A/N – This is last true chapter of first big arc, next one will be a connection between this arc and next. Yes, Naruto has three summoning contracts, but he will be using them when he will truly need them as in anime summons are sort of weapon of mass destruction and you bring them when you don't have other options. Only exception from this will be Tiger summoning as they are more of trackers and summons that fight besides their summoner during battles or hunts. I try to keep every chapter between 4,000 and 5,000, but it will differ from chapter to chapter as some will be longer and some shorter than that.
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"so, naruto got three summons.. i can't wait to see the training..." – Summons are explained above so I won't comment on them. About training it will be mostly this and next chapter, but later will be a lot revealed about what they learned from Itachi during their time away from the village.
"Dude don't replace this story I think it has a lot of potential in its future. So as I have said what I needed to say keep up the good work looking forward to the hopeful next chapter." – About replacing I was talking about another story which got already scrapped, although parts of it and ideas created for it were used in this one.
"It would be cool if Kakashi took Team 7 to the Uzushio ruins" – Ruins of Uzushio will happen, but later in the story as I'm already after chunin exams in what I had written and adding this small arc would be a tricky thing to put it into the story so it would look nice. But it will be, along with quite a few surprises before it.
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They left the town and walked back into the forest, but this time they weren't keeping to the used roads, but walked into wild forest without any signs of human activity. They walked for few minutes Kakashi deemed they were deep enough for their needs and desires, they stood on a large clearing surrounded by trees and there was also a small stream nearby. It was a typical forest of Hi no Kuni, one of many that gave the name to Konoha as a village hidden by leaves. Many said it was a stupid name, but nonetheless it was true as the village was literary hidden by trees and their leaves.
"Drop your gear here." Said Kakashi looking at his team "It is start for your training. Give me fifty laps around the clearing, two hundred push-ups, squats, sit-ups, crunches. And before I forget, you have thirty minutes to be done with them."
They nodded and left to their training as they thought it would be the most exhausting part of it, but they were so wrong about it. For Kakashi it was only an introduction to their training for the day and he knew they were going to survive it, it was going to be painful and brutal, but they were going to survive it.
Thirty minutes later teens covered in sweat and grime were once again standing in front of their sensei, awaiting further tortures, er training. Kakashi meanwhile was busy analyzing their level of fitness and physical conditioning, which in case of Sakura looked bad, putting it mildly. If he was going to be honest, he would say she didn't have any fitness and was going to drop dead on the spot. Sasuke looked good, but a little winded, while Naruto seemed like he just came back from a pleasant stroll and there weren't many signs of fatigue visible on his body. He looked as good as he did before, only sign that he did something strenuous was sweet covering his body and that was it.
"Now since the warm-up is done." Said Kakashi, looking at them with nasty glint visible in his eyes, one that reminded Naruto of annoyed Itachi. "Taijustu training, Naruto you will go with my clone, which will show you basics of Nature Fist. Style used by Senju clan, it is based on strength of blows and their speed. You hit only once or twice, but it is usually enough to kill your target on the spot. Many won't expect such hits so they will be surprised by your style of taijustu and will be thrown off-balance, it will also help you with your other styles, Hummingbird Fist and Interceptor Fist. Sasuke you will go with my second clone and I will show you basics of Hummingbird Fist and how to mix them with your normal Interceptor Fist. While you Sakura you will stay with my original body and we will work on complete basics."
"Why they are getting tutoring in individual styles while I work only on basics?" Asked Sakura, before Kaka could make clones to get them training with Sasuke and Naruto.
"Because they have firm foundations onto which I can add new things, your foundations are bad." Said Kakashi "They trained with two ANBU during their summer breaks, while you propably did nothing, not to mention the fact that they train on daily basis and you saw what they could do during that tournament."
"But..." tried to say Sakura, only for Kakashi to glare at her.
"Manage to land one hit on Naruto and I will show you style that will suit your body built." Said Kakashi and looked at Naruto "Be careful."
"I am careful." Said Naruto and looked at him.
