But just think of learning it: there’s not another element except lightning that by default is dangerous to the user if you screw it up. You can obviously have jutsu backfire, but touching water, wind, and earth isn’t dangerous the same way touching fire and lightning is.
So safety lecture, after safety lecture, after safety lecture.
(Because I went through public schooling and they repeated that shit and they didn’t even want us handling candles never mind practicing flame techniques.)
Basically, while the Gōkakyū is considered the coming-of-age technique among the Uchiha, the real sign of approaching adulthood is whether you start being able to give the damn lecture yourself while sleep-deprived, tipsy, and/or concussed.
As for after joining Konoha? I think that after enduring years of lectures in the long (boring-ass but necessary) Uchiha tradition, the first person to try putting out the fires with a water jutsu is going to get dragged into the lesson by force, giving their own brand new scathing lecture about undermining kids by letting them depend on techniques they can’t do themselves (which conveniently avoids mentioning the “if I had to listen to it, you can bet your ass I’m going to enjoy giving it to these brats” part of their motivation), and then said unfortunate shinobi will be promptly roped into whatever use an adult Uchiha can think up as an impromptu lesson for the kids on fighting water jutsu with fire.
In short, put out Uchiha fires at your own hazard because if they can catch you? Moving targets are so much more fun for the kids. And watching someone else get reamed by the teacher is just icing on the cake!
And then Tobirama being the helpful shit he is invents the fire extinguisher (and takes every opportunity to douse Madara). The Uchiha reluctantly love it because now even civilians can put out fires/brain people with the canisters, and they have another section to add to their fire safety lectures.
For the record this is the first time I’ve drawn Tobirama smiling, and it makes me happy.
(Does anyone remember if canon had fire extinguishers? Because that would raise the level of awesome immediately if they do)
And the best part? I bet Madara wasn’t even on fire when Tobirama did it first.
*everyone’s looking at a fire*
Madara: Really, Kagami? Near the flour? Why is there even flour he– Senju, what the hell is that thing?
“Just watch, Uchiha.” *starts spraying*
“That–” *gets sprayed as Tobirama turns to look at Madara*
“Oops. My apologies, there’s a delay on the nozzle I hadn’t expected.” *slight smile*
I see that Klaus/Zantabraxus foreshadowing. I see it, and I appreciate it deeply, because it means there’s a very high likelyhood of it coming up again during act 2. Gimme.
i need to draw zeetha and zanta more (mother and daugther moments ) and also i think their hair really blends in with a jungle enviroment ( it’s probably a survival thing )
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