As a continuation and as well as a connection, if you may say like that, to my
Therefore, let’s continue.
I want to start first by mentioning that finally, something “glued” in regards to this theory. But for that trigger of my “glue” to come out, something had to thick. And it ticked when I saw @thelegendofminato’s picture, to be more specific, this one:
Okay now, you must probably have guessed my theory by now, but let’s say it anyway.
From the very first time I heard the name of Katsuyu’s residence, namely Shikkotsurin, something in my brain went : Trink! This name is similar to a certain someone’s technique’s name, also known as Shikotsumyaku. How similar of them! One means “Damp Bone Forest” while the other means “Dead Bone Pulse”. How curious, they have the bone thing in their structure and sound highly similar. They’re clearly connected!
At that time, people had speculated that Kaguya Otsutsuki and Kimmimaro Kaguya might have a connection, given the “Kaguya” in their names, but I was somewhat let’s say… not totally agreeing with this because I had an issue with first names and last names placements, lol.
Anyway, as I was saying, I was planning for a long time now to link Sakura’s possible Slug Sage Mode Powers theory with Kimmimaro Kaguya. At first, it was simply because of him and let me explain you why.
First of all, like I said earlier, the eerily similar names and meanings of his Kekke Genkai and Katsuyu’s residence name. Both refer to bones, be it dead or damp. But both refer to the bone.
Therefore, my guess is that what we saw Kimmimaro having mastered, all those fighting styles and whatnot due to his Kekke Genkai, is what we are going to see as possible power-ups in the case of Slug’s own Sage Mode.
As we all know, Shikotsumyaku permitted Kimmimaro to modify the density of his bones, making them harder than steel itself, which made him virtually immortal. Probably that is why Kishi had to make him die of sickness. Because no matter what you had on him, as long as he had chakra, Kimmimaro was virtually immortal. Nothing pierced him and his bones were his armor and his weapons.
That’s why, when reading about Shikotsumyaku, some particularities about his character and powers clicked to me and fairly believed that these will be things Sakura, as a Slug Sage Mode user could possess.
Therefore, let me continue with some of them (copied from Narutopedia cause I am lazy).
Therefore, canonically we have this other similarity between the two: nothing can physically hurt them. Only sickness and chakra depletion and as we all know, everyone dies of sickness or chakra depletion, even in the Naruto world [unless you’re freaking Tsunade and can regenerate your cells].
What is true is while this is a similarity between them, there’s also a difference: Kimmimaro has skeletal structure while Katsuyu doesn’t. However, both of them have this fact in common: their body structure allows them to be virtually indestructible and immortal. I fairly believe that in Sage Mode, the user of it will get their skeletal structure indestructible, though, making up for the fact that they lack this thing. Dunno exactly how to explain that part, but as I said, I do believe that the user will be able to modify their skeletal structure and make it an armor of dense bone underneath their skin which will make them virtually indestructible and immortal.
This would not only make-up for Sakura’s lack of physical resistance due to her “non”-special heritage, but would also make her virtually “more” immortal than her master, Tsunade. And given she lacks that heritage, the danger of using techniques such as Sozo Saisei which cuts off your cells, so to speak, therefore you die younger because you aren’t an Uzumaki who lives friggin hundreds of years, will be gone and she would take zero risks! Nothing, nada, zero. What a great way to make her surpass Tsunade, ne?
She doesn’t even have to worry about suffering those side effects because she won’t have to use such a technique to begin with, if she would master Slug Sage Mode, presumably it would have these powers.
Another characteristic power, to say it like that, I thought that would fit Sakura in SSM, who was taken by observing Kimmimaro’s character is the following:
Flower names - we all know her name is actually a flower, right? This doesn’t need to be explained, ne?
And last, but not least, sword dances. This involves swords and dances, apparently. Remember how ever since part 1, Sakura has been featured with swords:
And recently as well:
Where we have Sakura with, again, a sword the exact words being: Flowers dancing (while wearing a sword) on the battlefield. Coincidental much from Kishi?! I fairly believe not at all.
With that being said, I think that the main power-ups Sakura will get as a Slug Sage Mode user will be the following:
- something genjutsu-related as I explained in my previous theory and the recent one;
indestructible skeletal structure which will make her virtually indestructible and immortal, therefore, she would have surpassed her master without having to suffer from the side effects of techniques such as Sozo Saisei/maybe Byakugo;
and last, but not least, some weaponry of sorts: it will either be the swords or the big axes Kishi has kept on symbolizing her through or that kind of knife we saw in the recent theory I talked about.
With that being said, what made me believe 100% now that the Sage’s mother and Kaguya clan were indeed, connected, and will lead to a Sage Mode which will be most surely, the Slug’s one?
Well, first of all, other similarities.
