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Chapter. 9
"I can't believe I'm doing something this lame again" Naruto said as he pulled another weed out of the flowerbed with Sakura looking over his shoulder to make sure that he doesn't pick the flowers this time.
He had been approved for D rank missions a month ago but he hadn't done any until the previous week as he was trying to get use to his new training. He was even being tutored by Iruka during the weekends to help improve his mental skills for on the field work, not to mention that the not-so-dynamic duo of Kakashi and Gai probably made the weirdest pair of teachers to ever grace the Elemental Nations.
"Don't complain too much Naruto, Lady Tsunade could always take you off the active roster and you would get to train with Gai Sensei and Lee everyday" Sakura said making Naruto involuntarily shiver at the thought. Yes Gai was okay in his own way, and Lee was a good friend, but he doesn't think he could spend every day with them. Being stuck with them 3-4 days a week for a couple of hours had made him look at Neji and Ten Ten with a bit awe at dealing with the two 'YOUTHFUL' ninja without losing their minds.
"I could live without that" Naruto said as images of unbreakable sunset Genjutsu popped up in his mind.
'Lee can't even use Genjutsu, so how does he make that sunset?' he thought to himself.
"You'll live through it" Sakura said, giggling a bit at how Naruto had paled in complexion. Naruto had been working hard, as usual, in trying to become capable of doing missions outside the village. More than once he had pushed himself too hard and Sakura, Kakashi, and whoever else was with them would force him to take a break.
Things had gradually begun to look better in the Leaf Village as old buildings were repaired and new ones were built. There were even envoys coming and going from the village. The Sand Village council wanted to make a peace treaty with the village and they would take turns sending representatives to the other villages.
Ino had told Sakura that there was a rumor that the new Kazekage would be chosen soon, which was good because even if the Leaf and Sand agreed on a treaty they would still need both Kages to sign it and that would be pretty difficult for the Sand to do as they currently didn't have one.
"Hey Naruto?" she said, catching the blondes attention.
"Yeah Sakura, What is it?" He said
"Who do you think the next Kazekage will be?" she was honestly curious as when she had seen the Sand ninja who had helped with the Sasuke retrieval mission, even though they had previously been enemies, they seemed genuinely worried for Naruto. Even Gaara, who still scared Sakura, had come with the envoys from the Sand Village and would usually come by and check on him right after getting into the village.
Naruto thought back to a memory he had
FLASHBACK JUTSU!
Naruto lay in his hospital bed just staring at the ceiling.
Sakura had gone home to see her parents and he was currently alone until the next time a nurse came in to check how he was doing.
"Naruto Uzumaki" a dark voice said.
Naruto looked in the direction and if it had not been for the medicine the old hag had given him he probably would have jumped out of his skin.
There, in a dark corner of the room was Gaara, the Jinchuriiki host of the One Tail.
"How long have you been in here standing there?" Naruto asked, his voice quiet, both because of his injuries and the fact that EVERYTHING about his current situation was creepy.
Gaara ignored his question, walking towards him he looked Naruto up and down.
"Are you in pain?" he asked with the smallest amount of concern in his voice.
"Yeah but it's not as bad as it was since Granny gave me something to help, but it still hurts in my chest."
Gaara nodded again thinking back to the day that the Sasuke retrieval mission had happened, he remembered how afraid he had felt when he saw the white haired man, who he now knew as Kakashi Hatake, carrying the bloody body past him and the boy named Lee.
He and Lee both had looked at each other with horrified faces, and even with the exhaustion they felt and their injuries they rushed as much as they could back to the village.
It wouldn't be until after he arrived that he would find out that it was the Uchiha that had given the young Uzumaki those injuries and he swore to himself that if Naruto died he would make sure that the Uchiha would as well.
"I will try to keep my visit short then, but I wish to ask you a question and hear your response"
Once Gaara saw that he had Naruto's attention he continued
"You wish to be Hokage one day, why?"
Naruto looked surprised at the question but then he looked thoughtful and scratched his chin. Gaara notice that his right arm didn't move at all but decided not to ask about it.
"Well, originally I wanted to become Hokage just so people would stop ignoring me and have to pay attention to me and show me respect" Naruto said.
Gaara noticed the past tense.
"And now?"
Naruto looked up at him with a smile.
"Now I have friends, people that I love and that love me and I want to protect them. So I want to be Hokage to protect the people who are precious to me."
