How Moegi Awakened The Legendary Wood Release Kekkei Genkai – Explained – OtakuKart

Hey everyone! In this post, I want to talk about Moegi, and her ability to use the Mokuton. I’m pretty sure that some of you may already be aware of the fact that Moegi is a user of Wood Release. If you don’t even know who Moegi is, let me remind you. Moegi is the former teammate of Konohamaru Sarutobi, and she was with him on Team Ebisu. Right now, she is a Jonin of Konohagakure. She is also the Jonin leader of Team 10, which consists of the 17th Generation of the Ino-Shika-Cho trio. We haven’t seen her do anything in the manga or the anime yet, but she’s said to be very powerful.

A couple of months ago, some Databook cards about Naruto came out, and they had details about some of the main characters of the series. This set of Databook cards included Moegi as well. That certainly was a shock to some people, but what followed was an even bigger shock. The databook confirmed that Moegi has the ability to use the Legendary Wood Release Kekkei Genkai. Wood Release is a very rare Kekkei Genkai that has only been naturally awakened by Hashirama Senju, the first Hokage before this. After Hashirama, a bunch of people did have it, but everyone got it through some sort of DNA alteration. Nobody awakened it naturally.

But, here we have Moegi, who has the same Kekkei Genkai as Hashirama Senju himself. Now the question is, how did she manage to awaken this Kekkei Genkai? And I have two answers in mind. The first thing that came to my mind is Moegi being a distant relative of the Senju Clan. Yes, Hashirama was the only Senju with Wood Release, but it is a Kekkei Genkai of the Senju Clan. Being a relative of the Senju definitely increases her chances of having the Wood Release Kekkei Genkai. While that certainly does clear up a lot of doubts, it raises a bunch of questions like why Tobirama didn’t have Wood Release, since he was very talented.

The other answer that I have in my mind is related to the spread of Wood Release. There are several new users of Wood Release in Boruto. It was confirmed by Sai during his investigation on the Nue incident, and he mentioned that there are a few people spread across the Land of Fire, who know how to use the Wood Release Kekkei Genkai. This means that somehow, the Wood Release Kekkei Genkai has spread across the Land of Fire, and Moegi isn’t the only one to have gotten access to this power. Maybe there is a clan with Wood Release Ninjutsu, that exists outside of Konoha, and maybe Moegi is a descendant of this clan. In my opinion, that’s the best answer.