#chakra control

[samasmith23]

Chapter 10 of Naruto feature one of my personal all-time favorite covers for the entire manga!

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Chewing. What is the difference between Sexy Jutsu and a regular transformation. Naruto apparently sucked at transformation jutsu but he was able to effortlessly create… what? A different kind of transformation jutsu? Different how? Why did that work for him when the other method didn't? Could he have used that same method to transform into other shapes? Did he use that same method to transform into other shapes? We see him transform into inanimate objects -- primarily a giant shuriken -- as early as the Wave arc. There are data books that say transforming into an inanimate object is the hardest type of transformation. Did Naruto just Suddenly Learn Transformation Jutsu in the, what, four months since he graduated the Academy, or did he rebuild the transformation technique from the ground up through his Sexy Jutsu into a form that worked better for him? If he did the first one, why did he suck so bad at transformations in the Academy? If he did the second one, how was his process different from the original, and what changes might it have made to the transformations themselves?

For that matter, why was he able to do Shadow Clones but not regular clones? When he's attacking Mizuki, Iruka has the thought of "Those aren't illusions, they're solid clones!" Is that because the Academy clones are only illusions? Is that why Naruto wasn't able to do them? Why does he seem to suck so bad at illusions in the first place? Do we ever get an answer for that? I know the fanon explanation is that he has too much chakra to control it easily and therefor sucks at the fiddly fine-tuning, which I am not against, but I don't think canon ever actually says that? Naruto just sucks at things or is good at things arbitrarily depending on like. Kishi's mood and the placement of the stars or whatever. He has bad chakra control but we're never given a reason for it and it stops mattering like the second he learns the Rasengan.

Naruto's characterization is kind of weird and inconsistent where he's the dumbass underdog knucklehead ninja who was always the last in place despite his drive and dedication to be the best but then when the plot needs him to pick up an S-rank jutsu in an hour he just kinda does it and it's usually depicted as like "See! He can learn if he wants to!" but then we're shown that he very much did want to and was trying and most of his class clown-ery comes from him learning that nobody would care about his accomplishments and if he wanted attention the only way to get it was negative??

And sometimes this is used for Kishi's weird dichotomy between the Geniuses and the Hard Workers which doesn't actually work because 1) all the geniuses in the series are shown to bust their asses training and learning, none of them just coast by, 2) none of the Hard Workers are ever shown to have anything to overcome other than Lee's specific issue, which is Lee's specific issue and never like a deeper societal thing. Naruto isn't hated because he's not a genius, he's hated because he's the Kyubi, and Sakura and Choji and Hinata all have moments of like "I wish I wasn't dragging down my teammates" but all of their issues are shown to be tied to different types of like, a lack of self-confidence way more so than a lack of talent, and since none of those characters are ever really allowed to mean anything in the series it's not like that pattern is ever delved into as being meaningful or thematic in any way, it all feels like Their Personal Struggles and not actually a whole Dichotomy the way Kishi seems to be trying to frame it as.

And even if it was, we circle back to Naruto throwing a monkey wrench in that, because the hand of the author is so blatant with all of Naruto's accomplishments that it ends up feeling like, of course he's The Chosen One, all of his power-ups were just kinda Handed To Him. He's framed as an underdog but he's consistently shown to be the universe's Most Special Little Boy. So what's going on there???

Y'know what for that matter. I know everybody is popping out Shadow Clones left right and center field by the end of the series but originally, Shadow Clones were supposed to be A Big Deal. They were a forbidden jutsu, and we're never actually explicitly told like Why but again the general fanon is that they're somehow so extremely chakra draining that they're highly dangerous to attempt. Naruto popping out a hundred of the damn things the very first episode, after having been training and expelling his chakra already for however long he had the scroll for, makes sense with the whole Kyubi thing and I'm fine with that, but then nobody like. Really reacts at all? To the Shadow Clones?? Are they a big deal or aren't they. If they're fucking forbidden then somebody at some point should have looked at this loud orange genin and been like hey are those shadow clones. Why are there so many of them. Hey. Hey? Hey why can he make So Many Shadow Clones. Hey what the fuck.

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Sasuke’s casual absorption of Orochimaru, and his mastery over the White Snake’s abilities, which he had never learned.

People don’t know that how out-of-the-Naruto-world this feat is. Nothing even close to this has ever been done by anyone. Why am I saying that? (Scans ahead for a relatively detailed post, but a related one is here; if you’re interested, you can read that one for a more comprehensive comparison between Sasuke and the Medics in regard to the whole “Chakra Control” controversy.) That, and does that make him a better medic than Sakura and Tsunade? A controversial take, but one that’s easily provable.

