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According to the wiki,

> While the technique can be extremely beneficial, attempting to use multiple
> clones for training purposes can be mentally harmful to the user, as not
> only is all the experience collected by the user, but so is all the mental
> stress from training each clone

Now, when a clone is destroyed, there must be some mental stress involved. So
does Naruto (or anyone else) feel anything when their shadow clones are
dispersed?

Nothing has been shown to indicate this (at least in the anime). I was
wondering why this would not be applicable.


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Does the original jutsu user feel anything when a shadow clone is dispersed forcefully?


Yes, he does feel something. It was shown in the episodes when Naruto was
training with Kakashi and Yamato (I don't remember exact eisodes, but it was
about when Kakashi gave Naruto the paper to test his chakra affinity).

Kakashi Told Naruto that when he could increase the learning speed by using
clones, because when the clone is destroyed, all the new knowledge it acquired
is immediately transfered to the technique user.

Naruto said that he had never known about it, and Kakashi asked him to make a
clone and to order the clone to follow him. They moved rather far away from
Naruto, and Kakashi told the clone something, I think it was a joke, but I
don't remember well. Then, after they got back and Naruto released the
technique, he immideately had the knowledge of what Kakashi had said to the
clone.


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You basically answered your own question. It is indeed stated that Naruto
receives the experience, mental stress and chakra of the clone. When a clone
is destroyed, it, of course, had mental stress (as it just got attacked and
killed).

Most of the times you do not see this, either because Naruto is used to this
and has an immense capacity to endure this, or because the technique would
become meaningless if he could not use it due to all the stress. (I suspect
the latter)

Although, during the training where he uses his clones to decrease the
training duration, it became clear that is was very hard on him due to the
mental stress he received of his clones.


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The clones definitely feel something, as they were seen to have facial
expressions, as well as groaning to indicate they feel pain.

That feeling does not seem to go through back to the original. Even though
knowledge, experience and even exaughstion seems to go back, there probably is
a protection against physical injury and pain (otherwise, it wouldn't make the
technique so useful).

In short, he does _know_ when his clones are destroyed (because their
knowledge is reflected back at him), but he doesn't feel their pain when they
are hit by shuriken or receive fatal injuries.


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Well, actually the mental stress involved when a clone is forcefully destroyed
being transferred to the original _has_ been showed on a number of occasions
in the anime, including once _before_ the timeskip.

During the Invasion of Konoha arc:

> When Naruto fights Gaara, Gaara goes into the Ichibi Shukaku mode, and
> Naruto attacks Gaara/Shukaku using 1000 clones with the Naruto Niisen Rendan
> (Naruto Two Thousand Combo). He then attempts the Naruto Yonsen Rendan
> (Naruto Four Thousand Combo), but Shukaku fights back and destroys nearly
> all the clones. As Naruto is forced back, he exclaims, "That hurt a lot".

Later after the timeskip, when Kakashi tells Naruto that the pain experienced
by the clone is transferred to the user, Naruto says in a dejected/annoyed
tone, "I knew that already."


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I think mental knowledge and experiences are transferred to the original once
disperesed, but not physical pain. If that were the case, using the shadow
clone jutsu would only be too risky and only used for emergencies.

I was actually wondering about the opposite scenario. Do the shadow clones
share injuries of the original. For example, when kabuto severed the muscle in
naruto's leg out, did the shadow clone created afterwards also have a severed
muscle in the leg.


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