Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-24577388-20150224012723/@comment-5936871-20150328160554

@GreatestSin Having whiskers is definitely directly related to Kurama, the wiki even supports that. Mito and Kushina not having whiskers doesn't matter because they had Kurama sealed inside them later on. Kushina had Kurama sealed inside her the whole time she was pregnant with Naruto, which affected him causing him to be born with Kurama's whiskers. Hell, when Naruto uses Kurama's chakra the whiskers become even more defined and he gains Kurama's other physical traits. Logically speaking, the whiskers definitely come from Kurama. The Gold and Silver Brothers also had whiskers because of Kurama, after they ate his flesh and they were directly infused with his chakra. This makes me believe that if one receives Kurama's chakra on a more genetic level, such as it affecting them when they're a developing fetus or by eating his flesh, they obtain his whiskers. However, just by sealing him they don't obtain it. Boruto and Himawari inherited half of Naruto's chakra and his DNA of course, and as we see they both have whiskers. Now this could simply be a genetic trait and nothing special, or it's possible that they have small amounts of Kurama's chakra within them inherited directly from their father, considering the way Minato used the Eight Trigrams Seal on Naruto was that he and Kurama's chakra could fuse together and become one on multiple occasions.

Aside from that, Boruto possess more raw potential than Naruto does but there's no way he would become stronger than Naruto. Same with Sarada and Sasuke. Unless Naruto gave Boruto Kurama when he was about to die, which he wouldn't anyway, and Sasuke transplanted his eyes to Sarada, she wouldn't gain that level of power either. Unless, due to Sasuke having Hashirama's cells and chakra, Sarada inherited some of that allowing her to awaken the Rinnegan on her own later in life, and Boruto was somehow born a Pseudo-Jinchuriki. Either way, both of them have great potential due to simply inheriting Naruto and Sasuke's incredibly powerful chakra, with Boruto not only having Naruto's powerful chakra but his mother's as well, and reuniting the two bloodlines of Kaguya dispersed between her sons. Essentially granting him and his sister even more potential than Sarada since Sakura's chakra isn't anything special.