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The following theory of mine is a core aspect of the plot’s complex web that I strongly believe I’ve deduced and broken down for the most part. Such conviction has understandably been met with serious doubt, obviously. Notwithstanding that, this progenitor to my overall theory has hardly changed or gone through adjustments with recent releases. I made an appropriate, albeit more drastic, edit to further tenets of it by deleting my recent post, Notes on Chapter 657.

To put it real simply, my theory states: ‘Spiral’ Zetsu and 'Yin’ Madara Uchiha are one and the same. Now that I’ve begun with such a conveniently ambiguous statement, let’s delve into events that preceded and surrounded Obito’s tragic incident that conveniently coincided with awakening is Mangekyou, and unleashing what seemed to be near-instant fine control of Mokuton on his part. Understanding the history of Obito and Madara, Jiraiya’s encounter with Nagato, and the events afterward are very key to me developing the central theory.

After Obito’s rehabilitation, ‘Spiral’ and White Zetsu mysteriously knew what Rin and Kakashi looked like, in spite of no pictures being shared, in order to warn Obito of where they are and the nature of their plight. Ignoring the suspicious element I just highlighted for now, I want you to notice ‘Spiral’ Zetsu enveloping Obito so he can “wear his body”. During these moments of ‘Spiral’ Zetsu closing in on Obito’s eye and fully enveloping him, Old Man Madara is never conscious/awake or talking. He was “asleep” the whole time ‘Spiral’ and White Zetsu helped Obito through rehabilitation, and always is “asleep” when ‘Spiral’ Zetsu is fully enveloping Obito, not otherwise. This is not a coincidence. Neither is it a coincidence that ‘Spiral’ Zetsu seems to be a perfect form-fitting armor for Obito, and was in the process of being created while Obito was in a coma from the boulder. Old Man Madara suspiciously seems to defer to Obito’s demand to leave, and save his friends. The recent anime episode 345 goes even further, and shows Old Man Madara falling “asleep” just after Obito leaves donned with ‘Spiral’ Zetsu.

After Obito witnesses Rin’s tragic death, his anguish unleashes his Sharingan’s power and he advances it to the Mangekyou. But why was it necessary for ‘Spiral’Zetsu to enclose him at this moment? Not only that, but notice how this is the first instance we see black blades of the Outer Path erupting from Obito’s body, and this is before Old Man Madara taught him the Outer Path. Why exactly does Obito, in this moment, on all manga scans, and in the anime episode 345, say “where am I? What is this?” after ‘Spiral’ Zetsu encloses him fully as he awakens the Mangekyou? Why is the ‘Spiral’ Zetsu armor still on Obito after Old Man Madara sends off his apprentice with his dying words, and then is mysteriously (I repeat, mysteriously) completely gone by the time of the Nine-Tails’attack on Naruto’s birthday? We know that White Zetsu obviously knows ‘Spiral’ Zetsu, so why does the keen mind observe Zetsu speaking to “Tobi” just like he’s ‘Spiral’ Zetsu, when “Tobi” joined Akatsuki? Or observes that “Tobi” at times behaves literally identical to ‘Spiral’ Zetsu? Or that Zetsu said “Tobi is a good boy” just like White Zetsu said to ‘Spiral’ Zetsu years earlier when the latter was “joining” Akatsuki? What do these clear as day connections mean?

narutobase.net/forums/showthread.php?t=306153 is a link to what I sincerely call the most accurate Naruto and Naruto: Shippuden Timeline, within very marginal error. It’s enough to where an appreciable portion of my theory’s framework is built on the accuracy of this Timeline. The “Before Series Starts” is a very insightful index on this tedious collection, which shows how 32 years before the plot’s beginning, (32 years “Before Series Starts”/BSS), Old Man Madara performed his much-discussed transplant to a 5-year old Nagato. As I will mention again, Old Man Madara had awakened the Rinnegan in his Left Eye five years prior to this (37 years BSS). The later transplant and its implications will be discussed in further detail shortly. This event occurs in the same timeframe that an 18-year old Jiraiya is summoned before the Great Toad Sage for his prophecy about a student. By this point, Jiraiya was mastering non-true Sage Mode, and had no idea his first interpretation of “student” would be the 10-year old Ame Orphan Nagato, five years later after his journey. The conclusion of this book-writing journey—in which the-soon-to-be-Sannin encountered 5 of the 6 individuals that ended up as Pain Rikudou—found Jiraiya fighting as a Konoha Shinobi in World War II. He stumbled upon Nagato after losing terribly to, and receiving his life title from, Hanzo of the Salamander—who was at the time reaching the peak of his strength.

