Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-25139119-20140905185119/@comment-4912646-20140906054136

Soul reaper wrote: How exactly is this a plot hole? When she fought her children she did so in her Ten Tails form. When the brothers used the jutsu it likely separated her into her body and her chakra, just as it did for Naruto and Sasuke. The key difference here is that Hagoromo had already divided her chakra before, so when Naruto and Sasuke performed the Jutsu, the chakra came out in the form of the nine Tailed Beasts. When Hagoromo and Hamura did it they created the Gedo Mazo and sealed it in the moon. At that point in time they sealed the chakra within Hagoromo.

This seems to be the case, but it does contradict earlier information. Even if Obito is an unreliable source and him claiming Hagoromo created the moon at the end of his life was incorrect, Kurama also said the Mazo was sealed in Hagoromo, which is why he survived splitting the Ten-Tails' chakra into the nine beasts. Kurama was actually alive at the time to witness the event, and there's no reason for him to lie as far as I can tell.

Also, if just having Ten-Tails' chakra makes you its jinchuriki, that would mean Naruto is also a Ten-Tails jinchuriki, which has never been stated or even implied in the manga.