Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-30168130-20170522201819/@comment-734582-20170522210739

Vladosaurus wrote: Well, Madara was able to awake wood release when he only had the "Hashirama boob" which would be around the same quantity of Hashirama' cell as Naruto's arm, even less actually. And it's unlickely that Kabuto used another material than Tsunade.Probably both materials came from white zetsu clones.The same thing happened with Obito, and he was also abe to use WR. So logically speaking, Naruto should've awaken WR. But obviously he doesn't have it. Except that Madara's Hashiboob was likely made of actual Hashirama material. We've seen with both Yamato and Danzo that not a whole lot is needed to already have an overpowering wood release.

Compare that to Obito, whose zetsu cells are far weaker and so he didn't use wood release without Spiral Zetsu. We've seen the same Zetsu enhance Yamato's abilities, suggesting something specific to him.

It's not clear why Kabuto would use zetsu cells on Sasuke, perhaps he wanted to prevent Sasuke from being too strong. Kabuto had access to the Zetsu when he said he wanted to improve them. Sakura studied Zetsu in the field, so she had access to their cells and thus had knowledge of how they worked. Considering we saw that these Zetsu make excellent prosthesis, it's likely that she passed on the info to Tsunade and so they made safe prostethics for Naruto as well. After all, we've seen what happens if you get low on chakra with pure hashi cells, and it's not pretty.

Orochimaru is listed as a Wood Release user because he has a zetsu body, even though he's still to show any. It was mostly because back in the day, those powers were listed as standard even though it seems nowadays that Zetsu cells don't guarantee a wood release.