"Minato, what Chakra natures do you have?" Ningyuan asked.
"Wind, fire, and lightning," Minato replied.
He had never developed them later in life; he was born with three natures.
"I have fire, lightning, and water," Hyuga Ningyuan said. "So, to make our cooperation easier, we should choose from the natures we both have!"
"That would be fire and lightning," Minato said.
He had developed his wind nature further, but that was not a major issue. Natures could never limit a genius. "But there are very few people in Konoha skilled in Lightning Release. If we choose lightning, it'll be extremely difficult for us to learn Lightning Release. As for Fire Release, it's mainly controlled by the Uchiha Clan."
To develop the Lightning Transformation Secret Technique, they at least needed to know several Lightning Release techniques.
Fire Release had the same problem.
Kushina and Uchiha Mikoto were good friends, but they could not simply rely on that relationship to ask others for Fire Release techniques.
There was no such thing as a free lunch. If you asked for Fire Release, had you considered what you could offer in return?
Maybe that was the tragedy of being a commoner. You wanted to start a business, yet had no startup capital at all.
"Then we'll choose Lightning Release!" Hyuga Ningyuan said. "I happen to have a Lightning Release ninjutsu here. I can teach it to you first. This technique is called Lightning Cutter. Its hand seals are: Ox—Rabbit—Monkey. You summon a mass of lightning-nature Chakra to cover your hand. Since the sound of lightning is like a thousand birds chirping, it's also called Chidori!"
As he spoke, he raised his hand and formed the seals. Dense, sharp, blazing-white lightning-nature Chakra immediately appeared in his palm, crackling without cease.
He had never learned Lightning