Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-3965545-20160510012347/@comment-734582-20160512113144

QuakingStar wrote: I doubt that, because if they were reflections then they would have disappeared soon afterwards Of course they would, but how long is soon? Compared to the kind of chakra Nagato had to transmit to make them use their abilities, how much is required to keep the rinnegan reflection? If even a percent of that transmitted power remains in the body, could it maintain the illusion for years?

QuakingStar wrote: the chakra is being sent through the rods in order to move the bodies and make them use techs, its not actually filling them back up with Chakra Yet without a doubt, some chakra is being stored. It has to be, the black rods themselves can't cast these techniques. Some way or the other, the chakra from the Rods needs to be in the body in order to work. Judging by the fact that such a reflection, a Genin could pull off with a Transformation jutsu, it can not be much Rinnegan chakra.

Besides, we've already seen Edo Tensei form whatever cosmetics the user wants (e.g. forming Rinnegan in Madara's eyes), and that's repeatedly mentioned to be an "easy" technique. If appearance modification is easy, why would the Rinnegan have to be cloned?

I mean, even Genin-i-suck-at-ninjutsu Naruto was able to Tranformation Jutsu himself, shadowclones etc, and Bee could do the same to a tentacle. Clearly giving the Rinnegan pattern to a dead body is easy. And since at least some small amount of chakra has to be present in the body, that pattern would be maintained. And given Six Paths chakra's power, it could be maintained hours, days, perhaps even years after death. Not to mention it could become a permanent cosmetic change for all we know.

And wouldn't your question -why nobody did anything with these rinnegan- be proof in itself that they are fake?