(My Eyes Chapter 4)

Naruto and Shisui were standing on a large lake that was close to the Uchiha clan compound. The water was crystal clear and very deep with lots of fish inside. There was some nice white sand all around the lake before some light green grass started to form though after that there was deep forest of dark green trees. There was a small dark trail that led to a clearing further out that they used to take, but now that Naruto knew the tree walking exercise they just used the trees.

"Well Naruto I am proud of you. I didn't think you would actually be able to do it, but mastering the all of the chakra control exercises all the way up to the water walking exercise, but there is only one way to know whether or not you have truly mastered it" spoke Shisui as he looked down on Naruto. Naruto had become like a little brother to him these past three months and he had become his big brother figure. He had made hit his personal mission to train Naruto personally, and if that pissed Itachi off because he had practically stolen his mission well so be it.

"What do you mean Shisui? I am water walking right now" spoke Naruto as he walked in a circle to emphasize his point. He watched as Shisui started to laugh, but he didn't get it.

"Naruto the one thing you must learn about all ninja techniques is that if they cannot be used in combat then they are not even worth mentioning, let alone mastered" spoke Shisui as he smiled at the dumb founded look on Naruto's face. The boy was a quick learner and now after that seal had been removed he seemed to be able to use his chakra much easier.

"What are you talking about I could totally fight while standing on water" spoke Naruto confidently thinking that Shisui was either messing with him again or was just underestimating him. Naruto then remembered that he had no combat skills and hoped that Shisui wouldn't call him out on it.

"Oh is that right? How about you activate your Byakugan and let's see how long you keep standing" spoke Shisui with a grin on his face. Naruto was just like he had been when he was a kid and much how he was now. He didn't want Naruto to lose that innocence regardless of reasons.

"Phssss ok I will show you I can do this" spoke Naruto as he spread his legs a bit and got ready. "Here it goes, Byakugan" shouted Naruto as his eye activated causing the veins on the side of his head to bulge and his vision extended to all around him right before he fell into the water.

"Hahahahaha, oh yea you are some kind of master" laughed Shisui as he nearly fell over when Naruto came back to the surface and gave him that dirty look. When Naruto was able to get back on the water and still have his Byakugan active Shisui was impressed.

"Why did I fall through" asked Naruto as he coughed up some water. He had been so shocked when he fell through that he had sucked some of it in and it had gotten into his lungs.

"When you sent the chakra to your eye you lost focus of the chakra you were sending to your feet making you fall in. It was really funny, but if you are thinking about some kind of on water fighting then I would avoid it water boy" spoke Shisui as he poked Naruto's forehead like he had seen Itachi do to his little brother though this time it caused Naruto to fall backwards and back into the water causing Shisui to laugh even harder.

"Shisui you jerk" shouted Naruto as he got back on top of the water. He was a little shaky but all in all he had a good grasp of what he was supposed to be doing. He looked over at Shisui and looked at his chakra. He noticed that Shisui had very strong.

"Haha, well maybe you still need quite a bit of work. It looks like it is time to start working on someone's tiajutsu and ninjutsu" spoke Shisui as he grabbed Naruto by the collar of his shirt and picked him up with ease showing surprising strength. He thought the cute way Naruto was pouting with his arms crossed was just too funny.

"Really? You're going to teach me ninjutsu" spoke Naruto a happy look started to form on his face. He had really wanted to start learning some ninjutsu, but Itachi had been all 'You're too young' or 'you're not ready'. It was really annoying and it was made worse when Shisui told him that Itachi was teaching his little brother ninjutsu, though apparently it was a required clan thing.

"Well yea, but you will need to know your elemental affinity and then you will need to train very hard to master the steps to of that element. And then after all of that you will need to actually start learning various jutsu to add to your jutsu repertoire" spoke Shisui really putting the downer on Naruto's mood. That sounded like it could take years, something that really sounded like it sucked. Seeing the despondent look on Naruto's face Shisui decided to try and cheer him up a bit.

"Hey champ, don't get down. I know it sounds like it could take a long time, but that is for normal people who don't have any real talent. I can see that you have that in spades, so it shouldn't take you to long" spoke Shisui with a smile on his face. Naruto's sad face quickly turned to a happy one again and Shisui thought Itachi could suck it he was going to teach Naruto n ninjutsu whether Itachi thought it was a good idea or not.

