The streets were crowed, as the tail end of the festival met it's end. Staggering drunks, and nearly passed out children were either dragged or carried by family or friends. The sixth year celebration of the defeat of the legendary nine-tailed fox was a joyous occasion save for one small blonde child. Who now was muttering pleas as foot, fist and blade connected with his body.

Hours passed as a huddled mass of flayed flesh and blood and a mop of blonde hair laid curled around the remains of his intestines and other organs. Hung between the balance of life and death, a faint reddish glow coated ever part of his body and the pulsing blue light from a seal on his belly the only two sources of light in the sewers of the village.

Pulling the pipe from his lips, a strong crease in his brow, " I don't care if you have to level this village. Naruto must be found." The mans voice ground out. "Two weeks... and nothing." the aged man turned to glare at the collected councils of his village. "Find him." He placed his hand gently by all appearances on to the desk only for it to splinter and shatter under his light touch.

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The faint glow of red barely visible as the boys skin was now mended and not a sign of injury to be seen save for the constant bubble of his flesh as it burned and regrew instantly. The remains of his clothes long gone. His blue eyes stirring open. "Why?" He muttered hoarsely as tears brimmed once more. He struggled as he pushed himself up.

Elsewhere not far from the village borders a different kind of why? Was being asked. The destruction was massive. Bodies and broken puppets littered the crater filled grounds. The sole 'survivor' pushed himself up from the ground. His read hair and slightly waxen skin seemed unscathed as his dead eyes surveyed the aftermath. "Why?" the cold voice asked to no one as he pulled scrolls from his body and began to seal parts, pieces and even bodies into them. 'I don't know how you did this, But I will destroy you Orochimaru.' The mans thoughts burned.

'I only have one left.' He thought as he looked around. 'I need to lay low and rebuild but where?' His thoughts drifted and calculated. 'Konoha,' he nodded to himself. 'The bastard will come there eventually. Plus Pein and his 'group' want the kyubii as well. I want them both to burn and...' he thought a smirk growing on his waxen features. 'Yes that will work nicely, if the information from the Uchiha is right I just need to be nice to the brat and teach him and he will practically worship me.' His mind made up the young man made his way towards the village not far from where he now stood.

"Sasori-sama," silver hair bowed to the man. "I wasn't expecting you."

The red-head nodded, "There have been a few changes to my plans. You will not be joining Orochimaru as thought. I will need your expertise here." He handed a scroll with the bodies. "These creatures were once human I want you to find out what happened. As well I have left the group. Instead I want to see them all destroyed for their betrayal."

Kabuto nodded, as he twitched to open the scroll in his hands right away. "I see and I assume I will be needed for those plans as well?"

Sasori nodded, "Yes. I plan to train the Uzumaki boy myself. In secret of course."

The young spy could see the purpose of that. "I warn you in caution. The boy is brash, unfocused and needy."

"Good, I will train him. Mold him into a true shinobi and tell him the truth."

Naruto blinked. He was hearing someone talk about him and it wasn't bad. Someone wanted to train him? He pushed himself through the small opening he guessed he had fallen through. "You want to teach me?" His voice was meek but held the hunger of acceptance.

If Sasori smiled he would have done so, instead he turned to look at the nearly naked boy, his clothes still covered in blood. "If you are Naruto Uzumaki then yes." The boy even nearly recovered from his near death, again, started to get hyper. "But. Only if you do exactly what I say, how I say and when I say. If you disobey even once..."

Naruto gulped, but nodded. He didn't want to chase away any chance of being a ninja. Kabuto watched before he nodded to himself. "If Sasori-sama is going to be your sensei then I will help as well."

Sasori looked at his young spy, "Very well." He looked between both of them. "I will give you one year to correct him Kabuto. You know what I expect." He looked at Naruto, "I will not waste my time. If you do not learn from Kabuto I will not teach you the secrets that will make you stronger than any hokage." Having knowledge of the boy came into use as he noted the determined and fierce expression that came over the boys face. "Now I will know if you aren't following through." With that said he disappeared into shadows.

Kabuto looked at the young blond. "Naruto-kun." He started. "I know how strong he is, and if he wanted he could just take out the hokage with out much effort. He did it before in his old village." The medic nodded sagely. Placing a hand on Naruto's shoulder, "I have a year and I'm not going to waste it, I will make you hate me, because Sasori will make me look like nothing when it comes to training."

Naruto nodded, "You two and the old man are the only ones who seem to like me. You're even going to help me there is nothing you can do that will make me hate you." He said with conviction.

