Board Thread:Episode Discussions/@comment-25319479-20180517110054/@comment-142748-20180520184507

Elveonora wrote: @SSM, no, he didn't. It was made pretty clear that ALWAYS a bit of Kurama's chakra leaked into Naruto's chakra network, always. Part II. Naruto's chakra was 4 times Kakashi's, Kakashi admitted to have low chakra levels. If Kakashi has low chakra levels and Part II. Naruto's was only 4 times that, there is no way Part I. Naruto made 1000 clones with his own chakra alone. Kakashi has average levels of chakra, not low (Databooks consistently gave him a 3 in that regard). And Naruto did consistently make 1000 clones with his chakra alone, for fricks sake he wouldn't be able to summon Gamabunta if he didn't exhaust his own chakra reserves against Gaara. Naruto described his own chakra as blue/yellow, and we saw him use only that when he created the 1000 clones to fight Gaara, same when he did so against Mizuki.

Thekillman wrote: According to Kakashi during Rasengan training, Naruto has between 2-4 times as much chakra as him. 100x as much when he taps into Kurama's. kakashi can make one clone safely. Others with similar levels of chakra can also only make one or two. Logically, he can only make a thousand if the second condition applies (ie taps into Kurama's chakra). Which is why Jiraiya tried to show Naruto how to separate the two chakra's during the kuchiyoise training. With all the blue/yellow chakra gone, Naruto can access the red. We see that done repeatedly. And everything Naruto made 1000 clones in Part 1 was with his own chakra, we see it visually through the chakra that was used. Yup. But it's also clear that Kurama's chakra is quite strong (so he doesn't need as much chakra to make a clone) and that he can draw out a bit more without transforming at all (e.g. he lacked all traditional Fox features when summoning Gamabunta for the first time). Neither violates established rules and effects. Except we know what color Naruto's chakra is: blue in the anime, yellow in the manga. Both of which were the only things he used to create his 1000 clones during Part I. Then look at when he summoned Gamabunta both times, when he couldn't access his own chakra, he tapped into the 'red', which is Kurama's chakra.

And technically the distinction and restriction shouldn't matter, Kurama is part of Naruto's body.