"Yes" shouted Naruto as he lifted his arms up, but that was when Shisui let go of him which caused him to fall into the water creating a large splash in the water. When he came back up he looked anything but pleased.

"Well first let's check your elemental affinity" spoke Shisui as he pulled out a piece of paper. There wasn't anything special about it to his normal eye, but to his Byakugan he could see that it was different from other plants, like it had a chakra of its own.

"This Naruto is chakra paper. All you have to do is channel your chakra into it and depending on its reaction, we will be able to figure out what sort of affinity you have" spoke Shisui as he handed Naruto the chakra paper. He noticed Naruto looking at it funny and could only assume that the great insight of the Byakugan picked up something his Sharingan hadn't when he first looked at one.

"Ok" spoke Naruto as he started to channel his chakra into the paper. He watched as the chakra started to dance around before it started to have a violent reaction. The chakra swirled around for a bit and then spread out though a lot concentrated around the center fold of the paper. This all happened in a split second and to Naruto's normal eye this never happened. Soon the paper cut down the middle though the right side dampened considerably.

"What does this mean Shisui" asked Naruto as he showed Shisui the two pieces of paper with the dampened half. Naruto couldn't tell what Shisui was thinking because in rare moments Shisui's face would all but lock up and he would look stoic like Itachi would when wearing his ANBU outfit

Shisui thought for a moment before reaching out and taking the pieces from Naruto and looking them over. After a while Shisui smiled and handed the pieces back to Naruto. Naruto watched as Shisui seemed to think about something before it seemed he came to a conclusion.

"Well it looks like you have two elemental affinities" spoke Shisui as he pulled Naruto in and gave him a hug in congratulations. "The way it split down the middle means that you have a wind release affinity and the dampened side means you also have a water release affinity. It is rare for someone to have two affinities" spoke Shisui as he continued to look at Naruto.

"So why do I have two affinities" asked Naruto as he looked at the paper and then at Shisui. It was weird because he was able to look at everything at once with his Byakugan, but for now he decided to release it. Once the veins went back to normal Naruto felt the little depletion the Byakugan caused to go away.

"If I had to guess, I would say it was because of that eye you got from that Hyuga, though they are almost all known for their earth release affinities, not that they use them. I wonder how that Hyuga got a water release affinity" spoke Shisui as he scratched his chin. Naruto looked up at him not understand what he meant, but then looked down into his reflection and looked at his white eye.

"So because I have this new eye I got a new affinity? If that were the case then why don't other ninja get transplants or something so that they can have more natural affinities" spoke Naruto not getting why this idea wasn't explored. He could only imagine a few buddies with different affinities trading organs so that they could use multiple elements without restriction.

"That is because even if people get transplants their chakra network almost never links with the new organ leaving them alive true, but not with any other benefits. There are cases though where a person is able to adapt to the new organ and it fits them perfectly afterwards. These people do get new affinities just like you" spoke Shisui as he led Naruto to the shore line. Naruto was amazed at what Shisui was telling him and felt special that he was able to benefit like this. "You are also lucky since that means the Byakugan has adapted to you in a way no other has. Naruto, it may be possible for you to pass on the Byakugan to your children" spoke Shisui seriously. He looked back at Naruto and then said "but you must keep this quite. If the Hyuga clan finds out about this they will hunt you down and force you to join their clan. After that they will brand you with their curse mark making you a slave like the rest of the branch family."

"Ok Shisui, I won't tell anyone" spoke Naruto getting another hug from Shisui before he looked Naruto in the eyes. Naruto looked back wondering what he would say next. "So what element do you want to learn first, though I am a bit disappointed you don't have a fire release affinity that I could teach you" spoke Shisui with a grin on his face. Naruto grinned as well and then got to thinking.

"Well you could always give me your left eye and let me have your fire release, then you could teach me all you want" laughed Naruto thinking it was funny though he fell over laughing when he saw the shocked look on Shisui's face.

"You little punk, what the Byakugan not enough for you, now you want the Sharingan to" spoke Shisui though there was no heat in his voice as he reached down and started to tickle Naruto causing tears to roll down his eyes.

Naruto laughed and laughed, but eventually Shisui let him up so he could catch his breath. When he had caught his breath he started to think about what element he wanted to learn. In all honesty he thought water release would be fun and all since it was a defensive element, but wind release really tickled his fancy.

