Kekkei Genkai

Kekkei Genkai are genetic mutations in a person, which allows the use of unique jutsus other people cannot use. A kekkei genkai's name describes both the anomaly and the resulting technique.

## Overview

The majority of the kekkei genkai are passed through generations inside clans, but exception can be made due to experiments. There are three types of kekkei genkai: combined nature transformation, dōjutsu and body modifications.

## Combined Nature Transformation

In addition to conventional nature transformations, there are people that can combine two elements they have an affinity, transforming them into a completely different element, this type of kekkei genkai is called combined nature transformation.

### Boil Release

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By combining both water and fire release, members of the Terumī Clan or someone who has their blood can use Boil Release, which allows the user to create and manipulate steam, as well as creating anything related to steam with chakra, like boiling water or acid mist.

### Clay Release

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By combining both earth and water release, members of the Senju Clan or someone who has their blood can use Clay Release, which allows the user to create and manipulate clay, as well as creating anything related to clay with chakra, like clay bricks or even ceramic.

### Explosion Release

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By combining both earth and lightning release, members of the Haretsu Clan or someone who has their blood can use Explosion Release, which allows the user to create and manipulate explosions, as well as creating anything related to explosions with chakra, like gunpowder or sparks.

### Ice Release

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By combining both water and wind release, members of the Yuki Clan or someone who has their blood can use Ice Release, which allows the user to create and manipulate ice, as well as creating anything related to ice with chakra, like snow and icy mist.

### Lava Release

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By combining both earth and fire release, members of the Kagutsuchi Clan or someone who has their blood can use Lava Release, which allows the user to create and manipulate lava, as well as creating anything related to lava with chakra, like quicklime or volcanic ash.

### Magnet Release

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By combining both wind and earth release, members of the Jifun Clan or someone who has their blood can use Magnet Release, which allows the user to create and manipulate magnet fields, as well as creating anything related to magnet fields, like controlling iron or gold.

### Plasma Release

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By combining both fire and lightning release, members of the Netsuryoku Clan or someone who has their blood can use Plasma Release, which allows the user to create and manipulate plasma, as well as creating anything related to plasma, like a shining light or laser beams.

### Scorch Release

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By combining both wind and fire release, members of the Kogasu Clan or someone who has their blood can use Scorch Release, which allows the user to create and manipulate hot air, as well as creating anything related to hot air with chakra, like heat waves that can evaporate any liquid.

### Storm Release

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By combining both lightning and water release, members of the Arashi Clan or someone who has their blood can use Storm Release, which allows the user to create and manipulate storms, as well as creating anything related to storms with chakra, like light beams or thunderclouds.

### Swift Release

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By combining both lightning and wind release, members of the Raisō Clan or someone who has their blood can use Swift Release, which allows the user to manipulate speed, as well as anything related to speed manipulation, like body vibration or perception.

## Dōjutsu

Dōjutsus are a unique type of kekkei genkai that grants special ocular abilities to the user. There are two clans known for having a kekkei genkai in form of a dōjutsu, the Uchihas and Hyūgas who possess respectively the Sharingan and Byakugan.

### Byakugan

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It is the Hyūga’s kekkei genkai, which grants a good number of abilities to the person who develops them fully, it is one of the four great dōjutsus and is known as “The All-Seeing Eyes”. The Byakugan has three levels of evolution, with the third level being the strongest.

### Sharingan

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It is the Uchiha’s kekkei genkai, which grants a good number of abilities to the person who develops them fully, it is one of the four great dōjutsus and is known as “The Copy Eyes”. The Sharingan has three levels of evolution, with the third level being the strongest.

## Body Modifications

Body modifications are another type of kekkei genkai, this one gives a unique and different abilities to a person, the majority of kekkei genkai are of this type and generally appears at clans as well.

### Adamantine Sealing Chains

This ability belong to the Uzumaki Clan or those with their blood. Adamantine Sealing Chains allows the user to create and manipulate chakra chains that varies in hardness and reach depending on the user, they can be used to attack, create barriers and restrain Tailed Beasts, all Uzumaki have this kekkei genkai.

### Body Fission

This ability belongs to the Heni Clan or those with their blood. Body Fission allows the user to break their bodies at molecular levels, allowing them to fuse with others, destroying them from inside out.

### Dead Bone Pulse

This ability belongs to the Kaguya Clan or those with their blood. Dead Bone Pulse allows the user to create and manipulate the bones from the body also, the bones of those who have this kekkei genkai are harder than steel and difficult to break.

### False Nature

This ability belongs to the Noroi Clan or those with their blood. False Nature allows the person to draw natural energy to itself without even training to do this, transforming the user in the process, however, the constant natural energy flow can make the person go berserk but with enough training, it’s possible to control the energy.

### Healing Bite

This ability belongs to the Uzumaki Clan or those with their blood. Healing Bite gives the user the ability to heal people that bite their skin, when this kekkei genkai is activated the yang chakra inside the user is drained.

### Jizō Hair

This ability is from an unknown clan that Jiraiya is part of. Jizō hair allow the user to harden, stretch and shape the hair into spikes, the level of hardness the hair can reach is as hard as steel.

### Mind's Eye of the Kagura

This ability belongs to the Uzumaki Clan or those with their blood. Mind’s Eye of the Kagura gives the user strong sensory abilities that can reach great distances without losing any details, while this kekkei genkai is active the user can detect genjutsu easily.

### Reality Shift

This ability belongs to the Kurama Clan or those with their blood. Reality Shift allows the person to easily use yin-yang release, making possible to a genjutsu become reality and have effects on the real world.

### Sediment Release

This ability belongs to the Sarutahiko Clan or those with their blood. Sediment Release allows the user to create and manipulate sediments like sand, gravel and even cement, also being able to break any structures to turn them into dust if said structures have sediments inside of them.

### Steel Release

This ability belongs to the Zōtetsu Clan or those with their blood. Steel Release allows the user to create and manipulate steel using a combination of earth and yang release, also being able to create anything related to steel, like iron or carbon.

### Vitality of the Nyorai

This ability belongs to the Uzumaki Clan or those with their blood. Vitality of the Nyorai allows the user to regenerate from any damage caused to the body through auto-extraction of yang chakra, meaning that while there’s yang chakra left in the body, the user will always regenerate, the speed of regeneration is slow initially and speeds up if the person trains constantly.