Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-28861328-20140618060932/@comment-7862945-20140620074134

ItachiWasAHero wrote: This is off topic but...Madara was called the Second Six Paths. Nagato was called the Third Six Paths.. but it seems that title would be false for him if the eyes were only transplanted Rinnegan he himself didn't awaken and Obito knows they were transplanted.. yet he still called Nagato the Third Six Paths... now Black Zetsu said he approached Senju AND Uchiha from the very beginning to try and get either of them to awaken Rinnegan... so I think the simple act of transplanting Izuna/Madara's eyes into an Uzumaki/Senju awakened the Rinnegan within Nagato himself's DNA, so if he was ever revived like Madara was, his own eyes would have Rinnegan awakened in them and he would be able to turn them on/off. Idk it seems far fetched but the Third Six Paths title seems to hint to it?? I think it was because of how well he fit with the Rinnegan that he could be considered the 3rd sage. From what is shown, the only ones who could awaken the Rinnegan are the one's who inherited Hagoromo's kid's chakra.... and even among them, the one's that inherit the chakra also have to be special...

So Madara was probably the first person in a long time with the potential to awaken the Rinnegan. I don't think the Dojutsu becomes a part of Nagato if he was completly revived.

A title is, in the end, just a title. You don't need to look to deep into it.

Few people in History actually were able to use the Rinnegan as well as Naruto. Obito himself admitted that he couldn't handle 2 Rinnegan, yet Nagato was able to use it as a child. Nagato was the 3rd person to have a Rinnegan in both eye's. He had the powers of the sage from both sides (though he wasn't a true heir).