Chapter 655: Creating an oodama rasen shuriken without SM??

[VolatileSoul]

He was not in SM,

You must be registered for see links

proves it. Here, he made the clones and then proceeded to make the Rasen-Shuriken

You must be registered for see links

. Also see that here he says Oodama Rasen-Shuriken and not Senpuu-Oodama Rasen-Shuriken. This show he was not in SM.

I bet that Naruto has gotten pretty great at his chakra control, to the point that he can make it bigger and probably throw it, though we didn't get a scan of it

You must be registered for see links

, but I'm making this assumption based on the fact that the tree itself is gigantic and very tall.

That image doesn't prove anything. We'd need to see his face when he made it. I don't recall Naruto ever saying Senpo before he used a Rasenshuriken, even while in sage mode.