Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-25374031-20140917212238/@comment-25374031-20140918142600

HagoromoOtsutsuki wrote: Hiyayaka-kun wrote: Fukusaku and Shima also stated that you cannot collect senki/shizenki (nature energy) while moving, and that at best you could only last 5 minutes with the collected energy. Having the two of them there allowed Jiraiya to fight indefinitely as a sage while they could collect energy. Furthermore, he was able to use combined techniques with them as well as cover his weaknesses such as genjutsu. Call it incomplete if you will, but its certainly not inferior. Jiraiya was a boss and quite possibly the closest thing to a full sage like Hashirama/Naruto that ever was in that era. Agreed on this. Wait. Even Fukasaku tried this on Naruto, but failed to do so because of Kurama's influence. So if Naruto was fused with the toads, he would have transformed as Jiraiya. And Jiraiya had an option of collecting nature energy while moving with the help of toads (as Jiraiya and one of the toad use the energy, the other toad collects it). Naruto never had that option.