An hour later Team Assassin arrived in the tower and not even opening the scrolls ran to the doors in the back kicked the doors off the henge never stopping running as Maelstrom and his clone carried his team down the hallway to the the end and turned toward where chakra signatures were.

The third Hokage was about to end the second part of the exams as he began to step out onto the balcony looking over the teams who had passed and frowned a moment and thought "where is that team. I was sure that they would mak...." as the doors at the back of the room blew off the henge as Naruto with Haku was using one door as a surf board and the clone and Scorpion another.

As they came to a stop the third said "What's the meaning of this."

Maelstrom glared at him as he sat Subzero down gently and pulled out a scroll and threw it to his clone who opened it and set it beside the body of Scorpion and the real Maelstrom said "I need a medic for one of my team mates."

The third frowned and said "Anko, signal a medic."

Maelstrom nods and he looked at his clone and said "Watch her while I help Scorpion."

Scorpion said "A little high strung, aren't you." as his body was laying on the ground with a scroll beside it unrolled showing thousands of seals and kanji

Maelstrom glared at Scorpion and asked "Which body do you want."

Scorpion frowned a moment and said "Give me a smoke screen and number 17. I don't want anyone to see how we do this." and Maelstrom threw a few smoke bombs on the ground to hide what he was doing and inside the smoke he opened the chest compartment of Scorpion current body and pulled out a black ball as he set it on the scroll in the center where a circle was drawn and wiped blood on the kanji for 17 and it glowed as did the circle the black ball was on and a few seconds later a puff of smoke appeared and Scorpion now stood in the looking exactly as he had before the exams began in his black and gold uniform with face mask.

Scorpion moved his legs and arm and head and said "Damn this body is slow. I feel like I am just starting to be a puppet master in this thing. I need to work the muscles in it a little to get up to full strength again."

Sakura said "What the hell just happened. A moment ago his body was completely destroyed and now he's back completely healed."

Scorpion said "I am a human puppet master girl. Because of this I am basically immortal as when one of my bodies is destroyed I can simply change to another. So whats the orders."

Maelstrom who was now watching the medics begin to work on Subzero said "Scorpion watch the medics. Make sure they don't take her face mask off or take any body samples. Withdraw from the exams and once she is able to be moved take her to Ravens. Do not leave her side until she is safely there. After that I want you to track down that 4 eyed freak and bring me his head on a silver platter."

Scorpion asked "What about you. Ra's Al Ghul left orders for you to have at least 2 body guards at all times."

Maelstrom closed his eyes and said "Contact Clay face and Two face. They can come and watch me until you and Subzero are back to full strength they will be my body guards."

Scorpion nods and starts to leave and asked "What are you going to do until then."

Maelstrom said "Oh, that's going to be up to the Hokage. Did we make it in time for the exams. All 3 of us are alive, even if we were wounded and I have 3 scrolls, one matching set and an extra." as he pulled the 3 scrolls from under his cloak.

The third said "Yes, you just barely made it. Another 2 minutes and you would have failed. So only you will proceed after this point I take it and both your team mates are out of the competition."

Maelstrom said "Yes."

The third frowned and said "I see..does anyone here wish to withdraw."

When no one withdrew the Hokage began to explain the reason for the exams. Halfway through he was interrupted when a man with a sword on his back appeared and coughed a few times and said "Forgive me for my interruptions Hokage-sama but I am afraid we still have to many competitors and need to have a preliminary round."

Maelstrom thought as he looked at the room "9 leaf Gennins, the 3 sand sibs, 3 snow ninja and me. Thats only 16 so 8 fights."

The Sandaime nods and said "Very well, please proceed."

The man said "My name is Hayatte and I will be the proctor for the semifinals. Since we have so many competitors left we will cut the number down. Now to determine who will face who....OPEN IT." as a wall slid open and the screen came up and began to spin through the names.

As it came to the first match it was Sakura vs Ino.

Hayatte said "If both competitors please remain, everyone else please go up to the balcony."

Maelstrom turned and walked over by the sand team and leaned against a wall crossing his arms and watched the fights below he was bored and thought "these fights are nothing. Can any of these idiots actually kill anything besides time."

As the fights continued he watches as Sakura and Ino tied, Sasuke beat a Snow nin, Temari beat a snow nin, Shikamaru forfeited to Neji, Choji lost to Tenten, Kankuro beat a snow nin,

There was only 4 left and the bored flashed again and the next 2 names shocked everyone as it was Sai vs Lee.

