Monday, February 06, 2006
Chapter 291 - The Necklace Jutsu
Bloodline involves genius jutsus designed to be passed down to make a genius clan. Tsunade has shown no sign of using this Jutsu at all. I think this was an original, designed to be a one time, only for Shodai, signature, secret justu (like Yondaime's flash) that Yamato can use ONLY cuz he was messed with as a kid. So no, not BloodLINE.
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Another thought just jumped into my mind .... If the necklace is key to calming a wild Kyuubitized Naruto ... this is so asking for a moment in the far future that just as Yamato is about to use whatever skill this is ... the necklace goes flying and then they are just screwed! Oh, and does this open the possiblity that Tsunade (being the Granddaughter of Shodai - and thus having a few of his cells) can also control Naruto? although on a lesser scale than Yamato who seems to genetically closer to the original material.
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Does anyone think Tsunade had this knowlegde of its Bijuu control powers in the back of her mind when she originally offered the necklace to Naruto as that bet? When Tsunade offered the necklace A) she didn't think he's actually win the bet, B) it was because he reminded her of Nawaki and Dan's determination, and C) at that time she wasn't really concerned with Konoha's fate. She might have given it to him because she knew he was "the kyuubi boy" and knew of Yamato's existence. I'm pretty sure she was already wandering around gambling 12 years ago when Kyuubi attacked ... but I assume she would've stayed well informed.
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The possibilities of how to stop 4-tail and thus, this part of the fight:
A) Yamato stops him and the jutsu reverts him back to normal form. Naruto then passes out as he heals himself as Sai and Yamato's clone take over fighting Orochimaru. Yeah it was this one!
B) Yamato stops him and the jutsu allows Naruto to take back mental capasity (i.e. Naruto escapes from being inside the gate) or Yamato takes mental control over his 4-tail state. And a sane version of 4-tail continues to fight Orochimaru.
C) Akatsuki's arrival. They kidnap Naruto from the fight so they can extract Kyuubi. Doesn't make sense cuz with Sasori dead, how would they know the info passed to Sakura and thus, that Naruto would show up at the bridge.
But it would be silly if after explaining the necklace jutsu thing they didn't at least show him attempting to use it.
Chapter 296 Update:
This is the perfect timing and position for Yamato to do his thing. Naruto is on their side of the bridge (good as in away from Orochimaru, Bad as in 4tail near them). I absolutely loved it. I thought it had the humorous undertones we're learning to expect from Yamato (I thought that it said SIT was terrific), is visually appealing, and much less over the top than it could have been. It wasn't anticlimatic like the sticker ... it was just much simplier than the longwinded name would have indicated. But then again ... Yamato is pulling out Naruto from the 4-tail state without any damage to himself ... something Jiraiya apparently didn't do ....which shouldn't be underestimated.
I joined the bandwagon that Yamato is the whitecloaked ANBU from the Invasion Arc and watched Shodai doing his thing them ... As was just proven with the Kusanagi fiasco, slight variations of mask style and marking mean nothing. I got on the white ANBU = Yamato bandwagon when Yamato was first introduced ... not that there is any proof but considering he did have a spotlight role and now is one of the very few ANBU we know fairly well, AND topped with the white cloaked guy's obvious interest and knowlegdable analysis of the Hokage level battle ... I think this is a fairly safe bet.
That might've helped .... but probably if he has the same genes as Shodai he just developed himself similarly and thus developed the same techniques but with his own flair. I also like the idea that he could have been helped by a written catelog by Shodai in a secret scroll (perhaps the one Naruto stole in chapter one - that was said to be written by the 4th but had the techniques of the 1st) ... in otherwards, many options are open and I don't see much evidence pointing to one over another ...
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It's not officially a bloodLINE because there was no family line to Yamato. Tsunade did not inherit the Mouton so it's assumed it couldn't be passed down. Blood lines are simply abilities passed down through 'the blood' ... in other words, a genetic prerequisite for the ability. And they do pass through the DNA. But chakra is NOT inherited as far as we know ... especially when Jinchuuriki's can leech it off their Bijuu and new chakra can be installed via CSs. The Bijuu control jutsu (and probably Mounton too) works due to a specific chakra ... something that isn't apparently genetically passed down. It sounds like it works because it specifically uses Shodai's chakra (something that isn't passed down like bloodline) to resonate with the crystalized chakra of the necklace ... So Tsunade might have Shodai's blood but she doesn't have his chakra and therefore, doesn't have these abilities. But it still doesn't answer how Yamato recieving Shodai's cells would give him the Shodai's chakra ... oh well ....
Just because we've only seen Yamato use this particular Shodai Jutsu to pull out Naruto from 4-tails does not mean he doesn't have other Shodai jutsu's that let's him do other things to a Jinchuuriki, like control it or tame it. Yamato might even be ABLE to extract the Bijuu (but he would dare for Naruto's sake) like the Akatsuki can with their rings.Yamato's control over the Kyuubi is 100% related to the resonance to the chakra crystal necklace. Perhaps the Akatsuki's chakra works the same way with their rings?