"What about wind release? I think that it would be a really good element to learn and although water is a great defensive element it just doesn't seem right to learn it first" spoke Naruto not getting why he felt like he would be betraying his own element by learning water release first. He saw Shisui grin and knew he had something to say, whether it was intelligent or not was up for debate.

"Well I guess it is only right. While you have an affinity for both elements it would be nice to stay true to yourself and learn what you were naturally born with. Water release can wait anyways because if you want to learn it then you're going to have to ask Itachi anyways. He decided to learn water release for his second nature, though all Uchiha have a fire and lighting affinity, which leaves me to believe Itachi probably learned it to be rebellious in his own way. Although I don't know how to use wind release myself I have seen many people use it and have a great understand of it. With a little bit of reading I am sure I can teach you everything you will need to know. Beside with the Byakugan you can watch and see what you are doing wrong and then fix it. I bet it will only take you about six month's tops to learn wind release instead of the usual two years it takes others" spoke Shisui as he got into an open tiajutsu stance. Naruto raised an eyebrow and Shisui snickered a bit before going through a wide range of tiajutsu styled movements that were great to watch.

"This Naruto is the Interceptor Fist, the official tiajutsu style of the Uchiha clan. You see we use this style in combination with our eyes to dodge, reverse, and defeat our enemies. It was a style invented early on in our history to take an opponent's strength and use it against them or to let us dodge in time to avoid injury. While it is not a fact that is as known the Byakugan can see fast movement the same as the Sharingan, though it can't copy it like the Sharingan can. This makes you an excellent candidate to learn it" spoke Shisui as he got back into a more neutral fighting stance. Naruto's eyes were like starts as he was practically radiating joy from every poor. Shisui looked at him and sweat dropped at the boy's reaction.

"I can't wait" shouted Naruto. Soon Shisui was showing him the very basics of the Interceptor Fist and Shisui told him he was catching on very good though like all things mastery would come with time. By the end of the day Naruto was sweating like crazy, he was tired, but he was happy. Shisui had lavished him with praise all day and that was enough to get him through the training.

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Shisui quickly took Naruto home so that he could get a shower, some food, and a good night's rest. He wished he could train Naruto all day long, but Naruto had school and he had his routes for the military police. When Naruto was all cleaned up and in bed Shisui headed out and went to find Itachi.

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Itachi was anything but happy with his friend Shisui. He had completely undermined his authority in this mission and had practically stolen it out from underneath him. He was just teaching Naruto whatever he felt like, though he was allowed to teach Naruto as well, though Shisui 'translated' what he said though if you asked Itachi it was more like 'dumbed down' what he said. It annoyed Itachi every time Shisui would say 'he is only six, give him a break' which happened about every time he opened his mouth.

Shisui had filled him in on Naruto's training though so he wouldn't look stupid when they had to report to the Hokage every week, but it was still frustrating not being able to help Naruto learn to use the Byakugan or helping him with his chakra control.

"Hey Itachi guess what, Naruto has two nature affinities" shouted Shisui as he appeared inside of Itachi's house, though he had to disappear again as Itachi tried to grab him. When he looked over he saw Itachi giving him the evil eye

"Dude what is your problem" asked Shisui as he folded his arms. He saw that look Itachi got when he had to keep his emotions in check but his eyes were murderous and his body was actually shaking a bit.

"You checked his nature affinity without me! Why would you do that? What is teaching him all of the chakra control exercises not good enough for you" asked Itachi as he got up in Shisui's face. Shisui was trying to annoy him he was sure of it.

"Hey what is your problem? It isn't like it really matters to you anyways. You're only doing this because the Hokage told you, not because you actually care about him" shouted Shisui as he pushed Itachi so hard he came up off of his feat, landed on the table, and then rolled off of it. When he got back up he was looking at Shisui with a shocked look in his eyes.

"What are you trying to say? I do care about Naruto and I can't believe you would actually say that I didn't" shouted Itachi as he knocked the table out of his way and got right in front of Shisui's face as both of their Sharingan blazed while looking at the other.

"Then tell me this. If Naruto hadn't gotten the Byakugan, if the Hokage hadn't told you to train him, would you have willingly tried to help him, or would you have just left him there all by himself? Would you have actually helped him or would you have just let him suffer in silence" asked Shisui with a deadly look in his eyes. Itachi's face contorted into something that not even Shisui and his Sharingan could describe.