The third frowned and Maelstrom thought "I see from everyones reactions they did not expect that fight. Most likely wanted me to face the Root agent but then the question is who changed the match up.


Sai looked at Lee and said "I forfeit. If his teammates are anything to go by I won't be able to beat him."

Hayate said "Winner Lee."

Lee looked down and Hayate said "Would the last 2 competitors please step forward."

Maelstrom walked down one way and Gaara walked down the other and when they got 20 feet apart Gaara said "Mother says you are very strong and wishes to taste your blood."

Maelstrom said "Do you know what the difference between you and me is Gaara."

Gaara was silent and Hayate said "Begin."

Maelstrom said "The difference is that I removed my demon." making Kakashi and the Sandaime wide eyed.

Maelstrom started off by throwing a gold ball at Gaara and it burst into 3 seekers that begin to fly at Gaara but as his sand defense comes up they fly around it.

Maelstrom jumps backwards as sand flies toward him across the ground as Gaara visibility is only glimpse as the 3 seekers keeps the sand defense rising up to try and stop them.

Maelstrom pulls out another ball and said "Lets see how you like a taste of your own medicine." as he throws a white ball at Gaara and the moment it hits all the Jounin are wide eyed recognizing the chakra that was released from the white ball and Gaara screamed as his flesh burned a little.

Maelstrom said "How do you like my little toys Gaara. What your feeling right now is only a sample of what I did to Orochimaru in the forest. You can handle the chakra of the Ichibi no Shukaku no problem since it has been in you since the day you were born but you can't handle the chakra of the Kyuubi no Kitsune can you." making the Sand team wide eyed not only from seeing Gaara in pain but also from what they just heard.

As the Kyuubi chakra disappeared Gaara was glaring at Maelstrom through the sand that was still being attacked by the seekers and he moved his hand toward one of the seekers and had his sand attack and destroy it before doing it with the other 2.

Maelstrom while this was happening threw a green ball at the 2 corners of the arena floor and then he threw 2 more at the other 2 areas. He then took out a white ball and threw it at Hayate who quickly leaps away but the white ball never activated and as Hayate landed a green shield rose around the arena floor leaving only Maelstrom and Gaara.

Gaara said "I will feed you to mother." as he sent his sand at Maelstrom again but this time when the sand got closer to him it stopped as Maelstrom shadow shot out and caught the sand making Shikamaru wide eyed and then the others.

Maelstrom said "Kage mane no jutsu success."

Gaara sand was struggling against Maelstrom who reached behind him and removed his sword and he said "You know what Gaara. I am going to do for you what was done for me. I am going to give you a new life." as his sword was covered in red chakra and he turned it upside down and said "Meet Kyuubi." as he slammed it into his shadow and the shadow turned red and raced across to the captured sand.

Gaara was getting scared and asked in a scared voice "What have you done."

Maelstrom said "To put it bluntly I am over powering the demon in you with the demon that is sealed in my sword. You see like you I use to be a Jinchuuriki because my idiot father actually thought the people of his village would honor his last request and see his son as a hero for saving their lives but the people of his village made my life hell on earth. Something I am sure you know as well. The way they look at you, whisper, look at you with those hated eyes. I still remember it.......but then one day I it was over. Someone important to me came and took me away from my pain and freed me from the burden of having that creature sealed in me.......now I know how everyone said that the only way to safely kill a demon is to seal it inside a human newborn making it mortal and as the child grows older they make the demons chakra their own and all that bullshit they sprout out about but the truth is they use human infants because human only speak human. They could seal it into a newborn dog or cat or anything that has new chakra coils.....in fact it's not that hard to even put chakra coils inside of weapons like swords and things like that by simply killing a new animal. In this case the person who saved me took the chakra coils of a fox kit and put them in my sword and then simply extracted the demon and resealed it into my sword and yes I am sure they always will sprout off bullshit about how a sacrifice is needed. My father sacrificed his life to do me originally and from what I here your father ordered your mother correct."

Gaara said "Yes....."

Maelstrom said "Yeah, monkey see monkey do. Well I don't like the idea of making people suffer so I am going to help you." as he pulled out a scroll and unrolled it and said "lets see, Acid, arsenic, aspirin, Arctic wear.... blood, bones, belts,.....Kerosene, ah here we go Kakuzu." as he bit his thumb and wiped some blood across a seal and a man appeared and blinked looking around and said "What the hell."

