The Wanderer wrote:
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Aaron Nowack wrote:
The Eternal Lost Lurker wrote:
Er...Itachi's most devastating techniques are not genjutsu.
They're doujutsu. Completely different level of mindfuck.
I could always be wrong, but my understanding is that "doujutsu" is
a different sort of category than the ninjutsu/genjutsu/taijutsu
triad; a doujutsu technique is also a ninjutsu or a genjutsu. (I
find it hard to come up with a concept for a doujutsu taijutsu
technique, but more creative minds might manage it.)
See "The Way of the Apartment Manager" (and its ongoing sequel, "The
Guardian in Spite of Herself"), by Elizabeth Culmer, for one possible
candidate - used by the IIRC-wholly-original character Naga. It's
been long enough since I read the relevant bits that I don't feel
comfortable arguing for it as taijutsu (as opposed to a form of
ninjutsu) in detail, but it did spring immediately to mind.
Argh. Disregard that - I was momentarily mixing up "doujutsu" with
"technique made available by way of a bloodline limit". (I *really*
should know better than to post while half-asleep...)
Both fics are available on fanfiction.net, and are well above the
grade of the usual fare there.
This can stand, however, for the little good it does.