Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-28323245-20170530200422/@comment-1920550-20170601190239

Depends on the type of story telling. Plus we were talking about temptation and deals not possession.

Actually what Naruto couldn't use to sense the Ten-tails was sage mode sensing, since the Ten-Tails was a endless mass of senjutsu chakra. Plus there is a scene in the manga/anime, where the Ten-Tails starts to build up chakra and muscle mass of it's own volition due to having sensed the presence of multiple Tailed Beasts within Naruto.

This shows sentience of a rudimentary degree, since it viewed a threat and took steps to protect itself from said threat. Plus the Ten-Tails is the result of the merger between Kaguya and the original Tree, so the resulting creature will always have a degree of sentience.