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Elliefun15 wrote: This could also mean that they're related via the original two Otsutsuki brothers, right? A thousand years of history is enough time to get some good mixing going on. It's extremely unlikely that a lot of pureblooded people still exist, and many people could be direct descendants.

The Senju however appear to be the most pureblooded Ashura descendants and the Uchiha the most pureblooded Indra descendants, which is why they're eligible for transmigration. But Hagoromo said that Ashura "chose" him, so in theory anyone could be a transmigrant.

Lorenzo.r.1st wrote: yeah. so the uzumaki are either a very early, and different, type of senju, or something else. No.

We know that Ashura was called Otsutsiki, as was Indra. The whole Senju/Uchiha thing apparently came around much later. We don't know when, it's possible those clans weren't formed for the majority of history. At some point Ashura's closest family and/or followers formed the Senju clan and Indra's closest family and/or followers formed the Uchiha. It's entirely possible that the Uzumaki formed at a similar time from non-core members or from people who could've been Senju but didn't want the ideology or didn't like the feud.