The swirl of sand deposited Ryuu in the training grounds of his home, as his tight grip on his control finally slipped the chakra blaring out around him sending shockwaves along the grass and bending the trees away from his body. The dirt rising from the ground swirling around his body as his eyes shifted from their beautiful blue to a sickly yellow with slits. "No... NO..No.. I will not let you win, You are mine to destroy!" The young boys voice switched between that of his soft timber and that of a raving beast of power as they fought for control over his body.

/Mind Scape/

The once beautiful place that was his mind seemed to rage under a storm as Ryuu stood on the edge of the Ocean of Chakra that had at one time belonged to the Kyuubi. " You will go into the seal Demon," as he called out to his elemental dragons each waking and starting to strike the One tailed demon Shikaku with their power.

"I will not bow to a mortal like you." The demon raged as it fought against the blue chains that tried to force the beast into the seal The dragons striking against the Sand creature with a frightening display of power,

"The Shinigami created this seal to hold and contain the greatest of you Demons, you will not win!" Ryuu began shouting as he started going through seals concentrating on the chakra that swirled beneath the demon, as well as the seals he had placed over the seal meant to contain a Biiju. Upon reaching the last hand seal everything stop moving, before the Tower burst a beam of light into the air, rending the clouds of the storm.

"I have come, Shikaku..." the spirit called out from everywhere yet no where at once. The great force of power seemed to weigh heavily upon Ryuu inside his mind and outside it as well. "You have two choices. You may die and give all that you are to your host... Or you may leave your power and knowledge with him and I take your soul to be judge by Kami herself." The reaper spoke as he appeared between Ryuu and the Demon.

The demon stilled as he saw the Shinigami, hearing the words echoed through out the mental landscape of the boy that had ripped him from his host. "I would rather die than be judged by some weak excuse of a God." The Raccoon like demon raged as he struggled against it's bonds.

"Then so be it." The Death god spoke, before he lunged out with his bone hands and ripped the soul from the demon holding it in his hand he turned to face Ryuu before he consumed the soul, letting the boy watch what he was doing. "You have started down a path that has been laid before you by those that came before. Know this, Kami has blessed you in ways even I do not comprehend you are the child of a great Destiny, you are one of the Heirs to the Sage of Six Paths. You who inherited his knowledge and natural skills. You have 7 more before you are the Heir of his Chakra. 7 more members of your family you must contain. To be his true heir you path will be dangerous, and you could give rise to something far more Dangerous than the Biiju, or you could bring about a time of peace." the God soon vanished clearing the skies.

The once crystal blue ocean of chakra, now seemed murky with a tainted brown power. Yet the seal placed over the ocean the one meant to contain and purify thrummed to life and began extracting the chakra and cleansing it. Ryuu took in the dragons once more as they lined up again to take their silent watch, Fire, Earth, Air, Water, Lightning, Wood, Ice, and now a Dragon of Shifting Sands. With that he took to the tower to find tomes of red and brown littering the floor. Again taking up the task of placing all he had 'learned' to the shelves.

/Outside/

The raging force of his chakra slowed only to start spreading waves of the elements from his body, scorching, soaking, freezing, shocking, growing rending the air and ground before it all settled. Leaving his huddled body in a crater of life and death.

Those in the Village that could remember the night that the nine tailed demon attacked their village shuddered in fear as Shinobi began scouring the village and the surrounding areas to see if they could find the source of the foul Chakra. But before they could hone in on it, the power simply vaninshed. The Hokage in his tower, peered through his crystal orb, watching Ryuu tame another beast it seemed. Though how he could hold two demons he didn't know. With a flash he vanished from his office to appear next to Ryuu.

Rolling him over he pulled up the boys shirt to inspect the seal, but his jaw dropped when he saw the changes, and most obvious many alterations to the seal. "Ryuu what have you done?" To his surprise the boy answered.

"I killed another one old man," he laughed dryly as he was tired from the ordeal.

"What do you mean killed?"

"I never held the Kyuubi, just it's chakra and skills. Just like I know have the Ichibi's chakra and skills" He paused to take a breath and pushed himself up onto his elbows. " The seal, when Dad used it the Shinigami took the demons soul leaving everything else. Every demon or spirit I can trap in my seal the same thing will happen." He sighed trying not to fall asleep in the mess. "Just don't be mad at me." With that he passed out.

