Team Sharingan

Team Sharingan

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or assorted characters, I'm just messing up the world to fit the delusions coming from my skull.

Chapter 8

(Naruto's mindscape)

"What the hell?"

"We're dying."

Naruto turned and saw the seal and cage. "What do you mean?"

"It means I tried to meddle with the seal and the sharingan in ways to allow me to escape and I fucked up." The Kyuubi admitted.

"Of course, I didn't know of the bonding flaw. Stupid paranoid Uchiha."

"What are you talking about?" Naruto asked.

"I mean that after I changed the Byakugan into the Sharingan, the Uchiha I gave it to built in a failsafe. Stupid paranoid monkey humping…"

"Yes, yes. Whatever. So, because you tried to mess around, after you said you couldn't, I'm dying? Great." Naruto said and kicked the wall.

"Its not what I did. The Sharingan has a built in failsafe as I said. Its killing you and the girl." The Kyuubi said. "But it seems that my actions have accelerated it and we're dying sooner rather than later."

Naruto sighed as he ignored the fox. "Figures. Anytime something starts to go right in my life, it snowballs and I get screwed, only this time, its going to kill Sakura-chan as well. Fucking fantastic. Maybe I should have died all those years ago at the hands of the mob, then perhaps Sasuke wouldn't have tried to save me, and Sakura-chan would be safe."

"Boo-fucking-hoo. Get a grip brat. Whine and cry…"

"Shut up hairball. I'm sick of your lies. Ever since Inoichi-san brought me here, its been one lie or another. Because of you my life was shit from the day I was born." Naruto looked at the various entrances. "Might as well look around, give me something to do other than hear the shit from you."

"Naruto…wait!" the Kyuubi said trying to get him to stay, but Naruto slipped into a pathway and was gone.

"Crap…I don't want to die either kid." Kyuubi muttered.

XX

(Real World)

"DO SOMETHING!" Sakura yelled.

Kakashi held her back while the masked figure carried Naruto inside.

"Who is that?"

"Help." Kakashi said, praying mentally that the operative could fix this.

Ino looked on helpless. "What's happening?" she asked looking at her father who was right behind Kakashi as they followed the figure into the house. They found the masked and cloaked figure putting Naruto on the couch in the living room and sitting on the edge.

Kakashi walked up. "Thank you for coming so quickly. I know this is difficult, and…"

"Save it Kakashi."

Ino and Sakura were surprised to hear a female voice coming from behind the mask. "The Third told me." The voice was softer now.

"I am so sorry. I…" Kakashi tried but the figure ignored him. "Yamanaka-san, I am swearing you and your daughter to a Triple S-rank secret."

Ino looked at her father who seemed nervous at this. "Operative-sama, I understand."

"I don't…" Ino began, but a look from her father silenced her.

The operative waved a hand. "I don't have time." The gloved hand went up and the mask was pulled off. Ino and Sakura gasped seeing the high aristocratic cheekbones and raven hair.

"W-what?"

"Mikoto…" Kakashi said softly as Mikoto Uchiha was revealed for the first time in years.

"…" Sakura looked at the woman, her green eye wide.

"I'll help him first since he's further along." The woman said in that even flat tone the Uchiha were known for. "Sit down girl." She said and her dark eyes went back to Naruto who had broken out in a cold sweat.

"Sensei…what's going on?" the pink haired kunoichi asked.

The unveiled Mikoto looked up and scowled. "You haven't told them?" she asked.

"I thought I had time." Kakashi admitted.

"Hn." Mikoto said and it reminded Sakura of Sasuke.

She watched the Uchiha woman peel Naruto's normal blue eye open, then pull his headband off and check the implanted Sharingan.

"You did nice work on the transplant." She said to Kakashi who just shrugged. "I was more interested in keeping my remaining students alive…"

"Yes." Mikoto said in a dead tone of voice. She sighed and stood up and looked at Kakashi. "We need to talk."

"What about Naruto?" Sakura asked, but Mikoto ignored her.

XX

Kakashi looked at Mikoto Uchiha for the first time since the Uchiha Massacre, the door was sealed and a privacy jutsu was placed on the room.

"I am sorry about Sasus…" SLAP! The slap interrupted Kakashi's apology to the woman before him.

"You bastard. Not only are you irresponsible enough to take Genin on a mission they aren't ready for, but then to transplant an eye into children, and knowing the effects you let them go this long without aid."

"And what aid is that Lady Uchiha? Itachi?" Kakashi asked.

"You should have sent word to me the moment it happened like you did now. not wait until the Kyuubi mutated it and its effects sped up."

Silence reigned, then Kakashi asked "Can you save him?"

"I shouldn't." Mikoto said softly as she stepped away and looked out the window. "I should let them both die…"

"Mikoto, please…"

"You were spared Kakashi, my husband hated you being out of our control, he had plans to have you either assassinated or forced into a marriage with one of the branch members."

"Will you save my students…please, if not for me, then…save Minato's son."

