The Senju Clan
of The Hidden Leaf Village
Advanced Element: Mokuton (Wood Release)
Desiyama Senju
Clan History/Description
Centuries before the time of the Sage of the Six Paths, a meteor crashed upon the earth, devastating the land and the people living near the impact site. After suffering heavy losses from this tragedy, the people began to move on from that place, but a few noticed subtle signs of the landscape returning back to normal, flourishing, even, and they stayed. Those stragglers set up a home for themselves near the meteor and thrived in the magical properties of what they thought was a boulder from the heavens, a blessing from the gods that gave life to everything near it. They felt stronger near it, more connected to nature, and so they protected it, creating a small village around the impact site that they guarded with their lives.
Many years passed and those people began to notice changes within themselves. With each new generation, they grew stronger and healthier than before, as if the heavenly stone were bathing them in its power, alongside the land. With this physical power, the people became stronger than all other humans on earth, and lived in simplistic peace and tranquility for a long time.
The stone eventually began to change, having taken roots in the ground that nobody could have noticed, enhancing the power it drew from the planet until it was finally able to grow a stem from what the people now knew as a seed, for a great plant grew from it that reached into the very heavens, a plant that came to be called the God Tree. With the tree now formed, its power shone throughout the land, spreading further than just its guardians, though it did not bestow the same physical prowess. Instead, it spread its energy, imbuing all of humanity over the course of several generations with what we now know as Chakra.
When the representative of the interdimensional Otsutsuki Clan, Kaguya, came into this world to claim the power of the God Tree for herself, she was faced with tremendous resistance, as the guardians of the great tree, the Senju Clan of the Forest, manifested a power not seen in the world. They could give life to trees and plants, manipulating and altering the landscape. With their Mokuton, the Senju were able to keep Kaguya from taking the tree for herself, but she was not to be stopped. The Rabbit Goddess, realizing that something had gone wrong with the God Tree and that its fruit was not forming as normal, corrupted it, causing the great plant to mutate into the ferocious Juubi that devastated the land. Fight though they might, the Senju were no match for the mighty creature, which wreaked upon them the same devastation that had befallen their ancestors so many years ago.
The Senju survivors fled deep into the forests of what is now known as the Land of Fire, to keep hidden from the terrible Rabbit Goddess and her terrible monstrosity. Kaguya then began her conquest of the nations, taking over the many villages and groups that only had limited potential with their chakra. She eventually took the Juubi into herself, becoming the first Jinchuuriki in existence. This solidified her claims to power and erased any hope of being overthrown, until her children were born.
The Senju remained in hiding within their forests for a long time, until word had spread to the world that the Rabbit Goddess had been defeated by her sons, Hamura and Hagoromo. Some Senju even departed to learn from this Sage of the Six Paths, but most remained to build a home for themselves once again. Chakra had now spread to every part of the continent, and over more decades, other clans with Kekkei Genkai of their own were starting to form. The Senju, though the first clan by far, might have made a more prominent name for themselves in the earlier days of history, but the disaster they faced at the hands of Kaguya and her demon mitigated their potential to that of the other clans, and so they grew as one of them, taking up prominence only in the Land of Fire alongside the Hyuga and, eventually, the Uchiha.
Never a people for ruling over others, the Senju did not contend with the Hyuga for ownership of their empire, and enjoyed a time of peace under it, but the rule had become sour, and before a century had passed, many Senju were orchestrating ways to break the Hyuga’s rule. Many rebellions were had, one particularly famous one led by one Ikurō Senju. However, none were able to break that rule until the Uchiha were split from the Hyuga and caused such disarray that the first empire lost its impervious might, and the Senju, alongside the Uchiha and other lesser clans of the Land of Fire, were able to break a hold that had lasted two centuries.
Following this great breakthrough was a time of war unlike any before, where Uchiha and Hyuga were locked in heated struggle to eradicate the other, leaving great destruction in their wake. The other clans of the Land were too small to partake in this conflict on either side, save only for the Senju, and it's for that reason that they would hire themselves out as mercenaries to any that could pay. The only time that the warring clans would unite under one banner was at the threat of invasion by the sprawling Kazehana Empire, and though their combined might could fight off any force, theirs was not a peace to last. As soon as the invasions would end, the chaos would ensue, continuing a pattern of destruction that repeated itself far too often. The Senju, being the only major force not partaking in the eternal power struggle, were the first to take note of this pattern and call for peace. They first brokered a peace agreement between the lesser clans, though the Uchiha and the Hyuga were not yet willing to lay down their arms.
As the conflict between the Uchiha and the Hyuga finally came to a head with the return of the Uchiha Clan's new leader, Kazuya, the Senju Clan Leader at the time Aokirama Senju helped to finally broker a peace between all of the clans within the Land of Fire, and in hand with the Hyuga, the Uchiha, the Yamanaka, the Aburame, the Nara, and the Akimichi, the Senju built upon the remains of a bloodied battlefield the foundation of what soon became the Hidden Leaf Village. As the leader of the Uchiha took the position of Hokage at the behest of the Senju leader and representative, the Senju themselves, alongside the other clans, were each given their own districts over which they were to rule, subservient only to the Hokage and the village as a whole.
