Rather than being inspired by witnessing a specific event, such as a natural phenomenon or particular property of chakra, like many of his techniques, Kazuhide created this technique for the sole purpose of being able to slay a tailed beasts, at least until it revived. He developed this technique through a collaborative application of Blaze Release: Kagutsuchi and the natural energy manipulating properties of Tamanoya no Mikoto, an ethereal construct created via Tamahagane. Gathering black flames in the palm of his hand, Kazuhide alters the properties of the chakra to convert the flames into a concentrated mass of superheated black ash. Unlike the normal flames of Amaterasu, contact with the ash will only deliver relatively normal burns and will only ignite normal fires. Despite this, the