Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-27202380-20151125000104/@comment-26773508-20151127091539

Thekillman wrote: UltimaDude wrote: I highly doubt he was a Jinchuriki since what Tailed Beast would give him that chakra avatar? It looked a lot like Kurama. Indeed Ashura's chakra mode looks very similar to Naruto's 3-headed Kurama Mode or whatever during Nartard and Sasgay's final battle at VotE. Also, Hagoromo says to Kakashi something along the lines of, "In the past, I gave power to only one of my sons, and that led to a lot of problems. This time, I gave both of them my powers. But the outcome is still the same." That was just after Nartard and Sasgay leave Kakashi and Sakura to fight at VotE. I don't know how accurate the translation on the scans was, but if the translation is correct, then Hagoromo's statement can be interpreted as implying that he gave Ashura both authority and some extra power. That "extra power" could have been Kurama. Of course, that "power" can also simply mean "authority over ninshu" (which is the view I favour, despite Ashura's Kuramaesque chakra mode).

In my opinion, the main problem with Ashura being Kurama's jinchuriki is that Kurama would have recognised Hashi and Nartard as Ashura's transmigrants. If Ashura was Kurama's Perfect Jinchuriki (as suggested by his near-identical chakra mode), then that means that Ashura helped Kurama overcome his hatred. That in turn implies that Ashura was best buddies with Kurama. And so Kurama would recognise his best buddy's chakra every time some damn Senju or Uzumaki was reincarnated with it. He almost recognised Sasgay's chakra as being virtually identical to Madara's (he used the word 'similar' in that case). But somehow he didn't recognise his best buddy in Naruto. And even if he did, he decided to mentally torture his best buddy for years and years until at one awkward moment they suddenly became best buddies again. That just seems weird.

Also this whole transmigrant thing raises similar questions about other characters: like how Madara never seemed to notice the incredibly similar chakras of Hashi and Nartard despite being an expert sensor. Maybe it has something to do with Kurama's chakra mixing with Nartard's chakra. But another master sensor, Tobirama, also failed to raise his eyebrows about Madara and Sasuke's chakra signatures. Since they were both Indra's migrants, expert sensors like Madara and Tobirama should have immediately noticed the identical chakra signatures. Yet for plot reasons they didn't.