-Four months Later-

"Kabuto.. I hate you..." Naruto growled out, as his small hands glowed with a teal color. The wounds on his body sealing up unscared.

The silver haired nin laughed, "Your control is much better now Naruto-kun." The nin spoke softly. Three months of chakra control to the point the boy was nearly surpassing him. He honestly didn't think it was possible for one so young. But then, He had taught him several methods to work on and the boy had combined them in strange ways to make them even harder after he figured out how to do just one.

"Six hours every day I would think so Kabuto." the boy smirked. "Plus those shadow clones work wonders."

He shook his head with a smirk, "That's a trick only you can pull off. I'm just glad it worked with out killing you." He healed his own scratches from the boy, "Now how far have you gotten on the scrolls I gave you?"

The blond smirked, "You should know since I just healed myself." He pushed off of the ground, "And yes before you ask I did put on the memory seal."

"Good, it will burn out in about two months but it will be enough between you and your clones to correct many of your patterns and habits that work against you." After a month of trying to teach Naruto he had reached out to Sasori for any suggestions in making the boy calmer, or more attentive since his energy levels were down right ridiculous. Of course Sasori seemed to have already been prepared for this and simply handed him two scrolls. One for the Shadow Clone Jutsu, how he got a village secret jutsu Kabuto didn't want to know, the other was a seal that would modify Naruto's mind slowly to created a more focused child, as well it would improve the boys retention even if he only glanced at it. Not to mention Sasori could look at what the boy learned from that point on but that wasn't mentioned.

"So what are you going to teach me now that your daily ambush is over?" the blond smiled.

"Since you are studying the academy course books with your clones, and the supplemental items as well I figured we would work on Medic training?"

"If I didn't know what that could do in a fight... I would say no." Naruto smirked. " But since that's all you -ever- use to kick my butt I say let's do it."

Kabuto smiled, this boy was only six years old. But the potential that he was tapping was a rare gold mine. The drive, the sheer power the kid had at his disposal was ungodly. Yet he was still just a small kid with innocence and wonder at the world even after how he has been treated and grew up. "Alright, there is something you will learn in the future that will explain why you have so much chakra, and why you heal quickly on your own. It's something I am not allowed to tell you." He shook his head, "Which I want to, but until the seal has worn off I won't. We need to make sure you can keep it even more secret than me teaching you."

He wanted to scream and yell for it, but it never worked. With a sigh, "Just like I find notes from you on what books to get from the library and when to go there so I won't get kicked out." Kabuto nodded. He never personally gave Naruto anything to study. But rather sent him to get it himself. To the world the boy was just doing things on his own out of curiosity, the fact Kabuto always manipulated what he was curious about and letting him get in to get it with out having problems was a different matter.

"Exactly. Now," he pulled a scroll and unsealed the body inside. "You should have a basic understanding of the human body. But you don't really understand until you've done it." He spoke as he looked at the blond. "You are a very hands on learner. So today I thought we would try that approach. Since as a medic nin you will be asked to do autopsies and even surgeries you must get accustomed to real bodies live or dead."

Naruto wanted to be sick, but he recognized that face. This was one of the guys that was always hurting him. "isn't that?"

"Yes he is one of your attackers. He was.. unlucky and was poisoned. But personal issues aside you will treat the body with respect and learn from this." He motioned to the table, "Now let us begin."

-Sx months in-

"Tell me Kabuto how is young Naruto doing?" As he tinkered on a creation of his.

"The shadow clones have pushed the seal further and has corrected the issues. Yet, his chakra is still growing exponentially."

Sasori looked at him, "I have been looking into that." He dusted his hands off. "After you mentioned this before I decided to study his seal. The one containing his prisoner." he walked over and pulled scroll from his desk. "I will give the Yondaime credit as a genius with Seals. Yet, it wasn't something done with full thought. This contains an overlay that will mesh into the array already in place. The current one not only leaks the youkai into the body as is needed for a host to survive but also into his reserves and pathways. For now the demon is dormant it seems the fact that as long as the boy isn't aware mentally of it it cannot contact him to take over." He handed the scroll to kabuto.

"that would explain the constant issue of his control if he slacks off his training." Taking the scroll he pocketed it. "What exactly will this do so I may explain it in a round about way?"

The red head nodded, "It contains a few things. The first will stop the leak into his pathways until he is almost depleted, slowing down the growth of his reserves so he can actually gain full control of his chakra." Turning and going back to work on his project. "It also will reinforce the seal to practically ban any form of mental intrusion from the beast. By strengthening the seal. The last bit I am quite proud of a piece of art I will say. It pulls the boys natural chakra into the seal, to mix with the demons before it enters his pathways again. Further purifying the chakra before it has any chance to taint the boy more so than it already has."