"Whatever you say." Said Kakashi looking at his students. Naruto stood in the middle of the clearing, not even bothering to move into opening kata of his taijustu style, while Sakura stood in the opening stance of Tiger Fist that was the most basic style taught at the Academy. It was designed for usual ninja so it wasn't specialized in any particular aspect of it, but it was average in all departments so that everybody could easily learn it and be proficient with it. However when coming against someone proficient in his clan style it was ineffective and would result only in humiliation and defeat. As clan styles put an emphasis on certain aspect speed, strength and so on and were better against generic styles. "You may begin when you are ready."
Sakura charged at Naruto and tried to punch him in a face, Naruto lightly bent his neck backwards allowing the punch to pass just above his head. He didn't even need his Sharingan to read the moves of Sakura, that punch was followed by two more, which he still dodged, but it was getting boring. So Naruto caught next strike aimed at his head and used Sakura forward momentum against her.
Sakura stumbled forward when she felt that her hand met some resistance and moments later, her eyes widened in surprise when she felt strikes hitting her abdomen and chest, they hurt a lot and each of them felt like her chest or abdomen was crashing into a brick wall. She jumped away from Naruto and glanced onto herself, trying to find the reason of that pain. She saw several bloody marks on her clothes and few tears in them as well, while Naruto had some blood on his knuckles. Around place that on his gloves were visible small spikes, were now covered in blood.
"I think that is enough." Said Kakashi looking at his students "Sakura, if this was a real fight, you would be on the ground and dead. Naruto had a lot of opportunities to kill you if he wished to do so. That's a reason why you need to work on basics, while you never will be able to beat taijustu monster such as Naruto, Itachi, Tsunade or Gai, you will be able to get out of such fight with a minimal amount of damage to yourself and maybe cause some damage and injuries to them."
Sakura slowly nodded when she heard words of her sensei, she managed to see that Naruto was toying with her and if he wanted, he could end this fight way earlier than he did so. It was brutal and painful lesson, but rather necessary as it showed her own mistakes and holes in her style.
"Good that you got it after first spar." Said Kakashi "Next time I would ask Naruto to go all out and it wouldn't end with only few bruises. They would look like love taps. Naruto you were on the receiving end of the same medicine?"
"Way too many times." Naruto winced as he said that. Memories of beatings that he suffered when they were training Interceptor Fist and he annoyed Itachi, it was painful and thing that he remembered well. "When aniki wants he can hit hard and those hits hurt a lot. At least it forces you to learn rather quickly, unless you want to be all covered in bruises on the next day."
"True" Said Kakashi "It is usually used by ANBU Captains when they got new member of their team that is rather arrogant. After spending few days in the hospital he or she learns quickly what is allowed and what isn't. Now as I said before, Sasuke and Naruto you will go with my clones, while I will work with Sakura."
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With Sakura
Clones of Kakashi walked with his remaining students, while main body remained with Sakura as she needed the most of his attention and he had two prodigies on his team and they would learn quickly, even when learning completely new taijustu style.
"Where should we start?" Asked himself Kakashi "I guess we will start from the very beginning. While you know those katas perfectly well from theoretical side of things, you never trained them roo much and you also completely lack muscle mass. Also you are on diet or you were until very recently, you need to eat more and train more. Not only ninja training, but also general physical conditioning. Now I would like you to go through every single kata of Tiger Fist, I want to see how you know them as you might do some mistakes in them."
Sakura for next several minutes was going through katas of Tiger Fist, while Kakashi was walking around her and looking for any mistakes and flaws in them and corrected them, so that they would be more efficient and generally better.
"Well, as I said before." Said Kakashi once he saw what was to be seen. "You know those katas one might say too well. They are too stiff and too rigid also you are basically telling your opponent what are you going to do, so your enemy would have the same advantage as Sharingan wielder and experienced Sharingan wielder would pick you apart in matter of seconds. Also there is matter of strength, chunin exams are in six months and this team will be forced to participate."
"Why" Asked Sakura, who didn't hear rumors flying around the village about new team seven.
"Because of Sasuke and Naruto." Said Kakashi "They are sons of Fugaku-sama and potential heirs to Uchiha clan. And Naruto is prince of Uzushio. Days of Sandaime-sama are numbered and he is looking for successor and currently two strongest propositions are Senju Tsunade and Uchiha Itachi and from the moment they will be announced, everybody will be expecting Itachi younger brothers to be prodigies. That means participating in chunin exams as soon as they can and winning them."
