Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-43776375-20190915194614/@comment-9782468-20190916130049

Frwt wrote: So making clones can take extra chakra, that mean that the clones have more chakra than the caster? Or the chakra is lost evenly?

The second thing clarify it, naruto recives sage chakra which is different from nature energy, right? So there is sage chakra and nature energy, when the second combine with normal chakra we get sage chakra

Now one strange thing, when we combine physical, spiritual and nature energy each one of them needs to be 1/3 of the total, but when the sage chakra finishes people still have they're own chakra, so when some dude enters sage mode he don't do it with all his chakra, but only with a portion? Or the problem is that the nature energy tends to flow out of the sage chakra? This would explain the 5 min limit of naruto, I mean if he just don't use any jutsu in 5 minutes why should he loose the sage chakra? Using any jutsu will usually cost extra chakra to do it because very few people in Naruto use jutsu at 100% efficiency. So Shadow Clones may divide my chakra evenly, but there's a cost to performing the technique in the first place. So really, using one Shadow Clone woulldn't make you both have 50% chakra, but a little less.

The reason this would be chakra draining very fast is that all the SHadow Clones can only return what chakra they have. What if a regular Shinobi made 10 clones, and all his clones used only one Ninjutsu that cost 5% of his total chakra. Each of his clones using only one technque would leave him with only half his chakra left once they dispersed.

In your second paragraph, you are correct. Sage chakra and Nature Energy are different; you combine Nature Energy along with Physical and SPiritual Energy to get Sage chakra.

You don't need to use all of your own chakra to make Sage chakra. You can allocate. For example, Naruto could say, use 25% of his total chakra to make an amount of Sage chakra. The rest of his chakra is still there.

Naruto didn't actually use his total chakra to create Sage Mode against Pain. Naruto could only balance a certain amount of Nature Energy into his chakra because he was new at it. If you remember, Naruto actually trains a little bit later to extend his Sage Mode. Essentially he's training to be able to balance more Nature Energy into his reserves properly without it petrifying him.

If you're a numbers guy, it's like this:

Naruto has 100 units of chakra. When he first uses Sage Mode, he's new so he can't balance so much of his chakra with Nature Energy. So he balances only 40 units of his total chakra reserves with 20 units of Nature Energy to make Sage chakra. This means he has 60 units of regular chakra and however much chakra he had just created as Sage chakra.