Kirin


 * Name:
 * Rank: Unknown (S-Ranked in power), Long Range (0~10+)
 * Users: Sasuke Uchiha
 * Hand Seals: Tiger, Rat, Horse, Monkey, Dog, Dragon

Kirin is a Lightning Element technique created by Sasuke Uchiha. It is a very powerful technique that strikes at the natural speed up lightning. The user draws lightning directly from thunder clouds to supplement the power of their strike, and controls it with chakra. Because the the technique uses natural lightning as opposed to elemental chakra, its power easily outmatches all other Lightning Element techniques shown so far. It does take more time to charge than other Lightning Element techniques, but the speed at which it attacks and its range of attack compensates for this. In the absence of active thunder clouds, this technique requires Fire Release: Great Dragon Fire Technique or any other very powerful Fire Element technique to produce the necessary storm conditions to initiate it.

Despite how this technique uses natural lightning, controlling such a large amount of natural lightning requires a lot of chakra, so it can only be used by ninja of Kage-level skill. Sasuike first used this technique on Itachi, who withstood it by using Susano'o.

Influences
In Japanese mythology as following Qin Dynasty Chinese Mythology the Kirin is the highest ranked mythological animal below the dragon and phoenix which are also in techniques the Uchiha Clan use.