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"Naruto!" yelled Sakura as she knelt down by his body. She was shocked and frightened, he wasn't breathing. She checked his pulse and found nothing. Panicking, she started using some of the medical knowledge and jutsu she knew, performing CPR and pumping medical chakra into his heart and lungs at the same time, showing her masterful chakra control.

"Sakura! What happened to Naruto? Where's Sasuke-Kun?" yelled Ino as she and her team found the beaten body of Naruto with Sakura hovering over him. 'Naruto, please be alright' she silently prayed.

Sakura ignored them, or perhaps she couldn't even hear them, she was so focused of reviving her teammate that she had basically shut out the outside world, though nothing she tried was working. She was getting desperate, she was burning through medical chakra and the blonde wasn't responding "Sakura! Wake up! What's going on!" yelled Ino

Sakura was about to give up hope, but just as she stopped CPR, she felt a small bump, then another and another! Then the blonde sputtered out for breath. Everyone jumped back at the intensity of the breath and the painful sounding gasping that came after it. "He's alive... He's alive!"

"Wha- What's going on?" asked Choji, seeing someone in this bad of condition wasn't normal, especially Naruto, in all their time at the academy, they never once saw the blonde so much as tired, so to see him on deaths door, it was hard to fathom.

"We were ambushed, Orochimaru of the Sannin attacked us. He defeated Sasuke and Naruto held him off so I could move Sasuke somewhere safe. I made an earth clone to stay with Sasuke and came back to help Naruto. When I got back... Naruto was just falling limp to the ground with no pulse. Orochimaru gave both Sasuke and Naruto some weird mark. c'mon help me bring Naruto too where Sasuke is?" she pleaded with tears in her eyes, whether it was tears of joy that Naruto was still alive or tears of sadness that she couldn't help more was anyone's guess.

"Y-Yea, let's go!" stated a shocked Ino. 'He was dead?'

-Mindscape-

Naruto's unconscious form was laying 10 feet from kyuubi's, unmoving but still alive, thanks to that pink haired girl, the kid would live.

"Kit! Wake up, you're safe for now, now wake up!" shouted the kyuubi at the young man outside of his cage, the pink haired one had just saved his life, but there were more problems than that.

Naruto began to stir, after a moment his eyes opened, then the pain started. "AHHHHHHHHH!" the blonde screamed in pain, absolute pain, his blood felt like lava, his skin felt like it was being torn away and every movement felt like red hot pokers shredding his muscle.

"Kit, we don't have much time, that snake bastard sealed most of my chakra and all I can do is keep that other seal from taking you over! Now listen carefully, you're going to have to fight off the evil influence of the seal yourself, I can manifest the seal into whatever form it truly is, but I can't help, it's going to be just you!" explained the Kyuubi over the shouts of pain. Naruto managed to give a thumbs up, even through the pain of the seal, he was able to move.

"Ok kit, get ready, this is going to suck"

"GAHHHHH!"

-Unknown-

"Where am I? The pain... It stopped..." painted Naruto, he looked around, not seeing anything but darkness.

"Of course it stopped, how can it be a fair fight if you're crippled by pain?" asked a dark voice, just beyond his field of vision.

"Who's there? Are you the seal?" asked Naruto calmly, the fox had said he would have to fight.

"Haha, no, I'm not the seal, I'm you" then he stepped out of the darkness, an exact copy of Naruto, except his eyes were red and black, instead of Naruto's blue and white "I'm you, all the darkness of your life, all the hate you've faced, every time your sad, angry, hurt... I grow bigger and stronger. The curse seal latches on to a person's darkness, and they feed off each other, both growing stronger. The only way to beat the curse seal is to beat me, but I got news for you, I'm tired of being your shadow, so prepare yourself, because I'm taking over."

The area changed to a wide open plain, as far as the eye could see, all there was, was grass. "There will be no hiding, no running, you will fight me, and I will win." said the dark Naruto. Then, he charged his counterpart.

The evil Naruto went for a leg sweep, but he was countered with a spinning heel kick. It went on this way for about 5 minutes. No matter what either would do, the other could match and counter it, right down to the amount of clones each could make and the power of the jutsu they used.

