A/N- This is the beta read chapter four. I hope you all enjoy :) Chapter 5 should be out sometime this week, its being beta read now.
A/N- I do not and will not ever own Naruto.
Itachi sat down beside the twins while they waited on the food to cook. "Naruto, you look like you have something on your mind, what's up" he asked his brother who seemed like he was deep in thought. "Brother do you want to know the real reason why we're out here? I'm sure you've probably guessed by now that there is another reason why we are camping." Naruto said and Itachi nodded. "Well before I can tell you, I have to let you both in on a little known secret about me." Naruto continued to tell them everything he knew about Minabi and that he was housed inside him. He also told them why they were out there in the forest. Sasuke was a little jealous at first because Naruto got to learn a new technique and he didn't, but Itachi told him that he would help him activate his sharingan, so Sasuke didn't say anything else about it.
The meat was finished cooking so they ate and went to sleep. Itachi stayed up and put everything perishable away in a scroll so that they would be able to eat it later. 'I wonder how long he's known about the kyuubi' he thought. He used the shadow clone jutsu and told the clone to stay up and keep watch throughout the night. Then he went to sleep in his tent. Everything went fine the first night. Itachi woke up the next morning, got up, and dispelled his clone. He walked to the boys' tent and woke them up.
They got up pretty quickly, and when they were all by the campfire Naruto used shadow clone jutsu so that Minabi could come out. Itachi was so surprised that he fell right out of the chair he was in and landed on Sasuke's foot. "OUCH!" Sasuke exclaimed.
"Naruto who is this and where did you learn that jutsu?" Itachi asked.
"Oh, dad taught it to me and this is Minabi." Naruto said casually.
"Yes, I'm the big beastie inside him that everyone is scared of." Minabi said with a foxy grin on his face. "Come, kit, so that I can teach you the rest of the jutsu. Oh and Itachi, I can help you with that little problem concerning your eyes, if you'd like. We will talk later." He walked farther into the clearing and Naruto followed. After Itachi got over the shock of seeing Minabi, he told Sasuke to follow him. He walked in the opposite direction with Sasuke and then stopped. He got out a scroll from his pouch and unrolled it.
"What is that, brother?" he asked noticing that the scroll had a bunch of the same seals on it.
"This is a sealing scroll containing weapons. Each seal has a hundred of the same weapons in it and today we will be using shuriken." He said and unsealed one of the seals.
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"Ok, kit I want you to summon fifty clones. They will be working on your jutsu while we spar" Minabi said.
"But how will that work, if I'm not working on the jutsu myself how will I learn anything?" Naruto asked the fox.
"Okay I'm going to explain this once, and once only. Make a clone." Naruto did. "Now don't move and send your clone to look and see what I'm holding behind my back." The clone looked and saw that he had a shuriken in his hands. "Now dispel him." He did and then grinned
"You were holding a shuriken. So whatever the clone experiences before it's dispelled, I remember. What are the limitations of this" Naruto asked looking at Minabi.
"Nice job, kit, you're smarter than you look. The limitations are that you have to build up physical strength and speed on your own but anything that has to do with the mind such as reading or muscle memory, or even learning chakra control you can do with this. The only thing you can't, like I said is increase your physical fitness. Now make fifty clones." Naruto did as he was asked and created fifty clones. Naruto then looked around the field of clones thinking.
"Can I test my max Minabi, I have an idea." Naruto asked finally. Minabi grinned at his student's willingness to think ahead.
"Yes go ahead, I want you to try and create 300." Naruto did the hand sign and said "Multi shadow clone jutsu!" he made three hundred more clones easily but was breathing heavy and sweating.
"So 350 are about my max right now. Alright that's good. Minabi I know because of you that I have huge chakra reserves and I was wondering if you'd let me use these clones to work on my control, I've heard that with massive reserves comes abysmal control." Minabi was shocked at the suggestion but smiled again.
"You are correct; it's a thought process..." Minabi hesitated for a few seconds, "alright I'll let you. I want all 300 to work on trying to walk up that tree, without hands like this." He slowly walked up the tree using only his feet.
"Wow I always wondered how the older ninja from my clan could do stuff like that, so it's a chakra control exercise." Naruto said.
Minabi jumped down and said "Yes, now with that many clones you could literally wreck your mind. So I want twenty to dispel every hour in sets of ten from this group and five from each group of the first fifty. All of your clones gain the memories so that will also quicken your training. When they can walk up the tree I want them to fight on the surface until the can fight for an hour without falling off. No jutsu. Now send the second group to work." Naruto told the clones what to do and they all spread out around the clearing. "Alright now as for what the first group is going to do, I want twenty five of you to work on the fire dragon jutsu. Make it stronger and hotter. The other twenty five of you will be working on a wind style jutsu called wind style: air bullet. I want it to be able to put a clean hole through rock when they are done. Also when both groups get down to five left only dispel one an hour. While they are doing that we will be sparring." When he finished talking he showed the twenty five clones the hand signs for the wind style jutsu, then he explained how to do it and they got to work.
