Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-4912646-20141016191738/@comment-4912646-20141016194233

Elveonora wrote: I believe Seelentau explained it like this: "there's a difference between having Tailed Beast chakra and Tailed Beast's chakra"

In other words, the Tailed Beasts inside of Naruto are basically Shadow Clones and that counts as him being their jinchuuriki. Shadow Clones despite being split chakra, can mold further chakra and spend chakra for techniques.

Have we ever actually seen Shadow Clones mould more chakra though? The one that fought Third Raikage and Madara seemed to have a finite amount. Anyway, Hagoromo implied Naruto doesn't always have the tailed beasts (besides Yin Kurama) inside of him, but that they can appear in his mind whenever they want because Naruto has a small piece of their chakra. I figured this meant he wasn't a true jinchuriki, but Sasuke seems to believe otherwise.