Gaara gave a small smile
"I see, thank you for your honesty. Hopefully one day we can greet each other as fellow Kage"
Naruto smiled at the Sand ninja. "Bet on it!"
Naruto reached to the side and pulled up a fruit basket
"Hey, Busy Brow and Bushier Brow Sensei got this for me, but I can't eat most of it right now and since it'll go bad, do you…"
He paused because as he turned around Gaara had disappeared just as mysteriously as he had before.
"…want any?"
He quickly darted his head around the room and looking at all the room that he could see from his bed
When Sakura arrived an hour later she was confused when Naruto asked her to search every dark corner, crevice even under the bed.
After she had finishe and told Naruto that there was no one around all he did was give the fruit basket a look.
"Maybe he doesn't like fruit"
"Huh?"
Sakura just became even more confused.
END OF FLASHBACK JUTSU!
"I'm going to bet on Gaara" Naruto said
"Really? Why do you think that?" Sakura asked, confused by how confident her teammate sounded
"Because he told me that he wanted to become Kazeikage" Naruto said and Sakura couldn't help but laugh
"Why does that sound familiar?" Sakura said playfully.
"I don't have a clue" Naruto said with the same tone
They both laughed together for a moment
"This is fun" Naruto said
"Picking weeds?" Sakura said
"Nooo, just laughing at stupid stuff and picking on each other" Naruto said
"Yeah it is" Sakura said flashing him a smile
They just looked at each other for a moment before Sakura talked to Naruto in a soft tone.
"Naruto?" she said
"Yes Sakura?" he said back, hypnotized by her voice
"You'd better hurry you have training with Gai sensei and Kakashi Sensei in two hours"
As soon as the words reached Naruto's brain and he processed what she said he took on a disappointed look.
"Don't do that to me Sakura!" he said, in a mostly fake pout
"Do what?" she said innocently
"Hey you two!" a vice cried at them fro across the street drawing there attention.
"Ayame!" Naruto cried happily at seeing the person who was as close to a big sister as he had
"How are you doing today Ayame" Sakura said politely
"I'm pretty good, today's the day my dad gave me off so I decided to do some shopping" Ayame said walking across the road to the young genin.
"So are you back on missions already?" she asked Naruto seeing the pile of weeds beside him, it was no secret that after Naruto got out of the hospital she had became even more protective of him.
"Yeah, but Granny's only letting me do these stupid D-ranks that even Konohamaru could do!"
"Well Konohamaru didn't have a hole punched through his chest" Ayame said in a tone that tolf him that he should know better than to complain.
"Seriously Naruto you almost died and had a lot of people worried" Ayame said flashing him a sad look that made him feel guilty and made him remember one of his check up's with Tsunade.
FLASHBACK JUTSU!
Tsunade's hand glowed green as it lingered over Naruto's right side.
She hummed to herself in thought as she finished the diagnostic jutsu.
"You seem to be recovering well, thankfully the 9 tails chakra seems to be helping your body recover and adapt with the new injuries and limitations you now have. Your fortunate to be alive Naruto, if Kakashi had even been a few seconds later we wouldn't be talking" Tsunade said sternly to the young blonde
"I know Grandma, everyone has already said I almost died-"
"No Naruto" Tsunade said cutting him off "You did die, your heart stopped multiple times and we were luckily able to restart it and repair your body enough to be stabilized but I want you to remember Naruto that you DIED on the table and it's a miracle that you came back"
Naruto sat there unable to speak.
Tsunade continued "I'm telling you this for a very specific reason Naruto, Medical Ninjutsu has it's limits, it can only heal so much and a medical ninja cannot bring the dead back to life. Your Regenerative Healing Factor is the same, it can heal you of cuts, bruises and broken bones in record time but getting your lung destroyed? Not possible we managed to patch it up to where it works but your lung is only able to work at around 30% of what it was capable of , your body is healing itself as best it can and we're using Medical Ninjutsu to help you recover faster, but you will never be able to take the hits and damage that you used to" she stopped letting her words sink in to the somber blond
"Your right arms chakra system is all messed up, if you'll remember most jutsu needs handsigns, and how this all affects you is simple. If you think of a persons chakra system as being like they're circulatory system, then you know you have pathways for the chakra to travel however there are also places where the chakra exits and at these 'exits' there is something that normally allows the person to mold there chakra, in the ninja world we mainly use the ones in our ringers to mold our chakra via hand signs, however in your hands most of these spots that allow for you to mold chakra in your fingers was destroyed by this Dark Chakra Chidori's Lightning"
"What this all means is that you can no longer do things the same as you use to" Tsunade said
"I know that Granny! I know I have to figure out a new way to fight-" he was cut off again
"That is not what I meant! You will have to learn how to do almost everything differently, you'll basically have to learn to live differently!" Tsunade yelled back at Naruto
PRESENT
"Sorry, I promise I'll try to never worry you like that again" Naruto said in a serious tone that surprised the two girls.