Jiraiya made his first of three interpretations of that student in Nagato. His resolution after making this interpretation is to teach the Orphans ninjutsu. Nagato was described by Jiraiya as “being able to master all forms of mainstream ninjutsu that [I] taught him”. Take note of what this means: Nagato had not unlocked, through pain and suffering turned to hatred, the Rinnegan’s Six Paths ninjutsu quite yet. It was specifically all “mainstream ninjutsu” and nature transformations—both feats impossible for even the most talented of Shinobi—that a pre-Yahiko death Nagato could perform (Ch. 374). It was only upon what Nagato describes as “his second great pain in his life” (first being his parents’ death), that the Rinnegan’s Six Paths were unlocked, nearly killing Hanzo right there and then. Thus, in spite of his pair of Rinnegan supposedly being a direct transplant of Old Man Madara’s actual eyes, are you following the logical framework of how I assert Nagato’s Rinnegan powers evolved? Are we seeing something of an analogous progression from ‘Sharingan’ (transplanted) -> ‘MS’ (Parents’ death) -> ‘EMS’ (Yahiko’s death)? This kind of logic will be addressed again much later on.

Madara awakened the Rinnegan in his Left Eye, and that eye alone (Ch. 606).According to my first tumblr post’s theory, Madara lost the light of his Right, concealed Sharingan, to Izanagi in his battle with Hashirama at the Valley. I assert that him “losing the light” in his Right Sharingan at this moment—which is what enabled Hashirama’s stab wound to still be real, but non-fatal—caused the same physiological changes in his Right Sharingan as Itachi’s that is shown in Ch. 391 (vs. Sasuke) and 586 (vs. Kabuto). What I mean to say is losing its light = blind = tomoe disappearing.

Think about Itachi’s Edo Tensei. It is doubtful his tissue/DNA was stolen when he was alive, but was rather extracted after his death. But… Itachi faced serious illness and blindness just before his death. In fact, check out Ch. 391, where the awesome “Kirin” makes its debut. Here, Itachi shows that the Mangekyou design fades away completely with his last resort to survive Sasuke’s precocious technique of natural lightning. As Itachi staggers to his feet and comments “you truly have gotten stronger, Sasuke…”, both of his eyes appear the exact same as when his Left Mangekyou lost its light to Izanami (Ch. 586). Yet, he is Edo Tensei’d with healthy, working MS in both eyes! Why? Because that’s how Edo Tensei works—producing a “fake” kekkei genkai from dust and debris, as Son Goku noted in recent chapters before being hit with Rinbo: Hengoku (not realizing Madara’s body was actually real). This condition is precisely what happened to Madara’s Edo Tensei, which was performed by Kabuto using Tobi’s tissue! Now that the Edo Tensei has dissipated, he is blind in his youthful prime of Rinne Tensei.