Aokirama considered the founding of Konohagakure to be the greatest achievement of his lifetime, nevertheless he insisted on stepping down from the position of clan leader. He maintained that it was time for the next generation to take control of the village's future and if they shinobi clans remained wedded to the perspectives of the past (however well intentioned or accomplished they may be) the village would not be able to prosper. Aokirama wished to set an example for the other clans and as such before relinquishing control of the clan, he persuaded the clan elders to abolish the custom of hereditary rule. He proclaimed that all Senju should have the opportunity to lead their clan and not just those who could trace their lineage to the first of the Guardians. If the Senju Clan experimented with meritocracy then perhaps other clans would follow suit and so he presided over a rigorous selection process that tested combat prowess, wisdom, worldly knowledge, and moral decision making. Aokirama's children who had been in line for succession were eliminated early on, they had relied too heavily on their skill at arms and as a result fared poorly against some of their learned peers. The process was controversial and despite the protestations of his own family Aokirama was allowed to continue with his experiment purely out of gratitude and respect for his role in bringing the country together. When all was said and done, a young woman named Desiyami Senju was selected as the clan leader.
She was from a well established yet relatively small branch of the clan. They were a priestly and noble household more concerned with knowledge, tradition, and morality than warfare. The well regarded Princess was a polarizing figure as she had mastered the art of Genjutsu and used it to devastating effect on her opponents. The skill that was relatively uncommon among the Senju and while she commanded the respect of her opponents, a small contingent of the clan worried that her selection might cost the clan its position among the three greatest clans in the Fire Country. Desiyami is a recluse and few can say they have had the privilege of prolonged interaction with her. The young woman's comportment to Konoha writ large cloaks the clan's new leader in a shroud of mystery. One thing can be said for certain however, Desiyami's vision for the clan has been made emphatically clear. The Senju Clan will fulfill its duty as Konoha's peacemaker and protector now and forever.
Clan/Bloodline Traits & Characteristics
Members of the Senju Clan are generally taller and of a stronger build than most other people. Their skin tone most often reflects their lineage as a people guarding a bare landscape, before they become known as a people of the forest and basked in the sunlight for many generations. They are tan with dark eyes and even darker hair, most often black, though some have been born with completely white hair, a lighter, almost pale skin tone, and eyes as red as the blood moon.
Bloodline Description & Abilities
The Senju Clan is known for two key aspects of their lineage: physical power and the Mokuton. While the Mokuton is a fairly rare gene, as the Mangekyou Sharingan is to the Uchiha, the natural physical advantages of the Senju Clan is not. As members of a powerful family with roots dating back to the days of the Sage, the Senju possess bodies more suited to the harsh living conditions of the shinobi, able to take more punishment and fight on longer than most of their peers. Those that choose to focus on this trait see even greater results, reaching points in their natural forms that most others must use techniques to maintain. Senju receive a natural two + bonus to either Constitution or Stamina, to be chosen by the player soon after registration. Should any Senju progress either of those stats to S-Tier, then the unboosted stat will receive the same two + bonus. As with most Bloodline related boosts, these are considered Generic.
Taking this physical component a step further is the Regeneration Ability. This is a healing factor that immediately mends any damage caused to the body, recovering up to but not including severed limbs or half destroyed organs. This ability is passive once unlocked and will drain 2 points of Stamina every post that it’s used in, creating a potential hazard for the user in automatic chakra exhaustion. Not everyone unlocks this ability, however, for while most have it, it lies dormant within them until awakened by exhaustive training, represented by spending 1000 Experience Points. As a cool bonus feature, this ability also passively sustains the body once unlocked, removing any need to eat or drink.
While most Senju focus on the training of their bodies to take advantage of their natural ability, some have, through intense training, manifested the Wood Release Kekkei Genkai. This is an advanced element comprised of Earth Release and Water Release, used in conjunction with a higher Yoton ratio to create within the user a source of life, affording the ability to generate wood and trees from oneself or one’s environment. This is one of the most versatile abilities, as it can be used both defensively and offensively to great potential, with a sole weakness to Lightning Release. Mokuton is also an ability closely related to the Bijuu, providing an inherent control over them through the use of certain high ranking and forbidden techniques, which is perhaps what makes this one of the most coveted advanced elements in the world. This advanced element costs 1000 Experience Points to unlock.
All of these abilities may be unlocked by any Senju, in any order desired, so long as the appropriate costs are paid.
Bloodline Limits & Drawbacks
The natural enhancement of the Senju’s body via stat bonuses is partially transplantable in that the initial two + boost can be gained via implant, but the second one that is earned by reaching S-Tier in one of those stats, is not. If the Senju donor has already obtained this second bonus, however, then even it can be transferred to the recipient. That, in combination with the implant bonuses provided by this Kekkei Genkai, along with the Regeneration Ability and Mokuton, make it one of the highest value targets for Bloodline hunters.
As stated earlier, the Regeneration Ability is unable to affect severed limbs or organs that are 50% or more destroyed. Additionally, it is a passive process that will continue to drain the Senju’s reserves until there is none left to draw, leaving the user in an unconscious state so that energy may return. Theoretically, a Senju can be kept unconscious so long as wounds are continuously inflicted. For implant recipients, this ability costs no Experience, but must have been unlocked in the Senju donor prior to harvesting.