"I never knew that so much was riding on this team." Said Sakura once Kakashi said those words.
"Only few jonin and ANBU know that. Not to mention that Naruto is son of Yondaime Hokage and he showed his Hiraishin, which means even more pressure and one thing that I didn't mention to you. Assasins, Iwa hates Yondaime family with passion, same with Uzumaki clan so they will do anything they can do to stop Naruto from reaching his prime." Said Kakashi as calmly as he could. "And as I said to your mother, only the fact that you are on the team with him is enough a reason to kill you, just for the sake that you might have learned Hiraishin or will in the future. I can stop most of the assasins that will be send after this team, but I'm only one person and I won't stop all of them."
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With Sasuke
Sasuke and clone of Kakashi walked to part of the forest away from the rest of the team so that they could have some sort of peace and so that Kakashi could explain whole point behind Hummingbird Fist.
"What do you know about Hummingbird Fist?" Kakashi asked, knowing well that he might copy some moves from Naruto when sparring.
"It is fast and based on jabs and those weird kunai." Said Sasuke and thought for a moment "Naruto never waits to see the results of his strike, he strikes and disappears to proceed with the following attack. He never is in one place, he seems like he is constantly moving and where I turn one way, he is behind and hitting my unprotected side."
"Very good." Said Kakashi "That is the gist of what Hummingbird is about. It was created as a mix of Senju Nature Fist and Uchiha Interceptor Fist. It contains fast and technical traits of Interceptor and mix them with powerful strikes of Nature Fist. Not to mention that it requires speed to run circles around your enemy. You attack and disappear, you do that once again and disappear. It works well with Hiraishin kunai, Rasengan or my Chidori and Raikiri. Sharingan helps a lot as it allows you to see the most miniscule details and you have warning of what is going to happen. I will show you the most basic katas and you will try to repeat them."
Sasuke looked at Kakashi who slowly went from kata to kata and explained the purpose of them as young Uchiha was watching him and trying to understand what he was seeing. It wasn't easy as it was both familiar and strange at the same time. It wasn't as graceful as Interceptor Fist, yet there were obvious similarities and connections between those two.
"It feels natural to me." Said Sasuke after he ran through the basic kata "Now I can see how Naruto is able to do what he is doing."
"Yes" Nodded Kakashi "That is how he is doing that, being on the receiving end of it is annoying, I can tell you that from my own experience."
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With Naruto
Naruto and second clone of Kakashi walked to yet another part of forest, so that he could patiently explain Nature Fist to Naruto and demonstrate basics of it. They sat on the ground under the branches of massive oak tree.
"Nature Fist is style based on less strikes than Interceptor Fist, but each and every one of them is extremely strong and able to destroy almost anything its path. You use chakra to enhance them, but you don't need to do so, on your own have crazy amounts of strength, one which will only increase in the future, not to mention that you are still growing. You mainly use speed to get to the enemy and to give even more momentum to your strikes. Dodging strikes isn't the highest priority, if you can you dodge them, but if you cannot, you simply tank them as they won't do too much damage to you. I will show you those katas and you will repeat them, but do that without Sharingan as it is a spoilsport." Said Kakashi looking at his student that was eager and ready to learn something new, when he was focused he looked a lot like his father. But when enraged he looked a lot like Kushina Uzumaki and he was outright scary, if not terrifying, especially if he was channeling Kyubi chakra.
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Three hours later all of them were back in the clearing and they were exhausted and covered in even bigger amounts of dust, grime and even some blood. Training with Kakashi was more of a torture than a training as he was pushing them to and past their limits and lines they didn't cross. Every single muscle was screaming in pain and from too much stress placed on them as they weren't used to such brutal treatment, especially for so long and so hard.
"I hate you." Groaned Naruto when he was laying on the ground, breathing hard and looking at his sensei, which looked rather proud about what he did. He thought that he knew what was the meaning of harsh training with Itachi, but this one was on completely new level.
"I want to kill him." Added Sasuke who wasn't in better shape. Well, he was probably in far worse shape. He was covered in minor scratches, cuts and wounds and was out of breath.
