User blog comment:Njalm2/Character Creation Contest/@comment-3087943-20130415171808

Alrighty, here’s my reply to Kagari’s review. With respect to the claim you made that Kagari’s proficiency with the Wind Release is inferior to that of Temari simply because the latter has limited her scope of abilities to the use of the Wind Release: I find that claim to be preposterous. At the end of the day, the skill a ninja has in a particular nature transformation, or indeed any area of ninjutsu, boils down to one thing and one thing only; chakra control. In that area, Kagari far outstrips Temari. Let’s delve a little further into just how much control she has over her chakra network. As you yourself said, Kagari has “extendable needle hair” – which means that she is capable of sending chakra to each individual hair strand of hers and controlling it independently, and that takes a tremendous amount of skill to accomplish. Moreover, Kagari is able to manipulate shuriken on the ground and a good distance away solely by the use of her chakra. Both of these things should give you a good idea of the adeptness of Kagari in terms of chakra control. Take Kakashi Hatake as an example. He is world-renowned for his use of the Lightning Release, and he has the Earth Release, Water Release and a myriad of other skills in addition to this – yet he is likely the most skilled practitioner of the Lightning Release in Konohagakure. He was capable of matching Zabuza Momochi, someone who devoted his life to the element of water, in a battle of the Water Release, despite it not being his affinity. Do you know why? It’s because of his chakra control, which is unparalleled by all but the very greatest of shinobi. As you should be seeing by now, being adept in multiple areas of shinobi combat does not necessarily mean that you are less adept in any one of those areas than another ninja simply because the latter ninja has confined himself to only one field. Keeping this in mind, take a look at Temari’s chakra control in comparison to Kagari’s. She needs her giant fan in order to make use of her Wind Release abilities to their fullest extent; if she were to be separated from it, her attacks would not be nearly as powerful as they would be when she uses tessenjutsu, which is indicative of the fact that her chakra control is far inferior to Temari’s. Furthermore, keep in mind that the time period to which I referred when I stated that Kagari was able to outstrip Temari in the Wind Release was when they were both still Academy students. This is relevant simply because Temari’s abilities would simply not have been anything to write home about at that time. Temari’s abilities undergo exponential growth between Part I and Part II, look at where she was during the Chunin exams, and look at where she is at present, due to the training that she underwent. Using this increase in her abilities as a basis, it is logical to assume that Temari’s abilities when she was still in the Academy would be nothing to really write home about, if you reverse the process. In contrast, Kagari’s chakra control has been always been exceedingly high, which means that yes, she would have been able to do things that Temari was unable to do when they were both juveniles. Additionally, I never stated that Kagari was the most powerful Wind Release user in Sunagakure, and the title that she gained from defeating Temari was restricted in its use to Kagari and Temari. It was a childish rivalry in their Academy days, one somewhat similar to that between Sakura and Ino, and as such she would only have called it by Temari, not the entire village.