"Anyways I'll let you get back to your mission but I want you to visit soon Naruto, Dad misses you"
"I will Ayame, tell him I said high" Naruto told her as she left.
4 hours later
"I want to summon Gammabunta!" Naruto yelled as Kakashi, Sakura and Gai watched as Naruto yelled at the Toad Sage, Jiraiya.
Naruto had trained with Gai and Kakashi for well over an hour in defensive moves, kicks, reversals and various other things when Jiraiya had turned up.
Apparently his last mission ended early and he had tracked Naruto down after having a talk with Tsunade. When Kakashi and Gai had given him permission to train Naruto for the rest of the time they had, Jiraiya had decided to try to teach Naruto to summon without hand signs.
Jiraiya wanted him to go for Gamakichi or Gamatatsu.
Naruto wanted to impress everyone by summoning the Boss, Gamabunta.
So with the two most stubborn Leaf ninja with different views they had naturally begun to argue.
Jiraiya face palmed as he realized they were running out of time.
"Look you brat, the summoning jutsu has recoil to it, so the more powerful the summon the more stress it puts on your body and Tsunade only gave us permission to summon Toads the size of Gamakichi so we are summoning Gamakichi!"
Naruto prepared to argue back only for Sakura to walk up behind him and slap the back of his head.
"I may not be able to punch you but I guess slapping your head when you're being stupid will have to do" she said taking a breath
"Naruto you are a 13 year old Genin and Lord Jiraiya is a master of using the summoning jutsu, so in other words I'M SICK OF YOU TWO ARGUING SO SHUT UP AND LISTEN TO HIM!" she said before walking back to where Kakashi and Gai were.
'She has the same temper as Tsunade' Jiraiya thought, remembering when he had a similar argument with his sensei Sarutobi and Tsunade had said almost the same thing as Sakura.
"Talk about Déjà vu" he muttered to himself before turning his attention back to Naruto.
"Now that that's dealt with I should explain how you'll need to learn to do this. I can summon without hand signs" Jiraiya said biting his thumb. "But I usually don't because it takes longer than it takes to use hand signs" at this Jiraiya spread a line of blood on his right hand and took on a face of concentration. After a moment he slammed his hand on the ground with a yell of "SUMMONING JUTSU!"
There out of the smoke appeared an orange and yellow toad the size of a grown man.
"Cool Pervy Sage teach me how you did that!" Naruto yelled with stars in his eyes.
'He fell for it hook line and sinker' was the collective thought of those present.
Jiraiya grinned proudly.
"You see normally when you perform the hand seals it connects you with the contract allowing you to create the time-space seal without actually drawing it yourself. But to use it without hand signs you need to tap into the connection you have with toads through the contract, gather up chakra in your hand after applying blood and draw the seal in your mind and then you can summon" he said boastfully
"Huh?" Naruto said clueless.
Jiraiya sighed
"Let me put it this way. You tap into your inner toad, put blood on your hand like normal, imagine the seal and then try to summon Gamakichi" he said slowly
Naruto's face lit up "Now I get it"
"I sure hope so" Kakashi said on the side of the field from behind his book
"Understanding it and doing it are two different things Naruto, don't get cocky" Sakura said
"YOSH! LET THE FLAMES OF YOUTH BECOME AN INFERNO OF YOUTH!" Gai said performing the nice guy pose.
"What does that even mean?" Kakashi said sweat dropping at the sunset image that had appeared behind the green clad Jounin.
Naruto looked at the Sannin with a look of exasperation
"But I don't know how to make that seal!" he complained
"I know" Jiraiya said with a cocky grin as he pulled out a scroll and opened it to reveal a storage seal. Activating the seal there was a puff of smoke which revealed a pile of books and scrolls.
Naruto fell to his knees surrounded by a cloud of depression.
"You have got to be kidding me, I can't read all of those" he said eyeing the books and scrolls in disdain.
"Oh you'll read them all, I'll make sure of it" Sakura said
"Save me!" he said to his two Jounin trainers
"KNOWLEDGE IS YOUTHFUL YOUNG NARUTO!" Gai said
"Reading is fun" Kakashi said looking up from his book
"Traitors" Naruto said.
