Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-11891028-20170719213849

This was something that I was thinking about a while back, there’s probably some info here that is wrong, but this is my interpretation of events based on what I’ve found from the Wiki.

So in order to perform the Reanimation Jutsu, two key things are required: A significant amount of DNA of the user who is to be reanimated and a human sacrifice who is to act as a host which gives the reanimated person a body to use. The human sacrifice is technically alive whilst the jutsu is in action, but effectively dies when the jutsu is released. Fair enough.

So, if the human sacrifices are forced to give up themselves to host a dead person, it makes sense that the sacrifices get sealed away (for most types of seals) if the dead person is sealed too, and when the Reanimation Jutsu is released, the soul of the dead person returns to the Pure Land, the reanimated body falls apart and the human sacrifice (now dead) gets left behind in the seal unless they get unsealed.

So now comes my question, which I understand may seem like a no brainer to some people but I still think its worth raising.

Madara gets reanimated, so some random person gets sacrificed to host him, alright. But then Madara returns from the dead completely using Outer Path – Samsara of Heavenly Life, so now he’s no longer a reanimation. But then what happens to the poor person inside Madara when he’s fully revived?

When I’ve been thinking about the sacrifice, a couple of questions come to mind:

- If the human sacrifice is technically still alive so long as the Reanimation Jutsu is intact, at what point do we consider him to be dead? When Madara’s revived? When Black Zetsu stabs Madara in the back (does this mean that the sacrifice gets stabbed too, or when Madara gets sliced in half by Sasuke whilst as the Ten Tail jinchuriki, or when he gets completely messed up by Guy using Night Guy?) ? When Kaguya is revived? Or when Madara dies for the final time as a result of forcefully ‘retiring’ from all ten-tails related business (ie Kaguya getting sealed again and spitting Madara out)

- What even happens to the sacrifice when Madara is revived? Does it even continue living inside of Madara as Kurama lives inside of Naruto? Or does his body somehow disintegrate when Madara is revived? Assuming that the human sacrifice is still inside of Madara’s body when Madara dies in human form, surely that means that poor sacrifice is gonna die and be trapped in Madara’s body forever?!

Although, if the sacrifice remains alive throughout the whole ordeal, until Madara’s final death then jeez. In the space of time between him being kidnapped/subdued by Kabuto to his death as Madara, his life sure has changed a whole load. Not only did they become one of the most gifted shinobi in history, the strongest member of the Uchiha Clan in their lifetime (despite not being an Uchiha to begin with), a child prodigy, a user of Sharingan, Mangekyo Sharingan, Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan, Byakugan, Rinnegan, Rinne Sharingan, wood release, various Kekkei Genkais and a Kekkei Mōra, all five main nature types, storm release, yin release, yang release, yin-yang release, they went from being reanimated to fully alive fully, prevented themselves from being reanimated, founded the Hidden Leaf Villager (and came up with the name) along with Hashirama, became jinchuriki of the ten tails (and by extension, the nine tailed beasts), and an incarnation of Indra, their body contained cells from the first Hokage and absorbed the chakra of multiple shinobi, they could rival five kage, as well as three of the previous kage (not sure if he actually fought with Sarutobi), they also got to merge with Black Zetsu to become a princess, head of the Otsutsuki clan, mother to the Sage of Six Paths, Earth’s first wielder of chakra, an alien, and (by extension through Kaguya) the moon! All with pretty much no effort since they were used as a reanimation and (most likely) without being completely conscious. Then again, they did become a rogue shinobi who used forbidden jutsus, a demon and also a cannibal who bit the first Hokage... Even so, assuming this sacrifice came from an ordinary background, they sure have achieved a lot in such a short space of time right? (yeah, I get that technically it wasn’t the sacrifice doing all those feats, but I quite like the sound of this random person just suddenly doing accomplishing all that in barely any time through no choice of their own).

Of course, a lot of the other sacrifices got the chance to become some really skilled shinobi, including people alive during Kaguya’s time who were turned into Zetsus and became the first four Hokage, but I feel like Madara’s human host sure accomplished a lot. Whilst some of the other sacrifices got covered in sand (pyramids and sinking sand), trapped in puppets, trapped in pots and eaten by a humanoid statue which got sealed into Madara etc.

Anyway, back to the point. What do you guys think about this whole thing regarding Madara’s host body? Someone’s probably gonna just come up with the most logical answer that the sacrifice stayed attached to Madara and died when he did, but I’d like to see if anyone else has been thinking about this. 