User:GoDai/Ideas and Theories

Note: I definitely place manga ahead of anime/movies in my assumptions and theories.

=Godai Seishitsu Henka, Combinations, and theories=

Basic Elements
There are 6 basic natures of chakra. At least one of the properties of chakra are transformed to utilize these natures.


 * Fire Release: Superheated chakra which ignites on contact with external atmosphere, usually only breathed out, not controlled or manipulated. Usually hand seal sequence begins with Snake (sometimes Ram, Kakuzu's Fire Release: Intelligent Hard Work began with Rat) and ends with Tiger.


 * Wind Release: Sharpened chakra which cuts through the air with ease, no hand seals required in manga (besides Danzō Shimura's Vacuum jutsu and Kakuzu's Wind Release: Pressure Damage).


 * Lightning Release: High-frequency vibrations of chakra converted into electricity, generates lightning, and causes paralysis on living targets. Ox, Rabbit, and Monkey are usually invloved, but many other jutsu do not.


 * Earth Release: Mud or moist soil, and the manipulation of its density (or in the case of Earth Release: Earth Spear the density of the skin). Snake is the Earth seal, but Boar and Tiger are also often involved, and many Earth techniques do not require the Snake seal.


 * Water Release: High-viscosity water only in fluid (either liquid or vapour) forms (as opposed to Ice). Much more dense than normal water, which in the case of Water Release: Syrup Capture Field or Hidden Mist Technique can be used to slow and delay opponents, as well as increase impact and pressure of jutsu such as Water Release: Exploding Water Colliding Wave. Wide ranges of hand seals required, usually involving Tiger, Ram, or Bird.


 * Yin and Yang: Physical and mental energy (which are the "Yin" and "Yang" of chakra)being manipulated almost separately, but yet together to be manipulated as chakra, sice chakra must be a mix of the two. Assumed to be related to the Nara clan's Shadow Imitation Technique, the Akimichi clans's Multi-Size Technique, Medical ninjutsu, Genjutsu, and possibly Tayuya's spirit worms and the Yamanaka clan's mind-related jutsu, such as the Mind Body Switch Technique.
 * Traditionally, Yin would be the physical energy and Yang would be the mental/spiritual energy, but in the case of Amaterasu and Tsukuyomi, Yin was spiritual and Yang was physical, so it is unknown which one is which.


 * The Multi-Size Technique and medical ninjutsu use mostly physical energy, as they manipulate the cells of one's body.
 * The Yamanaka clan mind techniques and Genjutsu use mostly mental energy, as they manipulate the mind and senses.
 * It is unknown how physical energy and mental energy affect shadows, but it is possible that the emptiness of light somehow affects physical energy and/or mental energy, which would allow Shikamaru to manipulate the bodies of others.

Notes:
 * Earth and Water, unlike the other natures, cannot be used without the actual element. A skilled chakra-user could generate the element out of pure chakra, usually spitting it from thier mouth, and therefore convert energy into matter. It has been stated that through the use of chakra, chemistry, and medical knowledge, one can produce certain wanted substances from their body(see Poison Mist), possibly related to element generation. (Same for Yuki-nin's snow/ice, see below)

Anime/Movie-only

 * Yukigakure's Ice Release/"Snow Release" - (The Yuki-nin had no kekkei genkai, which makes this a possible basic element, maybe something like a village hiden jutsu?) Physically cold chakra, seemingly the opposite of Fire Release. Theory: Supercooled chakra flowed into snow or ice in order to shape and manipulate it, using the cold to expand ice crystals. It seems that if this chakra is cold and concentrated enough, it seems black, as shown in Ice Release: Black Dragon Blizzard and Ice Release: Twin Dragon Blizzard (although this phenomenon would be better explained by the black chakra armor). All hand seal sequences finish with Dog. Doto Kazahana could apparently generate snow.
 * As Kakashi could copy one of these techniques, it is not a k.g., unlike Haku's Ice Release.

Advantages/Disadvantages
Each of the five basic elements have an advantage over another, and therefore each also has a disadvantage.


 * Fire consumes Wind
 * Wind redirects Lightning
 * Lightning pierces Earth
 * Earth blocks Water
 * Water extinguishes Fire

Notes:
 * Unlike the common belief, Lightning is not necessarily powerful against Water, as one could use a Water jutsu to absorb and redirect a Lightning jutsu. Only in the case of Suigetsu's Hydration Technique this is true, as Suigetsu himself becomes the water he can use in his jutsu. Other than that, the two elements do make a good combination.
 * Lightning Release can be controlled, so grounding the electricity will not defeat it. Rather the electric current being channeled through will destroy the earth. Earth does not have an advantage over Lightning in this case.

