is Rin alive(may contain spoilers)

[Ms. Fluffy Butt]

hmmm...
Almost all dead people reincarnates in the shippuuden.
Just like:

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Gaara-sama died because the Akatsuki removed the ichibi but he was reincarnated by chiyo-basama

and

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Obito is Tobi rumor

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Sasuke killed Orochimaru but Orochimaru takes the body of Kabuto

Maybe Rin is not dead, cause it wasn't said how she died..
And if she returns, i read she had a little crush on Kakashi-sensei.

[Majaro]

um...i seem to remember in one EP kakashi going to see obitos grave and there was a 3 man anbu squad there before him, the leader of which was a purple hairs girl who was also there to see obito, thouhg, as far as i remember, her name was never given. so that may have been rin.

But Rin's hair is brown, not purple.
Plus, Kakashi did say his 'special people' or 'the people that were important to him' have already died.

[Ms. Fluffy Butt]

Yeah, but maybe Kakashi doesn't even know that his "special people" eg. Tobi/ Obito is alive and with Akatsuki...

[Karin Rengu]

Ok, Tobi is NOT Obito! He's. . .that guy. . .Madara Uchiha. Still, as it dawned on me minutes ago, Tobi's mask shows his right eye and Obito lost his left so it could be but I still think it's Madara.

[Ms. Fluffy Butt]

Who wants ask Kishimoto bout this?? xD

My conclusion is that maybe it is Madara resurrected in the body of Obito and named as Tobi. Wow! Crazy! xD

Who knows?!

[Karin Rengu]

XD I think Madara is just. . .evil

[Ms. Fluffy Butt]

I agree..

I mean.. would you even get your sibling's body part? Grosss!

[Renegade Chaos Angel]

That is definately gross! XD Yea Tobi is Madara. Madara used a different name so that he could hide his intentions of what he was wanting to do and what he was using the Akatsuki for. rumor

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Madara took his brother's eyes, b/c the Mangekyou Sharingan started making him blind. So now he has the eternal Mangekyou and his brother's eyes. He also created the Akatsuki so that he could do what he wanted without getting too much "drift" from anyone else. But it turns out that he was wrong and everyone is watching for the Akatsuki.

That's what I have gathered from what I read. And I didn't rely on Wikipedia, b/c they have been wrong at times. It is edited by humans, and humans make mistakes. That's my opinion pretty much.