Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-24815383-20150827211945/@comment-5273810-20150831193556

LegionZero wrote: None of the village kids knew about Kurama being inside him.

No one knew about Asuma and Kurenais relationship either.

Unless you can prove he became famous for it within 4 years you AND that Orochimaru met him during that time, then there is no error or retcon, because nothing previously established has been changed or come in to conflict with. The first one is true, though the previous generation did, hardly a great secret when most of the population knows about it.

Everyone who knew them knew there was a relationship it was obvious to everyone who knew them, to say anything otherwise is silly. The level of the relationship however I would imagine was not known my many.

Well anyway lets just stop this conversation here. All I see is that Orochimaru was acting like his getting the Sharingan was recent which it wasn't. Back when it was written Kishi could have been thinking it was a fairly recent acquisition. You can argue your side and you have a valid point with that last bit, I guess it is "unprovable" to be a retcon but I will stick with this stance as it makes the most sense. Lets just leave it at that.