Kabuto was mildly shocked, that there were so many flaws but after researching the topic it was glaringly obvious that it was something that most people didn't see as an issue since those like the boy were used as nothing but weapons. "I will place this on him today then. Explaining it has to do with the secret I can't tell him yet, but it will further deal with his chakra problems."

-The end of the year-

The boy was far different than he was a year ago. Sure he was still loud and energetic, yet under that if you knew to look you would find the calculated thoughts, the hidden knowledge. Sasori was pleased at how well Kabuto had instilled Naruto with the skills of not only a spy but surprisingly medical prodigy. The boys few qualms about being a medic were gone and he was a few years behind truly being perhaps better than any medic. The ingenuity he naturally possessed always led him to a different answer that would fix an unknown issue.

He watched as they sparred observing the finesse the blond deployed with each motion, so at ease yet several moves in advance to look spontaneous. "That's enough for today Naruto." He heard Kabuto speak, "It's been a year today did you know that? I have a present for you since not only have you completed my training but it's also your birthday."

Sasori watched naruto's eyes light up. 'Praise is a very effective tool for this boy I must remember that.' He continued to watch as Naruto opened the small package to reveal new clothes, and a few books and scrolls.

"Kabuto-sensei... thank you."

"No thank you Naruto, for being such a good student." The silver haired boy said with a true smile. "you needed new clothes and as much as you like Orange so much is not good for a ninja." he watch the blond blush. "The scrolls and books are my own. After working with you I decided that I wanted you to have a copy of all my notes and skills to study on your own as a medic."

The blond looked up, "What do you mean? Aren't you going to be teaching me anymore?"

Kabuto frowned, "I will still be around to help you but, your training with Sasori-sama will be taking up much of your time. Plus as a shinobi I need to start making myself stronger so you don't pass me anytime soon."

Naruto laughed, "Yea I guess but I feel bad having to use the Shadow clones to do all of this.. it's like I'm cheating."

With a shake of his head, "It is cheating. But that is what Ninja do, we cheat we lie, we fight, we protect, we kill and we heal. You know the lessons by heart now there is no 'Fair' way in our world The sharingan steals jutsu yet even with your clones you still worked on earning this knowledge and skills."

The blonde seemed pensive for a moment before he smiled, "Yea you're right even though it's a clone it's still me. I still get tired if they do, I still feel everything they did and what they learned."

Sasori chose that moment to reveal himself. "I see my two apprentices have done as I have asked of them?" He walked forward with his own scroll in hand. "I too have a present for your birthday. One is that I will take over your training as you continue to follow the rules." He handed the scroll to the boy. "The second is that I will teach you a way of being a shinobi that no one in your village knows."

Naruto took the scroll and looked at it before he read through some of it. "Puppetry?"

"Yes why fight yourself when you can have multiple puppets that are designed to fight for you under your control?"

"But that not fair..." Naruto started to say until the words sunk in, "but then we aren't fair."

Sasori nodded with a hidden smile. "I will show you one puppet of mine." He unsealed his favorite puppet the Third Kasekage. "This is a Human puppet. The ultimate sign of being a master of this style. Simply because it is difficult to master and create this but also because these puppets still can use any jutsu they knew while they were a live, and fighting styles, techniques or bloodlines can be used through them." He sealed the puppet away, before he unsealed a smaller puppet that looked similar to Naruto. "This will be your first puppet. Along with that scroll you will be able to learn to control it. In one month I want you to be able to do so with out looking like you are controlling it."

Naruto stared at the puppet of him, seeing how unless you got really close you couldn't tell the difference. "Okay I'll do it."

"Good." The man looked to Kabuto. "You are allowed to let your time with Naruto become public. Spend time showing that you are teaching him the skills you have." Looking back to the young blond. "Now that you have started the academy you are allowed to learn techniques, though the only branch that isn't restricted by rank is that of medic."

He blinked, "So that means I can stop pretending to suck so much?" He smiled.

"Yes as you put it." Here Sasori smirked, "I want you to focus on your training there. Even if you already know it." He pulled a dark blue journal from his pockets. "This is a book over the introduction to Fuinjutsu or Sealing. It is something you must know to master your puppet." handing the book over to the young boy. "It will make what you have learned so far seem simple. But time is of the essence so this is what we will do to ensure all our bases are covered."

