

In the Naruto world, is it possible to get hurt directly by your own chakra?
For example, Naruto's Rasengan is a manifestation of his chakra, so is
Sasuke's Chidori, and Itachi's Fire Style jutsu. If Naruto were to
accidentally hit himself with his own Rasengan, would it affect him the same
way it would if he used it on someone else? Because it's his own chakra, would
his body just absorb it? Same goes for Sasuke's Chidori and Fire Style jutsu.
If Itachi blew a fireball into the wind and it came back and hit him, would he
be hurt by it?


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Can a user be hurt by his own chakra?


In the Fourth Shinobi War, we discover that you can get hurt by your own
chakra.

The best example is Naruto versus the Third Raikage. [![enter image
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To strike a finer point on this, one can be hurt by their own **moulded** or
effectively weaponized chakra. It isn't the case that we've seen unmoulded or
non-weaponized chakra harm the originator.

It's important to note that chakra wasn't initially weaponized.
[Ninshu](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Ninsh%C5%AB), the precursor to ninjitsu,
was originally meant to spread energies and thoughts between others, and to
allow people to live in relative peace.

As an example, Naruto's
[_Rasenshuriken_](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Wind_Release:_Rasenshuriken)
when used as a normal _Rasengan_ actively damaged his body to the point that
Tsunade wished it classified as a forbidden jutsu to prevent irreparable
damage to him.

Another instance would be fully opening all Eight Gates. In this context the
chakra is being expelled from one's body to the degree that it is taking
significant physical damage. Might Guy opened all eight, and due to that fact
(and the fact that normally one _would_ die from that, but he was saved by
Naruto), he's wheelchair bound and unable to be a ninja. Lesser damage has
been incurred by Rock Lee when he's opened up fewer gates, and has ended up in
the hospital due to its side effects*.

The main effects of using the Eight Gates would _also_ be damage to one's
bones, but those are a direct result of taijutsu, and not necessarily the
chakra.


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Any form of physical chakra can damage anyone, even the one who produced it.
When Tsunade challenges Naruto to master the Rasengan in part 1, Naruto's
hands are severely injured.... that's one of many examples of self chakra
injury.

Also are we forgetting the fact that Itachi used his own crow Kotoamatsukami
to place genjutsu on himself when he was in Edo Tensei? So not only physical
but mental as well.


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