Sealing Jutsus

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Black Sealing Method
Name: Fūkoku Hōin, 封黒法印, literally "Black Sealing Method"
Type: B-rank, Supplementary, Short range (0-5m)
Users: Sakon
This jutsu is used in conjunction with the Four Black Fog Battle Formation technique. After the individual is sealed in the container, this seal is further added as a binding layer of protection. To create the seal, the user will write the incantation in blood on the sealing tag and attach it to the container.


Dead Demon Consuming Seal
Name: Shiki Fūjin, 屍鬼封尽, literally "Dead Demon Consuming Seal," "Corpse Demon Consuming Seal"
Type: S-rank, Offensive, Short range (0-5m)
Users: Fourth Hokage, Third Hokage
The Third Hokage attempted to use this technique against Orochimaru. This jutsu, when performed, ends the lives of both the target and the user. Using this technique invokes the powers of the Death God (Shinigami), which hovers behind the user. The soul of the summoner can be seen bound to it. Upon being summoned, the Death God reaches its arm into the one who summoned it.The summoner can then use the arm to tear the soul from their intended target. Once the soul is taken, the Death God devours them both, locking the two souls in an eternal battle and preventing any possible ressurection. The user can also use the technique through clones, though their soul will be sealed, regardless.

The Third was badly wounded and near death when he performed this jutsu, and decided to seal Orochimaru's soul's arms instead of his whole soul (due to a lack of strength), making Orochimaru's arms unusable. It has been hinted that with the death of the Third, this technique is lost forever, though this is not confirmed.


Eight Trigrams Sealing Style
Name: Hakke no Fūin Shiki, 八卦の封印式, literally "Eight Trigrams Sealing Style"
Type: No rank, Supplementary, Short range (0-5m)
Users: Fourth Hokage, Third Hokage
This jutsu was used in conjunction with the Dead Demon Seal to seal the Kyūbi within Naruto Uzumaki. This seal allows the two Four Symbols Seals to leak the Kyūbi chakra back into Naruto's own chakra.


Evil Sealing Method

Sasuke's sealed cursed seal.Name: Fūja Hōin, 封邪法印, literally "Evil Sealing Method" English TV "Curse Sealing"
Type: A-rank, Supplementary, Short range (0-5m)
Users: Hatake Kakashi
This jutsu is used by Kakashi on Sasuke Uchiha's Cursed Seal of Heaven to hamper its activation. This seal is dependent on the user's willpower to some extent.


Fire Sealing Method
Name: Fūka Hōin, 封火法印, literally "Fire Sealing Method"
Type: B-rank, Supplementary, Short range (0-5m)
Users: Jiraiya
This jutsu allows the user to seal nearby fire. The user writes the seal on a scroll and then performs the required handseals. This causes a vapor to appear from the scroll, enveloping the fire and sealing it on the scroll as the kanji for seal (封). Jiraiya used this jutsu to seal away the left over black fire from Itachi Uchiha's Amaterasu technique, showing how powerful this technique really is.


Five Elements Seal
Name: Gogyō Fūin, 五行封印, literally "Five Elements Seal" English TV "Five Pronged Seal"
Type: S-rank, Supplementary, Short range (0-5m)
Users: Orochimaru
This jutsu is used to strengthen the seal on the Kyūbi. The original seal allowed Kyūbi's chakra to seep out into Naruto Uzumaki, but the additional seal disturbs this, preventing Naruto from using Kyūbi's chakra or even controlling his own chakra properly. This is because an odd-numbered seal creates an imbalance when placed on top of an even-numbered seal. The five elements in the seal are wood (木), fire (火), earth (土), metal (金), and water (水).


Five Elements Unseal
Name: Gogyō Kaiin, 五行解印, literally "Five Elements Unseal"
Type: S-rank, Supplementary, Short range (0-5m)
Users: Jiraiya
This jutsu undoes the Five Elements Seal, once again allowing Naruto Uzumaki to properly control his chakra and access the Kyūbi's chakra.



Five Seal Barrier
Name: Gofū Kekkai, 五封結界, literally "Five Seal Barrier"
Type: A-ranked
Users: Akatsuki members
This jutsu involves a seal placed to create a barrier and four other seals placed around the vicinity. All five seals must be removed in order to break the barrier.


Four Black Fog Battle Formation

The container for the seal.Name: Shikokumujin, 四黒霧陣, literally "Four Black Fog Battle Formation"
Type: B-rank, Supplementary
Users: Sound Four
This jutsu is used to reduce the effects of the seishingan drug. While under influence of this seal, the drugged person won't die, but rather be put in a temporary coma. This forces their body to be able to handle a level two cursed seal.



