Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-25645405-20150719020101/@comment-25771935-20151224085317

TheOneWhoLovesNaruto wrote: I don't know about keeping them on the tools page. If we do that, we might as well make Indra's arrow or kamui shuriken, or most certainly Yasaka Magatama tools as well. I would want to know if there is a way to make some of these things used by susanoo both under jutsu and tools, or make a page for each. Also, something I never understood is how Orochimaru said "you have the sword" and that he had been looking for it. Does that mean that Itachi found a legendary weapon and made it into susanoo form? Because if that isn't true, I don't see why Orochimaru was looking for it (he can't use susanoo and therefore the sword) or why he wasn't looking for it in the one place it could be (the last Uchiha that can use susanoo) Yes Orochimaru was saying that Itachi had found the legandary sword that he was searching for, hence why he could never find it. The story explicitly states that they are tools imbued with special jutsu/properties. The series has shown other tools with similar nature; the Treasured Tools of the Sage of Six Paths being a prime example. The Coil of Fire that Kinkaku uses is a jutsu but the Bashōsen is the tool. Black Zetsu did say that they were ethereal weapons which is probably why Itachi could equip them onto his Susanoo.

Indra's Arrow, Kamui Shuriken and Yasaka Magatama are all jutsu born from the individual caster's chakra just like any other ninjutsu just focused through the Susanoo. They are as much tools as the missiles that the Asura Path uses or the chakra chains that Obito produced. All of these are born from the user's power, not tools that can be searched for and found like the Totsuka Blade.