Yūgan

The **Yūgan** (憂眼; *Grief Eye*) is a Dōjutsu-type Kekkei Genkai. It originates from a member of the Ōtsutsuki Clan, but in the present time it is associated with the Dankai clan (段階, Stage).

## ***Inheritance***

The Yugan is an innate ability of the Dankai Clan and is thought to only be be achievable after experiencing the grief of losing a loved one making it similar in this way to the sharingan but being different because the grief itself is not required to unlock the eye, the true requirement being the death of someone one holds close.

Because of the specificity of its activation requirements the Dankai clan has traditionally raised an animal alongside their offspring that they will order the children to kill once they reach a certain age to forcefully open the eye. This practice while efficient in unlocking the dojutsu has proven itself problematic due to the deep resentment it causes which leads to many inside conflicts in the clan between parents and offspring having led to its decline over time.

## ***Abilities***

### *Chi (癡, Ignorance)*

The first ability granted by the Yugan is the ability of **ignorance** in that it makes the user ignore stuff, this manifests more specifically in the user being able to selectively reduce mental aspects, sensations and even deny thoughts that the user does not want to deal with.

Users of the Yugan primarily use this ability to become mostly emotionless in battle and to suppress any overwhelming pain they may experience. This ability while it only has the power to **deny** can also be applied to mental aspects and sensations that the user themselves haven't generated and thus can be used to completeluy ignore the effects of a genjutsu without actually cancelling it and thus not indicating to the enemy that they are no longer affected by it, notably this last ability requires one to expend a bit of spiritual energy to maintain the cancellation of the genjutsu.

### *Tan (貪, Attachment)*

The second ability granted by the Yugan is the ability of **attachment** and it allows the user to perform a special form of Chakra Flow upon an object the user is extremely attached to, this chakra flow can be expanded to cover a much larger area than the object and may even manifest in a completely different shape than the original object.

This chakra flow will manifest the properties of the primary nature transformations of the user to a greater degree than usual but will also manifest additional properties which are thematically related to the function or theme of the object in question. The Dankai clan traditionally only offers weapons as presents to their children to guarantee that their object of attachment is a weapon, additionally because wind is the most common element to manifest in the clan the chakra flow tends to be incredibly sharp.

### *Shin (瞋, Aversion)*

The third ability granted by the Yugan is the ability of **aversion** and it grants the user an overall increase to their speed, offense and defense for free. The statistical increase while meaningful is not impossible to be rivaled by training but it does grant a user of the Yugan an advantage over shinobi with equal training since it supernaturally increases their baseline.

This increase however is not necessarily static since it can be increased by *bargaining* or more appropriately expending life force, providing a bigger boost and also adding onto it a slight regenerative ability that allows one to stop bleeding incredibly fast.

## ***Training and Evolution***

The Yugan can be trained by simply using it and with training the effects of each of the 3 powers will be increased in their baseline, with enough training the user will be able to eventually gain the ability to evolve the Yugan and gain access to the **Juyō Yūgan** (受容 憂眼; *Acceptance Grief-Eye*).

## ***Trivia***

* The abilities of the Yugan are associated with the Buddhist concept of the Three Poisons but also the Five Stages of Grief.