"Start with this scroll, Chapter 1 fits you perfectly 'Space-time seals for dummies'" Jiraiya said handing him one of the books from the pile
"Why me?" Naruto said
"Since you'll be here reading Naruto, I have somewhere to be" Sakura said as she began to leave the training ground.
"Sakura wait! You can't just leave me here alone!" Naruto cried reaching out for her dramatically.
"You'll be fine I promise and you're not alone Kakashi sensei, Gai sensei and Lord Jiraiya are here too"
Naruto cried anime tears as she left and Jiraiya began pointing things out that he needed to pay attention too in the book.
"And after we do some studying we'll do a two hour meditation session"
"SOMEONE HELP ME!"
AT TRAINING GROUND 7
Sakura slowed her pace as she entered the training ground that held so many memories, good and bad. Neither her nor Naruto had come here since the last time they were here with Sasuke. She was sure that Kakashi still came as he had once told them that he had friends on the memorial stone that was in the center of the training ground.
But the fact that so few people came here now made it perfect for what she had in store.
"Glad you were able to make it earlier than expected" she heard a voice say up ahead
Standing there was Shikamaru as well as the rest of the Sasuke retrieval team and Shino minus the Sand siblings.
"Lord Jiraiya's mission ended earlier so he decided to train Naruto in seals, allowing me to get here earlier" she said as Shikamaru nodded.
"We weren't doing much except catching up to pass the time anyway" he said
Sakura took a breath before speaking
"Thank you all for coming here tonight. I know not all of you are actually happy with me calling you out here" she said "But we have an important issue that we need to discuss"
"Sasuke" she said with all eyes snapping on her right after she said it. Sasuke was still a sore subject for all of them, the fact alone that he had been their comrade had meant that they trusted him to an extent, and when he had attempted to kill Naruto and betrayed them it had shattered all of that trust and replaced it with anger and pain.
"If we're gonna be talking about that jerk then shouldn't we have Naruto here?" Kiba asked
"I agree, he was the one most injured by the Uchiha" Shino said
"I'm sure Sakura had her reasons for not inviting him" Neji said with a solemn looking Lee beside him.
"If I were to venture a guess I would say that it's because Naruto is very forgiving and couldn't hold a grudge to save his life, am I right?" Shikamaru said
"Yes" Sakura said quietly, Naruto's kind nature was one of her favorite things about her blonde haired friend but for what they were going to be discussing it would only get in the way of what she was going to be talking with them about.
"We all know that Naruto won't hold a grudge against Sasuke and if he believed Sasuke had reformed then he would welcome him as a friend, that's just who Naruto is, someone who believes in second chances. However Sasuke is too dangerous and he could become the second Itachi Uchiha if nothing is done" Sakura said.
"So what are you suggesting?" Choji said "That we hunt Sasuke down and kill him?"
"I'm ok with that" Kiba said
"We don't exactly have a choice given the threat level that a Sasuke trained by Orochimaru presents" Shikamaru said
"What Sasuke did was most unyouthful" said Lee quietly as he looked down at his hands.
"Still what you are asking us is to essentially go to war with the entire Sound Village and Orochimaru by ourselves and while the Sound is a small village it is still a ninja village led by Orochimaru nonetheless" Neji said
"We cannot rush into this single mindedly" Shino said
"And we won't" Sakura said "I say that we train first and study the Sharingan and Orochimaru for weaknesses and when we're stronger we take Sasuke down once and for all"
"Easier said than done. I highly doubt that we'll ever be able to take down Orochimaru with just us, we'd probably need a larger strike force" Shikamaru said
"But if we let too many people in on this then Naruto will inevitably find out" Shino said
"But we can't let Sasuke get away with what he did to Naruto!" Kiba said
"I'm not saying that we do, I'm just saying that an attack on the Sound Village itself is ridiculous to consider with just us" Shino replied back to his teammate
"What about missions?" Lee asked
"Huh?" everyone looked at Lee surprised.
"Well the Sound Village is still a ninja village so it's ninja will still have to do missions and Sasuke is a Sound ninja now so he will have to go on missions out of the village eventually" Lee said plainly.
"Why did none of us notice that?" Choji asked, scratching his head.
"Because it was so obvious we missed it" Shikamaru said, face palming at missing the most obvious thing he should have realized.
