Why Naruto's ninutsu arsenal is so limited

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Simply put, it's not in his blood. A pretty simple concept that people tend to overlook.

In the Narutoverse, it's common for children to inherit their abilities from their parents. We see this time and time again. Naruto's parents didn't have any hereditary talents to pass on to him. I'm not saying that his parents were not skilled shinobi, let's not get ahead of ourselves.

First of all, Minato Namikaze.

We have never heard anything about Minato's parents, most likely because they were fodder and contributed nothing to society, with the exception of the birth of their son. Minato was not born with any natural talent for ninutsu, he was however gifted with a high level of intelligence.

lets take a look at all of his known abilities.

Flying Thunder God.
Which essentially allowed him to teleport to any location with untraceable movements through the use of special seals.

Fūinjutsu.
A skill Which seal objects, living beings, chakra, along with a wide variety of other things within another object.

Toad Summoning.
Wherein he would summon toads through a blood pact that would fight alongside him if he needed.

Rasengan.
It is the highest level of shape transformation and it does not require hand signs to be performed. Instead, using a concentration of spinning chakra in the form of a sphere in the user's palm.


None of these techniques are hereditary, they are all learned skills.

Lets move on to Kushina Uzumaki.

We don't know much about Kushina, aside from her abnormal personality, and that she hailed from the famed Uzumaki clan of Uzushiogakure. We do however know about her strong lifeforce, and her powerful and special form of chakra that she could manipulate into chakra chains. For certain we know she was extremely skilled in ..

Fūinjutsu.
She was the one who taught Minato everything he knows about the art of sealing.

We should take notice that she also dose not have any hereditary abilities.

Now to the main event, Naruto Uzumaki.

Naruto Is the one character of this family we know quite allot about. He never had a nack for ninjutsu's, constantly failing every time he tried, but he did have a large amount of determination. We know of many of his skills, but I will only name the major ones.

Shadow Clone Technique.
This technique creates clones of the user. However, these clones are actual copies, not illusions. The user's chakra is evenly distributed among every clone, giving each clone an equal fraction of the user's overall power.

Toad Summoning.
Wherein he would summon toads through a blood pact that would fight alongside him if he needed.

Senjutsu.
Which allows him to draw the energy of nature inside of him blending it with his own chakra (created from spiritual and physical energy), adding a new dimension of power to his chakra, resulting in the creation of "senjutsu chakra" which he can use at his disposal.

Rasengan.
His signature technique created by his father, but he was the one to master it and make multiple variations, including adding a nature affinity of the wind element within his chakra.

Now that we got all that covered.


Basically, to sum things up. Naruto's parents had no hereditary abilities to pass on to him, unlike what we see in other clans and families. Such as Nara clan's manipulation of shadows, Yamanaka's mind related techniques, or the Hyuga clan with their byakugan.

I believe that the Namikazes and Uzumakis were incapable of using true ninjutsu's, yet were exceptionally good innovators. The Uzumakis mastered the art of sealing techniques because of this. Minato overcame this by inventing techniques that any normal person can do if he or she tried hard enough. Naruto followed in their footsteps with his high determination.

Every skill that Naruto Minato and Kushina know, any person can do, but takes devotion and time to create and master.

I know allot of you already know this, but for the people who don't quite get it, here ya go.
 
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Its mainly to show how main hero can overcome mostly anything with sheer determination plus clones+rasengan combo.
Naruto could have many jutsus.
Jiraya could teach him so could kakashi.

But on the side note he's just 16
 

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Its mainly to show how main hero can overcome mostly anything with sheer determination plus clones+rasengan combo.
Naruto could have many jutsus.
Jiraya could teach him so could kakashi.

But on the side note he's just 16
I was going to add that, but didnt want to make it too long.
The jutsus he did learn are enough to make him extremely powerfull since he mastered them and is very adept at making variations of them.
 

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I guess technically he could perform a wind chidori, since that is what he basically learned by cutting the waterfall in half, but why go for a head on CQC technique when he can just throw a FRS at them. If his parents were around he would have learned fuinjutsu and FTG, maybe even the chakra chains, but they weren't. I'm sure Minato and Kushina could use elemental chakra, they just haven't showed it.
 

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I guess technically he could perform a wind chidori, since that is what he basically learned by cutting the waterfall in half, but why go for a head on CQC technique when he can just throw a FRS at them. If his parents were around he would have learned fuinjutsu and FTG, maybe even the chakra chains, but they weren't. I'm sure Minato and Kushina could use elemental chakra, they just haven't showed it.
Yeah I'm sure they had chakra natures, but just couldn't use it. Minato just couldn't infuse his rasengan with an elemental affinity, and kushina, just never showed any ninjutsu, let alone elemental ninjutsu.
 

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The sheer fact that he wanted to add his chakra nature to the rasengan tells us that he has at least one in his arsenal and Kushina was a chakra ghost inside Naruto, and was giving birth or dying when she was shown living.
 
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