However, one element can resist its weakness if the technique itself is of higher rank than the opposing jutsu with the elemental advantage. For example, an A-rank Fire jutsu can evaporate a C-rank Water jutsu with little difficulty.

Afinities and their History
Every person is born with an elemental affinity, which is a genetic characteristic that decides which type of Nature Transformtion they will find the easiest to learn, due to their chakra finding it easy to change its own nature (properties) into that affinity.

Each type of Nature Transformation deals with the transformation of chakra in at least one property:
 * Fire: Raising temperature and flammability of chakra (Heat and combustion)


 * Wind: Sharpening and thinning each particle of chakra (Pressure)


 * Lightning: Increasing vibration frequencies of chakra (Electricity)


 * Earth: Flowing chakra into earth to manipulate its density and composition (Density)


 * Water: Flowing chakra into water to make it "heavy/dense (as Kakashi noticed the water of the pond he fell into was "heavy" in his battle with Zabuza, as it had been infused with Water chakra for Zabuza to use his Water Prison Technique)" and manipulate its form (Viscosity)


 * Yin and Yang: Regulating the balances of chakra, allowing one to manipulate chakra that is almost all mental energy or almost all physical energy (much like how there is one black dot in the white side and one white dot in the black side in Yin and Yang) to control the body and/or mind (Body/Mind)

There is a special type of paper made from a special tree that is grown by feeding it chakra (so the plant recognizes different types of chakra). This paper will react differently according to the person's affinity (even if the person is not using a jutsu of that affinity, the body is always producing and transforming chakra to its own likeliness).
 * If the paper:
 * catches fire and turns into ash (Combustion),
 * the person has a fire affinity.
 * splits in half (Razor-sharp chakra),
 * the person has a wind affintiy.
 * crumples up (Vibrations),
 * the person has a lightning affinity.
 * breaks apart into dirt (Composition change),
 * the person has a earth affinity.
 * gets wet and damp (Water generation),
 * the person has a water affinity.

I believe there were 5 great groups of people in the past when ninjutsu was just beginning to be introduced by the Sage of the Six Paths. These groups each posessed an affinity, one of the five basic elements. They would later become the 5 Great Shinobi Nations. As time passed, these groups met, fought, made deals/peace with, and "mixed-and-mingled" with each other, bringing us to the current time of world of Naruto. Now people have wide ranges of possible affinities they may be born with, due to their ancestry.
 * The Sage himself had two sons, who, younger and older, were ancestors of the Senju clan and the Uchiha clan.

The Sage possessed the Rinnegan, and possessed all 5 affinities, which meant his sons could be born with any affinity.
 * The Senju clan had wide ranges of abilities among its members, possibly due to the Senju clan ancestor having been born with the Sage's "body," which may be directing to affinities, and his physical power. This may be the explanation to Hashirama possessing the Wood Release while no one else in his clan are observed to possess it. It is most likely a recessive gene that only appears when it is only matched by another recessive gene.


 * Seeing the common Fire affintiy among the Uchiha clan, the other 4 affinities must have stayed recessive in most members. The Uchiha clan ancestor was not born with the Sage's "body," but his "eyes." His spiral dōjutsu is a proof of the developing of the Sharingan from the Rinnegan. The Sharingan developed abilities such as copying jutsu, seeing chakra, recognizing genjutsu, etc, but did not retain the ability of possessing all 5 affinities at once.
 * Sasuke had difficulty learning Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique because he was a rare case in which, unlike the rest of his clan, he had a Lightning affinity. He must have had an ancestor with the Lightning affinity (possibly the Sage himself), which remained recessive in most descendants before Sasuke.

Advanced Elements
This is the fun part.

Some people are born with two affinties at once, which means their chakra has a tendency to change their properties to the properties of both of these elements. This is usually done through k.g., unique abilities, or a Tailed Beast Skill, but there may be other methods.

Note: it is interesting how the effects of the advanced natures can seem quite different from their names.


 * Ice Release = Water + Wind.
 * Thin, but dense chakra, generating water and condensing it into reflective ice crystal structures. Used by Haku and his clan. Done through the use of unique hand seals. Haku can create and "enter" ice mirrors, and can appear out of any mirror, much like a space-time jutsu, but this relies on the reflection of the ice to make it seem so. Ice was resistant against Fire. Did not actually freeze enemies, only created ice structures.


