"What!" Iruka shouted in surprise, shock and fear, "How do you know this!"
"Because he attacked us," Naruto said, looking over at Sasuke who was now rubbing the seal on his neck. "He managed to put some kind of hickey on Sasuke, I…can't be sure, but I believe he was after the teme's Sharingan."
Iruka stiffened as he processed the new information. Anything dealing with Orochimaru was bad news, and if the man was after the Sharingan it would spell trouble for Konoha, "I'll be sure to inform Hokage-sama right away then. In the meantime I suggest you rest from your ordeal, chances are, Hokage-sama will call the three of you in to give a report on what happened. So stay in your room until you're told otherwise."
Naruto nodded to Iruka, "Got it sensei, we'll stay put."
"Right," Iruka was tempted to say more, to ask Naruto if he was alright, but if Orochimaru had given Sasuke what he thought it was, then the Hokage would need to be informed immediately. He disappeared within a Shunshin a moment later.
"Why did you tell him that dobe?" Sasuke asked in anger after Iruka left.
"Because the Hokage needs to be informed of what happened," Naruto replied in a mild voice. "We were attacked by Orochimaru of the Sannin, an S-rank traitor of Konoha. Something of this magnitude cannot be kept secret."
"I'm not talking about that," Sasuke glared at the blond. "I want to know why you told him about the seal. Specifically my seal!"
"He would have found out eventually anyways teme," Naruto rolled his eyes at the glare he was receiving. "Don't glare at me like that, this is serious. We don't know what kind of effects that seal will have on you."
"It gives me power," Sasuke said, remembering the feel of power flowing through him, "That's all that matters."
Naruto's mouth became a thin line as he heard his teammate's remark, "It also makes you a psychotic killer. Or do you not remember how you nearly killed that Oto Genin for sport? We need to look at it, and see what it does besides give power. Remember, Orochimaru obviously wants your Sharingan, do you really think he would give you something that powerful without a cost?"
Sasuke frowned, the dobe did have a point, "So what do you suggest?"
"We'll head to our room for now. I want to look at the seal before anyone tries to tamper with it," Naruto said. "Depending on what we find, we may need to seal it until we can determine if it's safe to use or not."
Hearing that his new power may have to be sealed did not sit well with Sasuke, however Naruto had made a decent point and he would admit the blond knew more about seals then he did. "Fine, let's go get a room and get this over with."
Naruto frowned in thought as he stared at the seal on his teammate's neck. The seal was something of an oddity. Naruto could tell it was a decently high level fuuinjutsu, yet at the same time it was so sloppy the blond had to wonder what Orochimaru was thinking to put something like this on someone.
"Well?" asked Sasuke who was sitting in front of Naruto with his shirt off so the blond could have unhindered access to the seal.
"It's definitely a fairly high level seal," Naruto replied as he unsealed his fuuinjutsu equipment. "Powerful too. Some of the seals I don't even recognize. However, it's also been made rather poorly. The Hebi-teme obviously doesn't really care if someone lives or dies from this seal. I can see a few seals that I have knowledge of. You've got a slave Seal, which is designed to bend the will of the person using it to whoever created it. A modified pain seal, I think this one is to inflict pain on a person if they decide to use it against the seal against its creator. And another one that I can only recognize a little bit as something that affects the mind. My guess is it's a modified mind slave seal; normally these are designed to control others by controlling the chemical processes in the brain. This one however looks like it enslaves the user's will to the power of the seal, basically it acts like a drug, the more you use the seal the more you'll crave its use."
Naruto cut his thumb and placed his blood in the ink bottle, he began to stir the ink as he thought of what kind of seal he should use to seal this mark. "Until either myself, or someone better than me can figure out what this seal does we should keep it under locks."
Sasuke grunted, still not liking the thought of having all that power sealed away. However he understood what his blond teammate was saying, and did not want his will to be enslaved to someone else.