"Were the same, I know everything you do, but... I have the advantage, and I'm not one to pull my punches..." the evil Naruto then began to transform, his skin turning gray and his hair turning white. His eyes going completely black and spikes growing from his forearms. "Ah, the curse seal... I must thank the teme for giving it to us, well he gave it to me, you'll be gone soon enough..."

-outside world-

"So... Naruto fought one on one against a Sannin? That's... Incredible" stated Ino. She was currently hovering over Naruto while Sakura was with Sasuke and Choji and shikamaru were taking shifts guarding the entrance.

"Yeah, Naruto is by far the strongest of us, Kakashi sensei said that I'd he ever had to seriously fight Naruto, he didn't know who would win" stated Sakura as she changed the rag on Sasuke's head. He had a fever and was now twitching.

"Come to think of it..." Shikamaru said, catching everyone's attention "Asuma sensei said if we came across you guys we should run away, I thought it was because of Sasuke..."

"So did I, until I saw the ANBU captain tattoo" stated Ino, getting a weird look from her teammates.

"What do you mean ANBU captain tattoo? Who has one?" asked Choji, what did his teammate mean Tattoo?

"Naruto does, my dad told me that every ANBU has the swirl, but only captains get this..." she picked up Naruto's arm and turned it to Choji On his right shoulder was a tattoo, a 3 pointed ninja star with the kanji "Captain" in it.

"How did Naruto get it? My dad said it was illegal for anyone other than ANBU to get those tattoos?" asked Shikamaru, though he had his suspicions, he had ever since the academy that there was more to Naruto than meets the eye.

"Duh, Naruto was in ANBU, he was on Kakashi sensei's team and when Sensei was made the commander, he made Naruto the team captain." stated Sakura, leaving a dumbfounded team ten.

"But he was the Dobe of the class? And Kakashi is your sensei now, how does that work?" asked Ino, in her mind the timing didn't add up, unless...

"He was in ANBU from the age of nine, and a captain from the age of 11. He was in ANBU during the academy, he was undercover. During our training Kakashi said that had Naruto stayed in ANBU, he could have been the commander in 2-3 years"

-Mind battle-

"You can't win!" yelled the dark Naruto as he threw a punch aimed for good Naruto's face. "We're the same, only I have this... This gift! I'm going to take control, and you will no longer exist, then I'll do everything you should of done"

"And I won't let you take over... Even if it means letting the beast out of its cage! I will not fail!" yelled Naruto as he started pumping as much of the nine tails chakra as the seal would let him. "Even if I have to die to do it, I will not let you take over!"

-with the fox-

"What's going on? The kid is overpowering the 5 pillar seal?" stated the kyuubi, shocked that a container, even one as strong as his was, could actually overpower a seal like the five pillar seal.

Then, the seal exploded, the 5 pillar evaporated and the seal holding the fox started to deteriorated "Shit! He's using too much chakra! He's already at five tails, any more... Shit! He's at six, I have to find a way to stop him! Fuck! He's already to 7!"

"Don't worry furball, I'll take care of it"

"You!"

-outside world-

Naruto was resting calmly, well he was basically comatose, so of course he looked peaceful, until red chakra exploded from him, covering a five foot area around him with whipping red spikes.

"What the hell! What's happening?" screamed Ino, the blonde was watching her fellow blonde when this red chakra exploded from him and started lashing out at the surrounding area.

"Ino, get away from him!" yelled Choji

"No! He needs help!" yelled Ino. She was going to go check on the blonde closer, but was dive tacked away by Sakura.

"Ino, this has happened before! When Naruto has bad nightmares this happens only on a much smaller scale..." yelled Sakura, it had happened during the mission to wave after his fight with Zabuza, Kakashi had used some weird jutsu and piece of paper that stopped it, but it was just small wisps of chakra, not the violent whips that were erupting from him now.

"So... This is normal for him?" asked Shikamaru, the blonde was full of surprises, why not add one more? At least, that's what a normal person would have thought, but Shikamaru was not normal. Also, with his combined intellect along with his father being on the council, he knew that Naruto held the nine tailed fox. So it was not a huge intellectual leap to figure out that it was the nine tails chakra.