The Mokuton is inherently weak to Raiton, making its Power one rank less when clashing with a technique of that element. This is one of the abilities not reliant on donor progression to unlock; regardless of the level of the Senju donor, an implant recipient can unlock the Mokuton at the given Experience cost.
Clan Techniques
- S-Ranks:
Name: Wood Release Secret Technique: Nativity of a World of Trees
Rank: S
Power: S
Activation Cost: 30
Upkeep Cost: 20
Range: 100 Meter Radius
Speed: S
Element: Mokuton
Skill: Ninjutsu
Classification: Group Exclusive (Senju)
Requirements: N/A
Parent Technique: Wood Release: Nativity of a Sea of Trees
Hand Seals: Snake
Description: The most prized technique of the Senju Clan, where the user forces a dense multitude of trees to grow on any surface, easily creating a massive forest up to the maximum range on any location desired. The trees grow and move fairly quickly, with power enough to shatter stone, but are continuously maneuvered by the user over the course of three posts, including the one it's activated in, to ensnare and attack any targets within range. After these three posts the trees are essentially “locked” in the state they were in, having finished their growth. This is a jutsu which severely alters the landscape in the user's favor while also making escape virtually impossible for any targets within range.
Weaknesses: N/A
Name: Kanzeon Lotus King
Rank: S
Power: A
Activation Cost: 20
Upkeep Cost: 10
Range: 100 Meters Tall | 100 Meters Range
Speed: B
Element: Mokuton
Skill: Ninjutsu
Classification: Group Exclusive (Senju)
Requirements: N/A
Parent Technique: N/A
Hand Seals: Hands Slammed on Ground
Description: The user slams their hands on the ground and calls forth a massive, many-handed wooden statue with a similar appearance to a robed monk with both hands held in front as though in prayer. This statue can be freely controlled by the user. A round wooden base on the statue's back functions as the center for exactly one hundred wooden arms just as thick as the main arms, but much longer, able to reach the ground up to one hundred meters away. The statue has a movement speed of only B-Rank, using its many arms to carry it across the ground rather than its own feet. When striking the arms may move at B-Rank Speed and have A-Rank strength when striking, and have S-Rank durability. If the upkeep for this technique is dropped the durability of the wood reverts to B-Rank.
Weaknesses: The user generally remains stationary on top of the wooden avatar, but is by no means directly protected by it. Given the statue's relatively slow movement speed and the fact that it is made of wood, it can be avoided and/or destroyed.
Name: Top Transformed Buddha
Rank: S
Power: A
Activation Cost: 20
Upkeep Cost: N/A
Range: N/A
Speed: N/A
Element: Mokuton
Skill: Ninjutsu
Classification: Group Exclusive (Senju)
Requirements: Kanzeon Lotus King
Parent Technique: Kanzeon Lotus King
Hand Seals: Clasped Hands
Description: After creating the statue of the parent technique, the user clasps his hands together, willing all of the hands contained on the statue's back to lunge forward with full power. This technique increases the speed and power of these hands by one tier, increasing the base technique's speed to A-Rank, and increasing the power to S-Rank. All of the hands storm an area at once, devastating it with hundreds of powerful attacks all at once, making it nearly impossible to avoid or defend against. Once the punches have finished, the arms can be retracted for further use of this technique.
Weaknesses: N/A
Name: All is Suffering
Rank: S
Power: A
Activation Cost: 20
Upkeep Cost: 10
Range: 300 Meters
Speed: A
Element: Mokuton; Varies
Skill: Ninjutsu
Classification: Group Exclusive (Senju)
Requirements: Kanzeon Lotus King
Parent Technique: N/A
Hand Seals: Clapped Hands
Description: Using the Kanzeon Lotus King as a medium, the user claps their hands together and channels a basic element through each of the five smaller heads encircling the statue's main head to have them simultaneously release a stream of that element. The power of each of these streams is approximately equal to a B-Rank ninjutsu attack, but are intended to devastate a group or the landscape with more elemental natures than they would be able to handle. This technique is limited by the user, as the basic elements that can be used with this are the basic elements known by the user.
Weaknesses: Each individual elemental stream is weaker than the overall power of the technique and can be beaten by matching the streams with their weaknesses. An enemy that is able to use as many or more elements than the user will be able to overcome this technique fairly easily through the use of shadow clones. This technique is limited to one stream per element, so it is weaker when the user has less than five elements, but the cost remains the same.
Name: Multiple Wood Release Clone Technique
Rank: S
Power: N/A
Activation Cost: N/A
Upkeep Cost: N/A
Range: 1 Kilometer
Speed: N/A
Element: Mokuton
Skill: Ninjutsu
Classification: Group Exclusive (Senju)
Requirements: N/A
Parent Technique: Wood Clone Technique, Multi-Shadow Clone Technique
Hand Seals: Clone Seal or Tiger
Description: This jutsu is used to create a large number of Wood Release Shadow Clones with the principle of both parent techniques in order to greatly conserve chakra by using a much more refined method of clone generation and sustainment. What this does is create the same clones described in the Wood Clone Technique, but with a minimum chakra requirement of only 0.2 points per clone, allowing potentially hundreds more to be created.
This technique can still be used without knowledge of the Multiple Shadow Clone Technique, though the chakra used in creating the clones will be much less refined. Therefore, the number of clones created can be no less than ten and each must maintain a chakra level of at least five points each in order to continue functioning.
