Kakashi wrote swiftly in the three scrolls in front of him. He strangely had his normal eye covered and his Sharingan open. As he rapidly transcribed jutsu on the scrolls he thought back to the person who taught him this technique.

FLASHBACK

A younger Kakashi stood with his Sharingan uncovered before one of the oldest Uchiha in the village. He had no hair atop his head, but his beard was silver streaked with black. His wrinkled face nearly hid the fully mature sharingan that gazed emotionlessly at Kakashi.

"Young one, do you know what the most impressive gift these eyes grant is?" the old man asked in a voice that did not hide the power he wielded.

"the ability to copy-" Kakashi attempted to answer before being cut off.

"Wrong young one. Try again."

"The ability to brea-" Kakashi tried again.

"Wrong again. Do you wish me to tell you?"

"Yes please Uchiha-sama." Kakashi looked down. For the second time in as many months he had failed, though this was less disastrous than his first failure.

"Ease up young one, you were close with the first guess. These eyes allow us to learn. With these eyes, nothing cannot be taught. Everyone who has these eyes assume that they copy what they see, but that is not true. They learn what they saw. If you know it, because you learned it, what does that mean young one?"

"We can teach it!" Kakashi answered with wide eyes.
"Damn right young one." The old man's eyes crinkled as his beard was split by his smile.

FLASHBACK END

'Thanks Renchi-sensei.' With a flourish he completed the three scrolls. As he rose he let out a deep sigh before turning his headband back to its normal side. "Even after all these years, that still takes a bit out of me" He mumbled to himself as he ran through some handsides and sliced his thumb on a sharpened edge of his metal glove covering. "Summoning, tri-tracking unit!" With a poof, three dogs appeared, each in a vest with a face on the back and a Konoha headband somewhere on their bodies. The middle one, the smallest who happened to be a pug, spoke.

"What's up Kakashi? You rarely summon all three of us."

"Well Pakkun, I need you three to deliver these scrolls to my students. I'd do it myself, but with a mission tomorrow that is going to be extremely taxing, I need the rest." Kakashi addressed the pug with an eye smile as his arms shook with fatigue.

"You transcribed several jutsu for each didn't you?" The pug sighed as he shook his head. "Fine. But first," the small dog slammed his paw onto the wood floor. "summoning!" With a poof, another larger dog, dressed as the first three, appeared.

"Sumkun, get Kakashi to bed, make sure he rests. He used his eye too much. I'll take that loudmouth, Yurkun, you get the girl, and Hijkun you get the Hiro boy." At the pug's orders, the dogs grabbed their charges and disappeared in shunshins.

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With Naruto. The next morning

Naruto sat by the gatehouse, a bag beside him and a scroll open in front of him. He was quickly reading it, so he could create shadow clones to learn its contents. He hoped to accomplish this before his teammates arrived.

It was an interesting discovery to find that he could create shadow clones with objects such as books and scrolls, but unless he knew what the contents were, exactly, the clones of the objects were blank. The same thing occurred with anything more complex than a sealing scroll and an explosive tag as well. Most likely because these were things that Naruto understood how to create. At least, he thought he understood how they were created.

Finally, he finished reading the scroll gifted to him by his sensei. "Time for some real learning!" He put his fingers into a cross shape, and yelled "Multi-shadow clone jutsu!"

An explosion of smoke blasted the sleeping chunin guard out of his chair. "Wha-whats goin' on?!" The frightened chunin peeked over the desk, and the sight that greeted him made his jaw drop.

On every surface, covering each completely stood clones of Naruto Uzumaki. He looked around, and it registered in his mind that he was looking at an army of blonds. He swiftly fainted.