Maelstrom said "Remember me."

Kakuzu looked at Maelstrom and said "OH shit, not you again, what do you want."

Maelstrom said "Your life belongs to me remember. I own you and you will do well to remember that. Now what I want you to do is perform 2 jutsu. The first is called the Shiki Fuujin to extract the demon Ichibi no Shukaku from the boy right there and seal it into a weapon for me. Now this will kill the boy of coarse and one of your hearts. The next jutsu I want you to use will kill another of your hearts and is a medical kinjutsu that will trade the life of the heart you will sacrifice to bring the boy back to life. Do this and I will send you back to wherever the hell you were before I summoned you. Don't and I let the Anbu and the Hokage who are trying to get through my shield to kill you." as he pointed toward the men who were trying to get into the shield but no sound was coming through.

Kakuzu said "Fine master."

Maelstrom nods and unseals 2 scrolls detailing how to perform the 2 jutsu before he unseals a pike.

Gaara who was scared and tried to get away found he was unable to move or his sand defense would not work.

Outside the shield the Hokage, the Suna team, the Jounin's and 5 squads of Anbu listened to everything trying to get in and was helpless to do anything as they watch a missing nin perform a jutsu that extracted the Ichibi from Gaara and then bring him back to life. After this Kakuzu was released back where he came from and Maelstrom look through his long list reading it off slowly and said "Ah, here we go. Raiden." as he put some more blood on a kanji and to the shock of everyone for different reason a woman who was soaking wet appeared with her hands in her hair that was being shampooed and she blinked a moment and screamed covering herself.

Maelstrom said "oops. Sorry Raiden."

Raiden turned to him and screamed "WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING SUMMONING ME."

Maelstrom held up a sword and tossed it to her and said "The Ichibi no Shukaku. By the way Kakashi, here."

Raiden eyes went wide and looked up to where Maelstrom was looking and she turned red and before she could say anything Maelstrom desummoned her.

Maelstrom then picked up his scroll and sealed all his weapons and items that he had on him including his sword that he pulled out of the ground and then he performed 200 hand signs and the scroll disappeared.

He then sat down, putting his hands on top of his head and the shield around the room dropped and the ANBU and Jounin rushed in while the Suna team ran over to Gaara.

Temari was the first to arrive at Gaara and checking him said "He's alive." as tears rolled down her cheeks.

The Sandaime checked on the boy and then moved over to where Maelstrom had 10 ANBU holding him down on the ground though he had not tried to move at all and he looked at Maelstrom for several moments before he said "Remove his mask and head wrap."

An Anbu in a cat mask did and everyone gasped as Naruto was revealed without any whiskers and looked exactly like the Yondaime Hokage.

Naruto said "Long time no see, huh."

The third said "So it really is you Naruto."

Kakashi said "He looks just like Sensei but how was Rin here a moment ago."

Naruto remained silent and the third frowned and said "Take him to ANBU headquarters and lock him up and put 5 squads of ANBU on him and only I can get in to see him until I figure out what to do."

Each of the ANBU said "HAI." before they shushined away with Maelstrom.

Kakashi asked "What should we do sir."

The third looked up at the shocked and confused Gennin and said "Damage control for now. Sensei talk to your students and tell them the truth about what happened 14 years ago." as he walked over to the Suna team.

The third said "We have much to talk about. What do you think Baki."

Baki looked at Temari who was holding Gaara and Kankuro who was standing a little away said "I.....I don't know Hokage-sama. I will have to inform the Kazekage and let him decide what to do about this."

The third said "Right. Until you do I will have him held under ANBU guard."

A voice said "As if." drawing both men attention to the side of the room where shadows were and saw Naruto emerge from the shadows and said "By the way, Orochimaru has assassinated the Kazekage and his body is 10 miles southeast of your village Baki. Bye." as he disappeared in a yellow flash shocking everyone.

Naruto appeared at his hotel room and changed cloths to a white black pants, black shirt, a black vest and a white cloak that looked exactly like the Yondaime and he walked out of his hotel room and walked down the middle of the village ignoring all the shocked looks and whispers that were being said and every time someone tried to stop him he disappeared into a yellow flash appearing somewhere else in the village.

An hour later he was at the gates of Konoha and the guards and 2 teams of ANBU were there and the said "You can't leave the village."

Maelstrom said "Really. Watch me." as he disappeared again in a yellow flash.