Naruto stared intently into Minato Namikaze's eyes.
Minato Namikaze's Mangekyo Sharingan looked very different from Shisui's and the others'.
His Mangekyo Sharingan took the shape of a Möbius Sum, the kind that looked like a sideways 8.
Naruto was eagerly waiting to see whether his dad could awaken the Rinnegan on his own...
But reality proved he had been too optimistic.
The conditions for awakening the Rinnegan were far too demanding.
Just obtaining Indra's and Asura's chakra was difficult enough.
More precisely, that chakra could not be extracted from Naruto or Sasuke.
But... Naruto felt that awakening the Rinnegan himself should not be a problem.
Madara Uchiha had used Hashirama's cells to awaken his Rinnegan.
Then Naruto could also gouge out the eyes of Sasuke, Indra's reincarnation, and implant them in himself. That would probably awaken the Rinnegan too.
Or he could simply clone Sasuke, then incorporate his own cells into the clone. That way... the cloned Sasuke's eyes might also awaken the Rinnegan.
Both the Sharingan and the Rinnegan were plug-and-play, so... Naruto had no need to experiment on himself. He could just use a cloning body!
"Since Dad didn't manage to awaken the Rinnegan... looks like it's up to me!"
"I need to pick up the pace on awakening the Rinnegan!"
Minato Namikaze was also somewhat disappointed after awakening his Mangekyo Sharingan.
After all... once he awakened the Rinnegan, he would be able to resurrect his wife, Kushina.
Only then would their family truly be reunited.
While Naruto was thinking about how to get the Rinnegan, Minato was still pondering how to evolve his own eyes into the Rinnegan.
At the thought of "evolution," Minato's eyes suddenly lit up.
"Naruto... do you think I failed to awaken the Rinnegan because I skipped a step?"
"The Sharingan's evolution