"Naruto I want you to come at me with everything you've got" Minabi said. Naruto took a kunai from his pouch on his left thigh and charged Minabi at full speed which wasn't that fast. Minabi easily dodge and threw a few shuriken at Naruto with surprised him. He barely dodged them and Minabi shunshined behind him and said, "You let your guard down. Big mistake" right before kicking him hard in the kidney from behind, which caused the boy to double over in pain.
"Why did you do that?" yelled Naruto, "I thought we were only sparring!" Minabi looked at him with a cold stare.
"In a real battle you can't let your guard down even for a second, or it could mean your life." He said simply.
"Well this wasn't a real battle you could've gone a little easier on me" Naruto said weakly. "I will not go as easy on you as your teachers and older brother. You need to be ready for what is to come." He said ominously. Naruto looked at him wondering what he meant. "Now I want you to start your physical training, because that took less time than I thought. I want you to do twenty pushups, sit-up, leg kicks, punches, and squats. And then run around the clearing three times." Naruto groaned but got to work. Minabi jumped into a tree and watched him and his clones work. The tree walkers were slowly getting farther and farther up the tree. The fire jutsu clones were making progress as well, and so were the wind users. Minabi decided to take a short nap while Naruto trained.
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"Ok Sasuke, you're doing a lot better but I think we can get you to two tomoes before its time to call it a day." Itachi said as he continued to barrage his younger brother with kunai and shuriken now. Sasuke would either dodge or block the projectiles but he didn't get them all, resulting in the multiple cuts and scrapes. 'He's improving very quickly, I predict he and Naruto will be the strongest Uchiha the world has seen since Madara' he thought as he continued. "Alright Sasuke time for a short break. You deserve it." He said smiling at his brother.
"Finally" Sasuke exclaimed, "we've been at this for hours!" He walked over to Itachi and Itachi handed him a scroll.
"This is a scroll I made for you and Naruto when you unlocked the sharingan. I want you to read it and study it every time you unlock more of your sharingan, I will add more to it every once in a while until it's filled. You won't be able to read much of it yet but here you go" Sasuke took it and started to read, he noticed that almost all of it was blank except for three short paragraphs:
Sasuke if you are reading this then you've activated your sharingan to one tomoe in each eye. I'm very proud of you and hope that I helped you in some way. More of the scroll will appear as you unlock more of your potential and you will begin to learn about the things you can do.
With one tomoe you can perceive things around you easier and the world may start to slow down a bit. You will get used to this. You will also start to see chakra flow and read lips to a degree.
Those are the abilities you gain by having one tomoe, when you have more the next part of the scroll will be visible to you and you can read about the abilities you gain. The one thing I must stress to you is that our dojutsu and family have a curse of hatred on them. We must do things to gain power that may seem horrible to most, but that is how it has always been. I ask that you try to find other ways to gain power and not rely on your eyes too much because they might just fail you sooner or later. My hope is that you can overcome this curse of ours and learn to love, and not hate.
Sasuke looked at his brother, who had sadness in his eyes. "Brother why are you sad" he asked showing his age. "It's nothing Sasuke just bad memories, let's eat a small lunch and then get back to training."
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A kunai hit the tree that Minabi was napping in which woke him up. "What the hell, kit!" Minabi exclaimed and looked down.
"I'm done with physical training so I thought I'd wake you up. There are fifty clones fighting on the tree left and I'm down to five with each jutsu." Naruto said laughing at him.
"Alright then let's go see how they're doing" Minabi said as he reached the ground. They walked over to the clones that were practicing the fire jutsu and asked how they were doing.
"We finished, but we should probably just show you." One of the clones that were left told him. Naruto noticed that the ground looked like it had been scorched everywhere. "Alright show us then." The clone did the hand signs for the jutsu and said "Fire style: Fire dragon jutsu" he exhaled. A huge white-hot dragon swam from his mouth into the air. It burned anything that it touched. Naruto jumped back and gawked at the dragon. It was so hot that by that he could see the heat radiating off of it. 'If someone got hit by that they'd get obliterated!' he thought to himself 'better not use it at full power unless I have to.' "That's amazing" he said out loud. Minabi watched satisfied with his progress.
"Dispel these clones and let's go check on the others." Minabi said and started walking towards the wind users. Naruto did as he was told and got a little dizzy from the influx of memories. He joined Minabi with the other clones.