"Alright! There are 1201 of you clones! Go to training ground 7, not yet moron!" The original Naruto threw a kunai at a Naruto that attempted to jump toward the training ground without further instructions. "Well now there are 1200 of you! Once at the training ground you will split into six EQUAL groups. Group one! Jutsu one! Group Two jutsu two! Continue with that line of thought! Each group goes for one jutsu! I want it mastered by the end of the day! If that means each of you creates more clones, then go for it! Dispel in ranks of ten every three minutes as soon as the sun sets here in Konoha. If it is not your turn to dispel, KEEP WORKING! Go." The original smiled as his clones all darted across the rooftops in a wave of orange.

"Time for a nap!" With that he sat back down, pulled his headband down over his eyes and started to sleep.

Two Hours Later

"Kakashi-sensei shouldn't we wake him?" Sakura asked her sensei while pointing to the snoring blond.

"Of course we should Sakura! After pictures. A shinobi should never be caught in a compromising position, and this will teach that lesson well to our friend!" The jonin replied with an eye smile as he pulled a camera from his pouch.

FLASH

"What?! Who's there?!" Naruto awoke with a roar and grabbed the nearest thing to brandish as a weapon. Unfortunately, that thing happened to be Sai. With force that surprised even the Jonin of the group, Naruto grabbed Sai's arm and started to swing him around like a mace. "BACK! BACK I SAY! ITS MY RAMEN!"

"Naruto-san, please! Put me down!" Sai stated in a higher voice than normal.

Sai's voice seemed to rouse the temporarily blinded blond shinobi from his dreams of ramen thieves. He dropped Sai to the ground before rubbing the back of his head. "Heha, sorry. I was dreamin, and something woke me up, and I sorta panicked…"

The group looked at him in shock. 'That sort of strength shouldn't be possible. Guy can't even do that. I'll have to remember to report it to the Hokage. It may be a result of that emerging.' The lone jonin of the group thought swiftly before raising his hands, the camera gone. "My bad Naruto-kun, I didn't think your wake-up would be so violent."

"It's cool Kakashi-sensei! Let's go on our mission! Where's the client?" Naruto smiled at the group.

"I'm comin' ya brats! Show some respect! I'm older than all ya three put tagether! I was drinkin' 'fore ya sensei was even born!" An older man, nearly in his sixties walked up to the group. He was a fairly large man, though not fat by any means. He had a dark bearded face and spectacles. He carried a large pack with a bedroll right behind his head, and a towel around his neck. "I'm Tazuna. I'm a master bridge builder, and ya'll are gonna protect me. This bridge is important ya hear!" He spoke in a gruff manner, and pointed his finger at each of the genin.

"We will protect you Tazuna-san." Sai spoke in a monotone as his creepy smile graced his face.

"Good, just stop smiling and let's go." Tazuna started walking through the gate.

"Team as we walk, I want you all studying! I want at least one jutsu mastered by the time we get to Wave in three days! Understand?" Kakashi commanded his genin before walking after the client.

"Yes Sensei!" The genin ran after their sensei ready for their first real mission.

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Itachi crouched on a tree branch. He had been there for over forty hours now, and had only left the branch to relieve himself. Even then he always had an eye on the entrance of the cave. He knew his prey was in the cave, just as he knew his prey knew he knew. How was not important, he just knew. With cracking joints, he stood.

"Leaving so soon Hunter-san?" A voice right behind him softly asked.

Moving in a blur, Itachi slapped an explosive note on the tree trunk and was gone from the blast radius even as it exploded. He righted himself in midair, before touching down on a tree trunk further from the cave. His Sharingan saw a smoke covered form fall from the explosion, and he darted to intercept. Pulling his tanto from its place on his back he went for a slicing attack, hoping to either sever a limb or kill. His hopes were dashed when a hand caught the blade easily as if it was swung by a toddler and not an S-rank hunter Shinobi.

"Really hunter-san, is that anyway to greet someone? Hehe, though you are fun to play with…Maybe I'll continue…" The voice in the still smoke filled area laughed before letting the sword go. Before Itachi could move however, a crushing force slammed into his chest and blasted him towards the cave. With a crack of breaking rock, he crumpled against the opening of the cave.

"Oh dear, I missed. I was hopping you'd land inside. Tut-tut." The voice edged ever closer.

