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Italics are thoughts and writing. Bold is Inner Self or Demon.

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The Power of Seals

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Darkness. Once the door opened that's what greeted the three. The light from the hallway disappeared, Jiraiya's torch went out, the one Naruto dropped when he got possessed went out, and chakra suddenly became unusable again.

"Why the hell can't I feel any chakra in me right now? What is going on here? Naruto, what are you doing?" Jiraiya began to panic. He did not understand what was happening and he did not like it. Naruto walked into the room, ignoring his sensei's questions. He stopped a few feet into the room, and he began to glow. Orange illuminated the doorway, and soon spread to the rest of the room. The light revealed doors around the entire room, totaling around twenty. Once the light reached the opposite end of the room from the door, Jiraiya saw two statues facing eachother, holding opposite ends of a scroll. He walked in to the room towards the scroll and once he got close, he felt a hand on his shoulder drag him back. He turned to see Sasuke holding him and was about to say something when he felt air rush by him and he turned back to the statues. There were arrows imbedded in the ground and the floor moved showing a flowing stream of lava underneath.

"I thought the Dobe was dumb. Pay more attention, I don't feel like saving you from death." Sasuke walked back out into the hall and picked up Naruto's dropped torch before walking back and putting it above the lava and had it relight. Once he did that, he fell in a pit of water, but instinctively tried to use his chakra to stand on top of it. He was surprised when it worked.

"I'm not the only one who has to pay more attention, smart-ass. Get up before something that managed to live down here decides you'd make a great snack." Jiraiya turned back to Naruto and saw he was in a meditative position, so he figured it would be best to leave him alone, as much as he hated it.

As Sasuke was about to jump out of the thirty-foot pit with chakra enhanced strength, the chakra he forced out of his body flew out of the pit and into a seal on the wall of the room itself. A spiral staircase emerged out of the walls, which Sasuke quickly ascended, not wanting them to go away or change on him. Once he got up, the pit resealed and part of a wall started glowing. As he approached the light, it took the shape of a door with "Uchiha" printed above it. He was about to reach for the handle when Naruto jumped on to the ceiling of the room, did a few hand signs, slammed his hands together, and jumped on to the lava and stood on it like it were a stream of water.

"Gaki, are you insane? You'll burn!" Jiraiya yelled. After a few seconds, the lava coated Naruto in what appeared to be armor, before it reached out and picked up the scroll. Placing it down in front of Naruto, the lava merged to his skin. A faded kanji for Yoton (Lava) appeared on his back for a few seconds, before disappearing. Though no one would know due to him still wearing all his clothing with the lava having no effect on it.

Naruto blinked. He blinked again, again, and then yet again. Then he turned to look at Jiraiya, who had concern on his face, before he smiled and gave a thumbs up, then passed out.

"Hn. Dobe. I'll be back." Sasuke said as he opened the door saying Uchiha.

"It's probably already late. We might aswell make camp in here tonight. I'll set up the sleeping mats." As he was talking there was a click after camp, and another after sleeping. Once the second click was heard, part of the wall glowed again, before the floor dented in forming a rut from one wall to another, and water started flowing through it. "And now I guess we have water. I'll get it tested later. Hurry up Uchiha."

"Hmph. Whatever." Sasuke said as he opened the door. He wanted to know why there was a room labeled after his clan in a different village. He found scrolls of varying sizes, aswell as a box in the center of the room. He went for the box first and, after making sure it wasn't booby trapped, opened it. Inside was a note. It read: "Blood for blood, and the world will bathe in red, life after life and it all will shed. An enemy's blade for an ally's head, will bring all to be dead. But only one with pure heart and mind, will bring true power for only one to find." While the back read: "I did not fully comprehend what this meant, but I was told it by a figure bathed in light. Many years ago a few Uchiha broke off from the main clan in Konoha to come here: Whirlpool. Supposedly home to the greatest bloodline ever to exist. It was only reported once, before the time of even the Rinnegan and the Sage of the Six Paths. A few of us had been going through a shrine, not dedicated to anyone or thing, just a shrine, when a flash of light caught our attention. We looked up and the light told us the saying on the other side of this paper. It also dropped something, a seal more precisely, but we never could figure out what it did or how it worked. The thought of power, however, eventually drove the others mad. I will not lie and say I haven't been tempted by the power, but I don't wish to end up like the others and so I'm trying to resist as much s possible. The Uzumaki's are amazing with seals, but even they can only recognize 'power' as one part of the seal. I have asked the leader of Whirlpool to seal it off, along with this note and all the Uchiha knowledge that we brought. I am the last one, and I think it is only because of my eyes. I unlocked a level never before recorded or rumored. I put all of the knowledge I had on them in a scroll that will only open to someone who is worthy. That is all. Good luck. And everything sealed away with this is now the rightful property of the reader if he be Uchiha. Congratulations."

As he put the note back down, another light flashed for a moment, and a podium grew out of the ground with a case on top. Inside was an Uchiha battle fan with buttons along the handle. Sasuke opened the case and grabbed the fan, which turned out to be two, and got in a fighting stance. The fans started to buzz until they flew out of his hand and attached themselves under the handle of his sword. He drew it, and when he got a firm grip the fans opened. He decided he would have Jiraiya seal all of the contents in the room so he could assess it better later on. Once he sheathed the sword, the battle fans folded over to cover the handle, and continued until the sword and sheath were gone. They then flew back up to his waste and shot out a belt with a fan case in them. Sasuke looked for a moment before grabbing the scroll in the case. He opened it and saw the index of seals, all containing other scrolls about the specific part. He sighed and put it in another slot that formed in the shape of a scroll, before walking out of the room.

"Jiraiya, how's the Dobe?" said Sasuke as he entered the main room.

Jiraiya looked up. "He's fine. Mild chakra exhaustion but nothing he won't be over by morning. What was in the room?"

"Some Uchiha left the main clan and came here. That room contains everything they had. Could you seal it in scrolls for me so I can get it later."

Jiraiya looked mildly concerned. "Are you really asking someone for help? Well in that case sure. Oh, if only I had a camera to remember this moment forever. Watch the Gaki, it'll be a few minutes."

Sasuke simply nodded. Ten minutes passed until Jiraiya left the room with five scrolls in his hand. He looked at Sasuke who had unsealed the extra sticks they collected and made a fire using the torch. He saw the unsealed fish being cooked and the rice being boiled. "Don't you just love sealing?" Jiraiya said as he sat down.

"Yeah."

"You seem to be struggling to remain as stuck up as you have been. Is there something you're hiding?" Jiraiya asked as he handed Sasuke the scrolls.

"It's nothing." He said as he watched the fire. He saw images of his life with the snake and cringed mentally. He sighed. "When I killed Orochimaru, I don't know what happened. I just felt- different. I can't describe it. I didn't feel the need to brood anymore I guess. The only reason I'm keeping it up now is because I'm using it as encouragement for him. If Naruto thinks he can get me to 'remove the stick from my ass' by becoming stronger, then he will try harder than if it was just training. And I have a bad feeling that something really bad is going to happen."

"Right. Well, I'll set up the traps, just make sure the food is ready by the time I'm done. I'm starving." Jiraiya said as he stood up.

"Hn."