Animal Cursed Seal

Animal Cursed Sealedit
Debut
Anime	Naruto Episode #146
Appears in	Anime
Data
Classification	Kinjutsu, Juinjutsu
Class	Supplementary
Other jutsu
Parent jutsu	Orochimaru's Juinjutsu
Users
Mizuki

This is a unique cursed seal applied by Orochimaru, still in its experimental stages, and therefore was incomplete and unstable.

Overview

Acquisition

While every other one of Orochimaru's Juinjutsu are directly given by him through a bite, acquisition for this one differs in that the chosen person would be bitten by a snake, which will give them instructions in the form of a tattoo on how to form the potion that grants the user a seal. The ingredients may be found in the Nara clan's laboratory, which is hidden deep within the mountains. The potion can then be formed in a secret room in a mountainous cavern, where a giant tablet matching that of the tattoo is the liquefied ingredients are placed and mixed.

The potion consists of genetic information of animals which would be combined with the drinker's body to release an explosive amount of power.

Powers

When the ingredients are formed into the potion and then ingested, the user will go into the first stage of the cursed seal and obtain enhanced abilities along with muscle growth and, in Mizuki's case with his tiger-like stripes, traits of an animal.

When the second level is reached, the user will gain specific characteristics of the animal, along with immense increases in their strength and abilities. In Mizuki's case, he transformed into a bipedal tiger, with increase in strength, but a great drop in speed and sharpness in his attacks.

Unique as this cursed seal is, even the markings gained differs from the typical ones: this seal's first stage does not spread in a pattern across the user's body, but instead gives Mizuki stripes on his arms and face alone; the second stage does not give him a beige-skin mutation, but instead a bipedal-animal form.

Drawbacks

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Mizuki suffers from the backfiring effects.

As the potion was an incomplete experiment, the effects are only temporary. Because the sudden burst of power places a huge burden on the cells, far beyond a body's limit, and the results will backfire, destroying the user's body.

For Mizuki's case, the potion was incomplete when he drank it, so when the effects dissipated, he shrivelled up into a malnourished and powerless old man, and would have died if not for Tsunade's medical skills. Regardless, Mizuki lost all of his powers and could never be a ninja again.