Taming Your Demon (Sealing Series Part I)

Return of the Three Way Deadlock and The Father of Shinobi

"You rub my back and I rub yours, Sasuke. That was always the nature of our relationship." Orochimaru injected Sasuke with the substance that they recovered from his laboratory in the village hidden in sound. "But you need not be too reckless, my dear student. Karin's chakra will only make things worse for you now. But this serum will help for awhile. It is much stronger than the serum Madara gave you from Sabui or whatever fake serum he was able to create from the jinchuuriki's binding seal partner. This is from my special collection. These are actual cells from Eiko Hyuga."

"What do you want in return?" Sasuke asked, suspiciously.

"You will accompany me to the Uchiha temple in the southern forest to free the souls still trapped in the dead demon consuming seal." Orochimaru explained. "The old Uzumaki clan, who created the shinigami mask, used sealed clones to dawn those masks as blood sacrifices to trick and manipulate the demons that the masks were supposed to mimic. The masks were made in a similar fashion to a sealed clone and are therefore irreplicable unless you have an Uzumaki very skilled with fuinjutsu at your disposal. The one caveat to this jutsu is that the ceremony must be preformed in the presence of an item even older than the demon. And the oldest item known to man would be the stone tablet sealed away by the Uchiha clan... which is why we must take the trouble to travel into the wilderness. And since we have no sealed clones, I will have to use this current body as the blood sacrifice -she's becoming troublesome anyway. But after the body dies, I need you to release and seal my chakra into a new body."

"My body?" Sasuke's voice grew even more suspicious.

"Your body is of no use to me anymore. It's incompatible, you are no longer a willing host, and you've grown too powerful to control anyway. I'd likely be trapped inside of you, only to be used as you see fit." Orochimaru scoffed at the thought. He had other plans for Sasuke, anyway.

For years, Orochimaru secretly studied the Uzumaki sealing techniques that the Hyugas collected and kept locked under their libraries after Uzushiogakure was destroyed. He even took a trip to the old ruins in order to unearth even older buried scrolls that the Hyuga clan had missed.

Despite all of the brilliant plans and ideas that were handed down to him from the hokage and Danzo and his anonymous backer (who ended up being Madara Uchiha), Orochimaru had his own plans for Kushina's clone. The precious scrolls outlining the misuse and dangers of the kinjutsu developed by the Uzumaki clan to release and seal away an unworthy sage were rediscovered by Orochimaru and yet again stolen by Madara early on in their tenuous relationship. Soon after that Orochimaru leaked the information to the hokage, in the hopes that his unanimous backer might eventually be caught and sealed away for good.

In the elder days, certain shinobi from the Uzumaki clan were chosen whenever the problem of a sage who abused their powers arose. The leader of the clan would chose the reaper from the strongest of his seal makers. The reaper would release the sage's chakra from his dead body, and then would seal the sage's chakra within him or herself. The extensive amount of chakra and the resilient life force of an Uzumaki shinobi would keep the sage's chakra and life force suppressed until death. After death, the reaper's body was sealed inside a sarcophagus deep underground, where the sage could not be released again. So it was well known to Orochimaru that one of the most important rules in picking a body host was to always be stronger than the host. "No. One of my subordinates, who is more compatible and less unruly, has agreed to be my next host."

"And what is the purpose of all of this anyway?" Suigetsu was not too keen on traveling into the southern forest where the temple lay. It was not that he was superstitious or anything, but there was a good reason why only Uchiha shinobi ventured into that part of the Land of Fire.

"Are you scared to venture into the southern woods, Suigetsu?" Orochimaru chuckled maliciously. "What are the chances that the stories about living trees who place men under genjutsu and then suck their bones dry are true? The nine tailed beast is long gone from that region. And if we run into any of his rogue chakra, known to rip grown men into tiny bite sized pieces before swallowing them whole, we have an Uzumaki and an Uchiha with us. Karin will sense any danger ahead of us and Sasuke's sharingan is strong enough to keep us safe, eh?"