”You are a human, are you not? You may be turning into stone, but that does not mean that you are limited by the same constraints a simple rock is. You must focus your chakra not only on the transformation itself, but on manipulating the substance you’re turning into. Think of an animal that should have no right to be able to move like it does because of how it’s body looks or is. A bee shouldn’t be able to fly, yet it can. Keep your focus well enough, and you can move like a human while still being stone.”
That said, the young man continued his observation of the girl in front of him. She was intelligent enough, and oh how he loved people who weren’t dumb as bricks, but she still bedded a lot of guidance in how to properly cast these kinds of jutsu. Though, he couldn’t fault her. The purpose of Doton, their shared base element, was usually to be unmoving and solid. However, that would hardly serve one well when turning oneself into stone in combat. Being solid would help take hits, but if you couldn’t move you’d end up entirely useless. Humans had to run out of chakra eventually, after all. Being unmoving would mean either dropping the jutsu or not being able to attack and eventually running out of chakra.
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