Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-30168130-20170115054258/@comment-30168130-20170119025550

1- black rods, as we think, are like the milk before the ice cream.. it is one of the compounds that tsb are made of. not so sure yet though. every single tsb user had these so.. it fits correctly some way or another. the hard part is finding out which way. 2-maybe he did take some madara-steroids besides the bijuu's chakra.. why not right? 3- yes, he needs all chakra natures, the black rods, sp chakra, and senjutsu.. he already had all of the first 2 before stabbing madara.. he had some sp chakra, and maybe some senjutsu, but both were from the juubi, which he lost, so he had no means of replenishing those 2. 4-by Naruto, minato, guy, kakashi, and madara, right before the 8th gate guy vs ttj madara fight, when they were sizing each other up, and during/between the kaguya fight and the Naruto vs sasuke fight.. u can see for yourself as well.. madara lost some to kakashi, when the latter kamuid his shield (in the 8th gate guy fight), when Naruto lost one to the lava world when fighting kaguya (sasuke changed places with it, so that he wouldn't fall in the lava), 2 when sealing the limbo madara (the limbo he used to escape sasuke's sp chidori/naruto's shukaku), one that sasuke ameno'd outta the way/ changed places with (when sasuke got behind Naruto to land a chidori), and 3 more when he used them to deflect sasuke's susanoo's arrow (in the middle of the lake, he lost contact to them, cuz of the 70m limit of distance between tsb and user), and the last two were the ones he used on the black zetsu that was in kaguya's arm, that he kicked into the chibaku tensei when sealing her.