"So we could get Sasuke while he's out on missions" Sakura said to herself
"It'll be easy to find out when he begins doing missions as he is obviously an Uchiha and his mission record will become public knowledge" Neji said
"Then we could find out about a mission he's on, or draw him out with a mission he can't refuse!" Sakura said in understanding at how they could accomplish their task
Shikamaru nodded his head as ideas already began to form in his head "Then I recommend we head home before anyone gets suspicious of us and we can meet again at some other time."
As everyone began to head their separate ways none of them noticed the crows flying nearby, watching them.
Hidden Sound Village
"So the 9 Tails Jinchuriki is training to be a ninja again is he?" Orochimaru said to Kabuto as he watched Sasuke train in a session against some of his ninja.
"That boy would do well to give up, I'd wager he has a little more than 1% chance of success"
This comment surprised Kabuto
"I would have given him a 0% chance, why do you think he has any chance at all Lord Orochimaru?"
"Because the Boy is like Jiraiya at his age and is as stubborn as his mother Kushina Uzumake, I've learned that there is always a chance of success with people like them, even slim ones" Orochimaru said with a smile on his face.
"It'll be interesting to see what he does and what the future holds in store for him"
Down in the Arena
Sasuke's kick landed in the face of another Sound nin Orochimaru had thrown at him
Even though he was fighting multiple opponents his mind was elsewhere, remembering his last conversation with Kakashi.
He had failed!
In his mind this was unacceptable, Itach wouldn't have failed and so he wouldn't either.
Before he killed his brother he would find Naruto and finish what they had started.
He would kill all those who he calls friends in front of him and only when he knew the pain and loneliness that Sasuke had lived with would he take Naruto's head.
Sakura had humiliated him in the hospital so he would come for her as well; however instead of killing her he had other plans instead.
At this Sasuke smiled, he would burn that Village with his hatred and this world would bow before him and all those who had stood against him would fall before him!
Hyugga Clan Compound.
Hiashi and Hanabi watched through the wall with their Byakugan's as Hinata destroy mannequin after mannequin with her gentle fist with yells of fury.
Hiashi sweat dropped at the sight before him
"Is it just me or has your sister been more… passionate about her ninja training the last several months" Hiashi said to his youngest daughter.
"No and I believe a more appropriate wording would be 'obsessed with getting stronger'. Also, why are you wondering about this now after all this time?" Hanabi asked her father.
"Originally I just thought this was temporary, like after the village was invaded and she trained harder than normal for a whole month before going back to normal, but this whole new change in her shows no sign of slowing down" he said "when I picture who she was all those months ago compared to how she is now, I find it quite unnerving. I can't help but wonder what caused this change"
Hanabi wondered if she should tell her father about the times that her older sister had gotten really involved with her training she would destroy the dummies while saying something and the word 'Sakura', she then wondered if it would further unnerve her father if she told him that her sister held such rage against cherry blossom trees.
She decided not to as they continued to watch her sister.
Outside
Hinata shattered another dummy into splinters with her Gentle Fist strikes.
She was determined to get stronger so she could protect Naruto! With how he was injured now he would need her to help him not that Haruno, who had hurt him and loved that treacherous Uchiha boy!
She would become strong like Naruto, she would show him that she was strong too and then when she had become like him she would tell him how much she loved him and then she would win his heart and take him away from Sakura Haruno!
She didn't understand how he could just stay close to her after what happened to him? He should have kept his distance from the girl that had hurt him and hit him!
She had watched him for years…
She hadn't left the Clan compound much while she trained, but she remembered about how she had seen Naruto and Sakura walking months ago and how Naruto had nearly fell and Sakura had caught him and helped him to a bench to sit down where he said something and she laughed.
'That should have been me!'
"SAKURA!" she yelled destroying another dummy.
Back inside
"Did she just yell Sakura!" Hiashi asked, confused "Is that a new jutsu she is trying or a battle cry, either way it is a bit strange"
Hanabi shook her head "That's not it she just really doesn't like cherry blossom trees" she said
Hiashi looked at his daughter for a moment before turning back to look at Hinata
"That's odd, but if it motivates her I don't see a problem with it. At least it isn't another Leaf ninja she holds such rage for"
Hanabi nodded her head in agreement
Somewhere in the village a certain pink haired genin sneezed
Later at the Haruno Houshold
"How was training today Naruto?" Sakura's father asked their house guest as he and his wife and daughter prepared the dinner table.
