Introduction To Jutsu Session

Jutsu or skills/techniques are the mystical arts a ninja will utilize in battle. To use a jutsu, te ninja will need to use his chakra. Chakra comes from two places :

1. The body energy inherent in yout trilions of cells
2. The mental and spiritual energy gained from exercise and experince

To perform a jutsu, the ninja will bring out and release two energies. By forming handseals, the ninja is able manifest the disired jutsu. Because of extensive number of handseals and different combinations, there are thousands of potential jutsu to be discovered.

Based on which jutsu the ninja uses, the type and amount of chakra will be different as would the elements you would be to employ. The five main elemental styles are also the five names for the five great Shinobi Countries : Fire, Wind, Lightning, Earth, and Water. Each ninja has the potential to better utilize one of these styles and potentially more. A special elemental detecting paper is used determine one type. The paper comes from tress which are specially grown with chakra. When a ninja imbues the paper with portion of their chakra, the paper will alter to reveal one type. The papr will ripe in two for wind, burn for fire, become wet from water, fall apart for earth, and crumple for lightning. For example Kakashi is predisposed lightning type, while Sasuke is both lightning and fire for the Uchiha clan specialty.
The five elements themselves form a cyclical strong and weak relationship against each other. The element of fire is stronger than wind, as the usage of wind merely increases the strength of fire. So if the fire jutsu came up against an equal strength Wind jutsu, the fire jutsu is more likely to win out. Wind in turn is stronger than lightning. Lightning is stronger than earth and earth is stronger than water. Water finishes the cycle by naturally winning out over fire.

The Five Elements - Bloodline and Bijuu Created Elements - Jutsu Rangkings