Thread:Benknightprime/@comment-6003865-20140324014914

2. Who is the user of this technique?

Isao Moto (Lit. Honorable Root or Origin) 3. How will they learn this technique?

First off, I know this one seems like a massive stretch, but bear with me on this one.

Starting with the Byakugan, which I am fully willing to part with in order to get the other two sections. Isao was present throughout the 4th shinobi war, however he was not involved directly, as he and a number of other young samurai were present collecting the wounded and the deceased. He had a slightly different goal however. While not directly apprenticed to Mifune, he was the apprentice of one of his eldest, and most unscrupulous, students. His mission was to collect valuable materials and objects from the deceased. This could range from scrolls and summoning contracts to things such as Kekkei Genkais or unique weapons. One of the people he came across was a slowly dying member of the Main branch of the Hyuuga family. The man was beyond healing, as one of his eyes was gone with a kunai still in the slot. But his other eye was completely intact. Knowing what his master would have expected of him, Isao removed his left eye, cut the section of his face over it with his bladed, and then hyuuga's remaining eye before stuffing his eye in the slot. After the eye was safely retrieved and stored, he let the hyuuga expire before carrying the body back to the medical corp. Once there he explained to the medic from Iwagakure that he and a teammate had been ambushed while trying to bring back the deceased and he had lost his eye in the process. His now dying friend had given him his eye, which he gave to the medic. The medic, not knowing what a Byakugan looked like, transplanted the eye into his socket, as there was no way he would get the eye back to the land of iron normally. This left him with one normal eye and one byakugan that he carefully sealed with an eyepatch that would stop it from drawing chakra when he didn't need it on. His master was disappointed that he was unable to bring back the eye on its own, but fully understood that he probably would have been caught if he hadn't.

Next up is the techniques. After the war, Tsunade retired after allowing Naruto to take the Kageship. However after the ceremony where she relinquished the title of Hokage, a messenger met her. He was from the samurai in the Land of Iron. They asked her if she would travel to the land of iron to teach them medical ninjutsu as well as to help heal those samurai who had yet to recover as well as teach them how to better counter stronger ninja. Tsunade, not willing to waste her last few years after wallowing for decades in self pity, agreed. She travelled to the Land of Iron and quickly got to work. Isao was one of those she looked at. She recognized the byakugan, and asked Mifune about him, He told her the story of how he got that eye as he had found out about his former student's dealings and that he had taken him upon himself to train the boy. Mifune asked her to help him gain strength in a way that would not be a shortcut like his eye he had gained without any real effort would be. He explained that as a student he trained for hours upon hours each day, all so he could be a great samurai like his late parents were. Tsunade watched him the next day as her medical class was practicing their newfound mystical palm technique. She was reminded of a certain other hard headed young man whose life she had changed, Rock Lee.

I would say that it is highly likely the sanin knew how to open at least the first gate. Especially tsunade who has masterful knowledge of the entire human body.

The next day she agreed to help teach the boy. Under her tutelage he learned the mystical palm and various other medical ninjutsus, culminating with him storing chakra for several years to acquire the yin seal and learning her regeneration techniques. However the stipulation that he must never use those techniques unless his comrade's lives depended on it was placed on the usage of creation rebirth and the strength of a hundred seal. The seal was designed to be his ultimate shield in protecting his comrades in honor of the hundreds if not thousands of samurai who had lost their lives during the 4th war. In addition she also taught him how to open the first two gates properly after he managed to accidently open one when he almost fell off the mountain during one particularly intensive training exercise. This move also carried the stipulation that it must only be used when one absolutely had to be destroyed in order to save the world. This was in honor of all the ninja who gave their lives along side of them. His life wasn't worth any less as she had seen thousands of ninja and samurai die too young during the 4th war.

After all of Tsunade's regeneration took its toll and she passed away, Isao spent the next decade learning how to open 5 more of the gates, leaving the total number of gates he could open at 7. During this same period, the Oda Genji split off and took most of the samurai with it. Upon Mifune's request Isao stayed in the force of samurai that was still members of the Land of Iron. The members who had stayed left 3 wolf mountain except for the few who were left behind to maintain an "official" presence there and moved into the capital of the Iron. After another 10 years of training, Isao managed to learn to open the 8th gate as well as trained his body to the point where the lesser gates didn't affect him as much.

While Isao was at the age of 33, 23 years after the end of the 4th Shinobi World War, the current leader of the remaining Land of Iron Samurai's health was failing. He was well into his 60s and didn't have much longer. He held trials to determine the strongest samurai to replace him. After defeating 127 different contestants during the course of the trials Isao won. He had achieved this feat in a baffling way. During the entirety of the fight he had not once drawn his blade, fighting numerous skilled opponents with nothing but his bare hands. Even with such a massive handicap, he had only once been forced to use even the first gate, and even that was only during the final match against the strongest competitor besides himself. Despite his self imposed handicap Isao ended up becoming the next leader of the Iron Samurai, a position he has held for the last 7 years...

4. How will they make it unique?

My character's usage of the 8 gates is honestly pretty different from usual 8 gates fighting. His usage is not based on the strong fist but is more focused on using what is essentially a smaller version of the daytime tiger. His normal punches and strikes are air cannons, albeit not with anywhere near the destructive power of the daytime tiger. That being said while he can use all of the normal canon 8 gates techniques, he has developed his own set of techniques that use it. These techniques are based more on slashing and piercing hits rather the blunt ones that you see in canon or in most fanon characters. In addition, due to his mastery of the 8 gates, he has managed to lower the gate requirements to use certain techniques. Evening elephant would be available at the 7th gate, Daytime tiger at the 5th gate, Morning Peacock at the 3rd gate. Reverse lotus at the 1st gate, and the base lotus would not require the 8 gates to use.

This removes significant restraints on the 8 gates, however I am of the opinion that if might guy had be given more time or we had seen rock lee at the same age they would have managed to do the same thing. That being said he still deals with all of the pain of the 8 gates. Due to all the stress and extreme chakra movement the 8 gates causes, if Isao even attempts to release more than 5 gates his body forces his yin seal open and his body goes into the strength of the hundred technique, which shortens his lifespan while it heals the damage. His strength of the hundred technique is also inferior to tsunades in the fact it does not heal anywhere near as fast. It is barely able to keep up with the damage of the 6th gate and can not heal fast enough to stop the buildup of damage from the 7th gate. This also means that fatal wounds tend to be fatal with him, especially if his heart or brain is hit. If he uses the 8th gate he will also die no matter what, though due to his strength in using the 8 gates it is almost certain his opponent will as well.

They are essentially his strongest weapon for keeping peace in the Land of Iron. 