A week later and it was Hebikira's graduation day in which he would be placed in a genin team. The Root complex was bustling with activity, all the graduates celebrating finally paying back the village for giving them purpose, even if it was turning them into highly trained killers. Sasuke approached his son (who was of course Root's rookie of the year) to give him a talk on life as a ninja.
"Are you ready?" He asked not even looking at the boy beside him.
"I'm not sure". Hebikira was surprised at being usure of something.
"Then your starting off on the right path."
Hebikira didn't understand, he was very confused. But looking at the clan symbol on the back of his retreating father he was filled with a sudden sense of releaf. Looking at his family with his hurt little brother and cute little sister, he realised he wanted to protect them, and make sure that nothing stood in the way of their happiness.
Hanabi, Sakura and Hana were there to watch Kurohono while Sasuke interacted with Hebikira. Sasuke was usually the only one who could watch him due to the risk of the amaterasu flame spilling during one of his episodes though, they were uncommon. The newest Uchiha liked to sleep due that whenever he woke up his chakra consumption towards his kekkei-genkai, would wear him back out in a few minutes. Now Sasuke and Hanabi were NOT complaining about that, as long as he wasn't in danger of malnourishent or chakra exaustion which wasnt possible due to the infinite amaterasu seal. The flame and doujutsu must have been painful still because when he was awake he wailed...Loudly.
Sarada had been incessantly asking why his eyes where covered, and the answer had been the same every time "his eyes are sensitive". But one of Hebikira's teammates civilian mother asked the same question and Sasuke decided to have scare the nosey woman and replied, "whatever he looks at explodes in flames". The woman quickly skittered off afraid. He hadn't been lying, it had happened once and he didn't want to risk it again so he had to keep them covered and sealed.
A side effect that did worry them was that when he cried his tears were blood. Sasuke's theory was that his eyes used so much power they where rendering themselves blind as it had with Itachi and Sasuke using amaterasu. If that was indeed the case, Kurohono would need an eye transfer to unlock the eternal mangekyo or else lose his sight before he could speak let alone crawl.
The now ten-year-old Hebikira left with his new team and jonin sensei to start his own path as a shinobi of Konoha no sato.
Upon arriving at the compound the uchiha family were assaulted by a pack of black furry giants. Fugaku approached with news "Uchiha-sama welcome back we have news, approximately seven days ago a strange occurrence happened. One of the pack bore a white furred pup." This was indeed a strange occurrence because in the ten years that the uchiha had the hellhounds they had all looked almost exactly alike, midnight black fur with red eyes. The hounds weren't allowed out of the compound alone as per the agreement with the Inuzuka, their only duties where to protect the compound and Root facilities. Certain pups who where born on the same day as an uchiha or Root operative would be assigned to that new member. This was surely a sign but a very meaningful one. Thinking carefully Sasuke ordered the pup to be brought to him at the main house.
"As you wish Sasuke-sama" Fugaku ordered one of the other hounds immediately. Kurohono would love his companion for surely they were spirit brothers.
Meanwhile Hebikira's hound was licking him all over his face in congratulations for graduating. "Stop it Arata" laughingly pushing the great beast away. They went off to go mingle in the village, probably going to visit his team mates. Sasuke instilled heavy teamwork and comraderie in sixty percent of Root aspects of training. Knowing his team mates inside in out would allow them to operate in perfect synchronization.
Sarada's training had reached a whole other level; her mastership of the bow was unprecedented, her range had increased to the point where she could see the border to the sand. Gaining any helpful sight up close required extreme concentration for taijutsu, which was severely hindered. Orochimaru had set up contraptions all over the leaf to release targets for an hour every day to test her capabilities. She had set them to ten a minute randomly, she was going to move the speed up soon though as she could hit all of them. It was almost time for the current volly to start, Sasuke had set it to move itself back an hour every day so she could hit them in different light settings. Right now it was set to twenty hundred hours, she had ten minutes to prepare so she and her hound Yuzuki ran off.
That night he gathered the family to discuss in full, Kurohono's health issues.
"His eyes wont shut off and he doesn't have chakra." He stated as if not having chakra would mean that he wouldn't be alive.
"THE HELL DO YOU MEAN HIS EYES WON'T SHUT OFF AND HE DOESN'T HAVE CHAKRA YOU BASTARD!" The rage was pretty clear in Hanabi's voice, her motherly instincts said to kill the person who was at fault.