Now, here is the part where we need to do some deeper thinking. Disregarding my theory, if we take Old Man Madara’s ambiguous words to Obito and those of ‘Spiral’ Zetsu speaking to Obito as true, then 5 years after awakening the Rinnegan in both eyes, Old Man Madara determined it was time to invest in his loan. He supposedly approached 5-year old Nagato and took out Nagato’s eyes, then took his own eyes out, put them in Nagato, and then implanted into his left socket some “spare” Sharingan from who knows where. Not only that, but Nagato’s parents of the Uzumaki lineage, who share a kinship with the Senju of the Younger Brother of the Rikudou Sennin, somehow didn’t notice after a little bit that their Son suddenly had the Rinnegan. Especially when the Konoha ninja didn’t attack his family as refugees of Uzushiogakure’s destruction until about 4 years later. Some argue that this strange contextual fact is covered by Nagato’s hair. But what do we know of transplanted kekkei genkai? They remain in the socket, active. This would have been the case of 5-year old Nagato until his parents were killed when he was 9… did they not notice this change in his eyes at all?

This fuzzy ‘truth’ of Madara having transplanted his literal eyes is what got me thinking at first. Old Man Madara performed this transplant 4 years before Nagato’s parents were killed as refugees in Amegakure. I’ve discussed already how he had seized control of Kirigakure since either: 1. Since 50 years BSS, just after Nidaime Mizukage’s mutual death against Mu or 2. since 37 years BSS, when he awakened his sole Rinnegan in the Left Eye according to my theory. I’m more comfortable with giving Kirigakure 13 years of in-Clan War strife and then Old Man Madara seizing the village upon reaching increased power with the Rinnegan and stealth with a few Zetsu creation. However, the main issues are these: if Madara really transplanted his literal eyes into Nagato, then how exactly did he maintain powerful control over Kirigakure for the next 20 years, before he met Obito? How would the Outer Path have been used with White Zetsu to meet and plot with Danzo, to speak in person with Yahiko, to place his figurehead Shinobi Yagura at the fore as “Mizukage”, who wasn’t even a jinchuuriki at this point? How else would he have infiltrated Konoha and read the rest of the contents of the Tablet with his Rinnegan, while recording the secrets of his real “vessel” on it?

Before I continue, my next argument needs a little recap on the Sage’s history. My first tumblr post and a question response discusses at length how the Rikudou Sennin’s parental lineage was that of Hyuuga and Otsutsuki. Using the Byakugan’s “greatest insight” he inherited from his ancestral Hyuuga father, Hagoromo studied and discerned the nature of chakra. This plain, White Eye allowed him to clearly see what he discovered as the chakra network, and ninjutsu was first developed following this. Also, being his mother Kaguya’s son, he was born with a body highly attuned to Nature. This allowed him to achieve the first and most potent Sage Mode, continuously drawing in natural energy and subsequently giving birth to the powerful Senjutsu. From there, he managed to stop the rampaging and malevolent Juubi. The Juubi was angry, spiteful, full of hate, and most definitely in possession of the primordial Rinnegan. i.e., there’s no way Hagoromo was born with the Rinnegan. As the Juubi’s malice intensified, it resolved to cast the Infinite Tsukuyomi. Its hatred mutated its primordial Rinnegan into the 9-Tomoed “Sharinnegan” of Ch. 467. Here we see the Rikudou Sennin stopping the Juubi’s Infinite Tsukuyomi, which spelled the doom of mankind. It didn’t need a Moon to do so, and Infinite Tsukuyomi was the simplest way to draw in the Humans and take back its chakra. But look closely at Ch. 467, and then Ch. 646 during Edo Madara and Edo Shodai’s battle-talk. Yes, luckily the Rikudou Sennin stepped in just in time to stop it. Except, you can’t defeat “God”, so he had to use Uzumaki-style Fuinjutsu to contain the Juubi. With respect to this necessary history review, the major thrust of my theory is concerned with the events afterward. Hagoromo used the Will of Fire to contain the Juubi’s hatred, and after years of pain and suffering awakened the Rinnegan. This awakening was as a result of his pure “White Eye” Byakugan mutating with the Juubi’s “Sharinnegan”, producing the violet, pure “God’s Eye” of “Deidarabotchi”. This is also why it is said “the Rinnegan is a mutation” (Ch. 462), and “the Sharingan derived from the Byakugan” (Ch. 78). This awakening of the original “God’s Eye” of “Deidarabotchi” gave birth to Banbutsu Sozo, which is the last “Path” of the Sage—and gives you complete governance over all ninjutsu. This was used to create his two Sons, who are his only children not related to him by blood. My assertion is that the Uchiha and Senju are descendants of these two products of Creation of All Things (Yin: Elder Son, Yang: Younger Son), each Clan of “God” possessing 1/9th of the Juubi’s power. The Hyuuga and Uzumaki, (the less hax iteration of Uchiha and Senju, lol) being directly from the Sage’s blood, are very old clans of Konoha. They each embraced the ways of the Younger Brother’s descendant clan (Senju). Eventually, the Uzumaki descendants formed their own village, in-between Konoha and Kirigakure. The Hyuuga stayed with the Senju in Konoha and maintained close ties, making sure to reflect this kinship in their attire as well.

