✿ Senjutsu (仙術) with -Cobalt- ✿

[-Jiraiya-]

Jiraiya, in his usual attire, enters the training grounds to meet certain someone who will teach him the secrets of "The Toad Sage Mode".

" Hmmph.. It looks like I arrived too early..
It'll take a while for him to arrive I guess..
Well then, I'll use this spare time rather usefully, honing my skills.. " ​

Quickly, Jiraiya takes out his telescope, which was hidden beneath his long robe and starts looking along the river banks for any potential "research material"..

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:x3: " I hope I'll find some inspiration for my new book till he arrives.. "

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[-Cobalt-]

Appears out of nowhere, looking at Jiraiya and at what he is doing. He swiftly hits Jiraiya across the head causing him to turn his attention towards him.

Focus! If you want to learn Senjutsu, peeping won't get you there!

Tell me all you know about senjutsu, natural energy, etc. Firstly about all types of senjutsu, then focus on the specific one you want to learn.

 

[-Jiraiya-]

" Ouch..!
I'm just training my stealth and observation skills Sensei..!

Btw.. here.. the books which I wrote while I'm away on my journey..
Keep it as my gift..! "

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As Jiraiya handed over the books, he places his telescope down and begins to explain about Nature energy, Sage chakra, Sage mode, different types of Sage Mode & its users and finally about the one which he has come to learn, The Toad Sage Mode.

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Natural Energy​

Natural energy is the energy that can be collected from the atmosphere and terrain. If one can collect the natural energy from around them and combine and balance it with the spiritual and physical energy that makes up their chakra, they can become sages and enter the Sage Mode, allowing them to use senjutsu. This method can be taught by the inhabitants in one of two legendary locations:

• Mount Myōboku (妙木山, Myōbokuzan)
• Ryūchi Cave (龍地洞, Ryūchidō)

The members of Jūgo's clan possess a special ability called Sage Transformation which causes their bodies to constantly absorb natural energy and allows them to perform a myriad of shape-shifting feats. However, as they are unable to control the flux of power that comes with this, they are prone to randomly going berserk.

Senjutsu (Sage Techniques)​

Senjutsu refers to a specialized field of techniques that allows the user to sense and then gather the natural energy from his surroundings.

Senjutsu users learn to draw the energy from the nature, which includes pretty much anything natural on the earth, for example trees, earth, atmosphere, etc and blend it with their own chakra (created from spiritual and physical energy within the shinobi). This adds a new dimension of power to the practitioner's chakra, resulting in the creation of "senjutsu chakra".

In humans, this new chakra enables the user to enter an empowered state called Sage Mode. Those that can absorb or manipulate senjutsu chakra sages (仙人, sennin). Currently, there are two known ways to learn senjutsu: One being to learn from the toads of Mount Myōboku as Jiraiya and Naruto have done, and the other from the snakes from the Ryūchi Cave where Orochimaru and Kabuto Yakushi learned it.

Hashirama is shown to possess wood sage mode, though we don't know exactly how he acquired it or the mechanism behind it.

Generally, senjutsu chakra cannot be used by those untrained in senjutsu, though this is not always the case. Members of Jūgo's clan passively absorbs natural energy, mutating their bodies. Because they cannot control the chakra they are creating, they tend to go into berserk rages. Orochimaru would experiment on enzyme and use that as the basis of his cursed seals, which would absorb the wielder's chakra and in return feed them Orochimaru's senjutsu chakra.

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Sage Mode​

Sage Mode is the empowered state humans enter when they learn to draw natural energy inside them and blending it with their chakra. By doing so, the human creates new senjutsu chakra that allows them to enter Sage Mode. The physical benefits of Sage Mode depends on whom the human learned under but generally Sage Mode enhances the combat efficiency of the user by allowing them to tap into the natural force of the world that opens new techniques to the user and allows them to power existing ones with senjutsu chakra.

There are 3 Sage modes revealed in the manga so far. They are
Toad Sage Mode - Used by Jiraiya, Naruto, Elder frog sages (Fukasaku and Shima)
Snake Sage Mode - Kabuto
Wood Sage Mode - Senju Hashirama

I'll give a brief explanation of Snake SM and Wood Sm first and deal with Toad Sm, which I want to learn in detail in the last.

Snake Sage Mode ​

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Advantages

• Senjutsu which can also be studied from the snakes of the Ryūchi Cave also gain a number of advantages while using Sage Mode in battle, these include:
• The user's perception abilities, reflexes, strength, speed, and stamina dramatically increase.
• The user's ninjutsu, genjutsu and taijutsu becomes more powerful.
• The user gains further access to snake anatomy, such as their brille, which can be used to lock out light as well as stop visual-based genjutsu from affecting them.
• They are also able to perform abilities that are characteristic of snakes, such as dislocating their jaw, although this is not exclusive to this mode.

Disadvantages
While mobile, the user is rendered incapable of gathering natural energy while remaining still in battle would leave them open to attack. However, Kabuto Yakushi assimilated the DNA of Jūgo to replicate his clan's ability to passively absorb natural energy, thus allowing him to continuously collect the energy even while moving, bypassing this one weakness and metaphorically proclaimed that he transcended from snake to dragon.

While retaining most of his normal physical characteristics in Sage Mode, Kabuto Yakushi did display greater areas of darkened pigmentation of the markings around his eyes which tapered off after reaching his shoulder blades. More noticeably, he gained four horns growing out from the back of his head as well as darkened sclera.