'That's it… just a bit closer.' Shielded from his opponents' gaze, Itachi's eyes changed from their normal Sharingan shape. He focused and drew chakra into his right eye, before looking up.

"Amaterasu!"
Instantaneously black fire erupted on the voice's owner's head. A high pitched scream came blurting out of the flames as the being plunged his hands in trying to pat it away. The man, for Itachi saw it was finally a man, hit his knees as he continually tried to pat the flames with his now black fire covered hands.

A tear of blood fell from Itachi's right eye. "Burn. Burn for Konoha." When the man finally stopped struggling, Itachi let the black flames die. The charred upper torso of the former man was left without a head or hands, but it was still a body. Itachi shut his eyes, took a deep breath and opened them again. Only to widen in surprise as the body slowly dissolved into smoke in front of him.

'I need to report this. Whoever that was, he hit way too hard. Bodies don't go up in smoke unless there was fire, which there sure as hell wasn't.' Itachi slowly stood and wrapped an arm around his middle. By his estimation he had at least a broken rib. He hardened himself, and jumped into the trees. It was a long way home.

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Sarutobi sat in his office peering over the village. He inhaled the tobacco from the pipe that he had longer than some of his corps had been shinobi. A knock on the door interrupted the silence of the room. "Enter"

"Hiruzen." A soft voice spoke as soon as the door clicked shut again.

"Danzo, what can I do for you."

"I have a…problem." The warhawk replied.

Turning his chair around Sarutobi placed both hands under his chin and met the Elder's eyes. "You don't say?"

"Hiruzen, a few years ago I attempted to create whatever Uzumaki has in his seal-" Danzo began.

"You did what?" Sarutobi started to flood the room with killer intend. His furious gaze never left Danzo's lone eye.

"I can explain. I had the means of controlling it-" Danzo tried to ease the Hokage's anger.

"There are no ways of controlling it Danzo! I checked myself!" Danzo hit his knees as the pressure became too much.

"Please…Hiruzen let me explain…" Danzo choked out.

"Fine. You have twenty seconds. If you don't explain to my satisfaction, I'll make sure you never leave this room. "The god of shinobi eased the killing intent enough for his companion to stand.

"I placed a seal on it, so that it could not physically harm anyone that It wasn't supposed to. But something went wrong, in less than a minute, it had damaged the seal enough that it could harm anyone other than me." Danzo explained.

"Why the hell did you make one Danzo? I see no reason why except as a way to kill me. And if that was the case…"The Professor stood and slowly walked around the desk.

"We were weak! We only had twenty elite jonin at the time! Of them, only fourteen were in the village. Uzumaki wasn't anywhere near to being the deterrent he is meant to be, and the Sannin had all left for various reasons! With a Shade under our command, the Leaf wouldn't have to worry about any other nation until Uzumaki was ready. And if it ever became a burden, we could easily ki-" Danzo defended himself before he was interrupted.

"Easily kill it?! Danzo the last time one was made outside Naruto's case was before the First World War. It took Hashirama-sensei and a team of over a hundred Uzumaki just to stop the thing from slaughtering everything in its path! Of that team only twelve made it back alive including Hashirama-sensei! For the first time since Madara Uchiha, The Shodaime limped through the village gates barely alive because of one of those!" Sarutobi back handed Danzo down onto the floor before pressing his foot on his chest and running through a few handsigns and biting his thumb.
"Summoning." With a poof, a staff was in his hands and Danzo stared wide eyed as Hiruzen twirled it twice around his head before slamming it down.

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Itachi limped up the steps of the Hokage Tower. Every few steps he stopped, hacked up a small amount of blood and then continued on. Soon he would be able to rest. But first, tell the Hokage everything.

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Fugaku was furious. For the first time since the Kyuubi incident an entire patrol of Uchiha police were slaughtered. He had investigated their patterned route and found that they didn't complete it. After that, it was a simple matter of finding out when it was noticed that they didn't complete the route and they had a reasonable place to start. Of course, he was expecting them to have gotten drunk, maybe stopped for food.

