Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-28819877-20170515143845/@comment-734582-20170516060613

Killer723 wrote: Hmm what about Kabuto statement? That natural progression following the sharingan is the rinnegan?

just merging chakra sounds to simple to awake godlike power. I would expect Black Zetsu to be more of an authority on this topic than Kabuto.

Besides, Sasuke's eye shows that the two dojutsu are not the same and can in fact coexist.

As i mentioned before, and as Zetsu pretty much confirmed, it's the Uchiha's circumstance that allowed them to more easily awaken it. Especially since it seems that the Ashura will eventually become more powerful, and so wouldn't need the Uchiha's flesh for greater power. The Uchiha however can be manipulated into an inferiority or megalomania complex, which makes them trying to obtain the other's power more likely.

Considering the bloodyness of the Warring States Era, it's likely that even if Transmigrants got to the point where they stole the other's power, it's extremely unlikely they'd live long enough to awaken the Rinnegan. Ironically, Hashirama's village system allowed Madara to survive long enough in stability to get that eye.

QuakingStar wrote: If that was the case Naruto would have Rinnegan, so yes there is very much more to it UltimoDud. Nope. Naruto has no Indra flesh, so he won't get Rinnegan. Just getting a bit of Hagoromo chakra isn't enough.

Killer723 wrote: just merging chakra sounds to simple to awake godlike power. Flesh, to be more accurate. You need lengthy exposure to the chakra for it to really start the transformation. Madara awoke it after decades, it's not some automatic powerup. Naruto and Sasuke are the exception because they met with THE God of Shinobi. Even the databooks attribute Naruto and Sasuke's power directly to Hagoromo.

Lorenzo.r.1st wrote: that's cuz the only rinne we have seen so far all came from sharingan users, which is obviously understandable, since every single one of us thought the same thing, at one point. its almost logical, but not necessarily, well, necessary. Two, to be precise. I can't stress that enough. Two Uchiha got Rinnegan. The statistical bias can easily be attributed to the Uchiha's problems allowing them to be manipulated into taking the other's power for themselves, whereas the Ashura's limitations make them more resistant to power grab fantasies. It makes all the sense in the world that Kabuto thought it was the evolution of the Sharingan, since that's what the data told him. But the data tells us that Sasuke's eye and it's mechanisms make that an impossibility: the sharingan and Rinnegan are different eyes, with different powers and abilities.