Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-33953813-20171226015659/@comment-734582-20180117180045

Namikazenaruto9 wrote: IF BZ knew about Nagato having the Rinnegan he could have taken it from him controlled some random shinobi and brought Madara back to life If BZ had truly been madara's will, then he would have. It wasn't until late in Obito's plans that BZ suspected that Obito didn't want to complete the plan at all, and so had Kabuto discover the corpse in order to blackmail Obito. Namikazenaruto9 wrote: Also I don't think anyone knew about the eyes until Nagato protects yahiko from a ninja. Considering plenty of ninja have weird eye designs, Kurenai for instance but also Shukaku, i think it was expected as nothing but just another weird eye design. Nagato didn't really manifest it's power until Yahiko died. And so Orochimaru had no reason to suspect it was something special until that point. But it's not until he joined Akatsuki that Orochimaru would've noticed Nagato's strange eyes and powers, and that's roughly the point in which his curiosity would've peaked.