We know Sasuke’s Ninjutsu skill is at the Sage’s level (as stated by Kurama), but what about this specific skill? Well, Sasuke literally absorbed Orochimaru and used his White Snake ability to heal himself. We know Sasuke absorbed him for a fact:

(He looks so smug in a very adorable way here; haha, I love it!)

And as a result of this absorption, Sasuke was able to directly tap into Orochimaru’s abilities that Sasuke never learned or trained for; he simply used them perfectly on the fly. One of them was skin-shedding:

He also tapped into Orochimaru’s healing ability and used it to his own advantage:

White Snake is pretty much an entirely different power and skill-set that Sasuke absorbed, kept suppressed, mastered, and tapped into to aid him in battles:

All the while he kept Orochimaru suppressed and manipulated the Senjutsu-based Cursed Seal? And he was given one out of the two best Cursed Seals Orochimaru ever invented; and as Sasuke was given the Heaven Seal to Kimimaro’s Earth one, his had the best of the best:

And this is literally Jugo’s Sage Mode:

In fact, he’s so good at this Sage Mode that Jugo, Orochimaru, and even Tobirama were mighty impressed:

This isn’t an easy feat, is it? If it was, anyone could’ve done it; but only Sasuke managed to accomplish several tasks at once; and he did so with perfection! How many chakra type manipulations are these? Four at once, as Sasuke is using his own abilities and chakra, Senjutsu, Orochimaru’s White Snake Jutsus, and all the while keeping Orochimaru suppressed? How does Sakura or anyone else compare? I’m sorry, but who’s ever done even half of this? No one? Good to know!

And as for Sakura and Tsunade’s “unmatched” healing than their seals are a poor compensation for Hashirama’s chakra:

And Hashirama’s reserves, by comparison, are so large that they were larger than the chakra within BM Naruto’s system and the BM chakra he’d distributed among the alliance (Sasuke’s and Madara’s are comparable as Uchiha Clan are canonically the only clan with large and potent reserves, as I mentioned here):

In fact, Hashirama’s cells have such a great and an intense chakra in them that Danzo nearly died when he lost the Uchiha Chakra to counter it and was unable to control it:

And Obito never went through blindness because of the cells’ regenerative ability. So in order to compensate for that lack of power, volume, and potency, Tsunade worked with the yin seal that, by her own admission, awarded her with medic powers and chakra that were outright pathetic compared to Hashirama’s: he healed without seals and any drawbacks; and his regenerative abilities were vastly superior:

And no, she didn’t break this Mokuton Clone’s lowest tier susanoo on her own (she struck it first; then it was attacked twice by Mei; after that, Onoki lightened Ae, greatly accelerating his speed; and then it broke here), so let’s not even go there. And no, they don’t have more chakra than Naruto’s SOSPs clone. That’s lunacy. They cling onto these scans and run off from there:

Obito is saying that chakra from them both would be the bare minimum! Remember, Obito absorbed Sage’s Senjutsu chakra directly from Jubi-Madara earlier, so he did the most heavy lifting; and that’s why he was able to create a Truth Seeking Orb and the Staff to match it:

That’s the reason why he was able to survive a direct attack from TSB; otherwise, he would’ve died:

And seriously, in which realm would the Yin Seal have more or as much chakra as the SOSP Naruto clone when Kaguya had a hard time differentiating the original body from the clones?

And she considered Sakura’s chakra so puny that she was literally irrelevant to her?

What are you lot smoking? Sakura and Tsunade, even with the seal, don’t have that much chakra. Nowhere near Hashirama’s even; otherwise, forget Byakugo and its lesser version, they wouldn’t create the seal to compensate for that as healing itself uses more chakra than necessary, depending on the wounds:

They never did. If they had, they’d have managed to summon more than 10% of Katsuya, or Lord forbid, a full Katsuya in their damn lives when they’re using fresh Byakugo seals here (Tsunade was freshly healed by Karin when she came here to meet up with Sakura):

This makes Sasuke’s feats far more impressive as he healed from his wounds in a chakra exhausted and wounded state and while he slept to boot (so he healed passively, unlike their active healing), and not once did Orochimaru manage to claw his way up; and still he managed to heal perfectly and kept Orochimaru at bay at the same time! This not only shows how incredibly dense, large, and potent Sasuke’s chakra is but also his talent in using the abilities, healing included, that he never learned or trained for! No, he simply mastered them via observation!