"How are you guys doing with the jutsu" Naruto asked one of the clones that were left. "We finished a little while ago; here is the result that you asked for." The clone showed them a medium sized rock with a hole in it that went all the way through. "That's good guys" he dispelled his clones. "Now will you teach me the jutsu, Minabi?" he asked.
"It's getting dark so not right now, we will continue this tomorrow. First lets go and check on your tree walking clones." Minabi said and started walking in their direction. When they arrived at where the clones were, they were all fighting on the surface of the trees and dispelling every once in a while.
"Good job you guys, come down" Naruto said and they all landed on the ground. "How long have you all been up there?" he asked them. "Well we've been fighting up there for almost two hours, but we were finished with the tree walking exercise after the third set of clones dispelled" the clone replied.
"Good, dispel them five at a time." Minabi said. Naruto slowly dispelled them in increments of five giving himself a few minutes between each dispel to acclimate. When he was finished Minabi dispelled.
"Well I guess I'd better check on how Itachi and Sasuke are doing." Naruto said to himself right before a kunai flew past him and stuck into a tree. He looked up and saw his two brothers and they both had their sharingan activated. Itachi's had three tomoes, while Sasuke's had two. 'So Sasuke's sharingan has been developed to two tomoes now, which reminds me, I need to start training with mine. I don't want Sasuke to get jealous though, so I'll talk to Minabi about helping me put a genjutsu over it tonight.' He thought to himself but aloud he said, "Hey you two, I'm assuming that the training went well."
Sasuke grinned. "Yeah it was hell; I dodged weapons for my life! Once we got it activated, it was easier but it took forever to get to the second stage. I'm just happy that I got that far!" Sasuke said excitedly. "We should head back to the campsite" Itachi said and started walking in that general direction with Naruto and Sasuke behind him.
"You'll get to see the results of my training tomorrow when I finish" Naruto explained. "You haven't even finished yet? What have you been doing out here? Sitting on your ass I'll bet," Sasuke teased. "You'll see tomorrow" Naruto said and grinned.
When they got back to the camp Itachi put some of the leftover meat on the fire that they rebuilt and asked Naruto to bring out Minabi so that he could talk to him. Naruto did as he was told and Minabi went into the tent with Itachi. Itachi put a silencing jutsu around the tent so that the boys wouldn't hear. "You said you could help me with the problem I am having with my eyes, does that mean that you can awaken the Mangekyo sharingan for me? I've been struggling with the fact that the only way to awaken it is the death of my best friend Shisui by my hand..." he paused to let Minabi speak.
"No Itachi it means that I can help you activate the stage after that which is the eternal Mangekyo sharingan, which is only normally obtained by implanting a siblings eyes in your sockets." Itachi almost puked at the thought of that which Minabi saw and was pleased about.
"What do I have to do?"
"I have a modified Tsukyomi that I can use on you that will activate it." Itachi was surprised.
"Isn't that the ultimate genjutsu?" he asked and Minabi replied.
"Yes and before you ask it will last seventy two hours that way you will experience it but only twenty minutes will pass in the real world. You won't have to worry about being out for three days."
Itachi didn't even blink before saying, "okay I'll do it." Minabi activated his sharingan which was a completely golden eye that had three rings inside it and along each ring was a decreasing number of tomoe. The last ring had the standard three, but all of the tomoe were red. He told Itachi to lie down and brace himself.
"Kongo no shichō gijutsu" he said and Itachi's eyes widened knowing that that wasn't the name of the jutsu. The last thing that Itachi saw before he found himself in a different world was Minabi's spinning sharingan. Minabi walked out of the tent and Naruto asked where Itachi was.
"Training" Minabi said simply before sitting down beside them.
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Itachi found himself on top of the hokage monument, but it was different than the one he saw every day. It had 7 faces on it instead of the four that he remembered. He looked at the last three. One was Tsunade, the slug sannin. The second was a man looked surprisingly like his youngest brother Naruto. He didn't recognize the third man but he did notice that he had the sharingan etched in his eyes. Itachi looked up; he realized that the sky was blood red. He looked around for the moon and couldn't find it. He did see that there was a huge red sharingan with the same design as Minabi's in the sky, minus the rings.
'What is this place?' he thought. He took his eyes off of the sharingan and looked around. The village wasn't in very good shape. Buildings were falling apart everywhere. He heard a sound a little to the left and in the next second he was surrounded by unfamiliar ninjas. They all had no headbands on and Itachi wondered why. The circle of ninjas opened and the last man from the hokage monument walked up.
"Who are you and what are you doing in MY village?" the man asked. "My name is Itachi Uchiha and I am from here as you can see" he pointed to his headband. One of the men gasped when he looked at the symbol on the headband.