Now for more recent history. Madara fought the battle at the Valley of the End fully intending to survive. Knowing full well the story of the Sage and his dealings with the Juubi, Kishimoto shows us through Kurama’s flashback I’ve referenced earlier that Madara sought him out and subdued him with his Sharingan. Madara accomplished this spectacular feat, born as the most powerful Uchiha example of “great and sinister chakra” (Ch. 309, Ch. 398) as a true heir of the Sharingan and “Path” of the Sage. As such he wields the ability to control Tailed Beasts—the same as Hashirama, also a “Path” that wields the same ability through Mokuton, the absolutely rare and true kekkei genkai inheritance of the Senju. Realizing these facts that Hashirama didn’t, he understood that Shodai was “the only one who could compete with him” (Ch. 625). Seeking the power of a “God” to look for “stability/peace”, he challenged Hashirama again and again and finally, once more with Kurama in his control. He sought the Kyuubi because he had to match Shodai Hashirama who had acquired another “Path” of Sage Mode in the meantime (this fact will become very relevant in Ch. 647). This final, epic landscape-tearing battle that formed the Valley of the End was fought with a specific purpose for Madara. To achieve this purpose, he needed Hashirama to battle him with all his strength, and to exhaustingly be brought to the point of striking Madara with a fatal blow. This goal was to narrowly survive with Izanagi, and acquire a sample of Hashirama’s tissue during battle.

Look very closely, comparatively, at the Madara Uchiha facing Hashirama Senju in their legendary battle and at the Old Man Madara he survived to become. I mentioned these two life stages of Madara in this sequence for a reason (Ch. 626, Ch. 602). Madara awakened the Rinnegan after years of suffering and clinging to life support through the Gedo Mazou. He had been integrated, since surviving in Ch. 626, with DNA from the true “Path” that is Hashirama and thus established the conditions necessary to awaken “God’s” eye years later. But what do we notice about Old Man Madara from Ch. 602 to when we last see him in Ch. 606? Peculiarly, the right side of his face continues to be concealed from view just like his younger self’s always had been, except for him showing his right, squinted, empty eye socket to Obito. This is the right-side socket that held the Sharingan used to cast Izanagi in the Valley of the End, to survive Shodai’s fatal blow (Ch. 626).

Thousands of Naruto fans have their thoughts on how Madara survived the fatal sword thrust of Ch. 626’s epic battle conclusion, in which Madara’s right side of his face keeps on being concealed from our view. We notice that before the final clash, Madara’s Eternal Mangekyou is shown, and yes, this is almost irrefutably the Left one. In fact, it wouldn’t make sense for it to be the Right Eye even if that would further corroborate my next point, because Kishimoto here is trying to stealthily hide the fact that the right-side, concealed Sharingan was preparing a technique in that moment of battle. This technique is none other than Izanagi. Kishimoto used Madara’s right-side hair to conceal his activated right Sharingan that was preparing to execute Izanagi—an Uchiha kinjutsu Shodai did not know about. We know from Ch. 587 through Itachi’s explanation of the Uchiha kinjutsu Izanami that it was partner to the kinjutsu Izanagi, which he obviously learned from Madara himself. Once Hashirama was sure he saw the “Madara” (it was the Izanagi illusion, think back to Sasuke vs. Danzo) in front of him “die”, what do we see? What does that diamond-like mark that flashes above Shodai’s head always mean in the series? Yes! Shodai had sensed a presence atop the Valley… because he is a sensor, and in that moment exhausted so much chakra that he fell to his knee in utter fatigue. Madara had survived the ordeal, using Izanagi to make Shodai’s blow non-fatal, and losing the light in his Right Sharingan in the process. Just before that, he brought Hashirama to the brink of complete chakra depletion, which enabled him to walk off “thought to be dead”. He forever lost his light in his right eye in that moment, and this is reflected in Ch. 602-606’s Old Man Madara. Madara thus awakened the Rinnegan—one Rinnegan—only in his Left eye, decades prior to encountering Obito.