Sasori began introducing the plan after thinking it over for several months watching Naruto's skill and control rise in this one year. Every day Naurto would make two Clones with as much chakra as he could first thing before sunrise. He would send one to Sasori and the other would continue working on control and other studies that would be assigned. While Naruto would attend classes and work on gaining the acceptance of a select few students that Sasori gave him. "These three will be a great asset to you and also friends. They do not understand the stigma around you. You may choose to reveal it to them as I am about to reveal it to you."

Thus began the telling of jinkurichi and how Naruto now bore that cursed legacy. The blond sat silent through out the explaination and even further details about the group that would be coming for him in several years. They waited in silence as he mulled over what he had just learned. "So, the seal that Kabuto placed over the one on my stomach fixed the major problems that it would have caused to turn me into one of those monsters?"

"Yes, though there are still certain aspects that I couldn't change because of the original seal." Naruto seemed confused. " The orginal seal let the chakra stream constantly into you causing you to have to much chakra in your pathways constantly."

"Making control almost impossible." Naruto added.

"Yes, but that is fixed. Only when you run far too low will it inject you with Chakra. Chakra that is already mixed of yours and the beasts. However it's chakra is constantly being leaked into your body, because of a dependance created on it."

The blond didn't seem to happy, "I'm addicted to it basically. But it sounds like with out it I would actually die so it's a forced addiction."

Sasori nodded pleased so far, "The last thing that I fixed was it's ability to contact your and influence you mind." He looked between the two boys, "There will however come a time when the seal may weaken or is broken, you must learn to defend your mind from any thoughts but your own."

"Meditation then?" Kabuto replied.

Naruto seemed confused.

"Yes however it may cause the demon to become aware." He looked to the small boy, "You must find ways around everything the demon does for you. As of now it's the regeneration, I trust you two will think of a technique to mimic that quality using your medical knowledge?"

One took it as a challenge, the other an intrigue that now stood before him. "So how often would you like to meet Naruto? I have Thursday and sundays off from team training and my duties at the hospital."

The blond smiled, it was so awesome that he could keep his friend, plus it would let him stop having to pretend to be a dummy. "We could do both days after classes, I mean one could be just working on what I need to know the other could be studying the regeneration and meditation?" Sasori let another smile show through, 'The boy is picking up so quickly.' "Plus if I slowly improve over this year we could also show it that you have been tutoring me so it's not a big change."

"You have been paying a great deal of attention haven't you Naruto-kun." Kabuto smiled.

-First day of classes-

Naruto was up almost at 4 am, stretching he created his two clones for the first of many days this year. With a nod to them they took off to their own places. He however went through the work outs that Kabuto had made for him, sit ups, pull ups, pushups, and various stretches that would work each muscle group. Something he was happy about, however the dietary control wasn't even knowing exactly what he needed to eat Ramen would always be his favorite. Though because of the high need for calories because of his reserves he could still eat it often just had to have a lot more other healthier things as well.

'Okay, day one of stopping being an idiot,' He smirked. Slipping into his new clothes a pair of black cargo pants, that he taped off around the ankles and a black sleeveless shirt with a dark green Uzumaki swirl on the front. He smiled as he slipped on his shoes and walked out the door. The brisk run to the school was the last touch of his morning work out, also it was the safest way to make sure he wasn't attacked again.

He waited and watched as different students came in until his target walked in. It was the one boy that he felt and Sasori pointed out was treated like him to an extent because he to had something inside him.. bugs. He waited for a moment, "Shino-san you can sit here if you would like." He motioned to the empty seat next to him.

The boy seemed to think for a moment, but given you could see almost none of him due to his coat and his glasses who could tell. "Thank you Uzumaki-san. The offer is most welcome." Before he sat down, Naruto noticed several of his kikai float away and scurry and search the seat before their master sat down. "Though I admit curiosity as to your invitation."

Naruto nodded, "Last year I was pretty stupid, but I did notice somethings." He shrugged, "No one really talked to you and I always heard others saying you were weird. I was just as bad even though I get treated worse than that. I wanted to apologize for assuming rather than getting to know you."

The dark hair and glasses nodded, "That is understandable. Though I do wish to know how you changed so much in three months."

'Slip kabuto in about now so it's going around.' He thought to himself. "Well after the end of last school year I decided I was going to work really hard no matter what. Sadly the only thing I knew how was chakra control and that.."

"Was abysmal?"

"hehe Sure. Well someone noticed me trying over and over again before he decided to do what I am right now. Giving a chance to get to know outside of rumors, he offered me advice and then just started stopping by and helping when he could." he shrugged again. "Guess he saw potential or something, but he's been teaching me different control methods and even suggested I try and learn to be a medic since I always seem to end up hurt."