 * Wood Release = Earth + Water.
 * Earth and Water generated to combine chakra(life source) with the two elements(nourishment, providence) to rapidly grow trees/wood, as well as cause existing trees/wood to grow into new structures, while the user manipulates the direction of growth. Used by Hashirama Senju, and transplanted into Yamato and Danzō Shimura by Orochimaru. Tiger and Snake very common in hand seal sequences, as well as Dog and Ram. Snake is usually used last to initiate jutsu. Different from other advanced natures, as this element manipulates living plant cells. The DNA pattern for this k.g. also includes the ability to control Tailed beasts through the Hokage-style Sixty-year-old Technique - Kakuan Entering Society with Bliss-bringing Hands, which involves the use of wooden pillars and the First Hokage's Necklace.
 * Hashirama had full control over it, generating actual trees and manipulating them.
 * Yamato generated living wood from his body or generated trees from aleady existing earth and water and manipulated it.
 * Danzō generated trees from his right arm, but did not manipulate them.


 * Lava Release = Earth + Fire.
 * Earth is produced while at the same time being melted by Fire, producing Lava. A k.g. of Mei Terumī, and a Tailed Beast skill of the Four-Tailed Monkey and his Jinchūriki, Rōshi. Unknown how both subjects have the same nature through differing means. Strangely, the Four-Tails' nature is written with a 熔(molten;lava), while Mei's nature is written with 溶(melt;corrode;dissolve;solvent), although 熔岩 and 溶岩 both mean "lava" ("molten rock" and "corroded/dissolved rock" respectively). However the Four-Tails' nature was once metioned to be 溶遁, indicating that it is likely the same nature or a mistake.


 * Storm Release = Lightning + Water.
 * Electricity in a fluid form is produced. Bright energy is the resulting form of this nature. Darui's k.g. Probably named after storm clouds (water + lightning), but effect is completely different, as with several other natures. Possibly light-based, hence the name of the technique Storm Release: Laser Circus and its effect.


 * Blaze Release = Fire + Lightning
 * Believed to be a stronger Fire Release, this nature, instead of allowing one to breathe fire, allows one to mnaipulate already existing flames, preferably one created by a Fire Release. Sasuke Uchiha's advanced nature. Sasuke prefers to manipulate the extremely powerful flames of Amaterasu (unless this nature only controls Amaterasu exclusively.). Sasuke maipulates flames thrugh his right Mangekyō Sharingan, suppressing and forcing the flames into shapes, while he casts Amaterasu itself with his left.
 * Some instead believe it is a combination of Fire and Lightning, Sasuke's two available natures. It has been long assumed "Fire + Lightning = Light, Sun, Heat, Radiation, Plasma, or Flares/Fireworks, etc." Amaterasu covers all of these assumptions, as it represents the "Material world and Light" and the sun, which also includes Light, Heat, Radiation, Plasma, and (Solar)Flares itself. The high temperatures of both fire and lightning may be the source of the extreme temperatures of Amaterasu.
 * However, it has been stated the Sharingan itself is not an element-combining k.g., and the former opinion is supported more strongly. The latter opinion would only be true if Sasuke had this element through other means, such as a mutation, some kind of clan secret, or possibly Orochimaru's experiments.


 * Boil Release = Water + Fire
 * Water's solvent nature is amplified through rapid evaporation, producing a powerful corosive, acidic vapour. The user can manipulate the water molecules inside the vapour as with any other water technique, allowing them to control the acidity of the flesh-burning mist. This is Mei Terumī's second k.g.


 * Dust Release = Earth + Wind
 * Earth mineral crystals are broken up further into tinier molecules by pressure. A cube of Jinton chakra can pulverize targets into molecule-sized dust, crushing them with extreme pressure and weight. This is Ōnoki's k.g. This nature may have some connection to gravity also (besides the weight).

Therefore, there are three remaining combinations:


 * Fire + Wind = ?


 * Wind + Lightning = ?


 * Earth + Lightning = ?

Names vs. Effects
The names of advanced natures use one single character representing the element with the suffix -ton(~遁), and is made as simple and traditional as possible. The basis seems to be "what ninjas in the real world knew of" for naming advanced natures, and therefore the names of natures do not have anything that is too hi-tech or sci-fi.

However, because the natures themselves are very sci-fi, specific, and different from expectation, their effects implied by their names are usually not their actual effects.


