7. Sharingan

"WHAT?!"

Naruto's voice could be heard all over Konoha when Sakura told him she had seen Sasuke.

"Calm down, Naruto… you must understand that with you… " Sakura tried to explain. "We didn't go to bring Sasuke-kun back" she admitted.

"Huh?" Naruto looked at her sympathetically. Leaving him again would have been sad enough for her.

"How is he? Did he ask for me?" Naruto asked wistfully.

Sakura looked at him and nodded effusively. "You were the only one the wanted to see. It took a lot of effort to make him listen to what we went to say"

Naruto's eyes widened. "Did he...!? Sasuke…" he couldn't help but form a smile.

"Naruto…" Sakura muttered worriedly. "It's not as good as it sounds"

"I don't care what Sasuke wanted to see me for as long as he did want it" Naruto replied. "I'm sorry, Sakura-chan. I'm sure you still have things to tell me"

"Yeah. The reason why we went to warn him about Madara was because their battle will be of great impact to Konoha"

Naruto looked at Sakura questioningly as she explained it. "You know… Madara was the one attempting to end Konoha's peace all this years, right?"

"Yeah, I heard Tsunade no obaa-chan mentioning it before"

"But he's still weak in that form so he needs Sasuke-kun to do the job"

Naruto chuckled. "As if Sasuke'd let him manipulate him"

"I wouldn't be that sure, Naruto" Sakura cut him earning a worried look from the blond. "Kakashi sensei said Madara's final goal is to take control of Sasuke-kun's body, just like Orochimaru once did"

"Heh? What a weirdo… I really don't know what's so great about Sasuke's body" Naruto pouted earning a punch from a very flushed Sakura.

"Don't say that kind of weird things, Naruto!" she cried still red as a tomato.

"W-Why did you get that mad, Sakura-chan" Naruto groaned from the floor. He acted like a little kid sometimes.

"Oh look what time is already!" cried Sakura changing the topic. "Kakashi sensei told me to tell you he will be meeting you at the training grounds so you must better leave"

"Huh? Weren't you going to finish telling me about Sasuke?"

"I-I'll tell you another time, now you better go"


"Kakashi sensei, you're late!" yelled Naruto when his sensei appeared in their meeting place.

"Am I? I thought I told Sakura I'd be meeting you at afternoon"

"Well she sure didn't remember it like that" Naruto complaint.

"Anyway, Naruto. Hiashi told me you made quite a progress"

Naruto grinned like an idiot. "I sure did! Now are you going to train me?"

"Well… yes… and…"

Naruto's smile faded as he narrowed his eyes in disappointment. "It's not training, right?"

"So you did learn something"

"Yeah… Hinata's dad told me the first thing to do before you face a doujutsu user is to study how your opponent uses it and try to figure out a weak point"

"That's right, Naruto. Do you know how Sharingan works?"

Naruto thought for a moment. "It allows you to copy things" he finally said.

"Those are the basics, Naruto. I'm sure you've noticed when Sasuke was with us, the improvements he made each time"

Naruto looked at him quizzically.

"You did notice, right?"

"Naruto…"

"Well maybe I was more interested in other things from him than his abbilities" Naruto protested in defense.

"Other things from him …?" Kakashi repeated cautiously.

"Yeah, you know, like surpassing him" Naruto continued, unaware of how weird he had sounded a moment ago.

"No wonder why you never made a progress" Kakashi muttered.

"What did you say?!"

"Hum, nothing"

Naruto pouted.

"Well it seems I have to summarize it for you" Kakashi added in defeat opening his left eye. "How many pupils do you see?" he asked.

"Four" Naruto answered. "One in the middle and three around it"

"Those three pupils you see around are called tomoes. When an Uchiha first awakens his Sharingan there is only one" explained Kakashi. "In that stage it allows the user to see all the movements of his opponent. You must remember it during your fight with Haku. That was the first time Sasuke used his Sharingan"

"Yeah, sure. That time Sasuke was awesome but I couldn't see the whole thing" Naruto added nostalgically.

"Let's move on. The second tomoe allows the user to copy all the techniques he sees"

"So that's why Sasuke was able to use Fuzzy Brows's technique during the Chunnin Exams"

"Yeah, I believe that's when he awakened the second stage"

"So… the next stage is yours?"

"Yeah and this makes me able to predict your motions"

Naruto looked at him in shock.

"Well not exactly, for us it looks like the opponent is going in slow motion and that's why we could predict his next movement"

"So that's why…"

"That's why in your fight with Sasuke he could predict your every move. Yes, that's when he reached the last tomoe"

"I see… "

"But I have faith you'll manage to do something about it. You're not the number one unpredictable knucklehead ninja for nothing" Kakashi grinned making Naruto chuckle. 

"Yeah, I won't be that easy to read"

"So you think you can come with something for it?"

Naruto looked at him hopelessly.

"There are a few things more" Kakashi added gaining Naruto's attention one more time. "It'd be probably that he'd use some kind of genjutsu. And you're genjutsu skills are really lame"

Naruto narrowed his eyes, sulking.

"You have to work on them, at least the basics to escape from them"

"You going to help me with that, I guess"

"Yeah, eventually. At your level it'd be kinda dangerous" Kakashi replied. "One more thing, don't forget Sharingan can see the color of chakra so your abilities gained training with the Hyuuga can come in handy"

"Sure-ttebayo!"

"Well, that was all. See you, Naruto" finished Kakashi.

"Hah? Weren't you going to train me?!" cried Naruto.

"I only came here to tell you what to do. Once you've figured out how to fight a Sharingan come to me and we'll start training"

And with that he disappeared in a poof.