Board Thread:Fanon Canon 2/@comment-2089817-20140927075538

1. Please indicate which of the kekkei genkai or kekkei tōta you are applying for.

The three choices I saw there fit none of these ones, so I'll just list them. For the sake of simplicity, I'll put both releases that I want for Kasuga Sarutobi on the same app. Lava Release and Scorch Release.

'''2. & 3. - How is your character able to obtain this kekkei genkai? Please detail this below. How will your character awaken this kekkei genkai? How will they realize they can use it?'''

Both of these questions pretty much sound like the exact same, so I'll just include it all into one answer.

So, starting with Scorch Release. Kasuga would've learned, throughout her younger day travels across the shinobi world in search of material for enhancing her fire release skills (on the urging of Seireitou himself). She would hear of "Pakura of the Scorch Release", a special form of fire release ninjutsu that would be capable of eradicating a living being's body. Fascinated with the possibility of learning it, she heads to Sunagakure and seeks out information on Pakura. She soon finds out that Pakura has been dead for quite some time. And with that realization, the chase reaches its end, as she begins to give up hope in finding and learning its secrets. However, it is then that one elder of the village, on the outskirts of Suna, tells Kasuga that she might have some luck if she goes to the southern most region of the Land of Wind, as Pakura was said to have originated from a small village somewhere down there (at least, for the sake of this story). Kasuga explains to her that she originates from Konoha, Suna's ally, and that she wishes to increase the might of her fire release. The elder decides to give her some small semblance of hope for what she's looking for. However, before she can leave, the elder warns Kasuga that the heat of the land's deserts can reach frightening degrees, to the point that many who venture out there meet their ends. But Kasuga proudly asserts that she is a fire release master and no amount of heat could ever overcome her.

So, Kasuga begins her trek downwards. However, while she moves down there, a massive sand storm hits as she loses her bearings. Once the storm subsides, she finds herself walking through the desert, which isn't much of a change of scenery, expect for the fact that the temperature has skyrocketed. Like, almost overbearingly so even for a desert. After walking through the sands for what seems like an hour, she begins to give up and realizes that it isn't worth this travel just for a stupid rumor. And as she tries to head back, she begins to experience absolutely no changes in the heat while she's still lost. A dangerous combination. And after another hour, she begins hallucinating from the heat she can no longer resist. She sees several different silhouettes, of people she can't identify, and all of them would all say the same thing. Calling her weak and pathetic, stuff like that, demeaning her for being a fire release master and unable to survive in this high temperature environment. She begins to get enraged and starts blasting fire release jutsu at the hallucinations, which only causes her to become more delirious. She then finally succumbs to the heat and passes out, right there on the sand. But something inside her gives her an internal kick, a wake up of sorts, so she forces herself back up on her feet.

It is at this point that she begins to come to a realization. She was an idiot for underestimating nature. She rejected any fear of dying so she could gain more power, but it was foolish. Her life means more to her than dying for the sake of power. Life itself should mean more than gaining more strength. And it is soon that she regrets her choice wholeheartedly, after a couple moments, the intense heat begins to die down. She soon happens upon a small cabin. Now, she believes it is a hallucination, but she is willing to try anything at this point to escape the heat. Inside the cabin, there is the same elder she saw back in the outskirts of Suna. The elder begins to explain that Pakura was the only individual that passed the test of the desert because she understood the value of life and its importance over power. The Suna-nin were people concerned with gaining power and maintaining their might with the other villages, as are the other villages, and do not realize that power, like a flame, like heat itself, is a double-edged sword to a person that foolishly seeks it without understanding the destruction it can cause. Only somebody that appreciates the danger behind it can wield the power of destruction wisely. And so, the elder woman explains that Kasuga must remember the feeling of drowning in the heat of the desert earlier, she must absorb that heat within her body, allow her body, mind, and spirit to understand and appreciate the strength of nature's intense heat, so that nature itself can deem her worthy of its might. Only then can she learn the Scorch Release, the power of nature's destruction, that she sought.

And renewed by this, she ventures back out onto the desert, still half-believing that everything she just experienced was a hallucination brought up by the heat. Eventually, she makes her way back to Sunagakure, as people from the village observe her as she slowly makes her way into the village and eventually passes out right then and there. She returns, a master of the Scorch Release.

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As for Lava Release, well... It's a far less amazing tale. She learned it through training with Son Goku, so yeah.

'''4. Briefly detail what your plans are, at the moment, for your character if he/she is approved for the selected kekkei genkai? What will they do with it? How will they improve or utilize it in a fashion that is unique to them, rather than a rehash of canon character usage or maybe even other fanon characters?'''

Both kekkei genkai are advanced fire-type natures, in a sense, so they tie into Kasuga's Fire Release theme. Basically, combining her Lava Release with Scorch Release techniques, applying them to her Fire Release, she becomes capable of producing pure ionized plasma; which becomes one of her signature weapons in battle. 