"You do sustain frequent injuries, I was always curious as to the source."

"Kabuto said that I shouldn't tell anyone unless I trust them." running his hand through his hair. " I mean most people know that I get chased and attacked all the time because.. well I really can't say yet, people just don't understand me I guess."

The Aburame sat in silence for a time before he spoke, "Then perhaps with time we will come to such an understanding."

Naruto smiled, 'Sasori is really to smart I think. But whatever I think I might have made a friend.'

School and his 'other' life had continued on as normal as could be he guessed. His friendship with Shino was moving nicely, after several weeks of talking and hanging out he was really learning quite a bit about the other boy. Not to mention other kids were starting to notice the changes in him. Though it was Iruka holding him after class that really set the pace for some of the plans.

"Naruto I need you to stay after for a moment." their Sensei asked, as the rest of the class left Naruto waited. Iruka walked over and sat down next to him. " I have to say after last year you are almost a different person. I'm impressed with the changes."

Blond hair nodded, "Yea... Kabuto-san really helped me straighten out my head." He blushed softly. 'No need to let on to much but enough to get back to the old man I guess.'

"Kabuto? Isn't he much older than you?" Iruka asked, since that name wasn't to common in the village there was really only one boy he could picture. Silent, intelligent and perfect chakra control very difficult considering he was a male.

"Yea he caught me working with the leaf exercise and I quote. 'After watching you fail for nearly five hours and you are still not suffering chakra exhaustion I decided it might be prudent to assist you.'"

Iruka laughed, "Yes that does sound like him." Rubbing his chin, "Does he help with anything else?"

"Oh yea.. he basically retaught me everything I should have known but didn't. I mean I didn't even know the names of the other countries.. or even that the Hyugga called their eyes the Byuakugan." he looked sad for a moment, "But after I started getting the exercises down, he said my control might be good enough to start learning to be a medic. I think he was joking because I always got hurt, but I thought why not... He's been tutoring me a few nights a week I can even do this now." he manifested medical chakra, his hands glowing light green for a moment before he ended the jutsu.

Iruka was stunned, but was concerened because that was a rather advanced technique because it took quite a bit of chakra. "How easy was that for you?"

Hiding his smirk, "Oh.. well pretty easy... I mean kabuto tested me and found out I have really large reserves. He guess I should have started control exercises when I was three, he thinks it might be a bloodline or something." He raised his shoulders and sighed.

'If his reserves are that big it has to be because of the demon, but to be that large already is ridiculous, I need to talk to the Hokage about this.' he thought, "does he do anything else with you?" Hoping it was just tutoring but there were some sick people out there.

"Yea he does, he's teaching me to meditate so I'm not so...' easily distracted by shiny or moving objects'. He said it's probably a side affect from having so much energy." He smiled, "isn't it great I thought I really sucked but it's the fact that I am super awesome that makes it so hard."

"Alright, that's all I need to know.. keep up the good work." he smiled, "maybe I could take you out for Ramen?"

he bit the inside of his cheek, "I had ramen yesterday.. and I didn't do anything chakra heavy so I'm not allowed until friday."

"Not allowed?"

"Kabuto is a medic Iruka-sensei... he told me it would keep me short and weak if I at it all the time.. so he makes me eat super health foods." he said making a face, "but when ever I do a lot of Chakra work outs I'm allowed to have it because of the calories it has."

Iruka nodded, 'sounds like some is finally taking care of this kid.' "Alright then maybe friday?"

"you bet.. can I go now? I need to start reading basic anatomy books.." He faked a shudder.

Laughing, "Sure you can go." He watched the blond hair vanish beyond the door.

A few hours later found Iruka standing infront of the Hokage. "So he's been receiving lessons from another ninja." Sarutobi spoke after listening.

"Yes, in control and medical training." Iruka rubbed his chin, "I hope the boy doesn't get introuble for teaching an academy student."

The hokage smiled, "While teaching civilians is not allowed once they start on chakra training students are allowed to learn certain skills to see if they can further themselves." He looked out the window, "However Medic training only has the stipulations of the ability to manipulate chakra and nothing of being a shinobi."

"What?"

The old man laughed, "Yes the laws do not see medic skills as being dangerous on any level." He knew far differently having had Tsunade as a student. "I think it's time to test the capacity of the students...in private of course. Standard control versus reserves ratings."

Iruka nodded, "Everyone just so we know were Naruto stands in the scale."