With that history in mind, my point is this: There was no value in Old Man Madara wasting the use of his one awakened Left Rinnegan by transplanting it into Nagato. My basic assertion in this regard is that Old Man Madara performed a tissue transplant of his own DNA to Nagato, since his DNA is that of the Rikudou Sennin. Knowing up to EMS-level history of the Sage, Madara infiltrated Konoha using his White Zetsu creation and the Outer Path to read the full contents of the Tablet. This is how he learned and deduced that an accessible Uzumaki Clan descendant is the best candidate to naturally evolve a Rinnegan through “pain and suffering turned to hatred”. Old Man Madara understood that after awakening the Rinnegan, his DNA had become that of Uchiha+Senju. Thus, according to my theory, Madara resolved to perform a transplant of his tissue, rather than his eyes, into a 5-year old Nagato. I contend that: 1. His Right Sharingan was lost to Izanagi at the Valley 30 years prior, and 2. that he had much covert plotting and preparation to do for the next two decades, such that he couldn’t afford to give up his Left Sharingan (Rinnegan). Madara needed to use the power of his Left Rinnegan for several things, briefly aforementioned. Among them was to maintain powerful control over Kirigakure for the next 20 years, which he achieved through his gradual production of White Zetsus through Banbutsu Sozo/In’youton. Just like Nagato decades later, the Rinnegan’s Outer Path is how Old Man Madara made himself mobile, via White Zetsu. He established early contact and plotting with Danzo, and then later put in office his figurehead leader Yagura of the “Bloody Mist” 25 years BSS. Yagura was to serve as his apparent Yondaime Mizukage for some time; before Old Man Madara could make proper use of Kirigakure’s 3-Tails Bijuu and seal it into Rin 12 years later. A decade before that opportunity, he made sure to meet and convincingly speak with Yahiko in person, spurring him with the fervor to create the original Akatsuki.

Having “made all these preparations” (direct words of ‘Spiral’ Zetsu in Ch.603/anime episode 345, after aptly describing the Dream World), Old Man Madara simply bided his time with White Zetsu and his Clones, surveilling the development of Nagato and his ability to master “all forms of mainstream and nature transformation ninjutsu” (Ch. 374), as noted by Jiraiya. I know it’s been some time, but… do you recall the analogy I made of the Rinnegan’s 'evolution’ to the Sharingan’s earlier? The key point was that in Nagato’s case, the Rinnegan unlocked its powers through pain and suffering turned to hatred, in which he would “feel [his] powers bloom within [him]”. All was well for Madara, because manifesting this first 'evolution’ of the Rinnegan through Nagatos’ parents’ death (the “first great pain” of Nagato’s life [Ch. 444]) was all part of his plan. However, before he could continue manipulating Nagato from afar and advance his Rinnegan investment to unlocking its Six Paths, the greatest opportunity for Madara’s long-term future would befall him first—Obito Uchiha.

