AN: Alright, so this isn't the exact start of training for the rookies or first mission. This chapter takes place about a week after the last one. Gives time for a few pieces to have gotten to the places they need to be and lets things get set up. This chapter is focused on training/team dynamics though just as next chapter will be Naruto's first non D rank mission (ah, the power of clone spam no jutsu)

Trickshot

Chapter 7

-Sasuke-

Sasuke's shoulders were tense as he followed his sensei into the Konoha Shinobi hospital, the facility designed to focus on treating Shinobi and Kunoichi rather than civilians.

"Relax kid." Sasuke looked over at his sensei, the Jonin putting out his cigarette as they walked through the doors.

"My test results are in." Sasuke grumbled, his hands feeling twitchy as Asuma signed them in. "I…they know if my Sharingan."

"Like I said kid, relax." Asuma paused to give him a grin and a reaffirming shoulder squeeze, "Even if you don't have your Sharingan yet you'll get it, and we still have other things to train on. Either they're ready and we can start working on them, or they're not and we can start making plans about how to wake it up. Stressing out won't change the results, it'll only make your hair fall out sooner."

Rolling his eyes at the snarky joke, Sasuke took a deep breath to make himself relax, "Yeah, yeah you're right." He pauses, "Hey, if Dojutsu are supposed to work through chakra circulating through the eyes do you think Naruto could make a seal to trigger them?"

"That's a hard one." Asuma frowned as they started heading up to the room where the doctor who'd run some tests earlier in the week was waiting, "Your Dojutsu is different from every other one I've heard of. Yours needs emotion to grow. Running Chakra through it might do it, might do nothing, or might cause some serious problems. We can always bring up the idea to some professionals if need be."

"It was just a thought." Sasuke shrugged, not all that put off by the lack of instant agreement. The two remained in silence until they got to the floor that primarily catered to treating Genin.

"Alright kid, you wait here." Asuma clapped a hand to his shoulder, "I'll go make sure the doctor's ready." Grunting in response, Sasuke sat down in one of the empty chairs, having nothing to do but observe the various shinobi and orderlies moving about.

"Katsuki?" one orderly did a double take at their coworker, Sasuke noting he was just out of their line of sight and deciding to try training his eavesdropping "I thought you were supposed to be looking after that Uzumaki brat?" Sasuke frowned as he listened in. Naruto had told him and Kiba about how most of the Civilians treated him and he'd even seen it a few times now that he knew to look, but it still baffled him.

"That new guy offered to take over for me." The uncaring voice of this 'Katsuki' person chuckled before Sasuke heard the sounds of footsteps walking off, "So I'm off to go chat up Hinoa in the break room. Wish me luck!"

"New guy?" the first voice sounded confused before switching to uncaring, "Meh, whatever."

Sasuke though got a bad feeling in his gut. Naruto was his friend, even if he refused to ever admit the words out loud. Tossing Asuma's instructions aside, Sasuke silently moved over to the desk, finding the room listings which included where Naruto was. Moving swiftly, he found the isolated room and silently opened the door, seeing a smirking Mizuku pulling down a doctor's mask while drawing a Kunai on an unconscious Naruto.

"Get away from him!" Sasuke snarled, feeling his chakra spike alongside his rage. His blood boiled as he leapt towards Mizuki who leapt out of the way. His rage quickly started to falter though, assaulted by confusion as Mizuki seemed to flicker in and out of existence. As Mizuki and Naruto both fully faded away Sasuke grit his teeth, feeling his eyes itch.

"Congrats kid." Head snapping toward the door, Sasuke saw a smirking Asuma leaning against the frame along with a woman he recognized as Kiba's sensei after a moment. Turning towards a mirror at Asuma's nod, Sasuke saw his reflection bearing bright red Sharingan eyes, each with one tomoe.

"W-what?" Sasuke breathed out, praying to anything that would listen that this wasn't a trick.

"The doctor came to me yesterday, said your Sharingan were all but developed." Asuma shrugged, "Your body wasn't ready to manifest them during the massacre, but the groundwork was laid, they just needed a little…push. So, I got Kurenai here to set up a little Genjutsu. Since you thought it was real, your emotions were real."

"…Thank you." Sasuke's voice was soft but thankfully Asuma didn't press the issue.

"Head over to training ground three. There's a Jonin who has a transplanted Sharingan from his teammate who's supposed to meet you there today if this worked and I already sent him word that it did. If he isn't there within half an hour head to our usual training ground and I'll help you get used to what I can of that."

"Why wouldn't he be there?" Sasuke frowned in confusion even as he shut off his Sharingan. No point in wasting Chakra.

"He's notorious for being late." Asuma scowled, "I already made it clear I wouldn't tolerate his usual bullshit here. So do let me know if he tries to blow you off." Asuma's smile was downright vicious "I'd hate him to think me a liar after all."

-Asuma-

Seeing Sasuke head out of the hospital, Asuma turned to Kurenai "Thanks again for helping out here." He gave her a grin as the two set out to meet with the rest of their students for regular training, "I didn't trust my Genjutsu to work, especially if there was a chance of the kid recognizing my chakra from it."

"Of course." Kurenai nodded before frowning, "Although, why do I get the feeling part of you is hoping Kakashi will be late?"

"He tried protesting to the Hokage about not getting to teach either Sasuke or Naruto." Asuma scowled. He wasn't as close to Naruto as his father was, or as close as he'd heard Konohamaru was becoming, but he still liked the kid. Not to mention how much he knew it was eating up at his old man about how Naruto had been distancing him from the Sarutobi's since the truth came out.