Four Symbols Seal
Name: Shishō Fūin, 四象封印, literally "Four Symbols Seal"
Type: No rank, Supplementary, Close range (0-5m)
Users: Fourth Hokage
This jutsu was used to seal the Kyūbi into Naruto Uzumaki.


Sealing Technique: Illusionary Dragon Nine Consuming Seals
Name: Fūin Jutsu: Genryū Kyū Fūjin, 封印術・幻龍九封尽, literally "Sealing Technique: Illusionary Dragon Nine Consuming Seals"
Type: Unknown
Users: Akatsuki Leader
This is a jutsu performed by the Akatsuki leader, requiring several Akatsuki members and three days to complete. It is used to forcibly drain the spirit and chakra of the bijū from their hosts. The Akatsuki Leader commented that the jutsu takes longer without Orochimaru present, though whether this means that Orochimaru created the jutsu, all 10 Akatsuki rings are necessary for the greatest efficiency, or if the Akatsuki leader was simply admitting Orochimaru's mastery over sealing jutsu is unknown.


Sealing Technique: Three Directions Seal
Name: Fūin Jutsu: Sanhōfūin , 封印術・三方封印, literally "Sealing Technique: Three Directions Seal"
Type: Unknown, probably: S-Rank, Offensive, Short to mid-range (0-10m)
Users: Third Hokage (Naruto: Narutimate Hero 3)
Two Shadow Clones are created by the Third, forming together the vertices of a triangle. By performing hand seals, a tetrahedral form of light traps the target, who is sent to another dimension.


Shadow Seal: Release
Name: Infūin: Kai, 蔭封印・解, literally "Shadow Seal: Release"
Type: S-rank, Supplementary
Users: Tsunade
This jutsu releases the chakra stored inside the seal on Tsunade's forehead. She then uses this chakra for her Creation Rebirth, a powerful regeneration technique.


Subdue Seal
Name: Ō Fūin, 押封印, literally "Subdue Seal" or "Subsiding Seal"
Type: S-rank, Short range (0-5m)
Users: Jiraiya
This jutsu involves a special written seal, created by Jiraiya, that will dispel all effects of the Kyūbi when applied to Naruto Uzumaki's body, including chakra.

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Hyuga branch family seal
This seal is given to all branch house members in the Hyuga clan by the main house. Its main purpose is to seal their Byakugan ability should they die, preventing the enemy from learning its secrets. Its secondary purpose is to control the branch house, since it can be activated at will by a main house member with a hand seal that only they know about. The seal is placed on the wearer's forehead at an early age, and is only removed upon their death. It works by destroying the wearer's brain cells.

In the manga the seal is shown as a sauwastika. In the anime and English manga, it was changed to a simple cross.


Orochimaru's cursed seals
Orochimaru commonly uses cursed seals on his most powerful followers. These seals give the user increased physical performance and increased chakra capacity when the the first level of the seal is activated. Mutations of the user's body, as well as even greater increases in physical performance and chakra capacity, occur when the second level of the seal is active. These vary from user to user. The degree to which this occurs is based on the current active level of the seal.

The seals have different levels, which is determined by their appearance on the user. When inactive, the seal will simply be a black tattoo somewhere on the user's body. Orochimaru has a number of different cursed seals, so the appearance will vary from user to user, but each seal always has three identical marks arranged in a circular pattern. When first activated, the marks on the seal glow and replicate, spreading over the user's body. This is known as the first level of the seal. The degree to which this occurs is dependent on the user, and the degree to which it spreads is proportionate to the overall effect it has. The second and final level of the seal causes the black marks to completely envelop the user. This is followed by an unnatural alteration of the user's body, usually inspired by the personality of the user. When in this level, the seal eats away at the user's personality, driving them to madness if used too long. It also takes quite a toll on their body, since they are being mutated by the seal.

The seals work by forcibly drawing chakra from the user's body. Because of this, they will often kill the user when first applied. Orochimaru has averaged a ten-percent success rate when applying these seals. Additionally, even if the user survives, their body will not be able to easily control the power the seals give them. To compensate for this, Orochimaru developed the Four Black Fog Battle Formation sealing technique to force the user's body to become accustomed to the unnatural increase in power. Though the Sound Four were the ones to actually perform the technique, it stands to reason that they weren't the ones that created it.

To apply a cursed seal, Orochimaru needs to actually bite his intended target. Because he has sharp fangs and an extendable neck, this is a relatively simple task. The seal then appears somewhere on the user's body, and they subsequntly lose consciousness. Sometime later, should they survive, they will awaken with the first level of the seal active.


