you think that they dont try?
all the villages basically want to fight each other and if they deploy enough to fight Orochimaru it means they'll weaken themselves against attack from another village

it was said that any village would love to have Orochimaru under their banner cept for the leaf

you think its that easy to go assasinate him when hes that talented and has a village under his control? also hes protected by Kabuto among his other sound nins haha - you make it seem like its an easy task to get rid of someone


they even have codes that their ANBU follow when Orochimaru is sighted somewhere, thats how scared they are of him