Sage Mode


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 * Type: Supplementary
 * Users: Jiraiya, Fukasaku, Naruto Uzumaki

Jiraiya will draw additional lines on his cheeks then summon the two Toad Elders, Shima and Fukasaku to assist him in battle. Hermit Mode is the result of using Senjutsu's natural chakra in place of normal chakra.



When the toad elders arrive Jiraiya's appearance is altered (he has a bigger nose, a goatee and his eyes are like a toads) in this form Jiraiya’s strength and speed is increased. When Jiraiya transforms to full Hermit Mode, he crouches and his body takes on even more toad like appearance: his hands and feet becomes toad-like, the lines on his face also become much thicker taking each side of his face. Since he was taught from the elder toads, he has formed in the appearance of a frog style. He will also take the stance of the frogs increasing his speed, power, and chakra by tenfold. Also while Jiraiya is in Hermit Mode, he will be able to use various jutsu that are extremely powerful compared to his original arsenal. It was revealed that the reason Jiraiya took a frog-like appearance is because of the training method he used to learn Senjutsu. The fastest method of learning Senjutsu was the Secret Toad's Oil on the Myobokuzan Mountain. It could help you feel and use Natural energy, but if you could not balance it, you would turn into a frog. Jiraiya could not completely control the natural energy and thus had a frog-like appearance when using Hermit Mode.

This was used in Jiraiya's battle with his former student, Pain. Although Pain's absorption technique made little use of his attacks.

Naruto later learns to enter Hermit Mode, albeit with outside means in his effort to learn Senjutsu. He seemed to be more skilled when training, being said to be learning faster than Jiraiya did. Unlike Jiraiya's Hermit Mode that changes his body to be more frog-like in appearance, the only changes in Naruto are his eyes, which Fukasaku mentions, are always present in Hermit Mode, and is the sign of a hermit. It has also been revealed that in Hermit Mode that the user's body becomes more durable towards physical attacks, such as when Naruto falls off a cliff and it did not hurt him at all.

Techniques

 * Hermit's Art: Boiling Oil
 * Hermit's Art: Deep Fryer
 * Hermit's Art: Hair Needle Barrage
 * Kaneshibari Genjutsu
 * Super Great Ball Rasengan