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I've made this addition on the pertinent posts regarding this form of Ninjutsu (here but most importantly, here) so please if you liked this addition reblog the aforementioned posts instead of this one; but I guess there's no harm in putting it as a separate post to ensure people reading it:

Medical Ninjutsu and delicate chakra control: 

There’s a constant misconception in Naruto’s fandom about how Medical Ninjutsu works and the importance of Chakra control. Having delicate chakra control (delicate being the canon word used to describe Sakura’s control on her chakra flux) implies having control over a large sum of their own chakra in a small part of their body (palms) in order to release it either with their medical ninjutsu or, in the case of Sakura and Tsunade, their fighting technique (they don’t boost their physical energy, as they don’t use such control to run faster, for instance. Rather, they concentrate a large sum of their chakra on their fists and they release it upon contact).

This is canonically proven through the Byakugou seal, as both Tsunade and Sakura are able to save a total of three years of their chakra inside a small diamond-shaped seal that they need to release in order to use more energy-consuming jutsu: Mitochondrial Regeneration, summoning one-tenth of Katsuyu’s body, replenish people with larger chakra pools than them -like Obito or Onoki (the former needed Naruto and Sakura’s chakra combined to cover the bare minimum of his chakra as to perform Kamui to save Sasuke from Kaguya’s dimension), and to have more powerful attacks.

“Chakra control” in the vast use of the term (nor “delicate” preceding it), has more to do with being able to withstand and use large sums of chakra, as Sasuke says “Naruto has control over this much chakra?” During their final fight –the more chakra the shinobi has, the more difficult to control and use it. Danzo was getting poisoned by Hashirama’s cells and had to cut his arm as he lacked the Uchiha chakra to counteract it, unlike Obito whose vast amount of energy allowed him to use Hashirama’s cells at will; Sakura got poisoned due to a small scratch from Naruto’s three-tailed version, the chakra was too dense and powerful and she lacks the stamina to counteract it (Naruto, through Minato’s seal, was exposed to short amounts of this chakra since birth, yet it's likely that his natural reserves are larger than Sakura still).

There’s a reason why Tsunade nor Sakura ever use complicated jutsu, as having delicate control over their chakra does not extend as much how many complicated techniques they can perform: To explain in lesser terms, the more complicated the jutsu, the more chakra it needs and neither Tsunade nor Sakura has a large pool as Sasuke or Naruto do. Their delicate control only means that they won’t waste any energy, as they can concentrate the required amount without wasting the rest; for instance, if a jutsu requires 80% of their energy, while the average shinobi will use at least 90% (wasting 10%), Sakura is able to delicately control her chakra to use only the 80% needed, while maintaining the 20% remaining. The primary difference between Naruto and Sakura is that, while a jutsu takes 80% of Sakura’s chakra, it takes, perhaps 10% (if he wastes a portion as he has less control over his energy and I'm still likely exaggerating the number) of Naruto’s, as he has immense reserves thanks to Kurama.   

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[kaguyasrealm]

Kakashi Hatake Mission Report #4 - Concerning guarding the Land of Waves bridge builder Tazuna, and the battle with rogue shinobi Zabuza.

Client: Tazuna - Bridge builder from Land of Waves. Currently constructing a large bridge to connect the Land of Waves with other countries.

Duties: Protection - Guard him from thieves and the like on the road to the Land of Waves until construction is completed.

Mission Rank: C

Report Three: Naruto, Sasuke and Sakura train, progress:

“ Aware that Zubuza would attack again, I placed the three genin in intensive training. To improve chakra control, I had them climb trees. This proved effective, and all three improved rapidly”.

Mission Notes:

- Competition between Naruto and Sasuke leads to rapid progress.

- Naruto encouraged others, improving socially as well.

- Now able to hang upside-down from a branch.

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How the naruto fandom gonna be like once the quanrantine is over

[thedigitalpen]

“It’s much too soon to be surprised. Neji’s true power is still to come.”

That expression on Tenten’s face is the best. She just looks so proud/happy (with a touch of the superiority smirk that both she and Neji have sometimes) watching her man Neji showing off his incredible skills. And it’s all the more satisfying for her/them because these techniques were things that Neji learned on his own - teaching himself without the help of the clan and even going as far as to learn techniques that are supposed to be passed down within the main branch - and yet, with Tenten’s help, he’s managed to just about perfect his moves, creating his impenetrable defence. 

But the most important thing I took from this whole scene though is the fact that Tenten not only knows how far Neji has progressed, having helped him with it, but she also knows how all his techniques work. Hiashi talks about how Kaiten is a secret art that’s passed down, but it’s not that much of a secret for Tenten. Of course, being able to perform the move is probably where the real “secret” lies, but if we’re talking about the theory, then Tenten already knows it. Like I’ve said before - she’s on a level that’s above family for him. 

And as for the “true power that’s still to come”? You know what it is...

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Part 1 ; Part 2; Part 3