"Slowly and painfully." Said Sakura and winced in pain as her muscles screamed from all of the abuse they suffered at the hand of her sensei during training. Every single joint, tendon and muscle was screaming in pain and was trying to get used to what happened to them. It wasn't pleasant, it was hard and exhausting.
"Well, I also love you, my cute little genin." Said Kakashi eye-smiling at them. His genins only groaned and looked at him like they wanted to murder him slowly and painfully. It felt like training ANBU trainees and he had enjoyed that, he enjoyed that a lot. He still remembered how always stoic Uchiha Itachi was cursing him at the end of his training. "Now that we agreed that we like each other, we are going to work on your jutsu arsenal or chakra control."
"Sensei how we are supposed to do that?" Asked Sakura "We are exhausted."
"Physically yes, chakra wise nope." Said Kakashi "So physical exhaustion isn't the problem. Now Sakura you will work with my original body on chakra control, while Naruto and Sasuke will work with clones on individual things."
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With Naruto
Naruto and clone of Kakashi walked into the other part of the forest, far away from Sakura ans Sasuke so that they could demolish it as much they wished or wanted to do so. But also to have some sort of peace and calm.
"So on what do you want to work?" Asked Kakashi looking at his student "You can choose ninjutsu and from it shape transformation, nature transformation or new ninjutsu or you can choose genjutsu and Sharingan."
"Shape transformation." Said Naruto "I'm working and trying to combine things that not many managed to get working. I want to take normal Rasengan and add to it a core made out of bijuu chakra, which is completely different substance."
"It will be an interesting challenge." Said Kakashi looking at Naruto "You want to get around problem that you need to fully transform to use Bijuudama?"
"Yes" Replied Naruto "It is nice and all, but I basically tell everybody what I'm going to use."
"Shape transformation is about forming your chakra, you do not use any seals and you only imagine shape of it when pushing it out of the body. One of the best examples can be Rasengan created by your father or my Chidori and Raikiri." Explained Kakashi "Exercises are based on one that you made when working on Rasengan, you try to burst open certain object, the faster you do that the better. The harder the material out of which object is made also the better. In this case I would start about forming small ball out of bijuu chakra without adding any outer layers made out of normal to it."
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With Sasuke
Clone and Sasuke walked to deserted part of the forest, away from other people and in relative peace.
"Same as Naruto you can choose one of two things ninjutsu from which you can choose shape transformation, nature transformation or new jutsu or you can choose genjutsu and Sharingan." Said Kakashi looking at his student. Who thought for a moment before choosing on what he wanted to work as every single of those options sounds cool and had advantages.
"What about new chakra nature?" Asked Sasuke looking at his sensei "I have Katon and Raiton, while I know that Naruto has three of them. Katon, Raiton and Fuuton. I would like nature that is more defense oriented as I don't need more firepower as Naruto has spades of that."
"What about Doton?" Suggested Kakashi "It can be used almost anywhere you like to use it, it is robust and resistant, not to mention that it is mainly defense oriented element. From what I know it will be the easiest one for you to learn as well as none of your elements have problems with it."
"Why not." Replied Sasuke and watched as his sensei walked to the tree and caught one of leaves that were growing on one of the lower branches.
"Same principle as with other chakra natures." Said Kakashi as an explanation "You need to crumble it with help of your chakra, once you are done with that in less than five seconds we will work on proper jutsu, for now this is your task.
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With Sakura
Sakura and main body of Kakashi remained where was their camp, while boys and clones of their sensei headed in different directions to train with him there. Kakashi looked at his only female student and lightly shook his head, she was cause of so many troubles, he would do anything to get Ino or Hinata onto his team as they would be more useful and had been better in their knowledge of ninja arts.
"Sensei, on what we are going to work?" Asked Sakura as she looked at him, getting Kakashi out of his thoughts. Which weren't the brightest ones at least ones provided by clones working with other two students were good.