"Itachi Uchiha you say, hehe… I thought I killed you 26 years ago after the war broke out. Yeah I did, because I remember that you and your brothers' teams had been such a thorn in my side for so long, but now you can't even touch me. Take him to the deepest dungeon and start the torture." He told the men behind him. They took him before he could fight back and slapped metal bands on his wrists. "Before you are tortured to death I'll let you know my name. I'm Madara Uchiha the first and strongest of the Uchiha and this is my world now. Take him." He could feel his chakra being drained rapidly by the metal. They walked him to the IT division and down the stairs that were right inside. Down and down they went for what seemed like hours. Itachi counted over five thousand steps before they finally came to an end. Now he was in a hallway. It was dark with only one light near the stairs. They lead him down the hallway to the fifth door on the right. The ninja walked him inside the large room. He looked around at the tables full of torture instruments. They carried him to a cleared of table. He tried his hardest to get free but their grips were strong on him, and he couldn't get free. They strapped him down on the table with more of the chakra draining metal. One of the men picked up a normal kunai and slashed him in the stomach. He gasped from the pain and the man cut him a second time, and then a third. The man grinned sadistically and ran the blade along Itachi's chest leaving a slice that was a foot long. Itachi cried out as he never had before.
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It had been almost an hour since Minabi had used the genjutsu on Itachi. 'It's probably been long enough; I should go and check on him' he thought. The boys had eaten and were talking. He slipped into the tent and looked at Itachi. "Shit he's going to die if I don't act quickly!" he exclaimed. There were three deep cuts along his stomach and a long thin one along his chest. He touched Itachi's forehead and said "Ritān!" and Itachi woke up screaming.
"What the hell was that!" he yelled.
"Stop moving or you're going to bleed to death" Minabi said calmly. Itachi went silent and Minabi looked around for a first aid kit. He got some bandage tape and wrapped his wounds tightly with it. They still oozed blood slowly but after a while they stopped.
"What was that jutsu, Minabi" Itachi asked, "and why is everything so vibrant. I can tell how worried you are, even though you don't look it at all."
Minabi looks at him grimly "that was a mistake I'm sorry I should have told you what I was really going to do from the beginning. I apologize for that but I needed an ally. Don't speak and let me explain, I could have put you in a modified Tsukyomi, but instead I used a jutsu I've only ever used on myself. It is a time-space jutsu called Kongo no shichō gijutsu that literally allows the user or victim in your case's soul to travel 37 years into the future. I want to test my theory and if I'm right, what you just saw will never happen. I am assuming that you met Madara uchiha, and that he had taken over the world, correct?" Itachi nodded and Minabi continued "ok I think I told your father this but Madara was the reason that I attacked the village that night, eight years ago. I'm not sure exactly what he's planning, but what you saw is the end result. That jutsu last twenty four hours, eight hours present time, and whatever injuries you sustain are transferred to your body. It's similar to the Yamanaka's clan jutsu in that regard. Now I want you to channel as much chakra into your eyes as you possibly can."
Itachi started channeling chakra into his eyes with them closed and the he slowly opened them "Ack!" he screamed and fell to the ground.
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Naruto and Sasuke were sitting by the fire talking about the training that they went through during the day. "Yeah, but the trick to training and activating your sharingan is to strengthen your eyesight" Sasuke said and Naruto asked how exactly you did that. "Well sparring is one way but it has to be serious sparring, and you have to have it activated the whole time. Also having thousands of projectiles thrown at you at high speeds will strengthen it." Naruto shuddered at the thought. "So what did Minabi have you do?" Sasuke asked him.
"Well at first he had me summon fifty shadow clones. Then he told me how they worked which is that anything that the clone does before it dispels you will remember. So apparently they are a good training tool but not many people can use them the way I do because I have a crazy amount of chakra. If you tried to summon even one you'd probably die."
Sasuke looked at him incredulously. "Really, then how can you use them so easily?" Sasuke asked.
"Well Minabi has been inside me for so long that he has increased my reserves without meaning to the point that I have more chakra than the hokage probably, that's just a guess though. Anyways I remembered that Iruka said that if someone has a lot of chakra to begin with that they have horrible control of it so I can up with an idea…" Naruto continued to tell him everything about the days training except for the part about the results, claiming that had have to wait until the next day to see. They continued to talk about all kind of subjects from the academy to what they wanted to eat when they got home.
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Itachi was freaking out. "W-what is this?" he asked Minabi, as he examined his eyes in the reflection of the small mirror that all ANBU are required to carry. They looked exactly like Minabi's except that the tomoes were all black instead of red.
