Board Thread:Episode Discussions/@comment-30440272-20161110174328/@comment-734582-20170620084836

Princeharris1993 wrote: I don't get why people think Guy is fast enough to bend space with speed. Clearly him bending space is a byproduct of that the tremendous chakra the Night Guy releases. Just as the Evening Elephant is a byproduct of his strikes compressing the air at such high strike speeds. He seemed and looked like he was travelling much faster than the Night Guy when he was preforming the Evening Elephant. It really, really doesn't matter.

We don't know the exact properties of chakra, but if he were able to bend space with chakra then it would require absolutely godlike levels of chakra. After all we regularly saw gargantuan masses of chakra that didn't.

On the other hand, if he went fast enough to bend space (noticeably), then he would've been a fireball moving at an appreciable fraction of the speed of light.

So really, there's nothing more to say than that speed in Naruto falls firmly under Rule of Cool.