Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-25139119-20150807165411/@comment-26275777-20150809152009

They ate Kurama's flesh, so "logically" they should have just pooped it out, no?

His flesh is just chakra. Condensed, tangible chakra. They obtained that chakra and were able to keep "regenerating" it for the rest of their lives even though the "real" Kurama was far far away fighting Hashirama and being sealed inside Mito (and we don't consider him any less Kurama for having bits of him eaten). So if they did not run out of tailed beast chakra even though they had just a fragment of it through an almost laughably absurd method, why would Naruto have lost the chakra that was given to him inside the bijuu mindscape? Or rather, having used it up, why would it not be regenerated?

On the other hand, we have the Alliance who received Kurama's chakra (albeit molded and channeled as Naruto's own). Someone like, say, Sakura most definitely could not access Kurama's chakra on her own and was shown to run out of what was given to her. Yet she still had some amount of it left, connecting her to Naruto, who could replenish it from afar without touching her.

So is Naruto like Kinkaku? Or is he like Sakura? Or both? Or neither? How do chakra transfers even work anyway?

For the record, I don't think Naruto is literally the jinchuuriki of all the tailed beasts, or at least not the jinchuuriki the way we normally use the word. But there is no evidence that he's lost access to their chakra, and given their nature and their relationship with him it's likely nigh impossible that he wouldn't have access to their power in a pinch.