So, Team Gai did notice things were off, but pretended not to because they were going to strategize. But, since they don't know Sakura, and Sakura doesn't know them, this was not communicated and Sakura decided to confront the "innkeeper" herself, thus the battle.
I don't think this adds up to an explanation yet either. People don't taste things with their lips. Frankly, if we're meant to take the line at face value, this has to be more "system breaking the rules of physics" stuff.
Since she didn't actually want to drink alcohol, this counted as an Academy-level hostile attack and she automatically dodged it?
Bit hard to incapacitate someone who can weaponise their hair.
Who will once again refer you to Kakashi.
Impressive self-reflection. We shall see if it comes to anything.
…he can see solvent compounds? Hax! Hax I say!
Didn't that evil teacher put her through exaggerated conditioning? Might have messed up more than her pain tolerance.
If you use fire, you can make sure that their hair is one of the missing parts, especially if they extend it so it's a bigger target.
Tenten might actually have a scroll for that. Ninja tools and seals are pretty good at locking things up, if nothing else.
There's a corpse-storing seal, but canon doesn't let you seal living things (magical artefacts and other late-Shippūden nonsense notwithstanding). Regardless, the issue is incapacitating her to begin with. Once you're in a position to think about locking her up, you could just shave her bald.
You never know when you're going to need that hair growth-inhibiting seal.
The one before last was pretty simple: The innkeeper was shady so Sakura tried to question her (alone, like a moron) and then she attacked Sakura with her hair.
I also needed this refresher, thank you.
If the Uchiha can make fire that burns for 7 days without any additional fuel, conceptually, warp, resurrect, trap people for days, and make a giant suit of mech.
He did, yeah.
I can at least confirm, it was not poisoned.
It does however, let you teleport people using seals. We learn that in the Chunin exams, and then never again.
I was actually running a Quest specifically to try and increase my fight scene writing abilities.I do think it would probably benefit from a bit of a re-write to make the action clearer in the future but I clicked as soon as I saw the update and have enjoyed this nugget of story
Well... It was also Naruto's dad's whole thing.
Right that is true.
It's shounen/a coming of age story.
That's true.
Yeah, there's only so much story you can get out of "The kids then informed the Local Authority and the plot was neatly resolved."
I always assumed that there where a lot of restrictions on those otherwise the 4th was kinda a hack.
Ehh... not exactly. FTG is a ninjutsu first and foremost. The seals are also applied as ninjutsu rather than scribed (cf. Minato vs Tobi). More generally, Kishimoto is super vague on what is and isn't a seal (unless you want to just say "magic + writing = seal"). In the anime, Minato's FTG seals aren't even mystical--they're literally the phrase "sword of shinobi love", written in kanji.
Didn't he literally throw objects with seals inscribed on them to places he wanted to teleport? At least in the early stages of the technique, for all I know he refined it later.
While some of the other features you bring up may add complexity, I think this one is probably simpler. The majority of seals we see are seal-side activated. I suspect the remote activation was one of the reasons no one else ever got the technique down.
Naruto is in cutthroat competition with the NinjaJanitors. Dear god.
