For the first blog up in here i picked a topic that, to my surprise is not so well understood. I think i have a good working knowledge of the topic, so i thought i'd give it a go.

I was reading some random blog the other day and people were discussing things like if kushina had a kg, if the sharingan was a kg, what is a kg and what is a hidden technique and so on.

First things first;

I like football (soccer for all o ya). am a short guy and i play midfield. I have a tall friend who plays goalkeeper.
Everything else being equal, i have naturally more balance than he has, and i would naturally fare better in a position where keeping the ball and making accurate passes are more important than anything else.
Of course that if i played as the keeper i would have big problems.

Why the analogy?

Well,i like soccer so...suck it. Plus, it will help me explain my understanding of the topics on hand.

A kekkei genkai is defined as a genetically passed jutsu ability (Potential). Its something that you can only have if you were born in the right family. Whether you harness it or not, thats another story.

Kg is not an anomaly; we couldnt say for example that Naruto's abnormal amount of chakra is a kg because: other people (not in his family tree) have exhibited the trait and its not something consistent within his family tree.
By that explanation, having red eyes alone doesnt mean you have a kg, be it the sharingan or other.

Now, there is a difference between a potential and that potential explored, be that for KGs, hidden and regular jutsus.

The fact, for example that you are an uchiha doesnt mean you have automatically the sharingan or that you will unlock its specific jutsus.

This is yet another point of confusion: The potential (KG, sharingan) and its manifestation (Amaterasu)

If you can cast Amaterasu it can only mean that you have the kg. There is no other way to cast that jutsu. If you have the sharingan, you may cast it, if you trained enough or all constraints are met.

As with your RL abilities, some have abilities that show internally (intelligence) and some that show phisically (green eyes, strong arms)

You cannot take someone else's intelligence and transplant it; but you can take em strong liver as your own.

This brings us to kakashi and why Hyuuga seal some of their member's eyes.

Sharingan is a special eye and like any other organ it can be transplanted, like kakashi. This way,a non uchiha can have the sharingan and then develop its innate abilities.
The hyuuga seal their eyes exactly for this. Every kg manifestation is automatically a hidden tech because of the nature of it; its secrets are only know to that particular clan.

Oonoki's dust (i think) release is not something its taught in the sense that someone like naruto could learn it;
you cannot learn to have a different chakra nature than the one you have. What you can to is learn a manifestation of that KG you already have.

A Hidden tech is just that: a hidden tech, something you dont practice/train/tutor to the public. you wanna keep it to your clan, because its rare, powerful, dangerous even, but its not something you can do it alone, its more something you wanna keep it to yourself.

All secret techs we have seen are not something only the user shown to be using it can muster, but something anyone could do, if they knew how, no matter the difficulty.



So, thats it for my first blog ever!