"Exactly. Plus this training seems to have nearly stopped all of his pranks. Also given he's not learning combat skills the council might ease off of him giving him more room once he's put on a team?"

they both nodded knowing how much politics played into ruling and ruining that boys life. "Yes Hokage-sama." he turned to leave before he looked over his shoulder, "Kabuto suggested his reserves were some sort of bloodline."

"That is a sound theory given the boys name is Uzumaki."

Elsewhere-

The sound of wood clacking was the only thing to be heard, "Very good Naruto." Sasori spoke as he motioned for him to reseal the puppet. "You almost have it down but your focus is still wandering just a bit to much."

"How is me not moving at all going to make me better at this?"

"Simple, I'm glad you finally asked." Sasori answered. "Chakra is your natural energy. How is the real you controlling you with out being here? Or how dose a henge work with out you controlling every detail?" He didn't expect an answer. " Once you have manifested the chakra for those jutsu just like these Chakra strings you simply need to think and will it to act."

Naruto's mouth opened into a large O shape, before he shook his head. "That makes sense with what Kabuto taught me about chakra control being the will over the the power."

The puppet master nodded, "Yes, control eventually becomes like breathing you not often have the think about doing so you simply do." He motioned to the desk. "Now we have two more hours before you have to dispel. Create four explosive tags with five second delays and a single use storage seal."

The blond moved to comply and began slowly drawing with the ink on the simple papers. His tongue sticking slightly passed his lips in concentration. "Next month we will begin controlling your puppet while you craft seals. You must learn to divide you attention to several tasks at once or you will be hard pressed to learn to use multiple puppets at one time."

With the other clone, he had moved to an abandoned training ground and worked his way through each of the control exercises to find a point where he needed to continue working. This Naruto was now seated spinning five wooden disks on his finger tips, in different directions and speeds. Slowing them down to a stop or speeding them back up. His face scrunched slightly in solid concentration. Before he simply 'poofed' from existance. The disks dropping the the ground to be unattended.

"Good morning class, Today we are going to bring back an old test to help us get a feel for your progress. We will do this test once a month until you graduate." Iruka spoke to his students. "It's rather simple as it tests only your control and your capacity for Chakra." he smiled looking at everyone. "As this is the last friday of the month, we will do this on the same day to get a good judge of your ability." he motioned to his assistant. "Muzuki-san will be taking and testing the girls while I will handle the boys. Remember Chakra is important but not the beat all win all of a ninja. Should you wish to or need to improve your control we will provide you with the next level of the exercises."

The two sensei moved to different doors, "One at a time you will come in take the test and return to this room. Your results are yours to share if you wish, but outside of yourself and which ever one of us tests you Only the Hokage will be allowed to see the results." Misuki stated sounding unpleased with not getting the boys.

Time moved slowly for Naruto, beign they always went alphabetically he was typically always last. However he was surprised that Shino came and joined him imediately after being tested. "My control is almost chunnin level." the bug user spoke. "My reserves however only tested below gennin."

Turning to look at his friend, he seemed puzzled, "I thought your reserves would be much larger seeing how your Kikai are constantly feeding off of them."

"That is true, however my clan contractually offers eighty percent of our reserves to our hives."

Naruto quickly did the math, "Well that would place your reserves at almost Chunnin level then right?" the small nod from his friend was all he needed. " did you ask for the next level ?"

"No, it furthers control they didn't offer a way to improve my reserves." Shino spoke, and if Naruto wasn't so used to the slight inflections at this point he wouldn't have noted the sad sound. Or maybe he was hearing the kikai in their low hum.

Scratching his head, 'Should I give him one to build his reserves? I mean the tree climbing works control but it drains the reserves quite a bit too so that would build them up.' he thought a while linger before conceding he should . "Shino, I know one that would increase both control and your reserves." he wrote down a rather detailed set of directions for the tree climbing exercise and handed it over.

Shino looked them over for a moment, "This seems logical, and would prove very useful"

Nodding his head, "Yea plus if you do it long enough to burn most of your available chakra often enough your body will increase in how fast your reserves replenish. Just make sure that when you train like that you increase your calories so you don't starve your body."

"You speak from experience?" The raised brown over the glasses the only noticeable feature.

He rubbed his head, "Yea, plus Kabuto-san explained that medically it's energy and high calories help with ensuring we don't feed on our bodies to much." he looked to the Akamichi not to far from them, "Chouji-san and his clan are designed around caloric based justu it's why they need to eat so much constantly."