"I guess, Kakashi said it was something that Naruto inherited from his mom, though he wouldn't say if it was a kekkei genkai or not." stated Sakura as the 3 still awake genin backed away from Naruto.

-Naruto vs Naruto-

"You idiot! You'll kill us both! Your already at seven tails!" shouted Dark Naruto, even though he was the part of Naruto that was affected when the fox chakra was used, it could still kill them in a high enough amount.

"The only way I'll stop is if I win or if you join me! Now which is it?" yelled Naruto, getting close to approaching 8 tails, if he had to he would end them both and bring the kyuubi down with him, after all kyuubi was tied to his soul, so the very least that would happen was kyuubi would have to wait 3 years to reappear.

"What do you mean join you?" asked the dark Naruto, after all, how can the dark half and pure half both exist together.

"We both act as Naruto, together, we join beings." stated good Naruto as Naruto started morphing into the kyuubi.

"Ok fine! Just stop channeling kyuubi!" yelled dark Naruto. Good Naruto suddenly dropped the kyuubi cloak and the bad Naruto reverted from stage 2 curse mark. They walked over to each other and stared at each other. After a minute of this stare down, bad Naruto stuck out his hand. Naruto took the hand and they shook on it.

"Just one question before we do this, how did you just cut off the fox's chakra like that? I thought we could only control 2 tails, you were at eight?" asked Dark Naruto before Naruto pulled him into a hug.

"I have no clue"

Then, there was a bright light and an explosion of power. When it was done, only Naruto was left, and he felt different, he felt... whole.

-Outside world-

"It stopped? And what was that weird light?" asked Ino, she was getting more and more confused by the minute. What was that red chakra? And then that weird glowing light? This was just too much. 'Whats going on with him? Hes always so happy and smiling, but if he sleeps like this...'

"Yep, I guess it's over" stated Sakura as she and Ino took cautionary steps toward the blonde.

"Naruto? Naruto?" asked Sakura as she nudged his shoulder. A soft smile appeared on his face, but then his expression became unreadable.

"Hey Sakura?" started Ino in a timid voice.

Sakura stopped Shaking Naruto and looked to her one time best friend "What's wrong Ino?"

"You're on his team, who is Naruto? It's obvious that he isn't the guy we all thought we knew at the academy..." asked Ino

"I can't answer that, both because I don't really want to and because I don't know the full truth... The only ones that truly know Naruto are Kakashi, Lord Hokage and maybe Ibiki.

-Mindscape-

"Hey Kyuubi! I did it! I beat it, I beat the curse seal!" yelled Naruto as he fazed into the seal and started looking around, this wasn't the sewer that Kyuubi lived in, it was a cream colored room.

"I saw that, but Kyuubi's not here right now, so I guess you're stuck with me"

"Dad?"

-Hokage tower-

"Jiraiya, what can I do for you?" asked Sarutobi, they were both just told by Anko that Orochimaru was spotted fleeing the forest. "I already know about Orochimaru, so if that's the reason for your visit, we must find a new topic."

"I figured you had heard about that" smiled the Toad Sage, his sensei really was an amazing man "The real reason I came was because I want to take Naruto with me for a month of training at Mt. Myoboku. It's time he takes my place and that's the best place to start."

"Hmm, I think that will work perfectly. Theres a month break before the finals of the chunin exam, could you take him then?" asked the aged Kage. Naruto was very strong, mid to high jonin level, but he knew that was nowhere near the blonde's peak.

"Yeah, in fact I was planning on it... What's his skill level right now, it's got to be at least low jonin?" asked the Toad Sage. He would need to get the boy up to jonin level in almost everything before the boy could become a sage.

"Well, his taijutsu is on par with Kakashi, maybe a bit lower, his doujutsu helps him a lot. Ninjutsu... Couldn't tell you, but I would say that he could give most jonin a run for their money, he knows a wide array of high level jutsu, but I don't think he's a real master of them. Just like you, he has no skill in genjutsu, other than bringer of darkness and destruction wave. His speed and power, on par with his father when Minato didn't use chakra or Hiraishin truly amazing in that respect, he may even be at your speed already. chakra control... Kakashi said its high chunin, though I've seen Naruto make a Rasengan in each hand during our training. His Kenjutsu, Zabuza said he was far from a master, but he was very solid on the basics, and with his analytical mind and unpredictability he's tough to handle."

