Rayuga/Word Ninjutsu

Over centuries, people had evolved the art of writing and drawing into a fighting art. With several, claiming, to use the written words to alter reality around them. But as time passed, and humans evolved to be quick in their feet, the act of writing complex words and carrying around writing instruments proved unable to cope up with the fast phased environment. Writing in the middle of battle often led to the writers getting knocked out before they could complete their spells. Most often, Shinobi would had to learn complex word structures and any single mistake would lead to mis-fire, more often then not. This was highly evident when shinobi had to use homographs. Slowly the art of writing, became only a thing which required prepared prior to combats, by writing in scrolls, and activating the effect only when needed, increasing the efficiency but reducing the effect.

In modern day, Rayuga learnt the art of writing to form various techniques based on the words he writes. Having learnt of the disadvantages of the previous generations in using this fighting style. Rayuga began exercising the dexterity of his fingers, in order to write in mid-air, thus eliminating the usage of writing tools. With constant training, against Shinzui, Rayuga became proficient in the art style, having learnt to write in complex kanji with one finger. Rayuga soon became able to write ten words in all ten fingers simultaneously, with him capable of writing around 200 words per minute with single finger. The movement, noted by many to be similar to a puppeteer controlling ten puppets at once. These written words can create effects based on their meanings. By combining two or more words, Rayuga could combine their effects to create a highly defined characteristic. Once during a fight, when Rayuga had his fingers bind by thieves, Rayuga displayed the ability to carve words midair from the tip of his tongue, to produce effects that highly mimicked his finger carved words. By carving words on things, living or non-living, Rayuga has shown the ability to alter their properties or even modify it into a new thing, akin to transmutation.

After years of experimentation, the results led Rayuga to control words around him. Given a book or scroll, Rayuga could read the entire content within seconds and easily re-arrange the contents with ease. This further allowed him to sense the contents of hidden things around him and manipulate these written words and activate the effects based on their meanings. As such, just being in the Hokage Mansion allowed him to byheart teh contents in the scroll of seals and other such highly guarded documents.