Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-45444155-20200507075527/@comment-31715856-20200511203257

ReweR 1331 wrote:

1. So Juubi / Ten-Tails has a sage chakra? 2. How can Chakra influence natural energy? For example, the same Kabuto uses senjutsu (spiritual, physical and natural energy) to manipulate the cave.

1) Yes. It has natural energy in it's chakra, that's what Senjutsu chakra is. That's why Kurama said that Naruto would need Sage Mode to get a true grasp of what kind of power the Juubi has.

2) In the case of Cataclysm, the databook merely says that the Juubi's enormous amount of chakra can disturb the flow of the planet's natural energy, which causes the natural disasters. He's not manipulating natural energy in the sense of incorporating it into a jutsu directly. Kabuto used Senjutsu to control the cave, as we see in the technique name. He's creating Senjutsu chakra and using that to give temporary life in inorganic things. The Juubi basically just interferes with how natural energy flows on the planet.

One is controlling natural energy (senjutsu) the other merely uses chakra (Ninjutsu) to disturb natural energy. Technically, this means enough normal chakra could be accomplish Cataclysm too.