"That is what's called the eternal sage sharingan and you are the second human to possess it." Minabi explained.
"Who was the first?" Itachi looked at him and asked. Minabi put a hand on his shoulder.
"I gave it to the Sage of the Six Paths when he found me and my brethren and took us in." The demon met Itachi's eyes; the uchiha was beyond shocked.
"So I have the eyes of the Rikodou Sennin? Minabi I'm sure that these eyes have many untold secrets and abilities, but is there anything that your feel that I must know right now?" Itachi asked closing his still activated eyes. He opened them again and noticed that everything around him was extremely detailed. He could see each pore on his and Minabi's skin.
"The one thing I feel that you must know is that those eyes never deactivate. Even if you deactivate them visibly you will still have access to all of the abilities just as if they are active as they are now. I recommend that you teach Sasuke the fire dragon jutsu, I have plans to teach him and Sasuke a collaboration jutsu that you will see Naruto use by himself tomorrow. Itachi you have a long road ahead of you, you must retrain this new sharingan. It may look complete, but it truth it is still in the first stage. Visibly only the tomoes will change, becoming red as you master it, but your proficiency with it and its abilities will change drastically." Itachi sighed at the thought of having to retrain this sharingan, but at the same time he was excited as hell to have a new challenge to overcome. "Let's rejoin your brothers. First you must visibly deactivate your eyes, concentrate on having as little chakra as possible in both of them." Itachi did this and notice that the only thing that changed was visible and that was that his eyes went back to their original coal black. "I will write out a scroll explaining the stages and abilities you will obtain with training. You may also want to try experimenting with your abilities to create new one, but I strongly advise against it until you unlock at least six of the thirty two tomoes in your eyes. Do not talk to anyone about this unless I am personally there. Is that understood Itachi?" Itachi nodded as they walked out of the tent.
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The two eldest walked over to the twins and greeted them. "Hey brother, Minabi, how did your talk go?" Naruto asked them.
He looked at them curiously, "it went better than expected. Boys I have a meeting with father and won't be able to train you tomorrow, I will be back in the evening, but Minabi will take over both of your training until I return." Itachi told them. One look between the other two told Minabi that he would hold up the agreement that they made. Minabi nodded.
The boys smiled, excited that they would both be training with the fox the next day. Little did they know, as soon as Itachi said that, said fox had begun to think of ways that he could torture-err train the boys the next day. "Let's all get some sleep" Itachi said interrupting his thoughts. Minabi dispelled and Itachi confirmed that he would be taking watch again; they all walked into their tents and slowly drifted off to sleep.
'Hey Minabi what did you and brother talk about in the tent?' he asked and could feel and hear the fox sigh inside him. 'We talked about his eyes, Naruto, I basically gave him an upgrade and that's all you need to know right now. Tomorrow I'm going to start conditioning you and your brother's bodies to be better ninja. What you will do tomorrow will become both of your morning routine. You will each do it once a day and every month you will add half of the routine to it.' Naruto's brow furrowed as he thought of what they would be doing. 'Let me out for the night. I need to ask Itachi something and then I need six blank scrolls to write down some information for you three on.' Before Naruto could respond he heard a poof from outside. He got up, picked up his kunai pouch and pulled a kunai from it before dashing outside. He looked around the camp and saw a diverse assembly of forest animals along with his two brothers exiting their own tents ready for action. A large tiger growled at them signaling for them to attack. The three brothers started fighting the forest animals ferociously. Naruto blocked a tiger's claw swipe before stabbing it in the heart. Sasuke had taken down four large spiders and Itachi was steadily shooting kunai and shuriken from his hands nailing each animal he aimed at a few times. Naruto kept fighting and before long there were piles of dead animals everywhere. Finally the tiger from the beginning roared and the animals started retreating. Soon there wasn't one in sight.
"Whew", Naruto said, "that was a pretty decent work out. Brother, Minabi needs six blank scrolls, so that he can write some stuff down for us." Itachi looked at him and said, "alright here you go." He pulled out eight scrolls and handed them to Naruto. "In case he needs a couple extra" he reassured him. Naruto summoned Minabi and then everyone went back in their respective tents. Like nothing happened.
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The next morning the boys were woken up abruptly, "get up you two! Your day starts now and if you aren't out here in five minutes I'm going to make you hate me!" They both sat up in their beds and groaned. Sasuke was the last out barely missing the five minute mark. "Alright you two, I'm going to be training you today and that means you will call me sensei. Now I want you to both eat and then meet me over in the clearing." Minabi barked at them.
