

In the past three Naruto manga chapters (chapters 621~623), the story goes
like this: child days of both Hashirama and Madara, and he (Hashirama) is just
like every others in Naruto: a normal human being. But when Orochimaru revived
all four Hokage in front of Sasuke, Hashirama raises his chakra level to
threaten Tobirama, as it would crack all the walls nearby or maybe the entire
basement (chapter 620). How could have Hashirama acquired this kind of power
(chakra)?


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Why does Hashirama Senju possess such huge and terrifying chakra?


When shinobi are reincarnated using the Summoning: Impure World Reincarnation,
they have unlimited chakra, as is stated on page 17 of chapter 591. It seems
to be that instead of the character himself having incredible chakra from when
he was alive, he instead had incredible chakra because he was reincarnated.


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The Impure World Reincarnation gives them an unlimited chakra, but at the same
pool they had before. If that's the case, then we'd have a bunch of undead
Hashirama leveled clones all over the place.  
So, again, the display from Hashirama is his actual chakra level before he
died (considered his prime). Now being able to use his chakra at top form
because of the Impure World Reincarnation is ridiculous. It's like a constant
recharge to 100%.

If Impure Madara and Impure Hashirama went at it, most likely a never ending
fight would occur, but we now have different variables. The unknown power of
the Juubi with Madara and Tobi vs the Kages, Kyuubi Mode Naruto and now Sasuke
thrown in the mix. There's too much play given at the moment since we still
don't know the true extent of the power of the chakra from Juubi, Rinegan
Madara, Hasirama, Sasuke and Kyuubi Mode Naruto.


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Hashirama is a direct descendant of the Sage of the Six Paths, but his chakra
levels are beyond the normal notable chakra levels seen in both the anime and
manga. I think this stems from both his heritage and his ability to use the
Mokuton (Wood Release). As similarly noted in Madara's case, these two were
born with exceptionally powerful chakra, even for their clan's standards.


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Hasirama was a child prodigy and the only shinobi ever found that could use
mokuton. So maybe hashirama was gifted with such abilities, plus he must have
worked really hard too as the flashback shows. Moreover jubiis real form is a
tree, shinju. That means originally when the chakra that was distribued among
shinobis by ridoku, one must have gained somewhat extraordinary part of it,
call it genes at play. And wood ability being the stongest of all elements
being jubiis form must have demanded a high amount of chakra level which is
why it was weilded only by him due to having great chakra reserves. Though it
is surprising that the probability of someone getting wood affinity was so low
to be only one person.


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Rather than acquired, being born with it or blessed with since childhood would
be more correct. The author's way of balancing the rivals, I guess. Madara too
ended up showing off ridiculous powers. He single-handedly defeated the Five
Kages after all and Hashirama was his equal in strength.

Nothing more specific has been provided so far.


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When Naruto had gone to Mount Myoboku for his senjutsu training, Lord Fukasaku
had mentioned

> only those who already possess "extreme chakra levels" can utilise natural
> energy to invoke senjutsu

[Source](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Sage_Mode)

Now we also know, Kakashi mentioned Naruto having large reserves of chakra
(excluding the Nine tail's chakra). And this is the reason why Naruto could
complete the Sage training and enter Sage mode, thereby giving him access to a
larger amount of chakra.

The same goes for Jiraya, as he had completed the Sage mode training, and
could enter the sage mode himself.

Thus we can assume, once in a while kids are born with higher reserves of
chakra.

The same can be assumed in case of the first Hokage and Kisame, they could
have been born with a large reserve of chakra.

Reason for assuming this is, First Hokage could enter the sage mode himself,
and as for Kisame, we know the sword of his, Samehada would only attach
himself to a ninja with good reserves of chakra. (Since the eight tails had
more chakra and a more "delicious" one samehada switched allegiance and joined
Bee).

In case of Naruto, Jiraya and First Hokage, their sage mode gave them access
to a larger pool of chakra thus making them more powerful. On the other hand,
Kisame could get access to a larger amount of chakra with the help of
Samehada, that would "eat" the chakra of enemies and supply to Kisame.

Nothing much have been mentioned about the third Raikage, so I can't provide
any proof to support my speculations.


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Facts taken from the manga: ( **Remember, the Hashirama-Madara flaskback is
not completed yet.** )

I can think of two possibilities as to why he was more powerful:

a) Each ninja has their own motive in their life, and Hashirama's ninja way of
life was to "Protect his Village and Comrades". Hashirama was very dedicated
to achieving his goal.

b) Hashirama did use even Senjutsu. People with Sennin Mode can manipulate
Nature's Energy, too. This made him more powerful than his normal state.
People who can manipulate Nature's Energy become more powerful. **For
instance, Taijutsu becomes more powerful.**

![Chakra Sennin Mode Distribution](https://i.stack.imgur.com/kRbPb.png)


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The answer is actually pretty simple:

> Hashirama is one of Ashura's, Hagoromo's son's reincarnation, Ashura
> inherited the Sage's body and physical strength, there is where his and
> Hashirama's huge chakra reserves is from. He also could use all elements of
> chakra and the yin/yan release too. (Wood Release is yan Release Kekkei
> Genkai, because you can breathe life into forms with it.


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The reason why Hashirama has such an powerful and enormous amount of chakra
reserves (estimated to be even larger than that of Naruto Uzumaki) is partly
because of both his Senju heritage as he is full-blooded and because he is the
reincarnation of Ashura Õtsutsuki the younger son of Hagoromo Õtsutsuki (And
the younger son of The Sage of six paths was blessed with his fathers body
_Yang energy/Physical energy_ granting him both a strong life force/stamina
and powerful chakra) which makes Hashirama in a way in both body and spirit
pure and royal

To go even further with this, its possibly also the same reason why he is the
only one able to unlock the Wood release among the Senju's. As we know Wood
release is a combination of both *Water and Earth releases but as the story
goes on you'll also learn that it also heavily consist of Yang release which
basically makes it a tessei kenkai so to speak.

So the reason why Hashirama Senju is the only one able to use the Wood release
is because of his body itself which was said to be "brimming with vitality" as
he could battle on for days before finally showing signs of fatigue and as he
would heal from wounds without even waving seals surpassing technique in even
that of Tsunade known as the greatest medical shinobi.


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Pretty simple.

Hagoromo Otsutsuki, the founder of Ninja Arts, the Sage of Six Paths, had two
sons. The eldest, Indra Otsutsuki, inherited his powerful Visual Prowess. The
second Asura Otsutsuki, inherited his powerful chakra and life force.

Indra founded the Uchiha Clan, which is the clan of Sharingans, and Asura
founded the Senju, thus some Senju would get his life force.

We can assume that since Asura Otsutsuki inherited his father's life force,
all Senju have strong/powerful chakra, but if you are his direct reincarnate (
**Hashirama & Naruto**), then your chakra is a cut above the rest.


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