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(here is a free chapter for all my loyal fans as a gift to you on my birthday, its mostly filler, it explains some things, a little bit of fun, and maybe even a little insight into the secret that is Demon Country)

"Sakura, who did this to you?" asked Sasuke in a semi psychopathic voice.

Sakura couldn't trust her voice, whether it was that Sasuke was her knight in shining armor, or from fear the the heavy and evil aura radiating from him. All she managed to do was point.

"Yea, it was us, what are you going to do about it?" asked Zaku, not realizing the danger he was in.

"Hmm, looks like I get to test this power out right away" smirked Sasuke as he blurred out of sight. He appeared behind Zaku and wrenched his arms back. "You seem to like these arms... It would be a real shame if something were to happen to them"

"Wha-" was all that left his mouth, well, until Sasuke placed his foot in the sound nins back and cranked hard on his arms. Two loud and sickening pops were heard as his right arm snapped, then his left. "AHHHHH" screamed the sound nin as he collapsed to the ground, brought into unconsciousness from pain.

"Who's next?" asked Sasuke as he flexed his killing intent. He wasn't really expecting an answer.

"Well, I guess I am?" stated Naruto who seemed to materialize behind Sasuke, Dozu's limp body hanging over his shoulder, blood leaking from his slashed throat.

"Dobe, with this power, we are finally equals!" shouted Sasuke with an insane cackle.

"Wrong" was all Naruto said as he disappeared. Sasuke went from laughing like a madman to unconscious on the ground and both of the defeated sound nin were laying at the feet of the lone sound genin still conscious, or alive. "Leave now and I won't kill you" said Naruto in an ice could voice to the female member of the sound ninja.

She didn't need to be told twice as she picked up her teammates and ran off, leading her scroll behind.

"Naruto?" asked Sakura in a tentative voice. After all, Naruto had the same mark that sasuke had, but he didn't have a dark aura around him, his was powerful and...peaceful?

"What can I do for you?" he asked in a joking tone, it was then he finally realized that the extra people he had sensed was actually team 10, the team of his one time sensei.

"A-Are you the same as Sasuke? Are you going to have those weird marks?" asked Sakura in fear.

"I don't believe so?" said Naruto as he pulled down his collar, showing the same mark Sasuke had, only his was pure white which showed clearly on his naturally tan skin. "But even if the do show up, I should be fine."

"How?" questioned Ino, both wondering why it affected the Sasuke and not her fellow blonde and if his mark was different.

"When I was unconscious, I had to fight the curse seal, which latches on to the darkness in ones heart, I had to come to grips with my darkness. Because of that, I don't think it will effect me the way it did Sasuke." stated Naruto in a sad tone, Sasuke must have given into his darkness.

"So you're not going to go all psycho on us?" asked Choji, not wanting to have to fight the blonde if it came to that, Ino said he was an ANBU captain, so they were no match.

"I hope not...which scroll do you guys have?" asked Naruto.

"The Heaven, What about you?" asked Shikamaru, Naruto threw them an earth scroll.

"I got an to earth scroll and a heaven scroll from 2 teams the first day, and just got that earth, let's head to the tower, move as a group. Sakura, Ino, your on either side, Choji, your the strongest, your in the middle and carrying Sasuke, Shikamaru in front, Ill bring up the rear" commanded Naruto. All the other genin were surprised to find them selves already doing what the blonde said without thinking about it. The tone of voice and his commanding presents were like their sensei, no, like their Hokage, it was amazing that someone that "Graduated" with them could be so far beyond them.

-2 hours later-

The group of 6 Shinobi walked into the tower only to find a nearly empty entrance way with a banner hanging over the only doorway.

"If you wish to be stronger mentally, you must strive for heaven, to grow stronger physically, one must travel the earth, only the great can achieve both" Stated Sakura as she read off the banner. "What does that mean?"

"Time to open the scrolls" stated Naruto simply as he did just that, opening one earth scroll and the heaven scroll, he was surprised to see a summon array, what surprised him more was the plume of smoke and his godfather standing over the scrolls.