 * Ice Release has no relation to cold or freezing, but rather creates mirrors of condensed moisture that allow the user to "enter" one of them and emerge from another.
 * Wood Release has varying effects depending on the user, probably due to differences between natural-born users and transplanted users. Some only produce wood/trees, while others have produced as well as manipulate the growth of actual trees. See above.
 * Storm Release was probably named after storm clouds, but its effect is completely different. Instead of adding the properties of lighning into water, it rather adds the properties of water to lightning. This is why Storm Release produced something like laser beams instead.
 * Boil Release was not just boiling water and/or hot steam, but also had a considerable amount of acidity, which could also be manipulated.
 * Dust Release was not just dust, it was tiny, molecule-sized dust.

So therefore,

Speculation
1. There are 3 not-quite-confirmed spots on the 10-combinations system:


 * Fire + Wind = ?
 * Probably some kind of gas or other by-product of fire. There is no Poison Release, maybe Smoke would be poisonous, similar to how Boil was corrosive and acidic.
 * Most likely Gas, or a heated verion of Wind Release.
 * Could be a new kind of Fire, but unlikely as a combination of Fire and Wind techniques already could produce stronger fire.


 * Wind + Lightning = ?
 * Again, not considering movie natures, something related to sound, but yet different from Oto-genin's jutsu, more thunder-based, maybe sonic shockwaves.
 * Possibly named Void, Sky, or Heaven, since Wind and Lightning are traditionally related to these.


 * Earth + Lightning = ?
 * Something to do with metal, but yet not the same as Iron Sand and/or Steel Release. Possibly related to magnetism, but not in the same way as Iron Sand.
 * Iron Sand could be a derived form or extended usage of a "Magnet Release."

Method of "Elemental Recomposition"
The word "nature (性質; Seishitsu)" in Nature Transformation means something like "property," making Nature Transformation of chakra the changing of its properties. So, elementally-recomposed nature types would be elements with recomposed properties, producing the "blending" of two chakra properties. This could aid in figuring out new elements. The new element produced should keep at least one property of the two original properties. We could look at the original basic properties:

Fire nature/property: Combustive, hot, burning, deconstructive, explosive, etc.

Wind nature/property: Pressurized/compressed, thin, sharp, cutting, grinding, etc. Lightning nature/property: Electricity/Lightning, vibrating, energy, etc.

Earth nature/property: Dirt/mud/clay/ground, solid, dense, etc.

Water nature/property: Dense, viscous water (in fluid states), dissolving, cohesive, etc.

When making assumptions, it would make sense to make sure the new element makes sense both in the name, effect, and properties, as the new nature should possess at least one of each original element's properties.

Ice nature/property: The thin, sharp, and compressed (Wind) property applied to dense, viscous fluid (Water)

Wood nature/property: The solid/dense (Earth) and fluidly "flowing" (Water) natures

Lava nature/property: The propety of mud (Earth) and the hot property of Fire

Storm nature/property: The fluid property of Water applied to energy/electricity (Lightning) OR The electric property (Lightning) applied to clouds (Water) (in the 3rd Shippūden movie)

Boil nature/property: The burning, deconstructing (Fire) and the dissolving vapour (Water) properties

Dust nature/property: The cutting, grinding, and pressurizing (Wind) and solid and dense (Earth) natures

Anime-/Movie-only Natures Breakdown
My general idea is that all 4 of the following aren't canon for now since there is no proof of any being canon. But I will have theories prepared just in case.


 * Crystal Release = ? + ?
 * Anime-only. Crystallizing all physical materials by manipulating their molecular structure. The user can even crystallize moisture in the air, and build on already-existing crystals. Even living cells can be crystallized, and enemies trapped in crystal will shatter along with the crystal when attacked. This is Guren's k.g.
 * Weak to Fire and Lightning jutsu or jutsu based on raw chakra, which are energy-based and cannot be crystallized. True weakness lies in a certain sound frequency, which can be emitted by ninja-bats.
 * Effective against material-based jutsu such as Earth, Water, or Wood, which have physical mass to crystallize.
 * Assumed to be Earth-related, due to Kiba mistaking it for Earth and it being weak to Lightning (and strong against Water)
 * Earth + Lightning theory: Many refer to fulgurites. Energy (Lightning) crystallizes minerals with changed compositions (Earth).
 * Fire + Wind OR Wind + Lightning theory: Not so effective or obvious, but since Crystal doesn't create crystal, but rather crystallizes existing physical matter. Fire would be linked to temperature or saturation, Wind to pressure and cooling, and Lightning to ionic/covalent bonds.
 * My idea is that Crystal Release is a pseudo-element, such as bones in Shikotsumyaku, or Iron Sand, since it seems to involve multiple elements, and could generally fit anywhere if neccessary. There are no mention of new properties, although Orochimaru did believe it to be an elementally-recomposed nature type. It could be an even more advanced element, somehow involving multiple elements, or a new factor.


