Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-25139119-20150807165411/@comment-26275777-20150811053501

LegionZero wrote: Naruto gave the entire army Tailed Beast cloak, which is a Tailed Beast ability. He also said he adjusted it to match them, implying he made it so that it would amplify their abilities rather than just recharge them/give them abilities they were unfamiliar with.

Yes, and in contrast when Naruto received chakra from the tailed beasts there is no mention of it being adjusted to match his, and it didn't just amplify his abilities but rather gave him their tailed beast skills as well. So in this regard Naruto is not like Sakura (Sakura here being a stand-in for the Alliance).

Also, look up to the 3 different types of chakra transfer I listed. Naruto didn't have their chakra in his soul, he had it in his body. We know that Tailed Beast Chakra is a seperate reserve from its hosts.

I said he received their chakra in his soul (or however you would classify the double inner mindscape magic place where he discussed with Hagoromo/the other tailed beasts that time), which I used as an analogue for Kinkaku and Ginkaku obtaining Kurama's chakra via unusual means (eating his chakra meat). Again, the way he received their chakra is internalized/different from the way Sakura received chakra from Naruto (by an external physical touch). The tailed beasts placed chakra within him. Naruto put the cloak on Sakura.

Kinkaku/Ginkaku are the only examples where this was different, considering they ate/slept/breathed Kurama, and it had a physical change on them that has come with no Jin, something more akin to the second type of chakra mixing happened.

Barring the fact that we don't actually know when they got their whiskers (we never see their faces before their transformation) or how they got them (grown or tattoos?), jinchuuriki physical traits are still a toss-up canon-wise; see Gaara's permanent eye rings, or Naruto's own whiskers, or Obito and Madara's physical changes upon becoming the Ten-Tails' jinchuuriki.

But yes, in this regard Kinkaku and Ginkaku are different from most people in the series.

In short, Naruto was is closer to Sakura than would be Gin/Kin.

Wait, so in two out of three categories you bring up Naruto differs from Sakura, and then you conclude that he's closer to her than to Kinkaku and Ginkaku?