Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-11891028-20170719213849/@comment-1746153-20170720141310

Why would the sacrifice's soul be trapped, though? Again, in Oro's case, he was suppressed but eventually emerged. I feel like if the sacrifice's soul was still somewhere inside of their body, the story would have addressed this. There would be talks about possibly bringing the sacrificed person back, or reaching out to them so that they could fight against the reanimated person's soul (which could be potentially pretty interesting). Something like this. I get where you're coming from, but I still think the souls being gone for good is more likely (and one can't actually destroy souls in the Naruto canon, right?).