Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-25093611-20160304230401/@comment-734582-20160322093219

Anime Geek 0912 wrote: I believe characters (With a lot of chakra control) could walk on fog/steam because both are just evaporated versions of water plus their is moisture in the air. If the character could use their chakra to the molecular level they could walk on steam/fog. It's not the water that allows them to walk, and even then "waterwalking", using Kishimoto's explanation of the mechanism, is a misnomer.

It's not really water "walking" so much as it is water "hovering".