plotbunny at crunchtime

[Valles]

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While Auntie was asked to be Usagi's summoned elder because she'd had the largest reserves in clan history at that time, she originally died of chakra exhaustion after performing it... but Usagi, genin for a year, will not quite pass out, since Auntie will immediately cancel the summon and release the unused summoning chakra back to her. She'll be done for that battle, though, and need a few days to recover fully.

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*soft whistle* Put like that, she's probably got more in her own right than Naruto does. She still wouldn't have any way to match his ability to call on his tenant's resources, but...

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Oh, and using an elder summon doesn't change the user's appearance, unles they also perform a henge... and that just spawned a sudden side-thgouht - why wouldn't genin going through growth spurts and hence clumsy just use henge to turn into themselves as tey're accustoimed to being? I suppose it's just too difficult to hold in combat or if they need to do another jutsu, and by the time they've advanced enoguh to do so with ease they're usually at their full growth.

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My thought on how jutsu actually work is that the process of sealing alters, or contorts, the user's entire chakra system in ways that vary for each seal and, in combination, set up the the pattern than actually defines the jutsu before they throw power through it.
Since this process involves the entire chakra system, and since there are only eight points therein that never change or move, only one jutsu can be held or performed at a time... Well, except for that one Sound bastard and your Haruno, anyway.
N.'s gate trick does find a way around that, but if it's miscast then it can forcibly open the gate in question and even if it works right it takes literally days worth of preparation to bind even a single technique. He's been working on it ever since he entered the Academy, and only finally managed it within the last half-year or so.
And we're going to get a glimpse of what the Professor was like in his prime? Hot shit.
Ja, -n
(amused by synchronicity)
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