Board Thread:Naruto Gaiden/@comment-4704473-20150603131227/@comment-734582-20150604101358

Elveonora wrote: I'm almost sure their Hagoromo power-ups are gone. I mean think about it. Chakra gets produced in cells and stuff. When someone transfers his/her chakra into a person, if that person spends up the gifted chakra it's gone, why should there still be Hagoromo's chakra after all these years, where from?

That's been my point too. There's fare more situations where the gift was temporary, rather than permanent.

It could be that after a decade, the Rinne Sharingan evolved into the Rinnegan, but losing his susanoo in the process. Or, as with the Gokage summit, Susanoo is an "evil" power that Sasuke doesn't want to rely on anymore. Since they both have Hashi cells, minor cuts like this wouldn't be a big deal either.

All the defining characteristics of Naruto's Six Paths Sage Mode are gone except the pigmentation. No full underbody, no Sage markings on his back, no 6P abilities like Flight. There are definitely remnants of the power (e.g. Sasuke still has rinnegan) but it doesn't seem to be as sharp anymore, not as powerful.

Note: With rinnegan, Obito did not display Susanoo. WIth (true) rinnegan Madara did not display susanoo. A full Rinnegan seems to sacrifice the powers of the Mangekyou. Maybe to grant better control over the Rinnegan part?