Like I showed you in the beginning, it’s this picture:
Besides the two horns, Kimmimaro’s eyes “make-up” is highly similar to a certain someone’s:
As we can see, both Kimimaro and Indra have that eye make-up pattern. And as we learned today, Indra was a descendant of Kaguya Otsutsuki himself.
And last, but not least, remember who was a good friend of Kimimaro’s whose clan were well known for Sennin Transformation in their village? Oh, right, Juugo’s clan! What is the animal that had a Sage Mode and whose energy was found in the whereabouts of Juugo’s clan’s? Right, none other than Dragon [or Snake, how some of you know it] Sage Mode. And as we know, Jugo’s clan were also some sort of descendants of the Sage of Six Paths.
Therefore, given this information, it is safe to assume that Kimimaro’s clan is also some sort of descendant of the Sage himself, better said, Kaguya herself and that is where Katsuyu might reside herself. Actually, Shikkotsurin might very well be, like Juugo’s clan residence was for Hakuja Sennin (Dragon Sage), the home of Katsuyu.
There is this very clear connection between the two.
Also, besides the similarities between those ones mentioned earlier, we also have another similarity between Kaguya and Katsuyu herself. I know, it might look and sound crazy but, give it a slight thought and think only about how Kishi draws when he wants to mean something, don’t necessarily think about the anatomy/biology behind this:
The two circle-y things remind me, personally, a lot, about Katsuyu’s tentacles and I know it sounds quite well… strange but, that’s me.
Also, how others speculate and on how I do to, the thing on her forehead might be some sort of Byakugo seal, the one Sakura possesses as well, and given how we know that for being able to summon Katsuyu, you need to master the seal, it wouldn’t be crazy to think these two are linked.
So, with that being said, this is how I think Slug Sage Mode will come to play. I am not saying this is a certain thing, I am only theorizing, however, given all these similarities, we might be onto something here.
So, until then, finger crossed!
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of mine, I am finally presenting you, the long awaited theory on what powers I think Sakura might get as a Slug Sage Mode user, besides the possible genjutsu power-up.Therefore, let’s continue.
I want to start first by mentioning that finally, something “glued” in regards to this theory. But for that trigger of my “glue” to come out, something had to thick. And it ticked when I saw @thelegendofminato’s picture, to be more specific, this one:
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Okay now, you must probably have guessed my theory by now, but let’s say it anyway.
From the very first time I heard the name of Katsuyu’s residence, namely Shikkotsurin, something in my brain went : Trink! This name is similar to a certain someone’s technique’s name, also known as Shikotsumyaku. How similar of them! One means “Damp Bone Forest” while the other means “Dead Bone Pulse”. How curious, they have the bone thing in their structure and sound highly similar. They’re clearly connected!
At that time, people had speculated that Kaguya Otsutsuki and Kimmimaro Kaguya might have a connection, given the “Kaguya” in their names, but I was somewhat let’s say… not totally agreeing with this because I had an issue with first names and last names placements, lol.
Anyway, as I was saying, I was planning for a long time now to link Sakura’s possible Slug Sage Mode Powers theory with Kimmimaro Kaguya. At first, it was simply because of him and let me explain you why.
First of all, like I said earlier, the eerily similar names and meanings of his Kekke Genkai and Katsuyu’s residence name. Both refer to bones, be it dead or damp. But both refer to the bone.
Therefore, my guess is that what we saw Kimmimaro having mastered, all those fighting styles and whatnot due to his Kekke Genkai, is what we are going to see as possible power-ups in the case of Slug’s own Sage Mode.
As we all know, Shikotsumyaku permitted Kimmimaro to modify the density of his bones, making them harder than steel itself, which made him virtually immortal. Probably that is why Kishi had to make him die of sickness. Because no matter what you had on him, as long as he had chakra, Kimmimaro was virtually immortal. Nothing pierced him and his bones were his armor and his weapons.
That’s why, when reading about Shikotsumyaku, some particularities about his character and powers clicked to me and fairly believed that these will be things Sakura, as a Slug Sage Mode user could possess.
Therefore, let me continue with some of them (copied from Narutopedia cause I am lazy).
While though different, what Katsuyu and Kimmimaro have in common is that, until now, nothing physical killed them. Kimmimaro died of sickness while the only time we saw that something could kill Katsuyu, although she survived full charged Shinra Tensei, Chibaku Tensei and Naruto’s corrosive chakra up to almost the ninth tail, all while being restricted and suffocated by Chibaku Tensei’s pressure, the very own thing that killed Katsuyu in this series was chakra depletion. Kimmimaro resisted as well a very similar pressure as the Chibaku Tensei one when Gaara fought him in The Sasuke Retrievel Arc but even then, Kimmimaro survived and “bloomed” a forest of dead bones in matter of seconds. He died because he was sick.