"From east to west! From north to south! The ladies all swoon for the gallant Jirai-" he didn't get to finish his song and dance as Naruto punched him into the wall, leaving a Jiraiya shore dent.

"Shut up Pervy sage!" scolded Naruto as the rest if the genin, minus the still knocked out Sasuke, freaked out that Naruto just assaulted one of the legendary Sannin

"Naruto! You idiot! That's Jiraiya the Sannin! Why would you do that?" screeched Sakura, showing her amazing vocal range.

"Yea Gaki! Have some respect for once!"Yelled Jiraiya as he got out of his crater in the wall and walked over to Naruto.

"I'll respect you when you stop writing those books!" yelled Naruto back, confusing everyone even more.

"You have no respect for fine literature!" retorted Jiraiya

"That is not literature! You're just a pervert!" yelled Naruto

"I'm not a pervert! I'm a super pervert!" yelled Jiraiya, their faces got closer and closer, as they argued. Then out of nowhere, they hugged.

"I've missed you you perverted Hermit" said Naruto releasing his god father

"Missed you too Gaki, now what's this I hear about you facing off against orochimaru?" asked Jiraiya in a suddenly serious voice.

"I fought him off after he marked Sasuke, then at the end of the fight he got me, But "your other blonde student" helped me fix it, so I suggest we get to work on Sasuke's mark right away" stated Naruto, very carefully, he knew that that information was very need to know, so far he only planned on telling Jiraiya, Kakashi and maybe Sarutobi.

Jiraiya's eyes widened, he had only taught one other blonde and Naruto knew that, that could only mean. "Let's go now, we have 3 and a half days until the preliminaries, should be more than enough time to fix up the Uchiha and discuss our next training trip."

Both Nodded and disappeared in a swirl of leaves, Naruto taking the unconscious body of Sasuke with him.

The other four genin were in shock.

"What just happened?" asked Sakura, not understanding anything of what was going on.

"Um, Jiraiya and Naruto are taking Sasuke to seal off that curse mark, or maybe remove it." Stated Kakashi, who at some point must have slipped in. Next to Kakashi was Asuma, team tens sensei.

"Alright you four, will lead you to your rooms, the next stage starts in 3 days, use that time to rest and prepare yourselves." stated the chain smoking genin.

-Sealing chamber, Hokage tower basement-

Sasuke lay unconscious, face down on what looked like a autopsy table, his shirt off and his arms spread to each side, on either side of him, Naruto and Jiraiya.

"So... Evil containment seal?" Jiraiya asked, Naruto had experience with the seal, so it was best to ask him.

"No, the deal itself isn't evil, it draws on a persons inner darkness, I was thinking one of these?" stated Naruto as he unsealed a scroll the size of a summoning contract. "I found this on my trip to Uzushiogakure with Zabuza, I found more scrolls, but I'll show you those on our training trip. I believe this was their forbidden scroll"

Naruto walked over to another table and unrolled half the scroll, on this section were 12 different seals and 2 jutsu involving seals. As Naruto and Jiraiya looked through them, 2 coughs their eyes.

"This Cancellation seal, looks like it would work" stated Jiraiya. If the could just remove it outright there would be no need to just seal it off.

"Yea, but that seal has more to it, I could feel him injecting something in when I got it. If we remove the seal, there's a good chance whatever he injected wouldn't go with it." stated Naruto as he pointed out another seal.

"Here, Influence suppression, used to cancel out a dangerous, unstable or unknown seal. That looks good to me, what do you think?" Naruto asked Jiraiya.

After a minute of looking over the symbols and re reading the description, he spoke "Looks good to me Gaki, let's get started"

-next day-

Naruto and Sasuke had just made it back to the tower. After the sealing of Sasuke's curse mark he was too tired to make it all the way back, so up until the front of the tower, Naruto had carried him most of the way. As they made it in, they saw Sakura and Ino sitting in a makeshift lounge with an unknown Konoha kunoichi, well, unknown to Sasuke, Naruto knew her simply because he had seen her every time he had gone into the weapons shop.

