Chapter 3: The Emergence of a Weapon

"Ugh…my eyes. What the hell happened to my eyes? They feel like they were ripped out of their sockets." Naruto grumbled as he awoke. He opened his eyes and saw…blackness? "What? Am I blind? Did Chenzo, Tsunade, Kakashi and I screw up the serum?"

"No, idiot, you're not blind, and to the best of my knowledge, we didn't screw up the serum." Came the voice of Tsunade off to his right. The Fifth Hokage reached over to her surrogate younger brother's eyes, and removed the bandages covering them. "Oh my god…"

"Is it that bad?" Naruto asked, disheartened by the look on Tsunade's face.

She handed him a mirror, and he took it, he slowly brought it up to his face, and turned it so the glass was facing him. He nearly fainted from shock right then. His eyes looked like that of the Hyuuga: completely pupil-less. There was one fundamental difference though, where the Hyuuga's eyes ranged from white to light lavender, his were the same deep, cerulean blue of his eyes pre-change. "Wow…" he exclaimed.

"Now, Naruto I want you to try and activate your new eyes and see what happens. Chenzo did his best to give you the positives of both doujutsus without giving you the drawbacks. Although the transformation time was a drawback in it of itself."

"Huh? What do you mean the time was a drawback?" asked Naruto, still looking at his eyes in the mirror in wonder.

"Well, you were out for ten days and nights, Naruto."

"Naruto sweat dropped. "Wha?!?! You mean all that time I could have been training and instead I was asleep at the hospital?!?!?!"

"Just activate your eyes, idiot." Said Tsunade, trying to hide her smirk at Naruto's indignant glare.

"Fine, whatever." Naruto grumbled. He put up his right hand in a one-handed ram seal for concentration. He applied chakra to his eyes. "Byakingan!" he shouted.

Tsunade gasped again. His eyes changed from blue to red, and a ghost of the Sharingan appeared, fully formed, with three mature tome. Also, the veins around his eyes and temples bulged with the trademark Byakugan appearance.

Naruto took up the mirror again, and was amazed to see his eyes. Then, with a start, he realized not just his eyes, but his vision had changed as well. He was able to see in 360 degrees, and was able to see the slightest changes of position and movement in both his surroundings, and Tsunade. He gave a foxy grin as he funneled more chakra into his new eyes, and snickered when he looked right through Tsunade's shirt. Wow…what a pair. Hehehe.

He then shifted his focus once more, after realizing how much the pervy sage would envy him for his eyes. He widened his eyes, and activated the ability to see through solid matter, and realized he could see, uninhibited, for nearly 70 meters in any direction. He said, "Grandma Tsunade, hit me full force."

"Heh," she swung, full force at him. His eyes traced the movement of her fist, seemingly in slow motion, and he simply cocked his head and avoided the blow. On the return flight, Tsunade decided to swing backwards and smack him on the back of the head, and Naruto realized that he could see it in slow motion from behind him as well. He ducked his head to his chest, and that was all it took to evade the strike. "Wow, I'm impressed, Naruto," said Tsunade, "Once I release you from the hospital, I have a strict training regiment to heighten your skill with both of the eyes within your own, and how to use sage chakra. You will be training in Sharingan use and chakra use with Kakashi, building your arsenal of jutsus, and learning the limits of your Sharingan. Then, you will train in the Gentle Fist taijutsu with Hiashi, Neji, and Hinata. They will teach you precise chakra control, and how to use the Byakugan to the fullest. After that, you will go with Jiraiya to learn the usage of sage chakra.

"Yosh! I am ready!" shouted Naruto.

"After you have completed your training, you will participate in a tournament, one each day, with the top genin, chunin and jonin of this village. This will be the same style tournament as the chunin selection exams: anything goes, attack with the intent to kill, and there will be people standing by to stop the matches, although I trust you and our village shinobi will not actually kill each other." Tsunade said with a smile. "Also, you are NOT to tell anyone else in this village about your training. We don't want the people of this village knowing of your lineage. Word spreads fast, and your father had many enemies."

"Right," said Naruto, "Don't tell anyone what I'm doing or who my father is, work hard with the Hyuuga, Kakashi sensei, and the pervy sage. After that's done, then go through a tournament so I can test my limits, and the limits of these eyes super-cool eyes!" The young genin stared out the window of the hospital room, dreaming about what he was going to be doing, and how powerful he was about to become.

Tsunade got up, tousled Naruto's spiky blond hair, and left the room. Naruto was oblivious to this, and continued dreaming out the window for several hours yet.