Therefore, canonically we have this other similarity between the two: nothing can physically hurt them. Only sickness and chakra depletion and as we all know, everyone dies of sickness or chakra depletion, even in the Naruto world [unless you’re freaking Tsunade and can regenerate your cells].
What is true is while this is a similarity between them, there’s also a difference: Kimmimaro has skeletal structure while Katsuyu doesn’t. However, both of them have this fact in common: their body structure allows them to be virtually indestructible and immortal. I fairly believe that in Sage Mode, the user of it will get their skeletal structure indestructible, though, making up for the fact that they lack this thing. Dunno exactly how to explain that part, but as I said, I do believe that the user will be able to modify their skeletal structure and make it an armor of dense bone underneath their skin which will make them virtually indestructible and immortal.
This would not only make-up for Sakura’s lack of physical resistance due to her “non”-special heritage, but would also make her virtually “more” immortal than her master, Tsunade. And given she lacks that heritage, the danger of using techniques such as Sozo Saisei which cuts off your cells, so to speak, therefore you die younger because you aren’t an Uzumaki who lives friggin hundreds of years, will be gone and she would take zero risks! Nothing, nada, zero. What a great way to make her surpass Tsunade, ne?
She doesn’t even have to worry about suffering those side effects because she won’t have to use such a technique to begin with, if she would master Slug Sage Mode, presumably it would have these powers.Another characteristic power, to say it like that, I thought that would fit Sakura in SSM, who was taken by observing Kimmimaro’s character is the following:
Close combat and defense - this is none other than Sakura’s main field as not only a medic-nin. Close combat - because that’s her style and defense due to her medical skills.
Flower names - we all know her name is actually a flower, right? This doesn’t need to be explained, ne?
And last, but not least, sword dances. This involves swords and dances, apparently. Remember how ever since part 1, Sakura has been featured with swords:
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And recently as well:
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Where we have Sakura with, again, a sword the exact words being: Flowers dancing (while wearing a sword) on the battlefield. Coincidental much from Kishi?! I fairly believe not at all.
With that being said, I think that the main power-ups Sakura will get as a Slug Sage Mode user will be the following:
- something genjutsu-related as I explained in my previous theory and the recent one;
indestructible skeletal structure which will make her virtually indestructible and immortal, therefore, she would have surpassed her master without having to suffer from the side effects of techniques such as Sozo Saisei/maybe Byakugo;
and last, but not least, some weaponry of sorts: it will either be the swords or the big axes Kishi has kept on symbolizing her through or that kind of knife we saw in the recent theory I talked about.
With that being said, what made me believe 100% now that the Sage’s mother and Kaguya clan were indeed, connected, and will lead to a Sage Mode which will be most surely, the Slug’s one?
Well, first of all, other similarities.
Like I showed you in the beginning, it’s this picture:
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Besides the two horns, Kimmimaro’s eyes “make-up” is highly similar to a certain someone’s:
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As we can see, both Kimimaro and Indra have that eye make-up pattern. And as we learned today, Indra was a descendant of Kaguya Otsutsuki himself.
And last, but not least, remember who was a good friend of Kimimaro’s whose clan were well known for Sennin Transformation in their village? Oh, right, Juugo’s clan! What is the animal that had a Sage Mode and whose energy was found in the whereabouts of Juugo’s clan’s? Right, none other than Dragon [or Snake, how some of you know it] Sage Mode. And as we know, Jugo’s clan were also some sort of descendants of the Sage of Six Paths.
Therefore, given this information, it is safe to assume that Kimimaro’s clan is also some sort of descendant of the Sage himself, better said, Kaguya herself and that is where Katsuyu might reside herself. Actually, Shikkotsurin might very well be, like Juugo’s clan residence was for Hakuja Sennin (Dragon Sage), the home of Katsuyu.
There is this very clear connection between the two.
Also, besides the similarities between those ones mentioned earlier, we also have another similarity between Kaguya and Katsuyu herself. I know, it might look and sound crazy but, give it a slight thought and think only about how Kishi draws when he wants to mean something, don’t necessarily think about the anatomy/biology behind this:
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The two circle-y things remind me, personally, a lot, about Katsuyu’s tentacles and I know it sounds quite well… strange but, that’s me.
Also, how others speculate and on how I do to, the thing on her forehead might be some sort of Byakugo seal, the one Sakura possesses as well, and given how we know that for being able to summon Katsuyu, you need to master the seal, it wouldn’t be crazy to think these two are linked.
So, with that being said, this is how I think Slug Sage Mode will come to play. I am not saying this is a certain thing, I am only theorizing, however, given all these similarities, we might be onto something here.
So, until then, finger crossed!
