Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-3568954-20140523074558/@comment-5110462-20140523093429

Actionmanrandell wrote:

also you say you would like to see hashirama take him down because he is madara's rival but the truth that they are rivals because of indra and ashura so if either hashirama or naruto took him down it would essentially be them both doing it

Well, yeah its all speculation, but a sage's upgrade could speed things up for naruto and sasuke, but they still wouldn't have mastered the DNA's they acquire to awaken the rinnegan

Take Madara's case since he didn't have access to a lot of Senu DNA(body of a senju) the rinnegan awakened very late for him, but it only awakened after he had mastered the Senju DNA

I mean Obito's 50% body is Senju, so he had a better shot at awakening the rinnegan, but then there's that reincarnation factor

Also, about the reincarnation thing, you do realize that despite being reincarnations they still had their own will right?

Their rivalry might have been caused by the Indra/ashura thing, but they still had their own free will, which is why each version was a bit different than their predecessor

Madara was so different that he acquired a portion of Ashura/senju DNA and mixed it with his own

So it wouldn't be the same if Naruto defeats him, thats why i'd like to see Hashirama Defeat him