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Melon-Normal speaking

Noodle-Normal thought

Lalalala-Chaos/Zanpaktou from mindscape to real world, summon/Bijuu speak

Ni-summon/bijuu thought

Chapter IV

New Powers and Tests

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Naruto walked through the halls of the tower. He and his team had just finished and now, after consulting with Iruka, he was off to find the old man to see about removing the seal Orochimaru had placed on him.

Flashback

"Hey, Naruto"

"Chaos? What's up?"

"Once you get to the tower, try to find the Hokage so he can remove the seal that hebi-teme put on you"

"Wait, since that seal was what allowed you to get out, won't removing it seal you back in?"

"Nope. Since I'm out now, I can't be sealed back in. The same goes for your Sharingan"

"Oh, okay"

End Flashback

"Hey! Ojii-san!"

Smiling, the old Sandaime turned around to face the only person in the village who called him that, and gaped.

"Na…Naruto? Is that…? Are you…?"

"Heh. From your reaction, I'm guessing you know about my father's, and therefore my, bloodline. And yes. I am the one"

Regaining his composure, Sarutobi replied, "Come with me Naruto. I need you to have something" he said walking off.

A bit puzzled, Naruto followed the elderly Kage.

"I take it then that you've also activated your other bloodline?"

"Hai" Naruto said activating his Sharingan.

"Hmm. Four tomoes. I guess Minato wasn't kidding when he said that that gene mutates bloodlines"

"Yep. By the way, old man?"

"Hm?"

"I think you should know that we were attacked in the forest by Orochimaru and he…"

"Yes, I know. He put a curse mark on Sasuke"

"Yeah but he also put a seal on me. Not the kind he put on Sasuke. It was some kind of five-element seal that cut me off from the Kyuubi"

Like Hinata and Shikamaru, the Sandaime was one of the only four people who knew of Naruto's experience with the demon.

"Hmm. It makes since, as you probably would be a great threat to him and his plans. Than I take it that it was your father's seal that held back your bloodlines?" Sarutobi asked as they traveled down into what Naruto assumed was the towers basement.

"Hai. Chaos said that I should come to you to remove it so I could access his power again" Naruto answered.

"Don't worry, I'll remove it. It's just that the shock might knock you unconscious so I'd rather get this over with before I remove it" the old man answered as they entered a dark room under the tower.

They had entered a storage room of some kind that seemed to be filled with several odd and valuable looking items. It made since to store valuable stuff here. After all, this was a heavily fortified tower in the middle of the Forest of Death. And after his experiences in it, Naruto knew that that name was well deserved.

As they headed toward the back of the storage room, Naruto noticed, on the back wall, a display case of some kind. In it were two sheathed katanas that appeared very expensive. They were identical except that one had a black wrapped handle and the other had a white wrapped handle. That and the case that they were in boasted a seal to keep people out said that these swords were very valuable.

As they approached the case, Sarutobi spoke.

"Naruto-kun, these two swords have been passed down through the Namikaze clan for generations. Supposedly, they belonged to Chaos himself and were quite powerful. Your father locked them in this case and only someone with the Chaos gene can open it. Since you are Chaos's reincarnation, I think you should have them"

As Naruto gazed at the swords, their original owner spoke up.

"Well well. I guess my decedents took good care of the stuff I left behind. Naruto, these are two of the weapons I'm going to teach you how to use. You should take them, though you probably won't be proficient in them for awhile, it'll still be a good idea to hold on to them"

"Alright" Naruto replied as he approached the case.

As he stood in front of it, the Sandaime told him how to open it.

"Just smear some of your blood on the seal. It'll unlock after that"

Following his directions, Naruto bit his thumb and smeared some of the blood on the seal. Just as his grandfather figure said, the lock clicked and the case swung open.

Naruto reached in and grabbed the two swords. Clipping them both to his left hip, he turned toward his companion.

"Alright," Sarutobi said as bluish-purple flames appeared on the fingers of his right hand, "lift up your shirt so I can strike the seal. This'll probably hurt"

Nodding, Naruto pulled up his shirt to reveal the seal on his stomach. Sarutobi then drew back his hand, and then slammed his fingers into the seal, knocking Naruto back. Luckily however, he didn't fall unconscious.

"Alright then. Ojii-san?"

"Hmm?"

"How many other people know about my parents?"

