Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-34661853-20181111160651/@comment-734582-20181113071143

Well lets start round (*counts*) 9 of this discussion.

Princeharris1993 wrote: Hago gave Sasuke half of his chakra directly. That is the reason why he awakened the Rinnegan. It had nothing to do with Hashi's cells being transplanted into his body. Sasuke did get hashirama's cells from Kabuto though. Naturally awakening a rinnegan can take ages, so Hagoromo sped up the process and ensured he had only one eye. But getting chakra doesn't give you powers. I don't see alliance veterans running around with Kyubi cloaks anymore. Same with Kakashi not having a Kurama mode. Chakra transfers cannot give powers like that. Gaara doesn't have a Kyubi cloak, the Sound Ninja who stole Sasuke's chakra doesn't have Sharingan, etc etc etc etc etc.

Hagoromo can take power that's present and alter it (e.g. he turned the Juubi from one being to 9), so that's likely what he did to Naruto and Sasuke: Take what was present and alter it to suit his needs.

Princeharris1993 wrote: If that was the case, then Naruto would have awakened the Rinnegan after Tsunade made him an arm cultured from Hashi's cells after the 4th war. No, Naruto already naturally has Ashura's chakra. He could get his head placed on a Hashirama clone body and it still wouldn't give him a Rinnegan. He needs Madara's or Sasuke's flesh, which he never got.

Princeharris1993 wrote: which eventually turned MAdara's Sharingan into Rinnegan. Probably the source of all confusion, but it didn't. Madara awoke Rinnegan as a separate power from Sharingan. The most obvious piece of evidence here is right as Madara starts fighting after being reanimated. When he puts Ay under Genjutsu he switches back to EMS. It makes no sense if the Rinnegan were a true evolution (MS users don't need to switch to sharingan to use its base powers).

Sasuke also uses Rinnegan as a separate power (e.g. when he overuses his sharingan power, the tomoe disappear from his Rinnegan but his Rinnegan stays active).