Weaknesses: The clones hold the same weaknesses as outlined in the Wood Clone Technique and the Multi-Shadow Clone Technique, though with the chakra minimums of 0.2 or 5, whichever is applicable. The secondary use of the technique, which uses that 5 point minimum, can be replaced with the primary version as soon as the user learns the Multiple Shadow Clone Technique.
Name: Hokage-Style Sixty-Year-Old Technique — Kakuan Entering Society with Bliss-Bringing Hands
Rank: S
Power: S
Activation Cost: Varies
Upkeep Cost: N/A
Range: Touch, 10 Meter Radius
Speed: Instant
Element: Mokuton
Skill: Ninjutsu
Classification: Group Exclusive (Senju)
Requirements: N/A OR S-Rank Stamina
Parent Technique: N/A
Hand Seals: Boar → Dog → Bird → Monkey → Ram → Monkey → Tiger
Description: The Hokage-Style Sixty-Year-Old Technique — Kakuan Entering Society with Bliss-Bringing Hands technique utilises the power of the Wood Release to forcibly suppress a tailed beast's chakra. After forming the hand seals required the user produces the "sit" (座, za) kanji in their palm, and by touching the tailed beast, or its jinchūriki with their hand, the user can suppress their chakra. A series of ten pillars with inward facing spikes rise out of the ground surrounding a target Bijuu or Jinchuuriki in a ten meter radius after making contact which assist in the suppression process and help prevent escape. After making contact the user and target will be connected by a stream of chakra between the point of contact and the palm that was used to make contact. The user is able to channel an aura of chakra over the hand of himself or a creature he is connected to, such as the Wood Release: Golem Technique, Susano'o, or Tailed Beast Mode. Once this hand makes contact with the Bijuu or Jinchuuriki, all of its demonic chakra is forcibly suppressed, causing the Bijuu to sleep for the remainder of the topic and the three that follow it, and all Bijuu related powers to fail. The pillars can be used to close in on the Bijuu or Jinchuuriki to attempt to hold it in place, with Strength equivalent to the amount of chakra paid to use this technique, which is B in its base form.
If the user has a natural S-Tier Stamina, this technique may be used without the need of the pillars, but at an increased cost of S-Rank chakra. Pillars may still be used, if desired, and will have the increased Strength of A-Tier to match the increased cost.
Weaknesses: The user or the creature he is connected to must make direct contact with a hand. In the case of elastic type creatures, as the long reaching Tailed Beast Chakra Arms, the limb with which this technique is used may not be extended. If the user does not possess S-Tier Stamina, then the technique can be defeated by shattering the pillars. The user can cause them to regrow at the cost of two points of chakra per pillar, but the technique cannot be used until all pillars are fully formed and surrounding the target. This is irrelevant if the user meets the Stamina requirement.
Name: Wood Release: Hotei Technique
Rank: S
Power: S
Activation Cost: 30
Upkeep Cost: 20
Range: 150 Meters Tall, 500 Meter Radius.
Speed: A
Element: Mokuton
Skill: Ninjutsu
Classification: Group Exclusive (Senju)
Requirements: N/A
Parent Technique: N/A
Hand Seals: Clap Hands Together → Technique Specific Seal
Description: This technique creates up to five gigantic wooden hands that emerge from the ground with intent to restrain massive targets, like Bijuu. The hands can function in any way desired, using massive size and great strength to their advantage, along with a very high amount of speed to attack and defend as desired. Due to their set base they are not very maneuverable, leaving their optimal function as a circle around a large target to entrap it. This technique is activated by clasping the hands and then forming the technique specific seal, but it can be preceded by up to two hands raising from the ground before the hand seals are formed. In the case that those two hands are the only ones formed, this technique's cost is reduced to A-Rank, and their power and speed are both also reduced by one rank. These hands are one hundred and fifty meters tall, and can be formed in a five hundred meter range around the user.
Weaknesses: The hands are truly massive and are therefore immune to most forms of attack by virtue of their size alone, but given the scope of the technique and the intended targets for it, the hands may be vulnerable to attack, especially at their base, by Bijuu, Susano'o, and similar massive attacks, particularly those that cut. Due to the fact that once formed they cannot have their base be moved, those who can escape from their range through either burrowing underground or flying away can easily avoid this technique.
Name: Wood Release: Wood Dragon Technique
Rank: S
Power: A
Activation Cost: 20
Upkeep Cost: 10
Range: 100 Meters
Speed: A
Element: Mokuton
Skill: Ninjutsu
Classification: Group Exclusive (Senju)
Requirements: N/A
Parent Technique: N/A
Hand Seals: Snake → Ram → Hare → Dog → Snake
Description: After forming the hand seals, the user creates a giant wooden chinese dragon that can emerge from either a part of his body or any part of earth. This dragon varies in appearance between a traditional chinese dragon or one with an elongated, trunk-like nose. It is fully capable of flying and is used to wrap around targets as would a massive snake, restraining them with great power and then draining away their chakra. This drain effect is initiated by the dragon biting into the target, which will remove 10 points of chakra per post of contact. This energy is not returned to the user, but it can be used for the upkeep of the dragon. The constriction effect can also be used against Tailed Beasts, but as they are larger, the dragon will typically attempt to target the joints and wrap around the body in such a way that movement of the limbs becomes difficult, if not impossible. The dragon only has a durability of A-Tier, but may restrain targets as if it had S-Tier strength.
