Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-1018594-20160409062530/@comment-734582-20160618164039

Actionmanrandell wrote: the swirl isn't necessarily proof the uzumaki clan are descended from Indra. but here is more possible proof I have to say that i agree with the deduction, i think that the Uzumaki are descendants of both Indra and Ashura.

But honestly, that has to be the worst argument out of all the ones i've thought of and found.

Power-wise, Indra's branch deals with Yin-release (that is, dealing with the barrier between reality and imagination) and Asura's with Yang release (that is, physical strength, reserves, longevity). Note that the Uchiha deal with Yin (Sharingan, genjutsu, Susanoo and all mangekyou) and the Senju wiht Yang (strong, versatile, good reserves and long living). The Uzumaki are a clan connected to Ashura (because Naruto) but have powers of both: Vital and long living like the Senju, but powers (e.g. Adamantine Sealing Chains, healing, sensing) like an Uchiha. I suspect they're a mixture of Indra descendants that lacked Sharingan (it's a KKG and they do not necessarily pass on) with Ashura indra.

Theme-wise, they bound a frigging Shinigami and used it as a jutsu. They fulfill the death theme of the Six Paths. Rinnegan powers can be traced to major clans.

Deva is control over gravity but also spacetime (note that Guy bends spacetime directly confirming Einstein's right in this world too).

Ashura is summoning + puppetry (which definitely got reverse engineered or passed on to the Sand)

Human is mind reading (the databook lists the soul ripping as the natural result of seeing your life flash behind your eyes. So it seems that reading a mind really fast fries your brain). This is reverse engineerd or passed on to the Yamanaka clan.

Animal is summoning too, and is probably the result of Nagato digging up skeletons and using Naraka to restore their bodies. The big pins and rinnegan eyes suggest these animals are just an extension of the Six Paths of Pain technique (and thus dead).

Preta is the ability to control chakra, specifically draining it from others and projecting barriers that absorb ninjutsu. Minato did a similar jutsu that sealed ninjutsu away, which was Uzumaki in nature.

Naraka beckons the King of Hell which deals in souls, which sounds similar to the Reaper Death Seal. Whereas beckoning the Reaper allows the ripping of the soul, beckoning the King of Hell does the reverse (ripping a soul from the afterlife) but still has the exact same result (your soul is sold to the King of Hell).

Note that these powers return in familiar places:

Spacetime, summoning and mental connections (Deva, Human, Animal) return in Mangekyou. Amaterasu summons all-burning flames. Kamui-line bends spacetime. Kotoamatsukamu-line connects to one's mind at a much deeper level than regular Genjutsu. But all are effectively the same power: the ability to blur the line between reality and imagination. Genjutsu does this subjectively (a mental "space"), Kamui does this objectively (physical space) and summoning moves around objects through spacetime.

Ashura is a bit weird but it's essentially a storage jutsu (see: Minato's jutsu, Tenten's).

Human is not just Yamanaka jutsu, but also is what Ninshu is: connecting people's souls.

Preta is present in Minato's jutsu (barrier seals) but in general is a form of Barrier ninjutsu. It's also in Wood Release.

Note that the Outer Path is simply the power of the Gedo Statue (the black rods are similar to Shikotsumyaku) in the form of the rods. It also contains chakra chains similar to the Uzumaki. Rinne Tensei is effectively the use of the King of Hell, not really the Gedo Statue.