"Apart from myself, your relation to Minato is known only by two of my students, Jiraiya and Tsunade, as well as his own student, Kakashi and Sasuke's brother, Itachi"

"And those who know of my mother?"

"Only myself, Jiraiya and her nephew Itachi"

"Does that mean I'm emo-boys cousin?"

"Yep"

"Crap"

"As for knowing about your father's bloodline, as far I know I'm the first person outside of the Namikaze clan to know of their bloodline"

"Okay then" Naruto said as he left to head to his teams room. He had sent a few Kage Bunshin ahead to claim his sleeping spot and scent backup incase the angst-machine disagreed.

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Hinata Hyuuga was not happy at the moment. Sure her team had passed the second test with plenty of time to spare, but that wasn't what was getting on her nerves. First, she found that her emo-wannabe cousin Neji and his team had also passed so now she had to avoid him like the plague. Then there was the fact that her annoying, dumbass teammate Kiba wouldn't stop hitting on her. Though her mask gave her an appearance of shyness and weakness, she couldn't contain her feelings for Naruto and her team knew she was infatuated with him (though they had no idea of her mask). Unfortunately, due to Naruto's mask of complete idiocy, he couldn't return her feelings. She didn't have any predispositions about the Inuzuka, it was just that he not only hit on her knowing about her infatuation with Naruto, but he also repeatedly insulted him when he just couldn't figure it out that he had absolutely no chance with her. And the worst part of all of this was that she couldn't beat the shit out of him since she had to keep her mask up. She unconsciously rubbed the back of her neck as she mused.

She was broken from her musings as she heard a voice she really wanted to her.

"Hey Hinata-chan, it's been awhile"

Recognizing the voice, she turned to face the boy she loved, and gaped. Naruto wardrobe had taken a complete 180. He was now wearing what looked like a set of ANBU armor with dark-golden, spiky-toed boots and a similarly colored clawed gauntlet on his left arm as well as a tattered crimson cape. He also was wearing a pair of elegant katanas on his left hip. The ensemble was completed by the smile he wore on his face, not the usual idiotic grin, this was his true smile. A smile filled with emotion that had only been seen by five people, Hinata included.

As she stared at this, she was fighting with all her self-control to not completely drop her mask and tackle-glomp Naruto. She lasted about two seconds.

"NARUTO-KUN!!" she yelled as she tackled him.

"Heh, I guess you're glad to see me"

"You know, I'm all for dropping the masks, but if anyone else sees you two like that it could get very troublesome, and you remember what happened last time"

Hinata looked up to see her other longtime friend looking down at them. She then became very red remembering what he was talking about and immediately got up off of Naruto, who was also just as red.

"So, since Hinata's here, can you tell us what the heck happened in the forest?"

"Sure." Naruto said as he led them into a nearby vacant room.

"Hinata-chan, can you put up a barrier. I'd rather not anyone else know what I'm going to tell you"

"Hai, Naruto-kun" Hinata said as she went through a few hand seals and put up a sound barrier around the room to deter any eavesdroppers.

"First of all, what's with the swords?" Shikamaru asked.

"They're family heirlooms basically. The old man gave them to me"

"Oh. So does that mean we were right?"

"Dead on. It was the Yondaime all right. As I was saying…"

And for about the next two hours, Naruto explained what had transpired in the forest. Everything from his new abilities to his new Sharingan to Chaos himself.

"So let me get this strait. You're not only an Uchiha, your also the descendent and reincarnation of the son of a demon overlord and an archangel as well as the apprentice of Shinigami" said Shikamaru.

"Yep"

"You are so lucky"

"So, is it true about what you did in the forest to those oto-nin?" Hinata asked.

"Yeah he did" Shika answered.

"Well, I need to head back to our barracks so I can talk to fuzzy and Chaos. See yah" Naruto said as he left the room and headed back to his team's quarters.

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Naruto lay down in the one full-size bed in the room. Emo-boy and his stalker (much to her glee) were in a bunk-bed on the other side of the room. It had apparently taken five clones and a barrier jutsu to keep Sasuke away from his bed. Understandably, the emo wasn't very keen on sleeping anywhere near any of his fangirls. But Naruto just didn't care.

