Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-43776375-20190915194614/@comment-43776375-20190916055806

Squinty97 wrote: All the chakra from Shadow Clones return. However, keep in mind:

Not many people in Naruto do jutsu with 100% efficiency. So in making a Shadow Clone, some chakra is wasted for most people. And that effect is compounded the more Shadow Clones are made.

Sage chakra is already balanced with regular chakra. So making clones can take extra chakra, that mean that the clones have more chakra than the caster? Or the chakra is lost evenly?

The second thing clarify it, naruto recives sage chakra which is different from nature energy, right? So there is sage chakra and nature energy, when the second combine with normal chakra we get sage chakra

Now one strange thing, when we combine physical, spiritual and nature energy each one of them needs to be 1/3 of the total, but when the sage chakra finishes people still have they're own chakra, so when some dude enters sage mode he don't do it with all his chakra, but only with a portion? Or the problem is that the nature energy tends to flow out of the sage chakra? This would explain the 5 min limit of naruto, I mean if he just don't use any jutsu in 5 minutes why should he loose the sage chakra?

BeyondRed wrote: I'm pretty sure Fukasaku explaining how the senjutsu chakra goes back to Naruto is the only time in the series we're told that chakra goes back to the creator (previously we're only told that experiences go back), but the way it's written, it's almost like we're already supposed to know that it's a thing.

Like squinty said, all the chakra from shadow clones returns, so if the clone is a perfect sage then when the clone returns the caster shouldn't be, but if you just need sage chakra to become a sage and you make that with the 1/3 thing then is't not necessary to use all of your chakra to balance the nature energy, but you can take less nature enrgy, use some chakra to to the 1/3 thing and you got some sage chakra to use. Or there is the thing that the nature energy tends to flow out of the sage chakra, maybe is both of them