"WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU WON'T TRAIN ME?!"
Yondome was clearly frustrated. He wanted Sasuke to reach him how to get the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan.
"That is a very difficult technique to obtain. You're gonna have to wait until you learn a jutsu or technique from a list of these people."
Sasuke pulled a piece of paper from his back pocket. Yondome realised that it was a list of names. He began to read the names. He read the first three.
Kakashi Hatake
Shikimaru Nara
Kankuro of the Sand
Yondome skipped to the last three names.
18) Hinata Hyuga
19) Darui
20) Naruto Uzumaki
"I have to learn something from all of these people!?"
"Yes. One from each of these people. In order."
They had finally reached the gate of the Hidden Leaf. Sasuke was going on a mission, and wasn't due back for a few weeks.
"And if I learn all of this, you'll teach me the Eternal Mangekyo?"
"As best I can, yes."
Yondome sighed. He would do it of course. Sasuke was his hero. He was just a little sad that he would have to wait so long to learn from him.
Yondome suddenly perked up.
"ALRIGHT! I'LL DO IT! And by the time you get back, I'm gonna have joined the Anbu Black Ops!"
Sasuke chuckled.
"Y'know, you remind me a lot of Naruto when he was a child. Calm down sometimes, please."
"Sure thing Uncle Sasuke!"
Training with Kakashi
"Alright Yondome. You want me to teach you a technique? I'll teach you the Chidori. This is one of your uncle's signatures."
Kakashi and Yondome were standing in the training field. The bright sun glinted off of Yondome's white cloak.
"Alright," said Kakashi, "step one is the hand signs. You know how to perform jutsu, correct?"
Yondome nodded his head. He couldn't wait for this! About an hour ago when Sasuke had handed him the list, he wasn't sure how he'd get the Hokage to teach him a jutsu.
Kakashi pulled off the hand signs. Three hand signs were all he needed.
"Now here's where it gets difficult. You have to focus all your chakra into the hand that you want the chidori to be in. Focus it there, then unleash it."
Kakashi's hand started to glow. Electricity started to zap, and Yondome could see Kakashi's chakra begin to form around his hand.
"Now you try."
Yondome pulled off the handsigns perfectly. But when he was about to unleash the chakra, nothing came out of his hand.
3 hours later…
"I've got an idea. Activate your Sharingan."
Yondome closed his eyes. A second later, the familiar red eyes with three dots appeared.
"Now watch closely."
Kakashi performed the chidori. As electricity zapped around the space, something clicked in Yondome's mind.
Suddenly, Yondome weaved the hand signs, and the chidori was in his hand.
"How did I-"
"Your sharingan has the ability to replicate jutsu, and techniques. Use it to learn all of the new jutsus that your gonna be learning."
Training with Shikimaru
"Shikimaru sensei, what jutsu are you gonna teach me?"
"I'm not gonna teach you a jutsu. The jutsus that I know are all Kekkei Genkais."
Yondome wondered what he would be learning. He hoped that it would be something that he could use to defeat Sasuke. If he could best Sasuke in combat, then he would start to get respect and love from his uncle. Both of which, were absent from their relationship.
"I'm gonna teach you how to rig the battlefield to your liking. You can use the battlefield and get the biggest advantage, no matter how powerful your opponent is."
Yondome listened intently. He wanted to gain the advantage over Sasuke.
As Shikimaru finished explaining his teachings, he gave Yondome an assignment.
"What I want you to do, is go around Konoha, and rig it. Make Konoha your advantage."
"HAI, SENSEI!"
Training with Kankuro
It had been a three day journey from Konoha to Suna, but Yondome had made the journey with no complaints. He was to find Kankuro, but that would be a difficult job. Suna was HUGE!
"Better get started then I guess."
Yondome was wearing a conventional Konoha shinobi uniform. His headband glinted in the sun. He walked through the gate, and was immediately surprised by how the heat was ten times more intense than in the desert on the way.
Yondome walked through the busy streets. He remembered that Kankuro was Gaara's brother. Gaara, being the Kazekage, was probably in the Kazekage's office. Therefore, Kankuro would be to.
Yondome grabbed a street map(stole), and looked through it. The office was dead ahead.
As he walked through the crowds, he caught someone grab a woman's breast. She screamed, slapping him, and he yelled right back at her. Yondome felt the sudden need to intervene.
Yondome got a better view. There was a man in purple face paint, the one who had started the assault, and the one who had started yelling.
"What is going on here? Who the he'll do you think you are, attacking this woman like that?!"
The man with the face paint looked at Yondome, clearly surprised that anyone would talk to him that way.
"Who the hell do you think you're talking to!? I'm KANKURO OF THE SAND!"
"You're my new sensei?"
Kankuro looked confused.
"Sensei? I'm not a teacher. Just who are you?"
Yondome explained everything. He then showed Kankuro the list.
"Alright, but not out here. Follow me."
They walked to an oddly shaped house. It was dark and dusty inside. Very gloomy.
"What the hell is this place?"
Kankuro laughed. It seemed to be a sarcastic laugh, but with Kankuro, you never knew.
