Konoha: Starting with the Tenseigan, Taking Charge of Team 7

"Hmm..." Naruto Uzumaki folded his arms and stared at Aogetsu with a foxlike expression. He looked deep in thought, but his mind was completely blank. He hadn't understood a word Aogetsu Hyuga had said.

Sage Mode?

Natural Energy?

What did any of that mean?!

Say something I can understand!

"Fire Release? Sage Mode has no elemental attribute. If you mean these flames..." Aogetsu Hyuga paused and raised a finger. Dark red fire burned at its tip, filled with vast amounts of Natural Energy.

"These flames are just a visual effect," Aogetsu Hyuga said matter-of-factly. "Once you enter Sage Mode, having fire coil around your whole body looks pretty badass, right? It puts pressure on your enemies."

The visual effects that came with a move mattered. They determined how cool it looked.

A move needed both power and visual flair to be a real move!

"Of course, keeping these flames going burns through a normal Jonin's entire Chakra supply every minute," Aogetsu Hyuga warned. "Unless you have as much Chakra as I do, don't go copying my cool visual effects."

His dark red flames were a Nature Transformation produced by combining the Natural Energy of Sage Mode with Chakra. In other words, he was continuously using A-Rank Fire Release.

That meant he burned through a normal Jonin's Chakra supply every minute!

Without his seemingly bottomless reserves, even an ordinary Kage Level fighter could die from maintaining effects like these!

To him, a normal Jonin's worth of Chakra was nothing more than a drop in the bucket.

"..." Team 7 was speechless. They had thought Sage Mode was a form of Fire Release. Never in their wildest dreams had they imagined that Aogetsu had added those flames on purpose, just for show.

And...

Keeping that effect going cost a normal Jonin's entire