da_fox2279 said:
goldenarms said:
Altered Nova said:
Can Shadow Clones really be considered fake copies though when they have their own souls? I mean, Hiruzen's Shadow Clones were real enough that the shinigami accepted their souls as sacrifices to pay for sealing away the First and Second Hokages. And it ate their still-existing souls several pages after the physical bodies of the clones had dispelled. Which means that a Shadow Clone's soul persists after the jutsu ends, and presumably passes on to the afterlife.
And that just upped the horror factor of the Uzu nation -- one guy summons the Death God and ends like twenty ninja in one fatally fell swoop.
I ask, because I've seen that premise used in fics before, and I've wondered...
Of course, this also begs the question of whether or not Sarutobi had a contract with the Death God, too, as he used the exact same one Minato used. And the answer is, "Probably not." Because he used the exact same one Minato used, and we've seen that there are many, many, MANY various Death God Mask in the old Uzu Temple, it stands to reason that the summoning of a Death God may not be entirely contractual in the same sense that one needs to have a contract with Gamabunta to summon him. It could be as simple as knowing the correct hand seals to connect to a particular death mask, and Sarutobi memorized the ones Minato used that day to "hack" into his/Kushina's.