Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-27821571-20160915183730/@comment-4912646-20160916013601

Seelentau wrote: And yes, that's what I'm saying. Was Gaara's sand control ever attributed to Shukaku? Like his automatic defense was attributed to Karura? Found the databook thing I was talking about. According to Viz's translation, it says:

Q. Since the One Tail has been extracted from Gaara, is he unable to control sand?

A. One it's ingrained in you, you can't take anything away, not even sand.

Kishimoto's answer on its own doesn't technically attribute the ability to Shukaku, but the question definitely implies it. And Karura's will was only said to be responsible for the automatic shield of sand rather than sand control in general, correct?

On a related note, there was also that incident with Obito stealing Madara's chakra to create a Gudōdama, leading Madara to say he could do so because he had previously "sage transformed", which lends credibility to the idea that jinchūriki retain their tailed beast's abilities to some extent. Though obviously Ten-Tails could be a special case.