Sarutobi had heard many things, seen many things and done many things. But to find out that a boy had discovered how to steal demons from their hosts and then destroy them within his own seal on his body was something he had never heard of nor even imagined to be possible. He sent an ANBU to summon Neara to have her look at him. It was something he had feared for but he wanted answers.

After a few moments she arrived, and instantly activated her Byuakugan, and gasped. "Hokage-sama... what happened?"

"Ryuu some how figured out a way to remove Biiju and trap them in he seal, and through doing so brings the shinigami back to destroy the soul of the demon." He paused to look at the worried Healer. " Is there anything wrong with him that you can tell me?"

She quickly performed a diagnostic jutsu, and gasped. " It's.. he's.. actually pefectly fine except his healing rate is doubled... his metabolism just the same. But it's his chakra pathways that are strange." She looked up at the Hokage, with a confused look." They are multiplying and shifting. As you know humans have set pathways that are unique to each person, though they all connect and flow over certain points.. their tenketsu." She paused. " The way his are right now, as they have stabilized I could strike everyone of his tenketsu, and it wouldn't shut off the flow of his chakra. It's like he has layers of pathways now some on the surface and others deeper."

The Hokage nodded, and after seeing how they had discovered this before, He had assumed that it was how they coped with the added foreign chakra by making more pathways. But, now it seemed that there was something else to it entirely. " Neara-chan this stays out of his records of course, but from what he told me before he passed out. He contains the knowledge, skills, and power of the Biiju that he traps this way." He sighed. "I need you to get me Inoichi."

/Inside Ryuu's room/

Sarutobi looked at the arrival of Neara and Inoichi, "I'm glad you could come but something has come to my attention and I sadly cannot move with out knowing. I need you to walk his mind and discover anything unusual."

The other man nodded and flashed through the seals for the Mind possesion slumping over in the chair.

/Mindscape/

Inoichi, arrived among a grassy field, surrounding what looked like a village with people, and buildings. The forest away from the down looked forbidding as he turned to see a vast ocean of blue, with a darkness under it. He had never seen a mind like this before, as he passed the people of the town he touched one and got a rush of information about that person. " I see so the people are manifestations of his knowledge of them." He looked at the building noting how some were horribly proportioned to others. " If the people represent themselves, then the building must be respective abilities or knowledge in those areas."

He moved along learning some interesting things about how the Namikaze's mind worked compared to other people. It was amazing and organized but in a way that you could spend time here in peace meditating.

"Hey, You're not suppose to be here." He heard echo from around him, seeing Dragons of different colors and what looked like elements surround him. "Take him to the boss."

He soon found himself brought to the large tower, where he saw the boy sitting there with a stack of scrolls and books. He would pick on up look through it before it faded to a wisp and entered the tower or flowed out into his mental city. " Release him, and return to your posts." The dragons obeyed and vanished.

"You must be a Yamanaka, and then that means that your are Inoichi. Which means that the Old Man asked you to pry into my mind since he found me after a jutsu had some … unexpected backlash." The boy spoke, as he continued to look through the scrolls.

"That would be correct, though I am not sure what I was suppose to look for since One, I have never looked into your mind before and then two I have never seen a mind like yours." the elder man spoke in respect. It was one thing to pry into a mind of a person who was average, but to pry into the mind of some one so mentally disciplined was dangerous.

"Don't worry I have no intentions of harming you, though I do request you stay out of the forest as those are my more... scarred moments as a child and other such negative things." He paused from his scrolls to look up. " Jiji really didn't tell you what to look for did he?"

Inoichi sighed, he hated things like this but then it was a rare occurrence to truly see a mind like this. "No he didn't and I will take you warning though I have to wonder as to what he hoped I would find or not find in here."

The blonde boy just chuckled before he touched all the scrolls making them wisp away. He shook his head a moment,"That is never pleasant." Before he walked forward, " Well since I know you I am Ryuu Namikaze though I sure you knew that already but I will show you what he wanted you to look for." Ryuu summoned up an orb and tossed it to the Man, and watched as the memory of the fight with the Ichibi flashed through his mind before the orb vanished. " He wanted the truth, to see if there were any demons in my seal or if I was a demon hiding I assume. I know why he did it but that doesn't mean I have to like it." His trust in the old man slipped a little even if he understood the reasoning.

