can i control tree's? D:

[KEITH]

'Wood Dominion' is just that, a fundamental supplementary jutsu of Mokuton nature that allows the user to intermingle their chakra with that of nature, harmonizing the two in order to create complete control over all wood around them.

That makes me think so. It's like, it is basically telling me that I can infuse the tree's and what not around me with my chakra, and manipulate them as I see fit, as long as they are within my range, so could I do that? Or like, if I was to use Jukai Koutan, and I am already inside of a forest, instead of creating new tree's, can I just manipulate the surrounding tree's to take the shape or form of whatever Mokuton jutsu I am using?

[Not Masakuni]

Through the use of Mokuton Ryuuken, yes, you could compel the trees within your range to grow at your will, at the same speed as your rank in the dominion technique. This would demand an active expenditure of your chakra for each round it was active, of course.

This, however, is a basic domain technique, and therefore is inflexible. Natural trees being manipulated would not have the durability of your Mokuton creations. Any tree being manipulated in this way wouldn't be able to do much more than wrap around people or thwap them in the head. No great mighty shields, awesome attacks, handy clones... All of the real bread-and-butter of ninjutsu needs other techniques. An important thing to keep in mind is that though your Mokuton creations have S-ranked durability, it says nothing about their attack strength. They have no natural bonus to their strength beyond a normal hunk of wood.

[KEITH]

What if I created techniques that would allow me to control the natural tree's more and increase their strength? Or use them as catalysis for other jutsu?

[Not Masakuni]

You could do that. Those techniques, of course, would require chakra, and have to be examined on their own merits. You'd also be creating a solution whereby you use extra techniques to avoid using techniques, which seems counterproductive to me. You're free to do so if you want anyway, though. xD

[KEITH]

I am just trying to use my abilities to the fullest, so if I have to make extra techniques to manipulate the natural forest and tree's, I would. I could give my clones something to do. But, so, even if I channel my chakra into these natural born tree's, with my S-rank Wood Dominion, the tree's wouldn't be able to gain S-rank defense properties?

I had originally thought of the concept similiar to Suiton or Saton, or rather, Gene did. But, I guess that isn't the case here.

[☆ F ☆]

Everything Masa said is correct. Dominion lets you control the element in question, while the actual specific techniques allow you to establish their actual defense/offense. So a tree manipulated in nature is just that, a simple little tree. The same for the body of water simply moved about with Water Dominion, and the specs of sand shifted by Sand Dominion. The dominion simply establishes the basics of what it can do and how it can do it; it's the subjutsu, the techniques, the take care of the rest.

[KEITH]

Alright, so, does that mean that I can use the already created tree's for Jukai Koutan, instead of creating new ones? And use them how I would the regular Jukai Koutan, since I would be doing the actual jutsu then, but upon the naturally made tree's.

[Not Masakuni]

I'm not sure I understand what you mean; Jukai Koutan spawns a forest. It doesn't do anything else, so I don't know how you would use naturally formed trees with it. It causes a forest to suddenly grow into existence, and that's all it really does.

While that forest is being formed, you can command the trees to grow in a specific way, such as in restraints, but you can't use the Jukai Koutan technique to command those trees after they have grown. It doesn't give you continuous command over that forest; only during the initial growth phase, so there's no way I can see that it would be used with pre-existing trees.

[KEITH]

Alright.