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Remember, Naruto doesn't have to be male when doing this. He's a kitsune, and thus a shapeshifter.
True, but my main point is that, while Naruto would need to train for weeks to get the chains ready to hold the two targets down, Kushina can do that Right Now. This would let Naruto spend the time instead getting ready for the Finals, or for the counter invasion. A better use of his time, yes?Remember, Naruto doesn't have to be male when doing this. He's a kitsune, and thus a shapeshifter.
True, but my main point is that, while Naruto would need to train for weeks to get the chains ready to hold the two targets down, Kushina can do that Right Now. This would let Naruto spend the time instead getting ready for the Finals, or for the counter invasion. A better use of his time, yes?
There are not enough Ranma/Naruto crossovers. Just saiyan.
This is that blend of pragmatism that just screams "Ninja!""Kaede unlocked her eyes a couple days ago when her pet died. Gossip at the bar says that Itachi thought it was a far healthier method for doing so than expected and is considering mandating all Uchiha have personal pets as children as a result."
I don't know if he'd take it back, but he certainly made a mistake.Two hours later Naruto locked the building back up and headed home, reviewing several jutsu in the Tome's world with his parents and idly wondering if Itachi would've thought differently about granting access if he'd known about that trick. Then again, granting access until next June was more than enough time to copy it all anyway, so perhaps it wouldn't have changed anything.
Wow, he's really out of it!"Apparently your brain hasn't finished rebooting. Have you even noticed that he's got fox ears and a tail?"
Orochimaru wants to capture a young Uchiha with a sharingan and she is the only one who is a valid target in Orochimaru's eyes.
I hate that I had the mental image of Orochimaru sneaking into people's houses and eating their hamsters because of this.Roachie probably was responsible for the death of Kaede's pet in the hopes of it being traumatic enough to awaken a Sharingan.
That's really petty cruelty, but at the same time I could see it. And of course he may not have been, up until the next time the author checks the thrad...Roachie probably was responsible for the death of Kaede's pet in the hopes of it being traumatic enough to awaken a Sharingan.
Please! Mr. Maru is a SCIENTIST! He would take notes before wandering off.Roachie breaking into people's houses, tying them up, and eating their pets in front of them in hopes of unlocking their superpowers, and wandering off.
Please! Mr. Maru is a SCIENTIST! He would take notes before wandering off.
Which is exactly why he would think just taking some notes would be sufficient, despite not having any experimental controls, or pre-written theory or even a plan other than "do horrible stuff and see if it works". I mean really, if you wanted to test conditions for activating a Sharingan scientifically, you'd need to have at least a couple hundred test Uchihas, properly isolated, and arranged into test groups. Need to eliminate the placebo effect after all - if a horrible thing doesn't cause any more of them to trigger than the isolation alone did, then clearly it's not effective. (Also, somehow I don't think this experiment would make it past the ethics review board.)No, he merely thinks he's a SCIENTIST. He's no more a scientist then Cave Johnson of Portal fame is.
Yes. Because he knows Garra has a tailed beast inside of him. Which Garra will not have by the time the finals roll around. Ergo, learning some other trick with a broader range of use cases may well be a better use of Naruto's time before the finals.Also, "learn how to suppress tailed beasts with chains" is already part of Naruto's preperations for the finals.
On the other hand, it is Orochimaru; dude is the undisputed grandmaster at cheating death and thanks to the sheer absurd number of different techniques he knows, he's very good at adapting to the unexpected.
Yes. Because he knows Garra has a tailed beast inside of him. Which Garra will not have by the time the finals roll around. Ergo, learning some other trick with a broader range of use cases may well be a better use of Naruto's time before the finals.
Figuring this out though isn't just a one trick pony. It's a stepping stone towards other things. Also, you assume he's not working on a dozen things at the same time.
I'm not saying he should not learn to do this. I'm saying he shouldn't wait until he's able to before going after Garra if Kushina can do the suppression for him, and that focusing on something that will take the majority of the time before the finals when other things are more useful to focus on in that particular timeframe is less then optimal.Why are people thinking that the ability to suppress a biju's chakra with the chakra chains won't translate to suppressing any other weaker source of chakra, I would assume the difference is control and potency of the technique similar to going from cutting a leaf to cutting a waterfall, just because you go from one to the next doesn't suddenly make using it at the lower level impossible.
I'm not saying he should not learn to do this. I'm saying he shouldn't wait until he's able to before going after Garra if Kushina can do the suppression for him, and that focusing on something that will take the majority of the time before the finals when other things are more useful to focus on in that particular timeframe is less then optimal.
Yes, he's able to train in a dozen things at once. However, there is still a limit on how many man/clone hours of training he can get in by the exam, and even using clones he estimates being able to suppress a bijuu will take most of those hours. Better to, say, figure out the Swamp of the Underworld technique to deny Neji footing and Garra sand access in those hours...
First, he has to know about the Swamp of the Underworld technique, for example. Maybe that's a Sage specific thing and Minato doesn't even know it's possible.
Second of all, I think you are making a critical mistake with your assumption of priorities. You are assuming that his mother using the technique while piloting an extremely fragile shadow clone is a better use of time. While yes, a barrier jacket makes shadow clones far more durable, they aren't invincible. In addition, Kushina may well be too busy dealing with killing the tailed beast to focus on maintaining a chakra suppression.
You also assume Naruto needs a way to counter Neji and Garra's sand.
How about the concept of Basic(s)kill? That is, the use of the most simple d-rank tricks in ways that are none-the-less cracked. I'm sure that will pop off with the crowd and impress the Kages at the same time.How about "big flashy moves concealing some more sneaky moves"? Think the judges would like that?