Name: Wood Release: Wood Golem Technique
Rank: S
Power: -
Activation Cost: S
Upkeep Cost: A
Range: 1 km
Speed:-
Element: Mokuton
Skill: Ninjutsu
Classification: Secret Restricted (Senju Clan Leader Exclusive)
Requirements: Senju Clan Leader, Mokuton, Ninjutsu Skill
Parent Technique: N/A
Hand Seals: Ox → Horse → Boar → Snake
Description: After performing the required hand seals, the user manifests a wooden golem of a size matching that of a bijuu. This humanoid figure with a full body and oni-like face is created with a Wood Dragon wrapped around its torso, and is generally used in battle as an avatar. The creature has its own pool of stamina from which it can draw chakra to utilize Wood Release: Wood Dragon Technique without hand seals. If the user does not have enough time to manifest the entire body, then they can manifest a few limbs first to buy enough time for the full body to form.
The golem has the following stats:
Strength: S
Constitution: X
Stamina: B
Speed: A
Coordination: A
Intelligence: -
Perception: -
Weaknesses: The golem is subject to normal mokuton weaknesses causing raiton jutsu to be +1 rank in effectiveness against them. The golem forms at its speed, making it possible to attack the user before it is fully formed. The golem is subject to the user’s perception for reactions. The golem can only travel up to 1 kilometer from the user. Only one golem can be created at any time. If the golem is destroyed another cannot be created within the same thread.
- A-Ranks:
Name: Wood Release: World of Trees Wall
Rank: A
Power: A
Activation Cost: 20
Upkeep Cost: 10
Range: 50 Meters
Speed: A
Element: Mokuton
Skill: Ninjutsu
Classification: Group Exclusive (Senju)
Requirements: N/A
Parent Technique: N/A
Hand Seals: Bird → Hare → Serpent
Description: The user creates countless wooden branches that grow at high speed from the ground. The branches interlace to form a wide, net-like wall with an impressive defensive power. This technique stretches fifty meters wide and the trees may grow up to fifty meters wide. These trees may be created with a central point anywhere within a twenty meter radius of the user.
Weaknesses: The wall of trees is net-like, which may allow powders and gaseous substances through the small cracks, although this does not include the buffeting of wide range Fūton techniques, but rather more subtle things such as gaseous poisons and slower moving airborne particles.
Name: Wood Release: Serial Pillar Houses Technique
Rank: A
Power: A
Activation Cost: 20
Upkeep Cost: N/A
Range: 100m x 100m
Speed: C
Element: Mokuton
Skill: Ninjutsu
Classification: Group Exclusive (Senju)
Requirements: N/A
Parent Technique: Wood Release: Four-Pillar House Technique
Hand Seals: Snake → Rat → Ox → Ram → Snake
Description: A larger scaled version of the Wood Release: Four-Pillar House Technique where instead of creating a single house, the user creates enough houses to fill a city block all at once. These constructs emerged fully painted and with glass windows, along with any other basic amenities that might be needed so long as they are made of wood.
Weaknesses: N/A
Name: Wood Release: Hōbi Technique
Rank: A
Power: A
Activation Cost: 20
Upkeep Cost: 10
Range: 20 Meters
Speed: A
Element: Mokuton
Skill: Ninjutsu
Classification: Group Exclusive (Senju)
Requirements: N/A
Parent Technique: N/A
Hand Seals: N/A
Description: Using Wood Release, the user creates a dome-like defensive structure in a twenty meter radius that completely surrounds themselves and takes the form of a dragon's face. This defence is split down the middle and can be opened on the user's command. This dome has a durability of S-Tier, and attacks that use Bijuu chakra or are Bijuu related such as Tailed Beast Balls colliding against the dome behave as if they were one rank lower in power than usual.
Weaknesses: N/A
Name: Wood Release: Tree Bind Flourishing Burial
Rank: A
Power: A
Activation Cost: 20
Upkeep Cost: 10
Range: 75 Meters
Speed: A
Element: Mokuton
Skill: Ninjutsu
Classification: Group Exclusive (Senju)
Requirements: N/A
Parent Technique: N/A
Hand Seals: Snake → Rat → Dragon → Dog → Tiger
Description: This technique summons a series of thin roots around the target that emerge from the ground and swiftly ensnare an opponent. These roots then grow into a full grown tree around the captured target and leave them with only their head exposed. The power of the tree's binding is tremendous and in most cases will be able to hold a person indefinitely, or until the user will's the tree's branches to grow further, crushing the opponent's body and head completely. These roots may be summoned anywhere within a twenty-five meter radius of the user and require A-Tier strength to break. If the upkeep of this technique is dropped this tree reverts back to a standard B-Tier durability tree.
