Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-26958911-20160827210047/@comment-25449165-20160912040317

SixPathsofAwesomeness wrote: Is is conceptually the same as the Chidori, it´s used the same way, they have the same sound and hand seals... you could say that Indra created the Chidori, but given the fact that Kakashi made the Chidori a thousand years later, and that he named it, he is considered the true creator of the jutsu

Saying he was the true creator of the Chidori is not technically correct. Yes. While he was the first to create the practice of using hand signs to initiate Jutsu, he didn't create it. Kakashi was the original "inventor" of the Chidori, which was basically him trying to add Lightning Release to the Rasengan, but it failed and burst out. While Chidori did look like the Lightning Release Jutsu Indra had used, we can assume that it was a whole different Jutsu in regard.