"Sasuke, we're in room 17, I left a jutsu scroll in there for you, a little gift for the pain that sealing caused." stated Naruto as he motioned to the doors on the far side of the room.

Sasuke nodded and started to walk off, but after only 3 or 4 steps he turned back around "Hey Dobe... Thanks for everything"

Naruto just nodded, he knew what the Uchiha was talking about, it wasn't the jutsu scroll and it wasn't for sealing the curse mark. It was for finally clearing his head about Itachi. Sasuke continued to their assigned room and Naruto headed over to the girls.

"Hey Tenten, Ino, Sakura. What you up 2?" asked Naruto as he strides over to the group of Konoha kunoichi.

"Oh hey Naruto! Just talking about... Girl stuff... How are-" Tenten's eyes landed on the two sword hilts on his belt. She immediately recognized the swords. "What are you doing with those swords?" she almost yelled, those were the swords of her idol, if the blonde had stole them...

Naruto, deciding to play along, pulled out both his ANBU 'Fox' mask and his trainee 'Puppy' mask from a storage seal on his belt. He dropped it on the coffee table, getting a surprised look on all three girls face, Sakura and Ino because they both knew that Naruto was in ANBU, but didn't know he was 'That' ANBU.

-Flashback-

Sakura and Ino were being bullied once again, there were in the local park and were all alone near a tree. Both being ten years old, one a clan heir and one councilman's daughter, they were constantly being bullied by older and usually jealous or spiteful kids and sometimes even newly graduated genin.

"Why don't you leave us alone! You big meanie!" cried Ino, she was almost getting used to this kind of treatment, but that doesn't mean that she liked it.

"Ha, why would I? I'm a Genin, and it seems like you two are both a threat to security" laughed the unstable genin

"That seems like a terrible idea" said a rather young sounding voice behind the genin. Said genin spun around to see a rather short ANBU with a 'Puppy' mask and spiky blond hair standing about 5 feet away from the group, arms crossed.

"ANBU-San, these two are causing a disturbance!" Said the ninja, a smug tone in his voice.

"You know, it's frowned upon to lie to a superior, and it's illegal to assault a civilian. You're under arrest for the assault of two, underage civilians." stated the ANBU as he made a shadow clone to take the genin to his friend Ibiki, who had just taken on a new student, some chunin named Anko.

"Are you two alright?" asked the short ANBU, the girls both shakily nodded their heads, not trusting their voices.

Just then, another ANBU dropped down, this one much taller, had silver hair and a 'Dog' mask. "What are these Teachers doing these days?"

"Don't know, mind if I take a 30 minute break?" asked the shorter ANBU of his apparent captain.

"Hmm, sure, as long as your back by noon. See ya then" said the taller ANBU as he disappeared in a swirl of leaves.

"So... You two like ice cream?" asked the short ANBU, both girls lost all shock and fear they had after the incident and started to nod vigorously.

-End flashback-

All three girls were now blushing, Tenten because she remembered her own father saying that those swords belonged to him, and his last name was Uzumaki, that should have been a big enough hint.

Sakura and Ino were blushing because they basically both went on a date with the boy they used to both shy away from or outright despise for the ineffectiveness of the seal.

"That explain it Tenten?" laughed Naruto as he picked up both masks and reseated them into the seal on his belt and started to walk off towards the door that lead to the rooms "See you all in the 3rd exam, right now I have some important business to take care of."

-Sand siblings room-

Temari had just gotten out of the shower, she was surprised that a tower in the middle of the forest would have such a thing, but she wasn't complaining. After all, in Suna theirs limited water, here she could shower for hours on end if she wanted to.

There was a knock at the door, she was unhappy. She had told Kankuro and asked Gaara for a couple hours of alone time, Kankuro left immediately, though Gaara needed some more begging. It was strange, even though the young man had changed his outlook, he still had the same blood lust After the very brief run in with that blonde Shinobi, Gaara had started to not only warm up to her, but become the protective younger brother so many other girls had.