They quickly prepared some leftovers and started eating. Minabi had been up all night writing down the skills and abilities for Itachi's new sharingan. That's not all he wrote though. There were two scrolls for Sasuke and two for Naruto and Itachi. They quickly ate their food and walked out to the clearing. "Alright you two here is your first scroll. They contain chakra control exercises for you to start doing; we're going to at least double your reserves by the time you get out of the academy. I want you to start with the tree walking exercise, and work your way down. There are also elemental exercises for you but I don't want you to start with them until you become a genin at least. There is one technique on the scroll for each three exercises. There are twenty seven different exercises for you to practice daily. I want you to be able to hold a spar with Naruto on the tree for an hour by the end of the day. If you can do that I'll teach you a special way that you can use an undeveloped sharingan like yours. If you find tree walking too hard to begin with I want you to start with holding pebbles to you skin with your chakra. Before you start however I want you both to look at this scroll. This will be your morning routine from now on and you will add half of it to the exiting routine every month. I will give you both what is known as resistance seals that you will be able to increase and decrease easily. I want them to both start at ten and never go below that unless you are sleeping. Where do you want them? Pick somewhere that an enemy can see them to try and change them." Minabi lectured and they listened like good little boys.
They both took their weights off and Naruto told him that he wanted his on his left thigh between his knee and torso. Sasuke put his on the right thigh same location. "Now those should only ever react to your chakra signatures but if something ever goes wrong and an enemy changes them you could be in big trouble. I don't want either of you to put it passed 100 pounds of resistance until I tell you. It could seriously affect your growth. Start at ten and wear them for a month and add five to it. Now as for your routines, read this." Minabi tossed both of them a scroll. On it, it read:
Hold three pebbles to your skin as long as you can until you can hold them for an hour. When you can do that work for an hour and a half with four. Then two hours with five. Once you can hold them for two hours. Just increase the number of pebbles until you get to twenty five for two hours. Come to me and tell me when you can do that. Naruto I advise you to use shadow clones, you'll progress much faster than Sasuke but you need that extra edge on your control because of your large reserves. Sasuke, I want you to remember throughout your training that just because Naruto progress faster than you because of his clones doesn't mean that he is better than you. Strive to be his better no matter what!
Twenty pushups.
Thirty sit ups
25 squats
Fifty punches and fifty kicks with each leg and arm.
Run one mile.
Repeat step one for half the time.
Spar for thirty minutes without the seals on. No jutsu, just hand to hand.
Sunday will be your resting day; the seals will be on but at the minimum of ten that I set for you. You can also ask to increase your regimen but not until three months in.
The boys read over the scroll twice before Minabi told them to go ahead and get started on the routine. They both get started on the control exercise and Naruto brought out ten clones. They each started on holding one pebble for ten minutes then he dispelled them all. He held the pebbles for about thirty minutes before they fell. Sasuke held his for ten and was kind of jealous of Naruto for having such an awesome training tool. He tried again and held them for a little longer. He did this until he could hold them for fifteen minutes. Then he gave up for the day and started on his physical exercises. They finished the pushups around the same time, and moved on to the sit ups. Sasuke finished first and started on his squats. Right after Naruto finished and started on his squats. They finished those at around the same time and one started on the kicks while the other started his punches. They were both getting kind of tired at this point and finish at roughly the same time. Switching to the last exercise they both power through it and finished. After this they were both sweating bullets. They sat down and held their pebbles for the required time.
"Alright take a ten minute break and undo your seals. After the ten minutes I want you to spar for thirty. You should feel a little lighter on your feet with no resistance; not a lot but nonetheless." They undid their seals and realized that they are lighter now. After the break they got into their respective positions across from each other. They each bowed and took a defensive stance, "Start." They rushed at each other. Naruto threw a kick at Sasuke's head from the left, but Sasuke dodged under it and punched at Naruto's ribs from the right. He caught the fist and pushed it away. Sasuke lost his balance for a split second and that allowed Naruto to sweep kick his feet out from under him. A loud thud rang out as Sasuke hit the ground. "Ughhh, did you have to hit me that hard?" Sasuke groaned.
"Get up you still have twenty more minutes Sasuke" Minabi said to them. Sasuke slowly got up and went into his stance. Naruto charged him and came from the left with a knee to his stomach. Sasuke blocked with his palms and countered with a punch to Naruto's face. It connected and sent the raven haired boy flying. He landed on his feet and came back with force, aiming a kick to Sasuke's ribs. It connected hard, but Sasuke caught it and twisted his leg and the rest of him. Naruto realized this and threw himself into the twist aiming another knee to his brother's head. Sasuke ducked and let go of Naruto completely and watched him twist and land on his knee and left foot. He braced his fall with his hand too and jumped back up at Sasuke. The boy blocked another flurry of punches from his brother until he saw an opportunity and caught Naruto's left fist and pulled it toward him with his right at the ready to punch him hard. "Stop, times up" Minabi said a little too late as Sasuke's fist hit Naruto hard. The green eyed boy flew back and hit a tree, knocking the breath out of him.