Cursed Seal of Heaven

Sasuke's Heaven seal.
Sasuke in his level two form.Name: Ten no Juin, “V‚ÌŽôˆó, literally "Cursed Seal of Heaven"
Wearers: Sasuke Uchiha, Anko Mitarashi
This seal consists of three tomoe, not unlike the Sharingan. It is the counterpart to the Cursed Seal of Earth, and the two seals are the strongest of all the cursed seals that Orochimaru uses.

Anko received her cursed seal while she was a student of Orochimaru's. She, along with nine others, were the first people to receive a cursed seal. She was the only one to survive the application, hence the one in ten chance established by Orochimaru, but lacked the necessary will to use it. As such, her seal receded and Orochimaru wiped her memory. Orochimaru was able to reactivate it when they fought in the Forest of Death. It is possible that Orochimaru intended to use her as his next host, but was disappointed when he learned she lacked the will to use the seal.

Sasuke was the second person to receive and survive the application of the cursed seal. Orochimaru gives it to him (unwillingly) during the second stage of the Chunin exam. Orochimaru gave it to him as a test, as well as a way to prepare Sasuke for becoming his next host. After Sasuke won his battle during the preliminary matches of the Chunin exam, Kakashi Hatake used the Evil Sealing Method, the effectiveness of which is depenent on the user's will, to restrict the seal. Regardless, Sasuke came to rely on the seal, thus weakening Kakshi's seal. Sasuke unlocked the seal's full power with the help of the Sound Four.

Since Anko never uses her seal (or simply lacks the ability), she has no mutated form. Sasuke, however, has activated the second level of his seal. This causes his skin to turn dark-gray and his hair to grow much longer without losing its style. Additionally, he grows hand-shaped wings from his back.


Cursed Seal of Earth

Kimimaro in his level one form
Kimimaro in his level two formName: Chi no Juin, ’n‚ÌŽôˆó, literally "Cursed Seal of Earth"
Wearers: Kimimaro Kaguya
The counterpart of the Cursed Seal of Heaven, this seal was given to Kimimaro by Orochimaru in the hope that he might one day become his next host. Unfortunately for the both of them, Kimimaro contracted a fatal disease.

The seal consists of three slightly curved lines, which for some reason spread in a square pattern. When in his level two form, Kimimaro takes on a dinosaur-like appearance, complete with a tail. Several large bones also protrude from his skin, and his skin becomes dark purple.

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Sound Four cursed seals
Each member of the Sound Four uses a cursed seal. Their seals, however, are not as powerful as the Heaven and Earth seals, although they have similar end results.


Jirobo
Jirobo's cursed seal consists of three triangles. In his level two form, his skin turns red and his hair grows longer. He also grows warts on his forehead and shoulders.



Kidomaru
Kidomaru's cursed seal consists of three spirals. In his level two form, a third eye opens on his forehead and his hair grows longer. He also grows horns on his forehead and his elbows.



Sakon and Ukon
Sakon and Ukon both have the same type of cursed seal, which consists of three irregularly-shaped dots. In their level two form, they resemble ogres with red skin, a single horn (on opposite sides for each brother), and can grow armor from their bodies. Ukon can also extend his fusing abilities to someone other than Sakon.



Tayuya
Tayuya's cursed seal consists of three hooks, similar to a triskelion. In her level two form, her hair grows longer, she grows five oddly-placed horns, and her skin turns dark brown

Mizuki's cursed seal
Mizuki was shown to have received a mark similar to a cursed seal in the anime. In actuality, this was just a tattoo. Its purpose was to act as an instruction manual for a device designed to to make a gene-altering potion that consisted of various animal genes, giving the user animal-enhanced physical abilities.

While he was originally thought to be working alone in his attempt to steal the scroll, it becomes apparent to Tsunade that he was in fact stealing it for Orochimaru, since Mizuki would not be able to use its full powers alone.

After his defeat at the hands of Naruto Uzumaki, Mizuki was locked up. He eventually escapes by convincing two very strong and very stupid brothers, known rather appropriately as the Legendary Stupid Brothers to help him. He does this by telling Orochimaru has excellent food, which the two brothers are entirely driven by.

After stealing the necessary ingredients from the Nara clan's medical laboratory, he mixes them into a reddish chemical. The red chemical increased his musculature, and caused three tiger-shaped marks to appear on his arms, increasing his physical attributes in much the same manner as a cursed seal. Additionally, he was able to channel all of his chakra into strength, changing his appearance to resemble a tiger's. The increase in strength caused a decrease in speed.

However, there was one drawback which Orochimaru neglected to tell Mizuki about. The chemical Mizuki made will eventually cause the body's cells to burn up and die, leaving the user a withered husk of a person, who will die without proper medical treatment. Even with treatment, the user will never completely recover, nor will they be able to continue being a ninja