"How dare you ask me such a question! You know that if that had not happened I would have focused on my ANBU work and tried to improve relations between the clan and Konoha yet you use it in such a way that makes me look like a monster! You and I both know that I care about Naruto, and what about you? I don't remember you ever rushing to his aid before he lost his eye! Where were you when he was younger huh" demanded Itachi his eye glowing he was so angry as he looked into Shisui's mangekyou Sharingan. He must have been very mad if that aspect of his person had come to the light.

"How dare you! You and I both know I was at the Uchiha fortress with some of the other clan members making it habitable again. My father took me there when I was just a child. I haven't even been in this village for three months yet you have lived here for your entire life. If I had known about Naruto's plight I would have helped him anyway I could, not squandered my time trying to change people who are far to stuck in there ways" shouted Shisui as he grabbed Itachi by the collar of his shirt as Itachi did the same. Their killing intent was washing over the house and their chakra was rising and rippling around them.

"What is going on here" came a cold voice from the door. When Shisui and Itachi turned around they saw Fugaku Uchiha, Itachi's father, and the Uchiha clan head. He was looking at them with a sharp look with his Sharingan active.

"Nothing, just a minor disagreement" spoke Shisui as he let go of Itachi's shirt and deactivated his Sharingan. He brushed the wrinkles out of his shirt and walked to the door. He gave Fugaku a short bow before opening up the door to leave.

"Shisui although I don't know what has caused you to act so, differently, I do know that you are honest about wanting to help him as am I. I do care, and all I want to do is help" spoke Itachi with a more mellow and somber tone. He watched as Shisui paused in the door for a moment with baited breath.

"Come by next time and try to keep the talk as understandable as possible. It only hurts him when I have to repeat everything you say so he can understand you" spoke Shisui right before he disappeared without leaving so much as a piece of dust or creating any sound.

"What was that all about Itachi" asked Fugaku as he looked at his first born, his Sharingan hadn't been deactivated. Itachi looked at his father and then started to walk towards his room.

"It is personal" spoke Itachi. He knew his father wouldn't be happy, but right now he had other things to worry about so he would leave him be for now.

As Itachi was walking down the hallway to his room his mother stepped out of the doorway and looked at him with a light smile. Her pale skin fit well with her full black eyes and long black hair. Her outfit was simple and looked to be for a house wife but that is all she was meant to be as far as Fugaku was concerned.

"Itachi you know you can talk to me about anything. I know your father can sometimes be a bit harsh but you know he loves you as do I" spoke Mikoto as she pulled Itachi into a big hug. Itachi sighed a bit and hugged her back. he sometimes forgot what it was like having someone hold him like this and being the one protected instead of it being the other way around.

"Yea I know mother, but sometimes he doesn't think about others. What he is doing is wrong and he is mad that I don't want to be a part of it" spoke Itachi as he let his mother go and began to walk away. He paused and looked back at her. "You will have to make a decision one day soon mom and it will greatly affect this family of that I am sure" spoke Itachi as he walked into his room leaving his mother standing there with a sad look on her face.

[The Next Day]

Naruto was standing beside Shisui looking at Itachi with wide eyes. He hadn't seen him after the first couple of days. Shisui had told him that Itachi wanted to teach him as well so he had promised to stop stealing him away so Itachi couldn't follow.

"So what are you going to be teaching Itachi" asked Naruto happy to see his old friend. While Itachi wasn't as fun as Shisui he was still someone that Naruto cared for deeply. He had saved him many times and had bought him candy as well when he was a kid.

"Shisui and I were talking and we came to an agreement about your training. He agreed to stop interfering with my teaching if I agreed to stop being so boring" spoke Itachi with dusted red cheeks that grew a bit dark when he heard Shisui and Naruto snickering. "We also agreed that you need to learn more mental aspects of being a shinobi as well as the physical. That is why we agreed to teach you the basics of fire release instead of wind release because neither of us knows how to use wind release and Shisui is determined to teach you ninjutsu himself. We will both be working on your tiajutsu and I will help you genjutsu. Other than that you will be studying a lot" spoke Itachi with a smile. Naruto didn't have that dazed look after he got done talking like he was so used to them having.

"Shisui you're not going to teach me wind release" asked Naruto in a sad voice. Shisui felt a bit guilty, but there wasn't much he could do after Itachi got done lecturing him.

