Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-34277398-20180522180427/@comment-734582-20180612114418

Natrix Spiritual Cloak Gleam wrote: That isn't the point though. Itachi was exceptionally fast but Preta Path was cloaked around Nagato if you look closer at the scan. He cannot absorb ninjutsu that he cannot see. He didn't see the Susanoo coming, and he could not see the Totsuka coming. Besides, preta wasn't active when he saved Naruto and Bee. Nor was it active when he got sealed.

EDIT: The third databook mentions "this jutsu causes the body's chakra circulation to flow in reverse, sucking away the jutsu of the target" Its not an automatic jutsu.

FlatZone wrote: He absorbed chakra from V2 Killer Bee without it, there are multiple different absorbing techs for the preta path. Stealing chakra is not Rinnegan-unique. It can be done simply though contact. Absorbing jutsu, however, has always required the barrier for Nagato.