Unlocking The Sharingan

Author's Notes: Hey guys. Since the car dealership messed up the car when they worked on it, I'm back at the dealership again so I'm going ahead and getting this out of the way since like the bell test, this one and the previous chapter pretty much goes hand in hand. Lets get started.

Hidden Leaf Village.

Team 7 had just finished painting the fence and Naruto had sent a clone to the tower like before as well as another to clean their supplies and then put them back in their storage area.

Now they were heading to a moderately sized stream just outside of the village walls. (Think of the stream they cleaned up as part of their D-ranks in the anime.)

Sakura was looking around since this was the first time she had been this way before. Sasuke was just moping at the injustice of the whole world for making have to do these pathetic excuses for 'missions' and having to do what, in his opinion, someone inferior to him told him to do. Naruto himself was wondering what he could do to get Sasuke's head out of the clouds. Kakashi was following up in the back watching the team interact, or the absence of interaction.

Roughly ten minutes after leaving the south village gates, they came upon the stream that they were supposed to clean up. The group could see some trash on the bottom of the stream.

'Well, I've seen it in worse shape.' Naruto thought to himself. Turning to the rooks he said "All right guys. This is what we are going to be doing for the rest of the day."

That being said, he unsealed a box of garbage bags as well as two baskets that had straps on them. (Again, the same they used in the anime.) He then again gave them an area to work at, by tying two ropes to trees on both sides in a fifty foot area.

Sasuke decided to be a smart aleck and asked "You don't honestly expect me to clean up another person's trash do you?"

Naruto was starting to get ticked but kept his cool. Instead he decided to return fire. "What's the matter Sasuke? I would have thought that this would be no problem for the great Uchiha. Don't tell me your afraid of getting a little wet? Or is it that you can't swim?"

Sakura got angry at this and said "Of course he can swim! Sasuke-kun can do anything!"

Naruto just snorted and said "Good. That means he should have no problem with this. Now if you will excuse me." He crossed his hands and large group of shadow clones appeared.

Turning to them he said "All right guys, you know the deal." Nodding, the half of clones on the right side each unsealed their own box of garbage bags and the clones headed off in pairs. Most went up river while a few went downstream towards the waterfall to get that area and the area beneath the falls.

Turning to the two rooks, he continued "I want this area spotless when I come back. Oh, and Sasuke, I'll be leaving a clone here so I will know if you work or not."

Not giving the emo kid a chance to reply, Naruto left and went to catch up with his clones upriver. The clones close to the ropes were already at work. One clone would be in the water picking up trash while the other clone was standing by him holding the garbage bag for him to put the trash in. The clones would all nod to Naruto as he kept heading upstream which he returned. Heading to where the end of the chain was, he took off his pants and shirt leaving him in nothing but his boxers and joined the last couple of clones. Unlike the rest of his clones who would dispel once they were done with their area and had taken their bags to the disposal area, Naruto and his group would clean an area and continue upstream.

About an half an hour later, most of the clones had finished their task and started bringing their bags to where they were supposed to take them for disposal. Sasuke and Sakura finished shortly after that and the clone watching them asked one who was on it's way to take their bags with it, which it agreed to do. It then told the two rooks to wait on the bank while the 'boss' and others finished.

While moving to the bank, Sasuke grumbled about having to listen to more than one annoying blond a day, to which the clone just manipulated the water around Sasuke's feet, causing it to knock his feet out from under him. The clone then simply told him to watch where he stepped since the bottom could be slippery in some places.

Sakura tried to help him up, but he ignored her while glaring at the clone who raised an eyebrow at the Uchiha clearly asking "What?" Kakashi from his position on a tree branch looked up from his book but just sighed and shook his head before going back to it.

It was another fifteen minutes before the original decided they had gone far enough up river and his group headed back to where his clothes were. Putting them on, he and his group headed back.

When the clone who was assigned to watch the two saw him, it dispelled itself and Naruto got it's memories, including what happened fifteen minutes ago. Shaking his while softly chuckling at what had happened, he walked over and said "All done here?" Sasuke just glared at him while Sakura simply nodded to him. Nodding he led the group back to the tower.

