19 Draining Chakra

Author's Note: This chapter is my experiment to write something totally different from the Naruto anime. I like to add something unique of mine and this is it. It may seem like typical Chinese novel stuff but I assure you it's not.

Many people have been asking about the love interest of the main character so I want to inform everyone that I haven't decided but the top 3 are

Ino

Hanabi

Temari

Please vote here or on my (Ko-fi or Buy me a coffee) and the romance won't start until they are of a suitable age as I don't want to write a makeout scene between two kids under 10 years old which is pretty common in other Naruto fan-fics

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'What is this old man talking about?' Yami thought as he saw old man Jiro leave the forge room. A couple of minutes later Yami started hearing sounds of stone being dragged on stone. He looked towards the door and saw the old man dragging a big chest made of stone.

"What are you looking at kid? Come here and help me lift up this chest" Jiro said huffing. Yami immediately went towards the chest and crouched down. He tried to lift up the chest with pure physical strength but the chest didn't budge even an inch. Then he re-enforced his arms with chakra and was able to lift up the chest. Old man Jiro also gave him a hand and they both lifted the chest and placed it on the table. As the chest landed on the table, the table creaked. Yami looked at Jiro who said

"Don't worry, the table won't break." Jiro reassured Yami. He turned the chest towards him and there was a keyhole in it. Jiro took out a key from his pocket and inserted it in the keyhole. As he rotated the key a small spike appeared on the key holder and it pierced Jiro's finger. Blood started flowing onto the key and it traveled through the key into the chest. Yami kept looking at the blooded key and then at Jiro as he had never seen something like this happen in the anime.

"This chest was passed to me by my Grandfather and he got it from his father. It's said that it contains a meteorite like the one Hoshikagure has but this meteorite doesn't emit chakra instead it absorbs chakra. The chest has been inlaid with seals which stop the process of absorption. The chest will only open with this key and it should be used by someone from my bloodline."

As Jiro was talking red lines started to appear all around the chest and with a sound of a click the chest top opened. The inside of the chest had various fuinjutsu seals which were lit and in the middle of the chest was a football-sized black rock with purple lines going through it like veins. The purple veins were pulsating slowly.

"Now I must put this rock inside the furnace immediately as I take it out from the chest or it will start sucking the chakra of the person nearest to him." Jiro said and both he and Yami lifted the chest and brought it to the entrance of the furnace. Jiro put on thick brown gloves. He lifted the meteorite and chucked it into the furnace in one swift motion. As the meteorite was out of the box the dimly pulsating veins turned brighter but as it was covered in fire, it became dim again.

Yami could feel that the box had become very light after removing the meteor from it.

"How heavy is that rock?" he asked Jiro who laughed and said

"Don't worry if the meteor accepts your chakra then it becomes as light as a feather or as heavy as a boulder if you want. Now wait for the upper surface of the rock to shed off and then the metal underneath it will be exposed. This time the surface will be as hot as lava so don't touch it, just send strands of chakra to the metal. It will start absorbing automatically." Jiro said and Yami nodded.

After 20 minutes the top surface started to melt into lava and separate from the metal. Now the only thing visible was the shiny metal with purple veins.

"Remember that once you feel you have drained almost your entire chakra but you still cannot touch and feel the hot metal without a single discomfort, you should distance yourself from it. Or else it will start absorbing your life force. I don't think you would want to die of old age so early little Yami." Jiro chuckled as he pull out the metal with a piece of thongs and beat it with a hammer till it became like a rod the size of a katana.

He then put the metal on the forge and stepped away signaling Yami that it was his cue. Yami stood in front of the forge and saw the metal and he could feel that the chakra in his body was getting attracted to it.

"Coat your hands with chakra and put it on the metal. The more the metal absorbs your chakra the closer your hand will get to touching it. And the more I can shape the rod like a sword so let's get started" Jiro said as he picked up a hammer to beat and shape the rod.

Yami covered his hands with chakra and the rod started absorbing it in a steady stream. Yami tried to increase and decrease the amount and speed of chakra flowing through his hand but it was like his chakra wouldn't listen to him. Jiro was hitting the hammer on the rod and had already flattened it to a certain extent.

After a few minutes, Yami started to feel low on chakra and his lips started to get dry. 80% of his chakra had already been absorbed by the meteor. He looked at Jiro who was sweating profusely but still hammering the sword. Jiro looked toward Yami and said

"Hang in there kid...Just a few more hits and all the veins will be full with your chakra and this sword will become yours." Yami nodded slightly but he was on the verge of losing consciousness.

Most of the veins on the sword were bright purple and as he was entering his chakra, even the dim ones were brightening.

THUD

That's the sound Jiro heard and when he looked toward Yami he saw that Yami was on his knees and he looked drained of chakra.

"Yami, kid expel all your chakra in the sword and I will get you away from it" Jiro said in hopes that this last push of chakra will fill the meteor enough to complete the process.

"Ahhhhhhhhhhh" Yami screamed as he directed all his chakra towards his palm but instead of a chakra burst, his devouring law tattoo got activated.

But instead of completely turning Yami's hand black like every time, this time 2 snakes made of black liquid came out of his hand and started circling around the unfinished sword.

'What the hell is this thing? Why did the chakra turn black all of a sudden? Is this the power that I sensed in Yami when he came with his brother this afternoon? And what is this dreadful feeling that I am getting from those snakes?' Jiro's mind was filled with questions. Seeing something so unexpected happening, he had forgotten for a few seconds that he was hammering a sword.

As the snakes were circling the unfinished sword, they stopped near the 2 largest and brightest veins on the sword. They stared at the veins for a second and bore their fangs and pierced the veins. Half the veins were purple while half were black, it was like both the energies were fighting for dominance on the sword.

'What is happening? I never knew the power that could rival this even existed.' He had been told that the purple thing in the veins is some power unknown to the shinobi world and it should remain that way unless something could rival it.

'I have finished hammering the sword and the only thing left is sharpening the edge but this struggle between black and purple is not something I can intervene in.' Jiro thought as he saw that the struggle between energies had slowed down.

The sword veins were purple in color but the dreadful feeling was still there and the sword was already sharpened.

'Oh god, what have I created?' Jiro thought as he dropped the hammer.

'THIS SWORD IS CURSED' Jiro massaged his forehead as he saw the snakes look at him and then go back inside the tattoo.