"You're the son of Itachi Uchiha, and you don't know where this is? This is the puppetry store room of Sasori of the red sand. He has thousands of puppets here. Pick one. I'm gonna train you in Puppetry! You're gonna be a puppet master!"
"But sensei, I'm not a puppetry style shinobi. How are you gonna teach me puppetry?"
Kankuro chuckled.
"Anyone can be a puppet master, but some are just naturally better. Now go on and choose a puppet, and I'll have you fill it with weapons, then teach you how to use it."
Kankuro left the room to let Yondome pick it out himself. Yondome's eyes kept flicking around the dim room. His eyes caught on a very cool looking puppet. It looked just like Sasuke! Well, was dressed like him anyway.
The puppet was a normal body of a puppet, but there was obviously nothing inside. Not even the eye sockets we're filled in. However, it was wearing a black poncho with the hood on.
Yondome went over to it, and picked it up off the rack. He walked out of the storeroom, and out to the living room of the house.
"Kankuro sensei, can I ask you about something?"
"Of course you can!"
"Why'd you choose to live here?"
"Every puppet master has heard of Sasori of the Red Sand, legendary puppet master, and greatest thing to ever happen to puppetry since puppets. We all looked up to him. He was my hero, and I, his biggest fan. He one day disappeared, along with the third Kazekage. Then one day, when I was fifteen, Sunagakure was attacked by two Akatsuki members. One of them was Sasori. I got the honor of fighting him, and he almost killed me. I even used his old puppets, the ones he made all on his own. The crow, the ant and the salamander. It turns out that when Sakura and Granny Chiyo defeated him, he had turned his body into a puppet. That's now my signature puppet, is his body. This is Sasori's old house. Nobody was using it, and Chiyo left it to me in her will."
"Wow. That's… SO COOL!"
Yondome walked over to the workbench, next to the TV. There were weapons everywhere.
"How many can I use?"
"As many as you'd like."
Happily, Yondome started to make it look more like Sasuke. Sasuke would at least be flattered by Yondome designing his only puppet after his only uncle. He carved a face, added a flame thrower in the throat, put his own chakra into the puppet, filled it with kunai knives, and shuriken, and hidden swords, and even a chain with a blade at the tip. Finally, he gave the Sasuke look-alike a not so hidden sword on his back.
"How do I give a puppet a jutsu?"
Kankuro looked away from the TV. He seemed aggravated from having to temporarily stop watching his stories.
"Put the jutsus that you want, into a formula, on the puppet, then fill it with chakra. The chakra filling might take a few days, because you'll have to recharge your chakra. So how's it going with the puppet?"
Yondome pulled a scroll, and started drawing a contract seal.
"Not bad actually."
One he was finished with the seal, he painted the formula of the stomach of the puppet. As Kankuro walked over to check on his progress, he recognized the jutsu written, as the Chidori. What was he gonna do with a chidori puppet?
"Alright, I'm finished!"
"Alright. Now I'll teach you how to use one, and we'll sparr."
They stood on top of the Kazekage office. As Yondome pulled out the mini scroll from his pocket, he unravelled it. He summoned his all new, all different, Sasuke puppet. He had just learned how to to use the puppet, and now, it was his turn to spar with Kankuro.
As Kankuro summoned his puppet, he noticed that the puppet summoned, looked like nobody that Yondome had ever seen before.
Kankuro didn't give Yondome any time to prepare at all. The puppet charged, and Sasuke moved out of the way, barely dodging the blade, before charging quickly, slicing Kankuro's puppet in half.
"That's all you need to know! Good job!"
Training with Aoba Yamashiro
In the middle of the list, was a name that Yondome had heard only once by his father. He flashed back to what Itachi had told him.
'If I ever die, and we are not living in Konoha, I want you to first find Sasuke, your uncle. Then, seek out Aoba Yamashiro. He is the only one that can teach you how to use crows.'
Now he was back in Konoha, happy to be out of the heat of the Sand village.
He was standing on the great stone faces, where he had told Aoba to meet him in the note that he had send with the messenger bird.
He suddenly saw a flock of crows appear in front of his face, which then dispersed, a man wearing a bandana and red rimmed sunglasses standing in it's place.
"Hello," said the man, "I am Aoba. Are you the one who sent me the message?"
Yondome smiled. Itachi had made this man out to be so great. Now, Yondome was finally able to meet him.
"I am Yondome Uchiha. It's nice to finally meet you! I have so much to learn from you."
Aoba chuckled.
"So you're Itachi's kid, huh? Kakashi filled me in. Nice to finally meet you! But Yondome is too long a name. How about I call you Yon for short?"
Yondome was giddy. Yon? His first nickname! He was already establishing a name for himself!
"I love it!"
"Good. Now, it said in your letter, that you wanted to learn from me. So just what is it that you want to learn?"
I want to learn your crow technique. The only other people in history to use such techniques are Shisui Uchiha, and my father. I'm ECSTATIC!"
"You know that to do this, you have to make a contract with a crow. And it's a journey to get there. I can get you there though. Are you ready Yon?"
"Yes!"