Weaknesses: N/A
Name: Wood Release: Advent of a World of Flowering Trees
Rank: A
Power: A
Activation Cost: 20
Upkeep Cost: 10
Range: 50 Meters or Forest
Speed: A
Element: Mokuton
Skill: Ninjutsu
Classification: Group Exclusive (Senju)
Requirements: N/A
Parent Technique: Wood Release Secret Technique: Nativity of a World of Trees
Hand Seals: Ram → Snake
Description: Taking advantage of the innate properties of Wood Release which allows the user to force trees to grow on any surface at a rapid pace, the user creates a dense forest of flowering trees. This forest takes one post to grow, during which roots and trees that grow may be used to capture targets. If a forest already exists, either from the Wood Release Secret Technique: Nativity of a World of Trees or the Wood Release Nativity of a Sea of Trees, this one post growing period may be skipped. The forest created by this technique would grow in a radius of fifty meters around the user, with the trees potentially reaching fifty meters high.
On the post after the forest grows, or if a forest created by the aforementioned techniques already exists, massive flowers will erupt across the trees and quickly bloom, spreading a pollen over the entire radius of this technique. This pollen spreads out as far and as wide as the forest is. This is a fifty meter radius at base, but may be increased further if larger techniques are used as its base, such as the Wood Release Secret Technique: Nativity of a World of Trees. Anyone that breathes in this pollen is rendered unconscious leaving them at the mercy of the user.
Weaknesses: Those with A-Tier constitution or higher may resist the effects of the pollen indefinitely. The body constantly fights against the pollen even in those unable to resist, increasing all targets’ constitution by one tier for the purpose of escaping this technique for every post that they're unconscious until they hit A-Tier, at which point they wake up. They may then use that post to attempt to escape, although their constitution resets the post after and the cycle may simply start over again if they are unable. Simply remaining outside of the pollen's range will negate any of its consequences.
Name: Wood Clone Technique
Rank: A
Power: N/A
Activation Cost: N/A
Upkeep Cost: N/A
Range: 1 Kilometer
Speed: N/A
Element: Mokuton
Skill: Ninjutsu
Classification: Group Exclusive (Senju)
Requirements: N/A
Parent Technique: Shadow Clone Technique
Hand Seals: Tiger → Dog → Snake
Description: The Wood Clone is formed by using chakra to alter the user's own cells into vegetation, thus creating one or more perfect duplicates that share an even amount of chakra with the user upon their creation. Like normal shadow clones, these do not cost any chakra to create, and they are able to fight as would the user, with the added benefit of being more durable than the average shadow clone. These clones are able to sustain as much damage as would be required to kill a person before they disperse, making this clone jutsu the nearest to perfection. These clones are able to freely communicate with the user at any time and may travel a distance up to the maximum range of one kilometer from the user before dispersing. These clones are also able to merge with any plant life while still maintaining awareness of their surroundings, making them excellent for reconnaissance. Like other clones, they still return all unspent chakra to the user, along with any memories and experiences they have acquired.
Weaknesses: These clones require more chakra than the normal clone to function. While the normal Shadow Clone needs no less than five points of stamina to remain functional, a Wood Clone needs ten. The clone is still able to dip into this limit to use a technique, but the moment that technique ends, the clone will disperse, and the remaining chakra is returned to the user. Like normal Shadow Clones, Wood Clones require some level of concentration to maintain, and may be limited in use as outlined by such complex techniques as the Red Yang Formation. Wood Clones are not bound by the traditional Clone/Constitution Rules. A Wood Clone can have a max constitution of B (its based off of the user's base Constitution but the cap is B). If the user has a base S-Tier Constitution then the Wood Clone's constitution is A-Tier.
- B-Ranks:
Name: Wood Release: Nativity of a Sea of Trees
Rank: B
Power: B
Activation Cost: 10
Upkeep Cost: 5
Range: 50 Meter Radius
Speed: B
Element: Mokuton
Skill: Ninjutsu
Classification: Group Exclusive (Senju)
Requirements: N/A
Parent Technique: N/A
Hand Seals: Snake
Description: After forming the hand seal, the user is able to turn an area into a vast forest in a matter of mere moments complete with trees and even grass growing out of any terrain they are on. These trees are fairly powerful in their growth, able to penetrate stone and earthen walls as they expand from raw chakra to small roots to full grown trees.
Weaknesses: Unlike the more famous variation of this technique the trees created by this jutsu cannot be manipulated to ensnare targets.
Name: Wood Release: Cutting Technique
Rank: B
Power: B
Activation Cost: 10
Upkeep Cost: 5
Range: 2 Meters | 50 Meters
Speed: A
Element: Mokuton
Skill: Ninjutsu
Classification: Group Exclusive (Senju)
Requirements: N/A
Parent Technique: N/A
Hand Seals: Ram
Description: A versatile technique where the user can produce dozens of sharp wooden spikes from their body to either fashion short-range weapons akin to a makeshift sword, or use them as projectiles, which propel out from the user at the listed speed up to a range of fifty meters. Whenever one of these spikes pierce into something, the user can form the initial hand seal to cause the branch to explode in sudden growth to penetrate the target from the inside many times over in a bloody mess of spiked branches and flesh as long as it is less than fifty meters from the user.
Weaknesses: N/A
Name: Spontaneous Tree Summoning
Rank: B
Power: B
Activation Cost: 20
Upkeep Cost: N/A
Range: Self
Speed: S
Element: Mokuton
Skill: Ninjutsu
Classification: Group Exclusive (Senju)
Requirements: N/A
Parent Technique: N/A
Hand Seals: N/A
Description: This is a technique devised as a last resort response to an attack by using one's own cells to instantly generate a large tree that grows to maximum size in under two seconds. Due to the speed of the cast and the lack of hand seals, this technique is considerably more expensive than other Mokuton techniques of its rank and power, which is what makes it a last resort, as it is much less than ideal. Most attacks can be blocked by the presence of the tree, while some, like a Susano'o arrow, will pierce the tree but can the trajectory changed by it, thereby saving the user at the last possible moment. Once the tree is grown, it detaches from the part of the user from which it grew and remains in place. The tree has B-Tier durability.
