Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-27924662-20160817160245/@comment-27296281-20160818001859

Raidra wrote: Not to stir the waters, but the idea about Yamato being temporarily shielded in the anime, but not the manga, made me think of something. Could it be possible that normally Wood Release could block it, but that Tobi-Zetsu allowed Yamato to be exposed? I mean, he could have opened himself up enough to let Yamato get sufficient IT light exposure. Possible. There's no real basis to determine whether or not that's true, though, so that should be dropped right there. We do have an established way to block IT by possessing the Rinnegan or being shielded by a Rinnegan wielder's Susanoo. Beyond that, there is nothing else that has been shown to defy the IT.

But, if we go into speculation, the Rinnegan's immunity may have been due to its current wielder(Sasuke) possessing a portion of the SSP chakra, in which case Naruto would be able to resist it as well. In that case, Naruto's Kurama construct would've been able to shield the others as well. Unfortunately, this wasn't shown, so we can't really know, but it's a thought.