Back at the tower, the group got their pay for the missions, and Naruto told the rooks to be at the training grounds at 7 the next day and then dismissed them to do what they wanted to. He sighed to himself when the door closed after them, which his leader and former teachers noticed.

"You all right Naruto?" Mizuki asked noticing that Naruto was a little high strung up.

Naruto just turned around and nodded. "Yeah. It's just that dealing with that Uchiha can be a real pain sometimes."

The two teachers nodded knowing exactly what the blond was talking about. The old man just watched before asking the question the whole group was wondering. "Do you think you can help them Naruto?"

Naruto sighed again and said "I will do my best old man, but it is really up to them. Sakura I can see wanting some help, but the Uchiha will most likely be too stubborn to take what I give him at face value."

Nodding at this, the hokage then asked Naruto to do the best he could to which he nodded and was then dismissed. Turning to Kakashi he asked "I hope there weren't too many problems today." To which Kakashi just shrugged and said "Went about as well as expected sir." The hokage nodded again and dismissed Kakashi as well.

When Kakashi came out, Naruto was waiting for him and the two went to get their pay before heading out to grab a quick bite to eat while Naruto told Kakashi about the tests he had the two rooks do to get an idea of what they could really do and how to help. They then discussed what Naruto should do to help the two before heading to their training grounds and started training themselves.

Team 7 Training Grounds: The Next Day

Sakura and Sasuke showed up to what was to them, and unusual sight of seeing two virtual armies doing battle with each other in a straight Taijustu battle. Now normally this wouldn't have been to strange to them since they had seen that Naruto could create a lot of clones. However, the clones were moving at such a speed that it looked more like a bunch of blurs moving at high speed with the occasional poof of smoke than an actual battle.

Naruto himself was currently doing sit ups facing his clones while they had their little Taijustu war game. Noticing the two rooks when he was in the down position, Naruto sat up and whistled. Hearing the whistle, the clones that were still fighting stopped and dispelled themselves.

Standing up after absorbing the clones' memories, Naruto turned to the rooks and said "Me and Kakashi-sensei decided that it would be best if we started you off with a warm up routine before we start training each day. Starting today, you will be doing a set number of push ups, sit ups, jumping jacks, and laps around this clearing. After that, we will work on whatever I decide for the day. Is that understood?" The two rooks nodded and the three got started.

After they were done with the warm up, Naruto led them to where the tallest trees in the training ground were and said "All right. I've decided to mainly work on your chakra control this week. To begin with I am going to teach you to climb trees."

He paused knowing what was going to come next. And he was not disappointed.

"Climb trees? We already know how to climb trees dobe. We could do that since we were five."

Naruto looked at the Uchiha and a grin appeared on his face. 'Time to really start putting him in his place.' "Maybe with your hands Uchiha, but can you do it with only your feet?"

Seeing the confused looks on the two's faces, he then walked up to a tree and placed a foot on the trunk. He the proceeded to walk up the tree and underneath a branch about twenty feet off the ground and stopped facing the two with a grin still on his face and said "You got a long way to go Sasuke. I learned how to do this when they taught us how to make clones in the academy, and my two teammates were right behind me when I showed them. They only took half a day to get it down. I'm betting it takes you at least a week."

Sakura was just surprised and amazed that you could actually do that using chakra while Sasuke was just mad.

"Oh yeah dobe? Well I'll have that down by the end of the hour." (Big words coming from someone with the worst chakra control on the team.)

Naruto frowned at the Uchiha at the dobe comment but let it slide since he knew that he could kick the Uchiha's ass whenever he wanted too, and explained how you had to focus chakra to the soles of your feet and how you had to have the exact amount or else you will either slip off the tree or blast off it. He also said it would be best if they started at a run. Taking a couple of kunai from his pouch, he tossed them into the ground in front of the two and told them to use them to mark their progress.

Sasuke took the kunai thinking to himself that he would show the dobe just what he could do while Sakura was looking at the tree with determination. They took off for separate trees next to each other and started running up. Sasuke got about seven steps up before he suddenly felt the bark give. He quickly marked his spot before the bark exploded and he was pushed off the tree. Flipping, he landed on the ground and took a look at the tree. He smirked thinking that he did fairly well for the first time.

