Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-4271790-20141016102132/@comment-24531362-20141016132620

StarstrikeMoonbeam wrote: Ive got 2 questions for this chapter so does kurama can use sage mode because naruto called out to kurama about the time when he was gathering sage energy and is ashuras battle avatar composed of senjutsu??????

Kurama can use Sage Mode in the sense that Naruto can use Sage Mode and he and Kurama share a body. It was shown during the Juubito fight that Bijuu mode lets Naruto passively absorb natural energy a lot more efficiently, so he's using that to his advantage. Also, we don't exactly know what Ashura's battle avatar even is. Naruto created a facsimile of the battle avatar from a fusion of Six Path Sage Bijuu Mode clone shrouds. What he's doing is not exactly the same thing that Ashura did, as we don't know for sure that Ashura was a Sage, and there is no evidence of him being a Jinchuuriki either. So, the only link that is explicitly present between what Naruto is doing right now and what Ashura could do is that they look vaguely similar.