Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-38187233-20190117103621/@comment-734582-20190117183325

The chakra Sasuke absorbed was just regular chakra, like how Kurama gave Kakashi chakra. It doesn't have a will or power of it's own, therefore it's not the juubi. Otherwise it would've reincarnated at some point and it didn't.

So no, even though what Sasuke did was do something akin to make a Juubi (as Kurama even specifically references this), it's not the actual juubi because it has no will/spirit/essence/ whatever makes a biju more than a mass of chakra.

Elveonora wrote: The only issue with that is that by the same logic, Hagoromo wasn't the TT jinchuuriki then. Unless it is the TT when all the chakras are merged and sealed within one's body, but when it's the Sususanoo, it ain't.... it's messy. When Kurama was split, each half was still called Kurama or the nine tails. Meaning, if the Juubi were split, each half would likely still be called the Juubi. Gedo statue was named by Madara, not Hagoromo after all (and since both had individual minds, Yin and Yang Kurama could've been called Bob and Steve just as much). So to some degree, that naming is artificial.