Kyuubi Sage Mode
General Information
An art that was thought to be impossible since the birth of bijuu. The ability to select a bijuu as their Sage Animal let alone being the host of their Sage Animal was unheard of. Yet during the First Shinobi World War, Rin established the art as the first Perfect Sage of Kurama’s. As such this created conflict with the other Sages in both pride and fear of change. While this conflict still ensues, the Kyuubi Sage is relatively new still even after the war.
This Sage Mode still holds the same benefits as per Sage Modes dependent in Imperfect and Perfect Sage Mode. The only difference is the Kata. The obvious change in appearance is that their ears morph into fox ears placed on the top of their head. Also they produce nine tails ironically enough, and their eyes while not changing color it does turn their pupils into slits. This appearance is a give away that the Sage Mode is active.
Kata
Fox Kata ~ Specifically called Shizen-ju, this Kata combes both bijuu chakra and senjutsu to form a new release. Comes in the appearance of a heatless white flame. Fox Kata inherits the volatile chakra bijuu often use to deliver burns without producing heat. Essentially the Senjutsu mixed into this element makes the highlights the volatile nature to be corrosive in terms of damage. While the Shizen-ju holds the appearance of Katon, it is normally neutral against the other elements. However, this Kata automatically applies the Senjutsu Technique Empowerment to techniques tied to the element. In doing so, all Shizen-ju techniques are increased by 1 rank in power.
The cap is still S rank of course, in which case the S rank Shizen-ju will always win against other S-Rank elements.. However, techniques empowered or derived from an Enhanced State are equal in terms of Power against the Shizen-ju.
Additionally, usage of Shizen-ju taps into Chakra Access to Kurama. Normally when a Sage or Cursed Seal uses the Senjutsu Empowerment, half of the cost will be taken out of their Senjutsu Pool and their own Chakra Pool. In this case is different as instead of draining the user's Chakra Pool, it drains Kurama's Chakra Pool instead. As such, this Kata doesn’t provide boosts to stats.
General Information
An art that was thought to be impossible since the birth of bijuu. The ability to select a bijuu as their Sage Animal let alone being the host of their Sage Animal was unheard of. Yet during the First Shinobi World War, Rin established the art as the first Perfect Sage of Kurama’s. As such this created conflict with the other Sages in both pride and fear of change. While this conflict still ensues, the Kyuubi Sage is relatively new still even after the war.
This Sage Mode still holds the same benefits as per Sage Modes dependent in Imperfect and Perfect Sage Mode. The only difference is the Kata. The obvious change in appearance is that their ears morph into fox ears placed on the top of their head. Also they produce nine tails ironically enough, and their eyes while not changing color it does turn their pupils into slits. This appearance is a give away that the Sage Mode is active.
Kata
Fox Kata ~ Specifically called Shizen-ju, this Kata combes both bijuu chakra and senjutsu to form a new release. Comes in the appearance of a heatless white flame. Fox Kata inherits the volatile chakra bijuu often use to deliver burns without producing heat. Essentially the Senjutsu mixed into this element makes the highlights the volatile nature to be corrosive in terms of damage. While the Shizen-ju holds the appearance of Katon, it is normally neutral against the other elements. However, this Kata automatically applies the Senjutsu Technique Empowerment to techniques tied to the element. In doing so, all Shizen-ju techniques are increased by 1 rank in power.
The cap is still S rank of course, in which case the S rank Shizen-ju will always win against other S-Rank elements.. However, techniques empowered or derived from an Enhanced State are equal in terms of Power against the Shizen-ju.
Additionally, usage of Shizen-ju taps into Chakra Access to Kurama. Normally when a Sage or Cursed Seal uses the Senjutsu Empowerment, half of the cost will be taken out of their Senjutsu Pool and their own Chakra Pool. In this case is different as instead of draining the user's Chakra Pool, it drains Kurama's Chakra Pool instead. As such, this Kata doesn’t provide boosts to stats.
- Sage Mode Details:
- Sage Mode
Sage Mode is the empowered state entered by shinobi that have undergone extensive training to master the use of Nature Chakra and blending it flawlessly with one's own reserves, creating Senjutsu Chakra. This technique requires immense control and balance to master, while posing a constant risk of death. Failure to possibly balance Senjutsu Chakra within one's own body will see that body morph into the figure of an animal and then become stone, killing the user and making this technique impossible to learn without tutelage. Generally, Sage Masters are found only in the three iconic Summoning locations: Mount Myōboku, the Ryūchi Cave, and the Shikkotsu Forest.
Perfect Sages
Sages that learn from the Toads of Mount Myōboku, the Snakes of the Ryūchi Cave, or the Slugs of the Shikkotsu Forest are referred to as Perfect Sages. These are the people that have learned to perfectly balance the Senjutsu Chakra to the point that their body reaches the peak blend with Nature Chakra, granting the full abilities of Sage Mode and changing only the eyes and surrounding areas to be similar to the animals from which the Sage was taught.
Perfect Sages receive a 1 Tier boost to Strength, Constitution, Speed, Coordination, and Perception while Sage Mode is active.
