Elephant Sage Mode

## **Overview**

Elephant Sage Mode is an empowered state that is entered by blending natural energy with one's chakra, creating senjutsu chakra. Sage Mode allows users to tap into the natural force of the world, opening up new techniques to them and allowing them to power up existing ones with the new senjutsu chakra.

## **Abilities**

Because of his large chakra reserves, Ketsugo could use senjutsu and enter Sage Mode — a form he can enter quickly. Accessing the natural force of the world, Ketsugo unveiled new opportunities for both power and skill. Using this ability allows him sensing capability those who may seem entirely out of range whereas he's able to track and trace someone across continents. He's able to precisely pinpoint someone's location by determining the natural energy in a location, understanding the space-occupying where natural energy is supposed to be, accurately calculating someone's height, weight, quickness in which someone can move exactly. By coursing chakra through his body, his nerve ending becomes heightened sensitivity to vibrations. As he's able to stick out his tongue, or place a body part on a surface and detect vibrations of high-paced moving objects, including animals and humans. And also, Ketsugo is able to detect seismic vibrations from thunderstorms, tsunami's and earthquakes before they actually occur. In the process of vitalizing his body with chakra, Ketsugo smell adapts to that exactly of an elephants trunk with its keen sense. By sniffing, he gathers scent particles that are then carried to a specialized gland called the Jacobson's organ, located in the roof of the mouth. The Jacobson's organ is able to gather information about the surroundings by detecting and analyzing molecules and particles from the air. Through this process, Ketsugo is capable of locating water sources up to 19.2 km (12 mi.) away and acknowledges his sense of smell is 100 times greater than a dog. Substantially increased is Ketsugo's physical strength, speed, stamina, reflexes, perception, and durability. With his dramatic increase, Ketsugo ninjutsu, and related abilities are bolstered. In this mode, Ketsugo is one with nature, being an extension of his body as well as the increase in all his abilities and techniques. In Zō Sennin Mōdo, Ketsugo physical strength and durability are comparable to that of monstrous; testing this by walking through highly pressurized waters that modern ships cannot. As his body adapts, it takes on elephants likeness, equating his strength to be incomprehensible. Ketsugo muscles tremendously grow in strength and mass, strengthening his tendons as well as the very durability increases drastically along with the incredible toughness of his skin. He can mimic musth rumbles that can travel for a considerable distance warning all of nature to escape the scene.In Zō Sennin Mōdo, Ketsugo is able of transforming his body-parts and limbs into that of an Elephant, for example generating flapping ears that will create a powerful and impactful gust to cause destruction.

**Senjutsu (仙術, English TV: Sage Jutsu, Literally meaning: Sage Techniques)**: Because of his incredibly large chakra reserves and excellent chakra control, Ketsugo alike Hashirama Senju could use senjutsu and enter Sage Mode - a feat he could perform instantaneously. Ketsugo can use natural energy to blend with his chakra to bolster his abilities and techniques, although he's taken a further step into sagehood. Ketsugo usage can also manipulate nature, giving him a plethora amount of ways to use it to his advantage. Becoming more in-tune with nature allowing him to use various aspects of nature to turn the tides of any disadvantageous circumstance. The entire world itself is a part of nature, and every essence of it's being is that of natural energy. The weather, climate, landscape; it is all in his grasp to gather nature energy from and manipulate. With his ability to channel his chakra to natural energy, across the earth he's able to create, manipulate, and control invisible forces such as air, and materials to use a technique from a distance. This power and skill in terms of his usage of senjutsu and nature manipulation itself have granted him the earned epithet as the Elephant Sage ( 象哲人, "Zō Sennin" English TV; "Tusk Hermit"). Through channeling nature energy across his body, he can manipulate it similar to a tailed beast shroud. His physical strikes drastically increase in power, every swipe, kick, punch carrying an incredible force. When focusing, concentrated strikes can travel incredible distances. In Sage Mode, Ketsugo can manipulate senjutsu or natural energy around him as extensions of his physical body or create weapons. As an artist, the author can get very creative.

**Zōshukiba (牙る主, Elephant Lord's Tusk)**: A secret sage transformation technique, developed by Zenzo, the Patriarch of Zoshima. It is a technique which is now in the possession of each Triad member. Through chakra control the fates are able to condense their physical forms into an elephant goad, that is seemingly manageable to be carried by any grown man. The bladed weapon is coveted to Ketsugo and can only be picked up by the Sage safely. Anyone else attempting to wield runs the risk of being overwhelmed with stupendous amounts of natural energy, or the transformation undoing as the elephants would crush any fool brave enough or ignorant to the wiles of the goad. As long as the goad is being wielded, the user and the animal sage chakras are directly connected. Allowing the user to temporarily inherit the overall strength, endurance and durability. Allowing Ketsugo to rely on physical strength that is commensurable to diamond break. To note, when this weapon is being held Ketsugo is automatically plunged into Sage Mode due to the nature energy within the Triad members. With the strength of the fates within hand, there is no imaginable obstacle the Uzumaki cannot topple. However, in case the goad is forcefully removed from Ketsugo’s hand, there will be a steep stamina drop allowing an opening and gap between the Uzumaki’s mobility.