It soon came to Naruto's turn, walking into the room he noticed a large metal cylander with seals painted across it in different levels. He looked at Iruka, "This is because of our talk the other day isn't it?"

The man felt the sense to be a bit sheepish, "Perhaps but you brought up a valid point and the Hokage agreed to make sure our teaching scales were fair." He motioned to the large rod, " This is the control test, the objective is the place you hands here." he pointed at two handles. "Then channel your chakra as I call out the different numbers. While maintaining the previous ones."

Naruto almost placed his hands down, before he looked over, "What's the target goals?"

Iruka smirked, "If I told you would you be fair in doing it corectly?"

Naruto frowned, "No but I don't want to get anyone introuble because they were teaching me to much."

"That's fine, but control exercises are just refining tools nothing that can cause trouble. Even if only the leaf exercise is known perfect control is still manageable." he smiled.

With that Naruto too the test, and it seemed like forever but thankfully his attention training with Sasori seemed to be the deciding factor as it made the test last far longer than it should. But Iruka called it off. "So how perfect is perfect?" Naruto asked with a slight smile of pride.

"How much longer could you have kept up?"

"Dunno it didn't seem to hard really."

"Then I will say you have perfect control. Only Shikamaru has the same level of control." Iruka smiled. Pulling a small instrument out, with a display reader he placed it onto the desk. "Now this test is the tiring one." He placed a soldier pill on the desk next to it. "This is designed to drain your chakra to the point of exhaustion. It's the reason we did this on a friday so you could recover after wards."

'Shit shit shit,' he thought as he looked at the tester. 'I don't really run out. Not with the reserve seal mixing my chakra with fuzzy butts, it will just dump it after I hit almost empty. Then I'll just start sucking it's chakra which will totally screw up everything for a few days.' he bit his lip for a moment. 'Fine I'll just have to pull when I feel the seal activate, I just need to pay attention to it.' He placed his hands on the pad and waited.

"Alright this isn't going to feel pleasant but it will be over shortly." Turning it on.

Naruto thought 'shortly yea right,' Followed by , "O kami that hurts." Outloud as he felt his chakra being sucked out rapidly. He clamped down on the discomfort as he payed attention to feeling his chakra and watching Iruka's face. Time seemed to slow down, until he felt a slight burn. He pulled his hands off and dropped to the ground, as his chakra stores seemed to fill up as if he had just taken a super soldier pill.

Iruka seemed lost as he stared at the number that showed on the screen, unaware to Naruto getting back up and simply pocketing the pill. Taking it might cause him to explode. "That's not..." he turned to look at the blond who seemed tired. "I can see why you had such control issues...what exercise are you working on now?"

Naruto mentall noted the number to ask Sasori and Kabuto about before he answered, "I'm working on the coin rotation. I can do five almost." Which was true he hadn't gotten past that level yet but by the end of the year he figured he could get all ten.

Iruka nodded, "That's well... you don't need control help I can tell that much. It's a medic level control, as for your reserves I would suggest not using any exercises that build them until you master that one." 'Master my ass he had Jounin level reserves already. No wonder the council is breathing down the Hokage's nexk about teaching this boy any dangerous jutsu.'

It was a few days before Naruto met with Kabuto but he held his thoughts until then. Getting the questions answered by a clone wasn't something he wanted. Even if they thought like him he much rather wanted to be the one to ask. Sure using them for training and studying was one thing but this was something he had to mull over on his own. "Kabuto there's something I need to ask and I want to to talk with you and Sasori personally about it."

The silver haired medic looked up from the notes over recreating the Healing ability. "What is it Naruto-kun?"

He let out a tired sigh, "I've done what we planned, but it seems the Hokage got interested in my control and my reserves so he pretty much had the academy reinstated the control and reserve testing." he looked up from his own notes and saw that he was being looked at, "The control test was fine... I scored perfect but since I'm already on medic exercises it was to be expected."

"I'm sensing a but."

"Yea the reserve test... it scares me. Since it force drains your reserves to empty..."

The light caught off of kabuto's glasses much as if the idea lit up in his mind, "And because of Sasori-samas seal when you hit bottom it dumps it straight into your reserves."

Nodding, "Yea and it burns like hell."

"Burns?"

"Yup, we've never tested it...I mean you and Sasori never let me drop my chakra that low." He looked out the window. "If I hadn't been paying attention I might have let it pull all of that too.. I mean it registered my reserves at 48743."

"That's jounin level... and you said that it was fully replaced when the seal activated?" Getting a nod,

"So the seal was holding roughly the same or more Chakra." he stood up, "We need to speak to Sasori-sama right now then."