Imperfect Sages
Imperfect Sages are those that are taught Sage Mode from Perfect Sages. This is easier in that human Sages will generally have looser guidelines than animal Sages for the Sage selection process, but Perfect Sages are less capable at teaching Sage Mode than are their own teachers. Because of this, Imperfect Sages are less efficient at melding Senjutsu Chakra with their own bodies, causing slight morphing and fewer enhancements. These physical changes can vary by users but will generally resemble in some way the animals from which that Sage Mode originated.
Imperfect Sages receive a ++ to Strength, Constitution, Speed, Coordination, and Perception while Sage Mode is active.
Non-Use Sages
When an Imperfect Sage teaches the method of Sage Mode, it creates what is called a Non-Use Sage. These are people with the knowledge of how to perform Sage Mode, but have received insufficient training to actually enter Sage Mode. This has little use other than providing the information necessary to create Cursed Seals, which also require an in depth analysis of the genetics of the Nature Clan.
Senjutsu Technique Enhancement
By mixing Senjutsu Chakra into a technique, Sages are able to enhance the power and effectiveness of that technique. This can create techniques referred to as Sage Arts, or can simply improve the power rank of a regular jutsu by 1. To do this, the Sage need only spend half of the technique's cost with the pool of Senjutsu Chakra, while using the normal chakra pool for the other half. This ability is available to both Perfect and Imperfect Sages.
Senjutsu Chakra Pool
The Senjutsu Chakra Pool is the energy reservoir drawn from when using Sage Mode and what is spent in the technique enhancement ability mentioned above. The amount of Senjutsu Chakra available is based on the amount of training put into Sage Mode. It takes a careful balance and is therefore difficult to expand, forcing Sages to spend 50 Experience Points to increase the pool by 10 points. Every Sage's Senjutsu Chakra Pool starts out at zero points but then slowly grows as they invest experience. The absolute limit to their Senjutsu Chakra Pool is half of their base Stamina stat's points.
Sage Mode Upkeep
While in Sage Mode, Sages use a constant draw of Senjutsu Chakra from their pool. This begins at the cost of 20 points per post, but by spending 500 Experience Points, Sages can halve that value to 10 points per post. Perfect Sages are able to do this again, spending another 500 Exp Points to bring the cost down to 5 points per post.
Sage Kata
To further a Sage's fighting ability, the animal Sages have developed Kata specific to themselves: Frog Kata, Snake Kata, and Slug Kata. These Kata burn 5 points more in Senjutsu Chakra to forcefully enhance the body even more, adding an additional ++ to two stats each. Toads boost Strength and Perception. Snakes boost Speed and Coordination. Slugs boost Constitution and Perception. There are also additional abilities for each of the Kata:
Frog Kata: Surrounds the user in an aura of Nature Chakra that amplifies the range of the user's physical strikes by about a foot in all directions. Those unable to see or sense Nature Chakra will be unaware of this aura and, therefore, may easily be struck by an attack that they previously thought they'd avoided.
Snake Kata: Surrounds the user in a barely visible cyan aura, spiking the user's hair in a flame like appearance. Up to three snakes made of invisible Nature Chakra surround the user, able to lash out at the user's will with an effective range of up to three meters each. These snakes are unable to block attacks. These snakes move with a speed equal to the user's base Coordination and strike with a strength equal to the user's base Strength.
Slug Kata: Surrounds the user in an aura of Nature Chakra much akin to the Frog Kata, but rather than amplify attacks, this aura amplifies defense.The aura can deflect the force of blows that are not taken at center mass (as in aiming for an imaginary line running along the body a few inches deep to the spine), reducing such attacks by two Tiers of Strength.
Katas are advanced forms of Sage Mode that are only accessible to Perfect Sages.
Gathering Senjutsu Chakra
Because of these costs, Sages may find themselves depleting their Senjutsu Chakra pool rather quickly, providing a need to renew that energy. By remaining completely still, the Sage can effectively become one with nature, allowing Nature Chakra to flow into his body that he immediately converts to Senjutsu Chakra. This is one of the hardest parts of mastering Sage Mode, but it does restore 10 points per post that it is done.
There are few workarounds to remaining perfectly still, which is practically impossible in battle:
-By implanting the Nature Clan Bloodline, Sages are able to passively absorb Nature Chakra, though this is less efficient than the traditional method. It adds 5 points of Senjutsu Chakra per post, regardless of what the Sage is doing.
-Similar to the above, a Sage can use the Amphibian, Reptile, or Gastropod Techniques to temporarily fuse with animal Sages belonging to their Summoning Contract. The animal Sages will attach themselves to the user and gather Nature Chakra and transfer it to the user while he fights. Each of these animals can gather 5 points per post, with a maximum of two animals per Sage, limiting this ability to generating 10 points per post. Jinchuuriki and those of the Nature Clan are naturally incompatible with these techniques.
-The user can make any number of shadow clones to remain still and gather the energy. So long as the clones are within viewing distance of the user, whether by being summoned to him or having been there the whole time, they can be dispersed by the user to transfer all of the Senjutsu Chakra they've gathered to the user. The maximum they can gather is the same as their creator.
If a member of the Nature Clan learns Sage Mode, he will no longer suffer from the reductions to Intelligence and Perception when using Sage Transformation and will be able to use the technique enhancement ability of Sage Mode. However, he will not be able to reduce the cost of the Sage Transformation and is still unable to assign his boosts to Perception.
Boosts from the Nature Clan and Sage Mode do not stack. Boosts from Cursed Seals and Sage Mode do not stack.