Naruto just watched and shook his head. He had seen how duck head had done but had also seen Sakura to the exercise and knew just how to get Sasuke's head back down to earth.

"Not bad Sasuke." (Sasuke got a smug look.) "But are you sure you are a Uchiha? I thought that you guys were supposed to be the best?" With that, Naruto pointed at Sakura who was currently sitting on a branch at the same level of Naruto's with a grin on her face, pleased with herself.

Seeing Sasuke's face, Naruto got a grin and said "You know Sasuke, it's kind of sad. At the rate she's going, Sakura here well have this down within an hour, where as you will probably still be doing this for at least a couple of more days, if not the rest of the week."

Sakura felt proud that Naruto had that much faith in her but frowned when she heard what the blond said to Sasuke. Said emo glared at Naruto before giving the tree another go.

Chuckling to himself, Naruto thought 'Well that got him motivated.' He then noticed two people enter the area they were in that he was very happy to see. Grinning to himself, he dropped to the ground flipping to land on his feet. He told the two to keep at it and created a shadow clone to watch their progress while he himself went to talk to the two waiting a short distance away. Sakura and Sasuke noticed where he was headed and wondered who he was going to meet, but had no time to think about it since the clone told them to get back to work.

A pair of brown eyes another of dark blue met his own light blue as he walked up to his former teammates.

"They finally let you out huh?" Naruto asked while hugging his friends.

Matto nodded and said "Yeah. And let me tell you, that physical rehab was a huge bore fest."

Naruto and Heza chuckled with him while Naruto asked what had been on his mind for the past two weeks. "So how long until you two can be back in action? It can't be too long if your already walking again."

The two looked at each other before sighing and Heza answered. "We may be walking Naruto, but it well still be a while. We only just finished rehab this morning, and that was just for getting our bodies to do everyday things and walking. It'll be another month at least before we can do anything strenuous, and even longer to get our chakra abilities back to regular Genin levels. I'm afraid we wont be back to where we were before for the whole year like the doctors thought."

Naruto frowned upon hearing this. He was really hoping his friends would make a faster recovery. Although it was good to hear that we would be able to start training again in a couple of months at least, the thought of having to work for so long to get back to where they were was killing him inside. He could only imagine what those two were going through.

Noticing the look and knowing what his friend was thinking, Matto said "Cheer up Naruto, it could have been a lot worse. Besides, now we've got plenty of time to do what we want to. I've made amazing progress with sealing now that I don't have to do any missions or anything like that." Naruto frowned, since in his opinion, his friend was just fine at sealing and that it wasn't really a good thing that he felt he needed to be injured like he had to get better at it.

Heza also recognizing her friend's look and thinking that her other friend's way of relieving the stress wasn't exactly the best way to do so decided to change the topic. "So how are the new guys? Are they any good?"

Naruto just laughed at that and said "Are you kidding me? How they ever made it out of the academy is beyond me. Sasuke Uchiha has a superiority complex and believes that whatever I can do, he can do better. Never mind the fact that he's got a problem with working with others, he can't get it through his thick skull that there are others his age that are better than him. He's worse than Neji. At least he had a reason to be so cocky, but this guy must have used his name to get through and get the title rookie of the year. That's the only way he could have possibly passed this year. Sakura Haruno is just as bad. She's a fan girl of the Uchiha. (At this, the two winced knowing how Naruto hated fan girls.) The only thing she's got going for her are book smarts and extremely good chakra control. Other than that she's got nothing. The only thing that doesn't make her worse than the Uchiha in my book is that she seems to be willing to listen to what I tell them. The Uchiha couldn't give a rat's rear end about what I say."

Matto and Heza looked at each other again and then turned back to Naruto. "Well at least you've got Kakashi-sensei as a teacher. Imagine if you had to get a new one that idolized the Uchiha." Matto said and Naruto immediately paled at that thought while picturing it. Looking Matto in the eye, he calmly said "Don't even joke about that."

The two then moved on to talking about how the D-ranks went with the new guys. Both Heza and Matto burst out laughing when they heard what Naruto did to Ino when she confronted him about putting Sakura and "her Sasuke-kun" together while painting the fence and laughing again at what the clone did to Sasuke at the end of the cleanup mission.

