Good, now let me just fill in a bit on my part because I apparently love to run my mouth (GF said this to be today, sad times). Right so let’s start with the most fundamental thing about all these, Natural Energy. As it’s name sake points out, it’s a mythical force of energy the exists in the world around us. Normally it is impossible to sense or interact with it, but overtime shinobi has developed skills or naturally adept at sensing this existing force. That’s what you mentioned of course, Jugo and his clan’s Kekkai Genkai being the most prominent of this or the Curse Seals Orochimaru places on his test subjects. Natural Energy is a raw and savage energy, which means it’s actually a bit inferior to it’s brother, Senjutsu. Now when you mix chakra and Natural Energy together, it with a perfect balance, creates Senjutsu or Sage Arts. Now Sage Arts is the ninjutsu of weaponizing Natural Energy but this comes in various forms, as per mentioned. The true form of it comes from those who has trained in order to utilize the Senjutsu to physically enhance their bodies, nourishing it with the powerful force of energy. Once the balance of spiritual, physical and NE are mixed appropriately, the user is capable of attaining Sage Mode.
Sage Mode is normally learned in two ways, the first is through the Senjutsu Sages of one’s contract, such as Pa and Ma or the White Snake Sage from Ryuchi Cave or if your name is Hashirama and has BS Wood Release. These animals would then train the individual in the ways of Sage Mode. The most important aspect is first learning how to sense Senjutsu and feel it’s presence. Over time once you start to be able to detect it, you start to practice pulling the energy into your body. Methods will vary of course with how we seen Naruto drained with. And once you attain the perfect balance, you’re capable of utilizing Sage Mode and Senjutsu. Failing to balance it properly will lead you into turning into the animal of your contract briefly and if the Senjutsu isn’t remove, you’ll be turned to stone. While in Sage Mode, all you’re ninjutsu, genjutsu and taijutsu are amplified – making all of them more powerful than before. The use can also weaponize Natural Energy in its raw form without needing chakra. Such cases would be when Naruto used Frog Kata in order to increase the range of his taijutsu, not needing to make physical contact in order to punch the path.
Senjutsu allows you to also make some pretty…unique techniques. Hashirama for instance can just whimsically call forth on these giant ass gates from the skies to fall and seal the Juubi. You can make some pretty nice customs with Sage Mode itself. Just be careful not to overdo it. Anyways, just a bit of cool stuff to mention before we get into the actual techniques. While in SM, all you’re ninjutsu loses their S&W, becoming Neutral to All. It’s one of the few fields that can counter Yin, Yang and Yin – Yang directly, making it a pretty viable choice. It grants animalistic anatomy, which we’ll go over next. SM is just overall one of my favorites, and I think there’s still a lot of room you can do with it.
Anyways, any questions or anything else interesting you’d like to mention before we begin?
