Board Thread:Boruto Discussions/@comment-31155663-20170126192008/@comment-26422475-20180319030854

LordOfThePandemonium wrote: Mrsunrider wrote: Placing my money on Naruto passing on Kurama to Boruto... at the cost of his own life. i have to disagree on that. the first chapter of manga says that this is the story of boruto, not naruto uzumaki. i think it's a hint from the mangaka that the story will not be same nor the power boruto will have. there are other hints also that boruto will have different power. like- 1. boruto already has a dojutsu. whether this is a kekkei genkai or not, is not confirmed yet. but i believe this is a kekkei genkai as it is similar to tenseigan. tenseigan can be achieved by combining hyuga's byakugan and hamura otsutsuki. boruto's jogan might be a combination of bykugan and hagoromo otsutsuki's chakra. 2. boruto is a genius. naruto needed a large reserve of chakra(nine-tails is essentially a mass of chakra) because he was not good at ninjutsu. so all his attacks are based on pure chakra instead of nature transformation. but boruto is different. he can already do wind, lightning and water nature tranformation jutsus by the time he is a genin. this is a jonin level capacity. so he doesn't need a large reserve of chakra. 3. boruto is susuke's counterpart. he has a ultimate dojutsu on one eye, a seal given by the enemy to enhance power like sasuke. he is being taught by sasuke. also in his fight against kawaki we can see that his fighting style(with a sword) may resemble sasuke. 4. the biggest hint may be from momoshiki otsutsuki. in the manga he mentioned that naruto has vast amount of chakra but no way to pass it to next generation. because of these reason i think boruto will not have nine-tails in him. None of that really explains why Naruto wouldn't pass on Kurama, but I wanna address the assumption that Naruto wasn't good at jutsu, which is just plain wrong.

He wasn't good at bunshin. So far, it's the only one we ever saw him really fail at, after which he mastered an S-rank jutsu. From that point on he never expressed any particular failings except for genjutsu which is specialized anyways. He mastered Rasengan in three days, Rasen Shuriken in about a week, in about the same time revealed himself to be a senjutsu prodigy, and went on to do what no other Konoha jinchuriki had ever done: befriend the biju. He's always been able to keep up with Sasuke in taijutsu and excels at unconventional strategy--with the exception of one technique and being compared to a prodigy (Sasuke), he's never been 'bad at jutsu.'

But anyway, Naruto wouldn't pass on Kurama for any reason to do with Boruto powers or chakra reserves or any reason like that, he'd do it simply because he's not getting any younger. We know jinchuriki age about the same as anyone else in the series, and eventually a new jinchuriki would have to be chosen.