Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-24837927-20140421121126/@comment-732150-20140422165725

Naruto doesn't get listed as kekkei genkai user because what he's using is not kekkei genkai, it's tailed beast skill, or even the senjutsu of the Six Paths Madara mentioned, which would also explain how Madara is suddenly using Storm Release. Kekkei genkai and kekkei touta are abilities which stem from genetic characteristics. If you can do them through a mean that isn't genetically sourced, you're obviously not using a kekkei genkai. I still argue that the tailed beasts shouldn't listed as having kekkei genkai, at least as far as nature transformations are concerned. Even if they can bleed and age and etc, I don't quite see their powers as being genetic. No mutation happened in them to grant them their powers. They came into being like that. Rinnegan on its own only allows the potential to use the basic nature transformations, you still have to learn them all. It just gives you an edge. I think there needs to be a careful discussion on Shukaku's case to determine what his jutsu are and aren't Jiton. Wood Release is kekkei genkai because it's been explicitly called so. In the manga, and in the databook. Anyone trying to argue otherwise is trying to block the sun with a sieve.