"Exactly what it sounds like." Sasuke explained what happened the night of his birth. Hanabi was horrified and preceded to juken strike her husbands face. Sasuke took it, as he understood why his wife was angry. Hana and Sakura just listened in quiet aknowledgment, after all he wasn't born to either of them. "He'll be fine, there's nothing to worry about except that hemightgoblind." Angering her any further he decided to use Nartuto tactics...
It wasn't a good idea.
"Excuse me what was that?" Hanabi questioned, obviously not amused.
"I said he might go blind, with the way his eyes are using chakra he'll need the eternal mangekyo in order to see."
The answer seemed simple "so then give it to him".
"Its not that simple he'd need new eyes, and not just any he'd need eyes that have unlocked the mangekyo".
"Then give him your old eyes".
"Those are too powerful, who knows what would happen plus the village would never accept it."
"Not Itachi's old ones YOUR old ones, didn't you say you switched them out well what did you do with yours?"
Sasuke had never thought about that, although it didn't take him long to figure out where they might've been, and he was sure of it.
"Kabuto "
Sasuke had confronted Kabuto and returned back to Hanabi and Kurohono when he heard the scream.
"BRING ME THOSE FUCKING EYES NOW!" It sounded as if she had been subjected to torture that lead to her inevitable insanity.
"I'm home and I'm fine and oh yes I did get the eyes." Sasuke said with the upmost sarcasm that he could muster.
"Well get in here and do the damn thing."
"Is he asleep?" the surgery couldn't be done unless he was asleep or the pain would be insurmountable.
She appeared as if she had just battled one hundred enemies."He hasn't slept since you left all he does is cry!"
" He's probably frightened at the sudden blindness of sleeping."
"But hasn't he had his eyes covered the whole time what's the difference?" She asked not understanding.
"You can see with your eyes closed when using the byakugan right?"
"Oh" Hanabi had never really thought about it before. Use of the byakugan was first nature to her.
Using a genjutsu to put Kurohono to sleep Sasuke quickly switched the childs eyes with his own, strangely the byakugan didn't go away. It seemed like it didn't come from the eye itself but the user, which was not how the byakugan was supposed to work. If Sasuke had been able to see he would have noticed that the white tomoe of his son's eye had come together to form a white ring over the sea of black and slowly a white pupil appeared. This was the version of eternal mangekyo that his son had.
(4 years later)
It was the day of Sarada's graduation and Sasuke was busy with Kurohono in the grounds of the compound. It was to be his first day without a seal shielding his eyes, they wanted him to see his sister's graduation, really SEE it. The byakugan was limited to just shapes with black and white outlines. Sasuke had been training him in control over his body to be able to see this moment.
Sarada had truly become special, she was the ELITE graduate of all the years in Sasuke's new Root program. To fix the problem of seeing up close for taijutsu she had developed glasses that allowed for closer vision whilst not hindering her byakugan's ability to see unnatural distances. To help in her archery skills she had begun studying physics to the point where she could perform highly advanced equations in the split-second it took to make the shot no matter the distance. expected to make chunin the next exams, which was not too far off. Just three months in fact.
"Dad what's so different? I can see what things look like. Am I really missing that much?" him Not knowing about the existence of something didnt bother him because he didnt have a comparison. How could he if it wasnt possible.
"Just trust me Kuro" Sasuke said almost gingerly, slowly undoing the wrapping he heard Kurohono gasp at the sight that was his home. He couldn't put the beauty of what he saw into words, the colors where just too much to comprehend and it brought the boy to tears. Sasuke noticed that he still cried blood and went to wash his sons face before they went to the ceremony in public. "Lets get going shall we? Wouldn't want to miss your sister's graduation."
He felt the ninja's prescence only an instant before he spoke.
"Father, lord hokage wishes to speak to you." Hebikira had risen quite fast through the shinobi ranks as expected of ROOT members and had been assigned to the new hokage's personal ANBU guard.
"What could he possibly want that's so important that he would interrupt my daughters graduation?" Now that had made him annoyed.
Hebikira looking down, a little shaken at his fathers agitation. "I was not informed, though he said it was urgent." He heard a small noice and looked up to a single falling leaf where his father had just been.
Arriving at the hokage tower with no small amount of irritation Sasuke began throwing questions.
"What do you want, and why aren't you at the ceremony your kid is graduating too right?"
Turning around in his new office chair Naruto looked seriously to his old friend and nemesis. "This has some correlation to the graduates specifically your daughter, originally she was assigned to the same team as my son Bolt, but recently she's applied for a solo long-term mission to Sunagakure. You wouldn't happen to know why would you?" This was indeed against protocol for Sasuke's Root graduates, the only reason the sector was sanctioned was for the boost to the villages main fighting force. Not going into a genin team meant that Sarada wasnt holding her end of being a Root operative... A very serious offense.