Madara needed a weaker vessel in order to carry on and see his goal through himself, rather than placing every fiber of confidence in Obito Uchiha, a teenage boy. Madara orchestrated Rin’s death through his control of Kirigakure, which he had been manipulating for 24 years up until the point we’re looking at right now, which is 13 years before the series started. He needed Obito to go through hell from pain and suffering turned to hatred, and awaken the Mangekyou Sharingan to make his plan easier. Notice how this is no different from how he manipulated Nagato—he principally destroyed Uzushiogakure with Kirigakure to remove the Fuinjutsu-adept Uzumaki as a threat. However, we know now that it also was also to disperse the refugee Uzumakis, a 9-year old Nagato could be monitored—he couldn’t let his Rinnegan investment roam unwatched.

Initiating the process upon finding a comatose Obito, Old Man Madara employed his Left Rinnegan, and used Banbutsu Sozo/In’youton to integrate his “‘Eyes’… chakra and spiritual energy”, i.e. the basis of his consciousness and knowledge (‘Yin’), into ‘Spiral’ Zetsu. The corresponding ‘Yang’, which is ‘Spiral’ Zetsu’s life force and physical energy—is the “Mindless” (absent of ‘Yin’) catalyzed tissue of Shodai. By the time of the night of Naruto’s birth, ‘Spiral’ Zetsu had fully assimilated and bonded with Obito’s Uchiha body and Sharingan and “unleashed the full power of [Madara’s] Sharingan”, granting the same ocular strength and power to Obito’s right Sharingan through this process. Madara tested out just how compatible this would be, in Ch. 605. This also explains exactly why “Obito/Tobi’s” genjutsu execution and prowess is of such a masteful level - one would say legendary. Why the hell would Madara want Obito’s starkly inferior skill with Uchiha dojutsu and ocular genjutsu to be a hamper to his progress? His progress to his goal that strove him to subsist in who must serve as a temporary “shell of his former self”? Why would Madara want Obito to execute an incomplete Izanagi in case he runs into situations like Konan “The Angel of Death”? Without a doubt, Danzo’s laughable incomplete Izanagi couldn’t have saved him from Konan’s Paper Person of God. So then why don’t sensible people wonder where “Obito’s” Left eye, that used a complete Izanagi, came from? Why can’t every girl you bring back give it up the first night? Haha, in all seriousness though, these are important questions. Tobi’s Left eye is Old Man Madara’s Left Sharingan, the same one that awakened the Rinnegan and is capable of a complete Izanagi. This is because only Madara Uchiha’s Sharingan, whose essence had been integrated into ‘Spiral’ Zetsu along with his consciousness through Banbutsu Sozo, is the only one capable of a complete Izanagi. A derivative of Banbutsu Sozo, Izanagi in its complete form requires the combination of both true “Path” kekkei genkai in one body. Old Man Madara achieved this through ‘Yin’ Madara’s subsistence within Obito’s body. So as is with his bodily actions being controlled, Obito is completely unaware of Madara’s knowledge and real power that resides within his “weaker vessel” (Ch. 467). Remaining cautious so as to not to empower Obito too much, but give him the tools to survive and fulfill his purpose, he taught him three specific techniques, and nothing more, nothing less. ‘Spiral’ Zetsu is not a random character whatsoever…he is a product of Madara’s In’youton, and is also a strategic tool whose integration with Obito’s body allowed him to perform those three taught techniques: 1. A complete Izanagi. 2. In’youton for the purpose of creating the Zetsu army. 3. The Outer Path, to channel techniques through the black staff created only by Madara.

Thus, after Old Man Madara used Kirigakure to put together eliminating the “jinchuuriki-zed” Rin once he encountered Obito and extracted information about her (through his mention of her and Kakashi in his dreams and combining that with Zetsu intel), he started making moves to end his “true vessel’s” life.

