Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-4271790-20141106113847/@comment-1618203-20141108161930

Kakamui wrote: I thought everyone in a clan is closely related. Because I found it weird and incestish if you married one in your clan. Is this a misconception? Its not really a misconception at all. Each clan consist of people who have the same ability, some of them may be related by blood, some may not. Also most of them are related, but they tend to marry their second cousins and downward. They may have had children with outsiders that the Clan leaders approved of and so on, adding fresh genes into the clan. I thought the same thing too. I just thought about it like this, my cousins on my dad side are no where related to my cousin on my mom side, so either cousin from each side could marry each other. =P