"He can make a Rasengan in both hands now? Huh, maybe he should take your job instead of mine?" laughed Jiraiya. At this rate he would have two students to become Hokage "What's the destruction wave jutsu? It doesn't sound like a jutsu."

"A truly ingenious jutsu, it's a genjutsu that attacks all of the senses into believing that he blows everything away with a blast of pure chakra. Ask him to show you when you train him, it's remarkable" laughed Sarutobi, the blond was truly amazing, even his worst area could top a specialist.

"He really will make a great Hokage, just like his father, after all, both Minato and Kushina were Kage level ninja, I wouldn't be surprised if Naruto is Hokage by the end of this month of training" laughed Jiraiya, he truly believed that his god son would be Hokage someday.

"How close can you get him? From Kakashi's reports he can make 1000 plus clones at once... Could you make him ready in that time?" asked Sarutobi with serious expression.

"Depends, I can easily make him sannin level in Ninjutsu and chakra, though I don't know about taijutsu and strength, he seems to be close in speed... Maybe he's ready..." stated Jiraiya, with a gleam in his eyes.

There was a tense silence for a moment, Sarutobi adopted a serious look. "Jiraiya, my time as Hokage has come to an end... It's time I step down, you never would take the job, Orochimaru is... Well I'd rather not go there. You know who the only option is... After the chunin exams, it's your job to bring that person to be the 5th."

-Mindscape-

"Dad?" whispered Naruto

"Yea, I had to fix the seal, you must have forced your way to 8 tails, though because it was in your Mindscape, your body shouldn't be too banged up." Smiled Minato Namikaze, the fourth Hokage and said to be one of the strongest man to ever live.

"H-How are you here? Pervy sage said you died to seal kyuubi in me?" asked Naruto, his hero, his father, was standing mere feet away from him.

"When I sealed kyuubi in you, I made sure to seal a part of myself in you as well, I didn't think I would be needed this soon though." laughed Minato. His son was sure to be full of surprises, just like his wife.

"So how long do you have? "Asked Naruto

"About 5 minutes, that's all the longer the chakra holding me here will last." admitted Minato sadly, if he could have it his way, he would have sealed himself in the seal as well, but he didn't have the time to design it that way, plus he was taking a gamble just being there, after all, no one escaped the Shinigami.

"Holding you here? You're using chakra? Could you use my chakra? I have more than enough! What about using Kyuubi's chakra?" asked Naruto. If his dad could stay with him forever, then he wouldn't ever be alone again!

Minato's eyes widened slightly, why was there so much pain in his son's eyes? "Yea, but I would need to modify the seal, and you would probably lose any control over kyuubi you had. Plus the changes I made would only last a week or two tops, you would have to make the changes permanent on the real seal, plus it would mess up your chakra control pretty bad"

"Do it!" yelled Naruto as he imagined the seal on the wall to their right, the seal appeared, only it was way larger and Naruto had actually been able to separate the layers, Minato's jaw dropped. "I could give a rats ass about Kyuubi's power! I can use Shadow clones to train my chakra control back And I'm alright at Fuinjutsu, I could have a clone do it while you talk me through it!"

Minato smiled, his son was just like his wife, full of passion and would try anything once. His smile disappeared and a look of determination and concentration took to his face. He made 3 clones and got to work. "Naruto, channel as much chakra into the seal as possible, that should give me the time I need to make the changes, until I'm done don't stop the flow until I say."

"Got it"

-2 hours and 35 minutes later-

"Whew, it took a while, but that should last a couple of weeks, it's going to take a while, but we should be able make it permanent." smiled Minato tiredly, he took a step toward Naruto and fell to his hands and knees.

"Dad, what's wrong?" asked Naruto frantically as he rushed to his father's side.

"Whew, just need a break. I have been dead for...how old are you?" asked Minato while scratching the back of his head sheepishly.

"I'm 13 dad..." dead panned Naruto, maybe he was more tired than he thought?