"Kankuro, I said hours! Not minutes!" yelled the sand genin as she opened the door "And stop forgetting... The room... Key..."

In the hallway stood what she could only describe as an Adonis, 5'8" completely ripped beyond what's natural, though he wasn't bulky, he wore a sleeveless combat vest that barely contained his god like torso. He had golden blonde hair and dazzling blue eyes. His arms would ripple with even the smallest movements.

"Umm... Hello Temari... Love the shirt" he joked, she finally realized that she just had a towel draped around her body. "If you want, I can wait till you put on some clothing."

She nodded, her face so red that Hinata would be put to shame. She quickly closed the door, over the next 5 minutes there was crashes, bumps and multiple curse words. Even a slip-up where Naruto heard something about 'hot blondes' and 'ride him till he breaks' which made our favorite young Uzumaki-Namikaze blush heavily. Then the door opened.

"W-What are you doing here?" she stuttered out. Opening the door, Naruto witnessed that her usually well put together outfit was anything but.

"I came over to speak with Gaara, I wanted to check up on him, after all, we Jinchuuriki have to stick together. How are you doing by the way, I know for a fact that being the sister of a demon container is most likely horrible for you as well as Gaara" asked the male blonde, getting a shocked look out of the sand kunoichi. No one had ever considered her feelings, and this boy... No this man had done exactly that, and for some reason she felt safe with him, like nothing bad would happen with him around... He felt like the exact opposite of her brother, yet the blonde held a more powerful demon...

"How? How are you so nice? You have a more powerful and more hateful demon! Did you have a better childhood? Is it your seal?" she questioned him. He was take aback by her desperate tone and, well, she was now straddling his waist and had her fist balled up in his vest.

"Seal? That's it!" yelled Naruto. Unfortunately, it was then that both Gaara and Kankuro busted down the door.

-15 seconds ago-

Gaara and Kankuro were just retiring from their trip around the tower, they had been scouting the competition when they saw the Uzumaki kid had two ANBU masks, though from what they heard, the only way to get an ANBU mask was to be assigned one, or kill the member who had the mask, either way, they were both much more aware of the blonde, even if he was friendly... Extremely friendly. It was even more suspicious that he didn't act like Gaara, though he held a stronger demon.

They had done the rounds, the most dangerous seemed to be the Uchiha, Neji Hyuga, Rock lee, both the Kiri and Iwa teams had promising genin, but both of those teams were riddled with some pretty serious injuries. Then their was the kyuubi Jinchuurki, though he was no where to be found.

Now they were on their way back to their room for a good rest, when from behind their door they heard "That's it!" coming from behind the door. Neither liking that Temari was alone in the room. Quick as a flash the broke in the door, only to see their older sister straddling said blonde and pulling him closer by his vest.

"Oh fuck me! It's demon country all over again!" shouted the blonde Jinchuuriki, confusing everyone in the room and making one silver haired, one eyed jonin and 2 ANBU shiver all at the same time.

"Temari... Would you care to explain why your mounted on Uzumaki?" asked Gaara in his usual monotone voice, he could sense there was no pheromones in the air, at least not coming from the Konoha nin.

"Umm..." she started, luckily, Naruto saved her from the embarrassment.

"Gaara, can I see your seal again? I think I know the difference between us, my father, the Yondaime designed mine, it may be that you had an inferior design." stated Naruto, just know sitting up on the bed.

"Lady Chiho did the seal, but my father is the one who designed the seal, he said it was made to utilize the full power of the demon." stated Gaara as he raised his shirt without question.

Naruto nodded and began to inspect the seal, immediately he began to see the things wrong with the seal, well there wasn't anything truly wrong, just... Missing

"You're missing any and all blocking seals, there's no evil containment seals and there isn't even a safety layer!" spoke Naruto with disgust, the Suna siblings were shocked both at the mastery he seemed to have over seals and the tone he was taking. "We have 2 and a half days to the next exams, I can make a new layer for the seal and have it on by the end of the night, your control with sand could either get slightly worse or slightly better, you'll be tired for the next week or two, but that should pass as well"

"Y-You would do that for me? Why?" asked Gaara, his life had lead him to believe that nothing ever comes for free, and he was sure this was one of those deals.

