Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-25192437-20150307225810/@comment-1458758-20150310193232

Seelentau wrote: That's not what I meant. I meant that Karura was alive when Gaara had the eye markings. However, her will lived on in Gaara's sand, after she died.

And by the way, why does Gaara have the eye markings when it's his mother's chakra that controls the automatic defense? If anyone, wouldn't Karura be the one with Magnet Release? I'm really not following what you're getting at with the first part. Can you rephrase it, maybe that'll help?

As for the second, that's what I meant when I said we know it's her doing, but not how it was achieved.

Minato and Kushina laced their chakra into Naruto's seal.

Itachi sealed Amaterasu into Sasuke's eye.

He had Shisui's eye set to go for when it saw his.

We don't know if the sand shield is an ability Karura possessed and then somehow passed onto Gaara, like with Naruto's parents in the seal, or if its an ability Gaara has that's activated by something Karura did, like Itachi and Shisui's eye.

I'm inclined to believe the latter because whether it is magnet release or not, we know Gaara controls sand and we know Karura did something to allow the sand to automatically defend Gaara. So Occam's razor dictates that as the most likely solution.

Karura has sand control --> Passes this ability to Gaara --> Uses her ability to defend him from then on.

Gaara has this ability already --> Karura rigs it to automatically defend him.

Either one is viable, but the second theory requires fewer leaps in logic.

Like I said, this isn't the same debate as whether or not Gaara has magnet release, we know he controls sand and we know Karura's will defends him through that, the question is how, and the theory that requires the least assumption is that he naturally does this and she used a seal or similar technique to imbue the shield with her will.

It's only at this part that we come into whether or not this is magnet release, as it's then that we question the idea that, if this is how Karura achieved this, then, with the correlation between Rasa's eye rings and him using his magnet release, does that mean that because of what Karura did, Gaara's magnet release is always active, hence the constant rings.