No, instead they found another house of horrors. Blood stained the floor as deep as Fugaku's ankles. But that wasn't the worst part. The worst part was the bent kunai that were used to hang each police member. By the eye sockets.

Whoever did this would die. Violently. Fugaku swore by it.

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Danzo opened his eye and stared up the shaft of the staff. "Listen to me, and listen well Danzo Shimura. You have only two purposes in this life from now on. One, find it and kill it. Two, train someone in your wind release. I will state this once, if that thing isn't dead by the end of year, you will be. If by some mircile you survive your encounter, you will spend the rest of your days teaching wind release, and only wind release to each and every single person I tell you to understand?" Sarutobi growled out as he slowly raised the staff from its small crater.

"Yes hokage-sama." Danzo breathed out.

"Get the fuck ou-" The door opening interrupted his order.

Itachi fell face first as the door opened. "Itachi-kun!" The wizened Kage ran to the fallen shinobi and gently turned him over. "What happened?"

"I don't know what it was Hokage-sama, but it was strong. It took six minutes to die to my flames sir."

"Did it have blood red hair?!" Danzo asked.

"I..I don't know. I never saw any, but we battled in smoke a lot, and when it wasn't in smoke, it was under my flames." Itachi replied as the hokage called in an ANBU medic to ease his pain.

"Explain to me why you engaged." Sarutobi ordered as the Anbu medic healed Itachi.

"I was tracking him for the last three days. Every time I got close, he gave me the slip, and whenever I lost the trail he let me pick it back up. It was like a game. I tracked him to a cave in the northern mountains. I watch that cave for two days. Just as I was about to give up, he was behind me. I just reacted. Slapped an explosive note onto the tree we were on, set it off, and got distance. Immediately went for the kill, and he caught my tanto. Next thing I know, I have some broken ribs and I'm against the mountain. So I set him on fire. My special fire Hokage-sama." Itachi related his tale.

"Itachi, pinpoint the cave on this map." Hokage unrolled the map and Itachi pointed.

"Danzo."

"Yes hokage-sama." The bandaged man started to leave the office.

"Oh, and Danzo?" The Hokage peered at his back.

"Yes?"

"You better go yourself." The kage ordered the man.

"Yes Hokage-sama." The door clicked shut behind him.

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Naruto smiled as they set up camp. Finally, all his clones had dispersed. "Kakashi-sensei! I think I mastered the jutsu!"

"Which one Naruto?" Kakashi looked up from the flames of the campfire.

"All of them Kakashi-sensei!" The whiskered shinobi replied.

"Lets go to the other clearing, you have a few that the others do as well." Kakashi stood and started walking towards a clearing a few feet back.

Sai and Sakura shared a glance before starting to run through handsigns repeatedly.

Two Hours Later

Kakashi walked back to the clearing caring the collapsed form of Naruto. "You did well kid. You used shadow clones didn't you?" He spoke softly so as to not disturb the camp's sleeping residents.

"Yea Sensei, I remembered Jiji saying anything they learned I learned. So I used it. Just like he would have wanted me to." A yawn punctuated the explanation.

"You haven't mastered them yet, they take a bit too much chakra to be mastered, but they are at least learned. Get some rest Naruto." He gently laid the already sleeping youth in his sleeping back before going back outside. He swiftly crossed the camp to a lone tent on the other side. He entered it and shook awake the only person inside.

"Tazuna, we have to talk." Kakashi said while looking at the now awake bridge builder.

AN:

Hello people, my name is Zero, and I am your friendly neighborhood author! All joking aside, I have an announcement. This story will now be posted on Mondays. Normally I post a chapter on Sunday and then another on Mondays, but as a student whose work load is slowly growing, I need my weekends to work on the bane of all students' existence: Homework.

Also thank you to all of you who are following, and reviewing.

Sincerely

Zero