"It's horrible isn't it? Being alone? No one cares about you?" Gaara's eyes widened "That was my life, I was hated by this village, beaten everyday, more time teetering on the edge of life and death than I did doing anything else. Then one day it all changed, my fathers student took me in, the Hokage got me a home, I was taken in by people who didn't see me as Kyuubi, they saw me as Naruto"

"That can't happen for me, I've killed before..." stated Gaara with a look of depression

"I can make it so you never do that again, no one has to know I even did it, you could make something up about how changed your ways, or you could say something about how a seal master fixed a malfunction in your seal" stated Naruto, already holding a sheet of translucent paper over Gaara's seal and making key points that needed some beefing up.

"Thank you, thank you for helping Gaara!" Cried Temari softly into Naruto's shoulder.

-6 hours later, 1 in the morning-

Both Temari and Kankuro had fallen asleep, Naruto was just about to apply the finishing touches on the additional layer to Gaara seal, hopefully helping the red headed Jinchuuriki In the meantime, Gaara and Naruto were continuing their near constant conversation.

"So... Uzumaki... What are you going to do about my sister?" asked Gaara, getting a questioning look from the young blonde. "I'm sure you've noticed, she's quite fond of you... Do you like her?"

"Don't know, she's definitely nice, and she seems like she doesn't like very many people?" asked/stated Naruto.

"Yes, now that I've thought about my life... she has always looked out for me, even to the point of assaulting a couple of the older ninja if they shun me... And she was aroused while she was laying on top of you earlier."

Naruto's eyes widened "W-What!"

"She was aroused... Either because of your... Position... Or something that happened earlier... I don't care if she likes you... in fact if it's anyone I hope it's you" Naruto gave him an odd look, he had never had anything like this happen to him "You are by far my closest friend.. we've known each other for only days.. but even so... Your like a... A brother... And even I can tell that you would never hurt anyone on purpose... But hurt her... And I'll kill you do painfully and slowly..."

Naruto nodded slowly, he didn't know exactly what to say, be he knew how Gaara felt, it was the same way Naruto felt that time Ayame's boyfriend dumped her in their 3 month anniversary.

"I understand Gaara, and of we do decide to take this any further, I will treat her like the princess she is, and maybe even get you a girlfriend" laughed Naruto, Gaara, for perhaps the first time in his life, blushed.

"If... I don't... Really?" asked Gaara in a surprisingly emotional voice. Little did Naruto know, Gaara had thought that he never could have a woman in his life, whether he would hurt them, or none of them wanting anything to do with him.

"Yeah, chicks dig the dark mysterious types, I'm sure we can find you one. We can do it after the exams are over. But for right now, I'm about to add the new layer. Hold on to something... This will hurt!"

-2 days later, day of 3rd exams-

The last team had just made it to the tower, and just minutes before time ran out. Team 8, making it in just the nick of time. Now the 7 teams were standing in rows in front of the proctors, jonin sensei's, and Hokage. The teams that were now in the tower were team 7, 8 and 10, team Gai, the Suna team who had a much more stable looking Gaara, a team from Iwa who seemed to be roughed up except for a dark haired boy, and a team from Kiri, one of which had one of the seven legendary swords of the mist, showing he was at least a high chunin level.

"Hello everyone, as you made it through my forest! But from here on out its all going to be different. Nice job on getting here... AND WELCOME TO THE THIRD ROUND OF THE CHUNIN EXAMS!"

-End of chapter-

(some quick things, Yes, Gaara will be more stable, Yes Gaara is ok with Naruto dating Temari and yes Gaara knows that Temari wants on Narutos D)

(The next chapter wil be in about a week, as you all know im not great at writing fighting, so it will take a while.)

(any suggestions on who fight who in the next round? its almost wide open, so feel free)