 * Dark Release = ? + ?
 * Movie-only. A nature that steals and utilizes chakra taken from an opponent, rather than manipulate an element of its own. Using a special mark on the hand (resembling a burning "8"), the user can forcibly extract the physical and spiritual energies of an opponent, and therefore absorb and use any of their opponent's abilities against them. The user deconstructs the opponent's chakra and quickly learns its properties, as well as drain the opponent of their chakra at the same time. The chakra can also be converted and amplified into the user's own chakra as well. K.g. stolen by Hiruko.
 * A possible unique element involving Yin and Yang, as it extracts physical and spiritual energies.
 * Fire + Wind theory: Wind sucks in the opponent's energy using a vacuum effect, which is deconstructed by Fire chakra. The name of Dark Release: Inhaling Maw hints a relation to Wind, while the blue flames in Dark Release: Judgment as well as the "burning" mark on the hand hints a relation to Fire. Symbollically, Fire and Wind are the only elements that can create Dark, as mixing Fire and Wind (without the fire absorbing the oxygen in the wind) may result in the fire going out, also known as darkness. The "Dark" in this case represents the underworld, or Hell. Hell is commonly viewed as an "inferno sucking in souls," possibly refering to how Fire and Wind extract chakra.


 * Steel Release = ? + ?
 * Movie-only. A nature that allows the user the to take on the properties of steel. This may be only one ability, and it may also have an ability involving actual steel.
 * Probably Earth-related, since steel is composed of elements such as iron and carbon.
 * Earth + Lightning theory: Electricity (Lightning) purifies minerals (Earth) through a manner resembling electrolysis. Minerals are purified and refined, forming a stronger material.


 * Swift Release = ? + ?
 * Movie-only. A nature that allows the user to move at almost-instantaneous speed. This may be only one ability, and it may have other capabilities such as accelerating other objects.
 * Probably based on Wind and/or Lightning, the two fastest elements.

List of Popular Classical Elements
Another way of setting a theory is using classical elements used in popular culture. By listing commonly used ones then fitting them into the system, a good theory can be set.

The list

 * Aether/Void/Emptiness/Space/Heaven
 * Related to space-time, refrence of Kamui,Madara's Teleporting Technique, and Flying Thunder God Technique
 * Reality and illusion, existence/nonexistence: Izanagi
 * Air/Wind
 * Wind Release
 * Fire
 * Fire Release
 * Water
 * Water Release
 * Earth/Ground
 * Earth Release
 * Metal
 * Manipulation through magnetism: Iron Sand and Magnetic Ninja Arts (Anime-only)
 * Steel Release (Movie-only)
 * Wood/Trees/Plants
 * Wood Release = Earth + Water
 * Zetsu's plant-based jutsu
 * Lightning/Electricity
 * Lightning Release
 * Light
 * Genjutsu affecting sight
 * Storm Release=Lightning+Water, which manipulates bright fluid energy, refered to as "lasers"
 * Represented by Amaterasu: "Material World and Light" (物質界と光, Busshitsukai to Hikari)
 * Darkness
 * Genjutsu affecting sight
 * Dark Release (Movie-only)
 * Represented by Tsukuyomi: "Spiritual World and Darkness" (精神界と闇, Seishinkai to Yami)
 * Ice/Cold
 * Ice Release=Water+Wind
 * Yukigakure's Ice Release (Movie-only), More cold related
 * Poison/Toxin/Venom
 * Able to be used through pure knowledge and skill, as with Poison Mist.
 * Used by Snakes, Ninhachi, Nano-sized, poisonous insects, and Moths
 * Sound
 * Genjutsu affecting hearing
 * Toad genjutsu: Demonic Illusion: Toad Confrontation Singing, Sage Art: Frog Call
 * Able to be used through certain instruments, such as Illusion Bell Needles, Offsetting Sound, Menma's Chakra Enhancing Music, and Demonic Flute techniques such as Demon Flute: Phantom Sound Chains, Demon Flute: Illusionary Warriors Manipulating Melody, and Demonic Haunts Disorder
 * Able to be used through certain tools, such as Vibrating Sound Drill and Decapitating Air Wave
 * Emmiting sound in cetain frequencies from one's body, such as Fugai's Howl (Movie-only) or Bat Controlling.
 * Bat Controlling: Ultrasonic Mind Waves
 * Mind and Body
 * Yin and Yang techniques

Special thanks to Omnibender Under construction--GoDai (talk) 09:24, March 6, 2010 (UTC)

Put your theories here. Omnibender - Talk - Contributions 23:21, March 6, 2010 (UTC)