Naruto - A Cursed System

[Intermediate Persuasion]

Description: Moderately boosts your proficiency in persuading others. The emotion and intent you convey through your words have become memorable to listeners. Your lies have become more believable.

To advance the skill, persuade a large number of people individuals into making a terrible life-changing decision.

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The last skill he had gotten before he began the trial. He managed to advance it only to intermediate. He tried to advance it further, but it seemed to require too many people.

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[Intermediate Cooking]

Description: Moderately boosts your proficiency in cooking. The food you make will taste good as long as you put in some form of effort. Based on the ingredients used and how you use them, your food may produce special effects when eaten.

To advance the skill, obtain a large number of genuine compliments about your cooking and establish a restaurant.

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Yukio advanced the skill after making Satoru's meals every week. However, the skill didn't advance from that. Nope. It advanced from him making food for his tamed creatures. He thought that animals didn't count in compliments, yet he was wrong.

He was also genuinely surprised by the skill's second effect. He had been experimenting on what those special effects were using Satoru as the test subject. He observed three different effects that Satoru displayed: Health Recovery, Stamina Recovery, and Mental Recovery.

The cooking skill was the last skill to advance out of all the skills he had before the trial. The other skills in Yukio's arsenal were unable to advance due to the difficult requirements. He didn't have a lot of opportunities to try to advance the skills either. Such skills were [Basic Toxin Resistance], [Intermediate Origami], [Basic Gifting], and the jutsu skills.

Moving on, Yukio obtained several skills and had one of them advanced already.

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[Basic Fire Resistance]

Description: Slightly boosts your resistance to fire and heat. Burn wounds will slowly, yet completely heal by themselves outside of battle.

To advance the skill, come into contact with different sources of heat.

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He obtained it after burning himself while making Satoru's meals.

[Basic Cold Resistance]

Description: Slightly boosts your resistance to the cold. Frostbite will slowly, yet completely heal by themselves outside of battle.

To advance the skill, come into contact with different sources of the cold.

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Yukio got it after he camped outside in the forest while there was snow around. He did so precisely because he wanted the cold resistance skill despite the possible dangers from doing so.

Though, he was stumped on how to advance it. What did he need to do? Take a bath filled with ice cubes?

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[Basic Writing]

Description: Slightly boosts your proficiency at writing. Your handwriting is prettier.

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He obtained the skill when he made his 100th talisman. It was odd that making talismans was how he got it. But then again, he hasn't written a lot of things since his birth. A couple of days after he got the skill, he got a diary and started to write in it.

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[Basic Drawing]

Description: Slightly boosts your proficiency at drawing. You can draw perfect circles.

To advance the skill, draw a good self-portrait.

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This skill came out of nowhere when he was just doodling inside the blank spaces of his diary. He tried making self-portraits but apparently, none were good. As long as he practiced, he could improve.

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Description: Slightly boosts your proficiency at researching. You become more focused and take in more information while researching.

To advance the skill, research a more effective and efficient method to sleep.

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This skill confused Yukio the most. Considering that he had gotten it from merely studying jujutsu stuff, he should have gotten it much, much earlier. Back when he studied the medical books. In a way, research is studying and learning. So how come he didn't get it sooner? Faulty system?

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[Intermediate Throwing]

Description: Moderately boosts your proficiency at throwing. You can plant a symbol on a target that makes thrown objects more likely to hit. Your eyesight and accuracy become more precise.

To advance the skill, skip a rock and have it skip a hundred times and then hit a creature with it.

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All he did was throw stuff. This skill's advancement methods were kind of different from the rest. Usually, a skill's requirements continue to add on, become more difficult. However, the requirement simply changed. For this skill to advance from basic to intermediate, Yukio had to hit 100 pinecones in a day.

That was all for skills now. He can continue getting more when he was back in the Naruto World.

It was now nearing Satoru's birthday. It would be a large party where lots of sorcerer families would attend. It wasn't going to be as large as his fifth birthday, but it was big nonetheless.

Like his last birthday party, Satoru wouldn't have attended nor cared unless he was begged by his family. However, Satoru easily agreed to attend the party all because of Yukio's persuasiveness.

Yukio was excited about the upcoming party. Since the Zenin Family's party, Satoru (and Yukio_ had declined any further invitations due to training. They even declined the Kamo's party's invitation. He was excited because it gave Yukio one last chance to meet them and attempt to affect his final rewards.

Yukio had high hopes and had been preparing since the first invitation was sent. He wanted to make the best first impression possible. He didn't really care about the Kamo Clan but he was interested in the Inumaki Clan.

The Inumaki Clan is a sorcery family that possesses a rare and powerful cursed technique; cursed speech. Each member who inherits the technique must possess a seal on their tongue and around both sides of their mouth called "Snake & Fangs."

Cursed speech tries to persuade those who hear the user's words to obey them. The seal infuses the user's words with cursed energy to improve the technique's effectiveness which forces everyone who hears it to obey.

However, this skill is restricted based on the strength of the user and the strength of the listener. In this case, strength is essentially the amount of cursed energy. The more demanding the command, the larger the drawback against the user's own body.

Although cursed speech is a depressing cursed technique because it is uncontrollable to a certain degree, it is very handy to have.

It was one of the techniques Yukio had hope to manifest when he reached five years old. After all, it sounds OP against basically everybody in the Naruto World. But then again, what if it only affects those who have cursed energy?

Anyways, he was very excited to meet them. But as the date came closer and closer, he felt a bit sad. He hoped that he could come back here for another trial. He was going to miss his tamed creatures.

'Maybe I can just hold them just like what I did with Hex? What if I form a dungeon?'

On December 7, 1995, Satoru's sixth birthday, Yukio's trial would end.