"Sasuke I get, Kakashi does spend more time mourning his team than even reading his porn." Kurenai wrinkled her nose at the mention of the little orange books, "But why so upset about Naruto? He's a good kid from what Kiba's said but I don't get why Kakashi would care."

"Kakashi was the student of the Yondaime." Asuma shrugged, helping with the cover story to hide Naruto's family, "He probably sees the kid as his sensei's legacy given the seal."

"That makes sense." Kurenai nodded, "So. How are your other students coming along?"

"Rough." Asuma sighed, "Sai has clearly gone through Root training but with no proof besides 'just look at him', we can't do jack all to Danzo. Kid has zero emotions he shows at all and doesn't understand how others work or think. I heard that he tried learning how to 'integrate himself with groups of others' by using a book on making friends back at the academy."

"Not a bad idea." Kurenai frowned, "A little weirdly put, but not a bad idea to get help at making friends."

"He didn't want friends, he wanted to know how to infiltrate and make people see him as a friend." Asuma corrected, "But the chapter mentioned friends often give each other nicknames. So, he tried calling two of his classmates 'Dickless' and 'Ugly' and was confused when they tried to hit him."

Kurenai's face palm was response enough, "And please tell me Shikamaru is better?"

"Yes and no." Asuma eagerly lit up another cigarette once they were out of the building, needing the stress relief "He's not as emotionally damaged as Sai but at least Sai is willing to train and put in effort. I've never met anyone lazier than Shikamaru and I've barely been able to do anything outside of strength and stamina conditioning for him. He's barely above those fan girl graduates in physical ability, having wanted to bank through on his mind and clever tactics alone."

"So, I guess me bragging about how eager all three of my students are to grow wouldn't go over well?" Kurenai asked with a somewhat playful smirk as he flipped her off.

"Rude…guess I'm bragging then." Kurenai chuckled as she continued, "Hinata's still on the nervous side but her teammates have been very encouraging with her which helps. Shino seems to be determined to think of other things he can learn to complement his clan's bug arts and even ways to recreate other Shinobi skills through his bugs. Training them to transmit genjutsu through bite from all the chakra they eat is one I'd never heard of before."

"And Kiba?" Asuma was honestly more intrigued by the feral member of Sasuke's friend group.

"Trying to learn how to fight smarter, very determined to learn a specific genjutsu without seals, and is always doing what he can to woo Hinata." Kurenai snorted in bemusement, "I love the girl like a sister but she's dense as a rock about that boy's feelings. Did you know he gave her a special book infused with seals for her flower pressing? The thing keeps the flowers preserved so whenever the page opens the flower stands up and blooms. She just thought it was a gesture of friendship."

"Ah, young love." Asuma snickered as the two finally split apart, students to teach.

-Guy-

Frowning, Guy stood alone in the training ground with just Tenten, having sent Lee and Neji home already. "Did you have something to talk to me about Guy Sensei?" Tenten asked. She still called him sensei, still listened to him during training, but there was something different about how she interacted with him and Lee recently. She hadn't changed towards Neji, so he knew it wasn't something going on in her life in general, but something specific towards him and his successor for the Strong Fist.

"Yes, I wished to know why you've been spending less and less time with your team." Guy frowned as he brought up that point. Up until a week ago the three would often share the training ground, training 'alone but together' in their respective styles well into the evening. They didn't show signs of being the closest friends but there was a degree of respect and comradery there. But for the past week he hadn't seen her doing so once. She even addressed Lee far less than she used to.

"I've been training with others instead." Tenten answered, answering his question but avoiding the issue.

"Tenten, why have you been distancing yourself from myself and Lee?" Guy pressed the issue with a frown.

"…I'm not sure I can respect you or Lee as much as I used to sensei." Tenten admitted as Guy gaped floored at the admission, "Not since I found out you used your pull as Jonin to have Lee graduate when he wouldn't have otherwise and costing someone else their slot. Hard to trust a teammate as much when they got where they are from nepotism. And how they only have the level they are from all those private lessons I saw you gave him. I mean, I get it, he is your kid. But…well I can't see things the same now." When he didn't respond she took that as her cue to leave.

It was some time later before he'd regained enough of his shocked mind to speak aloud "She thinks Lee and I are related?...Is it the Eyebrows?"

-Naruto-

Letting out a steady breath, Naruto loosed his arrow, seeing it sail through multiple moving obstacles to hit the training dummy he'd been aiming at.

"Bout time you got that shot down." Tsume spoke up from behind him as they saw the arrow sink in true, "You've been working on that one for a while."

"It's an important one if I want to be able to use this to take out a target without collateral damage." Naruto shrugged, lowering his bow as he turned to face his sensei, noting all the clones he had scattered throughout the training ground. They were split between studying new seal texts, working on chakra control, or making new seal infused arrows.

"Fair enough." Tsume shrugged, "But you'll get the chance to show me. Your clones have done enough D rank missions I got permission to take you on a C rank."

"Already?" Naruto blinked surprised, part of him wondering if this was the Hokage trying to get back into his good graces.

"Like I said, it's simple." Tsume shrugged as she wiggled the mission scroll, "Eliminating a small bandit group attacking traders on the route to the Capital. You'll be observing the camp and taking out as many as you can with your arrows. If they get too close, then I'll take over as I could clear that camp out by myself easily. And if there are any missing nin no matter the rank you'll leave them to me, got it?" Naruto gulped at her expression but nodded to the demand before frowning, realizing this wasn't just a mission but his first kill outside of a rabbit.

"Don't worry kid." Tsume's voice became gentle as she saw his expression, giving his shoulder a reassuring squeeze, "I'll be there with you every step of the way. Both on the job and after. You've got this, I believe in you."