The Eight Inner Gates

The Eight Inner Gates:


The Eight Gates are eight specific tenketsu on a person's Chakra Pathway System which limit the overall flow of chakra within a person's body. The basis for the idea of the chakra gates comes from the body's limits on the functions within it. This makes the body much weaker, but it keeps the body from expiring too soon. By undergoing intense training, one can learn how to open these gates allowing the user to surpass their own physical limits at the cost of extreme damage to their own body.

How do we learn this?:
At the start for Gates 1-3 you can learn this with a strength stat of 40. For you to learn Gate 1 its 500wc and learning Dancing Leaf Shadow and the Primary Lotus. Then moving up to the Second gate it will be 150wc with no special techniques to master either. The final Gate you can use at this level is Gate 3 for 250wc and learn the Hidden Lotus as well.

The next set of Gates to learn will be set for the strength stat of 100. For learning Gate 4 you must do 300wc with no special technique. Next is Gate 5, you must complete 350wc to master it however no special techniques are learned. Finally the last Gate of this tier, Gate 6, you must complete 400wc to master it and learn Asakujaku.

The last 2 will be completed later.

Gates Listing:
1. The Gate of Opening, located in the brain, removes the restraints of the brain on the muscles so 100% of the user's strength can be used whereas normally, a person can only use 20% of their muscles' strength to keep them from disintegrating. Unlocking this gate allows the user to use the Front Lotus.

2. The Gate of Healing, located in the brain, forcibly increases the user's physical strength and temporarily re-energises the body.

3. The Gate of Life, located on the spinal cord, allows the user to use the Reverse Lotus. The increased blood flow turns the skin red.

4. The Gate of Pain, located on the spinal cord, increases the user's speed and power. May cause muscle tissue to tear on use.

5. The Gate of Limit, located in the abdomen, further increases the user's speed and power.

6. The Gate of View, located in the stomach, increases the user's speed and power. Opening of this gate releases such enormous amounts of energy that it can cause nearby water bodies to form a vortex around the user. Once opened, capable users can perform the Morning Peacock.

7. The Gate of Wonder, located below the stomach, further increases the user's speed and power. Only after this gate is activated can a capable user perform the Daytime Tiger. Those who open this gate will secrete glowing green — blue in the anime — sweat from every inch of their body which immediately evaporates from their own heat energy, creating an aura which people mistake as a chakra coating. Unfortunately, the side effects of opening the gate are that the user's muscle fibres are ripped to shreds, causing intense pain if anything or anyone touches them.

8. The Gate of Death, located at the heart, requires the user to stab their chest with their thumb to direct the chakra to the tenketsu. Once opened, the user will enter what's known as the Eight Gates Released Formation. Opening this gate will cause the user's blood to emanate a flaming aura of red steam, the so-called Steam of Blood from all pores of their body, hair, and eyebrows. Releasing this gate uses up all of the body's energy while making the heart pump at maximum power. Exceeding the power of every other gate, the user is temporarily granted approximately a hundred times their normal power, far beyond that of the five Kage. Once activated, those who are capable can perform the Evening Elephant and the Night Guy. The side effect of opening this gate is that it comes at the expense of the user's life, causing the user to crumble to ash after their chakra runs out, having virtually cooked themselves from the inside-out. This is unlike opening the other gates, which simply injure or damage the body.

Techniques:
Name: Primary Lotus
Description: Front Lotus requires the opening of the first of the Eight Chakra Gates, giving the user five times their normal strength. The user launches the opponent into the air and then uses Shadow of the Dancing Leaf. Once behind the opponent, the user restrains them and pile-drives them into the ground head first while rotating at a ferocious speed. Because it uses one of the chakra gates, the user is left extremely fatigued, making this technique a "double-edged sword". However, on episode 193 of the anime, Lee was able to perform this technique without any strain on his body.
Requirement: Eight Inner Gates: gate #1 + Dancing Leaf Shadow
Wc: 300wc

Name: Hidden Lotus
Description: This technique is an advanced and more destructive version of the Front Lotus, which requires that at least three chakra gates be opened (in every instance in which it has been used, five gates are opened). Once enough gates are open, the user launches the target into the air and strikes them at inhuman speed before hitting them with one arm and one foot, sending the target crashing into the ground. This is usually fatal due to the speed and power behind the attack. Because so many chakra gates are opened at once, it can only be used once, since the user will likely be unable to stand afterwards.
Requirements: Eight Inner Gates: Gate #3
Wc: 350wc

Name: Violent — Leaf Adamantine-Strength Whirlwind
Description: Guy deals a severe roundhouse kick to his opponent after entering his Eight Gates state.
Requirements: Eight-inner gates + any gate after 3rd gate.

Name: Asakujaku
Description: The Morning Peacock is a certain-kill taijutsu born from the philosophy of Might Guy. The principle of this taijutsu is to rapidly increase the body's abilities by opening up to and including the sixth of the Eight Gates, and then to strike the enemy down with countless punches. The technique is started by kicking the enemy into the air, which for most would be an instant kill. The user then jumps into the air in a distinctive stance and begins punching the enemy repeatedly. The speed of the punches is so fast that they are set ablaze by sheer speed and friction. This creates a peacock-like fan of flaming chakra around the opponent. Once the attack is finished, the enemy will be sent crashing back to the ground, covered with the attack's aura.
Requirements: Eight-inner gates + 6th gate.
Wc: 500wc

Name: Daytime Tiger
Description: Daytime Tiger is an incredibly fast punch. After opening the seventh of the Eight Gates, the user places a palm facing forward in front of their face with one hand and then taps it with his other hand, formed into a fist, which creates a massive amount of air pressure. Next, the user forms a unique hand seal resembling a tiger, which launches the air pressure at the opponent in the shape of a tiger, by leaving a gigantic tiger-shaped impression into the initially built-up air pressure with the hand seal. The air pressure will condense as it's moving and be focused into a single point.
The technique then explodes on command, releasing the built up air pressure in an instant. A massive concussive explosion is created which can be felt a significant distance away.
Requirements: Eight-inner gates + 7th gate.
Wc: 700wc