{"id":"sello-maldito","name":"Orochimaru's curse mark","japanese":"呪印","category":"techniques","subtitle":"Receiving power does not change one's ancestry.","summary":"A mark granted by Orochimaru that alters its bearers' abilities, with its own conditions and risks.","facts":[["Origen","Orochimaru's intervention"],["No es","A hereditary dōjutsu"]],"lvl":1,"sections":[{"h":"Orochimaru's mark","lvl":0,"ch":"naruto-56","t":"Orochimaru marks Sasuke in the Forest of Death by biting his neck. The bite leaves a seal that concentrates someone else's chakra; Anko, Orochimaru's former student, has one just like it. When Sasuke wakes, the seal spreads over his skin and gives him enormous strength, but also an aggression that leads him to break Zaku's arms. Sakura hugs him to stop him and the mark recedes. It is not a clan trait: it is a seal Orochimaru imposes on those he chooses.","pos":56},{"h":"Costs and sealing","lvl":0,"ch":"naruto-128","t":"The mark exacts a price. During his fight against Yoroi, Sasuke has to hold it back while fighting, and Kakashi applies a seal that suppresses it, though its effectiveness depends on Sasuke's own will. Against Gaara, Sasuke risks a third Chidori and turns to the mark: the attack works, but he is left paralyzed by pain. The seal is not free power: it drains the user, puts them at risk and pushes them toward Orochimaru. Nor should it be confused with the Hyūga branch house seal, which serves another function.","pos":128},{"h":"The Sound Four and level two","lvl":0,"ch":"naruto-231","t":"The Sound Four carry marks of different kinds and show Sasuke their power. They can move to a second level in which their appearance changes completely, as Jirōbō, Kidōmaru and Tayuya do in their fights, while Kimimaro carries the Earth mark. Sasuke takes a pill to reach level two and is sealed in a container for the journey. At the Valley of the End, overwhelmed by Naruto, he activates that level. Level two multiplies strength, but also the strain on the body.","pos":231},{"h":"The end of Sasuke's mark","lvl":1,"ch":"naruto-392","t":"In the second part, Sasuke keeps using the mark: when Jūgo attacks him, he protects himself with it. But the seal held something more: after his fight with Itachi, the remains of Orochimaru that Sasuke had absorbed emerge from his body to take him over. Itachi seals them with the Sword of Totsuka, and with that Sasuke is freed from the mark. So the seal Orochimaru had presented as a gift turns out also to be a way of surviving inside someone else.","pos":392},{"h":"Anko and Orochimaru's return","lvl":1,"ch":"naruto-593","t":"During the Fourth Ninja War, Sasuke discovers that Anko's mark also holds part of Orochimaru and uses it to revive him; Orochimaru absorbs Kabuto's chakra to come back. Sasuke asks him to take him to those who know the whole truth about the village. The mark, then, is not just an enhancer: it is a fragment of Orochimaru himself. It should not be confused with Tsunade's and Sakura's Byakugō mark, which stores the user's own chakra, nor with the Hyūga branch house seal. The diagram in this entry is decorative.","pos":593}],"characters":["kimimaro","sasuke"],"related":["clan-kaguya","fuinjutsu","familias-hyuga","byakugo","otogakure","valle-del-fin","bosque-de-la-muerte","taka","sannin","examenes-chunin","experimentos-de-orochimaru"],"reference":"Naruto, chapters 49–50 and 201–217: Orochimaru's marks and Kimimaro.","sources":[{"title":"Kimimaro: combate y Shikotsumyaku","url":"https://naruto-official.com/en/anime/naruto1/list/01_351"},{"title":"Sasuke: su familia y el camino de la venganza","url":"https://naruto-official.com/en/news/01_1856"}],"figures":["
POWER RECEIVED · CONDITIONS · RISKS
Cursed seal · Original diagramA decorative, non-canonical mark. It represents a power received through Orochimaru, distinct from the Byakugō and the Hyūga seal.
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