Hashirama Senju's Sage Mode ​

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Advantages
In this mode Hashirama's abilities were drastically increased. This was witnessed through the use of his Sage Art: Wood Release: True Several Thousand Hands technique which created a gargantuan multi-handed structure which easily dwarfed several mountain ranges as well as Kurama. Hashirama can also perform Sage Art: Gate of the Great God, a technique that can bind a creature as powerful as the Ten-Tails.

Disadvantages
The user has the disadvantage of having to stay still for a certain amount of time so they can gather enough natural energy to form the special senjutsu chakra. Thus, the user is left vulnerable while doing this. Unlike Toad Sage Mode, this version of Sage Mode doesn't carry over to any clones, which are created in base form.

In this mode, he retains all of his normal physical characteristics. He gains, however, a red pigmentation around his eyes, and his face gains several markings inclusive of a circular one in the middle of his forehead.

Toad Sage Mode​

Requirements as told by Fukasaku:

• Only those who already possess "extreme chakra levels" can utilise natural energy to invoke senjutsu.
• The users body most be strong enough to support Sage Mode.
• The user is required to balance his/her physical and spiritual energy with the natural energy he/she gathers from nature. If the user puts too little natural energy into using senjutsu, the technique will not work.

Training​

For the toad style of Sage Mode the gatherer must remain absolutely still in order to be one with nature.
Those learning from the toads can use a special toad oil that allows the natural energy to enter their body, but this oil only exists in liquid form in Mount Myōboku's atmosphere. The oil evaporates if it is taken outside, thus rendering it useful only for learning purposes.
If the user takes in too much natural energy, the user will start to turn into a toad and eventually, turn to stone.
Getting hit by a special staff during the transformation will reverse the toad transformation by knocking all the natural energy out of the gatherer. It is dangerous to learn how to gather natural energy without the staff because there is no other known way to reverse the toad transformation. Furthermore, if the transformation is completed, not even the staff can reverse it, and the user would become a toad statue forever.

Toad Sage Mode

Advantages

• The user's physical strength, speed, stamina, reflexes, perception and durability dramatically increase.
• The user's ninjutsu, genjutsu, and taijutsu become more powerful.
• The user can harness the natural energy surrounding them, turning it into an extension of their body, which increases the reach of their attacks.
• The user gains the ability to sense chakra around them.

Disadvantages

• If the user draws in too much natural energy, they run the risk of transforming into a toad, then into stone. If the petrification is completed, it cannot be reversed.
• In order to gather enough natural energy to initiate the transformation into Sage Mode, the user must remain perfectly still. Because of that, the user can be an easy target for an opponent.
• Because the user needs to move during combat, the senjutsu chakra cannot be replenished, which means the user can't stay within this state for extended periods of time.
• The second and third weaknesses mentioned above can be bypassed through the Sage Art: Amphibian Technique, where one Sage gathers chakra for another or as in Naruto's case, shadow clones can be used for the same purpose.
• After Sage Mode has ended, the user appears to experience exhaustion.

Forms of Toad Sage Mode​

Imperfect Toad Sage Mode​

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Jiraiya was not able to completely balance his own chakra with natural energy, resulting in him using an imperfect form of Sage Mode. As a result of the imbalance (and the imperfect nature of his transformation), Jiraiya took a number of toad-like traits when using Sage Mode (such as his big hands or his skin). His appearance was altered: his nose grows bigger and gains warts, he gains excess hair (his goatee), and toad-like eyes. Further transformational attributes includes him taking on a toad-like stature and the lines on his face become much thicker, taking over each side of his face. Because of these traits, Jiraiya didn't like to use Sage Mode as it "displeased the ladies". He also showed the ability to transform his limbs (e.g. his hands and feet) into those of frogs so as to aid in manoeuvrability.

In order to get around the danger of remaining stationary during a battle to re-enter Sage Mode, Jiraiya would summon Shima and Fukasaku by drawing a blood contract on his face. The Two Great Sage Toads would fuse to Jiraiya's shoulders with the Sage Art: Amphibian Technique, gathering natural energy from their stationary positions on Jiraiya's shoulders for him to use.

Perfect Toad Sage Mode​

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Unlike Jiraiya, Naruto Uzumaki is able to perfectly balance the natural energy with his own chakra. This allows him to use Sage Mode in perfect balance, which allows him to retain all of his normal physical characteristics except for toad-like eyes: yellow irides, horizontal bar-like pupils, and reddish-orange pigmentation around the eyes; the mark of a true sage on each eye. A true sage would still suffer from the weaknesses of Sage Mode, requiring that they use Sage Art: Amphibian Technique in a battle situation. Because of the animosity of the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox sealed within Naruto, however, Fukasaku was rejected whenever he tried to fuse with him.

As a workaround, Naruto has some of his shadow clones gather natural energy elsewhere while he fights. Once he has run out of his own senjutsu chakra, he reverse summons the clone and has them disperse, giving him the clone's natural energy and allowing him to enter Sage Mode again. This method limits the maximum number of shadow clones that Naruto can create to five for as long as the clones are gathering natural energy, as anything more would interfere with their focus. To make sure he has enough shadow clones for use in battle, Naruto has only two shadow clones gather senjutsu chakra, allowing him to enter Sage Mode a total of three times. Naruto has also stated that it is possible to lengthen the time he is in Sage Mode.

Recently it's shown in manga that Naruto can combine Toad Sm with Bijuu Mode.