Afterwards, they talked about the rehab and what the two were doing in between sessions. After a while they stopped talking and the two left to go do their own things. Heading back to his charges, he was pleasantly surprised to se that Sakura had in fact made it to the top in the time that he and his friends were talking. She was currently resting on a tree branch close to the top panting a little. Looking down, he noticed that while Sasuke had made progress, it was nowhere near what Sakura had did. The Uchiha was probably a quarter of the way up the tree, and he was currently glaring at the tree as if he would like nothing better than blast it with a fireball justu. Shaking his head, he dispelled the clone he had watching the two and walked over to the Uchiha.

"Need help?" He asked, even though he knew from the clone's memories that the kid would refuse. He felt that the kid just 'might' have a different reaction if it was the original asking. Unfortunately, Sasuke still refused and Naruto just shrugged thinking it was no skin on his back if it took the kid a little while to get over his pride.

He and Kakashi had planned on spending most of the week working on this after all. Noticing Sakura looking down at him with a proud smile on her face, he grinned up at her and jumped up the tree using the branches as steps. Landing next to her, he handed her a canteen that he had brought with him and told her to have a drink, which Sakura gladly did.

"Good job Sakura." He said. At Sakura's nod of thanks he continued. "After your done resting, I want you to try and walk up the tree next. Do it until you can get up and down twice without resting. This will not only help improve your control, it will also help you expand your chakra reserves. If you finish today, I'll show you the next step." At this Sakura nodded and returned Naruto's canteen and laid back down. About five minutes after Naruto went back down, she followed and started again, this time trying to walk up the tree.

It was roughly eleven o'clock when Naruto called an end to the exercise. Sakura was able to walk up and down the tree once before she needed a rest and Sasuke was now just over half way up the tree.

Coming back down, Sakura asked why they were stopping so early. Naruto told her that there was no point pushing themselves to hard and that they would continue where they stopped tomorrow morning.

He then told them that he was going to take them to lunch before they got started on the three D-ranks for the day. Sakura nodded at this and when the reached the first clearing at the entrance to the training grounds decided to ask what was on her mind at the moment.

"Naruto who were those two you were talking to? You seemed to know them real well."

Naruto nodded and said "My former teammates. They just got out of normal rehab today and are going to start ninja rehab tomorrow."

"Oh I see." Sakura said and then grew quiet thinking that it should have been fairly obvious to her considering what she had seen before.

Sasuke snorted and said "If they were your teammates then no wonder they got hurt so badly."

Naruto instantly stopped and turned around to face the Uchiha. "Care to repeat that rook?" He said in a dangerous tone of voice causing Sakura to take a step back. In the seal, Kyubi lifted his head from the nap he had been taking when he felt his son's anger start to rise. 'That Uchiha just crossed the line.' he thought as he watched to see what his son would do.

Sasuke just looked at Naruto calmly with a small smirk on his face and said "You heard me. I said that it was no wonder they got hurt so badly."

Naruto stepped right into Sasuke's face and said in a level tone. "Talk about my friends that way one more time like that teme and I will personally help you achieve all three levels of your Sharingan. Matto and Heza were easily ten times better than you were. I seriously doubt you could have survived what they did on that mission."

Turning around, he started walking away. Sasuke got angry at the statement about those two being better than he was and against what most would consider common sense said. "They couldn't be that strong if they ended up in the hospital. Are you sure that Kakashi-sensei didn't just save all three of your pathetic rear ends on this mission where you got so called bad intel?"

Sakura got wide eyes while father and son shared one thought. 'That does it. He is so dead.' Turning around, Sasuke caught a glimpse of Naruto's eyes flicking once for a split second from blue to red before Naruto cried out "Alright, that does it!" and launched himself at Sasuke.

There was so much killer's intent that Sasuke's Sharingan immediately activated to level one. Not that it did any good as Naruto used his speed and strength to turn Sasuke into a punching bag made of meat. Ten seconds in, Sasuke's Sharingan went to level two while he desperately tried to avoid Naruto's punches while Naruto came at him even faster when he saw it happen. Ten seconds after that, the Sharingan went to the third and final level (Not many Uchihas get the Mangeyko after all.) It didn't do one bit of good however since Naruto went even faster and kept pounding away at the Uchiha heir for another minute before stopping. When he was done, Sasuke had broken bones in both of his arms and one broken leg. He was also covered in bruises with a black eye as well as a broken nose.

