Nara Shadow Clone Technique

Shadow Transformation Technique is a technique created and utilized by Yami Nara for the sole purpose of extending his life, so that he could forever lead the Nara Clan to the top of the world. As a result, this technique is indeed an immortality technique similar to that of Kakuzu and Orochimaru’s, but instead Yami doesn’t utilize a corporeal body like those two and instead transformed himself literally into a Shadow, granting him a truly immortal life.

This technique is used weekly, as Yami needs to eat and absorb the souls of someone else to perfectly sustain his form or his shadow-like form. The maximum time length in which Yami can go on without consuming other shadows is around a month, though his powers are severely decreased by then and he’ll lack the ability to even absorb shadows properly at this point. To become the shadow, Yami first used his mastery of his own family’s hiden techniques to gain unparalleled control over his techniques. Despite being a powerful technique, this jutsu is only made up of one; Shadow Gathering Technique which materialized his own shadow. Where everything becomes unique is now, as Yami didn’t use this technique to attack his opponent but instead literally forced the shadow into his own body, fusing it with his chakra pathway system and everything else within his internal body. Within a matter of hours, the latter became a shadow, ridding them of their organs or anything else; instead turning them completely into an ethereal form. As a shadow, Yami is granted multiple unique abilities on its own, but his continuous practice has helped him master this form to its fullest extent, evident by his absolute control over it. The first ability this form grants is a malleable transformation, with the latter being capable of altering his form to match that of anything he wishes appearance wise. However, when personally absorbing and eating the shadows of another person or creature, Yami then gains the ability to “shapeshift” into their respectable forms, essentially becoming a shadow doppelganger of their being. This not only grants him their appearance, but also allows him to virtually copy their own powers and strength regardless if they use a hiden, kekkei genkai or kekkei tota.

The second ability that this form grants is tangibility. Yami has the choice to become tangible and intangible at will, though he normally must exert much effort to being tangible, doing so by generating chakra into his own body to solidify the deactivated photons which make up his body. When intangible, which is majority of the time, Yami is capable of flying as well, natural phenomenons have no effect on his being. The last ability that he is granted is the capability to possess others through their shadows. By overlapping his target's shadow with his own shadow-like body, Yami essentially fuses with their shadow. Being fused with their shadow, the target is forced to follow Yami's movements and have no control of their body at all; with many calling this the perfected ability of the Shadow Imitation Technique.