

The anime tells us that Madara-Hashirama and Naruto-Sasuke are the
reincarnations of Indra and Ashura.

Why did they get reincarnated? For fulfilling what purpose?


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Why do Indra and Ashura reincarnate?


It's just that the seal that they applied on their mother was not fully
perfect, as they knew a day will come when their mother Kaguya will revive, so
they had to revive as well.


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There is a lot of debate that the reincarnation cycle began because Hagoromo
knew that sometime Kaguya would be free of the Planetary Devastation seal, and
restart the Divine Tree ritual which would consume human-kind. But that is
just in terms of giving the plot a direction.

Scientifically speaking, energy can neither be created nor destroyed. All it
can do is transform. Kaguya initially attained massive amounts of
chakra/energy due to being a member of the [Otsutsuki
Clan](https://naruto.fandom.com/wiki/%C5%8Ctsutsuki_Clan), and that energy
exponentially grew larger after she consumed the Chakra Fruit. When she had
kids, which were Hagoromo and Hamura, they inherited part of her energy. After
they sealed Kaguya, the only people who wielded destructive energies were
Hagoromo and Hamura. But, Hamura left Earth to live on the moon to keep guard
on Kaguya, and the older brother Hagoromo stayed on Earth, and then had two
kids, Indra and Asura, who also inherited part of their parents energy. They
then grew up and became able-bodied adults who could use Hagoromo's power of
Ninshu, _not Ninjutsu_ , as Hagoromo said. While Indra retained and focused
the power to himself, and used it destructively, Asura, however, used it to
help people, thus forming the earliest concept of Yin and Yang. They were
beings wielding enormous power and when they died, their chakra/power were
transformed into their reincarnates, and like how opposite poles attract, so
were the reincarnates drawn towards each other.

It is also evident that Hagoromo could transcned his consciousness over time,
as he did with Naruto and Sasuke. It was just that his chakra wasn't being
transformed and remained as a silhouette over generations.


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There isn't really a well defined answer, but there are a few key plot points
that provide hints.

First and foremost, Hagoromo himself. He is dead, and yet can still manifest
in the living world and even give chakra out. He is half Ootsutsuki who have
many mysterious powers, so its not all that crazy.

Second, Indra and Ashura are Hagoromo's kids, so them inheriting mysterious
powers is a given. If Hagoromo can do it, they probably have some ability to
do so as well. Hagoromo though has the Rinnegan which controls life and death,
so him having more or less complete control compared to them would also make
sense.

Third, Obito, who had a dimensional shifting power and could use chakra, which
in his own words "connects the two worlds" to return back and even give chakra
to someone. If that sounds familiar, its because its exactly what Hagoromo
did. He however had dimensional shifting powers, which explains how he would
be better than Ashura and Indra.

Fourth, the Rinnegan being able to revive people, and the Edo tensei being
able to pseudo revive someone, as well as Chiyo's sacrifice to revive Gaara
shows Obito's point about chakra connecting the world of living and world of
dead is correct.

So, Ashura and Indra have not only some of the mysterious powers of Hagoromo,
but they also have an incredible hatred of each other due to what happened
thanks to Hagoromo. They fought, probably to the death that day. Indra
believed power, and was defeated by his younger, and he believed weaker,
brother. its a great insult to his pride. Power is wrong, he is wrong, and the
weaker one beat him not only by inheriting Hagoromo's legacy, but then in
battle. He probably wanted to win in the long run, so he transmigrated so
Ashura would be long dead and unable to stop him, so Ashura did the same to
stop him. A blood feud that even death can't stop.


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