"My brain hurts" he said
"You'll live" Sakura said dryly
"How do you know?" Naruto said challengingly
"Because out of the two of us I'm the smarter one"
Naruto couldn't really argue that
Hokage tower
"What is it you wanted to discuss with us Lady Tsunade?" Asuma asked as he, Kakashi, and Jiraiya stood in front of her.
"Well after Naruto's last check up I've found that he could do a mission outside of the village as long as he took it easy and there was no fighting." Tsunade said
"So you want to send Naruto out on a mission? What kind of mission is it Lady Tsunade?" Kakashi said
"An A rank"
"A WHAT?!" Kakashi looked like he was about to have a conniption
"Not a dangerous one, in fact the only reason they have that ranking is because of the importance placed on the mission, not the actual threat level itself." Tsunade said and after Kakashi visually calmed she continued.
"I want them to take the signed treaty to the Sand village for the new Kazekage to sign at his ceremony in 7 weeks. That's 6 weeks you have to prepare Naruto for a mission outside the village, I plan on sending Sakura and Shikamaru as well but I think this mission will do Naruto good and if they were attacked then the attacking party would risk incurring the wrath of two of the five great villages, I honestly do not believe that there is anyone alive that stupid" she said
"Still in case of an emergency I was wondering if there is anything you can teach Naruto that would help him in that situation?" she said looking at Kakashi who scratched his chin with a single finger.
"Gai did mention something we could teach Naruto, but it has its risks" he said
"You're not talking the 8 inner gates are you, because the 2nd gate could destroy the boy's lung and kill him!" Asuma said
"Actually once he's completely recovered he could go up to the third gate, but no it's not the 8 inner gates but something else entirely"
"What is it?" Jiraiya asked the silver haired Jounin.
If you want to find out tune in next chapter folks!
I tried to make this the longest chapter I've done yet since this is my most read story I wanted to do this chapter to show you readers that I appreciate you for reading my story and sticking with me :)
I have looked for a beta but haven't found one yet so if any of you are beta readers and want to give this a try PM me
So D Rank missions, training, secret meetings and a new mission what will this lead to next!?
Also Hinata made her reappearance in this story and it is revealed that she has essentially been training this whole time so we may see how much she has improved pretty soon, like maybe the next Chunin Exams ;)
Sasuke, Orochimaru and Kabuto popped up in this as well.
I plan for Naruto to head out of the Village next chapter, and the mission will take more than one chapter, plus this is Naruto we're talking about, he could be given the safest mission on Earth and it would still become life and death for him.
Also I want to point out that you can essentially ignore most of what happened in Shippuden in this story as there was something's I liked and other things that I didn't and this will not be the same as Shippuden so if something was stated in Shippuden and it's different in here then I planned for it to be that way. One of the things I intend to be different is the Akatsuki, in the original Naruto series they were implied to be a group of Kage level ninja who essentially controlled the organized crime of the Elemental Nations but they were changed in Shippuden, so I intend to go with the Crime angle and in this I'll probably have them want the Tailed Beasts for a different reason. I may or may not also keep the 9 Tails/Kurama as evil, I haven't decided, because it feels like to me that they just became friends too fast and in a weird way, I also may have a slightly altered version of the origin of the Tailed beasts. I plan on keeping Sages and Sage mode though, even if the purpose of Sages are a bit different.
Let me know your ideas on this.
Now for Reviews YAY!
TimothyB: Thanks for reading, hope you liked the chapter!
Inaerion: actually if you look back on the Kaguya/Madara aside from the Rasenshuriken and Shadow Clone Jutsu he didn't really use anything else in the ninjutsu area except for Sage jutsu, Taijutsu, and Bojutsu. So if he focuses on just those last three he'd still have most of what he used in those fights, in fact the thing that made him a threat to them was his Sage Mode. I've been working on the spelling and everything but some Japanese words have multiple ways to spell them in, like Jujutsu has three different ways to spell it that I know of in English and they're all technically correct. As for seals, they are not explored a lot in the series and are said to be powerful, so it leaves fans a lot to work with and I do not plan on making seals OP though.
Thedarkpokemaster: I hope you liked the chapter and your right that it will take years for him to recover and the mission next chapter will be something that will help him in the long run. As for Sasuke's end? Who knows?
Kyorose57: Thanks, actually I tried not to change her character much all I really did was take away the comedic hitting that was put in and that's what she turned into. However as you can see with this chapter she still has an attitude when pushed.
Thank you all for reading, please Review and have a nice day!
