Board Thread:Boruto: Naruto the Movie/@comment-25139119-20150901144803/@comment-734582-20150903133207

TheUltimate3 wrote: TL;Dr: The complaints about Sasuke's "free" upgrades are the fact that most of them we just see him either get or have, never see him actually work for it. Compared to Naruto it may seem free. The guy still had to walk through hell to get it.

For Six Paths Sage Mode they had to die. Even for the Curse Seal Sasuke pretty much had to die. The amount of physical and emotional pain they had to go through is immense. The powers of the Mangekyou do not come free. Even those powers had to be nurtured by hatred.

Naruto's demon was literal, Sasuke's demon was spiritual. Naruto has had to work hard to get where he was, but he never would've gotten there without Kurama. He could train this hard because of his One Night Sleep "jutsu" which basically meant that he could nearly die, and then awaken refreshed the next morning. Plus he's got so much chakra that he could afford to be a dunce at training.

The only character that got his powers truly for free was Nagato, who got the Rinnegan for free. And he still went through hell.