Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-34700383-20180829185752/@comment-34194151-20180907205331

@LegionZero

I actually had Pain absorbing naruto's chakra in mind. He was actually becoming a frog sage but then he turned to a frog statue because he couldn't control the nature energy chakra. Theorectically, if nagato had training, then his preta path would have had sage mode, so naruto was actually taking a big risk there. Madara is also known as asspulldara, so that's probably how he could instantly grasp sage mode after absorbing nature energy chakra from base hashirama. So given this feat, why would it be unprecendented for hagoromo to have done something similiar? We have seen obito absorb sage chakra from madara and we see it gave him the ability to get a truth seeking staff. Hagoromo could have learned it I suppose but this should still have been an option.

Madara states it was possible for obito to do this because he was previously in sage mode. I understand the databook doesn't make the connection but the manga does. The manga equates sage transformation with sage mode. I'm looking into colored boruto manga. I don't have trouble with your other points, but the whole 9 bijuu thing is complicated. When obito was stealing the one tails and eight tails from madara, we saw the juubi as a massive of chakra that each looked like the 9 tailed beasts. The same thing happened when obito got his beasts pulled out by the alliance, and something similiar happened when kaguya got hit by 9 rasenshuriken. The fragmented nature of the juubi is kinda weird, so that's why I beleive it's possible that while the 9 bijuu by itself isn't enough, hagoromo could have gifted the ability for naruto's 9 bijuu to create ridoku senjutsu inside of him.