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Seelentau wrote: I don't care about Kakashi's in-story POV. The fact that Kishi let him say that is enough to write down that "Kakashi attributed Naruto's and Madara's ability to float in mid-air to the Six Paths Chakra.". That's all I want to read.

The mistake in that line of thought is that the characters aren't voice pieces for the author. It never works like that. That's why I chastise Elveonora when he claims that because X-Character says something, Kishi is telling us something. It may be that way, yes, but it should never be treated as such. Characters are faulable, they have the ability to lie and the simple fact of the matter is that Kakashi hasn't a clue what "Six Paths Chakra" is, so he shouldn't be taken seriously.

Its the same in real life.

Who is the more valid source? A direct witness of an event, or someone who is commenting on the event based on hearsay? In this case, Naruto, Saskue, and Obito are the eyewitnesses (all having used Six Paths Chakra) and Kakashi is the third party relying on hearsay.

Now, obviously right now we only have his statements to go on because he's the only one who has commented on the flying ability. However, if anything should ever contradict what he said, his testimony flies out the window because he is A) Not wasn't a user of Six Paths Chakra at the time, and therefore didn't know what he's talking about, and B) he wasn't familiar with Six Paths Chakra, which means anything he said was merely speculation on his part. And this isn't the first time Kakashi hasn't been a voice for Kishimoto.

For example, Kakashi literally said:
 * The Sharingan is a derivative of the Byakugan (that's bullcrap)
 * The Rinnegan is merely a mutation (also crap)
 * The Sage of the Six Paths is nothing more than a myth (He literally just met the guy, so he was wrong about that too)

I'll also note that, while in possession of Obito's chakra, Kakashi had access to "Six Paths Chakra" and fell like dead weight once Kaguya destroyed Susanoo, so between him and Sasuke its obvious that "Six Paths Chakra" isn't the only requirement of flight.

Just needed to put that out there since I really get tired of hearing "X-Character said something so that's Kishimoto's word!" Its not. Never works that way in fiction. Like almost never.