Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-32369776-20170708034118/@comment-24824859-20170715204452

Thekillman wrote: True. But my point was that based upon what (little) we know, it's extremely strange to count Naruto as "Senju-related" in the context it was used earlier. But....he is Thekillman wrote: There is no evidence for this. It's entirely possible that whatever proto-clan existed under Ashura simply split into Senju and Uzumaki clans. There's no actual mention of the Uzumaki splitting off. Hell it could just be 100+ years of common marriages that made them related eventually. If that were the case, then BZ would have mentioned the Uzumakis along with the Senjus when he was talking about Asura. The Senju clan had to have form way after Asura's demise in order to have enough members who all inherited Asura's dilutted genes. Though, you may be right