Quote Originally Posted by Buffalobiian View Post
Exactl how reliant is Naruto on the kyuubi's chakra now though? The 4th redid the seal, to technically he should be able to reap more rewards from it without having it control him back on the lower levels, but with Sage mode and all that now, it doesn't seem like he'll need it.

Sage mode required a heap of your own chakra reserve to be effective so that the natural chakra doesn't take over your own, and the frogs couldn't help him out in gathering it because the fox was in the way. That all seems to suggest that Naruto himself is now pretty much fine without the fox.
Well, considering even with Sage mode, he'd have lost against Pain without his usual Ninetails freakout...and the guys he fights are probably only going to get stronger as the series goes on, I doubt he'll ever be able to afford to get rid of it, unless it's the very end of the series.

I think it's more likely he'll just end up learning to control it better. All this talk lately about how Killer Bee is like the perfect Jinchuuriki and how he gets along with the Eighttails makes me think they need to have that guy train Naruto.

Quote Originally Posted by Sam98034 View Post
I think the Fox still provides him with some chakra reserves and healing. And I'm guessing the 10-tails body is at the center of the moon and the Sage did what Pain did trapping the Fox but on a much huger scale.
That seems like a fairly safe assumption. I didn't think Madara meant the Tentail's body literally BECAME the moon.

I'm guessing some poor minor continent somewhere had to be sacrificed in order to make the Tentail's tomb.