"Chakra control and capacity." Said Kakashi and looked at Sakura "You have miniscule amounts of chakra, but excellent control of it and we are going to work on improving it. You will never be able to have as much as Naruto or Sasuke or even me, but you will have enough of it to survive through longer duels. You can't throw around ninjutsu as if they were nothing, but you can learn skills that will help the team as whole, medical ninjutsu or genjutsu. You have things that make great medic or genjutsu mistress, chakra control and intelligence, not to mention that you are good at academics. When we will be back in Konoha I will try to goad Uchiha Itachi or Yuuhi Kurenai to give you better training in it as genjutsu isn't my specialty. While it is their and they are quite scary in it, while Itachi mainly uses his Sharingan for them, he also knows plenty of normal ones." Said Kakashi and walked up to the tree which was growing nearby. "First exercise that I'm going to show you is one of the most basic exercises known to shinobi, it is called tree walking. You channel your chakra through the soles of your feet and latch onto the surface of thing upon which you want to walk."
"What's the point of it excluding learning how to do that?" Asked Sakura looking at her sensei.
"It will help you build your chakra control and capacity, while you have good control, it can be improved if you work on it. And usage of coils helps them develop even more and thus enlarge your chakra capacity, that is a reason why Sasuke has his Sharingan almost constantly active. It works as a small leach and force his system to develop even further." Replied Kakashi and walked towards the tree. "It looks like this." He said slowly walking up the bark of a tree, he walked to one of lower branches and sat there.
Sakura slowly walked to the tree and up the bark of it, much to her amazement she could support herself on the bark of it, she managed to get up to three feet above the ground, where she lost her footing and fall onto the ground below. It seemed easy, only trick was to control flow of chakra and to make sure that there was enough of it flowing to your feet. Other than that there was nothing hard in doing it.
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Previous three weeks were hell for a team seven, they were getting beaten into the ground by their sadistic sensei and everyday when they headed to sleep they felt like their whole bodies were set on fire. Even Naruto who had legendary endurance of Uzumaki and combined with healing factor of jinchuuriki started complaining about it after something like two weeks of that training. It was brutal training, but it was giving obvious results, best example of it was Sakura. She was getting faster, stronger, more agile and her chakra capacity and control skyrocketed. Things on which Naruto and Sasuke were working were, for a lack of better word, were more complicated and as such it took them more time to get the hang of them, but finally they learned how to get the results they expected to get when they started their training.
"Naruto do you have any idea for a name of that jutsu you created?" Kakashi asked when they were sitting around the fire after day of training and were eating their supper.
"I was thinking about Orenji Rasengan or Bijuu Rasengan." Said Naruto as he thought about the name of that jutsu. It looked like normal Rasengan, but it glowed orange and core of it was made out of bijuu chakra.
"Both of them suit it." Said Kakashi "I named my Chidori based on a sound it made. You seem to have better names for jutsu that your father and my sensei."
"Huh?" Asked Naruto
"Well" Said Kakashi chuckling a little "He named one of Hiraishin derived jutsu Rasen Senkō Chō Rinbukō Sanshiki(Spiralling Flash Super Round Dance Howl Style Three)."
"The hell is that?" Asked Naruto not believing how long and stupidly sounding that name was.
"His creativity." Said Kakashi "It seems that you didn't inherit this trait from him."
"Yes." Agreed Naruto "Some names I found when looking through scrolls left by him are let's say weird."
"But why Bijuu Rasengan?" Asked Sakura looking at those two members of her team as if they knew something that she didn't know, also Sasuke seemed to also know that.
"Because of how this jutsu looks and what you need for it to work." Explained Naruto. "I first create small core of superdense chakra, in reality it is mini Bijuudama as it is chakra drawn from bijuu, around which I place cocoon of normal chakra that is spinning around the core of jutsu."
"It will be extremely dangerous." Said Kakashi "Without seeing it in action I would classify it as high A or low S rank, personal kinjutsu. Rasengan is A rank, while Bijuudama is S rank."
"What is this whole bijuu thing you are talking about?" Asked Sakura and noticed looks passed between Kakashi and Naruto, it looked like older shinobi lost their little contest and sighed.