"I am sorry buddy, but Itachi is right. I shouldn't try and teach you an element that I haven't learned myself because it would only hurt you in the long run. Unless you want Itachi to teach you how to use your water release then fire release is all we have" spoke Shisui with a small smile. He saw how Naruto nodded his head a bit, even though it did look a bit sad, and felt relieved. He looked at Itachi and nodded his head which Itachi did as well. He didn't like that Itachi had been right, but what was best for Naruto was all he was worried about.

"Ok, I guess fire release could be fun, but won't it be pointless since I don't have a fire release affinity" spoke Naruto not getting the point of affinities if you could just learn anything you wanted regardless of affinity you have.

"Well Naruto an affinity only means that learning and using the element you are aligned with is much easier to use then an element that you don't have. Many people who have two affinities have a bloodline of some sorts, usually an elemental bloodline like let's say the lave release bloodline limit. That is a combination of fire and earth release, but only people with that specific gene that allows them to have both affinities and the ability to combine them into one element can do that" spoke Itachi trying to keep his lecture both informative and interesting. It seemed to be working because Naruto seemed about ready to jump out of his ninja sandals.

"What! That is so cool. There are people who can actually create lava for ninjutsu. I bet they are really strong" spoke Naruto as he basically was jumping up and down. He couldn't believe there were people out there that could do that and he wanted to find out what other amazing people were out there.

"Yes people with bloodlines have a distinct advantage over those who do not, but like all things there is a down side. To learn to use and elemental bloodline like lava release you have to have at least the basic training and understanding of the two base elements. This means that if you had the lava release bloodline then you would have to learn how to use fire and earth release before you can start learning lava release which takes a long time and serious training. some people spend a lot of their training trying to master these abilities but forsake other skills like tiajutsu so when they are in a situation where their ninjutsu is useless then they are at a severe disadvantage" spoke Shisui as he pulled out his tanto and showed Naruto. "Unlike them though Itachi and I have expanded our skills into multiple fields and have become quite skilled at them. You should do the same if you wish to live a long time" spoke Shisui as he put his tanto back on his back.

"So although lava release is powerful it is difficult to learn and is time consuming. That means that I should gradually work my way getting stronger and then when I have a good base learn more advanced skill, right Shisui" asked Naruto with a smile on his face. Shisui smiled and rubbed his head getting another smile from him which made Shisui grin. Itachi was surprised Naruto thought it through so thoroughly and had come up with such and adult answer. He looked down at Shisui and then Shisui looked up at him. Their Sharingan locked so they could start talking.

'You were right. I should have tried to gradually change his way of thinking instead of all at once' spoke Itachi with a sigh of defeat. He didn't like losing and knew that this was a significant loss.

'It is alright Itachi Naruto is still young and has a back ground that you couldn't really relate to. All he needs is a bit of positive encouragement and he will be able to do anything. All he needs is someone to gently guide him to reveal his true power' spoke Shisui as he looked down at Naruto with a fond smile. Itachi nodded with a smile and Shisui did the same as well.

"So you guys are not going to teach me elemental ninjutsu" asked Naruto thinking that this was their way of kindly breaking it to him that they were not going to teach him to use cool ninjutsu.

Shisui smiled and shook his head. "No buddy we are going to teach you ninjutsu, but we will not be spending all of our time on it. You need to have a wider array of skills so we will be teaching you tiajutsu, shurikenjutsu, elemental training, we need to see if you have any skill with genjutsu, maybe some weapon training, and then we will mess around to see what else could be helpful in the future once you have a good foundation" spoke Shisui as he pulled out a scroll and handed it to Naruto. "That is a scroll on fire manipulation. I figured you could use it to train at home if you got bored."

"Coool" shouted Naruto as he opened it up and then began to read. His reading wasn't the best after all, but he was still much better than most kids.

"I will be teaching you Shurikenjutsu, survival training, stealth training, maybe poison making or just building up you immunity to them, and a few other skills you will need for the more subtly ninja aspects" spoke Itachi smiling a bit knowing that this could be fun.

"And I will be teaching you fire style ninjutsu, testing your skills with genjutsu, tiajutsu, and a few other things that could be useful when confronting strong enemies" spoke Shisui sure that Naruto would love that he was training him in all of the really cool things.

"This is going to be awesome" shouted Naruto with a pumped up fist.