Mikoto turned and looked at Kakashi. "So it is true. He truly is the Fourth's Legacy in more ways than one."

"Yes. I was too stupid…"

"No argument there Kakashi." Mikoto said. "I'm going to need the Yamanaka's help with the boy. The fox did something…something strange."

She fell silent for a bit, then sighed. "You made a real mess of things Kakashi."

"My students were dying. I did what…" he began but she turned away. "Not only with them, but with Sasuke. He needed a friend and someone who would have helped him…"

"He needed his mother more." Kakashi fired back and then looked sorry he said what he did.

"I know." Mikoto said softly. "On the day the Uchiha died, I made the sacrifice no mother should ever have to make. I abandoned my sons when they needed me most, and for that, when the day comes and my death really does happen, I will beg for a special hell, no matter how much good I've done being undercover as I am, no matter how many lives I've saved or will ever save, my punishment can never equal the pain I caused my sons."

Mikoto looked at Kakashi. "Get Inoichi, and then get the girls out of the room. Put them in some training, this will take time." Mikoto said becoming all business again.

Kakashi looked at the woman who helped save him when he got Obito's eye and he didn't see a ninja operative, he saw a broken woman who gave up everything.

Silently he turned and left, he understood her pain in someway with his own history.

XX

(Naruto's Mindscape)

"Kit…" Kyuubi's voice rumbled.

"No."

Kyuubi's head jerked up seeing the Yamanaka again, and this time a woman with raven hair. "An Uchiha…and not the traitor…"

"Quiet beast." The woman hissed. "You've done enough damage here." She turned away and went towards a set of glowing looking pipes.

"You have been busy." She muttered touching them. One glowed red, one blue and one held a soft grey.

"I do what I can monkey. Why are you here?"

Inoichi stepped forward. "Naruto is dying…"

"(snort) I know this already fool. Damn Uchiha's built a failsafe into their bloodline. Inventive…" the Kyuubi sounded pleased about something, but Inoichi didn't want to figure out what.

"We're going to try and save Naruto…"

"And me." Kyuubi sounded amused.

"If I had my way fox, I would save the boy and see you banished to the ninth level of hell."

"Who are you female?"

"I am Mikoto Uchiha. The mother of Sasuke and Itachi." She said as she felt the pipes.

"An Uchiha. Fix the blasted eye woman, be quick about it." Kyuubi demanded.

"No." she said and turned to the cell where the seal glowed brightly on the bars. "Before I do anything to help the boy, you and I are going to have words monster. And when we're done, you will know your place."

XX

(Real world)

Sakura jumped rope while on top the water. Kakashi was going out of his way to design chakra building and control exercises for her and Naruto. She allowed her eyes to drift back towards what she has considered home, and fell into the water.

She surfaced to hear Ino laughing as she was doing the tree walking exercise nearby.

"Shut up pig." Sakura muttered pulling herself onto the shore and wringing out her hair.

"Focus Sakura." Kakashi said from where he was doing meditation atop the water.

"Sorry sensei. I'm worried about Naruto…"

"I understand Sakura." His own eye opened and he looked at her.

"Will that happen to me sensei?" she asked picking up the jump rope, from where he was he heard the tremor in her voice.

"You have time before that happens, and Mikoto will have you up and running without problems in no time."

Sakura still looked nervous. "What is happening really?" Sakura asked walking out onto the water near her teacher.

Kakashi sighed, but didn't rise. "A failsafe. At the founding of the Uchiha clan, they did something so that if the Sharingan was ever stolen, it would eventually kill the person it was placed in, unless it was truly unlocked by bloodline wielding Uchiha." He looked at her sadly. "I had hoped, that Sasuke's being newly woken wouldn't have had time, but it seems it's a genetic defense."

"Did you…I mean…I'm sorry…" Sakura stumbled around her question.

"When I received Obito's Sharingan, I nearly died before Mikoto took me in and opened it for me, she showed me how to use it properly, and taught me exercises." Kakashi stood. "I plan on teaching them to you and Naruto, but first you need more chakra reserves and Naruto needs more control. Since we've been here you both have improved by leaps and bounds."

Sakura looked down for a moment. "Sensei…who is that woman?"

"Mikoto Uchiha. She's Sasuke's mother." Kakashi said.

"WHAT? But…Where has she been? Why was he left alone? W-Wh…"

"Sakura, stop." Kakashi said putting a hand on the young kunoichi's shoulder. He sighed when her bright green eye looked at him.

"Mikoto is a special operative, she's been away undercover. Her even being here…(sigh) this whole thing is a mess." Kakashi said, and he felt as old as the Hokage seeing his student's eye looking at him, begging for answers he didn't have or couldn't give.

"Mikoto…"

An inhuman scream sounded from the house and Kakashi was running even as Sakura registered it.

"NARUTO!"

AN: Sorry for the delay on this chapter. I didn't have it started and it was postponed until this week.