Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-32369776-20170708034118/@comment-24824859-20170711002710

Thekillman wrote: Plus, since we don't know how distant that relation is, it's hard to tell exactly how strong that blood bond was. Worst case, it goes all the way back to Ashura's days, in which case claiming that Naruto is Senju-related is equivalent to claiming Hashirama is otsutsuki-related. technically true, but also pretty meaningless in practical terms. The Senju-Uzumaki bond existed also because of economic convenience and a long history of friendship. For all we know, they split off from Ashura's disciples 900 years ago and simply kept in contact regularly. Or they split off from the Senju 80 years (-ish) ago when the village was founded and they wanted to live somewhere else. We simply don't know. You're missing the point, but that's on me for not elaborating. What I'm trying to say is that if the split happen all the way back to Asura, then the fact that the Uzumakis and Senjus are related would be lost in history. Black Zetsu made no mention of the Uzumakis when he was talking about Indra's and Asura's descendants ("Indra and the Uchihas, Asura and the Senjus"). Therefore, the split must've happen much later, but before the founding of Konoha and the shinobi system