Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-5407586-20150624095943/@comment-734582-20150625100653

Omnibender wrote: He uses clay because of the hands, yes, but why does he need to use the hands in the first place if chakra infusion has been done without it by so many characters? And again, the explosion is defused because the clay got messed up. An explosion is only there when the clay detonates, so Sasuke is really attacking the clay. If the clay is attacked, it loses its "charge". Yes this makes sense. deidera had to gather clay, just like gaara needs to gather sand. To me, the exploding clay falls in the same category as things like Konan's Paper.

We don't quite know what the mouths were for, but my guess is that that's what transformd the clay into detonation clay. This hints that maybe, Deidera had a Kekkei Genkei of a different kind (Explosive saliva?) that he mixed with the clay. After all, his "explosion release" is absolutely nothing like the Kekkei Genkai we later see in the war. Thus, it seems to be an artificial kind of explosion release.

I would like to raise a comparison to the Sound Four where one of them was a spider that could produce special silk. i think deidera's abilities were more in line with his. Special saliva of some sort makes a lot of sense in context, explaining the chewing, the gathering of clay and the use of multiple "mouths".

Explosion=lightning+fire= no sense! Exploson= air gases+spark or earth's hydrocarbons + spark. An explosion is simply a very fast combustion. the idea is that Raiton simply enhanced the natural combustion of fire.