Inoichi was shocked at how blunt the boy was about all of this, " You were the Uzamaki boy..." Ryuu just nodded. "We were told you died."

"Well technically I did, I was just lucky enough to be brought back to life as just myself. However you will stay here a moment." Ryuu then vanished.

/Ooutside/

"Old man, you have some explaining to do quickly." Ryuu/Inoichi spoke.

The Hokage looked over to the interrogation specialist that he had come in to look at Ryuu speak to him in that tone. " What do you mean Inoichi?"

The man laughed, " Jiji... just because it's his body doesn't mean I didn't jump over here. I just followed the chakra. But that aside you could have just asked me when I woke up, not sent some stranger than hated Naruto into my mind to find out that I am a technical demon vessel damn it."

"What do you mean technial? And what do you mean he hated Naruto?"

" Well as soon as he found out that I used to be 'that Uzamaki boy' he became Hostile towards me which is why I jumped over here for a moment." The possessed man spoke. " But it's simple, instead of sealing the demons inside me the seal just seals their chakra and their skills/talents that were respectiveness to them. Their 'mind' or soul is destroyed or taken away. It's why you never felt the Kyuubi chakra from me. Dad put a purification seal attached to the seal that merges my chakra and theirs. While I had the training seal on it sped up the process." He paused finding it harder to breath for a moment. "Since I held the largest and strongest, I can easily fit the rest inside with out worry of them taking over. Now as long as I do them in order from here on it'll be like dispelling fifty clones at once, small headache but not of the power wash that happened. I promise." It was strange seeing Inoichi give Ryuu's fox like grin.

"Alright, Ryuu... I'll trust you and I hope you forgive an Old man for worrying."

"I will but it will take time.. or maybe some Ramen," He paused for a moment, "Actually find me someone that can teach me Dad's jutsu and we can call it even. But as far as This guy I'm going to wipe part of his memory.. from about the point to where he found me to now. It's my secret and it'll stay that way." With that the body slumped to the floor again.

/Mindscape/

Ryuu reappeared infront of Inoichi again," I am sorry for leaving I just had to go yell at the old man for a second, and I am sorry for this." He reached out and grabbed onto Inochi and retraced and removed all the memories up until the point they met. Though he did make a copy of the man perfectly to fit in his mind for later inspections. Releasing him he hopped back.

"No he didn't tell me what to look for." Inocihi said.

"Well that's because he didn't know what happened. Just let him know it was something similar to if someone dispelled about fifty Kage Bunshin at once. On top of having Chakra exhaustion. I just knocked myself out for a day or so..Hopefully less since I have the chunnin exams tomorrow." The boy sighed, before he got a determined look on his face. "Well go tell him, I'll be awake in a moment."

With a wave of his hand he forced the man out of his mind. And walked over to his pools of Chakra that were slowly filling up from the strain.

"this will never do, " He focues hard and made the wells larger and much deep and that included the point from which they seemed to fill from the never ending ocean. "that should fix my issues with depletion and also I'll regenerate faster too in all senses of the word. Now to wake up."

/Outside/

Ryuu came too, just as he saw Neara leaning back away from him. She must have noticed the shift in his chakra happen quickly. He looked at Inoichi and the Hokage," I trust he told you what happened?"

The Old man nodded and then dismissed Inoichi. They all waited for the man to leave.

"Now, would you care to explain that surge in Chakra before you woke up?"

"Oh hehe, well I didn't want to have to worry about my reseves being depleted like that again so I made them large and increase the flow of chakra from my seal into my reserves." The boy scratched the back of his head.

"How?"

"Well if you see inside my mind, I have a representation of the seal over an Ocean of chakra which is what's in the seal being purified and merged to mine. I just opened it up a bit more."

The old man just shook his head, he was getting too old for this."Well then I will see you after you exams then. You have to prepare and I assume adjust to any unique skills you have acquired?"

"Yea I have to test them out, but I won't be using them during the exams... Don't want anyone to know I can steal Bloodlines now do we?" he laughed though no one else did. They just sweat dropped as the Old Naruto seemed to peak out of Ryuu for a moment.

"Good night Ryuu, get some rest, I am sure that these Trials won't be that easy for you." With that both Neara and the Hokage left, but not before Neara placed a kiss atop Ryuu's forehead.