Using quick and precise brushstrokes, Naruto began to create a counterseal to keep the cursed mark under control.
"Don't you also have one of these cursed marks?" asked Sasuke a little while after Naruto started sealing, "I thought he bit you too."
"He did," Naruto said, biting his bottom lip in concentration. "However, the seal couldn't take hold on me. This mark seems to feed off of a person's dark emotions to get its power, so if someone rejects their darker side the seal can't take effect."
Naruto started writing all along Sasuke's back as he found himself needing more space to write the seal, "I remember when I was caught in my mind because of the seal; I had to fight my dark half in combat. Apparently he had the power of the seal, so when I defeated him the seal disappeared as well."
Sasuke frowned, his had merely showed a younger version of him being powerless and Orochimaru had come and offered him power, "I didn't have something like that happen to me."
"It's probably different for everyone," Naruto shrugged as he finished creating the seal. Unlike the Predessecor for the seal he was using, this one did not require much space due to how Naruto had created the seal. The Fuja Hoin, which this seal was created from required the person the seal was being used on to sit within two concentric circles. Having realised that it was because most people created an unessecary amount of formula symbols Naruto had set about to making something easier, taking away some symbols and adding in other ones to compress the nessecary amount of seals needed for the fuiinjutsu.
He checked it over to make sure there were no mistakes, and upon finding none went through several hand seals. "Dyuaru Sou Fuja Hoin (Dual Layered Evil Sealing Method)!" he placed a glowing purple hand on the cursed seal and watched as the seals he had created all began to move towards the one on Sasuke's neck.
"Gugh!" Sasuke grunted and squeezed his eyes shut as his cursed seal flared. It definitely hurt, but thankfully this pain was nowhere near the pain he felt when he had been given the cursed seal. For several seconds Sasuke was forced to bear with the pain until Naruto finished sealing the cursed seal. When it was done the Uchiha heir was left gasping for breath as he felt slightly weakened.
"You should get some rest. You're going to feel groggy after having that sealed up," Naruto said as he moved off the bed.
Sasuke didn't say anything but nodded as he lay down and fell asleep.
A few minutes later the door to the shower opened and Sakura stepped out in a clean set of clothes, "Shower's open if either of you two wants it…"
She looked over to see Sasuke already asleep and Naruto moving to the shower. As the door closed Sakura went over to Sasuke and looked down at the sleeping figure of her crush. She sighed as she went to one of the other beds and went to sleep.
Fifteen minutes later Naruto came out of the shower in a pair of orange boxers. Seeing his teammates already asleep and feeling kind of tired himself he went over to the last bed and plopped down on it. Rolling onto his back Naruto closed his eyes and decided to visit Kyuubi and finish the conversation they had started from earlier.
Opening his eyes Naruto found himself in a forest that he recognized as the one that surrounded Konoha. A little ways away in front of him was a small hut with some smoke coming out of a chimney. Determining that was where Kyuubi lived the blond made his way over to it, promising to get some answers from his tenant. When he got in front of the door he paused for a second, before deciding that it may be in his best interest not to get on the red heads bad side and knocked.
He heard some shuffling and a small curse when it sounded like someone bumped into something before the door opened and revealed Kyuubi.
Kyuubi blinked at him for a moment and for a second Naruto could see surprise in her eyes, though it only lasted for a second, "I did not expect to see you so soon." She said after a while, only for a small grin to form a second later, "Did you miss looking at someone as beautiful as me?"
For a moment Naruto blushed in embarrassment, however he soon remembered who or more precisely what this was that was in front of him. Gathering himself he did his best not to scowl at her as he spoke, "Believe me, were it up to me I would not have come back." He smirked for a moment as he noticed her scowl, "However, I believe our conversation last time was interrupted."
Kyuubi frowned at the lack of respect in Naruto's tone, but decided to let it slide for the moment, "I suppose it did. Very well, you may come in," she opened the door a little wider and walked away, forcing the blond to close the door as he walked in.
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