"You heard about Kyubi?" Asked Kakashi and received nod in response "Than it will be easier. There are nine bijuu, starting from Ichibi, ending on Kyubi. Each of them is ancient, extremely ancient being with incredible amounts of chakra at his command. Our Shodaime Hokage distributed beasts among the villages, Suna got Ichibi, Kumo Nibi and Hachibi, Iwa Yonbi and Gobi, Taki Nanabi, Kiri Sanbi and Rokubi, while we kept Kyubi. People into which bijuu is sealed are called jinchuuriki and in our history we had so far three. First one was Senju née Uzumaki Mito, wife of Shodaime Hokage and Princess of Uzushiogakure. Second one was Namikaze née Uzumaki Kushina, wife of Yondaime Hokage and Princess of Uzushiogakure and current one is Naruto. When Kushina-sensei went into labor seal keeping Kyubi weakened and once Naruto was born, Kyubi was ripped out of her and controlled by Sharingan. Yondaime managed to subdue Kyubi and seal him in his own son as he was the only one that could possibly control this chakra." Explained Kakashi and watched Sakura who was completely silent as she listened to what he was saying. "Naruto do you want me to continue or are you going to tell the second part of it?"
"Go on." Shrugged off Naruto and his eyes turned red and were slitted, when he said once again his voice was much deeper and sounded more ancient. "So far you are doing good job of explaining it."
"What was that?" Asked Sakura, when she heard sudden change of the voice, one that freaked her out a little.
"Effect of cooperation between jinchuuriki and bijuu." Explained Kakashi "Bijuu get access to senses of their jinchuuriki and can speak when they want and jinchuuriki agrees, while jinchuuriki can tap into full chakra pool of his bijuu and if he needs to ,he can transform into full body of his bijuu."
"You forgot about special abilities given by bijuu." Said Naruto "Each of the nine has something unique, Ichibi Jinton Kekkei Genkai, Nibi cat-like grace and blue flames, almost as hot as Amaterasu flames. Sanbi can produces coral, Yonbi can make lava, Gobi steam. Rokubi can make acids, Nanabi pollen and can fly. Hachibi can make ink. Kyubi can detect negative emotions all around him and he is one of the reasons why I can heal bones in matter of hours."
"As I was going to say." Said Kakashi "Bond between bijuu and jinchuuriki is weird type of bond and a lot depends on a seal and relationship between them."
"Seal works as a valve, so that jinchuuriki won't succumb to bijuu chakra, but that depends on a bond between us." Said Naruto "If I wanted to I could go up to eight tails and I would be fine, because Kyubi respects me. But if I didn't have that kind of relation I would go on a rampage when using only two or three tails."
"Everything that I or Naruto said is classified as S-rank secret." Said Kakashi looking at Sakura "You won't speak about it to anybody, not even your parents as only chosen advisors of each Hokage know everything about jinchuuriki. Also ANBU Commander and most senior Captains of teams. Now it's time to sleep."
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A/N – My thoughts about one of genjutsu which requires Mangekyou Sharingan. It's named in same manner as other jutsu connected with Mangekyou Sharingan, that is after one or more gods from Japanese pantheon.
Amatsukami - subtle and powerful genjutsu that is almost impossible to break and slows down the flow of time for person or people affected by it, by trapping it in dimension that is almost the same as real world, yet time flows way slower, how much slower it flows depends on power of caster and his desire. Requires unlocked Tsukoyomi and Kotoamatsukami or Tsukoyomi and Kamui.
What do you think about it? Do you like it?
About name, Amatsukami means Heavenly Gods, while Kotoamatsukami means Distinguished Heavenly Gods. Those are names of gods from Japanese pantheon, same as Tsukoyomi – Goddess of Moon, Amaterasu – Goddess of Sun, Susanoo – God of War and Storms, Kamui Authority of the Gods,
About Mangekyou Sharingan, should Sasuke unlock it or not? As so far three people have it Itachi, Shisui and Naruto. Although Naruto knows only bare basics plus what Kyubi told him about its powers. He won't be using it any time soon as he needs to learn how to control it and get used to using them. Enton will be used in similar way to lightnings in Avatar, it will be an extremely advanced form of Katon manipulation and to master it one will need to do the same exercises as for normal Katon, but with black flames of Amaterasu.
You may start betting which sword Sasuke is going to get relatively soon, same as Naruto. They are known blades, so you shouldn't have problems with guessing their names.
Looks like my idea of Mangekyou Sharingan for Naruto is similar to how looks Uchiha Fugaku Mangekyou in anime, but instead of tomoes there are dots and they are closer to prongs.