Curse Mark

From unknown origins, the power known as the curse mark is achieved through the infestation of an individual with “cursed chakra” ; this chakra will mix with theirs. The origin of this chakra hails from a demon itself which has infected the body of the user, both technically die and reawaken once their chakra is “one”. They share consciousness and thoughts, an existence, the duality in one.

The demon can grant the user abilities, and stages of its manifestation spread on 2 stages. The latter is the full harmony the user and the demon share half and half of the phenotype.

## **Abilities of curse mark**

**Transformation**: allows the user to modify their bodies, growing extra limbs, wings, horns and hardening their skin and making themselves exponentially more resistant against physical and lessen the overall direct damage of ninjutsu.

**Feast of the undying:** the user gains a relative dependency in consuming chakra, besides this, they also gain the ability to absorb chakra on physical contact, through ninjutsu or by biting which is the most direct way. This is relatively necessary during combat as the chakra metabolism of the curse mark will demand high consumption of chakra while it's active in exchange of the increase in the ninjutsu performance.

**Cursed powers:** all ninjutsu techniques adopt a corrupted state which grants the user determinate boosts, defensive and offensive, thanks to the demon within aiding the user in battle.

## **Stage one**

When the user performs this stage, the mark of their curse will spread through their body, the stronger the connection with the curse is, the more visible and bigger it will be, the user may choose the pattern. The user won’t need hand seals to perform techniques while in this state and will be able to: perform 2 techniques at once.

**Transformation** is really intermittent, the user may transform body parts or half of their body with the cursed chakra to achieve a **partial** protection against direct ninjutsu damage (Elements, Kenjutsu, Iaido, etc), this can be performed by the user while they fight with naturality, simply by focusing said chakra on the desired body part. The user may also be resistant to suffer heavy injuries on the places they perform the transformation, as that part will be hardened and kept secure by the demon within. Some of the chakra directly affecting these transformed areas will feed the user, extending the usage of the cursed mark a bit longer.

**Feast of the undying** allows the user to absorb chakra from a single target as long as their taijutsu attacks or close combat attacks land or that their ninjutsu techniques successfully land on targets, which will cause some of their target’s chakra to be absorbed. Through bites it will be the most direct way, and the user can kill or feed from defeated targets to recharge their stage of CM.

The first **cursed power** is the “guardian demon” skill, the demon will passively use ninjutsu from the user’s repertoire to protect them from an attack, useful when they’re outnumbered or attacked from different angles (The demon can’t detect what the user can’t).

This stage is longer than the second, due to its minor boosts,afterwards if the user does not consume chakra before their next fight it can leave them relatively short on their chakra reserves and physically tired.

This stage lasts at least 15 turns and has a cooldown of 10 turns, and may be used twice per battle. If the user consumes a human’s worth of chakra, they get an extra use.

## **Stage two**

When the user performs this stage, the user will suffer a total metamorphosis. Horns, wings and such will be present, unnatural hair and skin color, eye color and what not. They look like a creature and their behavior will be aggressive, both entities will speak and be enduring a lot of effort to maintain this state.The user won’t need hand seals to perform techniques while in this state and will be able to: perform 4 techniques at once.

**Transformation** is total and continuous, besides stage 1 boosts the user can now grow extra extremities or protuberances, wings to fly around and catch their prey easily. The user can transform and shape their bodies with naturality to adapt to the combat at hand, even having the ability to mutilate any extremity and regrow it instantly in case they have to escape.

**Feast of the undying** allows the user to absorb chakra from any target as long as their taijutsu attacks or close combat attacks land or that their ninjutsu techniques successfully land on them, which will cause some of their target’s chakra to be absorbed. Through bites it will be the most direct way, and the user can kill or feed from defeated targets to recharge their stage of CM. Victims of this may die if all their chakra is absorbed, or be left weakened, paralyzed and unconscious if some of it is borrowed.

The first **cursed power** is the “guardian demon” skill, the demon will passively use ninjutsu from the user’s repertoire to protect them from an attack, useful when they’re outnumbered or attacked from different angles (The demon can’t detect what the user can’t). This technique improves on this stage and the demon can actively perform jutsu to aid in combat, and is no longer caused in response to ongoing actions.

The second ability is **corruption**  which will grant the user the ability to infect up to 2 targets for 4 days with a powerful bite. This bite will cause them to be submitted by the user, as they can cause general pain to them by the user’s command and to track them whenever they’re thanks to the spiritual bond it will grant them. This can be renewed if the bite is repeated. The infected will have a minor physical debuff when they’re infected but the infection may be healed by an Arumaze of A-rank with a roll of 1000 or S rank with one of 500, failure will also infect the Arumaze.

The more ninjutsu techniques impact the target, the more they will directly absorb and power up their next techniques, this makes them highly dangerous against Sage mode users. Jinchuriki users may represent trouble as their chakra reserves are too vast and they have the means to fight.

This stage may be shorter if the user’s success rate is low or they don’t focus on an offensive strategy,afterwards if the user does not consume two human’s worth of chakra after entering this stage they won’t be able to replicate it again until they rest for the day and feed themselves through other conventional way slower means.

This stage lasts at least 20 turns, and may be used once. The limit of the stage one increases to thrice per battle. If the user feeds right after or during the fight absorbing a human’s worth of chakra, they may be able to repeat this stage whenever.

On this stage techniques can be of grand scale similar to Sage mode, thanks to the increase of “firepower”, precision and range it grants to most techniques, but the main issue just as sage is the chakra expenditure and physical exhaustion it brings after their usage.

## Natural abilities of the CM user

* If the user is in close proximity to another CM user, they may sense the fact that they hold a CM mark and even make their residents communicate.
* The user that controls stage 2 can manifest their demon in a sort of chakra mirage. (This is an Optical Illusion, and can not interact with the environment.)
* CM users will get an exponential natural strength equivalent to B rank Goken, thanks to the power they are holding.
* Some users may lose their minds, or even totally adopt the persona of the demon for an unknown length of time.
* Some people end up with permanent changes in their phenotype, others willingly change it with their new abilities.
* Feast of the undying will heal the user from minor or moderate wounds (not fatal or severe) after they learn to control the stage 2 of curse mark.

### Notes:

* Curse Mark users cannot give themselves gills to breath underwater
* Curse Mark users can make their protuberances/extra arms have mouths and fangs on them.
* Curse Mark users cannot absorb Bijuu chakra.