"Well done you two that was a good match. Nice finisher Sasuke that was good." Minabi praised the older of the two as he went to help Naruto. "Alright, now Naruto, I'm going to teach you how to combine the two jutsu I showed you yesterday. I want you to use both at half power." Minabi gestured for them to back up and they did. He quickly went through the hand signs for fire dragon and unleashed it at the ground and before he even finished the dragon he was already on the wind bullet.
As the last bit of flame erupted from his mouth he shot the bullet at the center. The fire was fueled by the compressed wind and exploded outward from the center. It burnt everything in a 30 foot radius. "That is the fire style: dragon flame bomb. It will be a collaboration technique for the two of you to work on mastering. Naruto I want you to be able to do this by yourself if Sasuke isn't around because it is an invaluable technique but it is much more powerful when two chakras are working together. Start working on getting the timing right. Sasuke your part in this will be the fire dragon." He showed Sasuke the hand signs for the jutsu as Naruto walked off.
They were both amazed at the potential of this jutsu but had to concentrate on mastering it. Sasuke started to work on the fire dragon jutsu and when he got the basic dragon down Minabi told him to work on making it bigger and hotter. "I want to be able to feel the heat from twenty foot away."
Naruto set to work with his clones. He decided that using a clone and the original for this jutsu would be best and Minabi was surprised when he walked over and saw fifty clones working in pairs.
"Good thinking Naruto." He praised the boy.
-NUTPS-
Meanwhile Itachi was on his way to meet their father. He took the short trip a little slower so that he could truly adjust to his eyes. Everything around him was vibrant and seemed to move with life. He realized that he could now see the chakra network of people instead of just the chakra. He also notice that he could slow down the passage of time to a degree. 'I originally hated the idea of having to retrain my eyes, but now I'm looking forward to getting some alone time to train!' he thought to himself as he walked. He was almost at the compound now and wondered what his father wanted to talk to him about. He entered into the Uchiha district and slowly made his way to his father's room. He noticed that people had a different tint to their chakra now depending on what nature they were. Before all chakra seemed blue to him. But now most Uchiha he that he saw had a reddish tint to their chakra network. He knocked on his father's door.
"Come in."
So he walked inside.
"Ah, Itachi glad you could break away from the boys. There is something very serious that I asked you here to talk about, but first how is the training going?"
Itachi looked at his father and smiled. "They are doing great; Naruto is learning a self-collaboration jutsu that he will later be able to use with Sasuke and Sasuke has activated his sharingan to the second tomoe. They are probably getting whipped into shaped by that wily fox Minabi as we speak."
Fugaku laughed and said, "Good, I'm glad to hear that you and Minabi are getting along. I was surprised as well that he wasn't as evil as everyone thought. So now to why I asked you here. The uchiha are getting restless Itachi, including myself. We cannot stand idly by while the hokage and other villagers treat us like we are nothing more than a dojutsu. There has been talk of a coup. I know what you're thinking, but it has to come to an end somehow Itachi." He looked at his son studying his face, looking for any sign to show him what side he would be on.
"This is madness father! We can't betray our village because we feel used. That is the shinobi world; you know that better than anyone! Please try to talk to the elders. Make them see that a coup is not the answer!" Itachi told his father trying to make him understand. He knew that his clan felt this way, but a coup wouldn't help anything.
"I'm sorry you feel that way Itachi. All I ask is that if this goes south and something happens to me that you take care of your brothers. They will not be a part of this and I do not want them to know what is happening. Can you do that?"
"Yes father of course I will look after the boys but you must know that this is not the way to handle this! Please listen to me!" Itachi was fighting a losing battle.
"This is the only way to handle this Itachi; the village needs to know that we are not just a means to an end. That we are people!" Fugaku raged.
"They do know that father!" Itachi retorted and looked at his father with fire in his eyes being careful not to activate them.
"We are planning to start this coup in a month's time. Do not interfere with this Itachi. Just take care of the boys and try to be happy." Itachi wondered to himself what he could do. He loved his family, but his love for the village outweighed that family love tenfold.
"Okay father, I will." He said and asked if that was all he wished to talk about.
"Yes Itachi you may go. But remember that I love you son and no matter what happens that will not change." Itachi got up and left. He was in turmoil. What would he do? What could he do? He needed to think.
