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Originally Posted by David Johnston2
No, there is actually a "real" Naruto who still has all of his own hit points. His duplicates hit just as hard as he does but poof out of existence the moment they get hit by anything.
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Most of the time but not always.
Possible (mild) spoilers for the Naruto anime.
For example in the Forest of Death section of the Chunin exams Naruto created 4 clones, used Transformationjutsu on 3 of them to make them look like the people he was with and sent them out to fight some Earth ninja for an hour while his group got some rest.
Obviously the clones didn't achieve a decisive victory but it's extreme unlikely they went untouched for an entire hour either.
There are other scenes where clones engage in melee without going "poof". Somehow Naruto can make them tougher if he wants to. We know he can distribute his chakra evenly throughout a dozen clones.