Board Thread:Episode Discussions/@comment-1181222-20171011112920/@comment-27797856-20171013162532

^Zabuza was dead though. And the sword stood as a gravestone for 3 years. They could have sent a genin to retrieve it if they wanted to. Though I guess with how notorious Kiri is when it comes to Missing-Nin, the higher ups might not have wanted just anyone to retrieve a very precious and powerful relic in fear of it being lost/stolen/etc.

Like, I get what you mean, and it would make total sense if, again, the swords weren't artefacts from wayyy back, from the time of the establishment of Kiri itself. If it was just a regular sword stolen from the Kiri vault that was precious to a dead guy or something, then yeah It would be believable. Now, not so much.