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*A few days later*

"Alright!!! The Leaf Village's Number 1 Hyperactive, Knuckle-Headed Ninja is back in business!!!" exclaimed an excited Naruto as he exited the Konoha General Hospital, zipping up his bright orange jacket. "I can't wait to start training! I have to get stronger so I can get Sasuke back." The blond haired ninja decided to take a walk to his old training ground to reminisce about his old training with squad 7.

"Naruto! It is good to see that your flame of youth is burning brightly once again. I must say I am pleased to see your recovery was a success!" a ninja clad in a green jumpsuit, with a shiny bowl cut hairdo and eyebrows so bushy they looked like caterpillars shouted out to him in greeting.

"Bushy-brows! Its good to see you too." Naruto smiled to himself. He would never get used to the strangeness of Rock Lee's appearance and personality.

"Naruto, I am not here only to exchange youthful pleasantries. There is another reason why I am here as well."

"Okay, well then out with it, what else are you here for, Bushy-brows?" questioned the orange-clothed ninja.

"Hai!" exclaimed Lee. "I am also here to inform you that Lady Hokage asked me to tell you that your new training schedule has been modified. Now you get to brighten your flam of youth with me and Guy sensei! You will not only learn the Gentle Fist taijutsu of the Hyuuga, but you will also learn the Iron Fist taijutsu that me and Guy sensei use. This is a more direct, frontal attack that focuses on bone breaking and powerful strikes."

"Great, now I get to train with Bushy-brows and Bushier-brows sensei," Naruto muttered under his breath.

"What was that, Naruto? I didn't hear you." Lee said with a smile.

"Oh, nothing," Naruto covered.

"Okay, then I will see you at training ground 12 in an hour. And don't be late, Guy sensei doesn't like to be kept waiting."

"Right," said Naruto. "I'll be there" This is gonna be awesome!!! Well, not the training under Bushy-brows and Bushier-brows sensei, but learning those insanely powerful techniques that they do. And I'll be able to learn them in a flash with the new abilities of the Byakingan.

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*One hour later*

Naruto was approaching training ground 12 when the sounds of mortal combat came to him on the wind.

"Hi-yah!!!!!!!!" POW!!! SLAM!!! "ARRRRRRRRRRRRRGHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!" BOOM!!!!

"Oh my god!!! What the hell is going on over there?!?!?!" Naruto took off towards the sounds of Armageddon as fast as his legs could carry him. When he got there, he saw two men in green moving at high speeds, exchanging blows powerful enough to blast a mountain into the next life.

"PRIMARY LOTUS!!!" yelled the smaller of the two men, grabbing the larger man in a complete body bind, with the older man's head pointed down. The bandages wrapped around his forearms unraveled, and zipped around his sensei, binding his limbs to his body. Then, the two green beasts spun at high speeds towards the ground. The men spun so fast they formed a small tornado, and with an earth-shattering boom, they collided with the ground. A green blur flew out of the cloud of dust, and landed about 3 yards away. As the cloud cleared, Naruto noticed a crater in the ground that was easily 3 yards wide and 2 yards deep, with a pair of green legs sticking up out of the ground. The legs started moving, and then with a heave, Guy sensei heaved himself out of the crater, and landed nimbly on his feet beside his star pupil.

"That was great, Lee!!!" boomed the Leaf Village's Wild Green Beast to his favorite student. "You are well on your way to becoming a truly splendid shinobi without ninjutsu or genjutsu!"

Tears started streaming down the youth's face. "Thank you, Guy sensei!" And with that, the Leaf Village's Handsome Devil burst into tears. His sensei, who looked similar in appearance to his pupil, only with shinier hair and even bigger eyebrows, also broke down into a blubbery mess, and the two embraced.

"Guy sensei!!!"

"Lee!!!"

The two men were locked in a passionate embrace, and kept blubbering to each other about how their flames of youth were brighter than ever, based solely on this embrace, and the extreme training that had just been witnessed by a rather annoyed Naruto.

"Cough, cough."

The two men finally broke their tearful embrace, and realized Naruto was standing there. They quickly wiped their eyes, and motioned for Naruto to join them.

"Alright, Naruto," Guy said in his typical "sexy man" voice. "Its time you learned the highly powerful, destructive art of the Iron Fist taijutu."

"Yosh! I'm ready, lets get started!" shouted Naruto, activating his eyes.

"Wow, so these are the new eyes." Commented Guy. Let's test their limits today, Naruto. Let's see if your new eyes, and your youthful flame, can learn the art of Iron Fist in one day!"

"No Guy sensei! Half a day!" exclaimed Lee.

"Right you are, Lee!"

Naruto sweat dropped, and coughed before their insane expectations could get out of hand. "Can we begin?" he requested?

"Let's go!" said Guy and Lee together, and they attacked Naruto at full force.