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Chapter 4: A deal with the Devil!

Naruto gasped as he found himself kneeling down in a pool of murky water, Gaara lying next to him, the Nine-Tailed fox inside his fox opposite him and Shukaku chuckling menacingly in a glass cube next to the Kyuubi. He was ramming against the glass, and with each hit, Gaara shifted more and squealed with agony.

"Stop it!" Naruto shouted, running over to the glass cube "You're hurting Gaara!"

"That's the point, kid," the Ichibi said "Today's the day I break this seal!"

"Stop it now or I'll stop you myself!" Naruto cried "Gaara's my first proper friend and I won't let you hurt him. Shukaku stopped, then began to laugh, starting out low until building up into maniacal laughter.

"You! Stop me! You've more chance of convincing foxy over there to frolic in the meadows!" Shukaku laughed again, and once again rammed the cube. Hairline fractures began to spread out, and the Ichibi chuckled deeply.

Naruto turned to the fox. "You have to help me! All my life you've made me hated, so now pay me back. HELP ME!" Naruto screamed. The fox raised an eyebrow, and bared its teeth.

"It… would be a shame if you were to be killed this soon. I'll comply – this once!" He lifted his claw, and pointed at Shukaku. "Brother, you are putting yourself to shame! Stop this foolishness at once!" Shukaku simply screamed at the fox, at so the fox sighed.

He fixed Shukaku with an evil glare, and began to radiate Killing Intent. Shukaku laughed again.

"I am too am a demon! That level Killing Intent won't work on me!" The Nine-Tails sneered and began to pile on the pressure, Naruto frozen in place like a rabbit in the headlights. Gaara was shaking as well, and Shukaku stopped pounded the glass. "Stop this brother!"

The fox roared, laden with chakra, and Shukaku trembled, raising his hands above his head. Sand began to flake off of him, falling onto the floor of the cage. The Nine-Tails stood up and roared again, leaving Shukaku as nothing but a pile of sand.

"Gaara! Gaara! Are you okay?" Naruto walked over to him.

He woke up, rubbing his head. "Yes Naruto, I'm fine, thanks to that fox of yours."

"Yeah, thanks fox!" Naruto said

The fox growled, and waved a paw at them, and they were expelled from the Tailed Beast Dimension. As they woke up, Jiraiya was working on the seal on Gaaras stomach. Seals were etched all over the room, connected to the seal on him.

"Ah, Naruto, good to see you. You're just in time to see me re-do a seal of a Tailed Beast." He laid both of his hands over the seal, and called out "Sealing of the Beast! First!" The seal on his stomach faded, replaced by a swirling seal similar to Narutos. "You see Naruto, living objects need to be sealed in even numbered seals, and they have to have more than six points on them, so that if one point fails the rest of them won't become overloaded."

Naruto looked up at him "Huh." Jiraiya sighed.

"Let's leave the village tomorrow. We've caused too much trouble already."

Naruto tugged on his arm. "We can't leave Gaara here! All the villagers hate him, and his own father's trying to kill him! Please let him come with us! I'll stop asking you questions and for jutsus if you let him!"

Jiraiya thought about it, then "Okay, he can come with us. We'll need a plan so that his father doesn't ask around where he is though…"

Baki walked into the Kazekage's office, and knelt down. "Kazekage-Sama, Yashamaru's assassination attempt has succeeded. I found Gaaras and Yashamarus body on the ground near each other, most likely the two of them delivering each other a fatal blow. Gaara had multiple stab wounds whereas Yashamaru was simply crushed by the sand coffin."

"Hm. That is pleasing news. I trust you have dealt with the bodies?"

"Yes, Kazekage-Sama."

"Excellent. Take the day off tomorrow as your reward."

"Thank you, master." Baki jumped out of the window, leaving the Kazekage sitting at his desk in the dark alone in his office. A single silver tear slide down his cheek.

"My youngest child… is dead," he said in a voice one might use to comment on the weather. "Guards, leave me alone tonight."

"Yessir," one of them said as they jumped out of the building.

The next day, the villagers rejoiced at the news whilst Naruto and Jiraiya crept out of the village. Once out of there, they met Gaara behind a large dune. He was scooping sand into the large gourd in his back. "Once I'm out of the desert, I'll have no chance to refill my sand, so I'm getting as much as I can," he explained

"How did you trick the Kazekage?" Naruto asked.

"Well, I cast a genjutsu on one of his most trusted jounin, to make him see Gaaras dead body. This genjutsu was particularly complicated, as it had to make him feel the body as well. He disposed of Gaara, then informed the Kazekage so now the whole village thinks that he is dead."

Gaara was shaking with rage and sadness. "I should kill them all. But I won't. I'll make them feel pain later."

Then the three of them walked off together.

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