"Your only 13! What the hell! I wasn't as strong as you until I was 18!" yelled Minato, he really was his and Kushina's son, to be that strong at his age, he made Kakashi look like Obito.

"Really? Cool! Now all I have to do is be Godaime and I'll be just like you, only better!" cheered Naruto, maybe his dream to overtake his father would become real, and now his dad could be there for it.

"Yea, really...Godaime? Didn't someone become Hokage after I died?" asked Minato, his grandfather and grand uncle were dead and Sarutobi had said he'd rather give up Jiraiya's books than to face the dreaded paperwork.

"Well Jiji took back the title, that's why I want to be Godaime so bad, so I can take over for Jiji and technically succeed you!" stated Naruto enthusiastically.

"I have no doubt you will, but to be Hokage you need to much stronger than you are now, so I'll be teach you my prized jutsus" said a cheerful Minato, his legacy would truly live on. He just hoped the Shinigami would allow this, but he wouldn't worry about that now.

"You're going to teach me the flying thunder god? The legendary Harassment questioned Naruto, with that jutsu, he could mark all his precious ones and truly be able to protect them, he was already fast without it, on par with Gai, but he could use the jutsu for a ton of different things.

"Hahnium, one step at a time, first I'll teach you Rasengan, then the upgraded Rasengan and then maybe Hiraishin " stated Minato With a huge smile, he thought that he would never be able to do any of this stuff with his son. Now if only his wife was there with them. He would truly miss her, if only he could have managed to get some of her chakra into the seal.

Naruto quickly made a Rasengan in each hand "I already Know the Rasengan, Pervy sage and Kakashi taught me"

Minato was blown away, Naruto didn't even look like he was trying and he was holding TWO perfect Rasengans. "O-Ok, then I guess we can start on the next stage, what element do you have?"

-6 hours later, outside world-

The group was getting very nervous now, both Naruto and Sasuke were still asleep, though thankfully, Naruto was now sleeping peacefully, everyone figured his body was resting from whatever was happening to him and Sasuke.

"We got trouble... Someone's here" stated Shikamaru, as he was the one on watch duty.

"We're here to kill Sasuke Uchiha, where is he?" asked a mummified sound ninja.

"What do you want with Sasuke Kun?" asked Ino and Sakura at the same time.

"Umm, to kill him?" stated the lone girl in the group.

"Why?" asked Sakura

"We were ordered to by lord Orochimaru, so that's what we're going to do" said the mummy "Zaku, get rid of them."

The now named Dozu charged, only to be punched away by the huge fist of Choji using the multi sized jutsu, Dozu recovered and charged again, this time with Zaku, the both launched a blast from their respective cannon, only to be blocked once again by Choji. Shikamaru used this time to hold the two in his shadow possession jutsu and Ino used her mind transfer jutsu on their female teammate.

"Retreat, or I kill her!" threatened Sakura holding a kunai to the female's throat.

"Kill her, we don't care" said Zaku with no amount of falsity in his voice

"Yea, she's weak, it would help us if she died" added Dozu.

With the shock of that proclamation, Zaku escaped from Shikamaru's shadow hold and sent an air wave at Sakura. In the blink of an eye there was a large explosion of dark chakra and Sakura disappeared. Everyone was amazed, until they saw Sakura leaned up against the tree, Sasuke standing next to her.

"Sakura, Who did this to you?"

-End chapter-

(OH SHIIITT! its about to go down! whats going to happen now? both Sasuke and Sakura are much stronger than the were in the original, but whats going to happen now? who faces who in the chunin exams? is Sasuke going to kill the sound team, is naruto going to wake up in time to stop him?)

(C'mon guys... 156 of you favorate and and 179 of you are on the alert list? how the hell do only 15 of you review? really?)

(What y'all think of the chapter? And before you get all up on my case, Minato has not be fully instated into the seal yet, he could easily he taken back by the Shinigami (death god) so please let the story develop?)

(Thank you to everyone who did review and the few people who msgd me concerning the "problem" in the last chapter and the chapter before that, it has been fixed)

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(Ive that Naruto is going to be much greater that i had originally planed, so the next couple of chapters, be sure to pay attention, because ive already dropped several hints, so have fun with it)