Shocked Sasuke thought for a minute, she had seemed more closed off recently. "No I have no idea you wouldn't allow her to though, right?" He asked in a way that sounded more like an order.
Naruto of course didn't notice this. "Well I was actually thinking about letting her do it I mean we ARE in a time of peace and she's easily jonin strength, I was thinking of just giving her a field promotion to chunin and sending her off."
Sasuke was indeed shocked, he couldn't let her instill this type of rebellious behaviour into the other ROOT trainees. "I'll talk to her about it I'm sure its nothing."
"Whatever you say, but Sasuke I think that we should begin forming ROOT only teams, I mean they are way too useful and powerful for a genin team."
Sasuke was very taken aback by this. "How could you of all people suggest that? It was formed as an alternative to the regular regime, its not meant to ostracize anyone! Besides having high strength spread out within the main forces strengthens the overall force, opposed to concentrated strength that leaves weak areas within the force." Turning to leave, he didn't understand how his friend had changed.
"Ok, ok I was just suggesting." But Sasuke had already left to find his daughter. To reprimand his rebellious ROOT operative.
(Back at the compound)
Sarada had been waiting to see if her request had been accepted when she heard her name called out by what sounded like an angry version of her father, but that was weird what could he possibly be angry about.
"Sarada, why didn't you express your desire to go to the sand village with ME your commanding officer?" Sasuke was angry she had to have a good reason for this betrayel.
She looked at her crazed father with a curious expression. "Well I was studying the history of ninja archers and one struck me as interesting, in fact it says you knew him. His name was Kidomaru of the sound village?" Sarada began looking at him expectantly, hoping for more information on this kidomaru character.
Sasuke looked at his rebellious dughter in contempt. "Why are you interested in a loser like him, he was weak."
Sarada appeared taken aback at the brutal insulting of her archer idol. "Maybe at the time but the way he fought, I find it interesting if given enough time I'm sure he would've become legendary, but he did have some flaws " she looked away starry eyed, obviously thinking intensely.
"If he didn't he'd be alive." Sasuke deadpanned.
Getting frustrated Sarada explained further. "I want to go to Sunagakure to study the puppeteers chakra strings and see if I can't come up with a better alternative to what Kidomaru was using as his spider silk and tweak it to suit me."
Sasuke was hard pressed to admit he was proud of his daughter for wanting to get better, and the unique way she went about it. So he reluctantly let her off the hook. "Fine, try not to cause an international incident over there, we dont need any bad publicty for ROOT."
Wonderfully happy at convincing her father to let her go she expressed her excitement in a truly childish way, "Yay thanks daddy, i'll make the Uchiha clan proud!" She returned to her dwelling and proceeded to pack, overjoyed that she would get to skip the Genin rank entirely and set off on her own.
Sasuke had to get back to training with Kurohono; recently he had just been educating him in the regular subjects while figuring out how to turn him into a ninja without ninjutsu or genjutsu when he realized that he KNEW one such ninja. Pulling some strings with Naruto he managed to hire this certain ninja on account of the excitement a long-term S rank mission would sound to the shinobi. Using the next morning to introduce the two...
"Kurohono I would like you to meet your new sensei, Rock Lee." Kurohono looked toward this strange man with green spandex and an outrageous haircut with a slight sense of fear mixed with some mixed feelings mostly worry and a tinge of wonder. This strange man had an air of crazy about him, one that made the child feel that he was about to go through hell.
"Hello Kurohono-kun! My name is Rock Lee and i'll be your new sensei! YOSH! lets get started! First your weights!" Lee made some orange leg warmers appear and handed them to Kuro who looked at them as if they were some strange alien object.
"Ah yes! I had expected such a reaction! Though I had hoped you would be a little more accepting of the color..." Kurohono looked down in slight shame at making a bad first impression. "But no worries I brought black ones!" The happy man exclaimed with a thumbs up and a glint in his eye.
At this little Kuro made a small smile towards his new, exciting, character of a sensei.
"Lets get started then Lee-sensei."
All right guys I was super lazy with this chapter also thanks for pointing out what I was doing wrong it helped. Also I realized that I don't have enough xp writing and I hope to get better writing this. No more time skips for a while hopefully I can stick to his training for a WHOLE chapter (that would be a shocker) hopefully I can add more detail and get better with dialogue and pretty much EVERYTHING (tips and help welcome) well later (ja-ne). (Just realized that this chapter sucks and im horrible at writing) well the flame has almost risen