of interfered, Obito approached him to deceive him as well in order for him to use the rinnegan to revive madara again.

 

[-immortal-]

because he was a *****

 

[Zerofnaruto]

I feel like obito was afraid of itachi and that itachi would have easily defeated him

No, it was all part of madaras plan. Him taking madaras name was his idea though. He dosn't care about the world, so I doubt he would be afraid of anything in it, including itachi.

 

[dirklyn]

Obito is a tactician.

 

[KidGamer65]

Lol, Obito wasn't scared of Itachi, he had no reason to be scared of him either.

He stayed hidden to plan his next few moves out most likely.

 

[markdabomb22]

Because of itachi......

 

[KING KISAME]

Didn't he say that he wasn't even a shadow of his former self
and that he wasn't even worthy of being called an Uchiha

PLEASE EXPLAIN
Oh and he was talkin about obito