Board Thread:Naruto: The Last Discussion/@comment-25205826-20150119233207

I have seen lots of people saying that they believe Naruto has lost his SPSM because he didn't use it in the movie.

I think this is incorrect, and that Naruto does in fact have it but didn't use it for some reason, perhaps he simply didn't need to. Or lets face it, Kishi just didn't use it because it would have made Naruto OP and ruined his NaruHina love story.

I have 4 points as to why I believe he has it:

1) Sasuke: In the movie Sasuke appears for a brief moment to defend the Hidden Leaf Village from a meteor. After this he turns around and you can see that he still has his Rinnegan that was given from the Sage. If Sasuke still has this, then in all likely hood Naruto does as well. Sasuke and Naruto were basically each given half of the Sage's true powers. Sasuke obtained the true Rinnegan and everything that comes with it, including the Six Path abilities. Naruto obtained the SPSM which gave him the innate understanding of Chakra, and mastery over all forms of Chakra releases (this was shown to be true in the manga).

2) Right Arm technique: Twice in the movie we see Naruto's regenerated right arm glow a bright orange colour when using some kind of ability. The first is when he sticks his arm inside Hinata's body to remove the jutsu Toneri placed in her. The Second is when he fights Toneri. I believe this is him using part of his SPSM, as he wouldn't have been able to put his arm inside Hinata without injuring her without the SPSM which gave him Yin-Yang Release mastery. Also when he punches Toneri using this, he does a huge amount of damage, showing the power of that ability to be on the level of his SPSM.

3) Chakra Mastery: The SPSM not only gave Naruto a huge boost to all his abilities, as well as control of the Truth-Seeking Balls, but it also gave him the innate ability to understand and control chakra, basically raising his chakra control to the level of the Sage of the Six Paths. Even in Tailed Beast mode Naruto still had to use multiple chakra arms to form Rasenshuriken, however once he obtains the SPSM, he is able to form Rasenshuriken of all forms with one hand, and infuse them with all types of Chakra. In the Movie he creates several different types of Rasengan and Rasenshuriken, and not only does this incredibly fast but he does it with one hand.

4) Flying: Naruto is shown in the movie to be able to fly during his fight with Toneri. This was an ability he received as part of his SPSM.

I think it was simply due to plot development reasons that Naruto didn't use SPSM. Like I said, if he did use it, he could have flown straight up to the Moon and taken Hinata and Hanabi from Toneri and there would be nothing he could do about it, Naruto's ability to sense evil would have also enabled him to sense Toneri whenever he was around, which he couldn't. Naruto was able to equal and eventually beat a Tenseigan enhanced Toneri with just his Tailed Beast Mode alone. I personally hate it when a writer changes the power level of a person just for plot reasons, like, why not make the Tenseigan give Toneri the power of Hamura? then it would have at least been an even and fair fight.

Also, I seen some people speculating that the Truth-Seeking Balls (that Naruto and Ten Tail Jinchuriki had) cannot be created or generated, and are only created when someone obtains the SPSM as Naruto, Obito and Madara did. This is actually incorrect. Based on the facts we have, the TSB are created using Yin-Yang Release which basically means that they can in fact be regenerated and manipulated at will by the user, although generating them probably uses up a lot of Chakra.

I really hope we get to see the SPSM sometime in the near future. It was pretty awesome. 