Speaking of his annoying teammates, they were already asleep in their respective beds, at least he thought they were. Sakura could always just be faking it so she could rape Sasuke once he was asleep, and Sasuke could just be forcing himself to stay awake to deter said raping attempts.

Naruto shivered slightly at the thought of having a fanclub. That was one of the reasons he had adopted a mask of idiocy in the first place. Though he knew it was unlikely that he would get any fangirls, he wasn't taking any chances. At least Hinata could keep her emotions in check most of the time, and she was quite a handful when she couldn't, thank Kami for Shika's Kagemane. He broke his musings as he remembered that he needed to talk to Chaos the newly freed Kyuubi. He had long ago perfected the art of forced sleep so he could easily talk to Kyuubi. Which he did right now. He closed his eyes and felt his mind drift away as he entered his mindscape.

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Naruto opened his eyes to find he was at the mountain outcropping again, thankfully on the outcropping this time. He saw Chaos in the stone circle, but what puzzled him was that they weren't alone. Sitting with Chaos were two people Naruto hadn't seen before. The first was a man with long white hair, pointed ears, claws, and a strange blue mark on his forehead. He was wearing traditional looking armor that had a demonic appearance which was partially covered by a white cloak (think Sesshomoru (sp?) only with two arms). He also had a large mass of white fur slung over his left shoulder like a scarf of some kind. His companion was a woman with similar features, only her hair was a raven black and she lacked the forehead mark. She was garbed in similar armor, only without the scarf or cloak.

"Okay," Naruto asked as he walked over to them, "who are you two and how are you in my mind?"

"Okay Naruto," Chaos said, "you know how I said I would teach you how to use those two swords?"

"Yes…"

"Actually, I'm not the one who's going to teach you. These two are" Chaos continued gesturing to the new comers. "After all, who better to teach you how to use a sword, then the sword itself"

"Huh?"

This time it was the white-haired man who spoke up.

"He's right. My name Naruto, is Tetsaiga and my companion is Tenseiga. We are the spirits of the two swords that you now wield and we will teach you how to use us"

"Okay,…" Naruto was cut off as they heard a rumbling sound.

"Ah, it looks like Kyuubi's coming out" Chaos stated as everyone looked toward the mountainside.

The rumbling continued until a large portion of the mountainside at the back of the outcropping fell away, reveling Kyuubi's cage, demon and all.

"Ah, it's about time I got out. Hey kit. Hey, you changed the mindscape. How'd you manage that?" The demon said.

"It wasn't me." Naruto answered. "It was him" he said, pointing to Chaos who just waved at Kyuubi smiling.

Upon noticing Chaos, Kyuubi instantly paled a little.

"Oh great. NOT YOU AGAIN!!!" Kyuubi roared.

"What? All I ever did was beat you in ten pranking contests, blackmail you into doing really degrading things then circulate those pictures and destroy what little dignity you had left…okay I guess that is enough to get pissed off at" Chaos answered in a placating tone.

"You blackmailed Kyuubi?" Naruto asked.

"Yes he did. And it was about the funniest thing you ever saw" Tenseiga answered, giggling.

"Alright, alright. We kind of need to start the training here. We only have about two days to practice" Tetsaiga stated.

"Okay," Chaos said "let the tortur…I mean training begin"

"I have a bad feeling about this"

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Time skip: two days

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The 19 genin who passed the second test (Zaku and Kin were not able to take the prelims (for obvious reasons)) were standing in a large room with a giant statue of two hands in a ram seal. Standing if front of them were their Jounin teachers, the exam proctors and the Sandaime himself. The old man was giving some speech on why the chunin exams were established, but Naruto mostly ignored him. That was until the sickly jounin came up and began speaking about a third test.

"Alright –cough" Hayate said/coughed. "Since there are 18 people here, we need to –cough- narrow down the contestants for the finals –cough-. This will be done with one-on-one battles between you contestants"

At this, several of the contestants shivered slightly. Naruto, noticing that Dosu was eyeing him fearfully, flashed him a pretty evil grin. Dosu immediately paled and a dark spot appeared on his pants.

'This should be fun!'

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AN: Sorry about not having the prelims in this. Since I haven't been able to get a lot done, I decided to go with what I had for an update. The next chapter will cover the prelims, and that's it. Don't expect it up very soon as I have school work, and I've also started work on another fic. Also, there WILL NOT be a lemon in this fic. I don't write lemons, period.