Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-32624156-20170721153715/@comment-25122992-20170729100111

UltimaDude wrote: Authority = Power. During his conversation with Naruto, Hagoromo made no mention of giving actual power to Asura, only leadership of Ninshuu. It wasn't until he was about to give Naruto and Sasuke their respective power-up did he mention power. He mention power again when Naruto and Sasuke were about to fight. The power Hag was talking about in relation to Asura and Indra was authority You actually have a point here as the feud would still continue regardless of the victor, up until Naruto's victory against Sasuke It's entirely possible to have more than one leader, especially if it's something like a belief. Hagoromo choosing Asura to be the leader of Ninshuu, instead of Indra, is what started the feud in the first place. This has been stated in the manga on more than one occasion. He didn't consider on how Indra would feel. Maybe, Hagoromo didn't mention it in the beginning, but still, he mentioned it later on. Otherwise, Hagoromo wouldn't be able to parallel the sutiation between Naruto/Sasuke to the situation with his sons, since these two were technically two different cases (he hadn't have to choose a successor between Naruto/Sasuke after all).

Perhaps, it's possible to have two leaders, but it seems that Hagoromo didn't want to divide his legacy (because such a split in ninshu could've become a source of calamities as well). However, again, it doesn't exclude the decision of Hagoromo to give Asura some actual power. Although the main reason of the feud was Indra feeling bitter towards Asura being chosen as a successor, maybe, Hagoromo later (after his death) decided that if he had shared some power with Indra as well, it could've been seen by Indra as a sign of good faith and thus prevented the conflict (since Hagoromo has always repeated he did give everything to a single son without any attention to the other one).

Besides, I want to clear up one thing. I also think that the filler story of Indra/Asura messed up too many of the canon facts, but the moment with Hagoromo sharing his power with Asura is the one that doesn't contradict these facts, although its timing does (since it was established that Asura awoke his own power before Hagoromo's gift, but anime made it seem like it was only after).