Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-6769189-20150307180344/@comment-24384232-20150310023409

Perhaps you should consider how Kishimoto arrived at his chakra natures in the first place, by examining the culture in which he grew up. That might shed light as to how and why the nature's work as they do. For example, I'd suggest reading up on Wu Xing, and the hexagrams of the I-Ching. I mean, aside from the obvious references with the Hyuuga's Gentle Fist, and Danzo's own fuinjutsu which are drawn directly from the hexagrams, there might be some merit. And while this may be a fantasy setting, there is a logic in how chakra functions, the eight trigrams are different ratio's of yin and yang chakra, and the 64 trigrams after that are even further divided between that ratio.