Weaknesses: This is a close range ninjutsu, since it requires the user's own cells to create, and the user's body must remain attached to the tree until it is fully grown, leaving the user momentarily open to an assault from a place unprotected by the tree, which can only grow to one side of the user, and not every place at once.
Name: Wood Release: Foo Dog Heads
Rank: B
Power: B
Activation Cost: 10
Upkeep Cost: 5
Range: Contact | 50 meter radius from target.
Speed: B
Element: Mokuton
Skill: Ninjutsu
Classification: Group Exclusive (Senju)
Requirements N/A
Parent Technique: N/A
Hand Seals: N/A
Description: This is a technique designed to be specifically used to absorb a tailed beast's chakra. The user produces the "sit" (座, suwaru) kanji on their palm and creates a series of wooden pillars, which are engraved with what resemble foo dog faces and have lit wicks on top of them. When the user slams their palm on the ground, the wooden statues rush towards the target and forcibly restrain it while draining the Bijuu chakra from it, reducing the Jinchuuriki's state by one per post until none are active. These dogs have a strength and durability of A-Tier. The order in which the states reduce is as follows: Version Two → Version One → Initial Mode → None Active. For Chakra Mode, it reduces straight from Chakra Mode → Initial Mode → None Active.
Weaknesses: This jutsu is ineffective against Bijuu and Jinchuuriki that are using Tailed Beast Mode; it does work on Chakra Mode, surprisingly. If the target can muster enough strength to overpower the dog heads, it can break them, forcing the user to regrow them over the course of a post.
Name: Wood Release: Smothering Binding Technique
Rank: B
Power: A
Activation Cost: 20
Upkeep Cost: 10
Range: 100 Meters
Speed: A
Element: Mokuton
Skill: Ninjutsu
Classification: Group Exclusive (Senju)
Requirements: N/A
Parent Technique: Wood Release: Great Forest Technique
Hand Seals: Snake
Description: After forming the hand seal, the user transforms his arm into a tree that branches multiple times and extends rapidly to reach a target and then grow around it, restraining it with considerable force to mobilize it. This is a jutsu intended to target large scale summons and monsters. These branches have A-Tier strength and durability.
Weaknesses: The wood can be broken and even dodged, for it must make contact before it can grow around the target, though it can branch off a few times prior to that in order to increase the odds of making contact.
Name: Wood Release: Wood Locking Wall
Rank: B
Power: B | S
Activation Cost: 10 | 30
Upkeep Cost: 5 | 20
Range: 20 Meter Radius
Speed: B | S
Element: Mokuton
Skill: Ninjutsu
Classification: Group Exclusive (Senju)
Requirements: N/A
Parent Technique: N/A
Hand Seals: Rat → Dog → Tiger
Description: An extremely versatile move, this technique uses chakra to activate the roots in the ground and, using the user of the technique as a reference point, makes wooden pillars appear from left and right. The wooden pillars join together in a dome-shape with the user at the centre. In the case that the user confronts the enemy at a short distance, the enemy can be locked up inside the dome, catching the enemy in a double sided attack. Furthermore, it can function as an easy shelter against an enemy's long-distance attacks.
A much larger version of this technique may be used that is capable of resisting nearly anything, including Tailed Beast Balls. This version of the technique costs thirty chakra to use, has a range of one hundred meters, and attacks that use Bijuu chakra or are Bijuu related such as Tailed Beast Balls colliding against the wall behave as if they were one rank lower in power than usual.
Weakness: N/A
- C-Ranks:
Name: Transmission Wood
Rank: C
Power: D
Activation Cost: 3
Upkeep Cost: 1
Range: 1 km
Speed: N/A
Element: Mokuton
Skill: Ninjutsu
Classification: Group Exclusive (Senju)
Requirements: N/A
Parent Technique: Wood Clone Technique
Hand Seals: N/A
Description: By creating a Wood Clone and turning it into a seed, the user is able to continuously detect the location of that seed up to one kilometer away. This is intended as a method of tracking by attaching a seed to a target or causing ingestion. Once attached, the seed will not be removed unless specifically removed by someone, as it is especially sticky.
Weaknesses: This is not a sensory technique, so while it divulges the target's location, it does not offer any indication to chakra levels, use, intent, or anything else not relating to location. Once a clone is made into a seed, it cannot be changed into anything else, including its original form.Name: Wood Release: Great Forest Technique
Rank: C
Power: C
Activation Cost: 5
Upkeep Cost: 3
Range: 50 Meters
Speed: B
Element: Mokuton
Skill: Ninjutsu
Classification: Group Exclusive (Senju)
Requirements: N/A
Parent Technique: N/A
Hand Seals: Tiger → Horse → Tiger → Snake
Description: A technique that changes one's own arm into big trees. Using chakra, the tissues are transformed into trees at the cellular level. Then, by activating the trees, stimulating them to grow rapidly, they lengthen at high speed and fork into many branches. It is possible to capture the enemy with these branches and at the same time, if one changes the ends into sharp stakes, turn them into countless, sharp, spear-like piercing weapons. These branches are considered to have B-Tier durability and quality, but operate at the user's Coordination and Strength.