/Next Day/

Sasuke, Ryuu and Hinata all met up in front of the Academy. The time spent training really cut down on then speaking to each other, they either new or would just simply flash signs to each other. But today was something different.

"Are you guys ready?" Ryuu asked, since they really didn't know what they would need.

"Yea, you know we are Ryuu-kun... it's not like we are gennin or anything," Hinata joked, which had taken them aback as it was one of the few times she had shown sarcasm. But seeing as how her and Sasuke were 'dating' it wasn't surprising that she would pick up on his sharp wit.

"Well then perhaps we should go in and just sit there ?" Sasuke spoke, as motioned for them all to enter. The worked they way up the stairs, and looked to each other as they clearly could see through the genjutsu on the door, only to shake their heads and silently move up to the next level.

Entering the real room 301, they noticed not many groups had made it, though Ryuu noticed the team from Suna and noted they actually looked rather calm and slightly happy compared to yesterday. Team 7 was taking in the competition, noting that not many looked to be an issue. In their book, but then they were well aware of the pretending to be something else than you were.

A few more teams from Konoha seemed to trickle in, until amazingly all of the rookies were there, All in total there were nearly 40 teams in the room. When a silver haired kid came up to them, with a stack of cards in hand. Ryuu turned to look at Sasuke, who had his back to the new comer, to see if he had his henge over his eyes. Which were black so yes he had it on. "I'm Kabuto, I thought you guys might want some help looking over the competition."

Kiba ran up, " Sure tell me about sasuke Uchiha and Ryuu Namikaze" The dog boy barked out causing two teams to look their way, both of which happened to be wearing Iwa headbands.

" You know there names? That makes it all to easy, " He flicked a card and focused some chakra into it, before Sasuke 'Uchiha's' record showed up, stating that he had completed 2340 d-rank missions, 8 c-rank and 1 a-rank mission. It also stated that he had activated his Doujutsu. Having heard that Sasuke in his very brooding like just went 'Hn'. "Well as for Namikaze here, " he changed cards, It showed the same missions as Sasuke as they were teamed, but it also ranked his skills as being near nothing outside of Medical Jutsu.

Which Ryuu slipping into the old 'Dobe' mode, "bah your cards are stupid... "

Suddenly smoke filled the air leaving a man in a trench coat standing in the room, "Alright, come here take a number and find you seat." He waited, " Now!" He barked focusing his killing intent on the gather gennin to get them motivated. He waited for them all to take the random seats. "Good, I'm Morino Ibiki, I will be your proctor for this stage of the exams. You will have an hour to complete this written test. If you are caught cheating, then you will loose two points, if your team collectively looses 10 points you fail the exam and are ejected. Also I will verbally give you the last question When ten minutes remain for the exam." He looked at them all, " BEGIN."

Ryuu smirked to himself as he flipped over the test, reading over the questions. He didn't even have to bother cheating after he saw them. In this case it was much of what he and Sasuke had read over out of the combined Secret Namikaze et al Library that they now owned. As well as Hinata could easily copy others, since she was wearing a henge of herself to disguise the Byakugan that she had activated before they walked into the school. Ryuu took his time answering them all in depth, and even giving pointers. Ryuu also wrote a note to Ibiki on it, stating that the info cards that Kabuto had were beyond the level of skill for a gennin as well as garnering the information on them. Plus the Iwa teams were aware of him being a Namikaze. After that he just waited, listeing to teams getting ejected and shot out of the room.

The time slipped by slowly until, "Alright Now, half of you are gone, and I don't expect many of you to even be able to handle the last question." The man paused to glare at the remaining teams. " Now, there's a stipulation to this question. You can decide to not take it and leave, though if you take it and fail then you will be barred from becoming Chunnin permanently." There were murmurs around the room and several more teams quit, leaving only 14 teams. " Last chance."

Everyone left just sat there," Alright you guys all passed." Just as some of them started to cry out in indignation the window exploded inward, and a banner appear stuck to the ceiling with a nearly named Anko standing in front of it. " All right Maggots, I'm Mitarashi Anko.. I'll be the proctor for your second exam, get your asses down to training ground 44, MOVE IT!" Several of the teams scrambled out the door, and yes she was hot but damn scary. " 42 runts, not bad Ibiki, maybe I'll just have to cut them in half.. " she smirked at team 7 this was going to be fun, but so bad...