Naruto stood over the broken Uchiha glaring down at him while he got his breathing under control, not from exertion, but from anger.

Turning to Sakura who had watched the whole thing with wide eyes he calmed himself down and said "Sakura please take Uchiha to the hospital to be treated. After that, you are dismissed. We will not be doing missions for the day. Please be back here tomorrow morning at 7."

Sakura nodded and as she was bending down to help Sasuke, he looked back at him and said "Well Uchiha, I hope you learned your lesson." Ignoring the glare given to him, Naruto turned and started walking thinking to himself that he didn't care what the council said, that had felt damn good giving the Uchiha what he deserved. His father could only agree. Kakashi who had watched the entire scene from a nearby tree and could only be glad that Naruto had stuck to Taijustu alone and that he hadn't killed the poor fool of a genius.

The hokage had been watching using his crystal ball and frowned knowing that there would be hell with the council for this but knew that the Uchiha had brought this upon him self.

It wasn't long after lunch when Naruto was called to appear before the council. Standing outside, he steeled himself to deal with a council made mostly out of complete idiots, especially the civilians. Taking a deep breath, he then opened the doors and entered the chamber stopping in front of where the council was seated and said "You wished to speak to me?"

Almost the entire council was glaring at the blond except for a couple of the clan heads, especially Hiashi Hyuga who was glad to see the so called mighty Uchiha humiliated. The council had heard what had happened and some of the clan heads found it not only fitting that the Uchiha be shown his place, but funny as well.

One council member glared even harder at the blond at the tone of voice he took and said "Don't take that tone with us demon! Do you have any idea how much trouble you are in? How dare you send your teammate to the hospital? We should have you stripped of your shinobi status for this!" Other members nodded while others, mainly the Hyugas and the old Ino-Shika-Chou group rolled their eyes at this declaration.

Naruto raised an eyebrow at this and said "Really? I would've thought the council would have been glad that I had helped their precious Uchiha unlock his Sharingan."

At this, the council members who were glaring at them started to unleash killer's intent at how he acted towards him. He just looked at them all for a second. Shrugging to himself, he decided to show that they didn't scare him.

It wasn't ki or bloodlust he pulsed at the council, it was the sense of sheer power, telling the council that compared to him, their ki was like a kitten next to a tiger. Most of the council gasped at the power they felt coming from him for that brief moment while the rest raised an eyebrow or even grinned.

A moderate council member decided to prevent a fight while she still could and spoke up. "Uzumaki, while I agree that according to testimony by your teacher that the Uchiha stepped out of line, it would have been better if you handled the situation a little more delicately. Although I will admit that it is good to know that the last Uchiha has now unlocked his Sharingan, the method used to do so is generally frowned upon. That being said, please try to withhold any such actions in the future whenever possible."

"Smooth talker that one. Did you notice how she acknowledged both sides without saying either side was completely right?" Kyubi asked his son who mentally nodded.

The council members calmed down a little at this when Naruto nodded saying he understood before asking if there was anything else the council needed from him. Knowing that Naruto had the approval of the hokage to do whatever he felt was necessary to deal with the Uchiha, the council dismissed him since they knew they really couldn't do anything to him but give him a warning.

Naruto walked out while thinking to himself 'Well that went well.' His father only snorted before agreeing with him and going back to sleep.

The medics at the hospital were able to fully heal Sasuke so he was able to show up at the training grounds in the morning with Sakura.

After the warm up routine, they started working on the chakra control exercise where they had left off the previous day. Sasuke was decidedly frosty when dealing with Naruto but did what he was told and avoided any conflicts. Naruto had just shaken his head and gave advice where needed while working on his own exercises.

By the time the morning was over, Sakura could walk up and down the tree twice without having to rest and Sasuke was almost to the top.

They went to get their three D-ranks for the day and completed them without incident. After getting their pay, Kakashi and Naruto dismissed the rooks and left for their training grounds for some one on one training.