An alternate version of this technique may be used where the wood grows out from the ground within a twenty meter radius of the user of this technique rather than the user's own cells. It otherwise operates exactly the same.
Weaknesses: N/AName: Wood Release: Four-Pillar House Technique
Rank: C
Power: C
Activation Cost: 5
Upkeep Cost: N/A
Range: 25 Meters
Speed: C
Element: Mokuton
Skill: Ninjutsu | Optional Fuuinjutsu
Classification: Group Exclusive (Senju)
Requirements: N/A
Parent Technique: N/A
Hand Seals: Snake → Rat → Ox → Ram → Snake
Description: By sending chakra into the ground, the roots of the plants are converted into raw materials. This technique allows for a building to be constructed, by forcing accelerated growth. Just like with the Four-Pillar Prison Technique, the size and shape of the building are taken from the user's imagination or memories. By placing tags around the house, the user creates a barrier, making it impossible for the enemy to detect it through sensory and allowing the user to "camp" in peace.
Weaknesses: N/AName: Wood Release: Four-Pillar Prison
Rank: C
Power: A
Activation Cost: 20
Upkeep Cost: 7
Range: 25 Meters
Speed: C
Element: Mokuton
Skill: Ninjutsu
Classification: Group Exclusive (Senju)
Requirements: N/A
Parent Technique: N/A
Hand Seals: Ram → Ox → Boar → Snake
Description: The user converts chakra into timber under the ground and makes it grow rapidly, while forming it into a wooden prison. The size of the prison is based on the user's imagination. From an insect cage to a great prison, one can make it into whatever they want by regulating the amount of chakra used. The timber itself is treated with a chakra coating, making its destruction extremely difficult. This has the great ability to detain prisoners, but it can also be used as a disciplinary measure for quarreling subordinates. Parts of the prison may be extended into the interior to serve as additional shackles to bind targets. The prison and any shackles creates as a part of it have A-Tier durability as long as the technique is maintained, but if the maintenance is dropped it reverts back down to its natural B-Tier durability.
Weaknesses: N/A
- D-Ranks:
Name: Wood Release: Hand Tool Manipulation
Rank: D
Power: D
Activation Cost: 3
Upkeep Cost: N/A
Range: Self
Speed: D
Element: Mokuton
Skill: Ninjutsu
Classification: Group Exclusive (Senju)
Requirements: N/A
Parent Technique: N/A
Hand Seals: N/A
Description: Using Wood Release, the user manipulates their hand into a tool, such as a key or a shield. Any sort of basic tool can be made, including most of what is available in the shinobi marketplace. All tools made will have D-Tier quality and be made out of Senju Wood, giving them B-Tier durability.
Weaknesses: N/A
Name: Wood Release: Stocks
Rank: D
Power: D
Activation Cost: 3
Upkeep Cost: N/A
Range: 5 Meters
Speed: D
Element: Mokuton
Skill: Ninjutsu
Classification: Group Exclusive (Senju)
Requirements: N/A
Parent Technique: N/A
Hand Seals: Snake
Description: The user creates wooden stocks to restrain a target. The stocks will be made out of Senju Wood, giving them B-Rank durability. Anyone caught in the stocks will find themselves unable to form hand seals as a natural consequence of the technique and position, but also unable to assume proper styles or positioning to use physical styles or techniques.
Weaknesses: If the target is able to break out of these stocks with pure physical strength there is nothing stopping them from destroying the stocks and escaping.Name: Wood Release: Transformation
Rank: D
Power: D
Activation Cost: 3
Upkeep Cost: 1
Range: Self
Speed: D
Element: Mokuton
Skill: Ninjutsu
Classification: Group Exclusive (Senju)
Requirements: N/A
Parent Technique: Transformation Technique
Hand Seals: Bird → Dog → Snake
Description: The user creates the necessary hand seals, then word emerges and covers their entire body with a puff of smoke or chakra, covering up the transformation. Once the technique is done the transformation is complete. It acts more like a costume than a transformation, and the user is able to take it off and leave it behind if necessary. The user is able to adjust their voice while using this technique.
This works as the Transformation Technique does, but the user of wood adds a bit of extra protection to the user. While wearing the 'disguise' the user is treated as if they are surrounded by a thin layer of armor made out of Senju Wood. Traditional wooden armor may also be created through this technique. Armor created from this technique has a quality of D and a durability of B.Name: Wood Release: Wood Spikes Ring
Rank: D
Power: C
Activation Cost: 5
Upkeep Cost: N/A
Range: 5 Meters
Speed: D
Element: Mokuton
Skill: Ninjutsu
Classification: Group Exclusive (Senju)
Requirements: N/A
Parent Technique: N/A
Hand Seals: Snake
Description: The user creates a semi-circle of wood around a captured target, and then forms spikes within the ring, pointing at the target, preventing them from making any sudden movements. The wood created from this technique is equivalent with Senju Wood, having B-Tier durability. These spikes are able to pierce for C-Rank damage.