The Ghost of the Uchiha made all of these preparations because he’s been planning “for a long time” (Ch. 404) the realization of his true dream. It made no sense for Madara to lay this extensive of groundwork if he was simply waiting for a “savior” to come along so he could die and leave everything he had planned for about 50 years to him. As I outlined heavily previously, he had planned Nagato’s role because he is an Uzumaki, whose DNA, in combination with Madara’s transplanted Senju-Uchiha DNA, were the necessary conditions to awaken the Rinnegan through pain turned to hatred (Ch. 444-445). Once Madara garnered intel that this had been successful, he recorded on the Tablet his real vessel’s secrets (probably his dead vessel’s location being in the cave) with the Rinnegan, knowing no one else could decipher them. This is principally why Edo Madara suspects Kabuto deciphered the Tablet without the required Dojutsu—instead, ingeniously using Orochimaru’s hypothesis, Kabuto actually gathered the tissue from Tobi’s left hand severed by Minato from the night of the Fox attack, knowing the Masked Man (‘Yin’ Madara) could have been the only responsible party. He used this tissue to reincarnate Madara Uchiha through Edo Tensei, with a modified youthful body—taking the technique to another level. This enabled him to expose the Masked Man’s deception prior to the war, and revealed that Orochimaru and Kabuto had deduced for some time that Tobi was in fact ‘Yin’ Madara Uchiha—unbeknownst to Tobi.

He had Kirigakure keep their Tailed Beast—the resurfaced Three-Tails after Rin’s death— under control while he fulfilled two crucial objectives as Tobi: First was to orchestrate removing the same Yahiko he had spoken to several years earlier as Old Man Madara from the picture, and subsequently make Nagato unleash the Rinnegan’s second stage of the Six Paths—allowing manipulation of him into one of his pawns much easier. He achieved the first and second objective with Danzo, with whom we know he had established contact, and plotted with extensively. Danzo then sought Hanzo of the Salamander’s partnership in a scheme for power, betraying the Ame Orphans’ Akatsuki (Ch. 531). Although Yahiko is successfully killed, it simultaneously cost Danzo and Hanzo their men. Next would begin his 2nd objective: to obtain the elusive Nine-Tails, and exact his revenge on the Uchiha that abandoned him. This objective started coming together with Nagato seeking him shortly after Yahiko’s death, just as he had expected. He formed Criminal Akatsuki with Black/White Zetsu, Nagato, Konan, Kakuzu, and Sasori, giving orders from the shadows and changing the group’s original goals for negotiating peace, which it had kept for the past 7 years under Yahiko.

So, here we are now at present events! Regardless of whether or not my theory holds about it not being a literal ocular transplant but my proposed DNA transplant into toddler Nagato, I remain resolute that there has been a ‘Yin’ Madara Uchiha operating behind the shadows for most of the series until Madara’s reincarnation! He is the form of Madara that subsisted in Obito’s body, controlling his actions and also speaking in the Madara-voice in the anime lol! My first tumblr post goes into further details on why it is irrefutable that almost all of the actions and words of the Masked Man were a ‘Yin’ Madara Uchiha entity (and I don’t mean Black Zetsu). The clear evidence is in anecdotes of other talented Shinobi, words of the Masked Man in very particular instances, and finally the words of Edo and Rinne Tensei Madara Uchiha himself. This is what I strongly suggest White Zetsu meant to Rinne Tensei Madara in the recent Ch. 661 by the “insides”. This also explains why there’s no way Obito could hide the Right Rinnegan of Nagato’s from even White Zetsu! Obviously, Obito had the idea that it was concealed even from one of the world’s best sensors—Zetsu. But Zetsu finding the hidden Right Rinnegan isn’t what I propose…no… I say it was ‘Yin’ Madara! Obviously he would just tell White Zetsu exactly where it was, and to retrieve it for his Rinne Tensei body at the right time! Obito was a fool, and unaware that this entity could observe his actions and emerge at any time. Hopefully this entity comes forth soon, and proves me right about many occurrences in the series! Once again, check my first post on ntimidation.tumblr.com titled Putting it All Together, for more on how I deduced Madara’s Ultimate Plan, and how he’s manipulated the Shinobi World to achieve it.

I’m real glad I could post this by the end of my 24th birthday! Thanks for reading, and please comment and critique! Lastly, stay tuned for my second post of the double feature—Genjutsu: Tsukuyomi vs. Kotoamatsukami.