Whoa, did his arm just wink at me?
Summary:
Arrow'D!!!
As expected, the vision of Itachi was merely a genjutsu, but Sasuke’s Tsukiyomi is but a cheap ripoff of Itachi’s. Danzo had previously put a binding seal on Sasuke, so the two of them go AFK to get a sandwich before reconvening. Karen tries to sneak an attack in too, but she gets booted in the face and has zero effect on the battle. Sasuke comes back after chugging some hatorade, and his hate is now so strong that he can summon a full-bodied Susanoo. Susanoo launches a huge arrow at Danzo, which forces him to summon a big tree to deflect the arrow.
Head & Shoulders: It's for more than just dandruff
So apparently having a ton of Sharingan eyes implanted into his arm wasn’t enough, so he went to Michael Jackson and Joan River’s plastic surgeon (Orochimaru) to have some of Senju Hashirama’s cells put into his shoulder. Danzo’s also thinking about having some work done on his chin after this, but first things first. Anyway, all this crap on his arm is very chakra-intensive, and during certain jutsu moves Danzo is vulnerable to attack (although only Karin seems able to sense it). Madara realizes that with both Uchiha and and Senju cells that Danzo could control the Kyuubi, and also that Danzo is using the forbidden Izanagi dojutsu.
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When you think about it, being a forbidden jutsu means almost nothing nowadays. It’s one thing for a jutsu that involves sacrificing live victims or killing your best buddies to be forbidden, but why the hell was Kage Bunshin no jutsu ever a forbidden jutsu? Izanagi better be like murder-level forbidden and not jaywalking-level forbidden.
I understand he just wanted to show off a different ability, but growing a tree instead of just taking one step to the side seems silly. Still, I like how Danzo’s arm has a face and eyes on it. Just when you think he’s stretching, he’s really using his extra eyes to look down girls’ shirts.
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The kage bushin no juutsu itself isn’t a forbidden jutsu, its the mass-replication part (hundreds) that Naruto does very often is the forbidden part. It was mentioned earlier on that the basic technique is taught or at least common knowledge among chuunin and jounin. The technique is forbidden because it splits up a the user’s chakra evenly amongst the clones, when done en-mass and multiple times this can have a negative effect on the user, thus making it forbidden.
*end Naruto fanboyism
Izanagi is probably forbidden because it kills your eyes faster than Tsukiyomi. Danzo can do it because he has like 10 and the regen ability of the 1st hokage.
Also, Susanoo looks like it fires slow moving one-shot projectiles, real ninja-like there. Then again, very little in this series has “stealth” in mind.
In Narutoverse “stealthy” seems to amount to about “not wrecking the scenery with a retardedly high-level (and potentially user-lethal) summon in a bar fight”…
:hmm:
But then again, Common Sense is apparently the most forbidden-upon-pain-of-death jutsu of them all anyway.
That arrow was quiet in the air, so it counts as stealthy!
I’m reasonably sure “stealthy” covers more than just lack of noise though, and a FF7 reject summon that’s
tenfifty foot tall and farting fire isn’t it…Or maybe I’m just pedantic. =3=
The thing is that exhausting your chakra supply has a minimal negative effect, though. I think when Sasuke exhausted his chakra, all that happened was that he pooped out Orochimaru and got tired. Plus once your clones get popped in one hit, don’t you get that chakra back minus whatever they used? Someone conservative must have forbidden that jutsu!
Most likely, since the jutsu can only be used to its full potential if the individual has a lot of chakra. I guess it would seem unfair to most people if your able to accelerate your skills much quicker than the average joe who trains normally.
I wouldn’t be surprised if Danzo has access to all the jutsu from various Konoha clans lol.
If you think that arm’s bad, wait till you see his leg! Oh god, wait, that’s not his leg noooooooo!!!!!!!!!
I read this chapter and laughed – how am I meant to take a fella with the shodaime’s head for a shoulder seriously?
You say that like anything in Naruto could be taken seriously in the first place.
Well you have to admit, this is pretty disturbing. Reminds me of Franken Fran handy work. Just as long as that thing doesn’t talk, then I’m good.