{"id":"indra-asura","name":"Indra, Asura and Hagoromo","japanese":"六道仙人","category":"history","subtitle":"The background to a conflict spanning generations.","summary":"Hagoromo is the Sage of Six Paths. His sons Indra and Asura are part of the distant origin of the lineages and of the explanation for exceptional powers.","facts":[["Clave","Lineage is not the same as reincarnation"]],"lvl":1,"sections":[{"h":"Hagoromo's account","t":"While Naruto is unconscious, the Sage of Six Paths, Hagoromo Ōtsutsuki, appears to him and tells him his story. Hagoromo spread ninshū, a teaching meant to connect hearts through chakra. He had two sons: Indra, the elder, a genius who believed in power; and Asura, the younger, who made his way through effort and by relying on others. When Hagoromo chose Asura as his successor, Indra did not accept it and the brothers clashed. It is history told within the fiction, not a complete tree of every generation.","lvl":1,"ch":"naruto-670","pos":670},{"h":"Chakra reincarnations","t":"Hagoromo explains that his sons' chakra kept reincarnating and repeating the conflict. Madara and Hashirama were one cycle; Sasuke and Naruto are the next. At the same time, the Sage grants part of his power to both young men. This does not mean every Uchiha is a reincarnation of Indra or that Naruto belongs to the Senju clan through that tie: the legacies are related to the Uchiha and the Senju, but reincarnation is a matter of chakra, not blood.","lvl":1,"ch":"naruto-671","pos":671},{"h":"Its link to the Rinnegan","t":"Mixing Indra's and Asura's specific chakras helps explain Madara's late awakening of the Rinnegan, after he had taken in Hashirama's cells. Sasuke awakens his own Rinnegan after receiving Hagoromo's power. It is not a rule about mixing the blood of two clans indiscriminately: the result depends on those specific bearers. The Rinnegan Nagato used, for example, was Madara's and did not come from his own lineage.","lvl":1,"ch":"naruto-673","pos":673},{"h":"Black Zetsu's hand","t":"Kaguya weeps on seeing her sons in Naruto and Sasuke, and Black Zetsu reveals that he manipulated shinobi history for centuries to revive his mother. He approached Indra, altered the Uchiha shrine's tablet and pushed Madara. So part of the hatred between the heirs of Indra and Asura was stoked from outside. The revelation does not erase each character's choices, but it does change how the conflict reads as a natural fate between two brothers.","lvl":1,"ch":"naruto-681","pos":681},{"h":"The anime's expanded version","t":"The anime devotes several original episodes to the brothers' youth. Indra creates hand seals and techniques out of ninshū, influenced by Black Zetsu, and awakens the Sharingan while saving Asura. Hagoromo sends them to solve problems in different lands: Asura spends a year digging a well with the people of a village sickened by a tree's sap. Once Asura is chosen, Indra attacks the ceremony with the Mangekyō and swears to face him in every reincarnation.","lvl":1,"ep":"shippuden-468","pos":683},{"h":"Breaking the cycle","t":"After sealing Kaguya, Sasuke decides to kill the five Kage to bear the world's hatred alone, and Naruto stands against him. They fight at the Valley of the End, the same place where Hashirama and Madara fought, until each loses an arm. Sasuke admits defeat and reconciles with Naruto, and together they undo the Infinite Tsukuyomi. Hagoromo had trusted that this cycle would end differently, and the bond between the two breaks the rivalry's repetition.","lvl":1,"ch":"naruto-699","pos":699}],"characters":["madara","sasuke"],"related":["rinnegan","konoha","tsukuyomi-infinito","valle-del-fin"],"reference":"Naruto, chapters 670–671 and 681.","sources":[{"title":"Madara: infancia, Izuna y la fundación de Konoha","url":"https://naruto-official.com/en/news/01_1663"},{"title":"Sasuke: la verdad sobre Itachi y un nuevo camino","url":"https://naruto-official.com/en/news/01_1858"}],"figures":[]}