The two of them cleaned up and took off making sure to loose any one that might be following them. Arriving at the workshop that Sasori had set up inside the forest Kabuto relayed what he was told. Sasori didn't show any expression yet they both knew he was thinking heavily.

"Burning, the mixture is off then." He spoke stiffly. "Let me look at the seal Naruto I will have to fix it."

Taking off his shirt he felt the cold fingers touch the seal. The few sounds that were escaping his true teacher weren't a comfort either. But after nearly an hour of looking at it he pulled away and walked to his desk pulling out a scroll that he opened to reveal a copy of his seal that after the over lay had been placed. Kabuto on the other hand was running a few higher level scans to see if he could tell anything.

"It seems I didn't take into account a few things that didn't seem important at the time." Sasori finally spoke. "Your seal it seems is designed to slowly increase the amount of the demons chakra over time. Based on your reserves, to compensate against your natural production of Chakra."

"His pathways were also enlarged it seems. Along with his body recieveing a mild boost from the excess. His cellular density increased."

Sasori chuckled, "Of course it's so simple now." he started looking over the scroll more in detail as he started scribbling notes on another page. "The whole purpose is clear now. The seal was designed to make you not dependant on the demon but rather to make you control it. Turning you into a war machine.. designed for combat and destruction." He started creating another overlay while continuing to speak. "The reason it burned is I didn't factor in an over flow for your body. The conection to your body and chakra coils wasn't split. Instead it used one sole outlet to accomplish both, my orignal overlay locked it down to a set outpour into your body... the rest was simply building in the mixing seal." He hummed for a moment. "So if I reverse that and set the amoutn allowed into the mixing sealand allow the rest to over flow into your body..."

"My dependancy would get higher, making my attempts at not relying on the demon futile." Naruto spoke up finally. " can't we set both or alter the seal to allow only so much and not gradually increase? Or Set both, but find a way to either get rid of the excess or put it to some other use?"

"The only way to do that, would to create a seal that would constantly need to be compressed, and then further powered to use. But what purpose would that serve unless the seal was something useful like a detection seal or a barrier or some sort." Sasori was thinking out loud in response to Naruto's statement.

Kabuto quirked a brow, "Is there a way to make a seal that would mimic a Sensor type?"

"That would be easy, but it wouldn't need to have varying levels of..."

"Unless the simple sensing of chakra was the base of the seal always being active, of course the range would need to be decent to have to deal with the power. But then you could put in Elemental detection, genjutsu detection, Gender and other such things could be added. Causing each one to consume more Chakra to use. Leaving it to be a massive drain to seek beyond the basic of where and how far."

Naruto smiled, "That would be awesome. Plus it would give me a super unfair advantage." the smirk in his voice caused the two men to turn to look at him.

Sasori laughed, "We've turned him to the dark side...Truth is so much more powerful when wielded as a weapon." Thus causing the other two to freak out for a moment before laughing along. Though naruto didn't fully understand the meaning of the words the other two did. Plans were moving so smoothly. Calming down, "I do have a copy of the old array that was once used for the Village detection network but it wasn't kept up so they discarded it."

"What about neural damage form the over load?" kabuto questioned against his idea.

"His use of the shadow clones has already caused his mind to handle instant burst of large amounts of stimulus and information." He rubbed his waxen chin, "though perhaps not activating it all at once until he become accustomed to it."

Listening to this was getting interesting, sealing and medical stuff were really fascintating to him now that he had studied into it. When the idea hit him. "Hey...what about creating a seal that mimics or gives me a bloodline that's powered by the excess demon chakra. It would allow it to alter my body like it's suppose to right? Plus it would let it work in a fashion we wanted. It would also keep me not dependent on it even if I were to either survive it being taken or some how have it blocked I could still use my chakra just fine to do so."

The two adults blinked sheepishly at each other, before the realization just what Naruto had said struck both of them. "The seal... on the bodies." kabuto whispered. Sasori on the other hand, "Naruto.. you are officially a genius. For today."

Pulling out the scrolls from kabuto's findings, the two and a soon motioned over Naruto began to look at it. " there would have to be a second stage to the bloodline. This one is designed like a power up, then a transformation." Kabuto finally said after getting the mixed input of bot Sasori and naruto's out of the box thinking.

"Well being a sensor would be awesome.. So it would have to do with locating chakra or Chakra in general then."Naruto was talking out loud, a brainstorming habit. He blinked when he noticed two things on the scroll. " Hey isn't that Like a Chakra reserve, and that's a mental link to the person who places the seal."