He shunshined over to the waterfall that he and Shisui would always go to for a spar. Shisui stood there standing at the edge of the cliff. "Itachi I know that you're here, you've probably heard by now about the coup. I don't know what side you are on but I am on the side of the village and will not be a part of this! I would rather take my own life than betray my village like the other Uchiha are about to do!" he started walking towards the edge.
"Stop Shisui! I feel the same way but that is not the way to go about it either, we must come up with a plan of action to take. I can't stand here and let my best friend kill himself when my family is about to betray the village!" He ran to Shisui and put his arms around him. "What are we going to do about this?" he asked him after letting him go. Shisui looked at him and then smiled like he used to when they were little.
"I don't know but it's good that you are on the right side in this. I think that we should take this to the hokage and see what he wants to do about it." Itachi smiled and agreed, so they shunshined to the hokage's office.
"Come in." the hokage said when they knocked.
They walked into his office.
"Hello Itachi, Shisui. Why have you come to see me today? I'm sure that it's something to do with the clan?" The old hokage looked at them. He smiled, but Itachi knew that he knew what they were going to tell him.
"Hokage-sama the clan is preparing a coup de ta against the village! I can tell that you know of this already, why haven't you done anything?" Itachi said and noticed that Hiruzen was surprised that he could tell.
"There is nothing to do Itachi. The actions your clan is taking against the village are treason! They must be punished. I cannot be lenient with them or I would, you know that. You have been watching them for us. Both of you. You know what must be done, but Itachi, I promised you that you and your brothers would have a home here. Shisui I promised that you and Miko would have a home and future here. Those promises will be kept. Do you understand what you must do? I will give you two weeks to prepare. Both of you must eradicate the Uchiha." Hiruzen did not look like he was happy about what he just had to say, but Itachi could see that someone else was pulling his strings. The hokage that he knew would never been okay with punishing a whole clan.
He would have found another way. 'Danzo is making him order us to this!' Itachi realized. "I cannot disobey your order lord hokage, but I know who is to blame for this order. My clan will grow and prosper in this village after we do this, but know that I will never forget who was behind the massacre of my clan. He will be brought to justice, but in the right way. I want you to tell the next hokage of this and he or she will decide what happens after he or she has talked to me. Will you do this for me hokage? I have big plans for my brothers and I in this village. If the man who ordered me to kill my father is not put to justice, my clan will move. I am to be head of the Uchiha correct? You're behind me on this right Shisui?" Itachi looked over to Shisui who smiled and gave him thumbs up. He looked over to the hokage, and was shocked.
The hokage had such a look of pride on his face. "Yes I will do this for you Itachi, if you will do something for me when the time comes. I want you to take that man's place. You're young now and need experience in the ANBU and as a jounin instructor, but when the time comes for him to come to justice the next hokage will ask you if you are ready to take his place. I want you to say yes because that is how a clan head delegates and your 15 years old! You are way beyond your years Itachi and I think you'll be a great clan head. But first we must look to the task at hand. Are you going to tell your brothers? Or Miko? I think you should bring them all in and let us talk about it in the next week. I want to have a face to face with all of you. Just hokage to his students."
"My father asked me not to but I will do this because it'll help explaining if you are the one to be there when we tell them." Itachi said and Shisui agreed. The hokage smiled, "Well if that's all settled, Itachi let me speak to you privately for a minute. Shisui go and meet Itachi's brothers in the forest of death. There will be someone you don't recognize. They are a friend and let them explain." Itachi was shocked that he knew what they were up to. He gave Shisui a note to give to Minabi. "Give this to the one you don't know" Shisui bowed and left.
-NUTPS-
Back with the boys, Naruto lay exhausted on the ground beside Sasuke; Minabi sat in the tree smiling. 'They almost have it! They only need another day of training together to complete the collaboration jutsu to the extent that it will not fail.' It had been three and a half hours since the two had begun. Naruto, thanks to his clones, got the timing perfect for his wind bullet in an hour. By that time Sasuke had gotten his fire dragon hot enough for the jutsu to work. It wasn't as hot as Naruto's at full power, but it would work. That was when they started putting the two together. They slaved at working on their timing for two and a half hours and the jutsu only failed half the time now. All in all it had been a good day, Minabi was proud of the two of them. He got them up and started them towards the camp. They walked into the camp and immediately they were all on high alert. "Why are you in our campsite?" Minabi asked and Shisui looked at Minabi shocked at the resemblance he had with the fourth. "Itachi sent me from the hokage's office. This is for you." He calmly said and handed Minabi the note.
Bring the boys to the hokage's office. Tell Shisui, the guy that gave you this note, to go and get Miko and do the same. Do not be seen.
-Itachi
Minabi showed Shisui the note and said, "Come on boys we have to the hokage's office. Be stealthy and do not be seen." he nodded to Shisui who disappeared.